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Don’t take my word for it. Do the research.

I have posted copies of a couple of articles on this subject. I am not a “conspiracy theory” nut. I am a college graduate with a good mind.  I can see what lies before us. Having worked many years behind the scened in the media industry and advertising, I know how the media is manipulated and how it manipulates what we believe, not by telling us what to think, but what to think about.

You want “change”? Well, honey, not all change is good!

You want a better tax structure.?  Well, darling, you better be willing to stand up and be heard.

You want smaller government and less government interferrence in your daily lives? Get off your duff and fight for it. Let’s face facts.  We DO NOT live in a democracy.  The small minority with the loudest voices control our lives, mostly because of the apathy of the American people. So, what are YOU going to do about it.

There is already in existence a viable water based fuel alternative, if you believe we can no longer count on oil.  Why aren’t we hearing more about it?  Why isn’t it being made readily available for retrofit of our gas guzzling vehicles?  (http://www.runyourcarwithwater.com/?hop=beer1981)

Turn off that video game and spend a little time learning the truth for yourself.

Read more about our, so called, oil shortage.  Here are a few websites you may be interested in.

http://www.rense.com/general82/gull.htm

http://larryh.newsvine.com/_news/2008/06/07/1551784-alaskas-gull-island-oil-fields-could-power-us-for-200-years-by-mark-anderson-august-6-2006

Peak oil theory out the window!  http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=59502

The United States is the richest country in the world. If the Hierarchy is going to “promote the equitable distribution of wealth . . . among nations,” how will they accomplish that goal? They will transfer American jobs, American factories, and American wealth to third-world countries.

 EMPOWER YOURSELF - LEARN THE TRUTH ABOUT YOUR WORLD

From:  http://www.newswithviews.com/Monteith/stanley1.htm

Visit the above for part one of this report.

THE PEAK OIL MYTH
PART 2 of 2

By Dr. Stanley Monteith
December 10, 2005
NewsWithViews.com

Most people believe the Gulf storms were responsible for the increase in the price of petroleum products, but they are wrong. There was an adequate supply of fuel across America on the day Hurricane Katrina flooded New Orleans, but the price of gasoline immediately “spiked” to over $3.00 a gallon.

The recent increase in the price of oil and natural gas was orchestrated by OPEC, the oil cartel (The Four Remaining Sisters), and the Bush administration to:

(1) Promote conservation
(2) Increase profits
(3) Lower our standard of living
(4) Destroy our economy
(5) Impoverish the American people

When the cartel began raising the price of oil last year, the Bush administration continued purchasing petroleum for the Strategic Oil Reserve which increased the price of oil. Senator Bingaman asked the President to suspend purchases until the price stabilized, but he refused, and many Americans will pay 20% of their take-home pay on energy this winter.

When the oil price surged to $70 a barrel, the Bush administration released oil from the Strategic Reserve and the price fell to $60 a barrel, The Washington Times reported:

“Recent gasoline-price spikes have given new meaning to the phrase ‘pain at the pump.’ And with demand from India, China and elsewhere growing, and U.S. failure to open a single new oil refinery since the 1970s, supplies could remain tight and prices elevated for some time.” (italics added)[1]

The U.S. imports 400,000 gallons of gasoline a day from other countries because the environmental movement has blocked construction of new oil refineries in the United States for almost 30 years. The U.S. had 321 refineries in 1981; the U.S. has 149 oil refineries today. Many plants operate 24 hours a day (with no down-time for maintenance) to supply the growing demand for fuel, and to comply with EPA regulations that require refineries to formulate different types of gasoline in different regions of the country at different times of the year.[2]

Who funds the environmental movement? The oil cartel (The Four Remaining Sisters), major corporations, foundations, and government agencies. Why has the environmental movement blocked construction of new oil refineries? Because The Four Remaining Sisters don’t want competition.

The New American reports:

“In 1996, Texaco, in an internal memo, noted: ‘The most critical factor facing the refining industry on the West Coast is the surplus refining capacity, and the surplus gasoline production capacity. The same situation exists for the entire U.S. refining industry. Supply significantly exceeds demand year-round. This results in very poor refinery margins, and very poor refinery financial results’”[3]

When the gasoline supply increases, the gasoline price falls. When the gasoline supply falls, the price of gasoline increases. A recent article in the week-end edition of The Washington Post reports:

“When the average price of a gallon of regular gasoline peaked at $3.07 recently, it was partly because the nation’s refineries were getting an estimated 99 cents on each gallon sold. That was more than three times the amount they earned a year ago when regular unleaded was selling for $1.87.”[4]

Congress established the Strategic Heating Oil Reserve to insure an adequate supply of inexpensive fuel during the cold season, but the Bush administration refuses to release oil this winter. Reuters News Service reports:

“Democratic Rep. Edward Markey of Massachusetts asked the Bush administration . . . to explain why it will not tap the government’s emergency heating oil stockpile, even though federal law allowed it (to) do so after heating fuel prices reached high levels.”[5]

Is the world really running out of oil and natural gas? Lindsey Williams claims the oil shortage is contrived. A high-ranking Atlantic Richfield Company executive edited the second edition of The Energy Non-Crisis because the executive was angry with his employer. He wrote:

“That great pool of oil is probably as big as the Prudhoe oil field . . . but government has ordered us not to produce that well, or reveal any information as to what is at Gull Island.”[6]

“Three wells have been drilled, proven, and capped at Gull Island. The East Dock well also hit the Gull Island oil pool. . . . For forty miles to the east of Gull Island, there has not been a single dry hole drilled, although many wells have been drilled. This shows the immensity of the size of the field.

The Gull Island oil find is even larger than the Prudhoe Bay field, which is presently producing more that two million barrels of oil every twenty-four hours.”[7]

“Only recently, just west of Gull Island, the Kuparuk oil field has been drilled. . . . The chemical make up of the field and the pressure of the field is different from the others, proving it to be a totally separate pool of oil. . . the Kuparuk field is approximately 60 miles long by 30 miles wide and contains approximately the same amount of oil as the Prudhoe Bay field.”[8]

“If this is allowed to be produced, we can build another pipeline, and in another year’s time we can flood America with oil - Alaskan oil, our own oil, and we won’t have to worry about the Arabs . . . if there are two pools of oil here this big, there are many, many dozens of pools of oil all over this North Slope of Alaska.”[9]

The EPA has capped producing wells, blocked efforts to drill on government land, and restricted drilling on private property. The massive oil reserves off our East and West coasts haven’t been developed, the massive oil fields under the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) and Gull Island haven’t been tapped. If there is really a shortage of oil, why haven’t we developed those reserves?[10]

I interviewed Edward Deatherage who claims private companies can produce all the fuel we need if Congress will guarantee them $25 for a barrel of oil. Why is that important? In the past, when private companies tried to develop oil fields in the United States, the cartel dropped the oil price below the cost of production and bankrupted the competitors.[11]

Natural gas (NG) cost $3.00 per million BTUs in the 1990s, and would have remained at that price if the EPA hadn’t blocked development of gas wells, forced electric-generating companies to burn NG, exhausted the NG supply, and increased the price to $12 - $14 per million BTUs. The Wall Street Journal reports:

“The American Gas Association said yesterday it anticipates the average natural-gas bill will rise about 50% this winter. . . . Natural gas is the dominant fuel used to heat homes in the U.S., with roughly 52% of homes using it.”[12]

Most geologists believe that oil and natural gas come from the breakdown of organic matter, but Thomas Gold, an astro-physicist at Cornell University, believes oil is derived from methane that contains residue of bacteria that flourish in the “Deep Hot Biosphere.”

Russian oil companies followed Thomas Gold’s advice, drilled hundreds of deep wells, discovered vast reserves of oil and natural gas, and have become the world’s second largest oil producer.[13]

Joel Skousen was correct when he wrote:

“Yes, Peak Oil is coming - not so much because the supply has really peaked, but because the manipulated supply is peaking. The U.S. is withholding vast Arctic and offshore resources in order to keep an ace in the hole for the coming war. . . . There has been a conspiracy to restrict refining capacity and buy out the little guys to cap supply - and that isn’t likely to change in our lifetime. We’re stuck with these powerful controlling forces, and will be - thanks to a dumbed-down electorate - until it’s too late to do anything about it.”[14]

Who are “The Four Remaining Sisters?” When Congress investigated the oil industry in 1911, they discovered the Standard Oil Trust (owned by John D. Rockefeller) controlled the banking industry, the oil industry, the transportation industry, and several other major industries. To counter the dangerous concentration of power, Congress enacted legislation that broke up the Rockefeller Trust, and led to the formation of Standard Oil of New Jersey, Standard Oil of Ohio, Standard Oil of California, Standard Oil of New York, Mobil, and a number of other Rockefeller-owned companies.[15]

Anthony Sampson’s book, The Seven Sisters, discussed the seven companies that controlled the oil industry in 1976: Exxon, Gulf, Texaco, Mobil, Socal, British Petroleum (BP), and Royal Dutch Shell.[16] The Rockefellers controlled Exxon, Mobil, and Socal; the Dutch Royal Family controlled Royal Dutch Shell; the English government and the British Royal Family controlled British Petroleum.[17]

Subsequently:

- Standard Oil of New Jersey became ExxonMobil
- Standard Oil of New York merged with ExxonMobil
- Standard Oil of California (Socal) became Chevron
- Texaco merged with Chevron
- Gulf Oil merged with Chevron[18]

The Rockefeller dynasty controls ExxonMobil and Chevron. David Rockefeller was a founding member of the Bilderbergers, and attended the May 2005 Bilderberger meeting in Munich. Sir John Kerr, director of Royal Dutch Shell, attended the May 2005 Bilderberger meeting. Jeroen van der Veer, chairman of the committee of managing directors of Royal Dutch Shell, attended the May 2005 Bilderberger meeting. John Brown, CEO of British Petroleum, attended the May 2005 Bilderberger meeting. Peter D. Sutherland, chairman of British Petroleum, attended the May 2005 Bilderberger meeting. Does there seem to be a pattern here?[19]

Seven companies (The Seven Sisters) controlled the international oil cartel in 1976. Four companies (The Four Remaining Sisters) control the international oil cartel today.

I believe the Bilderbergers are an appendage of the Occult Hierarchy that rules the world.[20] What is their goal? They want to increase the cost of energy, lower our living standards, and destroy our economy. Can that be documented? Yes! Steven Rockefeller (Nelson Rockefeller’s son), Mikhail Gorbachev (former dictator of Russia), and Maurice Strong wrote the Earth Charter, the New Ten Commandments for the world. Section 10a states:

“Promote the equitable distribution of wealth within nations and among nations.”[21]

Dr. Stanley Monteith has been studying the movement to create a world government for almost 40 years. During his 35-year career as an orthopedic surgeon he traveled to Europe, lived in South Africa, and researched the records of the men and the organizations that are working to bring our nation under the control of a corporate elite.

Dr. Monteith currently spends five hours daily on talk radio across the nation. He writes extensively, and lectures on geopolitics. He is the author of AIDS: The Unnecessary Epidemic and his most recent book Brotherhood of Darkness is in its 8th printing.

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Read about the non-crisis.  Here is the scoop.

Seismographic testing has indicated that there is as much crude oil on the North Slope of Alaska as in Saudi Arabia. 

http://www.reformation.org/energy-non-crisis-ch17.html

I have long been convinced that there are those whose sole purpose in life is to control this world.  My father told me once in the late 60’s that our (America’s) dependence on oil would destroy this country and the way of life he and his father fought so desperately to secure for us.  This has been at the back of my mind, especially recently.  I came across the following article and as I read it I began to recall my early days behind the wheel of the family car.  Days when you could fill a large tank for five bucks. Read the article and do the research.  Then ask yourself, what are “they” really doing.  Then begin to ask your representatives.  If we do not stand up for ourselves now, we may never be able to.

Alaska’s Gull Island Oil Fields Could Power U.S. for 200 Years

By Mark Anderson

“Crude oil is the real ‘currency’ of the world,” said Lindsey Williams at a gathering of the Midwest Concerned Citizens group in Kansas City on July 22. But Americans will never hear about huge oil and gas reserves in the United States, which, if ever tapped, would bring today’s fuel prices at least as low as $1.50 per gallon and make America more energy independent.

As a Baptist missionary in the 1970s, Williams said he rubbed elbows with members of the world’s power elite—who boasted of detailed 30-year and 50-year plans to control the flow of oil and information.

A huge quantity of crude oil and natural gas exists under Gull Island, located in the waters of Prudhoe Bay in Alaska, says Williams. He cited key British Petroleum memoranda and related the statements of upper echelon oil officials who told him that Gull Island would be kept under wraps, limiting domestic supplies so Americans would someday see prices hit up to $10 a gallon at the pump.

“Every issue in the world today relates to crude oil,” said Williams. The U.S. occupation of Iraq and the saber rattling about attacking Iran fit into the crude oil matrix.

Iran is being targeted because it’s one of several countries that want to use their own currencies for oil sales, rather than using the U.S. dollar. Williams told AFP that any country that doesn’t want to “play ball” with the U.S. government and the financial and oil interests is, in essence, put on a hit list.

The United States, he said, learned that Iran intended to form its own bourse and not use the dollar for oil sales. Therefore, the notion that Iran is a menacing “almost-nuclear” country was trumped up, presented as fact via the corporate media and Iran is now in the crosshairs.

Other nations wanting more independence from U.S. meddling include Norway, Venezuela, Nigeria, Bolivia, Sweden and Russia.

The 30-year plan, which was first proposed three decades ago and is nearing fruition, included smug assurances from oil officials that the United States will triple its crude-oil usage and alternative fuels will not be allowed to gain enough ground to make a difference. They also noted that all foreign oil production will be scaled back to the United States and that Americans soon will pay $4 to $5 a gallon at the pump and could pay as much as $7 to $10 down the road.

In the early 1960s crude oil was selected as a tool of world control, Williams said, adding, “What we pay at the gas pump is a form of taxation.” The American consumer’s dependence on crude oil thus far has enabled people from foreign oil-producing nations to buy T-bills (U.S. treasury notes) in order to support the U.S. national debt and continued deficit spending. The need to support that debt puts the U.S. government in a bind, forcing Americans to remain dependent on foreign oil.

Williams, as a chaplain in 1970 when the trans-Alaskan oil pipeline was finished, ministered among the pipeline workers. However, as time passed he made a favorable impression with the top brass and was asked to improve worker-company relations. Next thing he knew, he said he was sitting at meetings of the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and various meetings of oil executives over a three-year period.

He told AFP that the IMF-World Bank acts as a middleman between oil producing nations and refineries. In so doing, they set oil prices, he said.

The big event in that three-year period was in 1977 when an Atlantic Richfield oil executive told him, “We have just drilled into the largest pool of oil in North America—[and] in the world!”

That pool was Gull Island. It was said that there was enough natural gas to supply America for 200 years. But to this day, “not one drop” of that oil has been released to American refineries, Williams said.

Williams said the executive had warned him that the Gull Island find was highly classified. Do not repeat any of this, he was told. Obviously, that warning did not stop him.

(Issue #33, August 14, 2006)

Watch the video.  http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3340274697167011147&hl=en

According to a recent article on CemetarySpot, a case of identity theft was brought to court and the source of the alleged criminal’s information was the social security death index public records files on rootsweb.  Apparently this person gathered social security numbers of recently deceased and using that and other vital info, was able to convince several credit card companies to issue credit in the name of the deceased and in some cases to add the person on as an authorized user.

While I personally don’t think it is right to use the SSDI to canvas for  family members of those recently past for the purpose of selling space online for memorial pages or other services, this is also a trend that has been emerging lately.

Having recently lost my mother, I find this appalling and as a genealogist, I fear that we will soon be prevented from doing legitimate research using the SSDI.  If you  discover such abuses the only thing you can do for now is to post a comment on your blog, or if you don’t have a blog, I will invite you to share what you discover as a comment to this posting.

We need to preserve the technological databases that have been so vital to our genealogy research in recent years and we should also advocate the free access to public records through the web without fear of a loved one’s information being stolen and used for illicit purposes.

“Now you can trace your heritage using newly acquired books and online genealogy databases at Nova Southeastern University.

The electronic databases are free to the public in Broward County via computers at the Alvin Sherman Library, Research and Information Technology Center. The library also features a new collection of 4,000 books, manuscripts and other material on ancestry from the Genealogical Society of Broward County.” (2008, South Florida Sun-Sentinel
Distributed by McClatchy-Tribune Information Services.)

According to this article which you can read at TMCnet.com, Broward County residents will be able to type in ancestor names and search through databases that draw from U.S. Census information dating to 1790, manifests of ships from the 19th and 20th centuries, and draft lists going back to the Civil War. Also available are marriage, birth and death certificates from the 1600s.

If you live in Broward county, or have relations there, it would be worthwhile to visit the Alvin Sherman Library and see what a search can turn up.  I wonder if you can access the databases from outside the library.  That would be great for those of us who aren’t close to this location.  I think I will look into this and if I find a way to access the database from a local library or other means, I will post the information here.

My sister recently sent this to me as an email that was forwarded to her. I thought it was good enough to share so here we go. Hope you all enjoy.

Although things are not perfect
Because of trial or pain
Continue in thanksgiving
Do not begin to blame
Even when the times are hard
Fierce winds are bound to blow
God is forever able
Hold on to what you know
Imagine life without His love
Joy would cease to be
Keep thanking Him for all the things
Love imparts to thee
M ove out of ” Camp Complaining ”
No weapon that is known
On earth can yield the power
Praise can do alone
Quit looking at the future
Redeem the time at hand
Start every day with worship
To “thank” is a command
Until we see Him coming
Victorious in the sky
We’ll run the race with gratitude
X alting God most high
Y es, there’ll be good times and yes some will be bad, but…
Z ion waits in glory…where none are ever sad!

“I AM Too blessed to be stressed!” The shortest distance between a problem and a solution is the distance between your knees and the floor.
The one who kneels to the Lord can stand up to anything. Love and peace be with you forever,

My grandfather, Wayne Miller (1896-1946) was a prolific writer and among his papers we have discovered many stories, and poems.  This is one of the poems he wrote to his wife, my grandmother, Irene Rogers Miller. You will quickly realize the change in the use of the verb “ejaculations” that has become less acceptable in daily language today. Most people today would not associate the use of this word with this poem.  (Ok, I should not have to spell this out for you - you get my drift, I’m sure).

Here is the short poem:

 Ye Gods;

Behold the array -

Generals , Colonels , Captains , non-coms and privates -

The hosts of vanity in parade formation.

 Or , perhaps , only a bit of landscape gardening on the dresser top.

(Methinks she admires the outfit as much as she uses it!)

The tall bottles and vials are noble trees -

Those squatty , fat jars are clumps of shrub.

Colors , too , in pleasing variety.

She was ever color-hungry.

 But no - she does use them!

Some are half - empty!

 Ah, well -

Time was when her beauty was freshly born with each new dawn.

No dependence then upon concoctions and astringents.

Even yet she uses these condiments with indifferent zeal!

Next year - and the next - will she rely more and more upon them!

And why ! Why all the struggle for beauty?

But should I decry it?

Beauty is the one essential to love.

If natural charm will not tarry beyond forty

By all means let it come from bottles,

Flasks , jars, masks, boxes, curlers, patches,

Whatnot.

Beauty there must be!

 Could I, I wonder , use such arts

To keep warm her love for me?

We are lucky that the Churches of Germany kept records, but you will need to know the location of the church.

When searching for German Ancestors it is important to remember the history of the German contry and people. 

We are lucky that the Churches of Germany kept records. Keep in mind that it was common practice in the 1700’s to use only the second baptismal name in official records later in life. The first name was that of a parent or grandparent and was given as a compliment, but never used officially so Johannes Georg Weber would appear only as Georg Weber. Before delving into a particular church’s records, it is important to understand the organization and archival policies of the various churches. The Evangelical Church (Evengelische Kirche in Deutschland) This is a union of independent territorial Lutheran, Reformed, and United churches and the various secitons are not officially unified, but are in close cooperation. There are eight United Evangelical Churches: five more are members of the World Federation of Lutheran Churches: others belong to the Evangelical Lutheran Church; and others to the Federation of Reformed Churches, the two branches of the Moravian Church, and other independent sects. To get addresses (they change all the time) check the Evangelical Lutheran Church web site at www.velkd.de. German Lutheran Churches in Memel. Although the registers for the area churches disappeared after 1945, it is probable that the records are now in the State Parish Register Archives of Lithuania. The parishes concerned are: Coadjuthen, Dawillan, Crottingen, Heydekrug, Kairinn, Karkelbeck, Kinten, Laugszargen, Mattkischken, Nidden, Paleiten, Pasziesen,Piktopen, Plaschken, Plicken, Prokuls, ramutten, Rucken, Russ, Saugen, Schwarzort, Szugen, Wannagen, Wieszen and Wischwil. Evangelical Churches in East Prussia (Ostpreussen) Prior to the invasion of the Red Army the parish registers were moved to West Berlin. This move included the Kirchenbuecher (church books) from about 500 parishes.The are located in the Central Archivves of the Evangelical Church. Due to the war it is not surprising that there are some missing records and gaps in others but if you had ancestors that were Evangelical and from east Prussia, you may want to contact the Central Archives. There are over 6,800 books involves, so be as specific as possible with your request. You may also want to ask about the possibility of Kirchenbuechduplikate, duplicates of records sent each year to the nearest headquarters of a particular church. The Catholic Church Organized under each archbishop in ecclesiastical provinces and local parishes the Catholic Church in germany has twenty-seven (27) archives. These have parish registers, confirmation and communion records. In many cases there are also family books which were first admitted in about 1614 and include full details of each family in the parish with names of servants and occupation of the head of the house. These were in Latin and German and are more complete in some areas than others. The division of Germany after WWII, and the reunification in 1990 did not affect the boundaries of the various dioceses. Look to the nearest large city near your relative for the records of that area. Use any good map to figure this out after you cross reference to discover any name changes. It is impossible to address all options here, but I hope this will help some of you resume your search for your German ancestors. Please remember that you will need to include a return/postage paid envelope with any request and that due to the large number of remaining records, PLEASE be as detailed and specific as possible.

What information is hiding in those old letters your grandmother saved?

Does that box of unlabeled photos haunt you? Most genealogists learn very quickly to label their photos with names, dates and places, but what about your parents, or grandparents photos? Often, old letters and circulating family stories may help you to identify old photos from the descriptions they contain. Of course, there is nothing that can beat the memories of older relatives. If possible, make a little trip to grandma and take those photos with you. Remember, storage in acid free media (pages or boxes) and labeling with acid free ink will help preserve those priceless images. You may also want to scan your photos and save a couple of copies on disks. Here is a portion of a letter My grandmother (Irene Rogers 1900 - 1978)wrote to my father (Franklin Miller 1929 - 1973)when he began asking about her relations many years ago. as noted by Mabel Irene Rogers Benjamine Rogers was born in Caernarvonshire, North Wales and married Marguerite Jones also of Caenarvonshire. They appear to have migrated to Prince Edward Island Canada and settled on :Lot 16″, county unknown. The Rogers men were described as: Huge with big, red or black curly beards and brillint blue eyes. They looked like Pirates. All were musical and sword melodiously in rumbly bass voices–Irene Rogers Miller Benjamine Rogers had black hair and beard, son Joseph had red, and son Thomas had blond (light) hair and beard. I have hundreds of others with tidbits that keep adding to the overall tree of my family. Old family letters can be one of your best resources, and they will also allow you to ‘get to know’ those long gone relations.