Will Barack Obama Win A Second Term ?

 President Obama is in serious jeopardy of losing his bid for a second term, with the economy at the center of his problems. However given the very poor candidates the GOP have running, and how they are attacking each other, I expect he will win.

This my PERSONAL opinion ....


From day one of Obama's 1st term the GOP has made it their top priority to make sure that Obama is a one term president. Not to cut the deficit, or anything else that would benifit the US! Obama has taken Republican ideas and tried to push them forward and the GOP as a whole would come out against their own idea a week later!

Republicans are scared that President Obama will continue to be a very successful President, which will erode their chances of winning the Presidency and Congress (house and senate) and promoting their greed and bigotry. President Obama is an intelligent, tough, and educated man, who has done more positive things for the U.S in THREE years, than most Presidents (including GW Bush) have done in EIGHT years, in spite of the obstructionist Republicans: For example, here are the Top 7 legislative and foreign policy achievements under President Obama’s Leadership and Administration :

1. Over 200 beneficial legislative and foreign policy accomplishments for the U.S. in his first three years, including banking and financial Reform.

 2. The death of terrorist Osama bin Laden and many high ranking terrorists. U.S. drone strikes have killed over 2,150 al-Qaeda terrorists.

3. Iraq withdrawal - ending unnecessay war by bush administration, costing millions in lives/billions in U.S. dollars.

 4. New START Treaty (U.S. / Russia) Reduces nuclear arms with inspection verification, while ensuring U.S. will have proper arms to deter an invasion.

5 STOCK Act (Stop Trading on Congress Knowledge) - Congress and many executive branch members and aides can’t use inside job information to trade stocks/securities because doing so is criminal.

6. 26 consecutive months of job growth, 4.2 million created.

7. Rescued U.S auto industry (GM is now #1 worldwide in sales/profitability), but Romney and Republicans wanted to block this rescue.

President Obama has also demonstrated that he is a good and smart man and wants the best for Americans, and he understands that the U.S. must have shared sacrifice and reforms on the spending and revenue side so that the country can rebound from the disastrous policies of the 8 years during the Bush Administration. Just imagine the other great positive things he could do for the economy in the U.S If he did not have the Republicans trying to block and sabotage his every move. Obama is NOT the problem. Americans are being constantly and aggressively told that he is the problem and if they buy into that, then they are set up to buy into returning to the Bush/Cheney era, which IS the problem. It literally is a con. Obama inherited the problems, he didn’t cause them, and ever since the Republicans have repeatedly, blatantly, stubbornly, relentlessly, and belligerently done everything they could to fault and block ALL efforts to address the problems. The Republicans are obstructionists and they have put greed, bigotry, AND/OR their political ambitions above all else, at any cost to the people, and are striving to have Obama fail, which really means America fails. Take notice that the Republicans are willing to DESTROY the great country for their greed, bigotry, and/or political gains, and they are willing to focus primarily on protecting the greed (ie. Tax cuts, undeserved compensation, deregulations, loopholes, etc.) of the top 1% of wealthy Americans and corporations, to the DETRIMENT of the remaining 99% of Americans. Didn't americans anything from electing that meat head Bush? My advice to americans - if you want the U.S to move FORWARD in a positive, effective, fair, and successful way, then WAKE UP and DON’T VOTE for Republicans . . . Vote for Democrats (Senate and House) and re-elect Obama 2012!


Peace & Love.

David Cameron Under Immense Pressure.

David Cameron is facing mounting pressure to condemn a Tory MP who branded the Olympic opening ceremony "leftie multicultural crap". Aidan Burley, who was forced to quit as a ministerial aide after attending a Nazi-themed stag do last year, delivered the barb on Twitter during the event on Friday night.
One post read: "The most leftie opening ceremony I have ever seen - more than Beijing, the capital of a communist state! Welfare tribute next?" Shortly afterwards he added: "Thank God the athletes have arrived! Now we can move on from leftie multi-cultural crap. Bring back red arrows (sic), Shakespeare and the Stones!" London Mayor Boris Johnson added his voice to a barrage of criticism, dismissing the comments as "nonsense". Whilst visiting the Olympic Park on the first day of the Games, the Conservative politician said: "It was actually the truth about this country in the last two or three hundred years told in a big, dynamic way. People say it was all leftie stuff. That is nonsense. I'm a Conservative and I had hot tears of patriotic pride from the beginning. I was blubbing like Andy Murray." He added: "The thing I loved was the heavy political stuff. I loved the emergence of the urban proletariat and the rise of the chimneys and the forging of the ring." Downing Street moved quickly to distance Mr Cameron from the comments, with a senior source saying simply: "We do not agree with him." But Cannock Chase MP Mr Burley struck a defiant tone in interviews, insisting he still thought the event had been "trite". He told the BBC: "I wasn't having a go at multiculturalism itself, I was having a go at the rather trite way, frankly, it was represented in the opening ceremony." He admitted his tweets might not help his career but said he welcomed the debate. Labour frontbencher Michael Dugher said: "David Cameron should show some leadership and demand a full apology from Aidan Burley immediately. Burley has got form. His comments were stupid, ignorant and offensive. David Cameron has said that the Conservative Party has changed but it is clear from the words of his own MP that not a lot has changed."

What do you think about this issue ? Leave a comment below :-)

Peace & Love.

London Olympics 2012 - The Opening Ceremony.

Like many of you, I've spent the last six months making an Olympic sport of complaining about the Olympics. Complaining, I felt, is what we do best, along with being cynical, unwelcoming to visitors, and a bit moany about traffic. All the bloody adverts! Giving directions to tourists! Those awful mascots. Danny Boyle was going to have to come at me with a wrecking ball to break down the barriers of uninterest that I had erected. And in a way he did. In fact, it's really hard writing this without the excessive use of capitals. I don't think I've ever felt quite such a bewildering mixture of true excitement and national pride over things I never really had an opinion on before, like Harry Potter, or Mr Bean, who had me weeping with laughter. During the runup I was aware that there are things about England that I am proud of. Not sport, really, but culture, and the NHS. To see this reflected on the screen during the opening ceremony actually blew my mind. I thought the NHS scene was incredibly brave, and I loved how much pop music featured. I feel like Boyle got the tone right every step of the way. It was knowing, but sincere, dark and hilarious, like we are. And it was everything I needed to get excited about the next few weeks. By the end of the night, I was so addicted to patriotism I started cheering for countries that I'd love to visit, or that I'd once met someone from. It felt amazing. I think all the medals should be melted down and made into one giant medal for Danny Boyle. They should just make him king of something. He should get to marry the Queen. Neither the royal wedding or jubilee gave me warm feelings towards the monarchy, but the sight of the Queen jumping out of a helicopter with James Bond has just made me her biggest fan. I love how deadpan she was. It's like she's spent the last 60 years gearing up towards this moment, so we could see that her no-smile policy is a humour device. I feel like Kenneth Branagh in the industrial revolution scene right now, looking upon Britain with satisfaction and pride. All the best to all the countries participating in the 2012 London Olympics but I for one am TEAM KENYA !! Lets go, Kenya Lets Go !

Peace & Love :-)

TGIF !!

Its fridaay !!!! The weekend is finally here and the sun is shining. It doesn't get any better than that.

Enjoy your weekend my lovessss !!

Peace & Love ;-)

Casual Outfit Of the day.

This is a casual outfit that I love especially when running errands. 

Blazer - Vintage
Scarf - Hong Kong
Jeans - New Look
Sandals - Primark.

I miss my braids, I had them done in Kenya whilst on holiday there in March/April (2012)

My definition of Faith.

Faith is believing in something when common sense tells you not to. Just like Martin Luther King said "Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase". Faith is believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe. Just because you can't see it doesn't mean it isn't there. You can't see the future, yet you know it will come; you can't see the air, yet you continue to breathe.

Be blessed!
Peace & Love.

Planning Your Future.

It isn't enough just to want something.
You've got to ask yourself,
"What am I going to do to get the things that I want."
You're going to need a plan.

Your problem is to bridge the gap which exists
between where you are right now
and the goals that you want to reach.

With a definite, step by step plan, you cannot fail,
because each step will carry you along to the next step, like a track.

All you need is the plan, the road map,
and the courage to press on to your destination.
Knowing where you're going is all you need to get there.

You can't get lost on a straight road.


Planning is key !!

Peace & Love :-)

Kony 2012

Earlier this year, the Kony 2012 band wagon was created ... Here is my view on the whole issue.

Could Uganda’s Recently Discovered Oil Be The REAL Motivation Behind Kony 2012 ?

I think its fair to say that the propaganda war for the Kony 2012 movement, by the Invisible Children group, has become a little more interesting. As soon as I saw the KONY2012 video, the desired effect of pulling my heart strings immediately got me worked up - "yeah, let's go in there and get Kony..."
... then I actually thought about what that would entail. This newly awakened blood-lust amongst the public is giving our governments public support for another Iraq style invasion/occupation.
Kony's crimes are disgusting and sickening, and he's fighting for a theocracy which is just pure insanity. All worth the effort to stop him. But this would involve either being on the side of, or fighting against, the Ugandan government, itself with an appalling human right's record. A solution is needed of course, but do we really want to start another Iraq over this? Is the deaths of tens of thousands of innocent Ugandan civilians going to make anything better ?


The Kony campaign is, in its essence, a propaganda tool for the ruling corporate agenda.
The fact of its success is undeniable, and it shows just how powerful a motivator emotion is when its triggered on this scale. The fact of Kony's evil is also undeniable, but to simply, naively believe all we have to do is remove bogey men is music to the ears of the agenda-setters. The reality is far more complex and much of it has to do with Western business interests in Africa, and in African resources in particular. I hope no one is any doubt that the 'West' has used propaganda incredibly successfully to wage acquisition-based wars in the Middle East. Destabilising regimes has proved to be relatively easy - as long as you fund the opposition, calling them freedom fighters when it suits you, and then Al Qaida when it suits a different purpose. The Kony campaign reveals the deeply programmable empathic element in people, something Disney tapped into equally successfully and so on. It also reveals how utterly willing we are to 'buy' something without question if it ticks the right emotive boxes. For me, watching that video, I felt uneasy. It's always a good litmus test for me if I get this feeling that something's 'not quite right' even if I can't put my finger on precisely why. A small amount of research reveals many dubious facts about the campaign, but fairly overtly in the video is a gung-ho colonialism that views the use of force as righteous if the cause is believed to be righteous. The same argument was used for Iraq. The root of the use highlighted in the campaign is inextricably linked with Western vested interests in Africa, and the finger really should be pointing back at Washington and the City of London. If we could harness the power that the video has released effectively to overthrow the oppressive regimes run from those two centres of power, maybe we really would see dramatic change on this planet.

You Don’t Have to Be Gandhi to See the Best in People.

People are very quick to judge in this day and age

Even if you don’t want to admit it, we all have done it from time to time

You see a homeless person on the street and think, “Wow did he ever !@#$ up”

You witness a man getting rejecting by a woman at a bar and laugh to yourself, “what a loser”

You see someone cleaning up trash and think, “What a bad job, why does he do that?”

We all have been partners in crime in the down trotting of others at some point, and everyone can admit that it’s not the best asset we have as human beings

But no worries

I have developed a technique that allows you to instantly see the best in people, and thereby increase the positivity in your life and in the lives of others

Gandhi was one of the most influential forces that occurred in the eastern hemisphere of the globe

His passive resistance and adherence to nonviolent protest forever changed the countries of the middle east, but also set an example for human beings around the world

While everyone appreciated Gandhi and what he has done, very few people are running around in white handmade linen and discarding all worldly possessions in order to help sustain peace around the world

And that’s fine, because one of the major concepts that Gandhi understood, if everyone else in the world practiced, would drastically change the world we live in today, and well into the future

Gandhi and many other human rights leaders all understood one fundamental truth

That everyone is equal

They understood that everyone on this planet is equal in value, and that no one person is better than another despite what possessions, power, health, or even state of mind they hold in difference to another person on this planet

I know what you are thinking, “I don’t hold any prejudices towards anyone, and I support affirmative action, and I to believe in the teachings of Martin Luther King, Mother Teresa, Gandhi, and other human rights leaders”

That may very well be true, but what we are striving to is isn’t to abolish all prejudices that may or may not exist (though that is a amazing cause I believe in) but rather to influence that way you view people that you see in day to day life, even your friends and family that you may pass judgment on if but only for a brief moment

When you pass judgment is happens in an instant, without even thinking about it

Because it is a human reflex in so many of us, it is better to change the result of what our reflex entails instead of trying to abolish reflex itself

In order to do this I need you to think of people you have passed judgment on in the past week

(I know you have, everyone has)

Maybe your sibling made some dumb comment and you thought, “what an idiot”

Maybe your spouse was complaining to you about how you left the seat up on the toilet for the millionth time and you thought to yourself, “Man is she annoying”

Or maybe you just saw some person at a mall drop their shopping bags all over the ground and you got a laugh out of how clumsy they were

What you need to do is picture the instance in your head and visualize it happening again

But instead of readdressing your previous negative reflex, look at the person and determine some great quality about them

It can be anything

Maybe they have great hair, or they look like might a fun person to hang out with, maybe they have some attractive physical features, or even recognize that it’s a person that you love and care for

Whatever it may be, you need to shift your focus from the negative initial feeling to this new positive aspect of the person

You will find that you will smile at the situation and be happy, instead of any other negative emotion that initially occurred

You can utilize this on more than a small scale as well

Try going to a public area, and view the hundreds or even thousands of people all around you

Seek out people that you would normally pass instant judgment on

And shift your focus

You will begin to notice that viewing everyone walking around feeds you with nothing but positive emotions

You can’t help but feel good when you look around at all the different people around you

This is a step towards being a more positive human being, and you will find that by being more positive and non judgmental of the people around you, you will be rewarded with more positive things in your life

That person that you may have normally brushed off with judgment, may offer you your next best job

Or an opportunity for a new and exciting relationship

The options are endless

And the potential is limitless

Go out and see the best in people, and watch your perspective on life shift to new amazing heights

The European Economic Crisis Explained.

So for the last year or so we have been reading and hearing about the economic crisis in Europe and many people have no clue about what is going on. So I will break it down in the simplest way possible so that all my readers can understand. Here goes ....

What caused the crisis ?

There was a big build-up of debts in Spain and Italy before 2008, but it had nothing to do with governments. Instead it was the private sector companies and mortgage borrowers who were taking out loans. Interest rates had fallen to unprecedented lows in southern European countries when they joined the euro. And that encouraged a debt-fuelled boom.

1. The Convergence

Before the euro was introduced, governments in Greece, Spain and Ireland, among others, had to pay a lot more to borrow money than governments such as France and Germany. But after the euro was introduced, there was this amazing convergence. Suddenly, all the countries could borrow at the same rate.

Caroline explains the convergence:

When the euro was introduced the regulators allowed banks to buy unlimited amounts of government bonds without setting aside any equity capital; and the central bank accepted all government bonds at its discount window on equal terms. Commercial banks found it advantageous to accumulate the bonds of the weaker euro members in order to earn a few extra basis points. That is what caused interest rates to converge which in turn caused competitiveness to diverge.

Translation: European officials essentially told banks: Bonds from all euro zone countries are identical. It doesn't matter whether they're sold by Greece or Germany or whoever. They're all the same. So banks rushed to lend money to the weaker euro zone countries, and their borrowing costs plummeted.

2. The False Dream

For roughly a decade, it seemed that the dream of the euro was coming true. Borrowing costs were almost identical for all of the countries in Europe. But under the surface, Europe was actually growing apart.

Caroline explains :

Germany, struggling with the burdens of reunification, undertook structural reforms and became more competitive. Other countries enjoyed housing and consumption booms on the back of cheap credit, making them less competitive.

Translation: Germany got better at selling stuff to the rest of the world over the past decade. Other countries in Europe had a false sense of prosperity. They borrowed lots of money to buy stuff and build houses, and they got worse at selling stuff to the rest of the world.

 The euro made it easier for Germany to sell stuff to countries on the periphery of Europe, both by making German goods cheaper for people in those countries, and by making it easier for people in those countries to borrow money to buy stuff from Germany.

3. The Crisis

After the financial crisis, it eventually dawned on everybody that the countries that shared the euro are, in fact, a bunch of different countries, with vastly different economies and that, despite what the officials said, not all eurozone government bonds are identical.

Caroline explains :

It took some time for the financial markets to discover that government bonds which had been considered riskless are subject to speculative attack and may actually default; but when they did, risk premiums rose dramatically. This rendered commercial banks whose balance sheets were loaded with those bonds potentially insolvent. And that constituted the two main components of the problem confronting us today: a sovereign debt crisis and a banking crisis which are closely interlinked.

Translation: Once everybody realized that some eurozone countries might not be able to pay back their debts, they started demanding higher interest rates to lend to weaker countries. That, in turn, hammered the banks that had loaned all that money to those weaker countries. Those two, related problems rising borrowing costs for weaker countries, and trouble for banks that have loaned money to those countries are at the core of the European crisis.

Why a euro zone breakup would be bad for Germany

Caroline argues that, in the end, Germany will try to save the euro in order to protect its own interests. I explain :

The likelihood is that the euro will survive because a breakup would be devastating not only for the periphery but also for Germany. It would leave Germany with large unenforceable claims against the periphery countries. The Bundesbank alone will have over a trillion euros of claims arising out of target by the end of this year, in addition to all the intergovernmental obligations. And a return to the Deutschemark would likely price Germany out of its export markets...

Translation: The end of the euro would hurt Germany in two main ways. First, it would mean Germany's central bank would never be able to recover a huge amount of money its owed as part of Europe's current system. Second, the end of the euro would make German exports much more expensive in the rest of Europe. That would be a big blow for a key part of Germany's economy. But the version of the euro that survives may be ugly, Caroline writes:

Germany is likely to do what is necessary to preserve the euro but nothing more. That would result in a eurozone dominated by Germany in which the divergence between the creditor and debtor countries would continue to widen and the periphery would turn into permanently depressed areas in need of constant transfer of payments.

Translation: The deep problem facing the euro zone isn't just debt. It's the vast gap between the economies in the struggling countries and the economies in the stronger countries. If Germany does the bare minimum to keep the euro afloat, those differences will persist and the struggling countries will continue to struggle indefinitely. I argue that Germany should do more than the bare minimum, to try to change the broader economic picture in Europe. But  in my opinion that's not likely to happen.

Why I Decided To Be a Blogger ?!

First and foremost I happen to be the biggest blogger fan going, I look at blogs on a daily basis. My favourite blog being that of one beautiful lady who goes by the name Gabbi Fresh! Her style is what I like to call magnus opus (great work). She inspires women like myself one outfit at a time :-) So back to the question at hand, why I decided to start blogging, well I decided to blog because I for one love fashion and I also happen to be interested in current affairs, human rights etc and it came to my attention that most people don't know what is going on in the world simply because the news complicate current affairs with technical mumble jumble when it could in essence be put into simple english. So with this blog I aim to inform you all on what's happening in the world and how it affects you and me but without the complexity of it all. I am to make it as simple as possible so this isn't yet another news website that comes out with the aim to inform but completely confuses! I hope you all enjoy :-)

Peace & Love <3

Who is the Nerdy Fashionista ?!

Hi bloggers ! My name is Caroline, I am a twenty something year old woman who is obssessed with fashion and also happens to be a nerd! I am a blessed woman of a different status. Proverbs 31 to be exact. I am an upcoming attorney & human rights activist. Besides that I love fashion, health & beauty. I am a loving curvy girl whose obsessions include Michelle Obama and challenging the status quo.I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it. I consider myself to be down to earth. I love my life for I am truly blessed. This blog will focus on the aspects of my life that I love the most, education, current affairs/human rights & fashion.

I hope you all enjoy my blog.