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It’s all about who gets the freshly printed money first. * The long-term, grinding effect of inflation. – link2source – Rudy Havenstein | Inflation, Politics, The State Of Financial Markets & Changes On The Horizon – Kontrarian Korner @ KontrarianKorner * The real cost-of-living increase. * Muammar Gaddafi – link2source – 1942 – 20 October 2011 – a Libyan military officer, revolutionary, politician and political theorist who ruled Libya from 1969 until his assassination by Libyan rebel forces in 2011. **-* The Cantillion Effect – link2source – In 1734, as if from a film noir classic, Richard Cantillon was murdered by a disgruntled former employee and his home was set ablaze. *- link2source – Richard Cantillon – (French: [kɑ̃tijɔ̃]; 1680s – May 1734) – an Irish-French economist and author of Essai Sur La Nature Du Commerce En Général (Essay on the Nature of Trade in General)
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link2source – Rudolf Havenstein – Rudolf Emil Albert Havenstein (10 March 1857 – 20 November 1923) was a German lawyer and president of the Reichsbank (German central bank) during the hyperinflation of 1921–1923.
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link2source – What Happens To Real Estate When The Dollar Collapses – Crisis Watch @ CrisisWatch-r7e
link2source – Bob Moriarty: The United States Will Not Exist In 2035 – Goldfinger Capital @ GoldfingerCapital
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link2YOUtube – SAN SEBASTIAN: The Spain You Should Know About! – Dots on a Map @ Dots on a Map
link2YOUTUBE – En español – PUEBLOS de GUIPÚZCOA – Gipuzkoa Turismo – QUE VER en viaje al PAÍS VASCO y donde vivir – Top Turismo @ TopTurismo
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link2source – Texas Can Legally Do Something No Other State Can – CGP Grey @ CGPGrey
link2source – Intifada Chic – Social Conformity & The Book of Job – Readers of the Lost Art @ DrPaulA.Taylor
link2source – End of US Empire | China Fights Back | Ukraine War Turning Point – Conversations Among The Ruins @ among_the_ruins
link2source – We already have digital money. You are trading ledger entries. – CANADA: Elbows UP, Guard Down, Where Is Our GOLD? & Grift Defined – China central banking buying precious metals as a policy. – Frank Vaughan @ Frank Vaughan * Metal Paper Markets, with very few traders standing for delivery, and instead, settling in cash. *
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link2source – Is Society About to Explode in Food Riots – Epi-3753- Communist Mayor of NYC – Zohran Mamdani * Rioting? When people tell you who they are believe them. – snap ebt * People who fled communism, don’t want communism, even well after arriving on our shores. * What is a color war? *
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link2source – Antifa Out, Mamdani Ascendant – James Howard Kunstler – “Protests are meant to be the voices of the unheard. Yet these protests are the voices of those who never shut up.” – Unnamed Observer of No Kings, reported by Roger Kimball. Oct. 27th., 2025 – kunstler DOT com
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link2source – Russia’s Counter To Trump’s Escalation 10/27/2025 – ESW | RogueNews @ Rogue News
link2source – Bitcoin Rallies Towards ATHs! Can The Bulls Keep Control Or Is The Cycle Top In? – The Wolf Of All Streets @ Scott Melker **-* Soybeans are the stud at the center of all negotiations.
link2source – Niger’s military government seizes control of industrial gold mine from Australian operator – BI Contributor – 10 August 2025 04:45 PM
link2source – Stocks Rip, Gold Dips as Market Goes Risk-On After China Deal – Nobody Special Finance @ Nobody Special Finance
link2source – The U.S. Electrical Grid Can Collapse if We Don’t Fix It NOW – JimmyTalks @ Jimmy Talks -1
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link2source – Uncontrolled Chaos ! Dmitry Orlov comments on the West’s collapse – Piero San Giorgio @ 1 piero san giorgio
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link2source – Crypto Expert Explains What Satoshi REALLY Wanted – Zcash Media @ Zcash Media **-* In this video, crypto expert Zooko Wilcox (founder of Zcash) explains the origins of the first cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, and what its creator, Satoshi Nakamoto, really wanted, but disappeared before they could achieve. Zooko explains how eventually scientists were able to fulfill Satoshi’s vision through the invention of a new type of cryptography called Zero Knowledge Proofs and how this ultimately led to the creation of Zcash. (Inspired by Bitcoin)
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link2source – Ireland, Gaza, Death Jabs, War, Europe, Japan, and More- John Waters and Michael Yon – Michael Farris (Coffee and a Mike) @ Coffee and a mike
link2SUBSTACK – José Niño Unfiltered – Mads Palsvig on breaking free from global technocracy. – El Niño habla – El Niño Speaks – Mads Palsvig is a Danish politician, banking critic, anti-vaccination activist and conspiracy theorist with many years of experience in the banking world.
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link2source – BRICS is the warning shot across the bow. – link – Global Settlement Layer to be Backed by Gold. – CANADA: Building CHINA’S Navy, And Filling Their Vaults With GOLD – A return to the Gold Standard. – Frank Vaughan @ Frank Vaughan * The stupidity in Canada is Bottom-Up. *
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link2source – Peter Grandich: BRICs & Non G7 Planning To Keep Accumulating Gold? DC Will Increase Spending & QE? – WallStForMainSt @ Wall St For Main St * Investors assume the FED will always bail them out. **-*
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link2source – Find a COMPATIBLE Linux Computer for $200+: Roadmap to Linux. Part 1 – Rob Braxman Tech @ rob braxman tech
link2source – Massachusetts Justice System COLLAPSES – Mike Urban @ mike urban
link2source – Democrats Have a Tantrum Over Troops Being Paid as the Schumer Shutdown Continues – Styxhexenhammer666 @ Styxhexenhammer666
link2source – Dmitry Orlov: Peak Oil Lessons From The Soviet Union – The Nation @ the nation
link2source – Dmitry Orlov: “It Can Always Get Worse. There Is No Limit to How Bad Things Can Be” – Collapse Chronicles @ collapse chronicles 5708
link2source – The Psychology of the Divided Self – Sandman Memories – Readers of the Lost Art@ Dr Paul A. Taylor
link2source – Peter Dunworth Explains Why Bitcoin’s Supply Crisis Changes Everything – BTC – TFTC @ TFTC
link2source – How Bitcoin Beats the Banks: Martin North & Adam Stokes on Stablecoins, Debt & Digital Money” – Adam Stokes @ adam stokes
link2source – Episode #233 – Vince Lanci and the Tale of Two Silvers –
Tom Luongo @ Thomas Luongo
link2source – YOU ARE POORER NOW – The Crisis Report @ Crisis Report
link2source – Elliott Gue: Large Capex Cuts Means Future Oil Supply Issues? Oil Now Top Contrarian Value Play? – WallStForMainSt @ Wall St For Main St **-* Investors hate the oil market and related securities. **-*
link2source – Episode #200: The War On Everything – Macro aggressions with Charlie Robinson 6.94K subscribers, as of 10-25-2025. -*- link2source – odysee DOT com / @ Macro aggressions:6
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link2source – Western Currencies Will Be Destroyed – The Sirius Report @ the sirius report * The U.S. has defaulted several times throughout history. * Bankruptcy’s a bitch. * You cannot keep bailing things out because the consequences down the line will be worse. * link2source – – wordnik DOT com – monetize : transitive verb To convert (an asset) into cash, as by selling the asset or using it as security for a loan.
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link2source – In a previous universe we never would have been chatting. – AI Is A Ruse to Hide How Bad the Economy Is- Melody Wright and Dave Collum – Michael Farris (Coffee and a Mike) @ Coffee and a mike
link2source-SUBSTACK – Reality v. Garbage – James Howard Kunstler (ON SUBSTACK) – Author of “The Long Emergency” and the “World Made by Hand” series of novels. – “The business incentives driving consumer AI development remain fundamentally misaligned with reducing hallucinations.” —The Singularity Hub on “X” – Is it simulation, or, is it reality? –
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link2source – Long-term profits for stackers (of gold). – ‘Biggest Bubble in History’ – Only GOLD Survives Coming Carnage: Alasdair Macleod – Commodity Culture @ Commodity Culture
link2source – URGENT: Trump Sanctions Russia | Putin’s $200 Oil Revenge Plan Already in Motion – Kingdom Exploration LLC @ Kingdom Exploration LLC
link2source – Ignore Short Term Noise, GOLD is Headed To $6k This Cycle: Steve Hanke – VRIC Media @ vric media * Bull Market in Gold *
link2source – Gold & Silver Chaos, & What It Means For The Miners – Arcadia Economics @ arcadia economics * Preserving Profitability Discipline : Equities *
link2source – How ThinkPads Became The Internet’s Favorite Laptop –
Eric Murphy @ Eric Murphy xyz * Computing *
link2source – “America First” 10/24/2025 – ESW | RogueNews @ Rogue News
link2source – Gold Explained, Finally – Johnny Harris @ johnny harris
link2source – Market Rips on Lower Than Expected CPI, More Fraud Hits Banks – Nobody Special Finance @ Nobody Special Finance
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link2source – Mayhem: Big Tech Is Over Hyping AI? AI, Robots, Drones & Data Center Boom As Gold Prices Gap Up – HUGE CAPEX for AI? – WallStForMainSt @ WallStForMainSt
link2source – Silver Keeps Leaving COMEX, Even As London/NY Spread Narrows – LIVE – Arcadia Economics @ arcadiaeconomics
link2source – Episode #139 – Dave Collum and the Night of the Long Tweets – Tom Luongo @ Thomas Luongo
link2source – Richard Duncan: Trump’s Radical Plan to Take Control of the Fed and Spark an Economic Boom – Competent Man Podcast – Tom Bodrovics @ Competent Man Pod
The Tyranny of Microsoft – link2source – Windows 11 Is a Lost Cause. Truly Destined for the Garbage. Don’t Upgrade from 10 – Rob Braxman Tech @ robb raxman tech
link2source – EM Burlingame 10/23/2025 – ESW | RogueNews @ Rogue News
link2source – Why Communism NEVER Works – JimmyTalks @ Jimmy Talks -1 * Socialism leads to Communism by Design. *
link2source – Oil Spikes on New Russia Sanctions, Even More “Isolated Events” – Nobody Special Finance @ Nobody Special Finance * Oil Prices are Ripping! *
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Gourmand was derived from a French word that has different connotations from the similar word gourmet, which emphasizes an individual with a refined, discerning palate[2][4] and is more often applied to the preparer than the consumer of the food. – link2source – [Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary of Synonyms: A Dictionary of Discriminated …By Merriam-Webster, Inc]
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link2source – Ed Dowd: USA Facing A ‘Toxic Cocktail’ of Trouble In Stocks, Credit, Trade & Housing – Adam Taggart | Thoughtful Money® @ adam . taggart * Real Estate Crisis, Trade War, Overvalued Stocks, and Credit Issues all make a Toxic Cocktail. *
link2source – This Isn’t FOMO, It’s Pure Fear in the Gold Market- Eric Yeung – Pandemonium as people line up to buy gold! – Michael Farris (Coffee and a Mike) @ Coffee and a mike
Property Rights in the Dumpster in the EU. – link2source – CRISIS REPORT ALERT October 22, 2025 – The Crisis Report @ Crisis Report * Replacement Migration *
link2source – Silver On Way Back Down To Low $40s or $30s? – Arcadia Economics @ arcadia economics
link2source – Escalating Capital Wars and the Geopolitical Chess Board as It Stands: In-Depth with Michael Howell – Mining Stock Daily @ mining stock daily 3204
link2source – MASSIVE Signal of an IMMINENT Banking Crisis Developing (2 scenarios could happen) | Simon Hunt – CapitalCosm @ capital cosm * Multi-polar versus Uni-polar world. * The Big Picture *
link2source – Episode #234 – Adam Curry and the Immense Strength in Numbers – Tom Luongo @ Thomas Luongo
link2source – The “Silver Tsunami”. Opportunities in the aging of the US. Unemployed Value Degen Interview. – John Polomny @ Actionable Intelligence Alert
link2source – Robots are advancing in sophistication and it’s kinda cool! – CUSS with GUS 10/22/2025 – ESW | RogueNews @ Rogue News * A.I. Artificial Intelligence *
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link2source – Bob Moriarty: Revolution is Coming! – I’m going out on a limb carrying a chain saw. – Geopolitics & Empire @ Geopolitics Empire **-* BOOK: After the Empire – link2source – After the Empire: The Breakdown of the American Order – a 2002 book by French demographer and sociologist Emmanuel Todd. – the United States is rapidly losing control of the world stage economically, militarily, and ideologically -*– to dodge bullets literally and figuratively (regarding our collective near future). *-**
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link2source – Physical SILVER is ‘Going EXTINCT’ – Prices Headed ‘Vertical’: Ian Everard – Commodity Culture @ Commodity Culture * The Figures are Fudged. – link2-DEFINITION – to devise as a substitute : fake AS IN: She held up the bowl to the window light and smiled her fakest smile yet …—Lee Durkee.
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link2source – Auto Lender Primalend Goes Bankrupt: Another Isolated Event – Nobody Special Finance @ Nobody Special Finance * Buy-Here Pay-Here Car Dealerships (Financing) Sub-prime auto-lenders *
link2source – spain traveller DOT com en bullfighting terms
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Chocolate’s in the safe, wine’s in the cupboards. dirty door with choco-nuts; glass for ice at two. Just California Dreamin’. What-a shack-a-lak.
Bull’s under sofa. See me in the mirror? That’s how you know it’s serious.
Gun’s downstairs on the alabaster tray. It’s all the sea coast way.
Cozy on the beach with the sand colored hair. A long way off out there.
Tell me crazy; what people say. But, I’m not checking. Alone.
Outta there. Goin alone. Out like here is the place to leave.
Checkin’ out alone. Rusted out car. Weasel’s battered techno blocks. Back yard and busted glass. Oak’s in play.
Voices. Sayin and sayin. Telling and how. Doin and ok I’m up. Noon n’ all. That’s all. Right? Cali dreamin.
Eyes shut wide. To golden light. Sutter street, Montgomery far away. Cavern’s crazy height. And I, ’cause it all, on the tray. She say stay!
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Minotaur – link2source – (Ancient Greek: Μινώταυρος, Mīnṓtauros) – mythical creature portrayed during classical antiquity with the head and tail of a bull and the body of a man. –
The Revelation of Great Beauty!
25 Great American Novels – link2source – Selecting the greatest American novels is a fun job because there are so many wonderful choices.
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link2source – Bank Meltdowns and Mustaches 10/17/2025 – ESW | RogueNews @ Rogue News
link2source – Luke Gromen: Dramatically Higher Gold Prices Solves Many Problems for the US and China – Competent Man Podcast – Tom Bodrovics @ Competent Man Pod
link2source – Trump, Gold/Silver, Israel, China and More- Matt Bracken – Michael Farris (Coffee and a Mike)@ Coffee and a mike *** Weimar hyper-inflation all the while riding the tiger!
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The once-and-future legendary restaurant scene in San Francisco [a semi-fictionalized, mostly true retelling of something that actually happened to me in the city whose namesake is St. Francis of Assisi] – My personal story goes like this: Decades ago, I was sitting in the Starbucks (now closed) that used to exist near 18th street and Castro. The table I was at (alone) was close enough for me to overhear a discussion between two men. Apparently they were working on a big project to restore the movie: Vertigo! (It has been beautifully remastered and you have to see it!)
One of the men noticed I was listening in. (I’ve never been good at the art of subtlety). To put it mildly, I was woefully under-employed at that time of my life. (Could I even call it that?!) The man said to me: You have to act and plan over the long-term. Short-term thinking gets you no-where. Anything worthwhile takes time. We’ve been working on this for years (their restoration project), and, it’s going to be fantastic. We are willing to put the time into it. (So remember, it’s been awhile. But it went something like that.)
Of course, dispensing advice like this assumes the recipient has some control over his economic hard-realities, and, also, that he even has the resources to dream big (all the while living small!) – Tangentially, the scene of that iconic movie, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, that comes to mind (because it has something to do with food, or the promise of food): was the famous restaurant called Earnie’s. – link –
The famous Ernie’s, in business for 61 years until it closed in 1995, was at 847 Montgomery Street in San Francisco. How crazy and unplanned life is as events unfold in Vertigo. (The movie)
Life imitates art. Vertigo can be a wonderful medicine for hunger (literal or figurative). Scottie (played by James Stewart) spies on an acquaintance’s wife (Kim Novak), as he has been hired out as a private investigator. Even big-name stars have to pay the bills. None of the exciting things that happened in the movie directed by Alfred Hitchcock happened to me (and thank god!) We each have our fortunes and misfortunes. We each have our conditions (psychological and otherwise). Hitchcock understood this, I am sure!
I don’t lecture total strangers in public. (Starbucks, in the Castro.) Some of us have less than optimal economic realities. (I probably looked rather forlorn at the time, although, I don’t think I felt it.) Life happens. (That’s the point!) I pretended to be stone deaf while sipping my beverage, the advice washing over me like the sounds of so many chattering birds in a park setting. (I can imagine these things when necessary.)
What would St. Francis of Assisi think about, and finally do, for the homeless persons one can still encounter sleeping on the sidewalks, assuming one cares to look. I empathize, that’s my point. Yes, most of my big dreams, remained dreams. But, at least I can dream while knowing what I see with my own eyes. I am the beneficiary of my own good advice (kept to myself) and that has always been good enough.
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market cap $2.19T (BTC) – BITCOIN: 10-24-2025 – link2CoinMarketCap – $110,244.87 (USD) AS OF: 11:58 AM, Central Standard Time (Houston, TX)
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link2source – gutenberg DOT org – cache – epub – 67138 – pg67138 DOT txt – The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Sun Also Rises – Author: Ernest Hemingway – Original publication: United States: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1926 – **-** Ernest Hemingway’s novel “The Sun Also Rises” is one of many to enter the Public Domain in 2022. Each year on January 1, a collection of copyrighted work loses their protected status and enters into the Public Domain. **-** renewal copyright, 1954, Ernest Hemingway **
link2source – New Works to Enter the Public Domain in 2022 – Each year on January 1, a collection of copyrighted work loses their protected status and enters into the Public Domain. This is marked with the celebration of Public Domain Day. In 2021, Public Domain Day made news when F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby entered into the public domain after 95 years of exclusivity. **-** The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway (1926) **-**
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“One never gets anywhere by discussing finances.” – Ernest Hemingway. – The Sun Also Rises.
Hemingway’s Messages in Bottles
Ok. Why read Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises, despite its being a classic? To decipher the message in a bottle; but not literally, of course.
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link2source – “I drank a bottle of wine for company,” Ernest Hemingway wrote in “The Sun Also Rises”. – Wine speaks to us through its bottle and label, its appearance in the glass, and its aromas. But you need to take a sip to decipher the wine’s message. –
Byline: Dave McIntyre, Special to The Washington Post -Then he writes: Balance is essentially the interplay of tart acidity, sweet fruitiness and (in red wines at least) astringent tannin. *-*
Hemingway’s personification of wine in his stories. link2source – Hemingway’s Messages in Bottles – his relationship with alcohol, which cannot be explained solely by the usual behaviour of a circle of young people grouped under the term, the ‘Lost Generation’ – **-* link2source – La Dolce Vigna LLC (The Sweet Vineyard) : an art-curator-turned-sommelier (a trained and knowledgeable wine professional) creates immersive experiences and itineraries. -*-
“A bottle of wine was good company.” -*-** Does wine speak to you in literature? – link2source – Wine and Literature: Literary Representations of Wine and its Cultural Significance – Throughout history, wine has played a prominent role in literature, symbolizing various themes and emotions. – Euripides: often portrayed wine as a catalyst for chaos and transformation.
Hemingway in Spain
In Hemingway’s novel **-*** Inside the Café, Jake drinks the wine. It’s a Château Margaux. Afterward he has coffee. This occurs while he’s in France. In an earlier chapter he finishes the leg of his travels where he sees the bulls of Pamplona with his friends. He had a falling out with Robert Cohn in an earlier chapter. (The Sun Also Rises).
**-* The event (Running of the bulls) has its origins in the old practice of transporting bulls from the fields outside the city, where they were bred, to the bullring, where they would be fought and killed in the evening. – link2source –
The encierro of Pamplona has been depicted many times in literature, television or advertising, but became known worldwide partly because of the descriptions of Ernest Hemingway in books The Sun Also Rises and Death in the Afternoon. -**
Hemingway in Spain: A definitive guide to Ernest Hemingway’s Spain.- link2source – We rode in a taxi down to the Palace Hotel, left the bags, arranged for berths on the Sud Express for the night, and went into the bar of the hotel for a cocktail. – The Sun Also Rises. **-* link2source – Hemingway’s Pamplona Legacy, Part I, Sharon Hamilton and John Hargrove – On July 6th, 1923, Ernest Hemingway and his wife Hadley arrived in Pamplona for the Fiesta of San Fermín – Hemingway commented in his article for the Star “Bull-Fighting Is Not a Sport – It Is a Tragedy,” his first published article about bullfighting. – hemingway society DOT org
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The job of an art curator: – link2source – (From art curator to combination travel agent, wine-tasting itinerary agent.
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tribal conflict: It’s all around.
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*** Haiku: short attention spans.
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