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Part One:  “It’s Not About the Money”  (Of course not).
The Oxford Dictionary defines the origin of the concept and word “fiduciary” thusly:

late 16th century (in the sense ‘something inspiring trust; credentials’) : from Latin fiduciarius, from fiducia ‘trust’, from fidere ‘to trust’

The online Legal Dictionary defines “Fiduciary” as (emphasis mine):

1) n. from the Latin fiducia, meaning “trust,” a person (or a business like a bank or stock brokerage) who has the power and obligation to act for another (often called the beneficiary) under circumstances which require total trust, good faith and honesty. The most common is a trustee of a trust, but fiduciaries can include business advisers, attorneys, guardians, administrators of estates, real estate agents, bankers, stockbrokers, title companies or anyone who undertakes to assist someone who places complete confidence and trust in that person or company. Characteristically, the fiduciary has greater knowledge and expertise about the matters being handled.

A fiduciary is held to a standard of conduct and trust above that of a stranger or of a casual business person. He/she/it must avoid “self-dealing” or “conflicts of interests” in which the potential benefit to the fiduciary is in conflict with what is best for the person who trusts him/her/it. For example, a stockbroker must consider the best investment for the client and not buy or sell on the basis of what brings him/her the highest commission. While a fiduciary and the beneficiary may join together in a business venture or a purchase of property, the best interest of the beneficiary must be primary, and absolute candor is required of the fiduciary.

2) adj. defining a situation or relationship in which a person is acting as a fiduciary for another.

Wiki entry: Fiduciary – The Fiduciary Relationship is seen to be based on complete trust, and the Fiduciary is expected to act with complete loyalty and only in the best interests of the client – even if that conflicts with what is in the best interests of the Fiduciary. (more…)

“The rich should pay their fair share.” 
…”when you spread the wealth around it’s good for everybody.”
“Nobody’s ideas or effort are really that much more innately valuable than that of their peers. You can, however, use your abilities to steal that much money.”
”The central lie here being getting rich through hard, honest work. I don’t think anyone has ever gotten rich without the determination of screwing other people out of their money.”
“Romney never created any jobs. He only created wealth for his partners. There is a big difference.”

On the heels of Sean Hannity’s interview with George Zimmerman, MSNBC defends itself against the accusation that they, in general, and Al Sharpton specifically, did not “rush to judgement” in the Trayvon Martin shooting.

Here is the official MSNBC position as told to Politico:

“MSNBC would like to set the record straight following some misinformation presented by Fox News during the interview with George Zimmerman last night,” MSNBC wrote in a statement sent to POLITICO. “Reverend Al Sharpton never ‘rushed to judgment,’ as stated by Mr. Hannity. Reverend Sharpton repeatedly called for calm and for a more thorough investigation in the wake of the tragic events. Ultimately, the authorities agreed an arrest was warranted.”

Now let’s just cut through the crap, and get to the truth.   Because unlike MSNBC and the institutional legacy media complex the Truth Has No Agenda. (more…)

If you are on the side of Truth, the opposition will always want to know where you are and what you are doing.   Their deceptions are more easily hidden if they think they can deflect attention away from themselves.  They will also try to bog you down in circle chases, annoyances and circular logic.

• Keep the spotlight shining at all times.
• Remain focused on the search for Truth.  It is not subject to interpretation.
• If someone tells you Truth is relative, their heart accepts deception.

I would propose that if it is actually “relative” then it’s not “truth” that is being discussed.  – Sharon

• Remember the opposition is here daily also.
• If you are engaged in truth seeking, you are a threat.
• Truth Seekers become a risk and the Scheme Team and the Corrupt Bastards Club will follow you.  [See Twitter, FB, etc]  
• The Scheme Team and the Corrupt Bastards Club cannot execute an ulterior self-interested agenda out in the open.   Remember that!

So I’m going to create a discussion thread just in case.   If Hannity does not have GZ or Daryl Parks I guess we just just dump the thread.

This is a follow up to this story:
SUMMARY: An Alabama woman was retrieving her dog from across the street when a car came screaming by and almost hit the dog. The lady, Ms. Wendy Fisher, yelled at the driver and three passengers to slow down. They did. Actually they stopped..
The black male driver got out of the car, then someone pulled a gun and shot her 3 times in the chest. The driver returned to the car and the four men drove away. Her teenage daughter was standing in the front yard, a few feet away, and witnessed her mom murdered.
ALABAMA – A 17-year-old was arrested and charged with murder this morning in the shooting death of Wendy Fisher in her west Mobile neighborhood.
Mobile County District Attorney Ashley Rich said police apprehended Trayon Omar Washington during an undercover drug operation in the early morning hours today.
Washington will appear in court for a bail hearing Friday.
According to investigators, Fisher yelled at a speeding car driving past her house on Racine Avenue, warning them to slow down.  Police say Washington got out of the car and shot Fisher in the chest. (more…)

Monica ……. Monica……. Monica

Today Pantsuits Clinton was pelted with tomatoes as she and her security/military escort were driving through Cairo, Egypt.   The Legacy Media lies about the intention of the protesters to protect the President Obama Regime.   Not on our watch.   Let us set the record straight in defense of honesty, intellectual honesty, and Freedom principles.

Hillary was part of, and facilitator for, President Obama’s overriding desire to eliminate the Beacon of Freedom and American influence abroad.   President Obama sat on his hands and watched the slaughter of The Green Party in Iraq (Feb 2010) because his ideological make-up is, as it has always been, for governmental control over the lives of people.   President Obama and his Prog-policies are antithetical to freedom principles.
So in February 2011 when the Arab spring spread from Tunisia to Egypt, it was President Obama and his cohorts against freedom aka: Cass Sunstein, Samantha Powers, Susan Rice, Valerie Jarrett and Pantsuits Hillary, who specifically and intentionally sat on their hands to empower the anti-freedom sharia extremists to take up positioning to corrupt the cries for Freedom – It worked. (more…)

We have pointed out for a while how similar the United States circa 2012 is to the considerations of the Polish people circa 1983.   Decision Time.
Two brave men memorialized in history yesterday with a new statue symbolizing freedom.
The Herald Sun reported:  POLISH officials have unveiled a statue of former President Ronald Reagan and Pope John Paul II, honouring two men widely credited in this Eastern European country with helping to topple communism 23 years ago.
The statue was unveiled in Gdansk, the birthplace of Lech Walesa’s Solidarity movement, in the presence of about 120 former Solidarity activists, many of whom were imprisoned in the 1980s for their roles in organising or taking part in strikes against the communist regime.
The bronze statue, erected in the lush seaside President Ronald Reagan Park, is a slightly larger-than-life rendering of the two late leaders.
It was inspired by an Associated Press photograph taken in 1987 on John Paul’s second pontifical visit to the US. (more…)

The following exerpt is from a speech recently given by John Derbyshire:
John Derbyshire Via (vdare.com)   […] Mainstream Conservatism, like any other kind of Conservatism, is up against a very formidable foe. Because of my own professional background as a systems analyst, I think of that foe as “the installed base.”
Imagine you are hired in with a team of computer specialists to give a bank a computerized system for running its books. The job would be pretty easy if you could start from scratch, with a bank that had nothing but paper record-keeping—or better still, with a new-founded bank that had no established system of record-keeping at all.
Unfortunately things are rarely like that. The bank you are contracted to already has a computer system. It’s been in use for years, and it’s a mess. The databases are festooned with redundancies and contradictions, the code is unreadable, and the users have to do time-wasting work-arounds to deal with all the anomalies.
Everyone’s used to this creaking, leaking old system, though, and comfortable with it. They know its faults, but they know how to cope with them, like an old married couple. They resent you coming in and imposing new methods on them. (more…)

“Keep Hope A Lie”

(The Hill) — President Obama’s reelection campaign is making a determined and carefully calibrated effort to boost enthusiasm among black voters, a group that could swing the election in key battleground states.

Polls have Obama winning more than 90 percent of the black vote against Mitt Romney, but there are signs that the high African-American turnout that fueled his 2008 victories in North Carolina and Virginia could dissipate after the hard realities of the president’s first term.
The chances for depressed turnout are increased by the bad economy, which at its worst drove the unemployment rate for blacks above 16 percent and led to some disillusionment with the candidate of “hope and change.” (more…)