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Post by Entendance on Jun 23, 2018 4:32:36 GMT -5
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Post by Entendance on Jul 23, 2018 2:38:19 GMT -5
"Many goods enjoyed in rich countries may have murky origins..."
***Supply chains based on modern slavery may reach into the West
When the herd go towards the water, never stand between the beasts and the river. -Entendance
Into the Mind of a Psychopath Chapter X
“They often make use of the fact that for many people the content of the message is less important than the way it is delivered.
A confident, aggressive delivery style - often larded with jargon, clichés, and flowery phrases - makes up for the lack of substance and sincerity in their interactions with others ... they are masters of impression management; their insight into the psyche of others combined with a superficial - but convincing - verbal fluency allows them to change their personas skillfully as it suits the situation and their game plan.
They are known for their ability to don many masks, change 'who they are' depending upon the person with whom they are interacting, and make themselves appear likable to their intended victim.
Psychopathic workers very often were identified as the source of departmental conflicts, in many cases, purposely setting people up in conflict with each other. The most debilitating characteristic of even the most well-behaved psychopath is the inability to form a workable team."
-Paul Babiak and Robert Hare, Snakes in Suits
"I may have made an error in judgement— but one thing is beyond dispute: the man was able to work his way up to leader of a people of almost 80 million. His success alone proved that I should subordinate myself to him." -Adolf Eichmann
A psychopath according to the latest research is both genetically and physically predisposed, through a cluster of characteristics, to being unable to form bonds with other people, even on the most basic level. In addition, certain aspects of their upbringing and environment seem to contribute to their deficiency or predisposition, to turn it towards what would be considered as malignant ends.
Most simply, a full blown psychopath is someone who is 'born without a conscience.'
Psychopathy is not categorical. It is not a black and white linear measure, wherein one crosses a single numeric score and can be diagnosed. Rather, as Hare frames it so well in his revised checklist, there is a range of psychopathic predisposition that is more qualitative except at the extreme.
The neuroscientist James Fallon has a very amusing series of lectures in which he discloses how in his work he discovered that his own brain was wired in the same manner as a large profile of criminal psychopaths. And yet he is a high functioning and personable professional and family man. And he is a remarkably entertaining speaker, and has a number of videos on youtube. So a mere physical disposition of some degree is not enough. There are clearly other factors.
And finally, and I must caution this most strongly, trying to diagnose someone at a distance and without proper testing and training is not possible. And even for a professional is somewhat irresponsible. One may speculate on someone's behaviour, but it is generally skewed by their own biases and access to information, except in the most extreme behavioural examples.
Hitler, for example, never inclined himself to the psychiatrist's couch, but enough is known of his life and his actions to permit some analysis to be made even at a distance. Dr. Fallon touches on some of this sort of thing in the second video where he looks at 'the Mind of the Dictator.'
The concentration of psychopathic and sociopathic personalities in positions of power, whether it be in the workplace or in political areas, emphasizes the need for balances of power, transparency, and the rule of law. What better place for a high functioning predator to find advantage over victims than in positions of power?
In general utopian designs for social organization that rely on the perfectly rational and natural self-governing of individuals is not very practical. But when one introduces the fact that for some percentage of the population, from one to five percent, the lack of a conscience is a very real factor in their own behaviour, knocks down flat anarchical frameworks where reliance is placed upon some assumption of 'natural goodness' of everyone. Quite clearly, not everyone is just like everyone else.
Put more simply, there is a reason why throughout human history good people have found it necessary to organize themselves for their own protection. Not everyone is good, and government provides for the protection of the weak, the vulnerable, and the innocent from the predators among us.
Psychologist Frank Ochberg has a different, practitioner's take on psychopathy. He doesn't care whether someone has gotten to their state of being either by nature and nuture, or just nuture. In other words, he makes no distinctions between the sociopath and the psychopath, which he calls 'splitting hairs' (or Hare's? lol Frank I hope that pun was intended). His major field of study is PTSD, and he is very, very good at it. But he brings up some interesting points about the subject of psychopathy.
And for something utterly and completely different, here is a presentation by someone who I assume is a motivational speaker, who describes in some fairly colorful ways his own marriage to a female psychopath. I found him to be informative and entertainingly sincere, with caution on language. It is a good reminder that some psychopaths wear skirts. Marrying Medusa: How to Survive a Female Psychopath.
He also makes an observation that I found to be important. In his talk he notes that he most often would view people who did bad things as being merely 'stupid.' That is in line with the saying 'never attribute to bad intent what can be attributed to stupidity.' He says that he found out the hard way that there really are some people who are calculating, determined, and probably what one would call 'evil' because of their intent to harm others for their own gratification. And there is some merit in that. I have found this out as well in a different and much more boring, non-sexual venue in my own corporate career, and it was a shock to me.
This is based on Robert Hare's revised psychopathy checklist. Probably the most important distinction is the lack of conscience, because of a lack of empathy and connection with others. It is not a hatred of others, not in the least. It is more like the type of relationship that a fully functioning person might have with a basketball, literally. The lack of emotion is key, not from suppression or hardness; it is just not there.
1. Look for glib and superficial charm. A psychopath will also put on what professionals refer to as a 'mask of sanity' that is likable and pleasant. It is a thin veneer.
2. Look for a grandiose self perception. Psychopaths will often believe they are smarter or more powerful than they actually are.
3. Watch for a constant need for stimulation. Stillness, quiet and reflection are not things embraced by psychopaths. They need constant entertainment and activity.
4. Determine if there is pathological lying. A psychopath will tell all sorts of lies; little white lies as well as huge stories intended to mislead. Psychopaths are gifted or dull, high functioning or low performing like other people. An untalented psychopath may harm a few; a highly talented psychopath may lay waste to nations. The difference between the psychopath and others lies in their organic lack of conscience and empathy for others. The sociopath is trained to lack empathy and conscience. The psychopath is a natural.
5. Evaluate the level of manipulation. All psychopaths are identified as cunning and able to get people to do things they might not normally do. They can use guilt, force and other methods to manipulate.
6. Look for any feelings of guilt. An absence of any guilt or remorse is a sign of psychopathy. They will often blame the victim.
7. Consider the level of emotional response a person has. Psychopaths demonstrate shallow emotional reactions to deaths, injuries, trauma or other events that would otherwise cause a deeper response. Other people are satisfaction suppliers, nothing more.
8. Look for a lack of empathy. Psychopaths are callous and have no way of relating to others in non-exploitative ways. They may find a temporary kinship with other psychopaths and sociopaths that is strictly utilitarian and goal-oriented.
9. Psychopaths are often parasitic. They live off other people, emotionally, physically, and financially. Their modus operandi is domination and control. They will claim to be maligned or misunderstood to gain your sympathy.
10. Look for obsessive risk taking and lack of self-control. The Hare Checklist includes three behavior indicators; poor behavior control, sexual promiscuity, and behavioral problems.
11. Psychopaths have unrealistic goals or none at all for the long term. Either there are no goals at all, or they are unattainable and based on the exaggerated sense of one's own accomplishments and abilities.
12. Psychopaths will often be shockingly impulsive or irresponsible. Their shamelessness knows no bounds. You will ask, what were they thinking? And the answer was, they weren't because they did not care.
13. A psychopath will not genuinely accept personal responsibility. A psychopath will never admit to being wrong or owning up to mistakes and errors in judgment, except as part of a manipulative ploy. They will despise and denigrate their victims once they are done with them. If they have any regret it is that their source of satisfaction supply has ended and they must seek another.
14. Psychopaths lack long term personal relationships. If there have been many short term marriages, broken friendships, purely transactional relationships, the chances the person is a psychopath increase. Watch especially how they treat other people in weaker positions and even animals.
15. Psychopaths are often versatile in their criminality. Psychopaths are able to get away with a lot, and while they might sometimes get caught, the ability to be flexible and adaptable when committing crimes is indicative. -Jesse
***Into the Mind of a Psychopath Chapter I
***Into the Mind of a Psychopath Chapter II
***Into the Mind of a Psychopath Chapter III
***Into the Mind of a Psychopath Chapter IV
***Into the Mind of a Psychopath Chapter V
***Into the Mind of a Psychopath Chapter VI
***Into the Mind of a Psychopath Chapter VII
***Into the Mind of a Psychopath Chapter VIII
***Into the Mind of a Psychopath Chapter IX ***Into the Mind of a Psychopath Chapter XI
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Post by Entendance on Aug 1, 2018 4:53:17 GMT -5
"...Let’s face it, the entire western monetary system is basically a fraud. It is privately made and privately owned, with the entire international payment system being controlled by the FED – which is totally privately owned – and the BIS (Bank for International Settlement, in Basle, Switzerland – also called the central bank of centrals banks)..." Dave Kranzler here
 Fred & Entendance Beach Homepage News Feed:
- "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..."
- 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!
- Kings, governments, dictators, financiers, mathematicians and many other powers have tried to dethrone gold for thousands of years. They all lost.
- You better own precious metals directly, with no counterparty risk: they are not exposed to any creditor obligations.
- Protect against unprecedented debt levels, bank bail-ins, government confiscation, derivatives implosion, central planning.
- Store Gold/Silver outside the banking system! Only own your precious metals in safe vaults. 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.
- Every gram of gold or silver you acquire using fiat currency effectively removes that many “dollars” from the current financial and economic system.
- 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.
- The Gold price is the paper price, a mechanism to make physical available at a huge discount. There's 100:1 + leverage, that's over 100 notional claims for every ounce of physical.
- Physical gold is scarce and cannot be manufactured or printed. Gold is eternal – all the gold ever produced still exists.
- Gold is instant liquidity. Gold has served as money/barter in every period of distress in history. Gold and silver are direct enemies of fiat dollars or fiat anything. Protect against unprecedented debt levels, bank bail-ins, government confiscation, derivatives implosion, central planning.
"For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities and powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places." -Ephesians 6:12 |
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Post by Entendance on Aug 22, 2018 6:37:40 GMT -5
Stay the course!
Mantenete la rotta!
"History demonstrates that every previous world currency eventually loses its position to some other system. The British pound, the previous currency to hold that position, was eliminated in the aftermath of financial strains from WW I. The world then entered a no man’s land until Bretton Woods enthroned a gold backed dollar in 1944 as the new reserve currency. This lasted until mid-1971 when the U.S. stopped redeeming dollars for gold. This left the world on a fiat dollar system which still operates but is losing its cache. Being free of the obligation of a gold backing, the U.S. has been able to run far larger deficits for many more years. However, there will still come a point where unlimited dollar acceptance will be called into question. The tariff war may hasten that point. The fiat dollar reserve currency system has lasted for 47 years based initially on Saudi acquiescence in the early 1970s to price oil in dollars, given that the U.S. was the largest oil importer. Other countries also accepted the dollar given U.S. military strength during the cold war, given our large economy, and our willingness to run large trade deficits. World economic conditions have changed dramatically in 47 years. China is now challenging the U.S. on both economic and military grounds. The idea that government deficits don’t matter and that foreign governments will finance it indefinitely is a fallacy. Whether the tariff disputes end peacefully or in all out economic war is an unknown. Either way events have probably been set in motion that will further weaken the reserve currency status of the dollar. A period of uncertainty may result. Gold is likely to play a more central role in the future. Given the massive level of all governments’ debt creation, a substantially higher price of gold will be required to support any new system. For the U.S. to have a gold cover of its foreign debt comparable to levels in the 1970s, gold would need to exceed $10,000 an ounce. In summary, recent dollar strength and gold price weakness is in all likelihood temporary. U.S. policy intended to reduce the trade deficit will hasten the dollar’s loss of status as the sole reserve currency. As with the period between the two world wars, the global economy is likely to move to a period of greater currency uncertainty. Dollar weakness will place greater strains on the U.S. economy, likely leading to higher inflation and higher interest rates. As the world economy searches for solutions, gold’s status will increase as will its price. Given the massive and ever increasing levels of government debt, gold’s price could be driven to levels several multiples of its current price. If gold’s price rises dramatically, as we believe likely, gold mining companies will have even more upside leverage. Gold’s price will need to rise substantially if foreigners won’t buy unlimited quantities of U.S. Treasuriesand as inflation rises." -AIS Capital Management.
No currency maintains reserve status indefinitely***Zimbabwe dollars, pesos, euros, dollars or gold? Choose gold! |
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Post by Entendance on Sept 13, 2018 2:26:24 GMT -5
“The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.” ~ Marcus Aurelius, Roman emperor and Stoic philosopher
Applies to all systems that are displaced from equilibrium and, consequently, unstable...
"The lapse of time during which a given event has not happened is…alleged as a reason why the event should never happen, even when the lapse of time is precisely the added condition which makes the event imminent." ~ George Eliot in "Silas Marner"
“But you can't make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up around them. It can't last.” -Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
"The current fantasy is that bubbles will never pop and recessions are a thing of the past; financial engineering can maintain bubbles and "growth" forever. Everything is distorted to the point that those wandering the hall of mirrors believe they know everything they need to know to continue reaping fat returns on capital..."The Next Financial Crisis Is Right on Schedule
 September 13, 2018 A SUBMERGING GLOBAL ECONOMY
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Post by Entendance on Oct 24, 2018 5:58:59 GMT -5
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Post by Entendance on Dec 17, 2018 3:44:31 GMT -5
"Credibility, like virginity, can only be lost once and never recovered."
“It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.”
“Credibility comes from results. Everything else is just marketing.”
“Every action or perceived inaction shapes credibility.”
“In order to escape accountability for his crimes, the perpetrator does everything in his power to promote forgetting. If secrecy fails, the perpetrator attacks the credibility of his victim. If he cannot silence her absolutely, he tries to make sure no one listens.”
“Honesty is a very expensive gift. Don’t expect it from cheap people.”
“Alle intimazioni di resa – dice il paracadutista Tonino Marinoni – rispondevamo gridando Folgore! e sparando”. -I ragazzi della Folgore |
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Post by Entendance on Jan 7, 2019 6:37:08 GMT -5
 Start With You
"Step 1: Start with you
Step 2: Continue with those around you
Step 3: Create something new
We can change the world, but the key to doing so is in you and me."
How to change the world in 3 easy steps
And remember: Necessitas quod poscit, nisi des, eripit. -Publilius Syrus, a Syrian who was brought as a slave to Italy.
Unless you give Necessity what she demands, she will take it by force.
Der Zwang entreißt dir, gibst du’s nicht, was er verlangt.
La necessità ti strappa ciò che esige, se non gliela dai spontaneamente.
 2 great videos here
“The first rule of the Dunning-Kruger club is you don’t know you’re a member of the Dunning-Kruger club” |
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Post by Entendance on Apr 6, 2019 2:35:10 GMT -5
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Post by Entendance on May 1, 2019 2:50:27 GMT -5
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Post by Entendance on May 10, 2019 5:00:39 GMT -5
The only thing more lethal than intelligence is stupidity
If you are losing a tug-of-war with a stupid, give him the rope before he gets to your arm. You can always buy a new rope.
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Post by Entendance on May 14, 2019 6:00:57 GMT -5
Like liberty, gold never stays where it is undervalued. -J. S. Morrill
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today, because by that time there will be a tax on it. -Herbert V Prochnow Jr
Specifications for a Good Delivery Silver Bar - Weight
Minimum silver content: 750 troy ounces (approximately 23 kilograms) maximum silver content: 1100 troy ounces (approximately 34 kilograms) However, it is recommended that ideally refiners should aim to produce bars within the following weight range;
Minimum silver content: 900 troy ounces (approximately 29 kilograms)
Maximum silver content: 1050 troy ounces (approximately 33 kilograms)
The gross weight of a bar should be expressed in troy ounces in multiples of 0.10, rounded down to the nearest 0.10 of a troy ounce. - Dimensions
The recommended dimensions for a Good Delivery silver bar are approximately as follows:
Length (Top): 300 mm +/- 50 mm Undercut: * 5-15 degrees Width (Top): 130mm +/- 20 mm Undercut: * 5-15 degrees
Height: 80 mm +/- 20 - Fineness
The minimum acceptable fineness is 999.0 parts per thousand silver. - Marks
Serial number
Assay stamp of refiner
Fineness (to three significant figures) - Assays
It is essential that all GD bars contain the amount of metal stated by the marked assay as marked on the bar and its weight. Assays of GD bars are determined by the refiner at the point of manufacture.
 
Specifications for a Good Delivery Gold Bar - Weight
Minimum gold content: 350 fine troy ounces (approximately 10.9 kilograms) maximum gold content: 430 fine troy ounces (approximately 13.4 kilograms) The gross weight of a bar should be expressed in troy ounces, in multiples of 0.025, rounded down to the nearest 0.025 of a troy ounce.
- Dimensions
The recommended dimensions for a Good Delivery gold bar are approximately as follows:
Length (Top): 250 mm+/- 40 mm Undercut * range: 5-25 degrees
Width (Top): 70 mm +/- 15 mm Undercut *: 5-25 degrees
Height: 35 mm +/- 10 mm
- Fineness
The minimum acceptable fineness is 995.0 parts per thousand fine gold - Marks
Serial number
Assay stamp of refiner
Fineness (to four significant figures)
Year of manufacture - Assays
It is essential that all GD bars contain the amount of metal stated by the marked assay as marked on the bar and its weight. Assays of GD bars are determined by the refiner at the point of manufacture.
YOUR ALLOCATED GOLD & SILVER
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Post by Entendance on Jun 10, 2019 3:56:26 GMT -5
“The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office. Their principal device to that end is to search out groups who pant and pine for something they can't get and to promise to give it to them. Nine times out of ten that promise is worth nothing. The tenth time is made good by looting A to satisfy B. In other words, government is a broker in pillage, and every election is sort of an advance auction sale of stolen goods."- H.L. Mencken
“The crisis takes a much longer time coming than you think, and then it happens much faster than you would have thought.” -Rudy Dornbusch
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Post by Entendance on Jun 16, 2019 4:48:58 GMT -5
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Post by Entendance on Jun 23, 2019 8:51:24 GMT -5
If you don’t trust gold, do you trust the logic of taking a beautiful pine tree, worth about $4,000-$5,000, cutting it up, turning it into pulp and then paper, putting some ink on it and then calling it one billion dollars? -Kenneth J. Gerbino |
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Post by Entendance on Jun 26, 2019 11:18:59 GMT -5
 How come wrong numbers are never busy?
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Post by Entendance on Jun 27, 2019 22:47:10 GMT -5
O Reset , Reset , wherefore art thou Reset ?
Abigail Disney: “We’re creating a super-class so far above the vast majority of people that they don’t share the same planet anymore.” “Forty-seven percent of people can’t cope with a $400 emergency,” she added. “I don’t think that the people who are on their private jets or living in incredible riches can even begin to digest what it means to not have $400 for an emergency.”
This wealth disparity, she told Lemon, had ensured the rich no longer “share the same reality” as the working class.
“We don’t stand in line with everybody else, we don’t wait patiently like everybody else, we’ve sort of short-circuited all the social processes and created kind of a parallel universe that we live in, and that is not good for solidarity, it’s not good for opportunity,” she added.
3 pages: The Entendance Beach & Inequality The Entendance Beach & Reset
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Post by Entendance on Jul 17, 2019 3:56:53 GMT -5
Please note: updated by Tom from Florida while E. unplugged, disconnected and off the grid until September 2019
“Never has anyone been less a priest than Jesus, never a greater enemy of forms.” The Religion of Jesus PART 3
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Post by Entendance on Sept 2, 2019 7:20:21 GMT -5
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Post by Entendance on Sept 29, 2019 1:44:53 GMT -5
"Narcissists are unstable and go through repeated cycles of self-destruction, with other people usually paying the heft of the price. Narcissists tend to be divisive, vindictive, confrontational, aggressive, hate-filled, raging, incoherent, judgment-impaired, and irrational.
Narcissists are liars, confabulators, and miserable failures, although some of them are geniuses at disguising the fact that they are, in fact, losers." -Sam Vaknin
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Post by Entendance on Oct 7, 2019 3:09:27 GMT -5
"A credibility trap is when the managerial functions of a society have been sufficiently compromised by corruption so that the leadership and the professional class cannot reform, or even honestly admit and address, the problems of the corrupted system without implicating a broad swath of a powerful elite, including themselves.
The moneyed interests and their enablers tolerate the corruption because they have profited from it, and would like to continue to do so. Discipline and silence is maintained by various forms of soft financial rewards and career and social coercion." -Jesse
Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything. -Joseph Stalin
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Post by Entendance on Nov 14, 2019 13:15:45 GMT -5
Assume the worst, hope for the best, and be prepared for whatever happens. -Anonymous
"Just to understand the size of markets, let’s for example consider the Forex market. Daily turnover in the Forex Casino is in excess of $5 trillion. That means $1.5 quadrillion a year is traded in foreign exchange. That’s 19x annual global GDP of $80 trillion. But since global trade is only $20 trillion, global forex trading is 75x the amount of goods that involves foreign exchange.
So the majority of the $1.5 quadrillion forex trading is pure speculation leading to the currency price being set in a casino with no relevance to the underlying goods traded. Thus the price has very little correlation to the products or services traded.
If we look at the gold market, exactly the same thing is happening. The annual mine production of gold is around 3,400 tonnes with a value of $159 billion. But if we look at the daily trading volume of gold it is a staggering $187 billion, and thus greater than annual production.
That makes annual gold trading $48 trillion or 1,030,000 tonnes. All the gold ever produced in the history is 170,000 tonnes. So annual gold trading is an incredible 6X all the gold ever produced in history and 300X annual mine production. It is important to understand that this gold trading is virtually all paper trading with a very small percentage of physical.
So for all of you who own PHYSICAL gold and believe that last week’s closing price of $1,460 per ounce is the real price of gold, please think again. $1,460 is the paper gold price in the casino. It has nothing to do with the real price of physical gold.
Today we can still buy physical gold for the same price as paper gold. That is an anomaly which will not last. All the physical gold that is produced in the world is absorbed by the market in spite of relatively slow market conditions..." THE PAPER GOLD MARKET WILL FAIL
In a world drowning in debt, you don't want to be a creditor. Gold and silver are your assets.
Gold Is The Only Honest & Sound Money Left
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Post by Entendance on Dec 9, 2019 2:52:40 GMT -5
Gold and Silver have always had value, never gone to zero. Can you say the same for stocks and bonds? -Mark Skousen
From a Whisper to a Scream: Esther Phillips
I wrote the Trip in 1963 when I was in San Quentin. Every time I play it, it's like taking someone on the trip: Art Pepper
E. on twitter
 What the fuck
(There are no shortcuts to any place worth going. – Beverly Sills)
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Post by Entendance on Dec 31, 2019 12:37:01 GMT -5
Just in from Tom, Florida <History rhymes?...found on NC.
“A low, dishonest decade“
I sit in one of the dives
On Fifty-second Street
Uncertain and afraid
As the clever hopes expire
Of a low dishonest decade:
Waves of anger and fear
Circulate over the bright
And darkened lands of the earth,
Obsessing our private lives;
The unmentionable odour of death
Offends the September night.
What was the theme of September 1 1939?
In Letter to Lord Byron (1937), Auden argues the Freudian/Marxist determinism that behavior is determined unconsciously by instinctive needs, such as hunger and love. In “September 1, 1939,” the poet affirms that belief in the problematic eighth stanza: “Hunger allows no choice.” Who can reach the deaf,
Who can speak for the dumb?>
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Post by Entendance on Jan 17, 2020 12:35:34 GMT -5
"...Ultimately, the reason why humankind has gravitated toward gold over the millennia as the pinnacle store of value is because of its natural properties: limited supply, resistance against corrosion, rust, and fire, extreme divisibility and portability, and lustrous aesthetic beauty. Gold is not perfect as a store of value – but it is the best that humankind has discovered yet. And in an era where for the first time in recorded history not a single government currency is linked to any tangible asset, the need for gold as a store of value is greater than ever. With only 0.79 ounces of gold available above ground for every man, woman, and child alive today, it would not take more than a small portion of the world’s population to wake up to this age-old wisdom for the price of gold to be forced upward by a multiple of its present value."
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Post by Entendance on Jan 20, 2020 6:20:56 GMT -5
Unpaid and underpaid care work and the global inequality crisis
O Reset , Reset , wherefore art thou Reset ?
Abigail Disney: “We’re creating a super-class so far above the vast majority of people that they don’t share the same planet anymore.” “Forty-seven percent of people can’t cope with a $400 emergency,” she added. “I don’t think that the people who are on their private jets or living in incredible riches can even begin to digest what it means to not have $400 for an emergency.”
This wealth disparity, she told Lemon, had ensured the rich no longer “share the same reality” as the working class.
“We don’t stand in line with everybody else, we don’t wait patiently like everybody else, we’ve sort of short-circuited all the social processes and created kind of a parallel universe that we live in, and that is not good for solidarity, it’s not good for opportunity,” she added. 
3 pages: The Entendance Beach & Inequality The Entendance Beach & Reset
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Post by Entendance on Jan 30, 2020 7:24:02 GMT -5
The Entendance Beach & Chico
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Post by Entendance on Feb 3, 2020 5:12:48 GMT -5
Meditate folks, meditate
When a well packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous. -Anonymous
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Post by Entendance on Feb 19, 2020 7:09:15 GMT -5
"...Our emotions can feel big and overwhelming, which can lead us to ignore them and to assume we’ll never be able to cope. But you can work with your emotions gently and slowly. You can work at a pace that feels safe.
Start with a strategy that sounds interesting or simple or comforting or compassionate or like something you’d like to try..."
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Post by Entendance on Mar 9, 2020 6:24:38 GMT -5
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