Getting back on track is harder than I remember

My weight this morning was 192.6. It's continues to be a struggle to eat healthy, but I haven't purchased any junk food for over a week. I'm good if the food isn't in the house, and the way to keep it out of the house is don't buy it in the first place. I might overeat fruit or have a bigger piece of chicken than I know I should have (if I'm not weighing it you can bet I'm eating too much), but that's not as horrible as trying to eat an entire cake in one sitting. <br /><br />Somehow, and I'm not sure how it started, I'd be at the store buying healthy food and decide I needed a "little" treat. I deserved it. Life was hard, I wanted, no...I NEEDED a treat. The treat went from one candy bar to an entire cake, then to a shopping cart full of junk food. Wow. How did that happen? I honestly don't know, I let my guard down a few times and boom! I'm back to old eating habits of four years ago.<br /><br />I feel more in control. I'm eating better and I feel a lot better. Eating crap made me feel like crap. I'm back at the gym, although not every day. I was really consistent for a good 3 1/2 years, going almost every single day to the gym. Then my sister's stroke happen, I became her guardian and my life changed. Now I'm only averaging three times a week. It's not enough. I need to do more. I don't want to do more, but I'm working on it.<br /><br />Today was an intense day. It started off with a three-hour meeting at work, which turned into four hours (9am-1pm). It was a meeting where I had to really paying attention and participate the entire time. Exhausting and mentally draining.<br /><br />Then I left work to take my sister to the dentist. This was her first dentist appointment since before her stroke (a two-hour appointment). She has gorgeous teeth, and has always taken really good care of them. I curled her hair, put a little makeup on her and she looked gorgeous. <br /><br />I almost got myself a $450 parking ticket at the dentist's office. Actually, I did get the ticket, but the "parking official" canceled it after hearing my sob story.<br /><br />I did the terrible thing of parking in the handicapped spot at the dentist's office to get my sister out of the car and into her wheelchair (I don't have a permit yet). I have never, in my entire life parked in a handicap spot for even half a second. Once my husband pulled into a handicap space at the store to drop me off (many years ago). I was horrified and made him move before I'd get out of the car.<br /><br />Anyway, it's a small dental office with about ten parking spaces in front and one handicapped parking spot. It was the only spot available when I pulled into the parking lot. I got my sister out of the car, into her wheelchair, then into the dentist's office, and into the dental chair. This isn't exactly an easy feat. The receptionist told me to leave my car parked where it was, even though I told her I didn't have a handicap permit. She said it was fine and they let people park there all the time if they can't walk far.<br /><br />I went back out to my car to get a book, and the "parking official" as he called himself, had just issued me a ticket for $450 on his little handheld device. As I walked up to my car, I said "you're not giving me a ticket, are you?".  He said yes because I didn't have a handicapped permit. I told him my sister was in a wheelchair and I'd just taken her inside for her appointment. He told me it didn't matter if my sister couldn't walk, but without a handicapped permit, I was breaking the law. I couldn't park there for one second. Then he tried to hand me the ticket. I cried even more (and these were real tears because it just broke me). I tried to explain to him that he had no idea what my sister and I had gone through in the last six months. I was shaking because I was so upset.. He said it didn't matter and he was just doing his job. I cried some more. Finally, I said okay, but I'll go to court on this and take my sister with me in her wheelchair to show the judge she can't walk. Finally, with the ticket still in his hand, he said okay, okay, I won't give you a ticket. But get the permit and don't do this again. I promised him I wouldn't ever do this again. Whew! <br /><br />The changes in my sister since I moved here down here to Washington are nothing short of amazing. In spite of going through hell these last six months since her stroke, and being 73 years old, I think she's absolutely beautiful. Since I talk about her all the time, I thought I should post a picture of her here. This is from today, right before we left for the dentist (I can do the wheelchair transfers with her all by myself!).<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">My sister, Joyce</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYaSHRr75gUiVLqJlcqnQLtp1NWVG_3RCk_6jpf8JyZoHMMgv7c27FUjSbaLckQ8RSNXIUIUY1f7E7ecPiyZaGGY_oybdx7xhK7cDy3bTND9RJb8_sY5_xsQypVCKxesTs16iznQ7wNctd/s1600/Mar+8_2012_Dentist2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYaSHRr75gUiVLqJlcqnQLtp1NWVG_3RCk_6jpf8JyZoHMMgv7c27FUjSbaLckQ8RSNXIUIUY1f7E7ecPiyZaGGY_oybdx7xhK7cDy3bTND9RJb8_sY5_xsQypVCKxesTs16iznQ7wNctd/s640/Mar+8_2012_Dentist2.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br />

Getting back on track is harder than I remember

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take a seat part 1

I've been keeping a secret from you.<br /><br />I know, I know. Its a terrible thing to do to a friend.<br /><br />Its a dirty secret too. And pretty smelly...with lots of earwax gold. And I suspect some cat hair.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfNIvvUus4ozQ8Q-W3TnXjypwi_RY5ZqNpp3sqjG2fGAleKDr06WtmXMb7LAmvNCu1iEsd8Pl92QL9ql9fO8LlQ4aPPnOdftbvGUyP08LADCJifaeCzOJAas-BKYVOQD1ihvKG9tr1dNSb/s1600/P2254629.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfNIvvUus4ozQ8Q-W3TnXjypwi_RY5ZqNpp3sqjG2fGAleKDr06WtmXMb7LAmvNCu1iEsd8Pl92QL9ql9fO8LlQ4aPPnOdftbvGUyP08LADCJifaeCzOJAas-BKYVOQD1ihvKG9tr1dNSb/s640/P2254629.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br />I had long wanted a loveseat for our living room and a year (or so) ago I got this one for my birthday. Whoop whoop. Perfect in so many ways - nice lines, structurally in good shape and full of potential. <span style="text-align: left;">So like anything with potential, it sat in my basement for a good 10 months. </span>As you can see though, sister has seen better days. Judging from the fabric, those days were in the 60s. And not the cool mod Mad Men 60s. More like your grandma's doilies and tupperware 60s.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh59ERMKT7QcVz_CAqQovD_cIBSQNLHvGRuXd5EIT3QaZNo24MjvvKBzVIzCDyWH3sSgZnytGMiySXZ7c9JyLpYjPZkTtdELLNxqI-6ck-FqwgvwavDwrPTEZ_9DQB1ymZFEnQwfDzoX_ql/s1600/P2254626.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh59ERMKT7QcVz_CAqQovD_cIBSQNLHvGRuXd5EIT3QaZNo24MjvvKBzVIzCDyWH3sSgZnytGMiySXZ7c9JyLpYjPZkTtdELLNxqI-6ck-FqwgvwavDwrPTEZ_9DQB1ymZFEnQwfDzoX_ql/s640/P2254626.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Finally, we brought it upstairs and put it in the living room for some shock therapy. If you stare at this thing long enough, you'll get your butt in gear to fix it! (the only one who would sit on it was me...and the dog.) </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-jfjCri8BAFyCVYWIgKKN3mkR26iWVJDH-kfDqA3jYYeW8trUUHAN0gzZQCa0JPS5Qyr8qrpX7TabT3WnGCzVLqBtkrCWnrl_VC716y0ZCj72X3NRRhaP59KN2nSXk6zkYigvRfXItjdS/s1600/P2254630.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-jfjCri8BAFyCVYWIgKKN3mkR26iWVJDH-kfDqA3jYYeW8trUUHAN0gzZQCa0JPS5Qyr8qrpX7TabT3WnGCzVLqBtkrCWnrl_VC716y0ZCj72X3NRRhaP59KN2nSXk6zkYigvRfXItjdS/s640/P2254630.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br />When prepping the house for our recent <a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2012/02/very-first-birthday.html" target="_blank">first birthday party</a> we moved it out to the garage (we didn't want to scare our guests) and that was enough to push me over the edge. I officially have a bee in my bonnet.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjj5I0xuYUYSu26Zt8kxFfU7DzEkTZr31M6e30R3Al6MoCHnPS3zhvN-ZKDmIrbCGrme69zVNCKcCdA-56WP-7yVDQG0yG0LxLIdBkModLM0cAkrVBMGd_0I4fubR9Ad5ATF1IfFfBxRFZd/s1600/P2254632.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjj5I0xuYUYSu26Zt8kxFfU7DzEkTZr31M6e30R3Al6MoCHnPS3zhvN-ZKDmIrbCGrme69zVNCKcCdA-56WP-7yVDQG0yG0LxLIdBkModLM0cAkrVBMGd_0I4fubR9Ad5ATF1IfFfBxRFZd/s640/P2254632.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br />I'm ready to tackle the old girl. So now, the big decisions.<br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_YauMdiPTWvpAmpvH8FclzfeSxJXGlHWnleVBYqZOoQMk9fl44iEwZAivqYe-omsRqzqAYKZ0-IsXkABk2VRbB_WTyClG0oAQN5dKSd7R9W_zr8xkNfhiKsLED2MmPVZN7WnegLmPKVsD/s1600/6896205649113643.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="318" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_YauMdiPTWvpAmpvH8FclzfeSxJXGlHWnleVBYqZOoQMk9fl44iEwZAivqYe-omsRqzqAYKZ0-IsXkABk2VRbB_WTyClG0oAQN5dKSd7R9W_zr8xkNfhiKsLED2MmPVZN7WnegLmPKVsD/s320/6896205649113643.jpeg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">via <a href="http://www.fromtherightbank.com/2011/11/my-new-very-old-settee/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%253A+fromtherightbank+%2528FROM+THE+RIGHT+BANK%2529&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader" target="_blank">From The Right Bank</a></td></tr></tbody></table><br />Do I want to paint it? What color? Do I want solid fabric, or a pattern? Nail head or piping? And the biggest question of all...do I attempt to reupholster this myself? Keep the tufting or loose it? So many decisions! (the only thing I know for sure is I want one cushion rather than two) What do you think? I'd love your feedback!!<br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9lOFR4IQj-aMvPeYC6W9BhQ7Ik60Z8brNoP_hxgckH32t6T4QcQltFamlGO31pVrrCIVdxq30qMNT3HkW6N_FmPDfEnlyOI1XZ_fb-Y-sT1gKP0WDTmgaO0emoeRt8IX6sciU_VcenqO-/s1600/6896205649415019.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9lOFR4IQj-aMvPeYC6W9BhQ7Ik60Z8brNoP_hxgckH32t6T4QcQltFamlGO31pVrrCIVdxq30qMNT3HkW6N_FmPDfEnlyOI1XZ_fb-Y-sT1gKP0WDTmgaO0emoeRt8IX6sciU_VcenqO-/s320/6896205649415019.jpeg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">via <a href="http://bijouandboheme.blogspot.com/2011/12/few-thingsincluding-charity-water.html" target="_blank">Bijou and Boheme</a></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">First step, no matter what, is to rip off this fabric and get the wood sanded and ready for paint...or stain. Decisions Decisions.</div>

take a seat part 1

I've been keeping a secret from you. I know, I know. Its a terrible thing to do to a friend. Its a dirty secret too. And pretty smelly.....

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GIVEN FACT: SYRIA DOES POSSESS CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL MISSILE HEADS

<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: red; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsZDj5jToup2I6qo-nnv-kxXgyge2QzKcPreuAl-ItcHNFuHI9dTDmj3vsOq-MGHQh0zyZVLl44mdjVsTkr-qfBT1J_9LabrJHlPeG0hjpP29Zr69qm08w9FreC9zLKYR590FPzzIX0ybU/s1600/1images.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="210" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsZDj5jToup2I6qo-nnv-kxXgyge2QzKcPreuAl-ItcHNFuHI9dTDmj3vsOq-MGHQh0zyZVLl44mdjVsTkr-qfBT1J_9LabrJHlPeG0hjpP29Zr69qm08w9FreC9zLKYR590FPzzIX0ybU/s400/1images.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: red; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: red; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">THIS TIME AROUND THE CLAIM THAT SYRIA POSSESSES  CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL MISSILES IS A FACT, UNLIKE THE US HOAX, CLAIMING IRAQ OF BEING IN POSSESSION OF WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION </span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">During the recent meeting between the USA and ISRAEL the discussions not only revolved around their dispute over an attack on IRAN, but also about the SYRIAN crisis and the fact that SYRIA possesses hundreds of surface-to-surface missiles armed with chemical and biological warheads. The peril of the ASSAD regime launching them is AMERICA’S current top concern, especially since a launch would most probably have ISRAEL and TURKEY as the prime target. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">In view of such threats the USA urged ISRAEL to patch up relations with TURKEY, for it would take a combined US- TURKISH- ISRAELI military effort to ward off an attack by SYRIA’S poisoned missiles. Indeed, if the SYRIAN conflict is not solved, AMERICA might be forced to turn its missile shield against BASHAR ASSAD’S missiles before they are needed against an IRANIAN attack.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">According to insider sources the hazard could be accelerated by three elements:</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">1. ASSAD might decide to respond with extreme violence to foreign military intervention in SYRIA, even an operation confined only to drawing the civilian population into security zones safe from the attacks of his security services. TURKEY reiterated its call for security zones and at the same time ISRAEL offered humanitarian aid to SYRIA’S beleaguered civilian population. Both such actions might well be taken by ASSAD as provocations deserving of reprisal by missiles – first those carrying chemical warheads, then biological ones.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">2. ASSAD might respond to an IRANIAN request to take part in a preemptive strike launched by TEHRAN or IRANIAN retaliation for attacks on its nuclear facilities by the US or ISRAEL.  </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">3. ASSAD might transfer the unconventional missions to IRAN’S LEBANESE surrogate, the HIZBALLAH - in which case, the US, TURKEY and ISRAEL would have no option but to attack them.<br />US military sources say that although ISRAEL possesses a strong air force and special forces able to sabotage ASSAD’S chemical and biological missiles, the UNITED STATES and TURKEY would have to pitch in with military resources to destroy them completely.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Allegedly that arsenal is being closely watched by SURVEILLANCE DRONES after the lessons from the Libyan war when at least 5,000 advanced anti-aircraft missiles were spirited out of Qaddafi’s weapons stores, some of them smuggled into GAZA for HAMAS and other PALESTINIAN terrorist organizations.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Apparently the ASSAD regime has an approximately five times more sophisticated air defenses than LIBYA did, covering one-fifth of the terrain and about ten times more than Serbia had. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Article adopted in part from DEBKAfile.</span></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikyUZwj841Z3EU8GKsBm1Yn8fo9mqvbkYlznfnlMhEulltu1SkeKI-Ra2bebp-qi1VMxKYO5gsr3BzHeHgPSbO8yJNrFCtyxG2YUYX14I9jjMbI7x0V8nu0z63koH1vgx2i5D_LZUNFW4W/s1600/pg39.gif" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikyUZwj841Z3EU8GKsBm1Yn8fo9mqvbkYlznfnlMhEulltu1SkeKI-Ra2bebp-qi1VMxKYO5gsr3BzHeHgPSbO8yJNrFCtyxG2YUYX14I9jjMbI7x0V8nu0z63koH1vgx2i5D_LZUNFW4W/s1600/pg39.gif" width="581" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue; line-height: normal; text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> </span><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">CONTRARY TO US “WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION” HOAX JUSTIFYING THE INVASION IN IRAQ, SYRIA REALLY POSSESSES A LETHAL ARSENAL OF CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL WARHEADS.</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Contrary to the weapons of mass destruction hoax fabricated by the USA in order to justify the IRAQ invasion, Syria really posses such lethal arsenal and probably will most probably not hesitate to use them when pushed into a corner. Interesting though is that only now this long known fact starts to reach mainstream media. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Though DEBKAfile is pro Israel, the fact that Syria possesses Chemical and Biological missile heads cannot be denied. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div>

GIVEN FACT: SYRIA DOES POSSESS CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL MISSILE HEADS

THIS TIME AROUND THE CLAIM THAT SYRIA POSSESSES  CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL MISSILES IS A FACT, UNLIKE THE US HOAX, CLAIMING IRAQ OF BEING IN P...

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Alfred Hitchcock's "Vertigo" at Oakland's Paramount Theatre

<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhflegAPtn7trGsqJGV6HqGNPd9Fpgx6PgkA2RjvJ0_AGof815O1zqPSTjWFuBgiN1XvmhXvVxj49oN8qU9dLJ2I-92WiNwJl1PntQ2MibaPFrFoua6K37JYZqJmE4Oq85-zkZio-ub0sbw/s1600/paramount+lobby.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhflegAPtn7trGsqJGV6HqGNPd9Fpgx6PgkA2RjvJ0_AGof815O1zqPSTjWFuBgiN1XvmhXvVxj49oN8qU9dLJ2I-92WiNwJl1PntQ2MibaPFrFoua6K37JYZqJmE4Oq85-zkZio-ub0sbw/s1600/paramount+lobby.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">THE PARAMOUNT THEATRE, AN ART DECO MASTERPIECE</span> </span></div><br /><span style="font-size: small;">Friday night, March 9, Alfred Hitchcock’s <i>Vertigo </i>(1958) will screen at Oakland, California’s spectacular Art Deco movie palace, The Paramount Theatre, as part of its Spring Movie Classic Series. The ticket price is an amazingly low $5.00. And…Movie Classic Night includes a newsreel, cartoons and Jerry Nagano at the Mighty Wurlitzer. Kudos to the sponsors of the series, Vo’s Restaurant (authentic Vietnamese cuisine) and the Pacific Pinball Museum.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /><a name='more'></a><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhF5HfybzrafiAiSYJpinSokZ1pnoJMasQU6HmNWGEKOJdvrY3LGTmPJVoPpWJ2mIT1vngoPZAc9eVQnYc2NSHRk6KwVoqkmhYZIgtKgyWwArvurQ4-t6ohyphenhyphenV19bWh2um-Czc30OmFWHxwT/s1600/Paramount+exterior+night.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhF5HfybzrafiAiSYJpinSokZ1pnoJMasQU6HmNWGEKOJdvrY3LGTmPJVoPpWJ2mIT1vngoPZAc9eVQnYc2NSHRk6KwVoqkmhYZIgtKgyWwArvurQ4-t6ohyphenhyphenV19bWh2um-Czc30OmFWHxwT/s400/Paramount+exterior+night.JPG" width="261" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Above, the marquee; at top, the lobby entrance</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><span style="font-size: small;">The Paramount is one of two great Art Deco movie theaters remaining in America – the other is Radio City Music Hall. Designed by celebrated San Francisco architect Timothy L. Pflueger (who also designed that city's Castro Theatre), its construction was begun by Publix Theatres, the exhibition arm of Paramount Pictures, during the Great Depression. Financial problems forced the sale of the building-under-construction to Fox-West Coast Theatres who completed the project and opened the Paramount in December 1931.</span><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1-bE-BsvSqMO5oj2lozVhGf_bcSpW9i5DcAa6kmbpFBGPNc1tbxPTx0Qxm_Q0ouOy7iFr4C-j9GbC6rfbPlPYvQhKOjHLtEQii4qBOD16nUEOEX-mwIfBWk-F6lhHD2Gs3RNUYk7jksDI/s1600/paramount+mosaic+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1-bE-BsvSqMO5oj2lozVhGf_bcSpW9i5DcAa6kmbpFBGPNc1tbxPTx0Qxm_Q0ouOy7iFr4C-j9GbC6rfbPlPYvQhKOjHLtEQii4qBOD16nUEOEX-mwIfBWk-F6lhHD2Gs3RNUYk7jksDI/s400/paramount+mosaic+2.jpg" width="266" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mosaic exterior</td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGkMNhHcJNSg5QxqeHlkocCufwfzeKjJxNAcqszxipZr-5esyIykfn8uEESrxrXVph2Ecn2X92IyAfgcG614kRx6n6OW4mIIyf8xfLh89ntFVqndfhB-u5fUG5bEq3ZbQppddiBDOuyQAD/s1600/mosaic+detail.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGkMNhHcJNSg5QxqeHlkocCufwfzeKjJxNAcqszxipZr-5esyIykfn8uEESrxrXVph2Ecn2X92IyAfgcG614kRx6n6OW4mIIyf8xfLh89ntFVqndfhB-u5fUG5bEq3ZbQppddiBDOuyQAD/s400/mosaic+detail.jpg" width="277" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mosaic detail</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><span style="font-size: small;">Though Hollywood studios owned all the major theaters and controlled film distribution completely during the “The Golden Age,” the Depression would bring change and the Paramount would be the last studio-owned movie house built in the U.S.  In its day, with 3,000+ seats, the Paramount boasted the largest auditorium seating on the West Coast. </span><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5V1YoFWGTmYt0UE0IF0wDQQatHi9sRCEh51w_Ggsr-gThY34AAP3luExwgUTSu-cr5rFZvjdqMndX-SRS_jMNCVKBgwKeGu_a1wrlmKqUQ6wW1zvCyjh6TuK2WaHqji4eSGprzsbURDkF/s1600/paramount+stage.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5V1YoFWGTmYt0UE0IF0wDQQatHi9sRCEh51w_Ggsr-gThY34AAP3luExwgUTSu-cr5rFZvjdqMndX-SRS_jMNCVKBgwKeGu_a1wrlmKqUQ6wW1zvCyjh6TuK2WaHqji4eSGprzsbURDkF/s400/paramount+stage.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A balcony view of the stage</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;">As with so many of America’s once-grand movie palaces, the Paramount suffered a long period of decline following its glory years - but it was more fortunate than most. In 1972 it was purchased by the Oakland Symphony and given a thorough and authentic restoration that was completed in 1973. In 1975 the City of Oakland assumed ownership and the theater became </span><span style="font-size: small;">a California Registered Historic Landmark in 1976 and </span><span style="font-size: small;">a National Historic Landmark in 1977. Today the Paramount is home to the Oakland East Bay Symphony (formerly the Oakland Symphony) and the Oakland Ballet. The theater is a premiere year-round performing arts facility that hosts concerts of all musical genres (from B.B. King to Leonard Cohen), variety shows, stage productions and movies.</span></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiC4DoHq-p1vcai0McSnB_UNCCn_P8UZOhtg9LJmTcXMHS6o_hONN5NkIN9-Xu1CdqWRdLQgd1p-8JAbbrQNKa7yx0eGuGSTt54voIZyqrLHagNsM3RXchikdNExm0Qvh0JhS6MqK9lYQzH/s1600/paramount+lobby+detail.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiC4DoHq-p1vcai0McSnB_UNCCn_P8UZOhtg9LJmTcXMHS6o_hONN5NkIN9-Xu1CdqWRdLQgd1p-8JAbbrQNKa7yx0eGuGSTt54voIZyqrLHagNsM3RXchikdNExm0Qvh0JhS6MqK9lYQzH/s400/paramount+lobby+detail.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lobby detail</td></tr></tbody></table></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhR98mG_7_wsgiojBa2s6cdVxM-ZZMJMPbIzl4O_Scv5tjn_GPcrG13gjLnhDOcN6jWhLOrJvYQQZJ5fsCZ4JYzm0UAvFSAgkKZoAVuLT_tg8rpvvJX2x0nrxE0XLtY6OFg0QD2hvlbxoD_/s1600/paramount+lounge.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="288" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhR98mG_7_wsgiojBa2s6cdVxM-ZZMJMPbIzl4O_Scv5tjn_GPcrG13gjLnhDOcN6jWhLOrJvYQQZJ5fsCZ4JYzm0UAvFSAgkKZoAVuLT_tg8rpvvJX2x0nrxE0XLtY6OFg0QD2hvlbxoD_/s400/paramount+lounge.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Theater interior</td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiA4QwPOBePX9sCjvHZo_02YQglD-Wkc1e-XfLlR6WKDcJcTaXiSvUlU0IqC5NU7dOLmJ1FVskh6HUDbA4CCDWiwcQMSqcfE2UsrWkAV_Im8AdsrUbsXB-NDr2y-bqtP4ERax2Z6f_7epYD/s1600/oak+para+interior+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="381" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiA4QwPOBePX9sCjvHZo_02YQglD-Wkc1e-XfLlR6WKDcJcTaXiSvUlU0IqC5NU7dOLmJ1FVskh6HUDbA4CCDWiwcQMSqcfE2UsrWkAV_Im8AdsrUbsXB-NDr2y-bqtP4ERax2Z6f_7epYD/s400/oak+para+interior+2.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Theater interior</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: left;"></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijkylappTWwMDzHc-SK6t-aJtcXfOiReWF2GBR_u7oKvynzPJR6_CzeOVyB468Ad6hNHnTkQxg3nScLHbVmZ1C44SGwCbuWEQ6E-9O4eNTayCxd7qFFefUUjp-J95lSsIRGTBZKWqMf7d_/s1600/oak+para+corner+chair.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="353" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijkylappTWwMDzHc-SK6t-aJtcXfOiReWF2GBR_u7oKvynzPJR6_CzeOVyB468Ad6hNHnTkQxg3nScLHbVmZ1C44SGwCbuWEQ6E-9O4eNTayCxd7qFFefUUjp-J95lSsIRGTBZKWqMf7d_/s400/oak+para+corner+chair.JPG" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Theater interior</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: small;">Tours of the Paramount, located in the trendy Uptown district, are scheduled on the first and third Sundays of every month, excluding holidays and holiday weekends. Ticket price: $5. <a href="http://www.paramounttheatre.com/welcome.html" style="color: #cc0000;">Click here</a> for more on what’s happening at Oakland's Paramount Theatre. <a href="http://decoarchitecture.tumblr.com/tagged/paramount+theater" style="color: #cc0000;">Click here</a> for more photos.</span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtKw-h0omNV9WHs4Ity0Sn_GQtWEkjN4AzrJDJy7FicXFcxHcJNLQCPqZwkJo9IWmTySJ26gC6GQq93rX2cesDRRqIiWsU75wNALm9xdXTbQ6ybQkC5Vg_7g1sKSgjdE2KYzRTw64xYbta/s1600/paramount+auditorium+from+stage.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="235" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtKw-h0omNV9WHs4Ity0Sn_GQtWEkjN4AzrJDJy7FicXFcxHcJNLQCPqZwkJo9IWmTySJ26gC6GQq93rX2cesDRRqIiWsU75wNALm9xdXTbQ6ybQkC5Vg_7g1sKSgjdE2KYzRTw64xYbta/s400/paramount+auditorium+from+stage.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Auditorium view from center stage</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Vertigo </i>is little mentioned in this post, but for those interested in reading about it at length - <a href="http://eves-reel-life.blogspot.com/p/a-month-of-vertigo-bloggers-their-posts.html" style="color: #cc0000;">click here</a>. It goes without saying that The Lady Eve isn't about to miss her chance to see <i>Vertigo</i> at the Paramount…</span><br /><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/O888bu0QrMg" width="560"></iframe></div></div>

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THE PARAMOUNT THEATRE, AN ART DECO MASTERPIECE Friday night, March 9, Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo (1958) will screen at Oakland, California’...

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WWM Giveaway

As promised, I am giving away my duplicate copy of this month's Weight Watchers Magazine. <br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNvouvC4s5TPi3UcBXE9FIyLvFbRn0lCUdDu5nNy9eYH1U-pqoMS0Z_r0yp4jyBOr0l3pwP2PhsUc7hz_hHygAHorV-v1ES1nUs8mkw_OwvcMp_TIrm7a-1pttHxmcD0WoFVuJRTLx2ZY/s1600/WWM_cover_ma_2012.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNvouvC4s5TPi3UcBXE9FIyLvFbRn0lCUdDu5nNy9eYH1U-pqoMS0Z_r0yp4jyBOr0l3pwP2PhsUc7hz_hHygAHorV-v1ES1nUs8mkw_OwvcMp_TIrm7a-1pttHxmcD0WoFVuJRTLx2ZY/s400/WWM_cover_ma_2012.jpg" width="297" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I really like her outfit!</td></tr></tbody></table><br />If you are interested in this magazine, all you have to do is leave a comment below answering this question:<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="color: #351c75;">What has been your biggest challenge you've had to overcome, or are still trying to overcome, during your weight loss journey?  How did you do it?</span></b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">That's it!  Of course, if you want to like me on Facebook or Twitter, that's okay too, but those entries don't count this time :).  We'll make it easy peezy for ya.  </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />On another note, I'm still struggling with staying On Plan this week.  Too many temptations in my house in the name of Hershey Kisses in Dark Chocolate that I actually need to just throw away.  That, and the cravings for junk food has been severe this week.  BUT, it's day by day and that's how I'm approaching it.  </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Now hurry up and leave a comment so you can win your copy of WWM.  I will draw a winner on Saturday!</div>

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Balkan and the IMF

<br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYtTzHR5UCGtNANpiY_x-WQ5CUg8An_jhxCxuBnMMUNR1VsTv-Psy4ESQIM5gtgjSBxAMxeOAyDE4-ugZNsyOMCo_8Ob8ifO0TCGQvj1tcscX8vHVaDdGa0sXmJ01HU20NPNvVuIroVSrn/s1600/990324-YugoslaviaNATObombing-01.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="291" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYtTzHR5UCGtNANpiY_x-WQ5CUg8An_jhxCxuBnMMUNR1VsTv-Psy4ESQIM5gtgjSBxAMxeOAyDE4-ugZNsyOMCo_8Ob8ifO0TCGQvj1tcscX8vHVaDdGa0sXmJ01HU20NPNvVuIroVSrn/s400/990324-YugoslaviaNATObombing-01.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: blue;">WIKILEAKS:</span><span style="color: red;">THE IMF’S FAULT FOR BALKAN WARS</span></b></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">The International Monetary Fund is partly to blame for wars in former YUGOSLAVIA, according to STRATFOR document published by WIKILEAKS.</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">WIKILEAKS made public the internal guidelines that the global intelligence company STRATFOR issues to its analysts in the field. </span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">In the document from 2009, titled Europe Analytical Guidance, STRATFOR alerts its analysts to watch out for any possible riots occurring due to economic crises, since the current situation in BALKANS is complex and multifaceted.</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">“Do not forget, the IMF austerity measures imposed on YUGOSLAVIA were in part to blame for the start of the war there. We need to be aware of any economically motivated social discontent,” document states.</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Analysts should pay attention to any possible protest and union activity since, according to STRATFOR, the protests by ALBANIAN unions inflamed further conflicts.</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOxflYPdAYheJU0u1JQ43gHl5RDjEQyZ_QxDt24olu4jDjW6kqH5Syt3eTgDJuN53iHbIPTQOJC2F4Fzn4QlR_Q8cHbWluBjg8RWUA1_TePqAsRnS6ctKctMBzImVI31hLVIBNqAJW5aKr/s1600/reg140_yugoslavia.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="217" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOxflYPdAYheJU0u1JQ43gHl5RDjEQyZ_QxDt24olu4jDjW6kqH5Syt3eTgDJuN53iHbIPTQOJC2F4Fzn4QlR_Q8cHbWluBjg8RWUA1_TePqAsRnS6ctKctMBzImVI31hLVIBNqAJW5aKr/s320/reg140_yugoslavia.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;">“Remember, it was the strikes by the ALBANIAN miners in KOSOVO back in the 1980s that in a way moved the region towards conflagration,” states the document.</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">When it comes to possible conflicts and security issues, the report finds BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA most critical. “Any split developing in the CROATIAN-MUSLIM federation is key,” it states.</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">According to the e-mails from STRATFOR revealed by WIKILEAKS, several journalists from the BALKAN media have been working for this intelligence agency, including VERAN MATIC, head of the BELGRADE based media B92, and BOSKO JAKSIC of POLITIKA newspaper.</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">STRATFOR’S computers were apparently invaded last year by the hacker group Anonymous, which revealed personal information of STRATFOR’S customers.</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">It seems likely that the files and e-mails released by WIKILEAKS came from that intrusion, though WIKILEAKS is not disclosing its sources.</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"> <b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Chronicle of a debt foretold: IMF & Argentina </span></b></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="266" mozallowfullscreen="mozallowfullscreen" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/rpkGhy7BxXw?feature=player_embedded" webkitallowfullscreen="webkitallowfullscreen" width="320"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;">  </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 1;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Comment:</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Every single country that fell pray to the IMF has either defaulted or ended in utter chaos. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">See:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2011_08_01_archive.html">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2011_08_01_archive.html</a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2011/08/imf-on-trial.html">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2011/08/imf-on-trial.html</a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2011/07/imf-advice-to-europe.html">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2011/07/imf-advice-to-europe.html</a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2011/07/global-financial-monopoly-game-part-2.html">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2011/07/global-financial-monopoly-game-part-2.html</a></span></div>

Balkan and the IMF

WIKILEAKS: THE IMF’S FAULT FOR BALKAN WARS The International Monetary Fund is partly to blame for wars in former YUGOSLAVIA, according to ST...

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Coming Clean

<p>Can you say “broken record”? Here I am again, coming clean for all to see. It’s been 10 days since I’ve worked out and don’t even ask about how many points I’ve had today! For some reason I cannot stay consistent with eating well & working out. I do SO well for a week or so and then some “life event” happens and I completely fall off the wagon. </p> <p>I need to go back to a favorite quote:</p> <p align="center"><font color="#646b86" size="6">It’s take motivation to get started, it takes commitment not to quit.</font> </p> <p>In other news…my sweet little girl just got over strep {AKA…life event that got me off track}. Sick babies are no fun, I’m so glad she’s feeling better!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgE7lJbMYRf7yAMKVCYlPqereuL3k34ZnvUrYjqRiY_-EF5KWpRLQixMFxzdIHK7bc6KG5GLIhDI7RvWuLBmscG0NIifrMfYlpTW13R2XinZBrspeoon1X9BzkEyAMOJ_vAXdMyLCT5bNFo/s1600-h/IMG_1161%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><img alt="IMG_1161" border="0" height="271" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIlUjSRtlbsK9VZiUYfPbJFwD_IvOijdPKAG82zxT9Tv-MgfQA1LTmDPdZOQndY1tUGmdxwh9PpKZULixW0S_sf2LJo5rDg70l7dgeYBCntiENyO0gtshGkpoj5XbQBzLUHQCu30KfPBLi/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto; padding-top: 0px" title="IMG_1161" width="404"></a></p> <p><strong><em><u>Help!</u> What do you do that keeps you trucking forward toward that ultimate goal?</em></strong></p>

Coming Clean

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I am okay.

It's amazing what a good night's sleep can do for one's psyche. The weekend was difficult, with very little sleep because I was worried...about everything! I hate it when I get like that, focusing on every bad thing in my life (and that's a lot right now!).<br /><br />I slept a solid eight hours last night and although nothing changed during the night, I feel like my old self this morning. Yes, I still have a lot on my shoulders, but I think I can handle it.<br /><br />The affairs of my sister will calm down eventually. She had a very complicated life when she had her stroke and it's taking a long time to sort through this stuff and get it all straightened out. It's been six months, and I see the proverbial light at the end of the tunnel. I think by the end of this summer I should have most things wrapped up.<br /><br />Enough about sister, how about me? First of all, I love you guys. I figured I'd post and not hear a word from anyone. I was gone a whole month! Instead, I got a lot of sweet, kind and loving comments. Thank you so much. I will return the favor, as soon as I can sit down and spend a few minutes doing personal stuff on my computer (instead of sister Joyce stuff :).<br /><br />My eating is back on track (thank God!). I'm down from that 197 weight to 192. Eating healthy, smaller portions, but still not tracking. That's my goal for today, track my food.<br /><br />Dressed for the gym right now and heading out the door as soon as I push publish on this post.<br /><br />Thanks again for all your support. I've been a bad blogger, not reading blogs and not posting comments. I've missed you all terribly. I need the blog world. I need you.

I am okay.

It's amazing what a good night's sleep can do for one's psyche. The weekend was difficult, with very little sleep because I was ...

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estate sale strikes again

Good morning all! How are you on this almost spring morning?<br /><br />I'm finally getting out of the weekend haze. I woke up Saturday morning to find we were out of dog food. And as anyone who has a Beagle knows, meals CANNOT be missed. So I quickly put a coat on over my PJs and ran out to the store to pick up a bag.<br /><br />On my way home I noticed a sign for an estate sale. I didn't really have the time to go in, and I was certainly not dressed to be out (I'd already pressed my luck in an empty grocery store) but I couldn't resist.<br /><br />"I'll only stop if it looks like a good old house", I told myself. As I got further down the street, and saw how insane the parking was I got even more excited. "If this many people are here, there has to be some good stuff." I considered the dog at home, who at this point was probably wining uncontrollably, but I couldn't resist. "She can wait five more minutes. I'll just run thru. Fastest run thru ever." I slipped into a spot close to the house as someone was leaving. I jumped out and was in a full speed walk sprint.<br /><br />Quickly I weaved my way thru each room, finding some things that perked my interest but nothing worth stopping for. Actually, it was a good way to go thru a sale as it made me really prioritize what was 'worth it'. I thought it had been a wash, nothing good to nab. But luckily, two old ladies stop in front of me to argue over a quilt which blocks my way to the front door, which makes me back track and go thru the garage...where I saw them.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguQAj1titkl9OvBl5RBrKz7Wef7VVHD3SqeZ3kFnvXKZlqqlKUR3AFCGZR1hHtqg1TJH2-KeiiaOZB6mNLdDRHNP9IJBvox7-XK8cMotFBTPMtySrkZZKTJqaPml4jZeiQhrEXpSDn9HDm/s1600/P3064968.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguQAj1titkl9OvBl5RBrKz7Wef7VVHD3SqeZ3kFnvXKZlqqlKUR3AFCGZR1hHtqg1TJH2-KeiiaOZB6mNLdDRHNP9IJBvox7-XK8cMotFBTPMtySrkZZKTJqaPml4jZeiQhrEXpSDn9HDm/s640/P3064968.JPG" width="640" /></a></div>Two little (dusty) side tables who said "We are light and oh so cute. You can carry us under your arm and still be home before the dog starts to chew on your child's arm." They need some love, which always makes me like something even more and then I saw my very favorite words -<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhZ4r3nltaVdrdPd-HOYXYV5OOWrvoyAzNjWL3npfugzn5kogwQyDCGOJZNXkFGPND0DoXZUfwB9h72GhdxpoUR1rgnrvcbHfk204KB04hdyIzI8kzuTc-r2UkudXqIAMFVjJvnVjVLeqA/s1600/P3064979.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhZ4r3nltaVdrdPd-HOYXYV5OOWrvoyAzNjWL3npfugzn5kogwQyDCGOJZNXkFGPND0DoXZUfwB9h72GhdxpoUR1rgnrvcbHfk204KB04hdyIzI8kzuTc-r2UkudXqIAMFVjJvnVjVLeqA/s640/P3064979.JPG" width="640" /></a></div>'As is'. $15 later, these babies were in my trunk and on their way home. I mean how often do you ever find a pair of anything?<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPmFJZFCnICM0poVT2ERIR8uAH03dnFkVWsnKOXQlIyLoAImvSh0jTxzxgREg31pEPDOZXaz2OON_0_5aIn140SWV6uYZ2n32zoqz-YFeHGLaAyXBX-cLFgaOvfmwR5y-vhmXN7V3Egm4k/s1600/P3064972.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPmFJZFCnICM0poVT2ERIR8uAH03dnFkVWsnKOXQlIyLoAImvSh0jTxzxgREg31pEPDOZXaz2OON_0_5aIn140SWV6uYZ2n32zoqz-YFeHGLaAyXBX-cLFgaOvfmwR5y-vhmXN7V3Egm4k/s640/P3064972.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>I love their little stars.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUAs2ilmoiaTwM4hPxTvOodcLNXOuEog1EteOPxMG2hQ01p3sEcyX3xArKKggj48MjJ6SDHQ1VEazb3_ZZRfUEss8Z8tOJLc34zdIW15WaTiL3i3F12Hq2EPwVdqAb_tGhgsyPjS9aQikh/s1600/P3064975.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUAs2ilmoiaTwM4hPxTvOodcLNXOuEog1EteOPxMG2hQ01p3sEcyX3xArKKggj48MjJ6SDHQ1VEazb3_ZZRfUEss8Z8tOJLc34zdIW15WaTiL3i3F12Hq2EPwVdqAb_tGhgsyPjS9aQikh/s640/P3064975.JPG" width="640" /></a></div>And their arrows. Wahoo!<br /><br />And I know just where they will be going...<br /><br />After a good cleaning they will need some attention. What do you think? A big pop of color? Black? Wood?<br /><br />Oh, and a paint color was picked for the bedroom. More on that this week.<br /><br />How was your weekend? Do anything exciting? Torture any dogs with promises of breakfast?

estate sale strikes again

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MARXISM VERSUS CAPITALISM

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href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3Zck7EL2iwIby4jb-ZK8i0_y_4d7sYu0Yticqo-l6Q4mAavFzSFjAgX3nNdB_WaYo9WN7j-ozBmt3B9PfSKrfhHbB4v68w3ApnFH6GQgaXrseHPzhXWCs3CY_2pDRBBScUgwHetXPJtAn/s1600/Greek+4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3Zck7EL2iwIby4jb-ZK8i0_y_4d7sYu0Yticqo-l6Q4mAavFzSFjAgX3nNdB_WaYo9WN7j-ozBmt3B9PfSKrfhHbB4v68w3ApnFH6GQgaXrseHPzhXWCs3CY_2pDRBBScUgwHetXPJtAn/s400/Greek+4.jpg" width="252" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">SUBLIMINAL <em><span style="font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">ANTISEMITISM</span></em>, PROCLAIMING THAT INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS PREDOMINATED BY JEWISH AND THUS ARE TO BE BLAMED FOR THE CURRENT FINANCIAL CRISIS</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">For nearly five centuries, ever since European expansionism began c. 1492, the world order could be described as <i>competitive imperialism</i>: European powers competing over colonial and economic territories. The various wars between European powers were one expression of this competition. Wars would arise periodically, when one power felt it could expand its imperial realms at the expense of another. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">REMOVING THE MOTIVATION FOR WARS AMONG EUROPEAN POWERS</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A radically different world order was established after Word War 2, based on the Bretton Woods institutions  (UN, IMF, World Bank, ...), the dissolution of separate European empires, and Pax Americana. This new world system can be described as <i>collective imperialism</i>, with the Pentagon acting as imperial enforcer in the 'Free World' on behalf of Western capital generally. This new global regime opened the way for the greatest growth period in history, while at the same time removing the motivation for wars among European powers.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Allegedly this paradigm shift in systems did not just happen: it was the outcome of a project. The new postwar paradigm was designed and planned in a series of meetings, by a handful of people selected from the Council on Foreign Relations, at the invitation of President Roosevelt. The CFR is a policy research & development organization, in service to the central banking cabal: the postwar world order was designed specifically to serve the interests of those central bankers who contrary to common believe were not all Jewish.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The new regime came with a PR mythology: imperialism was dying; the nations of the world were being liberated; democracy was spreading; economic development would raise everyone's standard of living. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The reality was different: imperialism was being pursued more efficiently and systematically; nations were freed of colonial rule, but were still subject to destabilization and intervention if they didn't cooperate with Western corporate interests; democracy was the exception rather than the rule in the newly independent nations; widespread economic exploitation and poverty continued, much as under colonialism. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">POSTWAR GROWTH MACHINE WAS RUNNING OUT OF STEAM</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This postwar growth era became a victim of its own success in pursuing economic development. It was so effective, and so global in its reach, that it finally began to run into hard environmental constraints. By the 1970s it became clear that the postwar growth machine was running out of steam. Not that growth couldn't continue for some time, but the overall return on investments was beginning to decline. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Cycles of boom and bust have always occurred in the history of capitalism. The banks make money from investments and loans during a growth phase, they engage in looting and short-selling as the growth declines, and they extend their hard-asset ownership portfolios at bargain prices during the bust phase. The postwar growth cycle peaked in the 1970s, neoliberal looting began in the 1980s, and we're now well into the bust phase, with hard assets being grabbed at bargain prices via IMF-mandated privatization.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">THE POST-CAPITALIST REGIME-CHANGE PROJECT</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">No one has been more aware of this final end to the growth-cycle paradigm than the banking cabal. David Rockefeller himself was the principal founder of the Club of Rome, which published its <i>Limits to Growth</i> already in 1972. Ever since then, and even before, plans and preparations have been in the works for a successor global regime, not based on growth, but still under the thumb of the bankster cabal. (<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Using the Hebrew word “cabal” instead of groups, factions etc. implies that the authors of this article generalize international financial institutions of being controlled solely by Jewish families or individuals</i></b>.) </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">CENTRALIZED WORLD GOVERNMENT</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">'The Elite Plan for a New World Social Order', the new global system is to be based on a centralized world government, managed by already-established bureaucracies, including the UN, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank, the World Trade Organization (WTO), the World Health Organization (WHO), and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPPC). </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">These bureaucracies will be accountable to the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">cabal</b>, (<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">once again, s</i></b></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">ubliminal</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">anti-Semitism</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">) with no real kind of democratic input. The new order can be characterized as the whole world becoming the private fiefdom of the banking cabal clique, who become the equivalent of an extended global royal family. It's essentially a return to a pre-Enlightenment <i>ancien régime</i>. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">'The Great Carbon Credit Deception', the new economic paradigm will be based on centrally-micromanaged resource allocations, and this is beginning already with carbon credits. On our finite planet, a resource-based economy makes a great deal of sense, but not one that is centrally managed for the purpose of controlling the people of the world.  </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The general destruction wreaked by World War 2 'cleared the building site' so that the new postwar world order could be constructed. The cabal is now systematically clearing the building site once again, to enable the construction of the post-capitalist world order. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"Of course there is a class war, but it's my class, the rich class, that is waging the war, and we're winning." – Warren Buffett (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">for the records</i>: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">His is not Jewish</i>!)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">FULL-SPECTRUM DOMINANCE (the author of this article fall short of blaming the Jews)</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />As Warren Buffett quips, we are in a class war – and the regime-change project is the cabal's war plan to win a total and lasting victory over the rest of humanity. It is important that those of us in the 99% under-class realize we're under systematic attack. And it's important that we realize that the core principle of modern warfare is <i>full-spectrum dominance</i>: pro-active control over every domain of engagement. We need to be aware of the many ways in which we're being attacked. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We've seen the principle of full-spectrum dominance in Iraq for example, where first the air-defenses are taken out, then the communications infrastructure, then transport, and so on, each domain of engagement being dominated in its turn. In such military engagements, domestic public opinion is also a domain of engagement, and dominance there has been pursued via embedded journalism, media propaganda, and lies by officials. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In the regime-change project – the class war – there are many domains of engagement over which dominance must be achieved and maintained. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">RUSSIA AND CHINA</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />Russia and China are a very special case. They are cooperating closely in pursuing their national interests in opposition to the cabal's plans, while at the same time gaining as much advantage as possible from the existing global marketplace. They are seeking a stable multi-polar world order, and have formed the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai_Cooperation_Organisation" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Shanghai Cooperation Organisation</span></a> and the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BRICS" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">BRICS</span></a> alliance. Because of their size, wealth, and military clout, Russia and China pose the only serious geopolitical obstacle to the establishment of the cabal's centralized global regime. Full-spectrum dominance is being pursued against Russia and China in several different domains. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In other words the author of this article appear to have a rather one-sided views on capitalism and clearly is a advocate of Marxism </span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">One of these is the domain of destabilization, particularly in the case of Russia. Russia took a major hit, for example, with the breakup of the Soviet Union – which was facilitated, according to Brzezinski, by the CIA-sponsored war between the Soviets and Afghanistan, which fatally over-stretched the Soviet economy and brought Yeltsin to power, an agent of the West, who did all he could to destroy what was left of the Russian economy. Subsequently we've had the CIA-sponsored 'Colored Revolutions', aimed at aligning Russia's neighbors with the West.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">US GRAB FOR ASIAN PACIFIC </span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In the military domain the US has been encircling Asia with military bases and anti-missile systems, while meanwhile developing and deploying space-based and other hi-tech weapons systems. All of this adds up to a first-strike capacity, enabling the US to initiate a hi-tech assault while inhibiting an effective response. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">AFRICA THE FUTUR CONTINENT </span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">China, in order to support its growing economy, needs access to oil and other resources. To ensure that access, China has been making investments and long-term trade deals, particularly in Africa. In response the US has set up AFRICOM, with the mission of nullifying those investments and trade deals via regime-change projects, as we've seen recently in Libya. Such actions represent direct attacks on Chinese strategic interests.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The AFRICOM initiatives and the encirclement programs are preliminary acts of war, and </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Russia and China are well aware of this. Russia and China will either need to yield sovereignty over their national destiny, or else military force will be used to neutralize them as competing powers. This is how the building site is being cleared for regime change, one way or the other, in the case of Russia and China.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">THE THIRD WORLD AND THE IMF</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />As John Perkins explains in <i>Confessions of an Economic Hit Man</i>, the Third World has long been under attack by an aggressive campaign of debt entrapment. As a condition of receiving IMF refinancing packages, nations must submit to restructuring agreements, which open up the nation's assets to privatization, and essentially bring the nations under direct cabal management, via the IMF.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In those cases where this approach does not succeed, regime-change projects are being pursued, as we've seen in Iraq, Afghanistan, and most recently Libya. Syria, Iran, Venezuela, and North Korea are on the list for future regime-change initiatives, whenever the Pentagon judges the timing to be right. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">WESTERN NATIONS</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Western governments were long ago corrupted and seduced into joining the neoliberal globalization bandwagon, which has systematically undermined the vitality of Western economies, and whose 'free-trade' laws have taken away regulatory sovereignty. In this way the West's manufacturing capacity has been decimated, and Western nations have become dependent on the global economy for their very survival.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Meanwhile, the cabal has used the Trilateral Commission and the Bilderberg Group to indoctrinate Western leaders into the cabal agenda. We've gotten to the point, as with Sarkosy and Merkel, where candidates are selected at Bilderberger meetings, and then promoted into power by well-funded political campaigns.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">TOO BIG TO FAIL</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">All of this set the stage for the orchestrated economic collapse of September 2008. Instead of doing the sensible thing, which would have been to put the failed banks into receivership ala Iceland, the indoctrinated leaders accepted the absurd doctrine of 'too big to fail', and committed themselves to bailing out the banks. While the public was told the collapse was only a liquidity crisis, insiders knew that in fact the whole banking system was insolvent. There was no way the nations could afford those bailouts. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Thus the insolvency of the banks was transformed into the insolvency of Western treasuries. Once this was achieved, the cabal began incrementally bringing Western nations under the direct management of cabal agents, first Ireland, and more recently Greece, Italy and Spain. By means of the bailout scam the economic-hitman strategy crossed the Rubicon from the Third World to the West, bringing with it draconian austerity and wholesale privatization.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Germany has been the most resistant to these destabilization programs, retaining a strong economy and a robust manufacturing sector, and enjoying a highly profitable export trade. At the same time, German banks invested heavily in the failed banks and in bonds of bankrupt European nations, and as the global economy continues to collapse, Germany will be gradually but inevitably pulled down with the rest of Europe. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The US seems to be standing outside this scenario, with the dollar continuing as a de facto global reserve currency. But in fact the US is totally bankrupt, with astronomical budget and trade deficits. In order to keep operating, the Federal Reserve is simply printing money, and it is getting by with it because of the dollar's reserve currency status. The rug can be pulled out from under the US economy any time the cabal so chooses. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">WESTERN PUBLIC OPINION</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Although the cabal is quite willing to use whatever force is necessary to achieve its objectives, up to and including orchestrating major wars, it never relies exclusively on force. A way is always sought to bring Western public opinion into alignment with those objectives. Thus military interventions are portrayed as 'humanitarian', bailouts are portrayed as 'unfortunately necessary', and austerity is portrayed as a 'path to growth recovery'. Such false portrayals are sold to the public by propaganda from the cabal-controlled mass media, and by the lies of government officials. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Such measures have succeeded, for the most part, in getting Western populations to grudgingly accept the orchestrated collapse process. However, as the impact of the collapse is beginning to affect more and more people directly, public opinion is becoming increasingly angry and frustrated with the state of affairs. Media propaganda and official lies are failing to neutralize this growing anger. One is tempted to conclude that the cabal is losing its touch, that it is failing in this case to successfully manage public opinion. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">PUBLIC ANGER AND FRUSTRATION FEEDS DIRECTLY INTO THE AGENDA – PROVIDED IT IS CHANNELED APPROPRIATELY</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Such a conclusion, however, would be mistaken. We need to keep in mind that the agenda of the cabal is quite different this time around. In the past, the cabal, by means of media propaganda and government lies, was always seeking to maintain support for the system they control: capitalism and Western governments. This time around, the agenda of the cabal is to discard capitalism and national governments, and replace them with the new centralized, non-growth system. Public anger and frustration feeds directly into this agenda – provided it is channeled appropriately.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The formula is an old one, known as 'problem, reaction, solution'. That's how the Federal Reserve was brought into existence back in 1913. First JP Morgan manufactured the problem (a run on the banks), then the cabal waited for the expected reaction (a public outcry that 'something be done'), and finally they offered their 'solution' (the cabal-owned Federal Reserve). By the time people started realizing that the solution was worse than the problem, it was too late.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">With the regime-change project, the manufactured 'problem' includes not just the economic crisis itself, but also the fact that banks are responsible for the crisis, and governments are failing to do anything to alleviate the crisis. The desired 'reaction' is not just that people cry out for 'something be done' about the collapse, but that they also cry out for something be done about corrupt and incompetent governments, and that something be done about the power of banks and corporations. That is to say, the desired reaction is that people cry out for regime change. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In order to achieve this desired reaction, the cabal is employing sophisticated mind-control techniques – called psy-ops in the trade – involving the Internet and grassroots movements. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">MANAGING THE TRANSITION</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />Just as the old world system is being systematically dismantled, so is the transition process to the new regime being systematically managed. Indeed, with the globalist bureaucracies established and operating, the carbon-credit system launched, the IMF managing many of the world's national economies, and top Western leaders indoctrinated by the cabal's forums (Bilderberger Group, Trilateral Commission, Council on Foreign Relations), the transition process is already well underway. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The UN will of course need to be 'reformed' as part of the transition. The General Assembly is far too democratic to suit the purposes of the cabal, and the Security Council is plagued by that pesky veto process. Already the US is pushing for reform, seeking for power to be centralized in the UN's Secretary General. With Russia and China out of the picture, it will be easy for the cabal to push through whatever reforms they deem appropriate, so as to enable the cabal to dictate policy, free of constraint. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The US has long been under the control of the cabal, with the cabal-owned Federal Reserve managing monetary policy, and the political system totally corrupted. JFK made a valiant attempt to restore genuine sovereignty, and after eliminating him the cabal tightened its grip still further. The US, and particularly the Pentagon and the CIA, have served as essential tools of the cabal as they have been pursuing their plans for global domination.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The EU was a cabal project from the very beginning, and its founding charter, the Maastricht Treaty, was drawn up by cabal-controlled finance ministers, not heads of state. The purpose of the EU has been to help manage the transition of Europe into the new world system, by incrementally undermining national sovereignty and bringing Europe under the bureaucratic control of the cabal-dominated Brussels regime. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">As the economic collapse dramatically worsens, civil unrest will dramatically increase. Harsh suppression of Western populations will be necessary in order to get through the transition process. The various false-flag 'terrorist' events, such as 9/11 and the London tube bombings, have provided the excuse to implement the police-state infrastructures that will enable the necessary suppression. The same false-flag events have also provided excuses for the various military interventions that have been necessary in order to 'clear the building site' in the third world. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Original article by Richard K. Moor</span></div><h3><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Richard K. Moore’s original article title: Pax Americana & Bretton Woods: a regime-change precedent</span></h3><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">COMMENT:</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Though International Financial Institutions (IFI) such as IMF, World Bank etc are indeed cause for concern and are definitely following their own agenda, it is wrong to assume that the entire IFI is in Jewish hands and thus foster  Antisemitism by collectively blaming the Jews for the current “financial crisis”. One should not forget that the Free Masons are also a strongly force in IFI and who historically are not too much in favor of Jewish, to say the least! There seems to be an increase in </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">subliminal A<em><span style="font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">ntisemitism, especially in alternative internet media who use the financial crisis as an excuse to stir anti Antisemitism  at times where common people are rather infuriated with Banks and IFI and thus associate everything connected to the finance crisis as being the wrongdoings of the "Evil Jews". History in remake? </span></em></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>

MARXISM VERSUS CAPITALISM

SUBLIMINAL ANTISEMITISM , PROCLAIMING THAT INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS PREDOMINATED BY JEWISH AND THUS ARE TO BE BLAMED FOR THE C...

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