text: Week 1 NFL Power Rankings: Chiefs, Ravens rule the roost. Is this the year Evan Engram blows up? The following browsers are supported: Chrome, Edge (v80 and later), Firefox and Safari. Metcalf's gradual bloom as a playmaker was pretty much a best-case scenario for what you hope for out of a rookie wideout. If you want to actually hear someone tell me why I'm wrong, that's the job of Matt "Money" Smith on this program. Browse » Home » 2020 Weekly IDP Rankings » 2020 Weekly IDP Rankings: Week 17 2020 Weekly IDP Rankings: Week 17 These are The IDP Guru's Weekly IDP Rankings. Previous NFL TV ratings: 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014.Numbers obtained from various sources, including network PR, ShowBuzz Daily and Programming Insider. McCaffrey had an astounding 116 receptions last year, breaking his own NFL record for catches by a running back set the previous year. Can undrafted rookie James Robinson truly answer the bell? Phil Rivers is well set up to have his Brett-Favre-Joins-The-Vikings moment. There's no better way to stick it to the organization than to deliver a vintage season that makes their impending QB decision as agonizing as possible. NFL TV ratings for Week 16 up significantly from last season . The official source for NFL news, video highlights, fantasy football, game-day coverage, schedules, stats, scores and more. 15. NFL footage © NFL Productions LLC. Sutton piled up 72 receptions, 1,112 receiving yards and six touchdowns with a messy quarterback situation in 2019, and camp reports presented Jeudy as an explosive star-in-waiting who will perfectly complement what Sutton brings to the offense. People shouldn't be that surprised Mitch Trubisky won the starting QB job out of camp. Lamar Jackson presents a potentially unforgiving litmus test for the Kevin Stefanski era. Tragedy averted, the Steelers look locked and loaded with an offense that should return to top-five status in the AFC after a down year. "I think that's the right number," the coach said. PFF's simulation engine powered by AWS simulates the NFL season from its current point 10,000 times to set 2020 power ratings, playoff odds, Super Bowl odds, etc. Broncos (15): Even without OLB Von Miller, Denver may actually live or die with a defense that should make a jump in second year under Vic Fangio. The 'Boys could field their best offense ever. 3. 2020 Fantasy Football Week 1 Rankings: Defense The New England Patriots were a hilariously dominant fantasy defense in 2019, scoring 236 … 1 pick Joe Burrow would be the starter when the season began. Camp reports were positive about GM Joe Douglas' rebuilt offensive line, and Darnold isn't exactly bereft of playmakers, with Le'Veon Bell, Jamison Crowder, Breshad Perriman, Denzel Mims and Chris Herndon in the building. Chiefs (1): May as well just keep them parked here for a minute – or an hour. ET on NFL Network. NBC's Sunday Night Football showcased two of the best franchises in the NFL over the last decade, despite that, the ratings crashed by nearly 20 percent. Broncos tight end Jake Butt has probably heard it all thanks to his last name, so it would make … CBS's coverage of games drew 13.6 million viewers for … 2 spot? Tennessee Titans kicker Stephen Gostkowski (3) unsucessfully attempts a field goal against the Denver Broncos during the first half of an NFL football game, Monday, Sept. 14, 2020, in Denver. BY Adam Hoge - Following another wild week of NFL action -- one which included the craziest finish of the season -- Dan Hanzus updates his Power Rankings. How high do the Browns fly after the biggest win since the franchise reboot? ): Cam Newton is the starting quarterback. That type of discrepancy just doesn't square with Cleveland's talent. The browser you are using is no longer supported on this site. Season Leaders: To qualify, a player must play a minimum of 20 action plays per team game But before that, please get mad at me about the placement of your favorite team in the latest Power Rankings. But losing RB Marlon Mack was a rude shock. If you read yesterday's Traina Thoughts, you know the NFL's ratings for the 2020 season are down … Check out our analysts' full kicker rankings for Week 1 below: 2020 Fantasy Football Rankings powered by FantasyPros ECR ™ - Expert Consensus Rankings TRENDING The silver lining here is that Rosen's expendability must mean Miami isn't merely paying lip service when they say they're happy with the progress of Tua Tagovailoa and his surgically repaired hip. Best, worst debuts of Week 1 includes Philip Rivers' warning sign, Empty stadiums leave players with 'eerie' feeling, sense of loss for environment, Your California Privacy Rights/Privacy Policy. It wasn't the … Perhaps Peterson is simply a temporary depth rental while Swift and Scarbrough get healthy. Steelers (6): Big Ben is back ... meaning WR JuJu Smith-Schuster is back, too. Does Aaron Rodgers top the list? 2020 NFL Week 1 Fantasy Football QB STD Draft Rankings | FantasyAlarm.com What gets far less pub is a defense that morphed into one of the league's stingiest in the back half of 2019. Bills (10): They had little trouble handling the Jets – woo hoo – but QB Josh Allen must be far more consistent if they're to dethrone New England. This should have been the year Derwin James played a full season and reminded the world that he's the most talented safety in football. Fantasy Alarm's top 2020 NFL fantasy Football QB rankings. This is wonderful. Alshon Jeffery avoided the PUP list, but stands a good chance of missing the first month of the season as he recovers from foot surgery. Let's recap where they're at: Deebo Samuel is working his way back from a broken foot. Right about now, George Kittle is probably wondering what kind of damage he can do on Sundays while being quintuple-teamed. If Dak Prescott has three receiving stars at his disposal plus Ezekiel Elliott? Did you expect anything different? 26. It had Dallas-Philadelphia on Nov. 1 while the New Orleans-Tampa Bay matchup last Sunday was a blowout by halftime. The Athletic reported last week that Big Ben "made every throw possible over the three-week camp and was impressive doing it." NFL power rankings, 2020 post-Week 1 edition (previous rank in parentheses):1. Kudos to general manager Rick Spielman, who waited out the market and then pounced on Yannick Ngakoue, landing a young, proven pass rusher via a trade in which the Vikings didn't have to a) surrender a premium draft pick (a second- and conditional fifth-rounder went to Jacksonville) or b) pay Ngakoue at the salary he was slated to make under the franchise tag. Browns (16): No AFC team scored fewer points this weekend or surrendered more. The TV ratings are officially out for Week 1 of the NFL season. Will be updated as the season progresses. Fox is averaging 12.8 million for "Thursday Night Football." NFL Team Defense Rankings 2020-21. Well, that was fun, wasn't it? About the Rankings. Much has been made this week of the 2020 NFL ratings slip costing broadcasters money. Pass rush was a particular weakness in 2019, when Atlanta had the second-fewest sacks in the NFL. 32. McCaffrey averaged more than 25 touches per game during his 1,000/1,000 season in 2019, and Matt Rhule doesn't see any reason to curb that usage. Ravens (2): They've scored at least 38 points in seven of their last 17 regular-season outings. 12. The primetime NBC game scored a 5.2 among adults aged 18-49 with 16.4 million viewers tuning in between 8-11 p.m. 1 and look set for repeat, Pats in unusually low spot That number represented a 29% drop in viewership from Week 13 of last season. After a rough year, we finally have football coming our way on Thursday, starting with the Houston Texans at the Kansas City Chiefs. 14. Bruce Arians and Jason Licht nailed March through August -- now we get to see how things go when it truly matters. After 51 years, citizens have solved the Zodiac Killer's cipher that has stumped law enforcement. 2. This time next year, will we view Courtland Sutton and Jerry Jeudy as the best wide receiver duo in the NFL? And … That's exactly what the Falcons need. Perhaps an Antonio Brown reunion is in play? How do the four remaining teams stack up heading into Championship Sunday? Chris Thompson? 1.If you read yesterday's Traina Thoughts, you know the NFL's ratings for the 2020 season are down just 5% year over year. For example, the NFL's Week 1 Ratings. What's the point of creating "market" Power Ratings? NFL Power Rankings: Week 1 32) Jacksonville Jaguars. But Arizona's defense deserves ample credit for knocking off Niners. Everyone knows the Chiefs have an incredible offense with Patrick Mahomes at the controls. We expected drama and got … very little. Share this article 357 shares share tweet text email link Doug Farrar. Fresh off a big Monday night win, the Rams hit the top five of Dan Hanzus' Power Rankings. The late-period version of Adrian Peterson has a way of clearing low bars set for him by people on the outside. These were two areas of concern after Jurrell Casey was traded away, and the Clowney acquisition allows you to make a legitimate case for this defense reaching a higher level. Now, where does your favorite NFL team land on this list heading into Week 1 of the 2020 NFL Season? Check out our first 2020 NFL power rankings after Week 1. We know Drew Brees will remain The Man at quarterback for at least one more season. NFL power rankings: Cardinals soar while Cowboys and Colts tumble. Follow USA TODAY Sports' Nate Davis on Twitter @ByNateDavis. Big names on the marquee, no serious injuries and pretty much nothing but glowing reports for a month. The first half this past week averaged 18.9 million viewers, which was the highest since the Cowboys-Rams game in Week 1. Loved the imagery from our buddy Kyle Brandt, who likened the Bucs' relentless acquisition of name-brand talent to the roster construction by Vince McMahon from a bygone era. Ravens (2): They've scored at least 38 points in seven of their last 17 regular-season outings. As for what Clowney brings to Nashville? Mr. 30/30 himself: Jameis Winston? Cue the Goffaissance! The demolition was completed in the past week with the trade of Yannick Ngakoue and release of Leonard Fournette, two stars during Jacksonville's run to the AFC Championship Game in 2017. Week 1 Fantasy Rankings: The Sablich Brothers are back for the 2020 season, providing their award-winning fantasy football rankings for Week 1. Titans (5): If former first-round WR Corey Davis – his fifth-year option was declined – is going to be this productive, Tennessee's offense could be tough to handle. Sunday's Week 1 NFL national window, featuring Giants-Cowboys in 85% of markets, averaged a 15.9 overnight rating on FOX — up 1% from last year (mostly Cowboys-Panthers: 15.7) and up 2% from 2017 (mostly Seahawks-Packers: 15.6). Aaron Rodgers told reporters last week he used this bizarre pandemic year of 2020 to "[find his] center a little bit." Season: 15 GP | 288.0 YPG (4th) | 69.1% (7th) | 6.7 avg CAY (8th) | … The … 28. 2020 NFL power rankings: Updated standings entering playoff rounds. Dan Hanzus recalibrates his NFL Power Rankings in the wake of Super Wild Card Weekend. We wonder if he sniffs that territory again with Teddy Bridgewater spreading the ball around to Robby Anderson, Curtis Samuel and DJ Moore in 2020. Dan Hanzus updates his Power Rankings, giving the Titans a well-deserved boost following their statement win in Indianapolis. That's a crazy stat for a guy who plays cornerback. That's obviously the ceiling John Elway had in mind when he selected Jeudy with the 15th overall pick in April's draft. With limited practices and no preseason, Burrow will make mistakes. Can't you see it? Dan Hanzus revisits his NFL Power Rankings following a dramatic Divisional Round. Now that early point spreads have settled for Week 1 of the 2020 NFL season, handicappers can estimate "market" Power Ratings for all 32 teams. Get excited, Western New York -- this team is going to bully some people. The Browns open with Ravens Week, a significant challenge for a defense trying to find its footing after a training camp dotted with injuries to key contributors. NBC has had tough luck the past two weeks. NYJ might wind up paying a safety after all. That was worst in the league and awfully difficult to overcome. NFL Picks - Jan. 21 2021 NFL Mock Draft - Jan. 20 Fantasy Football Rankings - Jan. 11 2022 NFL Mock Draft - Nov. 15 NFL Power Rankings - Nov. 14 2020 College Football Recruiting Rankings - April 14 2020 NBA Mock Draft - Sept. 27 We know a lot of these guys -- Leonard Fournette and Josh Rosen being the latest arrivals -- but how confident should we be in this veteran stew actually turning into something delicious for the Bucs and their fans? 4. 21. With the first week of the season comes … Did you expect anything different? 22. In the wake of Week 14, Dan Hanzus updates his Power Rankings with plenty of movement in the top 10. Fournette's release leaves the backfield particularly barren. The Raiders signed the former first-round pick to significant backup QB money this offseason, but The Athletic reported that Mariota was "[not] sharp at training camp and is no threat for the starting role." That Josh Rosen trade worked out pretty terribly for the Dolphins, huh? A new era begins. FantraxHQ is the official content sponsor of Fantrax.com, the hottest Fantasy Site of 2018 and 2019. After a wild NFL slate that included shocking losses by the Steelers and Rams, Dan Hanzus reassesses the league hierarchy in his Week 16 NFL Power Rankings. Â. The team is similarly stacked on the other side of the ball, with versatility that might have Jets QB Sam Darnold seeing ghosts in Week 1. The first half this past week averaged 18.9 million viewers, which was the highest since the Cowboys-Rams game in Week 1. 27. Position: QB; RB; WR; TE; K; DEF; DL; LB; DB ... 2020 Season; 1 - 80 of 80 . This page will be updated each week to reflect that current week's rankings. Jets (27): Little to like about Sunday's performance ... except Marcus Maye (10 tackles, 2 sacks, 2 pass break-ups). Chargers (22): Did you notice all 12 of Casey Hayward's tackles Sunday were of the solo variety? SportsPulse: Week 1 is in the books and we break down the risers and fallers in our first regular season power rankings of the year. 5. He said this period of isolation and self-introspection has provided him with an extremely healthy perspective on football and life. First-round pick Jalen Reagor is sidelined after suffering a slight tear in his shoulder in the last week of camp. How high do the Cardinals fly after the Hail Murray? Lions (20): RB Adrian Peterson tends to make a good first impression, averaging 88.8 rushing yards when debuting for the five NFL teams he's played for. Jared Goff might be the Least Valuable Player on Hard Knocks (the man could put a rabid raccoon to sleep with his monotone delivery), but it feels like people have prematurely written him off as a quarterback who can be a difference-maker. And it seems QB Lamar Jackson's command of offense is only expanding. Sophomore Bryce Love figures to get his shot, as well, with J.D. A very good offensive line will return four of five starters from a year ago (it would have been five if guard Jon Feliciano wasn't on injured reserve with a torn pec), and the team has depth behind those starters to weather any further injury issues. 31) Carolina Panthers. It doesn't feel like the Colts get enough credit for where they currently stand as a franchise. TL;DR: Sorry, AFC, the Chiefs have the potential to be great on both sides of the ball. He'll open the season as the backup behind Ryan Fitzpatrick, who isn't exactly known for stringing together multiple years of success. The Jaguars went into halftime, on average, losing by 5.8 points. Jalen Hurd tore his ACL. Player Rankings. 19. Last year, Fowler posted the second-most sacks on the Rams (11.5) and added 16 tackles for loss. Balancing no crowds and low crowds, policing mask-wearing and social-distancing, with some of the people who made 2020 NFL Week 1 the event that it was. Relatedly, it makes you wonder if there's any role to be had for 2019 second-round pick Andy Isabella. Check out the full pecking order, 1-32. He carved out a bigger role than people expected for two years in Washington, and now he lands in a crowded Lions backfield that already includes Kerryon Johnson, second-round pick D'Andre Swift and Bo Scarbrough. Does Aaron Rodgers top the list? Bengals (26): QB Joe Burrow's numbers Sunday weren't great – nor was his mustache – but playing a legit D like the Bolts didn't look too big for him. If he's back on the field for Week 1 next September, he'll return having missed 27 of his last 32 games due to lower-body maladies. Emmanuel Sanders exited via free agency, and Travis Benjamin was a COVID-19 opt-out. There has been plenty of talk about a potential boycott this year from the fans, but the numbers aren't entirely down. Dan Hanzus updates his Power Rankings, with the Saints leapfrogging the Steelers as the Browns re-enter the top 10. He won't say it, but the 36-year-old Rodgers knows he has to do better than the efficient-but-not-special play he's put on tape the last two years. How low do the Bucs go? Sep 18, 2020. Rank Player Salary ($) NFL Fantasy Experts; 1: Michael Thomas WR - NO--1: 2: Davante Adams WR - GB--2: 3: Julio Jones WR - ATL--3: 4: Tyreek Hill WR - KC--4: 5: Chris Godwin WR - TB View News--5: 6: DeAndre Hopkins WR - ARI--6: 7: Allen Robinson WR - CHI--7: 8: JuJu Smith-Schuster WR - PIT--8: 9: D.J. Will be updated as the season progresses. The team that was one bad call away from making the Super Bowl has now been taken down to the studs. Did you know his 14 catches Sunday tied Hall of Famer Don Hutson's team record for one game? QB Patrick Mahomes has never lost a start in September nor thown an INT before October. Make sure to Follow Me on Twitter. With the 2020 NFL season about to kick off, Dan Hanzus determines the league hierarchy in the Week 1 Power Rankings. That number represented a 29% drop in viewership from Week 13 of last season. Panthers (30): We know you're a hotshot play caller, Joe Brady, but why are you calling FB Alex Armah's number (not Christian McCaffrey's) during crunch time? 20. Saints-Bucs drew a 16.2/35 overnight rating, which was Fox's highest such rating for a Week 1 game since 2016. And Cincy can live with that, as long as he delivers the big plays and excitement that's been missing from the organization for years. NFL Football rankings are updated daily throughout regular and post season; Early season rankings (earlier than Week 8) may fluctuate significantly from week to week until an adequate number of games have been played; Click a column header to sort ; Click on a team to view a summary of that team's ratings and statistics But GM Chris Ballard built in too much foundation for collapse, and the support beams are up front with the offensive line. All that said: Expect Trubisky's leash to be incredibly short ... as in, "Matt Nagy announced Tuesday that Nick Foles will start Sunday's Week 2 game against the Giants" short. We know Taysom Hill, generous new contract in hand, will have a role as a gadget man and red-zone menace. Josh Gordon is back in the building, adding another intriguing name to a wide receiver room that will do damage if Brian Schottenheimer lets Russell Wilson truly be unlimmmmmmittted. QB Mitchell Trubisky is obviously just as good as Mahomes ... and even better in the fourth quarter! How high do the Saints fly? 30. — FOX Sports PR (@FOXSportsPR) September 14, 2020 Fox says the @saints win over the @bucs drew a 16.2 overnight rating. Beyond that, Matt Nagy knows what we all do: Nick Foles is pretty much the ideal backup quarterback -- a guy you can throw into the fire at any time and know he'll be ready with the capability to thrive in the right circumstances. Buccaneers (8): QB Tom Brady, who's thrown a pick-six in three straight games, is currently, um, on pace to break Jameis Winston's single-season record (7 in 2019). With Todd Gurley out of the picture, McVay (still one of the game's best minds, by the way) has had an offseason to cook up an attack that puts his QB in the best position to succeed. Richie James Jr. missed camp with a broken wrist. Join our Facebook Group, The Ruling Off the Field, to engage in friendly debate and conversation with fellow football fans and our NFL insiders. 29. Last Thursday's NFL Kickoffs between the Super Bowl champion Chiefs and the Texans marked a 16.1% drop in viewership compared to 2019 . In a year as strange as 2020, there was only one thing that we all agreed with: Tom Brady is going to look weird in a Bucs' uniform. 2020 NFL Week 1 Fantasy Football QB STD Draft Rankings | FantasyAlarm.com 49ers (4): One of the big surprises from opening weekend? All that can be said about the 2020 NFL regular season is that it happened. You can make a legitimate case for all three of the modern Cards wideouts pulling it off in Kliff Kingsbury's "crazy fast" offense. Rams (23): DL Aaron Donald recorded a sack Sunday, something he'd done in Week 1 only one other time ... way back in 2015, when he was a St. Louis Ram. But what was more awkward than seeing Brady on a different team, was seeing him looking lost. And then Mariota ended up on injured reserve. Football begins Thursday, with 15 more games to follow on Sunday and Monday. 2020 NFL Schedule: Team by Team SportsLine: Team-By-Team Betting Guide NFL Power Rankings: Browns, Rams make biggest leaps from Week 1 … We're all about giving Kyle Shanahan the benefit of the doubt, but the defending NFC champs will begin the season with serious issues at wide receiver. After one of the most difficult summers in American history, we somehow made it through Week 1 of the 2020 NFL season. Citing that depth as a reason to turn Jackson into a pocket passer would be comically stupid, but there may be logic in dialing down the designed QB runs in an effort to increase the chances of having a healthy Jackson for 16 games and beyond. NFL 2020 WEEK 1 Schedule | NFL.com. There may be no team in the NFL that can match what the Bills have put together in the trenches on both sides of the ball. And it doesn't appear that intimidating defense has gone anywhere. Week 17 came and went. The Steelers are back in the top 10 after snapping a three-game skid, while the Patriots sink to their lowest ranking in years. Devine Ozigbo? This is a team that already has an alpha dog No. NFL Team Defense Rankings 2020-21 Having a good defense in the NFL is extremely important, as we have seen most of the recent champions post strong defensive numbers. Kind of? Previous NFL TV ratings: 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014.Numbers obtained from various sources, including network PR, ShowBuzz Daily and Programming Insider. 2020 Fantasy Football: Week 1 PPR Rankings. We're not going to throw a parade in Chris Wesseling's hometown of Cincinnati or anything, but good on the Bengals for keeping things simple this summer. Pat Mayo provides his 2020 Fantasy Football Week 1 Rankings Update along full a recap of the 2020 NFL Week 1 injuries, how those situations are going to play out, then goes into the Week 1 DraftKings ownership report and come of his favorites plays while looking at stat trends and using the FTN Fantasy Tools. Unfortunately, he's very good at it. How far do the Steelers fall after their second consecutive loss? Packers (9): Did you know WR Davante Adams' 42 TD catches since 2016 lead NFL? 1 overall pick. Ron Rivera needs to see who's part of the future and who isn't. Sunday's Week 1 NFL national window, featuring Giants-Cowboys in 85% of markets, averaged a 15.9 overnight rating on FOX — up 1% from last year (mostly Cowboys-Panthers: 15.7) and up 2% from 2017 (mostly Seahawks-Packers: 15.6). Our experts are back for Week 17 with their fantasy football rankings for the upcoming week of NFL action. The biggest concern entering training camp in Pittsburgh revolved around the physical condition of Ben Roethlisberger, the franchise star QB attempting to come back from surgery to repair tears to all three ligaments in his throwing elbow. The rest of the afternoon slate was a mixed bag for the NFL. Good news for Baltimore, bad news for Cleveland, but we remain interested to see how the Ravens plan to deploy Jackson as a playmaker after 2019's record-setting MVP performance. Week 1 NFL Power Rankings (2020) by Phil Wood September 7, 2020 After so much uncertainty, Week 1 of the 2020 NFL season is actually here. The loss of Tyrell Williams to a season-ending shoulder injury tests the depth of the wide receivers room. Kyler Murray said last month that the wide receiver trio of DeAndre Hopkins, Larry Fitzgerald and Christian Kirk could all surpass 1,000 yards in 2020. That news should spark a huge sigh of relief for Steelers fans who are undoubtedly aware that team management didn't leave themselves much of a safety net in the event that Roethlisberger had a setback or struggled mightily. Whether you're a Derek Carr fan or not, you get the feeling they'll move the ball and score points with Josh Jacobs, Darren Waller, Hunter Renfrow and first-round pick Henry Ruggs III in the mix. Do the right thing, sign up now! Right? Granted, that last part has almost nothing to do with Minnesota (Ngakoue was desperate to escape the Jags), but good on the Vikes for seizing on a huge opportunity to get better. Player Ratings Update: Week 1 See how huge performances from superstars like Aaron Rodgers and Chris Carson have affected their Madden ratings. It's impossible to know if Newton is close to the same guy who won MVP with the Panthers a half decade ago, but he really is the perfect bridge to whatever comes next in New England. Adrian Peterson and Derrius Guice are out the door, and there's suddenly a huge opportunity in the Washington backfield. Colts (7): When you're adjusting to a new quarterback (Philip Rivers), maybe it shouldn't be stunning to lose your opener on road ... even in Jacksonville. 2020 Fantasy Football Week 1 Rankings: Kickers. 31. Check out how all 32 teams stack up. The fullback is a guy named Bruce Miller, who spent the last four years out of football. Texans (19): Somebody in league's scheduling office hates them. So much for the Marcus Mariota hype train. Postponements and scheduling complications stemming from the coronavirus … The Titans won the endless Jadeveon Clowney Sweepstakes, beating out a Saints team that deserves at least a participation trophy for its efforts in the pursuit of the former No. This is a gift. If you love talking football, we have the perfect spot for you. NFL Schedule 2020 — WEEK 1. 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Cook Time
60 minutes
A delicious cake to get you into the seasonal spirit.
325 g Plain Flour
1 tbsp Ground Ginger
2 1/2 Teaspoon Baking Powder
200 g Caster Sugar
160 g Unsalted Butter, Melted, Cooled
4 Eggs, Lightly Whisked
260 g Greek Yoghurt
100 ml Hilltop Everyday Blossom Honey
25 g Stem Ginger in Syrup, chopped
Stem Ginger Syrup
6 Rosemary Sprigs
Caster Sugar
Preheat oven to 180C/160C fan/Gas mark 4.
Lightly grease and flour a bundt tin.
Sift flour, ginger and baking powder into a bowl.
Stir in sugar.
Make a well in the centre and in a separate bowl use a wooden spoon to beat butter, egg, yoghurt and honey in a separate bowl until smooth.
Pour into the well and stir until well combined.
Add the chopped ginger pieces and mix.
Spoon mixture into prepared pan and bake for 40-45 minutes or until a skewer inserted into centre comes out clean.
Whilst the cake is cooking, wash the rosemary and place on a kitchen cloth.
In a bowl place the caster sugar and place each rosemary spring in 1 by 1 until coated in sugar.
Place onto a baking sheet and allow to dry.
Cool in pan for 5 minutes, then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.
Using the syrup from the ginger, drizzle this over the warm cake.
Decorate your cake with the rosemary and pomegranate.

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Patrick has known Brittany and Ryan since college and not only that, she was our photographer at our own wedding. So when they asked us if we would capture their wedding day it felt like a beautiful full circle moment. You can tell these two have loved each other for quite some time and it was beautiful to witness the start of their official forever together as husband and wife. This day was full of laughs, tears, the sweetest vows and heartfelt moments as well as a rousing celebration spent among friends and family. We often feel like we leave wedding days with new friends, but we loved walking into this one feeling already among them.
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The View from Green Island GI Central - my 'net home' for the last few years, and the foreseeable future, this seems where it's going to be - lots of venting, lots of good writing, lots of 'out-of-the-box' ideas you aren't EVER going to hear on the CBC The Democratic Revolution Handbook - Home by Dave Patterson
And a book for younger readers too, Dave's an eclectic sort of person - Aquila These and Dave's other books can be found at Dave's Smashwords EPUBS page - and for the curious, if anyone cares, a few words on From Hastings to Green Island - the (very) short form story of Dave's own journey.. Knowledge is like a candle. When you light your candle from mine, my light is not diminished. It is enhanced and a larger room is enlightened as a consequence. - Thomas Jefferson |
The study of money, above all other fields in economics, is one in which complexity is used to disguise truth or to evade truth, not to reveal it. - John Kenneth Galbraith It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and money system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning - Henry Ford Part 1 Chapter 3bThe Money Gambit- as with the rulers, the writers of the history books, carefully keeping the 'true' story of the long, long fight for democracy hidden from the people, pretending it is something won when it has actually more nearly been lost, so it is with money - it is difficult to understand the current situation, as any informed, engaged democratic participant needs to do, to participate in making decisions about what to do in our country, or what is going on in the world, without a clear understanding of what money is, where it comes from, and who controls it - and the history that brought us to our current situation. Let's look at this essentially simple but powerful tool for we hobbits that has been turned into a great weapon for Mordor in a bit more detail, and understand how this came about, and how it works today.
As with our lack of clarity and understanding about 'our great democracy' which is surely a great idea, but is notable in its current form more for its illusion than its reality, a central part of what we are missing in the whole process of trying to understand what is going on with our money is some relevant history of how it all started, and how it developed and was and is managed, and how that is related to how we got to where we are today, and what is actually going on today in terms of 'the economy', which is considerably more understandable than the basically simply untrue 'civics book for children' version we are continually fed - that 'the economy!!" is some sort of great 'natural force' that is very wild and dangerous, and our learned bankers and economists and finance ministers are doing their very best to manage this wild powerful force so we 'average normal hobbits' are protected from its ravages - sometimes that great wild force overcomes our Great Noble Defenders, and we nice folk suffer some economic consequences, but in the end we are lucky to have such great strong economic warriors defending us, etc etc. Sorry if you more knowledgeable folk are getting a bit nauseous. But that is the kind of story we are led to believe, that 'the economy' is some great wild uncontrollable force, and we can only trust our wise banking and finance people to control it - and by golly they do a pretty good job of it, overall (as we're constantly reminded in the media). And of course that's all utter horseshit, a strong word is required. If we could see a larger perspective, we might see that although the world economy does seem a bit wild at times, it is very much a 'managed wildness', a great wall of fire built and maintained by our rulers, as one of the primary walls to keep us controlled, and if we had a better vantage point, a vantage point informed by facts rather than the religious crap of the High Banker Priests and Economists, we might be able to see this great wild economic wall is an artificial construct, and we could easily tear it down and open up the free and prosperous world that lies beyond their economic chaos - in exactly the same way we passed laws to stop people running around with guns shooting each other and anyone else, we could pass laws to regulate what goes on in our economy - if we wanted to. Chaos is good for the people running our country and world, however, giving them endless opportunities to loot the rest of us, and as long as they run things, economic chaos will be part of the ruling paradigm.
Perhaps the most thorough accounting of what has been and is going on with this thing we know as 'money' is to be found in Stephen Zarlenga's very well-documented Lost Science of Money, and the other shorter offerings (particularly their Short intro to Monetary Reform) on the AMI (American Monetary Institute) website about how to understand and fix the current system. Ellen Brown's Web of Debt has also become a classic in terms of exposing what is going on with our money-credit system, and is very informative, and a considerably shorter and less scholarly and somewhat less expensive read. For those who prefer documentaries to reading, two excellent introductions are All wars are bankers' wars and The Money Masters, by a guy called Bill Still, who has several other films equally good; and there are some specifically Canadian things that you're not going to get on the CBC, a series of shorter films led by Money as Debt by a Canadian named Paul Grignon are also very popular and instructive in terms of getting an overview of the big picture here, plus a short but pithy vid by a guy called Bill Abram, The Crime of the Canadian Banking System, and a film called Oh Canada, the Movie, Our Sold and Bought Out Land. There's also a lot of good info on the British site Positive Money (I don't agree with their general ideas about what to do about the problem, but their background is good - if we ever get more than a handful of people in Canada understanding the problem, we're going to have to discuss what to do about it ourselves, as not everyone might agree with my ideas - but the crucial point is understanding what is going on in the first place, and understanding that something needs to be done if we are ever going to be a sovereign country 'of by and for the people' rather than continuing on as a quasi-feudal society 'of by and for the banksters'). And there is much else out there to be found by googling 'Monetary Reform'. If you are not already familiar with these things, as I suspect most readers of this book are not, I would urge you at the very least to watch the Money Masters documentary before reading any further here - as these things are so well introduced in these places, there is no point in me repeating it all, and I am only going to give a brief summary of this history, which may raise questions for the curious reader that would be answered more fully from watching or reading some of these things. What I just want to do here, as with this entire book, is simply put this information into the frame of my own observations as to how this all ties into what is going on today and the last few decades in Canada - how we got here, and how to get back onto some more useful path in terms of fighting these predators who have taken over our country a bit more effectively. There are a couple of new ideas that I haven't heard before that add, I think, some insight to what is going on today, and has been for the 'capitalist era' of the last couple of hundred years. The main point is - if you do not understand what is going on with money, and are fighting to get this fundamental power under true, informed democratic control, your efforts at 'change' are completely fruitless, throwing rocks in the dark at non-existent targets provided by the Rulers to occupy your attention and keep you away from more important things (i.e. 'the budget!!' 'tax what??' etc etc - all distractions to keep you from the central question - who controls the money, and where does it come from?). This is the **key** issue, and if there is no monetary reform, there cannot be any democratic reform - the first great banking family in Europe was reported to have as a slogan something like, Give us control of a nation's money, and we care not who makes their laws. And it remains a fact, in our modern world - whoever controls the money, controls pretty much everything else.
A new understanding of what is going on with money and 'debt' that opens the door to new and better ways of fighting for our better country Until a few hundred years ago, work and trade were conducted basically through the intermediary of some commonly accepted bartering commodity - I work on your farm, you pay me 'in kind' (a meal, place to sleep in your barn), or in gold, which I then use to buy food, shelter, whatever it will buy that is available that I want; you take your crops to the market, get paid in gold or some accepted commodity and in turn buy what you want. This is the market, that has always existed in some form in most human societies, and probably always will as long as humans are around - of course, we're always going to have predators who take things by violence, or try to, or people who think they are more clever than others and try to cheat in various ways, but most of us are basically honest, and want to give some kind of fair value for things we get, and also help in making our communities a better place to live. There are some historical exceptions, of course, in smaller more localized situations where a primitive 'communism' or other form of working together and sharing sans 'market' developed, or the (somewhat overblown in terms of importance) 'gift economies' some writers have recently tried to use as a diversion to the kind of discussion I am having here, and others have had, but in our much larger western 'civilizations', people work, either for others or themselves, and exchange the value of that work for other things they want that are available. Generally speaking, again with occasional exceptions in some circumstances, no free lunches for able-bodied adults, we have to extend labour to live, and most do it willingly, as we all, or most of us, like to feel we are 'earning our own way', while contributing to our communities, and not mooching in some way, and indeed in most cases quite happy to work to gain the many benefits of our modern technological society, and hold our heads high among our peers as an equal citizen contributing to our community. Always exceptions, of course, and in earlier pre-capitalist 'everything has a value we must get our pennies!!!' times there was a lot more openness and sharing as (the average poor) people recognized they were all in the same boat together much moreso than they do today, and wandering strangers could expect a meal for a bit of work, or at the market a 'baker's dozen' meant 13 buns rather than the modern capitalist 'baker's dozen' which is more likely to mean 10 smaller buns, but for most of us, this is the way we understand the world and our place in it, and has been for millennia. We all do different things, different kinds of work, and as the population grows and the things we have to make our lives easier or better continue to be developed there is more stuff to buy and more work to do, and we exchange our work for these things to the degree we can or want to, according to our earned (or of course sometimes borrowed) credits in the great accounting system we use to keep track of these things. And around and around and around it goes, generally getting better all the time as creative people continually build on the work of those who came before and create new technologies to make our lives easier and more interesting - very simple idea, basically. The more we work as a group, and the smarter, the better our lives, exchanging our own particular work value for other things we want in our continually getting-better-all-the-time community. Through much of history gold was the most common 'common barter exchange commodity', often in more advanced or stable communities or societies formed into coins of a specific value to make trade easier, and often other metals were used, but this does not change the fact that the gold was still a finite commodity which doubled as a common bartering exchange tool as many people wanted it and thus it was valuable. This 'common bartering exchange tool' had, of course, the great advantage of not requiring every person who wanted to work to barter individually with every person selling something they wanted - the 'common bartering exchange tool' of gold, or various other things that were occasionally used, was a convenient way of helping the ever growing markets work more efficiently. But of course there was a serious problem with gold, or any other commodity, as a basis for bartering commerce - it could be in short supply, through either a natural shortage, some natural disaster destroying a supply, somebody hoarding it, or somebody stealing it. An economy depending entirely on a supply of a commodity to function as a common barter-exchange tool to allow something bigger than a common subsistence life was thus limited and/or precarious in various ways. But one feature of we humans is that as we progress, we figure out ways around problems, and at some point in time during the 15th-16th centuries, a solution to this problem was created. As described in the films referred to above, gold artisans, who had a small (or no doubt not-so-small for some) side-business of storing gold in their vaults for others who had acquired more gold than they needed for day to day use but did not have safe places to store it, or someone doing the same kind of business, would give out pieces of paper indicating ownership of gold. And of course it was not long after that that those with this paper got the idea that they could just use this paper instead of the actual gold in return for whatever the holder of the paper wanted to buy, just as if he was using the real gold itself, which was at first just a convenient way for people to use their gold to buy things without having to cart it around in public, which of course could be a dangerous business in less lawful times. And then (we must speculate a bit, but some speculations are necessary and compelling, see a certain Mr Darwin, or a certain Mr Einstein with his 'thought experiments, or any Sherlock Holmes detective type looking at a situation, and thinking back to what must have happened to arrive at that situation), as humans less scrupulous will do when opportunity presents itself to use some new tool in some perhaps less than fully honest way to increase their own share of the wealth of their community, however that wealth is manifested, some clever and less scrupulous gold merchant realised that with that gold in the vault, and only paper being exchanged, they could create more paper claims for the gold as loans than they actually had gold in their vaults, which would give them a good profit when they loaned it out at interest, as long as they were sure the real owners would not be looking for it, which was a pretty safe bet if they had a lot of people they were saving gold for, as it was unlikely they would all come looking at the same time, and make a bit of interest on the side. Or, as their gold reserves grew and they loaned out more and more 'gold' they did not actually have, *and* charged interest on gold they did not have (!!), the interest kept making them wealthier and wealthier, a lot of interest. And this is exactly what the banks do today - loan out 'money' they do not actually have - a great deal of 'money' they do not actually have, somewhere around 95% of our entire 'money supply' is this kind of credit - and charge interest on it, making them very, very wealthy (hundreds and hundreds of billions of dollars in loans, stretched over many years at compound interest - a veritable neverending cornucopia of income... all based on credit-money created out of thin air - the greatest con in history ....{every year we have headlines like this - Canadian banks make record profits again)). There are other problems, serious problems, with this practice of loaning something you do not really have, and having the brazenness to charge interest on it as well, as we'll look at in the next chapter - but the first point is, if we are going to understand what is going on in our modern world with 'the economy' - as it has been for pretty much as long as humans have lived together in communities, wealth is power, in the hands of those who wish to turn it to such ends, and it is without doubt probably the greatest way to get wealthy to simply be able to create your own gold, or reasonable facsimile thereof people believe is gold, from thin air. And that is exactly what those gold merchants-cum-bankers were doing back in those days - creating the mythical Philosopher's Stone, the power to essentially create gold from nothing. There was much work yet to be done - but this was the beginning. And they didn't even need 'lead' to do it - just paper, and some badly misplaced human trust. And how does this fit into our situation today, the great world financial chaos, and a lot of related problems? Well, to answer that question is why we're here. And we need, again, to look somewhat deeper into history than those currently teaching it wish to. The Las Vegas casinos don't have little booths outside their doors explaining concepts like 'house always wins', and the modern bankers don't have little brochures they give you about where money comes from, and why you really should protest at what they're doing, which you might if you understood what that actually is. A long long time ago - but not that far away ...Remember where we are, back in the later 'middle ages', where the ideas of 'democracy' and 'rule by law' within that democracy were also more or less just beginning, in no real way resembling the modern versions we have of 'representative democracy', becoming the basis of society. We need to understand first that, in order to become widely accepted, this 'fiat money' system required some form of 'big government' which could establish enough trust, through the Law, for people to accept this paper, trust that it would be redeemed when they wanted to spend it after they accepted it. And never forgetting that for the average 'little' people, small businesspeople or laborers of various kinds, using this paper credit-barter-exchange-tool, that either the gold, or paper, represent somebody's work, either the farmer growing crops he sells at the market, or the labourer working for the farmer and getting paid in that gold, or some similar thing. It is one thing to turn over your week's worth of shirt-making to someone for a few pieces of gold in which you have 100% faith, to accepting a piece of paper that says some 'bank' somewhere has the gold, and will give it to you for that piece of paper. We need to keep in mind where we are historically speaking here - 16th-17th-18th century England, and Europe, and later the US, where 'democracy' might be an idea, and some of the trappings in place in early manifestations, but where the main power is still quite openly exercised by military power as controlled by warlord-kings of various types, with some considerable power over ignorant peasants still of course, in European countries, claimed by the Catholic/Christian church, and an increasing power in the hands of merchants who had accumulated wealth through various sorts of trade or other wealthy people who had obtained wealth through other means, perhaps hereditary, perhaps just looting of one type or another or other criminal activities, the source of many great fortunes whose power still is exercised in modern times, including the wealth of nations, notably for we 'westerners', the first great national fortune amassed by the Spanish and Poruguese from the massive looting of central and south America during the 16th-17th centuries (a fortune quickly lost to clever bankers), followed by the British looting of large areas of the world for a couple of hundred years, and the Americans replacing the Brits and doing their own looting of large parts of the world for the last couple of hundred (more facts as much as possible swept under the rug when it comes to public understanding of who is running what and why and how in our 'democracies'). And these wealthy non-hereditary monarchical powers were starting to use the developing democratic institutions as their own power base to counter the power of military hereditary 'lords and nobles' rule, supporting popular movements in their attempts to put some further limits on omnipotent-as-much-as-possible god-kings who established their own 'rights' by simple physical violence. So the struggle for 'democratic power' in the immediate precursor to our own times was not really between 'we the people' and hereditary warlords, as they like to make us believe in their 'winners write 'em and winners have things they'd rather the people they rule don't know or understand' 'managed' history books, but between two powerful factions, both of whom were content to keep the mass of citizens in some form of ignorance and peasantry and toiling endlessly for their daily bread, as most wealth is based on human labour in one way or another, and the individual, whether monarch or pope or business tycoon, becomes wealthy by appropriating (aka stealing) as much of that wealth as possible from those who do the work to create it to their personal control. And we need to understand the limitations, at the time, of this first incarnation of 'paper money' - obviously, a piece of paper has or had no intrinsic value recognized widely, unlike the gold coins of various sorts which were widely accepted that the paper could be exchanged for, so for one person to use this paper to buy things, the receiver or acceptor of the paper, especially average peasants or labourers who would have little recourse with their 'superiors' if the paper proved valueless, had to have considerable trust in both the person using the paper, and the merchant who promised to redeem that paper for the real commodity, the gold, upon demand. A trust which, in the early days, would not be widespread but, during the period we are talking about, the 17th and 18th centuries, the populations are growing, the overall tangible wealth of the kingdoms-beginning democracies is increasing, in terms of infrastructure and ever increasing quantity and usefulness of goods and services available with new inventions for those able to afford them, and it is also a time when 'rule by law' rather than warlord whim is increasingly being demanded by the people, and, slowly in cases, being implemented in entire countries - often more notable in its expectation than its enforcement in these early days, certainly, but nonetheless the idea of widespread safety and rule by law - including perhaps mainly the growing demand of the increasingly wealthy merchant-business class for 'rule of law' rather than 'rule by warlord whim' - was becoming more and more expected, and thus the potential of this paper money and its many advantages over a commodity-based system such as gold to become more widely trusted and accepted growing also. (and also, the 'mid-level' capitalist entrepreneurs of the time, very largely honest and willing to work very hard to build both their business and country, absolutely required an honest money-exchange system, and these businessmen were undoubtedly a strong influence for 'good' during these times - the British empire did not develop only from looting that enriched the rulers, but from leading the world in many innovations during this time, and their businesses depending on reliable postal and transportation and legal systems, all of which further depended on a reliable banking system ... and yes, the brutalities of the times, as written about by Dickens and others, were the other side of the coin, but we must recognize the better side as well, as forming the basis, really, of the better things in the world we have today - they were building powerful tools, and as I have often noted, tools can be used for good or evil, and these tools were quickly seen for their power potential and taken over by those who would be predator rulers, and we have been under their rule ever since.) And as the idea of rule by law rather than 'nobility whim' became more desired by the people and entrenched through the idea of 'democracy', the area in which a well-known gold merchant's paper money would be regarded as trustworthy also became larger, and thus the wealth, and thus power and influence, of the gold merchants, or bankers as they began calling themselves, became greater also, as the amount of paper they could issue pretending to be but not actually backed by gold increased in proportion to everything else. And, of course, the businesspeople, small and large, who, as time passed, would turn to using this money with more and more trust, from their greater understanding of the bigger picture, and would in turn slowly be requiring the people who worked for them to use it too, although those at the bottom of the feeding chain, in the peasant lack of worldliness, would naturally be somewhat reluctant to accept some piece of paper as payment for their work, knowing only too well how wantonly those higher in society stole from them. But eventually, over time, the paper money came to be widely accepted, and finally, as today, accepted as the only real currency in all of our 'developed' countries. We need to recognize a couple of very important things about these beginnings of what we now refer to as 'fiat money':
(one should be careful to think clearly here, and not go leaping off into pre-existing wild libertarian tangents about something we will get into in more detail anon - the idea of 'fiat money' (actually more correctly called 'credit', a different idea and fundamental meaning) is not of itself fraudulent, or bad, as long as those using it understand where it originates (a simple kind of credit-exchange system as a way of accounting for some kind of work that has value to others), and its 'trust' basis, and nobody is profiting from 'creating' the 'credit' unfairly - if a democratic government, for example, manages such a system for the benefit of all citizens, and the credit, and credit creation, are managed in an impartial and non-inflationary way and issued, or created, 'interest' and debt-free when needed for normal growth and development and needs, that is fine - we will look more at this later. But when a private cartel, interested only in its own maximization of power, creates loans on the basis of pretend gold it does not actually possess, and charges interest on such loans, and also of course manages the credit system for its own (class) power and expropriation of wealth created by the working classes - that is very obviously not 'democratic', and most people would term it criminal fraud as well. As I said, we will look at this in a bit more detail later, but for now it is important to be aware of this distinction, as there are a lot of bad and misinformed ideas floating around out there about 'fiat money' (and much else).)
And so around and up the spiral goes - a budding businessman no longer has to find investors to provide him with actual loans of real gold or other accumulated treasure to pay to get a business started, all he needs to do is convince one of these merchant-bankers that he has a good idea, and if the banker agrees, and lends him some of this paper money - or simply credits his bank account with the amount of credit needed - to pay workers and buy supplies, he can start a (hopefully) profitable business from which he will pay back the loan - with interest of course.
There is of course much further exploration required to illuminate such issues more thoroughly, but such details are for larger works than this simple volume - I simply wish to make the point that in these early days, with various forces struggling for a share of power, and the very idea of 'democracy' still in its nascent stages, when this new idea of 'paper money pretending to be exchangeable for gold' came along, that would eventually become our current 'omnipotent power' 'fiat money' system, there was no real question of a government controlling it, as neither 'democracy' nor this 'paper money' were yet recognized as the great powers they would become, and the paper money was, at the time, in its beginnings, nothing more than a small adjustment or enhancement to the gold-based common-bartering-commodity-tool bartering system in place at the time, and completely managed and controlled by those who had the gold to guarantee the paper notes (fraudulent issuing of such notes aside), which the government did not have. And such would remain the case as the years and centuries unfolded - the idea of a 'democratic government', with quite limited power in reality, stepping into the shoes of the very wealthy and powerful gold merchants-cum-'bankers' and assuming the power to control this gold, or paper, 'money' would be discouraged as much as possible by those who controlled this money, and as the years and centuries rolled by, the idea simply became ingrained, and the way this credit was created and used never challenged.
And it was also a new type of pretender to the throne - when wealth was based on treasure, it was those with the greatest strength who tended to accumulate the treasure through looting and being strong enough to defend the 'fruits of their labours' - but as 'wealth' became more and more defined by 'bank accounts' - the power also shifted, to the new merchant banking class who were slowly establishing this new form of 'money' as the power of the land. But of course predators would not survive long if they gave up at the first sign of opposition, and the successful ones learn to quickly adapt to new modes of conflict and power, and the fight to control this new form of money-aka-power would be long and fierce. And so the embodiment and beginning of the new wealth, paper money, began, and over the next few hundred years was to grow, as private gold artisans-cum-merchants found their sub-business much more lucrative than their original business, and started calling themselves banks and issuing 'official' bank notes, all supposedly redeemable in gold but, as with the paper notes of their forebears the gold merchants, inevitably being produced in greater numbers than there was gold to redeem them, which, we should note, was, although certainly fraudulent for the banks to do, but on the other hand, as long as the issuers of such paper retained some semblance of sanity, and the supply of goods and services available in the country of the notes kept pace and remained adequate so that those working to produce the goods and services, and being paid in these bank notes, remained reasonably satisfied with what their 'money' would get them in the local market, and the overall performance of their economy, the paper money provided a way of managing an economy not requiring actual gold to mediate as a 'commonly accepted bartering commodity' or limiting the amount of economic activity a community could engage in, and thus allowed the economy, and community, and country, to grow at whatever rate those doing the work and building the infrastructure could grow them.
There are various ideas about where the word 'capital' and its derivatives originated, but there's no doubt that these great early enterprises based on the things made possible and manifest during the industrial revolution working with the scientific advances of the Renaissance, fueled by bank-created credit-aka-'gold', were the basis of the original capitalist fortunes.
History records that the money changers have used every form of abuse, intrigue, deceit, and violent means possible to maintain their control over governments by controlling the money and its issuance. - James Madison Unfortunately, (at least for 'we the people', of course) as is well documented in Bill Still's films, and in other places, the bankers eventually won, and by the 1920s had full control of the American money system with the 'enshrinement' of their power with the very fraudulently named Federal Reserve Act of 1914, and went a little crazy with their money creation for speculation rather than honest investment, as people are wont to do when they have won some significant victory, and not many years of speculation-fueled money-credit creation later their exuberance raced them off a cliff as they caused the still infamous 'crash of 29 (as indeed, to jump ahead for a minute, they did for much of the 1990s and early 2000s after their most recent victory in the 1970s in regaining control of the national money-credit systems with the same results of vastly over-creating credit for speculation, the global financial meltdown). During the 1930s, with the tens of millions of 'normal' Americans, and Canadians, very unhappy at what capitalism had wrought (as there was still a strong and public resistance to the excesses of great wealth and its treatment of average workers back in those days, clearly identified as 'capitalism vs the people', and a strong movement fighting for some form of real democracy rather than the moneyed aristocracy who still expected to really run the country, and generally did - more talk on this history we are *not* taught later), began demanding some serious changes to the banking system, clearly telling those running the place there were limits to the amount of corruption and abuse that would be accepted during the fight for democracy without more violent revolt, and Roosevelt pacified them with his 'New Deal' (Conrad Black's well-known quote that with the New Deal, Roosevelt saved capitalism from itself), with some quite serious regulations on the banking industry, and in Canada Prime Ministers Borden and then King created the Bank of Canada, with its control by the government and power to issue credit, as previously only private banks had been doing. And then of course was the second world war, and following the war, the struggle for control of the issuance of credit-money remained on the backburner out of the public eye where it had been relegated during the war years, aided by the fact that for the next 20-25 years, constrained by the regulations put in place during the 30s, and finding ample opportunity for profitable growth through the rebuilding of Europe and providing the American mass market with new consumer goods as the war machine was redirected into such things, the banks themselves were behaving somewhat more responsibly than they had during the years leading to the big crash, and not abusing their power as they had during the 20s, and also, in Canada, the Bank of Canada was used intelligently by politicians at least considering the best interests of the people they were elected to represent as they undertook great post-war infrastructure development and social programs largely using the Bank of Canada wisely for the development of the country, again from the end of the war through the late 60s and early 70s, with no sign of any terrible 'national debt' (described well by Bill Abram in this vid).. which is where the story ends for now, to be finished in the Corporate Reactionary Revolution a bit later on.
- as always, as noted in the last chapter, always remember who is writing the history books, and controlling the media that tells you about what's going on today - the people who are benefiting from this system. Who of course want to maintain it, as it is an absolutely *great* system for them, a kind of endless cash cow transferring the great wealth we produce together to their control, with no fuss and bother from the people being so conned. If they told you the truth about what had been happening the last 30 years, and how they've been pulling a typical con trick of keeping the mark happy until they're long gone into the sunset, you might have a bit more concern. You won't, for example, find things like this around the corporate propaganda media - The 'good banks' myth, by Murray Dobbin (Dobbin has a lot of other things to say about things you won't hear on the CBC - one of many true Canadian public intellectuals barred from the capitalist notion of 'public debate', which is very much a totalitarian kind of idea - you will hear what we want you to hear, and you better believe it too, if you don't want some attention from people you probably don't want attention from - Murray Dobbin's Blog) So let's have a quick look then before we move on about why things are a bit less great (sarcasm again, actually, a *whole fucking lot!!* less great) than they've all been leading you to believe. It's quite important, really, so important you're absolutely sure NEVER to have heard it at school, or talked about on the CBC or read it in whatever you daily newspaper is. We better start a new chapter to talk about what is actually wrong with having the 'new capitalists' controlling our money, our country, our world, our souls.


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France's former first lady says she and the president had grown detached recently but she was caught totally by surprise by his affair with an actress.
Valerie Trierweiler gave interviews to two French publications coming out this week describing for the first time some of what led to their break-up last weekend.
Trierweiler told the weekly Paris-Match, where she long worked as a journalist, that she didn't believe rumours about the affair until a gossip magazine report earlier this month.
"When I found out, it was like I had fallen from a skyscraper," she is quoted as saying.
She told the weekly Le Parisien Magazine that she and the president exchanged text messages while she was in India this week because he was worried about her health.
French president Francois Hollande had on Saturday told AFP he has split with his longstanding partner Valerie Trierweiler after his affair with an actress nearly 20 years his junior.
Trierweiler, 48, had checked into hospital after allegedly taking "a pill too many" to cope with shock revelations of Hollande's secret visits to film star Julie Gayet, 41.


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text: Print Email Facebook Twitter Strategic Stand Planning With Selection Of New Flights To Optimize Hub Connections Title Strategic Stand Planning With Selection Of New Flights To Optimize Hub Connections Author Pinho Ferreira, João (TU Delft Aerospace Engineering) Contributor Snellen, M. (mentor) Roling, P.C. (mentor) Bombelli, A. (mentor) Földes, G.I. (mentor) Verhees, M. (mentor) Degree granting institution Delft University of Technology Programme Aerospace Engineering Date 2021-04-16 Abstract For a hub airport, capturing transfer passengers and offering better connections are key elements that largely influence its future growth and profitability. This research aims to develop a strategic stand planning model capable of selecting profitable turnarounds that will expand the network of a hub, integrating those turnarounds into the pre-existing schedule and efficiently capturing transfer passengers. The model includes 2 main goals, namely i) the maximization of the number of captured transfer passengers and the ii) minimization of connection times, which are integrated with 2 other objectives, iii) the minimization of unassigned turnarounds and iv) the minimization of tow moves. The 4 objectives are solved hierarchically in the order: iii)-i)-ii)-iv). In an attempt to tackle the inherent complexity of models that include transfer passengers, the problem is split into two less complex levels. One solves the multi-objective function and the other delivers a specific stand assignment. This approach significantly reduced the computational load for large input sets. The results show that an efficient stand planning can maximize the transfer passenger throughput by up to 38.66\% and reduce the average connection by 17.86\%. It was also possible to conclude that objectives i) and ii) conflict with each other. Further results confirmed that the time slot to which each new turnaround is allocated is the best slot for the airport, but it is not necessarily the most profitable for the airlines. This research could lead to the development of tools used by rapidly expanding airports to assess the connection potential of new routes. It can also be utilized by busy airports to optimize the current schedule and to make important time slot decisions. Subject OptimizationTransfer PassengersStand Allocation ProblemHub ConnectionsConnection Times To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:4cdd37b5-65d1-402e-b40d-653469f7e788 Part of collection Student theses Document type master thesis Rights © 2021 João Pinho Ferreira Files PDF Thesis_Report_Jo_o.pdf 7.31 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:4cdd37b5-65d1-402e-b40d-653469f7e788/datastream/OBJ/view


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I recently heard that Vadodara, the cultural center of Gujarat, is a popular weekend getaway for Indian and foreign tourists. It is the ideal fusion of historical sites, hill towns, and wildlife sanctuaries. Additionally, the tourist destinations close to Vadodara are considered the top destinations for leisure and adventure seekers. But even though it was not far away, I had never had the good fortune to experience Vadodara's majesty.
So, after much thought and consideration, this last weekend, I decided to go on a solo trip to Gujarat's cultural center, which draws millions of tourists each year. Then, I needed to find out where the idea of saving money came from, possibly since it was about time for my paycheck. I didn't waste any more time and left Ahmedabad for Vadodara to experience its splendor. And after spending two and a half hours traveling, I eventually arrived at my destination.
At Vadodara
Seeing the famous street food sev usal of this place whetted my appetite. That's why I thought it was more important to taste it before going to the hotel—spicy gravy and soft pav, along with onion and lemon, which were very tasty.
I plan to explore the area as soon as I finish getting ready at the hotel. But I needed to gain more familiarity with the areas' routes and places. I used common sense and looked up Car on Rent in Vadodara. But I was surprised by the fact that I got it very quickly.
Most stunning architecture
Now, my initial instinct was to go to Laxmi Vilas Palace. In 1890, the massive Lakshmi Vilas Palace was finally finished after nearly twelve years of construction. (Diazepam) Considering that it is one of India's most luxurious palaces, the enormous private mansion ever constructed, and four times larger than London's Buckingham Palace. I was genuinely amazed by the palace's beauty when I entered it after paying the Rs 150 entrance fee.
This palace, created in the Indo-Saracenic architectural style, was magnificent historical art. While returning there, I couldn't stop thinking about the palace's exquisite design and elegance. Since it was night, I thought of something other than exploring this place.
Next day
My next destination was the Vadodara Museum and Picture Gallery. Because a beautiful example of a British architect in India can hardly be better than this. It has been designed on the lines of the Science Museum in London and the Victoria and Albert Museum. It also has some rare personal collections of Maharaja Sayajirao III. I entered by paying only a 10 rupees entry fee to see which. The museum houses a vast collection ranging from Mughal miniatures to sculptures, textiles, and objects from Japan, Tibet, Nepal, and Egypt. I spent hours here because of the serene environment and unique artwork from other countries.
Visiting Vadodara requires shopping in the local specialty market. Because handicrafts, embroidered mirrors, and beaded work goods are famous there, I purchased some decorative items there. Since I had to return to work the following day, I planned to leave early. I thought it more appropriate to take a cab, and when I searched Vadodara to ahmedabad Cabs, I was surprised to know they were available at very affordable prices.
The final take
Vadodara has so many lovely things that it can be tough to see all in just two days. I decided to go home and visit the remaining locations later. If you choose to visit, give yourself enough time to look around the entire area because there is a lot to amaze you.


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Bikini Bottom Pet Show
The Bikini Bottom Pet Show is a event that only takes place in the episode: Grooming Gary. This is organized by the "Bikini Bottom Kennel Club", Owners bring their pets, mostly snails and worms, to compete against one another. The one with the best pet gets a trophy. The judge looks at the snails and worms to see if it is good enough to have a chance of winning, like the "Esil stocking", "hen jackson", "Excellent bow stretch", "Eyelid capalberries", "digestive chamber", and the "check the under carrige".
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- It was revealed at the end of the episode that most pets don't like the pet show
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Patrick | SpongeBob | 1# Place |
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Are vaccines safe? TTiV viewer Teena ReNay Ferguson-Plona says vaccines made her once bright, smiling, bubbly child autistic. And she's not alone.
SPECIAL TO THE TRUTH IS VIRAL BY Teena ReNay Ferguson-Plona
I have to vent a little bit. Most of you know I have a severely Autistic, severely developmentally delayed, nonverbal son who also has mild seizures. He was disabled by vaccines, I now know. I get so tired of hearing friends, family, parents of Autistic children and pharmaceutical shills tell me that 'I want someone to blame for my son's disability. It is really my messed up genes. It's genetic."
I have already paid tens of thousands of dollars doing genetic testing on several occasions when Zach was 2-3 years old. And his genetic tests came back normal with no disorders associated with Autism. It would be easier to believe that "God created my son Zach to be Autistic", but I know that is not the truth. God created us all to be special because we are made in His image. The truth is much harder to live with. I hold myself partially responsible because I caved in to the guilting of vaccinating my baby "to keep him safe."
Newborn Zachary |
I questioned the Drs about the vaccines and was told it was a coincidence. "These things happen all the time to preemie babies in the NICU." I was reminded the vaccines would not be on the market If they weren't safe. I was told how much more education and degrees they had than me. How dare me question them, the authorities? I was bullied and blinded by all of their degrees and education. So I continued vaccinating my baby.
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Although my son never met one milestone on time, he finally was starting to babble at 11 months old. He received his MMR vaccine at 12 1/2 months old and never babbled again. Zach would no longer look me in the eyes. The Drs were whispering at 18 months old he was Autistic but did not diagnose it until he turned 2 years old. I have cried every night since he was 12 1/2 months old. I had panic attacks just thinking about his diagnosis. I couldn't even talk about my son's condition without crying. I have lived with the guilt of being so ignorant, not following my gut feeling about vaccines and each time something would happen after them.
Zack No Longer Smiles As He Did As An Infant |
I have not slept much in 9 years because Zach never sleeps.
I almost lost my son when he was 6 years old because he was prescribed a Schizophrenic antipsychotic drug called Abilify. He became psychotic and aggressive, requiring help from 911 and an 8 day hospital stay. He was punching himself in the face and head thousands of times, trying to bite his fingers and the end of his tongue off, biting his arms and hands, biting, hitting and kicking me when I tried to keep him from hurting himself.
It took him a year to recover and he lost everything he had learned at school. Once you are in the system, you cannot get out. The hospital threatened my parental rights for not allowing them to send my 6 year old nonverbal child to a psychiatric hospital hundreds of miles away without me. I was afraid he might be abused, molested or killed there.
The hospital called Child Protective Services with false allegations that I abandoned my child at the hospital for 8 days. In reality, I drove 40 miles one way to the hospital from my home back and forth multiple times per day by myself. I had inside dogs that had to go outside to potty and be fed. I wish someone had warned me over 10 years ago about the dangers of vaccines. Zach's life and mine would be so much better.
I would give my life for Zach to be healed and well and be a normal 10 year old boy having fun. I have become the best advocate that I can for my son. I am his voice since he cannot speak. And I will continue to tell his story for the rest of my life. I owe that to Zach for mistakes I made in the past. I will forever regret vaccinating my son.