2005.4.7=4[#97]:4703.2.29[#58/60]: Documents continued. Travel shots.

Cloudy cool then sudden short rain then gradually fair mild: Up first at 5:50, sleep, emails, up to blog now 11:04am for some topics. Here then blog was out of order until 4.8=5 morning now. Back here started to continue arranged and searched documents up to side small drawer case top and case, found almost all new and old medical files. Lung bathed then quick bath myself then lunch, rushed to hospital late again, told no ins. pay for Travel Medicine, so checked price then Dr. Anderson very through and helpful, had Twinrix(Hepatitus A&B) & Tetamus/diphtheria(Td) vaccines, getting to know I could help mom to go to Palo Alto to see nurse at least soon as the former shot need some time for 7 then 21 days later shots. Rushed to Bk of Am right after 6pm still in, deposited cash then asked Amy who didn't know what materials needed from me for refinancing, later Rebecca's assistant Mary... asked for them by next Tuesday. No blogging night, all slept, bed 1:40. 1) Global Finance & Democracy? (1) "The Gold Cartel Is Dead Meat!", Article of the Day, April 6 by Bill Murphy, HoweStreet.com: http://www.howestreet.com/mainartcl.php?ArticleId=1097 "" I consider the following news which hit the tape to be of such importance to do a special recap for you: "Congress, Bush will block IMF gold sales": Washington, DC, Apr. 5 (UPI) -- U.S. Congress and President Bush will stop the International Monetary Fund from selling its gold, the chairman of the Joint Economic Committee said. The IMF is considering gold sales as a way of covering bad loans it has made to impoverished borrowers now unable or unwilling to repay, but Congressional approval would be required. "" (2) "Wolfowitz appointment – a victory for Israel and Wall Street", Al Jazeera; /6/2005 2:00:00 PM GMT: http://www.aljazeera.com/cgi-bin/conspiracy_theory/fullstory.asp?id=211 "" It shouldn't come as a surprise that Israel is very much 'enamoured' with the idea of Paul Wolfowitz heading up the World Bank. "" "" Imposing further "austerity measures" on Gazans-the hallmark of the World Bank and the IMF-would verge on institutional sadism. Thus the Zionist Wolfowitz is a perfect choice to head up the World Bank. For one minute analysts actually thought that the World Bank had lost its mind, actually musing over appointing the rock star Bono to the post, but now it is firmly back on track, delving the depths in search of the most ruthless individuals to impoverish even more people and thus enrich the already stinking rich. Source: kurtnimmo.com "" (3) "Budgets: Bad And Badder Sharon Parrott and John Springer April 06, 2005 There's the House budget, and there's the Senate budget. Both include more than $100 billion in program cuts, mostly hurting working people, and large increases in tax cuts, mostly benefiting a small percentage of wealthy people. Sharon Parrott and Jonh Springer of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities explain how the tax cuts and defense spending increases contained in both budgets would cost more than the cuts in domestic programs would save. So much for deficit reduction. Sharon Parrott is director of welfare reform and income support at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. John Springer is a senior writer at the Center. 2) India - Central Asia: "Central Asia, new focus of India's oil diplomacy", New Delhi | April 06, 2005 12:45:31 PM IST: http://www.webindia123.com/news/showdetails.asp?id=76020&cat=Business "" New Delhi, April 6 : With the global race for scarce energy resources intensifying, India is increasingly looking to Central Asia both as a reliable source of oil and natural gas and a focus of its strategic interests in Asia. "" (3) "Democracy Starts At Home", by Joseph E. Stiglitz, April 06, 2005: http://www.tompaine.com/articles/democracy_starts_at_home.php?dateid=20050406 "" When all is said and done, George Kennan was right: America’s most powerful tool in international affairs is our example. Highlighting the hypocrisy of a leader who promotes democracy abroad while weakening it at home, Joe Stiglitz describes our domestic democracy deficit in detail. Joseph E. Stiglitz, a Nobel laureate in economics, is professor of economics at Columbia University and was chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers to President Clinton and chief economist and senior vice president at the World Bank. His most recent book is The Roaring Nineties: A New History of the World's Most Prosperous Decade. ""