Why Liberal Pundits Are Wrong About the Perry Indictment
It’s much more serious than they think. Take it from us—we filed the complaint.
By CRAIG MCDONALD and ANDREW WHEAT
August 21, 2014
Reading an Austin newspaper on the morning of June 11, 2013, it struck us — then and there — that Texas’ longest-serving governor had broken the law.
A gubernatorial spokesman confirmed in that story that Gov. Rick Perry had threatened to veto $7.5 million in state funds for the Travis County district attorney’s Public Integrity Unit unless District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg resigned her elected office before the week was out.
Our office soon identified four state felonies applicable to the governor’s actions. They are: abuse of official capacity, coercion of a public servant, official oppression and bribery. We filed a complaint on June 14 with the appropriate authority: Lehmberg’s Public Integrity Unit.
Lehmberg properly recused herself from the matter because of her central role in it. Two months earlier she was arrested for driving drunk—with a bottle of vodka onboard—and for grossly abusing her arresting officers. Once sober, she apologized, pleaded guilty, served 22 days in jail, sought treatment and promised not to run for reelection in 2016. But she refused to resign, which would have allowed the governor to appoint her replacement.
Since a lot of you East Coasters seem confused by the Perry indictment — the New York Times editorial board wrongly called it “the product of an overzealous prosecution” — let’s put it this way: Lehmberg’s bottle of vodka was as much a gift to Texas Republicans as Eliot Spitzer’s libido was to Wall Street. Each of those officials handed their political enemies the instrument of their own destruction.
For at least 10 years, the Texas Republican Party has officially sought to strip Travis County of the public integrity unit, which prosecutes political corruption. In this bright red state, that office remains one of the few significant powers left in Democratic hands.
Last December, the integrity unit secured the indictment of an ex-official from Perry’s state cancer research fund for an improper $11 million state grant to a politically connected biotech firm. Combine the integrity unit’s power with Lehmberg’s drunken outing and it is no wonder that Governor Perry pounced.
The governor rightly argues that he has absolute authority to veto the Public Integrity Unit’s budget. Texas law does not, however, grant him authority to threaten another public official—even one who behaved as wretchedly as Lehmberg did. Notably, we filed our criminal complaint before Perry vetoed Public Integrity funding. After all, it was the governor’s threats—not his veto—that broke Texas law prohibiting an official from using the power of his or her office to coerce another official into taking an action, such as resignation.
What’s more, Perry continued to pressure Lehmberg to resign even after the veto. Official sources cited in media accounts confirm that Perry’s representatives continued to try to induce Lehmberg to resign by promising her a high-paying junior position in her office. That behavior is a potential bribery felony in Texas.
Understandably, Perry’s defenders don’t want to talk about all this: They’d rather replay Lehmberg’s arrest videos and assert Perry’s uncontested veto powers. These good public relations moves ultimately do nothing to address the serious legal charges against him.
The big lie in Perry’s PR playbook is to dismiss these charges as a partisan witch hunt. While there’s no bipartisan love between Perry and Lehmberg, Perry’s indictment has been advanced by Republicans. Recusing herself, Lehmberg referred our complaint to local Democratic Judge Julie Kocurek. Judge Kocurek also stepped aside, forwarding the matter to a Republican Perry appointee: Judge Billy Ray Stubblefield. Stubblefield assigned the case to Republican Judge Bert Richardson in San Antonio. And Judge Richardson appointed Michael McCrum as special prosecutor.
It’s hard to argue that McCrum has a partisan axe to grind. He served as a federal prosecutor under the first President Bush. The second President Bush later nominated McCrum to be a top federal prosecutor — with the backing of Texas GOP Senators Kay Bailey Hutchison and John Cornyn. If Perry’s indictment really is a partisan witch hunt, then it is one of the Grand Old Party’s making.
Meanwhile, the few people who actually have reviewed the state’s case against Perry paint a radically different picture.
Prosecutor McCrum repeatedly has said that he is disturbed by what he learned in interviewing more than 40 insiders involved in this affair and after reviewing hundreds of pages of documents. McCrum told Texas Lawyer that he believes that there is sufficient evidence against Perry on all four of the criminal charges raised in our complaint. “The charges are very serious,” McCrum said. “There is evidence to support them, and there is nothing political about what happened in my investigation or the grand jury’s deliberations.”
After reviewing the evidence for four months, the grand jury authorized McCrum to charge Perry with two serious felonies — abuse of official capacity and coercion of a public official. Speaking to the Houston Chronicle, several grand jurors expressed frustration with those who blindly condemn their conclusions without seeing any of the evidence that jurors reviewed. “I think if and when the facts come out,” one said, “that’ll change.”
Texas’ last indictment of a sitting governor occurred in 1917, when Democrats exercised monolithic political power. A Travis County jury indicted Democratic Governor Jim “Pa” Ferguson for vetoing state funding to the University of Texas after its regents refused to fire gubernatorial critics. That indictment was the prelude to Ferguson’s impeachment and resignation.
Although we filed the complaint that triggered the Perry investigation, we don’t know exactly what evidence McCrum amassed for the grand jury. A trial would not only give Governor Perry his day in court but would let the public — and skeptical Beltway pundits — judge for themselves whether McCrum has the goods.
sources here:
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/08/rick-perry-indictment-liberals-110229.html?ml=m_u1_1#.VANy6HVdXs3
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This case has nothing, zero, NOTHING to do with his stance on immigration.
read about the real Rick Perry, here:
The Rick Perry Dossier - 04.19.2012
http://globalistnews.blogspot.com/2014/08/the-rick-perry-dossier-04192012.html
Sunday, August 31, 2014
The Rick Perry Dossier - 04.19.2012
You wanna know who the real Rick Perry is?
Well here you go:
EMBARRASSING: 40% Of Texas Job Growth Since 2007 Went To Illegal Immigrants
Gus Lubin | Sep. 22, 2011, 7:52 AM
Plenty of people have already attacked the Texas growth myth, but this report from the Center for Immigration Studies really stings.
The non-partisan group found that newly-arrived immigrants claimed 81% of state job growth from 2007 to 2011. What's worse, half of those immigrants were illegal -- representing 40% of state growth.
Obviously this won't go over well on the Perry campaign.
Newly-arrived immigrants dominated job growth despite representing only 29% of population growth.
Robert Reich, Paul Krugman and others have previously noted that most of the jobs added in Texas were low wage.
More from the CIS report:
Of jobs created in Texas since 2007, 81 percent were taken by newly arrived immigrant workers (legal and illegal).
In terms of numbers, between the second quarter of 2007, right before the recession began, and the second quarter of 2011, total employment in Texas increased by 279,000. Of this, 225,000 jobs went to immigrants (legal and illegal) who arrived in the United States in 2007 or later.
Of newly arrived immigrants who took a job in Texas, 93 percent were not U.S. citizens. Thus government data show that more than three-fourths of net job growth in Texas were taken by newly arrived non-citizens (legal and illegal).
The large share of job growth that went to immigrants is surprising because the native-born accounted for 69 percent of the growth in Texas’ working-age population (16 to 65). Thus, even though natives made up most of the growth in potential workers, most of the job growth went to immigrants.
The share of working-age natives holding a job in Texas declined significantly, from 71 percent in 2007 to 67 percent in 2011. This decline is very similar to the decline for natives in the United States as a whole and is an indication that the situation for native-born workers in Texas is very similar to the overall situation in the country despite the state’s job growth.
Of newly arrived immigrants who took jobs in Texas since 2007, we estimate that 50 percent (113,000) were illegal immigrants. Thus, about 40 percent of all the job growth in Texas since 2007 went to newly arrived illegal immigrants and 40 percent went to newly arrived legal immigrants.
Immigrants took jobs across the educational distribution. More than one out three (97,000) of newly arrived immigrants who took a job had at least some college.
These numbers raise the question of whether it makes sense to continue the current high level of legal immigration and also whether to continue to tolerate illegal immigration.
more here:
http://www.businessinsider.com/texas-jobs-immigrants-rick-perry-2011-9?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=politics
source(s):
Who Benefited from Job Growth In Texas?
A Look at Employment Gains for Immigrants and the Native-Born, 2007 to 2011
download this pdf ---> http://www.cis.org/articles/2011/immigrant-job-growth-texas.pdf
http://cis.org/immigrants-filled-most-new-jobs-in-Texas
How to Create More Jobs By Lowering Wages: Texas and America
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2011
http://robertreich.org/post/10183304775
OP-ED COLUMNIST
The Texas Unmiracle
By PAUL KRUGMAN
Published: August 14, 2011
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/15/opinion/the-texas-unmiracle.html?_r=1
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Rick Perry Said Something Nice to Hillary Clinton Eighteen Years Ago
8/30/11 at 4:40 PM
In a letter to Clinton, who is now U.S. Secretary of State, Perry wrote: “I think your efforts in trying to reform the nation’s health care system are most commendable.”
“I would like to request that the task force give particular consideration to the needs of the nation’s farmers, ranchers, and agriculture workers, and other members of rural communities,” Perry continued, noting his administration’s focus on economic development for rural Texans. “Rural populations have a high proportion of uninsured people, rising health care costs, and often experience lack of services.”
“Again, your efforts are worthy,” Perry concluded, ”and I hope you will remember this constituency as the task force progresses.”
This will not hurt Perry at all, for four reasons. One, it was eighteen years ago. Two, unlike Huntsman, Perry doesn't have a reputation as someone with liberal sympathies that this can play into. Three, he didn't even say anything about the substance of Clinton's health-care reform plan, just that it was "commendable" to try to reform the system in some way, which is hardly controversial. Four, this hardly even registers as a blip on the radar screen next to the Spruce Goose of Romneycare.
more here:
http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2011/08/rick_perry_hillary_clinton_health_care.html
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14 Reasons Why Rick Perry Would Be A Really, Really Bad President
found here: ----> http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/14-reasons-why-rick-perry-would-be-a-really-really-bad-president
Its well sourced, and it only takes a second to click the links and read the well sourced documentation.
Here we go, again.
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#1 Rick Perry is a "big government" politician. When Rick Perry became the governor of Texas in 2000, the total spending by the Texas state government was approximately $49 billion. Ten years later it was approximately $90 billion. That is not exactly reducing the size of government.
source:
http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2011/06/first-look-rick-perry.html
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#2 The debt of the state of Texas is out of control. According to usdebtclock.org, the debt to GDP ratio in Texas is 22.9% and the debt per citizen is $10,645. In California (a total financial basket case), the debt to GDP ratio is just 18.7% and the debt per citizen is only $9932. If Rick Perry runs for president these are numbers he will want to keep well hidden.
Texas Debt Clock:
http://www.usdebtclock.org/state-debt-clocks/state-of-texas-debt-clock.html
California Debt Clock:
http://www.usdebtclock.org/state-debt-clocks/state-of-california-debt-clock.html
Compare the clocks, which are accurate, then make up your own mind.
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#3 The total debt of the Texas government has more than doubled since Rick Perry became governor. So what would the U.S. national debt look like after four (or eight) years of Rick Perry?
source:
White says Texas debt has doubled under Perry
Bill White on Thursday, March 4th, 2010 in a speech
"Debt has almost doubled in Austin under Gov. Perry," White said. "They think you will not notice this!"
Game on.
Is White right?
We checked with the Texas Bond Review Board, which oversees the state's issuance of most bonds used to fund numerous activities, from helping local governments with economic development to building prisons to making housing loans to veterans. According to the board's annual reports, Texas had $34.08 billion in outstanding bonds and notes as of Aug. 31 — the end of the 2009 fiscal year.
Perry took office Dec. 21, 2000 — nearly five months into fiscal year 2001. At the end of that year, Texas had $13.7 billion in outstanding bonds and notes. Adjusting for inflation, that would have equaled $16.6 billion in 2009.
But there's a subset of state debt that hasn't surged, Perry's campaign pointed out — currently $3.07 billion to support parks and for construction of state facilities, among other activities. That debt has decreased by about 6 percent since 2001.
Then there's debt to be repaid with program revenue. For example, interest on student loans is used to repay the bond that funded it without the state having to commit general revenue. That "self-supporting" debt has increased by 173 percent since 2001.
more here:
http://www.politifact.com/texas/statements/2010/mar/04/bill-white/white-says-texas-debt-has-doubled-under-perry/
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#4 Rick Perry has spearheaded the effort to lease roads in Texas to foreign companies, to turn roads that are already free to drive on into toll roads, and to develop the Trans-Texas Corridor which would be part of the planned NAFTA superhighway system. If you really do deep research on this whole Trans-Texas Corridor nonsense you will see why no American should ever cast a single vote for Rick Perry.
What is interesting about the following source, this is the same group that has been saying Obama is from Kenya:
wnd.com
(I'll sum up what I think about the Birth Certificate issue with this.
If the Certificate in Hawaii can be a fake, the one in Kenya can be a fake as well.
No one knows the truth, if they did, it would be easy to prove.
Besides, you are not the federal government, you have no right to see mine, why should you see his?)
source:
NAFTA Superhighway plans advance south
Texas governor, Mexico agree to extend Trans-Texas Corridor
Posted: September 10, 2007
1:00 am Eastern
http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=43433
updated source:
Trans Texas Corridor Renamed, Not Dead
Written by Kelly Taylor Holt
Thursday, 15 January 2009 12:46
"TxDOT continues to pretend that this is a Texas project designed to help Texans get around. In fact, Governor Rick Perry and the late Ric Williamson, then head of the Texas Transportation Commission are on record stating that all Texas roads will eventually be tolled, and have viewed the TTC as a revenue project, not a traffic solution. The TTC does nothing to address Texans' legitimate complaints about rush hour traffic, but will destroy rural Texas. The TTC and other planned corridors do not address the problems on existing roads, and one of them, La Entrada al Pacifico, is actually routed through the least populated area of the state! Since the TTC has very limited on/off ramps, it will place drivers in a position of having to drive many miles out of their way to get off the road. A solution in need of a problem, the corridor will really serve as a pipeline for the massive and deadly infusion of "trade" from China."
more here:
http://thenewamerican.com/usnews/election/681
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#5 Rick Perry claims that he has a "track record" of not raising taxes. That is a false claim. Rick Perry has repeatedly raised taxes and fees while he has been governor. Today, Texans are faced with significantly higher taxes and fees than they were before Rick Perry was elected.
source:
Gov. Rick Perry says he has a track record of not raising taxes
Rick Perry on Friday, October 15th, 2010 in an interview
"I think for anybody to stand up here and say categorically there's not going to be this or there's not going to be that —" Perry started, before Evan Smith of the Tribune edged in: "Well, you said it with taxes."
Perry's response: "Well, but I've got a track record of that too. We don't raise taxes."
To get a handle on tax changes made early in Perry's governorship, we consulted a 2004 report from the comptroller's office that details the history of revenue-related bills that have become law from 1972 through 2003. Some notables from 2001, Perry's first legislative session as governor, and 2003:
* House Bill 3667, which Perry signed into law on June 16, 2001, enacting a 2 percent tax on the retail sale of fireworks to help fund a rural volunteer fire department insurance fund. The new levy was projected to generate $848,000 over the next two years; it ended up raising about $1.4 million in that period.
* Senate Bill 5, which Perry signed into law June 15, 2001, creating the Texas Emissions Reduction Plan Fund as part of an effort to help reduce emissions of nitrogen oxides, which are air pollutants. Revenue for the fund was generated through "several new charges," including a tax of 1 percent on the purchase or rental of diesel equipment.
* House Bill 1365, signed by the governor on June 22, 2003, made tweaks in the emissions reduction fund to bring in more money. With the changes, the report says, the impact to the fund was projected to be $234.9 million in 2004-05.
more here:
http://www.politifact.com/texas/statements/2010/nov/01/rick-perry/gov-rick-perry-says-he-has-track-record-not-raisin/
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#6 Even with the oil boom in Texas, 23 states have a lower unemployment rate than Texas does.
source:
msnbc - rick perry's texas not so miraculous
June 17: Rachel Maddow fact-checks the claims that comprise the celebrated Texas economic "miracle."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5EaX22ZP8E
Chart: Rick Perry's Texas Miracle
By Laura Conaway - Mon Aug 22, 2011 9:33 AM EDT
here:
http://maddowblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/08/22/7439128-chart-rick-perrys-texas-miracle
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#7 Back in 1988, Rick Perry supported Al Gore for president. In fact, Rick Perry actually served as Al Gore's campaign chairman in the state of Texas that year.
source:
Debra Medina claims Rick Perry was a Democrat and Al Gore's campaign manager
more and video:
http://www.politifact.com/texas/statements/2010/jan/16/debra-medina/debra-medina-claims-rick-perry-was-democrat-and-al/
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#8 Between December 2007 and April 2011, weekly wages in the U.S. increased by about 5 percent. In the state of Texas they increased by just 0.6% over that same time period.
the source link provided is dead, and I did not take the time to keep looking.
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#9 Texas now has one of the worst education systems in the nation. The following is from an opinion piece that was actually authored by Barbara Bush earlier this year....
source ---> Barbara Bush:
We can't afford to cut education
BARBARA BUSH
, HOUSTON CHRONICLE
Published 06:30 a.m., Sunday, February 6, 2011
• We rank 36th in the nation in high school graduation rates. An estimated 3.8 million Texans do not have a high school diploma.
• We rank 49th in verbal SAT scores, 47th in literacy and 46th in average math SAT scores.
• We rank 33rd in the nation on teacher salaries.
• Despite our outstanding universities and colleges, we also lag behind in several critical higher education criteria. For example, California has nine nationally recognized research institutions, New York has seven and Pennsylvania has four. With the University of Houston's recent designation by the Carnegie Foundation as a top research institution, Texas, the second largest state, has four.
more here:
http://www.chron.com/opinion/outlook/article/We-can-t-afford-to-cut-education-1691329.php
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#10 Rick Perry attended the Bilderberg Group meetings in 2007. Associating himself with that organization should be a red flag for all American voters.
source:
News 8 Austin - TX Gov. Rick Perry Attends Bilderberg in Istanbul, 2007
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90jfQrb4wAE
Rick Perry Confronted! He Grabs Camera, talks Bilderberg, says NO to new 9/11 Investigation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCTgiwWNkgk
Regardless of what he said after he came back, he broke the Logan Act:
§ 953. Private correspondence with foreign governments.
Any citizen of the United States, wherever he may be, who, without authority of the United States, directly or indirectly commences or carries on any correspondence or intercourse with any foreign government or any officer or agent thereof, with intent to influence the measures or conduct of any foreign government or of any officer or agent thereof, in relation to any disputes or controversies with the United States, or to defeat the measures of the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.
This section shall not abridge the right of a citizen to apply himself, or his agent, to any foreign government, or the agents thereof, for redress of any injury which he may have sustained from such government or any of its agents or subjects.
1 Stat. 613, January 30, 1799, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 953 (2004).
I found that on wikipedia, just so you know ----> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logan_Act#Text_of_the_Logan_Act
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#11 Texas has the highest percentage of workers making minimum wage out of all 50 states.
again, broken link, didn't take the time to dig in on this one.
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#12 Rick Perry often gives speeches about illegal immigration, but when you look at the facts, he has been incredibly soft on the issue. If Rick Perry does not plan to secure the border, then he should not be president because illegal immigration is absolutely devastating many areas of the southwest United States.
Now this is interesting, the first link takes me to wikipedia:
Immigration
In 2001, Perry expressed his pride in the enactment of the statute extending in-state tuition to children of undocumented workers. He said:
We must say to every Texas child learning in a Texas classroom, “we don’t care where you come from, but where you are going, and we are going to do everything we can to help you get there.” And that vision must include the children of undocumented workers. That’s why Texas took the national lead in allowing such deserving young minds to attend a Texas college at a resident rate.[162]
Perry has opposed the creation of the Mexico – United States barrier, which is meant to keep out illegal aliens. Instead of barricading the border completely with a fence, Perry believes that the federal government should fulfill its responsibility to its citizens by securing the borders with "boots on the ground" and technology to improve safety while not harming trade with the state's biggest trading partner, Mexico.[163] Perry said the Arizona immigration law SB 1070 “would not be the right direction for Texas” and would distract law enforcement from fighting other crimes.[164]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Perry#Immigration
Do you see those numbers, they belong to the source links at the bottom of each wiki article:
[162] ^ Perry, Rick (August 22, 2001). "Gov. Rick Perry's Remarks to the Border Summit". Office of the Governor. Retrieved August 14, 2011.
http://governor.state.tx.us/news/speech/10688/
[163] # ^ "Rechaza gobernador de Texas muro fronterizo" (in Spanish). Retrieved 2006-03-07.
http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/notas/326377.html
[164] ^ "Rick Perry's View on Arizona SB1070". Retrieved 2011-06-18.
http://www.texasgopvote.com/blog/rick-perrys-view-arizona-sb1070-border-security-and-immigration-debate-05055
You see, wikipedia can be reliable, you just have to know how to use it.
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#13 In 2007, 221,000 residents of Texas were making minimum wage or less. By 2010, that number had risen to 550,000.
another broken source link.
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#14 Rick Perry actually issued an executive order in 2007 that would have forced almost every single girl in the state of Texas to receive the Gardasil vaccine before entering the sixth grade. Perry would have put parents in a position where they would have had to fill out an application and beg the government not to inject their child with a highly controversial vaccine. Since then, very serious safety issues regarding this vaccine have come to light. Fortunately, lawmakers in Texas blocked what Perry was trying to do. According to Wikipedia, many were troubled when "apparent financial connections between Merck and Perry were reported by news outlets, such as a $6,000 campaign contribution and Merck's hiring of former Perry Chief of Staff Mike Toomey to handle its Texas lobbying work."
source, again, look at the links and read the articles.
HPV vaccine controversy
On February 2, 2007, Perry issued an executive order mandating that Texas girls receive HPV vaccine that protects against some strains of the human papilloma virus, a contributing factor to some forms of cervical cancer.[95] The order provided vaccination free of charge to those who were not covered by insurance,[96] and included an opt-out provision for parents. At the time of the order, Gardasil, a newly approved drug manufactured by Merck, was the only HPV vaccine approved by the Food and Drug Administration. The move made national headlines,[97] and apparent financial connections between Merck and Perry were reported by news outlets, such as a $6,000 campaign contribution and Merck's hiring of former Perry Chief of Staff Mike Toomey to handle its Texas lobbying work and Perry's "current chief of staff's mother-in-law, Texas Republican state Rep. Dianne White Delisi [as] state director for Women in Government".[95][98]
Perry's decision was criticized by some social conservatives and parents due to concerns about possible moral implications of the vaccine and safety concerns. On February 22, 2007, a group of families sued in an attempt to block Perry's executive order.[99]
In May 2007, the Texas Legislature passed a bill to undo Perry's executive order. Perry did not veto it, saying the Legislature would have sufficient time and votes to override his veto.[100]
[95] # ^ a b Carney, Timothy (June 21, 2011) "Rick Perry's mixed record on regulatory robbery", The Washington Examiner
http://washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/2011/06/rick-perrys-mixed-record-regulatory-robbery
[96] # ^ Texas Gov. Orders Anti-Cancer Vaccine The Washington Post, February 2, 2007, Liz Austin PETERSON
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/02/AR2007020201528.html
[97] # ^ "Monkey and other business". The Economist. May 31, 2007. Retrieved July 30, 2007.
http://www.economist.com/node/9264314?story_id=9264314
[98] # ^ Peterson, Liz Austin (February 22, 2007). "Perry's staff discussed vaccine on day Merck donated to campaign". Austin American-Statesman. Associated Press. Retrieved August 7, 2011.
http://www.statesman.com/news/content/region/legislature/stories/02/22/22perry.html
[99] # ^ "Texas Families Seek to Block Gov's Order". Associated Press. Newsmax Media. February 25, 2007. Retrieved August 7, 2011.
http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2007/2/25/111903.shtml
[100] # ^ MacLaggan, Corrie (May 9, 2007). "Perry lets HPV bill go into law". Austin American-Statesman. Retrieved August 16, 2011.
http://www.statesman.com/news/content/region/legislature/stories/05/09/9hpv.html
more here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Perry#HPV_vaccine_controversy
and more here:
04 Oct, 2010 | Number of Deaths Linked to HPV Vaccine Grows
Adverse report excerpts include heartbreaking personal stories:
* A nineteen year old girl with no medical history except occasional cases bronchitis received Gardasil and in 53 days, had “Headache, Nausea, dizziness, chilling, tiredness, shortness of breath, complained of chest plain, severe cramps.” She experienced an Acute Cardiac Arrhythmia. Attempts to resuscitate her resulted in a sternal fracture, but were unsuccessful and the patient died. — V. 356938
* A thirteen year old girl was vaccinated on July 17th, 2009. Ten days later, she developed a fever and was treated. However, “the patient did not recover and was admitted to the hospital on [August 8th]…She developed dyspnoea and went into a coma…she expired [that day] at around 9:00 pm. The cause of death was determined as ‘death due to viral fever.’ … This event occurred after 23 days of receiving first dose of Gardasil. — V. 380081
* Thirteen days after vaccination, a ten year old girl developed “progressive loss of strength in lower and upper extremities almost totally…Nerve conduction studies [showed Guillain Barre Syndrome].” Case was “considered to be immediately life-threatening.” — V. 339375
more here:
http://www.naturalmedicine.com/news/vaccines/number-of-deaths-linked-to-hpv-vaccine-grows/
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All that Rick Perry is doing, is making sure he is voted into office to continue the globalist agenda.
The same agenda the last 16 presidents have been pushing.
UPDATES:
Texas Governor Bolsters Border, and His Profile
By MANNY FERNANDEZ and MICHAEL D. SHEARJULY 21, 2014
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/22/us/perry-to-deploy-national-guard-troops-to-mexico-border.html?_r=0
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Rick Perry
Perry assumed the office of governor on December 21, 2000, following the resignation of George W. Bush – who was preparing to become President of the United States.[11]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Perry#Governor_of_Texas
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Perry
A Record-Setting Decade of Immigration: 2000-2010
By Steven A. Camarota October 2011
New data from the Census Bureau show that the nation’s immigrant population (legal and illegal), also referred to as the foreign-born, reached 40 million in 2010, the highest number in American history. Nearly 14 million new immigrants (legal and illegal) settled in the country from 2000 to 2010, making it the highest decade of immigration in American history. This is the case even though there was a net decline of jobs during the decade. In contrast, from 1990 to 2000 job growth was 22 million and 13.2 million new immigrants arrived. Immigrants come for many reasons, such as a desire to join relatives or to access public services. As a result, immigration remains high even during a prolonged period of economic weakness.
more here;
http://cis.org/2000-2010-record-setting-decade-of-immigration
Illegal Immigration, Population Estimates in the United States, 1969-2011
http://immigration.procon.org/view.resource.php?resourceID=000844
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ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION DROPS AFTER DECADE-LONG RISE
By HOPE YEN
— Dec. 6, 2012 12:50 PM EST
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/illegal-immigration-drops-after-decade-long-rise
http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/12/06/15727992-new-data-confirm-big-drop-in-illegal-immigration?lite
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14 facts that help explain America's child-migrant crisis
Updated by Dara Lind on July 16, 2014, 11:58 a.m. ET
http://www.vox.com/2014/6/16/5813406/explain-child-migrant-crisis-central-america-unaccompanied-children-immigrants-daca
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Frequently Requested Statistics on Immigrants and Immigration in the United States
April 28, 2014
Spotlight
By
Chiamaka Nwosu, Jeanne Batalova, and Gregory Auclair
http://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/frequently-requested-statistics-immigrants-and-immigration-united-states
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Deportation data won't dispel rumors drawing migrant minors to U.S.
http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-deport-children-20140706-story.html#page=1
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BONUS:
MON JUL 21, 2014 AT 03:00 PM PDT
'Serious' Question about the Hobby Lobby ruling: Can I stop paying my student loans?
byOllieGarkey
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/07/21/1315610/-Serious-Question-about-the-Hobby-Lobby-ruling-Can-I-stop-paying-my-student-loans#
Well here you go:
EMBARRASSING: 40% Of Texas Job Growth Since 2007 Went To Illegal Immigrants
Gus Lubin | Sep. 22, 2011, 7:52 AM
Plenty of people have already attacked the Texas growth myth, but this report from the Center for Immigration Studies really stings.
The non-partisan group found that newly-arrived immigrants claimed 81% of state job growth from 2007 to 2011. What's worse, half of those immigrants were illegal -- representing 40% of state growth.
Obviously this won't go over well on the Perry campaign.
Newly-arrived immigrants dominated job growth despite representing only 29% of population growth.
Robert Reich, Paul Krugman and others have previously noted that most of the jobs added in Texas were low wage.
More from the CIS report:
Of jobs created in Texas since 2007, 81 percent were taken by newly arrived immigrant workers (legal and illegal).
In terms of numbers, between the second quarter of 2007, right before the recession began, and the second quarter of 2011, total employment in Texas increased by 279,000. Of this, 225,000 jobs went to immigrants (legal and illegal) who arrived in the United States in 2007 or later.
Of newly arrived immigrants who took a job in Texas, 93 percent were not U.S. citizens. Thus government data show that more than three-fourths of net job growth in Texas were taken by newly arrived non-citizens (legal and illegal).
The large share of job growth that went to immigrants is surprising because the native-born accounted for 69 percent of the growth in Texas’ working-age population (16 to 65). Thus, even though natives made up most of the growth in potential workers, most of the job growth went to immigrants.
The share of working-age natives holding a job in Texas declined significantly, from 71 percent in 2007 to 67 percent in 2011. This decline is very similar to the decline for natives in the United States as a whole and is an indication that the situation for native-born workers in Texas is very similar to the overall situation in the country despite the state’s job growth.
Of newly arrived immigrants who took jobs in Texas since 2007, we estimate that 50 percent (113,000) were illegal immigrants. Thus, about 40 percent of all the job growth in Texas since 2007 went to newly arrived illegal immigrants and 40 percent went to newly arrived legal immigrants.
Immigrants took jobs across the educational distribution. More than one out three (97,000) of newly arrived immigrants who took a job had at least some college.
These numbers raise the question of whether it makes sense to continue the current high level of legal immigration and also whether to continue to tolerate illegal immigration.
more here:
http://www.businessinsider.com/texas-jobs-immigrants-rick-perry-2011-9?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=politics
source(s):
Who Benefited from Job Growth In Texas?
A Look at Employment Gains for Immigrants and the Native-Born, 2007 to 2011
download this pdf ---> http://www.cis.org/articles/2011/immigrant-job-growth-texas.pdf
http://cis.org/immigrants-filled-most-new-jobs-in-Texas
How to Create More Jobs By Lowering Wages: Texas and America
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2011
http://robertreich.org/post/10183304775
OP-ED COLUMNIST
The Texas Unmiracle
By PAUL KRUGMAN
Published: August 14, 2011
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/15/opinion/the-texas-unmiracle.html?_r=1
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Rick Perry Said Something Nice to Hillary Clinton Eighteen Years Ago
8/30/11 at 4:40 PM
In a letter to Clinton, who is now U.S. Secretary of State, Perry wrote: “I think your efforts in trying to reform the nation’s health care system are most commendable.”
“I would like to request that the task force give particular consideration to the needs of the nation’s farmers, ranchers, and agriculture workers, and other members of rural communities,” Perry continued, noting his administration’s focus on economic development for rural Texans. “Rural populations have a high proportion of uninsured people, rising health care costs, and often experience lack of services.”
“Again, your efforts are worthy,” Perry concluded, ”and I hope you will remember this constituency as the task force progresses.”
This will not hurt Perry at all, for four reasons. One, it was eighteen years ago. Two, unlike Huntsman, Perry doesn't have a reputation as someone with liberal sympathies that this can play into. Three, he didn't even say anything about the substance of Clinton's health-care reform plan, just that it was "commendable" to try to reform the system in some way, which is hardly controversial. Four, this hardly even registers as a blip on the radar screen next to the Spruce Goose of Romneycare.
more here:
http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2011/08/rick_perry_hillary_clinton_health_care.html
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14 Reasons Why Rick Perry Would Be A Really, Really Bad President
found here: ----> http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/14-reasons-why-rick-perry-would-be-a-really-really-bad-president
Its well sourced, and it only takes a second to click the links and read the well sourced documentation.
Here we go, again.
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#1 Rick Perry is a "big government" politician. When Rick Perry became the governor of Texas in 2000, the total spending by the Texas state government was approximately $49 billion. Ten years later it was approximately $90 billion. That is not exactly reducing the size of government.
source:
http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2011/06/first-look-rick-perry.html
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#2 The debt of the state of Texas is out of control. According to usdebtclock.org, the debt to GDP ratio in Texas is 22.9% and the debt per citizen is $10,645. In California (a total financial basket case), the debt to GDP ratio is just 18.7% and the debt per citizen is only $9932. If Rick Perry runs for president these are numbers he will want to keep well hidden.
Texas Debt Clock:
http://www.usdebtclock.org/state-debt-clocks/state-of-texas-debt-clock.html
California Debt Clock:
http://www.usdebtclock.org/state-debt-clocks/state-of-california-debt-clock.html
Compare the clocks, which are accurate, then make up your own mind.
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#3 The total debt of the Texas government has more than doubled since Rick Perry became governor. So what would the U.S. national debt look like after four (or eight) years of Rick Perry?
source:
White says Texas debt has doubled under Perry
Bill White on Thursday, March 4th, 2010 in a speech
"Debt has almost doubled in Austin under Gov. Perry," White said. "They think you will not notice this!"
Game on.
Is White right?
We checked with the Texas Bond Review Board, which oversees the state's issuance of most bonds used to fund numerous activities, from helping local governments with economic development to building prisons to making housing loans to veterans. According to the board's annual reports, Texas had $34.08 billion in outstanding bonds and notes as of Aug. 31 — the end of the 2009 fiscal year.
Perry took office Dec. 21, 2000 — nearly five months into fiscal year 2001. At the end of that year, Texas had $13.7 billion in outstanding bonds and notes. Adjusting for inflation, that would have equaled $16.6 billion in 2009.
But there's a subset of state debt that hasn't surged, Perry's campaign pointed out — currently $3.07 billion to support parks and for construction of state facilities, among other activities. That debt has decreased by about 6 percent since 2001.
Then there's debt to be repaid with program revenue. For example, interest on student loans is used to repay the bond that funded it without the state having to commit general revenue. That "self-supporting" debt has increased by 173 percent since 2001.
more here:
http://www.politifact.com/texas/statements/2010/mar/04/bill-white/white-says-texas-debt-has-doubled-under-perry/
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#4 Rick Perry has spearheaded the effort to lease roads in Texas to foreign companies, to turn roads that are already free to drive on into toll roads, and to develop the Trans-Texas Corridor which would be part of the planned NAFTA superhighway system. If you really do deep research on this whole Trans-Texas Corridor nonsense you will see why no American should ever cast a single vote for Rick Perry.
What is interesting about the following source, this is the same group that has been saying Obama is from Kenya:
wnd.com
(I'll sum up what I think about the Birth Certificate issue with this.
If the Certificate in Hawaii can be a fake, the one in Kenya can be a fake as well.
No one knows the truth, if they did, it would be easy to prove.
Besides, you are not the federal government, you have no right to see mine, why should you see his?)
source:
NAFTA Superhighway plans advance south
Texas governor, Mexico agree to extend Trans-Texas Corridor
Posted: September 10, 2007
1:00 am Eastern
http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=43433
updated source:
Trans Texas Corridor Renamed, Not Dead
Written by Kelly Taylor Holt
Thursday, 15 January 2009 12:46
"TxDOT continues to pretend that this is a Texas project designed to help Texans get around. In fact, Governor Rick Perry and the late Ric Williamson, then head of the Texas Transportation Commission are on record stating that all Texas roads will eventually be tolled, and have viewed the TTC as a revenue project, not a traffic solution. The TTC does nothing to address Texans' legitimate complaints about rush hour traffic, but will destroy rural Texas. The TTC and other planned corridors do not address the problems on existing roads, and one of them, La Entrada al Pacifico, is actually routed through the least populated area of the state! Since the TTC has very limited on/off ramps, it will place drivers in a position of having to drive many miles out of their way to get off the road. A solution in need of a problem, the corridor will really serve as a pipeline for the massive and deadly infusion of "trade" from China."
more here:
http://thenewamerican.com/usnews/election/681
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#5 Rick Perry claims that he has a "track record" of not raising taxes. That is a false claim. Rick Perry has repeatedly raised taxes and fees while he has been governor. Today, Texans are faced with significantly higher taxes and fees than they were before Rick Perry was elected.
source:
Gov. Rick Perry says he has a track record of not raising taxes
Rick Perry on Friday, October 15th, 2010 in an interview
"I think for anybody to stand up here and say categorically there's not going to be this or there's not going to be that —" Perry started, before Evan Smith of the Tribune edged in: "Well, you said it with taxes."
Perry's response: "Well, but I've got a track record of that too. We don't raise taxes."
To get a handle on tax changes made early in Perry's governorship, we consulted a 2004 report from the comptroller's office that details the history of revenue-related bills that have become law from 1972 through 2003. Some notables from 2001, Perry's first legislative session as governor, and 2003:
* House Bill 3667, which Perry signed into law on June 16, 2001, enacting a 2 percent tax on the retail sale of fireworks to help fund a rural volunteer fire department insurance fund. The new levy was projected to generate $848,000 over the next two years; it ended up raising about $1.4 million in that period.
* Senate Bill 5, which Perry signed into law June 15, 2001, creating the Texas Emissions Reduction Plan Fund as part of an effort to help reduce emissions of nitrogen oxides, which are air pollutants. Revenue for the fund was generated through "several new charges," including a tax of 1 percent on the purchase or rental of diesel equipment.
* House Bill 1365, signed by the governor on June 22, 2003, made tweaks in the emissions reduction fund to bring in more money. With the changes, the report says, the impact to the fund was projected to be $234.9 million in 2004-05.
more here:
http://www.politifact.com/texas/statements/2010/nov/01/rick-perry/gov-rick-perry-says-he-has-track-record-not-raisin/
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#6 Even with the oil boom in Texas, 23 states have a lower unemployment rate than Texas does.
source:
msnbc - rick perry's texas not so miraculous
June 17: Rachel Maddow fact-checks the claims that comprise the celebrated Texas economic "miracle."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5EaX22ZP8E
Chart: Rick Perry's Texas Miracle
By Laura Conaway - Mon Aug 22, 2011 9:33 AM EDT
here:
http://maddowblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/08/22/7439128-chart-rick-perrys-texas-miracle
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#7 Back in 1988, Rick Perry supported Al Gore for president. In fact, Rick Perry actually served as Al Gore's campaign chairman in the state of Texas that year.
source:
Debra Medina claims Rick Perry was a Democrat and Al Gore's campaign manager
more and video:
http://www.politifact.com/texas/statements/2010/jan/16/debra-medina/debra-medina-claims-rick-perry-was-democrat-and-al/
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#8 Between December 2007 and April 2011, weekly wages in the U.S. increased by about 5 percent. In the state of Texas they increased by just 0.6% over that same time period.
the source link provided is dead, and I did not take the time to keep looking.
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#9 Texas now has one of the worst education systems in the nation. The following is from an opinion piece that was actually authored by Barbara Bush earlier this year....
source ---> Barbara Bush:
We can't afford to cut education
BARBARA BUSH
, HOUSTON CHRONICLE
Published 06:30 a.m., Sunday, February 6, 2011
• We rank 36th in the nation in high school graduation rates. An estimated 3.8 million Texans do not have a high school diploma.
• We rank 49th in verbal SAT scores, 47th in literacy and 46th in average math SAT scores.
• We rank 33rd in the nation on teacher salaries.
• Despite our outstanding universities and colleges, we also lag behind in several critical higher education criteria. For example, California has nine nationally recognized research institutions, New York has seven and Pennsylvania has four. With the University of Houston's recent designation by the Carnegie Foundation as a top research institution, Texas, the second largest state, has four.
more here:
http://www.chron.com/opinion/outlook/article/We-can-t-afford-to-cut-education-1691329.php
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#10 Rick Perry attended the Bilderberg Group meetings in 2007. Associating himself with that organization should be a red flag for all American voters.
source:
News 8 Austin - TX Gov. Rick Perry Attends Bilderberg in Istanbul, 2007
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90jfQrb4wAE
Rick Perry Confronted! He Grabs Camera, talks Bilderberg, says NO to new 9/11 Investigation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCTgiwWNkgk
Regardless of what he said after he came back, he broke the Logan Act:
§ 953. Private correspondence with foreign governments.
Any citizen of the United States, wherever he may be, who, without authority of the United States, directly or indirectly commences or carries on any correspondence or intercourse with any foreign government or any officer or agent thereof, with intent to influence the measures or conduct of any foreign government or of any officer or agent thereof, in relation to any disputes or controversies with the United States, or to defeat the measures of the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.
This section shall not abridge the right of a citizen to apply himself, or his agent, to any foreign government, or the agents thereof, for redress of any injury which he may have sustained from such government or any of its agents or subjects.
1 Stat. 613, January 30, 1799, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 953 (2004).
I found that on wikipedia, just so you know ----> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logan_Act#Text_of_the_Logan_Act
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#11 Texas has the highest percentage of workers making minimum wage out of all 50 states.
again, broken link, didn't take the time to dig in on this one.
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#12 Rick Perry often gives speeches about illegal immigration, but when you look at the facts, he has been incredibly soft on the issue. If Rick Perry does not plan to secure the border, then he should not be president because illegal immigration is absolutely devastating many areas of the southwest United States.
Now this is interesting, the first link takes me to wikipedia:
Immigration
In 2001, Perry expressed his pride in the enactment of the statute extending in-state tuition to children of undocumented workers. He said:
We must say to every Texas child learning in a Texas classroom, “we don’t care where you come from, but where you are going, and we are going to do everything we can to help you get there.” And that vision must include the children of undocumented workers. That’s why Texas took the national lead in allowing such deserving young minds to attend a Texas college at a resident rate.[162]
Perry has opposed the creation of the Mexico – United States barrier, which is meant to keep out illegal aliens. Instead of barricading the border completely with a fence, Perry believes that the federal government should fulfill its responsibility to its citizens by securing the borders with "boots on the ground" and technology to improve safety while not harming trade with the state's biggest trading partner, Mexico.[163] Perry said the Arizona immigration law SB 1070 “would not be the right direction for Texas” and would distract law enforcement from fighting other crimes.[164]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Perry#Immigration
Do you see those numbers, they belong to the source links at the bottom of each wiki article:
[162] ^ Perry, Rick (August 22, 2001). "Gov. Rick Perry's Remarks to the Border Summit". Office of the Governor. Retrieved August 14, 2011.
http://governor.state.tx.us/news/speech/10688/
[163] # ^ "Rechaza gobernador de Texas muro fronterizo" (in Spanish). Retrieved 2006-03-07.
http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/notas/326377.html
[164] ^ "Rick Perry's View on Arizona SB1070". Retrieved 2011-06-18.
http://www.texasgopvote.com/blog/rick-perrys-view-arizona-sb1070-border-security-and-immigration-debate-05055
You see, wikipedia can be reliable, you just have to know how to use it.
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#13 In 2007, 221,000 residents of Texas were making minimum wage or less. By 2010, that number had risen to 550,000.
another broken source link.
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#14 Rick Perry actually issued an executive order in 2007 that would have forced almost every single girl in the state of Texas to receive the Gardasil vaccine before entering the sixth grade. Perry would have put parents in a position where they would have had to fill out an application and beg the government not to inject their child with a highly controversial vaccine. Since then, very serious safety issues regarding this vaccine have come to light. Fortunately, lawmakers in Texas blocked what Perry was trying to do. According to Wikipedia, many were troubled when "apparent financial connections between Merck and Perry were reported by news outlets, such as a $6,000 campaign contribution and Merck's hiring of former Perry Chief of Staff Mike Toomey to handle its Texas lobbying work."
source, again, look at the links and read the articles.
HPV vaccine controversy
On February 2, 2007, Perry issued an executive order mandating that Texas girls receive HPV vaccine that protects against some strains of the human papilloma virus, a contributing factor to some forms of cervical cancer.[95] The order provided vaccination free of charge to those who were not covered by insurance,[96] and included an opt-out provision for parents. At the time of the order, Gardasil, a newly approved drug manufactured by Merck, was the only HPV vaccine approved by the Food and Drug Administration. The move made national headlines,[97] and apparent financial connections between Merck and Perry were reported by news outlets, such as a $6,000 campaign contribution and Merck's hiring of former Perry Chief of Staff Mike Toomey to handle its Texas lobbying work and Perry's "current chief of staff's mother-in-law, Texas Republican state Rep. Dianne White Delisi [as] state director for Women in Government".[95][98]
Perry's decision was criticized by some social conservatives and parents due to concerns about possible moral implications of the vaccine and safety concerns. On February 22, 2007, a group of families sued in an attempt to block Perry's executive order.[99]
In May 2007, the Texas Legislature passed a bill to undo Perry's executive order. Perry did not veto it, saying the Legislature would have sufficient time and votes to override his veto.[100]
[95] # ^ a b Carney, Timothy (June 21, 2011) "Rick Perry's mixed record on regulatory robbery", The Washington Examiner
http://washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/2011/06/rick-perrys-mixed-record-regulatory-robbery
[96] # ^ Texas Gov. Orders Anti-Cancer Vaccine The Washington Post, February 2, 2007, Liz Austin PETERSON
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/02/AR2007020201528.html
[97] # ^ "Monkey and other business". The Economist. May 31, 2007. Retrieved July 30, 2007.
http://www.economist.com/node/9264314?story_id=9264314
[98] # ^ Peterson, Liz Austin (February 22, 2007). "Perry's staff discussed vaccine on day Merck donated to campaign". Austin American-Statesman. Associated Press. Retrieved August 7, 2011.
http://www.statesman.com/news/content/region/legislature/stories/02/22/22perry.html
[99] # ^ "Texas Families Seek to Block Gov's Order". Associated Press. Newsmax Media. February 25, 2007. Retrieved August 7, 2011.
http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2007/2/25/111903.shtml
[100] # ^ MacLaggan, Corrie (May 9, 2007). "Perry lets HPV bill go into law". Austin American-Statesman. Retrieved August 16, 2011.
http://www.statesman.com/news/content/region/legislature/stories/05/09/9hpv.html
more here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Perry#HPV_vaccine_controversy
and more here:
04 Oct, 2010 | Number of Deaths Linked to HPV Vaccine Grows
Adverse report excerpts include heartbreaking personal stories:
* A nineteen year old girl with no medical history except occasional cases bronchitis received Gardasil and in 53 days, had “Headache, Nausea, dizziness, chilling, tiredness, shortness of breath, complained of chest plain, severe cramps.” She experienced an Acute Cardiac Arrhythmia. Attempts to resuscitate her resulted in a sternal fracture, but were unsuccessful and the patient died. — V. 356938
* A thirteen year old girl was vaccinated on July 17th, 2009. Ten days later, she developed a fever and was treated. However, “the patient did not recover and was admitted to the hospital on [August 8th]…She developed dyspnoea and went into a coma…she expired [that day] at around 9:00 pm. The cause of death was determined as ‘death due to viral fever.’ … This event occurred after 23 days of receiving first dose of Gardasil. — V. 380081
* Thirteen days after vaccination, a ten year old girl developed “progressive loss of strength in lower and upper extremities almost totally…Nerve conduction studies [showed Guillain Barre Syndrome].” Case was “considered to be immediately life-threatening.” — V. 339375
more here:
http://www.naturalmedicine.com/news/vaccines/number-of-deaths-linked-to-hpv-vaccine-grows/
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All that Rick Perry is doing, is making sure he is voted into office to continue the globalist agenda.
The same agenda the last 16 presidents have been pushing.
UPDATES:
Texas Governor Bolsters Border, and His Profile
By MANNY FERNANDEZ and MICHAEL D. SHEARJULY 21, 2014
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/22/us/perry-to-deploy-national-guard-troops-to-mexico-border.html?_r=0
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Rick Perry
Perry assumed the office of governor on December 21, 2000, following the resignation of George W. Bush – who was preparing to become President of the United States.[11]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Perry#Governor_of_Texas
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Perry
A Record-Setting Decade of Immigration: 2000-2010
By Steven A. Camarota October 2011
New data from the Census Bureau show that the nation’s immigrant population (legal and illegal), also referred to as the foreign-born, reached 40 million in 2010, the highest number in American history. Nearly 14 million new immigrants (legal and illegal) settled in the country from 2000 to 2010, making it the highest decade of immigration in American history. This is the case even though there was a net decline of jobs during the decade. In contrast, from 1990 to 2000 job growth was 22 million and 13.2 million new immigrants arrived. Immigrants come for many reasons, such as a desire to join relatives or to access public services. As a result, immigration remains high even during a prolonged period of economic weakness.
more here;
http://cis.org/2000-2010-record-setting-decade-of-immigration
Illegal Immigration, Population Estimates in the United States, 1969-2011
http://immigration.procon.org/view.resource.php?resourceID=000844
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ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION DROPS AFTER DECADE-LONG RISE
By HOPE YEN
— Dec. 6, 2012 12:50 PM EST
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/illegal-immigration-drops-after-decade-long-rise
http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/12/06/15727992-new-data-confirm-big-drop-in-illegal-immigration?lite
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14 facts that help explain America's child-migrant crisis
Updated by Dara Lind on July 16, 2014, 11:58 a.m. ET
http://www.vox.com/2014/6/16/5813406/explain-child-migrant-crisis-central-america-unaccompanied-children-immigrants-daca
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Frequently Requested Statistics on Immigrants and Immigration in the United States
April 28, 2014
Spotlight
By
Chiamaka Nwosu, Jeanne Batalova, and Gregory Auclair
http://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/frequently-requested-statistics-immigrants-and-immigration-united-states
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Deportation data won't dispel rumors drawing migrant minors to U.S.
http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-deport-children-20140706-story.html#page=1
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BONUS:
MON JUL 21, 2014 AT 03:00 PM PDT
'Serious' Question about the Hobby Lobby ruling: Can I stop paying my student loans?
byOllieGarkey
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/07/21/1315610/-Serious-Question-about-the-Hobby-Lobby-ruling-Can-I-stop-paying-my-student-loans#
Sunday, August 24, 2014
Population Control Update - The Philippines
This is an update to:
population control - are the numbers non-sense? 04.17.2014
http://globalistnews.blogspot.com/2014/04/population-control-are-numbers-non.html
We can some up the population control plan with one word:
Catholicism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholocism
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Philippines joyous as baby Chonalyn's arrival means population hits 100m
Girl born in Manlia showered with gifts as nation celebrates milestone, and also worries how it will cope with burgeoning numbers
Dailin Duras Cabigayan, 27, smiles with her daughter Chonalyn, as officials present her with a cake and clothing, as the 100 millionth baby born in the Philippines. Photograph: Romeo Ranoco/Reuters
Associated Press in Manila
The Guardian, Sunday 27 July 2014 13.46 EDT
Philippine officials welcomed the birth on Sunday of their country's 100 millionth citizen with a cake, hope and concerns about how their poor nation can help ensure a decent life for its swelling population.
A girl named Chonalyn was born shortly after midnight at the government-run Jose Fabella hospital in Manila, pushing the country's estimated population to the milestone figure, said Juan Antonio Perez III, executive director of the Commission on Population.
Wrapped in a blanket and pink bonnet and cradled by her beaming mother, Chonalyn was showered with a cake, infant clothes and other gifts by health and population commission officials at a hospital ceremony.
The United Nations Population Fund said the milestone offers both challenges and opportunities to the Philippines, which is the world's 12th most populous country and has one of Asia's fastest-growing populations.
"It is important to emphasise that population is not merely a matter of numbers, but of human rights and opportunities," said Klaus Beck, the UNPF's Philippines representative.
With 54% of its population under the age of 25, the Philippines needs to provide the young with education, job opportunities and skills, Beck said.
Nearly half of the country's people live in cities as more Filipinos migrate from rural areas to look for better opportunities elsewhere, fostering problems such as trafficking in girls and women that have to be addressed, he said.
In the poorest areas, women bear more children than they desire because of a lack of access to reproductive health information and services, Beck said.
President Benigno Aquino III signed a law in 2012 that directs government health centers to provide free access to nearly all contraceptives to everyone, particularly the poor, but its enforcement was delayed amid strong opposition from the dominant Roman Catholic church.
In April, the supreme court declared that the law was constitutional and gave the government the OK to enforce it.
more here:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/27/philippines-chonalyn-baby-100m-population
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Photos: Inside one of the world’s busiest maternity wards
BY BRIAN EPSTEIN August 24, 2014 at 12:23 PM EDT
Grappling with a population boom, the maternity ward at the Jose Favella Hospital in the Philippine capital of Manila is one of the busiest in the world, with an average of 60 births per day. No other hospital in the country has a higher birth rate.
To ensure that mothers are given the right child after giving birth, nurses attach two identification tags to newborns on their ankles and wrists. In the past three decades, the country’s population has more than doubled from 45 million to 100 million.
Because of the staggering birth rate in the Philippines, there are typically more patients in the maternity ward at the Jose Favella Hospital than there are resources to treat them, the hospital’s chief obstetrician, Dr. Silvia de La Paz said. Credit: Mark Litke/NewsHour
Because families in the Philippines, Asia’s most Catholic country, have had little or no access to contraception or family planning advice, they often get larger every year, experts note. Credit: Mark Litke/NewsHour
The population is growing fastest among the poorest Filipinos who can’t afford contraception, officials say. Credit: Mark Litke/NewsHour
Because so many give birth daily at the hospital, nurses are forced to put to beds together for four mothers and four newborns, called a “tandem bed.” Credit: Mark Litke/NewsHour
Mothers rest with their newborns on tandem beds in the maternity ward of the Jose Favella Hospital in Manila. Credit: Mark Litke/NewsHour
Janice Dario, 19, just had her second baby. A third of all 19-year-olds in the Philippines already have a child or are pregnant with their first, according to the United Nations Population Fund. Credit: Mark Litke/NewsHour
Overpopulation in the Philippines means many new mothers will go from a short stay in overcrowded hospital wards back to life in the teeming slums of the city. Credit: Mark Litke/NewsHour
Watch our full broadcast report on reproductive health from the Philippines, here:
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/photos-inside-one-worlds-busiest-maternity-wards/
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Religion in the Philippines
The Philippines is a secular nation with a constitutional separation of church and state. As a result of Spanish cultural influence, Religion in the Philippines is marked by a majority of people being of the Christian faith (~90%). The Philippines is one of two predominantly Roman Catholic countries in Asia, the other being East Timor, a former Portuguese colony. More than 90% of the population are Christians: about 80.3% belong to the Roman Catholic Church while 9.5% belong to Protestant Christian denominations, such as the Iglesia ni Cristo, the Philippine Independent Church, United Church of Christ in the Philippines (a mainline Protestant United Church), and Jehovah's Witnesses.
more here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_the_Philippines
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Pretty crazy, right?
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The Problem: "Too many babies are being born..."
The Reaction: "and its hurting 'mother earth', blah, blah, blah, thanks a lot Christians."
The Solution: "We (the United Nations and related organizations) should start up some programs to slow this down: "
Human population control
Population control may use one or more of the following practices although there are other methods as well:
- Contraception
- Abstinence
- Reducing infant mortality so that parents do not increase their family size to ensure at least some survive to adulthood.[3]
- Abortion
- Improving status of women causing departure from traditional sexual division of labour.
- Emigration
- Immigration reduction
- Sterilization
- Legislation
sources and more here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_population_control
Eventually, there will be a shift in the Philippines, just as there was in China.
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Roman Catholicism in China
China is home to an estimated 12 million Catholics, the majority of whom worship outside the official Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association (CPA). The State Administration for Religious Affairs states that there are 5.3 million Catholics belonging to the official Catholic Patriotic Association, which oversees 70 bishops, and approximately 6,000 churches nationwide.[19] In addition, there are roughly 40 bishops unordained by the CPA who operate unofficially, and recognize the authority of the Vatican.[19]
more here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Catholicism_in_China
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China scales back one-child policy
May 30, 2014, 6:48 PM|China is hoping for a new baby boom after a landmark decision to loosen its limit of one child per family. For the first time in the history of communist China, the labor force is shrinking. Now up to 20 million more couples can have a second child. Seth Doane reports.
video here:
http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/china-scales-back-one-child-policy/
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Catholic Church in India
The Catholic Church in India is part of the worldwide Roman Catholic Church under the leadership of the Pope and the curia in Rome.
There are over 19.9 million Catholics in India,[1] which represents around 1.55% of the total population[2] and the Catholic church is the largest Christian church within India.[1]
more here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Church_in_India
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The big picture:
They tell lies and the truth in the same sentence.
1) We have a lot of people this planet, 7 billion. -Truth
--its good that people are able to have children, its God given.
2) We don't have enough room for all of these people. -Lie
--its evil that they have chosen to kill us off to "save the earth"
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:
The Jesuit Order, using the Catholic Church is implementing the Birth Control Agenda.
Wednesday, August 20, 2014
Movie Trailer - "Automata"
Cyberpunk is a subgenre of science fiction in a near-future setting. Noted for its focus on "high tech and low life," it features advanced science, such as information technology and cybernetics, coupled with a degree of breakdown or radical change in the social order.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberpunk
Watch: First Trailer For Sci-Fi 'Automata' Starring Antonio Banderas
NEWS BY KEVIN JAGERNAUTH
AUGUST 20, 2014 1:27 PM
“Automata is, you know, my baby. And why I say that is because I produced the movie, besides being also the star of it,"
Antonio Banderas recently said in a Reddit AMA about his forthcoming "Automata." "It’s actually an approach to science fiction in a very European way, in an independent way," he continued. "It’s a movie about concept that is [a] philosophical, scientific concept called singularity, which is the time in which machines actually overcome the human mind. So it’s a very reflective philosophical science fiction, going back to the science fiction I love, like Isaac Asimov. That’s the type of movie we tried to do.” So you sci-fi heads better pay attention, as the first trailer for the movie has arrived.
Co-starring Melanie Griffith and Dylan McDermott and directed by Gabe Ibáñez, the movie follows an insurance agent of the ROC robotics corporation who investigates the illicit manipulation of a robot. But what he discovers will have profound consequences for the future of humanity. And frankly, it all sounds a little "I, Robot" to us (the Asimov book, not the Will Smith movie).
"Automata" opens on in theatres and On Demand on October 10th.
found here:
http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/watch-first-trailer-for-sci-fi-automata-starring-antonio-banderas-20140820
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Contextual video and more below:
Turing Test and the Singularity - 06.23.2014
http://globalistnews.blogspot.com/2014/06/turing-test-and-singularity-06232014.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberpunk
Watch: First Trailer For Sci-Fi 'Automata' Starring Antonio Banderas
NEWS BY KEVIN JAGERNAUTH
AUGUST 20, 2014 1:27 PM
“Automata is, you know, my baby. And why I say that is because I produced the movie, besides being also the star of it,"
Antonio Banderas recently said in a Reddit AMA about his forthcoming "Automata." "It’s actually an approach to science fiction in a very European way, in an independent way," he continued. "It’s a movie about concept that is [a] philosophical, scientific concept called singularity, which is the time in which machines actually overcome the human mind. So it’s a very reflective philosophical science fiction, going back to the science fiction I love, like Isaac Asimov. That’s the type of movie we tried to do.” So you sci-fi heads better pay attention, as the first trailer for the movie has arrived.
Co-starring Melanie Griffith and Dylan McDermott and directed by Gabe Ibáñez, the movie follows an insurance agent of the ROC robotics corporation who investigates the illicit manipulation of a robot. But what he discovers will have profound consequences for the future of humanity. And frankly, it all sounds a little "I, Robot" to us (the Asimov book, not the Will Smith movie).
"Automata" opens on in theatres and On Demand on October 10th.
found here:
http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/watch-first-trailer-for-sci-fi-automata-starring-antonio-banderas-20140820
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Contextual video and more below:
Turing Test and the Singularity - 06.23.2014
http://globalistnews.blogspot.com/2014/06/turing-test-and-singularity-06232014.html
Saturday, August 9, 2014
What's my problem with Conservatism? Part 02
I don't have a problem with Conservatism itself, it's Isms in general.
There are so many Isms in the world, it's mind boggling.
I found this rather large list:
Philosophical Isms
"Here are 234 different isms, each representing a philosophical, political or moral doctrine or a belief system. In selecting terms for the list, I have deliberately avoided any word which apply ism to a personal name, so that Marxism doesn't count although it is otherwise an ideal candidate for the list. I also excluded isms which do not refer to a specific belief system, such as impressionism (an artistic movement) or alcoholism (a disease). Despite these omissions, enough remain to leave an ism in every pot, including beliefs about proper government, God, and the nature of existence itself. Of the terms on the list that are of a religious nature, most are Christian, which is not unexpected, but I'm open to adding isms from other world religions."
> I'll list a few of these:
anarchism doctrine that all governments should be abolished
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchism
adoptionism belief that Christ was the adopted and not natural son of God
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adoptionism
autotheism belief that one is God incarnate or that one is Christ
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autotheism
diphysitism belief in the dual nature of Christ
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diophysitism
ditheletism doctrine that Christ had two wills
and
monophysitism belief that Christ was primarily divine but in human form
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ditheletism
kenotism doctrine that Christ rid himself of divinity in becoming human
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenotism
monotheletism belief that Christ had only one will
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monotheletism
psilanthropism denial of Christ's divinity
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psilanthropism
ubiquitarianism belief that Christ is everywhere
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubiquitarians
conservatism belief in maintaining political and social traditions:
"Edmund Burke, an 18th-century politician who opposed the French Revolution but supported the American Revolution, is credited as one of the main theorists of conservatism in Great Britain in the 1790s"
more here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservatism
more "Isms" here:
http://phrontistery.info/isms.html
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Someone who believes we should vote and resist tyranny, sent me this:
"All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good people to do nothing."
--Edmund Burke
my simple reply to this person:
"Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants fight, that I should not be delivered to the Jews: but now is my kingdom not from hence. "
--John 18:36
I said nothing else after that, and I received no reply to that scripture.
Oh, there's just one problem with that Edmund Burke quote, he never said that.
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Edmund_Burke#Disputed
He was also a Freemason, two sources confirm the first:
1) The Freemasons: A History of the World's Most Powerful Secret Society By Jasper Godwin Ridley
larger: http://i.imgur.com/LwJhjpq.png
found here:
http://tinyurl.com/p8suv5j
2) Edmund Burke Author, Orator, Political Theorist, Philosopher and Freemason.
http://www.irishmasonichistory.com/edmund-burke-author-orator-political-theorist-philosopher-and-freemason.html
Statue in Washington, D.C.
Edmund Burke by James Northcote
3) Jerusalem Lodge No. 44, Clerkenwell, London
January 12, 1729 Ð July 9, 1797
"Toleration is good for all or it is good for none."
http://freemasonry.bcy.ca/biography/burke_e/burke_e.html
So, every freedom fighter on the Internet is quoting a Freemason and does not even realize it.
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> I'm just going to drop this in the middle of my rant...
THE STATE REPUBLICAN PARTY IN TEXAS IS NOW THE CRAZIEST IN AMERICA
By Charles P. Pierce on July 7, 2014
If you want to see the clearest symptoms of the prion disease that has devoured the brain of the Republican party, the state Republican party is your Patient Zero. And, before a whole bunch of people in the Beltway media playpen begin minimizing this craziness because it pretty much shatters the whole idea of Both Sides Doing It without which most of those people can't get out of bed in the morning. This isn't four guys in camo in Idaho. This isn't a guy broadcasting on a short-wave from upper Michigan, or receiving the truth about chemtrails and the Illuminati through his teeth. This is the Republican party representing the state from which he got our last Republican president, and one of the biggest states in the Union. This is what it believes, as summed up with realit-based parentheticals by Hendrik Hertzberg at The New Yorker:
"Let's proceed to policy. In the next of its forty pages, the platform demands, among other things: That the Texas Legislature should nullify-indeed, "ignore, oppose, refuse, and nullify"-federal laws it doesn't like. (Unmentioned is the fact that, beginning in 1809, the Supreme Court has steadfastedly rejected state nullification of federal laws.); That when it comes to "unelected bureaucrats"-i.e., pretty much the entire federal work force above the janitorial level-Congress should "defund and abolish these positions."; That the Seventeenth Amendment, which was adopted in 1913, be repealed, so that "the appointment of United States Senators" can again be made by state legislators, not by voters. (Admittedly, the Texas Legislature could hardly do worse.), That all federal "enforcement activities" within the borders of Texas-including, presumably, the activities of F.B.I. agents, Justice Department prosecutors, air marshals, immigration officers, agricultural inspectors, and tax auditors-"must be conducted under the auspices of the county sheriff with jurisdiction in that county."
Keep an eye on that last sentence. The Republican party of the state of Texas, a state which has 38 electoral votes and which will send 153 delegates to the 2016 Republican National Convention, has endorsed the exact theory of government that was promulgated by the gun-toting yahoos at the Bundy Ranch. And there's more.
"...there are plenty of things that Texas Republicans plan to do away with entirely-or, to use their preferred word, things they would subject to "abolishment." (For Calhoun conservatives, I suppose, "abolition" has regrettable overtones.) A partial list: Personal-income taxes; Property taxes; Estate taxes; Capital-gains taxes; Franchise and business-income taxes; The gift tax; Minimum-wage laws; Social Security ("We support an immediate and orderly transition to a system of private pensions"); The Environmental Protection Agency;The Department of Education and all its functions; "Unelected bureaucrats"; "Any and all federal agencies not based on an enumerated power granted by the United States Federal Constitution"; Congressional pensions; Supreme Court jurisdiction in cases involving abortion, religious freedom, and the Bill of Rights; The Federal Reserve; "Foreign aid, except in cases of national defense or catastrophic disasters, with Congressional approval," Obamacare (but you knew that already)."
The Republican party of the state of Texas, a state that went for Mitt Romney by over two million votes, would like to do away with the Federal Reserve, and any Supreme Court jurisdiction in any case involving the Bill Of Rights. And, yes, there's more.
"Things that the Texas Republicans support: Withdrawal from the United Nations, the International Monetary Fund, the World Trade Organization, and the World Bank; "Traditional methods of discipline, including corporal punishment;" "Reducing taxpayer funding to all levels of education institutions," Returning to "the time-tested precious metal standard for the United States dollar." "
The Republican Party of the state of Texas, a state in which north of 45 percent of the voters identify as Republicans, would like to bring back spanking.
It seems almost pointless to mention this but there is simply no state Democratic party in any of the 50 states that is so clearly, obviously demented. This is the Republican Party. Yuval Levin and Ramesh Ponnuru are not. In fact, I think all those bold conservative thinkers of whom the New York Times thinks so much should bring their Big Ideas down to the next Texas state Republican convention and see how far they get. John Boehner, and Mitch McConnell, and especially obvious anagram Reince Priebus, who nominally presides over Bedlam, need to be asked every day which parts of the Texas Republican platform they support and which parts they don't. They don't get to use the crazies to get elected and then hide behind fake Washington politesse when the howls from the hinterlands get too loud. We allow ourselves only two major political parties. One of them is completely out of its fcking mind. This is a national problem.
here:
http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/Crazy_In_Texas
> ....oh, they are not done....
HISTORY GOES INTO RERUNS
By Charles P. Pierce on July 8, 2014
We had a peek yesterday into the lizard brain that drives the Texas Republican Party. It would be a mistake, however, to divorce the crazy from its proper historical antecedents. We would hate to accuse the Texas Republican Party of being made up of original thinkers or anything. Their ideas come from a long and proud American political history. We will put up something from the 2014 Texas Republican Party platform, and then we will pair it with something that presaged it rather accurately. For example:
A) We strongly urge the Texas Legislature ignore, oppose, refuse, and nullify any federal mandated legislation which infringes upon the states'10th Amendment Right. All federal enforcement activities in Texas must be conducted under the auspices of the county sheriff with jurisdiction in that county.
B) To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian tribes; but neither this, nor any other clause contained in the Constitution, shall ever be construed to delegate the power to Congress to appropriate money for any internal improvement intended to facilitate commerce.
Or...
A) We, the 2014 Republican Party of Texas, believe in this platform and expect our elected leaders to uphold these truths through acknowledgement and action...We believe in:1.Strict adherence to the original intent of the Declaration of Independence and United States and Texas Constitutions...And we believe in "The laws of nature and nature's God" as our Founding Fathers believed.
B) We, the people ...each State acting in its sovereign and independent character, in order to form a permanent federal government, establish justice, insure domestic tranquillity, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity invoking the favor and guidance of Almighty God do ordain and establish this Constitution...
The A passages are from the Texas Republican platform.
The B passages are from the Constitution.
Of the Confederate States Of America.
Just sayin'
here:
http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/History_Goes_Into_Reruns
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The Jesuits have been around since before this nation was even founded.
There's a really good breakdown of the hierarchy of control in Newswatch Magazine:
July 2014
The history of the papacy was 1,260 years long. The pope was captured in 1798 by a French general and died in prison. A new pope arose and the papacy is alive today.
People in the 1950-60’s were afraid of John F. Kennedy because he was a Catholic. They feared what the Pope and Catholic Church had done in Europe. Persecution and death reigned. Confiscation of so called heretics’ property took half the peoples property.
Today, the House of Representatives, the Senate, and courts are filled with secret Catholics and Jesuits. There are hundreds of Jesuits sponsored colleges to train young men to infiltrate our colleges, universities, political systems, etc.
The President of Harding University travelled the country lecturing about the Jesuits and Communism. Today, the Society of Jesus or Jesuits are stronger than ever.
The Pope had no entrance into America until President Ronald Reagan sent an Ambassador of America to Rome in 1984. Since then we find every fabric of society loaded with them. They are the military arm of the Vatican.
subscribe here:
http://www.newswatchmagazine.org/magazine/july-2014/
August 2014
Has idolatry, the worship of statues, ceased in the Catholic Church? Remember, within the first four of the Ten Commandments is the commandment NOT to commit idolatry, but the Catholic Church conveniently left it out and divided the Tenth Commandment into two parts to make it ten. The Second Council of Nicaea stated: “The Christians should not only serve and honor images, but adore and worship them” (Religion in America, p. 50, Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1968).
All pagan religions worship and bow to idols. Members of the Catholic Church say they are dealing with dead “saints.” In reality, they are worshipping the same pagan gods and goddesses of the occultists. After much research, historian Will Durant wrote: “Paganism survived…in the form of ancient rites and customs condoned, or accepted AND , by an often indulgent [Catholic] Church. And intimate and trustful worship of ; the Roman Lupercalia and the feast of purification of Isis became the Feast of the Nativity; the Saturnalia [and Brumalia - worship of Saturn as a god] were replaced by Christmas celebration…an ancient festival of the dead [was replaced] by All Souls Day, rededicated to Christian heroes; incense, lights, flowers, processions, vestments, hymns which had pleased the people in older cults were domesticated and cleansed in the ritual of the [Catholic] Church…soon people and priests would use the sign of the cross as a magic incantation to expel or drive away demons.”
“The Virgin [Mary] was given the title Queen of Heaven and is depicted wearing a blue robe decorated with stars and standing on a crescentmoon. This image is almost identical to pagan representations of the Goddess of Love, Ishtar, who was worshipped by the Babylonians. The statues of the Madonna holding the infant Jesus in her arms, which were erected in Catholic churches, are almost exact copies of the effigies of Isis suckling her baby Horus, found in Egyptian’s temples” (Michael Howard, The Occult Conspiracy: The Power of Secret Societies in World History [NY, NY: MFJ Books, 1989], p. 22).
Other proof of the PAGANISM of the Roman Catholic Church is: “Pagan gods were made Christian saints. A few examples are: Tammuz, the Hebrew form of the Accadian Tamzi, the sun god, and Dum-zi, became St. Thomas the Doubter.
From this tidbit of information, we can understand that the Catholic Church NEVER HAS BEEN CHRISTIAN.
NOTE: The Catholic inner, esoteric trinity is Father, Mother, Child. Which means they must elevate the female to the point of deity. Hence Mary being worshipped and Catholics having to go through Mary to get to Jesus.
subscribe here:
http://www.newswatchmagazine.org/magazine/august-2014/
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What's my point?
I wrote up a blog:
Is this Christian?
http://globalistnews.blogspot.com/2014/06/is-this-christian.html
I'd like to clarify some stuff.
I've been reading various right-wing pages of the conservative/tea-party/republican/gop for one reason:
They claim to be us.
What do I mean by "us"?
They claim to be Christians while breaking his Law.
I did the same thing before God called me, so I speak from experience.
"But...but your mother and father, were they not Christian?"
> No, and they are still not.
> How can they be according to the Word:
Acts 5:32
And we are his witnesses of these things; and so is also the Holy Ghost, whom God hath given to them that obey him.
I Corinthians 5:8
Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
Joshua 24:14
Now therefore fear the LORD, and serve him in sincerity and in truth: and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the flood, and in Egypt; and serve ye the LORD.
Isaiah 8:20
To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.
"But they mean well..."
> I "meant well", too. I still had to repent.
> See the Word mentioned above.
"Why post this blog?"
> I post this blog for those who out there that God called and might want some perspective on news.
The thing is, I hate being misrepresented, but that is bound to happen in Babylon.
I think it diminishes the calling when we are lumped in with those who are not called.
I don't believe in grey areas of anything, and I certainly do not believe there are 'lesser of two evils' in politics.
The left can claim the same thing and note every single wrong Bush did, and it still means nothing if they can't point out the wrong with their own party-politics.
Anyhow, it's been interesting, but I've seen no point in watching the right or the left, when the very globalist groups that are pushing the real agenda are on youtube talking about it.
I'm going to make a best effort to not post things that are not caught up in the paradigm.
and one more thing...
for those thinking:
"He must be liberal and doesn't know it."
> I was an Anarchist before conversion, because I didn't trust government.
I could not understand why voting never seem to change anything for the better, and now I know why.
Anarchism
"Anarchism is a political philosophy that advocates stateless societies often defined as self-governed voluntary institutions, but that several authors have defined as more specific institutions based on non-hierarchical free associations.
...
Jesus is sometimes considered the first anarchist in the Christian anarchist tradition. Georges Lechartier wrote that "The true founder of anarchy was Jesus Christ and...the first anarchist society was that of the apostles."
more here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchism
We know Jesus Christ was not anti-government, because he has his own government coming, the Kingdom of God.
So, Georges Lechartier can go fly a kite in a thunderstorm with that non-sense.
There's no amount of money in the world that would make me resist tyranny, or become politically active or vote. Not when I'm being offered immortality and a place in God's perfect system.
...but hey, do you see the irony?
God called an Anarchist...LOL
There will be no Isms in the Kingdom of God, because they are all Man-Made.
Think about it.
There are so many Isms in the world, it's mind boggling.
I found this rather large list:
Philosophical Isms
"Here are 234 different isms, each representing a philosophical, political or moral doctrine or a belief system. In selecting terms for the list, I have deliberately avoided any word which apply ism to a personal name, so that Marxism doesn't count although it is otherwise an ideal candidate for the list. I also excluded isms which do not refer to a specific belief system, such as impressionism (an artistic movement) or alcoholism (a disease). Despite these omissions, enough remain to leave an ism in every pot, including beliefs about proper government, God, and the nature of existence itself. Of the terms on the list that are of a religious nature, most are Christian, which is not unexpected, but I'm open to adding isms from other world religions."
> I'll list a few of these:
anarchism doctrine that all governments should be abolished
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchism
adoptionism belief that Christ was the adopted and not natural son of God
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adoptionism
autotheism belief that one is God incarnate or that one is Christ
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autotheism
diphysitism belief in the dual nature of Christ
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diophysitism
ditheletism doctrine that Christ had two wills
and
monophysitism belief that Christ was primarily divine but in human form
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ditheletism
kenotism doctrine that Christ rid himself of divinity in becoming human
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenotism
monotheletism belief that Christ had only one will
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monotheletism
psilanthropism denial of Christ's divinity
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psilanthropism
ubiquitarianism belief that Christ is everywhere
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubiquitarians
conservatism belief in maintaining political and social traditions:
"Edmund Burke, an 18th-century politician who opposed the French Revolution but supported the American Revolution, is credited as one of the main theorists of conservatism in Great Britain in the 1790s"
more here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservatism
more "Isms" here:
http://phrontistery.info/isms.html
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Someone who believes we should vote and resist tyranny, sent me this:
"All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good people to do nothing."
--Edmund Burke
my simple reply to this person:
"Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants fight, that I should not be delivered to the Jews: but now is my kingdom not from hence. "
--John 18:36
I said nothing else after that, and I received no reply to that scripture.
Oh, there's just one problem with that Edmund Burke quote, he never said that.
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Edmund_Burke#Disputed
He was also a Freemason, two sources confirm the first:
1) The Freemasons: A History of the World's Most Powerful Secret Society By Jasper Godwin Ridley
larger: http://i.imgur.com/LwJhjpq.png
found here:
http://tinyurl.com/p8suv5j
2) Edmund Burke Author, Orator, Political Theorist, Philosopher and Freemason.
http://www.irishmasonichistory.com/edmund-burke-author-orator-political-theorist-philosopher-and-freemason.html
Statue in Washington, D.C.
Edmund Burke by James Northcote
3) Jerusalem Lodge No. 44, Clerkenwell, London
January 12, 1729 Ð July 9, 1797
"Toleration is good for all or it is good for none."
http://freemasonry.bcy.ca/biography/burke_e/burke_e.html
So, every freedom fighter on the Internet is quoting a Freemason and does not even realize it.
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> I'm just going to drop this in the middle of my rant...
THE STATE REPUBLICAN PARTY IN TEXAS IS NOW THE CRAZIEST IN AMERICA
By Charles P. Pierce on July 7, 2014
If you want to see the clearest symptoms of the prion disease that has devoured the brain of the Republican party, the state Republican party is your Patient Zero. And, before a whole bunch of people in the Beltway media playpen begin minimizing this craziness because it pretty much shatters the whole idea of Both Sides Doing It without which most of those people can't get out of bed in the morning. This isn't four guys in camo in Idaho. This isn't a guy broadcasting on a short-wave from upper Michigan, or receiving the truth about chemtrails and the Illuminati through his teeth. This is the Republican party representing the state from which he got our last Republican president, and one of the biggest states in the Union. This is what it believes, as summed up with realit-based parentheticals by Hendrik Hertzberg at The New Yorker:
"Let's proceed to policy. In the next of its forty pages, the platform demands, among other things: That the Texas Legislature should nullify-indeed, "ignore, oppose, refuse, and nullify"-federal laws it doesn't like. (Unmentioned is the fact that, beginning in 1809, the Supreme Court has steadfastedly rejected state nullification of federal laws.); That when it comes to "unelected bureaucrats"-i.e., pretty much the entire federal work force above the janitorial level-Congress should "defund and abolish these positions."; That the Seventeenth Amendment, which was adopted in 1913, be repealed, so that "the appointment of United States Senators" can again be made by state legislators, not by voters. (Admittedly, the Texas Legislature could hardly do worse.), That all federal "enforcement activities" within the borders of Texas-including, presumably, the activities of F.B.I. agents, Justice Department prosecutors, air marshals, immigration officers, agricultural inspectors, and tax auditors-"must be conducted under the auspices of the county sheriff with jurisdiction in that county."
Keep an eye on that last sentence. The Republican party of the state of Texas, a state which has 38 electoral votes and which will send 153 delegates to the 2016 Republican National Convention, has endorsed the exact theory of government that was promulgated by the gun-toting yahoos at the Bundy Ranch. And there's more.
"...there are plenty of things that Texas Republicans plan to do away with entirely-or, to use their preferred word, things they would subject to "abolishment." (For Calhoun conservatives, I suppose, "abolition" has regrettable overtones.) A partial list: Personal-income taxes; Property taxes; Estate taxes; Capital-gains taxes; Franchise and business-income taxes; The gift tax; Minimum-wage laws; Social Security ("We support an immediate and orderly transition to a system of private pensions"); The Environmental Protection Agency;The Department of Education and all its functions; "Unelected bureaucrats"; "Any and all federal agencies not based on an enumerated power granted by the United States Federal Constitution"; Congressional pensions; Supreme Court jurisdiction in cases involving abortion, religious freedom, and the Bill of Rights; The Federal Reserve; "Foreign aid, except in cases of national defense or catastrophic disasters, with Congressional approval," Obamacare (but you knew that already)."
The Republican party of the state of Texas, a state that went for Mitt Romney by over two million votes, would like to do away with the Federal Reserve, and any Supreme Court jurisdiction in any case involving the Bill Of Rights. And, yes, there's more.
"Things that the Texas Republicans support: Withdrawal from the United Nations, the International Monetary Fund, the World Trade Organization, and the World Bank; "Traditional methods of discipline, including corporal punishment;" "Reducing taxpayer funding to all levels of education institutions," Returning to "the time-tested precious metal standard for the United States dollar." "
The Republican Party of the state of Texas, a state in which north of 45 percent of the voters identify as Republicans, would like to bring back spanking.
It seems almost pointless to mention this but there is simply no state Democratic party in any of the 50 states that is so clearly, obviously demented. This is the Republican Party. Yuval Levin and Ramesh Ponnuru are not. In fact, I think all those bold conservative thinkers of whom the New York Times thinks so much should bring their Big Ideas down to the next Texas state Republican convention and see how far they get. John Boehner, and Mitch McConnell, and especially obvious anagram Reince Priebus, who nominally presides over Bedlam, need to be asked every day which parts of the Texas Republican platform they support and which parts they don't. They don't get to use the crazies to get elected and then hide behind fake Washington politesse when the howls from the hinterlands get too loud. We allow ourselves only two major political parties. One of them is completely out of its fcking mind. This is a national problem.
here:
http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/Crazy_In_Texas
> ....oh, they are not done....
HISTORY GOES INTO RERUNS
By Charles P. Pierce on July 8, 2014
We had a peek yesterday into the lizard brain that drives the Texas Republican Party. It would be a mistake, however, to divorce the crazy from its proper historical antecedents. We would hate to accuse the Texas Republican Party of being made up of original thinkers or anything. Their ideas come from a long and proud American political history. We will put up something from the 2014 Texas Republican Party platform, and then we will pair it with something that presaged it rather accurately. For example:
A) We strongly urge the Texas Legislature ignore, oppose, refuse, and nullify any federal mandated legislation which infringes upon the states'10th Amendment Right. All federal enforcement activities in Texas must be conducted under the auspices of the county sheriff with jurisdiction in that county.
B) To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian tribes; but neither this, nor any other clause contained in the Constitution, shall ever be construed to delegate the power to Congress to appropriate money for any internal improvement intended to facilitate commerce.
Or...
A) We, the 2014 Republican Party of Texas, believe in this platform and expect our elected leaders to uphold these truths through acknowledgement and action...We believe in:1.Strict adherence to the original intent of the Declaration of Independence and United States and Texas Constitutions...And we believe in "The laws of nature and nature's God" as our Founding Fathers believed.
B) We, the people ...each State acting in its sovereign and independent character, in order to form a permanent federal government, establish justice, insure domestic tranquillity, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity invoking the favor and guidance of Almighty God do ordain and establish this Constitution...
The A passages are from the Texas Republican platform.
The B passages are from the Constitution.
Of the Confederate States Of America.
Just sayin'
here:
http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/History_Goes_Into_Reruns
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The Jesuits have been around since before this nation was even founded.
There's a really good breakdown of the hierarchy of control in Newswatch Magazine:
July 2014
The history of the papacy was 1,260 years long. The pope was captured in 1798 by a French general and died in prison. A new pope arose and the papacy is alive today.
People in the 1950-60’s were afraid of John F. Kennedy because he was a Catholic. They feared what the Pope and Catholic Church had done in Europe. Persecution and death reigned. Confiscation of so called heretics’ property took half the peoples property.
Today, the House of Representatives, the Senate, and courts are filled with secret Catholics and Jesuits. There are hundreds of Jesuits sponsored colleges to train young men to infiltrate our colleges, universities, political systems, etc.
The President of Harding University travelled the country lecturing about the Jesuits and Communism. Today, the Society of Jesus or Jesuits are stronger than ever.
The Pope had no entrance into America until President Ronald Reagan sent an Ambassador of America to Rome in 1984. Since then we find every fabric of society loaded with them. They are the military arm of the Vatican.
subscribe here:
http://www.newswatchmagazine.org/magazine/july-2014/
August 2014
Has idolatry, the worship of statues, ceased in the Catholic Church? Remember, within the first four of the Ten Commandments is the commandment NOT to commit idolatry, but the Catholic Church conveniently left it out and divided the Tenth Commandment into two parts to make it ten. The Second Council of Nicaea stated: “The Christians should not only serve and honor images, but adore and worship them” (Religion in America, p. 50, Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1968).
All pagan religions worship and bow to idols. Members of the Catholic Church say they are dealing with dead “saints.” In reality, they are worshipping the same pagan gods and goddesses of the occultists. After much research, historian Will Durant wrote: “Paganism survived…in the form of ancient rites and customs condoned, or accepted AND , by an often indulgent [Catholic] Church. And intimate and trustful worship of ; the Roman Lupercalia and the feast of purification of Isis became the Feast of the Nativity; the Saturnalia [and Brumalia - worship of Saturn as a god] were replaced by Christmas celebration…an ancient festival of the dead [was replaced] by All Souls Day, rededicated to Christian heroes; incense, lights, flowers, processions, vestments, hymns which had pleased the people in older cults were domesticated and cleansed in the ritual of the [Catholic] Church…soon people and priests would use the sign of the cross as a magic incantation to expel or drive away demons.”
“The Virgin [Mary] was given the title Queen of Heaven and is depicted wearing a blue robe decorated with stars and standing on a crescentmoon. This image is almost identical to pagan representations of the Goddess of Love, Ishtar, who was worshipped by the Babylonians. The statues of the Madonna holding the infant Jesus in her arms, which were erected in Catholic churches, are almost exact copies of the effigies of Isis suckling her baby Horus, found in Egyptian’s temples” (Michael Howard, The Occult Conspiracy: The Power of Secret Societies in World History [NY, NY: MFJ Books, 1989], p. 22).
Other proof of the PAGANISM of the Roman Catholic Church is: “Pagan gods were made Christian saints. A few examples are: Tammuz, the Hebrew form of the Accadian Tamzi, the sun god, and Dum-zi, became St. Thomas the Doubter.
From this tidbit of information, we can understand that the Catholic Church NEVER HAS BEEN CHRISTIAN.
NOTE: The Catholic inner, esoteric trinity is Father, Mother, Child. Which means they must elevate the female to the point of deity. Hence Mary being worshipped and Catholics having to go through Mary to get to Jesus.
subscribe here:
http://www.newswatchmagazine.org/magazine/august-2014/
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What's my point?
I wrote up a blog:
Is this Christian?
http://globalistnews.blogspot.com/2014/06/is-this-christian.html
I'd like to clarify some stuff.
I've been reading various right-wing pages of the conservative/tea-party/republican/gop for one reason:
They claim to be us.
What do I mean by "us"?
They claim to be Christians while breaking his Law.
I did the same thing before God called me, so I speak from experience.
"But...but your mother and father, were they not Christian?"
> No, and they are still not.
> How can they be according to the Word:
Acts 5:32
And we are his witnesses of these things; and so is also the Holy Ghost, whom God hath given to them that obey him.
I Corinthians 5:8
Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
Joshua 24:14
Now therefore fear the LORD, and serve him in sincerity and in truth: and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the flood, and in Egypt; and serve ye the LORD.
Isaiah 8:20
To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.
"But they mean well..."
> I "meant well", too. I still had to repent.
> See the Word mentioned above.
"Why post this blog?"
> I post this blog for those who out there that God called and might want some perspective on news.
The thing is, I hate being misrepresented, but that is bound to happen in Babylon.
I think it diminishes the calling when we are lumped in with those who are not called.
I don't believe in grey areas of anything, and I certainly do not believe there are 'lesser of two evils' in politics.
The left can claim the same thing and note every single wrong Bush did, and it still means nothing if they can't point out the wrong with their own party-politics.
Anyhow, it's been interesting, but I've seen no point in watching the right or the left, when the very globalist groups that are pushing the real agenda are on youtube talking about it.
I'm going to make a best effort to not post things that are not caught up in the paradigm.
and one more thing...
for those thinking:
"He must be liberal and doesn't know it."
> I was an Anarchist before conversion, because I didn't trust government.
I could not understand why voting never seem to change anything for the better, and now I know why.
Anarchism
"Anarchism is a political philosophy that advocates stateless societies often defined as self-governed voluntary institutions, but that several authors have defined as more specific institutions based on non-hierarchical free associations.
...
Jesus is sometimes considered the first anarchist in the Christian anarchist tradition. Georges Lechartier wrote that "The true founder of anarchy was Jesus Christ and...the first anarchist society was that of the apostles."
more here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchism
We know Jesus Christ was not anti-government, because he has his own government coming, the Kingdom of God.
So, Georges Lechartier can go fly a kite in a thunderstorm with that non-sense.
There's no amount of money in the world that would make me resist tyranny, or become politically active or vote. Not when I'm being offered immortality and a place in God's perfect system.
...but hey, do you see the irony?
God called an Anarchist...LOL
There will be no Isms in the Kingdom of God, because they are all Man-Made.
Think about it.
Was Thomas Jefferson a Christian?
"The Christian religion, when divested of the rags in which they [the clergy] have enveloped it, and brought to the original purity and simplicity of it's benevolent institutor, is a religion of all others most friendly to liberty, science, and the freest expansion of the human mind."
-- -- Thomas Jefferson, to Moses Robinson, 1801, ME 10:237
The Literary World, Volume 21:
http://tinyurl.com/mmv34uq
"... To the corruptions of Christianity I am, indeed, opposed; but not to the genuine precepts of Jesus himself. I am a Christian, in the only sense in which he wished any one to be; sincerely attached to his doctrines, in preference to all others; ascribing to himself every human excellence; and believing he never claimed any other.... And in confiding it [an enclosed syllabus] to you, I know it will not be exposed to the malignant perversions of those who make every word from me a text for new misrepresentations and calumnies. I am moreover averse to the communication of my religious tenets to the public; because it would countenance the presumption of those who have endeavored to draw them before that tribunal, and to seduce public opinion to erect itself into that inquisition over the rights of conscience, which the laws have so justly proscribed...."
"April 21, 1803 letter to Doctor Benjamin Rush". The Writings of Thomas Jefferson X (The Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association). p. 379. Retrieved 2009-05-23.
However, does this make him a Christian by saying that?
We should probably include all relevant quotes from Jefferson concerning the nation and religion.
From wikipedia (which provides the sources)
"Opposed to Calvinism, Trinitarianism, and what he identified as Platonic elements in Christianity, in private letters Jefferson variously refers to himself as...."
"Christian" (1803)
http://www.constitution.org/tj/jeff10.txt
"a sect by myself" (1819)
http://www.constitution.org/tj/jeff15.txt
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an "Epicurean" (1819)
http://www.constitution.org/tj/jeff15.txt
Hmmm, another Ism.
I talked about Isms, here:
What's my problem with Conservatism? Part 02
http://globalistnews.blogspot.com/2014/08/whats-my-problem-with-conservatism-part_9.html
Since Jefferson claimed this, we should probably take a peak at it.
Epicureanism
Epicureanism is a system of philosophy based upon the teachings of the ancient Greek philosopher Epicurus, founded around 307 BC. Epicurus was an atomic materialist, following in the steps of Democritus. His materialism led him to a general attack on superstition and divine intervention.
Following Aristippus—about whom very little is known—Epicurus believed that what he called "pleasure" is the greatest good, but the way to attain such pleasure is to live modestly and to gain knowledge of the workings of the world and the limits of one's desires. This led one to attain a state of tranquility (ataraxia) and freedom from fear, as well as absence of bodily pain (aponia). The combination of these two states is supposed to constitute happiness in its highest form. Although Epicureanism is a form of hedonism, insofar as it declares pleasure to be the sole intrinsic good, its conception of absence of pain as the greatest pleasure and its advocacy of a simple life make it different from "hedonism" as it is commonly understood.
Epicureanism was originally a challenge to Platonism, though later it became the main opponent of Stoicism. Epicurus and his followers shunned politics. After the death of Epicurus, his school was headed by Hermarchus; later many Epicurean societies flourished in the Late Hellenistic era and during the Roman era (such as those in Antiochia, Alexandria, Rhodes, and Ercolano). Its best-known Roman proponent was the poet Lucretius. By the end of the Roman Empire, being opposed by philosophies (mainly Neo-Platonism) that were now in the ascendance, Epicureanism had all but died out, and would be resurrected in the 17th century by the atomist Pierre Gassendi, who adapted it to the Christian doctrine.
more here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epicureanism
===
a "materialist" (1820)
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/mtj:@field%28DOCID+@lit%28ws03101%29%29
and a "Unitarian by myself" (1825).
http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=uva-sc/viu01679.xml;query=;
more here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson_and_religion
Jefferson quotes here:
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson
"Christianity neither is, nor ever was, a part of the common law."
Vol. 1 Whether Christianity is Part of the Common Law (1764). Published in The Works of Thomas Jefferson in Twelve Volumes, Federal Edition, Paul Leicester Ford, ed., New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1904, p. 459.
http://www.stephenjaygould.org/ctrl/jefferson_cooper.html
http://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/800
The Jefferson Qur'an
http://www.oxfordislamicstudies.com/Public/focus/essay1009_jefferson.html
Jefferson's Quran
What the founder really thought about Islam.
By Christopher Hitchens
It was quite witty of Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., to short-circuit the hostility of those who criticized him for taking his oath on the Quran and to ask the Library of Congress for the loan of Thomas Jefferson's copy of that holy book. But the irony of this, which certainly made his stupid Christian fundamentalist critics look even stupider, ought to be partly at his own expense as well.
In the first place, concern over Ellison's political and religious background has little to do with his formal adherence to Islam. In his student days and subsequently, he was a supporter of Louis Farrakhan's Nation of Islam, a racist and crackpot cult organization that is in schism with the Muslim faith and even with the Sunni orthodoxy now preached by the son of the NOI's popularizer Elijah Muhammad. Farrakhan's sect explicitly describes a large part of the human species—the so-called white part—as an invention of the devil and has issued tirades against the Jews that exceed what even the most fanatical Islamists have said. Farrakhan himself has boasted of the "punishment" meted out to Malcolm X by armed gangsters of the NOI (see the brilliant documentary Brother Minister: The Assassination of Malcolm X, which catches him in the act of doing this). If Ellison now wants to use his faith to justify an appeal to pluralism and inclusiveness and diversity, he needs to repudiate the Nation of Islam, and in much more unambivalent terms than any I have yet heard from him.
As to the invocation of Jefferson, we know that when he and James Madison first proposed the Virginia Statute on Religious Freedom (the frame and basis of the later First Amendment to the Constitution) in 1779, the preamble began, "Well aware that Almighty God hath created the mind free." Patrick Henry and other devout Christians attempted to substitute the words "Jesus Christ" for "Almighty God" in this opening passage and were overwhelmingly voted down. This vote was interpreted by Jefferson to mean that Virginia's representatives wanted the law "to comprehend, within the mantle of its protection, the Jew and the Gentile, the Christian and Mahomedan, the Hindoo, and Infidel of every denomination." Quite right, too, and so far so good, even if the term Mahomedan would not be used today, and even if Jefferson's own private sympathies were with the last named in that list.
A few years later, in 1786, the new United States found that it was having to deal very directly with the tenets of the Muslim religion. The Barbary states of North Africa (or, if you prefer, the North African provinces of the Ottoman Empire, plus Morocco) were using the ports of today's Algeria, Libya, and Tunisia to wage a war of piracy and enslavement against all shipping that passed through the Strait of Gibraltar. Thousands of vessels were taken, and more than a million Europeans and Americans sold into slavery. The fledgling United States of America was in an especially difficult position, having forfeited the protection of the British Royal Navy. Under this pressure, Congress gave assent to the Treaty of Tripoli, negotiated by Jefferson's friend Joel Barlow, which stated roundly that "the government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion, as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion or tranquility of Musselmen." This has often been taken as a secular affirmation, which it probably was, but the difficulty for secularists is that it also attempted to buy off the Muslim pirates by the payment of tribute. That this might not be so easy was discovered by Jefferson and John Adams when they went to call on Tripoli's envoy to London, Ambassador Sidi Haji Abdrahaman. They asked him by what right he extorted money and took slaves in this way. As Jefferson later reported to Secretary of State John Jay, and to the Congress:
"The ambassador answered us that [the right] was founded on the Laws of the Prophet, that it was written in their Koran, that all nations who should not have answered their authority were sinners, that it was their right and duty to make war upon them wherever they could be found, and to make slaves of all they could take as prisoners, and that every Mussulman who should be slain in battle was sure to go to Paradise."
more here:
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/fighting_words/2007/01/jeffersons_quran.html
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First Muslim in Congress to use historic Quran
Thomas Jefferson's copy of Muslim book to be used in unofficial swearing-in
updated 1/3/2007 8:23:38 PM ET
CHICAGO — The first Muslim elected to the U.S. Congress, attacked for planning to use the Quran at his swearing-in instead of a Bible, will use a copy of the Muslim holy book once owned by Thomas Jefferson, an official said on Wednesday.
Representative-elect Keith Ellison, a Minnesota Democrat, requested the 18th century copy of the Quran for the unofficial part of his swearing in on Thursday, according to Mark Dimunation, chief of rare books and special collections at the Library of Congress in Washington.
Ellison, a Muslim convert who traces his U.S. ancestry to 1741, wanted a special copy of the book to use, Dimunation said, and approached the library for one.
The third U.S. president, serving from 1801 to 1809, Jefferson was a collector with wide-ranging interests. His 6,000-volume library, the largest in North America at the time, became the basis for the Library of Congress.
more here:
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/16455298/ns/politics/t/first-muslim-congress-use-historic-quran/#.U-Z6567Lfs0
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So, was Thomas Jefferson a Christian?
I think he had chosen one too many Isms to ever be one.
This is the criteria I use for identifying Christians:
Matthew 6:24
No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
Acts 5:32
And we are his witnesses of these things; and so is also the Holy Ghost, whom God hath given to them that obey him.
I Corinthians 5:8
Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
Joshua 24:14
Now therefore fear the LORD, and serve him in sincerity and in truth: and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the flood, and in Egypt; and serve ye the LORD.
Isaiah 8:20
To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.
If just saying "I'm a Christian" makes one a Christian, then every President has been Christian, because they've all claimed to be one.
This includes this nations current President.
But we know all know he's not, why?
It's not multiple choice, law and testimony, sincerity and truth.
Not one without the other.
So, it does not matter if one Founding Father said he was Christian.
Just as it did not matter what my intent was before being Converted to The Truth.
What matters is what he did, and what Jefferson and the other Founding Fathers said is on the record.
I mean really.
-- -- Thomas Jefferson, to Moses Robinson, 1801, ME 10:237
The Literary World, Volume 21:
http://tinyurl.com/mmv34uq
"... To the corruptions of Christianity I am, indeed, opposed; but not to the genuine precepts of Jesus himself. I am a Christian, in the only sense in which he wished any one to be; sincerely attached to his doctrines, in preference to all others; ascribing to himself every human excellence; and believing he never claimed any other.... And in confiding it [an enclosed syllabus] to you, I know it will not be exposed to the malignant perversions of those who make every word from me a text for new misrepresentations and calumnies. I am moreover averse to the communication of my religious tenets to the public; because it would countenance the presumption of those who have endeavored to draw them before that tribunal, and to seduce public opinion to erect itself into that inquisition over the rights of conscience, which the laws have so justly proscribed...."
"April 21, 1803 letter to Doctor Benjamin Rush". The Writings of Thomas Jefferson X (The Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association). p. 379. Retrieved 2009-05-23.
However, does this make him a Christian by saying that?
We should probably include all relevant quotes from Jefferson concerning the nation and religion.
From wikipedia (which provides the sources)
"Opposed to Calvinism, Trinitarianism, and what he identified as Platonic elements in Christianity, in private letters Jefferson variously refers to himself as...."
"Christian" (1803)
http://www.constitution.org/tj/jeff10.txt
"a sect by myself" (1819)
http://www.constitution.org/tj/jeff15.txt
===
an "Epicurean" (1819)
http://www.constitution.org/tj/jeff15.txt
Hmmm, another Ism.
I talked about Isms, here:
What's my problem with Conservatism? Part 02
http://globalistnews.blogspot.com/2014/08/whats-my-problem-with-conservatism-part_9.html
Since Jefferson claimed this, we should probably take a peak at it.
Epicureanism
Epicureanism is a system of philosophy based upon the teachings of the ancient Greek philosopher Epicurus, founded around 307 BC. Epicurus was an atomic materialist, following in the steps of Democritus. His materialism led him to a general attack on superstition and divine intervention.
Following Aristippus—about whom very little is known—Epicurus believed that what he called "pleasure" is the greatest good, but the way to attain such pleasure is to live modestly and to gain knowledge of the workings of the world and the limits of one's desires. This led one to attain a state of tranquility (ataraxia) and freedom from fear, as well as absence of bodily pain (aponia). The combination of these two states is supposed to constitute happiness in its highest form. Although Epicureanism is a form of hedonism, insofar as it declares pleasure to be the sole intrinsic good, its conception of absence of pain as the greatest pleasure and its advocacy of a simple life make it different from "hedonism" as it is commonly understood.
Epicureanism was originally a challenge to Platonism, though later it became the main opponent of Stoicism. Epicurus and his followers shunned politics. After the death of Epicurus, his school was headed by Hermarchus; later many Epicurean societies flourished in the Late Hellenistic era and during the Roman era (such as those in Antiochia, Alexandria, Rhodes, and Ercolano). Its best-known Roman proponent was the poet Lucretius. By the end of the Roman Empire, being opposed by philosophies (mainly Neo-Platonism) that were now in the ascendance, Epicureanism had all but died out, and would be resurrected in the 17th century by the atomist Pierre Gassendi, who adapted it to the Christian doctrine.
more here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epicureanism
===
a "materialist" (1820)
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/mtj:@field%28DOCID+@lit%28ws03101%29%29
and a "Unitarian by myself" (1825).
http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=uva-sc/viu01679.xml;query=;
more here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson_and_religion
Jefferson quotes here:
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson
"Christianity neither is, nor ever was, a part of the common law."
Vol. 1 Whether Christianity is Part of the Common Law (1764). Published in The Works of Thomas Jefferson in Twelve Volumes, Federal Edition, Paul Leicester Ford, ed., New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1904, p. 459.
http://www.stephenjaygould.org/ctrl/jefferson_cooper.html
http://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/800
The Jefferson Qur'an
http://www.oxfordislamicstudies.com/Public/focus/essay1009_jefferson.html
Jefferson's Quran
What the founder really thought about Islam.
By Christopher Hitchens
It was quite witty of Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., to short-circuit the hostility of those who criticized him for taking his oath on the Quran and to ask the Library of Congress for the loan of Thomas Jefferson's copy of that holy book. But the irony of this, which certainly made his stupid Christian fundamentalist critics look even stupider, ought to be partly at his own expense as well.
In the first place, concern over Ellison's political and religious background has little to do with his formal adherence to Islam. In his student days and subsequently, he was a supporter of Louis Farrakhan's Nation of Islam, a racist and crackpot cult organization that is in schism with the Muslim faith and even with the Sunni orthodoxy now preached by the son of the NOI's popularizer Elijah Muhammad. Farrakhan's sect explicitly describes a large part of the human species—the so-called white part—as an invention of the devil and has issued tirades against the Jews that exceed what even the most fanatical Islamists have said. Farrakhan himself has boasted of the "punishment" meted out to Malcolm X by armed gangsters of the NOI (see the brilliant documentary Brother Minister: The Assassination of Malcolm X, which catches him in the act of doing this). If Ellison now wants to use his faith to justify an appeal to pluralism and inclusiveness and diversity, he needs to repudiate the Nation of Islam, and in much more unambivalent terms than any I have yet heard from him.
As to the invocation of Jefferson, we know that when he and James Madison first proposed the Virginia Statute on Religious Freedom (the frame and basis of the later First Amendment to the Constitution) in 1779, the preamble began, "Well aware that Almighty God hath created the mind free." Patrick Henry and other devout Christians attempted to substitute the words "Jesus Christ" for "Almighty God" in this opening passage and were overwhelmingly voted down. This vote was interpreted by Jefferson to mean that Virginia's representatives wanted the law "to comprehend, within the mantle of its protection, the Jew and the Gentile, the Christian and Mahomedan, the Hindoo, and Infidel of every denomination." Quite right, too, and so far so good, even if the term Mahomedan would not be used today, and even if Jefferson's own private sympathies were with the last named in that list.
A few years later, in 1786, the new United States found that it was having to deal very directly with the tenets of the Muslim religion. The Barbary states of North Africa (or, if you prefer, the North African provinces of the Ottoman Empire, plus Morocco) were using the ports of today's Algeria, Libya, and Tunisia to wage a war of piracy and enslavement against all shipping that passed through the Strait of Gibraltar. Thousands of vessels were taken, and more than a million Europeans and Americans sold into slavery. The fledgling United States of America was in an especially difficult position, having forfeited the protection of the British Royal Navy. Under this pressure, Congress gave assent to the Treaty of Tripoli, negotiated by Jefferson's friend Joel Barlow, which stated roundly that "the government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion, as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion or tranquility of Musselmen." This has often been taken as a secular affirmation, which it probably was, but the difficulty for secularists is that it also attempted to buy off the Muslim pirates by the payment of tribute. That this might not be so easy was discovered by Jefferson and John Adams when they went to call on Tripoli's envoy to London, Ambassador Sidi Haji Abdrahaman. They asked him by what right he extorted money and took slaves in this way. As Jefferson later reported to Secretary of State John Jay, and to the Congress:
"The ambassador answered us that [the right] was founded on the Laws of the Prophet, that it was written in their Koran, that all nations who should not have answered their authority were sinners, that it was their right and duty to make war upon them wherever they could be found, and to make slaves of all they could take as prisoners, and that every Mussulman who should be slain in battle was sure to go to Paradise."
more here:
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/fighting_words/2007/01/jeffersons_quran.html
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First Muslim in Congress to use historic Quran
Thomas Jefferson's copy of Muslim book to be used in unofficial swearing-in
updated 1/3/2007 8:23:38 PM ET
CHICAGO — The first Muslim elected to the U.S. Congress, attacked for planning to use the Quran at his swearing-in instead of a Bible, will use a copy of the Muslim holy book once owned by Thomas Jefferson, an official said on Wednesday.
Representative-elect Keith Ellison, a Minnesota Democrat, requested the 18th century copy of the Quran for the unofficial part of his swearing in on Thursday, according to Mark Dimunation, chief of rare books and special collections at the Library of Congress in Washington.
Ellison, a Muslim convert who traces his U.S. ancestry to 1741, wanted a special copy of the book to use, Dimunation said, and approached the library for one.
The third U.S. president, serving from 1801 to 1809, Jefferson was a collector with wide-ranging interests. His 6,000-volume library, the largest in North America at the time, became the basis for the Library of Congress.
more here:
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/16455298/ns/politics/t/first-muslim-congress-use-historic-quran/#.U-Z6567Lfs0
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So, was Thomas Jefferson a Christian?
I think he had chosen one too many Isms to ever be one.
This is the criteria I use for identifying Christians:
Matthew 6:24
No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
Acts 5:32
And we are his witnesses of these things; and so is also the Holy Ghost, whom God hath given to them that obey him.
I Corinthians 5:8
Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
Joshua 24:14
Now therefore fear the LORD, and serve him in sincerity and in truth: and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the flood, and in Egypt; and serve ye the LORD.
Isaiah 8:20
To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.
If just saying "I'm a Christian" makes one a Christian, then every President has been Christian, because they've all claimed to be one.
This includes this nations current President.
But we know all know he's not, why?
It's not multiple choice, law and testimony, sincerity and truth.
Not one without the other.
So, it does not matter if one Founding Father said he was Christian.
Just as it did not matter what my intent was before being Converted to The Truth.
What matters is what he did, and what Jefferson and the other Founding Fathers said is on the record.
I mean really.
Artificial Wombs Are Coming
Artificial Wombs Are Coming, but the Controversy Is Already Here
Written by Zoltan Istvan | August 4, 2014 // 04:26 PM EST
Zoltan Istvan is a futurist, philosopher, journalist, and author of the bestselling novel The Transhumanist Wager. He writes an occasional column for Motherboard ruminating on the future beyond natural human ability.
Of all the transhumanist technologies coming in the near future, one stands out that both fascinates and perplexes people. It's called ectogenesis: raising a fetus outside the human body in an artificial womb.
It has the possibility to change one of the most fundamental acts that most humans experience: the way people go about having children. It also has the possibility to change the way we view the female body and the field of reproductive rights.
Naturally, it's a social and political minefield.
The term ectogenesis was coined in 1924 by British scientist J.B.S. Haldane. He predicted by 2074 only 30 percent of births would be human births. Science has grown much quicker than he realized, and his take is probably much too conservative. Some futurists like myself (I’m also married to an ObGyn) think ectogenesis will be here in 20 years, and widely used in 30 years around the world.
It’s not an entirely speculative concept; scientists are actively working on developing the technology, primarily for medical reasons. In an article for Reproductive Health and Social Justice, a daily nonprofit publication providing news and analysis on sexual and reproductive health and justice issues, journalist Soraya Chemaly discussed two leading scientists in the ectogenesis field and their projects:
There are two commonly cited endeavors in progress. Focusing on finding ways to save premature babies, Japanese professor Dr. Yoshinori Kuwabara of Juntendo University, has successfully gestated goat embryos in a machine that holds amniotic fluid in tanks.
On the other end of the process focusing on helping women unable to conceive and gestate babies, is Dr. Helen Hung-Ching Liu, Director of the Reproductive Endocrine Laboratory at the Center for Reproductive Medicine and Infertility at Cornell University. Quietly, in 2003, she and her team succeeded in growing a mouse embryo, almost to full term, by adding engineered endometrium tissue to a bio-engineered, extra-uterine “scaffold.”
More recently, she grew a human embryo, for ten days in an artificial womb. Her work is limited by legislation that imposes a 14-day limit on research projects of this nature. As complicated as it is, her goal is a functioning external womb.
more here:
http://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/read/artificial-wombs-are-coming-and-the-controversys-already-here
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Sound familiar?
See more here:
The Matrix/Babylon Analogy
watch this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSydJ2Gw1Dk&feature=youtu.be
He lies, like they all lie.
Conservatives, even the ones that mean well, follow guys like this.
Liberals, follow their party leaders in the media, the rachel maddow's of the world.
Let's take a step back, and see the world for what it is.
There are several interpretations of this, I'll give you an interesting one.
(If you have not seen The Matrix, I suggest watching it, its mind blowing.)
This brings something I've been thinking about to mind.
The Truth seeking public believe they truly understand the meaning of The Matrix, and to some degree, they understand that there is an elite, running this planet.
However, that's as far as most people get, simply because of the following:
Matthew 22:14
For many are called, but few are chosen.
I Corinthians 1:26
For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called:
Acts 5:32
And we are his witnesses of these things; and so is also the Holy Ghost, whom God hath given to them that obey him.
Isaiah 8:20
To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.
I Corinthians 5:8
Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
Joshua 24:14
Now therefore fear the LORD, and serve him in sincerity and in truth: and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the flood, and in Egypt; and serve ye the LORD.
Matthew 8:22
But Jesus said unto him, Follow me; and let the dead bury their dead.
Luke 9:60
Jesus said unto him, Let the dead bury their dead: but go thou and preach the kingdom of God.
II Corinthians 5:20
Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God.
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Babylon is everywhere. It is all around us. Even now, in this very room. You can see it when you look out your window or when you turn on your television. You can feel it when you go to work...when you go to church...when you pay your taxes. It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth.
The truth is, you are a slave, [Unconverted Individuals Name]. Like everyone else you were born into bondage. Born into a prison that you cannot smell or taste or touch. A prison for your mind.
Unfortunately, no one can be...told what the Babylon is. You have to see it for yourself.
====
There's an evil spirit, we know him as Satan, The Elite call him Lucifer.
He has everyone fooled, even The Elite.
Isaiah 14:12
How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!
Ephesians 2:2
Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:
II Corinthians 4:4
In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.
Luke 4:5-7
5 And the devil, taking him up into an high mountain, shewed unto him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.
6 And the devil said unto him, All this power will I give thee, and the glory of them: for that is delivered unto me; and to whomsoever I will I give it.
7 If thou therefore wilt worship me, all shall be thine.
====
This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back.
Hebrews 6:4
For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost,
You take the blue pill,
you stay in Babylon, do what thou wilt, believe whatever you want to believe.
You take the red pill,
repent and be baptized, keep God's laws, and I'll show you how deep the prophecy goes.
Acts 2:38
Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.
Remember: all I'm offering is the truth. Nothing more.
==============
Once you are called out of the world (taking the red pill), you are no longer of the world.
====
Babylon is a system, [New Convert]. That system is our enemy. But when you're inside, you look around, what do you see? Businessmen, teachers, lawyers, carpenters.
The very minds of the people that Jesus Christ will eventually save. But until He does, these people are still a part of that system and that makes them our enemy. You have to understand, most of these people are not ready to repent.
And many of them are so inured, so hopelessly dependent on Babylon, that they will fight to protect it.
==
John 7:7
The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that the works thereof are evil.
John 15:19
If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.
I John 3:13
Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hate you.
James 4:4
Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
Colossians 2:8
Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.
==============
The CFR Controlled Media is just one aspect of how this world is manipulated.
CFR Deception -- Official Newswatch Magazine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ENA3wvOPgc
==============
Are you paying attention...?
...or are you still hoping for secession and some GOP candidate to make us a Constitutional Republic again?
Look again:
If you stand in awe of the left or the right, or anything else meant to get you involved in Babylon (religiously or politically) you're basically Neo about to get his head blown off.
==============
As a good friend of mine once said:
"We're seeking the Kingdom not Conservatism, G O D not G O P."
Let's cut the non-sense...
This World, also known as Babylon, is Satan's Kingdom.
If you have doubts on how he got the power, read Luke 4:5-7, again.
We still have to work, and provide for our families...
However, this idea, that somehow the left or the right is doing it better than the other is false.
-Spyda
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSydJ2Gw1Dk&feature=youtu.be
He lies, like they all lie.
Conservatives, even the ones that mean well, follow guys like this.
Liberals, follow their party leaders in the media, the rachel maddow's of the world.
Let's take a step back, and see the world for what it is.
There are several interpretations of this, I'll give you an interesting one.
(If you have not seen The Matrix, I suggest watching it, its mind blowing.)
This brings something I've been thinking about to mind.
The Truth seeking public believe they truly understand the meaning of The Matrix, and to some degree, they understand that there is an elite, running this planet.
However, that's as far as most people get, simply because of the following:
Matthew 22:14
For many are called, but few are chosen.
I Corinthians 1:26
For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called:
Acts 5:32
And we are his witnesses of these things; and so is also the Holy Ghost, whom God hath given to them that obey him.
Isaiah 8:20
To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.
I Corinthians 5:8
Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
Joshua 24:14
Now therefore fear the LORD, and serve him in sincerity and in truth: and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the flood, and in Egypt; and serve ye the LORD.
Matthew 8:22
But Jesus said unto him, Follow me; and let the dead bury their dead.
Luke 9:60
Jesus said unto him, Let the dead bury their dead: but go thou and preach the kingdom of God.
II Corinthians 5:20
Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God.
==============
Babylon is everywhere. It is all around us. Even now, in this very room. You can see it when you look out your window or when you turn on your television. You can feel it when you go to work...when you go to church...when you pay your taxes. It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth.
The truth is, you are a slave, [Unconverted Individuals Name]. Like everyone else you were born into bondage. Born into a prison that you cannot smell or taste or touch. A prison for your mind.
Unfortunately, no one can be...told what the Babylon is. You have to see it for yourself.
====
There's an evil spirit, we know him as Satan, The Elite call him Lucifer.
He has everyone fooled, even The Elite.
Isaiah 14:12
How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!
Ephesians 2:2
Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:
II Corinthians 4:4
In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.
Luke 4:5-7
5 And the devil, taking him up into an high mountain, shewed unto him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.
6 And the devil said unto him, All this power will I give thee, and the glory of them: for that is delivered unto me; and to whomsoever I will I give it.
7 If thou therefore wilt worship me, all shall be thine.
====
This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back.
Hebrews 6:4
For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost,
You take the blue pill,
you stay in Babylon, do what thou wilt, believe whatever you want to believe.
You take the red pill,
repent and be baptized, keep God's laws, and I'll show you how deep the prophecy goes.
Acts 2:38
Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.
Remember: all I'm offering is the truth. Nothing more.
==============
Once you are called out of the world (taking the red pill), you are no longer of the world.
====
Babylon is a system, [New Convert]. That system is our enemy. But when you're inside, you look around, what do you see? Businessmen, teachers, lawyers, carpenters.
The very minds of the people that Jesus Christ will eventually save. But until He does, these people are still a part of that system and that makes them our enemy. You have to understand, most of these people are not ready to repent.
And many of them are so inured, so hopelessly dependent on Babylon, that they will fight to protect it.
==
John 7:7
The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that the works thereof are evil.
John 15:19
If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.
I John 3:13
Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hate you.
James 4:4
Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
Colossians 2:8
Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.
==============
The CFR Controlled Media is just one aspect of how this world is manipulated.
CFR Deception -- Official Newswatch Magazine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ENA3wvOPgc
==============
Are you paying attention...?
...or are you still hoping for secession and some GOP candidate to make us a Constitutional Republic again?
Look again:
If you stand in awe of the left or the right, or anything else meant to get you involved in Babylon (religiously or politically) you're basically Neo about to get his head blown off.
==============
As a good friend of mine once said:
"We're seeking the Kingdom not Conservatism, G O D not G O P."
Let's cut the non-sense...
This World, also known as Babylon, is Satan's Kingdom.
If you have doubts on how he got the power, read Luke 4:5-7, again.
We still have to work, and provide for our families...
However, this idea, that somehow the left or the right is doing it better than the other is false.
-Spyda
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