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This is my pledge to:Mr. President Barack Hussein Obama, Mr. President George W. Bush, Mr. President William Clinton, Rockefeller family, Rothschild family, Bilderberg Group, Goldman Sachs, CFR, IMF. It's been said that the government of the United States of America currently represented by its President, Barack Hussein Obama, it's not a Republic anymore. That there is a Shadow Government and/or a Secret Government that controls the majority -and probably, all countries of the world. The shadow government, as explained by many sources, wants to gain absolute control over all of us, children of earth, and frankly, the idea of being "owned" and ensalved by these fascist-trillionaire people, scares me to death! But the mainstream media (which is controlled by the government, the banks and the elite) does not recognize the existence of a shadow government and considers, anyone who believes otherwise, to be a "conspiracy theorist", a "loco", an instigator and a liar. Well, I cannot prove that there is a shadow government indeed, but just, just in case that there is one and wants to finally take control over all of us in the future, through globalization policies, a global currency, international police, fear mongering, national/international IDs, closing borders of all countries, taxation, big brother control methods...just in case that this is their purpose, please, DON'T! If you -Shadow/Secret Government- indeed exist, well, you already have your power, your money, mansions, palaces, the best caviar and wine. Please, do not control us anymore, live your lives in royal luxury and leave us, children of earth, live our own lives as we please, in peace...pretty please, would you do that for us? I would very very very much appreciated. Thank you.

It's Friday, day for a "Thank God it's Friday Video".  Today it -video- is a cycling video, inspirational and motivational for cyclists who want to get ready for the early Saturday bike ride train. I decided to choose this fantastic inspirational cycling video because it expresses part of my feelings about the most wonderful sport in the whole world -and probably the entire universe-, cycling. We all have dreams in life. Dreams and goals keep us alive, once we stop dreaming and pushing, the end begins to unfold, and cycling is the one passion that keeps me going and lifts my spirit. I have discovered that many thousands of fanatic cyclists feel exactly the same way. That is why I picked this great video as my favorite of this week. I hope you like it as much as I do. Related articles by ZemantaThank God It's Friday Cycling Video (livingstrongandhappy.blogspot.com)Andy Schleck Tarmac Commercial Video (livingstrongandhappy.blogspot.com)Cyclist Goes Over Cliff (Video) (blippitt.com)Beijing wants people to leave the car at home, and jump back on the bike (investoralist.com)Exposing Richard Freeman Cyclist Hater (livingstrongandhappy.blogspot.com)

After listening to President Barack Obama speech last night, I am convinced that there is not intelligent leadership in the US. I couldn't believe that Mrs. Pelosi, Mr. Biden and President Obama were laughing and taking things lightly. They were acting like they really did something to 'get us out' of the financial disaster the banksters -Washington bosses- got us all into. First of all, there hasn't been any recovery. We are facing another financial depression just like the one in 1929, the difference now it's that it's going to be much worse because it's going to be global, the whole world is heading that way. California used to be the 5th economy of the world and now it's in the brink of collapsing. Total unemployment in the US does not improve, it is only getting worse. Millions of Americans are now on food stamps (modern soup lines of the 1929 Depression era) Wall Street is rigged and manipulated. But President Obama says that he got us out of recession, oh please, what a lie! President Barack Obama,  Ben Bernanke,  Timmy Geithner and all the banksters are singing to us "Cheer Up Smile Nertz!" A song sang by Eddie Cantor in 1931. Songs of the Depression. Sure, business is bunk, And Wall Street is sunk, We're all of us broke, and ready to croak. We've nothing to dunk, Can't even get drunk, And all the while, they tell us to smile: Cheer up, gentle citizens, though you have no shirts, Happy days are here again. Cheer up, smile, nertz! All aboard prosperity, giggle 'till it hurts! No more bread-line charity. Cheer up, smile, nertz! Cheer up, cheer up, cheer up, cheer up, cheer, Up, cheer up, cheer up, cheer, better times are here. Sunny smilers we must be, the optimist asserts, Let's hang the fat-head to a tree! Cheer up, smile, nertz! The world's in the red, We're better off dead, Depression, they say's in session to stay. Our judges are queer, Our banks disappear, And all the while, they tell us to smile: Chee

Tour Down Under in Australia has its moments of excitement, and stage 5 is one of them. Stage 5 is 'D' DAY because it defines the final general classification with its ascends of old Willunga Hill. If you are interested you can read the entire race report in the RadioShack Cycling Team website. But if you are more visual and prefer to watch the actual exciting cycling moments (like me), then I would like to share this video with you. General Classification: 1. Andre Greipel (HTC – Columbia) 2. Luis Leon Sanchez (Caisse D’Epargne) @11″ 3. Luke Roberts (Milram) @20 4. Cadel Evans (BMC Racing) @21″ 5. Greg Henderson (Team Sky) @24″ Related articles by ZemantaTour Down Under Video 2010 Stage 1 (livingstrongandhappy.blogspot.com) LIVESTRONG Cancer Research Centre in Australia (livingstrongandhappy.blogspot.com)

Joby Spragg, 33 years old, decided to start cycling about a year ago to become a bit of a healthier person and because he always preferred cycling over other sports. He bought a camera and started to film his daily commutes from Hyde to Manchester City Centre where he works (needless to say he has lost several pounds since then). The problem start after his activities on the road were published in the tabloid press. Since then he has received numerous threats that he will be run off the road. "I started doing it because, unfortunately, cycling is very dangerous, particularly commuting into Manchester," he said. "I've never been hit so badly that I've needed to go to hospital, but I’ve been knocked off my bike into a car and I got hit about four weeks ago." "I’m doing it because I've got a young family at home, and everyone else has loved ones – we all want to get home, but waiting another minute at a traffic light isn’t going to make much difference." "I just want to let people know that it’s not just them on the road." He posts clips of bad driving at those points as well as letting authorities like Tameside Council and the Highways Agency know that he considers them to be dangerous. Is he doing the right or the wrong thing? One thing is for sure. If he saw me cycling like a mad woman on my bicycle (that's how I city bike everyday), he already would have me on one of his videos and probably he would have reported me to the authorities...OMG, I hope Jobby Spraggs never sees me riding. Thank goodness there is a big ocean between us, LOL. Exposing mistakes/asphalt problems on the road, dangerous drivers, pedestrians and sometimes fast pace cyclists is one thing, but reporting them to the authorities is another. In the world we live in I would consider that to be more dangerous than road city cycling. What do you guys think? Related articles by ZemantaCycling Tour of San Luis 2010 Argentina (livingstrongandhappy.blogspot.com)

There are many professional cycling races all around the world and I enjoy the privilege of blogging about them. Cycling is, in my personal opinion, the most fascinating sports of all, it's kind of like enjoying a song with lyrics in a language you don't know how to speak nor understand, but you certainly can enjoy the song because of the beauty in the musical notes of the orchestra/band and voice of the singer. Cycling is like that. You don't need to understand what the commentator [describing the race] is saying to enjoy and understand what is happening during the cycling competition. Cycling itself is art, life and passion. So let's learn a bit about other important races in the world like the Tour of San Luis going on right now in Argentina, where more than 1000 kilometers will be competed from January 18 to the 24th, 2010. You can also follow the Tour of San Luis in Twitter Related articles by ZemantaWill Lance Armstrong go to Oaxaca Mexico again? (livingstrongandhappy.blogspot.com)

The Santos Tour Down Under completed its first stage which was a pretty an "uneventful day", according to Lance Armstrong. Lance Armstrong comments: “I feel pretty good, but it was not an easy day. It was very up and down,” Armstrong said. “Overall, it was a fairly uneventful day.”  Andre Greipel comments: “We came here to win a stage and now we’ve won one, so our main goal has been reached. Everything else is now on top of that,” said Greipel. “We waited and spoke with the other teams but nobody wanted to ride with us, so Bert Grabsch chased them down just like he does in time trials. “Of course it’s just the first stage, we have to take the responsibility to win every race now as we have in the last two years,” said Greipel. “So for sure that’s the focus now again.” “It was a good finish and a good warmup for the team,” he said. “We took responsibility for the whole stage. The team made the difference. We started as a team and finished as a team.” Cadel Evans comments: “It was hard but that’s always the first race of the year,” said Evans. “With a really good quality field here when it goes fast it really goes fast but mostly for me personally just getting everything going with the team and being at work on the road, it’s good. “I think overall for a team that came here without a sprinter to have two jerseys is already a good start,” he added. RESULTS after Stage 1 1. Andre Greipel (Ger) HTC-Columbia 2. Gert Steigmans (Bel) Team Radio Shack 3. Jurgen Roelandts (Bel) Omega Pharma-Lotto 4. Danilo Wyss (Swi) BMC Racing Team 5. Greg Henderson (NZl) Team Sky 6. Baden Cooke (Aus) Team Saxo Bank 7. Graeme Brown (Aus) Rabobank 8. Robbie McEwen (Aus) Katyusha 9. Jose Rojas (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 10.Valeriy Dmitriyev (Kaz) Astana George Hincapie finished 12th Lance Armstrong 46th Jens Voigt 49th Cadel Evans 50th Hincapie, Armstrong, Voight and Evans finished within the peloton/Gr

This video of Andy Schleck is so cool. This is exactly what I love about cycling. The effort, the dedication, the passion a cyclist has to have towards this beautiful sport of cycling. Sometimes a short cycling video well done tells me more and makes my heart vibrate of emotion more than a long poorly made cycling video. Go Andy, I want you on the podium of the Tour de France 2010! Related articles by ZemantaCycling Race Scody Australian Open Road 2010 (livingstrongandhappy.blogspot.com)Funny Cycling Video Moments (livingstrongandhappy.blogspot.com)

Actress Brittany Murphy dies at 32, rest in peace. That is all I want to say. We don't know the reasons, we just don't know what some people have to go through in life. All I want to say is that she was an excellent actress and was too young to die. One thing for sure is that she knew What It Feels Like For A Girl Related articles by ZemantaActress Brittany Murphy dead: TMZ (thestar.com) Crews called to home of Brittany Murphy's husband (seattletimes.nwsource.com)

Oh gee, I really want the 2010 cycling season to start as soon as possible so I can stop blogging so much about the idiots that have put us all through this financial mess.It is unlikely that I will stop completely though, since everyday there's something new to discuss in the bloggosphere that the main stream media doesn't care to report nor to talk about. You know, keeping secrets, manipulation and corruption of the government and the main stream media is something that needs to be addressed. Before you watch the video, let me tell you something: "Ben Bernanke IS God", for now, to the banksters and Wall Street, and he will be their God until he cannot continue to perform 'financial miracles'. But blogging about Lance Armstrong and Alberto Contador feud hopefully will take my mind -for few moments- away from God Bernanke and the Messiah.

Your favorite cycling movie could be only about cycling or it could be a drama, horror, science fiction, comedy, love, suspense or fantasy movie that includes a cycling event of some sort, a cyclist character, or anything about cycling that you liked a lot for whatever reason. In my case, all cycling movies are especial, even if cycling is not the main theme of the story, I just love any movie that includes cycling or cyclists. But tonight I have to vote for "Ladri Di Biciclette", one of the best cycling movies ever made, in my own personal opinion. PART 1 "The film tells the story of Antonio Ricci, an unemployed man in the depressed post-World War II economy of Italy. With no money and a wife and two children to support, he is desperate for work. He is delighted to at last get a good job hanging up posters, but on the sole condition that he has a bicycle which must be used for work. He is told unequivocally: "No bicycle, no job." His wife Maria pawns their bedsheets in order to get money to redeem his bicycle from the pawnbroker. Early on in the film, Ricci's coveted bicycle is stolen by a bold young thief who snatches it when he is hanging up a poster. Antonio thinks that the police will take the theft very seriously, but they are not really interested in the petty theft of a bike. The only option is for Antonio and his friends to walk the streets of Rome themselves, looking for the bicycle. After trying for hours with no luck, they finally give up and leave." PLOT PART 9

Economy talk can be boring for some but if you listen to Max Keiser, I promise you, you won't be bored at all. I guarantee you that you will learn about economy, finances and at the same time, you will have a great time listening to his very intelligent and hilarious way he has to explain how the Theoclassical Economics  ( A religious system that worships greed) works now days, in other words, Market Fundamentalism where people are willing to die for it. Typical examples of the current Theoclassical Economics, Ben Bernanke, Alan Greenspan, Geithner, Obama, Goldman Sachs, more "banksters" and many more in Wall Street.

Barack Obama and Pelosi better hurry up Congress to pass Obamacare (better known as "Health Care for all") otherwise they are going to be extremely busy next year trying to reform not only the "failed" American health care system but also the failed American housing system. Some Americans are now starting to claim that not only access to health care is a basic human right, but also access to decent housing. I wonder, isn't access to food and water MORE of a basic human right than health care and housing? If we don't eat and drink water we get sick and die!. I would tell Obama and Co. to pass first and foremost access to food and water (free diet coke would be nice too, thanks!)

Here it is, something to think about: "According to the U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics, there are more than 31 million people currently unemployed -- that's including those involuntarily working parttime and those who want a job, but have given up on trying to find one. In the face of the worst economic upheaval since the Great Depression, millions of Americans are hurting. "The Decline: The Geography of a Recession," as created by labor writer LaToya Egwuekwe, serves as a vivid representation of just how much. Watch the deteriorating transformation of the U.S. economy from January 2007 -- approximately one year before the start of the recession -- to the most recent unemployment data available today." Related articles by ZemantaSoup Lines VS Food Stamps (livingstrongandhappy.blogspot.com)

I don't have to say it again, I know I have said it a million times, I LOVE CYCLING WITH ALL MY LIFE, but I hate time trials...there I said it. Don't get me wrong though. I do love to watch the pros do the time trials, go fast like the wind from the start to the end, fast cadence -Lance Armstrong style- or slower but hard cadence -Jan Ulrich style-. They look so good on their outfits and the position on the bike. But I don't find this cycling category very exciting for me, maybe because I am just not that good at it. I am what you would call an endurance cyclist and a climber, and I am good at it, oh yes. Love the long kilometers and the pain I have to endure to get to the finish. And climbing to me, represents the suffering my muscles have to go through to get to the top, but when there, the joy is simply overpowering. Reason why I hate time trials (for me) 1. Most of the time the distance is really short (unless you are competing in the Tour de France where the TTs can be 40 to 60 kms) 2. Most of the distance to ride is flat. No excitement there. 3. The time trial bike is kind of uncomfortable for a shorty like me. Watching the pro-cyclists ride though, it's a flabbergasting experience for my eyes. Related articles by ZemantaRadio Shack Cycling Roster 2010 (livingstrongandhappy.blogspot.com) Tour of Cancer LIVESTRONG Foundation (livingstrongandhappy.blogspot.com) If I Can't Walk I Can Fly...And BIKE! (livingstrongandhappy.blogspot.com) CSV Masters ITT - Victorian State Championships 2009 (gplama.blogspot.com)

Almost one year since President Barack Obama came into power and so far, nothing has changed, at least, not for the better. And even though the main stream media of all over the world tries to hide the truth, it is practically impossible to continue this charade of lies, especially when there are so many people eager to tell the whole world about the reality of the economic disaster that STILL is going on. Nothing has changed with President Obama. More troopers will be sent to Afghanistan, more civilians will be killed, more children and elderly people will die, he is just continuing the bloody wars that keep hurting the economy and the spirit of the humans involved in it. Unemployment keeps rising and poverty increasing, retail stores keep closing their doors and the GDP is deteriorating. What has changed? ..... nothing has.