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- I used a packet mix for convenience and because I knew it would stay fresh if made the night before I was ready to decorate the cupcakes.
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- I fill these cupcakes almost to the top so they mushroom over the edge like a muffin.
- There are exactly 3 green Lifesavers per packet, so you would need 4 packets so that all 12 cupcakes have green irises. Unfortunately, you would have a lot of leftovers of other colours.
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I hate for my first post here to be pessimistic but saw from another forum that the translation progress of SC was only about 20% done ?
Im not asking for a figure but if the 20% is true then we we might have to wait till Mid-2013 for it to come out
I hate for my first post here to be pessimistic but saw from another forum that the translation progress of SC was only about 20% done ?
Im not asking for a figure but if the 20% is true then we we might have to wait till Mid-2013 for it to come out
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We've actually never released any indication as to our progress percentage thus far, and until the project is close enough to complete that we're able to estimate a release window, we feel it would be best not to give out false hopes like that. As I mentioned in another topic, we could be 80% done, but that last 20% might be a lot more difficult to work with, or we might be swamped with other projects, causing it to take as long as the first 80% to finish. Conversely, we could be 20% done but manage to bang through the remaining 80% in no time at all due to a lull in our release schedule (which I'll tell you right now is not the case! Heheheh).
Either way, the 20% figure you heard was completely fabricated by someone. It did not come from us -- in actuality, I couldn't even give you a percentage if I wanted to, as we're basically focusing on the work in front of us, without looking ahead at the mountains of work that still remain, if only for the sake of our own sanity. It would be like standing on a ledge 100 stories up, and deciding to look down. It's just not advisable, you know?
Yes i think so too. I know I shouldn't be believe random figures on the internetz but atm I'm kinda obsessed with series so I'm taking everything that's thrown at me.
It was from siliconera on the articles about zero for vita in the comments section.
http://www.siliconera.com/2012/04/27...#disqus_thread - Well not really a forum but you get the point
Yeah, I'm with floofy here on this one, they go on about 20% BS without any evidence whatsoever and XSeed doesn't give out how far they are as I already asked.
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Looking at that comment which according to disqus was posted 14 hours ago. Tom's percentage scenario was posted on 04-25-2012 PST.
A possible reason is that he could have seen Tom's post and from that make the 20% deduction due to confusion.
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Yeah, I suppose I should've phrased that a bit better. My intent, of course, was to create a hypothetical situation in which to explain why we've elected NOT to give percentages... but especially since we have so many fans who aren't native speakers of English, I really need to start being a bit more clear in my statements, I think.
I didn't have any trouble understanding your original post. The comment guy probably didn't take the time to read your scenario properly.
Some people on NeoGAF are saying they're prepared to fan translate SC/3rd if XSeed fails to get them out. That's reassuring.


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How do you balance your daily routine with kids and exercise?
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Once you become a mom, life can quickly become too busy and hectic to keep up all your old habits, and exercise is often one of the first things to go. What works for you to make sure that exercise still makes it into your schedule regularly?
Lol. I'm the nana of a beautiful baby girl and from day 1 she loved for me to rock her to sleep.
Well I would sit on the side of the bed and rock her using only my stomach muscles and believe
Me after 24 years and having 4 kids, I had some baby fat that had never gone away.
Well after rocking my g-daughter for a few months it was all gone plus a lot more and I had toned up so many muscles that I never even new I had to start with.
My daughter is about to have her second baby and I intend to keep up the tradition with this lil guy, yes this one is a boy. Yay!!!
Danta - commented on Feb 9, 2012
Correction to my statement above: I am now 50 years old not 24 years old my daughter was 24 when she had my granddaughter lol
I try to dance with my toddler everyday. She us so use to dancing with me that she demands it now. I get worn out way before she does!
I set my alarm before my two girls wake up. That way I can get in my workout before they wake up. I may be tired, but it helps me be mentally prepared for the day!
I exercise with a friend on the days my husband has off of work. That way I get to use the car and leave the baby with Dad and get some much needed me time. Also having a friend with me helps motivate me and makes me accountable for my commitment to exercise.
I'm lucky to have a gym downstairs and every time my baby takes his nap , I do my weight training/workout (6X a week) Its an important sacrifice. I work for our company, manage the finances,HOA, do all the home cleaning, cooking, repairs etc and am on baby and big brother duty 24/7 so nap time is the only time it works. I think the first step is to make it a priority in your mind and you will find an appropriate time/schedule.
I set the alarm for 4:00 am. Sometimes it works, other time not so much but getting the exercise in during the morning ensures nothing derails my efforts. Sometimes I get out of bed closer to 5:00 and if my three-year-old daughter wakes up, she knows where I am. She can be a terrific cheerleader and sometimes even a coach to get moving quicker! Lots of time, she joins in! We also have a YogaKids DVD that we do together; Angelina Ballerina episodes from the library that we get up and dance along with; and just recently I found Pop It!, a kids Hip Hop DVD that we follow -- her much better than me! While getting in the "formal" workout is becoming more of a priority for me again, I don't discount all the fun ways I am moving with my daughter ... every little bit makes a difference!
Exercise can be as simple as walking your child to daycare or school or to your local shops. 30 minutes is all you need to do. I walk with 3 kids, the youngest in baby bjorn, 15 month old in the pram and the 3.5 yr old will either walk or go on the double pram. Also if you can get to any mum's and bub's classes I did yoga once a week this way.
I put on my workout clothes when I wake up and keep them on all day. This way when I see an opportunity to get out the door and go to the gym I'm ready to go. It also helps that the gym I attend has a nursery included in the price (I pay $20 a month for the membership). My son loves the nursery. Sometimes I workout for over an hour and when I'm done he doesn't want to leave. We've been doing that since he was 5 months old and it helps me keep my sanity to have one hour for myself everyday.
I take time out three days per week to run on our treadmill after I put my boys to bed at night. I run for thirty minutes (about three miles) while I watch my favorite television show. Making time for exercise helps me feel better about my body. Even though I may be tired, the shower afterwards followed by a chapter of a good book usually gets me nice and sleepy.
Also, I walk my son to and from school (about a mile total for me) on days that are nice out so that we both get exercise together. It's a nice way to have alone time with my son and talk about our days while at the same time getting moving! When it's still light outside after dinner, we also like to go for walks or bike rides. That's mostly in the summer/fall though.
There are a thousand different ways to exercise. You can use a picnic bench to do leg lifts, tricep dips, pushups, sit ups, etc. While your kids are in the sandbox, you can do jumping jacks with the other moms. You can do calf raises while standing in line. Pushing a stroller fast is great exercise so walk as much as possible with your kids. Also, have a Pilates DVD and elastic band for days when you can't get out. Walk with friends to lunch instead of driving. Instead of coffee or lunch with friends, I always suggest a walk as it provides just as much conversation and they always feel better afterwards. Plus it's free so no one has to pay, even for a health center visit.
I Get my gym gear on with a black bag underneath to make me sweat more and go power walking with my 1 year old in her pram, which makes it even more off a workout, i walk for an hour or so and come home to a shower and i am motivated to get on with housework and the rest!
Linda - commented on Feb 15, 2012
Good and wonderfull idea!
I found that dancing to my son's favorite videos really helped me stay in shape..it also helped with the baby blues and it kept me in great shape....I didn't realize what a world of good it did for me until I stopped...this dancing was done almost 3 days a week half an hour per day. Exercise doesn't have to routine or hum drum...just keep your body moving and please try to watch what you eat.
I love The Firm Express and Brazil Butt Lift. Those w/o's are less than 30 minutes and very effective. I try to do 1st thing in morning. I have been enjoying Cross Fit.
Jenny - commented on Feb 2, 2012
I just started FIRM express workouts today! Next, clean up my diet a bit.
ive had my children on an 8:00 bedtimes schedule since they were babies. they go to bed, every night, at 8PM without fail. I work out after they go to bed.
Maggie - commented on Feb 28, 2012
Thankyou I did not think about that but it was helpful,
I go to Curves, it only takes 30 minutes, I only have to go 3 times a week, and they are open on Sat. morning so my hubby can watch the baby. They also stay open till 7 in the evening so I can go after work/dinner.
I make time by going at 6:30am or at 8pm before and after my mom duties :) sometimes I'm lucky if my husband goes to work late i go after I drop my older son off at school while my husband watches the little ones, but you have to WANT to go especially if you have to go at 6:30am!! :)
With working full time that leaves little time to workout. However there is a gym at my office so I workout during lunch breaks two days a week and then one weekend day at home with a workout video. At the begging of the week I look at my schedule and block off the two days that week that I want to work out at lunch so that no meetings get scheduled.
The jogging stroller is my friend. We have themes for different days. On the weekends, my two girls take naps. I can usually go longer then and they get the sleep they need. We also get creative with the routes so, I will run a couple of miles to a park where they have play time, and then if the timing is right, they nap on the ride home, and I get a few minutes to myself upon our return. We also live near some rural property where folks raise goats, so we take a field trip to feed the goats. During Christmas, we would go look at Christmas lights after work and have a sleigh ride. It just depends.
Julie - commented on Feb 27, 2012
Jogging stroller was my friends too! Loved that thing, until they got too big. Now they bike the trail I use to push them in the jogger on...time flys! Enjoy!!
I'm a homeschooling mom of 8 with a writing and speaking schedule on the side. It's crazy, but without regular exercise I know I wouldn't cope as well. Mothering (especially little ones) can be a physically demanding job and if you want to have the energy to do what's on your plate, you need to find time to move. Start by pushing a stroller down the street!
Don't talk about exercise, I only manage to start running again when my girl is 3 year old!
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I totally understand what your saying it is a huge adjustment to motherhood but such a great one when you get the hang of it. I wasn't able to resume my exercise routine till 3 months after my son was born. He's now 4 and a half months and now that he's more settled and has more of a regular sleeping pattern during the day I will take him for a walk in the pram when he's just fallen asleep so I can walk around the block for 30 mins 3 to 4 times a week and then when i come back I will do some situps and the house work. That's how I manage my schedule most of the time.
I have many different ways to excercise or attempt to with my 5 month old. Sometimes I throw in that 30 day shred 20 minute video right when he wakes up (8amish) and let him sit in his bouncer or jungle gym, I try to keep talking to him so he stays calm, he likes to just talk to himself sometimes though, or his toys. Otherwise, I always try to do a video or go for a jog with the stroller with a friend after he has napped and been fed, works most days, and i can get about 20 minutes at a time, so sometimes when i've felt i've eaten alot, I repeat a few times. Sometimes i'll put him in the baby carrier and just do simple non cardio workouts when he gets fussy, or put him on my stomach or whatnot while i do crunches( and his airplanes), definately feel that in my arms. Also if I don't have time i'll do skaters, or real weird dancing, or running and saying peekaboo, or whiiisshhh, he starts cracking up, so we get a little bonding and workout at the same time. I also have a stepdaughter, so when she visits, we take walks, or short little 'races' for goofiness, of kinect games on the xbox 360, you name it, I try to bring out the kid in me, while helping her be a kid too. PS, splashing in puddles in slipperry sandals is alot of work!=)
Buy home equipment such as a pilates machine works great and do early before child wakes up. When old enough join a gym that has child care and make that "you" time.
I either go to the gym with a friend or I just leave for my destination earlier and ride my bicycle or walk. I howerver, have kids that are old enough to leave alone, if I leave for several hours, my 17 y/o stays with my 9 y/o
I try to get in my exercise before the kids are up or while they are in school, but sometimes that doesn't work and then I go to my "mommy workout" plan - exercising while I'm waiting for them at their activities - running on the track while they are at swim practice, hitting tennis balls during their basketball practice, running around the neighborhood during play rehearsal.
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How can I fit time in to exercise I watch my grandaughter, and my nephew,need some feedback on how to make time my grandaughter is 13 months and nephew 4yrs oid suggestion please.
By making exercise a priority is how I make the time. Knowing that I am" leading by example "for my children also helps me make it a priority. Reminding myself how much better I feel, and how much easier I am to live with when I exercise is yet another way.
People can tell you "WHAT to do" but it has to start from "WITHIN" Once you make it a priority in your MIND, the body will follow...
It should be the first thing you do in the morning, I recommend 4 days a week. Everyday is to much stress on yourself. If you don't "have time" Drop 10 push ups randomly anywhere through out the day 5X and you've done 50! Same with Crunches, drop 20 5X a day and you've done 100. 120 squats can take under 2 minutes...30 jumping jacks, walking the stairs. IT all adds up. I bought an aerobic step and put it in front of my TV, I just go up and down while watching my shows. No excuses, make it happen and have fun!
Sometimes I get the kids involved. My kids are grown now so it is the grandchildren, but they love to get down on the floor with you and so what you do or show you a thing or two!
I have found that bringing the kids is an easy way to get exercise. I wasn't always great about this, but realized after going to a gym for a while with a friend that a little bit goes a long way! For me (and most moms I know ) the easiest and most effective workouts are those we can do regularly. Walking, dancing and finding ways to use/bring the littlest ones helps. Instead of doing a push-up you might lift baby over your head. Also, there are now dvd's that tell you ways to include the kids. Yoga is a great one to do with children because it teaches more than just exercise. There is also the mind/body connection. Days when I had my son home we would do yoga kids or he would try to follow along with me. Lots of fun and so beneficial!
I do mat exercise 30 mins. 4-5 times a week or depend on my schedule. I also do walking and cleaning the house regularly. Watching my diet. I always put on my mind in every thing I do is for my family, myself and to God.
I exercise at night , well stretch at night before i lay down and i feel much better when im done.
Baby Bar and I have been doing a ton of mommy and me yoga. It helps our minds, bodies, and spirits. It's help combat everything from baby blues to colic. Yoga opens our bodies and hearts and we're so grateful for it!
On days that we can't find a mommy and me we do our best to walk. Often she's in the carrier to give me a boost and her a chance for a nice long nap and occasionally we bring the stroller (which always winds up full of groceries or the day's errands while she hangs in her wrap).
i take my daughter to the gym with me they have great childcare... it gives me time to myself and to keep fit plus knowing my daughter is not to far away from me but is also having fun with other children.
I love working out, and honestly couldn't keep up with my kids if I didn't stay in shape. Because it is sometimes difficult to find a sitter to watch them if I want to take a class in the afternoons, I have started taking 5:30 a.m. classes. It sucks to get up that early to work out, but it feels GREAT to have my workout in by 6:30 in the morning!
After I drop off my 5 year old at school, the wins and I go to the gym. They have daycare and they love it. I exercise and get some me time while they play and have fun. I LOVE IT!
I work it in whenever I can. Often this means I don't start until after all the kids are in bed. I wish mornings were more workable, but with 4 kids running around, weekday mornings are often too hectic!


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Sárba tiport Orfeusz (Orpheus Stomped in Dirt)
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Cost of Bin Laden Deception: US$3 Trillion
As we mark Osama bin Laden's death, what's striking is how much he cost our nation--and how little we've gained from our fight against him. By conservative estimates, bin Laden cost the United States at least $3 trillion over the past 15 years, counting the disruptions he wrought on the domestic economy, the wars and heightened security triggered by the terrorist attacks he engineered, and the direct efforts to hunt him down. – The Atlantic
Dominant Social Theme: Was it worth it? Not particularly? We need a more effective way to pursue the war on terror.
Free-Market Analysis: The Atlantic Magazine has published a remarkable article totaling up the cost of fighting bin Laden and pursuing the war on terror. Total dollars: US$3 trillion. Given the perilous state of Western finance, this amount of money reveals not the West's determination to fight for its rapidly vanishing "freedoms" but the utter contempt in which the Anglosphere's great banking families hold Western solvency.
It is far more important to pursue an illusory foe in an apparently made-up war than to create a prosperous civil society. The real war, evidently and obviously, is between the West's middle classes (now suffering through the agonies of austerity) and the Anglo-American banking elites. But lest we sound too extreme (is this a real danger?) let us hasten to explain one more time the genesis of the war on terror, the creation of bin Laden and why the US$3 trillion sums up in hard dollars the contempt of Anglosphere elites for the Western masses that they purport to lead.
It is an important exercise in our view given the blanket coverage (around the world) of bin Laden's supposed death. We must begin long ago with the Soviet Union and its invasion of Afghanistan. But let us go back even further and remind our viewers and prescient feedbackers that even the USSR was in part a creation of Anglosphere elites which protected Red Communist leaders and funded their victory over the White Russians. In other words the Soviet Union was a creation at least partially of the Anglosphere elites. Keep that in mind.
Now fast forward to the somewhat inexplicable decision of the Russians to invade Afghanistan and the West's subsequent decision to encourage a local insurgency to fight against the USSR's invasion. To this end, the CIA and other Western intel forces created and funded a local group of Middle Eastern fighters that after the war were to be re-identified as "Al Qaeda," also known as the "foundation" (Arabic translation) and sometimes referred to as "the list." Not only did the CIA help fund and train this group, it also apparently helped ensure that Osama bin Laden – the scion of a wealthy Saudi construction family with close ties to the Bush family – would gain leadership of the group, supposedly because of the great fortune of US$300 million he had inherited from his family.
Osama, who apparently toured the US in the 1990s as a CIA asset known as Tim Osman, was formally identified as the head of this radical Islamic faction (Al Qaeda) in the later 1990s. This was important because bin Laden was supposedly dying of Marfan's disease, which is genetic and affects the joints and heart and in his case the kidneys. He needed constant dialysis and is said to have died peacefully in a French hospital in the late 1990s or early 2000s. Alternatively, he is said to have been assassinated in 2003.
This did not deter Western intelligence agencies, which apparently kept him alive (metaphorically anyway) and ultimately blamed him for 9/11. Who or what actually was responsible for 9/11 remains an open question (as the US government refuses to investigate further) but the chances that it was either bin Laden or Al Qaeda seem increasingly remote as a historic perspective is gained of the events surrounding 9/11.
Perhaps it was a radicalized, fundamentalist Islamic faction – the kind of blowblack that the CIA is famous for creating either on purpose or by mistake. But anyone who examines the life and apparent death of bin Laden with an open-mind (given the plethora of information on the Internet) would be hard pressed to believe that someone in his condition would have survived in good condition, without amputations or mental incompetency, through to 2011.
Thus we see, as others in the alternative news community have observed, that a false-history has likely been prepared – one that provides book ends to a decade-long military narrative. There are yet a good many questions as to who carried out the initial 9/11 attacks and how (especially given that bin Laden's great, modernized caves were never found in Tora Bora) and even more questions as to life, death and physical condition of bin Laden himself.
As to bin Laden's death in 2011 at the hands of American security forces, one can only marvel at the audacity of the presentation. There is no evidence that bin Laden lived out his life in the "compound" where he was supposedly shot; there is no body either as he was dumped at sea. There are no photos as they would be too gruesome to reveal, according to the US administration. The DNA tests that were said to be conducted actually took place in too short a time to be physically feasible.
There are of course home movies, but these have already been debunked by supposed "conspiratorial" sites such as those run by Alex Jones. All the images save one seem to be based on previously available images of bin Laden – and many of these are apparently demonstrably false as are the audio tapes he supposedly released throughout the past decade. There is one new image – or series of images – of an old man huddled in a robe looking at himself on a decrepit TV. But it is informative that the old man (bin Laden?) is only seen in profile, and the profile itself is not full on but is gained from a perspective – a camera angle – behind the left ear!
To sum up, there is not, apparently, one decent element of evidence that would even BEGIN to let an unbiased viewer believe that bin Laden was shot in Pakistan last week. Almost every single element of the bin Laden story does not seem to stand up to scrutiny. It is our considered bet that the great treasure trove of documents supposedly found on hard drives in this "safe house" will not produce new information than WikiLeaks has – another evident intelligence operation based on the principal of "limited hangout." (Alternatively, there were "terrorist" elements in the house, though no bin Laden, and it is possible that some useful information was obtained, but it is surely hard to winnow out what is truthful from what is not.)
Let us end by returning to the Atlantic article and its startling summation of cost. Certainly US$3 trillion, had it been spent correctly could have determined the true culprits of 9/11 and also established the actual narrative of the life and death of bin Laden. Instead, it has been spent invading two countries, Afghanistan and Iraq, that are partially destroyed and fairly destabilized. Here is how the Atlantic puts it:
What we are left with, after bin Laden, is a lingering bill that was exacerbated by decisions made in a decade-long campaign against him. We borrowed money to finance the war on terrorism rather than diverting other national-security funding or raising taxes. We expanded combat operations to Iraq before stabilizing Afghanistan, which in turn led to the recent reescalation of the American commitment there. We tolerated an unsupervised national-security apparatus, allowing it to grow so inefficient that, as The Washington Post reported in a major investigation last year, 1,271 different government institutions are charged with counterterrorism missions (51 alone track terrorism financing), which produce some 50,000 intelligence reports each year, many of which are simply not read.
We have also shelled out billions of dollars in reconstruction funding and walking-around money for soldiers, with little idea of whether it has even helped foreigners, much less the United States; independent investigations suggest as much as $23 billion is unaccounted for in Iraq alone. "We can't account for where any of it goes – that's the great tragedy in all of this," Hellman says. "The Pentagon cannot now and has never passed an audit--and, to me, that's just criminal."
It's worth repeating that the actual cost of bin Laden's September 11 attacks was between $50 billion and $100 billion. That number could have been higher, says Adam Rose, coordinator for economics at the University of Southern California's National Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events, but for the resilience of the U.S. economy and the quick response of policymakers to inject liquidity and stimulate consumer spending. But the cost could also have been much lower, he says, if consumers hadn't paid a fear premium--shying away from air travel and tourism in the aftermath of the attacks. "Ironically," he says, "we as Americans had more to do with the bottom-line outcome than the terrorist attack itself, on both the positive side and the negative side."
The same is true of the nation's decision, for so many reasons, to spend at least $3 trillion responding to bin Laden's attacks. More than actual security, we bought a sense of action in the face of what felt like an existential threat. We staved off another attack on domestic soil. Our debt load was creeping up already, thanks to the early waves stages of baby-boomer retirements, but we also hastened a fiscal mess that has begun, in time, to fulfill bin Laden's vision of a bankrupt America. If left unchecked, our current rate of deficit spending would add $9 trillion to the national debt over the next decade. That's three Osamas, right there.
Although bin Laden is buried in the sea, other Islamist extremists are already vying to take his place. In time, new enemies, foreign and domestic, will rise to challenge America. What they will cost us, far more than we realize, is our choice.
This is surely a gloomy assessment and as we suggested at the beginning of this article it does far more to establish the contempt with which Western elites hold American and European middle classes than it does the determination of Western governments to successfully pursue a war on terror. Al Qaeda was at least in its initial terrorist stages partially a promotion of Western intelligence; bin Laden was the scion of a family with close business ties to the Bush family and apparently a CIA asset to boot; he was a very sick man a decade ago (at least) and the idea that he survived to 2011 is doubtful in the extreme.
There is no doubt the war on terror is a manipulated war. The Internet itself has challenged most of the dominant social themes of the Anglo-American power elite and left it increasingly puzzled as to how it can pursue its goal of world domination without the kind of total media control it enjoyed in the 20th century. The result of this puzzlement is predictable; war and more war. They did it 500 years ago when the Gutenberg press broke the elite stranglehold on information and they are doing it now, in our view.
For the elites, money does not matter. They control central banks around the world and can print as much money as they wish and fund whatever programs they wish to fund. (Though eventually economic and political considerations of nation-states wil take their toll.) The US$3 trillion drained from Western coffers to pursue illusory wars and phantom enemies is in fact a net-positive from the point of view of Western elites. With their fear-based promotions foundering, Money Power has increasingly fallen back on brute force and authoritarianism. And this means that the world itself must be thrown into chaos and poverty lest the middle classes look too closely at the false narrative being constructed around them.
Conclusion: This is the cost of the lies that are being told and the manipulation being promulgated. A cool US$3 trillion. Even the Soviet Union never spent money like that. For the Anglosphere elites, pursuing their program of world governance as they are, money is no object. We knew that. But the Atlantic has done us a favor by totaling up the sum.
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Posted by channa on 05/12/11 01:45 AM
You can read that article in English at their site also:
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I thought this was interesting:
"For example, during the last U.S. presidential elections, it was reported that Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton disappeared on June 6, 2008, in order to negotiate an end to their rivalry. In reality, they participated in the annual conference of the Bilderberg Group in Chantilly, Virginia (USA). The following day, Mrs. Clinton announced that she was retiring from the race. Some authors concluded that the decision was taken during the Bilderberg meeting. The logic is faulty, since the decision was already a foregone conclusion three days before, given the number of votes for Senator Obama at the Democratic Party's nominating committee.
According to our sources, something else happened. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton concluded a financial and political agreement. Senator Obama bailed out his rival financially and offered her a position in his administration (Clinton refused the vice-presidency and instead chose the State Department) in exchange for her active support during the campaign against McCain.
Then, the two leaders were presented by James A. Johnson to the Bilderberg Conference, where they assured the participants that they would work together. Barack Obama had already been NATO's candidate for a long time. Mr. Obama and his family have always worked for the CIA and the Pentagon. [3] Moreover, the initial funds for his campaign were provided by the Crown of England, via a businessman named Nadhmi Auchi. In presenting the Black Senator to the Bilderbergers, the Atlantic Alliance was, in fact, organizing public relations at the international level for the future president of the United States."
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Wow. Some analysis! Good site you have, too.
Posted by amanfromMars on 05/11/11 12:20 PM
Thanks for the McKenna/TIMEWAVE ZERO pages link, Wayne, which gave a radical boost to what that which I/we might be into, because it mirrored and confirmed that which is the virtual reality and true nature of existence?
And that is .... well, it's is one of those Oppenheimer type moments, is it not? ..... "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds."
And as for Jefferson Airplane's A.L.I.C.E in Wonderland homage, well .... that was just as icing on the cake for virtual machines and their AIdDrivers ... Click to view link .... although for those who realise the significance of Imagine, and it's true, does this hit the sweet spot for the money shot too ........ Click to view link
Posted by Wayne on 05/10/11 09:12 PM
"Which is all a bit too much like this quote which was being hosted on the Daily Bell earlier, to be any different and better ...... "Keynesians think that you can take water from the deep end of the swimming, pump it into the shallow end of the swimming pool and somehow the water level of the swimming pool will rise." - Thomas Woods'
Perfect description.
Oh Well, Life down in the Rabbit Hole
Click to view link
But soon, the "big shift" is here. what McKenna called TIMEWAVE ZERO.
Click to view link
What, me worry!
Posted by dotti on 05/10/11 08:14 PM
Sorry. the "I don't read French" comment was meant to be tongue in cheek. On re-reading, I think that it may not have come across that way. Apologies.
However, the link did send me to a French site.
Posted by dotti on 05/10/11 08:11 PM
Sorry. Sounds like an interesting link, but I don't read French.
Re: Things are not what they appear to be.
When we find that the familiar, comfortable truths are Click to view link becomes very uncomfortable.
Posted by channa on 05/10/11 03:28 PM
Very good article. 3 Trillion dollars is hard to get your brain around! Do Americans ever worry that reparations may be called for one day for all the damage done?
There is a very good article at Click to view link by Thierry Meyssan called "What you don't know about the Bilderberg-Group"
He lays the case that Bilderberg group is not the creators of the World Government, but is itself a creation of NATO. He gets into the 2008 election and Obama/Clinton agreement that was made behind doors and which the president is merely a product and selection of an elite group within NATO.
He also has another article at that site about bin laden. very worth reading.
The bin laden article brings out some good points about the "need" for the elites to get rid of Osama, which he says is directly linked to the "al qaida" entities that are now in Libya and elsewhere.
Things are not what they appear to be.
Posted by KittyAntonikWakfer on 05/10/11 01:37 PM
"Big-picture analysis", as Shilo phrased it in his comment about that of Elias Alias, is what is sorely missing in MSM while so sorely needed by the common thinking person who is trying to make sense from what the government is doing and saying. Those who simply accept whatever a current administration does as what is "best" - since they "know" and MSM says so - are likely a lost cause. Dotti's "intelligent" friends are an example of those who appear to have spent years thinking inside the box when it comes to government, never truly questioning the contents of reports and whether this form of "authority" is logically deserved, or if it is even necessary with the technology of today. (To the last I say it is not and recommend reasoned consideration of "Social Meta-Needs: A New Basis for Optimal Interaction" - Click to view link )
It is the Internet's alternative news & commentary sites that will slowly wear away the bastion that print media - even with its online versions - have held for generations. I suspect that governments and those behind them are actually fearful of this future and are plotting ways to turn the tide. One of those methods must surely be to cast doubt on the sanity of any who question what they have been told are the facts and/or reasons. Obama's recent comment that whoever questions the appropriateness of the killing of Osama bin Laden - that "justice was done" - "needs to have their head examined". The clip on the radio stands out in my mind and my immediate thought was "the gall of the man", followed quickly with "a not unexpected government tactic" to claim one's detractors are mentally unbalance.
Any US government investigation of the incident will be no more revealing of the truth than was that of the WTC affair... and probably the OK City bombing too. But once again the Internet will be the way all the facts get disseminated, thanks to articles like DB's and their reasoning/researching contributing commenters.
Posted by MetaCynic on 05/10/11 12:34 PM
Even if one takes the government at its word and accepts as fact the claim that Osama was assassinated by a Navy Seal raiding party, one still must marvel at the government's prodigious waste and towering incompetence.
Why summarily execute the most valuable intelligence asset on earth? Was there nothing to be learned by interrogating him about his past operations, organizational structure and future plans? If what amounted to detective work and a police swat team raid was all it took find and take out this public enemy #1, then why was $3 trillion spent on war and national security hysteria? These are questions which a thinking public and a functioning watch dog media would ask but haven't.
But then DB has already answered those questions - wars against make believe enemies are enormously profitable for those who never have enough money and power. After this display of waste and incompetence, how could anyone believe that government will save us money by efficiently delivering health care?
Posted by dotti on 05/10/11 08:03 AM
Thanks Elias Alias. Thanks much.
I have worked my way through the first links, through Representative Key's video documentary film (get this one while it's still online)
I was confused by that one. Was I supposed to end up at something called APFN? I bailed out of the Randi Rhodes interview, although I found it interesting. I had to abandon it because I was having headphone "issues" and Hubby is still asleep.
I'll finish later, but many thanks for your excellent links.
Posted by amanfromMars on 05/10/11 05:03 AM
""Can't resist: Are you the pot or, the kettle?" ....... :-) For those into quantum fields of control and communications is there no choice to be made there, for one can easily be both even as one is something else which is quite different but mindful and reflective of the two." .... Posted by amanfromMars on 05/10/11 01:19 AM.
Or should that be mindful and reflective of the three, with the trilogy of views being the essence of yet others views resting/waiting in formulation to be further explored and boldly realised with presentation for another future program and/or most modern virtual machine application in civil cyberspace projects? For some who would be into powerful elite controls for Great Game plays, is it the reality which easily invades and rightly occupies the high ground in any base environment in dire straits need of reinvention and revitalisation.
And here is a Manchurian Candidate and most suitable case for treatment? ....... "The real issue ahead is whether Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke will reignite speculation by reintroducing more quantitative easing, Wiedemer says. The central bank has supported the recovery in part by printing trillions of dollars to buy up Treasury debt on the open market, which has kept interest rates low.
'That's the really big question. My guess is that you are, but not immediately. Ben knows that if he announces quantitative easing right now, people are going to get scared to death that this is just an unlimited printing machine. That's going to hurt the dollar and make gold soar again,' he says." ..... Click to view link
The real issue is much more invasive and damaging, and has nothing at all to do with suchs baubles and beads as the dollar and gold and it is that Uncle Sam is bankrupt of the universal intelligence which leads into the future with a prosperous and constructive See, and contents itself with defrauding the ignorant and arrogant markets with illusions of wealth and control.
It is something which with every passing day do more and more see/read/experience, and thus does it guarantee ever more and quicker flight to greener fields in smarter realms.
One does wonder at the madness across the pond that does not purchase its own saviour with such baubles and beads as maufacture their own demise. But then I just suppose that is the inherent abiding problem for all intellectual pygmies blinded to their own follies rather than schooled in the fine art and ancient arts of the Great Game and human perception management .... sustainable and universally beneficial model virtual reality production.
"The central bank has supported the recovery in part by printing trillions of dollars to buy up Treasury debt on the open market, which has kept interest rates low." ...... An incestuous affair which locks in crippling sub-prime toxicity to its host originator and magnifies its effect to levels which kill off all players who would be supportive of the scam and supporters of scams.
Which is all a bit too much like this quote which was being hosted on the Daily Bell earlier, to be any different and better ...... "Keynesians think that you can take water from the deep end of the swimming, pump it into the shallow end of the swimming pool and somehow the water level of the swimming pool will rise." - Thomas Woods
Posted by amanfromMars on 05/10/11 01:19 AM
"Must add that sometimes, DB is appraised of something that they reserve the right to elaborate and do an article on. This is reasonable.
They may also be an elite front, a pole of a hegellian dialectric, seeking truth such that some new and more stable compromise between abbitrary power and freedom of "we, the people" can be found. It is my role to prove this impossible, and to keep everyone focussed on the ball. " .... Posted by rossbcan on 05/09/11 02:48 PM
That is an odd role you have chosen for yourself, rossbcan, and surely it would be much better to make possible an elite front, a pole of a hegellian dialectric, seeking truth so that some new and more stable compromise between arbitrary power and freedom of "we, the people" can be found.
Regarding DB being appraised of something that they reserve the right to elaborate and do an article on, it would be a most probable great pleasure to provide them with whatever it is that they would wish to share with Daily Bell Ringers, should one have any pertinent information in any fields of their interest.
For those who would dabble in/have an interest in the manipulation of reality to present a New World Order to order, which is surely a Daily Bell main interest, does Zero Hedge offer a starter article on the matter here too ..... Click to view link
It is though more than likely the case, that those who can guarantee the product placement of a reality which can take control of, and reverse the mounting catastrophic misfortunes of a failing meme, for those who would be as stock and stakeholders of those memes, would be smart enough to ensure that their own positions are beautifully secure and rendered failsafe, which is akin to an impregnability which only losing fools would try to compromise.
The mad world, sadly, has no shortage of those, but they just do not realise that they sow the seeds of their own destruction whenever they get to a certain level with particular and peculiar post modern Knights Templar levels of power and control.
"Can't resist: Are you the pot or, the kettle?" ....... :-) For those into quantum fields of control and communications is there no choice to be made there, for one can easily be both even as one is something else which is quite different but mindful and reflective of the two.
Posted by Zenbillionaire on 05/10/11 12:06 AM
"This first link is courtesy of retired USAF General Benton K. Partin, who's bio is at the bottom of the page on this first link"
All I can say here is wow. Thanks Elias, I had no idea. It causes me to completely re-think my interpretation of the Bali bombing, in which the AM (Alternate Media) have spent some amount of (wasted in my opinion) time trying to demonstrate that retired tactical nuclear ordinance were used. General Partin makes a very good case for conventional weapons.
Again, thank you for the research.
Posted by Avatar on 05/09/11 09:23 PM
There is direct testimony from an actual observer that a bomb exploded in Building 7 BEFORE the collapse of a single tower. He describes walking over corpses when he was finally rescued after both towers collapsed. Analysis of Tower 7's fall shows it collapsed in free fall. Until all 911 contradictions can be adequately explained, one will be hard pressed to imagine anything less than a false flag attack. After all, the CIA was a tenant in Building 7.
Posted by dotti on 05/09/11 08:51 PM
Actually, I am not from Montana. She moved to a little round or octagonal cinderblock home not far from Athens, GA--home of University of Georgia. I believe that in some way she felt she was aiding the civil rights movement, but it is not something that we really discussed. Unfortunately, the home she was living in had never really been finished for some reason. I remember that the toilet was one that was elevated and it was necessary to use some unfamiliar process to flush. I tried desperately not to have to use it!
She invited me in to help her with correspondence. It was 1967 and she was an activist in the anti-war movement--well, as much as she could be in her 80's. It involved mounds of correspondence. I was mostly a typist, but it was a somewhat intimate relationship because it was in her home and I was young. I told her that I had married in May. She chuckled and said, "Oh, well, a newlywed!!!!" Totally serious I said, "No, not really. It's been two months." I smile when I think back on that. I'll bet she smiled over it more than once!
I believe she lived in Georgia until she passed away. She expressed to me that she was ready to go--I saw no fear of death in her.
Thanks for giving me the opportunity to reminisce!
Posted by sparky on 05/09/11 08:42 PM
Thanks again DB for another excellent article on the antics of our would be masters.
This is a direct copy and paste from the above article:
"With their fear-based promotions foundering, Money Power has increasingly fallen back on brute force and authoritarianism. And this means that the world itself must be thrown into chaos and poverty lest the middle classes look too closely at the false narrative being constructed around them".
It is my contention that the actions of these PE's are NOT those of men believing they are in total control. In fact I will further contend as I have in previous posts that these are the acts of men who suspect or believe that they are getting increasingly behind the 8 ball.
We all know what post Gutenburg Press history reveals. Personally, I am increasingly believing that these guys are going to have no more success with this Tower of Babel attempt then they have had with any of the others over the last 5000 years!!
I am however in NO WAY making light of this process as it ALWAYS means alot of people end up dead or destitute before their lights are finally out, but their lights are going out AGAIN!!
Posted by dotti on 05/09/11 08:41 PM
Elias, thanks for your persistance. I want to go through the entire sequence at once, so it cannot be tonight. But i did want to thank you and hopefully tomorrow AM will allow me opportunity to view all.
Posted by jdb on 05/09/11 08:24 PM
"With their fear-based promotions foundering, Money Power has increasingly fallen back on brute force and authoritarianism. And this means that the world itself must be thrown into chaos and poverty lest the middle classes look too closely at the false narrative being constructed around them."
The Age of Kahli is upon us...lets hope the Vedic literature is wrong about the time span...50,000 years is a long time...yet considering we are only concerned with one life time , for the moment ...50,000 years is but a blink...
Posted by Elias Alias on 05/09/11 07:58 PM
DB, thanks for the heads-up regarding technical difficulties. Growing pains and all that, eh? No problem here. If Dottie scrolls, she'll see my note to her anyway, so all is well. You're doing a wonderful job. The content on this site can transform the world. A glitch now and then is perfectly acceptable. I remain a perfectly pleased and happy, as well as devoted and grateful, reader.
Posted by rossbcan on 05/09/11 07:40 PM
The sane and insane, just like predator and prey are eternally doomed to FEEL that the other is WRONG. Which is where reality, fact and objective reason comes in, to seek an impartial opinion from reality.
A logical / lexical analysis of your two comments yields: NULL, no facts.
And, the absurdity: "I believe it has been worth every penny (THREE TRILLION DOLLARS)..."
Clearly, this pertains to "other peoples money and lives", since if you personally were demanded to cough up three trillion and be indentured until you (and your great to the nth power grandchildren) do pay and some other very expensive "shit happens", consistently, well before you can possibly pay, in perpetuity, I do suspect you may "feel" differently, once the facts sink in.
I think you have stumbled to the wrong place. Take another blue pill and, try this:
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Better now?
Posted by KelleyE on 05/09/11 06:53 PM
My My,
What a conglomeration of bizarre, nonsensical ideas you've compiled in your article - and that's just from reading the first half of the screed. The rest was probably just as edifying.
No, I'm not going to take the time to answer your claims, such as they are, any more than I feel the need to respond to a man on the street spouting conspiracies and dreams he has had.