Buongiorno!

aaahhhh....Rome! Yes, we visited Rome for 4-5 days last week. What can I say...it's was one of the most enlightening experience. We walked, and walked, and walked till our feet were about to fall off. We ate pizzas and pastas and gelato everyday!!

It was a very humbling experience when we realised that we were walking on the grounds that the apostle Paul had walked on two thousand years ago. We saw ruins and remains that dated back to Jesus' time, sometimes older! Wow.

Day #1

San Giovanni






















































Walking around...look what we discovered!








Aquaduct dating back to Jesus time....















Colosseo



















































On the way to Fontana di Trevi Dylan got to excited in discovering a Mickie D where he knows for sure he can get a good and honest to goodness cup of beverage for a reasonable price!












Fontana di Trevi (3 coins in the fountain...) :-)








Dinner @ the flat








Day #2

The Forum









The Palatine






















Vatican City - St. Peter's Basilica























































Streets of Rome and a funny sign in a toilet near the Vatican City :-)















The Pantheon












Sant' Ignazio di Layola - the church was built by Cardinal Ludovisi in 1626 in honour of St. Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Society of Jesus and the man who most embodied the zeal of Counter Reformation.


















Random Church we walked in celebrated Halloween in a strange way...












Pinocchio dolls everywhere! How cute....I suppose since he was carved from a piece of pine by a woodcarver named Geppetto in a small Italian village...it only made sense.












Dinner out next to Republica Metro station












Day #3

Scala Santa - the holy staircase. The 28 steps, said to be those that Christ ascended in Pontius Pilate's house during his trial, are suppose to have been brought from Jerusalem by St. Helena, mother of the Emperor Constantine.












Piazza Di Spagna - Spanish Steps (Spanish Steps) + shopping (break from sight seeing!)+a visit to high-end Italian Mickie D




















Day #4

Dylan started the Day with a traditional haircut from a fine old Italian man who do not speak a word of English! Haircut style was communication by mere hand gestures! Very brave of Dylan! The man spent a good 10 minutes (includes talking time) perfecting the old style parting (see picture)!












Vatican Museum - Pope Mobile
























Vatican Museum












































































































Pit Stop in Dublin (transit) for 5 hours....so we roamed around Dublin and met up with a friend.








Malaysian restaurant in Dublin??? Dublin has come a long way since I last visited it about 5 years ago!

The Federal Reserve is as Federal as Federal Express?

Since the financial crisis, Dylan and I have been reading up (more like watching videos) about the financial system, money supply etc. The more we dig, the scarier it became. One of the most shocking thing I discovered is the Federal Reserve and the Bank of England are not government entities! Did you know that? One of my favourite quotes I've heard in one the videos is "the Federal Reserve is as Federal as Federal Express!"

The Federal Reserve was actually started by a handful of really wealthy bankers in 1913 during President Woodrow's reign. Let it sink in for a while... When we hear/read in the news that the Feds has lower/increase interest rates, it's not the government! It's those private bankers who are yanking the chain on interest rates! When we pay taxes, we are not paying taxes to the government but instead just paying off the interest rates on the debt that the govt. incurred by borrowing from the Fed! Inflation? Same thing.

What will happen if the "government" infuse $700billion into the economy? What good is it if the Fed increase the insurance of your savings from $100K to $250 when gas prices will end up at say $10/gallon or bread will cost $10 a loaf? Sure, 100% of your say $150K savings is all there but it'll end up buying you less.

So if the Fed is not owned by the government, who's behind the Fed? Who is rich enough to actually issue loans to the US government or governments around the world? Ahhhh.......below is a couple of videos that would explain this revelation better than I can.

Video #1

I would watch only about the first 50 minutes of this video. I think it explains very clearly and easy to follow however I don't endorse the 2nd part of it at all.

Video #2

The rise of the Rothschild
"Let me issue and control a Nation's money and I care not who makes its laws". Amsel (Amschel) Bauer Mayer Rothschild, 1838

"In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect
savings from confiscation through inflation. ... This is the shabby
secret of the welfare statists' tirades against gold. Deficit spending
is simply a scheme for the confiscation of wealth. Gold stands in the
way of this insidious process. It stands as a protector of property
rights. If one grasps this, one has no difficulty in understanding the
statists' antagonism toward the gold standard." Alan Greenspan

"No servant can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and Money." Jesus Christ (Luke 16:13)

If we have wet your appetite for this conspiracy (or truth), you can look up more videos surrounding this topic online. Fascinating stuff eh?

Even with advance degrees in Finance, we never knew the truth like majority of Americans. I suppose people have very short memory and given the Fed was set up in 1913, they have somehow managed to conveniently convince a lot of people they are owned by the US govt!


If Dylan and I mysteriously vanished into thin air...you'll know why! :-)