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Joseph P Farrell – Did The Dutch Central Bank Lie About Its Gold Bar List?

Zerohedge – This story started a couple of years ago. As I am Dutch and concerned not only about my own financial well being but of my country as well, I commenced inquiring my national central bank about the whereabouts and safety of our gold reserves in late 2013. One of my first actions was submitting the local equivalent of a Freedom Of Information Act – in Dutch WOB – to De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB) in order to obtain all written communication of the past decades between DNB and the Federal Reserve Bank Of New York (FRBNY). Continue reading

An Amazing Village Designed Just For People With Dementia

Gizmodo  February 20 2014

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Images: Hans Erkelens/CC.

Centuries after Shakespeare wrote about King Lear’s symptoms, there’s still no perfect way to care for sufferers of dementia and Alzheimer’s. In the Netherlands, however, a radical idea is being tested: Self-contained “villages” where people with dementia shop, cook, and live together—safely.

We, as a population, are aging rapidly. According to the Alzheimer’s Association, one in three seniors today dies with dementia. The process of finding—and paying for—long-term care can be very confusing, unfortunately, and difficult for both loved ones and patients. Most caretakers are underpaid, overworked, and must drive far distances to their jobs—giving away some 17 billion unpaid hours of care a year. And it’s just going to get worse: Alzheimer’s has increased by an incredible 68 percent since 2000, and the cost of caring for sufferers will increase from $203 billion last year to $1.2 trillion by 2050.

In short, we’re not prepared for the future that awaits us—financially, infrastructurally, or even socially. But in the small town of Weesp, in Holland—that bastion of social progressivism—at a dementia-focused living center called De Hogeweyk, aka Dementiavillage, the relationship between patients and their care is serving as a model for the rest of the world.

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Plato Revisited (Shadow On A Wall)

PateoMediaInter | September 8 2011

Wholly Science combines the remarkable findings of Modern Science with the profound wisdom of Ancient Science. This series of lectures below presents the basics of Wholly Science. This presentation was recorded in Oosterbeek, The Netherlands, on August 31th, 2011.