Congratulations, Bruce, on a highly readable summary, with links, that can serve to introduce almost anyone who has been following events to an understanding of what has been and is going on in the world. When we are being strangles by finance and the act is being disguised by economics it behooves us all to get a better understanding of both.

As the Dutch said while fighting the Spanish: "It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."