Home » Page 204

Connecticut Attacks Religion; Catholic Church. Freedom of Religion, Freedom from Tyranny


This is it, the beginning of the end. It’s not enough that they are brainwashing our kids in school, now they want to tell us how to run our churches. Have they never heard of this thing called the first amendment? Just how stupid do they think we are? The law maker who introduced this bill should be tarred and feathered. I hope to see a lot of people in the state capital Wednesday protesting Connecticut vs. Church. jbranstetter04 A double standard for ‘church and state’ in Connecticut The Roman Catholic church expressed outrage this week — and rightfully so — over proposed legislation that would’ve forced the church to reorganize its infrastructure in Connecticut. According to Sen. Andrew McDonald, D-Stamford, co-chairman of the Judiciary Committee, the proposed legislation — Bill 1098 — was drafted in response to incidents in Greenwich and Darien, where two priests allegedly diverted, if not embezzled, parish funds to the tune of $3.5 million. The church was right on this one. The bill doesn’t belong on the books. In fact, Bill 1098 was withdrawn Tuesday before it ever reached the cauldron of a public hearing Wednesday. Even so, hundreds of Roman Catholic protestors are still expected to converge on the state Capitol in Hartford Wednesday in protest. “There are 387 parishes in Connecticut, and there might be a sour apple once in a while,” Bridgeport Bishop William Lori conceded Monday in a conference call with the Hearst Connecticut Newspapers. “You don’t get rid of

United Nations exhibit put on by OWI in Rockefeller Plaza, New York, N.Y. Central motif was this frame containing copy of Atlantic charter, with amplifiers at each end broadcasting speeches by Roosevelt, Churchill and Chiang Kai-Shek every half hour, and

Freedom of Information
Image taken on 1940-01-01 00:00:00 by The Library of Congress.

Philadelphia Church of God leads Laodicean era (part 1)

I have proven to myself, most prayerfully, that the Philadelphia
Church of God is the most unique of all the groups who’ve
distanced themselves from the Worldwide Church of God’s
doctrinal changes. Only Mal
achi’s Message
clearly speaks with AUTHORITY and not
“like the scribes” (Matt. 7:29). I’ve listened carefully for THE
Voice of the Shepherd, hearing what the Spirit says to God’s
Church today, checking out everything with the Bible and what
Mr. Armstrong faithfully taught us (John 10:3; Rev. 3:22; II
Thess. 2:15).

Of course, there are those who CLAIM to follow the traditions
we’ve been schooled in, yet they’ve refused to humble themselves
and submit to the fact that JESUS CHRIST had already moved HIS
LAMPSTAND by the time they finally saw the light! All that was
necessary for them to do was to go where Christ had already
gone, and support HIS WORK of knocking the errors in the
Worldwide Church of God, while holding on for dear life to God’s
truth! We either GET A GRIP – or we lose it! (Rev. 3:11).

Instead of working with Christ, some have chosen to do their own
thing, contributing to the Church’s state of confusion, rather
than helping to RESTORE ORDER (I Cor. 14:33). Why duplicate
efforts, wasting precious time and money? Why not join ranks
with the PCG so we can present a UNITED FRONT to an increasingly
divided world? This would enable us to effectively share with
others the message GOD would have them to hear (John 12:49). We
ought to come together, in Christ, especially since we’ve all
been taught repeatedly: “There is only one Church. Not a parent
church and many little daughter churches that have split off in
disagreement. Divisions splintering off are NOT STILL IN THE
CHURCH” (Mys
tery of the Ages,
pg. 243).

Whether we like it or not, God, in His infinite wisdom, chose
Gerald Flurry to REVEAL to God’s Church what was going on – and
thereby allow us to show our true colors by how we responded to
Malachi’s Message! (That doesn’t mean Mr. Flurry is infallible
or that he doesn’t need to continually apply the principles of
Malachi’s Message to himself and organization, as we all do as
explained in my article “Worldwide All Over Again?”).

Restored to Zion!

If I’m so convinced that Christ is ONLY with the PCG, and that
the others are self-willed, for the most part, resisting God’s
lead, why don’t I attend their services? (Matt. 7:21; I Sam.
15:23). And how can I believe that God is actively working
through me in the Middle East? Because I’ve unjustly been
disfellowshipped (II Thess. 3:2), yet I remain loyal to God’s
truth they teach!

It’s BEWILDERING to see an organization that apparently started
out so good and strong and righteous degenerate into a
personality CULT that rules through intimidation and fear and
borders emperor worship! Yet they have more truth in many
regards than the others, just like Herbert Armstrong saw Sardis
(Church of God, 7th Day) did however impotent! Strange but true!
Perhaps it’s like Saul was still the anointed until he was
punished by death for his sins and then David reigned…..

When Gerald Flurry wasn’t anything in his own sight or mind God
used him and now, unfortunately, it appears to have gone to his
head, all the new revelation [simply a deeper understanding of
some things], and he forgets that all truth is from and belongs
to GOD and that God can use a donkey to deliver it! (I Cor.
4:7). Mr. Flurry has become so swollen in his own imagination
that he fails to see that he is the leader of LAODICEA! He knows
what warning God is giving the Laodiceans, of which he is chief!
He had better heed his own words!

Under Herbert W. Armstrong Pasadena, California was the
headquarters of the Philadelphia era of God’s Church; now
Edmond, Oklahoma is the headquarters of the Laodicean era, and
next in God’s plan is the restoration of His headquarters to
Jerusalem!

God knows my ATTITUDE AND ACTIONS still support the work God’s
given them to do, but I truly believe what Mr. Flurry teaches:
their work’s almost finished! It’ll just slightly overlap the
beginning of GOD’S FINAL WORK as outlined in my book, Beyond Babylon: Europe’s Rise and Fall (John
3:30). Minister Dennis Leap wickedly disfellowshipped me for
believing that GOD has ORDAINED that I should promote its timely
truth (Isa. 61:1), even though I’m NOT from the “school of the
prophets” (Ambassador College), or going about it in the
“conventional” way (I Sam. 17:39)!

I’ve come to better understand that God has already begun the
TRANSITIONAL PROCESS of RESTORING His Menorah – His Lampstand to
JERUSALEM! (I Kgs. 11:36; Amos 9:11). As prophesied, a NATIONAL
MESSENGER would be on active duty in Jerusalem, preparing the
way for Messiah’s imminent return! (Zech. 12:8). God reveals HE
would send this outspoken individual to deliver a BLISTERING
MESSAGE and a SCORCHING CONDEMNATION to the NATIONS – just
before NUCLEAR FIRE AND BRIMSTONE RAINS DOWN upon those who’ve
rejected GOD’S ULTIMATUM! (Isa. 41:27; 30:27; Micah 3:8).

It’s from Jerusalem that we must warn another HOLOCAUST is
coming! That’s the sensitive location where God will spark a
NATIONAL DEBATE and ignite an INTERNATIONAL CONTROVERSY! (Micah
6:1-2). It’ll shock the Jews and anger the Germans! It’ll also,
undoubtedly, offend many holocaust survivors who now live in
Israel, but they ought to understand and lend their voices of
experience to ours, having personally witnesses GERMANY’S BRUTE
FORCE, to help our efforts to ensure “Never Again!”

Regardless, we can expect a maelstrom of protest and a bitter
backlash – but such persecution will only fan the flames of this
BURNING ISSUE! (Isa. 54:15-16). Both Germany and Israel (for
their own reasons), will want to immediately stop such
“incitement” – calling it fear-mongering and racist – but
they’ll fail and God’s Word will prevail! (Jer. 1:19).

God MUST grant “political immunity” to His Two
Witnesses,
so they can be free to boldly say and do all
that He commands, even though the world will regard them as
public enemy number one! (Ps. 105:15; Rev. 11:10). Undeterred,
they’ll carry on God’s Work and serve as His official government
spokesmen, even in the hostile face of fierce opposition! (Jer.
1:8). But I’m getting ahead of myself! This is all related in my
book, but let’s go back to the beginning – of the true
Philadelphian era….

Mr. Armstrong’s Experiences

In the words of Mr. Armstrong, referring to his dealings with
certain Sardis ministers, “I Shall Not Hide the FACTS!”
(Autobiography of HWA, Vol. 1, pg. 366). However, lest I be
misunderstood, I’d been most hesitant to say or write anything
about my experiences with certain professing Philadelphian
ministers, but I feel compelled by GOD to state the truth,
without fearing men’s reactions, but trusting in God’s PURPOSE!

Mr. Armstrong relates how he had presented a “dual test” to the
Church of God, Seventh Day, to help him determine whether or not
it truly was the Church of God. His first test involved mailing
an “exposition of 16 TYPEWRITTEN PAGES proving clearly, plainly,
and beyond contradiction that a certain minor point of
doctrine… was in error… to see whether their leaders would
confess error and change.” Their head man admitted what Mr.
Armstrong pointed out was true, but feared it might upset many
of the members and even threaten to divide the Church!
“Naturally, this shook my confidence considerably.”
(Autobiography of HWA, Vol. I, pgs. 360-361, emphasis mine).

I, too, detected “a certain minor point of doctrine” taught by
Mr. Leap (on the 144,000), was in error. I didn’t want to rock
the boat, and it wasn’t something I’d lose sleep over, so I
wanted to just ignore or overlook the matter, but God wouldn’t
let me! Amazingly, a dear friend asked me about the 144,000 out
of the blue, and then somehow it came up again with someone
else; so God succeeded in getting my attention to write Mr. Leap
about it. I sent him my PAGE AND 1/2 LETTER, reproduced here –
and didn’t hear anything.

Finally, around my third try (I don’t give up easily!), Mr. Leap
discussed it with me on the phone. When I mentioned that the
Scriptures clearly state that once you’ve broken your “seal”
you’ve lost your salvation, and to claim we can somehow be
“resealed” amounts to crucifying Christ twice, Mr. Leap
stammered around, unable to justify his position, but remained
determined to stick with it – to my sorrow. Like Mr. Armstrong’s
experience, “Naturally, this shook my confidence considerably.”

Church Rejects New Truth

God used an evangelist in Florida to challenge Mr. Armstrong. He
had written Mr. Armstrong and told him he was ignorant if he
didn’t know where we are mentioned in the Bible. After gleaning
through the surprising amount of information on the subject in
the library, Mr. Armstrong PROVED that the so-called “Lost 10
Tribes” are, in fact, the American, British and Northwest
European peoples. He then sent the “lengthy manuscript of close
to 300 TYPED PAGES” that he had written to support this truth to
the editor and leader of the Church. “Did this Church accept and
proclaim this vital new truth… But this Church refused then to
accept it or preach it or publish it though their leader frankly
confessed it was TRUTH and a revelation from GOD! Yet here was
the Church which appeared to have more truth, and less error
than any other… Truly this was bewildering!” (Pg. 362).


continued…

David Ben-Ariel, an American author who has travelled widely and who has lived throughout Israel, shares a special focus on the Middle East and great interest in Jerusalem, reflected in hard-hitting articles that help others improve their understanding of that troubled region. Check out www.benariel.com.

Can’t Pay Your Back Taxes? Get Tax Help to Make the IRS an Offer They Can’t Refuse

The best negotiation advice ever: Every one walks away a little “hurt.” When fighting the IRS over your back taxes, you may feel manacled by the threat of tax liens, wage garnishments and jail time. But don’t worry, a Certified Tax Resolution Specialist knows all sorts of expert strategies to give you the tax help you need to walk away from the IRS with your money and your freedom intact. The trick is partnering with a Certified Tax Resolution Specialist or a tax attorney to increase your chances of qualifying for an IRS payment plan helping you settle your back tax debt for the lowest possible amount, and removing bank levies, tax liens or wage garnishments.

The best tax help a Certified Tax Resolution Specialist or tax attorney can offer is to broker an Offer in Compromise (OIC) settlement. While the IRS web site seems to make it easy to settle your back taxes by simply filling out an Offer in Compromise form, Uncle Sam’s tax help brings serious dangers. Make one mistake and not only will you pay more than you have to, but your very freedom could be at stake. Instead of thinking of it as IRS help, you should look at the Offer In Compromise form as a plea agreement in a criminal trial. You are admitting your full back taxes liability in the hopes of a reduced sentence. Is it smart to try to broker a criminal plea agreement without the tax help of a Certified Tax Resolution Specialist or tax attorney? No way! Unless you’re a Certified Tax Resolution Specialists or a tax attorney, leave tax settlements and Offers in Compromise negotiations to the experts.

New Offer In Compromise changes you need to know: The offer in compromise (OIC) application is a challenging and burdensome process. The privilege of being approved for an OIC closely resembles receiving

The $10,000 Formula to Settle your Back Taxes There is a simple guiding tax help formula about back taxes: If you owe less than $10,000, and you haven’t been in trouble before – you can call the IRS and they will hook you up with a payment plan to be paid in 36 monthly installments.

How Much Does the IRS Think You Are Worth? An offer in compromise is an agreement between a taxpayer and the Internal Revenue Service that resolves the taxpayer’s back tax liability, usually for a fraction of what’s owed. The taxpayer must file and pay his taxes on time for the next five years after acceptance…sort of like Tax Probation. The IRS settles for a lesser amount if there is doubt about the collectability of the amount over the remaining Collection Statute of Limitations vs. what they think they can collect now. If the IRS determines that receiving a lump sum now (albeit just a fraction of the amount owed) would be more than it would cost the agency, in overhead costs, over the remaining life of the collection statute, they will accept your offer.

The minimum offer amount must generally be equal to (or greater than) the taxpayer’s reasonable collection potential (RCP). The RCP is defined as the total of the taxpayer’s realizable value in real and personal assets, plus his/her future income. A Certified Tax Resolution Specialist or tax attorney can find ways to show the IRS that you’re not Daddy Warbucks while providing tax help such as removing wage garnishments and reducing your back tax debt.

To Qualify for an IRS Payment Plan or Tax Settlement Before your tax attorney or Certified Tax Resolution Specialist can make an Offer In Compromise or negotiate a payment plan with the IRS to settle your back taxes, you need to come clean and file all delinquent tax returns with the IRS.

DO NOT SUBMIT AN OIC TO DELAY OR HINDER COLLECTIONS If the IRS believes you are just using the Offer in Compromise to delay paying your debt or thinks you aren’t acting in good faith; they can revoke (return) OIC privileges to settle your back taxes debt. If you get on the wrong side of the IRS, the individual IRS agent has a lot of latitude to decide what they will allow you to do. An experienced Certified Tax Resolution Specialist or tax attorney will have threaded that needle hundreds of times before, giving clients back tax help without angering the IRS.

Why Some Offers in Compromise are More Likely to Get Accepted Than Others Please note that in 2007, nationally, 46,000 Offers were submitted with only 12,000 or about 26% were accepted. The acceptance rate of a good tax attorney or Certified Tax Resolution Specialist, on the other hand, may be as much as five times (approximately 90%) the national average. Why? Because experienced Certified Tax Resolution Specialists or tax attorneys won’t allow clients to submit frivolous OICs. Sometimes the best tax help a tax attorney or Certified Tax Resolution Specialist can give is to say “no” to a client that is about to foolishly blow their hard earned money to settle their IRS back taxes. You must financially qualify and eligible for this program.

Last resort: Learn How to File For Bankruptcy Correctly to Help Solve Tax Problems and Reduce IRS Debt If the IRS rejects your Offer In Compromise or denies you the privilege of making one, you still have the right to declare bankruptcy, but even that is tricky without the help of a tax attorney or Certified Tax Resolution Specialist. To get the maximum tax help from this drastic step, you have to declare bankruptcy at the correct time to eliminate your back taxes. TIMING IS EVERYHTING HERE! But what most clients (who try this without the tax help of a tax attorney or Certified Tax Resolutions Specialist) don’t know is that to completely discharge your back taxes debt you have to file on the correct date.

There are 3 general rules to be met to file for bankruptcy and discharge income taxes:

1) The income tax (payroll tax cannot be “bankrupted”) returns must be 3 years old or older than the due date, including filed extensions;

2) The returns have to be filed with the IRS 24 months prior to the petition, therefore Substitutes for Returns (SFRs) do not count (an SFR must be replaced with an “original” filed return and then wait 24 months). It has to be an originally filed return. And it must have been filed at least two years prior to bankruptcy.

3) 240 days have to pass from the date of assessment. Date of assessment is usually the date of filing, but if the IRS does an audit and they assess additional tax, that establishes a new assessment date for that year. So it is possible for a taxpayer to have two or more assessment dates for one year. If it’s used correctly, income taxes can definitely be discharged. You need a Certified Tax Resolution Specialist, or tax attorney, to properly analyze and interpret your IRS tax transcripts and Records of Account to determine when and if you are eligible.

So remember, even if you have crushing IRS debt from back taxes with no hope of ever paying it back, there are lots of possibilities. A Certified Tax Resolution Specialist or tax attorney has a full arsenal of tax help to settle your back tax debt with the IRS on a reasonable payment plan or an offer in compromise that pays pennies on the dollar of back taxes owed. With an experienced Certified Tax Resolution Specialist or tax attorney at your back, you can strut away from the IRS negotiating table with more money in your pocket and no danger of going to the big house.

For more information on how to resolve your back taxes and IRS problems, visit http://www.taxresolution.com for a free tax relief consultation or call 866-IRS-PROBLEMS.

Michael Rozbruch is one of the nation\’s leading tax experts. A Certified Tax Resolution Specialist (CTRS), licensed CPA and the founder of Tax Resolution Services. He helps individuals and small businesses solve their IRS problems and is dedicated to educating the public on tax planning and other strategies for managing their personal and business finances.

Changing the Constitution

Changing the Constitution
If you could change just one thing in the Constitution – what would you change? What would make Australia a better country?

Read more on Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Whats an article/debate topic about the Rousseau vs Montesquieu controversy?

I need to find an article or modern debate about Rousseau’s views on politics vs Montesquieu’s views. The whole communism/equality vs freedom/inequality thing.

Evolution vs. Creationism: Freedom of Religion


Links to the other 23 videos in this series: 1.www.youtube.com 2: www.youtube.com 3: www.youtube.com 4: www.youtube.com 5: www.youtube.com 6: www.youtube.com 7: www.youtube.com 8: www.youtube.com 9: www.youtube.com 10: www.youtube.com 11: www.youtube.com 12: www.youtube.com 13: www.youtube.com 14: www.youtube.com 15: www.youtube.com 16: www.youtube.com 17: www.youtube.com 18: www.youtube.com 19: www.youtube.com 20: www.youtube.com 21: www.youtube.com 22: www.youtube.com 23: www.youtube.com 24: www.youtube.com

NATIONAL SECURITY ALERT – SENSITIVE INFORMATION


Visit the home site of the investigators: www.citizeninvestigationteam.com Subscribe to receive email updates concerning their investigation here cli.gs Endorsements for the presentation can be read here: www.citizeninvestigationteam.com A step-by-step strategy as to how you can…

Presidents & Congress Ignoring the Constitution – Judge Napolitano


Is the government we have today what the founders had in mind? Everyone in government takes an oath to uphold the Constitution, but few do so. Beginning with John Adams, and proceeding to Abraham Lincoln, Woodrow Wilson, and George W. Bush, congress has enacted and the President has signed laws that have criminalized political speech, suspended Habeas Corpus, compelled support for war, forbade the freedom of contract, allowed the government to spy on Americans without a search warrant, and use tax payer dollars to shore up failing private banks. All of this legislation is so obviously in conflict with the plain words of the Constitution, that one wonders how Congress gets away with it. The truth is, that the Constitution grants Congress 17 specific delegated powers, and commands in the 9th and 10th Amendments, that the powers not articulated and thus not delegated by the Constitution to the Congress, must be reserved to the states and the people. What’s more, Congress can only use it’s delegated powers to legislate for what we call the general welfare. Meaning it cannot spend tax dollars on individuals or selected groups, but only for all of us. And, Congress cannot deny the equal protection of the laws, thus, it must treat similarly situated entities in a similar manner. It is clear that the framers wrote a constitution, as a result of which, contracts would be enforced, risk would be real, choices would be free and have consequences, and private property would be

Stop the Intersection of Church and State

Church and State
Image taken on 2008-11-06 14:05:13 by Caveman 92223 — On the 2010 US Tour.