Who's running the show on this Planet?

Matthew 4:8
Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them;



Oh, that explains a lot.

Another Example of Misinformation - The Muslim Prayer Cloth

This is a pretty simple example:



found here:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=645986065452787&set=a.496708133713915.122638.100001241987814&type=1&theater

Bush:


Nixon:


Johnson:



and Ford:


more here:
http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/photos/ovaloffice.asp

and here:
http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/o/Obama-East-Room-Flag-Flap.htm#.U4clEOZDtq8

and here:
http://wafflesatnoon.com/obama-prayer-curtain/


The people who love Reagan, didn't listen to him:

Exponential Growth in Technology

The Good:

All Technology, tools, help us do more.

The Evil:

We've Evolved from some soupy substance millions of years ago.




You see, they operate on the following:

Genesis 3:22
And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:

Transhumanism Update "Cyberwarfare" - 05.23.2014

Cyberwarfare
Cyberwarfare is politically motivated hacking to conduct sabotage and espionage. It is a form of information warfare sometimes seen as analogous to conventional warfare.[1]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberwarfare

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Darpa Is Weaponizing Oculus Rift for Cyberwar
BY ANDY GREENBERG   05.23.14  |   6:30 AM 


A Darpa contractor showing off the Oculus Rift cyberwar simulation at the Pentagon’s Darpa Demo Day. Photo: Andy Greenberg/WIRED

For the last two years, Darpa has been working to make waging cyberwar as easy as playing a video game. Now, like so many other games, it’s about to get a lot more in-your-face.

At the Pentagon Wednesday, the armed forces’ far-out research branch known as the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency showed off its latest demos for Plan X, a long-gestating software platform designed to unify digital attack and defense tools into a single, easy-to-use interface for American military hackers. And for the last few months, that program has had a new toy: The agency is experimenting with using the Oculus Rift virtual-reality headset to give cyberwarriors a new way to visualize three-dimensional network simulations–in some cases with the goal of better targeting them for attack.

“You’re not in a two-dimensional view, so you can look around the data. You look to your left, look to your right, and see different subnets of information,” Darpa’s Plan X program manager Frank Pound told WIRED in an interview. “With the Oculus you have that immersive environment. It’s like you’re swimming in the internet.”

In its demo setup, complete with two motion-sensing Razer Hydra controllers for navigation, the user does more than swim. As captured in the video below showing an Oculus user’s view, Darpa’s proof-of-concept begins with a collection of “missions” to choose from, each of which is represented by a spherical network of computers. Select one, and you’re presented with a planned series of actions to carry out–like scanning a certain network or probing target endpoints for vulnerabilities–and a collection of tools to use, represented by different abstract icons. Then you’re thrown into the network to carry out the mission, while the enemy launches attacks like distributed-denial-of-service bombardments back at the user.

If all of that seems more than a little contrived, Pound admits that the Oculus demo is only a “notional” proof-of-concept, created by the San Francisco design firm Frog Design and the Austin-based simulation software company Intific. But Darpa is serious about integrating the virtual-reality headset into its plans; It’s already shown the Oculus to Congress and to the Pentagon’s Joint Chief of Staffs in private demonstrations, and will be experimenting further with the second developer version of the device set to be released later this summer.

If Plan X’s Oculus software ever reaches the eyeballs of actual soldiers–a development that Darpa says is still years away–Pound doesn’t deny that the interface would be used for actual offensive hacking as well as defense and reconnaissance. Like the rest of Plan X, he says it’s meant to be a simpler and more intuitive way for the U.S. Cyber Command and other American military hackers to visualize everything they do in their cyberwar operations. “Think of Plan X like an aircraft carrier,” says Pound. “It can carry any weapon system or capability.”

That sort of admission will no doubt set off alarm bells for critics of the American military’s increasingly aggressive posture on the Internet. The revelation in 2012 that the United States created the Iran-targeted Stuxnet malware and a year of Edward Snowden’s leaks have already demonstrated that the NSA engages in more advanced cyberattack operations than practically any country on the planet. Enabling American hackers to launch those attacks with a tool that’s literally designed for video games could be seen as encouraging a brazen attitude towards cyberwar, disconnecting it from the reality of its consequences.

But Darpa’s Pound counters that safeguards against reckless hacking will be built into Plan X, and that it may actually reduce collateral damage from military cyberattacks by allowing soldiers to better understand the networks they’re attacking.

“Say we want to turn out the lights in some place where we have boots on the ground, but it’s on a subnet connected to a hospital,” Pound says. “We want to war-game that kind of situation with high assurance, to be able to tell a commander that you can use this capability in this manner and you’ll have a 99.99% chance of not failing…The Oculus works hand-in-hand with that war-gaming technology.”


Another Plan X demo using a 52-inch touchscreen interface. Photo: Andy Greenberg/WIRED

Darpa’s Plan X, a massive project that includes contractor giants like Raytheon BBN and Northrup Grumman, is designed to produce new interfaces that make cyberwar operations accessible to its growing number of less-technical cybersecurity recruits. After all, the Pentagon is currently working to hire thousands of digital warriors to fill out its ranks, and many of them may not be familiar with using a command line, let alone writing code. “The genre of people that Cyber Command are working to recruit are fresh out of high school and college,” says Pound. “They’re going to grow up with Oculus on their head. We want to adapt to provide that kind of interface.”

Plan X is set to run through 2017, and it’s unlikely that its Oculus software or any other interface will be deployed before then. By the time it is implemented, Pound admits, Oculus may have already evolved into something very different. In fact, he says Darpa has already been briefed on new features of upcoming Oculus devices that he declined to describe.

But Darpa, which over the last several decades took the lead on the developing technologies like the internet, GPS, and unmanned aerial vehicles, has always been tasked with focusing on the future more than the present. Pound says experimenting with Oculus now is meant to prepare the agency for whatever it becomes. “It’s Darpa’s charter to take these cutting edge technologies and see how they apply to military operations,” he says. “I can’t predict what the Oculus will look like in a few years. But this is Darpa. We’ll be ready to take it on.”

here:
http://www.wired.com/2014/05/darpa-is-using-oculus-rift-to-prep-for-cyberwar/

Did NBC Claim All Americans Will Be Implanted With Microchips For Obamacare?

Short answer, No.

Long answer:

This is what happens when "Patriots" decide that they want to just believe something.

NBC Claims All Americans Will Be Implanted With Microchips For Obamacare

Recently, NBC predicted that in 2017, we will all be tagged with microchip, implanted to help identify individuals immediately. According to the report, the technology is used to answer one question, “Am I who I say I am?”

Some worry, however, that the RFID Microchip will give the government too much power, allowing them to track every move. In some states, like Virginia, legislation is in process to stop his from happening.

The report also reveals an RFID Brain Chip that has been developed and is currently being tested on several humans.

What do you think? Is this wrong?

found on this doodoo site:
http://theuspatriot.com/2014/04/28/nbc-claims-all-americans-will-be-implanted-with-microchips-for-obamacare/

I've already cracked open the lie concerning the new health care law:
"RFID implant chip by 03/23/2013 proven and cracked open - 02.09.2013"

I'll be reposting this to my blog.

For now, I'll only show you how this recent article is clearly false.
Notice, this really sources nothing.

That MSNBC report has nothing do with "Obamacare", and its been news since 2007.

link was posted here:

posted on May, 15 2007 @ 08:26 PM
http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread282732/pg1

here's the report from 2007:
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/18664322/ns/nbc_nightly_news_with_brian_williams/t/what-will-world-look/#.U39FU3VdXs0

this from 2004:
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/6237364/ns/health-health_care/t/fda-approves-computer-chip-humans/#.U39EGHVdXs0

So, no, the lie about "obamacare" being a tool for the mark is a lie.

Oh, there is one video being re-uploaded concerning RFID:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YJsxMcAJoA

However, it does not mention the health care, I know because I originally downloaded it years ago, it's in my video archive.

read my old email concerning this, here:
"RFID implant chip by 03/23/2013 proven and cracked open"
http://globalistnews.blogspot.com/2014/05/rfid-implant-chip-by-03232013-proven.html

RFID implant chip by 03/23/2013 proven and cracked open

There's an email being sent to out, a chain letter:

"Are you ready to have your RFID Chip Implanted? 3/23/2013 is your date!"

its even found here:

Obamacare Micro Chip Implant Coming March 23, 2013
Friday, February 8, 2013 6:50
http://beforeitsnews.com/alternative/2013/02/obamacare-micro-chip-implant-coming-march-23-2013-2559218.html

I have already covered this before, so while digging online to update my research, I found an interesting break down of the truth on this.

I've cleaned up his article, to make it readable.

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Debunked: Obamacare RFID Chip Implant Law Hoax

There's a hoax going around that the health care reform act HR3200 (The Affordable Care Act, aka "Obamacare") requires everyone to get a chip implanted in their body.

The bottom line is:

The proposed law did not require anyone to get anything implanted
It just created a national registry of a huge of range of medical devices from pacemakers to dental implants
The intent of the registry was to collect statistics on how safe and effective the devices are
HR3200 is not the bill that passed. That's HR 3590, which does not have the registry.

An implantable RFID chip is just one example of a class II implantable medical device. Others include:
http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/1681045-overview

    percutaneous catheters
    vascular graft prostheses
    bone-conduction hearing aids
    tympanostomy tubes
    gastrointestinal tubes
    implantable staples
    long-term intravascular catheters
    intracranial pressure monitor devices
    peripheral nerve stimulators for pain relief
    eye sphere implants
    intramedullary fixation rods
    joint prostheses

Here's the original bill (which did not ever become law):

http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-111hr3200ih/pdf/BILLS-111hr3200ih.pdf

And here's what it says:

SEC. 2521. NATIONAL MEDICAL DEVICE REGISTRY.
[...]
‘‘(g)(1) The Secretary shall establish a national medical device registry (in this subsection referred to as the ‘registry’) to facilitate analysis of postmarket safety and outcomes data on each device that—
‘‘(A) is or has been used in or on a patient; and
‘‘(B) is—
‘‘(i) a class III device; or
‘‘(ii) a class II device that is implantable, life-supporting, or life-sustaining
There's a little more about administrative things, but the above is the entirety of what the conspiracy promoters base their theory on. They get away with it in part because the language of the bill is rather complex and difficult to read, so they can basically make up whatever interpretation they like, and many of their readers will be fooled.

They then build upon this by claiming that a Class II device is a

"implantable radiofrequency transponder system for patient identification and health information."

When actually the three classes of medical devices have nothing to do with what the devices are, but are to do with how much they are regulated to ensure safety. For example:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_device#United_States

Examples of Class III devices include implantable pacemaker, pulse generators, HIV diagnostic tests, automated external defibrillators, and endosseous implants.

Examples of Class II devices include powered wheelchairs, infusion pumps, and surgical drapes.

Examples of Class I devices include elastic bandages, examination gloves, and hand-held surgical instruments.

So the law simply creates a registry for this HUGE range of different medical devices.

Implantable RFID chips would be covered under the law, but that's simply because they are one of thousands of devices that are classified as Type III or Type II implantable.

It's not a law, and even if it was, it no more mandates you get a chip implanted than it mandates you get a hip replacement.

This has also been quite well debunked over on Snopes:
http://www.snopes.com/politics/medical/microchip.asp

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I found this guys break-down here:
http://metabunk.org/threads/497-Debunked-Obamacare-RFID-Chip-Implant-Law-Hoax

========================= my research is found below

Health care reform in the United States

"Health care reform in the United States has a long history. This article covers two federal statutes enacted in 2010: the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), signed March 23, 2010,[1][2] and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 (H.R. 4872), which amended the PPACA and became law on March 30."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_care_reform_in_the_United_States

Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Senate bill - H.R. 3590)
http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-111hr3590eas/pdf/BILLS-111hr3590eas.pdf

Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 (H.R. 4872)
http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-111hr4872rh/pdf/BILLS-111hr4872rh.pdf

The only thing in this bill that is going to break this nation, is that fact that you will have to obtain some form of health insurance.

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The Latest Healthcare Rumor: Microchip Implants
September 8, 2009 - by Donny Shaw

There’s a new rumor going around about the Democrats’ healthcare bill that’s so absurd and off-base that I hesitate to even bring it up here in order to debunk it. The rumor, which is being spread mostly in online forums and hasn’t yet received any kind of validation from a national political figure, is that the bill would require all Americans to get a microchip embedded in their body so the government can track them.

Or, at least, I think that’s what they are claiming. I’ve seen a few variations, including claims that everyone would need to get the microchips, only people who enroll in the public option would have to get it, and that the bill doesn’t require the implants, but it leaves it open to the government to decide after it is passed if they want to require them. You can view forum threads on the topic here, here, here and here, for examples. The rumor first came to my attention when someone wrote into the OpenCongress Facebook group asking for information on it.

The portion of text people have been referencing to support their claims can be read here, in Title V, Subtitle C – “National Medical Device Registry.” If you read the actual bill text, it’s very clear that this microchip rumor is just completely made up.

What this section of the bill actually does is call on the Secretary of Health and Human Services to “establish a national medical device registry to facilitate analysis of post-market safety and outcomes data” on all Class III medical devices and all “implantable, life-supporting, or life-sustaining” Class II medical devices that have been used on a patient. In other words, it establishes a registry designed to gather data on the effectiveness and safety of the most highly-regulated medical devices.

more here:
http://www.opencongress.org/articles/view/1202-The-Latest-Healthcare-Rumor-Microchip-Implants

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Guidance for Industry and FDA Staff - Class II Special Controls Guidance Document: Implantable Radiofrequency Transponder System for Patient Identification and Health Information
Document issued on: December 10, 2004
http://www.fda.gov/MedicalDevices/DeviceRegulationandGuidance/GuidanceDocuments/ucm072141.htm

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Health Law Myths: Outside The Realm Of Reality
by Julie Rovner

September 3, 2010

With a law as long and as complex as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, it's natural people are still a little confused about what it does and doesn't do. But some things being said or circulated on the Internet about the health law are well outside the realm of reality.

It turns out, though, that many of these more outlandish claims have at least some basis in truth. Here are some of the more popular myths about the law and the fact that gave rise to them.

    The law requires people who want public health insurance to be implanted with a microchip.
    The law creates a new "private army" for President Obama.
    The law requires the hiring of 16,500 new, armed Internal Revenue Service Agents.
    The law requires you to begin to paying taxes on your health insurance next year.
    The law dictates what you can and can't eat.
    The law requires hospitals to fire obese employees.

the rumors and other non-sense, here:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129581493

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Learn if a Medical Device Has Been Cleared by FDA for Marketing

Before you begin researching the status of a medical device, you should first know some general information that will assist you in your search.

The Medical Device Amendments of 1976 to the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act established three regulatory classes for medical devices. The three classes are based on the degree of control necessary to assure the various types of devices are safe and effective.

Class I – These devices present minimal potential for harm to the user and are often simpler in design than Class II or Class III devices. Examples include enema kits and elastic bandages. 47% of medical devices fall under this category and 95% of these are exempt from the regulatory process.

Class II – Most medical devices are considered Class II devices. Examples of Class II devices include powered wheelchairs and some pregnancy test kits. 43% of medical devices fall under this category.

----> Class III – These devices usually sustain or support life, are implanted, or present potential unreasonable risk of illness or injury. Examples of Class III devices include implantable pacemakers and breast implants. 10% of medical devices fall under this category.

Exempt – If a device falls into a generic category of exempted Class I devices, a premarket notification application and FDA clearance is not required before marketing the device in the U.S. However, the manufacturer is required to register their establishment and list their generic product with FDA. Examples of exempt devices are manual stethoscopes, mercury thermometers and bedpans.

http://www.fda.gov/medicaldevices/resourcesforyou/consumers/ucm142523.htm

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U.S. Health Reform Plan Does Not Call for RFID Tracking
Posted By Mark Roberti, 12.08.2009

I did a search for "Sub Title C-11 Sec:2521" on Google, and found many posts essentially saying the same thing. I also found the text of both the House bill and the Senate bill, and there is no "Sub Title C-11 Sec:2521."

There is, however, a section on a national medical device registry (Sub Title C, Section 2561), which reads:

"The Secretary shall establish a national medical device registry (in this subsection referred to as the 'registry') to facilitate analysis of postmarket safety and outcomes data on each device that (a) is or has been used in or on a patient; and (b) is...a device that is implantable, life supporting or life-sustaining."

So basically, the bill put forth by the U.S. House of Representatives wants to track the results of these devices and link them to a registry so a doctor looking to implant a device in a patient can check whether it actually worked in previous patients who received the device. There is no mention of RFID, and no mention of tracking individuals who receive the device.

more here:
http://www.rfidjournal.com/blog/entry/7258

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in other news....

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Britain passes law requiring that dogs get microchips by 2016
Adario StrangeThursday, February 7, 2013 - 12:24pm



In the U.S., inserting a microchip into your beloved pet as a means to keep track of it is still viewed as something of a luxury usually employed by only the most devoted pet owners. But now a new law in the U.K. will make the practice of chipping your dog a requirement by 2016.

The U.K.-government initiative came about as a means to control the exploding number of stray dogs on the nation's streets, which number somewhere in the range of 110,000. According to the government's figures, roughly 60 percent of the nation's pet dogs are already carrying chip implants. The chip, which is about the size of a grain of rice, is generally implanted somewhere on the back of the neck or between the shoulders of the pet and files the animal in a national database.

After the new law goes into effect, pet owners who don't chip and register their dogs will face the possibility of a fine of up to $785. Interestingly, the law even accounts for possible changes in pet ownership by requiring that the chip's registration details be changed to reflect the new owner's details upon transfer, essentially making owning a pet in the U.K. akin to owning a car.

Of course, some view these new chipping rules as a precursor to the eventual mandatory chipping of humans at birth, and just last year an email hoax spread throughout the U.S. promoting the false notion that Obamacare somehow included mandatory chipping of humans.

Despite the seemingly outlandish nature of such urban myths, as microchip implants become ever more useful, it's worth considering what a future in which similar chipping laws for humans are mandatory, or perhaps even popular and voluntary, might look like. DARPA has already revealed plans to implant soldiers with diagnostic nanochip implants.

more here:
http://www.dvice.com/2013-2-7/britain-passes-law-requiring-dogs-get-microchips-2016

source:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2013/feb/06/dogs-england-microchipped-2016

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Why did I send this out?
Because I've seen over the past few years, a lot of misinformation making it into our church.
No way I'm sitting quite on this one.

I mean really.

Is the IRS scandal Real Tyranny?

I am in no way supporting pot smoking, apply the context.
The only thing happening with the IRS thing is, the law states that no political group should receive a tax exemptions.

read the law:

501(c)(4)

501(c)(4) organizations are generally civic leagues and other corporations operated exclusively for the promotion of "social welfare", such as civics and civics issues, or local associations of employees with membership limited to a designated company or people in a particular municipality or neighborhood, and with net earnings devoted exclusively to charitable, educational, or recreational purposes.[35] An organization is operated exclusively for the promotion of social welfare if it is primarily engaged in promoting the common good and general welfare of the people of the community.[36]

more here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/501%28c%29_organization#501.28c.29.284.29

So technically, they should have been denied, but were approved.

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msnbc - four times as many blacks are arrested for pot more than whites - real tyranny


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Also:

Conservative groups testify of harassment by IRS

Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.), an icon of the civil rights movement, also noted that the IRS had been led by Republican appointees for the past decade. He asked “where was the outrage” when progressive groups and organizations like the NAACP were targeted during the Bush administration.

more here:
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-conservative-groups-irs-harassment-20130604,0,1153245.story

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Democrats offer new evidence that IRS targeted progressive groups
By Josh Hicks, Published: July 12 at 6:00 am



Cliff Owen/AP – Reps. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) and Elijah Cummings (D-Md.).

The House Oversight committee’s top Democrat on Friday will release new evidence that the Internal Revenue Service targeted both progressive and conservative groups for extra scrutiny during the 2010 and 2012 election cycles.

Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) said in a draft letter to committee chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif) that congressional investigators have discovered training materials from an July 2010 “Screening Workshop” that prove IRS agents were told to be on the lookout for groups from both sides of the political spectrum.

A PowerPoint presentation from the workshop told IRS processors to screen for names that look like “tea party,” “patriots,” ” 9/12 Project,” and “progressive.” It noted that such groups ”may be more than 50% political,” which could disqualify them from tax-exempt status.

Minutes from the training session show that the IRS also instructed agents who had doubts about those groups to “err on the side of caution and transfer to 7822,” an IRS office in Cincinnati that reviewed applications for tax-exemption.

An audit by IRS inspector general J. Russell George found that the agency inappropriately targeted groups based on ideology rather than looking for politically neutral signs of campaign activity.

all source info and more, here:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/federal-eye/wp/2013/07/12/democrats-offer-new-evidence-that-irs-targeted-progressive-groups/

The only person in the media covering this the correct way, was this this guy:

Lawrence O'Donnell

http://tv.msnbc.com/2013/05/13/odonnell-the-real-irs-scandal-happened-in-1959/

http://tv.msnbc.com/2013/05/16/odonnell-reminds-politicians-of-the-real-irs-scandal/

http://tv.msnbc.com/2013/06/25/lawrence-odonnell-urges-viewers-to-sign-irs-petition-on-white-house-website/

http://tv.msnbc.com/2013/07/08/odonnell-the-washington-media-continues-to-fail-in-its-coverage-of-the-irs-non-scandal/

http://tv.msnbc.com/2013/06/12/issa-attacks-cummings-instead-of-releasing-irs-transcripts/

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The real scandal is no one was supposed to receive any kind of 501(c)4 tax break for being political.

I think this left/right paradigm is about to explode, destroying the gop, and leaving us with an obvious socialist party.

VA hospital scandal is not a new scandal

It's an old distraction, watch the following video:

Rachel Maddow 05/21/14
Chronic VA problems lost in lip service to vets
Rachel Maddow reports on the long history of problems veterans have had with the V.A. and wonders if it’s a question of resources or leadership or something else as Washington flails in outrage.
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/watch/lip-service-to-vets-misses-systemic-problems-262858819758


FALSE, you did vote for them:



TRUE, you've taken and you like it:



All wars lead to World Government.

A World without Borders - "If you don't have everybody, you really have nobody" -- Thomas Friedman

The End of Nation States May Enhance Humanity
 
Harry J. Bentham
H+ Mag.

Posted: Feb 6, 2014



Perhaps parallel to the physical enhancement of human ability and longevity through technology, enhancements to civilization must also have cultural and political forms. By far the most important of these could be the neglect and final dissolution of borders and “nations”.

An encouraging prediction repeatedly nodded towards by futurists and scientific figures of all schools has been the end of the nation-state as the default regime. This departure from barriers and disparities is certainly features in the promises of revolutionary new technologies.

For example:

We are moving toward a borderless world in which electrons and electromagnetic waves will carry digitized information here, there and everywhere. Borne upon those waves of information, life will move at the speed of light. (J. Craig Venter)

The interpretation that the world is getting more open and less hospitable to narrow national interests is increasingly accepted, and has been consistently supplied as a very cogent and useful theory by top sociologist Immanuel Wallerstein, e.g. in Utopistics(1998). It must be specified that this particular theory of the nation-state’s demise is based on history, with the observation that the French Revolution disseminated most modern assumptions about legitimate political action and authority.

The construction of “peoples” and “nations” to support the designs of governments and their claims to territory since the French Revolution has been commonplace, in accord with the expectations created by this defining political event. Perhaps a crueler way of putting it would be that nation-states and the beliefs legitimizing them are similarly fictive to religions, as easily offended by insults to their idols, and altogether as restrictive an influence on human advancement and freedom.

Of course, the main objections to fanatical nation-states have focused on their responsibility for causing devastating wars. However, the analysis of declining state legitimacy needs not be part of an emotional plea for an end to war. It is the observation that the physics and technologies of current civilization, as a result of them being favorable to transparency, freedom of expression and movement, eliminate any further need for the state to serve the role it once occupied.

Migration, resulting from the development of better means of transport and easier connections across the world, is a “disintegrating” influence on modern nation-states. As countries stretch the definition of citizenship to accommodate increasing migrant populations, citizenship is destined to lose its function of excluding people. With this crisis, it is destined to extinguish itself as a means of privileging people.

It is important to note that the whole idea of citizenship has been about supplying privileges, creating a dichotomy of citizen and non-citizen as a means of exclusion. As rhetorically effective as the description “citizen of the world” sounds, it could never serve any political or legal purpose and would quickly be dissolved (like a prize or honor being awarded to everyone at birth). This makes it impossible that any concept of citizenship could survive the elimination of nation-states in favor of the inclusion of the whole human family in a larger democratic order.

The revelation that the decisive rejection of nation-state regimes is a fact of the political future is the result of strong scholarly observations of history and politics. Due to this validation, the rejection of nation-state legitimacy and moral authority in favor of human conscience can be expected to become more and more commonplace in political discourse.

Political viewpoints that reject the legitimacy of nation-states, like my columns republished in Flagless: Accepting the End of Nations, aim to contribute to the discussion by encouraging steady and nuanced departures from nation-state beliefs and prejudices. The primary benefits of this political change that readers are often drawn to are the likely immense refinements of human rights, democracy and equality into more meaningful forms that would be possible without the disgraced framework of nation-states. As the discourse on the inexorable weaknesses of nation-state regimes under the new pressures of modernity becomes popularized, more valuable voices may begin to conceive of possible alternative regimes to the nation-state.



When taking an open-minded stance on the future, one must be prepared to let go of what is familiar. We must even be prepared to let go of what is reassuring in favor of what is strange, while at the same time being cognizant of any risks to society involved in long-term change. As transhumanism entails the view that there is something else possible beyond being “human”, I hold that it is similarly prescient to prepare to let go of the flags and myths of “nations”.

Ideally, no post-human scenario will include the survival of “nations” and the myths they have required to gain support and credibility. For this reason, encouragement of a political vision divorced from archaic ideas about national legitimacy and citizenship may be an indispensable part of humanity’s offer to transform.

found here:
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/bentham20140206

sources:

Utopistics by Immanuel Wallerstein (1998) – Book Review
· September 4, 2013
AUTHOR: HARRY J. BENTHAM
http://hplusmagazine.com/2013/09/04/utopistics-by-immanuel-wallerstein-1998-book-review/

Utopistics: Or Historical Choices of the Twenty-First Century Paperback
by Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein
http://www.amazon.com/Utopistics-Historical-Choices-Twenty-First-Century/dp/1565844572

The Inevitable Demise of the Nation-State
by Harry J. Bentham / January 28th, 2014
http://dissidentvoice.org/2014/01/the-inevitable-demise-of-the-nation-state/

Flagless: Accepting the End of Nations [Kindle Edition]
Harry J. Bentham
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00I30BM6A

Relevant video:

A 375+ Year Agenda

What articles such as this will not tell you, is that the elite used Africans who became Black Americans, to move the Globalist Agenda forward.




trailer:

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10152476761723487

comments:
https://www.facebook.com/TheAtlantic/photos/a.416500458486.209033.29259828486/10152487993133487/?type=1


The only thing that frustrates me about slavery, is the historical excuses.

For example.

Saying that %5 owned slaves.
Africans were not the only slaves.
Africans also owned slaves.

Is smooth way of sugar coating the issue.

================== like this article:

Six inconvenient truths about the U.S. and slavery
Michael Medved | Sep 26, 2007

1.    SLAVERY WAS AN ANCIENT AND UNIVERSAL INSTITUTION, NOT A DISTINCTIVELY AMERICAN INNOVATION.

2.    SLAVERY EXISTED ONLY BRIEFLY, AND IN LIMITED LOCALES, IN THE HISTORY OF THE REPUBLIC – INVOLVING ONLY A TINY PERCENTAGE OF THE ANCESTORS OF TODAY’S AMERICANS.

3.    THOUGH BRUTAL, SLAVERY WASN’T GENOCIDAL: LIVE SLAVES WERE VALUABLE BUT DEAD CAPTIVES BROUGHT NO PROFIT.

4.    IT’S NOT TRUE THAT THE U.S. BECAME A WEALTHY NATION THROUGH THE ABUSE OF SLAVE LABOR: THE MOST PROSPEROUS STATES IN THE COUNTRY WERE THOSE THAT FIRST FREED THEIR SLAVES.

5.    WHILE AMERICA DESERVES NO UNIQUE BLAME FOR THE EXISTENCE OF SLAVERY, THE UNITED STATES MERITS SPECIAL CREDIT FOR ITS RAPID ABOLITION.

6.    THERE IS NO REASON TO BELIEVE THAT TODAY’S AFRICAN-AMERICANS WOULD BE BETTER OFF IF THEIR ANCESTORS HAD REMAINED BEHIND IN AFRICA.

read the article that misses the point, here:
http://townhall.com/columnists/michaelmedved/2007/09/26/six_inconvenient_truths_about_the_us_and_slavery/page/full

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1) By the above logic, slavery is OK, and it should not matter that the elite want to enslave us, because it's an old tradition, right?

2) Doesn't matter how long it was, it's still messed up.


3) Slaves were property and bred like horses, next.


4) The US became wealthy after two world Wars, think about that for a moment.

5) Rapid, really?

6) ...



The race of the owner does not matter, slavery should not have happened in a nation where people fled to be free.

Another thing that cracks me up about the debate on slavery in this country is the idea that it was the Democrats that created all of these things.

BREAKING NEWS:



There the Left and Right do not exist, only Globalist building infrastructure for World Goverment, and they were around before America was even founded.

That is the Truth, whether we like it or not.
They are all lying to you.

Also, reparations would be a waste of time at this point.
I mean really.

cashless society update - 05.20.2013

Harvard Historian Nancy Koehn On The Cashless Society
By BOSTON PUBLIC RADIO STAFF
4:49 PM TUE MAY 20, 2014



A recent article in The New York Times looks at how retailers have figured out how customers can pay for their goods without using cash, a credit card, or a debit card.  In Starbucks' case, the company has designed an app that lets customers use their phone by loading money onto a Starbucks rewards card.  Customers don't have to worry about a data breach.  Starbucks doesn't have to worry about paying exorbitant processing fees.

This is just one example of how we're evolving into a cashless society.

In his book The End of Money, journalist David Wolman gets by for an entire year without using cash. At the end of his experiment he certainly seems to think that cash--not necessarily money--could be the root of all evil.

"Lately it seems like the only people who carry cash are aspiring terrorists, corrupt government officials, drug traffickers, bank robbers, tax evaders, counterfeiters and rich college kids buying little bags of marijuana. 

Although predictions about the end of cash are as old as credit cards, a number of developments are ganging up on physical money like never before: mistrust of national currencies, novel payment tools, anxiety about government debt, the triumph of mobile phones, innovative alternative currencies, environmental concerns and growing evidence that cash is most harmful to the billions of people who have so little of it.

 The poorer you are, the higher the costs and risks of cash become. Anyone you know can beg you for a few bucks or steal the hard-earned money that you're trying to save to pay your children's school fees. A fire or natural disaster can obliterate your meager savings. And you may have to spend days riding buses and walking to the countryside to deliver cash to, or retrieve it from, a relative. Even if a wire service is accessible, that means paying steep service fees."

more here:
http://wgbhnews.org/post/harvard-historian-nancy-koehn-cashless-society

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Does a cashless society mean less crime
AAP – Mon, May 19, 2014 2:01 PM AEST

We're buying more stuff with keystrokes and plastic instead of cash these days. Now comes evidence that our cash-light ways may be foiling crime.

Researchers at the University of Missouri-St Louis (UM-St Louis) have looked at what happened when Missouri switched from handing out welfare cheques to depositing welfare on debit cards. Burglary, larceny and assault went down, they found. Robbery may have fallen, too, although there weren't enough robberies in the sample to draw a firm conclusion.

To understand why, put yourself in the shoes of a crook.

You can swipe the purse of a well-dressed woman downtown. You'll get a couple of credit or debit cards and a little cash. The typical American carries just $US15, according to a Tufts University survey.

The cash is nice, but the credit card is problematic. Credit cards don't sell for much on the street, said criminologist Richard Wright of UM-St Louis. Try to use a stolen card in a convenience store, and your picture will be on a video camera. Cards stop working when the victim reports the theft.

On the other hand, you could go to a poor neighbourhood and lurk around at a cheque cashing shop when a hotel maid shows up with her pay cheque. Snatch that purse and you'll get no plastic, but more real money.

Cash is what the thief wants most. His drug dealer doesn't take a credit card. So putting welfare on debit cards makes the recipient a less attractive target.

Crime in the US has been trending down for a quarter of a century. There are many possible reasons: more police on the streets, smarter policing, putting more criminals in prison, the end of the crack epidemic 20 years ago, demographic shifts.

Economist Steven Levitt of "Freakonomics" fame stirs controversy by suggesting that legalising abortion helped lower crime - fewer unwanted children grew up to be criminals.

more here:
https://au.finance.yahoo.com/news/does-cashless-society-mean-less-040107166.html

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America Moving Toward a Cashless Society
Monday, May 19, 2014

America is moving slowly but surely toward a cashless society as businesses are coming up with easier ways for people to pay electronically.

The New York Times reports that banks and retailers are trying to develop new payment systems using cell phones, and they're working on ways to protect customers' personal information.

"If we move to a truly cashless society, it won't be much of an adjustment for most Americans," Greg McBride, Bankrate's Chief Financial Analyst, said.

video here:
http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/finance/2014/May/America-Moving-Toward-a-Cashless-Society/

================= more here:

8 in 10 Americans have less than $50 on them
A new survey shows Americans' declining reliance on cash for transactions.
By MSN Money Partner Thu 12:48 PM



the results here:
http://money.msn.com/saving-money-tips/post--8-in-10-americans-have-less-than-dollar50-on-them

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Take a look at this:

Tuesday, May 20, 2014, 05:44 am PT (08:44 am ET)
Morgan Stanley predicts Apple will incorporate NFC into future iPhone for mobile payments
By Neil Hughes

While prognosticators have given failed forecasts for years predicting Apple will add near-field communications technology to the iPhone for touch-less mobile payments, investment firm Morgan Stanley offered the same prediction on Tuesday, suggesting that NFC will be a key part of the company's so-called "iWallet."

While competing smartphones have shipped with NFC chips for years, tapping into services like Google Wallet, mobile payments have yet to take off with consumers. In a rare candid comment about potential future plans, Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook hinted that his company could join the fray and enter the mobile payments space by leveraging the secure Touch ID fingerprint scanner found on the iPhone 5s to authenticate transactions.

What the iPhone 5s doesn't have, however, is an NFC chip. To date, Apple's close-proximity wireless efforts have relied on a combination of Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, most notably with the location-aware iBeacon specification that debuted last year and is now used by numerous retail outlets, including Apple's own stores.

Still, Morgan Stanley believes Apple will go one step further and incorporate an NFC chip into its future devices, making the technology a "core part of its mobile payments strategy." Analyst Craig Hettenbach said in a note to investors Tuesday, a copy of which was provided to AppleInsider, that he believes NFC is reaching an "inflection point," thanks to new partnerships, potential licenses, and patent filings, including those from Apple.


more here:
http://appleinsider.com/articles/14/05/20/morgan-stanley-predicts-apple-will-incorporate-nfc-into-future-iphone-for-mobile-payments


Watch, when Apple makes a move to NFC, the Mark will be one more step closer...


NFC:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near_field_communication

What's going on in Washington today?

This is interesting.

RACHEL MADDOW 05/15/14
‘Big nutball day’ in store for Washington, DC
Jon Ralston, host of “Ralston Reports,” talks with Rachel Maddow about the right wing extremists, akin to the militia members who rallied around Cliven Bundy, planning “Operation American Spring,” a rally of 10-30 million people in Washington, D.C.
video here:
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/watch/big-nutball-day-in-store-for-washington-dc-257183299809

In other news...

Transhumanism Update - Robotics, and the Internet of Everything

Defense tech in 2039: The robots are coming
Jane Wells    | @janewells
Tuesday, 13 May 2014 | 10:46 AM ET
CNBC.com

In 25 years, the U.S. military will operate under the principle of "less is more."
Less manpower. More robots.

video here:
http://www.cnbc.com/id/101664954

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The Military Wants To Teach Robots Right From Wrong
The U.S. government is spending millions on developing machines that understand moral consequence.
Patrick Tucker May 14 2014, 11:15 AM ET



Are robots capable of moral or ethical reasoning? It’s no longer just a question for tenured philosophy professors or Hollywood directors. This week, it’s a question being put to the United Nations.

The Office of Naval Research will award $7.5 million in grant money over five years to university researchers from Tufts, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Brown, Yale and Georgetown to explore how to build a sense of right and wrong and moral consequence into autonomous robotic systems.

“Even though today’s unmanned systems are ‘dumb’ in comparison to a human counterpart, strides are being made quickly to incorporate more automation at a faster pace than we’ve seen before,” Paul Bello, director of the cognitive science program at the Office of Naval Research told Defense One. “For example, Google’s self-driving cars are legal and in-use in several states at this point. As researchers, we are playing catch-up trying to figure out the ethical and legal implications. We do not want to be caught similarly flat-footed in any kind of military domain where lives are at stake.”
The United States military prohibits lethal fully autonomous robots. And semi-autonomous robots can’t “select and engage individual targets or specific target groups that have not been previously selected by an authorized human operator,” even in the event that contact with the operator is cut off, according to a 2012 Department of Defense policy directive.

“Even if such systems aren’t armed, they may still be forced to make moral decisions,” Bello said. For instance, in a disaster scenario, a robot may be forced to make a choice about whom to evacuate or treat first, a situation where a bot might use some sense of ethical or moral reasoning. “While the kinds of systems we envision have much broader use in first-response, search-and-rescue and in the medical domain, we can’t take the idea of in-theater robots completely off the table,” Bello said.

Some members of the artificial intelligence, or AI, research and machine ethics communities were quick to applaud the grant. “With drones, missile defines, autonomous vehicles, etc., the military is rapidly creating systems that will need to make moral decisions,” AI researcher Steven Omohundrotold Defense One. “Human lives and property rest on the outcomes of these decisions and so it is critical that they be made carefully and with full knowledge of the capabilities and limitations of the systems involved. The military has always had to define ‘the rules of war’ and this technology is likely to increase the stakes for that.”

“We’re talking about putting robots in more and more contexts in which we can’t predict what they’re going to do, what kind of situations they’ll encounter. So they need to do some kind of ethical reasoning in order to sort through various options,” said Wendell Wallach, the chair of the Yale Technology and Ethics Study Group and author of the book Moral Machines: Teaching Robots Right From Wrong.

more here:
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/05/the-military-wants-to-teach-robots-right-from-wrong/370855/

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So, here's the latest on this concept:






5/13/2014 @ 12:05AM 7,362 views
A Simple Explanation Of 'The Internet Of Things'

The “Internet of things” (IoT) is becoming an increasingly growing topic of conversation both in the workplace and outside of it. It’s a concept that not only has the potential to impact how we live but also how we work.  But what exactly is the “Internet of things” and what impact is it going to have on you if any?  There are a lot of complexities around the “Internet of things” but I want to stick to the basics.  Lots of technical and policy related conversations are being had but many people are still just trying to grasp the foundation of what the heck these conversations are about.

Let’s start with understanding a few things.

Broadband Internet is become more widely available, the cost of connecting is decreasing, more devices are being created with wifi capabilities and censors built into them, technology costs are going down, and smart phone penetration is sky-rocketing.  All of these things are creating a “perfect storm” for the IoT.



So what is the Internet of things?

Simply put this is the concept of basically connecting any device with an on and off switch to the Internet (and/or to each other). This includes everything from cell phones, coffee makers, washing machines, headphones, lamps, wearable devices and almost anything else you can think of.  This also applies to components of machines, for example a jet engine of an airplane or the drill of an oil rig.  As I mentioned, if it has an on and off switch then chances are it can be a part of the IoT.  The analyst firm Gartner says that by 2020 there will be over 26 billion connected devices…that’s a lot of connections (some even estimate this number to be much higher, over 100 billion).  The IoT is a giant network of connected “things” (which also includes people).  The relationship will be between people-people, people-things, and things-things.

How does this impact you?

The new rule for the future is going to be, “anything that can be connected, will be connected.”  But why on earth would you want so many connected devices talking to each other?  There are many examples for what this might look like or what the potential value might be.  Say for example you are on your way to a meeting, your car could have access to your calendar and already know the best route to take, if the traffic is heavy your car might send a text to the other party notifying them that you will be late.  What if your alarm clock wakes up you at 6 am and then notifies your coffee maker to start brewing coffee for you? What if your office equipment knew when it was running low on supplies and automatically re-ordered more?  What if the wearable device you used in the workplace could tell you when and where you were most active and productive and shared that information with other devices that you used while working?

On a broader scale the IoT can be applied to things like transportation networks “smart cities” which can help us reduce waste and improve efficiency for things such as energy use; this helping us understand and improve how we work and live.  Take a look at the visual below to see what something like that can look like.



The reality is that the IoT allows for virtually endless opportunities and connections to take place, many of which we can’t even think of or fully understand the impact of today.  It’s not hard to see how and why the IoT is such a hot topic today, it certainly opens the door to a lot of opportunities but also to many challenges.  Security is big issues that is oftentimes brought up.  With billions of devices being connect together what can people to do make sure that their information stays secure?  Will someone be able to hack into your toaster and thereby get access to your entire network?  The IoT also opens up companies all over the world to more security threats.  Then we have the issue of privacy and data sharing.  This is a hot button topic even today so one can only imagine how the conversation and concerns will escalate when we are talking about many billions of devices being connected.  Another issue that many companies specifically are going to be faced with is around the massive amounts data that all of these devices are going to produce.  Companies need to figure out a way to store, track, analyze, and make sense of the vast amounts of data that will be generated.

So what now?

Conversations about the IoT are (and have been for several years) taking place all over the world as we seek to understand how this will impact our lives.  We are also trying to understand what the many opportunities and challenges are going to be as more and more devices start to join the IoT.  For now the best thing that we can do is educate ourselves about what the IoT is and the potential impacts that can be seen on how we work and live.

here:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jacobmorgan/2014/05/13/simple-explanation-internet-things-that-anyone-can-understand/


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May 14, 2014
The Internet of Things Will Thrive by 2025

Many experts say the rise of embedded and wearable computing will bring the next revolution in digital technology.

By Janna Anderson and Lee Rainie

About This Report

This report is the latest research report in a sustained effort throughout 2014 by the Pew Research Center Internet Project to mark the 25th anniversary of the creation of the World Wide Web by Sir Tim Berners-Lee (The Web at 25).

A February 2014 report from Pew Internet Project tied to the Web’s anniversary looked at the strikingly fast adoption of the Internet. It also looked at the generally positive attitudes users have about its role in their social environment.

A March 2014 Digital Life in 2025 report issued by Pew Internet Project in association with Elon University’s Imagining the Internet Center looked at the Internet’s future. Some 1,867 experts and stakeholders responded to an open-ended question about the future of the Internet by 2025. They said it would become so deeply part of the environment that it would become “like electricity”—less visible even as it becomes more important in people’s daily lives.

To a notable extent, the experts agree on the technology change that lies ahead, even as they disagree about its ramifications. Most believe there will be:

    A global, immersive, invisible, ambient networked computing environment built through the continued proliferation of smart sensors, cameras, software, databases, and massive data centers in a world-spanning information fabric known as the Internet of Things.
    “Augmented reality” enhancements to the real-world input that people perceive through the use of portable/wearable/implantable technologies.
    Disruption of business models established in the 20th century (most notably impacting finance, entertainment, publishers of all sorts, and education).
    Tagging, databasing, and intelligent analytical mapping of the physical and social realms.

more here:
http://www.pewinternet.org/2014/05/14/internet-of-things/

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Experts Predict the Future of the 'Internet of Things' (Infographic)
By Karl Tate, Infographics Artist   |   May 14, 2014 10:00am ET
view it here:
http://www.livescience.com/45579-experts-predict-the-future-of-the-internet-of-things-infographic.html

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An hour long talk on this, brought to you by the 'World Affairs Council'



Newswatch Magazine Presents:

Secession vs Gay Rights - Which "Way" are the States going?

I was having a conversation with my partner-in-cracking-it-open, and we came to an interesting conclusion:

More states have offered rights to gays, than states that have attempted to seceded from the union.
This site has been tracking the current movement to allow gays to marry.
http://www.freedomtomarry.org/




Idaho same-sex marriage ban overturned in federal court
05/13/14 08:54 PM—UPDATED 05/14/14 11:27 AM
http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/idaho-same-sex-marriage-ban-unconstitutional-latta-v-otter

Wisconsin GOP backs away from secession
05/05/14 08:00 AM
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/wisconsin-gop-backs-away-secession

Liberals and libertarians join forces to defend gay marriage rights
04/15/14 01:47 PM—Updated 04/16/14 07:01 AM
http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/cato-cac-divided-groups-defend-gay-marriage-rights

Support for gay marriage hits new high
03/05/14 12:25 PM—Updated 03/05/14 02:56 PM
http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/gay-marriage-religious-liberty-poll

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Here are the states that have attempted to bring secession into the discussion:

2012 state petitions for secession
The 2012 state petitions for secession were a citizen originated petition drive using the White House's petitioning system. By November 14, 2012 all 50 US states have had petitions filed by their citizens.[1][2] Generally, each petition seeks peaceful secession and independence for their respective states from the United States of America.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_state_petitions_for_secession

Texas secession movements
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_secession_movements

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TEXAS:

Update: Rick Perry’s office says he ‘believes in the greatness of our Union and nothing should be done to change it’
By Robert Wilonsky
rwilonsky@dallasnews.com
8:45 am on November 12, 2012

http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/2012/11/close-to-17000-have-signed-we-the-people-petition-asking-white-house-to-allow-texas-secession.html/

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White House Rejects Petitions to Secede, but Texans Fight On
By MANNY FERNANDEZ
Published: January 15, 2013

 AUSTIN, Tex. — More than 100,000 people who signed an online petition calling on the Obama administration to allow Texas to secede from the United States and create an independent government received an official 476-word response from the White House last week.

The short answer was NO.

But the response — in which a White House official said the founding fathers established the United States as a “perpetual union” — hardly discouraged the Texas secession movement, which has been simmering for decades but gained momentum after the re-election of President Obama.

more here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/16/us/politics/texas-secession-movement-unbowed-by-white-house-rejection.html?_r=0

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Let's take a look at this petition:

Peacefully grant the State of Texas to withdraw from the United States of America and create its own NEW government.
Created: Nov 09, 2012
total signatures 125,746
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/peacefully-grant-state-texas-withdraw-united-states-america-and-create-its-own-new-government/BmdWCP8B

Let's look at the population vs signatures:

total signatures 125,746

Public Population Data:

26,059,203 - Jul 2012
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
https://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=kf7tgg1uo9ude_&met_y=population&idim=state:48000&dl=en&hl=en&q=texas%20population

What's the percentage?

125,746 is what percent of 26,059,203

= 0.48253970008215524%

its not even a full percentage point.

you can check the math here:
http://www.percentagecalculator.net/

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Its clear the states are going gay, and the secession of states has so far, not happened at all.
The majority do not want secession, the people want gay rights.

The people promoting secession do not realize how far down the road to World Government we really are.

Revelation of John 13:7
And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.

cashless society - 05.09.2014

The Growing Perils of the Cashless Future
Michael Kling
Wednesday, 23 Apr 2014 | 10:26 AM ET

 We're finally on the brink of the cashless society that futurists and other have been forecasting for years. The average consumer owns at least two credit cards and early adopters have begun ditching plastic for virtual wallets. Even businesses that used to rely heavily on cash — think taxis, food trucks or even craft fairs — can now go cashless, thanks to new technology like Square.

Yet, the more we abandon paper bills for plastic, smartphone payments and even cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, the perils of the new, cashless economy are becoming more apparent. Recent security breaches at Target, Neiman Marcus and other retailers illustrate the vulnerability of electronic payments to hacking attacks.

There were 2,164 reported security incidents exposing 822 million records last year, nearly doubling the previous highest year, 2011, according to Risk Based Security, a data security firm. The pace seems to be continuing this year.

video here:
http://www.cnbc.com/id/101605846

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The Cashless Society
http://www.slate.com/articles/business/cashless_society.html

The Cashless Society
Historical and contemporary perspectives on the future of money
http://cashlesssociety.wordpress.com/

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Mobile money - ready for lift-off?
28 April 2014 Last updated at 07:37 ET

Is tomorrow the day that the idea of using your mobile phone to pay for things finally takes off? The Paym system which links your mobile phone number to your bank account goes live on Tuesday - and may have a better chance than others of finally gaining widespread acceptance for mobile payments.

However, having seen plenty of other mobile money ventures flounder, I'm reserving judgement. Only last week, I got a cheque (and what am I supposed to do with that?) in the post for £9, the remaining balance in my O2 wallet. I'd forgotten I even had money in this app and so it seems had most of the other users because the wallet scheme has been closed due to what Telefonica - O2's owners - described as "a number of developments in the financial services sector".

Then at the weekend, while thinking about which other payment services were on my phone, I found I could use the PayPal app very simply to send small amounts of cash to friends. This seemed ideal - until a relative pointed out that to get the £5 I'd sent her as a test she'd have to log into PayPal and, while she had an account, she'd never used it and couldn't remember the password.

I had better luck with the £5 I sent to a friend who's a mobile money expert - until he returned the £5 as a Barclays Pingit payment. Now I had used this service when writing about it a year ago - indeed a statement arrived a few days ago telling me I had £30 in my Pingit account. But I had long since wiped the app off my phone, and I spent half an hour on the line to a Barclays call-centre to find I would have to go through a lengthy verification process to reawaken Pingit and get hold of my cash.

The problem for mobile money schemes is the need to balance security with ease of use. So far, the sheer aggravation of having to download apps, set up memorable phrases and remember passwords has made the schemes of doubtful value to many. That in turn has meant there is no network effect, where I use a payment app because all of my friends use it and lots of businesses accept it. Some schemes - like the Starbucks mobile payment app or the Hailo taxi app - have achieved lift-off, but there is no universal system enabling the mobile user to pay anyone with a click.

video here:
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-27186701

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In a cashless society, what will the new currency be? Your reputation
Coins and notes are uneconomic. We may be on a path to a world where 'identity transactions' take their place


'Social capital will be deployed in smaller and more commonplace transactions, not only getting a job or buying a house.' Photograph: Siri Berting/Compassionate Eye Foundation

Dave Birch   
theguardian.com, Wednesday 7 May 2014 07.11 EDT   

New research suggests that it costs the average SME more than £3,600 per year just to handle cash, and – thanks to Bitcoin and other innovations – thoughts of a cashless society seem to be stirring again. But what would a cashless society look like? And how will we get there?

The social anthropologist and money historian Jack Weatherford said: "The electronic money world looks much more like the neolithic world economy before the invention of money than it looks like the market as we have known it in the past few hundred years."

What Weatherford means is that ancient society worked on a shared memory of mutual cross-obligations, continuously adjusted and revised. In the clan, everyone knew who owed what and to whom, a structure that does not scale beyond the kinship group. Once clans form into tribes and tribes move into cities, the shared memory is no longer sufficient. We need intermediaries to manage, and money is one of them. If, however, technology gives us back that shared memory, then we don't need intermediaries to enable transactions. It becomes what some people call a "reputation economy".

The signals for change are visible. The son of a friend of mine decided earlier this year not to go to college. Instead, he is already hard at paid work as a programmer, having made the calculation that shared memory will provide an effective means to gather valuable and accurate reputational information that used to be too expensive to gather. Such intermediaries provide what Sam Lessin, Facebook's head of identity products, calls "hacks" and what Rory Sutherland, the vice chairman of Ogilvy & Mather UK, calls "patches".

Using patches such as college degrees and credit ratings instead of real, immediate reputational data is just not good enough in our connected world, which is why there are companies now looking at using the social graph as an alternative.

more here:
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/may/07/cashless-society-new-currency-reputation-coins-notes-identity-transactions

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Can ‘Dirty Cash’ Move Us To A Cashless Society?

If you saw a $20 bill on the ground, would you pick it up? Sure, everyone loves an extra buck or two, but do you know where that cash has been?

A recent study by MasterCard and Oxford University found that even the bills sitting safely in a wallet are likely covered in bacteria. However, the majority of people do not wash their hands after handling cash, even if they are aware of the potentially unhygienic material they are touching.

The research found that the average European bank note contained 26,000 bacteria, which could be potentially harmful to a person’s health. Even so, a follow-up survey by MasterCard found that only one in five individuals wash their hands after having handled cash. In that second survey, MasterCard interviewed over 9,000 consumers in Europe and the majority of individuals ranked physical money as being more unhygienic than hand rails on public transport or communal food, such as nuts in a bar.

In a blog post, Dr. Jim O’Mahony, lecturer in Biological Sciences at The Cork Institute of Technology in Ireland, noted that there are no firmly adopted international guidelines on the use of handling cash during seasonal flu outbreaks. As such, he advised consumers to stay aware of the potentially germ-ridden paper money. Cashless transactions would be a logical answer to keeping people healthy, he said.

“Given that the majority of people acknowledge that handling cash could be perceived as being hazardous – yet on a practical basis people are disinclined to adopt basic hygiene practices – a more successful approach may be to encourage the use of more cashless transactions,” O’Mahony wrote. “This would seem like a logical approach given the consumer research highlighted 66 percent of Europeans prefer to use a card or contactless payments over cash.”

Furthermore, MasterCard found that 39 percent of Europeans are open to the idea of using a credit or debit card or contactless payment instead of cash to be more hygienic. In terms of replacing cash, the majority of surveyed individuals – 63 percent – chose card payments, while 35 percent said that they would prefer to make online payments instead of using cash.

Cash might be dirty, but switching over to literal money laundering might not be the answer either, according to experts. The “dirty money” survey found Europeans are having a difficult time eliminating cash from their daily lives, noted Chris Kangas, head of contactless payments for MasterCard Europe. While innovative, contactless payments can also prevent some bacteria and germs from spreading, Kangas said.

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Does a cashless society mean less crime?
March 30, 2014 9:45 am  •  By Jim Gallagher jgallagher@post-dispatch.com 314-340-8390

We’re buying more stuff with keystrokes and plastic instead of cash these days. Now comes evidence that our cash-light ways may be foiling crime.

Researchers at the University of Missouri-St. Louis looked at what happened when Missouri switched from handing out welfare checks to depositing welfare on debit cards. Burglary, larceny and assault went down, they found. Robbery may have fallen, too, although there weren’t enough robberies in the sample to draw a firm conclusion.

To understand why, put yourself in the shoes of a crook.

You can swipe the purse of a well-dressed woman downtown. You’ll get a couple of credit or debit cards and a little cash. The typical American carries just $15, according to a Tufts University survey.

The cash is nice, but the credit card is problematic. Credit cards don’t sell for much on the street, says criminologist Richard Wright of UMSL. Try to use a stolen card in a convenience store, and your picture will be on a video camera. Cards stop working when the victim reports the theft.

On the other hand, you could go to a poor neighborhood and lurk around at a check cashing shop when a hotel maid shows up with her paycheck. Snatch that purse and you’ll get no plastic, but more real money.

Cash is what the thief wants most. His drug dealer doesn’t take a credit card. So, putting welfare on debit cards makes the recipient a less attractive target.

Crime in St. Louis and the United States has been trending down for a quarter of a century. There are many possible reasons: more police on the streets, smarter policing, putting more criminals in prison, the end of the crack epidemic 20 years ago, demographic shifts.

more here:
http://www.stltoday.com/business/columns/jim-gallagher/does-a-cashless-society-mean-less-crime/article_4432514e-8822-5d6b-a02f-60b4681138ae.html

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Yes, debit cards make our streets safer. But they make the Internet more dangerous.

    By Brian Fung   
    March 26 at 1:30 pm



Cash means crime. It's as attractive to street thugs as it is to Bond villains. You can spend it anywhere, on anything, and it's almost completely anonymous.

Scientists have long suspected that reducing the role of cash in American society might reduce the incidence of physical crime. As my colleague Chris Ingraham notes, a new economic study shows switching people from paper welfare checks to electronic debit cards is linked to a drop in assaults, burglaries and robberies.

The findings suggest a cashless society would indeed be a more peaceful one. But even as fewer people use cash for everyday transactions, that creates opportunities for new kinds of theft that involve very different players, wielding a very different playbook.

The question now isn't whether electronic payment methods reduce crime. It's whether they're changing the criminal landscape in a way that reduces some crimes and facilitates others.

Instead of assault and burglary, we're seeing a rise in malware and botnets. Rather than beefy bullies who commit crimes of opportunity, skilled hackers are increasingly probing corporations for gaps in security. A robust industry has grown up around the sale of digital exploits. And the more we move away from cash, the more vulnerable to these attacks we become.

"No one knows (or is willing to hazard a guess) how many people participate in" online crime, according to a report this week by the RAND Corporation. "Similarly, few want to estimate how large the market is, although the general feeling is that it is large, and one expert noted that it generates billions of dollars, at the least."

more here:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/03/26/yes-debit-cards-make-our-streets-safer-but-they-make-the-internet-more-dangerous/

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In a cashless society, child gamers are moving to digital currency

By Colin Campbell on Feb 12, 2014 at 8:01a @ColinCampbellx

As a child, in England in the 1970s, I would spend my pocket money on sweets and fizzy drinks. I'd also buy practical jokes, small toys, football cards; games and entertainment.

Kids today are no different. They spend half their allowances on junk food and pretty much all the rest on entertainment, often in the form of games or in-game items.

But the method of payment is where the world has really changed in the last few decades. When I was a kid, every last thing in my house, except the house itself, was bought with cash. We had no credit cards, no check books. My parents' wages were paid in brown envelopes containing banknotes.

Such a notion, today, seems quaint. Now, kids live in an era of digital money, in which the only way to buy things online is via electronic transfers. Yet only a fool would give a child access to plastic.

Parents, infamously, have been stitched up by content providers and even platform holders allowing children to make almost unlimited purchases of virtual goods. Most adults are figuring out how to block kids from buying stuff online, while companies are finally being reined in with much-needed regulations and penalties.

Enter Oink, a payment technology from Virtual Piggy. It's basically PayPal for kids. Parents create an account, and set a monthly limit. Kids can make purchases in online and real life stores using their digital account, or an Oink card. They cannot go over the limit set by parents.

Parents have access to an online log that shows exactly what is being bought. They can also block certain retailers. They can cancel or suspend the card at any time. This gives parents more oversight and control over their offsprings' purchases than if they were using cash. It limits exposure to expensive credit card mistakes. And it drastically cuts down on the pestering that goes on in all digital households.

"Say your kids come to you asking you to make a three dollar purchase online," said Oink CEO Dr. Jo Webber in an interview with Polygon. "If you could give them three dollars you probably would. But you have to give them a credit card and that just means a 'no'.

"Oink gives the kids a middle ground where they get to spend their own money in a way that is controlled and responsible. But the parents get the benefit of not having those conversations for every last purchase."
more here:
http://www.polygon.com/2014/2/12/5402986/in-a-cashless-society-how-child-gamers-are-moving-to-digital-currency

Misinformation -- Are 90 million Americans not working or not looking for work?

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Perry Misleads on Jobs
Posted on May 7, 2014

Texas Gov. Rick Perry used grossly misleading statistics to criticize the unemployment picture under President Obama. Perry said there are “90 million people that are out of work” and “more women out of the workforce now than at any time in our history.” The 90-million figure includes teenagers, retired seniors and only 6 million people who want a job. The women’s labor force participation rate is more than one-and-half times what it was in 1948 — not surprisingly.

Those weren’t the only claims about employment that Perry made in a May 4 interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” He also boasted of 95 percent of Texas workers earning above the minimum wage. The state has improved in this regard. In 2010, it was tied for first with Mississippi for the percentage of hourly workers earning at or below the minimum wage. In 2013, Texas had moved down to fifth among the states.

so much more with sources here:
http://www.factcheck.org/2014/05/perry-misleads-on-jobs/

Perry was not the only one selling this misinformation:

WND EXCLUSIVE
Record 90 million Americans not in labor force
Rise of 10 million since Obama took office
Published: 09/06/2013 at 7:32 PM

read here:
http://www.wnd.com/2013/09/record-90-million-americans-not-in-labor-force/

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Ninety million Americans either aren’t working or aren’t looking for work.
Bloggers on Tuesday, July 23rd, 2013 in various Internet postings

Are 90 million Americans not working or not looking for work?

A reader recently asked us to check a claim that’s been widely repeated on conservative websites -- that 90 million Americans either aren’t working or aren’t looking for work. Over the past few months, the statistic has been cited by various conservative bloggers, pundits and news outlets.

We thought we’d take a closer look.

Here’s how the calculation is made, using Census Bureau population estimates and employment data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics:

The total U.S. population age 16 and over is at least 243 million. Subtracting the nearly 156 million Americans in the labor force in June 2013 -- that is, those who were either working or looking for work -- leaves 87 million Americans, which is close to 90 million.

However, the 90 million number is padded, since this number includes a lot of Americans who wouldn’t be expected to be working. Specifically:

• People age 16 to 17, who likely are in high school: 9 million

• People who are enrolled in either two- or four-year colleges: 21 million

• People age 65 and older, who have reached retirement age: 40 million people

That means 20 million people are of normal working age, not in college and not working. That’s less than one-quarter the amount repeatedly cited in the blogosphere.

So the 90 million number is exaggerated. Even so, the idea that fewer people are joining the workforce is something that worries economists.

more here:
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2013/jul/30/blog-posting/are-90-million-americans-not-working-or-looking-wo/

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5/02/2014 @ 8:41AM
Jobs Report: U.S. Economy Added 288K Jobs In April, Unemployment Down To 6.3%

Jobs numbers released by The Bureau of Labor Statistics were well ahead of expectations but failed to significantly move the markets Friday morning.

Employers added 288,000 jobs in April, significantly more than the 218,000 economists were expecting. The unemployment rate, which is drawn from a different survey of households, declined from 6.7% to 6.3%, also a stronger than anticipated number and the lowest rate since before the financial crisis. The labor force participation rate, however, came in at 62.8% its lowest point in decades, down from 63.2% in March. The employment-population ratio was steady at 58.9%.

The March employment number was revised up from plus 192,000 to plus 203,000 jobs. February payroll was also revised from plus 197,000 to plus 222,000. Total employment gains those months were therefore 36,000 greater than BLS  — a division of the Department of Labor –previously reported. Job growth averaged 190,000 in the prior 12 months.

Following the news the S&P 500 and The Dow Jones Industrial Average were in the green but not by much as investors digested killer headline numbers but conflicting details.

In a call following the release Dan North, chief economist at Euler Hermes North America which provides export and trade credit insurance, said looking at the payroll number, “I guess you would say this is getting toward a blockbuster report here,” noting that the beat and revisions were significant.

“The part that is a little less positive is this apparently wonderful story on the unemployment rate,” added North. “If you look at the changes in the labor force there are 700,000 more unemployed, in other words the labor force shrunk because more people left.” This is why the unemployment rate should be taken with a grain of salt, he says, and why the Fed has shifted away from quantitative interest rate guidance to qualitative.

more here:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/samanthasharf/2014/05/02/jobs-report-u-s-economy-added-288k-jobs-in-april-unemployment-down-to-6-3/

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Turns out there is a real difference between not in the labor force and being unemployed.

The numbers, if you'd like to examine them for yourself:
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/empsit.pdf