Let’s say that I am an European at heart. I have never been across the Atlantic Ocean, but I’d love  to. Maybe, on one day I’ll plan my lifetime travel. But for the time being I’ve only been travelling in a good handful of European countries and I had lived in a couple of them for a number of years. 

When they first started to talk about the joint currency to follow with governmental campaigns so as to get the people to support this, I used to get annoyed. Then, I welcomed the new currency while living and working in Ireland. At that time Ireland seemed to be very European and embraced the single currency for a handful of countries. They embraced it so much that by the end of January 2002 there weren’t any punts going round and they had a period for the change over until February 9th. At shops and bars, the prices were already in Euro with no guidance whatsoever to get used to the new currency and to see whether we were over priced or not -One gave a 20 pound note to get a handful of the new coins. In Spain, they had a period until February 28th, but bar tenders and shopkeepers would take both currencies. “How are you paying, love?” would be an usual question in shops and markets.

Twelve years on, all those who were happy with being a member of the EU and to assume the single and joint currency seem to have been gone back in their ideas. They seem to have forgotten their initial principles and principles can’t be changed depending on the situations. We may change our tactics or our approach to different issues, but not principles. 

Despite all the problems nowadays, I am still an European at heart and I do sometimes remember a Colombian friend who lived in London and who used to exclaim ‘I don’t know why you are all so fond of flying. Europe is so beautiful that it well deserves a train journey!’

Merkel? Ouch! Mind the right wing lady that comes from behind the former iron curtain. Zarkorszy? Oh, well he is past and gone! Politicians whether they are right or left come and go all the time but the financial markets and those who provoked the financial meltdown and the sinking of many countries are to stay. In fact, politicians and governments are like puppets in the hands of these so called financial markets. It is them we should oppose to.

I do believe in a united Europe, but one based on solidarity with the poor. A United Europe that has governments that tackle the most serious issues affecting millions of people rather than placing themselves as mats in front of banks and financial markets. 

If the so called ‘pig countries’ had united to face the markets, deficit and debt, it would be a different story nowadays. They can defeat one country, but I bet it would be for them a lot more difficult to attack four countries that stick together as a single one.

Don’t point at others for all your troubles, but see what you’ve done wrongly and try to fix it as well as you can, I’d say.    

A dream of mines today.

A system where a powerful overwhelming light shines but comes not from the sun to hit the earth, but from the earth, from us to hit the universe. The one light that exist in all, and all in it. The light that comes from the one true source. The one light that is the essence of our soul our human spirit, the same human spirit that is being crushed right now as i write. Knowledge and understanding is needed to life the veil of darkness from our reality. The darkness has poisoned the world with its hate and greed, its corruption, its lies and unrighteousness.

But sure is our road to the destination of all destinations.

Who am I? I’ll tell u who I am, I’m that guy who came from a community that was filled with crime… a community that OTHERS looked down upon.  A community that was afraid to reach for their goals because others had denied them and ridiculed them! But you see, I wasn’t afraid… I was man enough to brush off the ridicule and continue my struggle to achieve my goals. I’m the man who became a published author to the dismay of many! Every obstacle that was put in my way, I quickly overcame! I’m that guy who paved the way for others in my community to stand tall and embrace their goals! I’m that guy who paved the way for future authors and writers to emerge from our society and prove to the world, that Alicians are just as great as anyone else! I am the founder and creator of the Vanity Nationalist Party and founder of Vanity Nationalism! I am that guy who will bring upon a united community and continue to fight to make our community a more respected, highly looked upon and prosperous city! Together we can all take a stand and unite as one… and wipe away the sins currently plaguing our community! I was brave enough to follow my dreams… and my goals… And now… I ask each and every single one of you people here in attendance to follow your dreams as well! Stand beside me… and help me prove to the world… that our city is a great city!! Embrace the Vanity Nationalist Party for a better future for all! Vanity Nationalism is the future… and it will continue to build for our future!

Who am I? I am the author of “The Spellbound Heart” and Leader and Speaker of the House of Vanity Shades~ Oscar Trejo Jr!

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And… More importantly of all… may each and every single one of us continue to PROSPER!!!

GOD BLESS!!

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I look at those who run for office and see who and what they really represent. Some look out for their friends and those with power and those who can give back in return. Many politicians have personal and business connections with big money. Who do you think has their ear after they are elected? I am tired of the attitude; you want a bridge to nowhere? We can do that. You want to drill oil in the Indian’s back yard? We can do that too. You want to have more smoke stacks? We can do that, it might cost you more? Politics and political history being what it is, we will always have some influence peddling, some negotiations of give and take with representation with local and business leaning, but we accept that when justice and equality are also present. We must get the personal agendas and hidden graft out of our bills and riders which has gone too far in recent politics. We have a divided nation and a divided congress.

We live in the greatest country in the world, not because of those who have led us over the past thirty years, but because of our founding principles, our constitution, the rule of law spiced with consideration, trust, fairness, decency, family, and for the good of all, by a government established for the people (not just the rich and powerful) by the people, (farmers, hunters and workers) and of the people, (not just those with influential connections.) We need leaders who have made jobs for people and not destroyed them. We need leaders who work to protect our American way of life.

When I look at any politician running for office, I look at his family, his work history, his past offerings and what he has accomplished as a citizen and not as a tyrant in either business or politics. I look for a person who understands me and what I have to go through to make my way through life. I want leaders that look at the bottom ninety percent of the citizenry first and the top ten percent second. It goes without saying that government support of the top ten percent often is passed down to the bottom ninety percent.

I don’t vote for a person because of how much tax he pays, how big his house is or how many cars he has. I don’t care if he has one vacation home or five, that might be an indication of how hard he works and what he can offer in the future. I want to know what he has done for America, you and me.

Rather, I would want to see how a politician made his money to buy his vacation homes, fill his political war chest, etc. There must be a reason why big business will give millions and millions to campaigns to get a certain person in office, a selfish reason I would judge. How can the ten dollars from a widow or a disabled vet compete with that? I don’t begrudge big business, we need them, we need more of them, but I like to see the businessman that sells his vacation home during a slow down or economic depression so that his workers won’t be laid off. Yes, we have business owners that do that. I would rather see a businessman pay his idle workers and help them find other jobs until business picks up again. I like the business that offers health insurance, tuition aid and family counseling and a host of other things instead of using company money to attract influential friends, lobbyists, and to offer huge sums to campaign blocks. And just as I like the business that takes care of the worker, I like the politician that uses his efforts for all the people. Why in the world would a business dealing with the government want a certain politician in office anyway? Isn’t that overpowering the small voter? Campaigns should be run on merit instead of money. Does it take money and advertising at the rate we see today to put an honest and dedicated man into office?  We should elect our leaders by a more reliable method such as past experience and dedication to the American way of life, not just for a few Americans, but for all Americans. It is my humble opinion that our early founders believed in a power greater than eternity itself, I can respect that and really appreciate a leader who feels that he is not that power, but yields to a  force greater than any one of us. We should have the right to believe the way we want to and that includes those who believe differently than I do. Each individual must council his own mind.

Deciding who will run your government should not be taken casually, but with great passion. The leader(s) you vote for should not be a cut and dried decision because of the party our grandparents voted for. But we should choose on the merits of the party and that of those who will lead that party today. Party principles are very important, and leaders of both parties have been proven to be good for America. We can only hope that America has informed, rational, and interested voters who understands that money and advertising is trying to buy the American way of life. Party politics must be considered in our decision making process.  We have such an impasse when our represented leaders stand in the way of progress just to make the other party look bad. Winning an argument is not worth destroying our government.

Dr Robert E McGinnis  –  Author for over thrity years.Open the door to your mind.

Throughout my voting history I have voted equally as much for one party as I have the other. My voting history is a split ticket from the top to the bottom. I do my best to vote for the cause and not the glamor, for the man and not the promise. Think about it, who does your candidate really represent?

We do not have to have children in Somalia who are starving and searching desperately for their next meal, we do not need governments that exhibit excess amounts of force on the people, and we most certainly do not need a world police force that riles in the puddle of its corruption. Yes these things humanity can continue without. We can have food for every single person on the planet, we can have free uninterrupted energy for every single person on this planet, and we can have abundant prosperity for every single person on this planet. All it takes is some good conscious direction. Separation is only of use by the separator, while the separated suffer. Only when they see that, they intentional separated themselves to learn, will they see the blissful beauty in there union.

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How do the powerful maintain their position? Politicians and the Military control the media by broadcasting illusory division – black from white, gay from straight and nation from nation. Vested interests use separation propaganda to make money. For instance, we would have not guns to make if there were no borders between lands – unity would end conflict as we would no longer have, “The other,” to fight.

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Us and Them

Here are three examples of separation mentality and how it makes money:

1. War. All wars are between distinct powers, e.g. India vs. Pakistan or Israel and Palestine. If the people of these countries thought about it – they are all human beings sharing this planet with no need to battle. An arms sale makes firms a lot of money that UNITY will take from these manufacturers of death.

2. Religion – Judaism vs. Islam is a prime note. Again separation is a tool to keep you bowed down and chanting. Let’s remind ourselves that both are simply creations of the imagination of ancient curmudgeons. Dogma is a clear rule when brainwashing and dividing. People toss coins to the passing bowl in churches in the name of a single religion opposed to another religion. Harmony would empower people to find their own spirituality in universal human hood without the need for venues and books.

3. Sex – Gay vs. Straight, Bisexual vs. Transsexual and many more, is a glittering example of division, to make cold hard cash. Cooked up in the writings of people in the past, today, sex-separation is the way we are, in Toto, controlled. Congressing in pan sexuality, in UNITY, relegates the pink dollar to the dustbin of history and a lot of lucre is lost. 

“Solutions Solutions Solution!”

How do we construct UNANIMITY? What is the means to topple, “Separation Propaganda?” Answer! Simply change the way you think. Know in your heart we are all of the same ancestors, the same human family and we can all now fight labels for countries, peoples and skin. SIMPLY CHANGE YOUR MIND whenever you hear, read or talk LABELS for this is mental division and the reason we all are downtrodden.

 Source: N. Donald – Walsche 97

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In a sign that Greece’s political deadlock may be easing under EU pressure, a senior socialist said Prime Minister George Papandreou had made clear he would resign once a coalition deal was done, possibly as soon as Sunday night.

With euro zone finance ministers due to meet on Monday, senior socialist lawmaker Telemachos Hitiris said: “Everything must be done within the day, otherwise tomorrow it will be hell.”

Earlier, the conservative opposition offered to cooperate in forming a national unity government that would push the euro zone bailout through parliament provided Papandreou stood aside after two years at the helm as Greece slid towards bankruptcy.

European Economic and Monetary Affairs Commissioner Olli Rehn demanded a Greek unity government to restore confidence, which has been shaken by doubts that Athens would commit itself to the 130 billion euro bailout package. Rehn wanted progress by the time euro zone finance ministers including Greek Deputy Prime Minister Evangelos Venizelos meet on Monday night.

“We have called for a national unity government and remain persuaded that it is the convincing way of restoring confidence and meeting the commitments,” he told Reuters.

“We need a convincing report on this by Finance Minister Venizelos tomorrow in the Eurogroup.” [nL6E7M604Q]

A BREACH OF CONFIDENCE

Greece had breached confidence with its euro zone partners last week and put itself on a path towards leaving the common currency, Rehn said in a telephone interview.

Papandreou provoked uproar on Monday by announcing a referendum on the bailout, which demands yet more austerity to be imposed on the long-suffering Greek population, plunging his country into political as well as economic crisis.

Under heavy pressure from home and abroad, Papandreou ditched the referendum and narrowly survived a confidence vote, but only after promising to seek a new broad-based coalition. Rehn said Greece now appeared to be pulling back from the brink.

Early on Sunday, the left and right had seemed far apart and any coalition deal between Papandreou’s PASOK socialists and the conservative New Democracy a distant prospect.

But the EU pressure appeared to start working. With the cabinet due to meet later on Sunday, Hitiris said explicitly what Papandreou had signalled in parliament on Friday.

“Papandreou will resign once the new prime minister is selected,” he told state NET TV. “We only have to wait for the prime minister’s announcements in the cabinet.”

TORTURING THE GREEK PEOPLE

In the hunt for a national consensus, President Karolos Papoulias met the conservative opposition leader on Sunday.

“This uncertainty that is torturing the Greek people must end. We must find a solution,” Papoulias said before starting closed-door talks with New Democracy leader Antonis Samaras.

Samaras said he was ready for compromise but only with a new prime minister. “I am determined to help. Provided that Papandreou resigns, everything will take its course,” he said after the talks.

The bailout deal aims to save Greece from bankruptcy and to prevent its problems tipping much bigger euro zone economies such as Italy and Spain into full-blown crisis.

Venizelos has already received one lecture when German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy summoned him with Papandreou before a G20 meeting last week.

The leaders made clear that Greece would receive not one cent more in European aid until it had signed up to the latest bailout, the second package since Athens had to go cap in hand to the European Union and IMF in May last year.

Greeks have fought the pay and pensions cuts, combined with higher taxes, demanded by the international lenders with a series of strikes and protests, some violent.

But the state is due to run out of money in December, when it has big debt repayments to meet, and by then needs the sixth instalment of its existing EU/IMF bailout package.

A senior New Democracy official said Samaras was willing to negotiate a government of politicians, rather than one comprising technocrats, if Papandreou stepped aside. Party sources said he was under pressure from his own lawmakers, who feared the consequences if they were left out of a coalition.

Having demanded snap elections, he might be willing to discuss a date later than his preferred early December vote.

The source made no mention of who might lead the government but New Democracy is unlikely to accept any top member of the ruling PASOK party such as Venizelos.

Only a week ago the bailout deal seemed in the bag, but then Papandreou dropped the referendum bombshell, prompting widespread fear that Greece might be forced out of the euro and have to go it alone with a revived national currency.

“Europeans don’t trust us anymore, they will throw us out,” said Tassos Pagonis, a 48-year-old Athens taxi driver. “I hope we don’t return to the drachma.”

(Additional reporting by Lefteris Papadimas, Rene Maltezou and Harry Papachristou; Writing by David Stamp; Editing by Kevin Liffey)

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The new management hired new personnel and employees. But on a certain account, they used cost – cutting procedure. They used to cut on the number of employees on a certain department. The company had introduced forced labor effectively. It affected to the old employees especially. They obliged their employees to do the jobs and responsibilities as the same as supervisors.

He explained, “I handled so many loan accounts, including monitoring, collections’ procedures, and other legal documentation. I could see that there were discrepancies. Promotions and salary increases were awarded and mostly enjoyed by the newly hired personnel. I have a pending promotion that the company had promised. The harmonious relationship between the employees and the employer had become chaotic. Favoritism had become obvious and the situation became worst.”

Those strategies that the company practiced had increased Mr. Jura’s desire to organize a labor union, of about two hundred members, with the primary objective of protecting the employees against the unfair labor practices of the company.

During his active Leadership – Mr. Jura noted that some of the union members were afraid to negotiate with the employer. He said, “There was a strong warning by the company, to terminate employees involved to such activity.” But despite the management cautionary action, the union stood its ground vigorously and there were more struggles. 

“I concluded two Collective Bargaining Agreements (CBA) with the employer. The first CBA had taken us by eight months to negotiate with the employer. In the middle of negotiation with the company, they offered me promotion and money. But I had never accepted it until it ended up with deadlocked bargaining. Those eight months of bargaining with the employer had brought us too much difficulty. I really needed the money to sustain my mother’s hospitalization and to support my family. It was really hard for me to handle the situation. But this had not affected my strong desire to lead the union. But it was difficult to render a visible protest against the company’s unfair labor practices,” he said.

The plans on a Yes – to – Strike. The union members wore arm – bands with slogans, and had picketed in front of the administration’s building. It took them a month. But the company still did not alter its decision. They felt that their crusade had failed. Their struggles seemed to have no success. These were months of desolation. It affected Mr. Jura greatly. That period of his crusade with the union had made him crippled. His mother’s condition had affected him. The agony had penetrated his heart, brought by the disturbing events, but he had never deviated from his decision. Courageously, they have said, ‘Yes to strike,’ through a consultation with the Department of Labor Employment (DOLE). 

The plans on a Yes – to – Strike by the union had worried the company. So the company bribed one of the employees of DOLE to release an assumption order to stop the possible strike of the union. But the union went through with their crusade that urged the company to grant some of their demands. 

In that provision, all employees, either union members or non – union members will receive 3% profit shares from the company’s annual income.

According to Mr. Jura, the first and second distributions were in good faith, while the third time of distribution was shocking. They found that the non – members received a greater amount than the union members. This urged Mr. Jura to request a consultation with the management, but to no avail. The management justified it as their prerogative. This made the union open their second CBA. 

Their second CBA with the company was not as fruitful. Their legal counsel (union) had renewed some of the existing provisions stated in the CBA. The management (company) bribed their counsel with some money.

“We continued our struggles. We filed the case with the National Labor Counsel. The issue was for equal profit sharing. Luckily, we won the case, after two long years of labor hearings!” he said. 

Mr. Jura felt jubilation to win the case. He never sold his principle and dignity to the company. He would cherish it throughout his life span and share it to his kids. He resigned from his job with dignity and pride. He said, “Courage and Unity were the best weapons to Victory.” 

“It was really difficult to handle the situation. I lost my job. I have a family that needed my support. Those disturbing events that happened to me did not diminish my strength and willingness to live and survive, but I strive more to keep on living,” said Mr. Jura.

He added, “If it happened to you and you lost your job come down and never get mad. It is not the end of the world for you. There are more opportunities for you to find a job. Jobs are there just around you. Think positively. Don’t just put yourself in a corner, remembering those bad experiences that happened to you before. Maintain a good relationship with your family. Trust and understanding are really needed in this situation. 

“Your family is your outlet to discuss what is good. See your friends. They are willing to help you. They can refer you to another company that needs your services. Deliver yourself to the Good Lord. He is always behind you to support you, to guide you. He is the first and the last to seek for help because hope is there.”

At present Mr. Jura is working as a Secretary at a Construction Company in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

It is said that Demonstrations and Rallies are adding to the fear of investors depriving ourselves of the investments needed to kick-start the economy but they also help to check our officials wrong doings!

This article was written with the permission from Mr. Jura. 

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