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Saturday, January 05, 2013
They have come to view matters in nearly the same light
“As the storm approaches, a large class who have professed faith in the third angel’s message, but have not been sanctified through obedience to the truth, abandon their position and join the ranks of the opposition. By uniting with the world and partaking of its spirit, they have come to view matters in nearly the same light; and when the test is brought, they are prepared to choose the easy, popular side. Men of talent and pleasing address, who once rejoiced in the truth, employ their powers to deceive and mislead souls. They become the most bitter enemies of their former brethren. When Sabbathkeepers are brought before the courts to answer for their faith, these apostates are the most efficient agents of Satan to misrepresent and accuse them, and by false reports and insinuations to stir up the rulers against them.”
The Great Controversy, p. 608
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Hate Speech - More Than Waco: Chapter 9
DavidEMould
Uploaded on Jan 11, 2011
David Mould and Lincoln Steed discuss hate laws and their potential impact on the free publication of The Great Controversy. .
Uploaded on Jan 11, 2011
David Mould and Lincoln Steed discuss hate laws and their potential impact on the free publication of The Great Controversy. .
Friday, January 04, 2013
Vatican can’t take credit card payments
By : CNN
Vatican shops and museums can no longer accept card payments
If you’re planning on visiting the Vatican any time soon, take plenty of cash for tickets and souvenirs.
Vatican museums and shops have been unable to accept credit or debit card payments since Jan. 1, after the Bank of Italy prevented Deutsche Bank from providing the service due to concerns about financial oversight in the city-state, sources familiar with the matter told CNNMoney.
The world’s smallest state is home to the Pope and such popular tourist sites as St. Peter’s Basilica and the Sistine Chapel, attracting some 5 million visitors per year.
The Vatican has taken several steps in recent years to improve its record on banking supervision. But a report last year by Moneyval — an independent group of European experts — found it was still falling short of international standards to tackle money laundering and other financial crimes.
Related: Swiss bank to close after U.S. tax case
The Vatican said in a statement that an agreement with one of its contractors was about to expire. It was talking with other service providers and the interruption of service “should be short.” Neither Deutsche Bank nor the Bank of Italy issued statements.
Deutsche Bank’s Italian arm had run the payments system since 1997. It was told in 2010 by the Bank of Italy that it needed authorization, which it duly sought. The request triggered an in-depth assessment of the Vatican’s banking regulation by the Bank of Italy, the sources said.
Related: EU strikes deal to bring banks under single supervisor
The review by the central bank revealed similar concerns to the Moneyval report, and as a consequence Deutsche Bank was told in December it would not receive permission to continue arranging payments, the sources said.
Any bank with operations in Italy would run into the same problem, they added.
Vatican Museums apologized on its website for the inconvenience caused. Tickets can still be bought online using a credit or debit card, but that service will also be suspended beginning Jan. 15.
–CNN’s Richard Greene contributed to this article
The Vatican has taken several steps in recent years to improve its record on banking supervision. But a report last year by Moneyval — an independent group of European experts — found it was still falling short of international standards to tackle money laundering and other financial crimes.
Related: Swiss bank to close after U.S. tax case
The Vatican said in a statement that an agreement with one of its contractors was about to expire. It was talking with other service providers and the interruption of service “should be short.” Neither Deutsche Bank nor the Bank of Italy issued statements.
Deutsche Bank’s Italian arm had run the payments system since 1997. It was told in 2010 by the Bank of Italy that it needed authorization, which it duly sought. The request triggered an in-depth assessment of the Vatican’s banking regulation by the Bank of Italy, the sources said.
Related: EU strikes deal to bring banks under single supervisor
The review by the central bank revealed similar concerns to the Moneyval report, and as a consequence Deutsche Bank was told in December it would not receive permission to continue arranging payments, the sources said.
Any bank with operations in Italy would run into the same problem, they added.
Vatican Museums apologized on its website for the inconvenience caused. Tickets can still be bought online using a credit or debit card, but that service will also be suspended beginning Jan. 15.
–CNN’s Richard Greene contributed to this article
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"Spiritual Formation and Contemplative Prayer"
"Spiritual Formation and Contemplative Prayer," 3ABN Night Light, 2012 ASI Convention
3ABNVideos
Published on Aug 16, 2012
In an effort to shed more light on the topics of "Spiritual Formation" and "Contemplative Prayer", 3ABN broadcast a special live edition of our 3ABN Night Light program on Thursday, August 9, immediately following the evening program of the ASI International Convention.
3ABN president, Jim Gilley, and 3ABN production manager, C. A. Murray, moderated this important discussion. Their guests included Dan Jackson, President of the North American Division of Seventh-day Adventists; Mark Finley, Assistant to the General Conference President for Evangelism; Dr. Derek Morris, Associate Ministerial Secretary for the General Conference; Dan Houghton, President of Hart Research; Frank Fournier, President of Adventist-laymen's Services and Industries (ASI); and Harold Lance, President of ASI Missions, Inc.
"The ASI Convention in Cincinnati gives us this tremendous opportunity to visit with leaders of our church concerning issues we face in our denomination world wide," says 3ABN president, Jim Gilley. "We invite our viewers to watch this important program."
Published on Aug 16, 2012
In an effort to shed more light on the topics of "Spiritual Formation" and "Contemplative Prayer", 3ABN broadcast a special live edition of our 3ABN Night Light program on Thursday, August 9, immediately following the evening program of the ASI International Convention.
3ABN president, Jim Gilley, and 3ABN production manager, C. A. Murray, moderated this important discussion. Their guests included Dan Jackson, President of the North American Division of Seventh-day Adventists; Mark Finley, Assistant to the General Conference President for Evangelism; Dr. Derek Morris, Associate Ministerial Secretary for the General Conference; Dan Houghton, President of Hart Research; Frank Fournier, President of Adventist-laymen's Services and Industries (ASI); and Harold Lance, President of ASI Missions, Inc.
"The ASI Convention in Cincinnati gives us this tremendous opportunity to visit with leaders of our church concerning issues we face in our denomination world wide," says 3ABN president, Jim Gilley. "We invite our viewers to watch this important program."
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The bully-in-chief
By Boston Herald editorial staff
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Now that President Obama has gotten the hang of boxing in and neutering congressional Republicans, why stop?
In fact, Obama wants it all — the virtually limitless power to spend and pass along the bills to every man, woman and child in the country.
“I will not have another debate with this Congress over whether or not they should pay the bills that they’ve already racked up through the laws that they passed,” he said New Year’s Eve as Congress was attempting to avoid the tax-hike portion of the “fiscal cliff.”
Notice how suddenly it’s congressional spending that is out of control — not Obamacare or the vast expansion of unemployment insurance, which is rapidly becoming yet another entitlement program, or even his pet green jobs programs. The president seems prepared to fix the blame for profligate spending on a Congress that has admittedly been far too compliant with his big government agenda. So having given the president what he wanted in terms of big-money programs and tax hikes, Congress now gets the back of his hand.
And Obama wants our duly elected legislative branch to relinquish one of the few checks it has on the executive — the power to approve increases in the debt ceiling. The government actually reached the $16.4 trillion debt ceiling days ago, but federal officials are busy using all the tools in their accounting arsenal to cook the books until February — when we will once again face another “crisis.”
That gives Obama a full month to out-maneuver Republicans and convince voters, the markets and perhaps even the rating agencies (although we have trouble imagining that level of naivete on their part) that only he should have the unbridled power to control the government’s ability to borrow money.
And if you’re thinking about a fox guarding the hen house, you’d be on the right track here.
“If Congress refuses to give the United States government the ability to pay these bills on time, the consequences for the entire global economy would be catastrophic,” he insisted. “People will remember, back in 2011, the last time this course of action was threatened, our entire recovery was put at risk. Consumer confidence plunged. Business investment plunged. Growth dropped. We can’t go down that path again.”
The answer? Well, that would be for all members of Congress to check their principles (not to mention their cojones) at the door and roll over and play dead because the commander in chief demands it.
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Simpson: Try not to fall off the 'physical cliff'
By Dave Simpson
Opinion columnist
Jan. 2, 2013 6:57 p.m.
THIS IS RICH: Out here where I live, the state has a program in which dilapidated houses are purchased, fixed up, then sold at a reasonable price and low interest rate to first-time home buyers.
This makes a certain amount of sense, since the only entity with enough money to deal with government regulations these days is the government.
Included in the state program are radio ads, to encourage people to buy one of these government-renovated houses. And here's the funny part.
The ad says that since there are federal dollars involved in paying for all this, applicants must fill out forms to demonstrate their "FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY."
Take a second here, readers, to let that sink in. Fiscal responsibility. Federal government.
When I hear that radio ad when I'm driving, I need to pull over for a few minutes to regain my composure. It's dangerous to drive with tears of laughter in your eyes. A guy could get in an accident laughing at the notion of demonstrating our fiscal responsibility to the federal government.
Consider what has been going on in Washington in recent days, and the fiscal cliff, and a $16 trillion debt, and $1 trillion annual deficits, and three-day work weeks in Congress, and the debt ceiling closing in, and the pay raise the dysfunctional Congress just gave itself, and "sequestration," and all these phony-baloney end-of-year deadlines they set up for themselves.
And then consider the crazy notion that anyone, anywhere, would have to demonstrate their "fiscal responsibility" to that bunch of world-class spendthrift yahoos in Washington.
That's like requiring us to show our fire extinguishers and smoke alarms to serial arsonists.
I need to stop for a moment here and wipe the tears of laughter from my eyes.
NORM CROSBY ALERT: I've regained my composure now, and can report that on "Fox and Friends in the Morning" on New Years Day, Gerald Celente, founder of the Trends Research Institute, was making predictions for 2013.
Referring to recent events in Washington, he said, "Look at the physical cliff drama. The DC drama queens."
Here's my prediction for 2013: Some viewer will point out to Gerald Celente that it is a "fiscal cliff," not a "physical cliff." Big difference.
And I'm not sure I want to take economic advice from a guy who doesn't know the difference.
ON THAT TOPIC: On one of the political shows on CNBC last week, I learned that economic pundit Jared Bernstein served for a time as the "chief economist and economic adviser" to — are you ready for this? — Vice President Joe Biden.
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I was taken aback. Nonplussed.
"Does this mean,'' I wondered, "that the grinning, mugging, sarcastic buffoon who made such fun of Paul Ryan in the vice presidential debate has a CHIEF ECONOMIST and ECONOMIC ADVISOR? That Biden joker had a CHIEF ECONOMIST?''
Couldn't he just borrow the president's chief economist if he had a question? He needs his own chief economist?
And, if he had a chief economist, does that mean he had a bunch of other economists who answered to the chief economist? How many economists does a vice president need, anyway?
And we wonder why we have a $16 trillion national debt.
NEW LAWS: Almost 900 new laws went into effect in California on the first of the year, according to news reports.
When I was a cub reporter in Laramie, Wyo., 40 years ago, there was a city council member who would always note the number on any new ordinance being passed, and shake his head in dismay. And then he would ask, "How many new laws do we really need to run this city?"
If you live in California, the answer to that question is apparently almost 900 new state laws this year alone, which probably goes a long way toward explaining the complicated governmental mess they're facing in California, these days.
And yet I'm sure there are those true believers in California who figure that everything will be fixed, and the place will be run like a Swiss watch, now that the geniuses in state government have bestowed all of those wonderful new laws on their constituents.
Don't bet on it.
Contact Dave Simpson at d_simpson@bresnan.net.
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Opinion columnist
Jan. 2, 2013 6:57 p.m.
THIS IS RICH: Out here where I live, the state has a program in which dilapidated houses are purchased, fixed up, then sold at a reasonable price and low interest rate to first-time home buyers.
This makes a certain amount of sense, since the only entity with enough money to deal with government regulations these days is the government.
Included in the state program are radio ads, to encourage people to buy one of these government-renovated houses. And here's the funny part.
The ad says that since there are federal dollars involved in paying for all this, applicants must fill out forms to demonstrate their "FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY."
Take a second here, readers, to let that sink in. Fiscal responsibility. Federal government.
When I hear that radio ad when I'm driving, I need to pull over for a few minutes to regain my composure. It's dangerous to drive with tears of laughter in your eyes. A guy could get in an accident laughing at the notion of demonstrating our fiscal responsibility to the federal government.
Consider what has been going on in Washington in recent days, and the fiscal cliff, and a $16 trillion debt, and $1 trillion annual deficits, and three-day work weeks in Congress, and the debt ceiling closing in, and the pay raise the dysfunctional Congress just gave itself, and "sequestration," and all these phony-baloney end-of-year deadlines they set up for themselves.
And then consider the crazy notion that anyone, anywhere, would have to demonstrate their "fiscal responsibility" to that bunch of world-class spendthrift yahoos in Washington.
That's like requiring us to show our fire extinguishers and smoke alarms to serial arsonists.
I need to stop for a moment here and wipe the tears of laughter from my eyes.
NORM CROSBY ALERT: I've regained my composure now, and can report that on "Fox and Friends in the Morning" on New Years Day, Gerald Celente, founder of the Trends Research Institute, was making predictions for 2013.
Referring to recent events in Washington, he said, "Look at the physical cliff drama. The DC drama queens."
Here's my prediction for 2013: Some viewer will point out to Gerald Celente that it is a "fiscal cliff," not a "physical cliff." Big difference.
And I'm not sure I want to take economic advice from a guy who doesn't know the difference.
ON THAT TOPIC: On one of the political shows on CNBC last week, I learned that economic pundit Jared Bernstein served for a time as the "chief economist and economic adviser" to — are you ready for this? — Vice President Joe Biden.
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I was taken aback. Nonplussed.
"Does this mean,'' I wondered, "that the grinning, mugging, sarcastic buffoon who made such fun of Paul Ryan in the vice presidential debate has a CHIEF ECONOMIST and ECONOMIC ADVISOR? That Biden joker had a CHIEF ECONOMIST?''
Couldn't he just borrow the president's chief economist if he had a question? He needs his own chief economist?
And, if he had a chief economist, does that mean he had a bunch of other economists who answered to the chief economist? How many economists does a vice president need, anyway?
And we wonder why we have a $16 trillion national debt.
NEW LAWS: Almost 900 new laws went into effect in California on the first of the year, according to news reports.
When I was a cub reporter in Laramie, Wyo., 40 years ago, there was a city council member who would always note the number on any new ordinance being passed, and shake his head in dismay. And then he would ask, "How many new laws do we really need to run this city?"
If you live in California, the answer to that question is apparently almost 900 new state laws this year alone, which probably goes a long way toward explaining the complicated governmental mess they're facing in California, these days.
And yet I'm sure there are those true believers in California who figure that everything will be fixed, and the place will be run like a Swiss watch, now that the geniuses in state government have bestowed all of those wonderful new laws on their constituents.
Don't bet on it.
Contact Dave Simpson at d_simpson@bresnan.net.
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Best of Biden
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Best of Biden: "You're gonna be frisked" & more from swearing-in "Don't tell Bob Byrd's ghost," "you're gonna be frisked," and more - the most candid moments from Vice President Joe Biden today as he swore in senators to the 113th Congress.
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Best of Biden: "You're gonna be frisked" & more from swearing-in "Don't tell Bob Byrd's ghost," "you're gonna be frisked," and more - the most candid moments from Vice President Joe Biden today as he swore in senators to the 113th Congress.
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Thursday, January 03, 2013
Inklings of A New World Order
Subtlety of subtleties
Just went to Family Dollar to buy a few things, and when I cheked out the Lady at the register asked me for my date of birth: it was right after the Family Dollar Wellness Adult Tussin Cough & Chest Congestion DM Cough Syrup was swiped. I was shocked to be asked such a personal question while there were several people on line behind me. Apparently, looking my age is not enough for buying an over the counter house brand Robitussin type Cough Medicine; Since I needed the Syrup I obliged, althogh I was reluctant at first.
Why did I resent this question?
I guess it is because yesterday I called one of my service providers (Utility) and to speak to with a Customer Service Rep I had to provide my home address, the last four digits of my Social Security number (the entitlement they want to renege) , and my date of birth, too. Where is this leading to? Why all the questions? This is definitely a New World Order in which I am living in. Despite all the folks that think that everything is hunky dory, I see myself in the midst of a Brave New World. I feel like a prisoner in a strange habitat. Everywhere I turn I am suveilled and interogated. It will soon be 50 years since Kennedy was assasinated in broad daylight, yet, I don't think that anyone would have imagined that we would have arrived at such a time as this.
The days of do not park; keep off the grass; and, do not fold, spindle or mutilate were so simple?
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Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight
1 Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judaea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of Ituraea and of the region of Trachonitis, and Lysanias the tetrarch of Abilene,
2 Annas and Caiaphas being the high priests, the word of God came unto John the son of Zacharias in the wilderness.
3 And he came into all the country about Jordan, preaching the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins;
4 As it is written in the book of the words of Esaias the prophet, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.
5 Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be brought low; and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough ways shall be made smooth;
6 And all flesh shall see the salvation of God.
7 Then said he to the multitude that came forth to be baptized of him, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
8 Bring forth therefore fruits worthy of repentance, and begin not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, That God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.
9 And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: every tree therefore which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.
10 And the people asked him, saying, What shall we do then?
11 He answereth and saith unto them, He that hath two coats, let him impart to him that hath none; and he that hath meat, let him do likewise.
12 Then came also publicans to be baptized, and said unto him, Master, what shall we do?
13 And he said unto them, Exact no more than that which is appointed you.
14 And the soldiers likewise demanded of him, saying, And what shall we do? And he said unto them, Do violence to no man, neither accuse any falsely; and be content with your wages.
15 And as the people were in expectation, and all men mused in their hearts of John, whether he were the Christ, or not;
17 Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and will gather the wheat into his garner; but the chaff he will burn with fire unquenchable.
18 And many other things in his exhortation preached he unto the people.
19 But Herod the tetrarch, being reproved by him for Herodias his brother Philip's wife, and for all the evils which Herod had done,
20 Added yet this above all, that he shut up John in prison.
21 Now when all the people were baptized, it came to pass, that Jesus also being baptized, and praying, the heaven was opened,
22 And the Holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape like a dove upon him, and a voice came from heaven, which said, Thou art my beloved Son; in thee I am well pleased.
Luke 3:1-22.
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Sicky Season
Recently in the Hospital:
Hugo Chavez in Cuba recovering from "4" operations to remove Cancer
Hillary R.Clinton leaving Presbyterian Hospital in New York City (Blood Clot from a Concussion caused by a Stomach Virus)
George H. Bush moved from intensive care (with bronchitis) still at Methodist Hospital in Houston, Texas
Nelson Mandela (recovering from lung infection at home) was at Pretoria hospital, So. Africa
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All these bureaucrats sick all at once...
Is it a virus or a bacteria?
Hugo Chavez in Cuba recovering from "4" operations to remove Cancer
Hillary R.Clinton leaving Presbyterian Hospital in New York City (Blood Clot from a Concussion caused by a Stomach Virus)
George H. Bush moved from intensive care (with bronchitis) still at Methodist Hospital in Houston, Texas
Nelson Mandela (recovering from lung infection at home) was at Pretoria hospital, So. Africa
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All these bureaucrats sick all at once...
Is it a virus or a bacteria?
When Governing Means Lurching Between Phony Crises
About Clive Crook»
Clive Crook is a Bloomberg View columnist and member of the Bloomberg View editorial board. His column appears ... MORE
By Clive Crook Jan 2, 2013 9:46 AM ET
The vote last night in the House of Representatives brought to a close the latest Washington master class in dereliction of duty. After a few days of arguing about who won or lost, we can move on to the next manufactured crisis.
In itself, not much of a surprise, the fiscal-cliff deal avoids most of the tax increases and postpones almost all of the spending cuts that were about to be triggered. Throughout this farce, financial markets had refused to believe that the U.S. government would inflict a recession rather than strike a budget agreement, especially because they knew that, all posturing aside, the distance between the two parties was small. Markets wobbled but didn’t collapse.
Let’s hope they react with similar equanimity to the next pointless quarrel, over the debt ceiling. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner told Congress last week that the current limit on government borrowing was about to be reached. He said “extraordinary measures” (essentially, shuffling funds among government accounts) would be used to prevent the debt from breaking through the ceiling.
How long can that go on? Geithner wasn’t sure. Maybe two months under normal circumstances, he said, but “given the significant uncertainty that now exists with regard to unresolved tax and spending policies for 2013, it is not possible to predict the effective duration of these measures.”
Tax Increase
The latest fiscal deal does little to resolve those uncertainties. The spending-cut part has merely been delayed by two months. The tax increase for couples making more than $450,000, together with other changes and estimated savings in debt interest, shaves about $700 billion from the 10-year deficit. Savings of about $2 trillion will be needed to stabilize the ratio of public debt to national income. Bringing that ratio down to a safer level requires spending cuts and tax increases worth $4 trillion -- the original “grand bargain” ambition.
Instead of dealing calmly with the problem, fiscal policy has settled into a mode of perpetual phony crisis. Phony doesn’t mean harmless, however. The risk of a real fiscal crisis gradually builds. Meanwhile, the cumulative effects of simulated crisis might be almost as bad. It’s the difference between an acute illness and a chronic wasting disease -- one that’s beginning to look incurable.
Don’t tell me the economy just had a lucky escape. Whatever happens next, it has been paying for the fiscal standoff for months. It’s paying for what Congress might do with the next debt ceiling, and the one after that. The “significant uncertainty” that Geithner referred to has already held back the U.S. recovery. Another temporary fiscal patch isn’t a remedy. It’s just more of the same.
The economy needs a lasting fiscal compact that commands broad, bipartisan support. I can hear the groans. Not another call for compromise. Many Democrats and almost all Republicans find the idea disgusting. On Capitol Hill, it’s no longer enough for one side to win; the other has to be seen to lose. That attitude is the growing burden the economy has to carry.
The tax cuts passed under President George W. Bush show what happens when reforms lack broad support. They were pushed through in 2001 and 2003 against solid Democratic opposition. For more than a decade, the overriding aim of Democratic politics has been to (partially) reverse them. Mission accomplished -- for now.
Health Care
A similar fate might be in store for health-care reform. With uncertain support from the public, the Affordable Care Act faces the skepticism of Republican governors and the outright hostility of a Republican-controlled House of Representatives. The policy may be the law of the land, but without a firmer base of support it will remain in jeopardy.
Expect the pattern to repeat during the next phase of budgetary dysfunction. Outwitted by its own earlier tactics, the Republican Party has accepted an increase in the top income-tax rate as part of the fiscal-cliff reprieve. Why expect this to be the end? One day Republicans will cut that top rate again, even if it kills them (and the economy). What a glorious day that will be.
The remarkable thing is the passion of this mutual animosity, given how little divides the combatants. President Barack Obama’s health-care law, don’t forget, was built to a Republican blueprint. All Democrats have embraced the Bush tax cuts as they apply to 98 percent of taxpayers, and most acknowledge the need to contain entitlement spending, which the Republicans insist is essential. Before the rank and file in Congress forced a retreat, the House Republican leadership broached raising the tax rate for people earning more than $1 million a year and suggested collecting more revenue by limiting deductions, a reform favored by all thinking progressives.
This is hardly a clash of irreconcilable visions, as the two sides want to claim. Seen from beyond the Beltway, the budgetary gap isn’t just bridgeable, it’s trivial. Democrats and Republicans disagree about taxes and spending, of course, but they relish and exaggerate the differences. Their enmity is less about economics than about culture, values and class. That’s what makes it so poisonous.
Obama offers the best hope for calming this conflict and passing broadly supported -- hence lasting -- fiscal reform. At the moment, it’s hard to be optimistic because the president has chosen since the election to strut more than conciliate, to be a partisan champion, sticking it to the enemy, not a one-nation leader seeking to build agreement. Declaring victory this week won’t serve his or the country’s interests. A little magnanimity would go a long way. Nonetheless, count on the Republicans to do all they can to make presidential aggression look reasonable.
This dynamic could still change, and for America’s sake it had better. The automatic expiration of the Bush tax cuts was a fleeting moment of political leverage for the White House, difficult to forgo. That moment has passed. Now the president has to think about the delayed spending cuts, the debt ceiling, comprehensive tax and entitlement reform, and his second term.
He can set out to split differences, build consensus and solve problems. Or he can stand on principle, berate the opposition (and the half of the country it represents), and keep the crises coming. If he does the first, he may fail. If he does the second, he can count on it.
(Clive Crook is a Bloomberg View columnist. The opinions expressed are his own.)
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To contact the editor responsible for this article: Max Berley at mberley@bloomberg.net
Wednesday, January 02, 2013
Georgetown Law professor: Scrap ‘archaic, idiosyncratic and downright evil’ Constitution
12:33 PM 12/31/2012
Caroline May
Caroline May
Political Reporter
With hours to go before nation heads off the fiscal cliff, Georgetown Law professor Louis Michael Seidman writes that the time has come to scrap the Constitution.
In an op-ed published in the New York Times Monday, Seidman, a constitutional law professor, claimed that the nation’s foundational document is the real impediment to progress and solutions to America’s troubles.
“As the nation teeters at the edge of fiscal chaos, observers are reaching the conclusion that the American system of government is broken,” Seidman wrote. “But almost no one blames the culprit: our insistence on obedience to the Constitution, with all its archaic, idiosyncratic and downright evil provisions.”
According to Seidman, the country’s insistence that it maintain the will of a centuries-old document “has saddled us with a dysfunctional political system, kept us from debating the merits of divisive issues and inflamed our public.”
Seidman, author of the forthcoming book “On Constitutional Disobedience,” explained that adherence to constitutional law, which he has taught for over 40 years, is just “bizarre.”
“Imagine that after careful study a government official — say, the president or one of the party leaders in Congress — reaches a considered judgment that a particular course of action is best for the country,” he wrote. “Suddenly, someone bursts into the room with new information: a group of white propertied men who have been dead for two centuries, knew nothing of our present situation, acted illegally under existing law and thought it was fine to own slaves might have disagreed with this course of action. Is it even remotely rational that the official should change his or her mind because of this divination?”
The Georgetown Law professor argued that disobedience to the Constitution is older than the document itself — noting that in 1787 the framers abandoned their mandate to amend the Articles of Confederation and instead created an entirely new document, the Constitution.
Seidman cited examples in which monumental figures in American history have turned their backs on the document, including John Adams’ support for the Alien and Sedition Acts, Thomas Jefferson’s Louisiana Purchase, Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation and Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal expansion of federal powers.
“In the face of this long history of disobedience, it is hard to take seriously the claim by the Constitution’s defenders that we would be reduced to a Hobbesian state of nature if we asserted our freedom from this ancient text,” he added. “Our sometimes flagrant disregard of the Constitution has not produced chaos or totalitarianism; on the contrary, it has helped us to grow and prosper.”
Seidman concedes that his goal — to scrap the Constitution in favor of long standing institutions and good judgment — is likely not to happen anytime soon. Instead, he advocates beginning to “soften the habit.”
“If even this change is impossible, perhaps the dream of a country ruled by ‘We the people’ is impossibly utopian,” he concluded. “If so, we have to give up on the claim that we are a self-governing people who can settle our disagreements through mature and tolerant debate. But before abandoning our heritage of self-government, we ought to try extricating ourselves from constitutional bondage so that we can give real freedom a chance.”
Source: http://dailycaller.com/2012/12/31/georgetown-law-professor-scrap-archaic-idiosyncratic-and-downright-evil-constitution/#ixzz2GsPYj8Uy
With hours to go before nation heads off the fiscal cliff, Georgetown Law professor Louis Michael Seidman writes that the time has come to scrap the Constitution.
In an op-ed published in the New York Times Monday, Seidman, a constitutional law professor, claimed that the nation’s foundational document is the real impediment to progress and solutions to America’s troubles.
“As the nation teeters at the edge of fiscal chaos, observers are reaching the conclusion that the American system of government is broken,” Seidman wrote. “But almost no one blames the culprit: our insistence on obedience to the Constitution, with all its archaic, idiosyncratic and downright evil provisions.”
According to Seidman, the country’s insistence that it maintain the will of a centuries-old document “has saddled us with a dysfunctional political system, kept us from debating the merits of divisive issues and inflamed our public.”
Seidman, author of the forthcoming book “On Constitutional Disobedience,” explained that adherence to constitutional law, which he has taught for over 40 years, is just “bizarre.”
“Imagine that after careful study a government official — say, the president or one of the party leaders in Congress — reaches a considered judgment that a particular course of action is best for the country,” he wrote. “Suddenly, someone bursts into the room with new information: a group of white propertied men who have been dead for two centuries, knew nothing of our present situation, acted illegally under existing law and thought it was fine to own slaves might have disagreed with this course of action. Is it even remotely rational that the official should change his or her mind because of this divination?”
The Georgetown Law professor argued that disobedience to the Constitution is older than the document itself — noting that in 1787 the framers abandoned their mandate to amend the Articles of Confederation and instead created an entirely new document, the Constitution.
Seidman cited examples in which monumental figures in American history have turned their backs on the document, including John Adams’ support for the Alien and Sedition Acts, Thomas Jefferson’s Louisiana Purchase, Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation and Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal expansion of federal powers.
“In the face of this long history of disobedience, it is hard to take seriously the claim by the Constitution’s defenders that we would be reduced to a Hobbesian state of nature if we asserted our freedom from this ancient text,” he added. “Our sometimes flagrant disregard of the Constitution has not produced chaos or totalitarianism; on the contrary, it has helped us to grow and prosper.”
Seidman concedes that his goal — to scrap the Constitution in favor of long standing institutions and good judgment — is likely not to happen anytime soon. Instead, he advocates beginning to “soften the habit.”
“If even this change is impossible, perhaps the dream of a country ruled by ‘We the people’ is impossibly utopian,” he concluded. “If so, we have to give up on the claim that we are a self-governing people who can settle our disagreements through mature and tolerant debate. But before abandoning our heritage of self-government, we ought to try extricating ourselves from constitutional bondage so that we can give real freedom a chance.”
Source: http://dailycaller.com/2012/12/31/georgetown-law-professor-scrap-archaic-idiosyncratic-and-downright-evil-constitution/#ixzz2GsPYj8Uy
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Denver Murals International Airport Colorado
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Uploaded on Dec 3, 2010
Video and still picture footage of the Airport of Airports when it comes to conspiracy theory's.
Murals, a secret base underneath the place. Hidden messages within pictures and more.
We investigated to see what we could come out with...
Uploaded on Dec 3, 2010
Video and still picture footage of the Airport of Airports when it comes to conspiracy theory's.
Murals, a secret base underneath the place. Hidden messages within pictures and more.
We investigated to see what we could come out with...
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Report Update: A Stand for Walter Veith
Since the ban on Walter Veith by the German Unions, many have written us and spoken out about their support of Walter Veith. We have also learned of many that have become Adventist as a result of Walter Veith's evangelistic crusades and DVDs. We believe that the world church and the North American Union needs to hear about the impact of Walter Veith's ministry in the lives of so many. We have heard that a large majority of the new converts in S. Africa alone are as a result of Walter Veith's work. In Germany also the main evangelistic efforts and converts resulting are through Walter Veith and AD Germany.
In light of this, we ask that all those that have been blessed by Walter Veith or brought to the truth through his ministry, write to the North American Union and the world church and share this with the leadership. Others are beginning to do so. Below you will find correspondance from Trevor Loucks, Head of Music at the Adventist University of Central Africa in Rwanda written to Bruno Vertallier, President of the Inter-European Division and the response of Stan Sedlbauer, president of AD Germany. In addition, below you will find the strong public statement made by ASI Germany regarding the action taken by the joint German Unions.
It is important that the leadership of the Adventist Church hear from its members on this issue so that it knows that there is a body of believers in the Church that wishes to hear the straight testimony preached and to warn the world of coming deceptions such as spiritual formation, and other errors.
To write to the NAD and/or the General Conference (both at the same address):
12501 Old Columbia Pike
Silver Spring, MD 20904-6600 USA
for NAD President - Dan Jackson
c/o: Janet.Aldea [at] nad.adventist.org
http://www.nadadventist.org/
for World Headquarters:
Attention: President - Ted Wilson
c/o: george.johnson [at] nad.adventist.org
To write directly to the German Unions to express your thoughts,
BVertallier.president [at] euroafrica.org, corrado.cozzi [at] euroafrica.org, gabriel.maurer [at] euroafrica.org, Paolo.Benini [at] euroafrica.org
Read the Public Statement by ASI Germany condemning the actions taken by the German Unions.
Public Statement regarding the action taken by the joint German Unions ( FiD ) on Dec. 4, 2012 in regard to Prof. Dr. Walter Veith’s way of evangelizing in Germany.
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Smaller paychecks coming - bosses say, don't blame us
By Jose Pagliery @CNNMoney January 2, 2013: 10:59 AM ET
Payroll taxes are going back up. Business owners like Mike Brey, who owns four Hobby Works shops near Washington, D.C., must now explain to workers why their paychecks are 2% smaller.
NEW YORK (CNNMoney)
Everyone's paycheck is about to take a hit, and it's not the boss' fault. But some business owners say it's a tough talk to have.
The rate of workers' payroll taxes, which fund Social Security, has been 4.2% for the past two years. As of Jan. 1, it's back to 6.2%, on the first $113,700 in wages.
That forced Mike Brey, who owns four Hobby Works shops near Washington, D.C., to notify his store managers about the upcoming change during a conference call Monday. He called the experience uncomfortable. "These are the people who can least afford it," Brey said.
Brey said he can't raise compensation to ease the pain. Enduring the recession meant cutting his own salary, firing workers, taking on half a million dollars in debt and raiding his own 401(k).
"Any business that survived the recession did so by digging a big hole," Brey said. "We can't dig any deeper."
Related: How the rich will pay more in 2013
Payroll taxes are key for financing Social Security, and the break of the past two years has forced the government to replenish the funds with borrowed money. The tax break was always meant to be temporary.
Workers earning the national average salary of $41,000 will receive $32 less on every biweekly paycheck. The higher the salary (up to $113,700), the bigger the bite, but business owners say their lower wage employees will feel it most.
Deborah Koenigsberger, who owns the Noir et Blanc fashion store in Manhattan, has yet to have the talk with her only part-time employee, a college student.
"It's going to hurt me to tell her this. She can't afford a decrease," Koenigsberger said. What unnerves her is the feeling that she's lost control as a business owner watching out for her employees.
Keval Mehta, CEO of In-R-Food, a smartphone app developer in Durham, N.C., worried the tax increase will threaten morale. "They don't get paid enough for what they do," Mehta said.
Related: Fiscal cliff's new definition of 'rich'
The 1-year-old company has yet to make a profit, having just launched software that scans grocery products and lists ingredients and nutritional values. His four employees could make upwards of $80,000 a year elsewhere, but three of them earn less than half that. They put in long hours, must work from laptops while on vacation, and no, there isn't a health insurance plan.
All that made it even more difficult to warn them during the holidays about the oncoming pay cut. Mehta promised them he'd make up the lost pay if the company's finances improve next year.
"Currently, they're working on passion. But that can only drive you so much," Mehta said. "I don't like that I don't have control over this. It wasn't a decision I made. But as a CEO, you take responsibility for everything. You're automatically at fault, because you're the captain of the ship."
First Published: January 2, 2013: 5:23 AM ET
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The rate of workers' payroll taxes, which fund Social Security, has been 4.2% for the past two years. As of Jan. 1, it's back to 6.2%, on the first $113,700 in wages.
That forced Mike Brey, who owns four Hobby Works shops near Washington, D.C., to notify his store managers about the upcoming change during a conference call Monday. He called the experience uncomfortable. "These are the people who can least afford it," Brey said.
Brey said he can't raise compensation to ease the pain. Enduring the recession meant cutting his own salary, firing workers, taking on half a million dollars in debt and raiding his own 401(k).
"Any business that survived the recession did so by digging a big hole," Brey said. "We can't dig any deeper."
Related: How the rich will pay more in 2013
Payroll taxes are key for financing Social Security, and the break of the past two years has forced the government to replenish the funds with borrowed money. The tax break was always meant to be temporary.
Workers earning the national average salary of $41,000 will receive $32 less on every biweekly paycheck. The higher the salary (up to $113,700), the bigger the bite, but business owners say their lower wage employees will feel it most.
Deborah Koenigsberger, who owns the Noir et Blanc fashion store in Manhattan, has yet to have the talk with her only part-time employee, a college student.
"It's going to hurt me to tell her this. She can't afford a decrease," Koenigsberger said. What unnerves her is the feeling that she's lost control as a business owner watching out for her employees.
Keval Mehta, CEO of In-R-Food, a smartphone app developer in Durham, N.C., worried the tax increase will threaten morale. "They don't get paid enough for what they do," Mehta said.
Related: Fiscal cliff's new definition of 'rich'
The 1-year-old company has yet to make a profit, having just launched software that scans grocery products and lists ingredients and nutritional values. His four employees could make upwards of $80,000 a year elsewhere, but three of them earn less than half that. They put in long hours, must work from laptops while on vacation, and no, there isn't a health insurance plan.
All that made it even more difficult to warn them during the holidays about the oncoming pay cut. Mehta promised them he'd make up the lost pay if the company's finances improve next year.
"Currently, they're working on passion. But that can only drive you so much," Mehta said. "I don't like that I don't have control over this. It wasn't a decision I made. But as a CEO, you take responsibility for everything. You're automatically at fault, because you're the captain of the ship."
First Published: January 2, 2013: 5:23 AM ET
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Obama is back in Hawaii
THE OVAL
David Jackson10:44a.m. EST January 2, 2013
(Photo: Gerald Herbert, AP)
The "fiscal cliff" deal is done, so President Obama is back on his Hawaii vacation.
Obama boarded Air Force One at about midnight Tuesday, some 30 minutes after White House remarks saluting the House vote to avert a series of tax hikes and budget cuts known as the fiscal cliff.
"Happy New Year everybody,"' Obama told reporters.
The president landed in Honolulu shortly before 5 a.m. on Wednesday, 10:00 a.m. ET.
Obama and his family began their traditional end-of- the-year vacation on Dec. 21, but the president returned to the White House on Dec. 27 to tend to the fiscal cliff debate. His family stayed back in Hawaii.
The president is scheduled to return to Washington over the weekend.
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David Jackson10:44a.m. EST January 2, 2013
(Photo: Gerald Herbert, AP)
Obama boarded Air Force One at about midnight Tuesday, some 30 minutes after White House remarks saluting the House vote to avert a series of tax hikes and budget cuts known as the fiscal cliff.
"Happy New Year everybody,"' Obama told reporters.
The president landed in Honolulu shortly before 5 a.m. on Wednesday, 10:00 a.m. ET.
Obama and his family began their traditional end-of- the-year vacation on Dec. 21, but the president returned to the White House on Dec. 27 to tend to the fiscal cliff debate. His family stayed back in Hawaii.
The president is scheduled to return to Washington over the weekend.
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January 2013 Holidays
I looked for a calendar of January 2013 and this is what I got:
January 2013 Holidays
Jan 01
New Year’s Day (Around the World)
Circumcision (Christian)
Oshogatsu (or Shogatsu) (Shinto)
Festival of St Basil the Great (Christian)
10th Tevet (Jewish)
Jan 05
Birthday of Guru Gobind Singh (Nanakshahi calendar) (Sikh)
Jan 06
Epiphany (Christian)
Christmas Day (Armenian Orthodox) (Christian)
Theophany (Orthodox) (Christian)
Jan 07
Christmas Day (Ethiopian) (Rastafari)
Christmas Day (Orthodox) (Christian)
Jan 13
St Hilary’s Day (Christian)
Jan 14
Makar Sankranti (Hindu)
Jan 15
Seijin Shiki (Adults’ Day) (Shinto)
Jan 18
Week of Prayer for Christian Unity (start) (Christian)
Jan 20
Inauguration Day (every 4 years after President election year in US)
Jan 21
Martin Luther King Jr.’s Day (US)
St Agnes (Christian)
Jan 24
Milad un Nabi (Birthday of the Prophet Muhammad) (Muslim)
Jan 25
St Paul’s Day (Christian)
Jan 26
Republic Day (India), Australia Day (Australia)
Tu B’Shevat (Jewish )
Jan 28
St Thomas Aquinas (Christian)
Jan 29
Milad un Nabi (Shia) (Muslim)
Jan 31
Birthday of Guru Har Rai (Nanakshahi calendar) (Sikh)
Now that's what I call a pluralistic view of the current month. Welcome to the global village!
World Ecumenism has almost been achieved.
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The character assassination of Hillary Clinton
Kathleen ParkerOpinion Writer
By Kathleen Parker, Published: January 1
The new year began not with a cannonball off the “fiscal cliff” but with an outbreak of conspiratorial cynicism.
This time it’s Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, whose fall and concussion, followed by a blood clot between her brain and skull, has prompted an embarrassment of theories. The gist: That woman will do anything to avoid testifying about Benghazi.
Several commentators on the right opined via Twitter and TV, those most deadly hosts for the parasites of rumor and innuendo, that Clinton was faking her concussion to duck out on her appearance before congressional committees investigating the attack on the U.S. diplomatic compound in Libya that killed Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans.
An independent report published last monthplaced substantial responsibility for the deaths on the State Department. Not only was security at the Benghazi compound weak, relying heavily on local forces with conflicting loyalties, but requests for additional security apparently were ignored or denied.
The sentiment that Clinton might not wish to testify on the matter is not without reason. It is hard to imagine the agony of knowing that one’s lack of vigilance may have contributed to four deaths. But the attacks on Clinton during her illness, essentially attacks on her character, have been cruel and unfair. What must the world think of us?
Clinton, who fainted as a result of dehydration after a bout of flu, hit her head and suffered a concussion, after which a blood clot was discovered. She had to be hospitalized while blood-thinning medications were administered and monitored.
Although her critics backed off once the clot was reported, initial responses ranged from “She’s faking” to demands for proof of her concussion.
One writer demanded her medical records. John Bolton, former ambassador to the United Nations, called Clinton’s affliction a “diplomatic illness” to avoid testifying about Benghazi. Later he suggested that details were skimpy in an effort to protect her potential 2016 presidential run.
“I think it’s the too-cute-by-half approach that’s reflected in the absence of transparency that’s going to end up damaging her and damaging her credibility,” he said on Fox News.
Again, Clinton may well prefer to miss her day before the firing squad, but it is unlikely that doctors or a hospital would assist a secretary of state — or anyone — in concocting a fake affliction.
Besides, you can’t have it every which way. Immediately after the Benghazi attacks, Clinton took full responsibility for the events and was accused by Republicans of falling on her sword to protect President Obama. Now that she’s temporarily indisposed and unable to elaborate on her admitted responsibility, those same critics insist she’s trying to avoid taking personal responsibility.
The viciousness of the pundit class is disheartening and disgusting. And these days everyone’s a pundit. Got an opinion? Why, step right up to the microphone. If you’re “good TV,” you too can be a “contributor.”
Out in the hinterlands, where Americans consume “news” that suits their political proclivities, opinions are formed on the basis of what-he-said. Reputations and lives are ruined on the tines of pitchforks glimmering in the light of torch-bearing mobs. And those are just the “news” shows.
One doesn’t have to be a fan of Hillary Clinton, though a Bloomberg poll says that two-thirds of Americans are, to feel tainted by the relish with which she and many others have been attacked — unfairly and disproportionately. Susan Rice, who was Obama’s favorite to replace Clinton as secretary of state, comes to mind.
But this isn’t a problem only for women or Democrats. The rush to character assassination seems to be our only bipartisan imperative and is a blight on our political system. In this brooding age of superstition and portent, every misspoken word is a lie, every human error a hanging offense.
This is to suggest not that we be naive or credulous but that we seek some balance in our approach to discovery. At the moment, we seem to be ricocheting between hysteria and delusion.
Eventually, Clinton will have to step forward and take her medicine. She is slated to appear before the House Foreign Affairs Committee in mid-January, though the date hasn’t been set. The nation clearly needs answers on what happened in Benghazi, and no doubt Clinton will provide them.
This is not blind faith in a favored politician but respect for a process that relies on accepted rules of order. We owe our representative to the world — which is to say, ourselves — at least this much.
kathleenparker@washpost.com
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Revelation 13: Alexander Scourby
Alpha2OmegaProject
Published on Oct 3, 2012
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage?search=Revelation13&version=KJV
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"I will not have another debate with this Congress about whether or not they should pay the bills"
Obama Praises House Vote on Fiscal Cliff
Published on Jan 1, 2013
President Obama spoke shortly after the House passed a deal to avert the "fiscal cliff" tax increases and spending cuts. He said the deal is "just one step in a broader effort."
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Tuesday, January 01, 2013
Exo-Vaticana, Part 1
By Thomas R. Horn
January 1, 2013
NewsWithViews.com
Petrus Romanus, PROJECT LUCIFER, and the Vatican's astonishing exo-theological plan for the arrival of an alien savior. You only think you know what's coming...
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It was approximately 11: AM (PST) as we rounded the final bend and saw just ahead the towering edifices housing the Large Binocular Telescope (LBT), an optical telescope for astronomy and currently one of the world’s most advanced systems. Near it was the Submillimeter Telescope (SMT) or as it is also known, the Heinrich Hertz Submillimeter Telescope building, a “state-of-the-art single-dish radio telescope for observations in the sub-millimeter wavelength range… the most accurate radio telescope ever built.” [2] And last but not least about a block away from them we observed our primary reason for trudging to the top of this peak—the Vatican Advanced Technology Telescope or VATT.
Facebook, Twitter and other social media sites are an elaborate CIA spying scheme
Friday, December 28, 2012 by: Ethan A. Huff, staff writer
(NaturalNews) They are convenient, relatively easy to use, and help millions of people around the world stay connected with family and friends, at least digitally. But social media portals like Facebook and Twitter are increasingly being exposed as what appear to be bait-and-switch spying networks funded, and potentially even run covertly, by theCentral Intelligence Agency (CIA) and other government agencies. And this is all apparently being done for the purpose of gathering real-time data on the private lives of individuals willing to freely post such information for the world to see.
It is something that serious investigative journalists and skeptics alike have suspected for years, especially as sites like Facebook have gradually and quietly eliminated users' access to the privacy controls that once kept their information "classified" by default. Today, Facebook is literally an open book of information that is freely available not only to the rest of the internet, but also to numerous government agencies that many years ago invested millions of dollars to make social networking sites like Facebook what they are today.
Venture capital firm that ensured Facebook's success linked to CIA front groupWhen Facebook was first getting off its feet, it turns out, the company received a huge cash injection from a venture capital firm known as Accel Partners. According to reports, Accel's head, James Breyer, was a former chairman at National Venture Capital Association, where he served on the board with Gilman Louie, the CEO of another venture capital group known as In-Q-Tel.
According to In-Q-Tel's "Mission" page, the group, which invested nearly $13 million during Facebook's early days, was first launched in 1999 as a catalyst for keeping the CIA up-to-date with the latest information-gathering technologies. Not surprisingly, the primary purpose of In-Q-Tel is to "build relationships with technology startups outside the reach of the Intelligence Community," and partner with private sector groups who are willing to "co-invest in [its] portfolio companies." (http://www.iqt.org/about/mission.html)
If you connect the dots here, it becomes clear that Breyer's expertise is in connecting the CIA with private enterprises like Facebook and Twitter that focus on gathering information, whether it be for marketing or some other purpose. And it appears as though the CIA front group In-Q-Tel saw a unique opportunity to use newfangled social media to gather intelligence in a completely new way, without actually having to gather it at all, at least in the traditional sense.
"We have to look at where the seed money came for these social networks," explained investigative journalist Wayne Madsen to RT back in 2011 about the CIA connection to social media. "We do know that the Central Intelligence Agency through In-Q-Tel, its venture capital firm, provided a lot of seed money for many of these companies that developed these social networking operations and programs. So people have to be aware that when they put personal information online, they're basically doing the CIA's job for them." (http://youtu.be/gAPcG29Mf70)
If you use social media, Big Brother may be watching youThe moral of the story here is that nothing on the internet is private or sacred, especially when it is posted on social media. You can be sure that Big Brother is actively monitoring the activities of social media users continuously, and compiling this data for total control purposes. The good news; however, is that you always have the option to completely delete, not just deactivate, your Facebook account:https://www.facebook.com/help/delete_account
Be sure to also check out this fascinating diagram called "The Evolution of Privacy on Facebook," keeping in mind that things have only gotten worse since 2010 when the image was last updated. (http://mattmckeon.com/facebook-privacy/)
Sources for this article include:
http://mattmckeon.com/facebook-privacy/
Source: http://www.naturalnews.com/038491_social_media_CIA_spying.html#ixzz2Ggk55GJw
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