Video: "Duck Dynasty" Phil Robertson Advocates Men Should Marry Girls When the Girls are 15 Years old

SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS!!!
Mark matheny
January 2, 2014

While people such as Glenn Beck and others back Phil Robertson for being such a Christian man, a video has popped up showing Phil advocating that men should marry girls when the girls are 15 or 16 years of age.

Obamacare: Health Secretary to Dictate How Doctors Practice Medicine

HHS Secretary Sebelius, a bureaucrat with no medical experience, can tell your doctor how to treat patients starting in 2015
Kit Daniels
Infowars.com
January 2, 2014
Despite President Obama’s claim that “you’re not going to have anybody getting in between you and your doctor,” a little known provision of Obamacare gives the health secretary broad authority to dictate how doctors practice medicine and treat their patients.
If she's still the health secretary in 2015, Kathleen Sebelius will tell doctors how to practice medicine even though she has absolutely no medical experience. Credit: United States Mission Geneva via Wiki
If she’s still the health secretary in 2015, Kathleen Sebelius will tell doctors how to practice medicine even though she has absolutely no medical experience. Credit: United States Mission Geneva via Wiki
Starting in 2015, Obamacare will grant the Secretary of Health and Human Services, an unelected bureaucrat with no medical experience, power to decide what treatments are available to patients and if the doctor can perform procedures.
“Beginning on January 1, 2015, a qualified health plan may contract with … a health care provider only if such provider implements such mechanisms to improve health care quality as the Secretary may by regulation require.”
In other words, insurance companies will be banned from doing business with doctors who do not comply with the regulations established by the health secretary – and there’s almost no limit on what these regulations may entail.
“Under President Obama’s health care law, should the HHS Secretary determine that performing mammograms on women younger than 50 violates a standard of care, the provider must comply, regardless of his or her concerns,” Rep. Phil Gingrey, M.D. (R-Ga.) said on the subject. “Failure to do so would allow the Secretary to shut down a medical practice.”
“The powers given to the Secretary are so broad, he or she could literally dictate how all physicians nationwide practice medicine.”
The lawmaker also added that the provision violates “the sanctity of the doctor-patient relationship, as physicians are trained to treat patients individually and not with a ‘one-size-fits-all’ approach.”
However, Dr. Donald Berwick, an administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services under Obama, deplored that the physician’s focus is “on the acute needs of individual patients” and not on “care for important subgroups” in the name of “social justice,” as reported by Betsy McCaughey.
Berwick’s statement serves as a microcosm of Section 1311(h)(1)(b) and for Obamacare as a whole: the pursuit of centralized planning and collectivism at the expense of the individual.
Rep. Gingrey, one of the few lawmakers who knew about the provision, introduced the Safeguarding Care of Patients Everywhere Act in both 2012 and 2013 to repeal Section 1311(h)(1)(b), but both bills never left the Subcommittee on Health.
Outside of Gingrey’s press release on his bills and a recent article in the New York Post, the provision has generated little media attention.
But by 2015, Americans will be demanding answers for the inevitable loss-of-life due to byzantine regulations and the destruction of the doctor-patient relationship.

ObamaCare brings new taxes, fees for 2014

Fox News
January 2, 2014

Get ready for the next wave of ObamaCare fees. 
With the launch of coverage under the health care law on Wednesday, a new set of taxes and fees is kicking in this year -- as part of the hundreds of billions of dollars the government intends to raise over the next decade to help pay for the program. 
This year, the increases come in the form of fees on health insurance companies which could translate into higher premiums. And for those who don't buy coverage, the IRS plans to slap them with a fine -- some call it a "tax" -- for not complying. 
"This is only the beginning," the conservative Heritage Foundation warned Thursday
The biggest revenue-raiser kicking in this year is an annual fee on health insurers, meant to help fund premium subsidies and other provisions.
The fee is projected to bring in $8 billion this year and roughly $100 billion over the next decade. The insurance industry -- and more than 200 House lawmakers -- are trying to repeal it, warning that these costs will be passed onto the consumer (though some will get Affordable Care Act subsidies). 
An industry-commissioned study by consultant Oliver Wyman estimated that rates will rise in 2014 by up to 2.3 percent for that reason alone. By 2023, the study said, rates could be rising annually by up to 3.7 percent because of the tax. 
The other major fee to watch out for is the individual mandate penalty. Under the law, those who do not get insurance by the end of March and do not qualify for an exemption will be charged the fee. This year, that penalty will be $95, or 1 percent of household income, whichever is greater. 
The penalty will increase considerably in 2015 and beyond, though it remains unclear whether it is big enough to compel reluctant individuals to enter the insurance market. 

HOODIE-WEARING THUG DEMANDS CASH FROM 90-YEAR-OLD LAUNDROMAT OWNER…AND GETS A GREAT BIG SURPRISE

The Blaze
January 2, 2014

When George Hicks was beaten up and robbed inside his R&J Laundromat in 2010, he was not armed.
So when a man in a hoodie walked into his Dayton, Ohio business Monday afternoon, shoved Hicks and demanded cash, the 90-year-old was prepared for a different outcome, WGRT-TV reported.
Hicks grabbed his gun and chased the thug out the door, WKRC-TV in Cincinnati reported.
Then Hicks dialed 911. The dispatcher asked, “Did he take any money?”
“No. No. When he shoved me, I jumped up and went for my gun and when I went for my gun I said I’ll blow your [expletive] brains out and he was gone,” Hick replied.
Was Hicks scared?
“Why get scared? I’ve got the gun and he’s running,” he told the Dayton Daily News Tuesday. “It was just funny.”
Police said the suspect is a white male, the Daily News said.
“I want to shake the man’s hand,” Tom Mauro, owner of the nearby Third Base Drive Thru, told WGRT. He can relate to Hicks: When two masked men tried to rob him in September, Mauro grabbed his gun and shot one of them in the chest, WGRT reported.
“I work seven days a week here and I really don’t want people coming in here taking what doesn’t belong to them. I won’t put up with it,” Mauro said.
Here’s a report from WGRT-TV in Dayton:

John Boehner - Vatican House Speaker

SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS!!!
Mark Matheny
January 2, 2014

U.S. House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, waves as John Garvey, president of The Catholic University of America, and Cardinal Donald Wuerl of Washington applaud following Boehner's commencement address May 14 at the university.

– CNS photo/Jenna Isaacson, Catholic University of America

In a report from Western Journalism, House Speaker John Boehner is planning to ram Amnesty down the throats of the American people.

The article states,

The USCoC is determined to help Barack Obama and his Democrats destroy America.  It has pledged to spend and spend some more to defeat TEA party candidates, and its mantra is: “No fools on our ticket.”  The “fools” here are TEA party movement patriots. The USCoC wants amnesty for illegals to fill their factories with low wage, illiterate, new Democrat voters, consequences be damned.
The USCoC is the United States Chamber of Commerce. They want to help Obama defeat the Tea Party element because they could threaten Obama and the Democrat's chance at regaining the House and keeping a hold on the Senate.

So what does John Boehner have to do with this?

The Democrats are in danger of losing more seats possibly, or at least not gaining and therefore may lose the House again, possibly Senate seats too as Obama's popularity plummets. Some Democrats may also choose not to run again.

The TEA party represents a threat to this and therefore must be defeated.

This is where John Boehner can help Obama and his gang of Democrat thugs.

According to the same article:
 This is where John Boehner rides to the rescue to use his BIG weapon – amnesty to get the job done. If he does this early enough, the Democrats can illegally register tens of millions of new Democrat voters; and the curtain comes down on America.
Now. Let's look at John Boehner's back ground.

One thing that sticks out is the fact that he is Roman Catholic.

The other significant fact is that he attended Xavier University.

According to Wikipedia, Xavier University is:
  a co-educational JesuitCatholic university located in CincinnatiOhio, USA.The school is the sixth-oldest Catholic and fourth-oldest Jesuit university in the nation. Xavier has an undergraduate enrollment of 4,485 students and graduate enrollment of 2,165. Xavier is primarily an undergraduateliberal arts institution. 
You might say, So what?

Well, as I have reported in the past, the Jesuit Order is the "military Arm" of the Catholic Church, and they are bent on restoring the Glory and Dominance of the Holy Roman Catholic Church, and the Temporal Power of the Pope.

Lets look at the origin and purpose of the Jesuit Order:
 The Society of Jesus (Latin: Societas Iesu, S.J., SJ or SI) is a Christian male religious congregation of the Catholic Church. The members are called Jesuits. The society is engaged in evangelization and apostolic ministry in 112 nations on six continents. Jesuits work in education (founding schools, colleges, universities and seminaries), intellectual research, and cultural pursuits. Jesuits also give retreats, minister in hospitals and parishes and promote social justice and ecumenical dialogue.Ignatius of Loyola founded the society after being wounded in battle and experiencing a religious conversion. He composed the Spiritual Exercises to help others follow the teachings of Jesus Christ. In 1534, Ignatius and six other young men, including Francis Xavier and Peter Faber, gathered and professed vows of poverty, chastity, and later obedience, including a special vow of obedience to the Pope. Rule 13 of Ignatius's Rules for Thinking with the Church said: "That we may be altogether of the same mind and in conformity ... if [the Church] shall have defined anything to be black which to our eyes appears to be white, we ought in like manner to pronounce it to be black."[2] Ignatius's plan of the order's organization was approved byPope Paul III in 1540 by the bull containing the "Formula of the Institute".Because of the military background of Ignatius and the members' willingness to accept orders anywhere in the world and to live in extreme conditions where required, the opening lines of this founding document would declare that the Society of Jesus was founded for "whoever desires to serve as a soldier of God"[3] (Spanish"todo el que quiera militar para Dios"),[4] "to strive especially for the defense and propagation of the faith and for the progress of souls in Christian life and doctrine."[5] Therefore Jesuits are sometimes referred to colloquially as "God's Soldiers"[6] or "God's Marines".[7]The Society participated in the Counter-Reformation and later in the implementation of the Second Vatican Council in the Catholic Church.

Some things to note in the description are:

  • The Jesuits promote "Social Justice" and "Ecumenical dialogue". (While the concept of social justice can be traced through Ancient and Renaissance philosophy, such as SocratesThomas AquinasSpinoza and Tom Paine, the term "social justice" only became used explicitly from the 1840s. Jesuit priest named Luigi Taparelli is typically credited with coining the term, and it spread during the revolutions of 1848 with the work of Antonio Rosmini-Serbati.)Wikipedia
  • They take a special vow of obedience to the Pope - Rule 13 of Ignatius's Rules for Thinking with the Church said: "That we may be altogether of the same mind and in conformity ... if [the Church] shall have defined anything to be black which to our eyes appears to be white, we ought in like manner to pronounce it to be black."[2]
  • They are referred to colloquially as "God's Soldiers"[6] or "God's Marines".[7]
  • They participated in the Counter Reformation, and in the implementation of the Second Vatican Council.
So now, John Boehner, A Roman Catholic and who attended a Co-educational Jesuit Catholic University is now helping the Democrats and Obama to destroy the TEA Party as well as to open the flood gates of our southern border where illegal immigrants will have an open invitation into the U.S.

Lets look at a map of the percentage of Catholics by country.



A map of Catholicism by population percentage.

Well, what do you know? If you look at the Latin countries below the United States, Mexico is 90% Catholic!
The majority of South America is between 70-90% Catholic!

If they pass this Amnesty Bill, then not only do we have Catholics coming in droves, but most of them will be Democratic in voting!

How did Hispanic Catholics Vote here in the U.S. in the last few Presidential Elections?


  • 2000  Hispanic Catholics Voted 65% Gore (Democrat) / 33% Bush (Republican)
  • 2004  Hispanic Catholics Voted 65% Kerry (Democrat) / 33% Bush (Republican)
  • 2008  Hispanic Catholics Voted 72% Obama (Democrat) / 26% McCain (Republican)
  • 2012  Hispanic Catholics Voted 75% Obama (Democrat) / 21% Romney (Republican)
It's easy to see why The Pope would love to have the border open here in the U.S.!

The U.S. Catholic population is changing as well:
While the proportion of the U.S. population that is Catholic – around a quarter – has remained fairly steady for several decades, there have been some striking demographic shifts. For example, the U.S. Catholic population has been heavily shaped by immigration and includes a rising share of Latinos. This is evident in the age structure of the U.S. Catholic population, in which nearly half of Catholics under age 40 are Hispanic (47%), compared with about one-in-six (16%) Catholics 65 and older. (Emphasis mine)
 Source : http://www.pewresearch.org/key-data-points/u-s-catholics-key-data-from-pew-research/#vote

Boehner is the Speaker for the Vatican, and not for the TEA Party or the Conservative side of the Republican Party.

It is apparent that Boehner is a Vatican Insider and a traitor! He is helping to change the voting demographics in the U.S,. and at the same time destroy Protestant Christianity here. 

The Counter Reformation is still being carried out here in our country, and Boehner is not the only loyal soldier of the Pope in our Halls of Congress. Six out of the nine Supreme Court Justices are Roman Catholic! :
When you have a majority of Catholics in the Supreme Court, and their first loyalty is to the Vatican, then policies of the Vatican will be enforced. Plain and simple.

In the case of the Gay marriage decision, William Blake, a political scientist concluded, “Catholic justices vote in ways that more closely adhere to the teachings of the Catholic Church than non-Catholic justices.” 

Religious affiliations may influence high-court votes, especially for Catholic justices, says William Blake, a political scientist. In an article published last year in the Political Research Quarterly, he analyzed the effect of religious affiliation on voting behavior between 1953 and 2007. This span includes both liberal Catholic justices and conservative Catholic justices (and liberal and conservative Protestants justices, and so forth). -Source
Another article titled "Vatican attempts to influence Supreme Court", (2010) explored the influence the Vatican may have when it comes to Supreme Court decisions:
Apart from the fact that one of the basic tenets of our form of government is the separation of church from state (a premise that is incumbent on the government but which the church seems to regularly ignore), in this case, we also have a foreign power, the Vatican, attempting to influence judicial decision making to have it more closely conform to the tenets of Catholic Christianity.
To what extent the 5 members of the Supreme Court who attended might be influenced by the archbishop's remarks we may never know, but it does indeed smack of interference on the part of the church in the workings of our judicial system.  
Although this is a very Christian country, our constitution requires our Supreme Court justices to make their decisions based on an interpretation of a very secular document, the Constitution of the United States, not on the dogma or precepts of any religion. One can imagine if there were nine supremes all of whom were devout Catholics the impact that a Vatican effort to influence their decisions could have. 
 One other thing to note is the fact that there is presently no Protestant on the Supreme Court.

According to the Catholic News Service, Catholics are still the largest Denomination in the Halls of Congress:
WASHINGTON (CNS) -- The 113th Congress includes some slight shifts in religious makeup over the previous session, with a few more Catholics, the first Buddhist in the Senate and the first Hindu to serve in either chamber.
It's a historic high for the number of Catholics in Congress, with 163, although that's just two more seats than the previous high point, when there were 161 Catholics in the 111th Congress of 2009-10.
That's an increase of seven seats over the 156 Catholics had in the 112th Congress.
Since at least the 1960s, Catholics have been the single largest denomination in Congress. [...]Another analysis finds that alumni of Jesuit colleges and universities account for nearly 10 percent of all members of Congress.
Protestant America is dying, and being transformed into a Catholic America. This is revealed in the book Smoke-Screens: Understanding the dangers of today's call for Christian Unity - By Jack Chick on pg 75 ;

 I questioned Dr. Rivera about the briefings he received in the Vatican when he was a Jesuit priest. I 
asked him if he was briefed on how the Vatican planned to take over the United States. He told me his 
indoctrination went back to the time of the Pilgrims. Because of the knowledge of the Inquisition and the 
slaughter of Christians by the Roman Catholic system, the early immigrants in America began passing 
laws to keep Jesuits out of this country and to outlaw the mass...to protect themselves from a Vatican 
take-over. These were Christian communities deeply concerned about the whore of Revelation. 
 Jesuits began arriving in America as early as the second group of Pilgrims. They used different 
names with I.D.'s. They were followed years later when the Vatican sent multitudes of Catholic families 
from England, Ireland and France posing as Protestants, into the colonies. These were plants. They were 
holding secret masses in defiance of the laws. In those days, no Roman Catholic was to hold any 
position in civil government. The Jesuits made sure this part of our history was erased and removed. 
 The next major move by the Jesuits was to destroy or control all the Christian schools across 
America. Throughout the years, Jesuits, working undercover, have gotten into special committees on 
school boards to remove the emphasis of the Bible and replace it with psychology as found in the 
Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius de Loyola, the founder of the Jesuit Society. Later, Catholic schools and 
universities sprang up all across the nation under the Jesuits. Today, they probably outnumber all the 
Christian schools and colleges put together. 
 The third stage was to move into the courts and legislation, and branches of the judiciary to take over 
as judges and lawyers, in order to manipulate the Constitution in their favor until it could be changed.
Once this was accomplished, the thrust was into politics to capture the political parties. Then the military
and the newspapers. Even back in the times of Lincoln over half the newspapers in the United States
were controlled by the Vatican.

To do more research about this, check out my radio series on the subject of the Jesuits at the following link:
Part 1 http://www.blogtalkradio.com/mark-matheny/2013/06/27/how-reagan-and-pope-conspired-to-hasten-demise-of-communism
Part 2 http://www.blogtalkradio.com/mark-matheny/2013/07/04/part-2how-reagan-and-pope-conspired-to-destroy-co-mmunism
Part 3 http://www.blogtalkradio.com/mark-matheny/2013/07/18/part-3how-reagan-and-pope-conspired-to-destroy-co-mmunism
Part 4 http://www.blogtalkradio.com/mark-matheny/2013/08/17/part-4-how-reagan-and-pope-conspired-to-destroy-communism
Part 5 http://www.blogtalkradio.com/mark-matheny/2013/09/12/part-5-how-reagan-and-pope-conspired-to-destroy-communism
Part 6 http://www.blogtalkradio.com/mark-matheny/2013/09/19/part-6-how-reagan-and-pope-conspired-to-destroy-communism
Part 7 http://www.blogtalkradio.com/mark-matheny/2013/09/26/part-7-how-reagan-and-pope-conspired-to-destroy-communism
Part 8 http://www.blogtalkradio.com/mark-matheny/2013/10/29/part-8-how-reagan-and-pope-conspired-to-destroy-communism
Part 9 http://www.blogtalkradio.com/mark-matheny/2013/11/15/part-9-how-reagan-and-pope-conspired-to-destroy-communism
Part 10 http://www.blogtalkradio.com/mark-matheny/2013/12/03/part-10-how-reagan-and-pope-conspired-to-destroy-communism






Obama Classmate: He Was A Lying, Drug Using, Homosexual Foreigner

Center for Western Journalism
December 2, 2014

Mia Marie Pope, who was a high school friend of Barack Obama (aka Barry Soetoro) in Hawaii during the 1970s, says that Obama identified himself as a foreigner in high school and was known as a crack-smoking homosexual.
First published on November 8, 2013

US Government Orders 14 Million Doses of Potassium Iodide

Huge purchase linked to ongoing Fukushima crisis?
Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
January 1, 2014
The Department of Health and Human Services has ordered 14 million doses of potassium iodide, the compound that protects the body from radioactive poisoning in the aftermath of severe nuclear accidents, to be delivered before the beginning of February.
Image: Potassium Iodide (YouTube).
According to a solicitation posted on the Federal Business Opportunities website, the DHHS asks contractors to supply, “potassium iodide tablet, 65mg, unit dose package of 20s; 700,000 packages (of 20s),” a total of 14 million tablets. The packages must be delivered on or before February 1, 2014.
Potassium iodide helps block radioactive iodine from being absorbed by the thyroid gland and is used by victims of severe nuclear accidents or emergencies. Under current regulations, states with populations living within 10 miles of a nuclear plant are encouraged, but not required, to maintain a supply of potassium iodide.
A search of the FedBizOpps website returns no other results regarding the purchase of potassium iodide from any government agency, suggesting that the DHHS bulk buy of the tablets is unprecedented in recent times.
The ongoing crisis at the Fukushima nuclear power plant has prompted concerns that the purchase is connected to the threat posed by radioactive debris washing up on the shores of the west coast or the potential for another natural disaster occurring in Japan which could impact the U.S.
“Governments usually respond to disasters very similarly; first move is to avoid panic,” writes The West Wire. “The Japanese didn’t want to panic the world, or tarnish their honor and now, as a consequence of their reluctance, Japanese citizens and international aid personal find themselves in a horrible state of being.”
“Panic is usually avoided by keeping their citizens as blind to the truth as possible, until confrontation with the truth becomes inevitable. The crucial question at this juncture; “would our government be reluctant about warning us of potential disaster, in an attempt to avoid panic?” 14 million doses of Potassium Iodide say that might just be the case.”
Last month it was revealed that 71 U.S. sailors who helped during the initial Fukushima relief efforts are suing the Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) after they returned with thyroid cancer, Leukemia, and brain tumors as a result of being exposed to radiation at 300 times the safe level.
TEPCO has repeatedly been caught lying in their efforts to downplay the scale of the disaster. In September it was confirmed that radiation readings around the power plant were 18 times higher than previously reported by TEPCO. After a tank leaked 300 tonnes of toxic water in August, groundwater radiation readings at the plant soared to 400,000 becquerels per litre, the highest reading since the nuclear accident occurred in March 2011.
Top scientists have warned that if another major earthquake hits Fukushima, which is almost inevitable, it would mean “bye bye Japan” and the complete evacuation of the west coast of North America.
Now that radioactive debris is hitting the West Coast of North America, numerous different animals and sea life are suffering from mysterious diseases, including 20 bald eagles that have died in Utah over the last few weeks alone.

The Great Income Divide: IRS data shows 50 percent of households make less than $35,000 per year. Top 10 percent pay 68 percent of income taxes.

Mybudget360
January 1, 2014

A major theme throughout 2013 revolved around a booming stock market and real estate sector.  Alongside this theme however was also the one of growingincome inequality.  The stock market generated one of its best years but only a small portion of the population benefitted since most Americans do not own stocks outright.  The real estate boom was largely driven by big money investors leveraging the unprecedented Quantitative Easing machinery from the Federal Reserve.  Yet most households have little access to this debt since deleveraging is still occurring for households.  The only consumer debt sectors to boom in 2013 came from student loans and auto debt.  Not exactly two sectors to build up your wealth portfolio.  We see how the great income divide is splitting the nation even when it comes to paying income taxes.  The adjusted gross income for half of households in the US is less than $35,000.  This group pays 11.55 percent of all income taxes.  The top 10 percent pay 68 percent of all income taxes.  This is an expected trend when wealthinequality is at levels last seen since the Gilded Age.
The growing income divide
The IRS tax data is one of the best sources to mine for information since all US households are required to file a tax return short of a tiny group.  This is no survey data but actual raw data based on real incomes.  It helps to shine a light on what is really being generated in the US economy based on income.
The data highlights a complicated tax system that doesn’t really show the entire picture.  The below data is a reflection of income taxes and does not capture the full scope of taxes including FICA, state taxes, sales taxes, and property taxes that tend to be more regressive.  Income tax by its nature is a progressive tax; the more you earn the bigger your share:
irs tax data
The chart highlights the widening gap from the top to the bottom.  Even within the top, the gap is growing dramatically.  For example, to be in the top 10 percent of households you would need an AGI of $120,136.  To be in the top 5 percent, you would need an income of $167,728.  Not a major difference here.  However, to reach the top 1 percent you would need an AGI of $388,905.  The top 10 percent of households pay 45.4 percent of all income taxes.  Since many of these households control the bulk of stocks and wealth, a banner year for 2013 will mean tax collections should be healthy for the upcoming year.
What is startling is the lower range of the curve.  The bottom 50 percent of AGI households has an income cutoff of $34,823.  Over 68 million US households live on an AGI of $35,000 or less.  This is telling given the rising costs of college education, healthcare, real estate, and food.
The rising income inequality in the nation is no secret or mystery.  In fact, this growing income inequality dates back many decades ago:
gini us income
Since the 1950s the trend has only moved in one direction.  People often talk about top tax brackets and how high income taxes are but if you look at the above chart, the average tax rate for those in the top 1 percent is 23.5 percent.  How is that when the top tax bracket is 39.6 percent?  First, many people have better methods of tax avoidance: IRAs, 401ks, dividend income, real estate deductions, etc.  Since the bulk of wealth is in the hands of thetop 10 percent, this group is already lowering their tax burden via these deductions and beneficial tax structures.  Since the typical American is living paycheck to paycheck with little saved for retirement these tax reducers don’t really help.  Besides, their income tax burden share is minimal.  However, their other tax burdens are large as a proportion to their income.  This is usually ignored when people talk about how little the working class pay in this country as they try to scapegoat the disappearing middle class.
More to the point, the middle class by definition should be well, the middle.  In this case, being middle class is a household making $35,000 or more.  We often hear about $250,000 being middle class by the media but by the IRS tax data, this is closer to being in the top 2 percent of AGI.  Not exactly middle class when 98 percent are below you.  Even if we look at the bottom 75 percent, the cutoff here is $70,492; certainly a far away cry from $250,000.  Or even the top 5 percent starting point of $167,728.
The growing income and wealth divide in the US is problematic.  The top 10 percent control nearly 75 percent of all wealth in the country, the true sign of economic prowess:
wealth-inequality
This also means the other 90 percent of the population has 25 percent of the remaining wealth to divide up.  You would think a banner year for stocks and real estate would leave everyone feeling happy.  But when you look at income data, you begin to understand why regular American families are still dismayed at the state of the current economy.

Rabbi Predicts Messiah's Coming after death of Ariel Sharon

SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS!!!
Mark Matheny
January 1, 2014

Rabbi Yitzhak Kaduri predicted back in April of 2007, that after the death of Ariel Sharon, the Messiah would come.  A few months before his death, he told his disciples that he had personally met the Messiah. He told them the Messiah had appeared to him. He then wrote the name of Messiah in a note.

The Rabbi wrote the name of Messiah in a hidden message using the first letter of each word in the sentence of the note which resulted in the letters Y,H,SH,U,A or Yehoshua.

In a message given in his synagogue on Yom Kippur, the rabbi told his disciples how to recognize the Messiah, and said the Messiah would appear to Israel after the death of Ariel Sharon.


Back in 2005, Ariel Sharon- the Prime Minister of Israel at the time- suffered a stroke, and then another one in 2006 which resulted in a coma. He has remained in a coma to this day.

According to several news accounts, his health is now deteriorating.

According to the Independent his health is getting worse:
Amir Marom, a spokesman for the Tel Hashomer hospital, where Mr Sharon has been treated for most of the past eight years, said that the former leader's medical condition has “deteriorated in the past few days”.[...] Israeli media reported that Mr Sharon was suffering from kidney problems and that his family was at the hospital. In September, Mr Sharon underwent surgery to insert a new feeding tube.
France 24 reports his condition as "life threatening".

We may soon see if Rabbi Yitzhak Kaduri was correct in his prediction.......

Is America About To Reach A Breaking Point? Anger Grows As Unemployment Benefits Get Cut

The Economic Collapse
December 31, 2013

Breaking PointIn America today, there are close to 50 million people living in poverty and there are more than 100 million people that get money from the federal government every month.  As the middle class disintegrates, poverty is climbing tounprecedented levels.  Even though the stock market has been setting record high after record high, the amount of anger and frustration boiling just under the surface in our nation grows with each passing day.  And now extended unemployment benefits have been cut off for 1.3 millionunemployed Americans, and it is being projected that a total of 5 millionunemployed Americans will lose their benefits by the end of 2014.  In addition, as I have written about previously, 47 million Americans recently had their food stamp benefits reduced.  The conditions for a "perfect storm" are certainly being created.  So how much longer will it be until we see all of this anger and frustration boil over in the streets of our major cities?  Is America about to reach a breaking point?

Vladimir Putin vows 'total annihilation' of terrorists after Volgograd bombings

Telegraph
December 31, 2013

Russian president vows relentless pursuit of those behind suicide attacks as city begins to bury its dead

Vladimir Putin has vowed to pursue terrorists to their “total annihilation”, in his first public comments since the Volgograd suicide bombings.
In his traditional New Year's Eve address, which was broadcast at midnight from the Far Eastern city of Khabarovsk, (5pm in Moscow), he praised Russia’s unity in the face of both terrorism and natural disasters and promised to continue an unrelenting fight against the bombers.
“In the past year we have faced problems and serious challenges including the inhuman terror attacks in Volgograd and unprecedented disasters in the Far East,” he said.
“Dear friends, we bow our heads in memory of the victims of these terrible attacks. We will strongly and decisively continue the battle against terrorists until their total annihilation,” he said.
Mr Putin earlier provoked a storm of condemnation on the Russian internet on Sunday after the message broadcast an hour earlier in Kamchatka, Russia’s most easterly timezone, made no mention of the attacks.

REPORT: THE NSA CAN SECRETLY ACTIVATE AN IPHONE’S MICROPHONE, CAMERA… AND THAT’S NOT ALL

The Blaze
December 30, 2013

The National Security Agency can remotely activate an iPhone’s camera and microphone without the user knowing, according to a leaked document obtained by German news magazine Der Spiegel.
The NSA Can Reportedly Secretly Activate An iPhones Microphone, Camera
According to a leaked document, the NSA can secretly activate an iPhone’s microphone or camera. (Image source: Shutterstock)
The spy agency can also interrupt text messages, access contact lists and use cell towers to identify the location of the phone, according to The Daily Dot:
According to leaked documents, the NSA claims a 100 percent success rate when it comes to implanting iOS devices with spyware. The documents suggest that the NSA needs physical access to a device to install the spyware—something the agency has achieved by rerouting shipments of devices purchased online—but a remote version of the exploit is also in the works.
Here is the leaked doc:
The NSA Can Reportedly Secretly Activate An iPhones Microphone, Camera
(Image source: Der Spiegel / The Daily Dot)
The security researcher that initially obtained the documents noted that this presents one of two possibilities.
“Either [the NSA] have a huge collection of exploits that work against Apple products, meaning they are hoarding information about critical systems that American companies produce, and sabotaging them, or Apple sabotaged it themselves,” Jacob Appelbaum said at a conference.
“Do you think Apple helped them with that?” he asked. “I hope Apple will clarify that.”
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Media Disinformation and the Framing of the Syrian War

Global Research
December 30, 2013
The architects of our modern system of manufactured consent and official propaganda have long known the importance of the mass media in framing public opinion on any given event. To the pathocrats who blazed the trail toward our modern era of information warfare and opinion control, facts themselves were malleable, subject not to objective reality but to the way they were perceived and internalized by a credulous public. As Ivy Lee, the man that the Rockefellers hired to invent the modern PR industry after the Ludlow massacre, put it:
“It is not the facts alone that strike the popular mind, but the way in which they take place and in which they are published that kindle the imagination…Besides, what is a fact? The effort to state an absolute fact is simply an attempt to…give you my interpretation of the facts.”
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This article was first published on December 20, 2013