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Power Reds™ Strawberry Kiwi is an easy mixing' great tasting and energizing "phyto-nutrient" powder mix loaded with certified organic' whole food plant extracts. It also supplies a super blend of completely natural vitamins' ionic trace minerals' enzymes' antioxidants' phyto-nutrients and symbiotic intestinal flora for maximum energy' metabolism' fat burning' digestion' detoxification' immunity' repair' recovery' revitalization' and longevity.
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Each Scoop Contains:
Calories 40
Total Fat 0 g
Cholesterol 0 g
Sodium 20 mg
Total Carbohydrates 9 g
Dietary Fiber 1 g
Sugar (not added) 3 g
Protein 0 g
Vitamin A (beta-carotene) 1% DV
Vitamin C 200% DV
Calcium 2%
Iron 10%
Fruit Antioxidant Blend† 2415 mg
Berry Antioxidant Blend† 2075 mg
Antioxidant Blend† 1630 mg
Fiber Blend† 1710 mg
Digestive Enzymes† 2170 mg
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•Fruit Antioxidant Blend
Certified Organic pomegranate' plums' papaya fruit' kiwi' watermelon' Certified Organic açai' pomegranate extract' mangosteen' noni juice extract' gogi extract' quercetin' non-alcoholic red wine extract' red grape seed extract' resveratrol (25% extract)' ascorbic acid (vitamin C)' bromelain (800 GDU/GM)' tumeric extract' milk thistle (80% silymarin)' ginger root.
•Berry Antioxidant Blend
Certified Organic raspberry' Certified Organic bilberry' Certified Organic goji berry' black raspberry' red raspberry' black berry extract' black cherry extract' blueberry leaf extract cranberry' bilberry extract' strawberry.
•Antioxidant Blend
Certified Organic spirulina' alfalfa' Certified Organic ionic trace minerals' chlorella (Japanese cracked wall cell)' decaffeinated green tea extract' kelp' broccoli' kale' carrots' radish' purple cabbage' red beet root' Certified Organic acerola' aloe vera' parsley' spinach.
•Fiber Blend
Prune extract' aloe leaf' apple pectin' oat beta glucan.
•Digestive Enzymes
Protease' amylase' lipase' cellulase' lactase' papain' Lactobacillus acidophilus' Lactobacillus casei' Bifidobacterium breve' Bifidobacterium rhamnosus' fructooligosaccharides.
Other Ingredients:
Stevia' citric acid' natrual strawberry flavor and natural kiwi flavor.
Contains No: Wheat' gluten' dairy' soy or MSG.
Add one scoop to 8 ounces of water and stir. After opening' keep refrigerated for maximum freshness.
Consult a healthcare professional before use.
Allergy / Dietary Needs
- Egg Free
- Fish Free
- Gluten Free
- GMP (Good Manufacturing Practices) Certification
- No Added Sugar
- Nut Free
- Peanut Free
- Soy Free
- Vegetarian
- Wheat Free
- Crustacean Shellfish Free
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I just started taking Power Reds Strawberry Kiwi by NuMedica. It is very pleasant tasting. I began taking this to supplement my diet. I read about this product online and it appears to contain the ingredients I was looking for.
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best tasting health drink i have tried and numedica is high quality.
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BILOXI — Peoples Financial Corporation (NASDAQ Capital Market: PFBX), parent of The Peoples Bank, reported a loss of $883,000 for the quarter and $538,000 for the full year ended Dec. 31, 2013, due primarily to actions on certain non-performing assets, announced Chevis C. Swetman, chairman and CEO of the holding company and the bank.
Loss per weighted average share totaled $.17 for the fourth quarter and $.10 for all of 2013. Per share figures are based on weighted average shares outstanding of 5,123,186 and 5,128,889 for the quarter and year ended Dec. 31, 2013, respectively.
"In December, we announced the painful but prudent decision to take final action on a few large credit problems on our books," said Swetman. "As it so often happens, strong medicine tastes terrible but proves therapeutic in the long run. Our senior management team and board are confident these steps will purge our balance sheet and position us firmly for positive growth in the future," he said.
In December 2013, the company announced a number of transactions, including the sale of property in the Other Real Estate portfolio that reduced earnings by $413,000, net of taxes; the sale of a gaming loan that increased earnings by $1,005,000, net of taxes, and an additional provision for loan loss of $4,600,000 that reduced earnings by $3,036,000 net of taxes.
Non-accrual loans at the end of 2013 decreased by 51 percent from the year before, largely due to the actions taken in fourth quarter. The allowance for loan losses on Dec. 31, 2013, was $8,934,000, slightly higher than the allowance of $8,857,000 on Dec. 31, 2012. The allowance represented 2.38 percent of all loans outstanding at the end of 2013, compared to 2.05 percent at the end of 2012.
"Our primary capital ratio at the end of 2013 totaled 13.64 percent, well in excess of regulatory minimums," said Swetman.

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text: Accepting only Mainland Chinese citizens, Luzhou Yilong Business Hotel offers accommodation in Longmatan District. Free WiFi is available in all areas. The inn is a 10-minute drive from Luzhou Passenger Terminal. Luzhou Railway Station is located a 15-minute drive away. It takes 35 minutes to drive to Luzhou Lantian Airport. The guestrooms at the property are all equipped with air conditioning and a flat-screen TV. Guests may find an electric kettle. Every room also comes with a private bathroom fitted with shower. Yilong Business Hotel Luzhou has daily maid service. Parking is available for free.


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Ador Brisk Baby Stroller 22 Orange
Ador Brisk Baby Stroller 22 Orange
Product Overview
* EVA handle bar grip,with folding lock.
* Removable front tray and top tray.
* Canopy with window cover and nursery bag.
* 3 position reclining seat.
* Extra large storage basket.
* 4x6 inch front wheels with suspension and revolving and fix
* 4x7 inch rear wheels with brake.
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Product Description
Ador Brisk Baby Stroller is the best choice, because it suits the needs of your baby from infant stage to toddler. The seat of the stroller can be reclined at three angles depending upon the requirement. The EVA handle bar allows a firm grip. Canopy has a window cover that allows you to keep an eye on your baby and a dedicated storage space for a nursery bag attached which enables you to store baby's belongings at one single space without worrying about it while on the move. Equipped with a removable front and top tray, the stroller allows parents to be at ease. The front wheels have inbuilt suspension and can easily revolve giving the stroller enough mobility. It also has rear wheel brakes for added safety for the toddler. The stroller can bear maximum weight upto 25 kgs safely. It is appropriate for kids of 6-36 months. It has a EVA handle bar grip,with folding lock and a removable front tray and top tray. The stroller has a canopy with window cover and nursery bag. It also has 3 position reclining seat with extra large storage basket.
Brand Ador Type Baby Stroller Color Orange
Reclining seat
3 positions
Storage basket
Extra Large Front tray Removable Top Tray Removable Dimension 100*60*38.5
Maximum weight
25 kgs
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Product Type Stroller Feature Safe & Comfortable Brand Ador
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Customer Reviews
- good baby stroller, price can be a bit lowered, happy with the assistance Review by shrestha
Price Value Quality
the down side of this stroller i found was that the price was a little bit high. i think that it can be reduced a bit and then more people would order them.
also, the manual is not so elaborate but they covered up for it by the you tube video so, that is covered.
the good side of this stroller is that it is very attractive and desirable. my baby loves it and the removable tray and the storage basket, really just makes my work easy and convenient.
so in short, i am quite satisfied with the assistance and the product. (Posted on 11/7/15)
- love the color, very safe stroller, good features, happy with the purchase Review by sameer
Price Value Quality
we ordered the stroller on Monday and received it on Wednesday. actually, we could have got it the next day but no one was at home. so they went away and came the next day day. the service was very impressive. the stroller was securely delivered and there wasn't even a scratch to to it. the stroller is very strong and sturdy. very healthy babies can travel safely in them. the hand brakes are fine and working. the seat is comfortable so the baby can relax. so, in short i would say that i am very happy with the buy and impressed with their services. (Posted on 11/7/15)
- best buy in affordable price Review by timm
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healthgenie's service is really prompt and efficient... received the stroller within 2 days... would definitely recommend this..
a very good quality stroller, various color options to choose from. got his orange one as we are due in a month and this seems a pretty unisex color. all the features are very much desirable. will surely recommend this ahead.
(Posted on 11/7/15)
- great product, great quality, delivered timely Review by harshita
Quality Price Value
i is great experience, let me tell you. the stroller so much helpful right now. now it is much easier to shop and stroll my baby at the same time. also, the food tray actually makes him have his meal,. he loves the stroller. it is so comfy and that he often falls asleep whenever he is sleepy.
loving this experience. thank you healthgenie, for delivering it sop quick. a great job. very happy with the service. (Posted on 11/6/15)
- good shopping experience online, will shop again Review by suhani
Price Value Quality
the features are amazing and the stroller has safety belts and brakes on its wheels, so as a mother i am quite relieved about the safety of the stroller. the stroller design is attractive and was so happy to get in orange color, the color and model is exactly the same as shown in the picture description so no faulty leads. it was a bit difficult to set up the stroller but then we came to know about the video and we watched and it was very helpful.
in short, ador strollers are very high in quality and safety. great shopping experience. looking forward to shop again from here . (Posted on 11/6/15)
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Not So Nice to Meet You
"So..." There it was again. "You live around here then?" I paused, a little startled at his question before turning to look him in the eye, trying to gauge whether or not it would be a good idea to tell him. His eyes showed no sign of apparent malice. "Yes," I said, a little hesitant. He smiled at my reply. "Cool! Maybe I'll get to see you again." I blinked. Hold up. What did he just say? I stared blankly trying to process this unlikely event that someone would actually want to talk to me again. He tilted his head to the side. "Something wrong?" Oh, gosh, that blinding honesty.
I took a deep breath before replying. "No," I said shortly and looked away. I just barely caught a glimpse of his eyebrows furrowing in disbelief. A slight pause in the conversation ensued before he spoke up again. "Hey, can I ask for you name? I can't believe I didn't think of that earlier!" He laughed nervously and gave that half smile that people make when they're embarrassed. Was he... bashful? What reason did he have to be bashful? What reason do you have to wonder why he is bashful? My inner voice butted in with a genuine comment. Right. Back to the conversation.
"You can." I looked at him with that classic smirk that I never purposefully put on and raised an eyebrow. His eyes grew wider and then they broke the eye contact. "Uh, okay. What is your name?" His bright blue eyes flickered back to mine for approval. The other half of my mouth curled upward making the smirk into a slight smile, but then I shook my head. "Tell me yours first." Again, that look of being taken aback. I guess he doesn't talk to people like me very often, huh?
"Kale. Kale Delenn. Nice to meet you." He grinned widely at me, showing nothing but sincerity. This time it was my turn to be taken aback. Unconsciously I blushed, or at least I think I did, and looked away, but only for a moment. My eyes returned to his as I said, "Elenessa. Elenessa Starling." I left out the whole nice-to-meet-you thing because, for me, it was never nice to meet anyone. I offered him a tight smile before looking ahead at the path in front of us. My heart quickened at the familiar sight of that oak tree sitting placidly on the right of the bend. Suddenly, I didn't want this moment to end.


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Here are some little extra tidbits I just found. This feels like we are spending a few moments sitting on the couch with Adam Lambert and having a regular conversation!
Although we're getting more information about subjects we've already heard him talk about in the first two clips, the 3rd clip is real bonus. He talks about making out with girls in high school. This is truly something that I've never heard him discuss before. We knew it happened, but now he opens up about the emotions he felt. There are 30-secondcommercial intros before each clip, but have patience, you will be rewarded! 🙂
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A DELEGATION from the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region of the People's Repu-blic of China is currently in Brunei for a working visit until December 12, said a press release from the Halal Industry Innovation Centre, Ministry of Industry and Primary Resources (MIPR).
The delegation comprises senior offi-cers from the Guangxi Zhuang's Depart-ment of Commerce, Guangxi Beibu Gulf Port International Ltd and Yulin City Re-presentative.
The visit is a follow-up to the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on the Brunei-Guangxi Economic Corri-dor between His Majesty's Government and the Government of the Guangxi Zhu-ang's Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China, which was signed on September 17 this year in Nanning.
Among the visit's objectives is to further explore the Sultanate's potential for Chi-nese investors in the halal industry and logistic sectors, including the possibility of making Brunei a Halal hub in the region. The delegates also made a courtesy call to Pehin Orang Kaya Seri Utama Dato Seri Setia Awg Hj Yahya bin Begawan Mudim Dato Paduka Hj Bakar, the Minister of Industry and Primary Resources, yesterday morning.
Among discussed matters were project proposals for the Brunei-Guangxi Econo-mic Corridor and the investment potential of the Brunei BioInnovation Corridor for the participation of Chinese investors as well as the manufacturing of Halal products and services.
The Halal Industry Innovation Centre is hosting the delegates while they are in the country. Meetings with relevant stake-holders, such as the Ministry of Com-munications (MinCom) and the Brunei Economic Development Board (BEDB), as well as site visits to the BioInnovation Corridor, Muara Port facilities and the Pulau Muara Besar Project Development have also been arranged.


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I awoke
I'm still not certain what inspired this, but it's one of the many poems where the first line I write ends up somewhere in the middle.
I awoke
with a fire in my throat.
I'd been holding back tears
even in my sleep
and the rawness of my dream
was mirrored in my flesh.
My heart burned,
corrosive, with the longings
I could find no way to express.
Desire made me tongueless
though what I needed most
was to scream until my soul was quiet.
The dream
had been empty, just a void
devoid of space; lacking
yet so full of what I might
have been had I cared to attempt
to become it.
[I couldn't try. Not without you.]
I hadn't known,
hadn't believed I could need
the way I need you. A whole
body and being sort of necessity where
I don't feel myself if you
aren't there to see me.
You don't make
me complete. You aren't truly
essential to my life the way air is.
But you are a need I choose like some
people choose to give birth—to see
themselves reflected.
So when you
were not in that dream and I felt
nothing without you, I knew it was wrong.
And once resolved to love you all the more
for your presence, not the lack of,
I slept in peace.


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Skill Level: Intermediate: you know how to cast on, knit, purl, bind off and knit in the round.
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When I completed my first playthrough of Mass Effect 3, I had nothing but unpleasant things to say regarding both the ending and the competency of BioWare's writing staff. In one of my MyIGN status updates, I even said, "Mass Effect 3's ending feels like the last few paragraphs of a creative writing assignment already three days overdue." Clearly these were harsh words implying even harsher criticisms, and indeed I was sincere in typing those sentiments. I honestly thought, along with most fans, that the ending of this trilogy did little justice to the greatness that preceded it. This was, however, after having only witnessed one of the endings. By this point, I'm sure most of you know about ME3's ending system, with tiers of endings granting varying degrees of choice and success in these choices to Commander Shepherd based on one's Effective Military Readiness rating. That said, when I refer to the various ending possibilities, I believe there are only six true possibilities: three for those who saved the Collector base from ME2, and three for those who destroyed it. Anything below the 5,000 mark in EMR is negligible as far as I'm concerned. Additionally, the options which fall under the "saved the Collector base" path are all circumscribed by the "destroyed the Collector base" path, at least in terms of their overall outcome. Because of that, I will only be acknowledging three endings in this game, as the others are either only obtained by negligence or are included within these three primary endings. For those who are unfamiliar with ME3's ending system, IGN posted a handy little guide for them this past week (note that these accounts of the game's "16" endings are all rife with spoilers, so read at your own risk).
The endings I acknowledge as being the three "true" endings are control, synthesis, and destroy in the 5,000 EMR tier. Each of them have the exact same events leading up to their execution; Shepherd takes out the reaper allowing for Alliance troops to make the final assault towards the collection beam of the Crucible. It is imperative that the Alliance get ground troops within the Crucible as the device is apparently only operational from inside. Of course, because this is Shepherd's story, she joins in this final push towards the beam. However, her transport is put out of commission by either rubble or munitions, and so she and the rest of these elite Alliance squads make a mad-dash towards the beam on foot. The sprint is a near complete annihilation of the Alliance forces by way of a secondary reaper's laser, even prompting radio chatter to conclude that no one survived the assault. Which is odd, because there stands Shepherd, the lone survivor. She may be worse for wear, but she is clearly not dead; accordingly, she finishes the push towards the beam, ascends into the Crucible, reunites with Anderson, confronts the Illusive Man, and meets the Catalyst, who tells Shepherd about the true intent and nature of the Reapers, how they are a source of order in the face of chaos perpetuated by the rebellion of synthetics against their organic creators, and how they are truly a benevolent force in the galaxy, eradicating only those civilizations who reached a particular level of technological advancement or prowess.
After these explanations, the Catalyst then presents to Shepherd the infamous ultimatum between control, synthesis, and destruction. She can choose to control the Reapers, which effectively consolidates her into the reaper framework, destroying her physical self in a fate comparable to death. She can choose to synthesize organic and the synthetic lifeforms, the Reapers included, because according to the Catalyst, that is the "final form of evolution," and a solution to the cycle of "order and chaos." Finally, she can chose to fulfill her mission and wipe out the entire reaper population, though the Catalyst informs her that this action would also lead to the death of every other synthetic lifeform in the galaxy including EDI and the Geth. Decisions, decisions.
During my first playthrough, I chose to synthesize. Given that the Illusive Man and his ideals of controlling the Reapers were insane and spectacularly evil, as a predominantly Paragon Shepherd, I found it hard to all the sudden sympathize with that mindset now, even if it theoretically reduced the number of casualties and was highlighted in blue, the universal color for Paragon choices in the series thus far. Destroy, highlighted in red, the color of Renegade options throughout all three games, seemed to have too high a cost to others, even if it was what I had been fighting for all along, to be the morally justifiable thing to do. Which left me with the synthesis option, the only choice of the three that had no particular alignement whatsoever, and seemed to be the only reasonable selection given the ramifications of the other two. As I watched the final cutscenes play out, I had many of the same questions as the rest of the internet seemed to have: when did this whole synthetics versus organics business start outside the Geth-Quarian war? Why was the Normandy using a mass relay at the time of the beam's activation? Wasn't the entire crew back on Earth only minutes ago? Where are they going? What is the significance of their crash-landing on the virgin planet, untouched by modern civilization? Why is Buzz Aldrin regaling Shepherd's legacy to some kid? Was the entire series supposed to be interpreted as this old man telling the tale of Commander Shepherd? Why is this so damn confusing?
After venting my frustrations with a friend who had completed the game just one day prior, I decided to investigate the other two endings in an effort to confirm my suspicions that BioWare had completely botched the ending to one of the best video game franchises of all time. Scrolling through the bowels of the internet, I found bits and blurbs about Shepherd surviving one of her endings. After further inspection, and a little help from IGN's own ending guide, the consensus seemed to be that destroying the Reapers was the only way to ensure Shepherd's survival. This only raised further questions in my mind, however, as it seemed to be clearly implied by the Catalyst that Shepherd, being part synthetic, would die if she were to destroy the Reapers. I had to see this for myself. So I booted up my last autosave, beamed up to the Crucible, and destroyed the Reapers by initiating an explosion within the Crucible, thus consuming Shepherd in flames. The rest of the cutscenes played out fairly similarly, only now Joker was joined by Specialist Traynor and Garrus on the planet the Normandy crash-landed on with no EDI in sight. While that was a bit disheartening, I was glad to see my party members survive the assault on the Crucible, the one the radio claimed had no survivors. Not only that, I was excited to see the triumphant Commander walking off into the sunset having both cheated death and brought peace to the galaxy. That, as I'm sure many of you know by now, is not what I got. What I got, my friends, was oh so much better. What I got was this.
Now, you may be wondering to yourself: why is this preferable to a more triumphant return of Shepherd? Doesn't this secret ending only give rise to more questions, like why the Normandy would simply abandon Shepherd even after the Reaper threat was taken care of, or why the debris looks more like building rubble than anything, or how Shepherd could have survived the annihilation of all synthetic life if she was indeed part synthetic? Yes, yes it does, which is precisely why it works. Any ending without this last 20 seconds gives rise to questions, sure, but they're questions which could be answered by citing poor planning or implementation in the writing process. Why is the Frankenstein-esque mantra against the dangers of creating artificial life suddenly a major theme in the last five minutes of a thirty-hour game? Because either the writers don't know how to develop theme throughout a narrative, static or otherwise, or they simply rushed the ending, falling back on a familiar trope to carry the philosophical weight of the trilogy in its last leg. Why was the Normandy fleeing the Sol system? That's an example of deus ex machina to maroon them on the planet in order to further drive this half-assed point about the dangers of technology home. Why did these endings have so little to do with all the choices Shepherd had made throughout the series? Because either they didn't wish to alienate those who hadn't already played Mass Effect 1 and 2, something BioWare clearly payed attention to in this game for better or worse, or the ending was rushed. The answers to these questions all can be attributed to the writers themselves and their competency. However, the questions brought to mind by the secret ending and its relationship with the final 10 minutes of the game are far more complex than those without it, and the answers to these questions I don't think can be attributed to the poor performance of BioWare's writing staff. If anything, they speak to a particular sophistication held by this staff in their handling of interactive narrative and their willingness to push boundaries, with one boundary in particular being unquestionably pushed in Mass Effect 3, namely the notion of unreliable narration. How does ME3 implement unreliable narration? By the attempted indoctrination of Commander Shepherd.
If you haven't familiarized yourself yet with the theory, there are plenty of videos, articles, and thread discussions regarding the indoctrination of Shepherd as an explanation for these three endings. The video that had the largest impact on my perception of the endings thus far would have to be this one posited by TheGOODKyle. If you have a few minutes, check it out; I think he provides many of the examples and points used to support the indoctrination theory, though I feel he gives a bit too much credence to the notion that Shepherd is outside of an oxygen field while speaking with the Catalyst. It seems to make sense, but in a universe whose susceptibility to having its fantastical or impossible elements explained away through pseudoscience is already well-established, it simply isn't damning enough to be a reliable counterexample. Regardless, he does bring up some of the strongest examples for the theory in the video, particularly how BioWare handles the child, the state of Shepherd and her surroundings in the secret "survival" ending, and the overall sense of inconsistency and "wrongness" during the assault towards the Crucible and the interactions which take place within it.
The child was really the tipping point for me in terms of my descent into conspiracy theoreticism. The extent to which signs point to the child not having existed is simply too great to ignore. Could he simply be an analogy for all the innocent lives Shepherd fails to save? Sure. If the indoctrination theory is false, that is clearly the case. However, there are aspects of Shepherd's interaction with the child that are without question odd. For instance, the roar of the reaper just as Shepherd pulls away from the child to address Anderson is oddly reminiscent of the description of a failed indoctrination attempt found in a particular Mass Effect novel, all of which are canon. Not only that, it was the sound of the child crawling through the ducts that caught Shepherd's attention; there were absolutely no audio cues to suggest that the child had turned himself around and scurried off in the few seconds between their conversation and Anderson's interruption. TheGOODKyle fails to mention this in his video, but the actual conversation with the child is strange beyond belief. What child on earth would decline the aid of an adult in a time of crisis? What child would be so jaded and pessimistic so as to think that all is lost? That isn't a mindset humans as a species develop until later in life. At such an early stage, children are largely concerned with their own personal safety so as to protect their genes at least until adulthood, and while children are also largely distrusting of strangers and those they feel are foreign to their family unit, in such a state of panic, is it believable in the slightest that this child would decline Shepherd's assistance, especially with such a defeatist resolve? I think not, and I would hope that BioWare also thinks not. I do understand that the unnaturalness of this interaction could be attributed to poor writing on BioWare's behalf, but I think enough evidence exists to support the contrary.
Like the dream sequences found throughout the game. Under the first interpretation of the child as a symbol more than anything, these dreams are fairly straightforward; Shepherd is attempting to help the child, who represents innocent life, but consistently fails to do so. Shepherd having these dreams on her own accord is all well and good, I suppose, but consider the description of indoctrination according to the codex as can be found here. Now consider this passage in particular: "as time passes, they have feelings of 'being watched' and hallucinations of 'ghostly' presences. Ultimately, the Reaper gains the ability to use the victim's body to amplify its signals, manifesting as 'alien' voices in the mind." Adding to this that in accordance with the extended Mass Effect universe, which again, is all canon, indoctrination is not only permanent (i.e. its effects persist even outside of any Reaper's vicinity), it also isn't exclusive to any Reaper in particular. Literally any Reaper, whether it be Sovereign, Harbinger, whoever, can initiate the indoctrination process. Now, here is the second dream sequence. Note the ghostly presences, note the alien voices in Shepherd's mind. The dream sequences embody the description of indoctrination to a T. Not only that, they progress in a fashion indicative of various stages in the indoctrination process. Begin with the first sequence and watch the other two subsequently. Note the lack of voices or figures in the first sequence but their presence in the second and their growing prevalence in the third; this is exactly how the process of indoctrination is described in the series' own codex system. The Reapers are attempting to dissuade Shepherd from pursuing her mission and destroying them by constantly feeding her these images and voices which continually stress the impossibility of the task. Shepherd has never been one to have such self-doubt, yet even if she possibly was, isn't that something BioWare would allow the player to define? In a game all about social interaction and establishing a personal identity (or at least a personality by way of the Paragon and Renegade system), I feel as though the confidence of Commander Shepherd in her abilities would, if they were at all in question, be determined by each individual player. But maybe this is enough to convince some of you that Shepherd is being indoctrinated. If so, great! If not, let's look for further examples to support the theory, shall we?
The second damning piece of evidence, at least for me, is the actual locale of Shepherd's awakening. TheGOODKyle says basically all that needs to be said about this facet, and his conclusions are echoed in a number of different outlets throughout the internet, so I won't belabor this point too much. Basically, the nature of the rubble Shepherd awakens in clearly speaks to it having previously been brick-and-mortar Earth architecture. Had it been the Crucible's wreckage. there would have been much more metallic objects and textures. There is the possibility that Shepherd survived the crash-landing of the Crucible's command center as it plummeted towards earth, but that is unlikely for a number of reasons. People often say it's due to the wreckage breaking up within the Earth's atmosphere, but that reasoning can't can't combat a "made with mysterious materials" pseudo-science explanation as to the possibility of Shepherd's survival as it's a work of fiction. I do think, however, that the sheer impact of such a collision would be impossible for anyone to survive, and no amount of pseudo-science can explain that away without getting to the point of, "oh, she created a stasis field just before impact"-caliber explanations. Some people have postulated that Shepherd could have been beamed back down to earth after activating the Crucible, but why would a Reaper construction have such a failsafe to protect organic lifeforms? Not only that, why would Shepherd be beamed back down under a pile of rubble? All in all, I think it is fairly clear that Shepherd is on earth during the secret ending, and the only point of contention is simply how she got there. I feel as though there are no satisfying explanations for how Shepherd would escape the Crucible, and therefore I can only assume that she never left the planet; everything taking place on the Crucible was either a dream, a hallucination, or indoctrination. There is no evidence to suggest that Shepherd was asleep, the entire scenario seemed far too vivid to be an hallucination, and so I must assume that it was the final attempt to indoctrinate Shepherd. Additionally, what happens right before and whilst on the Crucible also seems to greatly support this claim.
Let's start from the beginning of this final segment. To me, this begins at the top of the hill running down towards the beam. If you look to your upper right, you can see Harbinger disintegrating Shepherd's Alliance comrades with relative ease. Then, Shepherd herself is just about to get zapped when all of a sudden, the screen fades to white. Moments later, Shepherd picks herself up out of the rubble and begins to trudge towards the Crucible's beam. Now that scenario alone is absolutely bizarre for a number of reasons. First, how is it possible for you to survive a beam that would kill you in one hit back on Rannoch? Second, if you did survive such an attack, why would the radio chatter claim that there were no survivors in the assault? Third, why wouldn't Harbinger simply finish you off? With Shepherd moving so slowly and there purportedly being three husks and a marauder between you and the Crucible beam, four creatures who could have communicated to Harbinger that Shepherd was still alive, you would think that it would be in the Reapers' best interest to eliminate clearly their greatest threat. And fourthly, assuming the ending is all Harbinger's attempt to indoctrinate Shepherd, if he failed and Shepherd awoke, as is implied by the secret ending, wouldn't he simply vaporize her immediately upon her success, considering he already had his laser trained on her? Unless this last example was simply an inconsistency overlooked by BioWare, I feel as though the indoctrination process would have to begin sometime before then, sometime when Shepherd would somehow be covered by rubble. When that would be, I'm not sure, but I think that is but a minor imperfection in this theory.
Moving on to the events which happened within the Crucible itself, the radio chatter claimed that there were no survivors in the assault. If that were the case, Anderson simply could not be up there for any reason whatsoever. It may be believable for the radio operators to miss one person reaching the beam, but to miss two stretches the limits of imagination regarding the competency of these trained military personel; in an operation of such importance, no one assigned to report on its status would simply fail to do so with that degree of inaccuracy. The Illusive Man's presence is at least justified, if a tad convenient. That isn't to say convenience entails falsehood in narrative, however, as clearly more convenient things have been engineered earlier in the series that are unquestionably canon.
To continue any further, we must allow ourselves to assume for the sake of the argument that Anderson somehow made it through the beam and up into the Crucible. With that assumption, the following conversation between Shepherd, Anderson, and the Illusive Man plays out in a fairly straight-forward fashion. The Illusive Man is clearly indoctrinated, something foreshadowed throughout the entire game and is entirely believable, and Shepherd finally convinces him to abandon his pursuit of dominion over the Reapers. Afterwards, he kills himself in a manner reminiscent of Saren back in Mass Effect 1, and Shepherd has one final heart-to-heart with Anderson before Anderson himself bleeds out from the gunshot wound. Shepherd reaches the console to initiate the weapon but fails to figure out how before collapsing to the floor. Quite possibly all of this, granting Anderson's presence on the Crucible at all, is plausible. I honestly have no qualms with this portion of the ending, nor do I feel it has any evidence to support the indoctrination theory. This is why some people have made the claim that the indoctrination process actually began once Shepherd collapses in front of the console, because what happens next is all kinds of suspicious.
Shepherd is brought up on this floating platform to an unknown portion of the Crucible where she meets the Catalyst, an entity with the physical form of the boy back on Earth existing within the Citadel who is responsible for the creation of the Reapers and their modus operandi of purging the galaxy of sufficiently intelligent life. After explaining as much, the Catalyst gives Shepherd the infamous 3-pronged ultimatum which I have already discussed in length previously. Now remember what I said previously about the nature of these three choices and how they were presented to the player. Control, the goal of the Illusive Man throughout the game, a short-sighted and selfish endeavor, was highlighted in blue, the color of Paragon choices in the Mass Effect series. Destroy, the morally justifiable goal of every form of life in the galaxy being slowly wiped out by the Reapers, is highlighted in red, the color of Renegade choices. Synthesis, the wild card option that saves any and all forms of life in the galaxy without repercussion, is simply a white shaft of light, white being the color of neutral choices. Now, if BioWare was sincerely presenting these options to the player without any sort of trickery or dubiousness, why would these options be highlighted as they are?
Renegade choices in the Mass Effect trilogy have always been about furthering Shepherd's own self-interest. It doesn't always correlate with a negative moral alignement, but it does typically correlate with off-the-cuff, selfish, or risky behavior. In all three scenarios, the Catalyst implies that Shepherd will die. Accordingly, it seems as though we cannot use self-interest as a motivating factor here. However, we can use the fact that the entire game leading up to the ending framed the Illusive Man's goal of controlling the Reapers as being unnecessarily risky and shortsighted, an action that would most likely be labeled a Renegade choice by the series' dialogue wheel. Paragon actions have always been associated with selflessness and altruism, making compromises and supporting diplomacy. If any of these final decisions were to be a Paragon option, it would be synthesis, the only option that includes some sort of diplomacy and unification, two tenants inherent in most Paragon decisions in the series. This leaves the destroy option as the only candidate for being truly neutral, and this seems to also make the most sense; destroying the reapers guarantees the survival of all organic life in the galaxy as they are without the risks associated with attempting to control the Reapers. If the Geth and al VIs are destroyed in the process, so be it; sometimes one must sacrifice the lives of others instead of one's own to do what must be done. Given that Shepherd is supposedly going to die in any of the three scenarios, this option doesn't seem to imply any sort of self-sacrifice, nor does it imply selfishness; it's truly a neutral option, and is perhaps the most sensible to choose given the far-reaching repercussions of the other two should anything go awry. This is why, despite the game labeling them otherwise, I picked the synthesis option during my first, Paragon-centric playthrough; it was the option that seemed to make the most sense as being the paragon choice. Why would BioWare not present these options accordingly, how it seems they should have been presented?
The answer is because they are using unreliable narration in a video game. The sensory data the game provides the player, through the eyes and ears of Commander Shepherd, isn't "factual" sensory data. While the game clearly takes place from a third-person perspective, we as the player perceive the world around Shepherd as she perceives it, not as it is. Take the dream sequences for example, or the Tron-style data world on Rannoch; if we were only privy to experiencing the world from an entirely removed third-person perspective, we would only see Shepherd sleeping in her bed, or resting in a pod as her consciousness navigates fields of data. In this sense, our account of the world around Shepherd is more a akin to a first-person perspective than a third, even if we can see the Commander throughout the experience. Now, considering this player-Shepherd relationship, should Shepherd start to experience hallucinations, that false sensory data would be shared between her and the player, as manifested on the screen. These hallucinations clearly don't exist in the extended world outside of Shepherd's mind, but she and the player perceive them as if they do. This at least grants us the possibility for what Shepherd experiences whilst on top of the Crucible (or at any point during her stay inside the construction) to be false sensory data, data that is either misconstrued or is fabricated mentally, the latter often being referred to as hallucination. However, most hallucinations are entirely nonsensical in terms of their content, imagery, and intent; the ending moments of Mass Effect 3, on the other hand, are far more sensical than any sort of hallucination. Or at least they are sensical when self-contained. In the context of the game's established timeline up to that point, most of what the Catalyst speaks to Shepherd about is non sequitur, and throughout her exchange with the boy, Shepherd is very, for lack of a better phrase, unlike herself. She asks no questions, and she accepts all this newfound information at face-value, the acceptance of the legitimacy of the Illusive Man's ploy to control the Reapers being particularly suspicious. This all implies, at least to me and a growing number of people around the internet, that at least this final exchange and the subsequent cutscenes are all part of Harbinger's attempt to indoctrinate Shepherd.
Think about it; it would explain practically everything about the ending. Not only that, there is ample evidence to be found throughout the game, not just in the ending, to support this claim, some of which I have already shared. But doesn't it make sense? Of course the Reapers would label the control and synthesis options as being Paragon and neutral; those are the only two options which would allow them to live, the only two choices they want Shepherd to make should she eventually reach the command console inside the Crucible. Clearly neither outcome would actually come to fruition, and the Reapers would simply press on in their eradication of all intelligent organic life in the galaxy. There is no way to actually control them or to bond with them, only ways to dupe Shepherd into believing there is, only ways to dupe the player into believing there is. By selecting either of these options, effectively the player, on Shepherd's behalf, is succumbing to indoctrination. The player has fallen right into the Reaper's trap, and would attempt to extend the proverbial olive branch towards the Reapers, an olive branch that would subsequently be erased from the universe via laser. Effectively, when Shepherd "dies" in these two scenarios, it isn't a physical death, but rather a mental death; her resolve, and by extension the player's resolve, to stop the Reapers at any cost has effectively been eliminated by this hallucinogenic episode crafted by the Reapers for indoctrination purposes. And since Shepherd has been experiencing the effects of indoctrination over the course of Mass Effect 3, as evidenced by the dream sequences, her susceptibility to more rigorous mental invasion is severely heightened by the end of the game, and fabricating an entire fully-realized hallucination is not out of the question.
Additionally, the destruction option being labeled as the negative, selfish choice would actually make sense in this context given that the Reapers obviously don't want Shepherd destroying them once given the chance. By selecting destruction, Shepherd is effectively breaking the hold Harbinger was attempting to have on her. This is why Shepherd regains consciousness on Earth: she never left. The crucible she was subjected to inside the Crucible was all fabricated in an attempt to indoctrinate her. This is why the destroy option is the only option which allows Shepherd to "survive," as it's the only option that breaks Harbinger's indoctrination attempt. And yes, breaking free from the effects of indoctrination is indeed possible in Mass Effect canon, though it requires intense mental fortitude to do so. This mental fortitude, in my mind, comes in the form of Effective Military Readiness. Not that obtaining military assets correlates to mental fortitude in and of itself, but it does imply a certain degree of commitment to a particular goal or ideal. Notice in the ending guide that Shepherd only "survives" with an Effective Military Readiness rating of 4,000 or higher, with the 5,000 tier giving her an additional, albeit red-herring choice. Why would this matter in regards to Shepherd's own survival? Sure, it could otherwise correlate with the fate of Earth, and in some endings, it does. But such a figure has no immediate impact on Shepherd's survival after she initiates the Reaper's destruction. While the EMR correlation is admittedly a little bit of a stretch, every other example I have brought forward, I feel, is enough to at least plant the seed of doubt in anyone's mind who has played Mass Effect 3 and can acknowledge the issues I raised with it and its ending. I simply hope that this, in conjunction with every other pro-indoctrination-theory article, blog, or video on the internet, can convince you that this is Mass Effect 3's true tentative ending. Obviously BioWare would be prepping the true ending as either the first purely post-production bit of DLC or the last, culminating the series on a high note, should the indoctrination theory be correct. And while that may seem to some like a way of milking money out of your audience, I personally will be ecstatic when that DLC is finally released, and I will gladly give BioWare ten of my dollars. Why? Partly to see how the trilogy all ends outside the confines on Shepherd's mind, but mostly to show BioWare as much monetary love as possible for successfully implementing unreliable narration in a video game. Come on, people, that's pretty damn impressive.


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After I out stayed her welomce with Midnight and Zuuri he dragged him self in to the old abandaned music room and hid in the corner and droused off into a unhappy sleep.
Damien beaked threw the door after he heard creaming what he saw would haunt him for the rest of his life, His mother was lying on the floor squirming underneath a a broad mane that her pinned to the floor. The mans eyes gleamed red and had to fangs sticking out of his mouth Damie knew what he was vampire. The thoughts were horrific how this man had strong lust for his mothers blood. But he has too scared to look away.
The vampire leaned down and licked her neck and his mother gasped. undee his touch then he sinked his into her soft neck. I scream ascaped her lips before them man clamped his hand over her mouth. Damien sat on the floor rokcing backwords and forwards crying hoping it was all a dream.
When the vampire left the house he ran out and was shaking his mother she was paler than before "Mummy wake up mummy" Damien cried desperatly. He lay next his mum hoping she was just asleep though deep down he knew she was dead.
I woke feeling groggy, I hadnt dreamed about Mothers death on a long time and I wished I hadnt. I came to realise a piano was playing I stood up remaining the shadows and saw Crystal playing the piano. She looked lost in the music I closed my eyes to feel every emotion that was coming threw music. Hurt, conjusion and lost. I enetered her mind, she was still grieving over the loss of her mother. She was also thinking of me that I was messing with her emotions what I was stringing her along. I wasnt and I didnt understand it either.
I froze time walked over to her easily picked her up and pinned to the floor holding her hands bover her head. I started time again and she looked shocked, realised and annoyed all at the same time.
"Just hear me out please we need to talk" I pleaded to her and shejust hissed and nodded "Im sorry if I seem to be leading you along but Im confused my-self about this situation, but I know for some strange reason I drawn to you" I sighed "More than I would like to admit but for one thing I know what its like to loose you family to blood thirsty vampires... I watched my mum die and it killed me inside to" I looked down at her.
She looked so alluring he hair was fanned out he eyes glistened and her lips slighty parted. "Damien I didnt know Im sorry but these feelings I mean I love someone else I just dont know what you want me to-" I cut her off as I leaned down and kissed her on her lips. He lips tasted sweet and were smooth at first she was shocked and yet she responded to my touch, our lips moved in time as if everything was meant to be. I let go of her arms and placed my hands on her hid drawing her closer, as she slid her arms around my neck.
As I pulled away from her slightly I looked down at her flushed cheek and I smiled at her not my normal smirk of the forced smile it was a true smile "You know you look even cuter when you blush my dear" I said and she blushed even more. I guess we both had just admitted our feelings to eachother.
she returned a smile to me "you know Damien actions speak louder than words" I leant down kissed her head "Yes I know thats why I think they more easier to understand" I whispered into her ear I guess I was falling for her, Crystal of all people and including that a vampire the race I thought I would always hate.


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How to Fine Tune Fitness with Body Composition
Published on October 23, 2015 by Ryan Walters
If you ask someone who works out – a client, a friend, anyone really – if they'd like to lose fat or gain muscle, a lot of the time they'll say, "Both!" And of course they do! Losing fat and gaining muscle: that's the ideal situation for almost everyone.
However, if you're like most people, trying to do both at the same time is extremely difficult, verging on impossible. That's because it's very rare that your body can exist in both a catabolic and anabolic state at the same time.
What's catabolism? Your body exists in a catabolic state when it is working to reduce body tissue. When you are exercising and dieting to lose fat, this is the state you'll want your body to be in. However, although it is possible to encourage your body to lose fat instead of muscle, some loss in muscle tends to occur in catabolic states.
Anabolism is the opposite of catabolism. Your body is in an anabolic state when it is working to grow and develop body tissue. If you are looking to gain Lean Body Mass, this is the state you want to be in. Unfortunately, just like in a catabolic state, anabolism also has unintended side effects. A key contributor to maintaining an anabolic state is consuming more calories than you need to maintain your weight, which can lead to gaining Fat Mass as well as Lean Body Mass.
However, if you're measuring your weight and tracking your progress with your body composition results, you can fine tune your workouts and diet to avoid unwanted fat gain and muscle loss before they become too significant. Here's a three step guide on how to do that:
Step 1: Decide Which Goal Comes First
The first step in any fitness strategy is always the same: figure out what your body composition is at the start so you can decide where you plan on taking your journey. This will vary from person to person.
The ultimate question that needs to be answered is: "What's more important to me, losing as much fat as possible, or preserving (and possibly increasing) the muscle that I have already?" If you decide that losing as much fat as possible is your priority, you're accepting that you're likely going to lose some Lean Body Mass in addition to losing Fat Mass.
If you're focused on preserving your Muscle Mass, start by trying to gain more muscle than you have now. Knowing that you will lose some Lean Body Mass when you start cutting fat mass, if you build up more Lean Body Mass first, you'll be giving yourself some extra LBM that you can afford to lose in the future without dropping below your original Lean Body Mass levels.
If you aren't sure where to begin, here's a guide that will help you decide which starting point is best for you.
Step 2: Find the Point of Diminishing Returns
The next step will be to start your fitness plan based on the goal you want to achieve first: either losing Fat Mass or gaining Lean Body Mass.
Losing Fat Mass
If your goal is to lose Fat Mass, you will need to put your body in a caloric deficit (burning more calories than you take in) in order to help your body enter a catabolic state. This can be achieved with a combination of caloric restriction and increased energy expenditure with some combination of resistance training and cardiovascular exercise. This is commonly referred to as "cutting."
After 1 – 2 weeks, measure your body composition again. If you are dieting and exercising properly, you should start to feel that your clothes fit a little differently, but even if they don't just yet, your body composition results will show your progress. What you should hopefully see is that you lost weight due to a loss in Fat Mass and little to no loss in Lean Body Mass.
If these are your results, great! Continue with another 1 – 2 week cycle, and retest again. At a certain point, however, you'll start to see losses in Lean Body Mass. If you were lifting weights before you started targeting Fat Mass, you will probably start to feel the loss in the amount of strength you have before you see it in your body composition results.
At this point, you have to make a personal choice: are your Fat Mass losses worth the loss in Lean Body Mass?
Gain Lean Body Mass
If your goal is to gain Lean Body Mass, you will need to be in a caloric surplus (bringing in more calories than you use over the course of one day). However, you'll need to put those calories to work by lifting heavy. You'll need all that energy to push yourself to continuously lift more than you did the workout before, workout after workout. "This is commonly referred to as "bulking."
Because gaining muscle is typically a slower process than losing Fat Mass, it's best to give yourself a bit more time – 3 to 4 weeks – before having your body composition measured again. What you should hopefully see is a gain in Lean Body Mass, with little to no gain in Fat Mass.
If these are your results, keep going. Train for another month and retest. At a certain point, you'll likely start to see some Fat Mass start to build up over time. This isn't necessarily cause for concern, especially if the majority of your gains are coming from lean tissue; this can actually cause your body fat percentage to decrease, despite your gains in Fat Mass.
It's a lot easier to gain Fat Mass than it is to gain Lean Body Mass, and so long as you are taking in more calories than you are using, you will gain Fat Mass over time. At a certain point, your Fat Mass gains might become substantial enough to where you may want to think about stopping this bulking cycle and working on reducing some of the Fat Mass you gained.
Step 3: Rotate Goals Until Satisfied
If you're happy with your Fat Mass loss, then it will be time to develop Lean Body Mass and regain what you lost during your cut. If you are happy with your gains in Lean Body Mass but picked up too much Fat Mass along the way, it will be time to cut out some of that unnecessary fat mass.
The key to success is to be constantly measuring your body composition. Without measuring your body composition, you won't be able to fine tune or optimize your fitness, leading you to spend more time in the gym and on calorie restriction longer than necessary. By tracking your body composition results and observing trends over time, you'll be able to reach your goals efficiently, quickly, and with a more positive outlook.
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Iraq Collapsing
Another war that turned out to be a total waste. Yet another American defeat while fighting an unconstitutional war for a foreign power. The amount of blood and money pissed down the drain is staggering.
And the psychos that brought us the Iraq war are now demanding we spill more blood and money in Syria. I guess they figure all that have to do is wave the American flag and sing God Bless America and that will fool the dumb fucks.
Iraqi forces sought to check the rapid advance of Islamist militants who had seized major cities, as Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki responded to the greatest threat to his government since taking power.
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There must be some deadly genetic flaw in the white DNA. Faced with freely available and overwhelming evidence that they are being suckered, the white drone is still prepared to fight and die in phony 'patriotic' wars that have nothing to do with racial or national survival, Maybe it's time to hand over the evolutionary torch to another race that are better fitted to survive.ReplyDelete
Sometimes after one of your videos I feel like you need a drink and so do I, this was one of those videos. I agree with your points. I think many who originally supported the war have come to the realization that it was wrong. It's tragic that so many men had to die for people to see the truth. It's one thing to "support the troops" but it is completely different to believe we should send our men all over the world to die for people who hate us.ReplyDelete
@mbc I am driving you to drink? hehReplyDelete
I support the troops to protect OUR nation. I don't support mercenaries.Replies
Lol, well, if you ever make it down to Dallas we can drive each other to drink ;-PDelete
The "other country" is Israel. The "neo-Cons" are in fact overwhelmingly Jewish. Regardless of the authenticity of the "The Protocols", they have turned out to be remarkably prescient as far as how events have unfolded since they were published. It is not philosophically inconsistent to support our troops but totally disagree with their reason for being overseas. Many have said if before but I have to say it here; "NO more wars for Israel". We need to bring all our troops home today and do just what Ron Paul advocated in his Pres. campaign, stop all foreign aid period. Including that to Israel.ReplyDelete
" .........to believe we should send our men all over the world to die for people who hate us."ReplyDelete
"You" are not sending your men all over the world to die for people who hate you - your Government is.
And those people did not hate your government until your government started to usurp these people's own governments (sometimes democratically elected) - and then to proceeded to bomb the shit out of them when they didn't bend to your government's will. You, like me, have absolutely no control over our governing elites and their self serving schemes. We and our people are certainly not dying for the benefit of people who now hate us.
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Yet another failed military crusade to save somebody. Korean War (never ended BTY), Vietnam, now Iraq and Afghanistan. And the military operation that would be a cinch to win and would cost just a mere fraction of what those other military failures cost is just sitting there being obvious: SECURE OUR US BORDERS!!!ReplyDelete
So typical. Neocon Zionists encouraged Bush to destroy Sunni power in Iraq. Shias came to power, so Zionists then feared the Shia crescent from Iran to Lebanon. So, Obama sent aid to Sunni terrorist rebels to undermine and destabilize Syria, which is allied with Iran. Now Sunni terrorists spill out from Syria and attack & weaken the Shia government in Iraq. Make gentile fight gentile.ReplyDelete
Jews pulled the same thing in Ukraine, pumping massive money–$5 billion in US tax payer dollars–into that region to foment gentile animosity toward gentiles. The likes of Wolfowitz and Nuland are a plague upon the world.
But gentile politicians like Bush and Obama will keep acquiescing to Jewish demand since Jewish elites and money can make or break anyone.
The Syrian War would have ended long ago if US, Saudi Arabia, and Israel didn't funnel arms to the rebels. But it went on and is spilling into Iraq. Zionists love it since the Shia crescent has been broken.
My two tours to SE Asia back in the 1970s was to protect the business interests of monolithic greedy USA corporations who are in an unholy alliance with the tyrannical USA governments at all levels; federal, state and local.ReplyDelete
As the decades passed and I sought the reality of life within the USA I have concluded that an immense scam and ongoing class war exists.
The only war I want is Revolutionary War Two to destroy the unrepairable old systems and put a new set of Founders with all American's interests at heart to start anew albeit with the existing Constitution as a frame work.
And ensure the corporate systems of immense wealth and power are made accountable to the masses of citizens.
USA, USA, USA???!!!!ReplyDelete
How about JERRY, JERRY, JERRY!!!???
American foreign policy and Jerry Springer Show play on the same dynamics.
The puppet master pulls the strings and provokes fights where gentiles end up bashing one another, but oddly enough, everyone looks to the puppet-master as the sage of wisdom, advice, and peace.
Springer brings on people on his show and provokes them to fight and bloody one another, but he stands back and acts so innocent. And the very people who are being exploited by him plead with him for sympathy, as if he's their friend and really cares about them(when he really despises them as dumb goyim). And even though the fools in the seats come from the same social milieu as the fools on the stage, the audience holler and applaud at the mayhem and chant 'Jerry, Jerry, Jerry'.
Same with US foreign policy. The puppet masters make Christians fight Muslims and make Sunnis fight Shias. We pump money into the region to ensure that no side will grow 'too powerful'. So, when Hussein invaded Iran and triggered the Iran-Iraq War, US gave him tons of aid. But when Hussein won the war and invaded Kuwait, he was suddenly the new Hitler. He and his people had to be destroyed, even if it meant that 300,000 women and children would be killed by economic sanctions. Sounds like what Stalin and Kaganovich did to the Ukrainians in the 30s.
As Israel wants to be the sole great power in the region, it plays this 'balance of powers' game. It's like the UK used to support any nation on the European continent to ensure that no nation would become too dominant. So, when France was 'too powerful', UK sided with Germans and Russians. When Germany became 'too powerful', UK sided with France and Russia.
We are all being played by the Zionist elites, but we just go along screaming USA, USA, or JERRY, JERRY. And even though the Zionists use us like attack dogs, we plead with them for sympathy, money, and handouts as if they are compassionate masters who just adore us so much.
Gimme a break.
If the people on Jerry Springer Show had any sense or courage, they would stop fighting one another and chanting JERRY JERRY and band together and kick Jerry's butt for HE is a cunning puppet master who raked in so much dough by encouraging gentiles to bash one another or enjoy the spectacle of other gentiles bashing one another.


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Her eyes glaze like iced pottery as she follows the blood farther up its line of resolve, up, up, up.
Beyond the high windows, the rows of stout benches perched under stone canopies.
Beyond the arches that support the Panopticon's emerald dome.
Beyond all of this, Flamina stares at the thing dangling from the place where the pod fell.
For there in the top of the dome, there is strung the flayed remains of a singular presence, a hawk among pigeons.
Cat among rats.
Man among minstrels and thieves.
That man is Rassilon, dripping backwards, his wet bones bunched like exotic carrots under that purple robe as they rebuild themselves from flesh assumingly repurposed from nearby matter. Her... father.
She looks down at the floor again, realising she's missed it, in the semi-dark.
There is another man, naked at her feet, stained, she presumes, by the climbing blood. Or perhaps a wound.
He is shivering and unconscious.
The only man she would scream for.
As a figure in guard's silvers sprints across from the hall she came from, she cries out.
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"Minami! Where's my bow?" I shouted to my brother. He walked into my room, shrugged and walked out.
"You could've simply said 'no' you derp." I teased. He was smarter than me though but he has horrible patience. I could wait in the food line at school for an hour and not get frustrated, however for him, he gets so impatient and started banging on the door and shouting to 'hurry up, we're starving' but I laugh at how impatient he is.
I walked into the bathroom to look for my bow and sure enough, it was on the sink. Good thing it wasn't wet, It's my favourite bow. It's hot pink and it's so big that you can see it from the back when I'm facing towards you. My dad gave me that bow when I was little. I have treasured it ever since. Speaking of dad, where is he?
"Minami? Etsuko? Do you know where dad is?" I called out. Minami comes in again shrugs then walks out, Etsuko does the same. Etsuko is my little sister, she is just 4 years younger than Minami and myself. if I didn't mention this before, Minami is my twin. He was born 3 minutes before me but for some reason I got all the artsy skills and he got all the smart skills.
I decided to wander aimlessly around the house and I stumble on my dad laying on the floor.
"Dad? What are you doing on the floor?" I ask. He shrugs. Man everybody in this house is so alike except for me. I am like my mother. She was very beautiful with long pink and blue hair and it was natural too. Etsuko got her hair colour. My mother had all the patience in the world. She had the most beautiful voice ever. She used to sing Minami and myself to sleep every night. She died a year after Etsuko was born. She had fallen ill while volunteering at the hospital. She had gotten a very deadly virus that had been unnamed and still is because there are no traces of it being on this planet anymore. My poor mother, it was a sad moment in our life.
My Dad on the other hand was like the opposite of her. He is cute, I'll say that much. He has hair and Minami's is almost exactly like his. Dad's hair is like the darkest colour of black you will ever see. Minami's and mine have white hair which fade into black which is weird because mom or dad never had white hair. He get's obsessed with things very easily. He loves everything japanese and he has created three Utauloids. They were modeled after Etsuko, Minami and myself. Etsuko has a really cute voice. I have a really mature voice and Minami sounds almost exactly like himself. I like to think that those voices will be ours in another life-time. Minami is exactly like my dad. They both shrug when they don't want to answer something, they get obsessed with things, they both love to sing. However my mother had the smarts in the family my dad had art skills.
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where's a good place to pick up additional XD 9mm magazine's? I would like to have a couple extra..
alot of out of stocks at midway.. anyone ever use a 30 rd mag.? are they reliable? one of those might be fun..
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Situated in a rural location, this hotel is within 12 mi (20 km) of County Ground, Northampton Guildhall, and Northampton Museum and Art Gallery. University of Northampton and Market Square are also within 12 mi (20 km).
Along with a restaurant, this smoke-free hotel has a bar/lounge and a meeting room. Free WiFi in public areas and free self parking are also provided. Other amenities include laundry facilities, a 24-hour front desk, and a front-desk safe.
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The hotel offers a restaurant. A bar/lounge is on site where guests can unwind with a drink. Public areas are equipped with complimentary wireless Internet access. This business-friendly hotel also offers laundry facilities and a safe deposit box at the front desk. Complimentary self parking is available on site.
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