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Cheshvan 27, 5769, 11/25/2008
The Infiltration and Self-destruction of Americaby Tamar Yonah
I did a show recently about Red-Lists / Blue Lists. Hear the show. We briefly touched on how the U.S.A. isn't what we were brought up to think it was. It APPEARED that the American way was alive and well and cherished by all. However, that was only on the surface. But thank goodness it at least had that appearance. It gave us all hope and pride that we lived in a nation that was free and just. Growing up though, and scratching beneath the surface, one learns the dirty truths. There are many who don't want to see a 'free people'.
Many of you don't like it that I show you the 'ugly'. I am sorry that the truth is hard to accept. I am sorry that it goes against everything we were raised to believe in. But the rug has to be lifted, or you will get sucked into and swallowed by the evil, without even realizing what happened to you. Fact: The government is commanding more power in how you live your lives. Their power is growing, your freedoms and rights are shrinking. Fact: America has turned socialistic. People are getting too fat, too lazy and they are perfectly happy having the government come in and 'fix things' with promises that other's hard earned money will be 'spread' around to them. They want the easy way out and they are going to get it – to their later dismay. Fact: America is losing its sovereignty.
Fact: There are huge efforts to get America in line with the rest of the world with 'gun control'. The U.N. is getting sick and tired of Americans bucking their disarmament efforts. 'Goverment' does not want armed citizens able to resist them. Fact: There ARE detention camps in the USA that are holding facilities – or worse to be used against certain U.S. citizens. Why so many, why so big? Who are they for? We 'innocent' people tend to grow up assuming that everyone thinks like we do. So if we can't imagine being ruthless and evil, we assume others wouldn't cross that line either. This is where we err. This is what will help lead us to a grim future. One that we don't want for ourselves and our children.
This is one of the reasons that I show you videos. Some of these are not necessarily new. You may have seen them before. But it is a good reminder how easy our rights and freedoms can be taken away from us through planned or even unplanned 'national emergencies', financial crises, or just a political social revolution - like the one with the Obama /socialist win. Remember, you can't rely on the United States constitution to protect you. The Constitution IS ONLY AS STRONG AS THE PEOPLE WILLING TO FIGHT FOR IT.
Now, not just to pick on Obama, as I believe that the ones who tell our politicians what to do are bi-partisan (grin), but both party candidates are pawns, if not more heavily involved in the destruction of American sovereignty. However, I digress. I would like to point your attention to an over-looked news story that is of UTMOST attention. This last week or so, President Bush hosted the G-20 Economic summit. In this meeting, he reportedly handed over U.S. economic sovereignty to the European Union. I URGE you to read this piece that explains how it will affect America. In essence, America has become a socialist country. Part of the article states:
"Sovereignty is out the window. Without a vote, we are suddenly members of the European Union. Given the dismal record of those nations at creating jobs and sustaining growth, merging with the Europeans is like a partnership with death. At the G-20 meeting, Bush agreed to subject the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and our other regulatory agencies to the supervision of a global entity that would critique its regulatory standards and demand changes if it felt they were necessary. Bush agreed to create a College of Supervisors." Please go and read the whole article.
The bail out scam they had in the USA this past September, where the government is taking over mortgage banks and other major companies, will bring the American people back to the middle ages where feudalism was alive and well. For those unfamiliar with history, there was a time - let's take Europe for example, when the only people who owned land were the 'Royalty', the 'Barons' etc. All others basically played the role as peasants living upon that land, allowed to farm and work it, but it did not belong to them. Some would call that akin to slavery. These people could be picked up and moved at whim. They had no land or property to call their own, and thus no real roots or rights. We don't realize it today, but we are very fortunate that we can be property owners. To own our own home, our own little patch on this earth is a 'tzchut', a privilege, and a blessing. We take it for granted that we can own our own home, our own ranch, or buy some property to someday build on. As one listener, Avrohom wrote me, it is not a privilege, rather a right. "Americans have fought and died for the RIGHT to OWN LAND!". Well, with the mortgage banks taken over by the government, in essence, the government now owns your home. It's back to the 'Royals". We see feudalism revived, and socialism, alive and well, thank you.
The only thing socialism has done for a country's economy is to stifle hard work and ingenuity. Citizens of the old Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) used to joke about their work... "They pretend to pay us, and we pretend to work". And the only way I see retrieving the freedoms, rights and free markets Americans once had, and that Bush just gave away, would be to go to war against Europe/ the U.N., etc. It is sad to see a country die. With the beginings of socialism that Bush brought, and (Marxist) Obama nourishing and spreading it with zeal, it is the death of a once great country. Next, they will come for your guns.
p.s. I am not leaving Israel aside, I shall soon write a piece about what is happening here as well.
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Cheshvan 22, 5769, 11/20/2008
Scams: I Never Thought It Would Happen To Meby Tamar Yonah
I thought I'd do a bit of public service, and post this forwarded email I received today from a listener named Stella. One never knows when a scam might happen to them. (I don't know where this report came from so I cannot credit the writer. If anyone knows, I will be happy to give full credit.) Crimes via Text Messaging
"A woman has changed her habit of how she lists her names on her mobile phone after her handbag was stolen. Her handbag, which contained her cell phone, credit card, wallet, etc.was stolen. Twenty minutes later when she called her hubby, from a pay phone telling him what had happened, hubby says 'I received your text asking about our Pin number and I replied a little while ago.' When they rushed down to the bank, the bank staff told them all the money was already withdrawn. The thief had actually used the stolen cell phone to text hubby' in the contact list and got hold of the pin number. Within 20 minutes he had withdrawn all the money from their bank account.
Moral of the lesson: do not disclose the relationship between you and the people in your contact list. Avoid using names like Home, Honey, Hubby,Sweetheart, Dad, Mom, etc. ... and very importantly, when sensitive info is asked of you through texts, CONFIRM by calling back.
Also, when receiving a text from your friends or family to meet them somewhere that is not planned or usual, be sure to call back to confirm that the message came from them. If you don't reach them, be very careful about going places to meet 'family and friends' who text you." My addition: If you are in Israel, be very careful about this, that you are not lured by Arab terrorists posing as a contact of yours, to meet them somewhere. This has happened already once with a young man who was lured through computer chat, by an Arab young woman to meet him, and was then taken away in a car and kidnapped. They found his body later on.) Another story that actually happened to me personally, about 2 years ago.... I was reading one of those emails that warned people about a phone scam where someone would call and tell you that one of your family members was in an automobile accident and was rushed to the hospital. They told you that they had no details, but that you must immediately call a special number to find out where he/she was taken and what condition they were in. In actuality, this number they gave you and asked you to dial was a number that enabled call forwarding. For Americans, I believe the number they told you to dial was 72# followed by other numbers. In Israel, I believe it is *72. When this number is dialled, the customer is billed for the forwarded calls, which could include additional collect or long distance charges. In America, there was a scam that involved prisoners calling from an inmate facility. They also manipulated people with this story to gain access to your phone line to make long distance calls. PHONE SCAMS I remember reading that email, thinking, hmmm, what will people do next? And then deleting it thinking these things never happen to me. Well, I was wrong. It was about half a year later that I received a telephone call in the afternoon from a man, with an Arab accent, telling me that one of my family members was rushed to the hospital, that he had no details other than that I must call a certain number to get more details. My first thought was my parents... that perhaps something had happened to them, but then I remembered that they were away in the USA visiting their other grandchildren. That canceled them out, and I knew they were safe. The next panic-y thought I had was my children, even though they didn't drive at that time. Perhaps one of them had left school early, traveled to Jerusalem for some reason and somehow was involved in an accident? All these thoughts racing through my mind, but something didn't feel right, it was too vague, and my kids schedule just didn't fit this situation. It was then that that email snapped back into my memory, and I realized I was being conned.
To my personal training, (I try to teach or psych myself out, that in times of danger, not to panic, but to get angry. Panic or fear, tends to make one freeze and not function correctly. Anger makes one bold and to take charge. To my delight, my personal psych training kicked in and I got angry. From somewhere in me, I yelled at this caller that I knew what he was doing, that it was a sin, and that Allah would curse him for his evil. He was in shock, expecting me to be needy or in hysterical fear, instead I continued raising my voice and telling him how I hoped he would suffer for his evil, and that his Allah should curse him, and curse him and curse him. - he answered, "lamah?" which means, 'why? in Hebrew. What audacity! I continued to unfurl even more of my anger on him for his evil acts and chutzpah. I was surprised myself at how I was raising my voice and being so forceful. One of my kids was home from school already and even he looked up to see who was his mother hollering at on the phone. There was silence on the other end of the phone line, I guess he was speechless, not knowing what to say or do, and he hung up. So, well, it actually happened to me! And that is why I ask you to pass these messages and warnings around (after you check on sites like Snopes.com etc.) to warn others. I thought it would never happen to me. It did. And if someone didn't think to send me that email going around, who knows what would have happened? "Hello? Is your Mommy there? No? Well, we have bad news, your mommy has been in an awful car accident and she was taken to the hospital. You have to dial this number to find out where she is...."
After I had hung up, I was grateful that I had answered that phone call, and not one of my children. If I was not home and they had received a phone call like that, telling them that their parents were in an automobile accident and were in the hospital, -what trauma, fear and panic they would have gone into. -Forget now, about the phone bill I'd be paying, that doesn' t compare to the trauma it would have caused my kids. It would be unforgivable to put them through something like that. I feel bad for all the other kids who have answered phone calls like this. AT&T offers the following to warn the public about the 72# telephone scam: "If you receive a call seeking assistance and asking you to dial numbers, be very leery. Educate family members not to accept collect calls from someone they don't know and not to follow instructions given by a caller they are unfamiliar with. If an AT&T residential customer believes that they have been a victim to the 72# scam, they should first dial 73# on their telephone to deactivate the call forwarding feature. If an AT&T residential customer feels like they have been victim of a phone scam, they should contact a AT&T customer service representative. Customers of other local telephone providers should call their respective customer service numbers." Anyone have any other scams that we should all be aware of? Please check them first on places like Snopes.com before passing on. You could be helping someone just like me, and I am grateful to whoever sent me that email years ago. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I just remembered another scam... Always make sure when paying by credit card, that when you give the card to be swiped by the cashier, that you CHECK your card when he/she hands it back. I have heard of scams, where cashiers have a set of old expired cards from different companies: MasterCard, Visa, AmEx, etc... and when they take your card, and you are not watching, maybe you are scrambling around in your purse or wallet, or taking the new bag of your purchases off the counter, they take your card and hand you back an old expired card of someone else's.
Most people don't look, and just take the card handed to them, and stick it back in their wallet.
ALWAYS make sure, when you get your card back, that you check to see that YOUR name is on the card, and that it is not a replaced, stolen, old, card of someone else's.
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Cheshvan 15, 5769, 11/13/2008
Stop the World I Want to Get Off Part IIby Tamar Yonah
This is part two in the 'Stop The World' article that I wrote in a previous blog. In addition to the economy looking bleak, here's another disturbing item that doesn't sit well with our personal freedoms and privacy which we value so much… When one thinks of the top one hundred richest entities in the world, one would think that they might be the USA, Britain, France, Saudi Arabia, and forty other or so countries, Surprisingly, this is not true. In fact, 51% of the richest entities in the world are no longer nation states but mulitnational corporations. Corporations can easily come into a country and buy it's candidates by contributing to their campaigns. They are also able to woo politicians already in government positions to pursue their own goals and interests. There's the old saying by US financier & politician Simon Cameron (1799 - 1889) , "An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought". So, one might think they are voting for someone who will represent them, but in fact, he will not be beholden to you, the voter, but to his 'corporate sponsor'. Go watch 'Mr. Smith Goes To Washington'. Stop the world, I want to get off. ------------ If you liked WINDOWS XP, but had to move on to VISTA which won't let you download certain files, their next 'WINDOWS' coming out will be much worse, -or better, depending on how you look at it. According to the BBC News, "Microsoft has launched a new platform, Windows Azure, in which data and applications will not be stored on individuals' computers." 
To see video of the information storage center, click HERE. In fact, your private information will now be stored in a central data base. They will market this fact as something to your advantage: "Now, wherever you travel to, if you don't have your computer, you can use any computer at hand and have all your information ready to download from our central location! No more lugging your lap top, and no more worrying if your hard drive burned out. You won't lose anything." Hmmm, somehow this doesn't sit well with me, having my personal information stored in a central place where a person has no reach or control? That means someone else, or some government clerks possibly will. Big Brother Internet Special. Stop the world, I want to get off. Another great video to pound this point in about corporations taking over and nation states that protect your culture and rights losing its power, watch this gem. Stop the world, I want to get off. Scotty, beam me up.
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