3 Weekend Observations

     One month ends as the next begins this weekend. Payday for most people. I noticed as I waited for my turn at the ATM in the bank foyer, I was the oldest person in the room. Inside at the teller windows was the line-up of canes and walkers and shopping carriers on wheels. It appears the elderly don't use debit cards.

     The scene brought to mind the photos published of the senior citizens of Greece and Cyprus in tears sitting on sidewalks and curbs in front of closed banks. Banks suddenly taking a 'bank holiday' to prevent a run on them as the government went bankrupt. When those banks re-opened their customers were limited to 60 euros per day withdrawals. How would the elderly pay their rent, buy their vital prescription drugs, and groceries on so little? Then again, many of these people had no savings left as their money was confiscated for the bank bail-ins. So they had their social security, you say? No. That was gone as well. As I looked at the lines at the teller windows, I wondered how many of these people, if any at all, were prepared for such a thing to happen in the United States.  I used to wonder why my grandparents kept a good portion of their cash in their home safe. Now I understand. They had come through the Stock Market Crash of 1929. They were prepared for a re-occurrence.

     Outside of the bank those walkers and canes click-clacked their way to the newsstand, cash envelopes in hand. Not to buy a newspaper or magazine. The queue was now for lottery tickets. Slips of paper with the lucky numbers of these marginal survivors. Long lists of numbers for which these people spend $20, $40, even as much as $100 on a dream of riches. Somehow I find this a much more tragic scene than if they sat on the curb in tears because they couldn't get their money out of the bank.

     Speaking of converting paper money into lottery tickets and scratch-offs, how much do you spend a week? A month? Even $10 per week comes up $40 for the month. How much do you win? Uh-huh.

     What if you took that $40 and deposited it into a plan to convert dollars into physical gold? A far cry from the $1260 an ounce for gold, you object? Of course, it is, if indeed you could only acquire gold by the ounce.

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     If you're going to place money on a bet, doesn't it make sense to you to put it on a sure thing? Those loser lottery tickets end up blowing in the wind. Gold is your money outside the system.

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Do You Know 3 Things That Happen Behind Your Back?

     People say 'first impressions are lasting impressions.' When people talk about meeting someone the first question asked most often is,  'What is your impression of her or him?' Yes, a full body scan was performed and judgments made based on grooming, clothing choice and fit, especially fit. and shoes before their eyes trail back up to your eyes and  smile. That's pretty much the sum total of your first impression.
     This is followed by conversation. More judgments are made based on the resonance and timbre of the voice, articulation, and intelligence and humor expressed.
     You're impressed with the person in front of you. You offer your business card with a promise to follow-up in a couple of days. Hopefully, you received a business card in return, along with an agreement regarding future contact. You judge the encounter as a success and start thinking about your next meeting. But. But what happens as you walk away? What opinion is formed behind your back? What happened to your business card?
     First of all, the fit of your clothes now takes center stage. The necklace and earrings, the shirt and tie are out of sight. Now the emphasis is on tailoring. I think it was Zig Ziglar who once advised if you don't have time to shine the entire shoe, do the heels. If the person you were just speaking with sees well-polished heels, memory will attest to an overall shoe shine. Likewise, shirttails hanging out the back will instill a memory of overall sloppiness, regardless of how perfect you looked from the front.
     Secondly, the way you walk will cause a major reaction if you swagger away as though you just closed the deal. No one wants to be taken for granted, and that's how an over-confident gait translates. You may have lost the follow-up not to mention the deal.
     Finally, attention comes down to your card. How does it look? Is it concise or over-embellished? Does the size lend itself to slipping into a wallet or does it stick out so that it feels awkward and messy? If your business card fails you, nothing else matters because where it went took you as well as your contact details with it.
     You need a new card. You need a better card. You need a card guaranteed to be kept. You need a card that encourages the people you  meet to want to know more about you and your business. A card they will use to refer associates and friends to you because everyone wants to be associated with the elite so they can be elite, too. And just like ordinary business cards, these cards are also tax-deductible as a business expense.
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     But you know what? Everyone says they want to set a new standard, but few of them ever do. You know the type. They complain their clothes don't fit right and probably should workout more, or at least find a good tailor while they lounge in sweatpants and tee-shirts in front of the TV with a bag of chips. Not your type at all. Right? So here's where you go.

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Ever Dream Of Being A Star?

Everybody says they'd like to be a star, but few people ever do anything about it. Like Marlon Brando in ON THE WATER FRONT, they make the sad claim 'I couldda been a contender. I couldda been somebody' be use of innovative and cutting edge but it just never worked out.

Not so with the people at The Voices of Africa Foundation.  They recognized an opportunity to 'empower impoverished women and youth to improve their communities sustainably through the use of innovative and cutting edge information and communication technology and fair trade income generation.' Voices of Africa endeavors to bring foreign expertise to local knowledge to improve quality of life through improved healthcare and education. The foundation doesn't just build buildings and walk away. A broader approach is utilized for sustainable development.

Voices of Africa runs a halfway house for young homeless men ages 8-18, providing housing, food, clothing and education to break the cycle of poverty.

Partnerships with SchoolAid UK will build 10 school libraries in Tanzania, 5 in Kigamboni, and 5 in Mwanza. The TabLab Project will bring solar power and educational tablets to schools in Tanzania.

Voices of Africa Foundation also provides pro bono consulting services to small organizations working for the good of women, children, youth, and the handicapped in East Africa.

A lot of work to fill a lot of gaps. Definitely a constellation of stars!

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Legends And Stars To Guide Us

'I freed a thousand slaves I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.'  --Harriet Tubman

Since this quote went viral, several historical experts claim this is a fake quote. There is no evidence Harriet Tubman ever said this. However, I don't think this courageous former slave was much given to recording her thoughts with pencil and paper. The epistemology does show, however, the statement was most likely pulled from a fictional story about Ms. Tubman to be used in a college paper in 1970, the familiar statement has aged into it's truth.

Regardless of who said it, the statement is profound for its veracity. People in general are seduced, indoctrinated, and (dare I say it?) enslaved by the media. In her new book,  ABOVE THE LINE: MY WILD OATS ADVENTURE, Shirley Maclaine writes:

'Fear lowers our vibrational energy , therefore we become more controllable. The people who control our material existence on Earth have designed methods of creating fear. We see it every day. I believe it is their designated task to keep us confused and in a state of controlled fear....We think that we are free of tyranny. But we are the tyrannizers of ourselves. I believe the media is mostly giving us senseless entertainment so that we don't bother to think. Something like the Roman games, a distraction from what is actually going on. Unwittingly, perhaps, Hollywood has contributed to mind control with its violent special effects and senseless diversionary scripts.'

More of us can be free if we will only acknowledge we are slaves. If we consider money at all, we think of our income and how many ways to spend it. Few people have enough money in the bank or invested in real assets to cover themselves should they lose their jobs, or for retirement, or a collapse of the economy. We all seem to think we'll pull through somehow IF something like being fired or a collapsed economy were to happen. Besides, the economy won't collapse. Right? That's what people thought in 1929 and in every 17 year cycle since then, up to 2007.

Ms. MacLaine writes about memories, dreams, thoughts, and insights she experience while making a movie on the Canary Islands, the last vestige of Atlantis. Some of these included the importance of gold in the Altantean Age.

Gold has maintained its role in every civilization since Atlantis. Governments have tried to push it down, but gold is reemerging into our lives. The eternal value of gold is set to replace our current fiat currencies.

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It's In The Bible

     Isn't there something in the Bible that says what's bound on Earth is bound also in Heaven? And whatever is done in the East, will be felt in the West? Maybe I'm confusing the Bible and Buddha, but I do know about the importance of the balance of energies. And the ramifications when things go kerplunk.    

     No other terrestrial event more clearly demonstrates the yin and yang energy dynamic than earthquakes. An occurrence on one side of the globe is followed within weeks, sometimes days by an earthquake of similar magnitude on the other. Take for instance the most recent pair, Japan and Equador. Both were costly in property destruction and loss of lives.

     We see similar activity in the financial markets. The Bank of Japan (BOJ) took interest rates into negative territory in an effort to weaken the yen and bolster Japan's economy. What happened instead is a stronger yen and a weaker economy. The counterpoint in the western hemisphere is a weaker dollar, decreased bank earnings, lower prices on oil, and a higher spot price on gold. Global energy is out of balance, but the yin-yang pattern perseveres. And yet, the notion of taking interest rates deeper into negative territory is not out of the realm of possibility for the BOJ. 

     The main cause of the lack of equilibrium appears to be inept manipulation.  One example of failed price fixing is confirmed  by Reuters.  Troubled Deutsche Bank confessed and settled claims it manipulated the price of gold scant minutes before it took similar action with silver.

     Confidence shockwaves washed up on Goldman Sachs amid reports the Wall Street bank hit ZERO in revenue from its stock portfolio sending, ripples in dwindling investor confidence through the so-called Big Six.

     These are only the ones the Richter scale sees, so far. There are other shockwaves building.

     The Central banks and global markets are out of my control. 'Not my monkeys; not my circus' as the saying goes. All I can do is whatever I can to protect myself, my family, and my friends from the ill effects of bad guesses, and wrong or selfish actions by whoever commands the show under the  big top. Living well in spite of world circumstances is my big WHY. Karatbars is HOW I trade dollars for gold in increments I can carry and store, not kilos which would fall through my floor or require an armed guard. An added benefit is I will soon be able to fire my boss. 

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