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Paolo Villaggio era anche lui un amante di Mahè. Arrivava sempre con il jet privato di Paolo Fresco, ex Ceo Fiat, suo amico d'infanzia e compagno di scuola, alloggiava nella sua villa ad Anse à la Mouche, ma in giro per le Seychelles ci andava in solitudine. Più volte e in mesi diversi dell'anno l'ho incontrato dal mio carissimo amico Julien, che gli cucinava aragoste e pesce pappagallo, ad Anse Soleil. Porzioni importanti, che mangiava sempre seduto allo stesso tavolo, sul lato sinistro, godendosi la vista. Non l'ho mai visto né sorridere né ridere in quelle occasioni, preso come era a contemplare la natura. R.I.P. Paolo.
“Class is an aura of confidence that is being sure without being cocky. Class has nothing to do with money. Class never runs scared. It is self-discipline and self-knowledge. It's the sure-footedness that comes with having proved you can meet life.” ― Ann Landers
***2021: Italia Down***
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More than 60 Chapters on Stupidity starting*** here
***BANK ASSETS ARE EPHEMERAL – HERE TODAY GONE TOMORROW ***
All about Loukanikos!
Fred & EntendanceInvestors Gold & Silver Beach: He who has the Gold makes the rules. Physical Gold & Silver: Avoid the rush – keep strong and keep stacking. Own physical gold and silver outside a bank! You better own precious metals directly, with no counterparty risk: they are not exposed to any creditor obligations. Storage outside of the banking system is mandatory given the current risks in the economic and financial system. Facilitated "outside" of the banking system: NO DEPENDENCE on the functioning of stock exchanges or banks. A global currency war is occurring. Countries race to debase their currencies against each other. Currency devaluation is the number one reason to own precious metals. Until the monetary fog lifts and un-rigged navigational markers re-emerge, physical gold remains the only hard reference point capable of providing an essential back up plan for one's nest egg. Remember: every gram of gold or silver you acquire using fiat currency effectively removes that many “dollars” from the current financial and economic system. Starve the beast.
***Villa Malaparte Capri
***Gold’s Seasonality: Time to Get Positioned Ahead of Strongest Months
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Aug 9, 2017 11:57:07 GMT -5
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"...What do you see on Facepig, Snapass and similar? The 1%, all the time, which inexorably leads you believe that your life should be that 1%, all the time. But it can't be. Nobody lives like that. Even a billionaire who has no care in the world for making another nickel, ever, and has a building full of paid servants still has to ****, shower and shave. The kid in High School has to sit in class and then do his or her homework. Even the retiree doesn't get to live like that; he's gotta go to the doctor and get poked here and there, cook dinner, etc. So what are you doing when you are continually looking at Facepig or Snapping away? You're engaged in someone else's -- and your own -- fantasy. A fantasy that is guaranteed to make you miserable because nobody can live a life that consists of even five percent of the projected thing you are viewing..." ***Facepig, Snapfool and You
Fred & E. Beach: ***facebook
***The Comment Of The Day
***The Stupidity Public Beach
***Inspire Your Day at the Beach!
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Aug 21, 2017 14:42:20 GMT -5
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"The Facebook CEO destroyed privacy as we know it. Imagine what he’d do in the White House..."
***A Mark Zuckerberg Presidency Isn’t Ridiculous—It’s Terrifying E. Beach: all about***facebook
There Is No Cure for this Disease "In 1934, through the Gold Reserve Act, President Roosevelt devalued the dollar from $20.67 dollars per ounce, to $35 dollars per ounce. The devaluation was excessive, meaning that at $35 dollars per ounce, the world considered that it would rather own American dollars - as undervalued - rather than gold; for this reason, and because of fears regarding another World War, the world shipped enormous quantities of gold to the US, in exchange for US dollars. The consequence was that the stash of American gold, at the end of WW II, was about 22,000 tons of gold.
The huge error which the American administration committed at the Bretton Woods, N.H., international monetary conference in 1944, where the monetary order of the post-war world was determined, was to force upon the world a defective monetary system: gold was to be the foundation of the post-war world economy, supported by the US dollar, which was to be considered - like it or not - as good as gold. This huge mistake has brought the US and the world to an enormous economic distortion: all production in all countries of the world, today, and all economic relations, both internally within nations and with regard to their international relations, are disconnected from reality. After the war, the US continued the policy to which it was and is addicted: credit expansion. Consequently, the undervaluation of the dollar in 1934, turned into an overvaluation of the dollar, and US gold began to be purchased by the rest of the world at what was regarded as an increasingly attractive price of $35 dollars per ounce. Accordingly, the US stock of gold began to contract as gold left the country.
In 1955, when I was 23 years old, and returning from a trip to Europe with my bride on the Italian passenger liner, the "Andrea Doria", I recall after-dinner conversations with elderly gentlemen in the lounge, and the subject of the conversations was the persistent loss of gold on the part of the US. In the post-war period, as a result of the Bretton Woods Agreements of 1944, the rest of the world accumulated dollar reserves - "as good as gold" - and this helped mask the consequences of the constant US credit expansion. However, there was a fly in the ointment: the perceptive Jacques Rueff, Economics Minister of General Charles de Gaulle, President of France, alerted de Gaulle to the fact that the US was both expanding internal US credit, and external credit by sending US dollars to France in payment for French imports to the US: French acceptance of dollars as payment, was actually credit extended to the US, and according to Rueff, this was unwise. General de Gaulle thereupon insisted on returning the dollars held by the Bank of France to the US, and demanding in return, the gold to which it had a right. In May of 1968, Paris was shaken by very severe Leftist rioting and President de Gaulle was very nearly deposed. Obviously, the US had not been pleased with General de Gaulle's attitude.Gold reserves ceased to have any importance for finance ministers around the world. Gold became the "barbarous relic" of J. M. Keynes. Having dollars now became the paramount objective of finance ministers and Central Bank chiefs. Nevertheless, the outflow of gold from Fort Knox to the rest of the world continued unabated. The cheap dollar purchased a lot of gold, at $35 dollars an ounce.
As we all know, Fort Know continued to bleed gold until August 15, 1971 when the gold stock having reached some 8,000 tons, President Nixon "temporarily" closed the gold window. The "as good as gold" part of the Bretton Woods Agreements of 1944 had ended. The irredeemable US dollar - a figment of the imagination - was now the basis of the world's economy. World trade did not stop in its tracks. The world continued to revolve around its own axis in 24 hours a day, and the nations of the world went on using the irredeemable dollar as the foundation of their national economies and their banking systems. Gold reserves ceased to have any importance for finance ministers around the world. Gold became the "barbarous relic" of J. M. Keynes. Having dollars now became the paramount objective of finance ministers and Central Bank chiefs.
The question for the rest of the world was no longer "We cannot allow excessive credit expansion, because we have to protect our gold reserves." After August 15, 1971, the new question was: "We must export more than we import, in order to have growing reserves of US dollars; because if we have more dollars, we can also expand credit - like the US - and grow our economies." If the rest of the world wanted more dollars in order to "grow their economies", there was, in the last resort, only one country that provided the necessary dollars: the US. It is fitting to remember, how pleased Americans were, back in the 70's, to see their smoky, polluting industries close down, to be replaced with green malls and pleasant cafés, with areas for exercising, sunning and shopping. The time was hailed as the "The greening of America".
What happened to America was a Greek tragedy writ large. By its own hand, the US has destroyed itself. Its huge advantage - the right to issue the world's fundamental money, the dollar - turned into the sword which disemboweled its own guts. There will be no "make America great again". President Trump will fail utterly, in re-industrializing the US: that cannot possibly happen unless the dollar ceases being the world's reserve currency. Huge fissures in the social make-up of the US are surfacing. The rest of the world looks on in shock, as it contemplates what is going on in the US.
The US is afflicted with a "terminal disease". To introduce a bit of levity into this dismal essay, herewith:
Consequently, the rest of the world went to work to sell whatever it could, to the US, and receive dollars in payment. National prosperity for the rest of the world required a flourishing export market in the US. Those who had nothing to sell to the US were out of luck. Those selling lots of stuff to the US, enjoyed prosperity. What was the key to selling to the US, in return for the all-important dollars received in return? The key, for all countries, was to undersell the local US producers of whatever the rest of the world had for sale. There was no other way to obtain dollars. It is fitting to remember, how pleased Americans were, back in the 70's, to see their smoky, polluting industries close down, to be replaced with green malls and pleasant cafés, with areas for exercising, sunning and shopping. The time was hailed as the "The greening of America".
What happened to America was a Greek tragedy writ large. By its own hand, the US has destroyed itself. Its huge advantage - the right to issue the world's fundamental money, the dollar - turned into the sword which disemboweled its own guts. There will be no "make America great again". President Trump will fail utterly, in re-industrializing the US: that cannot possibly happen unless the dollar ceases being the world's reserve currency. Huge fissures in the social make-up of the US are surfacing. The rest of the world looks on in shock, as it contemplates what is going on in the US.
The US is afflicted with a "terminal disease". To introduce a bit of levity into this dismal essay, herewith HENRY KING, who chewed bits of string, and was early cut off, in dreadful agonies, by Hilaire Belloc: THE Chief Defect of Henry King Was chewing little bits of String. At last he swallowed some which tied Itself in ugly Knots inside. Physicians of the Utmost Fame Were called at once; but when they came They answered, as they took their Fees, 'There is no Cure for this Disease. Henry will very soon be dead.' His parents stood about his Bed Lamenting his Untimely Death, When Henry, with his Latest Breath, Cried 'Oh, my Friends, be warned by me, That Breakfast, Dinner, Lunch, and Tea Are all the Human Frame requires...' With that, the Wretched Child expires.
A return to gold on the part of the US is unthinkable. It is much too late. Such a move would produce unimaginable social chaos in the US and put an end to the all-powerful "Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex". Total chaos lies ahead, unavoidably, and will present itself as disease intensifies; no politician can be willing advance its arrival with a monetary reform." -Hugo Salinas Price
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Post by Entendance on Oct 25, 2017 17:30:37 GMT -5
***Traneing In
Coltrane non si può spiegare, va ascoltato. Questo pezzo del 1957 è la migliore introduzione al suo genio, alla sua fresca inventiva. Grandi qui Art Taylor, Red Garland e Paul Chambers. Art Taylor ho potuto vederlo suonare la batteria standogli accanto, varie volte, al Music Inn fra il 1973 e il 1977.
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May 1, 2018 1:35:08 GMT -5
Post by Entendance on May 1, 2018 1:35:08 GMT -5
"...I think it is reasonable to take a highly skeptical stance on quite a few things that we are told these days. The scolding voice of the very important media poobah may say, 'You little upstart, how dare you question our faithful public servants?' You dare not question them, and they dare not allow it, because they have so much to hide. To be caught lying used to be a career-ending behaviour among the privileged, but now it seems to be the rule, almost a right of passage. Lying has no consequences. Indeed, it is de rigueur, almost expected, of a public figure. How else could their fellows trust them to be complacent, to do the corrupt thing? And these days cleverness is passe— the more blatant the lie the better, especially if it is punctuated with some vulgar personal insult to show that you mean business, and are not to be trifled with. But publicly telling the liars that they are liars is considered highly impolite, and 'not unifying.' Any outsider who dares to tell the elite that they are full of it will provoke alarmed reproaches from their colleagues in the established and the privileged. After all, the elite are caught in a terrible credibility trap, and the least amount of truth telling sounds like a gunshot in the room. Our established thought leaders in the media will not continue to be insiders, with access to power and big paychecks, if they openly question or allow impertinent questions to be asked of their fellow insiders. This uneven distribution of power and lack of moral principles is going to end badly. It always does. And that fear of the consequences of justice is shamelessly deployed to cause reform to lose its nerve. Do you recall the arguments that were made to justify the last financial bailout? Let justice be done, though the heavens may fall. Life will go on. That will not be the heavens falling, but those who elevate themselves, as if they were our angels, but inside have the very hearts of devils. And the scales of justice will at long last be rebalanced. Are we not exceptional? Are you not entertained?" -Jesse
"This is what we're up against: a status quo that has institutionalized soaring inequality and rising poverty as the only possible output of defending the privileged few at the expense of the many..." -The Entendance Beach He who has the Gold makes the rules. Physical Gold & Silver: Avoid the rush – keep strong and keep stacking. Own physical gold and silver outside a bank! Starve the beast: All you gotta know about your Gold & Silver Bars is here
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Vitae Summa Brevis Spem Nos Vetat Incohare Longam -Quintus Horatius Flaccus The brief span of Life forbids us from conceiving an enduring hope La brevità della vita ci vieta di concepire speranze a lungo termine
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Aug 9, 2018 4:25:03 GMT -5
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"...The worst part of talking ourselves into a freaked-out state? The neo-cortex—the talking, thinking, interpreting brain—has no hard wiring to the amygdala that says, “Whoops, my bad. No cause for alarm. No need to panic.” The amygdala is built with an economy of action. Like a mother watching her toddler swim for the first time, the amygdala (once triggered) is constantly on alert, ready to offset any threatening situation with a healthy dose of epinephrine. That is its primary, simple function, love it or hate it. No “just kidding” button included..." ***Catastrophizing makes us worry-making machines
1. Multiple Misunderstandings. A person with a PD often hears things that no one has said. A narcissist will hear how someone idealizes them when they are not, while an avoidant will hear hatred when there is none. Whatever the internal dialogue that is in the PD (for instance insecurity, superiority, or emotional), is what they project others to be saying about them. 2. Major Misperceptions. Because of the misunderstandings, PDs have major misperceptions about their relationships with others and their place in society. Histrionics are famous for becoming besties the moment they met a person and lack any awareness that the other person does not have the same feeling. 3. Spoiler Alert. A spoiler is a person who hijacks other’s fun. They can do this by ruining a surprise, guessing the ending of a movie, pointing out unrealistic risks to inhibit activities, and ending a good time by generating unnecessary drama. This is done to center the attention on just how smart or right they might be – which is a classic obsessive-compulsive and narcissistic behavioral trait. 4. No Doesn’t Mean No. Overstepping boundaries is a typical sign of a PD. Instead of recognizing that another person has a right to set limits, they routinely override any boundary that is not to their liking. Anti-socials and borderlines do this for different reasons. Most of the time a borderline is unaware they have overstepped while an anti-social takes pleasure in overstepping. 5. Plays the Victim Card. In an effort to evade responsibility, a PD will play the victim card or bring up events from their childhood or a trauma to justify their behavior. It is one thing to have a traumatic event that impacts a person triggering a PTSD response, but it is an entirely different matter to use that event to gain control, take advantage of another, manipulate others, or escape responsibility. Paranoids, dependents, and anti-socials do this regularly. 6. Relationship Imbalance. Some of the PDs have too intense relationships such as borderlines, histrionics, and dependents, while other PDs lack intimacy like narcissists, avoidant, schizoid, schizotypal, obsessive-compulsive, and anti-social. Either way, there is no balance within the relationship and they are either too enmeshed or completely lack intimacy. 7. No Progress. There is not a lot of growth for a PD. They can change but the change is very slow and time consuming. Most PDs don’t ever stop being a PD with the exception of a borderline. This is the only PD that research has shown can and does improve with specific types of therapy. 8. Blame Shifting. When a PD enters therapy with a significant other, they are very quick to paint a pristine image of themselves while making the other person look crazy. Obsessive-compulsives will even come in with a list of faults to hand the therapist with all the flaws of their partner exposed. When confronted with their errors, they are quick to blame others. 9. Blatant Lies. It is one thing to create a white lie to protect the feelings of another person – something that a PD does not do – and another thing to blatantly lie to protect themselves. This is done to self-protect because a PD cannot admit that the problem resides with them. If they do, it is overdramatized to the point of ridiculousness in an effort to reel in the other person. Anti-social’s lies are the most harmful because they usually result in a traumatic event for the other person. 10. Distortion of Life. Both schizoid and schizotypal have a distorted view of life and their place within it. They tend to see the world through a prism where things are not exactly what they seem. There is a lot of fantasizing about a world that is not based on reality. ***10 Common Signs of a Personality Disorder
Hiram Bullock, once again...
Bonus Link: ***15 Signs You Have Toxic Parents
“Six mistakes mankind keeps making century after century: Believing that personal gain is made by crushing others; Worrying about things that cannot be changed or corrected; Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish it; Refusing to set aside trivial preferences; Neglecting development and refinement of the mind; Attempting to compel others to believe and live as we do.” -Marcus Tullius Cicero
I sei errori dell'uomo 1 - L'illusione che il proprio vantaggio si ottenga dalla rovina degli altri 2 - La tendenza a preoccuparsi di cose che non possono essere né mutate né corrette 3 - La convinzione che una cosa è impossibile solo perché non si è in grado di farla 4 - Il rifiuto di mettere da parte preferenze ignobili 5 - Il trascurare lo sviluppo e l'affinamento della mente e il non acquisire l'abitudine alla lettura e allo studio 6 - Il tentativo di costringere gli altri a credere e a vivere secondo le nostre regole -Marco Tullio Cicerone
H/T Tom from Florida
2018: *Inquiring minds only! Always Updated! The pursuit of Excellence *Inquiring minds only!
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"...Forcing the public to embrace worldwide centralization would require several measures. First, the current system, which as stated is designed to fail, would have to be allowed to crash. Second, the crash would have to be blamed on someone other than the globalists and their ideology of globalism. Third, philosophical opponents of globalism (i.e., conservatives, nationalists and decentralization activists) would have to be demonized or eliminated so that the globalists can build their new world order without opposition. Fourth, the population would need to be sufficiently traumatized to the point of psychological submission and desperation, so that when the new system is introduced, they will be grateful for it, thus preventing future rebellion by making the public a willing cooperator in their own enslavement. The success of such a plan is not guaranteed..." The Psychological Warfare Behind Economic Collapse
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When exposing a crime is treated as committing a crime, you are being ruled by criminals. In the current governmental climate, where laws that run counter to the dictates of the Constitution are made in secret, passed without debate, and upheld by secret courts that operate behind closed doors, obeying one’s conscience and speaking truth to the power of the police state can render you an “enemy of the state.” That list of so-called “enemies of the state” is growing... From Jesus Christ to Julian Assange: When Dissidents Become Enemies of the State
The recent decision by the Hague-based International Court of Justice that the Chagos Islands — with its huge U.S. military base at Diego Garcia — are being illegally occupied by the United Kingdom (UK) has the potential to upend the strategic plans of a dozen regional capitals, ranging from Beijing to Riyadh. For a tiny speck of land measuring only 38 miles in length, Diego Garcia casts a long shadow. Sometimes called Washington’s “unsinkable aircraft carrier,” planes and warships based on the island played an essential role in the first and second Gulf wars, the invasion of Afghanistan, and the war in Libya. Its strategic location between Africa and Indonesia and 1,000 miles south of India gives the U.S. access to the Middle East, Central and South Asia, and the vast Indian Ocean. No oil tanker, no warship, no aircraft can move without its knowledge. Most Americans have never heard of Diego Garcia for a good reason: No journalist has been allowed there for more than 30 years, and the Pentagon keeps the base wrapped in a cocoon of national security. Indeed, the UK leased the base to the Americans in 1966 without informing either the British Parliament or the U.S. Congress... Diego Garcia: The “Unsinkable Carrier” Springs a Leak
Seychelles-based Chagossians welcome new legal opinion, seek assurance from Mauritius
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"There is no way I would consider buying a house either to live in or as an investment with all of these circumstances and risks that I've been talking over in this interview. And the final thing is if I were a seller of US housing, if I were a homeowner, I would seriously consider selling before things get much worse."
Should I buy a House? | Millions of Reasons to Wait
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