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1 Adventist Heritage From: Charles E. Wheeling on behalf of Charles E. Wheeling Sent: Friday, December 06, :17 PM To: Adventist Heritage Subject: December 6-A, Enews from the Desk of Charles Wheeling Hi, just a reminder that you're receiving this because you have expressed an interest in Inspiration Books East. Don't forget to add webmaster@inbookseast.org to your address book so we'll be sure to land in your inbox! You may unsubscribe if you no longer wish to receive our s. December 6-A / 2013 A Disclaimer: I want to keep my word with you. I know you understand that I receive interesting and timely news items from friends all over the world. Most of these items appear to have prophetic relevance; others are of particular interest in the field of Science, Health & Nutrition, Devotional themes and some touches of Humor. With a bit of hesitation, I am forwarding some of these items to friends like you via . My concern is this: some persons who will receive or read the items I choose to forward will assume that I endorse, approve or believe every "iota," and that I am endorsing the author or source. This simply is not true! As you read, you must be discerning, choosey, discriminating and use common sense. If you are going to quote someone, quote the source -- I am not the source, I am the reporter... CW Romain Hatchuel: The Coming Global Wealth Tax Indebted governments may soon consider a big one-time levy on capital assets. Wall Street Journal Online.com / December 3, 2013 "Between ObamaCare, Iran and last quarter's uptick in U.S. economic growth, taxpayers these days may be distracted from several dangers to come. But households from the United States to Europe and Japan may soon face fiscal shocks worse than any market crash. The White House and New York Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio aren't the only ones calling for higher taxes (especially on the wealthy), as voices 1

2 from the International Monetary Fund to billionaire investor Bill Gross increasingly make the case too. "In his November investment commentary for bond giant Pimco, Mr. Gross asks the 'Scrooge McDucks of the world' to accept higher personal income taxes and to stop expecting capital to be taxed at lower rates than labor." "From New York to London, Paris and beyond, powerful economic players are deciding that with an ever-deteriorating global fiscal outlook, conventional levels and methods of taxation will no longer suffice. That makes weapons of mass wealth destruction -- such as the IMF's one-off capital levy, Cyprus's bank deposit confiscation, or outright sovereign defaults -- likelier by the day." Mr. Hatchuel is managing partner of Square Advisors, LLC, a New York-based asset management firm. Click Here to Read It All Atheist 'Mega-Churches' Take Root Across US, World By: Gillian Flaccus / Yahoo News.com / November 13, 2013 LOS ANGELES (AP) -- It looked like a typical Sunday morning at any mega-church. Several hundred people, including families with small children, packed in for more than an hour of rousing music, an inspirational talk and some quiet reflection. The only thing missing was God. "Nearly three dozen gatherings dubbed 'atheist megachurches' by supporters and detractors have sprung up around the U.S. and Australia -- with more to come -- after finding success in Great Britain earlier this year. The movement fueled by social media and spearheaded by two prominent British comedians is no joke. "On Sunday, the inaugural Sunday Assembly in Los Angeles attracted several hundred people bound by their belief in non-belief. "The founders, British duo Sanderson Jones and Pippa Evans, are currently on a tongue-incheek '40 Dates, 40 Nights' tour around the U.S. and Australia to drum up donations and help launch new Sunday Assemblies. They hope to raise more than $800,000 that will help atheists launch their pop-up congregations around the world." Click Here to Read It All Click on these images for some great tools: 2

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5 Romain Hatchuel: The Coming Global Wealth Tax - WSJ.com of /8/2013 5:10 PM Dow Jones Reprints: This copy is for your personal, non-commercial use only. To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit See a sample reprint in PDF format. Order a reprint of this article now OPINION Indebted governments may soon consider a big one-time levy on capital assets. By ROMAIN HATCHUEL Dec. 3, :15 p.m. ET Between ObamaCare, Iran and last quarter's uptick in U.S. economic growth, taxpayers these days may be distracted from several dangers to come. But households from the United States to Europe and Japan may soon face fiscal shocks worse than any market crash. The White House and New York Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio aren't the only ones calling for higher taxes (especially on the wealthy), as voices from the International Monetary Fund to billionaire investor Bill Gross increasingly make the case too. In his November investment commentary for bond giant Pimco, Mr. Gross asks the "Scrooge McDucks of the world" to accept higher personal income taxes and to stop expecting capital to be taxed at lower rates than labor. As for the IMF, its latest Fiscal Monitor report argues that taxing the wealthy offers "significant revenue potential at relatively low efficiency costs." The context for this argument is the IMF's expectation that in advanced economies the ratio of public debt to gross domestic product will reach a historic peak of 110% next year, 35 percentage points above its 2007 level. Between 2008 and 2012, several of the developed world's most fiscally challenged nations (including the United Kingdom, Ireland and Spain) increased top personal income tax rates by an average of 8%. In the United States, the expiration of the Bush tax cuts pushed the highest federal income tax bracket to 39.6% from 35%. What the IMF calls "revenue-maximizing top income tax rates" may be a good indication of how much further those rates could rise: As the IMF calculates, the average revenuemaximizing rate for the main Organization of Economic Getty Images Cooperation and Development countries is around 60%, way above existing levels. For the U.S., it is 56% to 71% far more than the current 45% paid in federal, state and local taxes by those in the top tax bracket. The IMF singles out the U.S. as the country where raising top rates toward 70% (where they were before the Reagan tax cuts) would yield the most revenue around 1.25% of GDP. And with a chilling candor, the IMF admits that its revenue-maximizing approach takes no account of the well-being of top earners (or their businesses). Taxes can rise in ways both prominent and subtle. In the United Kingdom, the highly advantageous

6 Romain Hatchuel: The Coming Global Wealth Tax - WSJ.com of /8/2013 5:10 PM "resident non-domiciled" status requiring wealthy residents to pay taxes on overseas earnings only if they "remit" the money to the U.K. has become much harder to qualify for and more costly after recent reforms. In France, President François Hollande finally managed to pass a 75% tax on income above one million euros and now he is seeking to limit the tax benefits of "life insurance contracts," a long-term savings instrument used by most wealthy households. As for the uniquely French "impôt sur la fortune," taxing those with net worth above 1.3 million euros, it is alive and well. Japan too is taking steps to increase personal taxation, though it hasn't yet targeted top earners in particular. Of course these measures won't return the world's top economies to sustainable levels of debt. That could be achieved only through significant economic growth (the good way) or, as the IMF puts it, "by repudiating public debt or inflating it away" (the bad way). In October the IMF floated a bold idea that didn't get the attention it deserved: lowering sovereign debt levels through a one-off tax on private wealth. As applied to the euro zone, the IMF claims that a 10% levy on households' positive net worth would bring public debt levels back to pre-financial crisis levels. Such a tax sounds crazy, but recall what happened in euro-zone country Cyprus this year: Holders of bank accounts larger than 100,000 euros had to incur losses of up to 100% on their savings above that threshold, in order to "bail-in" the bankrupt Mediterranean state. Japanese households, sitting on one of the world's largest pools of savings, have particular reason to worry about their assets: At 240% of GDP, their country's public debt ratio is more than twice that of Cyprus when it defaulted. From New York to London, Paris and beyond, powerful economic players are deciding that with an ever-deteriorating global fiscal outlook, conventional levels and methods of taxation will no longer suffice. That makes weapons of mass wealth destruction such as the IMF's one-off capital levy, Cyprus's bank deposit confiscation, or outright sovereign defaults likelier by the day. Mr. Hatchuel is managing partner of Square Advisors, LLC, a New York-based asset management firm. Copyright 2013 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved This copy is for your personal, non-commercial use only. Distribution and use of this material are governed by our Subscriber Agreement and by copyright law. For non-personal use or to order multiple copies, please contact Dow Jones Reprints at or visit

7 PrintFriendly.com: Print web pages, create PDFs 1 of 3 12/8/2013 5:13 PM By GILLIAN FLACCUS November 10, :35 PM By GILLIAN FLACCUS November 10, :35 PM. View gallery.... LOS ANGELES (AP) It looked like a typical Sunday morning at any mega-church. Several hundred people, including families with small children, packed in for more than an hour of rousing music, an inspirational talk and some quiet reflection. The only thing missing was God. Nearly three dozen gatherings dubbed "atheist mega-churches" by supporters and detractors have sprung up around the U.S. and Australia with more to come after finding success in Great Britain earlier this year. The movement fueled by social media and spearheaded by two prominent British comedians is no joke. On Sunday, the inaugural Sunday Assembly in Los Angeles attracted several hundred people bound by their belief in non-belief. Similar gatherings in San Diego, Nashville, New York and other U.S. cities have drawn hundreds of atheists seeking the camaraderie of a

8 PrintFriendly.com: Print web pages, create PDFs 2 of 3 12/8/2013 5:13 PM congregation without religion or ritual. The founders, British duo Sanderson Jones and Pippa Evans, are currently on a tongue-in-cheek "40 Dates, 40 Nights" tour around the U.S. and Australia to drum up donations and help launch new Sunday Assemblies. They hope to raise more than $800,000 that will help atheists launch their pop-up congregations around the world. So far, they have raised about $50,000. They don't bash believers but want to find a new way to meet likeminded people, engage in the community and make their presence more visible in a landscape dominated by faith. Jones got the first inkling for the idea while leaving a Christmas carol concert six years ago. Attendees play a game with each other at the Sunday Assembly, a godless congregation founded by Brit "There was so much about it that I loved, but it's a shame because at the heart of it, it's something I don't believe in," Jones said. "If you think about church, there's very little that's bad. It's singing awesome songs, hearing interesting talks, thinking about improving yourself and helping other people and doing that in a community with wonderful relationships. What part of that is not to like?" The movement dovetails with new studies that show an increasing number of Americans are drifting from any religious affiliation. The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life released a study last year that found 20 percent of Americans say they have no religious affiliation, an increase from 15 percent in the last five years. Pew researchers stressed, however, that the category also encompassed majorities of people who said they believed in God but had no ties with organized religion and people who consider themselves "spiritual" but not "religious." Sunday Assembly whose motto is Live Better, Help Often, Wonder More taps into that universe of people who left their faith but now miss the community church provided, said Phil Zuckerman, a professor of secular studies at Pitzer College in Claremont. It also plays into a feeling among some atheists that they should make themselves more visible. For example, last December, an atheist in Santa Monica created an uproar and triggered a lawsuit when he set up a godless display amid Christian nativity scenes that were part of a beloved, decades-old tradition. British comedians and co-founders of the Sunday Assembly, Sanderson Jones, right, and Pippa Evans si "In the U.S., there's a little bit of a feeling that if you're not religious, you're not patriotic. I think a lot of secular people say, 'Hey, wait a minute. We are charitable, we are good people, we're good parents and we are just as good citizens as you and we're going to start a church to prove it," said Zuckerman. "It's still a minority, but there's enough of them now." That impulse, however, has raised the ire of those who have spent years pushing back against the idea that atheism itself is a religion. "The idea that you're building an entire organization based on what you don't believe, to me, sounds like an offense against sensibility," said Michael Luciano, a self-described atheist who was raised Roman Catholic but left when he became disillusioned. "There's something not OK with appropriating all of this religious language, imagery and ritual for atheism," said Luciano, who blogged about the movement at the site policymic.com. That sentiment didn't seem to detract from the excitement Sunday at the inaugural meeting in Los Angeles. Michael Harvest, 75, listens to a message at the Sunday Assembly, a godless congregation founded by Hundreds of atheists and atheist-curious packed into a Hollywood auditorium for a boisterous service filled with live music, moments of reflection, an "inspirational talk" about forgotten but important inventors and scientists and some stand-up comedy. During the service, attendees stomped their feet, clapped their hands and cheered as Jones and Evans led the group through rousing renditions of "Lean on Me," ''Here Comes the Sun" and other hits that took the place of gospel songs. Congregants dissolved into laughter

9 PrintFriendly.com: Print web pages, create PDFs 3 of 3 12/8/2013 5:13 PM at a get-to-know-you game that involved clapping and slapping the hands of the person next to them and applauded as members of the audience spoke about community service projects they had started in LA. At the end, volunteers passed cardboard boxes for donations as attendees mingled over coffee and pastries and children played on the floor. For atheist Elijah Senn, the morning was perfect. "I think the image that we have put forward in a lot of ways has been a scary, mean, we want to tear down the walls, we want to do destructive things kind of image is what a lot of people have of us," he said. "I'm really excited to be able to come together and show that it's not about destruction. It's about making things and making things better." Volunteers and attendees are seen through the window at the Sunday Assembly, a godless congregation On the Web: Sunday Assembly: Follow Gillian Flaccus on Twitter at

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