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DAY 20(Thursday, 8 May 2014)ALTAR OF THE FATHERLANDIt is DAY 20 of my hunger strike and I am absolutely exhausted from a day of walking, busing,filming, and navigating through this giant city. Physically I am well and hunger is still absentthough the body is now in wait mode and seems to be asking ‘when is the next meal coming?’There was some dizziness and a few moments of chest pain towards the end of the day, but Ithink they are both related to the exertion rather than the hunger because this morning I felt assprite as a spring chicken.The scales show I have lost another 100 grams since yesterday and that means that I now weigh78.8 Kg or circa 173 pounds. My shoulders and arms have started to feel skinny and my neckhas also visibly thinned. The good part is that I now fit perfectly well in my white Indian suit,the kurta pajama.Today was somewhat frustrating because it took us almost two hours to get to the Catacombs ofPriscilla, the oldest in Rome, only to be told we are not allowed to film inside or even takephotographs. It was our intended filming location for the day and we had to scramble and findanother one that is suitable to the script I had prepared. In the end, we shot at the “Altar of theFatherland” in Piazza Venezia, a famous landmark built in the memory of Victor Emanuel II, theman who unified Italy, and housing the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier to honor every soldierwho lost his life during the First World War and remains unidentified.We just barely managed to film the three clips we needed to when we were told to stop filmingby the soldiers and security personnel guarding the monument because our equipment lookedprofessional and we could not make a documentary without a permit.Despite all the setbacks we now have all the shots we need to put together segment 4 of ourdocumentary, which deals with the phases of depopulation. It will not be longer than 5 minutesand we should be able to have it out in a few days.Even though I did not come to Italy with the intention of filming a documentary, Nick’s presencehere and our technical support in Sweden is enabling us to do a lot more than I intended. If Ishould die here in Rome while asking the Vatican coterie to act like the moral authority of theChristian world rather than pretend while in fact engaging in the most abject forms of hypocrisy,I will at least be able to leave behind a record of the efforts and sacrifices I have made here aswell as damning testimony that the Vatican is just another corrupt and useless institution that theworld cannot afford and should no longer tolerate.Last night was a late one as I gave a two-hour radio interview to an Irish audience that stretcheduntil midnight and was unfortunately hosted by a very belligerent and unprofessional show host.83