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We discuss the troubled, misguided world of Project Veritas.  They think by contriving incidents of false representation of scandal that they can effectively alter the news to a more truthful mindset of integrity.  How is that possible by acting out of deception?  What caught my attention was how supposedly Donald Trump funded Project Veritas with $20,000 to document videos of protests of his inauguration.  Then he influenced police authorities to exaggerate arrest claims of protesters over property damage.  This is an organization that has been capable of posing as a fake Muslim charity at NPR, provoking mosque members to publicly align with ISIS, trying to bribe David Letterman, and recently have a poser sexual victim claim that Roy Moore assaulted her as a minor and impregnated her.  Tune into this episode.  It also discusses the bravery of Daniel Ellsberg and going public with the Pentagon Papers in the NY Times.  We also discuss the unnecessary, tragic death of Daniel Shaver. 


http://www.blogtalkradio.com/tabernaclefaith/2017/12/18/project-veritas-the-pentagon-papers-death-of-daniel-shaver

Best episode in a year or so; Jon is burdened by certain tensions

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/tabernaclefaith/2017/08/07/mosque-explosion-in-mpls-protecting-the-minority-faction

Jon and I had recent conflict on our radio show regarding religious perspective and male/female perceptions.  It happened about 3 weeks ago and it still seems to bother him.  I don't know how I can continually rectify the situation beyond explaining my world view until I am blue in the face and yet, someone such as him, cannot fully comprehend my struggle to enlighten him and in reverse, he to me.  The reason I brought up world view is because I see the world from a Christian and neutral intellectual.  What I mean by that, is I understand the Christian prophecy that must take place before the Second Coming of Christ.  There will be a major confrontation of world powers btwn Russia, US and China in the Middle East.  We are beginning to see the edges of this prophecy and the dividing line with the escalation of Kim Jong Un.  As a political scientist, I can crisply define the world from a pragmatic point of view.  There are 34% of the world population who are Christians and 23% who are Islam.  From a purely religious perspective, the sons of Abraham are fighting with a sibling rivalry for the most holy and dedicated sects of God.  From a purely Christian perspective, ultimate divinity only comes through sacrifice and laying down of self for our brother.  Therefore, Christians cannot get involved in war or bully others even on a national platform.  Each person born into a particular faith will honor that faith until they find a fallible proof that the religion cannot support their life view.  Just as many younger people abandon the Catholic church in it's strictness and revelation of dishonorable priests (as an example), a handful to perhaps a persuasive margin will leave due to their worldly passions that don't coincide with the religion-they choose worldiness over prudent living.   When I am trying to discuss just pragmatic facts like how I perceive people are influenced or why certain Musllims prey on others such as Isis on the Peshmerga in Northern Iraq and Tureky , I try to state conflicts like this in geopolitical terms mixed in with current events.  Jon tries to take the immediate Christian view and perceives Islam in itself as a threat.  This is just one watered down example.  Sometimes, two friends cannot come head to head with an issue and meet in the middle.  At some points, I thought it was damaging the radio show because he took a very narrow view regarding an Islamic female leader I had on the air.  I forgive him for it, but he was defensive because our guest was trying to explain her disagreement with the Muslim ban and the impact it has had on visitors/Us residents staying here & future limitations in six major countries.  She is Yemenese descent and it impacted her directly regarding relatives and friends. It offended me that he would infiltrate and confront a guest this way without hearing what she was tyring to project. 

Needless to say, it was a difficult time and a moment of truth for our radio show.  I am trying to analyze and dissect policy, presidential behavior, modern conflict and it seems to me, certain cohosts are only trying to promote their world view without taking a moment to breathe and see someone's other condition in the world.  

In the same way, certain people reject Syrian refugees and treat them as non victims, we can only do our best to help those in need without judging and being fearful of others different than us.  Some of our cohosts have dissed people we have not been exposed to or have stopped to try to understand.  For example, Albert distrusts all rich people and the mainstream media and thinks those in those composite groups have a faulty agenda.  We must welcome the stranger and bridge the gap of communcation deficiencies to brighten our world, even if the communication block is between intimate friends. Last week, we had a harmonious show but Jon was not a participant because he took a few weeks off to regroup.  He may be back but I don't know.

10 years of my life in a pictorial slide show

Basically, this slide show is a pictorial of all the pictures I have posted on this blog.  That covers over 9 years.  I have some duplicates that I could have weeded out but I did create it in the YouTube Studio.  Please enjoy and if you were in my life in the last decade, there's a good chance you are in this slide show.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSgZ1k4NPHs


Also, Albert rejoined the show last night and he brought in some excellent callers from Riverside County.  One is a delegate for the Democratic State Convention and one is an original creator of the Occupy Movement in 2011.

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/tabernaclefaith/2017/01/12/occupy-palm-desert-clean-energy-revenge-of-bernie-crats

Another radio conflict that in the end adds up to nothing.

     I do realize over time that people who have never gone to college end up repeating the same recycled garbage and analogies that revolve around in their head.  My friend, Jon, is very good at examining spiritual complexities that people have to face in their everyday walk with God.  He has breadth and depth on the subject.

     When it comes to politics, he has a tendency to "label" friends of the opposite party such as "liberal" "feminist" "socialist" "communist" "comrade" etc.  He has pre formed definitions about these labels and surrounding ideology as well as uninformed conceptions of the American communist movement and terrors of maximal capitalism.

     He has become simply adamant about his support and stronghold for Donald Trump and what that represents for the future of America.  He won't accept anything less or any contrasting ideology or he also berates Don, I and others constantly about Hillary Clinton's qualities and physical stamina.

     I think working 12 hours a day with a dog and bossy woman has gotten under his skin.  He has always been tremendously fair and tolerant of other people with longstanding patience.

     He went off the rails last night just because I was trying to classify voters as urban, educated in major cities as opposed to rural, Southern voters who rallied around Trump.  He thought I was trying to pigeonhole him as a so called dumb voter.  But I was only strictly talking about demographics, NOT HIM.

     Either way, he feels his Trump voice can't be heard even though 7 of our 8 last callers were clearly conservative and had an hour of air time a piece.  Albert has replaced Jon as one of the three key cohosts and I doubt Jon will be back on the show for 5-6 months.  He has a demanding job 7 days a week which is 12-15 hours a day and rarely has time for himself.

      I am not sad about it.  It was meant to be.  We completed 301 episodes since March, 2014.  There was a lot of tension on the show the last few weeks and now a mitigating circumstance led to the departure of Jon by his choice.  Don, Albert and I will bring more local politicians and local/regional activists into the mix which will appeal to the Youth/Gen X and millenials.

Radio at it's best: Immigration & Crime-Carriage of Justice; Donald Trump's family image & intended projection, waning health care in Nevada for homeless and more.

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/tabernaclefaith/2016/11/28/does-the-trump-family-pass-the-social-litmus-test-plus-immigration-pipeline#.WD0KbHkwtGs.facebook

We discuss moral decisions, eye for eye tooth for tooth, the measure of man and value of an elitist committing a crime and illegal/legal Mexicans.   Why Donald Trump's upscale values will never resonate with American common folk or quasi-intellectuals. 

Saudi Arabian history and patriarchal, successive fraternal (brother) Kingdom

Our radio show discusses decision making by Bush 41 during the Gulf War and Saudi air base support.  It also discusses the origins of his political formation.  Texas hardly had any Republicans in the early 1960's.  Less than a dozen game players.  

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/tabernaclefaith/2016/12/01/how-george-hw-bush-almost-died-for-his-political-convictions-once-upon-a-time

Please read the article and listen to the radio show above to get the full concept of Saudi-U.S. relations including the origins of oil development from 1902-1945.

Delicate decision making in the Saudi Royal Kingdom

Part One

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by Jane Hoffman

Before the modern day reign of the Saudi Royal family which declared its throne in 1932, a young prince  at age 20 wanted to eliminate the Ottoman empire and restore rule of Al Saud who once dominated the region from the Red Sea to the Persian Gulf.  He didn’t second guess his designated birth-right in the area.  His name was Abd al-Azia Ibn Saud.  He crossed the desert with sixty brothers and cousins to reclaim the land.  He enlisted nomadic Bedouins, local warriors named the Ikhwan who also wanted their own version of a puritan Wahhabi Islamic state.  After the victory in 1902, Ibn Saud wanted to kill 1/3 of the army that helped him win, the Ikhwan.  He consulted the religious elite, the ulama, and got approval.  He killed part of the force that enabled him to win.   Since 1932, there has been no royal monarchy but the House of Saud and each subsequent ruler was a brother.  A few breaches of leadership have tipped the kingdom momentarily but only cost one real life in 80 plus years.  Clandestine deals with the U.S. have kept them interfacing East-West loyalty that may switch up generation to generation.
It is a pragmatic empire that weighs the actions of its neighbors with regional power-brokering beyond religious overtures.  The Saud family has also carefully balanced the initiative of typical geo-politics of defense realism protecting their interests while shepherding strong allies such as the United States to guard them and exonerate them but it has not always worked.   In 1973, President Nixon told King Faisal that an even handed approach would be used toward Israel at the breakout of the Yom Kippur War.  Saudi Arabia had helped financed the war against Israel and sent 3,000 soldiers.  Israel trounced their enemies and Richard Nixon betrayed the Saudis by sending a 2.2 billion in military aid and equipment to Israel.  That is what caused the oil embargo in 1973 which quadrupled oil prices for over a year.  Most of the time, the Saudis did not stand up to the U.S. as in the 1967 Israeli war when King Faisal wanted to punish the Americans by aligning to Israel but did not.

The most romantic union in history, a blind-sighted agreement that reaped unlimited bounty for the Saudi family was when the Americans were looking for the legendary lost Solomon mines and signed a 99 year land grand to look for gold which came to be the best gamble in history. The Quran states that one should not lease land or invite foreigners into a country.   Black gold or oil was found which would propel stability and wealth in the region that would last more than 80 years.   Ibn Saud, the partriach of the House of Saud, fathered over 45 sons in 25 marriages. . To keep his new kingdom united, he married a daughter from every tribe as well as from the influential clerical families.  In Quran rule, you can only marry 4 wives at a time so he ended up divorcing some to marry more.  This created a long term lineage and a kingdom that essentially would never end. King Abd-al Aziz Ibn Saud ruled from 1932-1953.  Unlike many European royal families, Saudi successions are not based on primogeniture; it does not pass from king to his eldest son, it passes to a brother. Due to the advancing age of the second generation of princes, this process is becoming increasingly problematic.  King Salman, the 7th brother to take over, replaced King Abdullah who died last month.  

The Saudis have always built a long lasting friendship with Americans.  The first land grant in which Americans were only searching for gold was met with an exchange of 500 horses to be provided to the Saudi kingdom.  The Americans did pay $170,000 for land concessions eventually.  The Saudis did not want money.  Later, when the Americans found black gold, Ibn Saud gave them the right to develop and manufacture oil.  The oil companies and the Saudi government set up a joint enterprise that later becomes the Arabian American Oil Company (Aramco). Its shareholders include America's four largest oil corporations.   During WWII, the U.S. urgently needed oil facilities to help supply forces fighting in the Second World War.  Meanwhile, security is at the forefront of King Ibn Saud’s concerns. President Franklin Roosevelt invites the king to meet him aboard the U.S.S. Quincy, docked in the Suez Canal. The two leaders cement a secret oil-for-security pact: The king guarantees to give the U.S. secure access to Saudi oil and in exchange the U.S. will provide military assistance and training to Saudi Arabia and build the Dhahran military base.   Later, when President Roosevelt dies suddenly, President Truman does not offer inside deals and warm exchanges to the Saudi leader.
Another friendship formed with Ibn Saud was St. John Philby, who was a British diplomat in the Middle East.   Philby was sent to the interior of the Arabian peninsula to head a mission in 1917.  Ibn Saud was a strict enforcer of the Wahhabi sect of Islam and a cardinal enemy of Sherif Hussein.  Philby was impressed by the reputable “Lion of the desert”, a title he earned by conquering holy territories.  Philby started sabotaging raids against the Hashemite ruler of the Hejaz, leader of the Arab Revolt.  Philby secretly began to favour Ibn Saud over Sherif Hussein as "King of the Arabs", opposing British policy, which was promising support for the Hashemite dynasty in the post-Ottoman world. In 1916,  the Sharif of Mecca, Hussein bin Ali, led a pan-Arab revolt against the Ottoman Empire to create a united Arab state. Although the Arab Revolt of 1916 to 1918 failed in its objective, the Allied victory in World War I resulted in the end of Ottoman suzerainty and control in Arabia.  In January 1926,  Ibn Saud declared himself King of the Hejaz and later Nejad. For the next five years, he administered the two parts of his dual kingdom as separate units. On return Philby crossed from Riyadh to Jeddah by the "backdoor" route, proving Ibn Saud was in control of the Arabian highlands.  Philby enabled Ibn Saud to gain the prized Hejaz territory.  The Saudis had aligned themselves with Western allies such as Britain and the United States to overcome the Ottoman empire and the Central Powers of WWI.  When the Armistice was signed and a Balfour declaration agreed to make Israel a nation, Philby felt the Western allies deceived the Saudis.  Philby and Ibn Saud’s friendship lasted a lifetime in which they would go into the desert to practice the ways of the Bedouin nomads.  Philby argued that Ibn Saud was a "democrat" guiding his affairs "by mutual counsel" as laid out in the Quran (Surah 42:38).  Another interesting tidbit is that King Saud first rejected the idea of radio in his country that the Americans introduced.  He later allowed it because the radio could recited prayers and vigils during Ramadan and it was an effective communication.

By 1945, the U.S. urgently needs oil facilities to help supply forces fighting in the Second World War. Meanwhile, security is at the forefront of King Ibn Saud’s concerns. President Franklin Roosevelt invites the king to meet him aboard the U.S.S. Quincy, docked in the Suez Canal. The two leaders cement a secret oil-for-security pact: The king guarantees to give the U.S. secure access to Saudi oil and in exchange the U.S. will provide military assistance and training to Saudi Arabia and build the Dhahran military base.
Since WWII,  Saudi power has upchanged leadership within their own blood.  King Saud, the next in line, only ruled 11 years from 1953-64 because he was unable to effectively manage the finances of the kingdom.  The family inquires with the ulama, the religious authorities, and get a fatwa sanctioning Saud's abdication.  His brother, King Faisal took over in 1964.  He was educated at Western universities and very dedicated to modernizing his regime.  One time while attending a party at Berkeley, he put caviar on his hot dogs.  King Faisal begins a program of upgrading the kingdom, stressing economic development and educational improvements including the education of women beginning 1965. During his reign oil revenues increase by more than 1,600 percent, enabling Faisal to build a communications and transportation infrastructure and set up a generous system of welfare benefits for all citizens. Even today, Saudi citizens do not pay taxes.  He also introduces television which becomes his fate.  Protestors rushed into the streets to prevent television from being developed in the nation. When a nephew of the king is killed at the protest in clashes with the police, the king does nothing to punish the policemen.  In 1975, the brother of  nephew shoots King Faisal and he is assassinated.  

This is Part 1 of a two part series.  Next week I will discuss  division of profits of Aramco and new leadership that just took over as well as changes after Iran’s overtake of the Shah.

Saudi Succession into the Modern Age

Part Two

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by Jane Hoffman

In March of 1975 when King Faisal meets with Kuwait’s petroleum minister, one of the king’s nephews, Faisal ibn Musaid, sneaks into the room. His brother had been killed by police at the 1965 protest against the introduction of television. Ibn Musaid shoots and kills the king. The assassination comes as a violent shock, especially because the killer is a member of the royal family. As his father had decreed, King Faisal is succeeded by his half-brother Prince Khalid, who becomes the fourth king of Saudi Arabia.  Khalid continues the modernization of the kingdom as oil profits soar.  In 1972, Saudi Arabia now has 20% control over Aramco, lessening U.S. control of their production.  Subsequently, In June 1972, the Ba’athist government in Iraq nationalized the Iraq Petroleum Company and its operations were taken over by the Iraq National Oil Company.  Iran, who had been in a stranglehold of foreign interests for over 25 years when the ruling class of the Shah of Iran was overtaken by the religious clerics of the ayatollahs in 1979 mobilizing full control over their oil. There was a shift regionally from colonial rule to indigenous rule.  The assertion of regional leaders empowered to control their future destiny with their own Pan Arabic vision could redefine the region.  The legacy of the Iranian Mossedegh was in the crossfire of that intent though his humility and uncompromised resolve exceeded present day leaders. 

With the invasion of the Soviet Union into Afghanistan also in 1979, the Wahhabis, the strict Muslim sect, find a rallying cause. The Soviet Union, whom they consider a godless intruder, invades the Muslim nation of Afghanistan. Saudi Arabia and the U.S. make a secret deal to contribute equal amounts to finance the Afghan war against the Soviets. Thousands of young Saudis are sent to fight alongside the mujahideen in Afghanistan. For the next decade, some 45,000 young Saudi soldiers trek to Afghanistan where they acquire military skills and come to believe that dedicated Islamic fighters can defeat a superpower. One of their leaders is Osama bin Laden.  In the same year which is 1979, several hundred Saudi fundamentalists take over al-Haram, the Great Mosque at Mecca and the holiest site in Islam. The leader of the insurgents is Juhayman al-Utaybi, a direct descendant of the Ikhwan, the Wahhabi warriors who helped the Al Saud family take power in the early 1920s. The radicals call for a return to pure Islam, and a reversal of modernization. Juhayman also accuses the royal family of corruption and says they have lost their legitimacy because of their dealings with the West.  The royal family again turns to the ulama, the religious court.  The clerics issue a fatwa that allows the government to use all necessary force to retake the Great Mosque. The standoff lasts for several weeks before the Saudi military can remove the insurgents. More than 200 troops and dissidents are killed in the attacks and, to set an example, over sixty of the zealots are publicly beheaded in their hometowns. With the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran, Shiites in Saudi Arabia felt courageous enough to try and secure equal treatment as Sunnis had.  Since Al-Hasa and Qatif which were conquered and annexed into the Emirate of Riyadh in 1913 by Ibn Saud, Shiites in the region had experienced state oppression.  Shiites in Saudi Arabia were polarized to Khomeini in 1979 and his position toward the Saudi royal family on the grounds that Islam and hereditary kingship are not compatible with their Shia doctrine.  They decided to celebrate the Day of Ashura, a Shia holiday that was banned. They were also motivated by the fact that Sunnis got paid more wages in the oil field than Shias.   With the open celebration of the Day of Ashura, national guardsmen beat down the crowd through the use of clubs and electric prods, which angered the crowd and was met by protesters throwing stones and wielding bars and wooden canes as weapons. The National Guardsmen then opened fire on the crowd, wounding, amongst others, the 19 year old Hussein Mansur al Qalaf.  The leader was taken to a hospital and refused treatment.  By the time he got to the next hospital, he died.  The Royal family would only release the body if the family stated he was stoned during the demonstration.  The family complied.

The change of geo-politics since 1980, is that Saudi Arabia had decided to strengthen alliances with the United States due to shifting dynamics in the region.  Iran, which is now Shia dominated and verbally attacked the Saudi monarchy, became an enemy.  Saudi Arabia and the U.S. financed the majority of arms and money to the Iraqis during the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq war.  The U.S.. and the Saudis provided support to Osama bin Laden’s fighting faction when he was a part of the mujahideen forces in Pakistan fighting against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan.  The Saudis were duped by the United States when King Fahd was told in 1990 by General Schwarzkopf that Iraq planned to invade the Sauds within days after invading Kuwait.  The Saudis offered to use their military base so that the U.S. led coalition could defeat Iraq.  Saddam Hussein intended to develop a Pan-Arabic confederation of nations that could emancipate from full Western rule.  However, he did not have the charisma of Egypt’s former Nasser and was ultimately defeated.  

With the change of power in January, 2015 and the death of King Abdullah, King Salman has now taken over the reign.  After the crown prince Muqrin bin Abdulaziz, he has placed Mohammed bin Nayef, the 55 years old grandson as the deputy crown prince.  He is the first in succession to not be one of King Ibn Saud’s sons.  He was the interior minister during the Qatif uprising of 1979.  He has formed a center to rehabilitate former jihadists.  He survived a terrorist assassination attempt in 2009.  He is popular among youth.  The Saudi kingdom has an uphill battle with recent publicity of Rahif Badawi who was jailed in 2012 for liberal minded blogging.  He was charged with apostacy and given a ten years sentence and 1000 lashes.  The lashes have been stopped since King Salman came to power.  King Salman has said “The direction is to go for more reform, not less.  The environment has changed, you have social media and nobody can control any society now.  I think that is understood by the leadership.”  “The kingdom and the royal family will not be able to move forward unless Nayef has the religious establishment at his side. It will be very, very difficult because the religious leaders are generally older and their base of support is so strong,” says Rachel Bronson of Chicago Council on Global Affairs.  The recent coup in Yemen, during which Shia rebels forced the country’s Sunni president to step down, is viewed by most within Saudi Arabia as a direct threat to Sunni stability in the region.  With encroaching Islamic fundamentalists such as Yemenise insurgents and ISIS who denounced the Saudi monarchy recently and geographically flank their kingdom, the Royal family must retain strong public support within their kingdom to survive.

These are my three co hosts from BlogTalkRadio.com
Don is on the left is is the co chair for Reno-Sparks NAACP.  He is a lobbyist and a canvasser for Election 2016.
Albert is from Cathedral City, CA and is an activist.  He worked for the Bernie Sanders campaign.
Jon is the music leader at Church on Pearl in St. Monica.  He trains youth in music and also does street ministry.
Jane Hoffman is a political scientist, teacher and civil rights leader.

Here is a link to our Sunday night episode:

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/tabernaclefaith/2016/09/19/homegrown-terrorism-including-donald-trumps-rhetoric

Changing dynamics of the church including Carlton Pearson

Looking back on a thorough episode on paganism, celebrating and mixing Christian holidays with commercial ones, the demise of Carlton Pearson and doctrine of inclusionism, etc.  The hosts on this episode were Jane, Jon and Ernest.

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/ernestradionetwork/2014/04/21/political-gravity-hedonism-pagans-god--who-wins

Do you recognize your sinful actions? Can you define the existence of God?

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/tabernaclefaith/2016/04/13/midnight-salvation-the-existence-power-of-god-usurps-illuminati-1


The core of spiritual darkness that looms over a person is when they have one stronghold that they cling to that overrules their life that is against the true nature of God.  This kind of person can build on this philosophy with their own version of truisms but at the end of the day they are left in misery and remain in darkness.  Full obedience and repentance of sin is the only way to cleanse one's carnality and turn over one's will to God.  The first step is being willing to change one's way.  I know a person who clings to spiritual darkness and he lashes out on others when things are going poorly for him.  I don't think he even realizes he does it.  In his own mind, he is holding his distance from people.  Others can perceive he is on the brink of emotional shutdown but instead of turning to his closest friends, he tries to punish people in his present for the things he experienced in the past.  In the book, "Healing the Shame that binds you," there is a chapter on grace, guilt and debt collecting.  A person who hates their mother per se, will engage in power struggles with women he perceives as a threat.  A woman who had negative experiences with her father, will attempt to punish men she dates or are involved with on some other personal level.  The debt collector transfer their unresolved childhood anger onto to people they target as a threat.  Instead of stepping back and trying to define the reasons he/she may resent this person, they just use their emotional imbalance as a weapon.

The attached link is not about blaming or debt collecting.  It is about an unlikely debate between two Christians and one adult caller on our show who is unsure of his spiritual identity and was fielding a bunch of questions about God, eternity and destiny.

Our Last two shows.

Our radio show is on a roll.  We now have a bona fide 4th caller.  On Friday night, Al joined us from Palm Desert.  He is an activist on  his campus and looking to find an effective way to utilize his leadership role in this election cycle.  Don and Jon both joined us.  Our Sunday night show mirrored age old conflict; how the constitution projects certain private and public rights and how far the govenment should go in protecting or denying those rights.

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/tabernaclefaith/2016/03/21/when-the-government-of-men-abandons-the-sexual-victims-legislating-morality

Friday's show....

Review of the HBO movie "Hacking Democracy."  Intentional and unintentional problems with voting machines.

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/tabernaclefaith/2016/03/19/reviewing-hacking-democracy-and-other-voter-machine-glitches

Unusual week

This has been an unusual week indeed.  I can't even remember Monday now but I believe Sunday was in the 50s.  On Tuesday, I did my driving job and it poured buckets of rain the whole day while I drove over 60 miles.  I drove an 84 plus lady with a debilitating disease home in which she mentioned that her church had been sending people to her home to visit that only asked her what she would do with her stuff when she died.  This happened 3-4 x in a row and she asked them to stop coming.  I am thinking of letting her pastor know since she has been a member 78 years.  It wasn't our church, that's for sure.  

On Wednesday, I was supposed to start a new job in education but we had our first snow day of the year and school was cancelled.  Mind you, it's March 16th and that being our first snow day of the year was more than strange.

I started my new job on Thursday, March 17th.  I forgot to wear green.  I was only worried about getting there on time and looking properly dressed.  I enjoyed the day thoroughly and loved every minute of it.

Today is Friday.  I survived the week.  I am on my lunch break and enjoy my job more and more.  Things have run smoothly and the students are nice.  

I have strongly limited watching air time on major news networks who fail to cover the presidential candidates equivalently.  I would say equally but there is no way that Kasich will get as much TV time as let's say, Trump.  CNN did something special last night.  They played an ad from a private citizen who produced a TV ad on why it was crazy to vote for Barry Goldwater in 1964.  He repudiated that there is no way he would vote for someone who was going to hijack the party and align with hate groups.   Here we are again 52 year later in the same boat.  Listen to the coverage of my radio show as we examine all the elements of executive decision making over the last 12 years.  We are in a cycle of American democracy that could produce a civil war.  If you want to hear more, tune into my radio page.  The link is on the Israeli flag on my blogger page, WHICH IS THIS PAGE.

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/tabernaclefaith/2016/03/14/confronting-the-structural-weaknesses-of-our-government-inoperable

The spiraling effects of the down hill slide of life 15 minutes a day, yeah right

Wednesday I was busy.  Thurs. I had 2 commitments which I can't explain on social media, Friday I had a bad sinus headache but I worked 12 hours, 5.5 hours driving and 5 hrs in a group home.  Sat-Sunday I worked 18 hours straight.  So when do i have time to blog?  uh ...once in a while.  I am supposed to be finishing my research on the Milwaukee 14.  I have too many irons in the fire, really.  My passion is my radio show because it has gotten to be a lot more fun!!!  Don and Jon are excellent co hosts and bring so much to the table!!!  Lately we have covered hot topics like Jade Helm 15, a military operation that will be initiated from Lubbock, Texas on July 15, 2015 as a form of marital law/exercise to experimentally subdue segments of the American population....unclear purpose since it is the U.S. private citizens that subsidizes the U.S. military.  Looking for Isis defectors is like looking for a wood tick in a pile of dead wood.  Anyhoo, we have done a lot more shows lately featuring Bob Dylan, Oprah Winfrey's life, Britney Spears, Billboard music awards, transgendering & more.  There's a lot to tell but I am short on energy.  I recently found more information on my geneology.  I also plan to visit my mom's best friend in Chisholm, MN.  I am going Friday.  all 4 now.   the truth is I can't blog 15 minutes a day, maybe 15 min a week.   Janessa aka Scarlett Risen

For those who think they know me, I don't know you. Unfortunately, you don't know the better me. However, I am graduating from gambling treatment tomorrow.

I have a friend who I had a rift with about a year ago. He speaks in terms of obscurity and uses Gandhi like expressions for what they wish others and the world to ideally be. He has an altruistic vision of the world and he made a nice video about it but he still resorts to name calling and hate speech.  This is an example of someone who is human--not fully seeing the true picture of themselves.  However, every range of human emotion can be validated even if it is inappropriate.  We ultimately decide who we want to be and how we can offer ourselves in friendship or persecute in hate. He does not look for the particular goodness in others.  For those whom he likes (or responds to him well), he accentuates their strengths.  For those he dislikes, he is quick to point out their shortcomings.  He even has a video on happiness and makes it clear that one should not criticize others or point out the weaknesses of themselves.  I have tried to live my life with the rush of love and goodness by connecting with people I identify with and trying to learn more about those I don't connect with.  Lately when I have dealt with conflict, I have had to define and recognize with those whom I had the conflict with.  I had a 4 yr friendship with a neighbor in North Hollywood in whom had a lot of good qualities of intellectual pursuit but a lot of major weaknesses including over-dependence on a woman who was simply a flake.  She couldn't establish a job until she actually got one being his PCA because he was heavy with some acute health problems.  She made him a lot of dinners and lived with him rent free but then would complain about the proverbial price of that exchange.  Free rent is hard to come by.  She didn't really want to answer to him or pay a price in which he exacted loyalty from her.  There was also the imbalance that he was in love with her and she had no interest in him.  In time, they became good friends.  She also reached out to me, helped me pack and continued to send me letters.  I was really only a marginal neighbor busy with a student teaching program. I got to know them better but knew in the back of my mind I would not be spending much more than I had to in North Hollywood.  When I got my inheritance, I had to get out of the big city of L.A. and search for my childhood roots.  Unlike my former friend in New York, I am not immediately hostile to anyone who has an issue or problem and the terms of the friendship aren't contracted on the difficulty of their lives.  Because I had two recent conflicts with a close acquaintance but not an intimate friend and a long term friendship that was plagued with certain difficulties because of perspective, I have been forced to examine myself.  The long term friendship dissolved because all of a sudden one day it ended because the continuity of our radio production and other issues were defined totally by one party and his basic disappointment with me cut off.  He abruptly made decisions. There were times he was cruel to my mutual acquaintances, but I gave him the benefit of the doubt and forgave him assuming his personal growth over time would include learning not how to treat people like shit.  My radio show was purely recreational and I have not pursued vocational goals with it although I did start professional radio classes in Hollywood in 2012 with American Radio Network.  I can examine others and watch their videos on YouTube and determine what they are trying to say or who they are even if the friendship is over.  As adults, we strive for understanding and sometimes closure.  Now that I have made it out of my gambling addiction and graduate March 24th, I decided to publish some of my notes from my impending speech tomorrow night.  They may not make total sense, but my readers will understand where I am coming from.....enjoy!!!!  I value the new friendships I have made in this one year treatment center.

I started the gambling treatment program on March 29, 2014.

Read Parable of lost sheep.  Luke 15

I joined with the incentive that help may be possible but I did not know what form I would receive it in.  It is because as a gambler, one is a perpetual runner from problems and the excitement was in that escape.

When I first entered Center for Alcohol and Drug Treatment , I filled out the forms and thought how could another structured environment exposing my weaknesses be reassuring?

When I first met people in the group, some had undefined motives for being there and others seemed to have stumble on a greater entity known as themselves.  Their actions didn’t match their countenance or presence of mind.  They had more gifts to share with the world than they could even be conscious of.

Candance – an inner and outward beauty and radiance.

Diane – persistence and dedication

John Clark – story telling abilities, soft sense of humor and candidness

Dawn – a determination to plead with participants to recognize themselves.

As soon as the essence of the program enlightened me, I understood the nature of why someone needed to commit.  Spending my whole life avoiding intimate confrontation with myself, my savior, my son and despair from the past such as losing a daughter by death and husband by divorce magnified the light of struggles.

Gambling was an easy escape in which I would enter the world of superficial light to conceal the outcome of permanent darkness.  Laughing people, jokesters, those dealers who thought they knew me and exploited my weaknesses, I became a pawn in their game.  I was attached to the one thing that would be my ultimate destruction.  Although I had allies, I was setting myself up for the final battle that would force confrontation with myself which was a cloud of eternal escape.

It seemed to be embodied in their profession that their jabbing insults would become my potential mockery.  Their act of genuity was like a false cup of reward, ready to remove my joy.

I was unable to separate myself so a power bigger than me made the eternal separation.  It was a result of my own actions, poor judgment and a swift decision by Native Am management that 86’ed me for life.  I felt like Tim Tebow with incredible gifts but only possessing the scrutiny of the media and a mockery for my true self which was a fallen Christian.

How did I find the light?  I saw it through the lines of despair and repentance of other people’s faces as they recognized in themselves that their greater good lie outside the actions of their temporary fix.  That there was something better within themselves that could allow them to conquer this mad disease.  For some if it was small children at home.  For others, they could not win over their critics but they won the victory over their own critics which included themselves.  Others had to face critical family members or job changes or financial consequences but the purpose of overcoming was not hindered by one obstacle.

We learned to depend on others and when those who could not define their higher power, they waded in the outpatient group by practicing the readings, learning slowly until they could envision an outline of a higher power that could strengthen them until the next meeting.

Some people cracked and faded, never fully gripping a self identity that could hurdle the next challenge.  For those fallen by the wayside, I recognize your battalion of excuses but it will only become future building blocks for the next bridge you will have to prepare yourself to cross.  You cannot escape yourself.

Running turns to walking and to stillness until the vision eventually becomes complete.  Then you find new ways to define yourself as you co mingle eternal paradigms of happiness, new joy and the flavor of love.  One day you will see in a mirror dimly and then you will see face to face.  I will know in part, I am understood even as I understand fully
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Addendum: True friendships are not built on hostility and finger pointing.  Friendships are built on acceptance of the person and the convergence of understanding and recognition of weaknesses.

The Saudi Royal Family over the last 100 years

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/3theologians/2015/01/29/the-history-of-the-house-of-saud-the-royal-saudi-family-since-1902

This radio episode is about the long lineage of Saudi Kings deriving from just one monarch.  It covers the details of reclaining the holy cities in 1902 to present day trials and conflicts.  Deals were made with FDR and Eisenhower through oil development and military protection.  We had a caller from Oklahoma who knew the grandson of the Shah of Iran who was ousted in 1979.  

3 Theologians: Hosts of 3 Theologians and Political Gravity on BlogTalk Radio

New Logo?

Old Show, old network new show, new Radio Network

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/ernestradionetwork/2014/04/24/beaten-path-baring-your-soul-in-black-white-wheres-my-satisfaction

Last show on Ernest Radio Network.
Time served: Sept. 26. 2010 to April 23, 2014

This episode is about documenting our life stories.  If we write an auto-biography about our lives, will be worth its weight?  Will it be interesting?  Will it be marketable?  Also, tidbits on life from Jane and Jon, co hosts of Political Gravity and formerly Beaten Path.

new network:  www.blogtalkradio.com/goldenrod1960

Secession by States in 2012 after Post Election, brought to you by Blogtalk Radio's host Jane Hoffman from Political Gravity

Listen to my 30 minute holiday weekend show on what I think about North Dakota, Texas and other states seceding.  I mention John Calhoun and his concept of equillibrium between North & Southern states that he believed kept peace in the Union until the Anti Slavery movement became too strong, threatening the delicate balance of Congress that led to secession.  I address and challenge citizens within each state that desire secession.   They would lose all connection economically to America, federal subsidies, legal & military protection and more.  Listen to #Btr #PoliticalGravity regularly and you will be enlightened.

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/ernestradionetwork/2012/11/26/political-gravity-off-the-cuff-on-the-record

Jane Hoffman's Political Gravity Radio Show BTR

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/ernestradionetwork/2011/08/01/political-gravity-with-jane-hoffman--pazzaria

I interviewed Daniel Rappaport of Pizzaria Productions tonight on BTR. Enclosed is the link.
The last fifteen minutes is dedicated to Amy Winehouse, the post life prodigy to be exalted and praised for her non conformity and unraveled by social examination.

BTR Breakthrough Relaunch party of God Radio

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/goldenrod1960/2011/06/28/spiritual-dissension

LISTEN TONIGHT, FIND SPIRITUAL TRUTH IN GOD AND PEACE OF MIND.