The First American Corporation conspired with WaMu. Together they connived to overstate real estate values. New York Attorney General, Andrew Cuomo, filed suit against the First American Corporation. Cuomo denounced their fraudulent practice towards New Yorkers and the whole sub prime industry. Indeed the Attorney General blamed First American for being at the root of the world financial crisis!
But! Why worry? Be happy! It will soon be business as usual! If we are to believe a post read on the First American Corporation/Yahoo message board!
The First American Corporation can count on the other First American to bail them and all the other American financial criminals out!
A bird named Bush in the hand is most definitely worth two eagles in the bush!
Consider the following statement picked up on the Yahoo – Finance – FAF message board on October 24, 2008
“Re: First American Involved in Fraud 24-Oct-08 04:27 pm
Yes I just read the complaint again. Even after they get to respond they will probably be found to have violated business statutes. So what's the downside for FAF? Disgorgement of profits and fees ($12.5MM if one-fourth of the $50MM in appraisal revenues were affected); pay actual damages (big unknown? how to establish in this dropping housing value environment?); punitive damages ($37.5MM at 3x 12.5MM, a wild guess?); terminate that business or divestment. Incidently, the appraisal adjustments quoted in the complaint seem to be about 1-5% for a $500,000 property, and that seems minor against the backdrop of a 25% drop in subsequent housing values. What if they settled for $100MM? That's not so much for a company with a current market cap of about $3B, and which has seen its price already drop from highs: Jun'07=55, Feb'08=42; Sep'08=32; now=18, and with a comparable low in 2001. Houses are selling much better this month than a year ago. Revenues should be going up now. There is an outstanding issue of future regulation and fee capping in this business. Shouldn't we be starting to buy FAF here? Any non-nasty comments? Disclosures: holding FAF common bought around $38/sh awhile ago (ouch!); and bought a house this month with a First Amer Title Policy attached.
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It is most definitely not a question of ethics. Might is right. It all boils down to a ‘meaningless’ fine for a company worth – excuse me sir - how many billions today? Oh! I almost forgot: The U.S. Govt will provide the bail out funds if need be! No mighty, naughty and haughty could ever become a jail bird! We are having too much fun… The party must go on… at any cost…!
This time it will cost a minimum of $1.5 trillion to feed the greed of the mighty. Jail bail omitted for committed crooks!
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
America - Dream beyond all frontiers...
Dear Children & Grand Children,
It is with much love and continued desire for what is best for you that I address these observations to you all. From the time you were born, your mother and I have spared no sacrifices to offer you the best we could. I recall some of Lou’s words at his wedding along those lines two years ago. I also call to mind Wendy’s recent mail sharing her own observations about changes and her desire to know me closely in my 60s! Glad to share… For what it may be worth to you today… tomorrow… and may be for eternity…
Yesterday, I read in ‘Living Faith’ about the spiritual strength that empowered Rev. Martin Luther King to be “faithful to Christ’s non violence in his own ordeals.” “Similarly, Paul was profoundly content in the comforts he had and all that he didn’t have. (We have found out much about ‘have nots’ & ‘want nots’ in Rodrigues) In Christ, Paul had come to understand both how to enjoy abundance and how to embrace neediness. Through life we must learn how to hold abundance and need together without denying either.”
We must keep an open mind and the conviction that God knows best! Therefore in all things we must be thankful to Him!
I do not mean to be preaching to you. I gather that some of you may be even too busy to read on. But for those of you who still care, as my legacy, I want to share my gratitude with you for ALL the experiences and awareness God has led me through - And with His help, further help you ALL to be ALL you can be.
I believe that to do so it is important that we broaden our horizons beyond ourselves and most certainly well beyond our individual country’s horizons. Thus I thank God for leading me across and over so many horizons over the last 43 years. From this vantage point, probably among one of the last, I can best witness and testify to God’s glory through what He has opened my eyes to see across and beyond the seas.
In years to come, I hope that when I/we look back on my time in Rodrigues, I/we will realize that it was not all in vain. That Mommy even from heaven and I from earth are being placed where we are in order to continue to learn how to go on offering you the very best we can with all the love we have for you ALL.
I was amazed to learn from Kitty and Terry last night about all the evil intentions that some Catholics in the US appear to pin onto the new President!
I was even more amazed to note how the same Catholic Church can apparently have such different views of Obama in different parts of the world.
At church I listened to the prayers of the faithful as read from the pulpit. The first prayer was: “We thank God for how the election turned out in America. We pray that now America will embrace a Christ like policy of PEACE in the world.”
Before mass ended, just before the final blessing, Holy Father Perrine asked that we bless each other on the forehead as a sign of peace towards each other and gratitude to God for the election of Obama.
It heralds a new era of much needed Peace and hopefully renewed hope and prosperity for the entire world.
After church I bought ‘La Vie Catholique’ (I used to read it as a kid. It has been in print for over 79 years).
After getting back home and reading ‘La Vie Catholique’, I concluded that the world is a lot bigger and a lot more important than America.
I prayed for you all to be able some day to see America from a world perspective instead of forming opinions solely from a narrow, restricted and tainted home view!
The cover page of ‘La Vie Catholique’, (web site address www.laviecatholique.com -The only paper we get for weeks) had a beaming picture of Obama. The editorial sowed fresh hope in the heart of those who despaired that they would ever see changes within such a loaded Americracy. The editorial spoke to the fact that All things are made possible through God and that the dynasties of the rich and powerful can all crumble by the will of God through the faith of man, both in God and in himself.
To illustrate that fact the editorial quoted a speech delivered by our Prime Minister last Sunday. The Honorable Dr. Navinchandra Ramgoolam told the story how a haughty (Red neck, white ‘Republican’ Mauritian) once wanted to lord it over Navin’s father. So that red neck told Navin’s father in Parliament: “My grand father was a lawyer, my father was a lawyer and I am a lawyer.” Navin’s father humbly replied: “My grand father was a ‘coolie’, my father was a ‘coolie’ and I am a doctor – Indeed we have come a long way!” In his speech, Navin could have added: “My grand father was a ‘coolie’ I am the Prime Minister of Mauritius. But Navin is too humble to engage in that kind of vain talk!
I will quote a few more lines from Navin’s speech as reported in the editorial of ‘La Vie Catholique’: “We came in this country on different boats. We are now on the same ship. What is more important is that we now all agree on the same destination.”
In my humble opinion, Navin’s comment as it relates to Mauritius could just as well apply to each and every world citizen embarked on one liner. We are all sailing along our universal journey towards eternity.
The back of ‘La Vie Catholique’ had a big picture of Martin Luther King on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial delivering his world famous speech: ‘I have a dream’. ‘La Vie Catholique translated it in French. The inspiring comment to the local population urged us all to be patient in our pursuit to be all we can be. M.L.K. delivered his speech on August 28, 1963. Back then it was a message of hope meant to inspire the world! It was a seed that bears its sweetest and most mature fruit today!
Likewise I am reaching out to you today from tiny Rodrigues. I urge you to look beyond the frontiers of America. M.L.K.’s message broke all frontiers of dreamland.
By repeatedly shaking people out of their nightmares for 25 years, the dream has finally become a reality celebrated the world over. Obama has been elected President of the USA! Change! Yes we can! I believe that none other than God’s closest friends, as disclosed in Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount, deserve to revel in that reality today! Praise be to God!
Twenty five years ago, M.L.K. ended his speech saying that he hoped that God’s glory would be revealed some day and that the world would be able to share that glory together! Today, I say that God knows definitely best how to make His glory shine in the ‘mostest’ hearts all over the world!
Americracy has finally shed mediocracy to embrace true democracy. The greater glory of GOD throughout the global village is acclaimed with loud Alleluias from all four corners of the globe!
At every glorious turn of Rodrigues life, the locals love to let off fire crackers. Some of you would have shared my tears of joyful emotion looking at the local jubilation at the news that Obama had won. People ran to every Chinese store to blow their meager savings to buy fire crackers to blow!
Can ‘La Vie Catholique’, can Catholic bishops, can all those humble priests and hard working people be wrong? Am I wrong to read what I do in all the red flaming exuberant joyful and hopeful hearts that surround me?
But above all, please answer me: Can God possibly be wrong to have allowed Obama to be elected for His greater glory to shine in a multitude of hearts the world over?
Throughout the day, thoughts and questions have been rushing through my mind about some aspects of the American mind set!
Is the life of an unborn in America (through solicited abortion at the hands of a fellow American), worth more than the life of an unborn who wanted to live, but dies in Iraq in the womb of his dying mother just because she was shot to death for no reason by a U.S army thug? God knows best!
When I see the poor and needy (pardon me for pointing out that none of you in your U.S. and European neighborhoods can even begin to imagine what that means) here give birth to all the children that God decides to bless them with, I ask myself: Why is abortion practiced so much in America and why is it such a hot electoral issue in such a rich country when it would be a non starter here where children are most welcomed to embrace their poverty, only trusting that God will provide? God knows best!
Is the life of a few thousand American soldiers killed in action through a war rooted in Republican American greed worth more than the lives of hundreds of thousands killed and maimed around the world in the name of American imperialism under the Republican Emperor George? God knows best!
Why are the hardships of a few unemployed in America (due to a failed American economic policy) worthy of more attention and harder to bear in the U.S. than the starvation brought about through many parts of the world due to that same Republican American greed and arrogance? God knows best!
Is it at all possible that on both sides of the aisle of the Universal Catholic Church, God allows so much passion to be released to better expose the various evils of the world?
What has this election served to lay bare?
On the U.S. side of the Catholic aisle, it has freshly churned emotions over the shocking atrocity of abortion, as practiced in a country choking with material abundance. Indeed it has fanned so much passion that it could have become a major electoral trump card for some Americans.
On the world side of the religious aisles, the world is rightly revolted by the murder resulting from the mayhem of wars commissioned by a hot U.S.A. Republican Government in countries eyed for their black gold wealth. Note that the world should be equally horror struck by the on going and casually accepted slaughter of thousands of blacks, residing in poor unattractive countries, through the willful omission of a yellow, cold U.S.A. Government betraying a double standard policy.
On the world side of the religious and humanitarian aisles, the passions aroused are justly perceived to be rooted into the decades old fertile soil of American greed and racism! Do both those evils deserve full exposure to command proper reparation? God knows best how to reveal, soothe and pat both sides of the Universal Catholic aisle and the world’s opinion. That’s why God is omniscient and we are not! We can and should only trust in Divine Providence!
God also knows best how to stir us into action at the International, the national and the individual level.
That is why today I sincerely thank Him for allowing me to experience first hand the devastating effects of the greed that characterizes American Republicans. While you my children and grand children may know or sense it in various degrees, only God knows my suffering in detail.
All you, my children and grand children, may witness, are the superficial details of what I went through at the hands of the First American Corporation and the greed of its Republican executives, Parker Kennedy and James J. Dufficy. Of course you also know that these thugs were not invited but were rather introduced into our life through the back door by two other monstrous Republicans named James Sharon Trull and Ruth Ann Trull! As if that was not enough, now, I still have to contend with and deal with the worst and most repugnant, the most forked tongue of all Republicans in the person Michael L. Darland! I find solace in the knowledge that: All Republicans share the mistaken conviction that they are God’s gift to a tiny world that revolves around their navel! God knows best why?
Without experiencing the evils of greed first hand at the hands of these voracious vultures and if I were living comfortably in retirement I may not have identified the way I happily do with my immediate neighbors today. For His greater glory, God has brought me here towards the end of an extensive life trip to live amongst His closest friends and to discover a more peaceful and just, simple and humble happy world.
Had I not suffered, I may have had no reason to search. I could have been tempted to ignore the plight of a world so negatively impacted by the atrocious policies of greed of a Republican U.S. Government over the last eight years! Unfortunately, that greed factor rooted in the ‘Me First’ philosophy has inspired so many U.S. Republican citizens that the whole world is sickened by it today.
Today I wholeheartedly share the dream of a world that lives in hope that Obama will change Camp David into the camp of all the Davids of the world. They are all worth a hearing if the world Goliaths are to be silenced and put down successfully.
Change! Yes we can! But can one man alone in America change an American mind set?
God alone can!
Is God empowering a United World (Obama got 92% of the world’s vote) to change the United States? The balance is in the power of God!
God hear our prayer!
Only then will the world be able to sing with one voice the song not of the American nation only but that of the United World Village: Glory, Glory Alleluia… Change is marching on!
I repeat that I believe that this can and will only come about if Obama wisely chooses to consult with the big and small alike.
Indeed who is big and who is small? Is it only defined by country size?
For example, our Honorable Prime Minister, Dr. Navinchandra Ramgoolam is from a minute country when compared size wise to America. But how big a player does our Prime Minister deserve to be on the world scene? God knows best. And I trust that God will thrust Navin on the International stage to help the US urgently establish better relations with the world community. Indeed Navin was first to propose a reform platform of change during his party’s electoral campaign!
We all know that bigger is not necessarily better and as our ‘baby’ says ‘less is more’!
Does Obama have much to learn from our Prime Minister? Having crossed so many horizons and observed so many different Government leaders from so many different worlds, I unreservedly say: “YES!” Mauritius is a small country. It hosts a great nation under the exemplary leadership of our Prime Minister! Mauritius under Navin is worthy of world stage recognition.
Does Obama have much to learn from old civilizations in Asia and Europe?
Having observed how China has moved across Africa and South america with the power of love, opening its arms to all in its path, and how all in China’s path love and welcome China with open arms, I unreservedly say: Yes!
By contrast over the last eight years America has tried to impose itself through the power of arms. By using the wrong arms, America has harmed not only the world but it has harmed itself in the eyes of the world. Soon the U.S. will no longer be a dominant power.
There is a positive side. Over the years, the domineering stance of America has caused countries in Europe to unite and today the Euro is stronger than the dollar. Countries in Asia and Africa are now uniting and I predict that fifteen years from now, America will be a mostly irrelevant economic player.
So, my dear 21 grand children, I beg you to study Indian, Chinese and African cultures and languages. It is vitally important that you are able to communicate with citizens of those powers in their own language while understanding their culture. That is where the future lies! Seek the counsel of John Lindblom, a far sighted Chinese scholar from Blessed Sacrament church in Seattle.
I hope that after I am long gone, you will remember this advice, thank me for it in your prayers and think God knew best. Thanks be to God!
A country is sovereign through its culture. Thinking about the sovereignty of Mauritius over the Chagos and the atrocities committed there at the instigation of the U.S., I pray that Obama invites our Honorable Prime Minister sooner than later.
Beneficial International relations between the rest of the world and the U.S. could be put on a fast track as a result of such a meeting! For one, Obama could cause the U.S. to fly in the face of the decision of the Law Lords of England (a decision negating the rulings of Britain’s highest Courts just to placate the Republican U.S. administration) and render justice to Mauritius and the Chagos Islanders long before the U.S. has to renew its lease over Diego Garcia!
Is the plight of the Chagos Islanders not equal to the nightmare of numerous Native American tribes who are being somewhat compensated somehow today in the USA? God knows best!
If the plight of a nation is equal to that of an individual, then all First Americans should be forced to render justice and deliver equity equally. No rogue should be protected in its ‘thiefdom’, be it called Diego Garcia or Santa Ana!
Well kids! That is it for today! Free! Free at last of all that’s on my chest!
With God’s help, I hope and pray that you know how to pick or reject from these thoughts whatever helps you all, be all you can be at home and beyond all your frontiers!
I also dream that some day we will all be reunited somewhere joyfully in peace regardless of our earthly convictions.
Mommy’s arms in heaven and mine on earth are already open to welcome you all wherever that might be for eternity…!
It is with much love and continued desire for what is best for you that I address these observations to you all. From the time you were born, your mother and I have spared no sacrifices to offer you the best we could. I recall some of Lou’s words at his wedding along those lines two years ago. I also call to mind Wendy’s recent mail sharing her own observations about changes and her desire to know me closely in my 60s! Glad to share… For what it may be worth to you today… tomorrow… and may be for eternity…
Yesterday, I read in ‘Living Faith’ about the spiritual strength that empowered Rev. Martin Luther King to be “faithful to Christ’s non violence in his own ordeals.” “Similarly, Paul was profoundly content in the comforts he had and all that he didn’t have. (We have found out much about ‘have nots’ & ‘want nots’ in Rodrigues) In Christ, Paul had come to understand both how to enjoy abundance and how to embrace neediness. Through life we must learn how to hold abundance and need together without denying either.”
We must keep an open mind and the conviction that God knows best! Therefore in all things we must be thankful to Him!
I do not mean to be preaching to you. I gather that some of you may be even too busy to read on. But for those of you who still care, as my legacy, I want to share my gratitude with you for ALL the experiences and awareness God has led me through - And with His help, further help you ALL to be ALL you can be.
I believe that to do so it is important that we broaden our horizons beyond ourselves and most certainly well beyond our individual country’s horizons. Thus I thank God for leading me across and over so many horizons over the last 43 years. From this vantage point, probably among one of the last, I can best witness and testify to God’s glory through what He has opened my eyes to see across and beyond the seas.
In years to come, I hope that when I/we look back on my time in Rodrigues, I/we will realize that it was not all in vain. That Mommy even from heaven and I from earth are being placed where we are in order to continue to learn how to go on offering you the very best we can with all the love we have for you ALL.
I was amazed to learn from Kitty and Terry last night about all the evil intentions that some Catholics in the US appear to pin onto the new President!
I was even more amazed to note how the same Catholic Church can apparently have such different views of Obama in different parts of the world.
At church I listened to the prayers of the faithful as read from the pulpit. The first prayer was: “We thank God for how the election turned out in America. We pray that now America will embrace a Christ like policy of PEACE in the world.”
Before mass ended, just before the final blessing, Holy Father Perrine asked that we bless each other on the forehead as a sign of peace towards each other and gratitude to God for the election of Obama.
It heralds a new era of much needed Peace and hopefully renewed hope and prosperity for the entire world.
After church I bought ‘La Vie Catholique’ (I used to read it as a kid. It has been in print for over 79 years).
After getting back home and reading ‘La Vie Catholique’, I concluded that the world is a lot bigger and a lot more important than America.
I prayed for you all to be able some day to see America from a world perspective instead of forming opinions solely from a narrow, restricted and tainted home view!
The cover page of ‘La Vie Catholique’, (web site address www.laviecatholique.com -The only paper we get for weeks) had a beaming picture of Obama. The editorial sowed fresh hope in the heart of those who despaired that they would ever see changes within such a loaded Americracy. The editorial spoke to the fact that All things are made possible through God and that the dynasties of the rich and powerful can all crumble by the will of God through the faith of man, both in God and in himself.
To illustrate that fact the editorial quoted a speech delivered by our Prime Minister last Sunday. The Honorable Dr. Navinchandra Ramgoolam told the story how a haughty (Red neck, white ‘Republican’ Mauritian) once wanted to lord it over Navin’s father. So that red neck told Navin’s father in Parliament: “My grand father was a lawyer, my father was a lawyer and I am a lawyer.” Navin’s father humbly replied: “My grand father was a ‘coolie’, my father was a ‘coolie’ and I am a doctor – Indeed we have come a long way!” In his speech, Navin could have added: “My grand father was a ‘coolie’ I am the Prime Minister of Mauritius. But Navin is too humble to engage in that kind of vain talk!
I will quote a few more lines from Navin’s speech as reported in the editorial of ‘La Vie Catholique’: “We came in this country on different boats. We are now on the same ship. What is more important is that we now all agree on the same destination.”
In my humble opinion, Navin’s comment as it relates to Mauritius could just as well apply to each and every world citizen embarked on one liner. We are all sailing along our universal journey towards eternity.
The back of ‘La Vie Catholique’ had a big picture of Martin Luther King on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial delivering his world famous speech: ‘I have a dream’. ‘La Vie Catholique translated it in French. The inspiring comment to the local population urged us all to be patient in our pursuit to be all we can be. M.L.K. delivered his speech on August 28, 1963. Back then it was a message of hope meant to inspire the world! It was a seed that bears its sweetest and most mature fruit today!
Likewise I am reaching out to you today from tiny Rodrigues. I urge you to look beyond the frontiers of America. M.L.K.’s message broke all frontiers of dreamland.
By repeatedly shaking people out of their nightmares for 25 years, the dream has finally become a reality celebrated the world over. Obama has been elected President of the USA! Change! Yes we can! I believe that none other than God’s closest friends, as disclosed in Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount, deserve to revel in that reality today! Praise be to God!
Twenty five years ago, M.L.K. ended his speech saying that he hoped that God’s glory would be revealed some day and that the world would be able to share that glory together! Today, I say that God knows definitely best how to make His glory shine in the ‘mostest’ hearts all over the world!
Americracy has finally shed mediocracy to embrace true democracy. The greater glory of GOD throughout the global village is acclaimed with loud Alleluias from all four corners of the globe!
At every glorious turn of Rodrigues life, the locals love to let off fire crackers. Some of you would have shared my tears of joyful emotion looking at the local jubilation at the news that Obama had won. People ran to every Chinese store to blow their meager savings to buy fire crackers to blow!
Can ‘La Vie Catholique’, can Catholic bishops, can all those humble priests and hard working people be wrong? Am I wrong to read what I do in all the red flaming exuberant joyful and hopeful hearts that surround me?
But above all, please answer me: Can God possibly be wrong to have allowed Obama to be elected for His greater glory to shine in a multitude of hearts the world over?
Throughout the day, thoughts and questions have been rushing through my mind about some aspects of the American mind set!
Is the life of an unborn in America (through solicited abortion at the hands of a fellow American), worth more than the life of an unborn who wanted to live, but dies in Iraq in the womb of his dying mother just because she was shot to death for no reason by a U.S army thug? God knows best!
When I see the poor and needy (pardon me for pointing out that none of you in your U.S. and European neighborhoods can even begin to imagine what that means) here give birth to all the children that God decides to bless them with, I ask myself: Why is abortion practiced so much in America and why is it such a hot electoral issue in such a rich country when it would be a non starter here where children are most welcomed to embrace their poverty, only trusting that God will provide? God knows best!
Is the life of a few thousand American soldiers killed in action through a war rooted in Republican American greed worth more than the lives of hundreds of thousands killed and maimed around the world in the name of American imperialism under the Republican Emperor George? God knows best!
Why are the hardships of a few unemployed in America (due to a failed American economic policy) worthy of more attention and harder to bear in the U.S. than the starvation brought about through many parts of the world due to that same Republican American greed and arrogance? God knows best!
Is it at all possible that on both sides of the aisle of the Universal Catholic Church, God allows so much passion to be released to better expose the various evils of the world?
What has this election served to lay bare?
On the U.S. side of the Catholic aisle, it has freshly churned emotions over the shocking atrocity of abortion, as practiced in a country choking with material abundance. Indeed it has fanned so much passion that it could have become a major electoral trump card for some Americans.
On the world side of the religious aisles, the world is rightly revolted by the murder resulting from the mayhem of wars commissioned by a hot U.S.A. Republican Government in countries eyed for their black gold wealth. Note that the world should be equally horror struck by the on going and casually accepted slaughter of thousands of blacks, residing in poor unattractive countries, through the willful omission of a yellow, cold U.S.A. Government betraying a double standard policy.
On the world side of the religious and humanitarian aisles, the passions aroused are justly perceived to be rooted into the decades old fertile soil of American greed and racism! Do both those evils deserve full exposure to command proper reparation? God knows best how to reveal, soothe and pat both sides of the Universal Catholic aisle and the world’s opinion. That’s why God is omniscient and we are not! We can and should only trust in Divine Providence!
God also knows best how to stir us into action at the International, the national and the individual level.
That is why today I sincerely thank Him for allowing me to experience first hand the devastating effects of the greed that characterizes American Republicans. While you my children and grand children may know or sense it in various degrees, only God knows my suffering in detail.
All you, my children and grand children, may witness, are the superficial details of what I went through at the hands of the First American Corporation and the greed of its Republican executives, Parker Kennedy and James J. Dufficy. Of course you also know that these thugs were not invited but were rather introduced into our life through the back door by two other monstrous Republicans named James Sharon Trull and Ruth Ann Trull! As if that was not enough, now, I still have to contend with and deal with the worst and most repugnant, the most forked tongue of all Republicans in the person Michael L. Darland! I find solace in the knowledge that: All Republicans share the mistaken conviction that they are God’s gift to a tiny world that revolves around their navel! God knows best why?
Without experiencing the evils of greed first hand at the hands of these voracious vultures and if I were living comfortably in retirement I may not have identified the way I happily do with my immediate neighbors today. For His greater glory, God has brought me here towards the end of an extensive life trip to live amongst His closest friends and to discover a more peaceful and just, simple and humble happy world.
Had I not suffered, I may have had no reason to search. I could have been tempted to ignore the plight of a world so negatively impacted by the atrocious policies of greed of a Republican U.S. Government over the last eight years! Unfortunately, that greed factor rooted in the ‘Me First’ philosophy has inspired so many U.S. Republican citizens that the whole world is sickened by it today.
Today I wholeheartedly share the dream of a world that lives in hope that Obama will change Camp David into the camp of all the Davids of the world. They are all worth a hearing if the world Goliaths are to be silenced and put down successfully.
Change! Yes we can! But can one man alone in America change an American mind set?
God alone can!
Is God empowering a United World (Obama got 92% of the world’s vote) to change the United States? The balance is in the power of God!
God hear our prayer!
Only then will the world be able to sing with one voice the song not of the American nation only but that of the United World Village: Glory, Glory Alleluia… Change is marching on!
I repeat that I believe that this can and will only come about if Obama wisely chooses to consult with the big and small alike.
Indeed who is big and who is small? Is it only defined by country size?
For example, our Honorable Prime Minister, Dr. Navinchandra Ramgoolam is from a minute country when compared size wise to America. But how big a player does our Prime Minister deserve to be on the world scene? God knows best. And I trust that God will thrust Navin on the International stage to help the US urgently establish better relations with the world community. Indeed Navin was first to propose a reform platform of change during his party’s electoral campaign!
We all know that bigger is not necessarily better and as our ‘baby’ says ‘less is more’!
Does Obama have much to learn from our Prime Minister? Having crossed so many horizons and observed so many different Government leaders from so many different worlds, I unreservedly say: “YES!” Mauritius is a small country. It hosts a great nation under the exemplary leadership of our Prime Minister! Mauritius under Navin is worthy of world stage recognition.
Does Obama have much to learn from old civilizations in Asia and Europe?
Having observed how China has moved across Africa and South america with the power of love, opening its arms to all in its path, and how all in China’s path love and welcome China with open arms, I unreservedly say: Yes!
By contrast over the last eight years America has tried to impose itself through the power of arms. By using the wrong arms, America has harmed not only the world but it has harmed itself in the eyes of the world. Soon the U.S. will no longer be a dominant power.
There is a positive side. Over the years, the domineering stance of America has caused countries in Europe to unite and today the Euro is stronger than the dollar. Countries in Asia and Africa are now uniting and I predict that fifteen years from now, America will be a mostly irrelevant economic player.
So, my dear 21 grand children, I beg you to study Indian, Chinese and African cultures and languages. It is vitally important that you are able to communicate with citizens of those powers in their own language while understanding their culture. That is where the future lies! Seek the counsel of John Lindblom, a far sighted Chinese scholar from Blessed Sacrament church in Seattle.
I hope that after I am long gone, you will remember this advice, thank me for it in your prayers and think God knew best. Thanks be to God!
A country is sovereign through its culture. Thinking about the sovereignty of Mauritius over the Chagos and the atrocities committed there at the instigation of the U.S., I pray that Obama invites our Honorable Prime Minister sooner than later.
Beneficial International relations between the rest of the world and the U.S. could be put on a fast track as a result of such a meeting! For one, Obama could cause the U.S. to fly in the face of the decision of the Law Lords of England (a decision negating the rulings of Britain’s highest Courts just to placate the Republican U.S. administration) and render justice to Mauritius and the Chagos Islanders long before the U.S. has to renew its lease over Diego Garcia!
Is the plight of the Chagos Islanders not equal to the nightmare of numerous Native American tribes who are being somewhat compensated somehow today in the USA? God knows best!
If the plight of a nation is equal to that of an individual, then all First Americans should be forced to render justice and deliver equity equally. No rogue should be protected in its ‘thiefdom’, be it called Diego Garcia or Santa Ana!
Well kids! That is it for today! Free! Free at last of all that’s on my chest!
With God’s help, I hope and pray that you know how to pick or reject from these thoughts whatever helps you all, be all you can be at home and beyond all your frontiers!
I also dream that some day we will all be reunited somewhere joyfully in peace regardless of our earthly convictions.
Mommy’s arms in heaven and mine on earth are already open to welcome you all wherever that might be for eternity…!
Friday, November 07, 2008
A black First American - That's Title To Justice
A black First American – That’s Title To Justice!
Free! Free at last… Americracy has finally freed itself from bitter mediocracy!
From Africa to America a thousand bushes of dim lights have yielded to the shining brightness of millions of red flaming hearts igniting all races and colors to flash new rays of hope sky high!
A weak burnt out Bush, brought to his knees through wrecking general havoc over the world, has surrendered to the power of those who humbly kneel down before the Burning Bush!
The scale of the wealth of the mighty could not tip the scales against the more worthy!
The White house will finally be the Black’s house opening its doors to all without discrimination.
Winning 92% of the International community’s vote, the election of President Obama by Americans was crucial for the welfare of the world village.
Christmas is drawing near. The theme ‘Peace to the world…’ will be soon sung by the ‘Voice of America’ choir. This time, it will strike a meaningful new note in renewed hearts the world over.
And for the first time in years the world should gladly echo back the refrain: God Bless America!
Change! Yes we can! Change if not the color of our skin, at least the color of our thoughts.
In Mauritius our Honorable Prime Minister, Dr. Navinchandra Ramgoolam, the stateliest of international statesman, (as once again evidenced and further confirmed during his recent tour of Asia, Europe and North America) has urged us and shown us how to capitalize on our diversity by strengthening our bonds of unity.
There is a season for everything. May a new young President from the new world humbly accept much wise guidance from an outstanding scholar and a most successful and more seasoned Prime Minister from a much older and most dynamic world.
Change! Yes we can! A bonding and mighty Prime Minister from Mauritius, a relatively small mixing pan, and a budding starting, yet small American President from a once mighty and respected melting pot can and should come closely together to show the world that through change all things are made possible with God’s help. Can we all cheer them on and follow their example to make our entire world a durable one?
America has canned Bush, and sent him to the back of the Barracks. With time, may the world come to forget and forgive the Bush arrogance and hopefully that of his followers…
There is a season for everything… Even for the mighty Prime Minister of a smaller nation to lead the younger President of a mightier country along the visionary highways of our common world village! Thus, for ever more the might of the right will NO longer be right …!
Free! Free at last… Americracy has finally freed itself from bitter mediocracy!
From Africa to America a thousand bushes of dim lights have yielded to the shining brightness of millions of red flaming hearts igniting all races and colors to flash new rays of hope sky high!
A weak burnt out Bush, brought to his knees through wrecking general havoc over the world, has surrendered to the power of those who humbly kneel down before the Burning Bush!
The scale of the wealth of the mighty could not tip the scales against the more worthy!
The White house will finally be the Black’s house opening its doors to all without discrimination.
Winning 92% of the International community’s vote, the election of President Obama by Americans was crucial for the welfare of the world village.
Christmas is drawing near. The theme ‘Peace to the world…’ will be soon sung by the ‘Voice of America’ choir. This time, it will strike a meaningful new note in renewed hearts the world over.
And for the first time in years the world should gladly echo back the refrain: God Bless America!
Change! Yes we can! Change if not the color of our skin, at least the color of our thoughts.
In Mauritius our Honorable Prime Minister, Dr. Navinchandra Ramgoolam, the stateliest of international statesman, (as once again evidenced and further confirmed during his recent tour of Asia, Europe and North America) has urged us and shown us how to capitalize on our diversity by strengthening our bonds of unity.
There is a season for everything. May a new young President from the new world humbly accept much wise guidance from an outstanding scholar and a most successful and more seasoned Prime Minister from a much older and most dynamic world.
Change! Yes we can! A bonding and mighty Prime Minister from Mauritius, a relatively small mixing pan, and a budding starting, yet small American President from a once mighty and respected melting pot can and should come closely together to show the world that through change all things are made possible with God’s help. Can we all cheer them on and follow their example to make our entire world a durable one?
America has canned Bush, and sent him to the back of the Barracks. With time, may the world come to forget and forgive the Bush arrogance and hopefully that of his followers…
There is a season for everything… Even for the mighty Prime Minister of a smaller nation to lead the younger President of a mightier country along the visionary highways of our common world village! Thus, for ever more the might of the right will NO longer be right …!
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