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Link with proposed “Neom smart city” meeting as way to “lure in” certain Saudis; bin Talal, later arrested, said to have rejected investing in the project (from min. 7 of video).

Off topic for anyone DownUnder: consider getting some good Opal stones, prices are off the charts in the rest of the world.

Wonderful poem by Pascoli – some of the other quotations and artwork not so wonderful…

Seems very suspicious – and Malawi is one of the more advanced African countries. But never fear, BigPharma has already been BUSY there:
https://www.pfizer.com/news/featured_stories/featured_stories_detail/pfizer_foundation_supports_save_the_children_in_malawi

Now who would believe such “conspiracy theories” 🙂

Sounds possible, yet another online experiment with lots of data to be had not so much from actual photos being sent – there is a surfeit of unclad flesh best left discretely covered – but from the emotionally-driven reaction words, which can then be duly analysed…

Hard to tell if this is a psychopath at work or if it is another political correctness op:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2017/10/10/antarctic-geologist-accused-of-sexually-harassing-assaulting-female-researchers/?utm_term=.c391769522b3

No, just having dissident political views is now “offensive”

I’m having lunch… anyway the flavour is very Di ckensian, with the corruption not just in old London but becoming a “legitimate” business activity…

Now there is weird talk about setting up a “government in exile”; looks like an unconvincing replay of events in the 1930s. But there are no German planes bombing Spanish towns. And indeed it looks pretty much like “business as usual” in the highly entrepreneurial Catalan region…

As the Russians have pointed out, this would disprove the theory of man-made “global warming”. On the other hand, since the Earth is also a single system, constantly though slowly changing, inserted in a wider cosmic environment, the stress and strains in various areas can certainly have causes that do not fit in with the academic paradigms.…[Read more]

The size is automatic 🙂

RM are revving up sales of coins and bars too, perhaps to compete with the Austrian Mint which has been selling incredible amounts of its “Philharmoniker” bullion coin.

And people will send them too, that’s the sad thing!

I was going to comment but I’m having dinner…

In the past, China and India favoured monetary silver; the British managed to drain a lot of silver, especially in India by manipulations of the rupee. As the above article states, Asia seems to have benefitted from the silver road much more than Spain: Spain frittered away most of their wealth on military and naval expenditure (sounds familiar)…[Read more]