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Jesus' vision of economic and social redistribution of wealth and power

Anglicans urged to practice �shared abundance� of food

The keynote speaker of the diocese�s Outreach Networking Conference urged Anglicans to join the food sovereignty (also known as food security) movement, and said an early practitioner of it was Jesus Christ. �He told it, he showed and he embodied it,� said Ched Myers, speaking to about 170 people at Holy Trinity School in Richmond Hill on Oct. 16.

Mr. Myers, a biblical scholar and social justice advocate, said the �engineered scarcity� of the marketplace has led to persistent hunger and poverty and runs counter to the teachings of Jesus Christ and the prophets before him. �The vision of the Kingdom of God is that everyone gets fat and happy � everyone, not just some.� He said people are coming to the belief that food sovereignty is the proper response to this situation. �Foodbanks are good, but food sovereignty is better,� he said.

Food sovereignty is a term coined by members of an international peasant movement in 1996. It claims that people have the right to define their own food, agriculture, livestock and fishery systems, in contrast to having food largely subject to international market forces. One of its principles is that everyone must have access to safe, nutritious and culturally appropriate food in sufficient quality and quantity to sustain a healthy life with full dignity.

He said Anglicans who want to learn more about food sovereignty should look at the scriptures, where it was a central tenet of Christ�s life and was called for by the prophets. He quoted from Isaiah 55: �Ho, everyone who thirsts, come to the waters; and you that have no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.�

Isaiah was calling for a world in which food was �unhooked� from the economy and available to all those who needed it, said Mr. Myers. �Food is a gift of God for the people of God,� he said. �This was not a vision of scarcity. It was a vision of abundance that was seen as the divinely ordained life for all people, particularly those without money.�

He said Mark�s Gospel gives ample evidence of Christ�s thinking on the consumption, distribution and production of food. One of the most telling scenes is when Jesus and his disciples (poor fishermen who occupied the bottom rung of the emerging imperial economy) sit down to eat with Levi, the tax collector who sold fishing leases on behalf of the governing elites. �What we see is this extraordinary fellowship between the debtor class (the fishermen) and the collectors of debt (Levi),� said Mr Myers. �And the only way that this meal would have been possible is by the embrace, particularly by the debt collecting class, of Jesus� vision of economic and social redistribution of wealth and power. In other words, it was the realization of Jubilee.�

Right after the meal at Levi�s house, the local authorities came and challenged Jesus� practice of shared abundance. According to Mr. Myers, �Jesus said to them, �Look, poor people are already hungry. They don�t need ritual fasting; they need shared abundance.� So Jesus spins that metaphor that the kingdom of God is like a wedding banquet. In Jesus time, the wedding banquet was a time when all the people in the village came together and shared their stuff, no matter how much they had. It was a time of shared abundance. That, says Jesus, is what the kingdom is about. That�s what folks need.�

Further on in Mark�s Gospel, Jesus and his disciples have nothing to eat on the Sabbath, so they pluck heads of grain, much to the disapproval of the local authorities. �The authorities were asserting the narrower vision of Sabbath as a form of prohibiting work, but Jesus was following the expansive view of Sabbath, which is: it isn�t about what you don�t do, it�s about what you do on behalf of justice,� said Mr. Myers.

He said Jesus was following the ancient �idea of the remainder,� which is one of the Sabbath principles in the Torah. �What that means is that there is no such thing as absolute ownership of a piece of land. You do not own 100 per cent of your farm. The edges of your field belong to the poor. They have a right to glean the edges and the leftover of your field. That is not understood in the Hebrew bible as charity; that�s understood as justice. And that is because the field doesn�t belong to you: It belongs to the creator. You�re just tending it. Because that common wealth belongs to everyone, the disenfranchised in your community have the intrinsic right to your productive capacity.�

When Jesus and his disciples were confronted by the authorities, he reminded them of what David, the father of their nation, and his companions did when they were hungry: they went into the local shrine and took the bread to eat. �Jesus said they were justified to do that because they were hungry,� said Mr. Myers. �Hungry people have rights to anything. Nothing is proprietory when people are hungry.�

Mr. Myers ended his talk by linking the story of the loaves and fishes in Luke�s Gospel to the Last Supper. He said both events use the same verbs and gestures: Jesus takes, he gives thanks, he breaks and he gives. Mr. Myers wondered if it made more sense to read the latter story in light of the former. �Every time we lift up this bread in the central ritual act of what it means to be church, are we supposed to be remembering a celebration of shared abundance in the teeth of an economy of engineered scarcity? How would that impact the life of the church if we understood that ritual like that? How would our church be different if the eucharist was anchored in the practice of Sabbath economics? What is it that we�re remembering when we do this in memory of? Are we just remembering his death and resurrection? That�s important to remember. But it�s also important to remember his life � his life of Sabbath economics.�

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Speaker Pelosi talked about one of her most favorite topics: wealth redistribution (read: theft)

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on Monday, Speaker Pelosi talked about one of her most favorite topics: wealth redistribution (read: theft)

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Video: Pelosi advocates targeting private ownership to address income disparity

Pelosi grinning maniacally at...targeting private ownership

Nancy Pelosi advocates the targeting of private ownership and property to address income disparity in the US. Speaking to a room full of United Steelworkers in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on Monday, Speaker Pelosi talked about one of her most favorite topics in the whole, wide world: wealth redistribution (read: theft) and making poor people jealous of the rich by planting in their heads the perverse idea that they are entitled to the income of those who make more money than they do. Of course, she didn’t phrase it exactly in this way, but she used her most favorite Democrat buzz words like "fairness" and "income" and "wealthy people" to indicate that she was basically advocating that both private ownership and property were fair game for government control. They were fair game so long as said control would go to making things "more fair" for the poor people in the US. Awww, bless her thieving, socialist heart.

Specifically, Pelosi said this:

"We’re talking about addressing the disparity of income where the wealthy people continue to get wealthier and some other people are falling out of the middle class when we want to bring many more people into the middle class. But that disparity is not just about wages alone, that disparity is about ownership and equity. It’s all about fairness in our country…"

To anyone with even mediocre observational skills, this will of course confirm again why Pelosi, Obama and the whole Democrat Party are in the toilet of abysmal ratings as the US heads into the midterm elections. Because they are a bunch of hardcore, anti-capitalist socialists…that’s why! In the US, the mindset of people is generally pro-capitalist, which is why the US, a country that people die trying to get into, is the country where you have the best chance of becoming rich out of any other country in the whole world. Most Americans intensely resent such Marxist-flavored, socialist propaganda that came flying out of Pelosi’s mouth, and she knows it. That’s why she spat her revolting, socialist talking points in front a hardcore, Democrat voting block: the union members of the United Steelworkers group.

Pelosi’s un-American comments can also be seen as a futile attempt on her part to "rally" the laughable tatters of those who still call themselves "Democrat voters" in this election climate. After all, in an election season when Pelosi is more unfavorable than someone who steals cookies from girl scouts, and her party leader, Barack "The One" Obama, is similarly less popular than an IRS tax auditor, there are few options Democrats can fall back on to form some kind of a "strategy" for the midterms. After all, after you have alienated conservatives, independents and by now even those few, though still quite dim bulbs, moderate Democrats who are slowly-yet-painfully just beginning to use their own judgment powers, you cannot expect to do more than try to rally the pitiful tatters of those hardcore voters in your party. AKA, the union members.

Ironically, far from motivating her own motley crew of socialism-loving supporters, Pelosi and her comments should instead serve to rally a totally different voter block to come out in droves to the polls: the normal, sane Americans. I would define those people as Americans who are 100% against the Obama-Pelosi-Reid brand of the Democrat Party that advocates nothing but theft in the form of socialism. At the same time, I would define those Americans as those who love capitalism, very limited government interference, and the personal responsibility to succeed or fail on their own terms, based on their own actions. If you are someone who is repulsed by the Democrats’ un-American brand of more government control and more socialism, you should come out to vote in full force in November…unless, of course, you want more of that Pelosi socialism to take even more root.
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The Rent Is Too Damn High Party's Jimmy McMillan at the NY Governor Debate

Jimmy "The rent is too damn high!" McMillan Party

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'Rent's Too High' guy not so funny

By Athima Chansanchai

UPDATE: Jimmy McMillan doesn't even pay rent, missing payments and living rent-free in exchange for maintenance work, according to the New York Times and as reported on MSNBC.com.

Here is Lawrence O'Donnell's exclusive interview with him on "The Last Word."

I have to admit, watching New York gubernatorial candidate Jimmy "The rent is too damn high!" McMillan and his impassioned rant (see video above, or read this Gawker story) that spread like a virus amongst my Facebook friends last night amused me, especially the theme song that plays on his website. It made for some levity in an otherwise somber election cycle.

It was the kind of crazy that made me miss living in New York.

But this morning, I'm finding out things about McMillan that really aren't so funny, and why I'm not going to be plastering his meme on this post.

First, his rent really isn't that damn high: only $800 for a one-bedroom in Flatbush, which is just $100 or so more than what I was paying for my share of a teeny tiny 2-bedroom in Manhattan TWELVE years ago. (Thanks to the New York Post for the digging on that one and hat tip to Gawker for guiding us there.)

Next, the reason he thinks the rent is too damn high: Jews.

A New York Times article profiling candidates mentioned this: "A perennial candidate, he was called an anti-Semite during his mayoral run in 2005 for blaming rent problems on Jewish people."

New York political blog Room Eight, through a poster named Gatemouth (the self-described "blog world's expert on Jimmy McMillan's raving lunatic obsession with THE JEWS") has also put some things out there that should dampen enthusiasm for the karate kicking, black-glove wearing, Dali-moustached candidate.

Gatemouth claims he lifted this from McMillan's 2009 mayoral campaign website and posted to Room Eight under a page called "The Jimmy McMillan Show":

This is true all Latinos/ Hispanics/ Blacks/ Others... as well as every religious group other than Judiasm are being run out of this area. The Williamsburg Section of Brooklyn, NY. Don't take our word go to Flushings Ave and Bedford Ave/ Lee Ave and Nostrand Ave witness the Hate by the people of the Jewish Faith.

If you are not JEWISH you are "PROHIBITED" from living in this area.

After the world fought hard to free the JEWISH people from the hands of HITLER.

They should be shame of themselves for discriminating in housing against the people in the State of New York especially in the city of Brooklyn.

They are violating every Housing Act written in the constitution and no one will address it because they are afraid they will be called Anti-Semantic and accuse of Anti-Semitism.

Apparently, all this caught up to McMillan, who at some point issued this defense:

"During this campaign someone choose to label me Anti-Semantic and An ti-Semite. Let me correct this definition for you just incase you have an educational problem, and difficulties. Someone is trying to make the word/name Jew - Jewish a Race, and that will never happen. This definition must be correct at once. Some damages had already been done but it's not too late to repair what has been done. we must move quickly before the Dictionary and Encyclopedia put the wrong definition in there publications."

And we'll leave it at that. Unless you have something to say about it?
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When is the Day of the Lord?

Have you been aware that they are 6 eclipses starting off with the bloodmoon eclipse in Passover of 2014, and the last bloodmoon eclipse end in Feast of Tabernacles of 2015? These dates have been confirmed by NASA astronomy. The four eclipses in between are: bloodmoon eclipse on Feast of Tabernacle of 2014, sackcloth sun eclipse on Feast on entry of 2015, then bloodmoon eclipse on exactly 12PM Sabbath on Passover 2015, and the 5th is sackcloth sun on Feast of trumpet of 2015.

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When is the Day of the Lord?

To answer this question, we must know what happen before the Day of the Lord:

Before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come, the sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood. Joel 2:31

The sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood...And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places. And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains; And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb: For the great day of his wrath is come. Rev 6:12, 14-17

Have you been aware that they are 6 eclipses starting off with the bloodmoon eclipse in Passover of 2014, and the last bloodmoon eclipse end in Feast of Tabernacles of 2015? These dates have been confirmed by NASA astronomy. The four eclipses in between are: bloodmoon eclipse on Feast of Tabernacle of 2014, sackcloth sun eclipse on Feast on entry of 2015, then bloodmoon eclipse on exactly 12PM Sabbath on Passover 2015, and the 5th is sackcloth sun on Feast of trumpet of 2015.

What did the WORD and SOP said about the Feast of Tabernacle and the bloodmoon and sackcloth sun?

In the Appointed Time (Hebrew translation) of the year of release, in the Feast of Tabernacles when all Israel is come to appear before the LORD thy God in the place which He shall choose. Deut31:10-11

Feasts [of Tabernacles] is as the children of Israel celebrated … His miraculous preservation of them during their journeying from Egypt, so should we gratefully call to mind the various ways He has devised for bringing us OUT from the world, and from the darkness of error, into the precious light of His grace and truth. PP 541

Feast of Tabernacles, is aka Feast of Harvest PP 542
It celebrated the ingathering of the fruits of the earth, and pointed forward to the great day of Final Ingathering, when the Lord of the harvest shall send forth His reapers to gather the tares together in bundles for the fire, and to gather the wheat into His garner. At that time the wicked will all be destroyed. PP542

At the Feast of Tabernacles, “The people of Israel praised God, as they called to mind His mercy in their deliverance from the bondage of Egypt. PP542
But when the ransomed of the LORD shall have been safely gathered into the Heavenly Canaan [New Jersalem], forever delivered from the bondage of the curse, under which "the whole creation groans and travails in pain together until now [Feast of Tabernacles] (Romans 8:22), they will rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory. PP542