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OK let me see if I get this, the President of the United States putsome bankers he loaned some money on notice that he is not playing,especially bearing in mind the money he loaned them is not his, fairenough, I am familiar with similar situations all through my life inJamaica, not exactly that humongous size of money but the occasional"partner draw", to be honest I wasn't a fan of handing them thosebillions in the first place, one knowing of the numerous recordbusinesses that were allowed to fail on the back of illegal downloadsand file-sharing, but most importantly as a child of slaves standing inline still hoping to collect my ancestors salary I am thinking whichplantation did these guys work on, how many of them were crammedtogether and dead carcasses were discarded as business loss, then thosewho made it would be worked(slaved) to death to be replaced by theirchildren to repeat the cycle under serious lashes,rape and otherinhumane activities, so to have these guys again skip the line and pickup these billions was kind of hard for me to take as I had waited solong my expectations had peaked at  millions, so talk about "addinginsult to injury" when  I heard the media cronies of the financialestablishment starting to report how "Wall St. was down" mainly basedon the President's statement so let's tick a few boxes, firstly if WallSt is up, down or sideways it does not impact on how I feed my childrenfor that day, you see our family name unfortunately isn't Madoff,  thenthe main ingredient of Economics is not Wall St., it's "supply anddemand", wherever goods and services are in demand someone seizes theeconomic advantage to supply and vice versa, this started with thebarter system way back in time before being replaced by shells ascurrency till we got to money as we know it and whatever Wall St. does,so to hear the furor over the President calling in some funds that wasin his stewardship I'm thinking wow it's right up there with the 100 orso thousand that died in the Haiti earthquake as one of the worstevents of 2010, or at least that's the way some in the media would haveus think, then it dawned on me is it possible that the corporateestablishment is attempting to hold the President of the United Statesof America  hostage whenever he goes against their wishes, o.k. let'snot jump to conclusions let's tick a few more boxes, the Presidentcalls a potentially institutionally racist  cop stupid for notpeacefully being able to figure out a black professor was trying toforce his way into his own house, like "stand right here and don'tmove, now name me 15 items in the house" hey I've never been a cop butif I come into the situation with an open mind it's a non-starterespecially being an elder unarmed gentleman, anyway the Commander inChief of the Army, Air-force and Navy was called to task by a clan ofstate cops through the similar media cronies get on TV and start actinglike they getting ready to stop fighting crime and let prisoners go ifthey don't get an apology, I know a little about New York cops, theygot a few bad apples but the good ones are what we call "New York'sFinest", now this guy would be the laughing stock for weeks  around theprecinct for roughing up a guy going into his own house, cause New Yorkcops pride themselves on being in the know, then came the health caredebacle short of Michael Moore getting bigger boats to take sick UScitizens to Cuba  I just don't get it, till I heard that big money wasbeing spent to thwart  something for the greater good so as to benefitthe usual suspects financially, so now I guess it's the bankers turn atthe dart board so I would just like to point out a few things on behalfof the common man, our existence here on earth was not intended as the"Club Med" for rich people as a matter of fact  the human race as aspecie has no guarantee of a permanent existence, there is no sign theearth would disintegrate because of the absence of humans, sofloods,earthquakes and hurricanes  are ways the earth replenishesitself, lives are lots while immediately others are being born, seedsare washed from fertile locations to once arid location providing a newharvest in a new area and no matter how many bonuses no one is privy tothe "Master plan" so to the bankers who are threatening the crash ofWall St  if they "pack up their toys and leave the playground" I saythis who knows may be time for some fresh faces, fresh morehuman-friendly  ideas, which were the same type of people that launchedthe Obama juggernaut in the first place so banks could return to being a convenient place to keep money, but my bible did tell me "camelsgonna be going back and forth through needle's eyes"  before one ofthese money-loving #&%* could enter Zion,hey but I have a fewsuggestions for the President, the President need to get someone tokeep calling the responsible parties at nights and on weekends, evenSunday mornings, keep threatening to ruin their lives,one lady wasforced to suicide after similar calls from banks, then there is the onewhere you collect a financial penalty every five days and if this causethe figure to increase past the original amount he could charge anotherfinancial penalty for going over the limit, the President is on tosomething here when the dust settles he might be offsetting thedeficit, but after the whole exercise I found myself thankful to JudgeClarence Thomas as he was the black man that made me aware of what "High- Tech Lynching" looks like.

Happy 2010, having to celebrate New Years Day and my birthday on Jan. 1 all my life I have become an expert at recovery time  for hangovers etc. so I kind of rebounded this morning and "somebody told me to deliver this message" said I should "pass it on to you" so like I said we are gonna hit the ground running. Now not too long ago it was with great pride I saw the entertainment industry get behind a campaign to"Make Poverty History" I thought "what a meaningful cause  now everyone is going to roll up their sleeves and pitch in however they can",suddenly we realize we are in dire economic straits globally not from going too far to make poverty history but from the Lahys, Madoffs and the obscene bonus culture of our time, having worked as a bank clerk I remember the days when a banks survival was dependent on it's management  being able to spot a winner to invest in, in the form of bankloans e.g. a guy in Jamaica decides to start making "Jerk Sauce", his bank sees the potential, invest in this guy, Jerk Sauce is a big hit,the bank is now like a partner to this guy supplying him with advice and funds to expand and the profit is then parlayed into a lady who is starting up a poultry farm, this sequence is repeated over and over soon the bank is able to open a few more branches where another guy shows up with an idea for a annual Reggae Festival decides to call it"Reggae Sunsplash" the bank is behind it and the rest is history, thepoint is banks survival was based on the success of it's customers,suddenly the movie "Wall St" arrives and Michael Douglas declares"greed is good" and suddenly grown men turn into "modern day highwaymen", there is a case in the UK where a chief executive gutted the finances of Royal Bank of Scotland where they had to be bailed out by the government and this guy was kicking and screaming  to hold on to his £750,000+ bonus even when asked to reconsider by the said government, is it just me or wouldn't £750,000 go a long way to "MakePoverty History", when these people were born was there a voice that came from the heavens saying "this is my beloved son he is entitled toa bonus" or are these bonuses birthright, as I had previously thought this was consistent with success but in this case success had nothing to do with it, so my take is  these bonuses are given to people who devise ingenious ways to rob us, picture this scenario a guy working for a credit card company comes up with the idea if a customer is late to make a payment, by sometime hours instead of denying them access to the card or some other card related penalty lets charge them a fine similar to the courts, we'll call it a fee but different from schoo fee we determine when and how often it's applied, then another Michael Douglas wannabe  comes up with the idea that with the right combination of fees(fines) and a sizable interest rate  we could collect additional fines on the "trifector" and call it over the limit charges all these when combined provides a buffer to prevent the customer from depreciating the original debt, with all these shenanigans in place this exercise over a period of years  are known to reap 100% profit, I have known instances where a  card  with a £2,500 credit limit meaning that's the maximum made available by the card company yet over years and deposits to the tune of £3,400 the card company is still owed agrand total of £3,100, that boys and girls is how bonuses are made, all those math classes I went to for nothing, I also feel for the  AlCapones of the world that used the be hounded for "loan sharking" when todays loan shark threaten to take you to court, it was real eye-opener when I discovered that Muslim Sharia banks dont charge interest meaning its not a necessity for financial survival cause none of their banks received bailout money so they seem to have weathered the financial storm o.k. So my suggestion is to freeze bonuses for the next five years  and money earmarked in big financial organizations for bonuses should go directly to the "Make Poverty History" fund, I am evidence they wont die as I have lived  bonus-free all my life till my birthday this morning and I am aware of single mothers juggling bonus-less also so they'll do o.k Finally whenever the subject of Reparations comes up it's constantly pushed to the side  but my great,great,great-grandparents farmed, cooked, cleaned, child-cared,blacksmith-ed,carpentered and bore children but all these occupation were put under the heading of slavery and we are yet to see the firstpaycheck for building the New World so I know a bonus is out of the question, so contrary to "Wall St" greed is evil.

Firstly I must congratulate  Black America in particular and America in general for this milestone achievement, many a brick has been placed by blacks before some literally to make it possible for a black man to reside in the White House, blacks have been invited from close to the time of the founders but unfortunately bigotry, prejudice, racism and a few extra grand dragon made it appear  a impossibility in the 21st century. Now why act of God, similar to the way  Joseph regularly dreamt of things that would shape his faith in God in preparation to being Governor of Egypt in a  time of bitter famine similarly  Barack has been prepared from birth for the task at hand down to his genes, politically this was a juggernaut coming out of left field  that would defy mortal thinking political wisdom, the mortal is me who thought  under the present climate Mrs. Hillary Clinton with her husband's previously  successful administration would have a experienced team ready to go on day one, but then what we had, yes the Clinton experienced team but with Barack Obama at the head, why  because just like when the President - to - be was painting the day before the Inauguration God was painting over America's image with one master-stroke, no amount of foreign diplomacy could achieve as no other traditionally white governed country in the world as ever turned over the reigns to a black man so with that in mind many of who were pointing the finger last week this week in the words of Richard Pryor "had to shut the f.... up" as a lot of them are yet to achieve a black related milestone even close, to be frank some even have police forces with special units for supposed "black crime" sending the message that blacks as a race are prone to crime not the different nationalities of Mafia  or  Triads or numerous extremist but mostly those Obama - like black kids they are the ones you need to keep in check. The founding fathers of the USA invoked God in most  of their edicts  "The Constitution" and the "Bill of Rights" President Obama seems bent on  returning to the original intent, so when Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said " I  may not get there with you but as a people you'll get to the promised land" its not a new land  its just the state of the land the way God promised, so like 15 round heavyweight boxer he been sticking and moving in keeping his promise first Martin needed to get black people a right to vote then he needed Jesse to "run Jesse run" so he could test out the possibilities,the mantra then was "I am somebody" then to further soften up the opponent he introduced Bill Clinton which was the closest you could get to black without actually being black and he in turn unleashed a number of blacks in high - end posts that further dispelled numerous myths, then he bided his time leaving the "alternative option" looking all-powerful and mighty, then going for the knockout he went with Barack from a black  father  and white mother as we are preparing to Unite these States, a lot of killing and shooting was going on leading up to the appointed time but when the hour was come all guns went silent and killing ceased, Rev. Lawry recited a re-working of  some lines that used to remind us of our place in society  but the new version had a young white woman ecstatic at the unified prospects of the USA, you see for years people say "God Bless America" some just as lip service but when said by the right people  often God do bless  America and if President Obama continues that affinity with him he will be able to bring God's wishes to pass through his administration a political "dream team" if I ever seen  one, so may God continue to bless America that it may return to the beacon of hope and milestones it once was  our 'Ol Uncle Sam.

I wish to share a few of my long held opinions regarding herb,ganja, marijuana, canabbis or any other name this herbal plant has been given, in the early centuries it was called hemp and provided some of the strongest ropes until the African slaves exposed the use of smoking it which was the custom in Africa to the point where kings would be buried with a portion to take across to the after life, the founding fathers of the USA who crafted one of the most important documents of modern civilization The US Constitution would both grow and smoke herb, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, Ben Franklin used to exchange gifts of herb from their personal production with each others similar to what farmers would do in Jamaica before it acquired this huge international commercial value, to me its not surprising that the superior thinkers of the day used herb as unlike rosemary and thyme no one can safely say for what purpose God had created this particular plant but then along the way we find it has multiple medicinal purposes so for those like myself that knows God does not make mistakes I started to wonder if it turns out we have a scenario where a lot of the rulers of the world finding themselves in direct opposition to the creator's intent by this lifelong pursuit towards the impossible task of trying to suppress and eradicate the plant, would'nt it be terrible to discover that destruction of agricultural crops etc. through hurricanes and other disasters is a direct payback for man's destruction of God's creation and intention, if like most of us know "the herb was for the service of man" and a particular herb was for the "healing of the nation" so since man has taken it upon himself to decide one is not allowed to exist in creation is'nt that a very dangerous position to be in Saint Peter was reprimanded just for calling "creeping things" common and unclean so just imagine glaucoma sufferers or those suffering nausea from cancer treatment that rely on herb for relief has God had intended it up against the eradicator that some insist are just protecting their friend big tobacco as they know medicine would beat poison hands down so while persecuting the herb they put a sign on the cigarette that plainly states you are on the way to killing yourself but its cool. For years now The Netherlands has decriminalised the use of herb and so far we have'nt heard of smokers jumping from sky-scrapers or or any other disruption of normal life, to the contrary when these same "false kings" over step their mark thats where they are sent for their comeuppance to The World Court of Human Rights in the Hague, Netherlands someone figured there is more sober thinking going on there, I am yet to see a female rolling around on the pavement or throwing up in a corner after a night out just smoking herb instead people who smoke herb are known to go on to be Presidents, Superior Court Judges, Home Secretarys just imagine the loss to society if they had got caught in the devised crime trap that caught lots of other brilliant minds and ruined their future progress, because of this constant criminalising it is not always a natural plant we are dealing with but now we have people manipulating the natural process to create a desired effect for commercial reasons which to the in-experienced who cant tell the difference can really cause harm as with everything else you have to hide and do. As a Rastafarian I was never aware of the "getting high" mentality until I visited a foreign country as we would congregate remove our hats recite a couple Psalms and light the chalice throughout the session the discussion would vary from the bible to world affairs nothing negative was allowed in speech or action a far cry from the depiction all herb smokers are placed....Peace

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