April 18, 2009 journal, the book Open Veins of Latin America, the pillage of a continent by author Eduardo Galeano. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez presented this book to President Obama during the Latin American heads of state meeting as the 2 shook hands. Suddenly overnight this book has moved to # 2 place on Amazon cost $12.24 per copy. The full subtitle is 5 Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent. I sure want to read it in full. BC stopped giving the title if they ever did and this is controlling the news sure enough. Jack vanity is promoting war like the battle Armageddon. the biggest creditor of spreader of hate against Iran and Venezuela. April 19, 2009 journal, Wall Street has pilfered the 401K program to death in charges for services unbeknowing to the investors. They now average half of the original investment. April 20, 2009 journal, the conduct of General Motors is deplorable closing a California dealership. Sunday Morning shows the destruction of a town when a GM dealer lost all his cars to GMAC after falling behind in his payments with his floor plan only 30 days. It is sad and unbelievable but they have no conscience after receiving the tarp bailout funds. I could see all this coming for years but who pays any attention until it happens to nation. (CBS) Millions of Americans are saddled with high debt. Now, the White House says it will back new legislation cracking down on credit card companies for surprise fees and sudden rate hikes, reports CBS News correspondent Kimberly Dozier. The White House took aim today at banks who've been hiking fees and credit card rates just as consumers have been hit hard by the economic downturn. "People are not paying their credit card bills. More people are getting into trouble financially as they lose their jobs. So banks have retaliated more or less in terms of what they are doing to the customers," said Joan Goldwasser of Kiplinger's magazine. Chase has added$120 fee on some of its "no fee" cards. American Express raised its late fees on some cards from $29 to $39. And Bank of America and Chase have doubled interest rates on some customers, to up to 30 percent. Penalty fees are also growing. Banks raked in $19 billion in penalties in 2008, up 5 percent from the year before.That's projected to rise to $20.5 billion this year. New federal regulations kick in to protect the consumer in July, 2010 but Congress - and now, President Barack Obama - want to see that happen faster. "He's going to be very focused in the very near term on a whole set of issues having to do with credit card abuses, having to do with the way people have been deceived into paying extraordinarily high rates that they wouldn't have paid if they knew they were getting themselves into," Larry Summers, the president's top economic advisor, said on NBC's "Meet the Press That comes none too soon for the folks paying those fees. CBS News talked to consumers who said their interest rates had shot up recently. One said that he couldn't keep his credit rating steady even though he pays off his credit card bill every month. Banks argue that they are the ones caught by the credit crunch, and that hiking fees is a matter of their economic survival. Credit card borrowing is actually down 9.7 percent in 2008. Meanwhile, credit card users are defaulting on payments in record numbers more than 5.5 percent in the fourth quarter - one of the highest delinquency rates ever. The president will meet with the heads of 14 credit card companies this week. Bank of America has already made changes - it just suspended a hike in overdraft charges, and it's now waiving some fees for customers who have lost their jobs. The last 2 decades of Holy War or unholy war I refer to as wholy war have caught up with us financially. We used to count our national debt 30 years ago in millions but now it is not billions, it is trillions of dollars debt more than anyone could ever imagine and it is rising at a rapid rate. Profits are down for the Fortune 500 companies by 85% last year and American wealth is about one-half. Stocks are down by about 80 % the same as Florida houses, this is why they report a rally on Wall Street with China coming in to buy up America so cheap now. The diamond industry has collapsed with mines even closing on the African continent. 21 horses died mysteriously at the Florida polo match. Pat Roberson praised the president's attempt to unify South America and his efforts to curb credit-card abuses in this country. This is much different than the boilerplate usual Republican resistance to everything happening in Washington today. He called the credit card spandrels a shame and disgrace for people of this country to endure. If you have any concern morally about dealing with your credit card debtor then get over it is my advice. I have paid 32% interest consistently over the past 7 years and I feel no conscious over owing them anything more. In ancient Israel all debts were paid off or forgiven every 7 years. The Chinese have a custom of paying off all their debts every year by New Year. The cost of being honest, truthful and decent when Miss California lost the U.S.A. crown for revealing she believed in "opposite" (sex) marriage. There is a price to pay for your Christian witness in these evil days as always. An openly gay guy asked her the question. Dick Cheney is in a hot seat with the torture directives released. He wants the evidence they obtained also released but it is fload. Those results might be classified but they are of no value because when you torture people you get bad information. They brag about getting a confession to 9*1*1 which is what they wanted but it's not real. I venture to say there's a thousand Arabs are even a million that would confess to the exact same thing to be a martyr. The attack upon America is just as phony as the money we spend or as the Federal Reserve and their money manufacturing scheme which is all coming to an end suddenly from Biblical prophecy in Revelation Chapter 17/18. It is better than reading the New York Times or Wall Street gambling casinos outlook. Those confessions under torture are as phony as the tax laws collecting a trillion dollars per year and by the way, I have passed page 250 now in Larkin Rose's Kicking the Dragon book and I snuck over to read the last pages to see if he is presently filing income tax returns and he is. He filed all years to keep his prison time down even though he has studied and understands the law the best of all but he cannot use it because the court is stacked against him and every other American citizen. We are pawns in the game. He states that now they have had Congress to pass a stiff penalty of $5,000 against anyone using the code 861 as a defense against not paying taxes. Congress and this government is in denial as are the people of this country. Too bad. God Almighty is in ultimate control however and will avenge all illness in time when he returns to earth to rule a thousand years and maybe even sooner. If we do not prosecute our own shameful torture criminals then the world will do it for us. The Boston killer is arrested and chose his victims from Craig's List on his computer and he is a 22 year-old medical student engaged to be married. It is a terrible sick and ugly world. What is wrong with people? He would kill, rob and then go gamble the money.