april 2014 ~ volume 37
TRANSCRIPT
April 2014 ~ Volume 37
April is a month that introduces Spring with flowers and a sense of freshness but historically April has been known
for other interesting things in the past
Abraham Lincoln died MKULTRA was created General Electric was newly formed the Titanic sank Insulin
became available it is the month of the IRS and Rand McNally published the first road atlas
Most of all the articles of the American Revolutionary
War were ratified
The major other event in April is going on NOW The Bundy Ranch Open Range WAR
Tactics in the conflict range from legal challenges of Washingtons authority to outright defiance of federal laws You
must read the summary of Bundyrsquos real fight here httpwww2vcdhvirginiaeduPVCCmbasedocssagebrushht
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5 tablespoons cold unsalted butter divided 1 small yellow onion minced 1 stalk celery thinly sliced 2 carrots diced medium 1 14 cup all-purpose flour divided 3 cups chicken broth 2 cups diced cooked chicken 13 pound green beans trimmed and cut into 1-inch pieces Salt and pepper 1 teaspoon baking powder 2 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley plus more for topping 12 cup whole milk
Step 1 In a large saucepan melt 3 tablespoons butter over medium-high Add onion celery and carrots and cook until onion is translucent about 4 minutes Add 14 cup flour and cook stirring 1 minute Gradually add broth stirring constantly then bring to a boil Reduce heat and simmer 5 minutes Stir in chicken and green beans and season with salt and pepper Step 2 Make dumplings Whisk together 1 cup flour baking powder 1 teaspoon coarse salt and 2 tablespoons parsley Cut in 2 tablespoons butter Stir in milk Drop heaping spoonfuls batter on top of chicken mixture Cover and simmer until dumplings are cooked through about 12 minutes Serve topped with additional chopped parsley
More sightings of Aedes aegypti -- a mosquito capable of carrying deadly yellow fever dengue and other diseases -- are popping up in California as vector control agents scramble to control its spread The bugs first were detected in Californias Central Valley communities of Madera and Clovis in June and were detected again this week in the city of Fresno and in San Mateo County in the Bay Area in August We were shocked Leonard Irby district manager of Maderas mosquito abatement program told the Los Angeles Times We never expected this mosquito in California One expert noted the discovery means that this mosquito can potentially spread the deadly diseases if they bite an infected person but emphasized that doesnt mean officials have found these diseases yet in the state Its certainly concerning that the mosquito has been located But whats important for people to remember is identification just represents a method of transmission -- the diseases have not yet been recognized in California Dr Soniya Gandhi an assistant clinical professor in the division of infectious diseases at UCLA Medical Center said to CBSNewscom The Aedes aegypti or yellow fever mosquito targets humans and their dwellings according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention They dont just feed off of blood for meals but seek out containers of water to lay eggs and complete their development The dark mosquitoes with white markings and banded legs bite during the day prefer people to animals and need only a teaspoon of water -- less than in a saucer under a houseplant -- to lay eggs to reproduce The bugs are highly resilient due to adaptations like the ability to survive without water for several months and can bounce back to initial numbers after human control efforts according to the CDC If it gets away it will change the way we live in California You may not be able to sit on your patio and enjoy a cup of coffee during the day without getting bit said Tim Phillips of the Fresno Mosquito and Vector Control District So far none of the mosquitoes trapped within a 2-square-mile infected area of Clovis have carried diseases But officials warn that if the mosquito bites someone infected with dengue problems could arise as they have across southern Florida where dozens of residents have been infected
The mosquito also has been detected in Texas and Arizona Arizona is also setting traps to make sure the bugs dont spread across the state CBS affiliate KPHO in Phoenix reported Dengue is a virus that can cause headache and body pains and a rash similar to measles Ninety-nine percent of cases can be treated but the disease can be deadly if unrecognized Yellow fever is a virus that causes severe flu-like symptoms and sometimes jaundice It also can kill The nightmare scenarios is it gets established in California and then a mosquito bites someone with an imported case of dengue Phillips said California has had about 200 cases of dengue fever since 2010 all contracted out of the country said Dr Vickie Kramer chief of the vector borne disease section at the California Department of Public Health She said the chance of disease transmission is low but the state has warned county health departments statewide to be on the lookout for potential cases and has asked local agencies to step up trapping Unlike those mosquitoes that carry West Nile Virus and like to bite birds these like to bite people and will enter homes very readily Kramer said People need to be aware its here and the medical community should be aware as well While it would be rare for the insects to cause disease Gandhi thinks awareness and prevention efforts could help further reduce risk People can reduce all piles of standing water near their homes such as by emptying out flower pots and covering trash cans and they can also make sure their screen doors are sufficiently covered Individuals can also wear long loose clothing and stay indoors or use insect repellants with up to 10 percent DEET or picaridin Scientists at UC Davis and at Yale University are performing genetic testing on the tropical yellow fever mosquitoes to determine their country of origin Preliminary results show they could be from Central America Health officials think this outbreak could have originated from eggs on containers imported into the country The Fresno detection came after a resident saw a vector control display last week at the county fair and reported daytime attacks Likewise in Clovis a resident complained about unusually aggressive mosquitoes The mosquitoes have been trapped at around 100 sites in Clovis where vector control agents are going door-to-door warning residents to empty all standing water Officials working along with the California Department of Public Health are spraying the insecticide promethean in and around thousands of infested homes Its very difficult to control because of its biology said Steve Mulligan who is working on the Clovis outbreak They like humans and will come inside the house Were trying hard to eliminate it
In 1776 and 1777 a Setauket New York farmer and his childhood friends form an unlikely group of spies called the Culper Ring who eventually turn the tide during the American Revolutionary War[1] The series begins in October 1776 shortly after British victories recaptured Long Island Staten Island and New York City for the Crown and left General George Washingtons army in desperate straits
What Should the United States do about Russia and the Ukraine What should the United States do
about Iran What should the United States do about the
United Nations What should the United States do about
Education What should the United States do about
Healthcare What should the United State do about
Immigration What should the Unites States do about Waste
Fraud and Abuse What should WE do about
the corrupt system in all
government
WASHINGTON mdash Federal energy regulators improperly allowed
widespread access to a sensitive document that outlined specific locations where the nationrsquos electric grid is vulnerable to physical threats a government investigator said Wednesday The document created by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission should have been kept secret as a national security matter Energy Department Inspector General Gregory Friedman said Instead the information was provided in whole or in part to federal and industry officials in uncontrolled settings The Wall Street Journal reported last month that a federal analysis indicated that a coordinated terrorist strike on just nine key electric transmission substations could cause cascading power outages across the country in each of the nationrsquos three synchronized power networks The report followed a comment by former FERC Chairman Jon Wellinghoff that an April 2013 attack on a California electric substation was terrorism The FBI has said in repeated statements it had found no indications to back that up The attack which involved snipping fiber-optic phone lines and firing shots into a PGampE substation near Metcalf Calif caused power outages Millions of people were asked to conserve energy after power lines were damaged Read More -gt httpwwwabqjournalcom381743newsreport-on-vulnerabilities-in-u-s-power-grid-mishandledhtml
The White nominee to replace Sebelius is worse and what you need to know This fight for liberal missions is hardly over and you must be aware of the people running government until 2016 and beyond Policies put in place today donrsquot go away after 2016 so the fight will continue well into advanced years Sylvia Mathews Burwell is the nominee to head up the Secretary position at Heath and Human Services So who is she 1 She is well educated including being a Rhodes Scholar
but those credentials are not quite fitting for America 2 Sylvia was President of the WalMart Foundation full of
liberal policy 3 She was the president of the Global Development
Program of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation filled with eugenic objectives
4 She served as Bill Clintonrsquos Deputy Chief of Staff 5 She wrote the last Barack Obama proposed budget
which failed by a vote of 2-441 6 After being the WH head of the Office of Management
and Budget only 6 months SHE was the one who DID decide to shutdown the government last year
A German museum has traced the author of a 101-year-old message in a bottle
A fisherman pulled the beer bottle out of the Baltic Sea near Kiel Germany last month according to Holger von Neuhoff of the
International Maritime Museum Agence France-Pressereports Inside the bottle is a postcard dated May 17 1913 but much of the
writing on the postcard is illegible von Neuhoff told AFP Based on the address researchers were able to identify the author of
the message as Richard Platz the then 20-year-old son of a baker Platz died in 1946 but a genealogist was able to locate his 62-year-old
granddaughter Angela Erdmann in Berlin according to the report Erdmann was given the chance to hold the bottle at the museum last
week where the postcard will be on display Previously the oldest message found in a bottle spent nearly 98 years at sea and was discovered in April 2012 according to Guinness World
Records
The old maxim that you canrsquot hold children responsible for the sins
of their parents no longer applies mdash at least as far as Washington
is concerned
Congress quietly passed legislation in 2011 lifting the former 10-
year statute of limitations on money owed to the government
allowing Uncle Sam to collect debts going back decades The
measure also allows the government to collect from debtorsrsquo
children and grandchildren according to Fox News
Now ldquosome 400000 Americans may see their tax refund checks
grabbed by the governmentrdquo Fox reported
Former Justice Department attorney J Christian Adams called it
ldquoclassic abuserdquo during his Friday appearance on ldquoThe Kelly Filerdquo
ldquoImagine itrdquo he told Fox News Host Megyn Kelly Instead of a
refund check ldquoyou get a letter from the IRS And it says rsquo40 years
ago your parents got a disability payment that we happened to
overpay hellip So now wersquore taking it out of your tax refundrsquordquo
Think it canrsquot happen in America Think again Fox also reported
A woman named Mary Grice whose father died when she was 4
years old in 1977 leaving her mother with five children Thirty-
seven years later the Social Security administration is claiming
that it overpaid someone in her family but it isnrsquot sure whom and
is going after Ms Grice for the alleged debt
When Megyn Kelly asked Adams what the chances are of the
government dropping the debt against Grice Adams answered
ldquoZerordquo
ldquoThis is an administration that loves to suspend laws when theyrsquore
inconvenient and not enforce certain lawsrdquo Adams said ldquoLetrsquos see
if they do it hererdquo
httpwwwbizpacreviewcom20140412irs-going-after-decades-old-debts-from-children-of-debtors-unbelievable-says-megyn-kelly-112194
Potemkin Villages
Listening In on Lennon
Grand Central Terminals Secret Rooms
Julia Childs Intelligence
The CIA Schemes to Kill Castro mdash with a Seashell
The Loch Ness Monster
UFOs in the USSR
Area 51
CIA Mind-Control Experiments
Churchill and UFOs
bull Designate a common contact This is someone that any member of your family can call and leave a message with in case you all get separated and are unable to communicate with each other directly bull Donrsquot attract hungry people If there is a food shortage where people are actually starving avoid eating things that have to be cooked and opt for foods that can be eaten right out of the can or box If you do cook donrsquot cook with spices You donrsquot want the smell of your food attracting dangerously desperate people
bull Go old school Start thinking about how people used to get along before all these modern conveniences Next time you visit the flea market or a yard sale keep an eye out for motorless push lawnmowers hand crank mixers manual typewriters clothes lines and so forth
bull Take care of your feet Make sure you have good shoes and extra socks If your feet get wet dry them off and keep them warm On the other hand if they dry out too much use lotion or bag balm to keep them from cracking Painful feet can ruin your morale and effectiveness
bull Use superglue to close wounds Although yoursquore probably better off using something like Dermabond superglue can also be used in emergency Depending on the severity of the gash it could take several bottles Be warned it will sting and some people could have an allergic reaction
ldquoCuban Twitterrdquo was a troubling communications network designed to undermine the government in Cuba It was built with secret shell companies and financed through foreign banks (Ramon EspinosaAP) Wersquove all heard how social networks such as Twitter Facebook and YouTube help to spread democracy around the world by mobilizing the masses and making it easier to topple dictators Now wersquore now seeing a darker side to them In some cases theyrsquore being co-opted by governments as disinformation tools used by authoritarian regimes to crack down on Internet dissenters and even being used as part of digital Black Ops by the United States in places like Cuba The story of ldquofake Cuban Twitterrdquo is especially disconcerting mdash wersquore talking about a digital Bay of Pigs in which the US State Department working through USAID actively worked to create a Twitter-like social network (ZunZuneo) to engage the local Cuban population in order to topple the Castro regime At one point nearly 40000 Cubans had signed up for the ZunZuneo network To make the fantasy real the US government created an elaborate system of shell companies and foreign bank accounts to make sure that the Cubans bought into the whole system In other cases social networks are being used as part and parcel of government disinformation campaigns to co-opt opposition movements ndash sometimes by the US government and its allies In February controversial journalist Glenn Greenwald outlined all the dirty tricks and covert operations being used by Western covert agents on the Internet If you know that your opponents are hanging out on YouTube all day the thinking goes thatrsquos the place to crack down on dissenters The list of tactics involved include everything from laying digital honey traps to crafting elaborate attempts to destroy online social reputation As Greenwald notes ldquoThese [Western intelligence] agencies are attempting to control infiltrate manipulate and warp online discourse and in doing so are compromising the integrity of the Internet itselfrdquo
In countries such as Egypt and Turkey data from social networks is being used to find exact locations of protesters based on GPS locations or to track down the IP addresses of Internet users the government wants to discipline The question now is to what degree Western know-how is being used to facilitate these actions In the latest scandal over the Turkish government shutting down YouTube and Twitter for extended periods of time could foreign officials have played a role in ensuring that local elections went on as planned March 30 without backlash from the ldquoTurkish streetrdquo This emerging dark side of social networks has enormous implications for how America conducts its diplomatic business abroad Ever since Hillary Clinton launched ldquo21st century statecraftrdquo for the US State Department therersquos been a push to use Internet freedom as a rallying cry for the United States to win over friends and gain influence across the globe Terms like ldquodigital statecraftrdquo and ldquoe-diplomacyrdquo are commonplace these days ndash not just for America but also for nations that would like to emulate Americarsquos ability to project power around the world At little or no cost social networks such as Twitter Facebook and YouTube made it possible to spread the message that America was the land of baseball apple pie and democracy for all But you can see where all this headed The more that social networks are seen to be doing the bidding of the NSA and the CIA (and proxy organizations such as USAID) in terms of gathering and mobilizing the masses against governments the less effective they are in sharing American values abroad If the American way of life includes getting spied on by your government and having your online privacy and personal data compromised for political gain is that something you can use to win over hearts and minds in foreign lands As Robinson Meyer of The Atlantic pointed out in a tell-all about fake Cuban Twitter this is already the case in places such as Pakistan where a free mobile phone-based social network set up by generous American benefactors in 2009 turned out to be an elaborate State Department ruse to monitor the communication of Pakistanis
In fairness to these social networks such as Twitter and Facebook they are fighting back and taking a public stance against governmentrsquos ability to use them for monitoring of personal communications They no doubt realize that the backlash against the NSA and its intelligence-gathering across the globe mean that future trust in Silicon Valley could be eroded forever Most notably Mark Zuckerberg called on President Obama to stop using the NSA to monitor the affairs of the social networkrsquos one billion users But that doesnrsquot stop the US government from creating a ldquofake Twitterrdquo or ldquofake Facebookrdquo does it It shouldnrsquot take Edward Snowden appearing as a giant talking head at SXSW to tell everyone how governments are ldquosetting fire to the future of the Internetrdquo And it shouldnrsquot take Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt) chiding Congress for a ldquodumb dumb dumbrdquo attempt at covert operations in Cuba Itrsquos not only that Silicon Valley can erode the trust of Internet users The United States might end up eroding the trust of citizens around the globe who once thought of the United States as the home of democracy and progress
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Easter is linked to the Jewish Passover by much of its symbolism as well as by its position in the calendar In many languages the words for Easter and Passover are identical or very similar
Easter is linked to the Passover and Exodus from Egypt recorded in the Old Testament through the Last Supper and crucifixion that preceded the resurrection[According to the New Testament Jesus gave the Passover meal a new meaning as he prepared himself and his disciples for his death in the upper room during the Last Supper He identified the matzah and cup of wine as his body soon to be sacrificed and his blood soon to be shed Paul states Get rid of the old yeast that you may be a new batch without yeastmdashas you really are For Christ our Passover lamb has been sacrificed this refers to the Passover requirement to have no yeast in the house and to the allegory of Jesus as the Paschal lamb
The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) received at least 7868 complaints of DHS ldquoemployee criminal misconductrdquo in the first half of fiscal year 2013 alone This information is based off a DHS OIG report released December 11 According to the report entitled Major Management and Performance Challenges Facing the Department of Homeland Security allegations of criminal misconduct include DHS employees being corrupted by drug traffickers ldquoInvestigations of departmental employees range throughout the [DHS] Components and are initiated in response to allegations of wrongdoing such as smuggling bribery child pornography and theft of departmental funds or propertyrdquo highlighted the December report ldquoOIG is particularly concerned with the smuggling of people and goods across the Nationrsquos bordersrdquo ldquoSmuggling continues to be a large-scale business and remains dominated by drug trafficking organizations that seek to systematically corrupt DHS employees to continue their schemesrdquo added the IG ldquoWithin DHS OIG has the primary authority for investigating allegations of criminal misconduct by DHS employeesrdquo
ldquoThus far in FY 2013 we have received 7868 complaints and have initiated 320 investigations Also in FY 2013 we have had 76 cases accepted for prosecution and achieved 83 convictions and 41 personnel actionsrdquo further stated the OIG in the report Those numbers are based off a previous OIG audit that covered the first half of FY 2013 (Oct 1 2012 to March 30 2013) according to the report ldquoIn FY 2012 we received approximately 17690 complaints [of employee misconduct] and opened 1030 investigationsrdquo also stated the December report ldquoIn that same period 132 of our cases were accepted for prosecution and we achieved 178 convictions and 106 personnel actionsrdquo The OIG report highlighted some employee misconduct cases involving the corruption of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency employees by drug traffickers CBP is a component of DHS ldquoWe learned that a CBP employee was observed meeting with members of a known drug trafficking organizationrdquo stated the IG ldquoLater he made arrangements with individuals he believed to be smugglers and allowed a vehicle driven by an undercover agent to pass through a border patrol checkpoint without being inspected He also met with a confidential informant and received an $8000 cash bribe payment in an enveloperdquo ldquoAfter we arrested him he resigned and pleaded guilty to one count of accepting a briberdquo added the OIG report ldquoSimilarly we investigated a CBP employee who was accepting bribes to allow narcotics through his inspection lanerdquo further stated the document ldquoWe had an agent pose as a narcotics smuggler and pay the employee a series of bribes in exchange for allowing what he believed to be illegal narcotics to enter the United States He was found guilty of conspiracy and briberyrdquo The OIG also highlighted an employee incident involving child pornography ldquoThis year a [US Citizenship and Immigration Services] employee pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography and was sentenced to 37 months incarceration and 120 months of supervised releaserdquo mentioned the report ldquo In 2010 the employee seemingly inadvertently provided another employee with a USB thumb drive containing child pornography and a search of his residence yielded additional images on his home computersrdquo further stated the OIG
Furthermore the OIG also mentioned a case involving theft of government property and sexual harassment ldquoAdditionally we investigated and arrested a recently retired former [US Coast Guard] employee who had stolen government-owned electrical equipment valued at approximately $120000 and sold it on eBayrdquo stated the report ldquoAfter his arrest he pleaded guilty of two counts of mail fraud and was sentenced to 12 months and 1 day incarceration followed by 24 months of supervised release He was also ordered to pay $127600 in restitutionrdquo ldquoWe engaged in a joint investigation with a local sheriffrsquos department of a Border Patrol Agent who made a traffic stop of a vehicle driven by a woman in a remote location and sexually assaulted herrdquo continued the OIG ldquoFollowing the investigation the agent resigned and was sentenced to 96 months in State prisonrdquo According to testimony before a House panel by then-Acting Inspector General Charles Edwards misconduct cases handled by the DHS IG are split into four categories 1) corruption involving bribery disclosure of classified information espionage and smuggling among other things 2) violations of civil rights and liberties by employees 3) defrauding DHS programs and financial systems 4) miscellaneous including those involving child pornography false statements and ldquocontact with foreign governmentsnationalsrdquo among other violations that ldquomay not be criminal in naturerdquo Edwards explained that in the context of OIGrsquos investigative work a DHS employee includes contractors interns Coast Guard personnel and ldquoemployees detailed to DHS from other Federal agenciesrdquo The December 2013 report did not break down the 7868 complaints of DHS employee misconduct by category Edwards now deputy DHS IG noted in a December 9 letter attached to the report ldquoCBP has made significant advancements in battling corruption and misconduct internally CBP conducts background investigations and polygraph examinations of all applicants for law enforcement positions as a way to detect possible issues before an applicant becomes an employee DHS currently employs about 240000 individuals
Did you know that the
Farmerrsquos Almanac predicted
a long hard winter last
August
Did you know the
publication also made
reference to the Blood
Moon Phase
Learn More here
httpwwwfarmersalmanaccomnewsletter
Letter to John Adams
Jeffersons letter to John Adams from Monticello April 11 1823
Dear Sir mdash The wishes expressed in your last favor that I may continue in life and
health until I become a Calvinist at least in his exclamation of `mon Dieu jusque agrave
quand would make me immortal I can never join Calvin in addressing his god He was
indeed an Atheist which I can never be or rather his religion was Daeligmonism If ever man
worshipped a false god he did The being described in his 5 points is not the God whom
you and I acknowledge and adore the Creator and benevolent governor of the world but
a daeligmon of malignant spirit It would be more pardonable to believe in no god at all than
to blaspheme him by the atrocious attributes of Calvin Indeed I think that every Christian
sect gives a great handle to Atheism by their general dogma that without a revelation
there would not be sufficient proof of the being of a god Now one sixth of mankind only
are supposed to be Christians the other five sixths then who do not believe in the Jewish
and Christian revelation are without a knowledge of the existence of a god This gives
completely a gain de cause to the disciples of Ocellus Timaeus Spinosa Diderot and
DHolbach The argument which they rest on as triumphant and unanswerable is that in
every hypothesis of Cosmogony you must admit an eternal pre-existence of something
and according to the rule of sound philosophy you are never to employ two principles to
solve a difficulty when one will suffice They say then that it is more simple to believe at
once in the eternal pre-existence of the world as it is now going on and may for ever go
on by the principle of reproduction which we see and witness than to believe in the
eternal pre-existence of an ulterior cause or Creator of the world a being whom we see
not and know not of whose form substance and mode or place of existence or of action
no sense informs us no power of the mind enables us to delineate or comprehend On
the contrary I hold (without appeal to revelation) that when we take a view of the Universe
in its parts general or particular it is impossible for the human mind not to perceive and
feel a conviction of design consummate skill and indefinite power in every atom of its
composition The movements of the heavenly bodies so exactly held in their course by
the balance of centrifugal and centripetal forces the structure of our earth itself with its
distribution of lands waters and atmosphere animal and vegetable bodies examined in
all their minutest particles insects mere atoms of life yet as perfectly organized as man or
mammoth the mineral substances their generation and uses it is impossible I say for
the human mind not to believe that there is in all this design cause and effect up to an
ultimate cause a fabricator of all things from matter and motion their preserver and
regulator while permitted to exist in their present forms and their regenerator into new
and other forms
We see too evident proofs of the necessity of a superintending power to
maintain the Universe in its course and order Stars well known have
disappeared new ones have come into view comets in their incalculable
courses may run foul of suns and planets and require renovation under other
laws certain races of animals are become extinct and were there no restoring
power all existences might extinguish successively one by one until all should
be reduced to a shapeless chaos So irresistible are these evidences of an
intelligent and powerful Agent that of the infinite numbers of men who have
existed thro all time they have believed in the proportion of a million at least to
Unit in the hypothesis of an eternal pre-existence of a creator rather than in
that of a self-existent Universe Surely this unanimous sentiment renders this
more probable than that of the few in the other hypothesis Some early
Christians indeed have believed in the coeternal pre-existence of both the
Creator and the world without changing their relation of cause and effect That
this was the opinion of St Thomas we are informed by Cardinal Toleto in these
words `Deus ab aeligterno fuit jam omnipotens sicut cum produxit mundum Ab
aeterno potuit producere mundum mdash Si sol ab aeterno esset lumen ab
aeterno esset et si pes similiter vestigium At lumen et vestigium effectus sunt
efficientis solis et pedis potuit ergo cum causa aeterna effectus coaeterna
esse Cujus sententiae est S Thomas Theologorum primus Cardinal Toleta
Of the nature of this being we know nothing Jesus tells us that `God is a spirit
4 John 24 but without defining what a spirit is Down to the 3d century we
know that it was still deemed material but of a lighter subtler matter than our
gross bodies So says Origen `Deus igitur cui anima similis est juxta
Originem reapte corporalis est sed graviorum tantum ratione corporum
incorporeus These are the words of Huet in his commentary on Origen Origen
himself says `appelatio apud nostros scriptores est inusitata et incognita So
also Tertullian `quis autem negabit Deum esse corpus etsi deus spiritus
Spiritus etiam corporis sui generis in sua effigie Tertullian These two fathers
were of the 3d century Calvins character of this supreme being seems chiefly
copied from that of the Jews But the reformation of these blasphemous
attributes and substitution of those more worthy pure and sublime seems to
have been the chief object of Jesus in his discourses to the Jews and his
doctrine of the Cosmogony of the world is very clearly laid down in the 3 first
verses of the 1st chapter of John in these words
Which truly translated means `in the beginning God existed and reason (or mind)
was with God and that mind was God This was in the beginning with God All things
were created by it and without it was made not one thing which was made Yet this
text so plainly declaring the doctrine of Jesus that the world was created by the
supreme intelligent being has been perverted by modern Christians to build up a
second person of their tritheism by a mistranslation of the word One of its
legitimate meanings indeed is `a word But in that sense it makes an unmeaning
jargon while the other meaning `reason equally legitimate explains rationally the
eternal preexistence of God and his creation of the world Knowing how
incomprehensible it was that `a word the mere action or articulation of the voice and
organs of speech could create a world they undertake to make of this articulation a
second preexisting being and ascribe to him and not to God the creation of the
universe The Atheist here plumes himself on the uselessness of such a God and the
simpler hypothesis of a self-existent universe The truth is that the greatest enemies
to the doctrines of Jesus are those calling themselves the expositors of them who
have perverted them for the structure of a system of fancy absolutely
incomprehensible and without any foundation in his genuine words And the day will
come when the mystical generation of Jesus by the supreme being as his father in
the womb of a virgin will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the
brain of Jupiter But we may hope that the dawn of reason and freedom of thought in
these United States will do away with all this artificial scaffolding and restore to us
the primitive and genuine doctrines of this the most venerated reformer of human
errors
So much for your quotation of Calvins `mon dieu jusqua quand in which when
addressed to the God of Jesus and our God I join you cordially and await his time
and will with more readiness than reluctance May we meet there again in Congress
with our ancient Colleagues and receive with them the seal of approbation `Well
done good and faithful servants
It is people like these and words of the same that I miss OBD who is watching over us we miss him
5 tablespoons cold unsalted butter divided 1 small yellow onion minced 1 stalk celery thinly sliced 2 carrots diced medium 1 14 cup all-purpose flour divided 3 cups chicken broth 2 cups diced cooked chicken 13 pound green beans trimmed and cut into 1-inch pieces Salt and pepper 1 teaspoon baking powder 2 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley plus more for topping 12 cup whole milk
Step 1 In a large saucepan melt 3 tablespoons butter over medium-high Add onion celery and carrots and cook until onion is translucent about 4 minutes Add 14 cup flour and cook stirring 1 minute Gradually add broth stirring constantly then bring to a boil Reduce heat and simmer 5 minutes Stir in chicken and green beans and season with salt and pepper Step 2 Make dumplings Whisk together 1 cup flour baking powder 1 teaspoon coarse salt and 2 tablespoons parsley Cut in 2 tablespoons butter Stir in milk Drop heaping spoonfuls batter on top of chicken mixture Cover and simmer until dumplings are cooked through about 12 minutes Serve topped with additional chopped parsley
More sightings of Aedes aegypti -- a mosquito capable of carrying deadly yellow fever dengue and other diseases -- are popping up in California as vector control agents scramble to control its spread The bugs first were detected in Californias Central Valley communities of Madera and Clovis in June and were detected again this week in the city of Fresno and in San Mateo County in the Bay Area in August We were shocked Leonard Irby district manager of Maderas mosquito abatement program told the Los Angeles Times We never expected this mosquito in California One expert noted the discovery means that this mosquito can potentially spread the deadly diseases if they bite an infected person but emphasized that doesnt mean officials have found these diseases yet in the state Its certainly concerning that the mosquito has been located But whats important for people to remember is identification just represents a method of transmission -- the diseases have not yet been recognized in California Dr Soniya Gandhi an assistant clinical professor in the division of infectious diseases at UCLA Medical Center said to CBSNewscom The Aedes aegypti or yellow fever mosquito targets humans and their dwellings according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention They dont just feed off of blood for meals but seek out containers of water to lay eggs and complete their development The dark mosquitoes with white markings and banded legs bite during the day prefer people to animals and need only a teaspoon of water -- less than in a saucer under a houseplant -- to lay eggs to reproduce The bugs are highly resilient due to adaptations like the ability to survive without water for several months and can bounce back to initial numbers after human control efforts according to the CDC If it gets away it will change the way we live in California You may not be able to sit on your patio and enjoy a cup of coffee during the day without getting bit said Tim Phillips of the Fresno Mosquito and Vector Control District So far none of the mosquitoes trapped within a 2-square-mile infected area of Clovis have carried diseases But officials warn that if the mosquito bites someone infected with dengue problems could arise as they have across southern Florida where dozens of residents have been infected
The mosquito also has been detected in Texas and Arizona Arizona is also setting traps to make sure the bugs dont spread across the state CBS affiliate KPHO in Phoenix reported Dengue is a virus that can cause headache and body pains and a rash similar to measles Ninety-nine percent of cases can be treated but the disease can be deadly if unrecognized Yellow fever is a virus that causes severe flu-like symptoms and sometimes jaundice It also can kill The nightmare scenarios is it gets established in California and then a mosquito bites someone with an imported case of dengue Phillips said California has had about 200 cases of dengue fever since 2010 all contracted out of the country said Dr Vickie Kramer chief of the vector borne disease section at the California Department of Public Health She said the chance of disease transmission is low but the state has warned county health departments statewide to be on the lookout for potential cases and has asked local agencies to step up trapping Unlike those mosquitoes that carry West Nile Virus and like to bite birds these like to bite people and will enter homes very readily Kramer said People need to be aware its here and the medical community should be aware as well While it would be rare for the insects to cause disease Gandhi thinks awareness and prevention efforts could help further reduce risk People can reduce all piles of standing water near their homes such as by emptying out flower pots and covering trash cans and they can also make sure their screen doors are sufficiently covered Individuals can also wear long loose clothing and stay indoors or use insect repellants with up to 10 percent DEET or picaridin Scientists at UC Davis and at Yale University are performing genetic testing on the tropical yellow fever mosquitoes to determine their country of origin Preliminary results show they could be from Central America Health officials think this outbreak could have originated from eggs on containers imported into the country The Fresno detection came after a resident saw a vector control display last week at the county fair and reported daytime attacks Likewise in Clovis a resident complained about unusually aggressive mosquitoes The mosquitoes have been trapped at around 100 sites in Clovis where vector control agents are going door-to-door warning residents to empty all standing water Officials working along with the California Department of Public Health are spraying the insecticide promethean in and around thousands of infested homes Its very difficult to control because of its biology said Steve Mulligan who is working on the Clovis outbreak They like humans and will come inside the house Were trying hard to eliminate it
In 1776 and 1777 a Setauket New York farmer and his childhood friends form an unlikely group of spies called the Culper Ring who eventually turn the tide during the American Revolutionary War[1] The series begins in October 1776 shortly after British victories recaptured Long Island Staten Island and New York City for the Crown and left General George Washingtons army in desperate straits
What Should the United States do about Russia and the Ukraine What should the United States do
about Iran What should the United States do about the
United Nations What should the United States do about
Education What should the United States do about
Healthcare What should the United State do about
Immigration What should the Unites States do about Waste
Fraud and Abuse What should WE do about
the corrupt system in all
government
WASHINGTON mdash Federal energy regulators improperly allowed
widespread access to a sensitive document that outlined specific locations where the nationrsquos electric grid is vulnerable to physical threats a government investigator said Wednesday The document created by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission should have been kept secret as a national security matter Energy Department Inspector General Gregory Friedman said Instead the information was provided in whole or in part to federal and industry officials in uncontrolled settings The Wall Street Journal reported last month that a federal analysis indicated that a coordinated terrorist strike on just nine key electric transmission substations could cause cascading power outages across the country in each of the nationrsquos three synchronized power networks The report followed a comment by former FERC Chairman Jon Wellinghoff that an April 2013 attack on a California electric substation was terrorism The FBI has said in repeated statements it had found no indications to back that up The attack which involved snipping fiber-optic phone lines and firing shots into a PGampE substation near Metcalf Calif caused power outages Millions of people were asked to conserve energy after power lines were damaged Read More -gt httpwwwabqjournalcom381743newsreport-on-vulnerabilities-in-u-s-power-grid-mishandledhtml
The White nominee to replace Sebelius is worse and what you need to know This fight for liberal missions is hardly over and you must be aware of the people running government until 2016 and beyond Policies put in place today donrsquot go away after 2016 so the fight will continue well into advanced years Sylvia Mathews Burwell is the nominee to head up the Secretary position at Heath and Human Services So who is she 1 She is well educated including being a Rhodes Scholar
but those credentials are not quite fitting for America 2 Sylvia was President of the WalMart Foundation full of
liberal policy 3 She was the president of the Global Development
Program of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation filled with eugenic objectives
4 She served as Bill Clintonrsquos Deputy Chief of Staff 5 She wrote the last Barack Obama proposed budget
which failed by a vote of 2-441 6 After being the WH head of the Office of Management
and Budget only 6 months SHE was the one who DID decide to shutdown the government last year
A German museum has traced the author of a 101-year-old message in a bottle
A fisherman pulled the beer bottle out of the Baltic Sea near Kiel Germany last month according to Holger von Neuhoff of the
International Maritime Museum Agence France-Pressereports Inside the bottle is a postcard dated May 17 1913 but much of the
writing on the postcard is illegible von Neuhoff told AFP Based on the address researchers were able to identify the author of
the message as Richard Platz the then 20-year-old son of a baker Platz died in 1946 but a genealogist was able to locate his 62-year-old
granddaughter Angela Erdmann in Berlin according to the report Erdmann was given the chance to hold the bottle at the museum last
week where the postcard will be on display Previously the oldest message found in a bottle spent nearly 98 years at sea and was discovered in April 2012 according to Guinness World
Records
The old maxim that you canrsquot hold children responsible for the sins
of their parents no longer applies mdash at least as far as Washington
is concerned
Congress quietly passed legislation in 2011 lifting the former 10-
year statute of limitations on money owed to the government
allowing Uncle Sam to collect debts going back decades The
measure also allows the government to collect from debtorsrsquo
children and grandchildren according to Fox News
Now ldquosome 400000 Americans may see their tax refund checks
grabbed by the governmentrdquo Fox reported
Former Justice Department attorney J Christian Adams called it
ldquoclassic abuserdquo during his Friday appearance on ldquoThe Kelly Filerdquo
ldquoImagine itrdquo he told Fox News Host Megyn Kelly Instead of a
refund check ldquoyou get a letter from the IRS And it says rsquo40 years
ago your parents got a disability payment that we happened to
overpay hellip So now wersquore taking it out of your tax refundrsquordquo
Think it canrsquot happen in America Think again Fox also reported
A woman named Mary Grice whose father died when she was 4
years old in 1977 leaving her mother with five children Thirty-
seven years later the Social Security administration is claiming
that it overpaid someone in her family but it isnrsquot sure whom and
is going after Ms Grice for the alleged debt
When Megyn Kelly asked Adams what the chances are of the
government dropping the debt against Grice Adams answered
ldquoZerordquo
ldquoThis is an administration that loves to suspend laws when theyrsquore
inconvenient and not enforce certain lawsrdquo Adams said ldquoLetrsquos see
if they do it hererdquo
httpwwwbizpacreviewcom20140412irs-going-after-decades-old-debts-from-children-of-debtors-unbelievable-says-megyn-kelly-112194
Potemkin Villages
Listening In on Lennon
Grand Central Terminals Secret Rooms
Julia Childs Intelligence
The CIA Schemes to Kill Castro mdash with a Seashell
The Loch Ness Monster
UFOs in the USSR
Area 51
CIA Mind-Control Experiments
Churchill and UFOs
bull Designate a common contact This is someone that any member of your family can call and leave a message with in case you all get separated and are unable to communicate with each other directly bull Donrsquot attract hungry people If there is a food shortage where people are actually starving avoid eating things that have to be cooked and opt for foods that can be eaten right out of the can or box If you do cook donrsquot cook with spices You donrsquot want the smell of your food attracting dangerously desperate people
bull Go old school Start thinking about how people used to get along before all these modern conveniences Next time you visit the flea market or a yard sale keep an eye out for motorless push lawnmowers hand crank mixers manual typewriters clothes lines and so forth
bull Take care of your feet Make sure you have good shoes and extra socks If your feet get wet dry them off and keep them warm On the other hand if they dry out too much use lotion or bag balm to keep them from cracking Painful feet can ruin your morale and effectiveness
bull Use superglue to close wounds Although yoursquore probably better off using something like Dermabond superglue can also be used in emergency Depending on the severity of the gash it could take several bottles Be warned it will sting and some people could have an allergic reaction
ldquoCuban Twitterrdquo was a troubling communications network designed to undermine the government in Cuba It was built with secret shell companies and financed through foreign banks (Ramon EspinosaAP) Wersquove all heard how social networks such as Twitter Facebook and YouTube help to spread democracy around the world by mobilizing the masses and making it easier to topple dictators Now wersquore now seeing a darker side to them In some cases theyrsquore being co-opted by governments as disinformation tools used by authoritarian regimes to crack down on Internet dissenters and even being used as part of digital Black Ops by the United States in places like Cuba The story of ldquofake Cuban Twitterrdquo is especially disconcerting mdash wersquore talking about a digital Bay of Pigs in which the US State Department working through USAID actively worked to create a Twitter-like social network (ZunZuneo) to engage the local Cuban population in order to topple the Castro regime At one point nearly 40000 Cubans had signed up for the ZunZuneo network To make the fantasy real the US government created an elaborate system of shell companies and foreign bank accounts to make sure that the Cubans bought into the whole system In other cases social networks are being used as part and parcel of government disinformation campaigns to co-opt opposition movements ndash sometimes by the US government and its allies In February controversial journalist Glenn Greenwald outlined all the dirty tricks and covert operations being used by Western covert agents on the Internet If you know that your opponents are hanging out on YouTube all day the thinking goes thatrsquos the place to crack down on dissenters The list of tactics involved include everything from laying digital honey traps to crafting elaborate attempts to destroy online social reputation As Greenwald notes ldquoThese [Western intelligence] agencies are attempting to control infiltrate manipulate and warp online discourse and in doing so are compromising the integrity of the Internet itselfrdquo
In countries such as Egypt and Turkey data from social networks is being used to find exact locations of protesters based on GPS locations or to track down the IP addresses of Internet users the government wants to discipline The question now is to what degree Western know-how is being used to facilitate these actions In the latest scandal over the Turkish government shutting down YouTube and Twitter for extended periods of time could foreign officials have played a role in ensuring that local elections went on as planned March 30 without backlash from the ldquoTurkish streetrdquo This emerging dark side of social networks has enormous implications for how America conducts its diplomatic business abroad Ever since Hillary Clinton launched ldquo21st century statecraftrdquo for the US State Department therersquos been a push to use Internet freedom as a rallying cry for the United States to win over friends and gain influence across the globe Terms like ldquodigital statecraftrdquo and ldquoe-diplomacyrdquo are commonplace these days ndash not just for America but also for nations that would like to emulate Americarsquos ability to project power around the world At little or no cost social networks such as Twitter Facebook and YouTube made it possible to spread the message that America was the land of baseball apple pie and democracy for all But you can see where all this headed The more that social networks are seen to be doing the bidding of the NSA and the CIA (and proxy organizations such as USAID) in terms of gathering and mobilizing the masses against governments the less effective they are in sharing American values abroad If the American way of life includes getting spied on by your government and having your online privacy and personal data compromised for political gain is that something you can use to win over hearts and minds in foreign lands As Robinson Meyer of The Atlantic pointed out in a tell-all about fake Cuban Twitter this is already the case in places such as Pakistan where a free mobile phone-based social network set up by generous American benefactors in 2009 turned out to be an elaborate State Department ruse to monitor the communication of Pakistanis
In fairness to these social networks such as Twitter and Facebook they are fighting back and taking a public stance against governmentrsquos ability to use them for monitoring of personal communications They no doubt realize that the backlash against the NSA and its intelligence-gathering across the globe mean that future trust in Silicon Valley could be eroded forever Most notably Mark Zuckerberg called on President Obama to stop using the NSA to monitor the affairs of the social networkrsquos one billion users But that doesnrsquot stop the US government from creating a ldquofake Twitterrdquo or ldquofake Facebookrdquo does it It shouldnrsquot take Edward Snowden appearing as a giant talking head at SXSW to tell everyone how governments are ldquosetting fire to the future of the Internetrdquo And it shouldnrsquot take Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt) chiding Congress for a ldquodumb dumb dumbrdquo attempt at covert operations in Cuba Itrsquos not only that Silicon Valley can erode the trust of Internet users The United States might end up eroding the trust of citizens around the globe who once thought of the United States as the home of democracy and progress
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Easter is linked to the Jewish Passover by much of its symbolism as well as by its position in the calendar In many languages the words for Easter and Passover are identical or very similar
Easter is linked to the Passover and Exodus from Egypt recorded in the Old Testament through the Last Supper and crucifixion that preceded the resurrection[According to the New Testament Jesus gave the Passover meal a new meaning as he prepared himself and his disciples for his death in the upper room during the Last Supper He identified the matzah and cup of wine as his body soon to be sacrificed and his blood soon to be shed Paul states Get rid of the old yeast that you may be a new batch without yeastmdashas you really are For Christ our Passover lamb has been sacrificed this refers to the Passover requirement to have no yeast in the house and to the allegory of Jesus as the Paschal lamb
The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) received at least 7868 complaints of DHS ldquoemployee criminal misconductrdquo in the first half of fiscal year 2013 alone This information is based off a DHS OIG report released December 11 According to the report entitled Major Management and Performance Challenges Facing the Department of Homeland Security allegations of criminal misconduct include DHS employees being corrupted by drug traffickers ldquoInvestigations of departmental employees range throughout the [DHS] Components and are initiated in response to allegations of wrongdoing such as smuggling bribery child pornography and theft of departmental funds or propertyrdquo highlighted the December report ldquoOIG is particularly concerned with the smuggling of people and goods across the Nationrsquos bordersrdquo ldquoSmuggling continues to be a large-scale business and remains dominated by drug trafficking organizations that seek to systematically corrupt DHS employees to continue their schemesrdquo added the IG ldquoWithin DHS OIG has the primary authority for investigating allegations of criminal misconduct by DHS employeesrdquo
ldquoThus far in FY 2013 we have received 7868 complaints and have initiated 320 investigations Also in FY 2013 we have had 76 cases accepted for prosecution and achieved 83 convictions and 41 personnel actionsrdquo further stated the OIG in the report Those numbers are based off a previous OIG audit that covered the first half of FY 2013 (Oct 1 2012 to March 30 2013) according to the report ldquoIn FY 2012 we received approximately 17690 complaints [of employee misconduct] and opened 1030 investigationsrdquo also stated the December report ldquoIn that same period 132 of our cases were accepted for prosecution and we achieved 178 convictions and 106 personnel actionsrdquo The OIG report highlighted some employee misconduct cases involving the corruption of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency employees by drug traffickers CBP is a component of DHS ldquoWe learned that a CBP employee was observed meeting with members of a known drug trafficking organizationrdquo stated the IG ldquoLater he made arrangements with individuals he believed to be smugglers and allowed a vehicle driven by an undercover agent to pass through a border patrol checkpoint without being inspected He also met with a confidential informant and received an $8000 cash bribe payment in an enveloperdquo ldquoAfter we arrested him he resigned and pleaded guilty to one count of accepting a briberdquo added the OIG report ldquoSimilarly we investigated a CBP employee who was accepting bribes to allow narcotics through his inspection lanerdquo further stated the document ldquoWe had an agent pose as a narcotics smuggler and pay the employee a series of bribes in exchange for allowing what he believed to be illegal narcotics to enter the United States He was found guilty of conspiracy and briberyrdquo The OIG also highlighted an employee incident involving child pornography ldquoThis year a [US Citizenship and Immigration Services] employee pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography and was sentenced to 37 months incarceration and 120 months of supervised releaserdquo mentioned the report ldquo In 2010 the employee seemingly inadvertently provided another employee with a USB thumb drive containing child pornography and a search of his residence yielded additional images on his home computersrdquo further stated the OIG
Furthermore the OIG also mentioned a case involving theft of government property and sexual harassment ldquoAdditionally we investigated and arrested a recently retired former [US Coast Guard] employee who had stolen government-owned electrical equipment valued at approximately $120000 and sold it on eBayrdquo stated the report ldquoAfter his arrest he pleaded guilty of two counts of mail fraud and was sentenced to 12 months and 1 day incarceration followed by 24 months of supervised release He was also ordered to pay $127600 in restitutionrdquo ldquoWe engaged in a joint investigation with a local sheriffrsquos department of a Border Patrol Agent who made a traffic stop of a vehicle driven by a woman in a remote location and sexually assaulted herrdquo continued the OIG ldquoFollowing the investigation the agent resigned and was sentenced to 96 months in State prisonrdquo According to testimony before a House panel by then-Acting Inspector General Charles Edwards misconduct cases handled by the DHS IG are split into four categories 1) corruption involving bribery disclosure of classified information espionage and smuggling among other things 2) violations of civil rights and liberties by employees 3) defrauding DHS programs and financial systems 4) miscellaneous including those involving child pornography false statements and ldquocontact with foreign governmentsnationalsrdquo among other violations that ldquomay not be criminal in naturerdquo Edwards explained that in the context of OIGrsquos investigative work a DHS employee includes contractors interns Coast Guard personnel and ldquoemployees detailed to DHS from other Federal agenciesrdquo The December 2013 report did not break down the 7868 complaints of DHS employee misconduct by category Edwards now deputy DHS IG noted in a December 9 letter attached to the report ldquoCBP has made significant advancements in battling corruption and misconduct internally CBP conducts background investigations and polygraph examinations of all applicants for law enforcement positions as a way to detect possible issues before an applicant becomes an employee DHS currently employs about 240000 individuals
Did you know that the
Farmerrsquos Almanac predicted
a long hard winter last
August
Did you know the
publication also made
reference to the Blood
Moon Phase
Learn More here
httpwwwfarmersalmanaccomnewsletter
Letter to John Adams
Jeffersons letter to John Adams from Monticello April 11 1823
Dear Sir mdash The wishes expressed in your last favor that I may continue in life and
health until I become a Calvinist at least in his exclamation of `mon Dieu jusque agrave
quand would make me immortal I can never join Calvin in addressing his god He was
indeed an Atheist which I can never be or rather his religion was Daeligmonism If ever man
worshipped a false god he did The being described in his 5 points is not the God whom
you and I acknowledge and adore the Creator and benevolent governor of the world but
a daeligmon of malignant spirit It would be more pardonable to believe in no god at all than
to blaspheme him by the atrocious attributes of Calvin Indeed I think that every Christian
sect gives a great handle to Atheism by their general dogma that without a revelation
there would not be sufficient proof of the being of a god Now one sixth of mankind only
are supposed to be Christians the other five sixths then who do not believe in the Jewish
and Christian revelation are without a knowledge of the existence of a god This gives
completely a gain de cause to the disciples of Ocellus Timaeus Spinosa Diderot and
DHolbach The argument which they rest on as triumphant and unanswerable is that in
every hypothesis of Cosmogony you must admit an eternal pre-existence of something
and according to the rule of sound philosophy you are never to employ two principles to
solve a difficulty when one will suffice They say then that it is more simple to believe at
once in the eternal pre-existence of the world as it is now going on and may for ever go
on by the principle of reproduction which we see and witness than to believe in the
eternal pre-existence of an ulterior cause or Creator of the world a being whom we see
not and know not of whose form substance and mode or place of existence or of action
no sense informs us no power of the mind enables us to delineate or comprehend On
the contrary I hold (without appeal to revelation) that when we take a view of the Universe
in its parts general or particular it is impossible for the human mind not to perceive and
feel a conviction of design consummate skill and indefinite power in every atom of its
composition The movements of the heavenly bodies so exactly held in their course by
the balance of centrifugal and centripetal forces the structure of our earth itself with its
distribution of lands waters and atmosphere animal and vegetable bodies examined in
all their minutest particles insects mere atoms of life yet as perfectly organized as man or
mammoth the mineral substances their generation and uses it is impossible I say for
the human mind not to believe that there is in all this design cause and effect up to an
ultimate cause a fabricator of all things from matter and motion their preserver and
regulator while permitted to exist in their present forms and their regenerator into new
and other forms
We see too evident proofs of the necessity of a superintending power to
maintain the Universe in its course and order Stars well known have
disappeared new ones have come into view comets in their incalculable
courses may run foul of suns and planets and require renovation under other
laws certain races of animals are become extinct and were there no restoring
power all existences might extinguish successively one by one until all should
be reduced to a shapeless chaos So irresistible are these evidences of an
intelligent and powerful Agent that of the infinite numbers of men who have
existed thro all time they have believed in the proportion of a million at least to
Unit in the hypothesis of an eternal pre-existence of a creator rather than in
that of a self-existent Universe Surely this unanimous sentiment renders this
more probable than that of the few in the other hypothesis Some early
Christians indeed have believed in the coeternal pre-existence of both the
Creator and the world without changing their relation of cause and effect That
this was the opinion of St Thomas we are informed by Cardinal Toleto in these
words `Deus ab aeligterno fuit jam omnipotens sicut cum produxit mundum Ab
aeterno potuit producere mundum mdash Si sol ab aeterno esset lumen ab
aeterno esset et si pes similiter vestigium At lumen et vestigium effectus sunt
efficientis solis et pedis potuit ergo cum causa aeterna effectus coaeterna
esse Cujus sententiae est S Thomas Theologorum primus Cardinal Toleta
Of the nature of this being we know nothing Jesus tells us that `God is a spirit
4 John 24 but without defining what a spirit is Down to the 3d century we
know that it was still deemed material but of a lighter subtler matter than our
gross bodies So says Origen `Deus igitur cui anima similis est juxta
Originem reapte corporalis est sed graviorum tantum ratione corporum
incorporeus These are the words of Huet in his commentary on Origen Origen
himself says `appelatio apud nostros scriptores est inusitata et incognita So
also Tertullian `quis autem negabit Deum esse corpus etsi deus spiritus
Spiritus etiam corporis sui generis in sua effigie Tertullian These two fathers
were of the 3d century Calvins character of this supreme being seems chiefly
copied from that of the Jews But the reformation of these blasphemous
attributes and substitution of those more worthy pure and sublime seems to
have been the chief object of Jesus in his discourses to the Jews and his
doctrine of the Cosmogony of the world is very clearly laid down in the 3 first
verses of the 1st chapter of John in these words
Which truly translated means `in the beginning God existed and reason (or mind)
was with God and that mind was God This was in the beginning with God All things
were created by it and without it was made not one thing which was made Yet this
text so plainly declaring the doctrine of Jesus that the world was created by the
supreme intelligent being has been perverted by modern Christians to build up a
second person of their tritheism by a mistranslation of the word One of its
legitimate meanings indeed is `a word But in that sense it makes an unmeaning
jargon while the other meaning `reason equally legitimate explains rationally the
eternal preexistence of God and his creation of the world Knowing how
incomprehensible it was that `a word the mere action or articulation of the voice and
organs of speech could create a world they undertake to make of this articulation a
second preexisting being and ascribe to him and not to God the creation of the
universe The Atheist here plumes himself on the uselessness of such a God and the
simpler hypothesis of a self-existent universe The truth is that the greatest enemies
to the doctrines of Jesus are those calling themselves the expositors of them who
have perverted them for the structure of a system of fancy absolutely
incomprehensible and without any foundation in his genuine words And the day will
come when the mystical generation of Jesus by the supreme being as his father in
the womb of a virgin will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the
brain of Jupiter But we may hope that the dawn of reason and freedom of thought in
these United States will do away with all this artificial scaffolding and restore to us
the primitive and genuine doctrines of this the most venerated reformer of human
errors
So much for your quotation of Calvins `mon dieu jusqua quand in which when
addressed to the God of Jesus and our God I join you cordially and await his time
and will with more readiness than reluctance May we meet there again in Congress
with our ancient Colleagues and receive with them the seal of approbation `Well
done good and faithful servants
It is people like these and words of the same that I miss OBD who is watching over us we miss him
More sightings of Aedes aegypti -- a mosquito capable of carrying deadly yellow fever dengue and other diseases -- are popping up in California as vector control agents scramble to control its spread The bugs first were detected in Californias Central Valley communities of Madera and Clovis in June and were detected again this week in the city of Fresno and in San Mateo County in the Bay Area in August We were shocked Leonard Irby district manager of Maderas mosquito abatement program told the Los Angeles Times We never expected this mosquito in California One expert noted the discovery means that this mosquito can potentially spread the deadly diseases if they bite an infected person but emphasized that doesnt mean officials have found these diseases yet in the state Its certainly concerning that the mosquito has been located But whats important for people to remember is identification just represents a method of transmission -- the diseases have not yet been recognized in California Dr Soniya Gandhi an assistant clinical professor in the division of infectious diseases at UCLA Medical Center said to CBSNewscom The Aedes aegypti or yellow fever mosquito targets humans and their dwellings according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention They dont just feed off of blood for meals but seek out containers of water to lay eggs and complete their development The dark mosquitoes with white markings and banded legs bite during the day prefer people to animals and need only a teaspoon of water -- less than in a saucer under a houseplant -- to lay eggs to reproduce The bugs are highly resilient due to adaptations like the ability to survive without water for several months and can bounce back to initial numbers after human control efforts according to the CDC If it gets away it will change the way we live in California You may not be able to sit on your patio and enjoy a cup of coffee during the day without getting bit said Tim Phillips of the Fresno Mosquito and Vector Control District So far none of the mosquitoes trapped within a 2-square-mile infected area of Clovis have carried diseases But officials warn that if the mosquito bites someone infected with dengue problems could arise as they have across southern Florida where dozens of residents have been infected
The mosquito also has been detected in Texas and Arizona Arizona is also setting traps to make sure the bugs dont spread across the state CBS affiliate KPHO in Phoenix reported Dengue is a virus that can cause headache and body pains and a rash similar to measles Ninety-nine percent of cases can be treated but the disease can be deadly if unrecognized Yellow fever is a virus that causes severe flu-like symptoms and sometimes jaundice It also can kill The nightmare scenarios is it gets established in California and then a mosquito bites someone with an imported case of dengue Phillips said California has had about 200 cases of dengue fever since 2010 all contracted out of the country said Dr Vickie Kramer chief of the vector borne disease section at the California Department of Public Health She said the chance of disease transmission is low but the state has warned county health departments statewide to be on the lookout for potential cases and has asked local agencies to step up trapping Unlike those mosquitoes that carry West Nile Virus and like to bite birds these like to bite people and will enter homes very readily Kramer said People need to be aware its here and the medical community should be aware as well While it would be rare for the insects to cause disease Gandhi thinks awareness and prevention efforts could help further reduce risk People can reduce all piles of standing water near their homes such as by emptying out flower pots and covering trash cans and they can also make sure their screen doors are sufficiently covered Individuals can also wear long loose clothing and stay indoors or use insect repellants with up to 10 percent DEET or picaridin Scientists at UC Davis and at Yale University are performing genetic testing on the tropical yellow fever mosquitoes to determine their country of origin Preliminary results show they could be from Central America Health officials think this outbreak could have originated from eggs on containers imported into the country The Fresno detection came after a resident saw a vector control display last week at the county fair and reported daytime attacks Likewise in Clovis a resident complained about unusually aggressive mosquitoes The mosquitoes have been trapped at around 100 sites in Clovis where vector control agents are going door-to-door warning residents to empty all standing water Officials working along with the California Department of Public Health are spraying the insecticide promethean in and around thousands of infested homes Its very difficult to control because of its biology said Steve Mulligan who is working on the Clovis outbreak They like humans and will come inside the house Were trying hard to eliminate it
In 1776 and 1777 a Setauket New York farmer and his childhood friends form an unlikely group of spies called the Culper Ring who eventually turn the tide during the American Revolutionary War[1] The series begins in October 1776 shortly after British victories recaptured Long Island Staten Island and New York City for the Crown and left General George Washingtons army in desperate straits
What Should the United States do about Russia and the Ukraine What should the United States do
about Iran What should the United States do about the
United Nations What should the United States do about
Education What should the United States do about
Healthcare What should the United State do about
Immigration What should the Unites States do about Waste
Fraud and Abuse What should WE do about
the corrupt system in all
government
WASHINGTON mdash Federal energy regulators improperly allowed
widespread access to a sensitive document that outlined specific locations where the nationrsquos electric grid is vulnerable to physical threats a government investigator said Wednesday The document created by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission should have been kept secret as a national security matter Energy Department Inspector General Gregory Friedman said Instead the information was provided in whole or in part to federal and industry officials in uncontrolled settings The Wall Street Journal reported last month that a federal analysis indicated that a coordinated terrorist strike on just nine key electric transmission substations could cause cascading power outages across the country in each of the nationrsquos three synchronized power networks The report followed a comment by former FERC Chairman Jon Wellinghoff that an April 2013 attack on a California electric substation was terrorism The FBI has said in repeated statements it had found no indications to back that up The attack which involved snipping fiber-optic phone lines and firing shots into a PGampE substation near Metcalf Calif caused power outages Millions of people were asked to conserve energy after power lines were damaged Read More -gt httpwwwabqjournalcom381743newsreport-on-vulnerabilities-in-u-s-power-grid-mishandledhtml
The White nominee to replace Sebelius is worse and what you need to know This fight for liberal missions is hardly over and you must be aware of the people running government until 2016 and beyond Policies put in place today donrsquot go away after 2016 so the fight will continue well into advanced years Sylvia Mathews Burwell is the nominee to head up the Secretary position at Heath and Human Services So who is she 1 She is well educated including being a Rhodes Scholar
but those credentials are not quite fitting for America 2 Sylvia was President of the WalMart Foundation full of
liberal policy 3 She was the president of the Global Development
Program of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation filled with eugenic objectives
4 She served as Bill Clintonrsquos Deputy Chief of Staff 5 She wrote the last Barack Obama proposed budget
which failed by a vote of 2-441 6 After being the WH head of the Office of Management
and Budget only 6 months SHE was the one who DID decide to shutdown the government last year
A German museum has traced the author of a 101-year-old message in a bottle
A fisherman pulled the beer bottle out of the Baltic Sea near Kiel Germany last month according to Holger von Neuhoff of the
International Maritime Museum Agence France-Pressereports Inside the bottle is a postcard dated May 17 1913 but much of the
writing on the postcard is illegible von Neuhoff told AFP Based on the address researchers were able to identify the author of
the message as Richard Platz the then 20-year-old son of a baker Platz died in 1946 but a genealogist was able to locate his 62-year-old
granddaughter Angela Erdmann in Berlin according to the report Erdmann was given the chance to hold the bottle at the museum last
week where the postcard will be on display Previously the oldest message found in a bottle spent nearly 98 years at sea and was discovered in April 2012 according to Guinness World
Records
The old maxim that you canrsquot hold children responsible for the sins
of their parents no longer applies mdash at least as far as Washington
is concerned
Congress quietly passed legislation in 2011 lifting the former 10-
year statute of limitations on money owed to the government
allowing Uncle Sam to collect debts going back decades The
measure also allows the government to collect from debtorsrsquo
children and grandchildren according to Fox News
Now ldquosome 400000 Americans may see their tax refund checks
grabbed by the governmentrdquo Fox reported
Former Justice Department attorney J Christian Adams called it
ldquoclassic abuserdquo during his Friday appearance on ldquoThe Kelly Filerdquo
ldquoImagine itrdquo he told Fox News Host Megyn Kelly Instead of a
refund check ldquoyou get a letter from the IRS And it says rsquo40 years
ago your parents got a disability payment that we happened to
overpay hellip So now wersquore taking it out of your tax refundrsquordquo
Think it canrsquot happen in America Think again Fox also reported
A woman named Mary Grice whose father died when she was 4
years old in 1977 leaving her mother with five children Thirty-
seven years later the Social Security administration is claiming
that it overpaid someone in her family but it isnrsquot sure whom and
is going after Ms Grice for the alleged debt
When Megyn Kelly asked Adams what the chances are of the
government dropping the debt against Grice Adams answered
ldquoZerordquo
ldquoThis is an administration that loves to suspend laws when theyrsquore
inconvenient and not enforce certain lawsrdquo Adams said ldquoLetrsquos see
if they do it hererdquo
httpwwwbizpacreviewcom20140412irs-going-after-decades-old-debts-from-children-of-debtors-unbelievable-says-megyn-kelly-112194
Potemkin Villages
Listening In on Lennon
Grand Central Terminals Secret Rooms
Julia Childs Intelligence
The CIA Schemes to Kill Castro mdash with a Seashell
The Loch Ness Monster
UFOs in the USSR
Area 51
CIA Mind-Control Experiments
Churchill and UFOs
bull Designate a common contact This is someone that any member of your family can call and leave a message with in case you all get separated and are unable to communicate with each other directly bull Donrsquot attract hungry people If there is a food shortage where people are actually starving avoid eating things that have to be cooked and opt for foods that can be eaten right out of the can or box If you do cook donrsquot cook with spices You donrsquot want the smell of your food attracting dangerously desperate people
bull Go old school Start thinking about how people used to get along before all these modern conveniences Next time you visit the flea market or a yard sale keep an eye out for motorless push lawnmowers hand crank mixers manual typewriters clothes lines and so forth
bull Take care of your feet Make sure you have good shoes and extra socks If your feet get wet dry them off and keep them warm On the other hand if they dry out too much use lotion or bag balm to keep them from cracking Painful feet can ruin your morale and effectiveness
bull Use superglue to close wounds Although yoursquore probably better off using something like Dermabond superglue can also be used in emergency Depending on the severity of the gash it could take several bottles Be warned it will sting and some people could have an allergic reaction
ldquoCuban Twitterrdquo was a troubling communications network designed to undermine the government in Cuba It was built with secret shell companies and financed through foreign banks (Ramon EspinosaAP) Wersquove all heard how social networks such as Twitter Facebook and YouTube help to spread democracy around the world by mobilizing the masses and making it easier to topple dictators Now wersquore now seeing a darker side to them In some cases theyrsquore being co-opted by governments as disinformation tools used by authoritarian regimes to crack down on Internet dissenters and even being used as part of digital Black Ops by the United States in places like Cuba The story of ldquofake Cuban Twitterrdquo is especially disconcerting mdash wersquore talking about a digital Bay of Pigs in which the US State Department working through USAID actively worked to create a Twitter-like social network (ZunZuneo) to engage the local Cuban population in order to topple the Castro regime At one point nearly 40000 Cubans had signed up for the ZunZuneo network To make the fantasy real the US government created an elaborate system of shell companies and foreign bank accounts to make sure that the Cubans bought into the whole system In other cases social networks are being used as part and parcel of government disinformation campaigns to co-opt opposition movements ndash sometimes by the US government and its allies In February controversial journalist Glenn Greenwald outlined all the dirty tricks and covert operations being used by Western covert agents on the Internet If you know that your opponents are hanging out on YouTube all day the thinking goes thatrsquos the place to crack down on dissenters The list of tactics involved include everything from laying digital honey traps to crafting elaborate attempts to destroy online social reputation As Greenwald notes ldquoThese [Western intelligence] agencies are attempting to control infiltrate manipulate and warp online discourse and in doing so are compromising the integrity of the Internet itselfrdquo
In countries such as Egypt and Turkey data from social networks is being used to find exact locations of protesters based on GPS locations or to track down the IP addresses of Internet users the government wants to discipline The question now is to what degree Western know-how is being used to facilitate these actions In the latest scandal over the Turkish government shutting down YouTube and Twitter for extended periods of time could foreign officials have played a role in ensuring that local elections went on as planned March 30 without backlash from the ldquoTurkish streetrdquo This emerging dark side of social networks has enormous implications for how America conducts its diplomatic business abroad Ever since Hillary Clinton launched ldquo21st century statecraftrdquo for the US State Department therersquos been a push to use Internet freedom as a rallying cry for the United States to win over friends and gain influence across the globe Terms like ldquodigital statecraftrdquo and ldquoe-diplomacyrdquo are commonplace these days ndash not just for America but also for nations that would like to emulate Americarsquos ability to project power around the world At little or no cost social networks such as Twitter Facebook and YouTube made it possible to spread the message that America was the land of baseball apple pie and democracy for all But you can see where all this headed The more that social networks are seen to be doing the bidding of the NSA and the CIA (and proxy organizations such as USAID) in terms of gathering and mobilizing the masses against governments the less effective they are in sharing American values abroad If the American way of life includes getting spied on by your government and having your online privacy and personal data compromised for political gain is that something you can use to win over hearts and minds in foreign lands As Robinson Meyer of The Atlantic pointed out in a tell-all about fake Cuban Twitter this is already the case in places such as Pakistan where a free mobile phone-based social network set up by generous American benefactors in 2009 turned out to be an elaborate State Department ruse to monitor the communication of Pakistanis
In fairness to these social networks such as Twitter and Facebook they are fighting back and taking a public stance against governmentrsquos ability to use them for monitoring of personal communications They no doubt realize that the backlash against the NSA and its intelligence-gathering across the globe mean that future trust in Silicon Valley could be eroded forever Most notably Mark Zuckerberg called on President Obama to stop using the NSA to monitor the affairs of the social networkrsquos one billion users But that doesnrsquot stop the US government from creating a ldquofake Twitterrdquo or ldquofake Facebookrdquo does it It shouldnrsquot take Edward Snowden appearing as a giant talking head at SXSW to tell everyone how governments are ldquosetting fire to the future of the Internetrdquo And it shouldnrsquot take Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt) chiding Congress for a ldquodumb dumb dumbrdquo attempt at covert operations in Cuba Itrsquos not only that Silicon Valley can erode the trust of Internet users The United States might end up eroding the trust of citizens around the globe who once thought of the United States as the home of democracy and progress
httpwwwwashingtonpostcomblogsinnovationswp20140408the-emerging-dark-side-of-social-networksprint=1
Easter is linked to the Jewish Passover by much of its symbolism as well as by its position in the calendar In many languages the words for Easter and Passover are identical or very similar
Easter is linked to the Passover and Exodus from Egypt recorded in the Old Testament through the Last Supper and crucifixion that preceded the resurrection[According to the New Testament Jesus gave the Passover meal a new meaning as he prepared himself and his disciples for his death in the upper room during the Last Supper He identified the matzah and cup of wine as his body soon to be sacrificed and his blood soon to be shed Paul states Get rid of the old yeast that you may be a new batch without yeastmdashas you really are For Christ our Passover lamb has been sacrificed this refers to the Passover requirement to have no yeast in the house and to the allegory of Jesus as the Paschal lamb
The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) received at least 7868 complaints of DHS ldquoemployee criminal misconductrdquo in the first half of fiscal year 2013 alone This information is based off a DHS OIG report released December 11 According to the report entitled Major Management and Performance Challenges Facing the Department of Homeland Security allegations of criminal misconduct include DHS employees being corrupted by drug traffickers ldquoInvestigations of departmental employees range throughout the [DHS] Components and are initiated in response to allegations of wrongdoing such as smuggling bribery child pornography and theft of departmental funds or propertyrdquo highlighted the December report ldquoOIG is particularly concerned with the smuggling of people and goods across the Nationrsquos bordersrdquo ldquoSmuggling continues to be a large-scale business and remains dominated by drug trafficking organizations that seek to systematically corrupt DHS employees to continue their schemesrdquo added the IG ldquoWithin DHS OIG has the primary authority for investigating allegations of criminal misconduct by DHS employeesrdquo
ldquoThus far in FY 2013 we have received 7868 complaints and have initiated 320 investigations Also in FY 2013 we have had 76 cases accepted for prosecution and achieved 83 convictions and 41 personnel actionsrdquo further stated the OIG in the report Those numbers are based off a previous OIG audit that covered the first half of FY 2013 (Oct 1 2012 to March 30 2013) according to the report ldquoIn FY 2012 we received approximately 17690 complaints [of employee misconduct] and opened 1030 investigationsrdquo also stated the December report ldquoIn that same period 132 of our cases were accepted for prosecution and we achieved 178 convictions and 106 personnel actionsrdquo The OIG report highlighted some employee misconduct cases involving the corruption of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency employees by drug traffickers CBP is a component of DHS ldquoWe learned that a CBP employee was observed meeting with members of a known drug trafficking organizationrdquo stated the IG ldquoLater he made arrangements with individuals he believed to be smugglers and allowed a vehicle driven by an undercover agent to pass through a border patrol checkpoint without being inspected He also met with a confidential informant and received an $8000 cash bribe payment in an enveloperdquo ldquoAfter we arrested him he resigned and pleaded guilty to one count of accepting a briberdquo added the OIG report ldquoSimilarly we investigated a CBP employee who was accepting bribes to allow narcotics through his inspection lanerdquo further stated the document ldquoWe had an agent pose as a narcotics smuggler and pay the employee a series of bribes in exchange for allowing what he believed to be illegal narcotics to enter the United States He was found guilty of conspiracy and briberyrdquo The OIG also highlighted an employee incident involving child pornography ldquoThis year a [US Citizenship and Immigration Services] employee pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography and was sentenced to 37 months incarceration and 120 months of supervised releaserdquo mentioned the report ldquo In 2010 the employee seemingly inadvertently provided another employee with a USB thumb drive containing child pornography and a search of his residence yielded additional images on his home computersrdquo further stated the OIG
Furthermore the OIG also mentioned a case involving theft of government property and sexual harassment ldquoAdditionally we investigated and arrested a recently retired former [US Coast Guard] employee who had stolen government-owned electrical equipment valued at approximately $120000 and sold it on eBayrdquo stated the report ldquoAfter his arrest he pleaded guilty of two counts of mail fraud and was sentenced to 12 months and 1 day incarceration followed by 24 months of supervised release He was also ordered to pay $127600 in restitutionrdquo ldquoWe engaged in a joint investigation with a local sheriffrsquos department of a Border Patrol Agent who made a traffic stop of a vehicle driven by a woman in a remote location and sexually assaulted herrdquo continued the OIG ldquoFollowing the investigation the agent resigned and was sentenced to 96 months in State prisonrdquo According to testimony before a House panel by then-Acting Inspector General Charles Edwards misconduct cases handled by the DHS IG are split into four categories 1) corruption involving bribery disclosure of classified information espionage and smuggling among other things 2) violations of civil rights and liberties by employees 3) defrauding DHS programs and financial systems 4) miscellaneous including those involving child pornography false statements and ldquocontact with foreign governmentsnationalsrdquo among other violations that ldquomay not be criminal in naturerdquo Edwards explained that in the context of OIGrsquos investigative work a DHS employee includes contractors interns Coast Guard personnel and ldquoemployees detailed to DHS from other Federal agenciesrdquo The December 2013 report did not break down the 7868 complaints of DHS employee misconduct by category Edwards now deputy DHS IG noted in a December 9 letter attached to the report ldquoCBP has made significant advancements in battling corruption and misconduct internally CBP conducts background investigations and polygraph examinations of all applicants for law enforcement positions as a way to detect possible issues before an applicant becomes an employee DHS currently employs about 240000 individuals
Did you know that the
Farmerrsquos Almanac predicted
a long hard winter last
August
Did you know the
publication also made
reference to the Blood
Moon Phase
Learn More here
httpwwwfarmersalmanaccomnewsletter
Letter to John Adams
Jeffersons letter to John Adams from Monticello April 11 1823
Dear Sir mdash The wishes expressed in your last favor that I may continue in life and
health until I become a Calvinist at least in his exclamation of `mon Dieu jusque agrave
quand would make me immortal I can never join Calvin in addressing his god He was
indeed an Atheist which I can never be or rather his religion was Daeligmonism If ever man
worshipped a false god he did The being described in his 5 points is not the God whom
you and I acknowledge and adore the Creator and benevolent governor of the world but
a daeligmon of malignant spirit It would be more pardonable to believe in no god at all than
to blaspheme him by the atrocious attributes of Calvin Indeed I think that every Christian
sect gives a great handle to Atheism by their general dogma that without a revelation
there would not be sufficient proof of the being of a god Now one sixth of mankind only
are supposed to be Christians the other five sixths then who do not believe in the Jewish
and Christian revelation are without a knowledge of the existence of a god This gives
completely a gain de cause to the disciples of Ocellus Timaeus Spinosa Diderot and
DHolbach The argument which they rest on as triumphant and unanswerable is that in
every hypothesis of Cosmogony you must admit an eternal pre-existence of something
and according to the rule of sound philosophy you are never to employ two principles to
solve a difficulty when one will suffice They say then that it is more simple to believe at
once in the eternal pre-existence of the world as it is now going on and may for ever go
on by the principle of reproduction which we see and witness than to believe in the
eternal pre-existence of an ulterior cause or Creator of the world a being whom we see
not and know not of whose form substance and mode or place of existence or of action
no sense informs us no power of the mind enables us to delineate or comprehend On
the contrary I hold (without appeal to revelation) that when we take a view of the Universe
in its parts general or particular it is impossible for the human mind not to perceive and
feel a conviction of design consummate skill and indefinite power in every atom of its
composition The movements of the heavenly bodies so exactly held in their course by
the balance of centrifugal and centripetal forces the structure of our earth itself with its
distribution of lands waters and atmosphere animal and vegetable bodies examined in
all their minutest particles insects mere atoms of life yet as perfectly organized as man or
mammoth the mineral substances their generation and uses it is impossible I say for
the human mind not to believe that there is in all this design cause and effect up to an
ultimate cause a fabricator of all things from matter and motion their preserver and
regulator while permitted to exist in their present forms and their regenerator into new
and other forms
We see too evident proofs of the necessity of a superintending power to
maintain the Universe in its course and order Stars well known have
disappeared new ones have come into view comets in their incalculable
courses may run foul of suns and planets and require renovation under other
laws certain races of animals are become extinct and were there no restoring
power all existences might extinguish successively one by one until all should
be reduced to a shapeless chaos So irresistible are these evidences of an
intelligent and powerful Agent that of the infinite numbers of men who have
existed thro all time they have believed in the proportion of a million at least to
Unit in the hypothesis of an eternal pre-existence of a creator rather than in
that of a self-existent Universe Surely this unanimous sentiment renders this
more probable than that of the few in the other hypothesis Some early
Christians indeed have believed in the coeternal pre-existence of both the
Creator and the world without changing their relation of cause and effect That
this was the opinion of St Thomas we are informed by Cardinal Toleto in these
words `Deus ab aeligterno fuit jam omnipotens sicut cum produxit mundum Ab
aeterno potuit producere mundum mdash Si sol ab aeterno esset lumen ab
aeterno esset et si pes similiter vestigium At lumen et vestigium effectus sunt
efficientis solis et pedis potuit ergo cum causa aeterna effectus coaeterna
esse Cujus sententiae est S Thomas Theologorum primus Cardinal Toleta
Of the nature of this being we know nothing Jesus tells us that `God is a spirit
4 John 24 but without defining what a spirit is Down to the 3d century we
know that it was still deemed material but of a lighter subtler matter than our
gross bodies So says Origen `Deus igitur cui anima similis est juxta
Originem reapte corporalis est sed graviorum tantum ratione corporum
incorporeus These are the words of Huet in his commentary on Origen Origen
himself says `appelatio apud nostros scriptores est inusitata et incognita So
also Tertullian `quis autem negabit Deum esse corpus etsi deus spiritus
Spiritus etiam corporis sui generis in sua effigie Tertullian These two fathers
were of the 3d century Calvins character of this supreme being seems chiefly
copied from that of the Jews But the reformation of these blasphemous
attributes and substitution of those more worthy pure and sublime seems to
have been the chief object of Jesus in his discourses to the Jews and his
doctrine of the Cosmogony of the world is very clearly laid down in the 3 first
verses of the 1st chapter of John in these words
Which truly translated means `in the beginning God existed and reason (or mind)
was with God and that mind was God This was in the beginning with God All things
were created by it and without it was made not one thing which was made Yet this
text so plainly declaring the doctrine of Jesus that the world was created by the
supreme intelligent being has been perverted by modern Christians to build up a
second person of their tritheism by a mistranslation of the word One of its
legitimate meanings indeed is `a word But in that sense it makes an unmeaning
jargon while the other meaning `reason equally legitimate explains rationally the
eternal preexistence of God and his creation of the world Knowing how
incomprehensible it was that `a word the mere action or articulation of the voice and
organs of speech could create a world they undertake to make of this articulation a
second preexisting being and ascribe to him and not to God the creation of the
universe The Atheist here plumes himself on the uselessness of such a God and the
simpler hypothesis of a self-existent universe The truth is that the greatest enemies
to the doctrines of Jesus are those calling themselves the expositors of them who
have perverted them for the structure of a system of fancy absolutely
incomprehensible and without any foundation in his genuine words And the day will
come when the mystical generation of Jesus by the supreme being as his father in
the womb of a virgin will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the
brain of Jupiter But we may hope that the dawn of reason and freedom of thought in
these United States will do away with all this artificial scaffolding and restore to us
the primitive and genuine doctrines of this the most venerated reformer of human
errors
So much for your quotation of Calvins `mon dieu jusqua quand in which when
addressed to the God of Jesus and our God I join you cordially and await his time
and will with more readiness than reluctance May we meet there again in Congress
with our ancient Colleagues and receive with them the seal of approbation `Well
done good and faithful servants
It is people like these and words of the same that I miss OBD who is watching over us we miss him
The mosquito also has been detected in Texas and Arizona Arizona is also setting traps to make sure the bugs dont spread across the state CBS affiliate KPHO in Phoenix reported Dengue is a virus that can cause headache and body pains and a rash similar to measles Ninety-nine percent of cases can be treated but the disease can be deadly if unrecognized Yellow fever is a virus that causes severe flu-like symptoms and sometimes jaundice It also can kill The nightmare scenarios is it gets established in California and then a mosquito bites someone with an imported case of dengue Phillips said California has had about 200 cases of dengue fever since 2010 all contracted out of the country said Dr Vickie Kramer chief of the vector borne disease section at the California Department of Public Health She said the chance of disease transmission is low but the state has warned county health departments statewide to be on the lookout for potential cases and has asked local agencies to step up trapping Unlike those mosquitoes that carry West Nile Virus and like to bite birds these like to bite people and will enter homes very readily Kramer said People need to be aware its here and the medical community should be aware as well While it would be rare for the insects to cause disease Gandhi thinks awareness and prevention efforts could help further reduce risk People can reduce all piles of standing water near their homes such as by emptying out flower pots and covering trash cans and they can also make sure their screen doors are sufficiently covered Individuals can also wear long loose clothing and stay indoors or use insect repellants with up to 10 percent DEET or picaridin Scientists at UC Davis and at Yale University are performing genetic testing on the tropical yellow fever mosquitoes to determine their country of origin Preliminary results show they could be from Central America Health officials think this outbreak could have originated from eggs on containers imported into the country The Fresno detection came after a resident saw a vector control display last week at the county fair and reported daytime attacks Likewise in Clovis a resident complained about unusually aggressive mosquitoes The mosquitoes have been trapped at around 100 sites in Clovis where vector control agents are going door-to-door warning residents to empty all standing water Officials working along with the California Department of Public Health are spraying the insecticide promethean in and around thousands of infested homes Its very difficult to control because of its biology said Steve Mulligan who is working on the Clovis outbreak They like humans and will come inside the house Were trying hard to eliminate it
In 1776 and 1777 a Setauket New York farmer and his childhood friends form an unlikely group of spies called the Culper Ring who eventually turn the tide during the American Revolutionary War[1] The series begins in October 1776 shortly after British victories recaptured Long Island Staten Island and New York City for the Crown and left General George Washingtons army in desperate straits
What Should the United States do about Russia and the Ukraine What should the United States do
about Iran What should the United States do about the
United Nations What should the United States do about
Education What should the United States do about
Healthcare What should the United State do about
Immigration What should the Unites States do about Waste
Fraud and Abuse What should WE do about
the corrupt system in all
government
WASHINGTON mdash Federal energy regulators improperly allowed
widespread access to a sensitive document that outlined specific locations where the nationrsquos electric grid is vulnerable to physical threats a government investigator said Wednesday The document created by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission should have been kept secret as a national security matter Energy Department Inspector General Gregory Friedman said Instead the information was provided in whole or in part to federal and industry officials in uncontrolled settings The Wall Street Journal reported last month that a federal analysis indicated that a coordinated terrorist strike on just nine key electric transmission substations could cause cascading power outages across the country in each of the nationrsquos three synchronized power networks The report followed a comment by former FERC Chairman Jon Wellinghoff that an April 2013 attack on a California electric substation was terrorism The FBI has said in repeated statements it had found no indications to back that up The attack which involved snipping fiber-optic phone lines and firing shots into a PGampE substation near Metcalf Calif caused power outages Millions of people were asked to conserve energy after power lines were damaged Read More -gt httpwwwabqjournalcom381743newsreport-on-vulnerabilities-in-u-s-power-grid-mishandledhtml
The White nominee to replace Sebelius is worse and what you need to know This fight for liberal missions is hardly over and you must be aware of the people running government until 2016 and beyond Policies put in place today donrsquot go away after 2016 so the fight will continue well into advanced years Sylvia Mathews Burwell is the nominee to head up the Secretary position at Heath and Human Services So who is she 1 She is well educated including being a Rhodes Scholar
but those credentials are not quite fitting for America 2 Sylvia was President of the WalMart Foundation full of
liberal policy 3 She was the president of the Global Development
Program of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation filled with eugenic objectives
4 She served as Bill Clintonrsquos Deputy Chief of Staff 5 She wrote the last Barack Obama proposed budget
which failed by a vote of 2-441 6 After being the WH head of the Office of Management
and Budget only 6 months SHE was the one who DID decide to shutdown the government last year
A German museum has traced the author of a 101-year-old message in a bottle
A fisherman pulled the beer bottle out of the Baltic Sea near Kiel Germany last month according to Holger von Neuhoff of the
International Maritime Museum Agence France-Pressereports Inside the bottle is a postcard dated May 17 1913 but much of the
writing on the postcard is illegible von Neuhoff told AFP Based on the address researchers were able to identify the author of
the message as Richard Platz the then 20-year-old son of a baker Platz died in 1946 but a genealogist was able to locate his 62-year-old
granddaughter Angela Erdmann in Berlin according to the report Erdmann was given the chance to hold the bottle at the museum last
week where the postcard will be on display Previously the oldest message found in a bottle spent nearly 98 years at sea and was discovered in April 2012 according to Guinness World
Records
The old maxim that you canrsquot hold children responsible for the sins
of their parents no longer applies mdash at least as far as Washington
is concerned
Congress quietly passed legislation in 2011 lifting the former 10-
year statute of limitations on money owed to the government
allowing Uncle Sam to collect debts going back decades The
measure also allows the government to collect from debtorsrsquo
children and grandchildren according to Fox News
Now ldquosome 400000 Americans may see their tax refund checks
grabbed by the governmentrdquo Fox reported
Former Justice Department attorney J Christian Adams called it
ldquoclassic abuserdquo during his Friday appearance on ldquoThe Kelly Filerdquo
ldquoImagine itrdquo he told Fox News Host Megyn Kelly Instead of a
refund check ldquoyou get a letter from the IRS And it says rsquo40 years
ago your parents got a disability payment that we happened to
overpay hellip So now wersquore taking it out of your tax refundrsquordquo
Think it canrsquot happen in America Think again Fox also reported
A woman named Mary Grice whose father died when she was 4
years old in 1977 leaving her mother with five children Thirty-
seven years later the Social Security administration is claiming
that it overpaid someone in her family but it isnrsquot sure whom and
is going after Ms Grice for the alleged debt
When Megyn Kelly asked Adams what the chances are of the
government dropping the debt against Grice Adams answered
ldquoZerordquo
ldquoThis is an administration that loves to suspend laws when theyrsquore
inconvenient and not enforce certain lawsrdquo Adams said ldquoLetrsquos see
if they do it hererdquo
httpwwwbizpacreviewcom20140412irs-going-after-decades-old-debts-from-children-of-debtors-unbelievable-says-megyn-kelly-112194
Potemkin Villages
Listening In on Lennon
Grand Central Terminals Secret Rooms
Julia Childs Intelligence
The CIA Schemes to Kill Castro mdash with a Seashell
The Loch Ness Monster
UFOs in the USSR
Area 51
CIA Mind-Control Experiments
Churchill and UFOs
bull Designate a common contact This is someone that any member of your family can call and leave a message with in case you all get separated and are unable to communicate with each other directly bull Donrsquot attract hungry people If there is a food shortage where people are actually starving avoid eating things that have to be cooked and opt for foods that can be eaten right out of the can or box If you do cook donrsquot cook with spices You donrsquot want the smell of your food attracting dangerously desperate people
bull Go old school Start thinking about how people used to get along before all these modern conveniences Next time you visit the flea market or a yard sale keep an eye out for motorless push lawnmowers hand crank mixers manual typewriters clothes lines and so forth
bull Take care of your feet Make sure you have good shoes and extra socks If your feet get wet dry them off and keep them warm On the other hand if they dry out too much use lotion or bag balm to keep them from cracking Painful feet can ruin your morale and effectiveness
bull Use superglue to close wounds Although yoursquore probably better off using something like Dermabond superglue can also be used in emergency Depending on the severity of the gash it could take several bottles Be warned it will sting and some people could have an allergic reaction
ldquoCuban Twitterrdquo was a troubling communications network designed to undermine the government in Cuba It was built with secret shell companies and financed through foreign banks (Ramon EspinosaAP) Wersquove all heard how social networks such as Twitter Facebook and YouTube help to spread democracy around the world by mobilizing the masses and making it easier to topple dictators Now wersquore now seeing a darker side to them In some cases theyrsquore being co-opted by governments as disinformation tools used by authoritarian regimes to crack down on Internet dissenters and even being used as part of digital Black Ops by the United States in places like Cuba The story of ldquofake Cuban Twitterrdquo is especially disconcerting mdash wersquore talking about a digital Bay of Pigs in which the US State Department working through USAID actively worked to create a Twitter-like social network (ZunZuneo) to engage the local Cuban population in order to topple the Castro regime At one point nearly 40000 Cubans had signed up for the ZunZuneo network To make the fantasy real the US government created an elaborate system of shell companies and foreign bank accounts to make sure that the Cubans bought into the whole system In other cases social networks are being used as part and parcel of government disinformation campaigns to co-opt opposition movements ndash sometimes by the US government and its allies In February controversial journalist Glenn Greenwald outlined all the dirty tricks and covert operations being used by Western covert agents on the Internet If you know that your opponents are hanging out on YouTube all day the thinking goes thatrsquos the place to crack down on dissenters The list of tactics involved include everything from laying digital honey traps to crafting elaborate attempts to destroy online social reputation As Greenwald notes ldquoThese [Western intelligence] agencies are attempting to control infiltrate manipulate and warp online discourse and in doing so are compromising the integrity of the Internet itselfrdquo
In countries such as Egypt and Turkey data from social networks is being used to find exact locations of protesters based on GPS locations or to track down the IP addresses of Internet users the government wants to discipline The question now is to what degree Western know-how is being used to facilitate these actions In the latest scandal over the Turkish government shutting down YouTube and Twitter for extended periods of time could foreign officials have played a role in ensuring that local elections went on as planned March 30 without backlash from the ldquoTurkish streetrdquo This emerging dark side of social networks has enormous implications for how America conducts its diplomatic business abroad Ever since Hillary Clinton launched ldquo21st century statecraftrdquo for the US State Department therersquos been a push to use Internet freedom as a rallying cry for the United States to win over friends and gain influence across the globe Terms like ldquodigital statecraftrdquo and ldquoe-diplomacyrdquo are commonplace these days ndash not just for America but also for nations that would like to emulate Americarsquos ability to project power around the world At little or no cost social networks such as Twitter Facebook and YouTube made it possible to spread the message that America was the land of baseball apple pie and democracy for all But you can see where all this headed The more that social networks are seen to be doing the bidding of the NSA and the CIA (and proxy organizations such as USAID) in terms of gathering and mobilizing the masses against governments the less effective they are in sharing American values abroad If the American way of life includes getting spied on by your government and having your online privacy and personal data compromised for political gain is that something you can use to win over hearts and minds in foreign lands As Robinson Meyer of The Atlantic pointed out in a tell-all about fake Cuban Twitter this is already the case in places such as Pakistan where a free mobile phone-based social network set up by generous American benefactors in 2009 turned out to be an elaborate State Department ruse to monitor the communication of Pakistanis
In fairness to these social networks such as Twitter and Facebook they are fighting back and taking a public stance against governmentrsquos ability to use them for monitoring of personal communications They no doubt realize that the backlash against the NSA and its intelligence-gathering across the globe mean that future trust in Silicon Valley could be eroded forever Most notably Mark Zuckerberg called on President Obama to stop using the NSA to monitor the affairs of the social networkrsquos one billion users But that doesnrsquot stop the US government from creating a ldquofake Twitterrdquo or ldquofake Facebookrdquo does it It shouldnrsquot take Edward Snowden appearing as a giant talking head at SXSW to tell everyone how governments are ldquosetting fire to the future of the Internetrdquo And it shouldnrsquot take Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt) chiding Congress for a ldquodumb dumb dumbrdquo attempt at covert operations in Cuba Itrsquos not only that Silicon Valley can erode the trust of Internet users The United States might end up eroding the trust of citizens around the globe who once thought of the United States as the home of democracy and progress
httpwwwwashingtonpostcomblogsinnovationswp20140408the-emerging-dark-side-of-social-networksprint=1
Easter is linked to the Jewish Passover by much of its symbolism as well as by its position in the calendar In many languages the words for Easter and Passover are identical or very similar
Easter is linked to the Passover and Exodus from Egypt recorded in the Old Testament through the Last Supper and crucifixion that preceded the resurrection[According to the New Testament Jesus gave the Passover meal a new meaning as he prepared himself and his disciples for his death in the upper room during the Last Supper He identified the matzah and cup of wine as his body soon to be sacrificed and his blood soon to be shed Paul states Get rid of the old yeast that you may be a new batch without yeastmdashas you really are For Christ our Passover lamb has been sacrificed this refers to the Passover requirement to have no yeast in the house and to the allegory of Jesus as the Paschal lamb
The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) received at least 7868 complaints of DHS ldquoemployee criminal misconductrdquo in the first half of fiscal year 2013 alone This information is based off a DHS OIG report released December 11 According to the report entitled Major Management and Performance Challenges Facing the Department of Homeland Security allegations of criminal misconduct include DHS employees being corrupted by drug traffickers ldquoInvestigations of departmental employees range throughout the [DHS] Components and are initiated in response to allegations of wrongdoing such as smuggling bribery child pornography and theft of departmental funds or propertyrdquo highlighted the December report ldquoOIG is particularly concerned with the smuggling of people and goods across the Nationrsquos bordersrdquo ldquoSmuggling continues to be a large-scale business and remains dominated by drug trafficking organizations that seek to systematically corrupt DHS employees to continue their schemesrdquo added the IG ldquoWithin DHS OIG has the primary authority for investigating allegations of criminal misconduct by DHS employeesrdquo
ldquoThus far in FY 2013 we have received 7868 complaints and have initiated 320 investigations Also in FY 2013 we have had 76 cases accepted for prosecution and achieved 83 convictions and 41 personnel actionsrdquo further stated the OIG in the report Those numbers are based off a previous OIG audit that covered the first half of FY 2013 (Oct 1 2012 to March 30 2013) according to the report ldquoIn FY 2012 we received approximately 17690 complaints [of employee misconduct] and opened 1030 investigationsrdquo also stated the December report ldquoIn that same period 132 of our cases were accepted for prosecution and we achieved 178 convictions and 106 personnel actionsrdquo The OIG report highlighted some employee misconduct cases involving the corruption of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency employees by drug traffickers CBP is a component of DHS ldquoWe learned that a CBP employee was observed meeting with members of a known drug trafficking organizationrdquo stated the IG ldquoLater he made arrangements with individuals he believed to be smugglers and allowed a vehicle driven by an undercover agent to pass through a border patrol checkpoint without being inspected He also met with a confidential informant and received an $8000 cash bribe payment in an enveloperdquo ldquoAfter we arrested him he resigned and pleaded guilty to one count of accepting a briberdquo added the OIG report ldquoSimilarly we investigated a CBP employee who was accepting bribes to allow narcotics through his inspection lanerdquo further stated the document ldquoWe had an agent pose as a narcotics smuggler and pay the employee a series of bribes in exchange for allowing what he believed to be illegal narcotics to enter the United States He was found guilty of conspiracy and briberyrdquo The OIG also highlighted an employee incident involving child pornography ldquoThis year a [US Citizenship and Immigration Services] employee pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography and was sentenced to 37 months incarceration and 120 months of supervised releaserdquo mentioned the report ldquo In 2010 the employee seemingly inadvertently provided another employee with a USB thumb drive containing child pornography and a search of his residence yielded additional images on his home computersrdquo further stated the OIG
Furthermore the OIG also mentioned a case involving theft of government property and sexual harassment ldquoAdditionally we investigated and arrested a recently retired former [US Coast Guard] employee who had stolen government-owned electrical equipment valued at approximately $120000 and sold it on eBayrdquo stated the report ldquoAfter his arrest he pleaded guilty of two counts of mail fraud and was sentenced to 12 months and 1 day incarceration followed by 24 months of supervised release He was also ordered to pay $127600 in restitutionrdquo ldquoWe engaged in a joint investigation with a local sheriffrsquos department of a Border Patrol Agent who made a traffic stop of a vehicle driven by a woman in a remote location and sexually assaulted herrdquo continued the OIG ldquoFollowing the investigation the agent resigned and was sentenced to 96 months in State prisonrdquo According to testimony before a House panel by then-Acting Inspector General Charles Edwards misconduct cases handled by the DHS IG are split into four categories 1) corruption involving bribery disclosure of classified information espionage and smuggling among other things 2) violations of civil rights and liberties by employees 3) defrauding DHS programs and financial systems 4) miscellaneous including those involving child pornography false statements and ldquocontact with foreign governmentsnationalsrdquo among other violations that ldquomay not be criminal in naturerdquo Edwards explained that in the context of OIGrsquos investigative work a DHS employee includes contractors interns Coast Guard personnel and ldquoemployees detailed to DHS from other Federal agenciesrdquo The December 2013 report did not break down the 7868 complaints of DHS employee misconduct by category Edwards now deputy DHS IG noted in a December 9 letter attached to the report ldquoCBP has made significant advancements in battling corruption and misconduct internally CBP conducts background investigations and polygraph examinations of all applicants for law enforcement positions as a way to detect possible issues before an applicant becomes an employee DHS currently employs about 240000 individuals
Did you know that the
Farmerrsquos Almanac predicted
a long hard winter last
August
Did you know the
publication also made
reference to the Blood
Moon Phase
Learn More here
httpwwwfarmersalmanaccomnewsletter
Letter to John Adams
Jeffersons letter to John Adams from Monticello April 11 1823
Dear Sir mdash The wishes expressed in your last favor that I may continue in life and
health until I become a Calvinist at least in his exclamation of `mon Dieu jusque agrave
quand would make me immortal I can never join Calvin in addressing his god He was
indeed an Atheist which I can never be or rather his religion was Daeligmonism If ever man
worshipped a false god he did The being described in his 5 points is not the God whom
you and I acknowledge and adore the Creator and benevolent governor of the world but
a daeligmon of malignant spirit It would be more pardonable to believe in no god at all than
to blaspheme him by the atrocious attributes of Calvin Indeed I think that every Christian
sect gives a great handle to Atheism by their general dogma that without a revelation
there would not be sufficient proof of the being of a god Now one sixth of mankind only
are supposed to be Christians the other five sixths then who do not believe in the Jewish
and Christian revelation are without a knowledge of the existence of a god This gives
completely a gain de cause to the disciples of Ocellus Timaeus Spinosa Diderot and
DHolbach The argument which they rest on as triumphant and unanswerable is that in
every hypothesis of Cosmogony you must admit an eternal pre-existence of something
and according to the rule of sound philosophy you are never to employ two principles to
solve a difficulty when one will suffice They say then that it is more simple to believe at
once in the eternal pre-existence of the world as it is now going on and may for ever go
on by the principle of reproduction which we see and witness than to believe in the
eternal pre-existence of an ulterior cause or Creator of the world a being whom we see
not and know not of whose form substance and mode or place of existence or of action
no sense informs us no power of the mind enables us to delineate or comprehend On
the contrary I hold (without appeal to revelation) that when we take a view of the Universe
in its parts general or particular it is impossible for the human mind not to perceive and
feel a conviction of design consummate skill and indefinite power in every atom of its
composition The movements of the heavenly bodies so exactly held in their course by
the balance of centrifugal and centripetal forces the structure of our earth itself with its
distribution of lands waters and atmosphere animal and vegetable bodies examined in
all their minutest particles insects mere atoms of life yet as perfectly organized as man or
mammoth the mineral substances their generation and uses it is impossible I say for
the human mind not to believe that there is in all this design cause and effect up to an
ultimate cause a fabricator of all things from matter and motion their preserver and
regulator while permitted to exist in their present forms and their regenerator into new
and other forms
We see too evident proofs of the necessity of a superintending power to
maintain the Universe in its course and order Stars well known have
disappeared new ones have come into view comets in their incalculable
courses may run foul of suns and planets and require renovation under other
laws certain races of animals are become extinct and were there no restoring
power all existences might extinguish successively one by one until all should
be reduced to a shapeless chaos So irresistible are these evidences of an
intelligent and powerful Agent that of the infinite numbers of men who have
existed thro all time they have believed in the proportion of a million at least to
Unit in the hypothesis of an eternal pre-existence of a creator rather than in
that of a self-existent Universe Surely this unanimous sentiment renders this
more probable than that of the few in the other hypothesis Some early
Christians indeed have believed in the coeternal pre-existence of both the
Creator and the world without changing their relation of cause and effect That
this was the opinion of St Thomas we are informed by Cardinal Toleto in these
words `Deus ab aeligterno fuit jam omnipotens sicut cum produxit mundum Ab
aeterno potuit producere mundum mdash Si sol ab aeterno esset lumen ab
aeterno esset et si pes similiter vestigium At lumen et vestigium effectus sunt
efficientis solis et pedis potuit ergo cum causa aeterna effectus coaeterna
esse Cujus sententiae est S Thomas Theologorum primus Cardinal Toleta
Of the nature of this being we know nothing Jesus tells us that `God is a spirit
4 John 24 but without defining what a spirit is Down to the 3d century we
know that it was still deemed material but of a lighter subtler matter than our
gross bodies So says Origen `Deus igitur cui anima similis est juxta
Originem reapte corporalis est sed graviorum tantum ratione corporum
incorporeus These are the words of Huet in his commentary on Origen Origen
himself says `appelatio apud nostros scriptores est inusitata et incognita So
also Tertullian `quis autem negabit Deum esse corpus etsi deus spiritus
Spiritus etiam corporis sui generis in sua effigie Tertullian These two fathers
were of the 3d century Calvins character of this supreme being seems chiefly
copied from that of the Jews But the reformation of these blasphemous
attributes and substitution of those more worthy pure and sublime seems to
have been the chief object of Jesus in his discourses to the Jews and his
doctrine of the Cosmogony of the world is very clearly laid down in the 3 first
verses of the 1st chapter of John in these words
Which truly translated means `in the beginning God existed and reason (or mind)
was with God and that mind was God This was in the beginning with God All things
were created by it and without it was made not one thing which was made Yet this
text so plainly declaring the doctrine of Jesus that the world was created by the
supreme intelligent being has been perverted by modern Christians to build up a
second person of their tritheism by a mistranslation of the word One of its
legitimate meanings indeed is `a word But in that sense it makes an unmeaning
jargon while the other meaning `reason equally legitimate explains rationally the
eternal preexistence of God and his creation of the world Knowing how
incomprehensible it was that `a word the mere action or articulation of the voice and
organs of speech could create a world they undertake to make of this articulation a
second preexisting being and ascribe to him and not to God the creation of the
universe The Atheist here plumes himself on the uselessness of such a God and the
simpler hypothesis of a self-existent universe The truth is that the greatest enemies
to the doctrines of Jesus are those calling themselves the expositors of them who
have perverted them for the structure of a system of fancy absolutely
incomprehensible and without any foundation in his genuine words And the day will
come when the mystical generation of Jesus by the supreme being as his father in
the womb of a virgin will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the
brain of Jupiter But we may hope that the dawn of reason and freedom of thought in
these United States will do away with all this artificial scaffolding and restore to us
the primitive and genuine doctrines of this the most venerated reformer of human
errors
So much for your quotation of Calvins `mon dieu jusqua quand in which when
addressed to the God of Jesus and our God I join you cordially and await his time
and will with more readiness than reluctance May we meet there again in Congress
with our ancient Colleagues and receive with them the seal of approbation `Well
done good and faithful servants
It is people like these and words of the same that I miss OBD who is watching over us we miss him
In 1776 and 1777 a Setauket New York farmer and his childhood friends form an unlikely group of spies called the Culper Ring who eventually turn the tide during the American Revolutionary War[1] The series begins in October 1776 shortly after British victories recaptured Long Island Staten Island and New York City for the Crown and left General George Washingtons army in desperate straits
What Should the United States do about Russia and the Ukraine What should the United States do
about Iran What should the United States do about the
United Nations What should the United States do about
Education What should the United States do about
Healthcare What should the United State do about
Immigration What should the Unites States do about Waste
Fraud and Abuse What should WE do about
the corrupt system in all
government
WASHINGTON mdash Federal energy regulators improperly allowed
widespread access to a sensitive document that outlined specific locations where the nationrsquos electric grid is vulnerable to physical threats a government investigator said Wednesday The document created by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission should have been kept secret as a national security matter Energy Department Inspector General Gregory Friedman said Instead the information was provided in whole or in part to federal and industry officials in uncontrolled settings The Wall Street Journal reported last month that a federal analysis indicated that a coordinated terrorist strike on just nine key electric transmission substations could cause cascading power outages across the country in each of the nationrsquos three synchronized power networks The report followed a comment by former FERC Chairman Jon Wellinghoff that an April 2013 attack on a California electric substation was terrorism The FBI has said in repeated statements it had found no indications to back that up The attack which involved snipping fiber-optic phone lines and firing shots into a PGampE substation near Metcalf Calif caused power outages Millions of people were asked to conserve energy after power lines were damaged Read More -gt httpwwwabqjournalcom381743newsreport-on-vulnerabilities-in-u-s-power-grid-mishandledhtml
The White nominee to replace Sebelius is worse and what you need to know This fight for liberal missions is hardly over and you must be aware of the people running government until 2016 and beyond Policies put in place today donrsquot go away after 2016 so the fight will continue well into advanced years Sylvia Mathews Burwell is the nominee to head up the Secretary position at Heath and Human Services So who is she 1 She is well educated including being a Rhodes Scholar
but those credentials are not quite fitting for America 2 Sylvia was President of the WalMart Foundation full of
liberal policy 3 She was the president of the Global Development
Program of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation filled with eugenic objectives
4 She served as Bill Clintonrsquos Deputy Chief of Staff 5 She wrote the last Barack Obama proposed budget
which failed by a vote of 2-441 6 After being the WH head of the Office of Management
and Budget only 6 months SHE was the one who DID decide to shutdown the government last year
A German museum has traced the author of a 101-year-old message in a bottle
A fisherman pulled the beer bottle out of the Baltic Sea near Kiel Germany last month according to Holger von Neuhoff of the
International Maritime Museum Agence France-Pressereports Inside the bottle is a postcard dated May 17 1913 but much of the
writing on the postcard is illegible von Neuhoff told AFP Based on the address researchers were able to identify the author of
the message as Richard Platz the then 20-year-old son of a baker Platz died in 1946 but a genealogist was able to locate his 62-year-old
granddaughter Angela Erdmann in Berlin according to the report Erdmann was given the chance to hold the bottle at the museum last
week where the postcard will be on display Previously the oldest message found in a bottle spent nearly 98 years at sea and was discovered in April 2012 according to Guinness World
Records
The old maxim that you canrsquot hold children responsible for the sins
of their parents no longer applies mdash at least as far as Washington
is concerned
Congress quietly passed legislation in 2011 lifting the former 10-
year statute of limitations on money owed to the government
allowing Uncle Sam to collect debts going back decades The
measure also allows the government to collect from debtorsrsquo
children and grandchildren according to Fox News
Now ldquosome 400000 Americans may see their tax refund checks
grabbed by the governmentrdquo Fox reported
Former Justice Department attorney J Christian Adams called it
ldquoclassic abuserdquo during his Friday appearance on ldquoThe Kelly Filerdquo
ldquoImagine itrdquo he told Fox News Host Megyn Kelly Instead of a
refund check ldquoyou get a letter from the IRS And it says rsquo40 years
ago your parents got a disability payment that we happened to
overpay hellip So now wersquore taking it out of your tax refundrsquordquo
Think it canrsquot happen in America Think again Fox also reported
A woman named Mary Grice whose father died when she was 4
years old in 1977 leaving her mother with five children Thirty-
seven years later the Social Security administration is claiming
that it overpaid someone in her family but it isnrsquot sure whom and
is going after Ms Grice for the alleged debt
When Megyn Kelly asked Adams what the chances are of the
government dropping the debt against Grice Adams answered
ldquoZerordquo
ldquoThis is an administration that loves to suspend laws when theyrsquore
inconvenient and not enforce certain lawsrdquo Adams said ldquoLetrsquos see
if they do it hererdquo
httpwwwbizpacreviewcom20140412irs-going-after-decades-old-debts-from-children-of-debtors-unbelievable-says-megyn-kelly-112194
Potemkin Villages
Listening In on Lennon
Grand Central Terminals Secret Rooms
Julia Childs Intelligence
The CIA Schemes to Kill Castro mdash with a Seashell
The Loch Ness Monster
UFOs in the USSR
Area 51
CIA Mind-Control Experiments
Churchill and UFOs
bull Designate a common contact This is someone that any member of your family can call and leave a message with in case you all get separated and are unable to communicate with each other directly bull Donrsquot attract hungry people If there is a food shortage where people are actually starving avoid eating things that have to be cooked and opt for foods that can be eaten right out of the can or box If you do cook donrsquot cook with spices You donrsquot want the smell of your food attracting dangerously desperate people
bull Go old school Start thinking about how people used to get along before all these modern conveniences Next time you visit the flea market or a yard sale keep an eye out for motorless push lawnmowers hand crank mixers manual typewriters clothes lines and so forth
bull Take care of your feet Make sure you have good shoes and extra socks If your feet get wet dry them off and keep them warm On the other hand if they dry out too much use lotion or bag balm to keep them from cracking Painful feet can ruin your morale and effectiveness
bull Use superglue to close wounds Although yoursquore probably better off using something like Dermabond superglue can also be used in emergency Depending on the severity of the gash it could take several bottles Be warned it will sting and some people could have an allergic reaction
ldquoCuban Twitterrdquo was a troubling communications network designed to undermine the government in Cuba It was built with secret shell companies and financed through foreign banks (Ramon EspinosaAP) Wersquove all heard how social networks such as Twitter Facebook and YouTube help to spread democracy around the world by mobilizing the masses and making it easier to topple dictators Now wersquore now seeing a darker side to them In some cases theyrsquore being co-opted by governments as disinformation tools used by authoritarian regimes to crack down on Internet dissenters and even being used as part of digital Black Ops by the United States in places like Cuba The story of ldquofake Cuban Twitterrdquo is especially disconcerting mdash wersquore talking about a digital Bay of Pigs in which the US State Department working through USAID actively worked to create a Twitter-like social network (ZunZuneo) to engage the local Cuban population in order to topple the Castro regime At one point nearly 40000 Cubans had signed up for the ZunZuneo network To make the fantasy real the US government created an elaborate system of shell companies and foreign bank accounts to make sure that the Cubans bought into the whole system In other cases social networks are being used as part and parcel of government disinformation campaigns to co-opt opposition movements ndash sometimes by the US government and its allies In February controversial journalist Glenn Greenwald outlined all the dirty tricks and covert operations being used by Western covert agents on the Internet If you know that your opponents are hanging out on YouTube all day the thinking goes thatrsquos the place to crack down on dissenters The list of tactics involved include everything from laying digital honey traps to crafting elaborate attempts to destroy online social reputation As Greenwald notes ldquoThese [Western intelligence] agencies are attempting to control infiltrate manipulate and warp online discourse and in doing so are compromising the integrity of the Internet itselfrdquo
In countries such as Egypt and Turkey data from social networks is being used to find exact locations of protesters based on GPS locations or to track down the IP addresses of Internet users the government wants to discipline The question now is to what degree Western know-how is being used to facilitate these actions In the latest scandal over the Turkish government shutting down YouTube and Twitter for extended periods of time could foreign officials have played a role in ensuring that local elections went on as planned March 30 without backlash from the ldquoTurkish streetrdquo This emerging dark side of social networks has enormous implications for how America conducts its diplomatic business abroad Ever since Hillary Clinton launched ldquo21st century statecraftrdquo for the US State Department therersquos been a push to use Internet freedom as a rallying cry for the United States to win over friends and gain influence across the globe Terms like ldquodigital statecraftrdquo and ldquoe-diplomacyrdquo are commonplace these days ndash not just for America but also for nations that would like to emulate Americarsquos ability to project power around the world At little or no cost social networks such as Twitter Facebook and YouTube made it possible to spread the message that America was the land of baseball apple pie and democracy for all But you can see where all this headed The more that social networks are seen to be doing the bidding of the NSA and the CIA (and proxy organizations such as USAID) in terms of gathering and mobilizing the masses against governments the less effective they are in sharing American values abroad If the American way of life includes getting spied on by your government and having your online privacy and personal data compromised for political gain is that something you can use to win over hearts and minds in foreign lands As Robinson Meyer of The Atlantic pointed out in a tell-all about fake Cuban Twitter this is already the case in places such as Pakistan where a free mobile phone-based social network set up by generous American benefactors in 2009 turned out to be an elaborate State Department ruse to monitor the communication of Pakistanis
In fairness to these social networks such as Twitter and Facebook they are fighting back and taking a public stance against governmentrsquos ability to use them for monitoring of personal communications They no doubt realize that the backlash against the NSA and its intelligence-gathering across the globe mean that future trust in Silicon Valley could be eroded forever Most notably Mark Zuckerberg called on President Obama to stop using the NSA to monitor the affairs of the social networkrsquos one billion users But that doesnrsquot stop the US government from creating a ldquofake Twitterrdquo or ldquofake Facebookrdquo does it It shouldnrsquot take Edward Snowden appearing as a giant talking head at SXSW to tell everyone how governments are ldquosetting fire to the future of the Internetrdquo And it shouldnrsquot take Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt) chiding Congress for a ldquodumb dumb dumbrdquo attempt at covert operations in Cuba Itrsquos not only that Silicon Valley can erode the trust of Internet users The United States might end up eroding the trust of citizens around the globe who once thought of the United States as the home of democracy and progress
httpwwwwashingtonpostcomblogsinnovationswp20140408the-emerging-dark-side-of-social-networksprint=1
Easter is linked to the Jewish Passover by much of its symbolism as well as by its position in the calendar In many languages the words for Easter and Passover are identical or very similar
Easter is linked to the Passover and Exodus from Egypt recorded in the Old Testament through the Last Supper and crucifixion that preceded the resurrection[According to the New Testament Jesus gave the Passover meal a new meaning as he prepared himself and his disciples for his death in the upper room during the Last Supper He identified the matzah and cup of wine as his body soon to be sacrificed and his blood soon to be shed Paul states Get rid of the old yeast that you may be a new batch without yeastmdashas you really are For Christ our Passover lamb has been sacrificed this refers to the Passover requirement to have no yeast in the house and to the allegory of Jesus as the Paschal lamb
The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) received at least 7868 complaints of DHS ldquoemployee criminal misconductrdquo in the first half of fiscal year 2013 alone This information is based off a DHS OIG report released December 11 According to the report entitled Major Management and Performance Challenges Facing the Department of Homeland Security allegations of criminal misconduct include DHS employees being corrupted by drug traffickers ldquoInvestigations of departmental employees range throughout the [DHS] Components and are initiated in response to allegations of wrongdoing such as smuggling bribery child pornography and theft of departmental funds or propertyrdquo highlighted the December report ldquoOIG is particularly concerned with the smuggling of people and goods across the Nationrsquos bordersrdquo ldquoSmuggling continues to be a large-scale business and remains dominated by drug trafficking organizations that seek to systematically corrupt DHS employees to continue their schemesrdquo added the IG ldquoWithin DHS OIG has the primary authority for investigating allegations of criminal misconduct by DHS employeesrdquo
ldquoThus far in FY 2013 we have received 7868 complaints and have initiated 320 investigations Also in FY 2013 we have had 76 cases accepted for prosecution and achieved 83 convictions and 41 personnel actionsrdquo further stated the OIG in the report Those numbers are based off a previous OIG audit that covered the first half of FY 2013 (Oct 1 2012 to March 30 2013) according to the report ldquoIn FY 2012 we received approximately 17690 complaints [of employee misconduct] and opened 1030 investigationsrdquo also stated the December report ldquoIn that same period 132 of our cases were accepted for prosecution and we achieved 178 convictions and 106 personnel actionsrdquo The OIG report highlighted some employee misconduct cases involving the corruption of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency employees by drug traffickers CBP is a component of DHS ldquoWe learned that a CBP employee was observed meeting with members of a known drug trafficking organizationrdquo stated the IG ldquoLater he made arrangements with individuals he believed to be smugglers and allowed a vehicle driven by an undercover agent to pass through a border patrol checkpoint without being inspected He also met with a confidential informant and received an $8000 cash bribe payment in an enveloperdquo ldquoAfter we arrested him he resigned and pleaded guilty to one count of accepting a briberdquo added the OIG report ldquoSimilarly we investigated a CBP employee who was accepting bribes to allow narcotics through his inspection lanerdquo further stated the document ldquoWe had an agent pose as a narcotics smuggler and pay the employee a series of bribes in exchange for allowing what he believed to be illegal narcotics to enter the United States He was found guilty of conspiracy and briberyrdquo The OIG also highlighted an employee incident involving child pornography ldquoThis year a [US Citizenship and Immigration Services] employee pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography and was sentenced to 37 months incarceration and 120 months of supervised releaserdquo mentioned the report ldquo In 2010 the employee seemingly inadvertently provided another employee with a USB thumb drive containing child pornography and a search of his residence yielded additional images on his home computersrdquo further stated the OIG
Furthermore the OIG also mentioned a case involving theft of government property and sexual harassment ldquoAdditionally we investigated and arrested a recently retired former [US Coast Guard] employee who had stolen government-owned electrical equipment valued at approximately $120000 and sold it on eBayrdquo stated the report ldquoAfter his arrest he pleaded guilty of two counts of mail fraud and was sentenced to 12 months and 1 day incarceration followed by 24 months of supervised release He was also ordered to pay $127600 in restitutionrdquo ldquoWe engaged in a joint investigation with a local sheriffrsquos department of a Border Patrol Agent who made a traffic stop of a vehicle driven by a woman in a remote location and sexually assaulted herrdquo continued the OIG ldquoFollowing the investigation the agent resigned and was sentenced to 96 months in State prisonrdquo According to testimony before a House panel by then-Acting Inspector General Charles Edwards misconduct cases handled by the DHS IG are split into four categories 1) corruption involving bribery disclosure of classified information espionage and smuggling among other things 2) violations of civil rights and liberties by employees 3) defrauding DHS programs and financial systems 4) miscellaneous including those involving child pornography false statements and ldquocontact with foreign governmentsnationalsrdquo among other violations that ldquomay not be criminal in naturerdquo Edwards explained that in the context of OIGrsquos investigative work a DHS employee includes contractors interns Coast Guard personnel and ldquoemployees detailed to DHS from other Federal agenciesrdquo The December 2013 report did not break down the 7868 complaints of DHS employee misconduct by category Edwards now deputy DHS IG noted in a December 9 letter attached to the report ldquoCBP has made significant advancements in battling corruption and misconduct internally CBP conducts background investigations and polygraph examinations of all applicants for law enforcement positions as a way to detect possible issues before an applicant becomes an employee DHS currently employs about 240000 individuals
Did you know that the
Farmerrsquos Almanac predicted
a long hard winter last
August
Did you know the
publication also made
reference to the Blood
Moon Phase
Learn More here
httpwwwfarmersalmanaccomnewsletter
Letter to John Adams
Jeffersons letter to John Adams from Monticello April 11 1823
Dear Sir mdash The wishes expressed in your last favor that I may continue in life and
health until I become a Calvinist at least in his exclamation of `mon Dieu jusque agrave
quand would make me immortal I can never join Calvin in addressing his god He was
indeed an Atheist which I can never be or rather his religion was Daeligmonism If ever man
worshipped a false god he did The being described in his 5 points is not the God whom
you and I acknowledge and adore the Creator and benevolent governor of the world but
a daeligmon of malignant spirit It would be more pardonable to believe in no god at all than
to blaspheme him by the atrocious attributes of Calvin Indeed I think that every Christian
sect gives a great handle to Atheism by their general dogma that without a revelation
there would not be sufficient proof of the being of a god Now one sixth of mankind only
are supposed to be Christians the other five sixths then who do not believe in the Jewish
and Christian revelation are without a knowledge of the existence of a god This gives
completely a gain de cause to the disciples of Ocellus Timaeus Spinosa Diderot and
DHolbach The argument which they rest on as triumphant and unanswerable is that in
every hypothesis of Cosmogony you must admit an eternal pre-existence of something
and according to the rule of sound philosophy you are never to employ two principles to
solve a difficulty when one will suffice They say then that it is more simple to believe at
once in the eternal pre-existence of the world as it is now going on and may for ever go
on by the principle of reproduction which we see and witness than to believe in the
eternal pre-existence of an ulterior cause or Creator of the world a being whom we see
not and know not of whose form substance and mode or place of existence or of action
no sense informs us no power of the mind enables us to delineate or comprehend On
the contrary I hold (without appeal to revelation) that when we take a view of the Universe
in its parts general or particular it is impossible for the human mind not to perceive and
feel a conviction of design consummate skill and indefinite power in every atom of its
composition The movements of the heavenly bodies so exactly held in their course by
the balance of centrifugal and centripetal forces the structure of our earth itself with its
distribution of lands waters and atmosphere animal and vegetable bodies examined in
all their minutest particles insects mere atoms of life yet as perfectly organized as man or
mammoth the mineral substances their generation and uses it is impossible I say for
the human mind not to believe that there is in all this design cause and effect up to an
ultimate cause a fabricator of all things from matter and motion their preserver and
regulator while permitted to exist in their present forms and their regenerator into new
and other forms
We see too evident proofs of the necessity of a superintending power to
maintain the Universe in its course and order Stars well known have
disappeared new ones have come into view comets in their incalculable
courses may run foul of suns and planets and require renovation under other
laws certain races of animals are become extinct and were there no restoring
power all existences might extinguish successively one by one until all should
be reduced to a shapeless chaos So irresistible are these evidences of an
intelligent and powerful Agent that of the infinite numbers of men who have
existed thro all time they have believed in the proportion of a million at least to
Unit in the hypothesis of an eternal pre-existence of a creator rather than in
that of a self-existent Universe Surely this unanimous sentiment renders this
more probable than that of the few in the other hypothesis Some early
Christians indeed have believed in the coeternal pre-existence of both the
Creator and the world without changing their relation of cause and effect That
this was the opinion of St Thomas we are informed by Cardinal Toleto in these
words `Deus ab aeligterno fuit jam omnipotens sicut cum produxit mundum Ab
aeterno potuit producere mundum mdash Si sol ab aeterno esset lumen ab
aeterno esset et si pes similiter vestigium At lumen et vestigium effectus sunt
efficientis solis et pedis potuit ergo cum causa aeterna effectus coaeterna
esse Cujus sententiae est S Thomas Theologorum primus Cardinal Toleta
Of the nature of this being we know nothing Jesus tells us that `God is a spirit
4 John 24 but without defining what a spirit is Down to the 3d century we
know that it was still deemed material but of a lighter subtler matter than our
gross bodies So says Origen `Deus igitur cui anima similis est juxta
Originem reapte corporalis est sed graviorum tantum ratione corporum
incorporeus These are the words of Huet in his commentary on Origen Origen
himself says `appelatio apud nostros scriptores est inusitata et incognita So
also Tertullian `quis autem negabit Deum esse corpus etsi deus spiritus
Spiritus etiam corporis sui generis in sua effigie Tertullian These two fathers
were of the 3d century Calvins character of this supreme being seems chiefly
copied from that of the Jews But the reformation of these blasphemous
attributes and substitution of those more worthy pure and sublime seems to
have been the chief object of Jesus in his discourses to the Jews and his
doctrine of the Cosmogony of the world is very clearly laid down in the 3 first
verses of the 1st chapter of John in these words
Which truly translated means `in the beginning God existed and reason (or mind)
was with God and that mind was God This was in the beginning with God All things
were created by it and without it was made not one thing which was made Yet this
text so plainly declaring the doctrine of Jesus that the world was created by the
supreme intelligent being has been perverted by modern Christians to build up a
second person of their tritheism by a mistranslation of the word One of its
legitimate meanings indeed is `a word But in that sense it makes an unmeaning
jargon while the other meaning `reason equally legitimate explains rationally the
eternal preexistence of God and his creation of the world Knowing how
incomprehensible it was that `a word the mere action or articulation of the voice and
organs of speech could create a world they undertake to make of this articulation a
second preexisting being and ascribe to him and not to God the creation of the
universe The Atheist here plumes himself on the uselessness of such a God and the
simpler hypothesis of a self-existent universe The truth is that the greatest enemies
to the doctrines of Jesus are those calling themselves the expositors of them who
have perverted them for the structure of a system of fancy absolutely
incomprehensible and without any foundation in his genuine words And the day will
come when the mystical generation of Jesus by the supreme being as his father in
the womb of a virgin will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the
brain of Jupiter But we may hope that the dawn of reason and freedom of thought in
these United States will do away with all this artificial scaffolding and restore to us
the primitive and genuine doctrines of this the most venerated reformer of human
errors
So much for your quotation of Calvins `mon dieu jusqua quand in which when
addressed to the God of Jesus and our God I join you cordially and await his time
and will with more readiness than reluctance May we meet there again in Congress
with our ancient Colleagues and receive with them the seal of approbation `Well
done good and faithful servants
It is people like these and words of the same that I miss OBD who is watching over us we miss him
What Should the United States do about Russia and the Ukraine What should the United States do
about Iran What should the United States do about the
United Nations What should the United States do about
Education What should the United States do about
Healthcare What should the United State do about
Immigration What should the Unites States do about Waste
Fraud and Abuse What should WE do about
the corrupt system in all
government
WASHINGTON mdash Federal energy regulators improperly allowed
widespread access to a sensitive document that outlined specific locations where the nationrsquos electric grid is vulnerable to physical threats a government investigator said Wednesday The document created by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission should have been kept secret as a national security matter Energy Department Inspector General Gregory Friedman said Instead the information was provided in whole or in part to federal and industry officials in uncontrolled settings The Wall Street Journal reported last month that a federal analysis indicated that a coordinated terrorist strike on just nine key electric transmission substations could cause cascading power outages across the country in each of the nationrsquos three synchronized power networks The report followed a comment by former FERC Chairman Jon Wellinghoff that an April 2013 attack on a California electric substation was terrorism The FBI has said in repeated statements it had found no indications to back that up The attack which involved snipping fiber-optic phone lines and firing shots into a PGampE substation near Metcalf Calif caused power outages Millions of people were asked to conserve energy after power lines were damaged Read More -gt httpwwwabqjournalcom381743newsreport-on-vulnerabilities-in-u-s-power-grid-mishandledhtml
The White nominee to replace Sebelius is worse and what you need to know This fight for liberal missions is hardly over and you must be aware of the people running government until 2016 and beyond Policies put in place today donrsquot go away after 2016 so the fight will continue well into advanced years Sylvia Mathews Burwell is the nominee to head up the Secretary position at Heath and Human Services So who is she 1 She is well educated including being a Rhodes Scholar
but those credentials are not quite fitting for America 2 Sylvia was President of the WalMart Foundation full of
liberal policy 3 She was the president of the Global Development
Program of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation filled with eugenic objectives
4 She served as Bill Clintonrsquos Deputy Chief of Staff 5 She wrote the last Barack Obama proposed budget
which failed by a vote of 2-441 6 After being the WH head of the Office of Management
and Budget only 6 months SHE was the one who DID decide to shutdown the government last year
A German museum has traced the author of a 101-year-old message in a bottle
A fisherman pulled the beer bottle out of the Baltic Sea near Kiel Germany last month according to Holger von Neuhoff of the
International Maritime Museum Agence France-Pressereports Inside the bottle is a postcard dated May 17 1913 but much of the
writing on the postcard is illegible von Neuhoff told AFP Based on the address researchers were able to identify the author of
the message as Richard Platz the then 20-year-old son of a baker Platz died in 1946 but a genealogist was able to locate his 62-year-old
granddaughter Angela Erdmann in Berlin according to the report Erdmann was given the chance to hold the bottle at the museum last
week where the postcard will be on display Previously the oldest message found in a bottle spent nearly 98 years at sea and was discovered in April 2012 according to Guinness World
Records
The old maxim that you canrsquot hold children responsible for the sins
of their parents no longer applies mdash at least as far as Washington
is concerned
Congress quietly passed legislation in 2011 lifting the former 10-
year statute of limitations on money owed to the government
allowing Uncle Sam to collect debts going back decades The
measure also allows the government to collect from debtorsrsquo
children and grandchildren according to Fox News
Now ldquosome 400000 Americans may see their tax refund checks
grabbed by the governmentrdquo Fox reported
Former Justice Department attorney J Christian Adams called it
ldquoclassic abuserdquo during his Friday appearance on ldquoThe Kelly Filerdquo
ldquoImagine itrdquo he told Fox News Host Megyn Kelly Instead of a
refund check ldquoyou get a letter from the IRS And it says rsquo40 years
ago your parents got a disability payment that we happened to
overpay hellip So now wersquore taking it out of your tax refundrsquordquo
Think it canrsquot happen in America Think again Fox also reported
A woman named Mary Grice whose father died when she was 4
years old in 1977 leaving her mother with five children Thirty-
seven years later the Social Security administration is claiming
that it overpaid someone in her family but it isnrsquot sure whom and
is going after Ms Grice for the alleged debt
When Megyn Kelly asked Adams what the chances are of the
government dropping the debt against Grice Adams answered
ldquoZerordquo
ldquoThis is an administration that loves to suspend laws when theyrsquore
inconvenient and not enforce certain lawsrdquo Adams said ldquoLetrsquos see
if they do it hererdquo
httpwwwbizpacreviewcom20140412irs-going-after-decades-old-debts-from-children-of-debtors-unbelievable-says-megyn-kelly-112194
Potemkin Villages
Listening In on Lennon
Grand Central Terminals Secret Rooms
Julia Childs Intelligence
The CIA Schemes to Kill Castro mdash with a Seashell
The Loch Ness Monster
UFOs in the USSR
Area 51
CIA Mind-Control Experiments
Churchill and UFOs
bull Designate a common contact This is someone that any member of your family can call and leave a message with in case you all get separated and are unable to communicate with each other directly bull Donrsquot attract hungry people If there is a food shortage where people are actually starving avoid eating things that have to be cooked and opt for foods that can be eaten right out of the can or box If you do cook donrsquot cook with spices You donrsquot want the smell of your food attracting dangerously desperate people
bull Go old school Start thinking about how people used to get along before all these modern conveniences Next time you visit the flea market or a yard sale keep an eye out for motorless push lawnmowers hand crank mixers manual typewriters clothes lines and so forth
bull Take care of your feet Make sure you have good shoes and extra socks If your feet get wet dry them off and keep them warm On the other hand if they dry out too much use lotion or bag balm to keep them from cracking Painful feet can ruin your morale and effectiveness
bull Use superglue to close wounds Although yoursquore probably better off using something like Dermabond superglue can also be used in emergency Depending on the severity of the gash it could take several bottles Be warned it will sting and some people could have an allergic reaction
ldquoCuban Twitterrdquo was a troubling communications network designed to undermine the government in Cuba It was built with secret shell companies and financed through foreign banks (Ramon EspinosaAP) Wersquove all heard how social networks such as Twitter Facebook and YouTube help to spread democracy around the world by mobilizing the masses and making it easier to topple dictators Now wersquore now seeing a darker side to them In some cases theyrsquore being co-opted by governments as disinformation tools used by authoritarian regimes to crack down on Internet dissenters and even being used as part of digital Black Ops by the United States in places like Cuba The story of ldquofake Cuban Twitterrdquo is especially disconcerting mdash wersquore talking about a digital Bay of Pigs in which the US State Department working through USAID actively worked to create a Twitter-like social network (ZunZuneo) to engage the local Cuban population in order to topple the Castro regime At one point nearly 40000 Cubans had signed up for the ZunZuneo network To make the fantasy real the US government created an elaborate system of shell companies and foreign bank accounts to make sure that the Cubans bought into the whole system In other cases social networks are being used as part and parcel of government disinformation campaigns to co-opt opposition movements ndash sometimes by the US government and its allies In February controversial journalist Glenn Greenwald outlined all the dirty tricks and covert operations being used by Western covert agents on the Internet If you know that your opponents are hanging out on YouTube all day the thinking goes thatrsquos the place to crack down on dissenters The list of tactics involved include everything from laying digital honey traps to crafting elaborate attempts to destroy online social reputation As Greenwald notes ldquoThese [Western intelligence] agencies are attempting to control infiltrate manipulate and warp online discourse and in doing so are compromising the integrity of the Internet itselfrdquo
In countries such as Egypt and Turkey data from social networks is being used to find exact locations of protesters based on GPS locations or to track down the IP addresses of Internet users the government wants to discipline The question now is to what degree Western know-how is being used to facilitate these actions In the latest scandal over the Turkish government shutting down YouTube and Twitter for extended periods of time could foreign officials have played a role in ensuring that local elections went on as planned March 30 without backlash from the ldquoTurkish streetrdquo This emerging dark side of social networks has enormous implications for how America conducts its diplomatic business abroad Ever since Hillary Clinton launched ldquo21st century statecraftrdquo for the US State Department therersquos been a push to use Internet freedom as a rallying cry for the United States to win over friends and gain influence across the globe Terms like ldquodigital statecraftrdquo and ldquoe-diplomacyrdquo are commonplace these days ndash not just for America but also for nations that would like to emulate Americarsquos ability to project power around the world At little or no cost social networks such as Twitter Facebook and YouTube made it possible to spread the message that America was the land of baseball apple pie and democracy for all But you can see where all this headed The more that social networks are seen to be doing the bidding of the NSA and the CIA (and proxy organizations such as USAID) in terms of gathering and mobilizing the masses against governments the less effective they are in sharing American values abroad If the American way of life includes getting spied on by your government and having your online privacy and personal data compromised for political gain is that something you can use to win over hearts and minds in foreign lands As Robinson Meyer of The Atlantic pointed out in a tell-all about fake Cuban Twitter this is already the case in places such as Pakistan where a free mobile phone-based social network set up by generous American benefactors in 2009 turned out to be an elaborate State Department ruse to monitor the communication of Pakistanis
In fairness to these social networks such as Twitter and Facebook they are fighting back and taking a public stance against governmentrsquos ability to use them for monitoring of personal communications They no doubt realize that the backlash against the NSA and its intelligence-gathering across the globe mean that future trust in Silicon Valley could be eroded forever Most notably Mark Zuckerberg called on President Obama to stop using the NSA to monitor the affairs of the social networkrsquos one billion users But that doesnrsquot stop the US government from creating a ldquofake Twitterrdquo or ldquofake Facebookrdquo does it It shouldnrsquot take Edward Snowden appearing as a giant talking head at SXSW to tell everyone how governments are ldquosetting fire to the future of the Internetrdquo And it shouldnrsquot take Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt) chiding Congress for a ldquodumb dumb dumbrdquo attempt at covert operations in Cuba Itrsquos not only that Silicon Valley can erode the trust of Internet users The United States might end up eroding the trust of citizens around the globe who once thought of the United States as the home of democracy and progress
httpwwwwashingtonpostcomblogsinnovationswp20140408the-emerging-dark-side-of-social-networksprint=1
Easter is linked to the Jewish Passover by much of its symbolism as well as by its position in the calendar In many languages the words for Easter and Passover are identical or very similar
Easter is linked to the Passover and Exodus from Egypt recorded in the Old Testament through the Last Supper and crucifixion that preceded the resurrection[According to the New Testament Jesus gave the Passover meal a new meaning as he prepared himself and his disciples for his death in the upper room during the Last Supper He identified the matzah and cup of wine as his body soon to be sacrificed and his blood soon to be shed Paul states Get rid of the old yeast that you may be a new batch without yeastmdashas you really are For Christ our Passover lamb has been sacrificed this refers to the Passover requirement to have no yeast in the house and to the allegory of Jesus as the Paschal lamb
The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) received at least 7868 complaints of DHS ldquoemployee criminal misconductrdquo in the first half of fiscal year 2013 alone This information is based off a DHS OIG report released December 11 According to the report entitled Major Management and Performance Challenges Facing the Department of Homeland Security allegations of criminal misconduct include DHS employees being corrupted by drug traffickers ldquoInvestigations of departmental employees range throughout the [DHS] Components and are initiated in response to allegations of wrongdoing such as smuggling bribery child pornography and theft of departmental funds or propertyrdquo highlighted the December report ldquoOIG is particularly concerned with the smuggling of people and goods across the Nationrsquos bordersrdquo ldquoSmuggling continues to be a large-scale business and remains dominated by drug trafficking organizations that seek to systematically corrupt DHS employees to continue their schemesrdquo added the IG ldquoWithin DHS OIG has the primary authority for investigating allegations of criminal misconduct by DHS employeesrdquo
ldquoThus far in FY 2013 we have received 7868 complaints and have initiated 320 investigations Also in FY 2013 we have had 76 cases accepted for prosecution and achieved 83 convictions and 41 personnel actionsrdquo further stated the OIG in the report Those numbers are based off a previous OIG audit that covered the first half of FY 2013 (Oct 1 2012 to March 30 2013) according to the report ldquoIn FY 2012 we received approximately 17690 complaints [of employee misconduct] and opened 1030 investigationsrdquo also stated the December report ldquoIn that same period 132 of our cases were accepted for prosecution and we achieved 178 convictions and 106 personnel actionsrdquo The OIG report highlighted some employee misconduct cases involving the corruption of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency employees by drug traffickers CBP is a component of DHS ldquoWe learned that a CBP employee was observed meeting with members of a known drug trafficking organizationrdquo stated the IG ldquoLater he made arrangements with individuals he believed to be smugglers and allowed a vehicle driven by an undercover agent to pass through a border patrol checkpoint without being inspected He also met with a confidential informant and received an $8000 cash bribe payment in an enveloperdquo ldquoAfter we arrested him he resigned and pleaded guilty to one count of accepting a briberdquo added the OIG report ldquoSimilarly we investigated a CBP employee who was accepting bribes to allow narcotics through his inspection lanerdquo further stated the document ldquoWe had an agent pose as a narcotics smuggler and pay the employee a series of bribes in exchange for allowing what he believed to be illegal narcotics to enter the United States He was found guilty of conspiracy and briberyrdquo The OIG also highlighted an employee incident involving child pornography ldquoThis year a [US Citizenship and Immigration Services] employee pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography and was sentenced to 37 months incarceration and 120 months of supervised releaserdquo mentioned the report ldquo In 2010 the employee seemingly inadvertently provided another employee with a USB thumb drive containing child pornography and a search of his residence yielded additional images on his home computersrdquo further stated the OIG
Furthermore the OIG also mentioned a case involving theft of government property and sexual harassment ldquoAdditionally we investigated and arrested a recently retired former [US Coast Guard] employee who had stolen government-owned electrical equipment valued at approximately $120000 and sold it on eBayrdquo stated the report ldquoAfter his arrest he pleaded guilty of two counts of mail fraud and was sentenced to 12 months and 1 day incarceration followed by 24 months of supervised release He was also ordered to pay $127600 in restitutionrdquo ldquoWe engaged in a joint investigation with a local sheriffrsquos department of a Border Patrol Agent who made a traffic stop of a vehicle driven by a woman in a remote location and sexually assaulted herrdquo continued the OIG ldquoFollowing the investigation the agent resigned and was sentenced to 96 months in State prisonrdquo According to testimony before a House panel by then-Acting Inspector General Charles Edwards misconduct cases handled by the DHS IG are split into four categories 1) corruption involving bribery disclosure of classified information espionage and smuggling among other things 2) violations of civil rights and liberties by employees 3) defrauding DHS programs and financial systems 4) miscellaneous including those involving child pornography false statements and ldquocontact with foreign governmentsnationalsrdquo among other violations that ldquomay not be criminal in naturerdquo Edwards explained that in the context of OIGrsquos investigative work a DHS employee includes contractors interns Coast Guard personnel and ldquoemployees detailed to DHS from other Federal agenciesrdquo The December 2013 report did not break down the 7868 complaints of DHS employee misconduct by category Edwards now deputy DHS IG noted in a December 9 letter attached to the report ldquoCBP has made significant advancements in battling corruption and misconduct internally CBP conducts background investigations and polygraph examinations of all applicants for law enforcement positions as a way to detect possible issues before an applicant becomes an employee DHS currently employs about 240000 individuals
Did you know that the
Farmerrsquos Almanac predicted
a long hard winter last
August
Did you know the
publication also made
reference to the Blood
Moon Phase
Learn More here
httpwwwfarmersalmanaccomnewsletter
Letter to John Adams
Jeffersons letter to John Adams from Monticello April 11 1823
Dear Sir mdash The wishes expressed in your last favor that I may continue in life and
health until I become a Calvinist at least in his exclamation of `mon Dieu jusque agrave
quand would make me immortal I can never join Calvin in addressing his god He was
indeed an Atheist which I can never be or rather his religion was Daeligmonism If ever man
worshipped a false god he did The being described in his 5 points is not the God whom
you and I acknowledge and adore the Creator and benevolent governor of the world but
a daeligmon of malignant spirit It would be more pardonable to believe in no god at all than
to blaspheme him by the atrocious attributes of Calvin Indeed I think that every Christian
sect gives a great handle to Atheism by their general dogma that without a revelation
there would not be sufficient proof of the being of a god Now one sixth of mankind only
are supposed to be Christians the other five sixths then who do not believe in the Jewish
and Christian revelation are without a knowledge of the existence of a god This gives
completely a gain de cause to the disciples of Ocellus Timaeus Spinosa Diderot and
DHolbach The argument which they rest on as triumphant and unanswerable is that in
every hypothesis of Cosmogony you must admit an eternal pre-existence of something
and according to the rule of sound philosophy you are never to employ two principles to
solve a difficulty when one will suffice They say then that it is more simple to believe at
once in the eternal pre-existence of the world as it is now going on and may for ever go
on by the principle of reproduction which we see and witness than to believe in the
eternal pre-existence of an ulterior cause or Creator of the world a being whom we see
not and know not of whose form substance and mode or place of existence or of action
no sense informs us no power of the mind enables us to delineate or comprehend On
the contrary I hold (without appeal to revelation) that when we take a view of the Universe
in its parts general or particular it is impossible for the human mind not to perceive and
feel a conviction of design consummate skill and indefinite power in every atom of its
composition The movements of the heavenly bodies so exactly held in their course by
the balance of centrifugal and centripetal forces the structure of our earth itself with its
distribution of lands waters and atmosphere animal and vegetable bodies examined in
all their minutest particles insects mere atoms of life yet as perfectly organized as man or
mammoth the mineral substances their generation and uses it is impossible I say for
the human mind not to believe that there is in all this design cause and effect up to an
ultimate cause a fabricator of all things from matter and motion their preserver and
regulator while permitted to exist in their present forms and their regenerator into new
and other forms
We see too evident proofs of the necessity of a superintending power to
maintain the Universe in its course and order Stars well known have
disappeared new ones have come into view comets in their incalculable
courses may run foul of suns and planets and require renovation under other
laws certain races of animals are become extinct and were there no restoring
power all existences might extinguish successively one by one until all should
be reduced to a shapeless chaos So irresistible are these evidences of an
intelligent and powerful Agent that of the infinite numbers of men who have
existed thro all time they have believed in the proportion of a million at least to
Unit in the hypothesis of an eternal pre-existence of a creator rather than in
that of a self-existent Universe Surely this unanimous sentiment renders this
more probable than that of the few in the other hypothesis Some early
Christians indeed have believed in the coeternal pre-existence of both the
Creator and the world without changing their relation of cause and effect That
this was the opinion of St Thomas we are informed by Cardinal Toleto in these
words `Deus ab aeligterno fuit jam omnipotens sicut cum produxit mundum Ab
aeterno potuit producere mundum mdash Si sol ab aeterno esset lumen ab
aeterno esset et si pes similiter vestigium At lumen et vestigium effectus sunt
efficientis solis et pedis potuit ergo cum causa aeterna effectus coaeterna
esse Cujus sententiae est S Thomas Theologorum primus Cardinal Toleta
Of the nature of this being we know nothing Jesus tells us that `God is a spirit
4 John 24 but without defining what a spirit is Down to the 3d century we
know that it was still deemed material but of a lighter subtler matter than our
gross bodies So says Origen `Deus igitur cui anima similis est juxta
Originem reapte corporalis est sed graviorum tantum ratione corporum
incorporeus These are the words of Huet in his commentary on Origen Origen
himself says `appelatio apud nostros scriptores est inusitata et incognita So
also Tertullian `quis autem negabit Deum esse corpus etsi deus spiritus
Spiritus etiam corporis sui generis in sua effigie Tertullian These two fathers
were of the 3d century Calvins character of this supreme being seems chiefly
copied from that of the Jews But the reformation of these blasphemous
attributes and substitution of those more worthy pure and sublime seems to
have been the chief object of Jesus in his discourses to the Jews and his
doctrine of the Cosmogony of the world is very clearly laid down in the 3 first
verses of the 1st chapter of John in these words
Which truly translated means `in the beginning God existed and reason (or mind)
was with God and that mind was God This was in the beginning with God All things
were created by it and without it was made not one thing which was made Yet this
text so plainly declaring the doctrine of Jesus that the world was created by the
supreme intelligent being has been perverted by modern Christians to build up a
second person of their tritheism by a mistranslation of the word One of its
legitimate meanings indeed is `a word But in that sense it makes an unmeaning
jargon while the other meaning `reason equally legitimate explains rationally the
eternal preexistence of God and his creation of the world Knowing how
incomprehensible it was that `a word the mere action or articulation of the voice and
organs of speech could create a world they undertake to make of this articulation a
second preexisting being and ascribe to him and not to God the creation of the
universe The Atheist here plumes himself on the uselessness of such a God and the
simpler hypothesis of a self-existent universe The truth is that the greatest enemies
to the doctrines of Jesus are those calling themselves the expositors of them who
have perverted them for the structure of a system of fancy absolutely
incomprehensible and without any foundation in his genuine words And the day will
come when the mystical generation of Jesus by the supreme being as his father in
the womb of a virgin will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the
brain of Jupiter But we may hope that the dawn of reason and freedom of thought in
these United States will do away with all this artificial scaffolding and restore to us
the primitive and genuine doctrines of this the most venerated reformer of human
errors
So much for your quotation of Calvins `mon dieu jusqua quand in which when
addressed to the God of Jesus and our God I join you cordially and await his time
and will with more readiness than reluctance May we meet there again in Congress
with our ancient Colleagues and receive with them the seal of approbation `Well
done good and faithful servants
It is people like these and words of the same that I miss OBD who is watching over us we miss him
WASHINGTON mdash Federal energy regulators improperly allowed
widespread access to a sensitive document that outlined specific locations where the nationrsquos electric grid is vulnerable to physical threats a government investigator said Wednesday The document created by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission should have been kept secret as a national security matter Energy Department Inspector General Gregory Friedman said Instead the information was provided in whole or in part to federal and industry officials in uncontrolled settings The Wall Street Journal reported last month that a federal analysis indicated that a coordinated terrorist strike on just nine key electric transmission substations could cause cascading power outages across the country in each of the nationrsquos three synchronized power networks The report followed a comment by former FERC Chairman Jon Wellinghoff that an April 2013 attack on a California electric substation was terrorism The FBI has said in repeated statements it had found no indications to back that up The attack which involved snipping fiber-optic phone lines and firing shots into a PGampE substation near Metcalf Calif caused power outages Millions of people were asked to conserve energy after power lines were damaged Read More -gt httpwwwabqjournalcom381743newsreport-on-vulnerabilities-in-u-s-power-grid-mishandledhtml
The White nominee to replace Sebelius is worse and what you need to know This fight for liberal missions is hardly over and you must be aware of the people running government until 2016 and beyond Policies put in place today donrsquot go away after 2016 so the fight will continue well into advanced years Sylvia Mathews Burwell is the nominee to head up the Secretary position at Heath and Human Services So who is she 1 She is well educated including being a Rhodes Scholar
but those credentials are not quite fitting for America 2 Sylvia was President of the WalMart Foundation full of
liberal policy 3 She was the president of the Global Development
Program of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation filled with eugenic objectives
4 She served as Bill Clintonrsquos Deputy Chief of Staff 5 She wrote the last Barack Obama proposed budget
which failed by a vote of 2-441 6 After being the WH head of the Office of Management
and Budget only 6 months SHE was the one who DID decide to shutdown the government last year
A German museum has traced the author of a 101-year-old message in a bottle
A fisherman pulled the beer bottle out of the Baltic Sea near Kiel Germany last month according to Holger von Neuhoff of the
International Maritime Museum Agence France-Pressereports Inside the bottle is a postcard dated May 17 1913 but much of the
writing on the postcard is illegible von Neuhoff told AFP Based on the address researchers were able to identify the author of
the message as Richard Platz the then 20-year-old son of a baker Platz died in 1946 but a genealogist was able to locate his 62-year-old
granddaughter Angela Erdmann in Berlin according to the report Erdmann was given the chance to hold the bottle at the museum last
week where the postcard will be on display Previously the oldest message found in a bottle spent nearly 98 years at sea and was discovered in April 2012 according to Guinness World
Records
The old maxim that you canrsquot hold children responsible for the sins
of their parents no longer applies mdash at least as far as Washington
is concerned
Congress quietly passed legislation in 2011 lifting the former 10-
year statute of limitations on money owed to the government
allowing Uncle Sam to collect debts going back decades The
measure also allows the government to collect from debtorsrsquo
children and grandchildren according to Fox News
Now ldquosome 400000 Americans may see their tax refund checks
grabbed by the governmentrdquo Fox reported
Former Justice Department attorney J Christian Adams called it
ldquoclassic abuserdquo during his Friday appearance on ldquoThe Kelly Filerdquo
ldquoImagine itrdquo he told Fox News Host Megyn Kelly Instead of a
refund check ldquoyou get a letter from the IRS And it says rsquo40 years
ago your parents got a disability payment that we happened to
overpay hellip So now wersquore taking it out of your tax refundrsquordquo
Think it canrsquot happen in America Think again Fox also reported
A woman named Mary Grice whose father died when she was 4
years old in 1977 leaving her mother with five children Thirty-
seven years later the Social Security administration is claiming
that it overpaid someone in her family but it isnrsquot sure whom and
is going after Ms Grice for the alleged debt
When Megyn Kelly asked Adams what the chances are of the
government dropping the debt against Grice Adams answered
ldquoZerordquo
ldquoThis is an administration that loves to suspend laws when theyrsquore
inconvenient and not enforce certain lawsrdquo Adams said ldquoLetrsquos see
if they do it hererdquo
httpwwwbizpacreviewcom20140412irs-going-after-decades-old-debts-from-children-of-debtors-unbelievable-says-megyn-kelly-112194
Potemkin Villages
Listening In on Lennon
Grand Central Terminals Secret Rooms
Julia Childs Intelligence
The CIA Schemes to Kill Castro mdash with a Seashell
The Loch Ness Monster
UFOs in the USSR
Area 51
CIA Mind-Control Experiments
Churchill and UFOs
bull Designate a common contact This is someone that any member of your family can call and leave a message with in case you all get separated and are unable to communicate with each other directly bull Donrsquot attract hungry people If there is a food shortage where people are actually starving avoid eating things that have to be cooked and opt for foods that can be eaten right out of the can or box If you do cook donrsquot cook with spices You donrsquot want the smell of your food attracting dangerously desperate people
bull Go old school Start thinking about how people used to get along before all these modern conveniences Next time you visit the flea market or a yard sale keep an eye out for motorless push lawnmowers hand crank mixers manual typewriters clothes lines and so forth
bull Take care of your feet Make sure you have good shoes and extra socks If your feet get wet dry them off and keep them warm On the other hand if they dry out too much use lotion or bag balm to keep them from cracking Painful feet can ruin your morale and effectiveness
bull Use superglue to close wounds Although yoursquore probably better off using something like Dermabond superglue can also be used in emergency Depending on the severity of the gash it could take several bottles Be warned it will sting and some people could have an allergic reaction
ldquoCuban Twitterrdquo was a troubling communications network designed to undermine the government in Cuba It was built with secret shell companies and financed through foreign banks (Ramon EspinosaAP) Wersquove all heard how social networks such as Twitter Facebook and YouTube help to spread democracy around the world by mobilizing the masses and making it easier to topple dictators Now wersquore now seeing a darker side to them In some cases theyrsquore being co-opted by governments as disinformation tools used by authoritarian regimes to crack down on Internet dissenters and even being used as part of digital Black Ops by the United States in places like Cuba The story of ldquofake Cuban Twitterrdquo is especially disconcerting mdash wersquore talking about a digital Bay of Pigs in which the US State Department working through USAID actively worked to create a Twitter-like social network (ZunZuneo) to engage the local Cuban population in order to topple the Castro regime At one point nearly 40000 Cubans had signed up for the ZunZuneo network To make the fantasy real the US government created an elaborate system of shell companies and foreign bank accounts to make sure that the Cubans bought into the whole system In other cases social networks are being used as part and parcel of government disinformation campaigns to co-opt opposition movements ndash sometimes by the US government and its allies In February controversial journalist Glenn Greenwald outlined all the dirty tricks and covert operations being used by Western covert agents on the Internet If you know that your opponents are hanging out on YouTube all day the thinking goes thatrsquos the place to crack down on dissenters The list of tactics involved include everything from laying digital honey traps to crafting elaborate attempts to destroy online social reputation As Greenwald notes ldquoThese [Western intelligence] agencies are attempting to control infiltrate manipulate and warp online discourse and in doing so are compromising the integrity of the Internet itselfrdquo
In countries such as Egypt and Turkey data from social networks is being used to find exact locations of protesters based on GPS locations or to track down the IP addresses of Internet users the government wants to discipline The question now is to what degree Western know-how is being used to facilitate these actions In the latest scandal over the Turkish government shutting down YouTube and Twitter for extended periods of time could foreign officials have played a role in ensuring that local elections went on as planned March 30 without backlash from the ldquoTurkish streetrdquo This emerging dark side of social networks has enormous implications for how America conducts its diplomatic business abroad Ever since Hillary Clinton launched ldquo21st century statecraftrdquo for the US State Department therersquos been a push to use Internet freedom as a rallying cry for the United States to win over friends and gain influence across the globe Terms like ldquodigital statecraftrdquo and ldquoe-diplomacyrdquo are commonplace these days ndash not just for America but also for nations that would like to emulate Americarsquos ability to project power around the world At little or no cost social networks such as Twitter Facebook and YouTube made it possible to spread the message that America was the land of baseball apple pie and democracy for all But you can see where all this headed The more that social networks are seen to be doing the bidding of the NSA and the CIA (and proxy organizations such as USAID) in terms of gathering and mobilizing the masses against governments the less effective they are in sharing American values abroad If the American way of life includes getting spied on by your government and having your online privacy and personal data compromised for political gain is that something you can use to win over hearts and minds in foreign lands As Robinson Meyer of The Atlantic pointed out in a tell-all about fake Cuban Twitter this is already the case in places such as Pakistan where a free mobile phone-based social network set up by generous American benefactors in 2009 turned out to be an elaborate State Department ruse to monitor the communication of Pakistanis
In fairness to these social networks such as Twitter and Facebook they are fighting back and taking a public stance against governmentrsquos ability to use them for monitoring of personal communications They no doubt realize that the backlash against the NSA and its intelligence-gathering across the globe mean that future trust in Silicon Valley could be eroded forever Most notably Mark Zuckerberg called on President Obama to stop using the NSA to monitor the affairs of the social networkrsquos one billion users But that doesnrsquot stop the US government from creating a ldquofake Twitterrdquo or ldquofake Facebookrdquo does it It shouldnrsquot take Edward Snowden appearing as a giant talking head at SXSW to tell everyone how governments are ldquosetting fire to the future of the Internetrdquo And it shouldnrsquot take Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt) chiding Congress for a ldquodumb dumb dumbrdquo attempt at covert operations in Cuba Itrsquos not only that Silicon Valley can erode the trust of Internet users The United States might end up eroding the trust of citizens around the globe who once thought of the United States as the home of democracy and progress
httpwwwwashingtonpostcomblogsinnovationswp20140408the-emerging-dark-side-of-social-networksprint=1
Easter is linked to the Jewish Passover by much of its symbolism as well as by its position in the calendar In many languages the words for Easter and Passover are identical or very similar
Easter is linked to the Passover and Exodus from Egypt recorded in the Old Testament through the Last Supper and crucifixion that preceded the resurrection[According to the New Testament Jesus gave the Passover meal a new meaning as he prepared himself and his disciples for his death in the upper room during the Last Supper He identified the matzah and cup of wine as his body soon to be sacrificed and his blood soon to be shed Paul states Get rid of the old yeast that you may be a new batch without yeastmdashas you really are For Christ our Passover lamb has been sacrificed this refers to the Passover requirement to have no yeast in the house and to the allegory of Jesus as the Paschal lamb
The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) received at least 7868 complaints of DHS ldquoemployee criminal misconductrdquo in the first half of fiscal year 2013 alone This information is based off a DHS OIG report released December 11 According to the report entitled Major Management and Performance Challenges Facing the Department of Homeland Security allegations of criminal misconduct include DHS employees being corrupted by drug traffickers ldquoInvestigations of departmental employees range throughout the [DHS] Components and are initiated in response to allegations of wrongdoing such as smuggling bribery child pornography and theft of departmental funds or propertyrdquo highlighted the December report ldquoOIG is particularly concerned with the smuggling of people and goods across the Nationrsquos bordersrdquo ldquoSmuggling continues to be a large-scale business and remains dominated by drug trafficking organizations that seek to systematically corrupt DHS employees to continue their schemesrdquo added the IG ldquoWithin DHS OIG has the primary authority for investigating allegations of criminal misconduct by DHS employeesrdquo
ldquoThus far in FY 2013 we have received 7868 complaints and have initiated 320 investigations Also in FY 2013 we have had 76 cases accepted for prosecution and achieved 83 convictions and 41 personnel actionsrdquo further stated the OIG in the report Those numbers are based off a previous OIG audit that covered the first half of FY 2013 (Oct 1 2012 to March 30 2013) according to the report ldquoIn FY 2012 we received approximately 17690 complaints [of employee misconduct] and opened 1030 investigationsrdquo also stated the December report ldquoIn that same period 132 of our cases were accepted for prosecution and we achieved 178 convictions and 106 personnel actionsrdquo The OIG report highlighted some employee misconduct cases involving the corruption of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency employees by drug traffickers CBP is a component of DHS ldquoWe learned that a CBP employee was observed meeting with members of a known drug trafficking organizationrdquo stated the IG ldquoLater he made arrangements with individuals he believed to be smugglers and allowed a vehicle driven by an undercover agent to pass through a border patrol checkpoint without being inspected He also met with a confidential informant and received an $8000 cash bribe payment in an enveloperdquo ldquoAfter we arrested him he resigned and pleaded guilty to one count of accepting a briberdquo added the OIG report ldquoSimilarly we investigated a CBP employee who was accepting bribes to allow narcotics through his inspection lanerdquo further stated the document ldquoWe had an agent pose as a narcotics smuggler and pay the employee a series of bribes in exchange for allowing what he believed to be illegal narcotics to enter the United States He was found guilty of conspiracy and briberyrdquo The OIG also highlighted an employee incident involving child pornography ldquoThis year a [US Citizenship and Immigration Services] employee pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography and was sentenced to 37 months incarceration and 120 months of supervised releaserdquo mentioned the report ldquo In 2010 the employee seemingly inadvertently provided another employee with a USB thumb drive containing child pornography and a search of his residence yielded additional images on his home computersrdquo further stated the OIG
Furthermore the OIG also mentioned a case involving theft of government property and sexual harassment ldquoAdditionally we investigated and arrested a recently retired former [US Coast Guard] employee who had stolen government-owned electrical equipment valued at approximately $120000 and sold it on eBayrdquo stated the report ldquoAfter his arrest he pleaded guilty of two counts of mail fraud and was sentenced to 12 months and 1 day incarceration followed by 24 months of supervised release He was also ordered to pay $127600 in restitutionrdquo ldquoWe engaged in a joint investigation with a local sheriffrsquos department of a Border Patrol Agent who made a traffic stop of a vehicle driven by a woman in a remote location and sexually assaulted herrdquo continued the OIG ldquoFollowing the investigation the agent resigned and was sentenced to 96 months in State prisonrdquo According to testimony before a House panel by then-Acting Inspector General Charles Edwards misconduct cases handled by the DHS IG are split into four categories 1) corruption involving bribery disclosure of classified information espionage and smuggling among other things 2) violations of civil rights and liberties by employees 3) defrauding DHS programs and financial systems 4) miscellaneous including those involving child pornography false statements and ldquocontact with foreign governmentsnationalsrdquo among other violations that ldquomay not be criminal in naturerdquo Edwards explained that in the context of OIGrsquos investigative work a DHS employee includes contractors interns Coast Guard personnel and ldquoemployees detailed to DHS from other Federal agenciesrdquo The December 2013 report did not break down the 7868 complaints of DHS employee misconduct by category Edwards now deputy DHS IG noted in a December 9 letter attached to the report ldquoCBP has made significant advancements in battling corruption and misconduct internally CBP conducts background investigations and polygraph examinations of all applicants for law enforcement positions as a way to detect possible issues before an applicant becomes an employee DHS currently employs about 240000 individuals
Did you know that the
Farmerrsquos Almanac predicted
a long hard winter last
August
Did you know the
publication also made
reference to the Blood
Moon Phase
Learn More here
httpwwwfarmersalmanaccomnewsletter
Letter to John Adams
Jeffersons letter to John Adams from Monticello April 11 1823
Dear Sir mdash The wishes expressed in your last favor that I may continue in life and
health until I become a Calvinist at least in his exclamation of `mon Dieu jusque agrave
quand would make me immortal I can never join Calvin in addressing his god He was
indeed an Atheist which I can never be or rather his religion was Daeligmonism If ever man
worshipped a false god he did The being described in his 5 points is not the God whom
you and I acknowledge and adore the Creator and benevolent governor of the world but
a daeligmon of malignant spirit It would be more pardonable to believe in no god at all than
to blaspheme him by the atrocious attributes of Calvin Indeed I think that every Christian
sect gives a great handle to Atheism by their general dogma that without a revelation
there would not be sufficient proof of the being of a god Now one sixth of mankind only
are supposed to be Christians the other five sixths then who do not believe in the Jewish
and Christian revelation are without a knowledge of the existence of a god This gives
completely a gain de cause to the disciples of Ocellus Timaeus Spinosa Diderot and
DHolbach The argument which they rest on as triumphant and unanswerable is that in
every hypothesis of Cosmogony you must admit an eternal pre-existence of something
and according to the rule of sound philosophy you are never to employ two principles to
solve a difficulty when one will suffice They say then that it is more simple to believe at
once in the eternal pre-existence of the world as it is now going on and may for ever go
on by the principle of reproduction which we see and witness than to believe in the
eternal pre-existence of an ulterior cause or Creator of the world a being whom we see
not and know not of whose form substance and mode or place of existence or of action
no sense informs us no power of the mind enables us to delineate or comprehend On
the contrary I hold (without appeal to revelation) that when we take a view of the Universe
in its parts general or particular it is impossible for the human mind not to perceive and
feel a conviction of design consummate skill and indefinite power in every atom of its
composition The movements of the heavenly bodies so exactly held in their course by
the balance of centrifugal and centripetal forces the structure of our earth itself with its
distribution of lands waters and atmosphere animal and vegetable bodies examined in
all their minutest particles insects mere atoms of life yet as perfectly organized as man or
mammoth the mineral substances their generation and uses it is impossible I say for
the human mind not to believe that there is in all this design cause and effect up to an
ultimate cause a fabricator of all things from matter and motion their preserver and
regulator while permitted to exist in their present forms and their regenerator into new
and other forms
We see too evident proofs of the necessity of a superintending power to
maintain the Universe in its course and order Stars well known have
disappeared new ones have come into view comets in their incalculable
courses may run foul of suns and planets and require renovation under other
laws certain races of animals are become extinct and were there no restoring
power all existences might extinguish successively one by one until all should
be reduced to a shapeless chaos So irresistible are these evidences of an
intelligent and powerful Agent that of the infinite numbers of men who have
existed thro all time they have believed in the proportion of a million at least to
Unit in the hypothesis of an eternal pre-existence of a creator rather than in
that of a self-existent Universe Surely this unanimous sentiment renders this
more probable than that of the few in the other hypothesis Some early
Christians indeed have believed in the coeternal pre-existence of both the
Creator and the world without changing their relation of cause and effect That
this was the opinion of St Thomas we are informed by Cardinal Toleto in these
words `Deus ab aeligterno fuit jam omnipotens sicut cum produxit mundum Ab
aeterno potuit producere mundum mdash Si sol ab aeterno esset lumen ab
aeterno esset et si pes similiter vestigium At lumen et vestigium effectus sunt
efficientis solis et pedis potuit ergo cum causa aeterna effectus coaeterna
esse Cujus sententiae est S Thomas Theologorum primus Cardinal Toleta
Of the nature of this being we know nothing Jesus tells us that `God is a spirit
4 John 24 but without defining what a spirit is Down to the 3d century we
know that it was still deemed material but of a lighter subtler matter than our
gross bodies So says Origen `Deus igitur cui anima similis est juxta
Originem reapte corporalis est sed graviorum tantum ratione corporum
incorporeus These are the words of Huet in his commentary on Origen Origen
himself says `appelatio apud nostros scriptores est inusitata et incognita So
also Tertullian `quis autem negabit Deum esse corpus etsi deus spiritus
Spiritus etiam corporis sui generis in sua effigie Tertullian These two fathers
were of the 3d century Calvins character of this supreme being seems chiefly
copied from that of the Jews But the reformation of these blasphemous
attributes and substitution of those more worthy pure and sublime seems to
have been the chief object of Jesus in his discourses to the Jews and his
doctrine of the Cosmogony of the world is very clearly laid down in the 3 first
verses of the 1st chapter of John in these words
Which truly translated means `in the beginning God existed and reason (or mind)
was with God and that mind was God This was in the beginning with God All things
were created by it and without it was made not one thing which was made Yet this
text so plainly declaring the doctrine of Jesus that the world was created by the
supreme intelligent being has been perverted by modern Christians to build up a
second person of their tritheism by a mistranslation of the word One of its
legitimate meanings indeed is `a word But in that sense it makes an unmeaning
jargon while the other meaning `reason equally legitimate explains rationally the
eternal preexistence of God and his creation of the world Knowing how
incomprehensible it was that `a word the mere action or articulation of the voice and
organs of speech could create a world they undertake to make of this articulation a
second preexisting being and ascribe to him and not to God the creation of the
universe The Atheist here plumes himself on the uselessness of such a God and the
simpler hypothesis of a self-existent universe The truth is that the greatest enemies
to the doctrines of Jesus are those calling themselves the expositors of them who
have perverted them for the structure of a system of fancy absolutely
incomprehensible and without any foundation in his genuine words And the day will
come when the mystical generation of Jesus by the supreme being as his father in
the womb of a virgin will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the
brain of Jupiter But we may hope that the dawn of reason and freedom of thought in
these United States will do away with all this artificial scaffolding and restore to us
the primitive and genuine doctrines of this the most venerated reformer of human
errors
So much for your quotation of Calvins `mon dieu jusqua quand in which when
addressed to the God of Jesus and our God I join you cordially and await his time
and will with more readiness than reluctance May we meet there again in Congress
with our ancient Colleagues and receive with them the seal of approbation `Well
done good and faithful servants
It is people like these and words of the same that I miss OBD who is watching over us we miss him
The White nominee to replace Sebelius is worse and what you need to know This fight for liberal missions is hardly over and you must be aware of the people running government until 2016 and beyond Policies put in place today donrsquot go away after 2016 so the fight will continue well into advanced years Sylvia Mathews Burwell is the nominee to head up the Secretary position at Heath and Human Services So who is she 1 She is well educated including being a Rhodes Scholar
but those credentials are not quite fitting for America 2 Sylvia was President of the WalMart Foundation full of
liberal policy 3 She was the president of the Global Development
Program of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation filled with eugenic objectives
4 She served as Bill Clintonrsquos Deputy Chief of Staff 5 She wrote the last Barack Obama proposed budget
which failed by a vote of 2-441 6 After being the WH head of the Office of Management
and Budget only 6 months SHE was the one who DID decide to shutdown the government last year
A German museum has traced the author of a 101-year-old message in a bottle
A fisherman pulled the beer bottle out of the Baltic Sea near Kiel Germany last month according to Holger von Neuhoff of the
International Maritime Museum Agence France-Pressereports Inside the bottle is a postcard dated May 17 1913 but much of the
writing on the postcard is illegible von Neuhoff told AFP Based on the address researchers were able to identify the author of
the message as Richard Platz the then 20-year-old son of a baker Platz died in 1946 but a genealogist was able to locate his 62-year-old
granddaughter Angela Erdmann in Berlin according to the report Erdmann was given the chance to hold the bottle at the museum last
week where the postcard will be on display Previously the oldest message found in a bottle spent nearly 98 years at sea and was discovered in April 2012 according to Guinness World
Records
The old maxim that you canrsquot hold children responsible for the sins
of their parents no longer applies mdash at least as far as Washington
is concerned
Congress quietly passed legislation in 2011 lifting the former 10-
year statute of limitations on money owed to the government
allowing Uncle Sam to collect debts going back decades The
measure also allows the government to collect from debtorsrsquo
children and grandchildren according to Fox News
Now ldquosome 400000 Americans may see their tax refund checks
grabbed by the governmentrdquo Fox reported
Former Justice Department attorney J Christian Adams called it
ldquoclassic abuserdquo during his Friday appearance on ldquoThe Kelly Filerdquo
ldquoImagine itrdquo he told Fox News Host Megyn Kelly Instead of a
refund check ldquoyou get a letter from the IRS And it says rsquo40 years
ago your parents got a disability payment that we happened to
overpay hellip So now wersquore taking it out of your tax refundrsquordquo
Think it canrsquot happen in America Think again Fox also reported
A woman named Mary Grice whose father died when she was 4
years old in 1977 leaving her mother with five children Thirty-
seven years later the Social Security administration is claiming
that it overpaid someone in her family but it isnrsquot sure whom and
is going after Ms Grice for the alleged debt
When Megyn Kelly asked Adams what the chances are of the
government dropping the debt against Grice Adams answered
ldquoZerordquo
ldquoThis is an administration that loves to suspend laws when theyrsquore
inconvenient and not enforce certain lawsrdquo Adams said ldquoLetrsquos see
if they do it hererdquo
httpwwwbizpacreviewcom20140412irs-going-after-decades-old-debts-from-children-of-debtors-unbelievable-says-megyn-kelly-112194
Potemkin Villages
Listening In on Lennon
Grand Central Terminals Secret Rooms
Julia Childs Intelligence
The CIA Schemes to Kill Castro mdash with a Seashell
The Loch Ness Monster
UFOs in the USSR
Area 51
CIA Mind-Control Experiments
Churchill and UFOs
bull Designate a common contact This is someone that any member of your family can call and leave a message with in case you all get separated and are unable to communicate with each other directly bull Donrsquot attract hungry people If there is a food shortage where people are actually starving avoid eating things that have to be cooked and opt for foods that can be eaten right out of the can or box If you do cook donrsquot cook with spices You donrsquot want the smell of your food attracting dangerously desperate people
bull Go old school Start thinking about how people used to get along before all these modern conveniences Next time you visit the flea market or a yard sale keep an eye out for motorless push lawnmowers hand crank mixers manual typewriters clothes lines and so forth
bull Take care of your feet Make sure you have good shoes and extra socks If your feet get wet dry them off and keep them warm On the other hand if they dry out too much use lotion or bag balm to keep them from cracking Painful feet can ruin your morale and effectiveness
bull Use superglue to close wounds Although yoursquore probably better off using something like Dermabond superglue can also be used in emergency Depending on the severity of the gash it could take several bottles Be warned it will sting and some people could have an allergic reaction
ldquoCuban Twitterrdquo was a troubling communications network designed to undermine the government in Cuba It was built with secret shell companies and financed through foreign banks (Ramon EspinosaAP) Wersquove all heard how social networks such as Twitter Facebook and YouTube help to spread democracy around the world by mobilizing the masses and making it easier to topple dictators Now wersquore now seeing a darker side to them In some cases theyrsquore being co-opted by governments as disinformation tools used by authoritarian regimes to crack down on Internet dissenters and even being used as part of digital Black Ops by the United States in places like Cuba The story of ldquofake Cuban Twitterrdquo is especially disconcerting mdash wersquore talking about a digital Bay of Pigs in which the US State Department working through USAID actively worked to create a Twitter-like social network (ZunZuneo) to engage the local Cuban population in order to topple the Castro regime At one point nearly 40000 Cubans had signed up for the ZunZuneo network To make the fantasy real the US government created an elaborate system of shell companies and foreign bank accounts to make sure that the Cubans bought into the whole system In other cases social networks are being used as part and parcel of government disinformation campaigns to co-opt opposition movements ndash sometimes by the US government and its allies In February controversial journalist Glenn Greenwald outlined all the dirty tricks and covert operations being used by Western covert agents on the Internet If you know that your opponents are hanging out on YouTube all day the thinking goes thatrsquos the place to crack down on dissenters The list of tactics involved include everything from laying digital honey traps to crafting elaborate attempts to destroy online social reputation As Greenwald notes ldquoThese [Western intelligence] agencies are attempting to control infiltrate manipulate and warp online discourse and in doing so are compromising the integrity of the Internet itselfrdquo
In countries such as Egypt and Turkey data from social networks is being used to find exact locations of protesters based on GPS locations or to track down the IP addresses of Internet users the government wants to discipline The question now is to what degree Western know-how is being used to facilitate these actions In the latest scandal over the Turkish government shutting down YouTube and Twitter for extended periods of time could foreign officials have played a role in ensuring that local elections went on as planned March 30 without backlash from the ldquoTurkish streetrdquo This emerging dark side of social networks has enormous implications for how America conducts its diplomatic business abroad Ever since Hillary Clinton launched ldquo21st century statecraftrdquo for the US State Department therersquos been a push to use Internet freedom as a rallying cry for the United States to win over friends and gain influence across the globe Terms like ldquodigital statecraftrdquo and ldquoe-diplomacyrdquo are commonplace these days ndash not just for America but also for nations that would like to emulate Americarsquos ability to project power around the world At little or no cost social networks such as Twitter Facebook and YouTube made it possible to spread the message that America was the land of baseball apple pie and democracy for all But you can see where all this headed The more that social networks are seen to be doing the bidding of the NSA and the CIA (and proxy organizations such as USAID) in terms of gathering and mobilizing the masses against governments the less effective they are in sharing American values abroad If the American way of life includes getting spied on by your government and having your online privacy and personal data compromised for political gain is that something you can use to win over hearts and minds in foreign lands As Robinson Meyer of The Atlantic pointed out in a tell-all about fake Cuban Twitter this is already the case in places such as Pakistan where a free mobile phone-based social network set up by generous American benefactors in 2009 turned out to be an elaborate State Department ruse to monitor the communication of Pakistanis
In fairness to these social networks such as Twitter and Facebook they are fighting back and taking a public stance against governmentrsquos ability to use them for monitoring of personal communications They no doubt realize that the backlash against the NSA and its intelligence-gathering across the globe mean that future trust in Silicon Valley could be eroded forever Most notably Mark Zuckerberg called on President Obama to stop using the NSA to monitor the affairs of the social networkrsquos one billion users But that doesnrsquot stop the US government from creating a ldquofake Twitterrdquo or ldquofake Facebookrdquo does it It shouldnrsquot take Edward Snowden appearing as a giant talking head at SXSW to tell everyone how governments are ldquosetting fire to the future of the Internetrdquo And it shouldnrsquot take Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt) chiding Congress for a ldquodumb dumb dumbrdquo attempt at covert operations in Cuba Itrsquos not only that Silicon Valley can erode the trust of Internet users The United States might end up eroding the trust of citizens around the globe who once thought of the United States as the home of democracy and progress
httpwwwwashingtonpostcomblogsinnovationswp20140408the-emerging-dark-side-of-social-networksprint=1
Easter is linked to the Jewish Passover by much of its symbolism as well as by its position in the calendar In many languages the words for Easter and Passover are identical or very similar
Easter is linked to the Passover and Exodus from Egypt recorded in the Old Testament through the Last Supper and crucifixion that preceded the resurrection[According to the New Testament Jesus gave the Passover meal a new meaning as he prepared himself and his disciples for his death in the upper room during the Last Supper He identified the matzah and cup of wine as his body soon to be sacrificed and his blood soon to be shed Paul states Get rid of the old yeast that you may be a new batch without yeastmdashas you really are For Christ our Passover lamb has been sacrificed this refers to the Passover requirement to have no yeast in the house and to the allegory of Jesus as the Paschal lamb
The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) received at least 7868 complaints of DHS ldquoemployee criminal misconductrdquo in the first half of fiscal year 2013 alone This information is based off a DHS OIG report released December 11 According to the report entitled Major Management and Performance Challenges Facing the Department of Homeland Security allegations of criminal misconduct include DHS employees being corrupted by drug traffickers ldquoInvestigations of departmental employees range throughout the [DHS] Components and are initiated in response to allegations of wrongdoing such as smuggling bribery child pornography and theft of departmental funds or propertyrdquo highlighted the December report ldquoOIG is particularly concerned with the smuggling of people and goods across the Nationrsquos bordersrdquo ldquoSmuggling continues to be a large-scale business and remains dominated by drug trafficking organizations that seek to systematically corrupt DHS employees to continue their schemesrdquo added the IG ldquoWithin DHS OIG has the primary authority for investigating allegations of criminal misconduct by DHS employeesrdquo
ldquoThus far in FY 2013 we have received 7868 complaints and have initiated 320 investigations Also in FY 2013 we have had 76 cases accepted for prosecution and achieved 83 convictions and 41 personnel actionsrdquo further stated the OIG in the report Those numbers are based off a previous OIG audit that covered the first half of FY 2013 (Oct 1 2012 to March 30 2013) according to the report ldquoIn FY 2012 we received approximately 17690 complaints [of employee misconduct] and opened 1030 investigationsrdquo also stated the December report ldquoIn that same period 132 of our cases were accepted for prosecution and we achieved 178 convictions and 106 personnel actionsrdquo The OIG report highlighted some employee misconduct cases involving the corruption of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency employees by drug traffickers CBP is a component of DHS ldquoWe learned that a CBP employee was observed meeting with members of a known drug trafficking organizationrdquo stated the IG ldquoLater he made arrangements with individuals he believed to be smugglers and allowed a vehicle driven by an undercover agent to pass through a border patrol checkpoint without being inspected He also met with a confidential informant and received an $8000 cash bribe payment in an enveloperdquo ldquoAfter we arrested him he resigned and pleaded guilty to one count of accepting a briberdquo added the OIG report ldquoSimilarly we investigated a CBP employee who was accepting bribes to allow narcotics through his inspection lanerdquo further stated the document ldquoWe had an agent pose as a narcotics smuggler and pay the employee a series of bribes in exchange for allowing what he believed to be illegal narcotics to enter the United States He was found guilty of conspiracy and briberyrdquo The OIG also highlighted an employee incident involving child pornography ldquoThis year a [US Citizenship and Immigration Services] employee pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography and was sentenced to 37 months incarceration and 120 months of supervised releaserdquo mentioned the report ldquo In 2010 the employee seemingly inadvertently provided another employee with a USB thumb drive containing child pornography and a search of his residence yielded additional images on his home computersrdquo further stated the OIG
Furthermore the OIG also mentioned a case involving theft of government property and sexual harassment ldquoAdditionally we investigated and arrested a recently retired former [US Coast Guard] employee who had stolen government-owned electrical equipment valued at approximately $120000 and sold it on eBayrdquo stated the report ldquoAfter his arrest he pleaded guilty of two counts of mail fraud and was sentenced to 12 months and 1 day incarceration followed by 24 months of supervised release He was also ordered to pay $127600 in restitutionrdquo ldquoWe engaged in a joint investigation with a local sheriffrsquos department of a Border Patrol Agent who made a traffic stop of a vehicle driven by a woman in a remote location and sexually assaulted herrdquo continued the OIG ldquoFollowing the investigation the agent resigned and was sentenced to 96 months in State prisonrdquo According to testimony before a House panel by then-Acting Inspector General Charles Edwards misconduct cases handled by the DHS IG are split into four categories 1) corruption involving bribery disclosure of classified information espionage and smuggling among other things 2) violations of civil rights and liberties by employees 3) defrauding DHS programs and financial systems 4) miscellaneous including those involving child pornography false statements and ldquocontact with foreign governmentsnationalsrdquo among other violations that ldquomay not be criminal in naturerdquo Edwards explained that in the context of OIGrsquos investigative work a DHS employee includes contractors interns Coast Guard personnel and ldquoemployees detailed to DHS from other Federal agenciesrdquo The December 2013 report did not break down the 7868 complaints of DHS employee misconduct by category Edwards now deputy DHS IG noted in a December 9 letter attached to the report ldquoCBP has made significant advancements in battling corruption and misconduct internally CBP conducts background investigations and polygraph examinations of all applicants for law enforcement positions as a way to detect possible issues before an applicant becomes an employee DHS currently employs about 240000 individuals
Did you know that the
Farmerrsquos Almanac predicted
a long hard winter last
August
Did you know the
publication also made
reference to the Blood
Moon Phase
Learn More here
httpwwwfarmersalmanaccomnewsletter
Letter to John Adams
Jeffersons letter to John Adams from Monticello April 11 1823
Dear Sir mdash The wishes expressed in your last favor that I may continue in life and
health until I become a Calvinist at least in his exclamation of `mon Dieu jusque agrave
quand would make me immortal I can never join Calvin in addressing his god He was
indeed an Atheist which I can never be or rather his religion was Daeligmonism If ever man
worshipped a false god he did The being described in his 5 points is not the God whom
you and I acknowledge and adore the Creator and benevolent governor of the world but
a daeligmon of malignant spirit It would be more pardonable to believe in no god at all than
to blaspheme him by the atrocious attributes of Calvin Indeed I think that every Christian
sect gives a great handle to Atheism by their general dogma that without a revelation
there would not be sufficient proof of the being of a god Now one sixth of mankind only
are supposed to be Christians the other five sixths then who do not believe in the Jewish
and Christian revelation are without a knowledge of the existence of a god This gives
completely a gain de cause to the disciples of Ocellus Timaeus Spinosa Diderot and
DHolbach The argument which they rest on as triumphant and unanswerable is that in
every hypothesis of Cosmogony you must admit an eternal pre-existence of something
and according to the rule of sound philosophy you are never to employ two principles to
solve a difficulty when one will suffice They say then that it is more simple to believe at
once in the eternal pre-existence of the world as it is now going on and may for ever go
on by the principle of reproduction which we see and witness than to believe in the
eternal pre-existence of an ulterior cause or Creator of the world a being whom we see
not and know not of whose form substance and mode or place of existence or of action
no sense informs us no power of the mind enables us to delineate or comprehend On
the contrary I hold (without appeal to revelation) that when we take a view of the Universe
in its parts general or particular it is impossible for the human mind not to perceive and
feel a conviction of design consummate skill and indefinite power in every atom of its
composition The movements of the heavenly bodies so exactly held in their course by
the balance of centrifugal and centripetal forces the structure of our earth itself with its
distribution of lands waters and atmosphere animal and vegetable bodies examined in
all their minutest particles insects mere atoms of life yet as perfectly organized as man or
mammoth the mineral substances their generation and uses it is impossible I say for
the human mind not to believe that there is in all this design cause and effect up to an
ultimate cause a fabricator of all things from matter and motion their preserver and
regulator while permitted to exist in their present forms and their regenerator into new
and other forms
We see too evident proofs of the necessity of a superintending power to
maintain the Universe in its course and order Stars well known have
disappeared new ones have come into view comets in their incalculable
courses may run foul of suns and planets and require renovation under other
laws certain races of animals are become extinct and were there no restoring
power all existences might extinguish successively one by one until all should
be reduced to a shapeless chaos So irresistible are these evidences of an
intelligent and powerful Agent that of the infinite numbers of men who have
existed thro all time they have believed in the proportion of a million at least to
Unit in the hypothesis of an eternal pre-existence of a creator rather than in
that of a self-existent Universe Surely this unanimous sentiment renders this
more probable than that of the few in the other hypothesis Some early
Christians indeed have believed in the coeternal pre-existence of both the
Creator and the world without changing their relation of cause and effect That
this was the opinion of St Thomas we are informed by Cardinal Toleto in these
words `Deus ab aeligterno fuit jam omnipotens sicut cum produxit mundum Ab
aeterno potuit producere mundum mdash Si sol ab aeterno esset lumen ab
aeterno esset et si pes similiter vestigium At lumen et vestigium effectus sunt
efficientis solis et pedis potuit ergo cum causa aeterna effectus coaeterna
esse Cujus sententiae est S Thomas Theologorum primus Cardinal Toleta
Of the nature of this being we know nothing Jesus tells us that `God is a spirit
4 John 24 but without defining what a spirit is Down to the 3d century we
know that it was still deemed material but of a lighter subtler matter than our
gross bodies So says Origen `Deus igitur cui anima similis est juxta
Originem reapte corporalis est sed graviorum tantum ratione corporum
incorporeus These are the words of Huet in his commentary on Origen Origen
himself says `appelatio apud nostros scriptores est inusitata et incognita So
also Tertullian `quis autem negabit Deum esse corpus etsi deus spiritus
Spiritus etiam corporis sui generis in sua effigie Tertullian These two fathers
were of the 3d century Calvins character of this supreme being seems chiefly
copied from that of the Jews But the reformation of these blasphemous
attributes and substitution of those more worthy pure and sublime seems to
have been the chief object of Jesus in his discourses to the Jews and his
doctrine of the Cosmogony of the world is very clearly laid down in the 3 first
verses of the 1st chapter of John in these words
Which truly translated means `in the beginning God existed and reason (or mind)
was with God and that mind was God This was in the beginning with God All things
were created by it and without it was made not one thing which was made Yet this
text so plainly declaring the doctrine of Jesus that the world was created by the
supreme intelligent being has been perverted by modern Christians to build up a
second person of their tritheism by a mistranslation of the word One of its
legitimate meanings indeed is `a word But in that sense it makes an unmeaning
jargon while the other meaning `reason equally legitimate explains rationally the
eternal preexistence of God and his creation of the world Knowing how
incomprehensible it was that `a word the mere action or articulation of the voice and
organs of speech could create a world they undertake to make of this articulation a
second preexisting being and ascribe to him and not to God the creation of the
universe The Atheist here plumes himself on the uselessness of such a God and the
simpler hypothesis of a self-existent universe The truth is that the greatest enemies
to the doctrines of Jesus are those calling themselves the expositors of them who
have perverted them for the structure of a system of fancy absolutely
incomprehensible and without any foundation in his genuine words And the day will
come when the mystical generation of Jesus by the supreme being as his father in
the womb of a virgin will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the
brain of Jupiter But we may hope that the dawn of reason and freedom of thought in
these United States will do away with all this artificial scaffolding and restore to us
the primitive and genuine doctrines of this the most venerated reformer of human
errors
So much for your quotation of Calvins `mon dieu jusqua quand in which when
addressed to the God of Jesus and our God I join you cordially and await his time
and will with more readiness than reluctance May we meet there again in Congress
with our ancient Colleagues and receive with them the seal of approbation `Well
done good and faithful servants
It is people like these and words of the same that I miss OBD who is watching over us we miss him
A German museum has traced the author of a 101-year-old message in a bottle
A fisherman pulled the beer bottle out of the Baltic Sea near Kiel Germany last month according to Holger von Neuhoff of the
International Maritime Museum Agence France-Pressereports Inside the bottle is a postcard dated May 17 1913 but much of the
writing on the postcard is illegible von Neuhoff told AFP Based on the address researchers were able to identify the author of
the message as Richard Platz the then 20-year-old son of a baker Platz died in 1946 but a genealogist was able to locate his 62-year-old
granddaughter Angela Erdmann in Berlin according to the report Erdmann was given the chance to hold the bottle at the museum last
week where the postcard will be on display Previously the oldest message found in a bottle spent nearly 98 years at sea and was discovered in April 2012 according to Guinness World
Records
The old maxim that you canrsquot hold children responsible for the sins
of their parents no longer applies mdash at least as far as Washington
is concerned
Congress quietly passed legislation in 2011 lifting the former 10-
year statute of limitations on money owed to the government
allowing Uncle Sam to collect debts going back decades The
measure also allows the government to collect from debtorsrsquo
children and grandchildren according to Fox News
Now ldquosome 400000 Americans may see their tax refund checks
grabbed by the governmentrdquo Fox reported
Former Justice Department attorney J Christian Adams called it
ldquoclassic abuserdquo during his Friday appearance on ldquoThe Kelly Filerdquo
ldquoImagine itrdquo he told Fox News Host Megyn Kelly Instead of a
refund check ldquoyou get a letter from the IRS And it says rsquo40 years
ago your parents got a disability payment that we happened to
overpay hellip So now wersquore taking it out of your tax refundrsquordquo
Think it canrsquot happen in America Think again Fox also reported
A woman named Mary Grice whose father died when she was 4
years old in 1977 leaving her mother with five children Thirty-
seven years later the Social Security administration is claiming
that it overpaid someone in her family but it isnrsquot sure whom and
is going after Ms Grice for the alleged debt
When Megyn Kelly asked Adams what the chances are of the
government dropping the debt against Grice Adams answered
ldquoZerordquo
ldquoThis is an administration that loves to suspend laws when theyrsquore
inconvenient and not enforce certain lawsrdquo Adams said ldquoLetrsquos see
if they do it hererdquo
httpwwwbizpacreviewcom20140412irs-going-after-decades-old-debts-from-children-of-debtors-unbelievable-says-megyn-kelly-112194
Potemkin Villages
Listening In on Lennon
Grand Central Terminals Secret Rooms
Julia Childs Intelligence
The CIA Schemes to Kill Castro mdash with a Seashell
The Loch Ness Monster
UFOs in the USSR
Area 51
CIA Mind-Control Experiments
Churchill and UFOs
bull Designate a common contact This is someone that any member of your family can call and leave a message with in case you all get separated and are unable to communicate with each other directly bull Donrsquot attract hungry people If there is a food shortage where people are actually starving avoid eating things that have to be cooked and opt for foods that can be eaten right out of the can or box If you do cook donrsquot cook with spices You donrsquot want the smell of your food attracting dangerously desperate people
bull Go old school Start thinking about how people used to get along before all these modern conveniences Next time you visit the flea market or a yard sale keep an eye out for motorless push lawnmowers hand crank mixers manual typewriters clothes lines and so forth
bull Take care of your feet Make sure you have good shoes and extra socks If your feet get wet dry them off and keep them warm On the other hand if they dry out too much use lotion or bag balm to keep them from cracking Painful feet can ruin your morale and effectiveness
bull Use superglue to close wounds Although yoursquore probably better off using something like Dermabond superglue can also be used in emergency Depending on the severity of the gash it could take several bottles Be warned it will sting and some people could have an allergic reaction
ldquoCuban Twitterrdquo was a troubling communications network designed to undermine the government in Cuba It was built with secret shell companies and financed through foreign banks (Ramon EspinosaAP) Wersquove all heard how social networks such as Twitter Facebook and YouTube help to spread democracy around the world by mobilizing the masses and making it easier to topple dictators Now wersquore now seeing a darker side to them In some cases theyrsquore being co-opted by governments as disinformation tools used by authoritarian regimes to crack down on Internet dissenters and even being used as part of digital Black Ops by the United States in places like Cuba The story of ldquofake Cuban Twitterrdquo is especially disconcerting mdash wersquore talking about a digital Bay of Pigs in which the US State Department working through USAID actively worked to create a Twitter-like social network (ZunZuneo) to engage the local Cuban population in order to topple the Castro regime At one point nearly 40000 Cubans had signed up for the ZunZuneo network To make the fantasy real the US government created an elaborate system of shell companies and foreign bank accounts to make sure that the Cubans bought into the whole system In other cases social networks are being used as part and parcel of government disinformation campaigns to co-opt opposition movements ndash sometimes by the US government and its allies In February controversial journalist Glenn Greenwald outlined all the dirty tricks and covert operations being used by Western covert agents on the Internet If you know that your opponents are hanging out on YouTube all day the thinking goes thatrsquos the place to crack down on dissenters The list of tactics involved include everything from laying digital honey traps to crafting elaborate attempts to destroy online social reputation As Greenwald notes ldquoThese [Western intelligence] agencies are attempting to control infiltrate manipulate and warp online discourse and in doing so are compromising the integrity of the Internet itselfrdquo
In countries such as Egypt and Turkey data from social networks is being used to find exact locations of protesters based on GPS locations or to track down the IP addresses of Internet users the government wants to discipline The question now is to what degree Western know-how is being used to facilitate these actions In the latest scandal over the Turkish government shutting down YouTube and Twitter for extended periods of time could foreign officials have played a role in ensuring that local elections went on as planned March 30 without backlash from the ldquoTurkish streetrdquo This emerging dark side of social networks has enormous implications for how America conducts its diplomatic business abroad Ever since Hillary Clinton launched ldquo21st century statecraftrdquo for the US State Department therersquos been a push to use Internet freedom as a rallying cry for the United States to win over friends and gain influence across the globe Terms like ldquodigital statecraftrdquo and ldquoe-diplomacyrdquo are commonplace these days ndash not just for America but also for nations that would like to emulate Americarsquos ability to project power around the world At little or no cost social networks such as Twitter Facebook and YouTube made it possible to spread the message that America was the land of baseball apple pie and democracy for all But you can see where all this headed The more that social networks are seen to be doing the bidding of the NSA and the CIA (and proxy organizations such as USAID) in terms of gathering and mobilizing the masses against governments the less effective they are in sharing American values abroad If the American way of life includes getting spied on by your government and having your online privacy and personal data compromised for political gain is that something you can use to win over hearts and minds in foreign lands As Robinson Meyer of The Atlantic pointed out in a tell-all about fake Cuban Twitter this is already the case in places such as Pakistan where a free mobile phone-based social network set up by generous American benefactors in 2009 turned out to be an elaborate State Department ruse to monitor the communication of Pakistanis
In fairness to these social networks such as Twitter and Facebook they are fighting back and taking a public stance against governmentrsquos ability to use them for monitoring of personal communications They no doubt realize that the backlash against the NSA and its intelligence-gathering across the globe mean that future trust in Silicon Valley could be eroded forever Most notably Mark Zuckerberg called on President Obama to stop using the NSA to monitor the affairs of the social networkrsquos one billion users But that doesnrsquot stop the US government from creating a ldquofake Twitterrdquo or ldquofake Facebookrdquo does it It shouldnrsquot take Edward Snowden appearing as a giant talking head at SXSW to tell everyone how governments are ldquosetting fire to the future of the Internetrdquo And it shouldnrsquot take Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt) chiding Congress for a ldquodumb dumb dumbrdquo attempt at covert operations in Cuba Itrsquos not only that Silicon Valley can erode the trust of Internet users The United States might end up eroding the trust of citizens around the globe who once thought of the United States as the home of democracy and progress
httpwwwwashingtonpostcomblogsinnovationswp20140408the-emerging-dark-side-of-social-networksprint=1
Easter is linked to the Jewish Passover by much of its symbolism as well as by its position in the calendar In many languages the words for Easter and Passover are identical or very similar
Easter is linked to the Passover and Exodus from Egypt recorded in the Old Testament through the Last Supper and crucifixion that preceded the resurrection[According to the New Testament Jesus gave the Passover meal a new meaning as he prepared himself and his disciples for his death in the upper room during the Last Supper He identified the matzah and cup of wine as his body soon to be sacrificed and his blood soon to be shed Paul states Get rid of the old yeast that you may be a new batch without yeastmdashas you really are For Christ our Passover lamb has been sacrificed this refers to the Passover requirement to have no yeast in the house and to the allegory of Jesus as the Paschal lamb
The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) received at least 7868 complaints of DHS ldquoemployee criminal misconductrdquo in the first half of fiscal year 2013 alone This information is based off a DHS OIG report released December 11 According to the report entitled Major Management and Performance Challenges Facing the Department of Homeland Security allegations of criminal misconduct include DHS employees being corrupted by drug traffickers ldquoInvestigations of departmental employees range throughout the [DHS] Components and are initiated in response to allegations of wrongdoing such as smuggling bribery child pornography and theft of departmental funds or propertyrdquo highlighted the December report ldquoOIG is particularly concerned with the smuggling of people and goods across the Nationrsquos bordersrdquo ldquoSmuggling continues to be a large-scale business and remains dominated by drug trafficking organizations that seek to systematically corrupt DHS employees to continue their schemesrdquo added the IG ldquoWithin DHS OIG has the primary authority for investigating allegations of criminal misconduct by DHS employeesrdquo
ldquoThus far in FY 2013 we have received 7868 complaints and have initiated 320 investigations Also in FY 2013 we have had 76 cases accepted for prosecution and achieved 83 convictions and 41 personnel actionsrdquo further stated the OIG in the report Those numbers are based off a previous OIG audit that covered the first half of FY 2013 (Oct 1 2012 to March 30 2013) according to the report ldquoIn FY 2012 we received approximately 17690 complaints [of employee misconduct] and opened 1030 investigationsrdquo also stated the December report ldquoIn that same period 132 of our cases were accepted for prosecution and we achieved 178 convictions and 106 personnel actionsrdquo The OIG report highlighted some employee misconduct cases involving the corruption of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency employees by drug traffickers CBP is a component of DHS ldquoWe learned that a CBP employee was observed meeting with members of a known drug trafficking organizationrdquo stated the IG ldquoLater he made arrangements with individuals he believed to be smugglers and allowed a vehicle driven by an undercover agent to pass through a border patrol checkpoint without being inspected He also met with a confidential informant and received an $8000 cash bribe payment in an enveloperdquo ldquoAfter we arrested him he resigned and pleaded guilty to one count of accepting a briberdquo added the OIG report ldquoSimilarly we investigated a CBP employee who was accepting bribes to allow narcotics through his inspection lanerdquo further stated the document ldquoWe had an agent pose as a narcotics smuggler and pay the employee a series of bribes in exchange for allowing what he believed to be illegal narcotics to enter the United States He was found guilty of conspiracy and briberyrdquo The OIG also highlighted an employee incident involving child pornography ldquoThis year a [US Citizenship and Immigration Services] employee pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography and was sentenced to 37 months incarceration and 120 months of supervised releaserdquo mentioned the report ldquo In 2010 the employee seemingly inadvertently provided another employee with a USB thumb drive containing child pornography and a search of his residence yielded additional images on his home computersrdquo further stated the OIG
Furthermore the OIG also mentioned a case involving theft of government property and sexual harassment ldquoAdditionally we investigated and arrested a recently retired former [US Coast Guard] employee who had stolen government-owned electrical equipment valued at approximately $120000 and sold it on eBayrdquo stated the report ldquoAfter his arrest he pleaded guilty of two counts of mail fraud and was sentenced to 12 months and 1 day incarceration followed by 24 months of supervised release He was also ordered to pay $127600 in restitutionrdquo ldquoWe engaged in a joint investigation with a local sheriffrsquos department of a Border Patrol Agent who made a traffic stop of a vehicle driven by a woman in a remote location and sexually assaulted herrdquo continued the OIG ldquoFollowing the investigation the agent resigned and was sentenced to 96 months in State prisonrdquo According to testimony before a House panel by then-Acting Inspector General Charles Edwards misconduct cases handled by the DHS IG are split into four categories 1) corruption involving bribery disclosure of classified information espionage and smuggling among other things 2) violations of civil rights and liberties by employees 3) defrauding DHS programs and financial systems 4) miscellaneous including those involving child pornography false statements and ldquocontact with foreign governmentsnationalsrdquo among other violations that ldquomay not be criminal in naturerdquo Edwards explained that in the context of OIGrsquos investigative work a DHS employee includes contractors interns Coast Guard personnel and ldquoemployees detailed to DHS from other Federal agenciesrdquo The December 2013 report did not break down the 7868 complaints of DHS employee misconduct by category Edwards now deputy DHS IG noted in a December 9 letter attached to the report ldquoCBP has made significant advancements in battling corruption and misconduct internally CBP conducts background investigations and polygraph examinations of all applicants for law enforcement positions as a way to detect possible issues before an applicant becomes an employee DHS currently employs about 240000 individuals
Did you know that the
Farmerrsquos Almanac predicted
a long hard winter last
August
Did you know the
publication also made
reference to the Blood
Moon Phase
Learn More here
httpwwwfarmersalmanaccomnewsletter
Letter to John Adams
Jeffersons letter to John Adams from Monticello April 11 1823
Dear Sir mdash The wishes expressed in your last favor that I may continue in life and
health until I become a Calvinist at least in his exclamation of `mon Dieu jusque agrave
quand would make me immortal I can never join Calvin in addressing his god He was
indeed an Atheist which I can never be or rather his religion was Daeligmonism If ever man
worshipped a false god he did The being described in his 5 points is not the God whom
you and I acknowledge and adore the Creator and benevolent governor of the world but
a daeligmon of malignant spirit It would be more pardonable to believe in no god at all than
to blaspheme him by the atrocious attributes of Calvin Indeed I think that every Christian
sect gives a great handle to Atheism by their general dogma that without a revelation
there would not be sufficient proof of the being of a god Now one sixth of mankind only
are supposed to be Christians the other five sixths then who do not believe in the Jewish
and Christian revelation are without a knowledge of the existence of a god This gives
completely a gain de cause to the disciples of Ocellus Timaeus Spinosa Diderot and
DHolbach The argument which they rest on as triumphant and unanswerable is that in
every hypothesis of Cosmogony you must admit an eternal pre-existence of something
and according to the rule of sound philosophy you are never to employ two principles to
solve a difficulty when one will suffice They say then that it is more simple to believe at
once in the eternal pre-existence of the world as it is now going on and may for ever go
on by the principle of reproduction which we see and witness than to believe in the
eternal pre-existence of an ulterior cause or Creator of the world a being whom we see
not and know not of whose form substance and mode or place of existence or of action
no sense informs us no power of the mind enables us to delineate or comprehend On
the contrary I hold (without appeal to revelation) that when we take a view of the Universe
in its parts general or particular it is impossible for the human mind not to perceive and
feel a conviction of design consummate skill and indefinite power in every atom of its
composition The movements of the heavenly bodies so exactly held in their course by
the balance of centrifugal and centripetal forces the structure of our earth itself with its
distribution of lands waters and atmosphere animal and vegetable bodies examined in
all their minutest particles insects mere atoms of life yet as perfectly organized as man or
mammoth the mineral substances their generation and uses it is impossible I say for
the human mind not to believe that there is in all this design cause and effect up to an
ultimate cause a fabricator of all things from matter and motion their preserver and
regulator while permitted to exist in their present forms and their regenerator into new
and other forms
We see too evident proofs of the necessity of a superintending power to
maintain the Universe in its course and order Stars well known have
disappeared new ones have come into view comets in their incalculable
courses may run foul of suns and planets and require renovation under other
laws certain races of animals are become extinct and were there no restoring
power all existences might extinguish successively one by one until all should
be reduced to a shapeless chaos So irresistible are these evidences of an
intelligent and powerful Agent that of the infinite numbers of men who have
existed thro all time they have believed in the proportion of a million at least to
Unit in the hypothesis of an eternal pre-existence of a creator rather than in
that of a self-existent Universe Surely this unanimous sentiment renders this
more probable than that of the few in the other hypothesis Some early
Christians indeed have believed in the coeternal pre-existence of both the
Creator and the world without changing their relation of cause and effect That
this was the opinion of St Thomas we are informed by Cardinal Toleto in these
words `Deus ab aeligterno fuit jam omnipotens sicut cum produxit mundum Ab
aeterno potuit producere mundum mdash Si sol ab aeterno esset lumen ab
aeterno esset et si pes similiter vestigium At lumen et vestigium effectus sunt
efficientis solis et pedis potuit ergo cum causa aeterna effectus coaeterna
esse Cujus sententiae est S Thomas Theologorum primus Cardinal Toleta
Of the nature of this being we know nothing Jesus tells us that `God is a spirit
4 John 24 but without defining what a spirit is Down to the 3d century we
know that it was still deemed material but of a lighter subtler matter than our
gross bodies So says Origen `Deus igitur cui anima similis est juxta
Originem reapte corporalis est sed graviorum tantum ratione corporum
incorporeus These are the words of Huet in his commentary on Origen Origen
himself says `appelatio apud nostros scriptores est inusitata et incognita So
also Tertullian `quis autem negabit Deum esse corpus etsi deus spiritus
Spiritus etiam corporis sui generis in sua effigie Tertullian These two fathers
were of the 3d century Calvins character of this supreme being seems chiefly
copied from that of the Jews But the reformation of these blasphemous
attributes and substitution of those more worthy pure and sublime seems to
have been the chief object of Jesus in his discourses to the Jews and his
doctrine of the Cosmogony of the world is very clearly laid down in the 3 first
verses of the 1st chapter of John in these words
Which truly translated means `in the beginning God existed and reason (or mind)
was with God and that mind was God This was in the beginning with God All things
were created by it and without it was made not one thing which was made Yet this
text so plainly declaring the doctrine of Jesus that the world was created by the
supreme intelligent being has been perverted by modern Christians to build up a
second person of their tritheism by a mistranslation of the word One of its
legitimate meanings indeed is `a word But in that sense it makes an unmeaning
jargon while the other meaning `reason equally legitimate explains rationally the
eternal preexistence of God and his creation of the world Knowing how
incomprehensible it was that `a word the mere action or articulation of the voice and
organs of speech could create a world they undertake to make of this articulation a
second preexisting being and ascribe to him and not to God the creation of the
universe The Atheist here plumes himself on the uselessness of such a God and the
simpler hypothesis of a self-existent universe The truth is that the greatest enemies
to the doctrines of Jesus are those calling themselves the expositors of them who
have perverted them for the structure of a system of fancy absolutely
incomprehensible and without any foundation in his genuine words And the day will
come when the mystical generation of Jesus by the supreme being as his father in
the womb of a virgin will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the
brain of Jupiter But we may hope that the dawn of reason and freedom of thought in
these United States will do away with all this artificial scaffolding and restore to us
the primitive and genuine doctrines of this the most venerated reformer of human
errors
So much for your quotation of Calvins `mon dieu jusqua quand in which when
addressed to the God of Jesus and our God I join you cordially and await his time
and will with more readiness than reluctance May we meet there again in Congress
with our ancient Colleagues and receive with them the seal of approbation `Well
done good and faithful servants
It is people like these and words of the same that I miss OBD who is watching over us we miss him
The old maxim that you canrsquot hold children responsible for the sins
of their parents no longer applies mdash at least as far as Washington
is concerned
Congress quietly passed legislation in 2011 lifting the former 10-
year statute of limitations on money owed to the government
allowing Uncle Sam to collect debts going back decades The
measure also allows the government to collect from debtorsrsquo
children and grandchildren according to Fox News
Now ldquosome 400000 Americans may see their tax refund checks
grabbed by the governmentrdquo Fox reported
Former Justice Department attorney J Christian Adams called it
ldquoclassic abuserdquo during his Friday appearance on ldquoThe Kelly Filerdquo
ldquoImagine itrdquo he told Fox News Host Megyn Kelly Instead of a
refund check ldquoyou get a letter from the IRS And it says rsquo40 years
ago your parents got a disability payment that we happened to
overpay hellip So now wersquore taking it out of your tax refundrsquordquo
Think it canrsquot happen in America Think again Fox also reported
A woman named Mary Grice whose father died when she was 4
years old in 1977 leaving her mother with five children Thirty-
seven years later the Social Security administration is claiming
that it overpaid someone in her family but it isnrsquot sure whom and
is going after Ms Grice for the alleged debt
When Megyn Kelly asked Adams what the chances are of the
government dropping the debt against Grice Adams answered
ldquoZerordquo
ldquoThis is an administration that loves to suspend laws when theyrsquore
inconvenient and not enforce certain lawsrdquo Adams said ldquoLetrsquos see
if they do it hererdquo
httpwwwbizpacreviewcom20140412irs-going-after-decades-old-debts-from-children-of-debtors-unbelievable-says-megyn-kelly-112194
Potemkin Villages
Listening In on Lennon
Grand Central Terminals Secret Rooms
Julia Childs Intelligence
The CIA Schemes to Kill Castro mdash with a Seashell
The Loch Ness Monster
UFOs in the USSR
Area 51
CIA Mind-Control Experiments
Churchill and UFOs
bull Designate a common contact This is someone that any member of your family can call and leave a message with in case you all get separated and are unable to communicate with each other directly bull Donrsquot attract hungry people If there is a food shortage where people are actually starving avoid eating things that have to be cooked and opt for foods that can be eaten right out of the can or box If you do cook donrsquot cook with spices You donrsquot want the smell of your food attracting dangerously desperate people
bull Go old school Start thinking about how people used to get along before all these modern conveniences Next time you visit the flea market or a yard sale keep an eye out for motorless push lawnmowers hand crank mixers manual typewriters clothes lines and so forth
bull Take care of your feet Make sure you have good shoes and extra socks If your feet get wet dry them off and keep them warm On the other hand if they dry out too much use lotion or bag balm to keep them from cracking Painful feet can ruin your morale and effectiveness
bull Use superglue to close wounds Although yoursquore probably better off using something like Dermabond superglue can also be used in emergency Depending on the severity of the gash it could take several bottles Be warned it will sting and some people could have an allergic reaction
ldquoCuban Twitterrdquo was a troubling communications network designed to undermine the government in Cuba It was built with secret shell companies and financed through foreign banks (Ramon EspinosaAP) Wersquove all heard how social networks such as Twitter Facebook and YouTube help to spread democracy around the world by mobilizing the masses and making it easier to topple dictators Now wersquore now seeing a darker side to them In some cases theyrsquore being co-opted by governments as disinformation tools used by authoritarian regimes to crack down on Internet dissenters and even being used as part of digital Black Ops by the United States in places like Cuba The story of ldquofake Cuban Twitterrdquo is especially disconcerting mdash wersquore talking about a digital Bay of Pigs in which the US State Department working through USAID actively worked to create a Twitter-like social network (ZunZuneo) to engage the local Cuban population in order to topple the Castro regime At one point nearly 40000 Cubans had signed up for the ZunZuneo network To make the fantasy real the US government created an elaborate system of shell companies and foreign bank accounts to make sure that the Cubans bought into the whole system In other cases social networks are being used as part and parcel of government disinformation campaigns to co-opt opposition movements ndash sometimes by the US government and its allies In February controversial journalist Glenn Greenwald outlined all the dirty tricks and covert operations being used by Western covert agents on the Internet If you know that your opponents are hanging out on YouTube all day the thinking goes thatrsquos the place to crack down on dissenters The list of tactics involved include everything from laying digital honey traps to crafting elaborate attempts to destroy online social reputation As Greenwald notes ldquoThese [Western intelligence] agencies are attempting to control infiltrate manipulate and warp online discourse and in doing so are compromising the integrity of the Internet itselfrdquo
In countries such as Egypt and Turkey data from social networks is being used to find exact locations of protesters based on GPS locations or to track down the IP addresses of Internet users the government wants to discipline The question now is to what degree Western know-how is being used to facilitate these actions In the latest scandal over the Turkish government shutting down YouTube and Twitter for extended periods of time could foreign officials have played a role in ensuring that local elections went on as planned March 30 without backlash from the ldquoTurkish streetrdquo This emerging dark side of social networks has enormous implications for how America conducts its diplomatic business abroad Ever since Hillary Clinton launched ldquo21st century statecraftrdquo for the US State Department therersquos been a push to use Internet freedom as a rallying cry for the United States to win over friends and gain influence across the globe Terms like ldquodigital statecraftrdquo and ldquoe-diplomacyrdquo are commonplace these days ndash not just for America but also for nations that would like to emulate Americarsquos ability to project power around the world At little or no cost social networks such as Twitter Facebook and YouTube made it possible to spread the message that America was the land of baseball apple pie and democracy for all But you can see where all this headed The more that social networks are seen to be doing the bidding of the NSA and the CIA (and proxy organizations such as USAID) in terms of gathering and mobilizing the masses against governments the less effective they are in sharing American values abroad If the American way of life includes getting spied on by your government and having your online privacy and personal data compromised for political gain is that something you can use to win over hearts and minds in foreign lands As Robinson Meyer of The Atlantic pointed out in a tell-all about fake Cuban Twitter this is already the case in places such as Pakistan where a free mobile phone-based social network set up by generous American benefactors in 2009 turned out to be an elaborate State Department ruse to monitor the communication of Pakistanis
In fairness to these social networks such as Twitter and Facebook they are fighting back and taking a public stance against governmentrsquos ability to use them for monitoring of personal communications They no doubt realize that the backlash against the NSA and its intelligence-gathering across the globe mean that future trust in Silicon Valley could be eroded forever Most notably Mark Zuckerberg called on President Obama to stop using the NSA to monitor the affairs of the social networkrsquos one billion users But that doesnrsquot stop the US government from creating a ldquofake Twitterrdquo or ldquofake Facebookrdquo does it It shouldnrsquot take Edward Snowden appearing as a giant talking head at SXSW to tell everyone how governments are ldquosetting fire to the future of the Internetrdquo And it shouldnrsquot take Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt) chiding Congress for a ldquodumb dumb dumbrdquo attempt at covert operations in Cuba Itrsquos not only that Silicon Valley can erode the trust of Internet users The United States might end up eroding the trust of citizens around the globe who once thought of the United States as the home of democracy and progress
httpwwwwashingtonpostcomblogsinnovationswp20140408the-emerging-dark-side-of-social-networksprint=1
Easter is linked to the Jewish Passover by much of its symbolism as well as by its position in the calendar In many languages the words for Easter and Passover are identical or very similar
Easter is linked to the Passover and Exodus from Egypt recorded in the Old Testament through the Last Supper and crucifixion that preceded the resurrection[According to the New Testament Jesus gave the Passover meal a new meaning as he prepared himself and his disciples for his death in the upper room during the Last Supper He identified the matzah and cup of wine as his body soon to be sacrificed and his blood soon to be shed Paul states Get rid of the old yeast that you may be a new batch without yeastmdashas you really are For Christ our Passover lamb has been sacrificed this refers to the Passover requirement to have no yeast in the house and to the allegory of Jesus as the Paschal lamb
The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) received at least 7868 complaints of DHS ldquoemployee criminal misconductrdquo in the first half of fiscal year 2013 alone This information is based off a DHS OIG report released December 11 According to the report entitled Major Management and Performance Challenges Facing the Department of Homeland Security allegations of criminal misconduct include DHS employees being corrupted by drug traffickers ldquoInvestigations of departmental employees range throughout the [DHS] Components and are initiated in response to allegations of wrongdoing such as smuggling bribery child pornography and theft of departmental funds or propertyrdquo highlighted the December report ldquoOIG is particularly concerned with the smuggling of people and goods across the Nationrsquos bordersrdquo ldquoSmuggling continues to be a large-scale business and remains dominated by drug trafficking organizations that seek to systematically corrupt DHS employees to continue their schemesrdquo added the IG ldquoWithin DHS OIG has the primary authority for investigating allegations of criminal misconduct by DHS employeesrdquo
ldquoThus far in FY 2013 we have received 7868 complaints and have initiated 320 investigations Also in FY 2013 we have had 76 cases accepted for prosecution and achieved 83 convictions and 41 personnel actionsrdquo further stated the OIG in the report Those numbers are based off a previous OIG audit that covered the first half of FY 2013 (Oct 1 2012 to March 30 2013) according to the report ldquoIn FY 2012 we received approximately 17690 complaints [of employee misconduct] and opened 1030 investigationsrdquo also stated the December report ldquoIn that same period 132 of our cases were accepted for prosecution and we achieved 178 convictions and 106 personnel actionsrdquo The OIG report highlighted some employee misconduct cases involving the corruption of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency employees by drug traffickers CBP is a component of DHS ldquoWe learned that a CBP employee was observed meeting with members of a known drug trafficking organizationrdquo stated the IG ldquoLater he made arrangements with individuals he believed to be smugglers and allowed a vehicle driven by an undercover agent to pass through a border patrol checkpoint without being inspected He also met with a confidential informant and received an $8000 cash bribe payment in an enveloperdquo ldquoAfter we arrested him he resigned and pleaded guilty to one count of accepting a briberdquo added the OIG report ldquoSimilarly we investigated a CBP employee who was accepting bribes to allow narcotics through his inspection lanerdquo further stated the document ldquoWe had an agent pose as a narcotics smuggler and pay the employee a series of bribes in exchange for allowing what he believed to be illegal narcotics to enter the United States He was found guilty of conspiracy and briberyrdquo The OIG also highlighted an employee incident involving child pornography ldquoThis year a [US Citizenship and Immigration Services] employee pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography and was sentenced to 37 months incarceration and 120 months of supervised releaserdquo mentioned the report ldquo In 2010 the employee seemingly inadvertently provided another employee with a USB thumb drive containing child pornography and a search of his residence yielded additional images on his home computersrdquo further stated the OIG
Furthermore the OIG also mentioned a case involving theft of government property and sexual harassment ldquoAdditionally we investigated and arrested a recently retired former [US Coast Guard] employee who had stolen government-owned electrical equipment valued at approximately $120000 and sold it on eBayrdquo stated the report ldquoAfter his arrest he pleaded guilty of two counts of mail fraud and was sentenced to 12 months and 1 day incarceration followed by 24 months of supervised release He was also ordered to pay $127600 in restitutionrdquo ldquoWe engaged in a joint investigation with a local sheriffrsquos department of a Border Patrol Agent who made a traffic stop of a vehicle driven by a woman in a remote location and sexually assaulted herrdquo continued the OIG ldquoFollowing the investigation the agent resigned and was sentenced to 96 months in State prisonrdquo According to testimony before a House panel by then-Acting Inspector General Charles Edwards misconduct cases handled by the DHS IG are split into four categories 1) corruption involving bribery disclosure of classified information espionage and smuggling among other things 2) violations of civil rights and liberties by employees 3) defrauding DHS programs and financial systems 4) miscellaneous including those involving child pornography false statements and ldquocontact with foreign governmentsnationalsrdquo among other violations that ldquomay not be criminal in naturerdquo Edwards explained that in the context of OIGrsquos investigative work a DHS employee includes contractors interns Coast Guard personnel and ldquoemployees detailed to DHS from other Federal agenciesrdquo The December 2013 report did not break down the 7868 complaints of DHS employee misconduct by category Edwards now deputy DHS IG noted in a December 9 letter attached to the report ldquoCBP has made significant advancements in battling corruption and misconduct internally CBP conducts background investigations and polygraph examinations of all applicants for law enforcement positions as a way to detect possible issues before an applicant becomes an employee DHS currently employs about 240000 individuals
Did you know that the
Farmerrsquos Almanac predicted
a long hard winter last
August
Did you know the
publication also made
reference to the Blood
Moon Phase
Learn More here
httpwwwfarmersalmanaccomnewsletter
Letter to John Adams
Jeffersons letter to John Adams from Monticello April 11 1823
Dear Sir mdash The wishes expressed in your last favor that I may continue in life and
health until I become a Calvinist at least in his exclamation of `mon Dieu jusque agrave
quand would make me immortal I can never join Calvin in addressing his god He was
indeed an Atheist which I can never be or rather his religion was Daeligmonism If ever man
worshipped a false god he did The being described in his 5 points is not the God whom
you and I acknowledge and adore the Creator and benevolent governor of the world but
a daeligmon of malignant spirit It would be more pardonable to believe in no god at all than
to blaspheme him by the atrocious attributes of Calvin Indeed I think that every Christian
sect gives a great handle to Atheism by their general dogma that without a revelation
there would not be sufficient proof of the being of a god Now one sixth of mankind only
are supposed to be Christians the other five sixths then who do not believe in the Jewish
and Christian revelation are without a knowledge of the existence of a god This gives
completely a gain de cause to the disciples of Ocellus Timaeus Spinosa Diderot and
DHolbach The argument which they rest on as triumphant and unanswerable is that in
every hypothesis of Cosmogony you must admit an eternal pre-existence of something
and according to the rule of sound philosophy you are never to employ two principles to
solve a difficulty when one will suffice They say then that it is more simple to believe at
once in the eternal pre-existence of the world as it is now going on and may for ever go
on by the principle of reproduction which we see and witness than to believe in the
eternal pre-existence of an ulterior cause or Creator of the world a being whom we see
not and know not of whose form substance and mode or place of existence or of action
no sense informs us no power of the mind enables us to delineate or comprehend On
the contrary I hold (without appeal to revelation) that when we take a view of the Universe
in its parts general or particular it is impossible for the human mind not to perceive and
feel a conviction of design consummate skill and indefinite power in every atom of its
composition The movements of the heavenly bodies so exactly held in their course by
the balance of centrifugal and centripetal forces the structure of our earth itself with its
distribution of lands waters and atmosphere animal and vegetable bodies examined in
all their minutest particles insects mere atoms of life yet as perfectly organized as man or
mammoth the mineral substances their generation and uses it is impossible I say for
the human mind not to believe that there is in all this design cause and effect up to an
ultimate cause a fabricator of all things from matter and motion their preserver and
regulator while permitted to exist in their present forms and their regenerator into new
and other forms
We see too evident proofs of the necessity of a superintending power to
maintain the Universe in its course and order Stars well known have
disappeared new ones have come into view comets in their incalculable
courses may run foul of suns and planets and require renovation under other
laws certain races of animals are become extinct and were there no restoring
power all existences might extinguish successively one by one until all should
be reduced to a shapeless chaos So irresistible are these evidences of an
intelligent and powerful Agent that of the infinite numbers of men who have
existed thro all time they have believed in the proportion of a million at least to
Unit in the hypothesis of an eternal pre-existence of a creator rather than in
that of a self-existent Universe Surely this unanimous sentiment renders this
more probable than that of the few in the other hypothesis Some early
Christians indeed have believed in the coeternal pre-existence of both the
Creator and the world without changing their relation of cause and effect That
this was the opinion of St Thomas we are informed by Cardinal Toleto in these
words `Deus ab aeligterno fuit jam omnipotens sicut cum produxit mundum Ab
aeterno potuit producere mundum mdash Si sol ab aeterno esset lumen ab
aeterno esset et si pes similiter vestigium At lumen et vestigium effectus sunt
efficientis solis et pedis potuit ergo cum causa aeterna effectus coaeterna
esse Cujus sententiae est S Thomas Theologorum primus Cardinal Toleta
Of the nature of this being we know nothing Jesus tells us that `God is a spirit
4 John 24 but without defining what a spirit is Down to the 3d century we
know that it was still deemed material but of a lighter subtler matter than our
gross bodies So says Origen `Deus igitur cui anima similis est juxta
Originem reapte corporalis est sed graviorum tantum ratione corporum
incorporeus These are the words of Huet in his commentary on Origen Origen
himself says `appelatio apud nostros scriptores est inusitata et incognita So
also Tertullian `quis autem negabit Deum esse corpus etsi deus spiritus
Spiritus etiam corporis sui generis in sua effigie Tertullian These two fathers
were of the 3d century Calvins character of this supreme being seems chiefly
copied from that of the Jews But the reformation of these blasphemous
attributes and substitution of those more worthy pure and sublime seems to
have been the chief object of Jesus in his discourses to the Jews and his
doctrine of the Cosmogony of the world is very clearly laid down in the 3 first
verses of the 1st chapter of John in these words
Which truly translated means `in the beginning God existed and reason (or mind)
was with God and that mind was God This was in the beginning with God All things
were created by it and without it was made not one thing which was made Yet this
text so plainly declaring the doctrine of Jesus that the world was created by the
supreme intelligent being has been perverted by modern Christians to build up a
second person of their tritheism by a mistranslation of the word One of its
legitimate meanings indeed is `a word But in that sense it makes an unmeaning
jargon while the other meaning `reason equally legitimate explains rationally the
eternal preexistence of God and his creation of the world Knowing how
incomprehensible it was that `a word the mere action or articulation of the voice and
organs of speech could create a world they undertake to make of this articulation a
second preexisting being and ascribe to him and not to God the creation of the
universe The Atheist here plumes himself on the uselessness of such a God and the
simpler hypothesis of a self-existent universe The truth is that the greatest enemies
to the doctrines of Jesus are those calling themselves the expositors of them who
have perverted them for the structure of a system of fancy absolutely
incomprehensible and without any foundation in his genuine words And the day will
come when the mystical generation of Jesus by the supreme being as his father in
the womb of a virgin will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the
brain of Jupiter But we may hope that the dawn of reason and freedom of thought in
these United States will do away with all this artificial scaffolding and restore to us
the primitive and genuine doctrines of this the most venerated reformer of human
errors
So much for your quotation of Calvins `mon dieu jusqua quand in which when
addressed to the God of Jesus and our God I join you cordially and await his time
and will with more readiness than reluctance May we meet there again in Congress
with our ancient Colleagues and receive with them the seal of approbation `Well
done good and faithful servants
It is people like these and words of the same that I miss OBD who is watching over us we miss him
Potemkin Villages
Listening In on Lennon
Grand Central Terminals Secret Rooms
Julia Childs Intelligence
The CIA Schemes to Kill Castro mdash with a Seashell
The Loch Ness Monster
UFOs in the USSR
Area 51
CIA Mind-Control Experiments
Churchill and UFOs
bull Designate a common contact This is someone that any member of your family can call and leave a message with in case you all get separated and are unable to communicate with each other directly bull Donrsquot attract hungry people If there is a food shortage where people are actually starving avoid eating things that have to be cooked and opt for foods that can be eaten right out of the can or box If you do cook donrsquot cook with spices You donrsquot want the smell of your food attracting dangerously desperate people
bull Go old school Start thinking about how people used to get along before all these modern conveniences Next time you visit the flea market or a yard sale keep an eye out for motorless push lawnmowers hand crank mixers manual typewriters clothes lines and so forth
bull Take care of your feet Make sure you have good shoes and extra socks If your feet get wet dry them off and keep them warm On the other hand if they dry out too much use lotion or bag balm to keep them from cracking Painful feet can ruin your morale and effectiveness
bull Use superglue to close wounds Although yoursquore probably better off using something like Dermabond superglue can also be used in emergency Depending on the severity of the gash it could take several bottles Be warned it will sting and some people could have an allergic reaction
ldquoCuban Twitterrdquo was a troubling communications network designed to undermine the government in Cuba It was built with secret shell companies and financed through foreign banks (Ramon EspinosaAP) Wersquove all heard how social networks such as Twitter Facebook and YouTube help to spread democracy around the world by mobilizing the masses and making it easier to topple dictators Now wersquore now seeing a darker side to them In some cases theyrsquore being co-opted by governments as disinformation tools used by authoritarian regimes to crack down on Internet dissenters and even being used as part of digital Black Ops by the United States in places like Cuba The story of ldquofake Cuban Twitterrdquo is especially disconcerting mdash wersquore talking about a digital Bay of Pigs in which the US State Department working through USAID actively worked to create a Twitter-like social network (ZunZuneo) to engage the local Cuban population in order to topple the Castro regime At one point nearly 40000 Cubans had signed up for the ZunZuneo network To make the fantasy real the US government created an elaborate system of shell companies and foreign bank accounts to make sure that the Cubans bought into the whole system In other cases social networks are being used as part and parcel of government disinformation campaigns to co-opt opposition movements ndash sometimes by the US government and its allies In February controversial journalist Glenn Greenwald outlined all the dirty tricks and covert operations being used by Western covert agents on the Internet If you know that your opponents are hanging out on YouTube all day the thinking goes thatrsquos the place to crack down on dissenters The list of tactics involved include everything from laying digital honey traps to crafting elaborate attempts to destroy online social reputation As Greenwald notes ldquoThese [Western intelligence] agencies are attempting to control infiltrate manipulate and warp online discourse and in doing so are compromising the integrity of the Internet itselfrdquo
In countries such as Egypt and Turkey data from social networks is being used to find exact locations of protesters based on GPS locations or to track down the IP addresses of Internet users the government wants to discipline The question now is to what degree Western know-how is being used to facilitate these actions In the latest scandal over the Turkish government shutting down YouTube and Twitter for extended periods of time could foreign officials have played a role in ensuring that local elections went on as planned March 30 without backlash from the ldquoTurkish streetrdquo This emerging dark side of social networks has enormous implications for how America conducts its diplomatic business abroad Ever since Hillary Clinton launched ldquo21st century statecraftrdquo for the US State Department therersquos been a push to use Internet freedom as a rallying cry for the United States to win over friends and gain influence across the globe Terms like ldquodigital statecraftrdquo and ldquoe-diplomacyrdquo are commonplace these days ndash not just for America but also for nations that would like to emulate Americarsquos ability to project power around the world At little or no cost social networks such as Twitter Facebook and YouTube made it possible to spread the message that America was the land of baseball apple pie and democracy for all But you can see where all this headed The more that social networks are seen to be doing the bidding of the NSA and the CIA (and proxy organizations such as USAID) in terms of gathering and mobilizing the masses against governments the less effective they are in sharing American values abroad If the American way of life includes getting spied on by your government and having your online privacy and personal data compromised for political gain is that something you can use to win over hearts and minds in foreign lands As Robinson Meyer of The Atlantic pointed out in a tell-all about fake Cuban Twitter this is already the case in places such as Pakistan where a free mobile phone-based social network set up by generous American benefactors in 2009 turned out to be an elaborate State Department ruse to monitor the communication of Pakistanis
In fairness to these social networks such as Twitter and Facebook they are fighting back and taking a public stance against governmentrsquos ability to use them for monitoring of personal communications They no doubt realize that the backlash against the NSA and its intelligence-gathering across the globe mean that future trust in Silicon Valley could be eroded forever Most notably Mark Zuckerberg called on President Obama to stop using the NSA to monitor the affairs of the social networkrsquos one billion users But that doesnrsquot stop the US government from creating a ldquofake Twitterrdquo or ldquofake Facebookrdquo does it It shouldnrsquot take Edward Snowden appearing as a giant talking head at SXSW to tell everyone how governments are ldquosetting fire to the future of the Internetrdquo And it shouldnrsquot take Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt) chiding Congress for a ldquodumb dumb dumbrdquo attempt at covert operations in Cuba Itrsquos not only that Silicon Valley can erode the trust of Internet users The United States might end up eroding the trust of citizens around the globe who once thought of the United States as the home of democracy and progress
httpwwwwashingtonpostcomblogsinnovationswp20140408the-emerging-dark-side-of-social-networksprint=1
Easter is linked to the Jewish Passover by much of its symbolism as well as by its position in the calendar In many languages the words for Easter and Passover are identical or very similar
Easter is linked to the Passover and Exodus from Egypt recorded in the Old Testament through the Last Supper and crucifixion that preceded the resurrection[According to the New Testament Jesus gave the Passover meal a new meaning as he prepared himself and his disciples for his death in the upper room during the Last Supper He identified the matzah and cup of wine as his body soon to be sacrificed and his blood soon to be shed Paul states Get rid of the old yeast that you may be a new batch without yeastmdashas you really are For Christ our Passover lamb has been sacrificed this refers to the Passover requirement to have no yeast in the house and to the allegory of Jesus as the Paschal lamb
The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) received at least 7868 complaints of DHS ldquoemployee criminal misconductrdquo in the first half of fiscal year 2013 alone This information is based off a DHS OIG report released December 11 According to the report entitled Major Management and Performance Challenges Facing the Department of Homeland Security allegations of criminal misconduct include DHS employees being corrupted by drug traffickers ldquoInvestigations of departmental employees range throughout the [DHS] Components and are initiated in response to allegations of wrongdoing such as smuggling bribery child pornography and theft of departmental funds or propertyrdquo highlighted the December report ldquoOIG is particularly concerned with the smuggling of people and goods across the Nationrsquos bordersrdquo ldquoSmuggling continues to be a large-scale business and remains dominated by drug trafficking organizations that seek to systematically corrupt DHS employees to continue their schemesrdquo added the IG ldquoWithin DHS OIG has the primary authority for investigating allegations of criminal misconduct by DHS employeesrdquo
ldquoThus far in FY 2013 we have received 7868 complaints and have initiated 320 investigations Also in FY 2013 we have had 76 cases accepted for prosecution and achieved 83 convictions and 41 personnel actionsrdquo further stated the OIG in the report Those numbers are based off a previous OIG audit that covered the first half of FY 2013 (Oct 1 2012 to March 30 2013) according to the report ldquoIn FY 2012 we received approximately 17690 complaints [of employee misconduct] and opened 1030 investigationsrdquo also stated the December report ldquoIn that same period 132 of our cases were accepted for prosecution and we achieved 178 convictions and 106 personnel actionsrdquo The OIG report highlighted some employee misconduct cases involving the corruption of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency employees by drug traffickers CBP is a component of DHS ldquoWe learned that a CBP employee was observed meeting with members of a known drug trafficking organizationrdquo stated the IG ldquoLater he made arrangements with individuals he believed to be smugglers and allowed a vehicle driven by an undercover agent to pass through a border patrol checkpoint without being inspected He also met with a confidential informant and received an $8000 cash bribe payment in an enveloperdquo ldquoAfter we arrested him he resigned and pleaded guilty to one count of accepting a briberdquo added the OIG report ldquoSimilarly we investigated a CBP employee who was accepting bribes to allow narcotics through his inspection lanerdquo further stated the document ldquoWe had an agent pose as a narcotics smuggler and pay the employee a series of bribes in exchange for allowing what he believed to be illegal narcotics to enter the United States He was found guilty of conspiracy and briberyrdquo The OIG also highlighted an employee incident involving child pornography ldquoThis year a [US Citizenship and Immigration Services] employee pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography and was sentenced to 37 months incarceration and 120 months of supervised releaserdquo mentioned the report ldquo In 2010 the employee seemingly inadvertently provided another employee with a USB thumb drive containing child pornography and a search of his residence yielded additional images on his home computersrdquo further stated the OIG
Furthermore the OIG also mentioned a case involving theft of government property and sexual harassment ldquoAdditionally we investigated and arrested a recently retired former [US Coast Guard] employee who had stolen government-owned electrical equipment valued at approximately $120000 and sold it on eBayrdquo stated the report ldquoAfter his arrest he pleaded guilty of two counts of mail fraud and was sentenced to 12 months and 1 day incarceration followed by 24 months of supervised release He was also ordered to pay $127600 in restitutionrdquo ldquoWe engaged in a joint investigation with a local sheriffrsquos department of a Border Patrol Agent who made a traffic stop of a vehicle driven by a woman in a remote location and sexually assaulted herrdquo continued the OIG ldquoFollowing the investigation the agent resigned and was sentenced to 96 months in State prisonrdquo According to testimony before a House panel by then-Acting Inspector General Charles Edwards misconduct cases handled by the DHS IG are split into four categories 1) corruption involving bribery disclosure of classified information espionage and smuggling among other things 2) violations of civil rights and liberties by employees 3) defrauding DHS programs and financial systems 4) miscellaneous including those involving child pornography false statements and ldquocontact with foreign governmentsnationalsrdquo among other violations that ldquomay not be criminal in naturerdquo Edwards explained that in the context of OIGrsquos investigative work a DHS employee includes contractors interns Coast Guard personnel and ldquoemployees detailed to DHS from other Federal agenciesrdquo The December 2013 report did not break down the 7868 complaints of DHS employee misconduct by category Edwards now deputy DHS IG noted in a December 9 letter attached to the report ldquoCBP has made significant advancements in battling corruption and misconduct internally CBP conducts background investigations and polygraph examinations of all applicants for law enforcement positions as a way to detect possible issues before an applicant becomes an employee DHS currently employs about 240000 individuals
Did you know that the
Farmerrsquos Almanac predicted
a long hard winter last
August
Did you know the
publication also made
reference to the Blood
Moon Phase
Learn More here
httpwwwfarmersalmanaccomnewsletter
Letter to John Adams
Jeffersons letter to John Adams from Monticello April 11 1823
Dear Sir mdash The wishes expressed in your last favor that I may continue in life and
health until I become a Calvinist at least in his exclamation of `mon Dieu jusque agrave
quand would make me immortal I can never join Calvin in addressing his god He was
indeed an Atheist which I can never be or rather his religion was Daeligmonism If ever man
worshipped a false god he did The being described in his 5 points is not the God whom
you and I acknowledge and adore the Creator and benevolent governor of the world but
a daeligmon of malignant spirit It would be more pardonable to believe in no god at all than
to blaspheme him by the atrocious attributes of Calvin Indeed I think that every Christian
sect gives a great handle to Atheism by their general dogma that without a revelation
there would not be sufficient proof of the being of a god Now one sixth of mankind only
are supposed to be Christians the other five sixths then who do not believe in the Jewish
and Christian revelation are without a knowledge of the existence of a god This gives
completely a gain de cause to the disciples of Ocellus Timaeus Spinosa Diderot and
DHolbach The argument which they rest on as triumphant and unanswerable is that in
every hypothesis of Cosmogony you must admit an eternal pre-existence of something
and according to the rule of sound philosophy you are never to employ two principles to
solve a difficulty when one will suffice They say then that it is more simple to believe at
once in the eternal pre-existence of the world as it is now going on and may for ever go
on by the principle of reproduction which we see and witness than to believe in the
eternal pre-existence of an ulterior cause or Creator of the world a being whom we see
not and know not of whose form substance and mode or place of existence or of action
no sense informs us no power of the mind enables us to delineate or comprehend On
the contrary I hold (without appeal to revelation) that when we take a view of the Universe
in its parts general or particular it is impossible for the human mind not to perceive and
feel a conviction of design consummate skill and indefinite power in every atom of its
composition The movements of the heavenly bodies so exactly held in their course by
the balance of centrifugal and centripetal forces the structure of our earth itself with its
distribution of lands waters and atmosphere animal and vegetable bodies examined in
all their minutest particles insects mere atoms of life yet as perfectly organized as man or
mammoth the mineral substances their generation and uses it is impossible I say for
the human mind not to believe that there is in all this design cause and effect up to an
ultimate cause a fabricator of all things from matter and motion their preserver and
regulator while permitted to exist in their present forms and their regenerator into new
and other forms
We see too evident proofs of the necessity of a superintending power to
maintain the Universe in its course and order Stars well known have
disappeared new ones have come into view comets in their incalculable
courses may run foul of suns and planets and require renovation under other
laws certain races of animals are become extinct and were there no restoring
power all existences might extinguish successively one by one until all should
be reduced to a shapeless chaos So irresistible are these evidences of an
intelligent and powerful Agent that of the infinite numbers of men who have
existed thro all time they have believed in the proportion of a million at least to
Unit in the hypothesis of an eternal pre-existence of a creator rather than in
that of a self-existent Universe Surely this unanimous sentiment renders this
more probable than that of the few in the other hypothesis Some early
Christians indeed have believed in the coeternal pre-existence of both the
Creator and the world without changing their relation of cause and effect That
this was the opinion of St Thomas we are informed by Cardinal Toleto in these
words `Deus ab aeligterno fuit jam omnipotens sicut cum produxit mundum Ab
aeterno potuit producere mundum mdash Si sol ab aeterno esset lumen ab
aeterno esset et si pes similiter vestigium At lumen et vestigium effectus sunt
efficientis solis et pedis potuit ergo cum causa aeterna effectus coaeterna
esse Cujus sententiae est S Thomas Theologorum primus Cardinal Toleta
Of the nature of this being we know nothing Jesus tells us that `God is a spirit
4 John 24 but without defining what a spirit is Down to the 3d century we
know that it was still deemed material but of a lighter subtler matter than our
gross bodies So says Origen `Deus igitur cui anima similis est juxta
Originem reapte corporalis est sed graviorum tantum ratione corporum
incorporeus These are the words of Huet in his commentary on Origen Origen
himself says `appelatio apud nostros scriptores est inusitata et incognita So
also Tertullian `quis autem negabit Deum esse corpus etsi deus spiritus
Spiritus etiam corporis sui generis in sua effigie Tertullian These two fathers
were of the 3d century Calvins character of this supreme being seems chiefly
copied from that of the Jews But the reformation of these blasphemous
attributes and substitution of those more worthy pure and sublime seems to
have been the chief object of Jesus in his discourses to the Jews and his
doctrine of the Cosmogony of the world is very clearly laid down in the 3 first
verses of the 1st chapter of John in these words
Which truly translated means `in the beginning God existed and reason (or mind)
was with God and that mind was God This was in the beginning with God All things
were created by it and without it was made not one thing which was made Yet this
text so plainly declaring the doctrine of Jesus that the world was created by the
supreme intelligent being has been perverted by modern Christians to build up a
second person of their tritheism by a mistranslation of the word One of its
legitimate meanings indeed is `a word But in that sense it makes an unmeaning
jargon while the other meaning `reason equally legitimate explains rationally the
eternal preexistence of God and his creation of the world Knowing how
incomprehensible it was that `a word the mere action or articulation of the voice and
organs of speech could create a world they undertake to make of this articulation a
second preexisting being and ascribe to him and not to God the creation of the
universe The Atheist here plumes himself on the uselessness of such a God and the
simpler hypothesis of a self-existent universe The truth is that the greatest enemies
to the doctrines of Jesus are those calling themselves the expositors of them who
have perverted them for the structure of a system of fancy absolutely
incomprehensible and without any foundation in his genuine words And the day will
come when the mystical generation of Jesus by the supreme being as his father in
the womb of a virgin will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the
brain of Jupiter But we may hope that the dawn of reason and freedom of thought in
these United States will do away with all this artificial scaffolding and restore to us
the primitive and genuine doctrines of this the most venerated reformer of human
errors
So much for your quotation of Calvins `mon dieu jusqua quand in which when
addressed to the God of Jesus and our God I join you cordially and await his time
and will with more readiness than reluctance May we meet there again in Congress
with our ancient Colleagues and receive with them the seal of approbation `Well
done good and faithful servants
It is people like these and words of the same that I miss OBD who is watching over us we miss him
bull Designate a common contact This is someone that any member of your family can call and leave a message with in case you all get separated and are unable to communicate with each other directly bull Donrsquot attract hungry people If there is a food shortage where people are actually starving avoid eating things that have to be cooked and opt for foods that can be eaten right out of the can or box If you do cook donrsquot cook with spices You donrsquot want the smell of your food attracting dangerously desperate people
bull Go old school Start thinking about how people used to get along before all these modern conveniences Next time you visit the flea market or a yard sale keep an eye out for motorless push lawnmowers hand crank mixers manual typewriters clothes lines and so forth
bull Take care of your feet Make sure you have good shoes and extra socks If your feet get wet dry them off and keep them warm On the other hand if they dry out too much use lotion or bag balm to keep them from cracking Painful feet can ruin your morale and effectiveness
bull Use superglue to close wounds Although yoursquore probably better off using something like Dermabond superglue can also be used in emergency Depending on the severity of the gash it could take several bottles Be warned it will sting and some people could have an allergic reaction
ldquoCuban Twitterrdquo was a troubling communications network designed to undermine the government in Cuba It was built with secret shell companies and financed through foreign banks (Ramon EspinosaAP) Wersquove all heard how social networks such as Twitter Facebook and YouTube help to spread democracy around the world by mobilizing the masses and making it easier to topple dictators Now wersquore now seeing a darker side to them In some cases theyrsquore being co-opted by governments as disinformation tools used by authoritarian regimes to crack down on Internet dissenters and even being used as part of digital Black Ops by the United States in places like Cuba The story of ldquofake Cuban Twitterrdquo is especially disconcerting mdash wersquore talking about a digital Bay of Pigs in which the US State Department working through USAID actively worked to create a Twitter-like social network (ZunZuneo) to engage the local Cuban population in order to topple the Castro regime At one point nearly 40000 Cubans had signed up for the ZunZuneo network To make the fantasy real the US government created an elaborate system of shell companies and foreign bank accounts to make sure that the Cubans bought into the whole system In other cases social networks are being used as part and parcel of government disinformation campaigns to co-opt opposition movements ndash sometimes by the US government and its allies In February controversial journalist Glenn Greenwald outlined all the dirty tricks and covert operations being used by Western covert agents on the Internet If you know that your opponents are hanging out on YouTube all day the thinking goes thatrsquos the place to crack down on dissenters The list of tactics involved include everything from laying digital honey traps to crafting elaborate attempts to destroy online social reputation As Greenwald notes ldquoThese [Western intelligence] agencies are attempting to control infiltrate manipulate and warp online discourse and in doing so are compromising the integrity of the Internet itselfrdquo
In countries such as Egypt and Turkey data from social networks is being used to find exact locations of protesters based on GPS locations or to track down the IP addresses of Internet users the government wants to discipline The question now is to what degree Western know-how is being used to facilitate these actions In the latest scandal over the Turkish government shutting down YouTube and Twitter for extended periods of time could foreign officials have played a role in ensuring that local elections went on as planned March 30 without backlash from the ldquoTurkish streetrdquo This emerging dark side of social networks has enormous implications for how America conducts its diplomatic business abroad Ever since Hillary Clinton launched ldquo21st century statecraftrdquo for the US State Department therersquos been a push to use Internet freedom as a rallying cry for the United States to win over friends and gain influence across the globe Terms like ldquodigital statecraftrdquo and ldquoe-diplomacyrdquo are commonplace these days ndash not just for America but also for nations that would like to emulate Americarsquos ability to project power around the world At little or no cost social networks such as Twitter Facebook and YouTube made it possible to spread the message that America was the land of baseball apple pie and democracy for all But you can see where all this headed The more that social networks are seen to be doing the bidding of the NSA and the CIA (and proxy organizations such as USAID) in terms of gathering and mobilizing the masses against governments the less effective they are in sharing American values abroad If the American way of life includes getting spied on by your government and having your online privacy and personal data compromised for political gain is that something you can use to win over hearts and minds in foreign lands As Robinson Meyer of The Atlantic pointed out in a tell-all about fake Cuban Twitter this is already the case in places such as Pakistan where a free mobile phone-based social network set up by generous American benefactors in 2009 turned out to be an elaborate State Department ruse to monitor the communication of Pakistanis
In fairness to these social networks such as Twitter and Facebook they are fighting back and taking a public stance against governmentrsquos ability to use them for monitoring of personal communications They no doubt realize that the backlash against the NSA and its intelligence-gathering across the globe mean that future trust in Silicon Valley could be eroded forever Most notably Mark Zuckerberg called on President Obama to stop using the NSA to monitor the affairs of the social networkrsquos one billion users But that doesnrsquot stop the US government from creating a ldquofake Twitterrdquo or ldquofake Facebookrdquo does it It shouldnrsquot take Edward Snowden appearing as a giant talking head at SXSW to tell everyone how governments are ldquosetting fire to the future of the Internetrdquo And it shouldnrsquot take Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt) chiding Congress for a ldquodumb dumb dumbrdquo attempt at covert operations in Cuba Itrsquos not only that Silicon Valley can erode the trust of Internet users The United States might end up eroding the trust of citizens around the globe who once thought of the United States as the home of democracy and progress
httpwwwwashingtonpostcomblogsinnovationswp20140408the-emerging-dark-side-of-social-networksprint=1
Easter is linked to the Jewish Passover by much of its symbolism as well as by its position in the calendar In many languages the words for Easter and Passover are identical or very similar
Easter is linked to the Passover and Exodus from Egypt recorded in the Old Testament through the Last Supper and crucifixion that preceded the resurrection[According to the New Testament Jesus gave the Passover meal a new meaning as he prepared himself and his disciples for his death in the upper room during the Last Supper He identified the matzah and cup of wine as his body soon to be sacrificed and his blood soon to be shed Paul states Get rid of the old yeast that you may be a new batch without yeastmdashas you really are For Christ our Passover lamb has been sacrificed this refers to the Passover requirement to have no yeast in the house and to the allegory of Jesus as the Paschal lamb
The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) received at least 7868 complaints of DHS ldquoemployee criminal misconductrdquo in the first half of fiscal year 2013 alone This information is based off a DHS OIG report released December 11 According to the report entitled Major Management and Performance Challenges Facing the Department of Homeland Security allegations of criminal misconduct include DHS employees being corrupted by drug traffickers ldquoInvestigations of departmental employees range throughout the [DHS] Components and are initiated in response to allegations of wrongdoing such as smuggling bribery child pornography and theft of departmental funds or propertyrdquo highlighted the December report ldquoOIG is particularly concerned with the smuggling of people and goods across the Nationrsquos bordersrdquo ldquoSmuggling continues to be a large-scale business and remains dominated by drug trafficking organizations that seek to systematically corrupt DHS employees to continue their schemesrdquo added the IG ldquoWithin DHS OIG has the primary authority for investigating allegations of criminal misconduct by DHS employeesrdquo
ldquoThus far in FY 2013 we have received 7868 complaints and have initiated 320 investigations Also in FY 2013 we have had 76 cases accepted for prosecution and achieved 83 convictions and 41 personnel actionsrdquo further stated the OIG in the report Those numbers are based off a previous OIG audit that covered the first half of FY 2013 (Oct 1 2012 to March 30 2013) according to the report ldquoIn FY 2012 we received approximately 17690 complaints [of employee misconduct] and opened 1030 investigationsrdquo also stated the December report ldquoIn that same period 132 of our cases were accepted for prosecution and we achieved 178 convictions and 106 personnel actionsrdquo The OIG report highlighted some employee misconduct cases involving the corruption of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency employees by drug traffickers CBP is a component of DHS ldquoWe learned that a CBP employee was observed meeting with members of a known drug trafficking organizationrdquo stated the IG ldquoLater he made arrangements with individuals he believed to be smugglers and allowed a vehicle driven by an undercover agent to pass through a border patrol checkpoint without being inspected He also met with a confidential informant and received an $8000 cash bribe payment in an enveloperdquo ldquoAfter we arrested him he resigned and pleaded guilty to one count of accepting a briberdquo added the OIG report ldquoSimilarly we investigated a CBP employee who was accepting bribes to allow narcotics through his inspection lanerdquo further stated the document ldquoWe had an agent pose as a narcotics smuggler and pay the employee a series of bribes in exchange for allowing what he believed to be illegal narcotics to enter the United States He was found guilty of conspiracy and briberyrdquo The OIG also highlighted an employee incident involving child pornography ldquoThis year a [US Citizenship and Immigration Services] employee pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography and was sentenced to 37 months incarceration and 120 months of supervised releaserdquo mentioned the report ldquo In 2010 the employee seemingly inadvertently provided another employee with a USB thumb drive containing child pornography and a search of his residence yielded additional images on his home computersrdquo further stated the OIG
Furthermore the OIG also mentioned a case involving theft of government property and sexual harassment ldquoAdditionally we investigated and arrested a recently retired former [US Coast Guard] employee who had stolen government-owned electrical equipment valued at approximately $120000 and sold it on eBayrdquo stated the report ldquoAfter his arrest he pleaded guilty of two counts of mail fraud and was sentenced to 12 months and 1 day incarceration followed by 24 months of supervised release He was also ordered to pay $127600 in restitutionrdquo ldquoWe engaged in a joint investigation with a local sheriffrsquos department of a Border Patrol Agent who made a traffic stop of a vehicle driven by a woman in a remote location and sexually assaulted herrdquo continued the OIG ldquoFollowing the investigation the agent resigned and was sentenced to 96 months in State prisonrdquo According to testimony before a House panel by then-Acting Inspector General Charles Edwards misconduct cases handled by the DHS IG are split into four categories 1) corruption involving bribery disclosure of classified information espionage and smuggling among other things 2) violations of civil rights and liberties by employees 3) defrauding DHS programs and financial systems 4) miscellaneous including those involving child pornography false statements and ldquocontact with foreign governmentsnationalsrdquo among other violations that ldquomay not be criminal in naturerdquo Edwards explained that in the context of OIGrsquos investigative work a DHS employee includes contractors interns Coast Guard personnel and ldquoemployees detailed to DHS from other Federal agenciesrdquo The December 2013 report did not break down the 7868 complaints of DHS employee misconduct by category Edwards now deputy DHS IG noted in a December 9 letter attached to the report ldquoCBP has made significant advancements in battling corruption and misconduct internally CBP conducts background investigations and polygraph examinations of all applicants for law enforcement positions as a way to detect possible issues before an applicant becomes an employee DHS currently employs about 240000 individuals
Did you know that the
Farmerrsquos Almanac predicted
a long hard winter last
August
Did you know the
publication also made
reference to the Blood
Moon Phase
Learn More here
httpwwwfarmersalmanaccomnewsletter
Letter to John Adams
Jeffersons letter to John Adams from Monticello April 11 1823
Dear Sir mdash The wishes expressed in your last favor that I may continue in life and
health until I become a Calvinist at least in his exclamation of `mon Dieu jusque agrave
quand would make me immortal I can never join Calvin in addressing his god He was
indeed an Atheist which I can never be or rather his religion was Daeligmonism If ever man
worshipped a false god he did The being described in his 5 points is not the God whom
you and I acknowledge and adore the Creator and benevolent governor of the world but
a daeligmon of malignant spirit It would be more pardonable to believe in no god at all than
to blaspheme him by the atrocious attributes of Calvin Indeed I think that every Christian
sect gives a great handle to Atheism by their general dogma that without a revelation
there would not be sufficient proof of the being of a god Now one sixth of mankind only
are supposed to be Christians the other five sixths then who do not believe in the Jewish
and Christian revelation are without a knowledge of the existence of a god This gives
completely a gain de cause to the disciples of Ocellus Timaeus Spinosa Diderot and
DHolbach The argument which they rest on as triumphant and unanswerable is that in
every hypothesis of Cosmogony you must admit an eternal pre-existence of something
and according to the rule of sound philosophy you are never to employ two principles to
solve a difficulty when one will suffice They say then that it is more simple to believe at
once in the eternal pre-existence of the world as it is now going on and may for ever go
on by the principle of reproduction which we see and witness than to believe in the
eternal pre-existence of an ulterior cause or Creator of the world a being whom we see
not and know not of whose form substance and mode or place of existence or of action
no sense informs us no power of the mind enables us to delineate or comprehend On
the contrary I hold (without appeal to revelation) that when we take a view of the Universe
in its parts general or particular it is impossible for the human mind not to perceive and
feel a conviction of design consummate skill and indefinite power in every atom of its
composition The movements of the heavenly bodies so exactly held in their course by
the balance of centrifugal and centripetal forces the structure of our earth itself with its
distribution of lands waters and atmosphere animal and vegetable bodies examined in
all their minutest particles insects mere atoms of life yet as perfectly organized as man or
mammoth the mineral substances their generation and uses it is impossible I say for
the human mind not to believe that there is in all this design cause and effect up to an
ultimate cause a fabricator of all things from matter and motion their preserver and
regulator while permitted to exist in their present forms and their regenerator into new
and other forms
We see too evident proofs of the necessity of a superintending power to
maintain the Universe in its course and order Stars well known have
disappeared new ones have come into view comets in their incalculable
courses may run foul of suns and planets and require renovation under other
laws certain races of animals are become extinct and were there no restoring
power all existences might extinguish successively one by one until all should
be reduced to a shapeless chaos So irresistible are these evidences of an
intelligent and powerful Agent that of the infinite numbers of men who have
existed thro all time they have believed in the proportion of a million at least to
Unit in the hypothesis of an eternal pre-existence of a creator rather than in
that of a self-existent Universe Surely this unanimous sentiment renders this
more probable than that of the few in the other hypothesis Some early
Christians indeed have believed in the coeternal pre-existence of both the
Creator and the world without changing their relation of cause and effect That
this was the opinion of St Thomas we are informed by Cardinal Toleto in these
words `Deus ab aeligterno fuit jam omnipotens sicut cum produxit mundum Ab
aeterno potuit producere mundum mdash Si sol ab aeterno esset lumen ab
aeterno esset et si pes similiter vestigium At lumen et vestigium effectus sunt
efficientis solis et pedis potuit ergo cum causa aeterna effectus coaeterna
esse Cujus sententiae est S Thomas Theologorum primus Cardinal Toleta
Of the nature of this being we know nothing Jesus tells us that `God is a spirit
4 John 24 but without defining what a spirit is Down to the 3d century we
know that it was still deemed material but of a lighter subtler matter than our
gross bodies So says Origen `Deus igitur cui anima similis est juxta
Originem reapte corporalis est sed graviorum tantum ratione corporum
incorporeus These are the words of Huet in his commentary on Origen Origen
himself says `appelatio apud nostros scriptores est inusitata et incognita So
also Tertullian `quis autem negabit Deum esse corpus etsi deus spiritus
Spiritus etiam corporis sui generis in sua effigie Tertullian These two fathers
were of the 3d century Calvins character of this supreme being seems chiefly
copied from that of the Jews But the reformation of these blasphemous
attributes and substitution of those more worthy pure and sublime seems to
have been the chief object of Jesus in his discourses to the Jews and his
doctrine of the Cosmogony of the world is very clearly laid down in the 3 first
verses of the 1st chapter of John in these words
Which truly translated means `in the beginning God existed and reason (or mind)
was with God and that mind was God This was in the beginning with God All things
were created by it and without it was made not one thing which was made Yet this
text so plainly declaring the doctrine of Jesus that the world was created by the
supreme intelligent being has been perverted by modern Christians to build up a
second person of their tritheism by a mistranslation of the word One of its
legitimate meanings indeed is `a word But in that sense it makes an unmeaning
jargon while the other meaning `reason equally legitimate explains rationally the
eternal preexistence of God and his creation of the world Knowing how
incomprehensible it was that `a word the mere action or articulation of the voice and
organs of speech could create a world they undertake to make of this articulation a
second preexisting being and ascribe to him and not to God the creation of the
universe The Atheist here plumes himself on the uselessness of such a God and the
simpler hypothesis of a self-existent universe The truth is that the greatest enemies
to the doctrines of Jesus are those calling themselves the expositors of them who
have perverted them for the structure of a system of fancy absolutely
incomprehensible and without any foundation in his genuine words And the day will
come when the mystical generation of Jesus by the supreme being as his father in
the womb of a virgin will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the
brain of Jupiter But we may hope that the dawn of reason and freedom of thought in
these United States will do away with all this artificial scaffolding and restore to us
the primitive and genuine doctrines of this the most venerated reformer of human
errors
So much for your quotation of Calvins `mon dieu jusqua quand in which when
addressed to the God of Jesus and our God I join you cordially and await his time
and will with more readiness than reluctance May we meet there again in Congress
with our ancient Colleagues and receive with them the seal of approbation `Well
done good and faithful servants
It is people like these and words of the same that I miss OBD who is watching over us we miss him
ldquoCuban Twitterrdquo was a troubling communications network designed to undermine the government in Cuba It was built with secret shell companies and financed through foreign banks (Ramon EspinosaAP) Wersquove all heard how social networks such as Twitter Facebook and YouTube help to spread democracy around the world by mobilizing the masses and making it easier to topple dictators Now wersquore now seeing a darker side to them In some cases theyrsquore being co-opted by governments as disinformation tools used by authoritarian regimes to crack down on Internet dissenters and even being used as part of digital Black Ops by the United States in places like Cuba The story of ldquofake Cuban Twitterrdquo is especially disconcerting mdash wersquore talking about a digital Bay of Pigs in which the US State Department working through USAID actively worked to create a Twitter-like social network (ZunZuneo) to engage the local Cuban population in order to topple the Castro regime At one point nearly 40000 Cubans had signed up for the ZunZuneo network To make the fantasy real the US government created an elaborate system of shell companies and foreign bank accounts to make sure that the Cubans bought into the whole system In other cases social networks are being used as part and parcel of government disinformation campaigns to co-opt opposition movements ndash sometimes by the US government and its allies In February controversial journalist Glenn Greenwald outlined all the dirty tricks and covert operations being used by Western covert agents on the Internet If you know that your opponents are hanging out on YouTube all day the thinking goes thatrsquos the place to crack down on dissenters The list of tactics involved include everything from laying digital honey traps to crafting elaborate attempts to destroy online social reputation As Greenwald notes ldquoThese [Western intelligence] agencies are attempting to control infiltrate manipulate and warp online discourse and in doing so are compromising the integrity of the Internet itselfrdquo
In countries such as Egypt and Turkey data from social networks is being used to find exact locations of protesters based on GPS locations or to track down the IP addresses of Internet users the government wants to discipline The question now is to what degree Western know-how is being used to facilitate these actions In the latest scandal over the Turkish government shutting down YouTube and Twitter for extended periods of time could foreign officials have played a role in ensuring that local elections went on as planned March 30 without backlash from the ldquoTurkish streetrdquo This emerging dark side of social networks has enormous implications for how America conducts its diplomatic business abroad Ever since Hillary Clinton launched ldquo21st century statecraftrdquo for the US State Department therersquos been a push to use Internet freedom as a rallying cry for the United States to win over friends and gain influence across the globe Terms like ldquodigital statecraftrdquo and ldquoe-diplomacyrdquo are commonplace these days ndash not just for America but also for nations that would like to emulate Americarsquos ability to project power around the world At little or no cost social networks such as Twitter Facebook and YouTube made it possible to spread the message that America was the land of baseball apple pie and democracy for all But you can see where all this headed The more that social networks are seen to be doing the bidding of the NSA and the CIA (and proxy organizations such as USAID) in terms of gathering and mobilizing the masses against governments the less effective they are in sharing American values abroad If the American way of life includes getting spied on by your government and having your online privacy and personal data compromised for political gain is that something you can use to win over hearts and minds in foreign lands As Robinson Meyer of The Atlantic pointed out in a tell-all about fake Cuban Twitter this is already the case in places such as Pakistan where a free mobile phone-based social network set up by generous American benefactors in 2009 turned out to be an elaborate State Department ruse to monitor the communication of Pakistanis
In fairness to these social networks such as Twitter and Facebook they are fighting back and taking a public stance against governmentrsquos ability to use them for monitoring of personal communications They no doubt realize that the backlash against the NSA and its intelligence-gathering across the globe mean that future trust in Silicon Valley could be eroded forever Most notably Mark Zuckerberg called on President Obama to stop using the NSA to monitor the affairs of the social networkrsquos one billion users But that doesnrsquot stop the US government from creating a ldquofake Twitterrdquo or ldquofake Facebookrdquo does it It shouldnrsquot take Edward Snowden appearing as a giant talking head at SXSW to tell everyone how governments are ldquosetting fire to the future of the Internetrdquo And it shouldnrsquot take Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt) chiding Congress for a ldquodumb dumb dumbrdquo attempt at covert operations in Cuba Itrsquos not only that Silicon Valley can erode the trust of Internet users The United States might end up eroding the trust of citizens around the globe who once thought of the United States as the home of democracy and progress
httpwwwwashingtonpostcomblogsinnovationswp20140408the-emerging-dark-side-of-social-networksprint=1
Easter is linked to the Jewish Passover by much of its symbolism as well as by its position in the calendar In many languages the words for Easter and Passover are identical or very similar
Easter is linked to the Passover and Exodus from Egypt recorded in the Old Testament through the Last Supper and crucifixion that preceded the resurrection[According to the New Testament Jesus gave the Passover meal a new meaning as he prepared himself and his disciples for his death in the upper room during the Last Supper He identified the matzah and cup of wine as his body soon to be sacrificed and his blood soon to be shed Paul states Get rid of the old yeast that you may be a new batch without yeastmdashas you really are For Christ our Passover lamb has been sacrificed this refers to the Passover requirement to have no yeast in the house and to the allegory of Jesus as the Paschal lamb
The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) received at least 7868 complaints of DHS ldquoemployee criminal misconductrdquo in the first half of fiscal year 2013 alone This information is based off a DHS OIG report released December 11 According to the report entitled Major Management and Performance Challenges Facing the Department of Homeland Security allegations of criminal misconduct include DHS employees being corrupted by drug traffickers ldquoInvestigations of departmental employees range throughout the [DHS] Components and are initiated in response to allegations of wrongdoing such as smuggling bribery child pornography and theft of departmental funds or propertyrdquo highlighted the December report ldquoOIG is particularly concerned with the smuggling of people and goods across the Nationrsquos bordersrdquo ldquoSmuggling continues to be a large-scale business and remains dominated by drug trafficking organizations that seek to systematically corrupt DHS employees to continue their schemesrdquo added the IG ldquoWithin DHS OIG has the primary authority for investigating allegations of criminal misconduct by DHS employeesrdquo
ldquoThus far in FY 2013 we have received 7868 complaints and have initiated 320 investigations Also in FY 2013 we have had 76 cases accepted for prosecution and achieved 83 convictions and 41 personnel actionsrdquo further stated the OIG in the report Those numbers are based off a previous OIG audit that covered the first half of FY 2013 (Oct 1 2012 to March 30 2013) according to the report ldquoIn FY 2012 we received approximately 17690 complaints [of employee misconduct] and opened 1030 investigationsrdquo also stated the December report ldquoIn that same period 132 of our cases were accepted for prosecution and we achieved 178 convictions and 106 personnel actionsrdquo The OIG report highlighted some employee misconduct cases involving the corruption of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency employees by drug traffickers CBP is a component of DHS ldquoWe learned that a CBP employee was observed meeting with members of a known drug trafficking organizationrdquo stated the IG ldquoLater he made arrangements with individuals he believed to be smugglers and allowed a vehicle driven by an undercover agent to pass through a border patrol checkpoint without being inspected He also met with a confidential informant and received an $8000 cash bribe payment in an enveloperdquo ldquoAfter we arrested him he resigned and pleaded guilty to one count of accepting a briberdquo added the OIG report ldquoSimilarly we investigated a CBP employee who was accepting bribes to allow narcotics through his inspection lanerdquo further stated the document ldquoWe had an agent pose as a narcotics smuggler and pay the employee a series of bribes in exchange for allowing what he believed to be illegal narcotics to enter the United States He was found guilty of conspiracy and briberyrdquo The OIG also highlighted an employee incident involving child pornography ldquoThis year a [US Citizenship and Immigration Services] employee pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography and was sentenced to 37 months incarceration and 120 months of supervised releaserdquo mentioned the report ldquo In 2010 the employee seemingly inadvertently provided another employee with a USB thumb drive containing child pornography and a search of his residence yielded additional images on his home computersrdquo further stated the OIG
Furthermore the OIG also mentioned a case involving theft of government property and sexual harassment ldquoAdditionally we investigated and arrested a recently retired former [US Coast Guard] employee who had stolen government-owned electrical equipment valued at approximately $120000 and sold it on eBayrdquo stated the report ldquoAfter his arrest he pleaded guilty of two counts of mail fraud and was sentenced to 12 months and 1 day incarceration followed by 24 months of supervised release He was also ordered to pay $127600 in restitutionrdquo ldquoWe engaged in a joint investigation with a local sheriffrsquos department of a Border Patrol Agent who made a traffic stop of a vehicle driven by a woman in a remote location and sexually assaulted herrdquo continued the OIG ldquoFollowing the investigation the agent resigned and was sentenced to 96 months in State prisonrdquo According to testimony before a House panel by then-Acting Inspector General Charles Edwards misconduct cases handled by the DHS IG are split into four categories 1) corruption involving bribery disclosure of classified information espionage and smuggling among other things 2) violations of civil rights and liberties by employees 3) defrauding DHS programs and financial systems 4) miscellaneous including those involving child pornography false statements and ldquocontact with foreign governmentsnationalsrdquo among other violations that ldquomay not be criminal in naturerdquo Edwards explained that in the context of OIGrsquos investigative work a DHS employee includes contractors interns Coast Guard personnel and ldquoemployees detailed to DHS from other Federal agenciesrdquo The December 2013 report did not break down the 7868 complaints of DHS employee misconduct by category Edwards now deputy DHS IG noted in a December 9 letter attached to the report ldquoCBP has made significant advancements in battling corruption and misconduct internally CBP conducts background investigations and polygraph examinations of all applicants for law enforcement positions as a way to detect possible issues before an applicant becomes an employee DHS currently employs about 240000 individuals
Did you know that the
Farmerrsquos Almanac predicted
a long hard winter last
August
Did you know the
publication also made
reference to the Blood
Moon Phase
Learn More here
httpwwwfarmersalmanaccomnewsletter
Letter to John Adams
Jeffersons letter to John Adams from Monticello April 11 1823
Dear Sir mdash The wishes expressed in your last favor that I may continue in life and
health until I become a Calvinist at least in his exclamation of `mon Dieu jusque agrave
quand would make me immortal I can never join Calvin in addressing his god He was
indeed an Atheist which I can never be or rather his religion was Daeligmonism If ever man
worshipped a false god he did The being described in his 5 points is not the God whom
you and I acknowledge and adore the Creator and benevolent governor of the world but
a daeligmon of malignant spirit It would be more pardonable to believe in no god at all than
to blaspheme him by the atrocious attributes of Calvin Indeed I think that every Christian
sect gives a great handle to Atheism by their general dogma that without a revelation
there would not be sufficient proof of the being of a god Now one sixth of mankind only
are supposed to be Christians the other five sixths then who do not believe in the Jewish
and Christian revelation are without a knowledge of the existence of a god This gives
completely a gain de cause to the disciples of Ocellus Timaeus Spinosa Diderot and
DHolbach The argument which they rest on as triumphant and unanswerable is that in
every hypothesis of Cosmogony you must admit an eternal pre-existence of something
and according to the rule of sound philosophy you are never to employ two principles to
solve a difficulty when one will suffice They say then that it is more simple to believe at
once in the eternal pre-existence of the world as it is now going on and may for ever go
on by the principle of reproduction which we see and witness than to believe in the
eternal pre-existence of an ulterior cause or Creator of the world a being whom we see
not and know not of whose form substance and mode or place of existence or of action
no sense informs us no power of the mind enables us to delineate or comprehend On
the contrary I hold (without appeal to revelation) that when we take a view of the Universe
in its parts general or particular it is impossible for the human mind not to perceive and
feel a conviction of design consummate skill and indefinite power in every atom of its
composition The movements of the heavenly bodies so exactly held in their course by
the balance of centrifugal and centripetal forces the structure of our earth itself with its
distribution of lands waters and atmosphere animal and vegetable bodies examined in
all their minutest particles insects mere atoms of life yet as perfectly organized as man or
mammoth the mineral substances their generation and uses it is impossible I say for
the human mind not to believe that there is in all this design cause and effect up to an
ultimate cause a fabricator of all things from matter and motion their preserver and
regulator while permitted to exist in their present forms and their regenerator into new
and other forms
We see too evident proofs of the necessity of a superintending power to
maintain the Universe in its course and order Stars well known have
disappeared new ones have come into view comets in their incalculable
courses may run foul of suns and planets and require renovation under other
laws certain races of animals are become extinct and were there no restoring
power all existences might extinguish successively one by one until all should
be reduced to a shapeless chaos So irresistible are these evidences of an
intelligent and powerful Agent that of the infinite numbers of men who have
existed thro all time they have believed in the proportion of a million at least to
Unit in the hypothesis of an eternal pre-existence of a creator rather than in
that of a self-existent Universe Surely this unanimous sentiment renders this
more probable than that of the few in the other hypothesis Some early
Christians indeed have believed in the coeternal pre-existence of both the
Creator and the world without changing their relation of cause and effect That
this was the opinion of St Thomas we are informed by Cardinal Toleto in these
words `Deus ab aeligterno fuit jam omnipotens sicut cum produxit mundum Ab
aeterno potuit producere mundum mdash Si sol ab aeterno esset lumen ab
aeterno esset et si pes similiter vestigium At lumen et vestigium effectus sunt
efficientis solis et pedis potuit ergo cum causa aeterna effectus coaeterna
esse Cujus sententiae est S Thomas Theologorum primus Cardinal Toleta
Of the nature of this being we know nothing Jesus tells us that `God is a spirit
4 John 24 but without defining what a spirit is Down to the 3d century we
know that it was still deemed material but of a lighter subtler matter than our
gross bodies So says Origen `Deus igitur cui anima similis est juxta
Originem reapte corporalis est sed graviorum tantum ratione corporum
incorporeus These are the words of Huet in his commentary on Origen Origen
himself says `appelatio apud nostros scriptores est inusitata et incognita So
also Tertullian `quis autem negabit Deum esse corpus etsi deus spiritus
Spiritus etiam corporis sui generis in sua effigie Tertullian These two fathers
were of the 3d century Calvins character of this supreme being seems chiefly
copied from that of the Jews But the reformation of these blasphemous
attributes and substitution of those more worthy pure and sublime seems to
have been the chief object of Jesus in his discourses to the Jews and his
doctrine of the Cosmogony of the world is very clearly laid down in the 3 first
verses of the 1st chapter of John in these words
Which truly translated means `in the beginning God existed and reason (or mind)
was with God and that mind was God This was in the beginning with God All things
were created by it and without it was made not one thing which was made Yet this
text so plainly declaring the doctrine of Jesus that the world was created by the
supreme intelligent being has been perverted by modern Christians to build up a
second person of their tritheism by a mistranslation of the word One of its
legitimate meanings indeed is `a word But in that sense it makes an unmeaning
jargon while the other meaning `reason equally legitimate explains rationally the
eternal preexistence of God and his creation of the world Knowing how
incomprehensible it was that `a word the mere action or articulation of the voice and
organs of speech could create a world they undertake to make of this articulation a
second preexisting being and ascribe to him and not to God the creation of the
universe The Atheist here plumes himself on the uselessness of such a God and the
simpler hypothesis of a self-existent universe The truth is that the greatest enemies
to the doctrines of Jesus are those calling themselves the expositors of them who
have perverted them for the structure of a system of fancy absolutely
incomprehensible and without any foundation in his genuine words And the day will
come when the mystical generation of Jesus by the supreme being as his father in
the womb of a virgin will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the
brain of Jupiter But we may hope that the dawn of reason and freedom of thought in
these United States will do away with all this artificial scaffolding and restore to us
the primitive and genuine doctrines of this the most venerated reformer of human
errors
So much for your quotation of Calvins `mon dieu jusqua quand in which when
addressed to the God of Jesus and our God I join you cordially and await his time
and will with more readiness than reluctance May we meet there again in Congress
with our ancient Colleagues and receive with them the seal of approbation `Well
done good and faithful servants
It is people like these and words of the same that I miss OBD who is watching over us we miss him
In countries such as Egypt and Turkey data from social networks is being used to find exact locations of protesters based on GPS locations or to track down the IP addresses of Internet users the government wants to discipline The question now is to what degree Western know-how is being used to facilitate these actions In the latest scandal over the Turkish government shutting down YouTube and Twitter for extended periods of time could foreign officials have played a role in ensuring that local elections went on as planned March 30 without backlash from the ldquoTurkish streetrdquo This emerging dark side of social networks has enormous implications for how America conducts its diplomatic business abroad Ever since Hillary Clinton launched ldquo21st century statecraftrdquo for the US State Department therersquos been a push to use Internet freedom as a rallying cry for the United States to win over friends and gain influence across the globe Terms like ldquodigital statecraftrdquo and ldquoe-diplomacyrdquo are commonplace these days ndash not just for America but also for nations that would like to emulate Americarsquos ability to project power around the world At little or no cost social networks such as Twitter Facebook and YouTube made it possible to spread the message that America was the land of baseball apple pie and democracy for all But you can see where all this headed The more that social networks are seen to be doing the bidding of the NSA and the CIA (and proxy organizations such as USAID) in terms of gathering and mobilizing the masses against governments the less effective they are in sharing American values abroad If the American way of life includes getting spied on by your government and having your online privacy and personal data compromised for political gain is that something you can use to win over hearts and minds in foreign lands As Robinson Meyer of The Atlantic pointed out in a tell-all about fake Cuban Twitter this is already the case in places such as Pakistan where a free mobile phone-based social network set up by generous American benefactors in 2009 turned out to be an elaborate State Department ruse to monitor the communication of Pakistanis
In fairness to these social networks such as Twitter and Facebook they are fighting back and taking a public stance against governmentrsquos ability to use them for monitoring of personal communications They no doubt realize that the backlash against the NSA and its intelligence-gathering across the globe mean that future trust in Silicon Valley could be eroded forever Most notably Mark Zuckerberg called on President Obama to stop using the NSA to monitor the affairs of the social networkrsquos one billion users But that doesnrsquot stop the US government from creating a ldquofake Twitterrdquo or ldquofake Facebookrdquo does it It shouldnrsquot take Edward Snowden appearing as a giant talking head at SXSW to tell everyone how governments are ldquosetting fire to the future of the Internetrdquo And it shouldnrsquot take Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt) chiding Congress for a ldquodumb dumb dumbrdquo attempt at covert operations in Cuba Itrsquos not only that Silicon Valley can erode the trust of Internet users The United States might end up eroding the trust of citizens around the globe who once thought of the United States as the home of democracy and progress
httpwwwwashingtonpostcomblogsinnovationswp20140408the-emerging-dark-side-of-social-networksprint=1
Easter is linked to the Jewish Passover by much of its symbolism as well as by its position in the calendar In many languages the words for Easter and Passover are identical or very similar
Easter is linked to the Passover and Exodus from Egypt recorded in the Old Testament through the Last Supper and crucifixion that preceded the resurrection[According to the New Testament Jesus gave the Passover meal a new meaning as he prepared himself and his disciples for his death in the upper room during the Last Supper He identified the matzah and cup of wine as his body soon to be sacrificed and his blood soon to be shed Paul states Get rid of the old yeast that you may be a new batch without yeastmdashas you really are For Christ our Passover lamb has been sacrificed this refers to the Passover requirement to have no yeast in the house and to the allegory of Jesus as the Paschal lamb
The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) received at least 7868 complaints of DHS ldquoemployee criminal misconductrdquo in the first half of fiscal year 2013 alone This information is based off a DHS OIG report released December 11 According to the report entitled Major Management and Performance Challenges Facing the Department of Homeland Security allegations of criminal misconduct include DHS employees being corrupted by drug traffickers ldquoInvestigations of departmental employees range throughout the [DHS] Components and are initiated in response to allegations of wrongdoing such as smuggling bribery child pornography and theft of departmental funds or propertyrdquo highlighted the December report ldquoOIG is particularly concerned with the smuggling of people and goods across the Nationrsquos bordersrdquo ldquoSmuggling continues to be a large-scale business and remains dominated by drug trafficking organizations that seek to systematically corrupt DHS employees to continue their schemesrdquo added the IG ldquoWithin DHS OIG has the primary authority for investigating allegations of criminal misconduct by DHS employeesrdquo
ldquoThus far in FY 2013 we have received 7868 complaints and have initiated 320 investigations Also in FY 2013 we have had 76 cases accepted for prosecution and achieved 83 convictions and 41 personnel actionsrdquo further stated the OIG in the report Those numbers are based off a previous OIG audit that covered the first half of FY 2013 (Oct 1 2012 to March 30 2013) according to the report ldquoIn FY 2012 we received approximately 17690 complaints [of employee misconduct] and opened 1030 investigationsrdquo also stated the December report ldquoIn that same period 132 of our cases were accepted for prosecution and we achieved 178 convictions and 106 personnel actionsrdquo The OIG report highlighted some employee misconduct cases involving the corruption of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency employees by drug traffickers CBP is a component of DHS ldquoWe learned that a CBP employee was observed meeting with members of a known drug trafficking organizationrdquo stated the IG ldquoLater he made arrangements with individuals he believed to be smugglers and allowed a vehicle driven by an undercover agent to pass through a border patrol checkpoint without being inspected He also met with a confidential informant and received an $8000 cash bribe payment in an enveloperdquo ldquoAfter we arrested him he resigned and pleaded guilty to one count of accepting a briberdquo added the OIG report ldquoSimilarly we investigated a CBP employee who was accepting bribes to allow narcotics through his inspection lanerdquo further stated the document ldquoWe had an agent pose as a narcotics smuggler and pay the employee a series of bribes in exchange for allowing what he believed to be illegal narcotics to enter the United States He was found guilty of conspiracy and briberyrdquo The OIG also highlighted an employee incident involving child pornography ldquoThis year a [US Citizenship and Immigration Services] employee pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography and was sentenced to 37 months incarceration and 120 months of supervised releaserdquo mentioned the report ldquo In 2010 the employee seemingly inadvertently provided another employee with a USB thumb drive containing child pornography and a search of his residence yielded additional images on his home computersrdquo further stated the OIG
Furthermore the OIG also mentioned a case involving theft of government property and sexual harassment ldquoAdditionally we investigated and arrested a recently retired former [US Coast Guard] employee who had stolen government-owned electrical equipment valued at approximately $120000 and sold it on eBayrdquo stated the report ldquoAfter his arrest he pleaded guilty of two counts of mail fraud and was sentenced to 12 months and 1 day incarceration followed by 24 months of supervised release He was also ordered to pay $127600 in restitutionrdquo ldquoWe engaged in a joint investigation with a local sheriffrsquos department of a Border Patrol Agent who made a traffic stop of a vehicle driven by a woman in a remote location and sexually assaulted herrdquo continued the OIG ldquoFollowing the investigation the agent resigned and was sentenced to 96 months in State prisonrdquo According to testimony before a House panel by then-Acting Inspector General Charles Edwards misconduct cases handled by the DHS IG are split into four categories 1) corruption involving bribery disclosure of classified information espionage and smuggling among other things 2) violations of civil rights and liberties by employees 3) defrauding DHS programs and financial systems 4) miscellaneous including those involving child pornography false statements and ldquocontact with foreign governmentsnationalsrdquo among other violations that ldquomay not be criminal in naturerdquo Edwards explained that in the context of OIGrsquos investigative work a DHS employee includes contractors interns Coast Guard personnel and ldquoemployees detailed to DHS from other Federal agenciesrdquo The December 2013 report did not break down the 7868 complaints of DHS employee misconduct by category Edwards now deputy DHS IG noted in a December 9 letter attached to the report ldquoCBP has made significant advancements in battling corruption and misconduct internally CBP conducts background investigations and polygraph examinations of all applicants for law enforcement positions as a way to detect possible issues before an applicant becomes an employee DHS currently employs about 240000 individuals
Did you know that the
Farmerrsquos Almanac predicted
a long hard winter last
August
Did you know the
publication also made
reference to the Blood
Moon Phase
Learn More here
httpwwwfarmersalmanaccomnewsletter
Letter to John Adams
Jeffersons letter to John Adams from Monticello April 11 1823
Dear Sir mdash The wishes expressed in your last favor that I may continue in life and
health until I become a Calvinist at least in his exclamation of `mon Dieu jusque agrave
quand would make me immortal I can never join Calvin in addressing his god He was
indeed an Atheist which I can never be or rather his religion was Daeligmonism If ever man
worshipped a false god he did The being described in his 5 points is not the God whom
you and I acknowledge and adore the Creator and benevolent governor of the world but
a daeligmon of malignant spirit It would be more pardonable to believe in no god at all than
to blaspheme him by the atrocious attributes of Calvin Indeed I think that every Christian
sect gives a great handle to Atheism by their general dogma that without a revelation
there would not be sufficient proof of the being of a god Now one sixth of mankind only
are supposed to be Christians the other five sixths then who do not believe in the Jewish
and Christian revelation are without a knowledge of the existence of a god This gives
completely a gain de cause to the disciples of Ocellus Timaeus Spinosa Diderot and
DHolbach The argument which they rest on as triumphant and unanswerable is that in
every hypothesis of Cosmogony you must admit an eternal pre-existence of something
and according to the rule of sound philosophy you are never to employ two principles to
solve a difficulty when one will suffice They say then that it is more simple to believe at
once in the eternal pre-existence of the world as it is now going on and may for ever go
on by the principle of reproduction which we see and witness than to believe in the
eternal pre-existence of an ulterior cause or Creator of the world a being whom we see
not and know not of whose form substance and mode or place of existence or of action
no sense informs us no power of the mind enables us to delineate or comprehend On
the contrary I hold (without appeal to revelation) that when we take a view of the Universe
in its parts general or particular it is impossible for the human mind not to perceive and
feel a conviction of design consummate skill and indefinite power in every atom of its
composition The movements of the heavenly bodies so exactly held in their course by
the balance of centrifugal and centripetal forces the structure of our earth itself with its
distribution of lands waters and atmosphere animal and vegetable bodies examined in
all their minutest particles insects mere atoms of life yet as perfectly organized as man or
mammoth the mineral substances their generation and uses it is impossible I say for
the human mind not to believe that there is in all this design cause and effect up to an
ultimate cause a fabricator of all things from matter and motion their preserver and
regulator while permitted to exist in their present forms and their regenerator into new
and other forms
We see too evident proofs of the necessity of a superintending power to
maintain the Universe in its course and order Stars well known have
disappeared new ones have come into view comets in their incalculable
courses may run foul of suns and planets and require renovation under other
laws certain races of animals are become extinct and were there no restoring
power all existences might extinguish successively one by one until all should
be reduced to a shapeless chaos So irresistible are these evidences of an
intelligent and powerful Agent that of the infinite numbers of men who have
existed thro all time they have believed in the proportion of a million at least to
Unit in the hypothesis of an eternal pre-existence of a creator rather than in
that of a self-existent Universe Surely this unanimous sentiment renders this
more probable than that of the few in the other hypothesis Some early
Christians indeed have believed in the coeternal pre-existence of both the
Creator and the world without changing their relation of cause and effect That
this was the opinion of St Thomas we are informed by Cardinal Toleto in these
words `Deus ab aeligterno fuit jam omnipotens sicut cum produxit mundum Ab
aeterno potuit producere mundum mdash Si sol ab aeterno esset lumen ab
aeterno esset et si pes similiter vestigium At lumen et vestigium effectus sunt
efficientis solis et pedis potuit ergo cum causa aeterna effectus coaeterna
esse Cujus sententiae est S Thomas Theologorum primus Cardinal Toleta
Of the nature of this being we know nothing Jesus tells us that `God is a spirit
4 John 24 but without defining what a spirit is Down to the 3d century we
know that it was still deemed material but of a lighter subtler matter than our
gross bodies So says Origen `Deus igitur cui anima similis est juxta
Originem reapte corporalis est sed graviorum tantum ratione corporum
incorporeus These are the words of Huet in his commentary on Origen Origen
himself says `appelatio apud nostros scriptores est inusitata et incognita So
also Tertullian `quis autem negabit Deum esse corpus etsi deus spiritus
Spiritus etiam corporis sui generis in sua effigie Tertullian These two fathers
were of the 3d century Calvins character of this supreme being seems chiefly
copied from that of the Jews But the reformation of these blasphemous
attributes and substitution of those more worthy pure and sublime seems to
have been the chief object of Jesus in his discourses to the Jews and his
doctrine of the Cosmogony of the world is very clearly laid down in the 3 first
verses of the 1st chapter of John in these words
Which truly translated means `in the beginning God existed and reason (or mind)
was with God and that mind was God This was in the beginning with God All things
were created by it and without it was made not one thing which was made Yet this
text so plainly declaring the doctrine of Jesus that the world was created by the
supreme intelligent being has been perverted by modern Christians to build up a
second person of their tritheism by a mistranslation of the word One of its
legitimate meanings indeed is `a word But in that sense it makes an unmeaning
jargon while the other meaning `reason equally legitimate explains rationally the
eternal preexistence of God and his creation of the world Knowing how
incomprehensible it was that `a word the mere action or articulation of the voice and
organs of speech could create a world they undertake to make of this articulation a
second preexisting being and ascribe to him and not to God the creation of the
universe The Atheist here plumes himself on the uselessness of such a God and the
simpler hypothesis of a self-existent universe The truth is that the greatest enemies
to the doctrines of Jesus are those calling themselves the expositors of them who
have perverted them for the structure of a system of fancy absolutely
incomprehensible and without any foundation in his genuine words And the day will
come when the mystical generation of Jesus by the supreme being as his father in
the womb of a virgin will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the
brain of Jupiter But we may hope that the dawn of reason and freedom of thought in
these United States will do away with all this artificial scaffolding and restore to us
the primitive and genuine doctrines of this the most venerated reformer of human
errors
So much for your quotation of Calvins `mon dieu jusqua quand in which when
addressed to the God of Jesus and our God I join you cordially and await his time
and will with more readiness than reluctance May we meet there again in Congress
with our ancient Colleagues and receive with them the seal of approbation `Well
done good and faithful servants
It is people like these and words of the same that I miss OBD who is watching over us we miss him
In fairness to these social networks such as Twitter and Facebook they are fighting back and taking a public stance against governmentrsquos ability to use them for monitoring of personal communications They no doubt realize that the backlash against the NSA and its intelligence-gathering across the globe mean that future trust in Silicon Valley could be eroded forever Most notably Mark Zuckerberg called on President Obama to stop using the NSA to monitor the affairs of the social networkrsquos one billion users But that doesnrsquot stop the US government from creating a ldquofake Twitterrdquo or ldquofake Facebookrdquo does it It shouldnrsquot take Edward Snowden appearing as a giant talking head at SXSW to tell everyone how governments are ldquosetting fire to the future of the Internetrdquo And it shouldnrsquot take Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt) chiding Congress for a ldquodumb dumb dumbrdquo attempt at covert operations in Cuba Itrsquos not only that Silicon Valley can erode the trust of Internet users The United States might end up eroding the trust of citizens around the globe who once thought of the United States as the home of democracy and progress
httpwwwwashingtonpostcomblogsinnovationswp20140408the-emerging-dark-side-of-social-networksprint=1
Easter is linked to the Jewish Passover by much of its symbolism as well as by its position in the calendar In many languages the words for Easter and Passover are identical or very similar
Easter is linked to the Passover and Exodus from Egypt recorded in the Old Testament through the Last Supper and crucifixion that preceded the resurrection[According to the New Testament Jesus gave the Passover meal a new meaning as he prepared himself and his disciples for his death in the upper room during the Last Supper He identified the matzah and cup of wine as his body soon to be sacrificed and his blood soon to be shed Paul states Get rid of the old yeast that you may be a new batch without yeastmdashas you really are For Christ our Passover lamb has been sacrificed this refers to the Passover requirement to have no yeast in the house and to the allegory of Jesus as the Paschal lamb
The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) received at least 7868 complaints of DHS ldquoemployee criminal misconductrdquo in the first half of fiscal year 2013 alone This information is based off a DHS OIG report released December 11 According to the report entitled Major Management and Performance Challenges Facing the Department of Homeland Security allegations of criminal misconduct include DHS employees being corrupted by drug traffickers ldquoInvestigations of departmental employees range throughout the [DHS] Components and are initiated in response to allegations of wrongdoing such as smuggling bribery child pornography and theft of departmental funds or propertyrdquo highlighted the December report ldquoOIG is particularly concerned with the smuggling of people and goods across the Nationrsquos bordersrdquo ldquoSmuggling continues to be a large-scale business and remains dominated by drug trafficking organizations that seek to systematically corrupt DHS employees to continue their schemesrdquo added the IG ldquoWithin DHS OIG has the primary authority for investigating allegations of criminal misconduct by DHS employeesrdquo
ldquoThus far in FY 2013 we have received 7868 complaints and have initiated 320 investigations Also in FY 2013 we have had 76 cases accepted for prosecution and achieved 83 convictions and 41 personnel actionsrdquo further stated the OIG in the report Those numbers are based off a previous OIG audit that covered the first half of FY 2013 (Oct 1 2012 to March 30 2013) according to the report ldquoIn FY 2012 we received approximately 17690 complaints [of employee misconduct] and opened 1030 investigationsrdquo also stated the December report ldquoIn that same period 132 of our cases were accepted for prosecution and we achieved 178 convictions and 106 personnel actionsrdquo The OIG report highlighted some employee misconduct cases involving the corruption of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency employees by drug traffickers CBP is a component of DHS ldquoWe learned that a CBP employee was observed meeting with members of a known drug trafficking organizationrdquo stated the IG ldquoLater he made arrangements with individuals he believed to be smugglers and allowed a vehicle driven by an undercover agent to pass through a border patrol checkpoint without being inspected He also met with a confidential informant and received an $8000 cash bribe payment in an enveloperdquo ldquoAfter we arrested him he resigned and pleaded guilty to one count of accepting a briberdquo added the OIG report ldquoSimilarly we investigated a CBP employee who was accepting bribes to allow narcotics through his inspection lanerdquo further stated the document ldquoWe had an agent pose as a narcotics smuggler and pay the employee a series of bribes in exchange for allowing what he believed to be illegal narcotics to enter the United States He was found guilty of conspiracy and briberyrdquo The OIG also highlighted an employee incident involving child pornography ldquoThis year a [US Citizenship and Immigration Services] employee pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography and was sentenced to 37 months incarceration and 120 months of supervised releaserdquo mentioned the report ldquo In 2010 the employee seemingly inadvertently provided another employee with a USB thumb drive containing child pornography and a search of his residence yielded additional images on his home computersrdquo further stated the OIG
Furthermore the OIG also mentioned a case involving theft of government property and sexual harassment ldquoAdditionally we investigated and arrested a recently retired former [US Coast Guard] employee who had stolen government-owned electrical equipment valued at approximately $120000 and sold it on eBayrdquo stated the report ldquoAfter his arrest he pleaded guilty of two counts of mail fraud and was sentenced to 12 months and 1 day incarceration followed by 24 months of supervised release He was also ordered to pay $127600 in restitutionrdquo ldquoWe engaged in a joint investigation with a local sheriffrsquos department of a Border Patrol Agent who made a traffic stop of a vehicle driven by a woman in a remote location and sexually assaulted herrdquo continued the OIG ldquoFollowing the investigation the agent resigned and was sentenced to 96 months in State prisonrdquo According to testimony before a House panel by then-Acting Inspector General Charles Edwards misconduct cases handled by the DHS IG are split into four categories 1) corruption involving bribery disclosure of classified information espionage and smuggling among other things 2) violations of civil rights and liberties by employees 3) defrauding DHS programs and financial systems 4) miscellaneous including those involving child pornography false statements and ldquocontact with foreign governmentsnationalsrdquo among other violations that ldquomay not be criminal in naturerdquo Edwards explained that in the context of OIGrsquos investigative work a DHS employee includes contractors interns Coast Guard personnel and ldquoemployees detailed to DHS from other Federal agenciesrdquo The December 2013 report did not break down the 7868 complaints of DHS employee misconduct by category Edwards now deputy DHS IG noted in a December 9 letter attached to the report ldquoCBP has made significant advancements in battling corruption and misconduct internally CBP conducts background investigations and polygraph examinations of all applicants for law enforcement positions as a way to detect possible issues before an applicant becomes an employee DHS currently employs about 240000 individuals
Did you know that the
Farmerrsquos Almanac predicted
a long hard winter last
August
Did you know the
publication also made
reference to the Blood
Moon Phase
Learn More here
httpwwwfarmersalmanaccomnewsletter
Letter to John Adams
Jeffersons letter to John Adams from Monticello April 11 1823
Dear Sir mdash The wishes expressed in your last favor that I may continue in life and
health until I become a Calvinist at least in his exclamation of `mon Dieu jusque agrave
quand would make me immortal I can never join Calvin in addressing his god He was
indeed an Atheist which I can never be or rather his religion was Daeligmonism If ever man
worshipped a false god he did The being described in his 5 points is not the God whom
you and I acknowledge and adore the Creator and benevolent governor of the world but
a daeligmon of malignant spirit It would be more pardonable to believe in no god at all than
to blaspheme him by the atrocious attributes of Calvin Indeed I think that every Christian
sect gives a great handle to Atheism by their general dogma that without a revelation
there would not be sufficient proof of the being of a god Now one sixth of mankind only
are supposed to be Christians the other five sixths then who do not believe in the Jewish
and Christian revelation are without a knowledge of the existence of a god This gives
completely a gain de cause to the disciples of Ocellus Timaeus Spinosa Diderot and
DHolbach The argument which they rest on as triumphant and unanswerable is that in
every hypothesis of Cosmogony you must admit an eternal pre-existence of something
and according to the rule of sound philosophy you are never to employ two principles to
solve a difficulty when one will suffice They say then that it is more simple to believe at
once in the eternal pre-existence of the world as it is now going on and may for ever go
on by the principle of reproduction which we see and witness than to believe in the
eternal pre-existence of an ulterior cause or Creator of the world a being whom we see
not and know not of whose form substance and mode or place of existence or of action
no sense informs us no power of the mind enables us to delineate or comprehend On
the contrary I hold (without appeal to revelation) that when we take a view of the Universe
in its parts general or particular it is impossible for the human mind not to perceive and
feel a conviction of design consummate skill and indefinite power in every atom of its
composition The movements of the heavenly bodies so exactly held in their course by
the balance of centrifugal and centripetal forces the structure of our earth itself with its
distribution of lands waters and atmosphere animal and vegetable bodies examined in
all their minutest particles insects mere atoms of life yet as perfectly organized as man or
mammoth the mineral substances their generation and uses it is impossible I say for
the human mind not to believe that there is in all this design cause and effect up to an
ultimate cause a fabricator of all things from matter and motion their preserver and
regulator while permitted to exist in their present forms and their regenerator into new
and other forms
We see too evident proofs of the necessity of a superintending power to
maintain the Universe in its course and order Stars well known have
disappeared new ones have come into view comets in their incalculable
courses may run foul of suns and planets and require renovation under other
laws certain races of animals are become extinct and were there no restoring
power all existences might extinguish successively one by one until all should
be reduced to a shapeless chaos So irresistible are these evidences of an
intelligent and powerful Agent that of the infinite numbers of men who have
existed thro all time they have believed in the proportion of a million at least to
Unit in the hypothesis of an eternal pre-existence of a creator rather than in
that of a self-existent Universe Surely this unanimous sentiment renders this
more probable than that of the few in the other hypothesis Some early
Christians indeed have believed in the coeternal pre-existence of both the
Creator and the world without changing their relation of cause and effect That
this was the opinion of St Thomas we are informed by Cardinal Toleto in these
words `Deus ab aeligterno fuit jam omnipotens sicut cum produxit mundum Ab
aeterno potuit producere mundum mdash Si sol ab aeterno esset lumen ab
aeterno esset et si pes similiter vestigium At lumen et vestigium effectus sunt
efficientis solis et pedis potuit ergo cum causa aeterna effectus coaeterna
esse Cujus sententiae est S Thomas Theologorum primus Cardinal Toleta
Of the nature of this being we know nothing Jesus tells us that `God is a spirit
4 John 24 but without defining what a spirit is Down to the 3d century we
know that it was still deemed material but of a lighter subtler matter than our
gross bodies So says Origen `Deus igitur cui anima similis est juxta
Originem reapte corporalis est sed graviorum tantum ratione corporum
incorporeus These are the words of Huet in his commentary on Origen Origen
himself says `appelatio apud nostros scriptores est inusitata et incognita So
also Tertullian `quis autem negabit Deum esse corpus etsi deus spiritus
Spiritus etiam corporis sui generis in sua effigie Tertullian These two fathers
were of the 3d century Calvins character of this supreme being seems chiefly
copied from that of the Jews But the reformation of these blasphemous
attributes and substitution of those more worthy pure and sublime seems to
have been the chief object of Jesus in his discourses to the Jews and his
doctrine of the Cosmogony of the world is very clearly laid down in the 3 first
verses of the 1st chapter of John in these words
Which truly translated means `in the beginning God existed and reason (or mind)
was with God and that mind was God This was in the beginning with God All things
were created by it and without it was made not one thing which was made Yet this
text so plainly declaring the doctrine of Jesus that the world was created by the
supreme intelligent being has been perverted by modern Christians to build up a
second person of their tritheism by a mistranslation of the word One of its
legitimate meanings indeed is `a word But in that sense it makes an unmeaning
jargon while the other meaning `reason equally legitimate explains rationally the
eternal preexistence of God and his creation of the world Knowing how
incomprehensible it was that `a word the mere action or articulation of the voice and
organs of speech could create a world they undertake to make of this articulation a
second preexisting being and ascribe to him and not to God the creation of the
universe The Atheist here plumes himself on the uselessness of such a God and the
simpler hypothesis of a self-existent universe The truth is that the greatest enemies
to the doctrines of Jesus are those calling themselves the expositors of them who
have perverted them for the structure of a system of fancy absolutely
incomprehensible and without any foundation in his genuine words And the day will
come when the mystical generation of Jesus by the supreme being as his father in
the womb of a virgin will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the
brain of Jupiter But we may hope that the dawn of reason and freedom of thought in
these United States will do away with all this artificial scaffolding and restore to us
the primitive and genuine doctrines of this the most venerated reformer of human
errors
So much for your quotation of Calvins `mon dieu jusqua quand in which when
addressed to the God of Jesus and our God I join you cordially and await his time
and will with more readiness than reluctance May we meet there again in Congress
with our ancient Colleagues and receive with them the seal of approbation `Well
done good and faithful servants
It is people like these and words of the same that I miss OBD who is watching over us we miss him
Easter is linked to the Jewish Passover by much of its symbolism as well as by its position in the calendar In many languages the words for Easter and Passover are identical or very similar
Easter is linked to the Passover and Exodus from Egypt recorded in the Old Testament through the Last Supper and crucifixion that preceded the resurrection[According to the New Testament Jesus gave the Passover meal a new meaning as he prepared himself and his disciples for his death in the upper room during the Last Supper He identified the matzah and cup of wine as his body soon to be sacrificed and his blood soon to be shed Paul states Get rid of the old yeast that you may be a new batch without yeastmdashas you really are For Christ our Passover lamb has been sacrificed this refers to the Passover requirement to have no yeast in the house and to the allegory of Jesus as the Paschal lamb
The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) received at least 7868 complaints of DHS ldquoemployee criminal misconductrdquo in the first half of fiscal year 2013 alone This information is based off a DHS OIG report released December 11 According to the report entitled Major Management and Performance Challenges Facing the Department of Homeland Security allegations of criminal misconduct include DHS employees being corrupted by drug traffickers ldquoInvestigations of departmental employees range throughout the [DHS] Components and are initiated in response to allegations of wrongdoing such as smuggling bribery child pornography and theft of departmental funds or propertyrdquo highlighted the December report ldquoOIG is particularly concerned with the smuggling of people and goods across the Nationrsquos bordersrdquo ldquoSmuggling continues to be a large-scale business and remains dominated by drug trafficking organizations that seek to systematically corrupt DHS employees to continue their schemesrdquo added the IG ldquoWithin DHS OIG has the primary authority for investigating allegations of criminal misconduct by DHS employeesrdquo
ldquoThus far in FY 2013 we have received 7868 complaints and have initiated 320 investigations Also in FY 2013 we have had 76 cases accepted for prosecution and achieved 83 convictions and 41 personnel actionsrdquo further stated the OIG in the report Those numbers are based off a previous OIG audit that covered the first half of FY 2013 (Oct 1 2012 to March 30 2013) according to the report ldquoIn FY 2012 we received approximately 17690 complaints [of employee misconduct] and opened 1030 investigationsrdquo also stated the December report ldquoIn that same period 132 of our cases were accepted for prosecution and we achieved 178 convictions and 106 personnel actionsrdquo The OIG report highlighted some employee misconduct cases involving the corruption of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency employees by drug traffickers CBP is a component of DHS ldquoWe learned that a CBP employee was observed meeting with members of a known drug trafficking organizationrdquo stated the IG ldquoLater he made arrangements with individuals he believed to be smugglers and allowed a vehicle driven by an undercover agent to pass through a border patrol checkpoint without being inspected He also met with a confidential informant and received an $8000 cash bribe payment in an enveloperdquo ldquoAfter we arrested him he resigned and pleaded guilty to one count of accepting a briberdquo added the OIG report ldquoSimilarly we investigated a CBP employee who was accepting bribes to allow narcotics through his inspection lanerdquo further stated the document ldquoWe had an agent pose as a narcotics smuggler and pay the employee a series of bribes in exchange for allowing what he believed to be illegal narcotics to enter the United States He was found guilty of conspiracy and briberyrdquo The OIG also highlighted an employee incident involving child pornography ldquoThis year a [US Citizenship and Immigration Services] employee pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography and was sentenced to 37 months incarceration and 120 months of supervised releaserdquo mentioned the report ldquo In 2010 the employee seemingly inadvertently provided another employee with a USB thumb drive containing child pornography and a search of his residence yielded additional images on his home computersrdquo further stated the OIG
Furthermore the OIG also mentioned a case involving theft of government property and sexual harassment ldquoAdditionally we investigated and arrested a recently retired former [US Coast Guard] employee who had stolen government-owned electrical equipment valued at approximately $120000 and sold it on eBayrdquo stated the report ldquoAfter his arrest he pleaded guilty of two counts of mail fraud and was sentenced to 12 months and 1 day incarceration followed by 24 months of supervised release He was also ordered to pay $127600 in restitutionrdquo ldquoWe engaged in a joint investigation with a local sheriffrsquos department of a Border Patrol Agent who made a traffic stop of a vehicle driven by a woman in a remote location and sexually assaulted herrdquo continued the OIG ldquoFollowing the investigation the agent resigned and was sentenced to 96 months in State prisonrdquo According to testimony before a House panel by then-Acting Inspector General Charles Edwards misconduct cases handled by the DHS IG are split into four categories 1) corruption involving bribery disclosure of classified information espionage and smuggling among other things 2) violations of civil rights and liberties by employees 3) defrauding DHS programs and financial systems 4) miscellaneous including those involving child pornography false statements and ldquocontact with foreign governmentsnationalsrdquo among other violations that ldquomay not be criminal in naturerdquo Edwards explained that in the context of OIGrsquos investigative work a DHS employee includes contractors interns Coast Guard personnel and ldquoemployees detailed to DHS from other Federal agenciesrdquo The December 2013 report did not break down the 7868 complaints of DHS employee misconduct by category Edwards now deputy DHS IG noted in a December 9 letter attached to the report ldquoCBP has made significant advancements in battling corruption and misconduct internally CBP conducts background investigations and polygraph examinations of all applicants for law enforcement positions as a way to detect possible issues before an applicant becomes an employee DHS currently employs about 240000 individuals
Did you know that the
Farmerrsquos Almanac predicted
a long hard winter last
August
Did you know the
publication also made
reference to the Blood
Moon Phase
Learn More here
httpwwwfarmersalmanaccomnewsletter
Letter to John Adams
Jeffersons letter to John Adams from Monticello April 11 1823
Dear Sir mdash The wishes expressed in your last favor that I may continue in life and
health until I become a Calvinist at least in his exclamation of `mon Dieu jusque agrave
quand would make me immortal I can never join Calvin in addressing his god He was
indeed an Atheist which I can never be or rather his religion was Daeligmonism If ever man
worshipped a false god he did The being described in his 5 points is not the God whom
you and I acknowledge and adore the Creator and benevolent governor of the world but
a daeligmon of malignant spirit It would be more pardonable to believe in no god at all than
to blaspheme him by the atrocious attributes of Calvin Indeed I think that every Christian
sect gives a great handle to Atheism by their general dogma that without a revelation
there would not be sufficient proof of the being of a god Now one sixth of mankind only
are supposed to be Christians the other five sixths then who do not believe in the Jewish
and Christian revelation are without a knowledge of the existence of a god This gives
completely a gain de cause to the disciples of Ocellus Timaeus Spinosa Diderot and
DHolbach The argument which they rest on as triumphant and unanswerable is that in
every hypothesis of Cosmogony you must admit an eternal pre-existence of something
and according to the rule of sound philosophy you are never to employ two principles to
solve a difficulty when one will suffice They say then that it is more simple to believe at
once in the eternal pre-existence of the world as it is now going on and may for ever go
on by the principle of reproduction which we see and witness than to believe in the
eternal pre-existence of an ulterior cause or Creator of the world a being whom we see
not and know not of whose form substance and mode or place of existence or of action
no sense informs us no power of the mind enables us to delineate or comprehend On
the contrary I hold (without appeal to revelation) that when we take a view of the Universe
in its parts general or particular it is impossible for the human mind not to perceive and
feel a conviction of design consummate skill and indefinite power in every atom of its
composition The movements of the heavenly bodies so exactly held in their course by
the balance of centrifugal and centripetal forces the structure of our earth itself with its
distribution of lands waters and atmosphere animal and vegetable bodies examined in
all their minutest particles insects mere atoms of life yet as perfectly organized as man or
mammoth the mineral substances their generation and uses it is impossible I say for
the human mind not to believe that there is in all this design cause and effect up to an
ultimate cause a fabricator of all things from matter and motion their preserver and
regulator while permitted to exist in their present forms and their regenerator into new
and other forms
We see too evident proofs of the necessity of a superintending power to
maintain the Universe in its course and order Stars well known have
disappeared new ones have come into view comets in their incalculable
courses may run foul of suns and planets and require renovation under other
laws certain races of animals are become extinct and were there no restoring
power all existences might extinguish successively one by one until all should
be reduced to a shapeless chaos So irresistible are these evidences of an
intelligent and powerful Agent that of the infinite numbers of men who have
existed thro all time they have believed in the proportion of a million at least to
Unit in the hypothesis of an eternal pre-existence of a creator rather than in
that of a self-existent Universe Surely this unanimous sentiment renders this
more probable than that of the few in the other hypothesis Some early
Christians indeed have believed in the coeternal pre-existence of both the
Creator and the world without changing their relation of cause and effect That
this was the opinion of St Thomas we are informed by Cardinal Toleto in these
words `Deus ab aeligterno fuit jam omnipotens sicut cum produxit mundum Ab
aeterno potuit producere mundum mdash Si sol ab aeterno esset lumen ab
aeterno esset et si pes similiter vestigium At lumen et vestigium effectus sunt
efficientis solis et pedis potuit ergo cum causa aeterna effectus coaeterna
esse Cujus sententiae est S Thomas Theologorum primus Cardinal Toleta
Of the nature of this being we know nothing Jesus tells us that `God is a spirit
4 John 24 but without defining what a spirit is Down to the 3d century we
know that it was still deemed material but of a lighter subtler matter than our
gross bodies So says Origen `Deus igitur cui anima similis est juxta
Originem reapte corporalis est sed graviorum tantum ratione corporum
incorporeus These are the words of Huet in his commentary on Origen Origen
himself says `appelatio apud nostros scriptores est inusitata et incognita So
also Tertullian `quis autem negabit Deum esse corpus etsi deus spiritus
Spiritus etiam corporis sui generis in sua effigie Tertullian These two fathers
were of the 3d century Calvins character of this supreme being seems chiefly
copied from that of the Jews But the reformation of these blasphemous
attributes and substitution of those more worthy pure and sublime seems to
have been the chief object of Jesus in his discourses to the Jews and his
doctrine of the Cosmogony of the world is very clearly laid down in the 3 first
verses of the 1st chapter of John in these words
Which truly translated means `in the beginning God existed and reason (or mind)
was with God and that mind was God This was in the beginning with God All things
were created by it and without it was made not one thing which was made Yet this
text so plainly declaring the doctrine of Jesus that the world was created by the
supreme intelligent being has been perverted by modern Christians to build up a
second person of their tritheism by a mistranslation of the word One of its
legitimate meanings indeed is `a word But in that sense it makes an unmeaning
jargon while the other meaning `reason equally legitimate explains rationally the
eternal preexistence of God and his creation of the world Knowing how
incomprehensible it was that `a word the mere action or articulation of the voice and
organs of speech could create a world they undertake to make of this articulation a
second preexisting being and ascribe to him and not to God the creation of the
universe The Atheist here plumes himself on the uselessness of such a God and the
simpler hypothesis of a self-existent universe The truth is that the greatest enemies
to the doctrines of Jesus are those calling themselves the expositors of them who
have perverted them for the structure of a system of fancy absolutely
incomprehensible and without any foundation in his genuine words And the day will
come when the mystical generation of Jesus by the supreme being as his father in
the womb of a virgin will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the
brain of Jupiter But we may hope that the dawn of reason and freedom of thought in
these United States will do away with all this artificial scaffolding and restore to us
the primitive and genuine doctrines of this the most venerated reformer of human
errors
So much for your quotation of Calvins `mon dieu jusqua quand in which when
addressed to the God of Jesus and our God I join you cordially and await his time
and will with more readiness than reluctance May we meet there again in Congress
with our ancient Colleagues and receive with them the seal of approbation `Well
done good and faithful servants
It is people like these and words of the same that I miss OBD who is watching over us we miss him
The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) received at least 7868 complaints of DHS ldquoemployee criminal misconductrdquo in the first half of fiscal year 2013 alone This information is based off a DHS OIG report released December 11 According to the report entitled Major Management and Performance Challenges Facing the Department of Homeland Security allegations of criminal misconduct include DHS employees being corrupted by drug traffickers ldquoInvestigations of departmental employees range throughout the [DHS] Components and are initiated in response to allegations of wrongdoing such as smuggling bribery child pornography and theft of departmental funds or propertyrdquo highlighted the December report ldquoOIG is particularly concerned with the smuggling of people and goods across the Nationrsquos bordersrdquo ldquoSmuggling continues to be a large-scale business and remains dominated by drug trafficking organizations that seek to systematically corrupt DHS employees to continue their schemesrdquo added the IG ldquoWithin DHS OIG has the primary authority for investigating allegations of criminal misconduct by DHS employeesrdquo
ldquoThus far in FY 2013 we have received 7868 complaints and have initiated 320 investigations Also in FY 2013 we have had 76 cases accepted for prosecution and achieved 83 convictions and 41 personnel actionsrdquo further stated the OIG in the report Those numbers are based off a previous OIG audit that covered the first half of FY 2013 (Oct 1 2012 to March 30 2013) according to the report ldquoIn FY 2012 we received approximately 17690 complaints [of employee misconduct] and opened 1030 investigationsrdquo also stated the December report ldquoIn that same period 132 of our cases were accepted for prosecution and we achieved 178 convictions and 106 personnel actionsrdquo The OIG report highlighted some employee misconduct cases involving the corruption of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency employees by drug traffickers CBP is a component of DHS ldquoWe learned that a CBP employee was observed meeting with members of a known drug trafficking organizationrdquo stated the IG ldquoLater he made arrangements with individuals he believed to be smugglers and allowed a vehicle driven by an undercover agent to pass through a border patrol checkpoint without being inspected He also met with a confidential informant and received an $8000 cash bribe payment in an enveloperdquo ldquoAfter we arrested him he resigned and pleaded guilty to one count of accepting a briberdquo added the OIG report ldquoSimilarly we investigated a CBP employee who was accepting bribes to allow narcotics through his inspection lanerdquo further stated the document ldquoWe had an agent pose as a narcotics smuggler and pay the employee a series of bribes in exchange for allowing what he believed to be illegal narcotics to enter the United States He was found guilty of conspiracy and briberyrdquo The OIG also highlighted an employee incident involving child pornography ldquoThis year a [US Citizenship and Immigration Services] employee pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography and was sentenced to 37 months incarceration and 120 months of supervised releaserdquo mentioned the report ldquo In 2010 the employee seemingly inadvertently provided another employee with a USB thumb drive containing child pornography and a search of his residence yielded additional images on his home computersrdquo further stated the OIG
Furthermore the OIG also mentioned a case involving theft of government property and sexual harassment ldquoAdditionally we investigated and arrested a recently retired former [US Coast Guard] employee who had stolen government-owned electrical equipment valued at approximately $120000 and sold it on eBayrdquo stated the report ldquoAfter his arrest he pleaded guilty of two counts of mail fraud and was sentenced to 12 months and 1 day incarceration followed by 24 months of supervised release He was also ordered to pay $127600 in restitutionrdquo ldquoWe engaged in a joint investigation with a local sheriffrsquos department of a Border Patrol Agent who made a traffic stop of a vehicle driven by a woman in a remote location and sexually assaulted herrdquo continued the OIG ldquoFollowing the investigation the agent resigned and was sentenced to 96 months in State prisonrdquo According to testimony before a House panel by then-Acting Inspector General Charles Edwards misconduct cases handled by the DHS IG are split into four categories 1) corruption involving bribery disclosure of classified information espionage and smuggling among other things 2) violations of civil rights and liberties by employees 3) defrauding DHS programs and financial systems 4) miscellaneous including those involving child pornography false statements and ldquocontact with foreign governmentsnationalsrdquo among other violations that ldquomay not be criminal in naturerdquo Edwards explained that in the context of OIGrsquos investigative work a DHS employee includes contractors interns Coast Guard personnel and ldquoemployees detailed to DHS from other Federal agenciesrdquo The December 2013 report did not break down the 7868 complaints of DHS employee misconduct by category Edwards now deputy DHS IG noted in a December 9 letter attached to the report ldquoCBP has made significant advancements in battling corruption and misconduct internally CBP conducts background investigations and polygraph examinations of all applicants for law enforcement positions as a way to detect possible issues before an applicant becomes an employee DHS currently employs about 240000 individuals
Did you know that the
Farmerrsquos Almanac predicted
a long hard winter last
August
Did you know the
publication also made
reference to the Blood
Moon Phase
Learn More here
httpwwwfarmersalmanaccomnewsletter
Letter to John Adams
Jeffersons letter to John Adams from Monticello April 11 1823
Dear Sir mdash The wishes expressed in your last favor that I may continue in life and
health until I become a Calvinist at least in his exclamation of `mon Dieu jusque agrave
quand would make me immortal I can never join Calvin in addressing his god He was
indeed an Atheist which I can never be or rather his religion was Daeligmonism If ever man
worshipped a false god he did The being described in his 5 points is not the God whom
you and I acknowledge and adore the Creator and benevolent governor of the world but
a daeligmon of malignant spirit It would be more pardonable to believe in no god at all than
to blaspheme him by the atrocious attributes of Calvin Indeed I think that every Christian
sect gives a great handle to Atheism by their general dogma that without a revelation
there would not be sufficient proof of the being of a god Now one sixth of mankind only
are supposed to be Christians the other five sixths then who do not believe in the Jewish
and Christian revelation are without a knowledge of the existence of a god This gives
completely a gain de cause to the disciples of Ocellus Timaeus Spinosa Diderot and
DHolbach The argument which they rest on as triumphant and unanswerable is that in
every hypothesis of Cosmogony you must admit an eternal pre-existence of something
and according to the rule of sound philosophy you are never to employ two principles to
solve a difficulty when one will suffice They say then that it is more simple to believe at
once in the eternal pre-existence of the world as it is now going on and may for ever go
on by the principle of reproduction which we see and witness than to believe in the
eternal pre-existence of an ulterior cause or Creator of the world a being whom we see
not and know not of whose form substance and mode or place of existence or of action
no sense informs us no power of the mind enables us to delineate or comprehend On
the contrary I hold (without appeal to revelation) that when we take a view of the Universe
in its parts general or particular it is impossible for the human mind not to perceive and
feel a conviction of design consummate skill and indefinite power in every atom of its
composition The movements of the heavenly bodies so exactly held in their course by
the balance of centrifugal and centripetal forces the structure of our earth itself with its
distribution of lands waters and atmosphere animal and vegetable bodies examined in
all their minutest particles insects mere atoms of life yet as perfectly organized as man or
mammoth the mineral substances their generation and uses it is impossible I say for
the human mind not to believe that there is in all this design cause and effect up to an
ultimate cause a fabricator of all things from matter and motion their preserver and
regulator while permitted to exist in their present forms and their regenerator into new
and other forms
We see too evident proofs of the necessity of a superintending power to
maintain the Universe in its course and order Stars well known have
disappeared new ones have come into view comets in their incalculable
courses may run foul of suns and planets and require renovation under other
laws certain races of animals are become extinct and were there no restoring
power all existences might extinguish successively one by one until all should
be reduced to a shapeless chaos So irresistible are these evidences of an
intelligent and powerful Agent that of the infinite numbers of men who have
existed thro all time they have believed in the proportion of a million at least to
Unit in the hypothesis of an eternal pre-existence of a creator rather than in
that of a self-existent Universe Surely this unanimous sentiment renders this
more probable than that of the few in the other hypothesis Some early
Christians indeed have believed in the coeternal pre-existence of both the
Creator and the world without changing their relation of cause and effect That
this was the opinion of St Thomas we are informed by Cardinal Toleto in these
words `Deus ab aeligterno fuit jam omnipotens sicut cum produxit mundum Ab
aeterno potuit producere mundum mdash Si sol ab aeterno esset lumen ab
aeterno esset et si pes similiter vestigium At lumen et vestigium effectus sunt
efficientis solis et pedis potuit ergo cum causa aeterna effectus coaeterna
esse Cujus sententiae est S Thomas Theologorum primus Cardinal Toleta
Of the nature of this being we know nothing Jesus tells us that `God is a spirit
4 John 24 but without defining what a spirit is Down to the 3d century we
know that it was still deemed material but of a lighter subtler matter than our
gross bodies So says Origen `Deus igitur cui anima similis est juxta
Originem reapte corporalis est sed graviorum tantum ratione corporum
incorporeus These are the words of Huet in his commentary on Origen Origen
himself says `appelatio apud nostros scriptores est inusitata et incognita So
also Tertullian `quis autem negabit Deum esse corpus etsi deus spiritus
Spiritus etiam corporis sui generis in sua effigie Tertullian These two fathers
were of the 3d century Calvins character of this supreme being seems chiefly
copied from that of the Jews But the reformation of these blasphemous
attributes and substitution of those more worthy pure and sublime seems to
have been the chief object of Jesus in his discourses to the Jews and his
doctrine of the Cosmogony of the world is very clearly laid down in the 3 first
verses of the 1st chapter of John in these words
Which truly translated means `in the beginning God existed and reason (or mind)
was with God and that mind was God This was in the beginning with God All things
were created by it and without it was made not one thing which was made Yet this
text so plainly declaring the doctrine of Jesus that the world was created by the
supreme intelligent being has been perverted by modern Christians to build up a
second person of their tritheism by a mistranslation of the word One of its
legitimate meanings indeed is `a word But in that sense it makes an unmeaning
jargon while the other meaning `reason equally legitimate explains rationally the
eternal preexistence of God and his creation of the world Knowing how
incomprehensible it was that `a word the mere action or articulation of the voice and
organs of speech could create a world they undertake to make of this articulation a
second preexisting being and ascribe to him and not to God the creation of the
universe The Atheist here plumes himself on the uselessness of such a God and the
simpler hypothesis of a self-existent universe The truth is that the greatest enemies
to the doctrines of Jesus are those calling themselves the expositors of them who
have perverted them for the structure of a system of fancy absolutely
incomprehensible and without any foundation in his genuine words And the day will
come when the mystical generation of Jesus by the supreme being as his father in
the womb of a virgin will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the
brain of Jupiter But we may hope that the dawn of reason and freedom of thought in
these United States will do away with all this artificial scaffolding and restore to us
the primitive and genuine doctrines of this the most venerated reformer of human
errors
So much for your quotation of Calvins `mon dieu jusqua quand in which when
addressed to the God of Jesus and our God I join you cordially and await his time
and will with more readiness than reluctance May we meet there again in Congress
with our ancient Colleagues and receive with them the seal of approbation `Well
done good and faithful servants
It is people like these and words of the same that I miss OBD who is watching over us we miss him
ldquoThus far in FY 2013 we have received 7868 complaints and have initiated 320 investigations Also in FY 2013 we have had 76 cases accepted for prosecution and achieved 83 convictions and 41 personnel actionsrdquo further stated the OIG in the report Those numbers are based off a previous OIG audit that covered the first half of FY 2013 (Oct 1 2012 to March 30 2013) according to the report ldquoIn FY 2012 we received approximately 17690 complaints [of employee misconduct] and opened 1030 investigationsrdquo also stated the December report ldquoIn that same period 132 of our cases were accepted for prosecution and we achieved 178 convictions and 106 personnel actionsrdquo The OIG report highlighted some employee misconduct cases involving the corruption of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency employees by drug traffickers CBP is a component of DHS ldquoWe learned that a CBP employee was observed meeting with members of a known drug trafficking organizationrdquo stated the IG ldquoLater he made arrangements with individuals he believed to be smugglers and allowed a vehicle driven by an undercover agent to pass through a border patrol checkpoint without being inspected He also met with a confidential informant and received an $8000 cash bribe payment in an enveloperdquo ldquoAfter we arrested him he resigned and pleaded guilty to one count of accepting a briberdquo added the OIG report ldquoSimilarly we investigated a CBP employee who was accepting bribes to allow narcotics through his inspection lanerdquo further stated the document ldquoWe had an agent pose as a narcotics smuggler and pay the employee a series of bribes in exchange for allowing what he believed to be illegal narcotics to enter the United States He was found guilty of conspiracy and briberyrdquo The OIG also highlighted an employee incident involving child pornography ldquoThis year a [US Citizenship and Immigration Services] employee pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography and was sentenced to 37 months incarceration and 120 months of supervised releaserdquo mentioned the report ldquo In 2010 the employee seemingly inadvertently provided another employee with a USB thumb drive containing child pornography and a search of his residence yielded additional images on his home computersrdquo further stated the OIG
Furthermore the OIG also mentioned a case involving theft of government property and sexual harassment ldquoAdditionally we investigated and arrested a recently retired former [US Coast Guard] employee who had stolen government-owned electrical equipment valued at approximately $120000 and sold it on eBayrdquo stated the report ldquoAfter his arrest he pleaded guilty of two counts of mail fraud and was sentenced to 12 months and 1 day incarceration followed by 24 months of supervised release He was also ordered to pay $127600 in restitutionrdquo ldquoWe engaged in a joint investigation with a local sheriffrsquos department of a Border Patrol Agent who made a traffic stop of a vehicle driven by a woman in a remote location and sexually assaulted herrdquo continued the OIG ldquoFollowing the investigation the agent resigned and was sentenced to 96 months in State prisonrdquo According to testimony before a House panel by then-Acting Inspector General Charles Edwards misconduct cases handled by the DHS IG are split into four categories 1) corruption involving bribery disclosure of classified information espionage and smuggling among other things 2) violations of civil rights and liberties by employees 3) defrauding DHS programs and financial systems 4) miscellaneous including those involving child pornography false statements and ldquocontact with foreign governmentsnationalsrdquo among other violations that ldquomay not be criminal in naturerdquo Edwards explained that in the context of OIGrsquos investigative work a DHS employee includes contractors interns Coast Guard personnel and ldquoemployees detailed to DHS from other Federal agenciesrdquo The December 2013 report did not break down the 7868 complaints of DHS employee misconduct by category Edwards now deputy DHS IG noted in a December 9 letter attached to the report ldquoCBP has made significant advancements in battling corruption and misconduct internally CBP conducts background investigations and polygraph examinations of all applicants for law enforcement positions as a way to detect possible issues before an applicant becomes an employee DHS currently employs about 240000 individuals
Did you know that the
Farmerrsquos Almanac predicted
a long hard winter last
August
Did you know the
publication also made
reference to the Blood
Moon Phase
Learn More here
httpwwwfarmersalmanaccomnewsletter
Letter to John Adams
Jeffersons letter to John Adams from Monticello April 11 1823
Dear Sir mdash The wishes expressed in your last favor that I may continue in life and
health until I become a Calvinist at least in his exclamation of `mon Dieu jusque agrave
quand would make me immortal I can never join Calvin in addressing his god He was
indeed an Atheist which I can never be or rather his religion was Daeligmonism If ever man
worshipped a false god he did The being described in his 5 points is not the God whom
you and I acknowledge and adore the Creator and benevolent governor of the world but
a daeligmon of malignant spirit It would be more pardonable to believe in no god at all than
to blaspheme him by the atrocious attributes of Calvin Indeed I think that every Christian
sect gives a great handle to Atheism by their general dogma that without a revelation
there would not be sufficient proof of the being of a god Now one sixth of mankind only
are supposed to be Christians the other five sixths then who do not believe in the Jewish
and Christian revelation are without a knowledge of the existence of a god This gives
completely a gain de cause to the disciples of Ocellus Timaeus Spinosa Diderot and
DHolbach The argument which they rest on as triumphant and unanswerable is that in
every hypothesis of Cosmogony you must admit an eternal pre-existence of something
and according to the rule of sound philosophy you are never to employ two principles to
solve a difficulty when one will suffice They say then that it is more simple to believe at
once in the eternal pre-existence of the world as it is now going on and may for ever go
on by the principle of reproduction which we see and witness than to believe in the
eternal pre-existence of an ulterior cause or Creator of the world a being whom we see
not and know not of whose form substance and mode or place of existence or of action
no sense informs us no power of the mind enables us to delineate or comprehend On
the contrary I hold (without appeal to revelation) that when we take a view of the Universe
in its parts general or particular it is impossible for the human mind not to perceive and
feel a conviction of design consummate skill and indefinite power in every atom of its
composition The movements of the heavenly bodies so exactly held in their course by
the balance of centrifugal and centripetal forces the structure of our earth itself with its
distribution of lands waters and atmosphere animal and vegetable bodies examined in
all their minutest particles insects mere atoms of life yet as perfectly organized as man or
mammoth the mineral substances their generation and uses it is impossible I say for
the human mind not to believe that there is in all this design cause and effect up to an
ultimate cause a fabricator of all things from matter and motion their preserver and
regulator while permitted to exist in their present forms and their regenerator into new
and other forms
We see too evident proofs of the necessity of a superintending power to
maintain the Universe in its course and order Stars well known have
disappeared new ones have come into view comets in their incalculable
courses may run foul of suns and planets and require renovation under other
laws certain races of animals are become extinct and were there no restoring
power all existences might extinguish successively one by one until all should
be reduced to a shapeless chaos So irresistible are these evidences of an
intelligent and powerful Agent that of the infinite numbers of men who have
existed thro all time they have believed in the proportion of a million at least to
Unit in the hypothesis of an eternal pre-existence of a creator rather than in
that of a self-existent Universe Surely this unanimous sentiment renders this
more probable than that of the few in the other hypothesis Some early
Christians indeed have believed in the coeternal pre-existence of both the
Creator and the world without changing their relation of cause and effect That
this was the opinion of St Thomas we are informed by Cardinal Toleto in these
words `Deus ab aeligterno fuit jam omnipotens sicut cum produxit mundum Ab
aeterno potuit producere mundum mdash Si sol ab aeterno esset lumen ab
aeterno esset et si pes similiter vestigium At lumen et vestigium effectus sunt
efficientis solis et pedis potuit ergo cum causa aeterna effectus coaeterna
esse Cujus sententiae est S Thomas Theologorum primus Cardinal Toleta
Of the nature of this being we know nothing Jesus tells us that `God is a spirit
4 John 24 but without defining what a spirit is Down to the 3d century we
know that it was still deemed material but of a lighter subtler matter than our
gross bodies So says Origen `Deus igitur cui anima similis est juxta
Originem reapte corporalis est sed graviorum tantum ratione corporum
incorporeus These are the words of Huet in his commentary on Origen Origen
himself says `appelatio apud nostros scriptores est inusitata et incognita So
also Tertullian `quis autem negabit Deum esse corpus etsi deus spiritus
Spiritus etiam corporis sui generis in sua effigie Tertullian These two fathers
were of the 3d century Calvins character of this supreme being seems chiefly
copied from that of the Jews But the reformation of these blasphemous
attributes and substitution of those more worthy pure and sublime seems to
have been the chief object of Jesus in his discourses to the Jews and his
doctrine of the Cosmogony of the world is very clearly laid down in the 3 first
verses of the 1st chapter of John in these words
Which truly translated means `in the beginning God existed and reason (or mind)
was with God and that mind was God This was in the beginning with God All things
were created by it and without it was made not one thing which was made Yet this
text so plainly declaring the doctrine of Jesus that the world was created by the
supreme intelligent being has been perverted by modern Christians to build up a
second person of their tritheism by a mistranslation of the word One of its
legitimate meanings indeed is `a word But in that sense it makes an unmeaning
jargon while the other meaning `reason equally legitimate explains rationally the
eternal preexistence of God and his creation of the world Knowing how
incomprehensible it was that `a word the mere action or articulation of the voice and
organs of speech could create a world they undertake to make of this articulation a
second preexisting being and ascribe to him and not to God the creation of the
universe The Atheist here plumes himself on the uselessness of such a God and the
simpler hypothesis of a self-existent universe The truth is that the greatest enemies
to the doctrines of Jesus are those calling themselves the expositors of them who
have perverted them for the structure of a system of fancy absolutely
incomprehensible and without any foundation in his genuine words And the day will
come when the mystical generation of Jesus by the supreme being as his father in
the womb of a virgin will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the
brain of Jupiter But we may hope that the dawn of reason and freedom of thought in
these United States will do away with all this artificial scaffolding and restore to us
the primitive and genuine doctrines of this the most venerated reformer of human
errors
So much for your quotation of Calvins `mon dieu jusqua quand in which when
addressed to the God of Jesus and our God I join you cordially and await his time
and will with more readiness than reluctance May we meet there again in Congress
with our ancient Colleagues and receive with them the seal of approbation `Well
done good and faithful servants
It is people like these and words of the same that I miss OBD who is watching over us we miss him
Furthermore the OIG also mentioned a case involving theft of government property and sexual harassment ldquoAdditionally we investigated and arrested a recently retired former [US Coast Guard] employee who had stolen government-owned electrical equipment valued at approximately $120000 and sold it on eBayrdquo stated the report ldquoAfter his arrest he pleaded guilty of two counts of mail fraud and was sentenced to 12 months and 1 day incarceration followed by 24 months of supervised release He was also ordered to pay $127600 in restitutionrdquo ldquoWe engaged in a joint investigation with a local sheriffrsquos department of a Border Patrol Agent who made a traffic stop of a vehicle driven by a woman in a remote location and sexually assaulted herrdquo continued the OIG ldquoFollowing the investigation the agent resigned and was sentenced to 96 months in State prisonrdquo According to testimony before a House panel by then-Acting Inspector General Charles Edwards misconduct cases handled by the DHS IG are split into four categories 1) corruption involving bribery disclosure of classified information espionage and smuggling among other things 2) violations of civil rights and liberties by employees 3) defrauding DHS programs and financial systems 4) miscellaneous including those involving child pornography false statements and ldquocontact with foreign governmentsnationalsrdquo among other violations that ldquomay not be criminal in naturerdquo Edwards explained that in the context of OIGrsquos investigative work a DHS employee includes contractors interns Coast Guard personnel and ldquoemployees detailed to DHS from other Federal agenciesrdquo The December 2013 report did not break down the 7868 complaints of DHS employee misconduct by category Edwards now deputy DHS IG noted in a December 9 letter attached to the report ldquoCBP has made significant advancements in battling corruption and misconduct internally CBP conducts background investigations and polygraph examinations of all applicants for law enforcement positions as a way to detect possible issues before an applicant becomes an employee DHS currently employs about 240000 individuals
Did you know that the
Farmerrsquos Almanac predicted
a long hard winter last
August
Did you know the
publication also made
reference to the Blood
Moon Phase
Learn More here
httpwwwfarmersalmanaccomnewsletter
Letter to John Adams
Jeffersons letter to John Adams from Monticello April 11 1823
Dear Sir mdash The wishes expressed in your last favor that I may continue in life and
health until I become a Calvinist at least in his exclamation of `mon Dieu jusque agrave
quand would make me immortal I can never join Calvin in addressing his god He was
indeed an Atheist which I can never be or rather his religion was Daeligmonism If ever man
worshipped a false god he did The being described in his 5 points is not the God whom
you and I acknowledge and adore the Creator and benevolent governor of the world but
a daeligmon of malignant spirit It would be more pardonable to believe in no god at all than
to blaspheme him by the atrocious attributes of Calvin Indeed I think that every Christian
sect gives a great handle to Atheism by their general dogma that without a revelation
there would not be sufficient proof of the being of a god Now one sixth of mankind only
are supposed to be Christians the other five sixths then who do not believe in the Jewish
and Christian revelation are without a knowledge of the existence of a god This gives
completely a gain de cause to the disciples of Ocellus Timaeus Spinosa Diderot and
DHolbach The argument which they rest on as triumphant and unanswerable is that in
every hypothesis of Cosmogony you must admit an eternal pre-existence of something
and according to the rule of sound philosophy you are never to employ two principles to
solve a difficulty when one will suffice They say then that it is more simple to believe at
once in the eternal pre-existence of the world as it is now going on and may for ever go
on by the principle of reproduction which we see and witness than to believe in the
eternal pre-existence of an ulterior cause or Creator of the world a being whom we see
not and know not of whose form substance and mode or place of existence or of action
no sense informs us no power of the mind enables us to delineate or comprehend On
the contrary I hold (without appeal to revelation) that when we take a view of the Universe
in its parts general or particular it is impossible for the human mind not to perceive and
feel a conviction of design consummate skill and indefinite power in every atom of its
composition The movements of the heavenly bodies so exactly held in their course by
the balance of centrifugal and centripetal forces the structure of our earth itself with its
distribution of lands waters and atmosphere animal and vegetable bodies examined in
all their minutest particles insects mere atoms of life yet as perfectly organized as man or
mammoth the mineral substances their generation and uses it is impossible I say for
the human mind not to believe that there is in all this design cause and effect up to an
ultimate cause a fabricator of all things from matter and motion their preserver and
regulator while permitted to exist in their present forms and their regenerator into new
and other forms
We see too evident proofs of the necessity of a superintending power to
maintain the Universe in its course and order Stars well known have
disappeared new ones have come into view comets in their incalculable
courses may run foul of suns and planets and require renovation under other
laws certain races of animals are become extinct and were there no restoring
power all existences might extinguish successively one by one until all should
be reduced to a shapeless chaos So irresistible are these evidences of an
intelligent and powerful Agent that of the infinite numbers of men who have
existed thro all time they have believed in the proportion of a million at least to
Unit in the hypothesis of an eternal pre-existence of a creator rather than in
that of a self-existent Universe Surely this unanimous sentiment renders this
more probable than that of the few in the other hypothesis Some early
Christians indeed have believed in the coeternal pre-existence of both the
Creator and the world without changing their relation of cause and effect That
this was the opinion of St Thomas we are informed by Cardinal Toleto in these
words `Deus ab aeligterno fuit jam omnipotens sicut cum produxit mundum Ab
aeterno potuit producere mundum mdash Si sol ab aeterno esset lumen ab
aeterno esset et si pes similiter vestigium At lumen et vestigium effectus sunt
efficientis solis et pedis potuit ergo cum causa aeterna effectus coaeterna
esse Cujus sententiae est S Thomas Theologorum primus Cardinal Toleta
Of the nature of this being we know nothing Jesus tells us that `God is a spirit
4 John 24 but without defining what a spirit is Down to the 3d century we
know that it was still deemed material but of a lighter subtler matter than our
gross bodies So says Origen `Deus igitur cui anima similis est juxta
Originem reapte corporalis est sed graviorum tantum ratione corporum
incorporeus These are the words of Huet in his commentary on Origen Origen
himself says `appelatio apud nostros scriptores est inusitata et incognita So
also Tertullian `quis autem negabit Deum esse corpus etsi deus spiritus
Spiritus etiam corporis sui generis in sua effigie Tertullian These two fathers
were of the 3d century Calvins character of this supreme being seems chiefly
copied from that of the Jews But the reformation of these blasphemous
attributes and substitution of those more worthy pure and sublime seems to
have been the chief object of Jesus in his discourses to the Jews and his
doctrine of the Cosmogony of the world is very clearly laid down in the 3 first
verses of the 1st chapter of John in these words
Which truly translated means `in the beginning God existed and reason (or mind)
was with God and that mind was God This was in the beginning with God All things
were created by it and without it was made not one thing which was made Yet this
text so plainly declaring the doctrine of Jesus that the world was created by the
supreme intelligent being has been perverted by modern Christians to build up a
second person of their tritheism by a mistranslation of the word One of its
legitimate meanings indeed is `a word But in that sense it makes an unmeaning
jargon while the other meaning `reason equally legitimate explains rationally the
eternal preexistence of God and his creation of the world Knowing how
incomprehensible it was that `a word the mere action or articulation of the voice and
organs of speech could create a world they undertake to make of this articulation a
second preexisting being and ascribe to him and not to God the creation of the
universe The Atheist here plumes himself on the uselessness of such a God and the
simpler hypothesis of a self-existent universe The truth is that the greatest enemies
to the doctrines of Jesus are those calling themselves the expositors of them who
have perverted them for the structure of a system of fancy absolutely
incomprehensible and without any foundation in his genuine words And the day will
come when the mystical generation of Jesus by the supreme being as his father in
the womb of a virgin will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the
brain of Jupiter But we may hope that the dawn of reason and freedom of thought in
these United States will do away with all this artificial scaffolding and restore to us
the primitive and genuine doctrines of this the most venerated reformer of human
errors
So much for your quotation of Calvins `mon dieu jusqua quand in which when
addressed to the God of Jesus and our God I join you cordially and await his time
and will with more readiness than reluctance May we meet there again in Congress
with our ancient Colleagues and receive with them the seal of approbation `Well
done good and faithful servants
It is people like these and words of the same that I miss OBD who is watching over us we miss him
Did you know that the
Farmerrsquos Almanac predicted
a long hard winter last
August
Did you know the
publication also made
reference to the Blood
Moon Phase
Learn More here
httpwwwfarmersalmanaccomnewsletter
Letter to John Adams
Jeffersons letter to John Adams from Monticello April 11 1823
Dear Sir mdash The wishes expressed in your last favor that I may continue in life and
health until I become a Calvinist at least in his exclamation of `mon Dieu jusque agrave
quand would make me immortal I can never join Calvin in addressing his god He was
indeed an Atheist which I can never be or rather his religion was Daeligmonism If ever man
worshipped a false god he did The being described in his 5 points is not the God whom
you and I acknowledge and adore the Creator and benevolent governor of the world but
a daeligmon of malignant spirit It would be more pardonable to believe in no god at all than
to blaspheme him by the atrocious attributes of Calvin Indeed I think that every Christian
sect gives a great handle to Atheism by their general dogma that without a revelation
there would not be sufficient proof of the being of a god Now one sixth of mankind only
are supposed to be Christians the other five sixths then who do not believe in the Jewish
and Christian revelation are without a knowledge of the existence of a god This gives
completely a gain de cause to the disciples of Ocellus Timaeus Spinosa Diderot and
DHolbach The argument which they rest on as triumphant and unanswerable is that in
every hypothesis of Cosmogony you must admit an eternal pre-existence of something
and according to the rule of sound philosophy you are never to employ two principles to
solve a difficulty when one will suffice They say then that it is more simple to believe at
once in the eternal pre-existence of the world as it is now going on and may for ever go
on by the principle of reproduction which we see and witness than to believe in the
eternal pre-existence of an ulterior cause or Creator of the world a being whom we see
not and know not of whose form substance and mode or place of existence or of action
no sense informs us no power of the mind enables us to delineate or comprehend On
the contrary I hold (without appeal to revelation) that when we take a view of the Universe
in its parts general or particular it is impossible for the human mind not to perceive and
feel a conviction of design consummate skill and indefinite power in every atom of its
composition The movements of the heavenly bodies so exactly held in their course by
the balance of centrifugal and centripetal forces the structure of our earth itself with its
distribution of lands waters and atmosphere animal and vegetable bodies examined in
all their minutest particles insects mere atoms of life yet as perfectly organized as man or
mammoth the mineral substances their generation and uses it is impossible I say for
the human mind not to believe that there is in all this design cause and effect up to an
ultimate cause a fabricator of all things from matter and motion their preserver and
regulator while permitted to exist in their present forms and their regenerator into new
and other forms
We see too evident proofs of the necessity of a superintending power to
maintain the Universe in its course and order Stars well known have
disappeared new ones have come into view comets in their incalculable
courses may run foul of suns and planets and require renovation under other
laws certain races of animals are become extinct and were there no restoring
power all existences might extinguish successively one by one until all should
be reduced to a shapeless chaos So irresistible are these evidences of an
intelligent and powerful Agent that of the infinite numbers of men who have
existed thro all time they have believed in the proportion of a million at least to
Unit in the hypothesis of an eternal pre-existence of a creator rather than in
that of a self-existent Universe Surely this unanimous sentiment renders this
more probable than that of the few in the other hypothesis Some early
Christians indeed have believed in the coeternal pre-existence of both the
Creator and the world without changing their relation of cause and effect That
this was the opinion of St Thomas we are informed by Cardinal Toleto in these
words `Deus ab aeligterno fuit jam omnipotens sicut cum produxit mundum Ab
aeterno potuit producere mundum mdash Si sol ab aeterno esset lumen ab
aeterno esset et si pes similiter vestigium At lumen et vestigium effectus sunt
efficientis solis et pedis potuit ergo cum causa aeterna effectus coaeterna
esse Cujus sententiae est S Thomas Theologorum primus Cardinal Toleta
Of the nature of this being we know nothing Jesus tells us that `God is a spirit
4 John 24 but without defining what a spirit is Down to the 3d century we
know that it was still deemed material but of a lighter subtler matter than our
gross bodies So says Origen `Deus igitur cui anima similis est juxta
Originem reapte corporalis est sed graviorum tantum ratione corporum
incorporeus These are the words of Huet in his commentary on Origen Origen
himself says `appelatio apud nostros scriptores est inusitata et incognita So
also Tertullian `quis autem negabit Deum esse corpus etsi deus spiritus
Spiritus etiam corporis sui generis in sua effigie Tertullian These two fathers
were of the 3d century Calvins character of this supreme being seems chiefly
copied from that of the Jews But the reformation of these blasphemous
attributes and substitution of those more worthy pure and sublime seems to
have been the chief object of Jesus in his discourses to the Jews and his
doctrine of the Cosmogony of the world is very clearly laid down in the 3 first
verses of the 1st chapter of John in these words
Which truly translated means `in the beginning God existed and reason (or mind)
was with God and that mind was God This was in the beginning with God All things
were created by it and without it was made not one thing which was made Yet this
text so plainly declaring the doctrine of Jesus that the world was created by the
supreme intelligent being has been perverted by modern Christians to build up a
second person of their tritheism by a mistranslation of the word One of its
legitimate meanings indeed is `a word But in that sense it makes an unmeaning
jargon while the other meaning `reason equally legitimate explains rationally the
eternal preexistence of God and his creation of the world Knowing how
incomprehensible it was that `a word the mere action or articulation of the voice and
organs of speech could create a world they undertake to make of this articulation a
second preexisting being and ascribe to him and not to God the creation of the
universe The Atheist here plumes himself on the uselessness of such a God and the
simpler hypothesis of a self-existent universe The truth is that the greatest enemies
to the doctrines of Jesus are those calling themselves the expositors of them who
have perverted them for the structure of a system of fancy absolutely
incomprehensible and without any foundation in his genuine words And the day will
come when the mystical generation of Jesus by the supreme being as his father in
the womb of a virgin will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the
brain of Jupiter But we may hope that the dawn of reason and freedom of thought in
these United States will do away with all this artificial scaffolding and restore to us
the primitive and genuine doctrines of this the most venerated reformer of human
errors
So much for your quotation of Calvins `mon dieu jusqua quand in which when
addressed to the God of Jesus and our God I join you cordially and await his time
and will with more readiness than reluctance May we meet there again in Congress
with our ancient Colleagues and receive with them the seal of approbation `Well
done good and faithful servants
It is people like these and words of the same that I miss OBD who is watching over us we miss him
Letter to John Adams
Jeffersons letter to John Adams from Monticello April 11 1823
Dear Sir mdash The wishes expressed in your last favor that I may continue in life and
health until I become a Calvinist at least in his exclamation of `mon Dieu jusque agrave
quand would make me immortal I can never join Calvin in addressing his god He was
indeed an Atheist which I can never be or rather his religion was Daeligmonism If ever man
worshipped a false god he did The being described in his 5 points is not the God whom
you and I acknowledge and adore the Creator and benevolent governor of the world but
a daeligmon of malignant spirit It would be more pardonable to believe in no god at all than
to blaspheme him by the atrocious attributes of Calvin Indeed I think that every Christian
sect gives a great handle to Atheism by their general dogma that without a revelation
there would not be sufficient proof of the being of a god Now one sixth of mankind only
are supposed to be Christians the other five sixths then who do not believe in the Jewish
and Christian revelation are without a knowledge of the existence of a god This gives
completely a gain de cause to the disciples of Ocellus Timaeus Spinosa Diderot and
DHolbach The argument which they rest on as triumphant and unanswerable is that in
every hypothesis of Cosmogony you must admit an eternal pre-existence of something
and according to the rule of sound philosophy you are never to employ two principles to
solve a difficulty when one will suffice They say then that it is more simple to believe at
once in the eternal pre-existence of the world as it is now going on and may for ever go
on by the principle of reproduction which we see and witness than to believe in the
eternal pre-existence of an ulterior cause or Creator of the world a being whom we see
not and know not of whose form substance and mode or place of existence or of action
no sense informs us no power of the mind enables us to delineate or comprehend On
the contrary I hold (without appeal to revelation) that when we take a view of the Universe
in its parts general or particular it is impossible for the human mind not to perceive and
feel a conviction of design consummate skill and indefinite power in every atom of its
composition The movements of the heavenly bodies so exactly held in their course by
the balance of centrifugal and centripetal forces the structure of our earth itself with its
distribution of lands waters and atmosphere animal and vegetable bodies examined in
all their minutest particles insects mere atoms of life yet as perfectly organized as man or
mammoth the mineral substances their generation and uses it is impossible I say for
the human mind not to believe that there is in all this design cause and effect up to an
ultimate cause a fabricator of all things from matter and motion their preserver and
regulator while permitted to exist in their present forms and their regenerator into new
and other forms
We see too evident proofs of the necessity of a superintending power to
maintain the Universe in its course and order Stars well known have
disappeared new ones have come into view comets in their incalculable
courses may run foul of suns and planets and require renovation under other
laws certain races of animals are become extinct and were there no restoring
power all existences might extinguish successively one by one until all should
be reduced to a shapeless chaos So irresistible are these evidences of an
intelligent and powerful Agent that of the infinite numbers of men who have
existed thro all time they have believed in the proportion of a million at least to
Unit in the hypothesis of an eternal pre-existence of a creator rather than in
that of a self-existent Universe Surely this unanimous sentiment renders this
more probable than that of the few in the other hypothesis Some early
Christians indeed have believed in the coeternal pre-existence of both the
Creator and the world without changing their relation of cause and effect That
this was the opinion of St Thomas we are informed by Cardinal Toleto in these
words `Deus ab aeligterno fuit jam omnipotens sicut cum produxit mundum Ab
aeterno potuit producere mundum mdash Si sol ab aeterno esset lumen ab
aeterno esset et si pes similiter vestigium At lumen et vestigium effectus sunt
efficientis solis et pedis potuit ergo cum causa aeterna effectus coaeterna
esse Cujus sententiae est S Thomas Theologorum primus Cardinal Toleta
Of the nature of this being we know nothing Jesus tells us that `God is a spirit
4 John 24 but without defining what a spirit is Down to the 3d century we
know that it was still deemed material but of a lighter subtler matter than our
gross bodies So says Origen `Deus igitur cui anima similis est juxta
Originem reapte corporalis est sed graviorum tantum ratione corporum
incorporeus These are the words of Huet in his commentary on Origen Origen
himself says `appelatio apud nostros scriptores est inusitata et incognita So
also Tertullian `quis autem negabit Deum esse corpus etsi deus spiritus
Spiritus etiam corporis sui generis in sua effigie Tertullian These two fathers
were of the 3d century Calvins character of this supreme being seems chiefly
copied from that of the Jews But the reformation of these blasphemous
attributes and substitution of those more worthy pure and sublime seems to
have been the chief object of Jesus in his discourses to the Jews and his
doctrine of the Cosmogony of the world is very clearly laid down in the 3 first
verses of the 1st chapter of John in these words
Which truly translated means `in the beginning God existed and reason (or mind)
was with God and that mind was God This was in the beginning with God All things
were created by it and without it was made not one thing which was made Yet this
text so plainly declaring the doctrine of Jesus that the world was created by the
supreme intelligent being has been perverted by modern Christians to build up a
second person of their tritheism by a mistranslation of the word One of its
legitimate meanings indeed is `a word But in that sense it makes an unmeaning
jargon while the other meaning `reason equally legitimate explains rationally the
eternal preexistence of God and his creation of the world Knowing how
incomprehensible it was that `a word the mere action or articulation of the voice and
organs of speech could create a world they undertake to make of this articulation a
second preexisting being and ascribe to him and not to God the creation of the
universe The Atheist here plumes himself on the uselessness of such a God and the
simpler hypothesis of a self-existent universe The truth is that the greatest enemies
to the doctrines of Jesus are those calling themselves the expositors of them who
have perverted them for the structure of a system of fancy absolutely
incomprehensible and without any foundation in his genuine words And the day will
come when the mystical generation of Jesus by the supreme being as his father in
the womb of a virgin will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the
brain of Jupiter But we may hope that the dawn of reason and freedom of thought in
these United States will do away with all this artificial scaffolding and restore to us
the primitive and genuine doctrines of this the most venerated reformer of human
errors
So much for your quotation of Calvins `mon dieu jusqua quand in which when
addressed to the God of Jesus and our God I join you cordially and await his time
and will with more readiness than reluctance May we meet there again in Congress
with our ancient Colleagues and receive with them the seal of approbation `Well
done good and faithful servants
It is people like these and words of the same that I miss OBD who is watching over us we miss him
We see too evident proofs of the necessity of a superintending power to
maintain the Universe in its course and order Stars well known have
disappeared new ones have come into view comets in their incalculable
courses may run foul of suns and planets and require renovation under other
laws certain races of animals are become extinct and were there no restoring
power all existences might extinguish successively one by one until all should
be reduced to a shapeless chaos So irresistible are these evidences of an
intelligent and powerful Agent that of the infinite numbers of men who have
existed thro all time they have believed in the proportion of a million at least to
Unit in the hypothesis of an eternal pre-existence of a creator rather than in
that of a self-existent Universe Surely this unanimous sentiment renders this
more probable than that of the few in the other hypothesis Some early
Christians indeed have believed in the coeternal pre-existence of both the
Creator and the world without changing their relation of cause and effect That
this was the opinion of St Thomas we are informed by Cardinal Toleto in these
words `Deus ab aeligterno fuit jam omnipotens sicut cum produxit mundum Ab
aeterno potuit producere mundum mdash Si sol ab aeterno esset lumen ab
aeterno esset et si pes similiter vestigium At lumen et vestigium effectus sunt
efficientis solis et pedis potuit ergo cum causa aeterna effectus coaeterna
esse Cujus sententiae est S Thomas Theologorum primus Cardinal Toleta
Of the nature of this being we know nothing Jesus tells us that `God is a spirit
4 John 24 but without defining what a spirit is Down to the 3d century we
know that it was still deemed material but of a lighter subtler matter than our
gross bodies So says Origen `Deus igitur cui anima similis est juxta
Originem reapte corporalis est sed graviorum tantum ratione corporum
incorporeus These are the words of Huet in his commentary on Origen Origen
himself says `appelatio apud nostros scriptores est inusitata et incognita So
also Tertullian `quis autem negabit Deum esse corpus etsi deus spiritus
Spiritus etiam corporis sui generis in sua effigie Tertullian These two fathers
were of the 3d century Calvins character of this supreme being seems chiefly
copied from that of the Jews But the reformation of these blasphemous
attributes and substitution of those more worthy pure and sublime seems to
have been the chief object of Jesus in his discourses to the Jews and his
doctrine of the Cosmogony of the world is very clearly laid down in the 3 first
verses of the 1st chapter of John in these words
Which truly translated means `in the beginning God existed and reason (or mind)
was with God and that mind was God This was in the beginning with God All things
were created by it and without it was made not one thing which was made Yet this
text so plainly declaring the doctrine of Jesus that the world was created by the
supreme intelligent being has been perverted by modern Christians to build up a
second person of their tritheism by a mistranslation of the word One of its
legitimate meanings indeed is `a word But in that sense it makes an unmeaning
jargon while the other meaning `reason equally legitimate explains rationally the
eternal preexistence of God and his creation of the world Knowing how
incomprehensible it was that `a word the mere action or articulation of the voice and
organs of speech could create a world they undertake to make of this articulation a
second preexisting being and ascribe to him and not to God the creation of the
universe The Atheist here plumes himself on the uselessness of such a God and the
simpler hypothesis of a self-existent universe The truth is that the greatest enemies
to the doctrines of Jesus are those calling themselves the expositors of them who
have perverted them for the structure of a system of fancy absolutely
incomprehensible and without any foundation in his genuine words And the day will
come when the mystical generation of Jesus by the supreme being as his father in
the womb of a virgin will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the
brain of Jupiter But we may hope that the dawn of reason and freedom of thought in
these United States will do away with all this artificial scaffolding and restore to us
the primitive and genuine doctrines of this the most venerated reformer of human
errors
So much for your quotation of Calvins `mon dieu jusqua quand in which when
addressed to the God of Jesus and our God I join you cordially and await his time
and will with more readiness than reluctance May we meet there again in Congress
with our ancient Colleagues and receive with them the seal of approbation `Well
done good and faithful servants
It is people like these and words of the same that I miss OBD who is watching over us we miss him
Which truly translated means `in the beginning God existed and reason (or mind)
was with God and that mind was God This was in the beginning with God All things
were created by it and without it was made not one thing which was made Yet this
text so plainly declaring the doctrine of Jesus that the world was created by the
supreme intelligent being has been perverted by modern Christians to build up a
second person of their tritheism by a mistranslation of the word One of its
legitimate meanings indeed is `a word But in that sense it makes an unmeaning
jargon while the other meaning `reason equally legitimate explains rationally the
eternal preexistence of God and his creation of the world Knowing how
incomprehensible it was that `a word the mere action or articulation of the voice and
organs of speech could create a world they undertake to make of this articulation a
second preexisting being and ascribe to him and not to God the creation of the
universe The Atheist here plumes himself on the uselessness of such a God and the
simpler hypothesis of a self-existent universe The truth is that the greatest enemies
to the doctrines of Jesus are those calling themselves the expositors of them who
have perverted them for the structure of a system of fancy absolutely
incomprehensible and without any foundation in his genuine words And the day will
come when the mystical generation of Jesus by the supreme being as his father in
the womb of a virgin will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the
brain of Jupiter But we may hope that the dawn of reason and freedom of thought in
these United States will do away with all this artificial scaffolding and restore to us
the primitive and genuine doctrines of this the most venerated reformer of human
errors
So much for your quotation of Calvins `mon dieu jusqua quand in which when
addressed to the God of Jesus and our God I join you cordially and await his time
and will with more readiness than reluctance May we meet there again in Congress
with our ancient Colleagues and receive with them the seal of approbation `Well
done good and faithful servants
It is people like these and words of the same that I miss OBD who is watching over us we miss him