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Why Medical Expenses Are Completely Overpriced

4/22/2024

"There is a conspiracy of her prophets in her midst like a roaring lion tearing the prey. They have devoured lives; they have taken treasure and precious things; they have made many widows in the midst of her.
Her priests have done violence to My Law and have profaned My holy things; they have made no distinction between the holy and the common, and they have not taught the difference between the unclean and the clean; and they have closed their eyes from My Sabbaths, and I am defiled among them.
Her leaders within her are like wolves tearing the prey, by shedding blood and destroying lives in order to make dishonest profit.
And her prophets have coated with whitewash for them, seeing false visions and divining lies for them, saying, ‘This is what the Lord God says,’ when the Lord has not spoken.
The people of the land have practiced extortion and committed robbery, and they have oppressed the poor and needy, and have oppressed the stranger without justice."
---Ezekiel 22:25-29

GE Medical Technologies Inc. is the primary worldwide manufacturer of high tech healthcare equipment. The company holds the patent rights on MRI machines, CAT scan equipment, X-ray equipment, and dental machinery, and hospital lab tech equipment. In 2023, GE Medical earned $5.2 Billion USD in revenues and reported a bright outlook for the future.

During their 4th quarter report to shareholders, the company's CFO announced: "I’m extremely proud of our team’s execution in 2023 and our focus on patients and customers as well as the progress we’ve made as a standalone company. We achieved or exceeded our financial and operational objectives we laid out at the beginning of the year." In truth, GE Medical has little or no regard for patients. The company is essentially a monopoly. They engage in racketeering and routinely bribe bureaucrats and public officials to maintain their monopoly status.

MONEY LENDERS HAVE POISONED THE MARKET
Aside from a few loss leaders, every product GE Medical manufactures is grossly over-priced. Their MRI machines for example cost less than $2,500 USD to manufacture. On average, GE Medical sells those machines to hospitals, HMOs , and specialty care facilities for over $500,000 GBP each. Their executives mark the prices up over 20000% because they can. They have politicians and bureaucrats are in their back pockets, and their senior executives collude with insurance industry executives.

The healthcare industry is a close-knit community. GE Medical's chairman sits on the Board of Directors of fourteen different companies. Two of those are medical supply companies and three are insurance companies (Aetna, Blue Cross Blue Shield, and United Healthcare). The company's CEO sits on the board of Pfizer Pharmaceuticals. Both are invested in Aetna, Blue Cross Blue Shield, and United Healthcare. So too are their CFO, their top three sales executives, and their head of research.

Healthcare is the 7th largest industry worldwide in terms of revenues (over $9.1 Billion USD ) and the largest in terms of assets. This wasn't always the case. Fifty years ago, healthcare ranked as the 27th largest industry. In 1971, analysts at Brown Brothers Harriman recognized a slow in population growth in Western industrialized nations and forecast the growth in healthcare expenditures amongst geriatrics. Based on their extrapolations, Brown Brothers Harriman's hedge fund managers began pouring money into insurance companies. Other firms followed suit.

For all intents and purposes, insurance companies are hedge funds. They offer protection against catastrophe and predict the likelihood of catastrophe. They collect premiums from customers, invest those premiums in stocks, bonds, commodities, and futures and pay out a fraction of what they collect.

Over the past fifty years, healthcare has become the most sophisticated insurance product on the market. Insurance companies that specialize in healthcare gather enormous amounts of data on their customers and predict the likelihood of catastrophe for each. Within Western industrialized nations, their executives have deliberately fixed prices within the market to bleed the median household income just below the median household expense threshold. They do this to force consumers into debt.

Nine of the ten largest healthcare insurers are owned by seven of the world's largest banks. Morgan Stanley owns Kaiser Permanente, Anthem is owned by Citigroup, HCSC is owned by Bank of America, UnitedHealth is owned by Barclays, Centene Corp is owned by Wells Fargo, Aetna is owned by Solomon Partners, Guidewell is owned by Goldman Sachs, Highmark is owned by J.P. Morgan, and Humana is owned by RBC. Each of the last ten years, each of these insurers has churned out record profits. Each insurer has also more than doubled premiums over that span.

These same banks have profited from consolidation they themselves have forced within the industry. Each firm manages multiple legal defense funds that back trial attorneys that specialize in injury accidents and malpractice suits. The legal defense funds used to back injury cases are a specialty class of hedge fund known as Fixed Index Price Floats that offer guaranteed yields of at least 11%. The banks target small to medium businesses that fit their portfolios with the cases they back. These types of cases have increased by more than 400% over the last quarter century.

Malpractice suits have increased at a similar rate over the same time period. This increase has been driven by banking pressures. In a push to maximize profits, institutional investors have forced hostile takeovers throughout the industry. Fifty years ago, more than three quarters licensed physicians within Western industrialized nations were self-employed. Today, less a tenth of all physicians own their own practice.

Corporatization within the healthcare industry has been detrimental for patients. Adjusted for inflation, prices have risen tenfold over the past past fifty years. At the same time the level of care has deteriorated. These trends are expected to continue as the industry continues to consolidate.

DELIBERATE PRICE GOUGING
GE Medical's MRI machine is a glaring example of the price gouging that exists throughout the healthcare industry today. The parts and materials used to manufacture their most expensive machines cost less than $1,100 USD to manufacture. The frame is made of fiberglass poly resin, the load bearings are steel, the seat is made of PVC, the scanning equipment consists of infrared sensors, and the circuitry is comparable to an IBM hard drive.

With the exception of the circuit boards, GE Medical's MRI machines are factory assembled and require no more than eight man-hours to complete. The machines have seven circuit boards and a skilled worker can effectively hand-assemble a full set within a single day. The total labor costs required to assemble a machine are less than $700 USD. This includes administrative expenses and worker's benefits.

In 2001, GE Medical's Executive Steering Committee challenged engineers to "redesign the appearance" of their MRI machines to make them "appear futuristic". Committee members believed the change in design would "confound" customers and that they would be willing to "spend more than they were worth." Their Business Development Team spent that afternoon developing a "pitch plan" that included bribes, kickbacks, and untraceable gifts.

In 2007, GE Capital's Healthcare Finance Team unveiled the new design to healthcare executives and secondary suppliers during trade shows and industry conferences. To secure contracts, they even supplied prostitutes and narcotics to a handful of buyers.

In terms of bribes, kickbacks, and illegal activities GE Medical isn't alone. Most pharmaceutical companies employ the same tactics. The same is true with a handful of surgical suppliers including McKesson.

HEALTHCARE PROVIDERS ALSO INFLATE COSTS
On average, GE Medical has manufactured and sold 1000 MRI machines each of the last seven years. Buyers include hospitals, specialty care facilities, HMOs, and a handful of secondary suppliers that cater to the healthcare industry. GE Medical warranties their machines for seven full years.

A typical specialty care facility performs three MRIs per day, a typical hospital five, and a typical HMO seven. The material costs to perform an MRI are around $91.58 USD for specialty care facilities, $54.95 USD for hospitals, and $39.25 USD for HMOs. Despite these relatively affordable costs, patients are typically billed more than $1,000 USD for an MRI. Insurance companies eat most of that cost.

Insurance companies pass much of that cost on to taxpayers. Within the United States for example, Federal, state, and local governments subsidize healthcare insurers with more than $500 Billion USD in aid each of the last seventeen years. That figure jumped to $1.7 Trillion USD in each of the last four, and is forecast to $3.0 by 2027.

Author: Erik Gagnon - Chi Rho Consulting

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Junk Mail, Telemarketing, and Spamming Are Invasions of Property

4/18/2024

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"Hear this word, you cows of Bashan who are on the mountain of Samaria,
Who exploit the poor, who oppress the needy,
And say to their husbands, 'Bring now, that we may drink!'
Christ has sworn by His holiness,
'For behold, the days are coming upon you
When they will take you away with meat hooks,
And the last of you with fish hooks.
You will go out through holes in the walls,
One in front of the other,
And you will be exiled,' declares the Lord."
---Amos 4:1-3

Mailboxes are considered personal property and thereby an extension of the residence or business to whom they belong. Unlawfully entering a residence or business is an invasion of property. Politicians, businesses, and political organizations that send or distribute unrequested communications through government sponsored postal services throughout North America, Japan, Western Europe, the free nations of Africa, and the British Empire are guilty of this invasion.

The same is true with residential telephone numbers except for those issued to military personnel or welfare recipients through the the United States Department of Labor. Politicians, businesses, and political organizations that send or distribute unwanted solicitations within North America, Japan, Western Europe, the free nations of Africa, and the British Empire are guilty of the same invasion. This includes telephone calls and text communications.

A similar and more damning case can be made regarding email solicitations. eMail addresses were patented through the British Commonwealth as intellectual properties. This patent preceded U.S. patents by three decades and thereby apply to every world nation. Within the United States and the British Empire, eMail addresses are deemed to belong to the registrar. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is in fact a British multinational held by the British Crown, so this standard applies to every nation within the free world.

Since eMail addresses belong to the registrar, politicians, businesses, and political organizations that send or distribute unwanted solicitations through eMail exchanges are guilty property invasion. Since eMail addresses are considered intellectual properties, brokers that bundle or categorize email addresses for profit or redistribution are guilty of slander. Throughout North America, South America, Europe, Africa, and the British Empire, slander is considered a felony.

By law, a person's name is also considered personal property. Throughout North America, Japan, Western Europe, the free nations of Africa, and the British Empire, companies and institutions that broker names are also guilty of property invasion. Worldwide there are more than 900 companies that broker names for profit or redistribution. These companies include hedge funds, retailers, financial institutions, insurance companies, and non-profit associations.

Worldwide, more than 1250 educational institutions broker names. This includes for-profit primary and secondary schools, most private colleges and universities, and most public universities. Throughout North America, Japan, Western Europe, the free nations of Africa, and the British Empire, educational institutions that broker names are also guilty of property invasion.

The companies and institutions that broker names are not forthright about it and generally engage in trickery to gain consent. Oftentimes, they supply a deceptive statement within their sales agreements implying that they may or may not use their customer's name for marketing or advertising purposes. By law, this taking or carrying away of personal property is in fact grand larceny.

"Leave your neighbor to his peace."
---Divine Order 10:1

Author: Erik Gagnon - Chi Rho Consulting

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ITUNES and Spotify Are Costing Music Artists Money

4/18/2024

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"Render unto Caesar what belongs to Caesar."
---(Matthew 14:7)

ITunes charges a $5.00 USD monthly fee per album for every artist that posts to their sight. Spotify charges a $1000.07 USD annual fee to every artist. Both sites are costing artists that wrote and recorded their music thousands of dollars annually.

Apple Music pays artists one tenth of a penny ($0.001) for every song that is played in full. Songs that are paused or stopped are paid nothing. On average, the top 1000 artists receive $100.75 USD per month. The top 1000 artists generally have seven full albums available in their portfolio. This means that the top 1000 artists on ITunes are receiving $0.25 per month per album.

ITunes pays artists $1.00 USD per month for every complete album their customers pay. On average, customers if the top 1000 artists complete slightly more than 11 albums per month.

Unlike ITunes, Spotify highlights five to ten songs in an artists portfolio. Spotify PLC pays the artists nothing when the highlighted songs are played. On average, Spotify pays its top 1000 artists $0.0876 a month for every completed album.

Without factoring in design, a basic website with retail capabilities can be maintained for $70-$250 USD per year. The variance in cost depends on the features used on the site. The most popular website builders are simple to use, Anyone with an artistic flair willing to spend three to seven days can build a site to their liking. The most popular web builders have several built-in templates and the templates can be greatly modified with little effort.

If the top 1000 artists were to build sites on their own and sold 2 albums per month at $11.00 USD an album, they would earn more on their own than they do with ITunes or Spotify. This assumes a $160 USD cost to maintain the site. For busy artists, professionally designed seven page site that includes a home page, a bio sheet, album notes, a retail portfolio, an appearance schedule, a blog page, and a contact form can be build for a one-time fee of $1100-$3000 USD.

Only one of the top 1000 selling artists on ITunes and/or Spotify controls their master recordings. Master recordings are the songs that appear on the albums record companies produce and market. Digitally recorded songs played through ITunes, Spotify, and radio stations derive from master recordings.

910 of the top 1000 artists on ITunes are presently bound by 360 Deals through their album labels or their record companies. 971 of the top 1000 artists on Spotify are bound by the same. On average, the originators of these contracts and the record producers that negotiated the deals keep 71% of the revenues from these artists master recordings.

On average, the originators of these contracts and the record producers that negotiate the deals also keep 57% of the revenues generated through appearance fees. They rarely do more than place five to seven phone calls to book the appearances.

A music artist's portfolio is considered intellectual property. Intellectual property can be bought or sold. By right, intellectual property owners must relinquish intellectual properties they sell in full to complete the sale. Record labels, album producers, and outside investors that purchase master recordings and use the original artist or artists name to promote intellectual properties they have purchased violate the terms of the sale.

Record labels and album producers that redistribute intellectual properties to other artists and fail to mention the name of the original artist or artists when the intellectual properties appear are also in violation of the terms of the sale. The originators of the intellectual properties have the right to take the artists, album producers, and record companies that violated international property laws to court and have their intellectual properties returned.

The same holds true for artists that originate screenplays and for novelists that have had film or theatre adaptations made from intellectual properties. Original screenplays that make it to theatre are often redressed as many as seven times. Original screenplays that make it it television are often redressed as many as eleven times.

The New York Times list of the 100 greatest novels ever written have appeared in theatre adaptations an average of 111 times. They have also each appeared in film adaptations more that 1100 times and in television dramas more than 111 times.

Novelists and screenwriters are rarely credited when adaptations are made of their works. By right, artists that copy their works are required to mention the name of the originating artist before they begin their adaptations and surrender 10% of the revenues they generate to the original artist.

Author: Erik Gagnon - Chi Rho Consulting

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Arcades, Amusement Parks, and Software Distributors Are Culpable of Gross Negligence

4/18/2024

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"One who separates himself seeks his own desire;
He quarrels agains all sound wisdom.
A fool does not delight in understanding,
But in reveling his own mind."
---Proverbs 18:1-2

Strategic Simulations Incorporated was the first video game company. Three British RAF Radar Intelligence Officers started the company and were contracted by the United States Military in 1947 to create launch sequence simulations for Soviet bloc nuclear arsenals. The movie War Games is based on the tools they developed.

After the Bay of Pigs Invasion, SSI Incorporated lost their government contract. Afterward, two of the three RAF Radar Intelligence Officers that started the company turned their attention the consumer market and created a subsidiary the called Colleco. The other worked with Pakistan to develop weapons for Indochina.

Colleco was conceived to manufacture pinball machines. The two RAF Intelligence Officers that started Colleco stole the patent name "pinball" and trademarked the name. Colleco Holdings Incorporated reported earnings of over $11MM dollars during the first seven years of operation. Most of the revenues their machines generated were never reported.

In 1971, The RAF Intelligence Officer that worked with Pakistan's to develop weapons for Indochina rejoined the company to form a subsidiary called Activision Television Incorporated. That subsidiary created the first "Home Video Entertainment System" with money the three stole from the British Commonwealth's Treasury.

HOME VIDEO ENTERTAINMENT SYSTEMS

Activision Television Incorporated released seven games into the market through Hobby Lobby PLC's KB Toys during Purim of 1972 without a console. KB Toys placed posters of a Lego model the three RAF Intelligence Officers fashioned to resemble a console throughout KB Toys stores. The posters were captioned "Coming Soon!" The three RAF Radar Intelligence officers airbrushed proofs of the posters and stenciled a vagina onto the console's circuitry system. The consoles themselves were not produced until 1974.

To stave off lawsuits, the three RAF Intelligence Officers created a third company they called Atari Entertainment Systems Incorporated. The three RAF Intelligence Officers presented Atari as an Activision competitor to investors and made no mention of their involvement with Activision. The three received $11 Billion USD from Goldman Sachs to begin operations.

During Haunkkah of 1974, the three once again released software without a console through KB Toys and KB Toys' subsidiary K-Mart Stores PLC. This time however, they packaged the software with a license agreement promising customers a "subsequent series of software titles" at no cost. The license agreements were patterned after "user agreements" one of the three included with Sylvania Lightbulbs one-hundred fifty years before. Atari's console wasn't released until 1977 and the one that was released wasn't operational. It took another full year for the RAF Intelligence Officers to deliver a working console.

To stave off lawsuits, the three promised customers "free Sony televisions for a guaranteed lifetime". Atari made that promise through 30-second television commercials that aired on Gannett Television Broadcasting Systems syndicated broadcast affiliates.

Colleco began selling additional games for its console during Rash Hashanah of 1974. Those games included a copy of the software license agreement Atari offered under the Collecovision Systems Incorporated PLC. All eleven of the games Colleco distributed were developed by SSI.

In 1979, the three RAF Radar Intelligence Officers that started SSI partnered with seven former United States military officers to form Activision Software PLC. Activision was started to develop gaming applications for IBM's four home computer systems including the IBM Cobalt, the Commodore 64, Texas Instruments Vic 20, and Hewlett Packard's Horizon PC. The first title Activision produced was a pornographic adventure series called "Leisure Suit Larry." That title was also released with an ad infinitum prommisory agreement.

Leisure Suit Larry's prommisory agreement "entitled" SSI Incorporated's customers to "ten future games at no cost" and "guaranteed free delivery" of "future releases" of Leisure Suit Larry along with ten unnamed software titles. SSI Inc. never fulfilled their obligation and in fact filed for protected bankruptcy status (Chapter 11) after seven different class action lawsuits were filed.

In 1987, the three RAF Intelligence Officers that started SSI forced an artist that trademarked the name "Electronic Arts" into bankruptcy. They later chloroformed her, stole her assets including a Fort Lauderdale apartment, turned the apartment into a restaurant, and sold the artist to Alan Thicke Entertainment PLC for $11,000.07 BPGS. Alan Thicke Entertainment PLC used that artist to create the promotional materials and the sets for over 700 different television series. She also appeared in one of those series.

That same year, SSI hedged $11MM BPGS with Alan Thicke Entertainment. The $11MM were revenues gained through football and baseball simulations they stole from Roberto Clemente's sports board gaming company APBA PLC. The funds were spread across eleven television shows including Growing Pains, Rosanne, Seinfeld, and Everybody Loves Raymond.

Alan Thicke's two principal investors paid SSI Incorporated $11 Billion in dividends (BPGS) for their investment. The three RAF Radar Intelligence Officers that started SSI and seven Former United States Military Officers that started Collecovision started Bally's Grand Casino PLC with those funds.
Bally's electronic slot machines are manufactured by subsidiaries of SSI and are rigged by Collecovision Systems Incorporated PLC to yield a 700% return on what their customers spend on the machines. In their patent filings, SSI Incorporated described those machines as "Amusement Park Adventures" and "guaranteed satisfaction" for "every customer" that used their machines. SSI and Collecovision have failed to deliver on that promise.

PC GAMING AND SMART CONSOLES

The three RAF Radar Intelligence Officers and Seven United States military officers that that started Activision did produce one other game. The title of that game was named Oregon Trail. In 1981, SSI delivered Oregon Trail to secondary schools all over the world through a fourth subsidiary they called SSI Entertainment Systems PLC. That company promised the parents of secondary school students "one hundred future titles" with "no charge for delivery" through meetings arranged by the Parent Teachers Association. Those promises were never fulfilled.

SSI Entertainment's Board of Directors promised teachers and administrators within the association "trial based software" and "computer information terminals" to "operate" the "one-hundred future titles" they promised to produce at "no cost". They in fact formed Microsoft to deliver on these promises. Through the years, Microsoft has been refinanced on three separate occasions. The company is known as Microsoft Incorporated PLC today.

Originally, Microsoft was created to "fulfill the obligations set forth" through SSI Entertainment PLC's prommisory agreements and SSI Entertainment PLC's "wholly owned subsidiaries"'s promissory agreements. In 1993, SSI Entertainment's Board of Directors partnered with A.T. Kearney's seven Managing Directors. All seven of those Managing Directors were and are Cosa Nostra captains.

Those seven Managing Directors drafted Microsoft's promissory agreement. SSI employees labeled these "end user" agreements. Activision's Board of Directors and A.T. Kearney's seven Managing Directors trademarked Microsoft with the British Commonwealth's Patent Office, the World Patent Office, and the United States Treasury. Their obligations were never fulfilled.

Every computer software company outside the United Kingdom is owned in part by the Activision's Board of Directors, some or all of their male family members, A.T. Kearney's seven Managing Directors, and A.T. Kearney's seven Managing Directors mistresses. Those software companies includes ITunes Incorporated, Drumnumb Entertainment PLC, and every software distributor that creates applications for the Macintosh Operating System.

Every software product ever released has included a promissory agreement; most in the form of license agreements. Each of these agreements promises future refinements at no cost for development or delivery. This includes sports titles developed by Strategic Simulations Incorporated's subsidiaries Electronic Arts PLC, Microsoft PLC 's subsidiaries Sony Entertainment Systems PLC, and Pacific Park Industries International PLC. Despite these agreements, these three companies require customers to repurchase entire software packages every year for what amount to incremental updates. They also trespass on these agreements by charging premiums for software add-ons.

Pacific Park industries' subsidiary Creative Assembly PLC conceived of the idea of software add-on's and tested the concept through Pacific Park Industries' subsidiary Valve Corporation. In 1998, Valve Corporation presented the concept to Facebook Incorporated's parent company Meta along with an investment of $11.2 Billion BPGS. Valve Corporation presently owes the British Commonwealth $11.3 Trillion BPGS in back taxes Shelby vehicles it promised to deliver to the British Royal Armed Forces during World War I, World War II, and the Falkland Wars. Pacific Park Industries in fact sank seven ships containing the vehicles they promised and collected insurance through Lloyd's of London.

AMUSEMENT PARKS AND PENNY ARCADES

Pacific Park Industries is the single manufacturer of amusement park "novelty rides" worldwide. The word "coupon" was in fact trademarked by Pacific Park Industries' subsidiary Lakeside Amusement Parks PLC. Coupons were first used with novelty rides and the patent filing promised customers "unlimited amusement for the cost of a penny." The phrase was an effigy to the mechanic that patented Shelby Vehicles drive train, the drive trains of over 10,000 amusement park "novelty rides", and the framework for the vehicles themselves.

Under the trademark agreements filed with the British Commonwealth's Patent Office, the World Patent Organization, and the United States Treasury, coupons issued by Pacific Park Industries, Pacific Park Holdings, and its subsidiaries guarantee every coupon holder "no cost reentry" to "amusement parks worldwide" and "unlimited use of the facilities".

The patents for riflery, golf, batting, climbing, and pottery "practice theatres" are held under this trademark agreement. Pacific Park Industries has been refinanced seven times. Contradictory to the terms of their patent filing, the company requires customers to repurchase coupons to revisit their facilities beyond the date of original purchase and fails to honor their promissory agreements.

The same is true for Pacific Park Holdings' 11,007 penny arcades located throughout the world. Within their patent agreements, penny arcades are defined as "venues for entertainment owned or operated by Pacific Park Holdings. Pacific Park Holdings is a subsidiary of Pacific Park Industries and its subsidiaries includes the subway systems in Montreal, London, Paris, Moscow, New York, San Francisco, Tokyo, and throughout Brazil.

By definition, casinos that "employ games of chance" are considered penny arcades and require no more than "a tolken" to "play unlimited games of excitement." A Pacific Park Holdings subsidiary called Pathway Industries PLC holds a patent on lottery systems including the ones run by governments, and these too are consider "novelty amusements" according to the terms of their patent filings.

Both SSI and A.T. Kearney have a stake in every lottery and casino throughout the world and both are represented hold Pacific Park Industries Board seats.

The NHL, NBA, MISL, NFL, THE NCAA, AND THE IOC

Pacific Park Industries begat the American Hockey Association, the American Association of Autotomic Univores, the Main International Soccer League, and the National Football Association. The coupons for all four associations were renamed "tickets" by employees of AAAU, the NFA, and the MISL. Employees within the AHA renamed the coupons "passes".

The AHA renamed itself the National Hockey League in 1921, the NFA renamed itself the National Football League in 1933, the AAAU renamed itself the National Basketball Association in 1948, and the MISL formed seven subsidiaries around the world beginning in the 1950s. By right, tickets to NBA, MISL, and NFL events or the events of their subsidiaries guarantee "unlimited reentry to league venues during business hours" at "no additional price" ad infinitum. The same is true for NHL passes. These promises have never been fulfilled.

The National Collegiate Athletic Association is in fact a subsidiary of the AAAU. So too is the International Olympic Committee. The venues used to host International Olympic Committee events are held in trust by the NCAA and are defined as "amusement parks" through patent agreements filed with the British Commonwealth, the Worldwide Patent Office, and the United States Treasury. Coupons issued by the NCAA and the International Olympic Committee named "field passes" by NCAA and IOC members who solicited athletes for sex.

By right, NCAA and International Olympic Committee coupons allow customers to attend "open gala events" whenever the NCAA or the IOC conducts business. Every event "produced or published" is defined as an "open gala." NASCAR, La Mans, the PGA, and the USTA are held in trust by the IOC. Greyhound Racing International, Indy Car Circuit Racing PLC, and the National Thoroughbred Racing Association are held in trust by the NCAA.

By right, the distributors of every computer software application ever sold are bound to supply their software titles to customers at no cost for maintenance or delivery until their customers deem the software defunct. By right, they are required to refund customers tenfold for subsequent titles their customers purchased with like content.

By right, Microsoft PLC and its subsidiaries are required to provide "fully functional" computer terminals annually to their customers at the cost of materials and with no cost for delivery. The operating systems and trademarked applications distributed by eleven of Microsoft's thirteen subsidiaries all have the same license agreements. Those license agreements are filed with the British Commonwealth's Patent Office, the Worldwide Patent Office, and the United States Treasury.

Microsoft PLC's other two subsidiaries (ASYS Computer PLC and Samsung Sun Life PLC) use the same agreements and include an ad infinitum replacement guarantee except in cases of "fire, theft, and acts of nature.". Neither company has adheres to the terms of their prommisory agreements.

Google Corp. PLC's parent company Alphabet PLC is a wholly owned subsidiary of Samsung Sun Life PLC. Under their patent filing, Alphabet PLC's products are licensed as "shareware." Alphabet PLC trademarked the word shareware and defined shareware as "applications at no cost or no expense to customers who register." Every customer who has ever visited Alphabet PLC's Google Search Vehicle has in fact registered with Google. Google tracks and records their IP address.

By right, ASYS and Samsung Sun Life are obligated to supply "replacement computers without delay" ad infinitum at no cost for delivery as specified in their patent filings. Activision's Board of Directors, the seven former United States military officers that formed Bally's Grand Casinos, A.T. Kearney's seven Managing Directors, and thirteen current members of the British House of Lords presently hold ASYS in trust and hold Samsung Sun Life PLC's Board seats.

Apple Corp. is in fact a subsidiary of Sun Life PLC, and Apple computers were excluded from this agreement. iPhones and iPads were trademarked as Apple Computers.

Author: Erik Gagnon - Chi Rho Consulting

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We Are Trained to Lie

7/4/2023

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“The fear of the Lord is to hate evil;
Pride, arrogance, the evil way,
And the perverted mouth, I hate.
Advice is mine and sound wisdom;
I am understanding, power is mine.
By me kings reign,
And rulers decree justice.
By me princes rule, and nobles,
All who judge rightly.
love those who love me;
And those who diligently seek me will find me.”
---Proverbs 8:13-17

We live in a hyperbolic world. Through learned response, nifty adjectives punctuate most sentences, and we embellish the truth. As a society, we are comforted by grandiose-sounding plans, and we endear ourselves to illusory visions of future comfort. We ignore simple universal truths at our peril and romance sin-filled concepts of heaven.

The advertising industry is partially to blame for this. The terms marketing and promotions happen to be a polite way of couching the words bell whistles and bullshit. Entire research teams study stimulus responses to key words and catch phrases, and then concoct formulas to wrestle hard-earned dollars from the hands of the public at large through aspirational visions. This is the essence of marketing and sales.

Adding a tenth of a teaspoon of a preservative or an artificial sweetener to a box of processed cereal does not make your product “new” or “improved”. The same holds true for most beauty products labeled “healthy”, “natural”, or “organic”. The fact that 80% your beauty cream’s chemical compounds were grown outside a laboratory does not nullify the fact that hundreds of animals were murdered or mutilated testing the safety of the product before manufacturing began. Illusory claims of purity, freshness and safety are commonplace in our society today.

Popular forms of entertainment also shoulder much of the blame for our illusory culture. Most films, television, video games, and popular music promote narcissistic tales ladled with sex, violence, drug use, and nihilistic themes. Pleasure for pleasure’s sake is glorified and idealized, and Christ’s Commandments are routinely mocked or scorned. Given the scope and reach of modern entertainment, it’s little wonder that crime, drug use, and out of wedlock pregnancies are skyrocketing.

The fact that temptation is everywhere is nothing new. It was that way before the flood as well. (Genesis 6:17) That said, more and more people are turning away from the lessons learned from the flood and rejecting Christ’s teachings. Hubris has replaced wisdom, and most people have concluded that they are the masters of their own destiny. In effect, they have given the middle finger to Christ.

Most people who believe there is a heaven fail to accept that hell is real. They deny the fact that Christ not only knows of their sins before they occur, but also that he felt the pains of their sins upon the cross. They are under the illusion that when they die, they can plead their case before Christ, and that they will naturally be accepted into heaven. In effect, they believe themselves to be greater and wiser that the One that created heaven and the Earth in the first place.

The overwhelming rejection throughout the world of all Christ offered has reached a tipping point. On Thanksgiving Day of 2018, Christ sounded the Clarion Call, giving an audible signal to His faithful and His true that demons were on the advance and that the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse were preparing to take wing. In a very real sense, Gabriel has blown his horn.

Deep-space sonar stations around the world received this signal weeks later. The signal defied physics and baffled the world’s top scientists and astronomers. Reports of the signal were largely, and deliberately, ignored by the media and by political leaders. Predators that long ago abandoned Christ’s commands buried the story so as not to alarm the public and carried on with their personal agendas. (Ezekiel 28:2-5)

Christ warned that the days ahead will offer an “Abomination of Desolation”. (Matthew 24:15). He warned that men and women that have succumbed to demons will attempt to deceive His faithful about His arrival: “Then if anyone says to you, ‘Behold, here is the Christ,’ or ‘He is over here,’ do not believe him.” (Matthew 24:23) He also warned that His faithful and His true would suffer through tribulations unlike any before.

For sons and second sons of Israel, men and women of faith, it is more imperative than ever that we take stock of the influencing factors in our lives and close the door on the ones that offer nothing of virtue. Cleansing ourselves of sensory sins brings us closer to Christ. It enables us to effectively receive knowledge of His will for us and carry His message forward in our everyday lives.

Christ commands us to: “Love with all your heart and hate what is evil.” (Romans 12:9) This command is the epitome of a well-lived Christian life. Weening ourselves away from the trappings of popular culture enables us to better assess the true nature of the persons, places, and things that surround us and distance ourselves from cancerous influences.

“I hate the assembly of evildoers,
And I will not sit with the wicked.
I will wash my hands in innocence,
And I will go around Your altar, Lord,
That I may proclaim with the voice of thanksgiving
And declare all Your wonders.”
---Proverbs 26:5-7

CHRIST RETURNITH. CHRIST TRANSLATES FROM BEAST TO YEAST.

Author: Erik Gagnon - Managing Partner, Chi Rho Consulting

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