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Steven Cohen, the chief of the hedge fund SAC Capital Advisors. SAC Capital Advisors has agreed to plead guilty to insider trading violations and pay a record $1.2 billion penalty, becoming the first large Wall Street firm in a generation to confess to criminal condu ct. (Photo: Elizabeth Lippman/The New York Times)

Folks, we do need to worry about charitable organizations which are either a front for the Illuminati, such as this one, or else corrupted by the Illuminati. Archangel Michael has said to me to ask him in the heart and he would say “yes” or “no.”

Lynn Parramore, “Meet the Hedge Funders and Billionaires Who Pillage Under the Shield of Philanthropy,” AlterNet, 05 August 2015, at http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/32227-meet-the-hedge-funders-and-billionaires-who-pillage-under-the-shield-of-philanthropy

America’s parasitical oligarchs are masters of public relations. One of their favorite tactics is to masquerade as defenders of the common folk while neatly arranging things behind the scenes so that they can continue to plunder unimpeded. Perhaps nowhere is this sleight of hand displayed so artfully as it is at a particular high-profile charity with the nerve to bill itself as itself as “New York’s largest poverty-fighting organization.”

British novelist Anthony Trollope once wrote, “I have sometimes thought that there is no being so venomous, so bloodthirsty as a professed philanthropist.”

Meet the benevolent patrons of the Robin Hood Foundation.

Robin Hood in Reverse

The Robin Hood Foundation, named for that green-jerkined hero of redistribution who stole from the rich to give to the poor, is run, ironically, by some of the most rapacious capitalists the country has ever produced – men who make robber barons of previous generations look like small-time crooks. Founded by hedge fund mogul Paul Tudor Jones, the foundation boasts 19 billionaires on its leadership boards and committees, the likes of which include this sample of American plutocracy:

-Hedge fund billionaire Steven A. Cohen, who, when he is not being probed for insider trading (his company, SAC Capital Advisors, pled guilty to securities and wire fraud) is busy throwing parties for himself worthy of a Roman emperor at his Hamptons palace and bragging about his $700 million art collection. He suspends a 13-foot shark in formaldehyde from the ceiling his office, perhaps as an avatar of his business practices.

-Billionaire Home Depot founder Ken Langone, who threatened to turn off the charity donations if Pope Francis dared to continue criticizing capitalism and inequality, and also likened the plight of the wealthy in America to Nazi Germany. The GOP megadonor doesn’t care for bank regulation and it’s no surprise that he is the mainbooster for New Jersey Governor Chris Christie’s presidential bid, as his plan to shred Social Security is a fond wish of the tycoon’s.

– Hedge fund billionaire Stanley Druckenmiller, funder of right-wing causes who dedicates himself to spreading deficit hysteria and ginning up generational warfare on college campuses by trying to convince young people that they are being robbed by seniors using Social Security and Medicare. A long-time anti-tax crusader andsupporter of such anti-labor enthusiasts as Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, Druckenmiller warned President Obama that any attempt to tax the rich to pay for social services for the poor would be futile.

By occupation (the more useless and parasitical the better), it comes as no surprise that 12 of the 19 men in leadership positions at the Robin Hood Foundation happen to be hedge fund managers. A group called Hedge Clippers, supported by a coalition of labor unions and community groups and devoted to exposing how billionaires scheme to inflate their wealth and influence, has pointed out in a scathing report that the Robin Hood Foundation has close ties to an organization called the Managed Funds Association (MFA) that — shocker! —lobbies tirelessly for unjustified tax breaks for hedgies. Paul Tudor Jones’s top deputy, John Torell, chairs the MFA, and 31 members of Robin Hood’s governing board and leadership committees are executives at firms that belong to the highest membership levels of the organization.

The MFA was relatively small until 2007, when Congress started eyeing the “carried interest” tax loophole. Then it brought out the heavy artillery to protect elites from paying their fair share. The carried interest loophole is the MFA’s top priority.

The King of Scams

The carried interest loophole, as economist Dean Baker put it, is likely the worst of all the “sneaky and squirrelly ways that the rich use to escape their tax liability.” It goes down like this: Hedge fund managers brazenly claim they deserve to pay a special low tax rate on the money they earn overseeing the funds they manage because, um, it’s not guaranteed. So they pay 20 percent instead of the 39.6 percent they would pay if the money were taxed as ordinary income. They get very rich from this windfall, just ask Mitt Romney. But you know what? Lots of workers have no guarantee about the money they’ll earn, from people selling cars to the guy who just served you a burger. Do they get a special tax rate? No, they don’t. They pay full freight. In fact, almost nobody’s income is guaranteed. You could get a pay cut tomorrow. Or a pink slip. Do you still pay regular income tax? Yep, you do.

This unfair tax break basically allows hedge fund managers to screw their fellow Americans out of money that could do things the illustrious patrons of the Robin Hood Foundation claim are so dear to their hearts, like building schools and feeding the poor. According to a Congressional Research Service cited in the Hedge Clippers report, closing the carried interest loophole would generate $17 billion a year. How many hungry children in New York City could that feed? All of them?

The loophole makes absolutely no economic or social sense, it’s just a way for the rich to say, hey, we’re powerful enough to lobby for this insanity, so you little people just go ahead and pay for that airport where our private jets are about to land and that road where our Porsches and limos cruise. It’s a middle finger held up to every hard-working person in America. Dirt kicked in the face of the poor.

It’s a driver of inequality and encourages risky speculation on Wall Street. Hillary Clinton, perhaps hoping to ward off the threat of Bernie Sanders, has been making noise about closing the carried interest loophole, which many a politician has made before. Given the cultural focus on inequality and the egregiousness of the policy, it may just be vulnerable. Let’s hope so.

Den of Thieves

The mission statement of the Robin Hood Foundation brays about all the funding it provides for school programs, generating “meaningful results for families in New York’s poorest neighborhoods.” Soup kitchens! Homeless shelters! Job training! The tuxedoed tycoons throw money at all these causes “to give New York’s neediest citizens the tools they need to build better lives.”

How far does this largesse actually go toward ameliorating New York’s poverty problem? Unsurprisingly, not very far at all. In fact, as Hedge Clippers points out, the poverty rate in the city has grown over the course of the Robin Hood Foundation’s history, from 20 percent in 1990 to 21.2 percent in 2012.

Guess what’s also grown? The bank accounts of 19 billionaires on the Robin Hood Foundation’s boards, which have ballooned 93 percent since 2008.

Hedge Clippers applied a delicious tactic to expose the hypocrisy at the heart of the Robin Hood Foundation with stark mathematical precision— they used the organizations own metrics as an analytical tool. The foundation is famed for using grantee evaluations, cost-benefit analyses, and performance measures, including a metrics system freakishly named “relentless monetization.” So the Clippers applied these methods to the foundation’s hedge fund backers themselves, systematically exposing the degree to which they increase inequality and poverty.

How bad it is? A chilling ratio summarizes just how bad – 44:1. That is to say, for every dollar the Robin Hood Foundation hedge fund managers studied give to the organization’s antipoverty efforts, they soak up $44 from the public in the form of tax avoidance and anti-tax advocacy. The authors of the report believe that to be a conservative estimate.

Take the case of Steve Cohen, he of the shark in formaldehyde, and board member emeritus of the Robin Hood Foundation.

The tally of his recent donations to the foundation: $4,850,000.

The estimated amount he ripped off the public in 2014 by paying special low tax rates: $1,300,000,000.

Quite a difference.

When they aren’t advocating tax swindles, members of the Robin Hood Foundation put in plenty of time fighting fair wages, trying to shred the social safety net, and killing worker protections through their associations with organizations like the Manhattan Institute, the Partnership for New York City (the voice of big business in NYC and a big foe of paid sick leave), and Fix the Debt (a notorious group devoted to crushing Social Security and Medicare).

When you think about it, it looks as if the Robin Hood Foundation members are actively trying to strip the public and strangle working people to such a degree that poverty and nickels thrown by billionaires will be all that’s left of America. The rest of us will all be living in Sherwood Forest.

The Robin Hood Foundation’s new motto: Increasing poverty is our business.

264467-african-animals In this period of 2015, we are most certainly in a Wave of powerful transformational energy.

Our lives and our Reality are being changed at a very fast pace and in ways that we are often still coming to terms with. I think that the most recent wave of changes has been the most definitive, and also maybe the most surprising.

It has to do with our fellow citizens on the Earth, the Animals. Quite simply put, the Earth can ascend no further unless we make peace with the Animal Kingdom. We have to take into OUR consciousness the fact that in a Fifth Dimensional World we are all connected and related, and that means that we can no longer abuse and destroy without acknowledging that it is ourselves that we are abusing and destroying.

This awakening, this recognition, and ultimately this raising of consciousness has been centered on Africa. Why? Well, for several reasons. Probably the most evident is that Africa is the only continent that still has a large wild life population, but which is now under extreme threat.

Secondly, Africa is the continent that is the focus of the Sirius Project, which is the clear guidance and love of the Sirian Master Teachers from the Sirius Star System. That influence extends from Egypt in the North to South Africa in the South.

Solstice June 21st and “Calling the Animals”

At this year’s Solstice celebrations, I was guided by Archangel Michael to call for a Global Meditation on the “Calling the Animals”. The purpose of this was to call the animals to us and to express to them our desire that they should come with us into the New Earth and be part of our New Earth Reality.

I did not realize at that point how crucial it was to the whole Ascension project that would make this expression of intent to our fellow brothers and sisters on the Earth!

Further, I also was shown how the Animals are not inferior forms of life, but are also “Star Seeds”, gifts from the Creative Beings who are our Galactic and Cosmic Family. If we could not honor our Animal Family, how could we honor the Galactic and Cosmic Family who had gifted these Life Forms to our Planet.

As it happened, I was also invited to attend a Ceremony in the far North of South Africa at an ancient Stone Circle. This site was located on the “Nile” meridian and also on the borders of South Africa, Swaziland and Mozambique. Just to the North was the Kruger National Park, our biggest wildlife sanctuary, and beyond that, Zimbabwe.

And so it was that I was privileged to be with a large group of people as we “Called the Animals” from the Sacred Circle that we had created around the main standing stones. I remember quite clearly calling the Lion of the North.

In our circle, North was towards Kruger and Zimbabwe, home of Cecil the Lion who was to be a major player in this unfolding wave of energy.

I did specifically call the White Lions as the Spirit Keepers of Africa, to be the guardians of the North. It was also interesting that our Ceremony was visited by two large Crows who, as messengers of the Spirit world, carried our intentions into the Spirit Realms.

Cecil the Lion and the Royal Lion’s of Sirius

ResizedImage600399-CECIL-AFRICAN-LION-POACHING-291537-1220x812 And so it was that the message was received by the Spirit Keepers of Africa and the Royal Lions of Sirius.

Now, perhaps I should explain how very important Lions are in the Sirian teachings.

In the creation story, the Prime Creator known as Amun-Ra, gives birth to two beings who are called Shu and Tefnut. They are the original Masculine and Feminine energies, and Tefnut who is the Feminine, is always depicted as a Lioness Headed Woman. Lion/ess energy is Sacred to the Sirians, it is a manifestation of the Divine Creative Essence.

And so it is that in Africa, where the Sirius energy is strongest on the Planet, that the Lions came to be the Spirit Keeper of the Continent. And it was there, in the Spirit Council of the White Lions, that our call was heard. And so it was decided that a Noble Lion would be needed to bring to Humanity the message of the Lions and the call to “Family” in the New Earth.

And so it was that Cecil, the noble Lion of Hwange, was called to carry the role of the Sacred Path of the Lion King.

Now while this is a beautiful story, it also does not hide the fact that every day Lions are hunted, poached, and killed in Africa, and that the death of Cecil was not a “demanded sacrifice” but an illustration of what is befalling all lions in Africa, and ultimately, all animals on Earth.

The purpose of the very public killing of Cecil the Lion was to bring the energy of the Lion into the Collective Consciousness just at the very moment when the Sun was in Leo and we were approaching a very crucial Ascension Moment in the Lions Gate of 2015, the 8/8/8.

It was to make Humanity aware of what was happening to the lions and to the animals on the Earth, to remind Humanity of their mission to love and hold the animals and their purpose of recreating the Garden on the New Earth so that All Life Forms could be present.

And it was to make us aware that our Star Nation brothers and sisters, especially the Sirians, were here present with us in this work. The powerful energies of the Lion’s Gate are assisting the Planet through the Gateways of Time and into the Higher Dimensions that are guarded by the Royal Sirian Lions of Yesterday and Tomorrow.

8/8/8 : The Lion’s Gate and Beyond

The Lion’s Gate of 2015, on the 8th of August, is the culmination of an Ascension Wave that will lift the planet into the highest frequencies of Luminosity that have yet been achieved on Earth!

On the 8th of August, the Royal Sirian Lions will be on hand in the Spirit Realm to be the assistants at this wonderful moment of Ascension and Birthing for the Planet.

We can be sure too that Cecil the Lion will be there in Soul/Spirit form to watch over the final stages of the story that he had such a part in creating.

From this moment forward, the Animals will step into their sovereignty and will become our fellow citizens of the New Earth.

This will create a radical shift in consciousness that will challenge all that we believe about love and compassion and the way in which we embody these essential energies.

We will be required to shift from a society that believes that Humanity is central and that everything on the Planet is simply “resources” to be consumed, to a society that acknowledges the Unity of a Family of Living Beings sharing a common home and a common destiny.

This is the Great Shift we need to make if the Earth is to continue to ascend into her true Destiny as a Planet of Love and Compassion.

“From ‘Calling the Animals’ to the Lion’s Gate: A Journey in Raising Consciousness” by Celia Fenn, August 6 2015, at http://starchildglobal.com/channels-and-articles/from-calling-the-animals-to-the-lionsgate-a-journey-in-raising-consciousness/

Luis Miguel 1162 61587 Lima	RE: IS THE NEW AGE REALLY COMING? 8/7/2015 7:39:09 PM
	New Paradigm A Comparison of Old and New Paradigm Perspectives Our world appears to be making a profound shift to a new paradigm. The old paradigm served humanity for many, many years, and in some ways serves us still. Yet this exciting new paradigm is paving the way for a more loving, harmonious way of living and interacting with all around us. The below comparison is an attempt to capture the spirit of the old and new paradigm without the intention of making one better than the other, yet also inviting us to join in welcoming inspiring new ways which can support us all in being the best we can be and making a difference in our lives and world. New Paradigm Comparisons Old: Man is born into sin, essentially corrupt at the core. New: All people in their core essence are beautiful and worthy of love. Old: Hatred and vengeance are justified for wrongs suffered. An eye for an eye. New: Love is the most transformative force. Forgiveness is an act of courage and compassion. Old: Don't show real feelings, or you will get hurt. Create a convincing persona to present to the world. New: Welcome authenticity and vulnerability. It's all about being honest and real with each other. Old: Emphasis on hierarchies. Focus on competition so that the best rise to the top of the hierarchy. New: Emphasis on equality. Focus on cooperation in order to support the greatest good for all. Old: Tend to avoid personal responsibility by blaming those above or below them in the hierarchy. New: Take personal responsibility for actions and learn from our mistakes. Old: People need to be led or controlled by those believed to be better or more capable. New: Each individual is a powerful creator capable of meeting their needs with the help of others. Old: The mind and science is supreme. The scientific paradigm supersedes God and religion. New: The heart and personal relationships are of paramount importance. The deepest essence of life is a divine mystery to be welcomed and explored. Old: Don't question the accepted scientific paradigm. Focus on three-dimensional, five-sensory world. New: Foster fluid intelligence. Explore the edges of consciousness, especially other dimensions and capabilities not believed to be possible under the old paradigm. Old: Categorizing and dissecting nature allows us to better control it and to profit from it. New: Recognizing the interconnectedness of all life leads to greater growth and harmony. Old: Focus on order, discipline. New: Welcome flexibility and even occasional chaos and disorder as means to see new possibilities. Old: Value boundaries, borders, and divisions. These give security, safety, and comfort. New: While respecting and honoring differences, look for shared vision and ways to work together. Take risks in order to grow. Short-term pain can bring long-term gain. Old: You can't trust anyone. New: Surrender to and trust in a divine force greater than our egoic selves. Old: Focus on defeating and conquering the enemy, us versus them. War against evil. New: Committed to transforming and integrating life's challenges. The external reflects the internal. Old: Focus on details, complexity. New: Remember the bigger picture. Identify simple principles behind the complexities of life. Old: Look outwards for guidance. Don't trust self. Have rigid rules and beliefs. New: Look inwards and outwards for guidance. Develop intuition. Have flexible guidelines and beliefs. We all have our feet in both paradigms. How much we live in each paradigm is but a matter of degree. The old paradigm is not necessarily something to be shunned or avoided. There are times when principles of both paradigms can be useful and beneficial. Yet overall, the new paradigm invites more love, support, and deeper connection into our lives and world. In every moment we can consciously choose the paradigm to which we give our focus, time, and energy. Remember that all of us to some degree are afraid of our shadows. At times we avoid looking at thedisturbing parts of ourselves and our world. Yet consider that a willingness to explore and even dance with these shadows can be a potent catalyst to a new paradigm. And when we set a clear life intentionto choose and support what's best for all, our lives can't help but become richer and more fulfilling. For an incisive, inspiring two-page essay on developing a new paradigm for our world, click here. For a rich and empowering online course which powerfully inspires new paradigm awareness and is offered free of charge, see the Insight Course at www.insightcourse.net. If you have time for only one lesson in this heart and mind expanding course, check out the inspiring lesson three or surprising lesson six. For the PEERS network of websites which are all about creating a new paradigm, see www.peerservice.org. Together, we are co-creating a new paradigm for us all. Thank you for playing your part. (www.wanttoknow.info/)
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Luis Miguel 1162 61587 Lima	RE: IS THE NEW AGE REALLY COMING?http://community.adlandpro.com/aspnet_client/fr 8/7/2015 7:41:47 PM
	The Global Awakening Fri, 08/07/2015 - 11:54 by Fausto Petrone, The greatest global awakening in history is taking place. The consciousness on our world is repositioning more rapidly than ever. There is even more enlightened information offered to the masses than ever before. Your ordinary human is now discovering the formulas to manifesting an unbelievable life, and is able to absolutely transform their life into something they love! In every nation that you take a trip to, you’ll find more individuals exploring alternative means of working as everyone is learning the best ways to tap into greater states of consciousness. World Earth is finally done with kindergarten, and we prepare to take the leap into the 1st grade! This Great Awakening is not a “bad” or “excellent” thing; it’s just part of our development. It’s as if every person is being welcomed to their very own college graduation party. You see all the old societal systems are breaking down since consciousness is advancing as such an exponential rate. The world has been retaliating with its disasters, requiring a change in the way we treat ourselves and the atmosphere. We have actually been living in worry, anxiousness, and greed for long enough. The world has been divided for eons, staying in the impressions that some people are more powerful, richer and more fantastic than others. Yes, the wool has actually maybe been pulled over your eyes too! You are just as effective, rich, and outstanding on your inner world. You were born with the exact same manifesting powers as every person else. You currently are an extremely effective manifesting being who can easily create, bring in, and emerge anything that you prefer! There is no should play small, hopeless, and poor any longer. You are not restricted by some fear-based game that others are playing into any longer. The globe of “us verses them” is far dated, and it is time we grow up, progress, and move into the new age. Are you willing to come to be a more mindful being who is living 24 hours a day in a state ofhappiness, love and inner peace? You are worthy of to experience this all the time, and you can! Simply begin by reclaiming your own spiritual connection, and understand that there is an omniscient all-intelligent Source available to you in each new minute. It feels terrific to drop the ole ego trip and connect with the God Source. You are worthy of to appreciate this experience daily, and as you exercise it, you’ll see that this globe is truly awakening all around you! Take the initial step to empowering yourself and ignite this spiritual connection right now! Start with uncovering your answers to these questions, then start exercising the Awakening Meditation below … appreciate! Exactly what do you most need to say “NO” to, so that you can say “YES” to a much greater variation of you? Exactly what do you should think of, do, or release, to experience an overwhelming feeling of liberty in your life this week? Just what is really actually crucial to you on a worldwide level? Exactly what can you do today to create a more enlightened globe tomorrow?
	"Choose a job you love and you will not have to work a day in your life" (Confucius)
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Luis Miguel 1162 61587 Lima	RE: IS THE NEW AGE REALLY COMING?http://community.adlandpro.com/aspnet_client/fr 8/7/2015 7:45:10 PM
	Meet the Hedge Funders and Billionaires Who Pillage Under the Shield of Philanthropy August 7, 2015 By Steve Beckow Steven Cohen, the chief of the hedge fund SAC Capital Advisors. SAC Capital Advisors has agreed to plead guilty to insider trading violations and pay a record $1.2 billion penalty, becoming the first large Wall Street firm in a generation to confess to criminal condu ct. (Photo: Elizabeth Lippman/The New York Times) Folks, we do need to worry about charitable organizations which are either a front for the Illuminati, such as this one, or else corrupted by the Illuminati. Archangel Michael has said to me to ask him in the heart and he would say “yes” or “no.” Lynn Parramore, “Meet the Hedge Funders and Billionaires Who Pillage Under the Shield of Philanthropy,” AlterNet, 05 August 2015, at http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/32227-meet-the-hedge-funders-and-billionaires-who-pillage-under-the-shield-of-philanthropy America’s parasitical oligarchs are masters of public relations. One of their favorite tactics is to masquerade as defenders of the common folk while neatly arranging things behind the scenes so that they can continue to plunder unimpeded. Perhaps nowhere is this sleight of hand displayed so artfully as it is at a particular high-profile charity with the nerve to bill itself as itself as “New York’s largest poverty-fighting organization.” British novelist Anthony Trollope once wrote, “I have sometimes thought that there is no being so venomous, so bloodthirsty as a professed philanthropist.” Meet the benevolent patrons of the Robin Hood Foundation. Robin Hood in Reverse The Robin Hood Foundation, named for that green-jerkined hero of redistribution who stole from the rich to give to the poor, is run, ironically, by some of the most rapacious capitalists the country has ever produced – men who make robber barons of previous generations look like small-time crooks. Founded by hedge fund mogul Paul Tudor Jones, the foundation boasts 19 billionaires on its leadership boards and committees, the likes of which include this sample of American plutocracy: -Hedge fund billionaire Steven A. Cohen, who, when he is not being probed for insider trading (his company, SAC Capital Advisors, pled guilty to securities and wire fraud) is busy throwing parties for himself worthy of a Roman emperor at his Hamptons palace and bragging about his $700 million art collection. He suspends a 13-foot shark in formaldehyde from the ceiling his office, perhaps as an avatar of his business practices. -Billionaire Home Depot founder Ken Langone, who threatened to turn off the charity donations if Pope Francis dared to continue criticizing capitalism and inequality, and also likened the plight of the wealthy in America to Nazi Germany. The GOP megadonor doesn’t care for bank regulation and it’s no surprise that he is the mainbooster for New Jersey Governor Chris Christie’s presidential bid, as his plan to shred Social Security is a fond wish of the tycoon’s. – Hedge fund billionaire Stanley Druckenmiller, funder of right-wing causes who dedicates himself to spreading deficit hysteria and ginning up generational warfare on college campuses by trying to convince young people that they are being robbed by seniors using Social Security and Medicare. A long-time anti-tax crusader andsupporter of such anti-labor enthusiasts as Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, Druckenmiller warned President Obama that any attempt to tax the rich to pay for social services for the poor would be futile. By occupation (the more useless and parasitical the better), it comes as no surprise that 12 of the 19 men in leadership positions at the Robin Hood Foundation happen to be hedge fund managers. A group called Hedge Clippers, supported by a coalition of labor unions and community groups and devoted to exposing how billionaires scheme to inflate their wealth and influence, has pointed out in a scathing report that the Robin Hood Foundation has close ties to an organization called the Managed Funds Association (MFA) that — shocker! —lobbies tirelessly for unjustified tax breaks for hedgies. Paul Tudor Jones’s top deputy, John Torell, chairs the MFA, and 31 members of Robin Hood’s governing board and leadership committees are executives at firms that belong to the highest membership levels of the organization. The MFA was relatively small until 2007, when Congress started eyeing the “carried interest” tax loophole. Then it brought out the heavy artillery to protect elites from paying their fair share. The carried interest loophole is the MFA’s top priority. The King of Scams The carried interest loophole, as economist Dean Baker put it, is likely the worst of all the “sneaky and squirrelly ways that the rich use to escape their tax liability.” It goes down like this: Hedge fund managers brazenly claim they deserve to pay a special low tax rate on the money they earn overseeing the funds they manage because, um, it’s not guaranteed. So they pay 20 percent instead of the 39.6 percent they would pay if the money were taxed as ordinary income. They get very rich from this windfall, just ask Mitt Romney. But you know what? Lots of workers have no guarantee about the money they’ll earn, from people selling cars to the guy who just served you a burger. Do they get a special tax rate? No, they don’t. They pay full freight. In fact, almost nobody’s income is guaranteed. You could get a pay cut tomorrow. Or a pink slip. Do you still pay regular income tax? Yep, you do. This unfair tax break basically allows hedge fund managers to screw their fellow Americans out of money that could do things the illustrious patrons of the Robin Hood Foundation claim are so dear to their hearts, like building schools and feeding the poor. According to a Congressional Research Service cited in the Hedge Clippers report, closing the carried interest loophole would generate $17 billion a year. How many hungry children in New York City could that feed? All of them? The loophole makes absolutely no economic or social sense, it’s just a way for the rich to say, hey, we’re powerful enough to lobby for this insanity, so you little people just go ahead and pay for that airport where our private jets are about to land and that road where our Porsches and limos cruise. It’s a middle finger held up to every hard-working person in America. Dirt kicked in the face of the poor. It’s a driver of inequality and encourages risky speculation on Wall Street. Hillary Clinton, perhaps hoping to ward off the threat of Bernie Sanders, has been making noise about closing the carried interest loophole, which many a politician has made before. Given the cultural focus on inequality and the egregiousness of the policy, it may just be vulnerable. Let’s hope so. Den of Thieves The mission statement of the Robin Hood Foundation brays about all the funding it provides for school programs, generating “meaningful results for families in New York’s poorest neighborhoods.” Soup kitchens! Homeless shelters! Job training! The tuxedoed tycoons throw money at all these causes “to give New York’s neediest citizens the tools they need to build better lives.” How far does this largesse actually go toward ameliorating New York’s poverty problem? Unsurprisingly, not very far at all. In fact, as Hedge Clippers points out, the poverty rate in the city has grown over the course of the Robin Hood Foundation’s history, from 20 percent in 1990 to 21.2 percent in 2012. Guess what’s also grown? The bank accounts of 19 billionaires on the Robin Hood Foundation’s boards, which have ballooned 93 percent since 2008. Hedge Clippers applied a delicious tactic to expose the hypocrisy at the heart of the Robin Hood Foundation with stark mathematical precision— they used the organizations own metrics as an analytical tool. The foundation is famed for using grantee evaluations, cost-benefit analyses, and performance measures, including a metrics system freakishly named “relentless monetization.” So the Clippers applied these methods to the foundation’s hedge fund backers themselves, systematically exposing the degree to which they increase inequality and poverty. How bad it is? A chilling ratio summarizes just how bad – 44:1. That is to say, for every dollar the Robin Hood Foundation hedge fund managers studied give to the organization’s antipoverty efforts, they soak up $44 from the public in the form of tax avoidance and anti-tax advocacy. The authors of the report believe that to be a conservative estimate. Take the case of Steve Cohen, he of the shark in formaldehyde, and board member emeritus of the Robin Hood Foundation. The tally of his recent donations to the foundation: $4,850,000. The estimated amount he ripped off the public in 2014 by paying special low tax rates: $1,300,000,000. Quite a difference. When they aren’t advocating tax swindles, members of the Robin Hood Foundation put in plenty of time fighting fair wages, trying to shred the social safety net, and killing worker protections through their associations with organizations like the Manhattan Institute, the Partnership for New York City (the voice of big business in NYC and a big foe of paid sick leave), and Fix the Debt (a notorious group devoted to crushing Social Security and Medicare). When you think about it, it looks as if the Robin Hood Foundation members are actively trying to strip the public and strangle working people to such a degree that poverty and nickels thrown by billionaires will be all that’s left of America. The rest of us will all be living in Sherwood Forest. The Robin Hood Foundation’s new motto: Increasing poverty is our business. This piece was reprinted by Truthout with permission or license. It may not be reproduced in any form without permission or license from the source.
	"Choose a job you love and you will not have to work a day in your life" (Confucius)
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	Celia Fenn: From ‘Calling the Animals’ to the Lion’s Gate August 7, 2015 By Brian Ramsell In this period of 2015, we are most certainly in a Wave of powerful transformational energy. Our lives and our Reality are being changed at a very fast pace and in ways that we are often still coming to terms with. I think that the most recent wave of changes has been the most definitive, and also maybe the most surprising. It has to do with our fellow citizens on the Earth, the Animals. Quite simply put, the Earth can ascend no further unless we make peace with the Animal Kingdom. We have to take into OUR consciousness the fact that in a Fifth Dimensional World we are all connected and related, and that means that we can no longer abuse and destroy without acknowledging that it is ourselves that we are abusing and destroying. This awakening, this recognition, and ultimately this raising of consciousness has been centered on Africa. Why? Well, for several reasons. Probably the most evident is that Africa is the only continent that still has a large wild life population, but which is now under extreme threat. Secondly, Africa is the continent that is the focus of the Sirius Project, which is the clear guidance and love of the Sirian Master Teachers from the Sirius Star System. That influence extends from Egypt in the North to South Africa in the South. Solstice June 21st and “Calling the Animals” At this year’s Solstice celebrations, I was guided by Archangel Michael to call for a Global Meditation on the “Calling the Animals”. The purpose of this was to call the animals to us and to express to them our desire that they should come with us into the New Earth and be part of our New Earth Reality. I did not realize at that point how crucial it was to the whole Ascension project that would make this expression of intent to our fellow brothers and sisters on the Earth! Further, I also was shown how the Animals are not inferior forms of life, but are also “Star Seeds”, gifts from the Creative Beings who are our Galactic and Cosmic Family. If we could not honor our Animal Family, how could we honor the Galactic and Cosmic Family who had gifted these Life Forms to our Planet. As it happened, I was also invited to attend a Ceremony in the far North of South Africa at an ancient Stone Circle. This site was located on the “Nile” meridian and also on the borders of South Africa, Swaziland and Mozambique. Just to the North was the Kruger National Park, our biggest wildlife sanctuary, and beyond that, Zimbabwe. And so it was that I was privileged to be with a large group of people as we “Called the Animals” from the Sacred Circle that we had created around the main standing stones. I remember quite clearly calling the Lion of the North. In our circle, North was towards Kruger and Zimbabwe, home of Cecil the Lion who was to be a major player in this unfolding wave of energy. I did specifically call the White Lions as the Spirit Keepers of Africa, to be the guardians of the North. It was also interesting that our Ceremony was visited by two large Crows who, as messengers of the Spirit world, carried our intentions into the Spirit Realms. Cecil the Lion and the Royal Lion’s of Sirius And so it was that the message was received by the Spirit Keepers of Africa and the Royal Lions of Sirius. Now, perhaps I should explain how very important Lions are in the Sirian teachings. In the creation story, the Prime Creator known as Amun-Ra, gives birth to two beings who are called Shu and Tefnut. They are the original Masculine and Feminine energies, and Tefnut who is the Feminine, is always depicted as a Lioness Headed Woman. Lion/ess energy is Sacred to the Sirians, it is a manifestation of the Divine Creative Essence. And so it is that in Africa, where the Sirius energy is strongest on the Planet, that the Lions came to be the Spirit Keeper of the Continent. And it was there, in the Spirit Council of the White Lions, that our call was heard. And so it was decided that a Noble Lion would be needed to bring to Humanity the message of the Lions and the call to “Family” in the New Earth. And so it was that Cecil, the noble Lion of Hwange, was called to carry the role of the Sacred Path of the Lion King. Now while this is a beautiful story, it also does not hide the fact that every day Lions are hunted, poached, and killed in Africa, and that the death of Cecil was not a “demanded sacrifice” but an illustration of what is befalling all lions in Africa, and ultimately, all animals on Earth. The purpose of the very public killing of Cecil the Lion was to bring the energy of the Lion into the Collective Consciousness just at the very moment when the Sun was in Leo and we were approaching a very crucial Ascension Moment in the Lions Gate of 2015, the 8/8/8. It was to make Humanity aware of what was happening to the lions and to the animals on the Earth, to remind Humanity of their mission to love and hold the animals and their purpose of recreating the Garden on the New Earth so that All Life Forms could be present. And it was to make us aware that our Star Nation brothers and sisters, especially the Sirians, were here present with us in this work. The powerful energies of the Lion’s Gate are assisting the Planet through the Gateways of Time and into the Higher Dimensions that are guarded by the Royal Sirian Lions of Yesterday and Tomorrow. 8/8/8 : The Lion’s Gate and Beyond The Lion’s Gate of 2015, on the 8th of August, is the culmination of an Ascension Wave that will lift the planet into the highest frequencies of Luminosity that have yet been achieved on Earth! On the 8th of August, the Royal Sirian Lions will be on hand in the Spirit Realm to be the assistants at this wonderful moment of Ascension and Birthing for the Planet. We can be sure too that Cecil the Lion will be there in Soul/Spirit form to watch over the final stages of the story that he had such a part in creating. From this moment forward, the Animals will step into their sovereignty and will become our fellow citizens of the New Earth. This will create a radical shift in consciousness that will challenge all that we believe about love and compassion and the way in which we embody these essential energies. We will be required to shift from a society that believes that Humanity is central and that everything on the Planet is simply “resources” to be consumed, to a society that acknowledges the Unity of a Family of Living Beings sharing a common home and a common destiny. This is the Great Shift we need to make if the Earth is to continue to ascend into her true Destiny as a Planet of Love and Compassion. “From ‘Calling the Animals’ to the Lion’s Gate: A Journey in Raising Consciousness” by Celia Fenn, August 6 2015, at http://starchildglobal.com/channels-and-articles/from-calling-the-animals-to-the-lionsgate-a-journey-in-raising-consciousness/ Source Link: From Calling the Animals to the Lion’s Gate
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