I wish I had more time to talk about more things. I have been wanting to talk more about Inflation and will be, but for now, I urge everyone to sit back for the next 30 minutes and watch this 30min documentary.

Masked by the death of Michael Jackson, the USA’s largest tax, EVER, was passed in the House of Reps Friday. The so-called cap and trade bill, designed to stop non-existent global warming was steamrolled through the house with a 300 page amendment just hours before they voted on it. Obama promised the people during his campaign that every bill would be available to the public online at least 48 hours before it was voted on. This has not happened to one single bill since his Presidency. Obama promised a new era of transparency. So far all we have received is the opposite. He also said lobbyist would never be allowed to be part of his administration, oh wait, except these ones... *sigh* But don’t worry about any of this, because the Democrats are in power, and they care about the poor. Right? Right??

The Cap and Trade law will have a devastating effect on the poor and the middle class. According to Obama’s own admission, electricity prices will, and I quote, “necessarily skyrocket”, end-quote. See the first video below to see it from the horse’s mouth. The days of living in a daydream, believing that the democrats care about the poor, are over. The average family can expect to see their yearly energy costs rise by $1500, in many cases that will mean slightly more than a doubling of what you’re paying right now. For the rich, this is not too big of a problem, but for the poor, it will be crippling. And all in the name of an environmental hoax, heck even Greenpeace is against this bill, because even they admit, this bill will do nothing to prevent global warming. But that’s not the only area we’ll see massive price increases. Consider, that all energy prices will rise because of this bill. How many products or service have an energy-cost component built into them? Hmm... That would be 100% of them. Most products have 30% of their cost covering energy used in their production and/or transportation. Now double that 30%. Getting the picture yet?

If there was ever a bill that was going to wreck havoc on a strong economy, it is this Cap & Trade bill. But wait, we don’t have a strong economy, we have an economy that is faltering day by day. Many predict the dollar is on its last legs and is soon to crash. Production is at all time lows. Unemployment is approaching all time highs. The economy is in disastrously bad shape, and this bill will be the final knock-out punch.

But there is something you can do. The bill has passed the House, but it still needs to pass the Senate. Really, it’s likely to pass the Senate anyway, but, but, there’s something you can do to try at least, to stop this attack against the poor, and reality.


There is a FREE Fax service that converts a specific email address to a fax, then sent as a fax to the specific Congressman.

http://www.congressfax.com/

You cannot "group" the email address and send out one message - the email addresses must be sent individually. All the Congressperson's district office email addresses are listed here (24 in all). You only need to send it to their DC (202 area code) office, but if you have the time, do them all!

1. Write something in Word, Notepad, etc
2. Copy and paste the email addresses into a new/forwarded email.
3. Send away!

I don’t like the chances of being able to stop this bill, but, we should try, for the sake of all of us.

Watch....

Thursday, the world lost one of the greatest musical and dance artists to have ever lived. Michael Jackson was a living legend, hounded and sued by everyone, endured the most horrific false allegations that took advantage of his child-like innocence. Oh boy, he had a tough life.

The JWs thought he was the arch-Angel Michael, which is kind of ironic considering their serious racial shortcomings that included segregated congregations. The proven-false claims of child molestation must have really broken his heart, especially as so many chose to be cynical and believe he still did those evil things instead of believing in the forensic evidence that so utterly cleared his name. Or should have at least. Having the DA go on a very public witch-hunt determined to bring him down, shocked the world, and rightly so.

It’s sad that we have people trapped in poverty, but its sadder still when they live up to the stereotypes and lie and do anything to get a few dollars in their pockets, even at the expense of another’s reputation, or indeed, life. I know this as much as I know anything, Michael was innocent of those allegations. I have a theory about people that believe he did molest kids, I believe their minds are so depraved, that they could see themselves doing it. Hence, the majority that believe he was guilty, are not women with an over-protective primal mothering instinct, it’s men. We in the Church always talk about being child-like, but when one man “gets it”, we crush him as a freak. I don’t believe Michael was any kind of a freak except for his silly fascination with plastic surgery. And really, I think he did bleach his skin. But that’s his perogative. Marilyn Manson beats MJ in that department anyway.

Michael Jackson exemplifies what happens when a man is falsely accused of such a horrendous crime. It kills you, literally. All the stress and the strain he carried simply could not be hidden under the blankets of makeup he wore. The autopsy results show that he was an incredibly fit man for his age, very healthy, but being falsely accused affects a man to his bones. It seems that Michael was likely addicted to pain killers and the Dimerol shot his personal Doctor gave him likely killed him. People don’t just use pain killers to numb physical pain, but mental and even spiritual anguish. Which raises the obvious question doesn’t it - who is really responsible for his death? Death and life are in the power of the tongue, said Solomon. Isaiah said, “The Lord God has given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him who is weary”. Oh if the Church would grasp ahold of this and run with it. David in his Psalm wrote, “Set a guard, O Lord, over my mouth; keep watch over the door of my lips”.

Of course we can expect the self-righteous to simply use all of this as further cause to call him a freak. I have already seen the likes of Pastor Rick Moore publicly slam Michael Jackson as a pedophile freak and claiming the streets are now safe for 10 year olds. Moore expressed glee that his own son and wife also expressed contempt for Michael. With “Christians” like this, indeed, a “Pastor” who is supposed be one gifted with the love of the Father’s heart, is it ANY wonder at all why the Church is so despised by the common man, while Yeshua was so loved and embraced by the common man. It is true, the Church is the biggest stumbling block to men coming to know God. As the Church, we need to be the first to extend grace and forgiveness, and believe in the best. But we don’t, do we. The Church is always the first to judge, and to condemn. Pastor Rick Moore should be stripped of his position for such an anti-Christ reaction to this situation. We just don’t need ambassadors, like this. Or as the saying goes, with friend like this... who needs enemies.

Michael Jackson revealed some of his pain in his music.

Beat me, hate me
You can never break me
Will me, thrill me
You can never kill me
Do me, sue me
Everybody do me
Kick me, strike me
Dont you black or white me

Tell me what has become of my life
I have a wife and two children who love me
I am the victim of police brutality, now
Im tired of bein the victim of hate
Youre rapin me of my pride
Oh, for gods sake
I look to heaven to fulfill its prophecy...
Set me free


Sadly, they did eventually kill him.

I don’t know if Michael was a follower of Christ or not. It would be incredibly hard for anyone to turn to Christ when so many that call themselves by His name so openly persecuted you. Yet Kingdom principles return in his lyrics with regularity. There’s often more Bible truth in one 3 minute Michael Jackson song than in an hour long sermon.

Michael Jackson expressed a child-like innocence that I wish I had. He shared his life with children because, well, why don’t I let MJ himself explain...

Have you seen my Childhood?
I'm searching for the world that I come from
'Cause I've been looking around
In the lost and found of my heart...
No one understands me
They view it as such strange eccentricities...
'Cause I keep kidding around
Like a child, but pardon me...

People say I'm not okay
'Cause I love such elementary things...
It's been my fate to compensate,
for the Childhood
I've never known...

Have you seen my Childhood?
I'm searching for that wonder in my youth
Like pirates in adventurous dreams,
Of conquest and kings on the throne...

Before you judge me, try hard to love me,
Look within your heart then ask,
Have you seen my Childhood?

People say I'm strange that way
'Cause I love such elementary things,
It's been my fate to compensate,
for the Childhood I've never known...

Have you seen my Childhood?
I'm searching for that wonder in my youth
Like fantastical stories to share
The dreams I would dare, watch me fly...

Before you judge me, try hard to love me.
The painful youth I've had

Have you seen my Childhood....


I feel for this man. I hope beyond all hope that the Father accepts Christ’s sacrifice as sufficient for this man. I pray the Lord will have mercy on his soul. Something inside of me tells me that I will see MJ again one day, along with many other broken kids that many in the Church condemned to an eternity without Christ.

Perhaps I can relate to Michael Jackson better than most, because like him, I too had my childhood stolen. I deeply understand the desire to compensate for a lost childhood. Today I am not ashamed to say that I wish I had the child-likeness of a Michael Jackson. I think if we all did, the world could only be a better place.

I tell you the truth, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven -Yeshua (Matthew 18:3)

I have been following Bob Cornuke’s real-life Indiana Jones treasure hunting for a decade or so. He has found the real Mount Sinai, and he claims to have found the Ark of the Covenant, though he was not allowed to view it. Now, the very people that Cornuke claimed, many years ago, had the Ark, have come forward and said they are about to reveal it to the world. I remain skeptical, not that it’s the real deal, but that they plan to reveal it. I doubt it very much. As I write this, the time they promised to reveal it has well passed.

If it is the Ark, how with this affect you? If you don’t believe in the God of the Bible, would this change anything?

My time in school was unusual. I excelled at school, particularly in the sciences. I won 2nd prize in the Auckland Science Expo at 12, and won my high-school’s Senior Science Trophy as a Junior. I was moved up a year at one point which did not help, because I was already one of the youngest in my class. I was a smart kid, not gloating, just saying how it is. But then, because of the drama that unfolded, and is documented in my story, I dropped out of school. I was just 13. Best thing that could have ever happened to me! Ever since I have devoured knowledge. I have asked the Lord for Wisdom, Knowledge and understanding, and He gave. I thank God I dropped out of school.

In years gone by though, I have seen the result of public education on the minds of my peers. In today’s world, no one can think anymore. People believe the most ridiculous things and accept whatever anyone in authority tells them. It’s really sad. Years ago I came to the decision that I am not ever going to send my kids to school, they will be home-schooled. They will be raised, not to remember facts and recite them for tests, instead, they will be trained how to think, how to deduce, how to trouble-shoot, how to invent, how to sing and play instruments, how to cook, grow food, how to philosophize. Most of all, they’ll be taught how to break free of the education daddy gave them, and think for themselves. This is one of the biggest hurdles in finding a mate - that being, few girls are prepared to help me home school. *sigh*

This blog post was inspired by one of the “Ron Paul Twins” when she posted a bunch of quotes , seen below, on her FaceBook. She and her sister were home-schooled. Enjoy...

"It is absurd and anti-life to be a part of a system that compels you to listen to a stranger reading poetry when you want to learn to construct buildings, or to sit with a stranger discussing the construction of buildings when you want to read poetry."
-John Taylor Gatto

"I never have let schooling interfere with my education."
Mark Twain

"The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education."
Albert Einstein

"My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching, but prevented me from being educated to an extent which infuriates me when I think of all I might have learned at home by myself."
George Bernard Shaw

"School days, I believe, are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence. They are full of dull, unintelligible tasks, new and unpleasant ordinances, and brutal violations of common sense and common decency."
H.L. Mencken



"It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education."
Albert Einstein

"What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook."
Henry David Thoreau

"How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it."
Alexandre Dumas

"We are students of words; we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The founding fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called education. School is where you go between when your parents can't take you and industry can't take you."
John Updike

"I do not believe much in education. Each man ought to be his own model, however frightful that may be."
Albert Einstein

"My grandmother wanted me to have an education, so she kept me out of school."
Margaret Mead

"I loathed every day and regret every day I spent in school. I like to be taught to read and write and add and then be left alone."
Woody Allen

"Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught."
Oscar Wilde

"When I think back on all the crap I learned in high school, it's a wonder I can think at all."
Paul Simon

"School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is."
Ivan Illich in his book Deschooling Society

"Schools are designed on the assumption that there is a secret to everything in life; that the quality of life depends upon knowing that secret; that secrets can only be known in orderly successions; and that only teachers can properly reveal these secrets. An individual with a schooled mind concieves of the world as a pyramid of classified packages accessable only to those who carry the proper tags."
Ivan Illich

"Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know."
G K Chesterton

"I hated school so intensely. It interfered with my freedom"
Sigrid Undset (Nobel Prize winner)

"The only time my education was interrupted was when I was in school." George Bernard Shaw

"There is nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school"
George Bernard Shaw (Nobel Prize winner)

"Nothing enrages me more than when people criticize my criticism of school by telling me that schools are not just places to learn maths and spelling, they are places where children learn a vaguely defined thing called socialization. I know. I think schools generally do an effective and terribly damaging job of teaching children to be infantile, dependent, intellectually dishonest, passive and disrespectful to their own developmental capacities."
Seymour Papert

"It is much easier to condemn a child than to understand a child."
Jiddu Krishnamurti

"One who uses coercion is guilty of deliberate violence. Coercion is inhuman." Gandhi

"I have not the least doubt that school developed in me nothing but what was evil and left the good untouched."
Edvard Grieg

"Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense."
Gertrude Stein

"Our aim in education is to give a full life. We owe it to them to initiate an immense number of interests. Life should be all living, and not merely a tedious passing of time; not all doing or all feeling or all thinking - the strain would be too great - but, all living; that is to say, we should be in touch wherever we go, whatever we hear, whatever we see, with some manner of vital interest."
Charlotte Mason

"In the end, the secret to learning is so simple: Think only about whatever you love. Follow it, do it, dream about it...and it will hit you: learning was there all the time, happening by itself."
Grace Llewellyn

"Drop out of school before your mind rots from exposure to our mundane educational system. Forget about the Senior Prom, go to the library and educate yourself if you've got any guts." - Frank Zappa

"the whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate filter, which just weeds out people who are too independent, and who think for themselves, and who don't know how to be submissive, and so on -- because they're dysfunctional to the institutions."
- Noam Chomsky

Has God told you to do something, but then YOU think better of it? I have seen people so believing that God has spoken to them, told them to do this, support this person, do things this particular way, don’t do that. They get excited, make promises, invest energy into something, and then... They decide that they know better than God. Sometimes we meet someone and God tells us right away to do something for that person or to invite them over and befriend them. Then, we learn more about them, and we back off, because, well, God must not have known about this person before asking me to do XYZ.

When God tells us something, and let’s be honest, we have no doubt it was God, we need to be obedient to Him no matter what. Even when all the world says that we made a mistake, God hasn’t. The Scriptures have something to say about this when they say, “let God be true, but every man a liar.” There’s times when we realize it was just our own passions that lead us to make a decision, and then there’s times where God so revealed His hand in your decision, that you know you’re simply being disobedient of direct direction from God if you change your mind.

If you’re in this position, where you’re wavering in your commitment, or you’re just flat out walking contrary to God’s direction, take a few moments to still your heart, connect with God, and reestablish that beautiful trust relationship with Him again, make amends if need be, and continue to walk out the journey that he has set before you, no matter what you think of the situation. Then, and only then, can God reveal the bigger plan and picture. And think of this... if someone is not taking advantage of you, perhaps you’re not being enough like Christ!

Wow. Sometimes in life, hmm.. I guess it should be all times, but let’s be real, it isn’t, you want to just stop, and consider your life and say, wow. I guess it’s one of those times. Oh, now let’s be real, my life is far from perfect. But who’s is? When I look around though, and I see how blessed my life is in so many ways, it’s hard not just to be full of thanks.

I actually had a car accident a few days ago. I was stationary at a red light and some guy hit me at 45MPH. Hit me so hard my seat crumbled. I am dealing with some major back pain right now. I am hoping it’s just temporary, and would appreciate your prayers, of course, not that I need to ask. In fact just sitting here I am in a lot of pain, and I loathe any form of pharmaceutical, so not taking pain killers. But, “in the midst of the storm”, right!? The insurance company is so far being nice and taking care of everything. I thank God for that.

It’s crazy when I look at the stats of this blog how many people follow my life. Who ARE you people? Is my life really that fascinating :)

Yes, it’s random today hu!

The Lord recently blessed me with the new 13” MacBook Pro. It’s tiny, light, and has a 7 hour battery. I don’t blog a lot, because it’s hard to get creative in my ministry office. So now I can sit in a cafe, like right now, and be productive, update God’s iPod and have fun. Is that allowed? Fun? :) The problem is, now I’ll probably fill my blog with mindless nothings and my readership will likely decrease. Probably a good thing :)

Fuel prices are going to go through the roof. Have you considered buying a scooter? I did. 88MPG. And the girls love it :) Yes that is it above. Took the photo right now.

OK, so hopefully this post, bar the first paragraph, was so boring that you’ll never want to come back and read this blog ever again.

Wow...

All my life I have been on a quest for truth. People of the world all the way from world leaders to old house wives tell tales that people believe, and are simply not true. For a great many years I have wanted to compile a book of Bible myths. Things like three wise men, or Paul being knocked off his horse. And no, neither of those things are true. So I get really excited when I see truth winning out over silly old wives tales, and I get almost fanatical when it’s something more sinister like a lie with a serious agenda.

So when, last month, Global Warming was empirically falsified by the rather serious cooling of the oceans as measured by several pro-Global Warming teams, leaving them scrambling to try and deny their own findings, I almost wanted to throw a party. Now I have posted a few blogs before about how Global Warming is over, indeed, but this is the mother-lode! The people trying to prove Global Warming, have in their own research, not funded by big oil, but by Al Gore and his cronies, proven that the world is cooling. And it’s cooling fast.

Let me link to this white paper here, and you can read it for yourself. http://friendsofscience.org/index.php?id=429

Though scientific, it is written in a way that the layman should be able to grasp without too much effort.

And then there’s more...

We are constantly told that Anthropogenic (man-made) Global Warming has reached consensus point and no credible scientists dispute that the earth is warming as a result of human introduced CO2. This too has been crushed by evidence. The Global Warming Petition Project http://www.petitionproject.org/ has collected 31,478 signatures from American scientists, including 9,029 with PhDs. Below is what they signed - so much for consensus.



It reads:
“We urge the United States government to reject the global warming agreement that was written in Kyoto, Japan in December, 1997, and any other similar proposals. The proposed limits on greenhouse gases would harm the environment, hinder the advance of science and technology, and damage the health and welfare of mankind.

There is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide, methane, or other greenhouse gases is causing or will, in the foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the Earth's atmosphere and disruption of the Earth's climate. Moreover, there is substantial scientific evidence that increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide produce many beneficial effects upon the natural plant and animal environments of the Earth.”

They have released their own white paper http://www.petitionproject.org/gw_article/GWReview_OISM150.pdf that will require a fundamental understanding of the sciences and climatology to fully grasp, but just hammers reality home.

For the last few years I have been warning my readers that the earth is about to enter a period of cooling. I was correct, and this cooling is now picking up pace. Over the next several years you can expect longer, colder, dryer winters, with springs bringing heavier than usual rainfall. The growing seasons all around the earth will be reduced and some crops are going to stop yielding suitable harvests to make them economically viable, resulting in food shortages and severe commodity price rises. Take advantage of the sales and stock up NOW on long life-foods that can withstand several years of dry-storage. It’s just good common sense. Remember Joseph!! There’s no need for fear, unless you’re not prepared. Remember this too, that saying you’re just going to trust in God, when God has given you advanced notice, is not faith, it’s testing God! Don’t do it!

Global Warming is a lie with a serious agenda - to usher in a New World Order. It’s one of many cogs in the machine to do that, but far from the only one. but thankfully this one, is about to disappear.

OK, well maybe I’ll start writing more on my blog more often, though I doubt it if my track record is anything to go by :)

Chen & shalom.
ia.