text: CONSUMERLAB Consumer privacy in an online world An Ericsson Consumer Insight Summary Report, February 2012 introduction Ericsson ConsumerLab has done research during the past year on consumer awareness, attitudes and behavior when it comes to privacy, trust and security when using the internet. The report Consumer Privacy in an Online World, covering internet users in US, India, UK, Germany and Sweden, looks into the challenges that internet poses to consumers' privacy and seeks to understand people's expectations of over-the-top services, internet players and operators in this regard. Point of departure for the report is the continuous evolution of social media. More and more people are sharing personal information on social networking sites on a daily basis. A driving force behind this development is the smartphone gaining popularity worldwide, making sharing even more convenient and accessible wherever you are. In the long term – given that in the networked society there will be more than 50 billion connected and communicating devices – privacy will become increasingly important. trust On an individual level trust is a prerequisite for business success in the online space According to the International Data Corporation (IDC), there will be an estimated 35 zettabytes (35x1021 – 35 followed by 21 zeroes bytes) of digital records worldwide 2020. This suggests that it will become even more important for people to safeguard their privacy. But although awareness is increasing, conclusions from the study which forms a basis for this report clearly shows consumers still lack a sense of urgency. privacy Privacy harm is caused when producers misuse consumers' personal information, either by own fault or if third parties somehow manage to breach the safeguards sharing The act of sharing can primarily be defined as the individual's allowing of selected others to access their personal information Ericsson ConsumerLab – The Voice of the Consumer Ericsson ConsumerLab is a knowledge-based organization, our main offering is insight. We have more than 15 years' experience in consumer research, which involves studying people's values and behaviors, including the way they act and think about ICT products and services. We provide consumer insight to influence strategy, marketing and product management within the Ericsson Group. Our knowledge helps operators develop attractive revenue-generating services. We gain our knowledge through a global research program based on annual interviews with 100,000 individuals in more than 40 countries and 10 megacities – statistically representing the views of 1.1 billion people. We use both quantitative and qualitative research, and spend hundreds of hours on in-depth interviews and focus groups with consumers from different cultures. Our research includes general market and consumer trends and in-depth insights into specific areas. To be close to the market and consumers, Ericsson ConsumerLab has team members in most of Ericsson's market regions. Being part of the Ericsson Group gives us a thorough understanding of the ICT market and business models. This broad knowledge is unique and is the basis for our credibility and integrity. We see the big picture, understand where the individual fits in, and know what this means for future trends and services. CONSUMER PRIVACY IN AN ONLINE WORLD – AN ERICSSON CONSUMER INSIGHT SUMMARY REPORT www.ericsson.com/consumerlab 2 GROWING AWARENESS OF PRIVACY CONCERN Sharing has become a daily habit In a connected world more and more data will be shared online. Consumers are already sharing tremendous amounts about themselves on social networking sites like Facebook, Google+ and Twitter, as well as on local sites such as Orkut in India. As much as 63 percent in the survey say they log on to a social networking site on a daily basis. Many spend hours every day connected to others through social networks online. It is fair to say sharing has become a daily habit – and that it is social networking sites that have paved the way. While new technology is pushing the envelope, consumers are quickly adapting and adopting these new and easy ways of displaying themselves online. And it is not only people who normally consider themselves to be outspoken about their private lives out in the real world who are sharing intimate details on the internet. Individuals are becoming more and more open and are inviting people to events which they would not have invited them to before the era of social networking. People are saying they are being more open and sharing more information now than they would have ever considered or expected just a couple of years ago. Social networking sites are evolving to be more than just a fun pastime – they are becoming tools people use to shape their own identity. Demand for privacy services will increase In the light of these new habits of sharing – how important is privacy for consumers? On the contrary of what one might expect, experts say that nothing indicates that consumers' wish for privacy is diminishing. Ryan Calo, director of the Consumer Privacy Project at the Stanford Center for Internet & Society, argue that experience is everything when it comes to trust and privacy concern. In the past, our privacy was "protected" by default, since it was complicated in practice to obtain information on one another. Today, when there is tons of information about us easy accessible online, privacy concerns will surge if we land up in situations in which our privacy is threatened. According to Ryan Calo, better legal protection for privacy is needed, but he is also convinced there is a market for commercial services that protect consumers. He sees a growing demand in this area. "People will pay more for something if they can buy it from a site that they perceive has better privacy. So you can use the market to compete over these things." Time spent on social networking sites >3 h/day Several times/week 1-3 h/day Once/week <1 h/day More rarely Never Base: 3818 internet users in US, UK, Germany, Sweden & India. Ryan Calo primarily works with a concept entitled "privacy by design", the idea that applications, websites, etc., should be designed in a way that consumers understand what they are doing – and how their personal information will be used. — Ryan Calo CONSUMER PRIVACY IN AN ONLINE WORLD – AN ERICSSON CONSUMER INSIGHT SUMMARY REPORT 3 Social media usage increases awareness When asked a direct question – all consumers say privacy is important. But when comparing with other issues and needs a slightly different picture emerges. A majority of the consumers in the survey are conscious about privacy issues online – but only a minority is very concerned. However, among younger respondents – who also are on social networking sites the most – the number is much higher. More than 4 out of 5 between the ages of 20 and 24 say they worry a lot about their privacy when using the internet. This suggests the usage of social networking sites in fact increases privacy concerns. Consumers who are using location based services to check in worry more about their privacy online than people who don't use these features. Sharing your location with your smartphone thus increases the awareness of possible privacy harm among its users. At the same time a lot of people feel uncomfortable about sharing their current whereabouts with others in their social network. Privacy online not a key concern – yet Even though the awareness of online companies using consumer data for commercial purposes is growing, there still is little change in behavior when it comes to sharing information online. Consumers trust the system and con- venience prevails as long as no harm on a personal level is inflicted. Despite the fact that consumers are aware of threats and issues, they either don't think they will get in jeopardy themselves, or they simply think the benefits of the internet outweighs the risks of being subjected to privacy harm. The awareness of privacy issues is increasing, but there is still no sense of immediate urgency. Attitudes towards different statements on a scale from 1 to 7 where 1 means "I don't agree at all" and 7 means "I agree completely" I don't agree (1–2) Middle (3–5) I very much agree (6–7) My family is more important to me than my career To me, it is important to stay up-to-date with news and headlines It's important to me to always be reachable wherever I am To me it's important to be able to access the Internet wherever I am I worry about my privacy when using the Internet Even when I can afford them, I'm not willing to pay much for new technical gadgets or services I spend a lot of time organizing and planning my and my family's activities I'm constantly on the lookout for the most high-tech products avaliable Carrying the latest model of moblie phone gives a good impression to others The design of a mobile phone is more important than its features 0% 100% Base: 3818 internet users in US, UK, Germany, Sweden & India. CONSUMER PRIVACY IN AN ONLINE WORLD – AN ERICSSON CONSUMER INSIGHT SUMMARY REPORT 4 not connecting the dots People claim to be aware that companies have the right to use their information – no less than 80 percent think online companies can access and use their personal data for commercial purposes. Yet they fail to make the connection between their personal information, for example in emails, and the targeted ads appearing on their screens. As many as 54 percent in the survey answered they would share less if they received personalized ads about something they discussed in an email. This is curious considering that for example Gmail automatically scans emails to add context-sensitive advertisements to them. Joseph Turow, professor of Communication at the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School of Communication, expresses it as consumers not connecting the dots. They do not understand that their personal information is being used in a way that they themselves find unacceptable. He argue people in general are not aware of what data mining means, whereby a company can get a complete picture of you from all of the fragmented pieces that are out there on the web and use it, for example, to tailor ads to fit your profile on a social networking site. "People know they're being followed, but they really don't understand what data mining is. They don't understand the links that take place, the connections of the dots and all of that. And when that is brought to their attention… They get concerned." — Joseph Turow Do you think the following companies can access and use your personal data for commercial or other purposes? Share of respondents who say they know or believe companies can do this. Social networking sites 86% Online companies 80% Internet service providers 75% Mobile phone operators 75% IP telephony and chat providers 73% Government authorities 73% Operating system providers Financial institutions Individuals not acquainted with you 72% 65% 64% Base: 3818 internet users in US, UK, Germany, Sweden & India. CONSUMER PRIVACY IN AN ONLINE WORLD – AN ERICSSON CONSUMER INSIGHT SUMMARY REPORT 80% of all people sharing information on social networking sites are selective with whom they share personal information Base: 3818 internet users in US, UK, Germany, Sweden & India. 5 Consumers trust the system There is a belief in the market as benign and self-regulatory – and people think companies would ask for permission before using any personal information. They reason that producers need to – and are expected to – behave; otherwise they would go out of business. Trust is thus a prerequisite for the interdependent relationship between producers and consumers. The study also shows that consumers are most concerned about other individuals getting access to their personal data – not commercial companies. The government and financial institutions are also a greater cause for concern than companies. Like one study participant from Sweden said: "If it's only companies [that can access your information], you don't have to be careful about how you use your smartphone." People think they already have protection When it comes to safeguarding their privacy online and on their mobile phone, people tend to believe they are already protected. For example, 22 percent in the survey are under the impression that they have an antivirus app installed on their mobile phone, and 1 out of 5 respondents claim they have an app or service that lets them surf the internet anonymously, leaving no trace. What would make you share less on the internet on a scale from 1 to 7 where 7 means "It would severely affect my behavior? Share of respondents who answered 6 or 7. If there were no laws protecting my personal information online, making it accessible to anyone 55% 54% If someone I know was a victim of Internet fraud 53% If the government sent me a letter asking me to stop downloading copyright content 47% If I received a text message from a store, offering me a discount, just as I was passing If I started a new job that required a more professional demeanour 42% 28% — Andrew, 28, US 26% If my friends stopped sharing information online None of the above "I mean if people like Google and Yahoo! and Skype had access to my conversations, I think they'd probably get a good laugh." 64% If I received a sales call offering me a product or a service I had just searched for on the Internet If I received personalized ads on my computer, containing offers for something I had discussed in an e-mail conversation 12% 0% 70% Base: 3818 internet users in US, UK, Germany, Sweden & India. CONSUMER PRIVACY IN AN ONLINE WORLD – AN ERICSSON CONSUMER INSIGHT SUMMARY REPORT 6 Coming reinstatement of the walls As sharing has become an invaluable part of people's lives, users on social networking sites are at the same time becoming more and more conscious of what they share and to whom. Your digital image is turning out to be increasingly important in a connected world where your identity to a large extent is shaped online. Consumers' sharing behavior is to a great degree determined by what is considered socially acceptable, which in turn is evolving with time. People are least inclined to share personal information about their medical records or financial situation, while music playlists, religious beliefs and current mood are seen as safe to share with everyone. 3 out of 5 respondents in the survey say they would be very concerned about sharing family photos or video "The things we share with our friends we don't share with our parents." — Abbas, 18, India "I think the market for reinstating the walls that we used to have – where there were our friendfriends and our workfriends and our other kinds of friends – is coming back." clips from family vacations online if they had no control over who could see them. These results show how important user control is when it comes to sharing. On social networking sites, friends are sorted into different groups to decide who gets to view what – some don't get the full story. What is socially acceptable to share, or not, differs between markets. In India, users on social networking sites are hesitant to upload any information regarding their romantic relationship status – if they are not married. In the US, young people worry they will not get into law school if they are showing themselves off as irresponsible online. Susan Freiwald, Professor at University of San Fransisco, is predicting a need to "reinstate the walls". Users will want to – and expect to – have full control over their digital image online. — Susan Freiwald What would you be concerned about sharing online if you had no control over who could see it? Base: 3818 internet users in US, UK, Germany, Sweden & India. CONSUMER PRIVACY IN AN ONLINE WORLD – AN ERICSSON CONSUMER INSIGHT SUMMARY REPORT 7 low awareness of mobile threats The mobile phone is the most private media device that you have. It can be lost or stolen, and is therefore vulnerable to privacy harm. At the same time, smartphones are considered to be safer than computers by most individuals. Smartphones are not seen as actual computers – people do not worry much about getting viruses on their phones today. But since the importance of the mobile phone is increasing, consumers are saying they are willing to pay in order to feel it is protected. 36 percent of the respondents in the survey answered they would like to get an application for their mobile phone that protects it from viruses and intrusion. Privacy not top-of-mind when downloading apps Consumers rarely reflect on security when downloading applications for the smartphone. People seldom, or never, refuse to download an app just because it wants access to the phone address book or GPS. Neither do they consider the company behind the app – people tend not to care about brand name when choosing what app to download. When asked, a low price, user ratings and recommendations from friends are equally important as privacy issues and brand name. How would you grade the importance of the following when choosing which app to download? Share of respondents who answered 6 or 7 on a scale from 1-7 where 7 means "Very important". A low price The type of information the app wants to access Recommendations from my friends 51% 50% 48% That it's from a brand I trust 48% User ratings 47% Base: 3818 internet users in US, UK, Germany, Sweden & India. Perceived use and demand for mobile phone protection services 36% Yes, I already have it No, but I would like to get one No, and I'm not interested 22% 23% Base: 3818 internet users in US, UK, Germany, Sweden & India. CONSUMER PRIVACY IN AN ONLINE WORLD – AN ERICSSON CONSUMER INSIGHT SUMMARY REPORT 8 Opportunities in a connected world Which company do you trust the most? Share of respondents who trust at least one of the following types of companies the most. Trust the most Base: 3818 internet users in US, UK, Germany, Sweden & India. In the ICT industry, there is an unanimity that privacy issues will grow in importance. The continuous evolution of social media, and the growing number or devices used accessing the internet in the network society, will put privacy high on the agenda. Facebook turned out to be the least trusted brand, consumers across all markets tend to see operators as more trustworthy than other players. Operators are therefore well-positioned for providing privacy and security services when the need comes. More and more sensitive information will be stored on more and more open platforms as company unique systems will be too expensive and cumbersome to use. Thus, hackers – illegal as well as legal – will be able to access and compile data into severe and possibly harmful combinations. People and companies will get hurt and there will be a power struggle between good and bad forces to have the smartest system to protect or to break data. Privacy – a hygiene factor In a near future, privacy will become a hygiene factor for consumers. Users must understand what they are doing – and how their personal information is being used. Systems and services holding consumer information must be privacy and data protection compliant right from the start – this should not be bolted on afterwards. Operators trusted as guardians of privacy As awareness turns into concerns, consumers will realize that they will not be able to manage all their privacy handling themselves. They will need to find a trusted provider that can help them safeguard their privacy online. In the survey, the respondents got to choose which brands they trusted the most and the least respectively in terms of privacy concerns. While However, consumer awareness and concern are lagging in relation to industry activities and technical development. Online privacy will thus not likely be a consumer driven issue, but rather an industry driven one. Willingness to pay for security and control Today there is an opportunity for companies to brand themselves as one who would never misuse any personal information. Though, in the future, branding yourself as safe will most likely be a hygiene factor rather than a competitive advantage. CONSUMER PRIVACY IN AN ONLINE WORLD – AN ERICSSON CONSUMER INSIGHT SUMMARY REPORT 9 Willingness to pay for security and control By looking at the survey results, it is obvious there is a growing consumer demand for services protecting mobile phones from viruses and intrusion, as well as for apps and services that let the user be in control. Martin Ortlieb, Google, foresee that companies handling consumer data will need to be transparent and to let people be in control over their own personal information. "Giving access to those settings is the way to make it easy for people to be in charge of what data is being stored. I find that if you don't let people know this, and you're not very clear on your policies, that can make people very suspicious." — Martin Ortlieb Apps and services that let you know who has access to your personal information online, as well as let you control your information being shared and stored online, are considered worth paying for according to the respondents in the survey. 36 percent would want to pay for an app or service that lets you know who has access to your personal information. 36 percent would also want to pay to browse the internet anonymously, and 24 percent say they are willing to pay for the ability to erase selected personal information that is stored online. Opportunities in a connected world 1. "Personalized offerings" E.g. discount based on interest/usage 2. "KNOWLEDGE & CONTROL offerings" E.g. let consumers know who has access to their personal information 3. "Protection offerings" Protection against e.g. intrusion and virus 4. "hygiene level – privacy by design" Branding Personalized offerings At the same time, consumers feel it is okay for companies to gather information about them as long as it is considered beneficial. This can for example be achieved by offering consumers targeted and personalized ads. People overall tend to appreciate targeted ads – likely because they would prefer it over the alternative of spam and uninteresting advertisements. This is especially true if they are financially compensated for letting companies use their personal information for commercial purposes, for example by receiving discounts or coupons in return. 44 percent of the respondents in the survey say they would consider receiving discounts and offers on products or services based on their personal interests a positive aspect of companies accessing their personal data. "If it was between not having Google and Google advertising – I'll take Google advertising." — Lindsay, 27, US Still, it is essential that the consumers feel they are behind the steering wheel. An intuitive user control is needed, and furthermore, consumer trust must never be violated. While people say they consider receiving discounts and offers based on their personal data the most positive aspect of companies accessing their personal information, they feel most negative towards receiving personalized ads based on what they share on social networking sites. People also tend to be pragmatic when it comes to these matters. As one respondent from the US said during a focus group interview: CONSUMER PRIVACY IN AN ONLINE WORLD – AN ERICSSON CONSUMER INSIGHT SUMMARY REPORT 10 Positive aspects of commercial companies using personal data Discounts and offers on products/services based on my personal interests 44% Discounts and offers on products/services based on my gender, age group, zip code etc. 34% Discounted calling plans in exchange for accessing my personal information 34% Discounts and offers on products/services based on my current location 34% Discount coupons based on my personal surfing/calling habits 31% Free online services in exchange for accessing my personal information Discounts and offers on products/services based on my income span, my sexual orientation etc. Personalized online ads based on the information I share on social networking services 29% 21% 18% Base: 3818 internet users in US, UK, Germany, Sweden & India. Facts about the survey Quantitative study Online web questionnaire among internet users age 15-54. 3818 respondents in five countries: US, Sweden, India, UK and Germany Qualitative study Expert interviews 13 focus groups of smartphone owners ages 16-20 and 25-35. 84 interview respondents in: US (New York City, NY and Davis,CA), Sweden (Stockholm and Hässleholm) and India (Bangalore) 5 expert interviews, mapping the academic debate. Ryan Calo Stanford Center for Internet & Society Daniel Solove George Washington University Law School, Washington, DC Susan Freiwald University of San Francisco School of Law Martin Ortlieb Researcher at Google, Zürich Joseph Turow University of Pennsylvania Annenberg School of Communication Ericsson ConsumerLab conducted the research in Q1 and Q2 2011. CONSUMER PRIVACY IN AN ONLINE WORLD – AN ERICSSON CONSUMER INSIGHT SUMMARY REPORT 11 Ericsson is the world's leading provider of technology and services to telecom operators. Ericsson is the leader in 2G, 3G and 4G mobile technologies, and provides support for networks with over 2 billion subscribers and has the leading position in managed services. The company's portfolio comprises mobile and fixed network infrastructure, telecom services, software, broadband and multimedia solutions for operators, enterprises and the media industry. The Sony Ericsson and ST-Ericsson joint ventures provide consumers with feature-rich personal mobile devices. Ericsson is advancing its vision of being the "prime driver in an all-communicating world" through innovation, technology, and sustainable business solutions. Working in 180 countries, more than 90,000 employees generated revenue of SEK 203.3 billion (USD 28.2 billion) in 2010. Founded in 1876 with the headquarters in Stockholm, Sweden, Ericsson is listed on NASDAQ OMX, Stockholm and NASDAQ New York. The content of this document is subject to revision without notice due to continued progress in methodology, design and manufacturing. Ericsson shall have no liability for any error or damage of any kind resulting from the use of this document Ericsson SE-164 80 Stockholm, Sweden Telephone: +46 10 719 00 00 Email: [email protected] www.ericsson.com EN/LZT 138 0734 R1A © Ericsson AB 2012


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Introductory note from Jason Pratt: I am here appending in several parts some excerpts from an unpublished book of mine (not CoJ incidentally), originally composed late 99/early 2000, wherein I work out a progressive synthetic metaphysic. The topic of this Section of chapters is ethical grounding; and in the first several entries I analyzed crippling problems along the three general lines of ethical explanation, including general theism. After this though, I returned to the argument I had already been developing for several hundred (currently unpublished) pages, and used those developed positions to begin solving the philosophical dilemmas I had covered in previous entries. Along the way, I ran into a potential problem last seen back in my (unpublished) Section Three; but slotting that problem into my developing argument allowed me to discover that I should believe that a 3rd Person of God exists. Having covered some introductory inferences regarding the 3rd Person's relationship to the other two Persons in the substantial unity of God, I proceeded to consider some preliminary issues in regard to requirements for personal interaction between the 3rd Person and each of us, as persons; and I inferred that an encouragement to avoid accepting what we perceive to be contradictory, would be the minimum communication we could expect from the Holy Spirit. After considering what an intention to foster contradictions would involve, first for God and then for myself, I reached the topic of enacted human sin; and I began considering the consequences of my sin. This allowed me to also spend some time, discussing anti-theistic arguments from evil and/or suffering, in context of my own developing argument.
In my most recent entry, I returned again to considering the relationship of sin and death in me, raising the technical possibility of annihilation: something that I might achieve through my sin, but only if God allowed me to go that far. But (I ended my previous entry asking), would God allow me to do that?
This entry concludes chapter 37, "death", in my original text. Some side commentary I would otherwise relegate to footnotes, is included below in [Footnote] text. Where I thought a footnote would be too disruptive to represent in my main text, I have put it into the comments below instead; this will be marked where so.
Incidentally, this would be another good time to read that disclaimer over there to the right, about how not every journal entry necessarily reflects the beliefs of every Cadre member. Some of us may now, or in the future, be annihilationists, and are free to post defenses of that insofar as they can see to do so (or may have done so already). Links to annihilation defenses are also welcome in the comments below. One popular internet-accessible defense of annihilationism can be found here, in a chapter from Dr. Samuele Bacchiocchi's Immortality or Resurrection? While I could engage in a exegetical analysis of the topic, too, my series is designed to proceed along a different route.
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I suppose it is technically possible that God might choose to let me utterly 'win' in that fashion; not merely to win a battle here and there (although a Pyrrhic victory it would certainly be!), but to win the war I instigate against Him. I push myself away from, or even clamor to be over against, the source of my life; and God could possibly say, "Fine, if that is what you wish, you may have your wish"--at which point I would cease to exist, for I am not the Independent, and it is intrinsically contradictory for there to be more than one Independent, and therefore even if He wanted to, God could not grant me that scope for my wish. Nor could I ever attain that scope in any other fashion.
But, I do not think He would ever choose to allow me to reap annihilation, either. Since this would be the final renouncement of any possible fair-togetherness between me and any other entity (including God), God would be acting to complete non-togetherness--God Himself would be acting against His own intrinsic eternal action of self-existence! It would be God, then, Who was being non-righteous! It couldn't even be justice; not justice of any kind of righteousness! It certainly couldn't be love: that God Himself Who is love in His own trinitarian self-existence, should act to deny the fulfillment of love to me, not only to delay that fulfillment until a later time but to actually act against such a fulfillment ever happening--what worse contradiction of theology could be imagined?! I might as well deny the reality of the orthodox Trinity at once and convert to Islam or perhaps to Arianism and be done with it! [see first comment below for an extended footnote here on Arianism]
If God annihilated me, I would cease to exist; and if I stopped existing, then it would be impossible for Him to act in such a way that His love toward me should be fulfilled--and how could His love toward me be fulfilled, without my becoming a true and good person... a true and good son?
No: I conclude that God would choose to refuse such a wish from me. I might intend to cut myself from His apron-strings, so to speak--or rather from my dependence on His life-support!--but I do not think He would let me fully succeed. It would not be consistent with a fulfillment of His love; and God shall, God will, be self-consistent.
And, let me say that I can test this experimentally, if I dare--or rather, I can draw conclusions from past experiences that I can treat as 'experiments'.
I have sinned.
Yet, here I am.
Yet I must and shall die; it is a necessary consequence of cutting myself off from Life.
But then again, I have not (nor apparently ever can, nor ever shall) cut myself off totally from Life. So the death I shall face is not of that sort. And this is a grace of God; for how could 'I' benefit from achieving non-existence!?
What sort of death remains?
It must be only a partial death--to some degree, perhaps to an extreme degree, but no further. And it must be a shadow of something that God Himself can, or does, accomplish.
So, what sorts of divine 'death' have I covered so far?
If I start from where I am, and work backward through creation to God, the first divine action of death I find (although not the most basic) is the death God willingly undertakes in order to create from Himself not-God entities--such as Nature and myself. [This notion was inferred and more extensively covered in a previous, currently unpublished section of chapters.]
Here, in effect, God willingly but partially kills Himself, making that which results from this action to be something without His full divine attributes--making indeed a 'portion' at all, a not-God creation distinct from begetting (or proceeding). This creation does retain some real shadow of His attributes--there would be no point to completely annihilating (only) a 'part' of Himself, for subtracting zero from infinity leaves infinity and nothing else! No creation would happen, in such a case. The creation retains partial aspects of God, which to the creation seem to be positive aspects (and relatively they are, insofar as they are functionally distinctive aspects); but compared to their Origin they must be negative aspects, for they are less--and result in less--than God.
When God created me, He would have created me (in absence of other factors--and I will discuss this later) in as perfect a union with Himself as I could be, while yet still being distinctly a 'me'. I would have attributes proper to God's intentions for me; perhaps not immediately all the attributes He intends for me, especially if I have some processes of growth to undergo, but still as much as possible for my condition at any given moment. And because I am an intentive (although derivative) creature, some of those aspects would be linked to the state of my intentions.
So if I choose to shatter my relationship with God in any fashion, then there would occur by necessity (and the necessities would already be fully known to God, and certainly planned as such, 'in advance' from my perspective, in case I did choose this) certain consequences contingent on that partial severance which I have (unlike God) rebelliously enacted.
Although I don't know whether I can establish this deductively, I suspect the consequential state would involve a reduction of the infusion of divine Life into me, and some sort of loss of my effective ability to do sentient activities: basically to love and to think. The actual results might be any number of things in particular; but I notice, in point of fact, that my ability to think rationally and to interact personally with you my neighbor, and the emotions related to these events, are very often at the (non-)mercy of mere physical reactions.
Furthermore, it seems to me that more often than not, people who continually choose to abuse their relationship to reality--whether or not they 'know' God--end up hampering whatever abilities they would otherwise 'naturally' have in this regard.
A person who, for instance, insists on drinking harmful amounts of alcohol into her body for pleasure, shall sooner or later face frightful physical consequences, including emotional instability, interpersonal incompetency, and rational ineffectiveness.
A person who insists on treating other persons as mere tools for his or her own sexual pleasure, shall sooner or later become psychologically and even physically addicted to the thrills involved--leading again to increased emotional instability, interpersonal incompetency, and rational ineffectiveness.
A person who insists on cheating to get his way, sooner or later ends up unable to effectively discern what is true and what is false; unable to build effective relations between himself and other people; and unable to control the increasing paranoia of his emotional life.
These are merely some examples to illustrate the principle. I presume that you, my reader, once you understand the principle, will be able to discern your own examples in your life around you.
(Assuming, of course, that you have not already poisoned yourself physically and psychologically until you yourself can no longer reliably discern reality with some effective rationality and empathy.)
There might be, as I have said, other consequent effects involved for me in this kind of 'death'. God does not exactly suffer this kind of death (although He could--at a fatal consequence for Himself and all subordinate reality if He did!), for His creative death is willingly enacted, not in rebellion but for the sake of the creation itself; and thus He retains full effective authority as well as active effectiveness within the results of that death. His is a death to-and-for life; except the resultant life is only a shadow of His ultimate Life, as is only proper and indeed as is only possible. The horrible results, on the other hand, of this shadow of death in me come from my intransigence --and from the intransigence of others, although I will defer that issue until a little later.
Yet even if I was not somehow required to 'put up with' the results of other rebellious self-deaths which affect me (results which might even take place 'within' me), I would still probably be in much the same position once I had enacted my own rebellious self-death.
But I am not interested at the moment (and will never be primarily interested) in assigning portions of blame to persons other than myself. I am trying to keep my discussion as simple as possible: for I know that I am a sinner.
If I continue in this rebellion, what shall happen to me?
Inference from natural experience shows me quite well, if formal logic did not already suggest it: the death shall continue to increase in me.
It is a tautology: the more I choose to hamper my ability to interact with reality, the more hampered I shall be!
I mean that this shall happen if God chooses that my actions shall have a real bearing on the outcome of my history (and thus, within my own degree of effectiveness, on the outcome of the history of the natural system in which I live). I do not know the extent to which God negates the harmful results of my willful mistakes; but I do know that He chooses not to rescind the dignity He has given to me and to every other sentient creature (including you)--the dignity of causality. The things I do, make real differences; they may not matter as much as I (in my pride or desperation) want them to matter, but they still do (even quite literally) matter.
And one of those consequences is that if I continue to kill myself sinfully, I shall continue to cut myself further and further away from the source of life, and thus I shall continue to die, not to more life, but to more horrible death in me.
Let me point out that what we can describe as my 'physical' death may be part of this consequence, but it is not the final extent of the consequences. If that death ever ended the existence of 'me', then once again God would be allowing something to happen for which there was no hope of His ever fulfilling His love in me.
Yet, obviously physical death of sentients such as myself (along with whatever other physical deaths exist) does happen. I expect to die physically.
But, I do not expect to die spiritually.
What may possibly happen to me after my physical death is not something I have discussed or inferred yet; all I say at the moment is that whatever it is, it must not violate God's love nor His justice in His relationship to me--and my non-existence after my physical death would, I think, violate His love and justice, permanently non-fulfilling them. So I can rule that out, at least.
What we normally call 'death', then, is not the end.
But, it might perhaps mean that in a particular way, I shall have finished dying!
On the other hand, perhaps I will choose to continue that sort of dying after my physical death occurs.
If I can and do choose this, then the horrible results shall continue as well; and I expect (as here in this Nature) those results would increase in intensity against me.
But--is there perhaps another sort of death I might choose also, or instead?--a death that might even properly guide a sacrificial death of mine for the sake of other creations? And might I perhaps even now begin to choose that death instead of rebellion?--might I even now begin to choose that higher death, the holy death, and so submit to Life as well?
For there is another level of the divine death, that I have not yet discussed in relation to this particular topic. But it shall require another chapter.
[Next up: the highest death]
[A very abbreviated and incomplete summary of the several hundred pages of argument preceding these chapters, can be found in my July 4th essay The Heart of Freedom.]
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Introductory note from Jason Pratt: I am here appending in several parts some excerpts from an unpublished book of mine (not CoJ incidentally), originally composed late 99/early 2000, wherein I work out a progressive synthetic metaphysic. The topic of this Section of chapters is ethical grounding; and in the first several entries I analyzed crippling problems along the three general lines of ethical explanation, including general theism. After this though, I returned to the argument I had already been developing for several hundred (currently unpublished) pages, and used those developed positions to begin solving the philosophical dilemmas I had covered in previous entries. Along the way, I ran into a potential problem last seen back in my (unpublished) Section Three; but slotting that problem into my developing argument allowed me to discover that I should believe that a 3rd Person of God exists. Having covered some introductory inferences regarding the 3rd Person's relationship to the other two Persons in the substantial unity of God, I proceeded to consider some preliminary issues in regard to requirements for personal interaction between the 3rd Person and each of us, as persons; and I inferred that an encouragement to avoid accepting what we perceive to be contradictory, would be the minimum communication we could expect from the Holy Spirit. After considering what an intention to foster contradictions would involve, first for God and then for myself, I reached the topic of enacted human sin; and I began considering the consequences of my sin. This allowed me to also spend some time, discussing anti-theistic arguments from evil and/or suffering, in context of my own developing argument.
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Arianism, in its various forms, named after its most famous exponent the Christian deacon Arius, was a belief held formally by many Christians starting from around the late 3rd century (and perhaps much earlier informally) throughout the Dark Ages, especially at Imperial levels and in the military, including in the new feudalistic society that replaced the fall of Rome. Its theology denied the substantial unity of the Trinity, though affirming the real distinction of the Persons and also affirming a single-IF supernaturalistic theism (over against cosmological dualism, etc.) The Son was understood to be pre-existent and supernatural to the system of Nature (in the more refined versions such as held by Arius himself--in more popular versions the Son was simply a divinized human hero) but was considered to be a creation of God instead of God Himself, even if the most powerful and important creation. In this regard the Son would be similar (in more philosophical Arianisms) to a benevolent Platonic demiurge. Ditto the Holy Spirit.
Arianism survives today in some minority branches dissenting from 'orthodox' Christianity. The irony is that most nominally orthodox theologians actually hold doctrines effectively requiring a similar denial of the substantial unity of God, against their own acceptance of this otherwise. It should be noted that my complaint here is given in favor of 'orthodox' trinitarian theology, over against something like Arianism.
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Scheer: Another guest we had on this show was Robert Higgs. I don't know if you've heard of him, with The Independent Institute. And he takes a radical view about government and he thinks that with crisis times, people run to government—in terms of 9/11, or the New Deal with the Depression. His point is trying to get rid of government altogether. Do you think that would be a good way to go? Do you think the government right now is just so power-hungry that they'll grab at anything, they'll cause fear, they'll spend money wherever they like to spend money and the Senate and the House won't do anything? Do you think it's time we changed the government a little bit?
Rothschild: I believe in government as having a necessary role, both to protect people and also to buffer people from the forces, the cruel forces of the market—in this day and age, the cruel forces of huge corporations. Now, what Republicans and even some libertarians think is that government is there only to protect us, and what the Bush administration thinks it's there for is to give the Pentagon a $700-billion annual allowance and to hand out $200-billion checks in corporate welfare every year. Now, that's not my idea of a positive role for government.
Harris: It's almost—at this point, in this war and at this stage in our history—cliché to say we have to stand up, because when I step back and look, I see fewer and fewer people standing up. So what are we left with?
Rothschild: We absolutely have got to stand up for our rights, right now, before it's too late. Several of the people I profiled in this book, "You Have No Rights," stood up for their rights after their rights were violated. They sued the government or they sued the city police or the Secret Service or the FBI. And they won. They won lawsuits and settlements. And so, that's the way to go. Otherwise Bush is going to keep taking and taking and taking until we've got nothing left. We can't be afraid that they're going to spy on us or that they're going to arrest us and therefore not exercise our rights out of fear, because if we do that, we've already surrendered our rights to them. They've already taken the rights away. The Bill of Rights [is] already shredded. We've got to make sure that they don't continue to shred our rights. We've got to tell congresspeople, "Look, get these irresponsible, runaway president and vice president—get them to regard the law as something that they need to follow, and impeach them for not following it.
Square, Site wide
Rothschild: And it's not about payback against Bush and Cheney or anything. This is about whether we're a democracy or not. We can't have on the books all these oppressive and repressive bits of executive orders or precedents that these people have established already.
Scheer: The people you talked to, the people you interviewed—are they still happy to be American citizens? How angry are they? Did they leave the country?
Rothschild: I talked to a guy named Zakariya Muhammad Reed, whose given name was Edward Eugene Jr., Edward Eugene Reed Jr. He lived in Toledo, Ohio, for 20 years. He was in the National Guard. For 11 years he's been a firefighter there in Toledo. He converted to Islam. He married a woman from Lebanon whose family went to Toronto. Five times in the last eight months he's been stopped coming back from Canada by Immigration. He said it would've been OK to stop him once and see who he was. He understands the risks we face in this country. But to stop him and harass him five times—and this was harassment. One of the guards told him, "We should do with these guys what we do with them in Iraq. We should put hoods over their heads and zip-tie their hands." And then another person who was asking him questions, interrogating him, said, "What about this letter to the editor you wrote to the Toledo Blade." And the letter he had written to the Toledo Blade that the guy had in front of him was criticizing the Bush administration, saying, "If you want to know why the United States has a bad reputation overseas, why don't you look at the Bush administration's war against Iraq and the Bush Administration's support for Israel's war against Lebanon and its oppression of the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza?" And so the guy, the interrogator, says, "So, you like to write letters to the editor?" Well, you can't write a letter to the editor in this country? What's that about?
And the fifth time he was stopped—I wrote about him after he was stopped four times. And then the fifth time he was stopped he was asked about that article on Progressive.org that Rothschild wrote. The guys are watching every word the guy is saying.
Scheer: Is this guy still happy?
Rothschild: No, he is not happy.
Scheer: OK.
Rothschild: He is outraged about what's happened to his country. He said this is not the country he believed in. This is not the country he served in the National Guard for. "What has become of our country?" he asks. And that's a tough question to answer.
Scheer: It seems like we are creating even more enemies. You know, we talk about stupid things like little threats, sleeper cells, or whatever. We're creating terrorism in this country by making these people feel like fifth-class citizens.
Rothschild: We're really infuriating people in this country who are Muslim-American or Arab-American and are harassed repeatedly when they are crossing the borders. The ACLU has filed a lawsuit, a class-action suit, with many of these people who just can't believe the way they're being treated.
Harris: What has been the most consequential change, either in loss of freedom or just change in American citizenry in general?
Rothschild: Two of the most flagrant things that George W. Bush has done, impeachable offenses, are the NSA spying, the spying by the National Security Agency, and then these signing statements.
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By jbart, August 21, 2007 at 6:38 pm Link to this comment
To ALL the "relevant"(Mossad "shills"& Neocon assholes" excluded, of course)commenters on this site,
FYI - I'm strongly against the excesses of gun owners in our country. BIG TIME AGAINST!!
By NewsSophisticate, August 21, 2007 at 2:26 pm Link to this comment
Our rights are rapidly being subverted into privileges.
Homeland Security tightens Grip. Entering Latin America and the Caribbean
It looks like neo imperial America is increasing her empire. Touting "the Time Has Finally Come" and "..the long anticipated event",Homeland Security and apparently her little sister the, Latin American Caribbean Security Council (LACHSS ), is holding a summit November 7-10, 2007 at the Gaylord Palms Resort and Convention Center in Orlando, Florida. With a goal of bringing Latin America and the Caribbean countries into the existing homeland security apparatus, the LACHSS summit has a stated mission ...
Please read my full article. It will shock, enrage, and scare you
By NewsSophisticate, August 21, 2007 at 2:25 pm Link to this comment
Our rights are rapidly being subverted into privileges.
Homeland Security tightens Grip. Entering Latin America and the Caribbean
It looks like neo imperial America is increasing her empire. Touting "the Time Has Finally Come" and "..the long anticipated event",Homeland Security and apparently her little sister the, Latin American Caribbean Security Council (LACHSS ), is holding a summit November 7-10, 2007 at the Gaylord Palms Resort and Convention Center in Orlando, Florida. With a goal of bringing Latin America and the Caribbean countries into the existing homeland security apparatus, the LACHSS summit has a stated mission ...
Please read my full article. It will shock, enrage, and scare you
By Jeanine Molloff, August 21, 2007 at 1:35 pm Link to this comment
Here's something novel—how about EVERYONE CONTACT IN A E-MAIL OR PHONE FLOOD EVERY CANDIDATE RUNNING FOR POTUS. TELL THEM TO REPEAL ALL THE OFFENDING ACTS: PATRIOT 1 ⅈ, MILITARY COMMISSIONS, WARNER AUTHORIZATION ACT, ANIMAL TERRORISM ACT, CHANGES MADE TO POSSE COMITATUS, NSPD-51 AND HSPD-20. TELL THEM TO DECLARE 'SIGNING STATEMENTS' AND 'EXECUTIVE ORDERS CURTAILING CIVIL LIBERTIES AS AN ILLEGITIMATE POWER GRAB AND TO MAKE THEM ILLEGAL AND PUNISHABLE BY CRIMINAL JAIL TIME. TELL THEM TO RESTORE THE BILL OF RIGHTS OR YOU'LL VOTE FOR THEIR OPPONENT. LET'S MANIPULATE THE SOB'S. TIME TO TAKE BACK OUR DEMOCRACY AND INCARCERATE THE CRIMINALS IN D.C.
By Stout, August 21, 2007 at 4:10 am Link to this comment
I say we waterboard them and stack 'em up naked next to that "thumbs up" Army girl from the Abu Graib scandal.
If someone on here has enough money and a lawyer, I say (REALISTICALLY) file a lawsuit on those two on behalf of the American public. Get it on the news. I forgot the name of the woman in Ireland wo said it (She's on that Nicleback video, "If everyone cared."
"Do not believe that a small group of people cannot change the world. Indeed that's the only thing that ever has."
By Stout, August 20, 2007 at 5:57 am Link to this comment
Why can't we assassinate the bad politicians for once? Reagan, Kennedy, Lincoln, all for the most part good Presidents, got dead. Why is it no one has murdered these two fascists in cold blood yet? Caesar shouldn't have fallen to conspirators, but these two sure as hell should.
By bogi666, August 19, 2007 at 12:16 pm Link to this comment
The latest proclamation by the Bush king, whereby anyone can be detained without constitutional protection for undefined reasons. This could include being an anti consumer activist as the Bush king could declare it unpatriotic to not be a consumer advocate and to broadcast anti consumerism. Oh, you think it can't happen here? Once those in power realized that they could make the general public believe their propaganda absurdities they know they can tell us anything. Once people can be made to believe the absurd they can be made to believe anything.
By David, August 18, 2007 at 6:56 am Link to this comment
"Standing up"...Its a quaint notion, as the administration likes to say. Or to quote our president, "(our consitution) is just a piece of paper". And when you think about it in terms of the power structure in this country, he might be right.
The constitution is only valid if the people in power choose to uphold it. The branches of our government, for one reason or another, have opted to not uphold it. So what we have is an ideology. BushCo. has a very different ideology that suits him and his own.
As far as doing something about it, the forces of the economy are such that standing up, for most Americans, is simply not an option. Its been well documented that Bush/ Cheney have enacted many policies that have, not so much changed the law governing the 40hr work week, but widened the wage gap while. Their policies, in effect, have increaded the cost of living (of course as had many other free market factors), while the wage has remained stagnant. They have enabled corporate expansion through their tax cuts, windfall profits for particular sectors, but have not done anything to allow for the upper middle, middle and low classes to maintain pace. This is by design, of course, because what their agenda entails is a slide back to a pre-New Deal society, where the elite rule and the rest are ruled.
So as to this notion of standing up, it is for many Americans, not an option. To choose between loosing a day's pay or one's job to attend a protest? Most people are going to choose feeding their family and paying their bills as to stay above water. Its beeen known for some time that most of the middle class lives pay check to paycheck. And poor Americans so overwhelmed and crushed by the drudgery of their jobs and the long hours they must work to make ends meet, that they have no time to pay attention to the civil liberties that are being robbed of them.
The capitalist elite have acheived a back-door slavery. And if someone has an idea of how to mount a meaningful protest, I would love to hear it. The people did what they thought would hedge this tide by electing Democrats. Obviously, that did nothing, because they are even weaker and more spinelesss than the Rebulicans have painted them. Either that or they are simply complicit. What I would like is to have solid third party candidates, but even in the presidential (curiously at time when they would have a bonafide shot) we are not given that option (yet).
By Skruff, August 17, 2007 at 6:13 am Link to this comment
I do not think posts are being "deleted" I believe there is a technological problem. One of my posts which was lost simply said "I agree" not much comentary there, since the post I agreed with is still there.
By yezbok drahcir, August 16, 2007 at 6:31 pm Link to this comment
Why hasn't truthdig mentioned anything about the following?
"Homeland Security Enlists Clergy to Quell Public Unrest if Martial Law Ever Declared"
By NewsSophisticate, August 16, 2007 at 1:23 pm Link to this comment
the Bush Cabal are rapidly subverting our rights into privileges. View where we were going on Sept. 10, 2001.
Read the Article
Remembering History: Sept. 10, 2001
By Skruff, August 16, 2007 at 6:15 am Link to this comment
95308 by Douglas Chalmers on 8/15 at 9:14 pm
"What is it that the police think that they automatically have a right to shout at people or to threaten them either physically or with arrest? These are only ordinary citizens in uniform. They are merely civil servants - but playing para-military. Their intelligence is very average but they seem to be able to make the most of their little bit of power and authority."
We had a family friend who was a New York Police officer (beat cop) for a number of years from the 50's through the 70's. He hated the changes he saw in police attitudes in the late sixties, and related how the riots and protests had played into the hands of folks in high levels who saw this as an opportunity to fully militarize city police forces. SWAT was introduced, then other "special units" Last night I saw a brief clip where New York City police (as well as other police departments) will now be authorized to use satellite technology to syp on american citizens. This is no "conspiricy theory" this was reported by New York City Police commissioner on WABC News!
The folks in the suburbs are (reportedly) OK with this, but the city-dwellers and western conservatives are livid! Do I( see the possibility of a coalition of white NRA westerners, and city folk on the horizon?
Just wishful thinking!
By lawlessone, August 15, 2007 at 11:56 am Link to this comment
I can understand why Bush and the rest of his personally appointed cabal wanted to have absolute feudal powers. Jackals are jackals after all. It disgusts me and it must be prevented and punished, but at least I can understand why greedy predators like the Bush pack salivate to have such power.
I can even understand why a certain percentage of Republicans outside the White House assumed Bush would get away with it and believed there would be a new permanent Republican domination equal to a monarchy. There is always a certain percentage of arrogant utterly delusional individuals in the population divorced from any morals and unable to perceive reality.
What I do not understand is why the rest of the Republicans, the ones not in the White House, the ones who want to be re-elected, the ones who have cracked open a history book or two, the ones who have a conscience, the ones who believe the Constitution has merit, went along silently. Were they afraid? Did they lack the ability to see beyond the next election? Were they hoping against hope that it actually was a permanent Republican majority?
Surely they must have realized that if the dictatorial powers sought were activated, it would be hard to eliminate them once again and, at some point, the Democrats would use them against the Republicans. Isn't that an unacceptable risk?
Even more potentially ironical, given the willingness Republican zealots have shown in the past to purge their own who did not conform 100%, surely the more sensible moderate Republicans must have recognized the danger the Czar-like powers would be used against themselves by their own leadership. What were they thinking?
By waitingfor the fall, August 15, 2007 at 9:48 am Link to this comment
Bush and his minders are just the latest corporate-sponsored mandarins in a 50-year war on the middle and working classes of America.
In 1956 Eisenhower warned America about the military industrial complex and how it robs the citizen and all humanity of its democratic rights.
Obviously…Ike saw what was coming and he left the soiree before it became the tragedy that is is today.
Democracy is already dead…the only thing keeping America functioning as if it is a democracy is the momentum of traditional expectations among the lumpen who still believe the bullshit that is being shoveled at us through bought-off politicians and corporate-owned media.
Soon, with financial collapse, Peak Oil, systemic collapse and global warming on the horizon… the gloves of our authoritarinized government will have to come off in order to keep the working poor in their place. THE DISMANTLING OF THE BILL OF RIGHTS AND THE U.S. CONSTITUTION BY THE LATEST ASMINISTRATION IS FACILITATING THIS. Then most of America, duped into thinking that they have wealth through credit and a measure of control in their daily lives, will taste the bitter end of the holographic illusion we have been living in for the last 51 years.
BUSH and CHENEY are not pioneers in this extractive capitalism scheme that is truly returning America to a feudalistic state….they are merely the current handpicked players carrying out their orders from the richest of the rich who truly run this country. And they despise intellectualism, liberty and any social contract that benefits the "lower classes".
My advice to any American who owes more than they're worth or makes less than $300,000 a year: dig in, get off the grid, pay of your debt, know your friends and exits, prepare to do without, learn how to fight, and get ready to see unbelievable violence,death and misery in this country in the wake of the neocon revolution.
By Skruff, August 15, 2007 at 9:24 am Link to this comment
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"The ACLU has filed a lawsuit, a class-action suit, with many of these people who just cant believe the way theyre being treated….They cant believe theyre being treated like BLACK PEOPLE have been treated for centuries in this country."
"I wish the ACLU would file a lawsuit for me for all the times me and mine get stopped by the cops for no reason."
I hate to break it to you Deborah, but I'm so white I glow in the dark, and I'm stopped constantly by the police, although I have done nothing other than wear a upside down US flag on my bumper. The inverse flag is an international sign of distress, so I feel it is appropriate. The police have a different view.
I do have a felony on my record from the '68 Chicago Democratic convention. Ihe charges included "crossing State lines to incite violence," and "advocating overthrow of the US government." there were also a number of misdomeanors and local violations. Although the charges sound serious, they resulted in a $100 fine, and a 366 day suspended sentence. The problem is; they remain on my record, so often I'm stoped by police who have their weapons out, demand that I lie on the ground with my hands on my head, and search me often ripping items of my clothing.
This has happend for so long, that I (I am ashamed to say) am used to it.
"Black people have been screaming for years that America has been practicing for the police state by using us as the guinea pigs. Now that everyones elses rights are being usurped, suddenly its a problem."
And I know exactly what you mean! When I was young in New York City, the "drug problem" wasn't a "problem" because only black folks in Harlem and Oceanhill-brownsville were dying from Heroin overdoses. It BECAME a problem when rich white girls from Scarsdale started using….and dying.
"Bush and Cheney should be tried for treason for what they have done to this country."
Why stop at Bush and Cheney? Clinton, Kissenger, Bush Senior, Dan Quayle, Kennedy, McCain… the list goes on forever!
Our government has sold us down the river. We need to "come together" black, white, xtian, jew, and tell them "This is OUR country, and you work for us!"
Until we do that, they will continually divide and conquor….it has worked well for THEM!
By Nicole, August 15, 2007 at 7:40 am Link to this comment
I'd bet hard cash that the comment written by "Deborah" was written by a white man. Guaranteed. Busted!
By Deborah, August 14, 2007 at 8:44 pm Link to this comment
Rothschild: Were really infuriating people in this country who are Muslim-American or Arab-American and are harassed repeatedly when they are crossing the borders. The ACLU has filed a lawsuit, a class-action suit, with many of these people who just cant believe the way theyre being treated.
I wish the ACLU would file a lawsuit for me for all the times me and mine get stopped by the cops for no reason.
Black people have been screaming for years that America has been practicing for the police state by using us as the guinea pigs. Now that everyone's else's rights are being usurped, suddenly it's a problem.
This war has been fought for oil and fueled by racism. Yes, racism. That the brown people couldn't possibly be as strong or as brilliant as the white people and that there was no way Yankee ingenuity wouldn't win this war.
America's Big Stick is broken. Even Rove is running away with his tail between his legs and subpoena dogging his steps.
Bush and Cheney should be tried for treason for what they have done to this country. And all the white people who voted for them, despite the fact that they were WARNED that our Republic would be ruined by them, are every bit as responsible for the state of our Democracy and the lack of civil liberties we have in the name of fighting terrorism.
By Sharon Ash, August 14, 2007 at 1:50 pm Link to this comment
War is very difficult for a country, whether you are the country waging the war, or on the receiving end, and it hurts the morale of its citizens. Impeachment proceedings are very difficult for a country to go through and it hurts the morale of its citizens. No one would like to see, more than would I, both Bush and Cheney be impeached, but I do not believe it is in the best interest of our country to put ourselves through those proceedings while we are still at war in Iraq. I would like to see us keep our focus on getting our troops home and then go after Bush and Cheney.
By kevin, August 14, 2007 at 10:55 am Link to this comment
I would have to agree with Scott. The dem's see a chance to hold the power if they take the office the re-pubes hold. Only a few politicians are willing to Impeach the King G II and Darth Cheney. They posture for time and that is all they want to do.
By Skruff, August 14, 2007 at 7:08 am Link to this comment
I am a bit tired of folks talking about this one, or that one "trampling the constitution." In fact, the Constitution at its inception may have been a documentwith some absolutes, but since the second president of the United States, (before ratification) US citizens have been restricted by the executive branch as to what they can say and do while excercising their right of "free expression"
Later that "elastic clause" that we all learned to respect in school, allowed the folks in government to make all laws (constitutional or legislative) open-ended. There is no "absolute" law in these United States.
So when the City of Bangor Maine provides city police to patrol the property of the Bangor Mall saying it's a "quasi-public entity," and then the Mall administrator declares a ban on "offensive tee shirts" Rationalizing that the Mall is privately owned property, no action is undertaken by our spineless Maine Civil Liberty Union, on the grounds that "If the city manager (not an elected official)approved this arrangement it is a legal contract!" The interesting part of this story is the "offensive tee shirt" was sold from a Mall-based store. The offensive word on the tee shirt was "Peace"
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The long-suffering Stike was stabbed in the leg by Jamie McCrimmon, attacked with coronic acid, partly disintegrated by the time vessel which the sixth incarnation of the Doctor had sabotaged, and finally blown up by his own spacecraft, which had been set to self-destruct. Shockeye recovered one of his legs. (TV: The Two Doctors)


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Youbet.com said Dec. 30 it hopes to strike a deal with Magna Entertainment Corp. to offer wagering on all the company's racetracks.MEC on Dec. 26 issued restrictions on all account-wagering providers that prevent them from taking bets on races at company-owned tracks. Youbet.com did receive permission to offer wagering on MEC's two California tracks: Golden Gate Fields and Santa Anita Park.Youbet.com has an agreement to carry MEC's California signals, including Bay Meadows, for 2004. MEC will not accept bets from Youbet.com customers at its other tracks in the United States.Youbet.com chief executive officer Charles Champion said the company hopes to work with MEC to reach agreements that would give Youbet.com customers access to all MEC tracks.Champion said his company's customers tend to value content frequency as much as- or more than content breadth, and Youbet customers will have the best content options in the business despite Magna's decision."As a result, many of our customers may simply choose other tracks to wager on rather than log off Youbet to go to track-specific sites," Champion said.One of the signals not available through Youbet.com is Gulfstream Park, which is owned by MEC. That signal is available through Xpressbet, MEC's account-wagering arm. Some account-betting companies such as a AmericaTab aren't allowed to take wagers on any MEC tracks.
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Day 14 - Hot and sunny so why are we leaving?
... day again and bought a few last minute essentials. We then had our planned look around the Old Church which I preferred to the new one. This was built on subsiding land, previously a canal and therefore, leans noticably and is even referred to as the leaning tower of Delft in some tourist literature, the bell tower and carvings were made unequal in size to compensate visually. It was once said to ...
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... back to the camp site we met with Danny who had spent his day cycling sixty four miles around Holland and had enjoyed it. Today we learned that Vermeer was buried standing up to save his family money and the inventor of the microscope was from Delft. This is a exceedingly lovely town and I need to spend more time in it. The weather forecast for the next few days remains hot and sunny.
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Hawks too strong for Bullets in NBL
The Illawarra Hawks have returned to the NBL's winners' circle after holding off the Bullets 98-88 in a pulsating contest on Saturday night in Brisbane.
The Hawks led at every change at the Brisbane Convention Centre, consolidating second place on the ladder and consigning the Bullets to their third loss in four games.
Tim Coenraad led the scoring for Illawarra with 24 points and three assists, while centre Tom Jervis stood tall for Brisbane with 18 points and seven rebounds.
The 10-point loss marks three-straight home defeats for the Bullets who have hit a form slump in recent weeks.
There was little separating the NBL's second and third-placed teams during the opening quarter, with both sides playing high-octane basketball, although it was the Hawks who took a four-point lead into the first break.
Illawarra skipped out to a 12-point lead early in the second before Brisbane could muster a reply but, when the Bullets clicked into gear, they went on a 23-12 run to end the half only down by one.
The start of the second half mirrored the first as both sides traded baskets in end-to-end action with the Hawks edging the Bullets by one point in the third quarter to lead by two heading into the final stretch.
Brisbane lost Cameron Bairstow early in the fourth with the former NBA forward fouled out of the contest only seconds into the quarter.
An 8-2 run favouring the Hawks to begin the final term didn't help the Bullets' cause, but they kept within touching distance inside the dying minutes.
The points started to dry up as the clock ticked down with the ferocity of the encounter impacting on accurate shooting.
Leading by 10 with less than two minutes remaining, the game was Illawarra's to take and they didn't disappoint as they held on to record their eighth win of the season.
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The six pillars below comprise the Carroll County School District's five-year strategic plan through 2021.
The six pillars below comprise the Carroll County School District's five-year strategic plan through 2021.
Goal 1: 100% of all students will be prepared to enter a post-secondary and/or global workforce.
Objective 1.1: By 2021, increase percentage of students who are scoring at the proficient level/distinguished level.
Goal 1: Carroll County Schools will have responsible and ethical digital citizens.
Objective 1.1: Annually, 100% of all students will be trained on the ethical and responsible use of online behavior.
Objective 1.2: Annually, 100% of Carroll County staff members will be trained on House Bill 5, House Bill 232, and the Children's Internet Protection Act.
Goal 2: Carroll County Schools will produce citizens who can compete on a global level.
Objective 2.1: By fall 2020, the Classroom Clarity Bright Bytes score will move from emerging to the advanced stage for all Cartmell Elementary, Carroll County Middle School, and Carroll County High School students.
Objective 2.2: By fall 2020, provide equal access to an anytime-learning online environment for all students in grades six through twelve.
Goal 1: To improve community/stakeholder satisfaction with district communications.
Objective 1.1: Increase student household satisfaction with communication from the district to 75% by 2021.
Objective 1.2: Increase non-student household satisfaction with communication from the district to 50% by 2021.
Objective 1.3: Increase staff satisfaction with communication from the district from 50% to 75% by 2021.
Goal 2: To increase collaboration between educational and civic/business leaders in the community.
Objective 2.1: Increase civic leader participation in significant district administrative activities by 25% by 2021.
Goal 3: To increase the district's positive visibility inside of and outside of the community.
Objective 3.1: Achieve five positive stories about the district in non-local media outlets each year.
Objective 3.2: Raise local civic organizations' and businesses' satisfaction with district communications to 75% by 2021.
Objective 3.3: Increase the % of communications targeted at people and businesses considering relocating to Carroll County to 10% by 2021.
Objective 3.4: Increase local business participation and promotional support of district events by 25% by 2021.
Goal 1: Increase the financial stability of the district.
Objective 1.1: Increase the contingency fund to 20% by 2021.
Objective 1.2: Maintain general fund salary/benefit expenditures to under 80% of total expenditures.
Goal 1: To be the school district of choice by recruiting, developing and retaining a competent and cohesive workforce.
Objective 1.1: By 2018, redesign the recruiting process to fill 100% of all positions with high-quality staff.
Objective 1.2: By 2018, increase teacher satisfaction results on the "Provided supports (i.e. instructional coaching, professional learning communities, etc.) translate to improvements in instructional practices by teachers" professional development section of the TELL Kentucky survey from 83% Agree / Strongly Agree to 95% Agree / Strongly Agree.
Objective 1.3: By 2018, reduce certified "new hires" in the district by 50%.
Goal 2: Carroll County students will be actively recruited by colleges, universities, employers and the military due to their work readiness and soft skills.
Objective 2.1: By 2020, 90% of Carroll County graduates will possess a "Carroll County Schools Work Ethic Certification."
Goal 1: Obtain an Energy Star rating of 65% or higher in 100% of our buildings by 2019.
Objective 1.1: Raise awareness of energy conservation with all district employees by 2017.
Objective 1.2: Replace appliances and climate control units, when needed, with energy-saving equipment by 2018.
Objective 1.3: Utilize energy-saving materials when doing construction or repairs on building structures by 2017.
Goal 2: Upgrade facilities to ensure the capability to support high–quality instruction by 2021.
Objective 2.1: Increase and update facilities to house additional preschool and Head Start students and service hours.
Objective 2.2: Increase and update the facilities to better serve the educational needs of primary students.
Goal 3: Ensure that safety continues to be a priority for all stakeholders.
Objective 3.1: Provide a secure bus lot to protect buses and equipment from possible outside threats by 2018.
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not exactly the Amalfi Coast, a bit too far up the coastline,
but a "cannot miss" little jewel when on the Italian coast.
The Splendido Hotel, one of the most stunning examples of
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I am in total agreement, this part of Italy is stunning....you have chosen gorgeous images Marsha, I could look at them all day!
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There's no place like it. My husband and I honeymooned on the North Coast in Cinque Terre and I've been looking at the crazy land slides that took out Vernazza and a few other coastal towns this fall. So heartbreaking. But these photos are spectacular.ReplyDelete
Beautiful pictures.. Love, love, love!
The Amalfi Coast is one of my favorite places on earth. I"ll never forget how it took my breath away the first time I saw it, and I promised myself I'd go back. That happened a few years ago--maybe someday I'll get back there again!ReplyDelete
Oh my we share a passion for The Amalfi girl! I adored Sorento, Meta and my favourite of all Positano! these images are enough to make me pack a bag and get another stamp in my passport! I just love the people as well, always a treat and always theatrical! LOL
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Agio to Show at Las Vegas Market
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LAS VEGAS-Outdoor furniture manufacturer Agio International has signed a lease with, and will be a part of, the Las Vegas Market starting in July 2015. This long-term lease will find Agio International anchoring the 12th floor of Building C in a new 22,000-square-foot showroom as part of the market's casual furnishings category launch.
Agio will begin build-out and make substantial upgrades in the physical space, including reconfiguring walls to improve the sightlines and make a prominent statement to visitors arriving on the 12th floor.
"This new showroom will help us reach an incremental retailer base that does not attend category specific shows," said Bob Gaylord, president of Agio-USA. "Las Vegas Market attracts the traditional furniture and lifestyle stores, big box, catalog and internet retailers, which aligns with our future growth plans. We currently show in High Point and Chicago's Merchandise Mart to target these channels, but the Las Vegas Market will allow us to grow our business even further."
"Having an industry leader like Agio at the Las Vegas Market reinforces our strategy of growing the casual furniture offering here and reassures us that the timing is perfect for the industry's needs," said Craig Staack, vice president of home furnishings leasing for International Market Centers. "More and more traditional furniture retailers are recognizing the benefit of adding outdoor collections to their product mix, and this will allow those buyers to fulfill their buying needs at one market rather than adding another buying trip to their schedule."
Andy Sokol, vice president of sales for Agio USA, added, "Since we began our relationship with IMC in High Point a few years ago, we have been impressed with their professional approach to their tenants and their market events. They know how to bring buyers to market and to make their shopping experience something to look forward to. We are excited to have the opportunity to work with them and bring the casual furniture industry to another level as the demand for outdoor furniture continues to grow."
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