Christian “Prosperity Gospel” is modern worship of the Golden Calf, in the form of Donald Trump

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Friday March 02, 2018 · 9:40 AM PST

2018/03/02 · 09:40

I’m not a Christian, but I believe in Christ… and God, Karma, and a personal Soul – but when I look at the politically active Christians today in America, I see nothing that resembles the actual teaching of Christ.

How did this happen? Aldous Huxley, in his introduction to the Christopher Isherwood/Swami Prabhavananda translation of the Bhagavad Gita nails it:

“In India, in China, in ancient Greece, and in Christian Europe, [using your life to find God following the methods given in scriptures] was regarded as the most obvious and axiomatic piece of orthodoxy. The invention of the steam engine produced a revolution, not merely in industrial techniques, but also and much more significantly in philosophy. Because machines could be made progressively more and more efficient, western man came to believe that men and societies would automatically register a corresponding moral and spiritual improvement. Attention and allegiance came to be paid, not to Eternity, but to the Utopian future. External circumstances came to be regarded as more important than states of mind about external circumstances, and the end of human life was held to be action, with contemplation as a means to that end. These false and, historically, aberrant and heretical doctrines are now systematically taught in our schools and repeated, day in, day out, by those anonymous writers of advertising copy who, more than any other teachers, provide European and American adults with their current philosophy of life. And so effective has been the propaganda that even professing Christians accept the heresy unquestioningly and are quite unconscious of its complete incompatibility with their own or anybody else's religion.”

The Christian “Prosperity Gospel” is worshiping the Golden Calf, taking the form of Donald Trump

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Friday March 02, 2018 · 7:34 AM PST

2018/03/02 · 07:34

How did this happen? Aldous Huxley, in his introduction to the Christopher Isherwood/Swami Prabhavananda translation of the Bhagavad Gita nails it:

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What happened to American TV journalism?

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Saturday March 21, 2015 · 9:56 AM PDT

2015/03/21 · 09:56

Yes, Virginia, there used to be real journalists in television.

Perhaps it only lived for a short time in the 50s. It started right with Edward R. Murrow – whose unflinching spotlight of attention burned through hypocrisy and bullshit. He took down demi-gods like Senator Joe McCarthy, the red-baiting drunken senator who was finally shut up by another senator who finally asked, “Sir, have you no shame? At long last, have you no shame?”

Every night all three television networks do stories about extreme weather around the country and around the world. Extreme drought in the west, extreme cold and record-breaking snow blizzards in the east, rising sea water, melting glaciers and polar caps.
But, do they EVER tie it to Global Climate Change? No. Why?

Because their largest advertisers are oil companies, whose profits might be hurt if the news pointed out that they are ruining the planet we live on. It’s just that simple – networks are putting profits over the lives of the human beings on our planet.

Is there any other way to look at it. Please try to picture one of the three network anchors saying these things today, that their hero Edward R. Morrow said over 50 years ago:

To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; credible we must be truthful.

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Thursday December 18, 2014 · 12:09 AM PST

2014/12/18 · 00:09

After hearing that Sony Pictures backed down and cancelled the premier of The Interview, I thought about the quote from the groundbreaking reporter, Edward R. Morrow, who during the 50's Communist scare said, "We are not descended from fearful men."

Now it seems that Americans have evolved into fearful men. I wanted to make sure that Morrow was not quoting someone else and came across another of his very apt quote:

"No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices."

More quotes below that are especially vivid because of the state of the world. Read More

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What’s the Difference?

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Sunday July 06, 2014 · 4:03 PM PDT

2014/07/06 · 16:03

I've often said that Nazi references are so overused and mis-used that they ought to be consigned to history. But, it's hard to ignore the parallels to today's Tea Party, at least in terms of being xenophobic.

I think I have standing to call this out. I have Holocaust Survivors on both sides of my family - who lost most of their extended families. Also, I live in Fallbrook, just a few miles from Murrieta, CA where the protestors clashed over the women and children who were being transferred there.

I can’t help but think of the hundreds of thousands of Jews who were denied visas or turned away from America’s shores prior to WWII.

There was a movement to let the Jews in, but antisemitism and fear blocked their escape from the Nazis.

Now we have families, mostly children, who are fleeing for their lives from corrupt governments, drug cartels, and death squads. These good people come to American to seek safety and are turned away by hate and fear. America is responsible for a lot of the problems in Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador that has resulted in dysfunctional governments and swarms of armed criminals.

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Saturday June 01, 2013 · 5:33 AM PDT

2013/06/01 · 05:33

On February 27th, 1968 CBS News anchor Walter Cronkite, in his famous Vietnam commentary, said out loud to the American public, what was known for years by anti-war protestors, newsmen, politicians, and military experts: the Vietnam War was unwinnable, the justification for the war was false, and it was a waste of American lives and treasure.

There are two issues presently facing the American public that cries out for a brave Journalist to speak the truth to power: Global Climate Change and the Economy.

This is a personal moral test of Tom Brokaw, Scott Pelley, Brian Williams, Diane Sawyer, Wolf Blitzer, and all the other news executives and editors who water down the facts.

Who will be the first to be as responsible as Walter Cronkite?

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Boycott Chevron - $2.5 Million to Boehner's House Super Pac

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Saturday October 27, 2012 · 9:56 PM PDT

2012/10/27 · 21:56

I am copying this to all my personal and political contacts, and the Executives and Board of Directors of Chevron Corp.

I was a 42 year customer of Chevron until I read today that they donated $2.5 Million to Rep. John Boehner’s Super Pac to help fill the House of Representatives with rightwing Republicans, who are destroying America and trying to force their extreme religious beliefs and perverse form of capitalism on us all. By making this donation specifically to the Boehner’s House Super Pac, they are marrying themselves to the most radical and destructive elements in American politics today.

You can see the FEC donation report here: http://query.nictusa.com/... and can read an article about the donation by the non-partisan group, Center for Public Integrity here: http://www.publicintegrity.org/...

The current agenda of the Republican Party has moved from being a positive force for efficient government and protector of citizen’s rights to a combination of religious bigots who want to push their fringe beliefs on society and criminals who take campaign donations in return for legislation that favors the privileged and wealthy. For Chevron to support these policies cries out for mass civil actions.

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The Federal Debt and Political Parties

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Thursday October 25, 2012 · 12:00 PM PDT

2012/10/25 · 12:00

Which political party’s president has added more to the national debt, Republicans or Democrats?

The answer is absolutely clear and unambiguous: Republicans have added nearly twice as much to the Federal Debt as Democrats, yet the GOP likes to wrap itself in the mantle of being fiscally responsible.

Consider these charts, which you can verify for yourself. This shows the amount added to the total debt under each president since Nixon/Ford. As we can see, G.W. Bush takes the prize as being the most reckless, by far:

This shows more clearly how much of the current federal debt is attributable to previous presidents.

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Electoral College Averages v2.0

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Monday July 30, 2012 · 2:33 PM PDT

2012/07/30 · 14:33

Electoral Vote Projection

The purpose of this post is to track and report the combined averages and trends of several leading and credible Electoral Map predictions week by week. National polls are useless in projecting the voting outcome in November. The only thing that determines who will be our next President is the outcomes state by state, which directs outcome in the Electoral College.

Data for the combined graphs comes from Huffington Post, Real Clear Politics, Washington Post, CNN, and the New York Times.

This a weekly post. The raw data is below the fold.

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Monday July 23, 2012 · 8:50 PM PDT

2012/07/23 · 20:50

Last night my wife and I had dinner with a couple who are old-time friends.

While discussing several political and economic policy subjects, they seemed surprised that the loan program that funded Solyndra was started under President Bush. They thought the whole story was that once in office, Obama rushed a loan deal to political supporters - and then they went bankrupt.

He wanted to know more, so I put together the following. I told him, "Here are some facts about the company and the loan, which I welcome you to investigate and push back on, if there is contrary factual evidence."

You may have right-wing leaning friends who harp on the Solyndra deal - I hope this summary comes in handy for those situations.

This is material compiled from CNN and Think Progress and others, with updates.

Summary follows below the fold:

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Saturday July 21, 2012 · 8:45 PM PDT

2012/07/21 · 20:45

The purpose of this post is to track and report the combined averages and trends of several leading and credible Electoral Map predictions. National polls are useless in projecting the voting outcome in November. The only thing that determines who will be our next President is the outcomes state by state, which directs outcome in the Electoral College (which is, in my opinion, incredibly outdated, un-democratic, and needs to be replaced with a simple national popular vote).

Data for the combined map will come from Huffington Post, Real Clear Politics, Washington Post, CNN, and the New York Times.

I’ll try to make this a weekly post.

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Romney's Real Tax Problem

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Sunday July 15, 2012 · 3:53 PM PDT

2012/07/15 · 15:53

There will, no doubt, be many embarrassing things we find out when Romney finally releases his tax returns: How much he's really worth, where his investment income really comes from, where his accounts are, maybe even some enterprising journalist will find some things that weren't reported (like more off-shore accounts and business holdings). But the real damage will come from the 1999 - 2002 tax returns that show Romney reporting Bain and Bain affiliates income as "Active" investments rather than "Passive". Active income is taxed at a lower rate - Passive income is taxed at a higher rate.

Romney has insisted that he "retired" in February 1999 - any Bain income after that date should have been reported as "Passive" income.

Ron Paul supporters should demand the tax returns be released before the Republican Convention, so the a different nominee can be chosen if Romney has been hiding the truth.

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Christian “Prosperity Gospel” is modern worship of the Golden Calf, in the form of Donald Trump

The Christian “Prosperity Gospel” is worshiping the Golden Calf, taking the form of Donald Trump

What happened to American TV journalism?

"We are not descended from fearful men." Are We?

What’s the Difference?

A Challenge to American Journalists

Boycott Chevron - $2.5 Million to Boehner's House Super Pac

The Federal Debt and Political Parties

Electoral College Averages v2.0

A Useful Summary of the Solyndra Deal

Electoral College Averages

Romney's Real Tax Problem