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Now is the time to start making wiser financial decisions for the future. You can no longer sit idle and allow yourself to spend money rather saving. If you're after something large then it requires large sums of money to do it. Make the steps now to do what you know has to be done. For those of us in the northern hemisphere, Summer is just around the corner and there are trips and things which require your financial stability. You may feel helpless and bored while saving but you'll be proud you did.
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People are so brainwashed and jaded by the very government which monetarily enslaves them. You work your jobs to afford useless things you don't even need or use. If you think poverty is the incentive to work and that lethargy is a byproduct of abundance, then you're what's wrong with capitalism and the world.
Abundance is the INCENTIVE to do MORE, if anything. It is a scientific myth that people would not have incentive to work if they were wealthy. Every celebrity millionaire you know and watch on TV wouldn't do a single thing by that ignorant, erroneous belief.
If anyone has researched the #VenusProject, you'll know that our current monetary system has only made slavery more civilized. You're all barcoded when you're born (SSN) and you're forced into a brainwashing system which doesn't work (education system) because it caters to a select few who either have money to advance into higher education or what have you… everything is just all wrong.
Attachments are the root of all suffering; money is the root of all attachment.
The belief that people would not work or accomplish anything if the slavery system of money is dissolved is not only counterproductive and counter-intuitive for an intelligent species that shouldn't be worrying about resources or survival, it's just completely psychotic…
You people.. and your slave mentality.. you allow yourselves to be monetarily enslaved.. these silly thoughts and beliefs are exactly what They want you to think that! You're helping them help themselves at your biological expense. You're a pig in a pen.. you're keeping their system afloat and because you're too dumb to read their laws and understand the infrastructure of the society they have given you, you naively believe you're not similar to the cow being grown for slaughter. You're allowing your oppressor to oppress you by believing in the illusion-pig-pen they boxed you into.
Doing away with the need to survive will advance humanity and improve the earth. This is an evolution we're dealing with.. imagine a world where people didn't have to rob, fight, steal, or kill over money or things which money could buy? Imagine a world where fathers, sons, mothers, and daughters didn't have to work in factory just to get by in a society where they think they're free. You're not free in this life style.. Freedom is detachment from ALL material and ethereal possession. Freedom is NOT a fancy law on a bill of rights saying you're free. You think you're free because you can wander about outside at 3am, piss in the woods, drive a car to get your nails done, or spend your hard-earned money on products which make others rich?
Those jails and prisons they put you in if you don't follow their rules have convinced you that your life where you can "do whatever you want" is what Freedom is. You've convinced yourself that this money system and fight for survival is freedom. You've told yourself, "Well, I'm not in jail. I'm a law-abiding citizen. At least I'm not them, all chained and shackled, locked into white-brick-wall pig pens. I'm free, they're not. They're in jail." You only think you're free because your jail cell is large enough to fit houses, roads, stores, and cities in it.
You are all enslaved to the almighty dollar, the new idol of the 2000s. Freedom is not slaving away by doing labor to generate a minuscule fraction of money. Evolution is the freedom to expand and in this current society and monetary system, we cannot expand, we can only exhaust… and haven't we exhausted the entire planet already? Whales are inhaling plastic and dying, dolphins are being caught in nets, fish and aquatic life is being poisoned by oil spills, and companies are dumping waste into coral reefs. You fucking humans disgust me… and I'm one of them. And as a human, I am disgusted to be here and witness these atrocities in a species which SHOULD KNOW BETTER.
The Human Race is so special. We are so rare. We have the opportunity to sculpt our environment, create our reality, fund science to improve our civilizations… We are the dead universe materialized into a living organism made of stardust to become aware of how alive we are through that dead universe. We are a walking paradox of life, death, organic and inorganic material, awareness, and so forth. We hold the Key of the Universe in our palms, yet we bicker over politics, send our kids to die in wars which have to be named so people can think their children died for something special (and reap some tinge of honor to get by from the loss of their offspring), and we lie, cheat, trick, steal, and abuse everyone for petty things like, what they eat, who they are, who they have sex with, what they look like, and what they believe in.
Get your act together… people! I fully support the idea that we as one species could unify and we could focus on topics which truly matter: actually evolving as a species. In my humble opinion, we are done biologically evolving at this time. We have nothing left to evolve but our minds and what our minds have created: justice, society, education, art, etc. Survival? This should not be a relevant topic on earth where we have the technology, education, intelligence, and resources to build a Utopian civilization which values uniqueness, ingenuity, education, science, art, true love, true freedom, and evolution.
Tell me, what's so wrong with peace on earth? Money doesn't buy it. Time to spend for that factory worker dad with his family is peace on earth. A warm laugh after sharing a funny moment with friends is peace on earth. Being unafraid to be yourself and express your mind and ideas is peace on earth. Being proud to be a human being in peace on earth. Being given access to a healthy diet rather toxic franken-foods and sinister pharmaceuticals is peace on earth. Peace on Earth. What a wonderful concept which we all stay and prevent because we keep thinking we have to do a 9-5 to make money to pay for shit that doesn't matter.
What truly matters when you pass this realm are the things you regret never accomplishing and the memories of the loved ones you had time with… or what little time you did have because you slept 1/3 of your life away, 1/3 worrying about making ends meet, and worked the other 1/3.
I'm not writing this book just to put it out there for the use of all, that'd be my dream to help the masses, but I'm writing this book as my ticket to get out this miserable relationship I call myself and the world. My anger is not about the stupid money or the vacations I want to go on, its about ME being a broke ass loser living with a broke ass loser. I have this sick twisted "Daddy can I have some money" relationship with the government because of my poor quality of life and yet when I beg, I get nothing but excuses and bullshit. So many of my fellow humans are just fools who thinks they're golden because they can hold down a job and call themselves successful. My fellow humans waste their minds and become subservient to a pathetic society that seeks to brainwash them from chasing their true dreams. You all may not have any dreams that transcend this mediocre world, but I do. I dream much bigger than money, fortune, and fame. I dream for a standard, utopian quality of life for all. I see things in this world that many will never. Me and this world were never meant to be together from the start of my birth because it was destined that we would be two different breeds of people. My mom and dad gave birth to a dreamer, an exposer of the corruption of this world, and the enlightenment of all darkness.
I hate that this world is ruled by money. You tell me to get a job if I don't like having no money but let me tell you that I refuse to waste my intelligence by being a workhand for some simpletons in a society of people who don't even realize the immense corruption that is money. I don't want the stupid money. I want only what money can buy. Money doesn't buy happiness? Bullshit. Money was created to buy happiness. They tell you that money doesn't buy happiness because they don't want you to think so because if you did, you'd actually get off your media-pacified ass and go chase your dreams to become the heir of the fat of the earth— millionaires just like the rich. I am a poor fool who envies the rich not for their money but for their quality of life. Some may have worked hard for their quality of life and tout that I could cease my complaints and work as hard as them. That might work out if everyone followed the same rules. In a world where people have to work for the birthright that is the abundance of this earth— truly despicable.
I hope one day I am the richest man on earth. Not for the fame, abundance, power, and ego— only because I want to DESTROY it once and for all. We will then finally return to the pious, humble earth and quit our material tyranny. Money is a curse to this human race. No one is awake enough to see it but me and few others. Well, I'm not from this planet. I am an alien soul who traveled very long to be here a part of this human experience. Well, I no longer wish to be a part of that. I wish to spend the rest of my life exposing the corruption of money, politics, religion, and government.
I am a utopian warrior of peace.
I'm not a happy poor person because I'm poor. I am happy because I operate on the wavelength. There are many different types of happiness. Familial, romantic, material, etc. This society has said that happiness is only material. That is untrue. The Venus Project stated that nobody wants money, they only want what money can buy. In a goods-based utopia, products and produce are expected simply for being a human being. No one would need a job to make money to buy a plane ticket, hotel, and food to go on vacation. They'd simply hop in a plane and go free of charge. Bartering is a better monetary system than what we have now but there are flaws there too. The best society is one without currency but a goods-based monetary system.
Win at the lottery by super-enhancing your aura with essential oils and other mystical means. Remember, if you spend more than you can afford, you have an addiction and should seek help, but there is nothing, absolutely nothing wrong with gambling.
Every day we gamble in many ways and take risks, not just with money. Believe it or not, your frequent failed investments in gambling supports your local economy in many ways, and if you win big some day, it will have paid off and you will come to appreciate the powerful life-altering abilities of money. The Tarot teaches the reward of The Devil card, and celebrates the power of the material realm and its vices. Drinking, smoking, gambling, eating, money— these words together will deter any responsible adult as we know them to be addictions in excess, but The Devil card isn't about the sin of the material realm so much as it is the reward; Moderation/Temperance is the key to life. Don't blame the Devil for your choices, blame yourself. In the card you see the chains are loose around the neck of the man and woman. They chose their sins. The Devil is just the personification of the good/bad of earth.
For example, Wine has powerful antioxidants which make you live 50% longer, Smoking marijuana (no matter what a government will politically say about this plant in a given era) is a pain medicine and powerful cancer inhibitor, gambling what you can afford might pay off 10,000 percent some day, eating sweets can provide essential nutrients in moderation, and money can support a healthy lifestyle and provide one with eternal happiness when used spiritually.
We as mystics know that there is eternal abundance in this Universe and each of us is entitled to wealth, prosperity, happiness, gain, and more. There is enough to go around, we must only allow ourselves and be pious with our abundance and filled with gratitude. Whenever I focus on abundance in mysticism, I visualize many nebulae, the nurseries of stars, the beginnings of our hopes and dreams.
Casino oil rub
- Any vegetable oil as a base,
- 1 drop Patchouli,
- 1 drop Spearmint,
- 1 drop Balsam Fir Needle.
Perfume on wrists, neck, and wherever else. Make a blend if you desire in a small vial or bottle for future convenience and throw in a whole clove.
Cinnamon tea
That's right, prepare a tea using only cinnamon and drink it for good luck.
Strawberry leaves
Looking for an abundance of luck? Carry the fresh leaves of strawberries with you.
Four ametrine crystals, jade, green aventurine, turquoise, and fluorite. There are also many other stones for luck.
Third Eye Meditation
That's right, it seems strange, but do a meditation on the third eye to activate it. Third eye is our inner GPS which guides us and shows us clear visuals of all forms of realities happening now in an instant. Allow yourself to bring into your current bubble of reality all that you already have. The winning jackpot will, is, and has already happened— you just must allow yourself to vibrate on that frequency reality. Draw what is yours into your life.
Take a hot bath
Refresh yourself in a nice hot bath using money-oriented oils and sea salts. Get mentally and physically prepared to win!
Smudge yourself
Cleanse your aura of negative energies which might cat fear and doubt over your potential to win big.
Take an essential nap just before going out. It will refresh your brain and give you keen mental clarity.
The woman in this video is in beautiful truth. As a psychic, medium, free healer with no self-interest, one who comes from Atlantis and beyond this earthly plane, who sees the corruption of all mankind and the many people falling victim to new age fantasy, one who remembers Utopia from Atlantis, and one who has been saying what she has been saying about this man and like celebs who care only about the money. She was spot on in her discernment about Equality and "Buy your enlightenment here!" And you also find con artists who charge $2500 to perform a spell to make that guy fall madly in love with you.
I'm happy for Eckhart Tolle and his experiences, but he has not found enlightenment for all, he has founded a cash cow, and has been teaching people that you can buy enlightenment so long as you can afford it. Enlightenment cannot be bought. There is no amount of money in the world that can buy this type of reawakening. Enlightenment literally means "within the light" and within the light of your true self— to be fully aware of all Self. You cannot achieve this when you're focusing on someone else's Self. Now, what is self? Well, you are an infinite expression made of love and darkness, and in this life, you express both wavelengths. You are a multidimensional soul existing at all points in "Time" in all planes, but right here in this life, you are a being living moment to moment filled with amnesia and bound to the encodings of Society. All learning is done, but much that we come to know in this life is our lengthy rebirthing process of remembering who we are from all levels of existence. Much of this has been encoded to be shut off from the human species and as other star beings come in, they are not bound by these things entirely, though we had to experience the encodings during this incarnation's early life to now.
Using correspondence charts for the days of the week, the phases of the moon, the time of sunset, sunrise, moonset, and moonrise, and the colors, herbs, crystals, and numbers of all of these are important for magic working. It is true that a spell can be done on any day of the year, at any time, but its success will depend on your manifestation. We witches intelligently aim to harness an energy (magic) that is naturally present, rather creating energy during intensive psychodramatic ritual. We have done just this with our computers, street lights, and cell phone. We have harnessed electricity, a naturally-occurring and abundant energy, to power our modern world.
Here, I'll teach you how to look up correspondences, what to do with the information, and how to construct rituals for spellcrafting.
Today is Thursday, July 12, 2012. For my geographical location, I have everything set for Detroit, MI. This is where we first begin, taking note of our givens. When we look at a correspondence chart for magic working, we see that Thursday corresponds to Jupiter, which deals with money, prosperity, male virility, growth, attraction, family, and understanding.
You see that Jupiter is associated with the color Green, the number 4 (some say 5 because it's the 5th planet away, but we're choosing 4 due to the nature of Jupiter's calling), its gender is masculine, and its crystals are turquoise and amethyst.
Green is also the color of balance, the heart chakra, so focus all intention and spellwork as through the heart.
Sunset is at 9:08 PM and Moonrise is at 1:13 AM.
We take notice that the moon phase is a waning crescent, so we are in waning/dark magic, which deals with banishing, ridding oneself of addictions, and the removal of bad habits, illness, and negativity.
We notice that the moon is in Taurus, so is covers love, desires, real estate, finances, and money. Take note that Taurus's element is Earth and its herbs are Rose, Sage, Violet, Jasmine, Dandelion, Cedar, and Strawberry.
We also take note of the planetary night hours after sunset. According to the charts, if you adjust the math, the 3rd hour after sunset deals with Jupiter. Well, Thursday is Jupiter, so we have a double Jupitarian enhancement. So 3 hours after the 9:08 PM sunset is 11:08 PM.
Also note that the first hour is for the moon, so honor her with a white candle, 3 or 9, or one of her herbs, such as eucalyptus.
The herbs that you're going to need for Jupiter at 11:08 Pm is going to be sage, damiana, black walnut leaf, aloe leaf, or catnip, so in your magic at that hour, light incense, or use oil smells, or burn plant materials in Jupiter's honor.
You may also take note of the year correspondence of the Chinese Zodiac if it applies. 2012 is the Year of the Water Dragon, and is a yang year, so we expect much excitement, unpredictability, new beginnings, and mixed blessings.
So far, with all the correspondences, July 12, 2012 at 11:08 PM is the perfect time for establishing a money flow, which is a consistent flow of energy providing money to your life in the areas that you need. A money flow will typically last one lunar cycle, and will supply what you need for your intended purposes. Magic can be used for unlimited fortune and fame, as with winning the lottery, but you won't necessarily get it for the wrong reasons.
Caution with Jupiter though, he expands whatever is present, not the creation of. He is the force which causes the rich to be richer and the poor to be poorer. You cannot manifest out of thin air with Jupiter, only expand what is already present. For this clever spell, we will only be focusing on expanding our flow of positive. For a healing, you would focus on expanding the positive within them, to outweigh the negative, thus kicking the illness out. It's clever and a perfect loophole for Jupitarian energy.
Construct Your Rritual- Here is where everything is now up to you. Decide what herbs, candles, representatives, incenses, statuettes, and materials you're going to need, then decide what you want to do. Do you want to cast a circle, call on elements, invoke the deity of the day, or will you simply write on a piece of paper and burn it?
- 2 Green candles, one in honor of Jupiter, and one for the money,
- 1 White candle, in honor of the moon,
- Eucalyptus essential oil, for Luna,
- Rose essential oil, for Taurus,
- Sage essential oil, for Jupiter,
- Wand, pencil, paper, cauldron,
- Mint leaves and wine/juice,
- Cinnamon essential oil, for money,
- Sugar, for attraction,
- Sea salt, for purification,
- Small bowl for money candle,
- Amethyst and Turquoise, as offerings,
- Green Aventurine merkaba, for the money spell,
I call upon the protection of the Northern Earth, the Eastern Air, the Southern Fire, and the Western Water.
In my circle, I call about the great spirit of Mother Earth from below, and the great spirit of Father Sky from above.
Shall all beings in attendance, with love and trust, protect me from all perils in their directions.
I burn this candle of purest intentions in honor of the lady of the moon. May she guide me well through the shroud of darkness into the realm of light. There is where I bask in the glory of High.
I drop this Eucalyptus oil in honor of the fair maiden, the mother, and the crone. I drop this oil to honor her light, her radiance, and the way it fills my being.
I light also this candle in honor of the Taurean Moon that shines above. May it's loving nature, importance of family, serene pause, gentle gestures, and passionate joys fill my circle and my heart.
I drop this oil in honor of the energy that comes from Taurus. Like rose, it is sweet yet passionate, calm and yet deep, respectful yet romantic, simple yet majestic. May these energies entwine with my workings.
Inscribe on the second green candle a dollar sign, and write bellow it 111, the number of the flow of new energies. Anoint the candle with the cinnamon oil, and sprinkle sea salt around the candle in a bowl and sugar. Place the aventurine by it.
This salt to purify this sacred flame and the magic made by my name.
This sugar to attract the sacred flow, the energy that I direct and grow.
This candle so green, and through my heart, might my woes and concerns depart.
This green aventurine quartz to provide that extra oomph for that which I seek in the realm of manifestation. It is by my heart that I create and weave that which I need most in my life.
This cinnamon to enhance my money spell, should wishes pour in like a bountiful well.
Here now should write out what it is that you desire. You may draw Jupiter and Neptune all over it for abundance and expansion, also money symbols. This separate piece of paper may be pre-written for convenience, and read aloud the the flame. After, it should be folded and burned by the money candle in the cauldron. This candle must burn down naturally.
Take a moment to collect yourself. Jupiter is a strong masculine energy, it being the biggest planet in our solar system. He is the dispenser of rain, the celestial body of understanding, philosophy, expansion, and discourse.
Take your green candle, inscribe the symbol of Jupiter on it, the number 4, and anoint the candle downward from the wick with sage essential oil, then provide the mint leaves as food and wine as drink, and the crystal offerings in front of the green money candle.
Jupiter, Jupiter, Jupiter, Jupiter,
I have for thee drink and food,
And offerings to satisfy thy mood.
I inscribe thy name upon thy candle,
Thy mighty breath that I might handle,
Guide me through the night so pure,
Expand mine workings by thy allure.
I invoke thee Jupiter, I invoke thee Jupiter,
I invoke thee Jupiter, I invoke thee Jupiter,
The money spell having been completed, and its flame still waxing, and now that Jupiter has been invoked, this is where we cleverly ask him to expand what has already been done. If we had done this in reverse, Jupiter would have expanded what we already didn't have and that's terribly counterproductive.
I seek a flow, a new direction, in my life outside of strife. The abundance of thee Jupiter on this night— An flooding energy, full of luck, prosperity, and might. I wish to establish the sacred flow, unwavering money for me to sow. I've made the seed, and now might you, Jupiter to provide expansion through what I do.
Blessed be what I have done, Might it be of perfect loving trust,
So mote it be, so mote it be. So mote it be, so mote it be.
Let the candles burn down and do their thing, and make the ashes into a sachet that you will keep and take with you wherever you go. Evoke the elements, Mother Earth, Father Sky, thank Jupiter, and uncast the circle. Clean up appropriately as needed.
Here is a detailed list of the services that I offer both free of charge and paid for clients and friends alike. When I am not working expos or shows, I offer these services on a singular basis from time to time (due to demands and overload) for free out of the beneficence of my own compassionate heart; One people, One Suffering. When I charge money from clients, it is out of a respected equivalent exchange. As they must work to pay bills, eat, and sustain, as do I with this line of profession. It costs money to do what I do at shows and expos, and I expect the same compensation that my clients expect when they are awarded for their work at their jobs. I don't agree with the current monetary system and economical crisis just as much as the next enlightened one, but until a great change is met, I sensibly use money to also sustain myself.
Where I agree that many professional psychics and healers are capitalizing on the back-breaking labor-made money that their clients degrade their spirit and body to supply them, and their healing is always claimed to be such a cake walk to the psychic and done within moments, my prices are fair and relatively inexpensive. I would typically charge $1 a minute, whereas some psychics charge $2 or even $4 a minute in wealthier areas. I do not agree that it is an equivalent exchange in this way. This is the same dilemma that occurs between doctors and patients— "Are you kidding me? $50 co-pay for a doctor's visit without insurance?!?!" Yeah, should it really cost $50 for the doctor to bump your knee and tell you what you already knew about yourself— you're sick.
"Take it easy, get some rest, and eat lightly. If it persists, come back for an additional visit
free of charge and we'll prescribe you some pills comprised of a toxic stew that will fix you right up in no time, but actually only chemically mask the symptoms and ignore about the cause, so you think you're finally better when you're really not; why treat the cause when treating the symptoms instead of the cause would make you come back due to other "unrelated" illnesses, thus repeating this costly and vicious never-ending cycle of living death? Try to feel better, Mr. Hanson."
And poor old crazy granny is too belittled to be able to honestly remind her ignoring kids and grandkids of how they used safe, herbal remedies back way when for everything, but she's old and degenerated,
what does she know?
If you do the math, approximately an average person works 35 hours a week doing some type of strenuous, stressful, mind-numbing, dis-ease-causing activity making an average $8 an hour; they will have roughly $224 a week after taxes. A psychic reading will probably be 20 minutes for $45, the most strain, stress, and dis-ease that will be caused is a head ache, absorbing some of their stress through sentient-osmosis, and/or using their noodle to think. If I did the math correct, the psychic gets to sit in an air-conditioned room, in a chair, with every convenience they could ask for, electronic and social freedom, and makes $135 an hour ($2.25 a minute) while the average client makes $0.13 a minute, or $8 an hour. So basically, the psychic makes %94 more money than the client doing an effortless reading while the client had to work their ass off for 6 hours to pay for the reading. They had to work so much, in fact, that they need the psychic/healer's help to get back into the groove lol, the groove that was disrupted by the work, the stress, and the financial worry, for only %6 of the money their psychic/healer is making in one week, whereas the psychic makes that in just 2 hours, rather 35 hours. Is that fair? Not really. I charge $1 a minute. $10 for 10 minutes is fair, and donations and tips are always welcome if you believe I went above and beyond the call of duty.
Money is the root of all evil, but also it's naive to pretend that it has no relevance. Am I always willing to help someone out so long as they're also willing to return the favor? You bet- Reciprocation is the law, we help each other as a global community in any way we can. It's unfortante that nobody has made as much of a big deal about that philosophy as they have iPhones & iPads at Christmas. If I can provide a spiritual service, the least you can do is be my friend, talk to me, and genuinely care for me as I do, if you have no money. If you can afford to pay me, thet would be a tremendous help. I have to pay for my gas to get there, my space at expos, my time, my bills, my food just as you do, but I'm not going to rob you for a scarce service that you'll typically not find anywhere else so you subdue yourself to the convenience and give in. I am not a monopolist. My services are plenty, people are out there, but none of them understand what I'm showing here. The lot of healers claim to want to do exactly what their occupational title implies, yet they obliviously charge an arm and a leg for their valuable services, simply out of perceived greed, high standards, self-high quality exaggerations, personal value evaluation, because they had paid those amounts before they became a professional, and/or to compensate for the years of study and money it took to get to that point. But the service fees… its ridiculous. $111 for a 12 Strand DNA Activation? I can give you one for $30!
Do they not conceive the math? It's alarming if you think about it. In this economy, no one can afford to pay you $100+ an hour for a spiritual service that is so easy for you to perform. What youre paying for in most cases is their ego.
The lot of charges and fees, unfortunately, even after I've explained all of this, is sometimes out of the very fact are scarcity though— no one really believes in this stuff, knows where to find it, or knows what it is or how it can benefit them. So when the rare fish comes around, you'll fish to get it at all costs and get what you can from it. It seems competitive and vile, but that's because it can be, I've seen it and it's all Money's fault. We are all condemned by its rule and life-government.
For now, I take deep breaths, continue my life merrily, and do my part as a lightworker, healer, activist, advocate, writer, artist, and pagan reconstructuralist.
My services are many and I suppose I'd be considered a jack of trades, but master of none. I adore much, too much to have too much time to dedicate to one thing at a time. I'll do one thing and come back to it a while later, months to years. This does not mean, however that my services here are incomplete, the ones listed are those regularly performed with experience for clients, friends, and family. About the lack of mastery or psychic certifications, as a Capricorn, I enjoy structured programs, but I have not the money for them right now. For now, I am technically self-taught, which shouldn't ever be confused with amateurity or a lack of knowledgeability and know-how. There are many pychics and healers who are natural-born and phneomenal at what they do who are self-taught. The lots of psychics, and I am going to embark on this for the same reason, do get masteries and certifications for their professional credibility. In the society that we live in, you are a nobody without a formal education, right? So we modern psychics have learned to adapt, whereas in ancient times, our studied would be revered and deemed as an authentic healing modality.
I am working on accumulating the money to achieve certifications in Reiki, Massage Therapy, and other conventional practices to help build my professional platform. In this world, most people won't want to listen to what you have to say due to a lack of formal education. This is both right and wrong for the right reasons… For now, I offer risk-free services and stand by my own self-evaluated credibility based on my path, study, learnings, and growth over the years. A lot of what I know and can do has been born from patience, practice, unwavering determination, intensive studying, transformation, channeling, receptivity, observance, self-teaching, trial and error, blessings from deities, Akashic Records, interpersonal communication between friends and my own role models, and Greater Consciousness Osmosis.
Namaste to all who read, my spirit is one with you, and may peace be yours along this lonesome yet frequently accompanied road called life.
Services, Practices, and Others:
- Psychic & Intuitive Readings,
- Psychic Resourcing,
- Tarot, Oracle, & Rune Readings,
- Stone, Penny, & Bone Tossing,
- Spiritual Evaluations,
- Eye & Aura Readings,
- Crystal Evaluations & Readings,
- Crystal Healing,
- Third Eye Enhancements,
- Soul Assessments,
- Individual Karmic Vault Assessments,
- Past life Readings,
- Dream Interpretation and Decipherment,
- Omen, Symbols, and Synchronicity Comprehension,
- Empathic & Pathos Healing,
- Physiological Healing,
- Compassionate Earth Healing,
- Pendulum Assessments & Readings,
- Chakra Assessments,
- Chakra Healing & Repair,
- Awakening & Ascension Assistance,
- Altered Consciousness Assistance,
- General Education,
- Akashic Records & Deity Petitioning,
- Karmic Lords Petitioning Assistance,
- DNA Repairs & Shadow Strand Activation,
- Alternative Amateur "Reiki,"
- Vibrational Elevation of People, Urban Areas, Homes, Cities,
- Bindings (Only performed for the most violent cases),
- Sacred Lemurian Crystal Vibration Healing,
- Mantra & Meditation Poetry,
- Spell Writing & Personal Development,
- Guided Healing Trances & Meditation,
- Relationship Alternative Guidance,
- Sexuality Healing,
- Present-Life Past Healing,
- Alternative Grievance Therapy,
- House Visits & Guided Exorcisms,
- Diseased & Spirit Communication,
- Supernatural Ultra-sensitivity Readings,
- Skype & Webcam Healing Sessions,
- Smudging & Purification,
- Blessings,
- Herbal & Alternative Medicine Resourcing,
- Alternative Lifestyle Assistance,
- Personal Growth & Enlightenment Assistance,
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I once read somewhere that you should eat a live frog in the morning, immediately upon getting out of bed. That way, all the little annoying things that happen during the day will seem minor by comparison.
I do not eat a frog in the morning, but the routine is sufficiently annoying that the remainder of the day feels pretty good by comparison.
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I really hate the usage of the word "warned".
During the second period of a 10 touch (i.e. Veteran) direct elimination bout, having been warned in the first period that they were not actively attempting to score, the fencers contine to not actively attempt to score. The Referee should:
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The tendonitis is somewhat manageable. [Pause to knock on wood.] I can fence as long as I'm wearing my sleeve cuff without any sensations of pain during or afterwards, although I do ice it ASAP to be safe. I do notice the symptoms (1) when I wake every morning; (2) when I do my arm exercises; and (3) when I do little things like zipping up my coat. No pain until the angle rises above 90 degrees and then there's a warning signal about the time the zipper reaches the top.
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For the first time since surfacing last August after being kidnapped for 18 years, Jaycee Lee Dugard was spotted in public outside a Subway sandwich shop recently.
The mother of two turns 30 on Monday.
Back-off from Jaycee, Harvey and crew.
She isn't a celebrity.
She doesn't live in "The Thirty Mile Zone".
She has been through enough already in her lifetime. Leave her be...
it's one thing to follow sandra bullock or jesse james around but quite another to follow jaycee duggard. SHAME ON YOU, TMZ. LEAVE HER ALONE
She looks like she is about 18 in that pix.
A new low for TMZ.....
Happy Birthday, Jaycee! You don't look like you're turning 30. You still look like a teenager. I hope & pray that you & your children can now live a normal life and that you're happy. You deserve to be.
You know Garrido has a computer at the prison, right? Spare this girl and remove this picture. LEAVE HER ALONE!
PEOPLE! This woman is a public figure now... be thankful she's out and about... away from danger and on TMZ... I can think of worse fates. kudos to TMZ for shring this woman's smile with all of us.
I totally agree with La Mom. You should remove this photo ASAP. Love the celebrity snarking from you guys, but this actually leaves a sick taste in my mouth.
This lovely young woman has endured what most of us only have nightmares about. She was robbed of her childhood, deprived of her family and can never regain her lost years. The least we can do is give her privacy. If she wants to be in the public eye, every single news show in the country would sign her up. That's not her choice, she has begged for privacy and why can't we give it to her? She had no choice in what happened to her, can't we please hear and respect her choices now? Please remove her picture.
I am happy to see her smiling and looking so well, but I hope I never see her on TMZ or any other paparazzi site. She is a private person who is famous for being the victim in an unimaginable crime. Please respect her privacy.
Harvey please take this down, she is only a "celebrity" because she was kidnapped and repeatedly raped for years. I felt sick when I saw this on your website. Very poor judgement.
I concur...TMZ ,this is really out of line. Please take this photo of Jaycee and her location down. This absolutely unacceptable, no matter who gave you the okay.
I concur...TMZ ,this is really out of line. Please take this photo and Jaycee and her location down. This absolutely unacceptable, no matter who gave you the okay.
Disgraceful TMZ! Remove this post and leave the victim of unimaginable abuse alone. This is simply wrong!
How dare you. I grew up in Lake Tahoe and remember vividly the day she was kidnapped, and can close my eyes and see her picture on that missing flyer. Her disappearance is something everyone delt with for 18 years. Thank God is is alive and looks happy, but her life is no ones business. Let her be free.
Very UNCOOL you rodants at TMZ, leave the girl alone my god you can't even go to subway now-a-days without you bottom s***s there.


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Study suggests wine can taste different depending on what music you are listening to
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NBC NEWS — Two glasses of wine may taste differently, even though the grapes were grown in the same region, bottled at the same vineyard, and poured from the same bottle. The difference? Background music.
A study from the U.K. suggests your taste in music might influence how you taste wine.
Researchers had a group of taste-testers drink either a Chardonnay or Cabernet Sauvignon while listening to one of four pieces of music. No matter what they were drinking, participants consistently described their wine according to the background tunes.
Experts say it's true - we tend to have physical reactions to music. However, wine connoisseurs aren't easily swayed by the new research.
Sam Ryburn of Arthur's Wine Shop in Charlotte, North Carolina says he prefers jazz but doesn't need it to enjoy his favorite vino.
"It's the conversation and the camaraderie that I'm looking for," stated Ryburn.
Wine does lend itself to camaraderie, no matter what kind of music is playing in the background, but maybe musicians know something we don't. Singer Dave Matthews has a variety of wines called "Dreaming Tree", and a member of the band Train came out with a Petite Syrah named after one of its popular songs, "Drops of Jupiter."
"I think what's fun for individuals that look at this study is to try and pay attention to their senses a little differently," said Dr. Scott Bea of the Cleveland Clinic.
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Suárez, J. R., Kwiczak, J., Grenda, K., Jimeno, M. L. and Chiara, J. L. (2013), Synthesis of N,N′-Disulfonylamidines from Sulfonamides and Alkynes by a Two-Step, One-Pot Reaction with Nonafluorobutanesulfonyl Azide. Adv. Synth. Catal., 355: 913–918. doi: 10.1002/adsc.201201001
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Kim Kardashian is NOT the mystery buyer trying to yank her infamous sex tape off the market -- this according to Vivid honcho Steve Hirsch, the man who currently owns the tape.
Hirsch tells TMZ, he still doesn't know who the mystery buyer is -- but a rep for the interested party insists ... it ain't Kim ... or anyone even remotely associated with Kim.
Steve tells us, "It made sense the entire time it would be Kim, but it appears it's not."
According to Steve, the buyer will reveal his identity if the deal gets done -- and explain once and for all why he/she wants to pull the tape from the market.
Steve says he met with the buyer's rep several times in the last week -- but the buyer's still several million dollars short of Hirsch's $30 million asking price.
A source close to Kim tells us, Kim NEVER had anything to do with the deal -- but she's very curious about who's behind it ... and why someone she doesn't know would want to do her such a huge favor.
Most of us, if we're honest ...
Have slept with either Kim's sex tape ...
-Or with Paris'.
Show some gratitude, people ...
And on a regular basis.
It's a privilege to see both Paris and Kim w/ no clothes on.
An honor.
It's like winning two consecutive lottery's.
-Here in America we take everything for granted.
Five XMAS's ago someone gave me Pari******on's DVD.
Opening it up:
I saw what it was -
Cried and cried and cried.
I tried to give it back to P-Hilt.
But she said, no, keep it/show it to all of your clueless girlfriends.
So they know how to please your sorry a$$$.
This is the point, people:
Kim and Paris want us to be HAPPY, don't you get it!!!
Hell, I'd pay fifty bucks just to WATCH Kim Kardashian putting lipstick on.
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The Kardashian girls are screwing the black boys on film she sholdn't mind it being sold on the internet! If she does she should stop screwing the Black boys and show some self respect for herself instead of only her pocket book by dating and screwing the Black boys!!!!!
not buying this for a sec.
Kim K is the only interested party,...she needs to get over it already.
that is why porno actually works for men, and not really for women. because men are busy getting hard over the other guys hard=ons, and not the 'busy action'(the woman, in other words). isn't that closet homosexual? i wonder...
I can't stand this effing wh0re the day for her to disappear can't come quick enough. She wh0red herself out for fame and is still doing it, she is the epitome of a vain, vapid, self centered no talent media wh0re. The tape has been out there for 4 years and is available any where on the web and it is not going away. This slut isn't worth 30 cents let alone 30 million
Enough with the Kardashians already....
I couldn't believe anyone white would even marry her after all the Black men this whore has slept with! I don't know who would win the whore contest Kim or PariS BUT i HAVEN'T seen Paris with a Black guy yet? Just a druggy!!! What is worse????
What a load of crap much like Kim herself!!
it's Kris Humphries he is the only one who hasn't seen her sex tape and is too dumb to realize he can see it for free online
nobody cares who buys it and what a coincidence the sextape is getting so much attention, could it be cuz of that wedding special about to air on tv?
of course she isn't the sex tape buyer she is the one who put it out


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Global Lighting Association launched
A new global lighting organisation has been launched 'to act as a global voice for the lighting industry'.
The Global Lighting Association, formerly the Global Lighting Forum, represents the same members as its predecessor, but with a new aim and a broader focus.
The main aim of the organisation is to act as a global voice of the lighting industry through developing, publishing and implementing the position of the industry to influence governments and business.
Jan Denneman, president of the GLA and vice president of Philips Lighting, said: "The rejuvenation of the Global Lighting Association comes at a time when the lighting industry is undergoing massive transformation towards LEDs.
"This new technology provides tremendous new opportunities, and our mission is to promote the use of sustainable, energy efficient lighting solutions."
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Am I the only one to have concerns that the president of the GLA is also the Vice President of Philips Lighting, a global manufacturer and supplier?
I was going to express an interest in joining, but not when the president has his own agenda. One thing in his favour though, he didn't try to conceal it!
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Jack Heuer Details the Design Process Behind the Carrera Chronograph
Jack Heuer, the former CEO and founder of TAG Heuer, sat down with HODINKEE to discuss the details of the brand's most iconic piece: the Carrera. Heuer explains the process of creating the design, from his extensive research on dial legibility to material use, which ultimately resulted in one of the most famous chronographs of the 20th century. Heuer proudly speaks on TAG Heuer's trendsetting tendencies in this clip, which not only displays some rare Carerra models of the past, but also shows how modern interpretations are an evolution from the original design.
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Earlier this week, the US Supreme Court issued two opinions, both related to gay and lesbian rights, which rightfully have been described as monumental. In one case they refused to overturn a federal appeals court decision invalidating California's so-called Defense of Marriage Act, which defined marriage as an act occurring between a man and a woman. The other case allowed same sex couples who have been legally married to enjoy the benefits and protections available under federal law for married couples. While these decisions, which divided the court, are truly landmark in the sense that for the first time the courts and the federal government are offering protections under the law to same sex couples, I'm also reminded of two other significant civil rights events in American history.
This year is the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, Abraham Lincoln's landmark declaration about slavery in the midst of the Civil War. But as the movie "Lincoln" so poignantly reminded us, the Emancipation Proclamation did not abolish slavery in the United States. Lincoln freed the slaves in the southern states so long as those states remained in rebellion against the union. It wasn't until nearly two years later, in the final months of Abraham Lincoln's life, that the 13th Amendment to the Constitution abolishing slavery across the nation, was enacted into law. This amendment was followed in June 1866, by the 14th Amendment which provided for equal protection under the law and the 15th Amendment in 1869 which extended the right to vote to all eligible males.
Similarly, the two recent court cases, while making significant changes in the civil rights of gay and lesbian couples, do not make marriage legal for same sex couples across the country. Nor does it require states that have not legalized same sex marriage to recognize marriages that occur in those states that do. Pennsylvania does not recognize the marriage of a same sex couple that was married in Massachusetts. So in some ways, these cases, although important are more significant for their symbolic statement about same sex marriage than they are for the consequences that they will have; just as the Emancipation Proclamation effectively symbolized a change in the purpose of the Civil War, from preserving the union to abolishing slavery.
I'm reminded by these decisions of another movie that we showed here on campus, "Iron Jawed Angels" about the Woman's Suffrage Movement. Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton first proposed a constitutional amendment to extend the right to vote to women in 1878. As early as 1869, the Wyoming Territory allowed women to vote in elections. But as the movie suggests, for the remainder of the 19th Century and well into the 20th Century, the Woman's Suffrage Movement embarked on a campaign to get each individual state to change its voter laws to extend the franchise to women. And the movement made some progress, but by the time World War I started women were allowed the right to vote in only a handful of states. A change in strategy, fostered as the movie suggests by new leadership and a national hunger strike, forced Congress to adopt the 19th Amendment in June 1919.
The recent court decisions seem to push the question of same sex marriage back to the states. Will the effort now be to seek recognition in each state for same sex marriage? Is there any lesson to be learned here from the history of the Emancipation Proclamation or Women's Suffrage?
These days, I'm reminded of the song sung first by the old rocker Dion DiMucci in 1969, long after he left Dion and the Belmonts. The song was entitled "Abraham, Martin and John" and is a tribute to four famous assassinated Americans, Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King and the Kennedy brothers, John and Bobby. And what has brought that song rushing back has been the recent Supreme Court decision about the 1965 Voting Rights Act and the imminent death of Nelson Mandela.
The 1960's were a pretty turbulent time. In 1963 alone, not only was John Kennedy assassinated, but civil rights marches and demonstrations in the South brought images of fire hoses being turned on marchers; police dogs being unleashed on demonstrators; national guard troops and defiant Governor's standing on the steps of schools and universities; churches being bombed and dead voting rights activists into the homes of millions of Americans. 1963 was also the year that Nelson Mandela was sentenced to prison on Robben Island, South Africa for his opposition to Apartheid, the harsh segregation laws of that country.
In 1966, a young South African student activist named Ian Robertson extended invitations to two Americans who had played, or more exactly, were playing roles in the Civil Rights movement in the United States—Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy. The Apartheid regime in South Africa denied King a Visa to entry the country; but they couldn't deny one for Bobby Kennedy. In June 1966, Kennedy visited South Africa and in the course of his visit he delivered a speech, known as the Affirmation Day or "Ripple of Hope" speech, a talk that inspired a generation of both American and South African students. In that speech, Kennedy noted that "Few will have the greatness to bend history itself, but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation… Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against an injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance."
Those had an indelible impact on a generation of activists in South Africa, including Nelson Mandela. When Kennedy's plane left South Africa, it flew over Robben Island where Mandela and others were imprisoned. Kennedy had the plane's pilot tip the wing of the plane in tribute to those imprisoned there. In 1990, shortly after he was finally released from prison and shortly before he became President of South Africa, Mandela visited Bobby Kennedy's grave in Arlington Cemetery, where, inscribed on the tombstone are the words from the Ripple of Hope Speech.
This week, the Supreme Court effectively declared that the generation Bobby Kennedy inspired with that speech had successfully eradicated discrimination in voting in the United States. The election of an African American as President was taken as evidence that the federal government no longer had to a defined role in ensuring that rights established under the 15th Amendment (and perhaps the 19th as well?) were protected.
Is it ironic that this week President Obama will visit South Africa as the first native black African President of that country is on his death bed? Does that visit close the circle of Bobby Kennedy's visit nearly 50 years ago, just as the Supreme Court seems to have suggested that the line started by the Voting Rights Act of 1965 is now also a closed circle? Have the ripples of hope that Bobby Kennedy spoke of truly swept down the walls of oppression and resistance?
Bobby Kennedy started his Affirmation Day speech with these words:
"I come here this evening because of my deep interest and affection for a land settled by the Dutch in the mid-seventeenth century, then taken over by the British, and at last independent; a land in which the native inhabitants were at first subdued, but relations with whom remain a problem to this day; a land which defined itself on a hostile frontier; a land which has tamed rich natural resources through the energetic application of modern technology; a land which once the importer of slaves, and now must struggle to wipe out the last traces of that former bondage. I refer, of course, to the United States of America."
Has the United States wiped out the last traces of slavery and discrimination as the Supreme Court seems to be suggesting? Time will tell. And we may not have to wait long to see.
The recent controversy over the National Security Agency collecting the telephone records of millions of Americans has brought renewed attention to the idea of Big Data, particularly about the right of the government to collect this information—the looming presence of a Big Brother Big Government.
And while most of the attention has been on the question "Should the federal government be allowed to collect this information" the fact of the matter is that every day, in multiple ways data is collected and analyzed by government and businesses of all levels and types. Amazon collects information about every book, cd or video that is bought through them and pushes suggestions for additional purchases based on that information. Google collects information about the websites that you visit and mines your emails to push advertising that may interest you. Grocers, hardware chains, pet suppliers and sporting good stores collect information about your purchases. You get coupons automatically printed for you based on your purchases. And one grocery store chain even offers varying discounts on the same products based on your spending patterns.
Every wonder why they ask for you zip code? It's not to help identify your account. Its to help develop a more detailed profile of the spending habits of the people who live near you. And its not just consumer affairs that Big Data is affecting. IBM markets a product to police forces that allows them to map and analyze crime statistics, predicting where and when (and perhaps even) the police should focus their efforts to combat crime. Politicians are increasingly using business analytics to identify potential donors and supporters, using micro targeting to focus their messages. And as Moneyball clearly showed, analytics has also clearly invaded the sports world.
While the controversy around the NSA disclosure has focused primarily on whether government has the right to collect this data and secondarily about how that data is used, there are other and perhaps deeper issues that are in question here.
In many ways, the debate over Big Data increasingly resembles the debate over Genetics and the Human Genome. In that debate, there have been questions about how owns DNA. Can tests results be shared with other parties? How can genetic information be used in making medical decisions, or insurance decisions, or hiring decisions?
In the Mega-Data debate many of the questions are the same.
Who owns my data? When I buy something, do I surrender my right to have not only the information about what I bought, but how I paid for it, where I live, my phone number and email shared with the seller and perhaps anyone else that that seller chooses to share that information with.
When large amounts of data are readily available on the Internet, who decides what is private and what is not?
I remember controversies over "redlining" the practice of some companies—be they mortgage lenders, cable companies or so-called public utilities to define, limit or even deny service based on the neighborhood one lived in. Now, with even more sophisticated data available to them, is this demographic or geographic profiling better or worse?
How should this date be used? Who gets to decide how the data gets used? The NSA says that it is collecting the data which will only be used to prevent or investigate terrorist attacks. And in theory at least there is oversight by both a "top secret" court and Congress. But who decides how a local police force will use the date that criminal justice data collection systems allow it to collect. Or how Amazon, or the local pet store uses the data it collects? Some states allow their motor license programs to sell the data it collects? What about other governmental licensing agencies? Who decides what they collect, what they sell and how that data is used?
These are not necessarily new issues. But the amount of data, the ability to assemble and analyze data, the ability to share data and the ability to steal data have all been radically changed by the advent of MegaData. This isn't to say that all this data collection is bad. That some of it doesn't serve good purposes. Being able to target criminal justice resources to where they can prevent the most crime isn't necessarily bad. But because there are both private and public interests at stake here, there should be a much broader discussion about these issues.
The controversy over the NSA collection of certain cell phone data certainly raises the question of what is being collected and for what purpose. But ultimately, it is these larger issues that are more important. It is time for a broader discussion about MegData and privacy?
In a recent Newsweek Article, David Frum made the case for eliminating "tax expenditures" rather than increasing the marginal rates on for the top two tax brackets. One of the changes he proposed was to tax employer contributions for employee health insurance, arguing that "(t)he biggest tax preference in the individual tax code is the treatment of employer-purchased health-care benefits. An employee who earns $60,000 and receives a health-insurance policy worth $8,000 pays income tax on the $60,000 but not on the $8,000. This exclusion has thrust employers into the role of main buyers of health insurance. It hides the costs of health coverage from employees and thereby makes it easier for health providers to raise fees. . . . And because low-wage workers often receive no health coverage at all while high-wage workers receive ample benefits, elimination of the exclusion for people earning more than $250,000 would recoup a very big part of that $130 billion (that this exemption "costs".).
There are a number of things wrong with this argument. Start with the fact that that employer sponsored health insurance coverage is not a new trend, but something that has been around for well over 75 years. And in fact over the last twenty years, there has been an erosion in the percentage of families receiving coverage through an employer. Nor did he suggest as a part of this strategy eliminating the tax deductions and/or tax credits that employers and the self-employed have under current law.
Frum suggested that taxing the health insurance premiums paid by an employer is a better alternative than raising the marginal tax rates for the upper two tax brackets, largely because "low income workers don't have health insurance coverage" and need to "own" increases in health insurance costs. But the facts show a different reality. Three-quarters of the families with incomes between $46,000 and $69,000 receive their health insurance coverage through their employer. So, you can't really argue that it wouldn't affect low income workers.
To suggest that currently most workers have no stake in the cost of health care because they don't bear the cost of insurance is also wrong. Over the past two decades, while insurance premiums have gone up dramatically, a significant portion of those costs have been shifted from employers to employees—through higher co-insurance requirements, deductibles and co-payments. According to the Kaiser Foundation, the average premium for a family insurance plan in the US is about $15,750 with the individual paying about $4,300. Workers are contributing 180% more toward their health insurance in 2012 than they did in 1999; but their wages have only risen 47% over that same period. So it's not really clear how this "hides the costs of health coverage from employees and thereby makes it easier for health providers to raise fees."
But more than the errors of fact, the mathematics don't work and underscore the basic inequities in this proposal. For a family with an adjusted taxable income of $50,000, adding the employer payment to that family's tax base would increase their tax burden by $1,650. That means they would pay $9,150 instead of $7,500 or 22% more in taxes without really gaining any additional income. And you can assume that they are already paying $4,000 in pre-tax income as co-insurance and somewhere on the order of $1000 in deductibles and co-payments, which is typical again according to Kaiser. It is also likely that they use standard deduction, so none of these payments would be taken as deductions. In the end they would be paying 22% more in federal taxes and have their net income reduced by 3.3% if this proposal were adopted.
On the other end of the economic spectrum, Frum apparently assumes that high income workers wouldn't be able to shield themselves from increased taxes should the employer contribution be subject to tax. But, it is likely that a significant number of the high income families also benefit from the tax credits for the self-insured, and those that aren't have other tools to lessen the impact of this tax. Assume for comparison sake that a family with an adjusted income of $300,000 has the same health insurance plan and the same employer contribution as our $50,000 family had. They could potentially be liable for $3,630 more in taxes, paid at the current marginal rate. But they are also more likely to itemize deductions and to have a tax sheltered medical savings account, so they could reduce or eliminate this increased tax burden, under current tax law, left untouched by this proposal.
So assume that they only cut impact of the tax increase in half to $1,815. That effectively would mean that their employer contribution was taxed at 16.5%, or only slightly more than the effective rate for the $50,000 worker paying only $265 more than the lower income family in additional federal taxes. The overall tax burden for the high wage employee would increase less than 2.5% and their adjusted income would be reduced less than 1%.
Employees already are bearing a significant portion of health care cost—through higher co-insurance, reduced or eliminated premium coverage for dependents, higher deductibles and higher co-payments. And workers are bearing an increasing portion of health insurance premiums, with their increased contributions far out stripping the increase in their wages. The burden of subjecting employer health insurance premium contributions clearly falls more significantly on lower income workers, unless as Frum suggests, that they have been going without health insurance coverage. Ironically, that could be one of the more likely, but hopefully unintended, outcomes if this suggestion were enacted. At the very least, low income workers would be more likely to limit their use of preventative services and increasingly defer treatment.
Lance and Lincoln
After years of denial, after being stripped of his titles and his endorsement contracts and now his Olympic medal, Lance Armstrong announced that he had in fact used performance enhancing drugs. To many, Lance Armstrong was an icon. Having successfully battled cancer, he was still able to perform at the highest levels of athletic endeavor, in a sport that in recent years has been racked by controversy. And his success in cycling and his success in conquering cancer led Armstrong to establish the Livestrong Foundation, to improve the lives of cancer patients and to promote evidence based solutions to cancer care.
Interestingly, after the news of his admission of doping, but before the interview was publicly aired, Armstrong visited the Livestrong Foundation to deliver what must have been a very painful confession. We will never know if Armstrong would have been successful if he hadn't resorted to cheating. More damning even than the doping charges are the allegations from his former teammates of intimidation and coercion—Armstrong is accused of encouraging other teammates to use the same drugs and browbeat them into covering up the abuse.
Rather than a hero and a role model, Armstrong has turned out to be an archetypical villain. And yet, we can't deny the good that the Livestrong Foundation has done for countless victims of cancer. Without Armstrong's drug aided success, the Livestrong Foundation would not exist. Yet its existence doesn't justify or sanctify Armstrong's behavior.
I was reminded of that same conundrum this week when it was announced that Steven Spielberg's epic film Lincoln was nominated for twelve Academy Awards. The film dramatically presents the story of how Lincoln secured enactment of the Thirteen Amendment to the Constitution abolishing slavery. This year marks the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, which, as authors such as William Safire and Gary Wills have suggested, transformed the Civil War from a battle over state's rights to a struggle over slavery.
But the Emancipation Proclamation only freed the slaves in the Confederacy. It didn't abolish slavery. Lincoln clearly saw that part of his legacy should be the abolition of slavery.
The movie portrays a Lincoln about whom most Americans are unaware; a Lincoln who manipulated events, hid a peace entreaty by the Confederacy, and offered jobs, projects and funds in order to secure enactment of the Thirteenth Amendment.
Were Lincoln's actions justified? Were Armstrong's? Did the results in either case justify their behavior? There are obvious differences between Lance Armstrong and Abraham Lincoln. And history will judge them very differently. But the impact of their behavior, so visible in the same week, raises important questions about moral leadership.
There has been a lot of talk about how polluted out political discourse has become. By their nature political campaigns often bring into sharp focus differences in opinions, attitudes and philosophies. But this most recent campaign also had more than its share of distortion, innuendo and outright lying.
For example, during the recent election season, the National Federation of Independent Businesses and the coal mining industry issued repeated warnings to their members and the public at large about the coming Obama "avalanche of regulations." This drumbeat has continued since the election. The NFIB website noted on Friday November 9th that the Obama administration had issued some 165 new regulations and notifications on its official regulatory tracking website. Terrifying right? But note the use of the hedge "notifications", because not all, in fact not many, of the items listed on the website are actually new regulations. Nor are they particularly worrisome developments. One notice was an amendment to the Disaster Declaration for New Jersey about Superstorm Sandy. Perhaps some would prefer a FEMA that waited for weeks to respond to a natural disaster, but I'm reasonably confident that the people of New Jersey would prefer an agency that is responsive to their needs in the wake of that natural disaster.
Several of the items are notices about meetings of federal agencies, including the National Institute of General Medical Sciences and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Sinister activities? Hardly.
One was an application by Chevron for a license to export liquefied natural gas. Another was an announcement of the investigation of Chinese unfair trade practices related to manufacture of metal coat hangers. Both are items that the business community would generally support.
One can argue about the role and function of government and about the need for regulations in many areas. But to use the publication of open government records as an argument about a looming "avalanche of regulations" designed to cripple business is more than a little disingenuous. Yet this hype is all too common in what passes for political discourse and should win an award for untruth in advertising.
A second example of a hyperbolic attack was the viral campaign that Barack Obama had signed an Executive Order that would allow him to declare martial law and void the results of the election. Whew, I'm glad that one was ultimately foiled by the voters, who decided to re-elect the President. It turns out, this rumor, launched by several members of Congress, was a pretty serious misreading of an amendment to an order that has been in place for decades, updating a policy established by Dwight Eisenhower (remember he did warn us about the military industrial complex), which was also altered by the Clinton and Bush administrations.
This attack should also qualify for an ignominy award.
And my third award would go to the authors of a stealth rumor, based on the confrontation that occurred between Mitt Romney and Barack Obama, about Obama's investments in China and the Cayman Islands. In the manifestation that I heard from several sources, Barack Obama had an annual pension of over $150,000 for his service in the Illinois Senate and he had substantial amounts invested in the Caymans and China, as did Romney. In addition, he somehow finagled a massive federal pension for his time as President. As with the other conspiracy theories, there are some small elements of truth in these allegations.
Obama did in fact qualify for a pension for his seven years in the Illinois Senate. But while there is some evidence that Illinois' legislative pensions are generous, Obama will draw down about $10,000 a year for that service when he begins to take it. Moreover, under Illinois law, state legislators do not qualify for Social Security payments based on their legislative salaries, unlike state legislators in many other states. And he didn't serve in the US Senate long enough to qualify for a pension there.
Obama does qualify for the same generous Presidential pension that other former Presidents are currently receiving. Perhaps to his credit, Romney did not participate in the Massachusetts public pension system when he was Governor and he may not ultimately have accepted the federal Presidential pension had he been elected. We don't know because that question was never raised in the campaign and certainly won't be now.
Finally, the Illinois public pension system does have investments in both China and the Cayman Islands. And Obama also has an investment in an index fund managed by Pennsylvania based Vanguard Investments which also invests in companies who manufacture their products in China, such as Apple. Obama, of course had less ability to direct these investments than Romney did, even in his blind trust. And in both instances, these investments amount to less than $300. We don't know how much was actually invested in Romney's off shore accounts, but it is probably safe to assume that it was more than $300. Does Obama's miniscule investments in these enterprises, undermine his credibility in attacking Romney? Perhaps, but understanding the facts here does change the nature of the argument.
There has been a lot of talk about the poisonous nature of our civil discourse over politics. And there are egregious examples, similar to these, of charges being levied by all sides in that debate. But don't we deserve better? And shouldn't the facts matter?
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