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"Work is easy. True idleness requires courage & fortitude" - Johann Hamann 1730-1788

Joined December 2015
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@isabellasg3 #VLRM "Money is only useful when you spend it doing nothing useful." Owning a stock exchange on a beach helps.
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This morning I announced I was continuing to buy energy B plc shares as Chairman. Why? Because to me - now that the Company has a path to 100% of the Gatwick Energy Site for £1.2m and we now have big family office support, I want more. Historic oil from HH-1 of 211,000 barrels of top quality oil and 20 million cubic feet of gas #NRGB aquis.eu/stock-exchange/anno…
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50 something.
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There are no best or most suitable investments. It is just chance. Some will turn out to be good. Some won’t.
What are the chances that the firm your financial adviser works for also happens to offer the very best and most suitable investments for you ? Ask your financial adviser about what the I in IFA means in their firm
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Punters dump gold on accelerating inflation. They must think gold will be debased as gov bonds deliver high risk-free real yields. Given the state of play, there are many reasons to be worried sick but gold bullion losing out to gov debt isn't one of them.
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The whole grift quickly shifted from "give us money and you'll get wealthy" to "give us money or you'll be destroyed"
BREAKING: 🇺🇸 Larry Fink the head of the world's largest asset manager says the US could slip into a recession if it stops building data centers.
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Now do your own research!
Now do disposable income.
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BREAKING: this week's papers have been full of a story that Britain's 2nd-richest person left the UK for Monaco this summer, driven offshore by non-dom and other tax changes. Only one problem: according to official docs, he left the UK over a decade ago. taxwatchuk.org/how-many-time…
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Most criminal cities Europe: 1. 🇫🇷 Marseille 2. 🇬🇧 Birmingham 3. 🇫🇷 Grenoble 4. 🇮🇹 Naples 5. 🇬🇧 Coventry 6. 🇫🇷 Montpellier 7. 🇫🇷 Lyon 8. 🇬🇧 Bradford 9. 🇫🇷 Nantes 10. 🇧🇪 Liège 11. 🇫🇷 Paris 12. 🇬🇧 Manchester 13. 🇧🇪 Brussels 14. 🇬🇧 London 15. 🇫🇷 Nice 16. 🇬🇷 Athens 17. 🇸🇪 Malmö Source: Numbeo (Crime Index by City 2026 Mid-Year)
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Numbeo Crime Index ranks cities by perceptions from crowdsourced online surveys of website visitors, not official crime statistics. numbeo.com/crime/indices_… sudradio.fr/sud-radio/crim…
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Give it up and claim benefits. Then you’d find out what nonsense this all is!!
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China’s wind turbines alone generated more electricity in 2025 than all of Japan. 640 GW of installed wind capacity is 4 times the US’s and 8 times Germany’s. This is not a target. It’s already built.
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2 weeks ago, Ellison pulled the plug on a $7.5B Oracle share sale after everyone freaked out. But yesterday, he still managed to get $9.2 Billion out. That's by taking a loan out on even MORE of his shares. It's a 19% increase in shares pledged since last year & currently over 36% of his shares now back loans. It's also worth noting that Larry is the only Oracle director who is allowed to pledge his shares. Gotta finance that Paramount takeover, Oracle shareholders be damned...
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Werner Herzog saw it coming
Everything makes sense once you realize we’re the first generation in history with a post-literate ruling class
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Victor Hugo pleurait sur la misère le jour et l'exploitait sexuellement la nuit. Derrière la figure du vieux sage adulé pour sa défense des opprimés se cachait un bourgeois cynique qui profitait directement de la faim des gamines des rues, achetant frénétiquement des jeunes filles souvent âgées de quinze ou seize ans à peine. Celui qui a fait pleurer des générations entières sur le sort tragique des femmes du peuple réduites à vendre leur corps pour survivre s'offrait cette même misère pour quelques centimes. Le grand moraliste tenait d'ailleurs une comptabilité effroyable de ses abus. Dans ses carnets intimes, il notait méthodiquement les tarifs sordides, l'âge et les actes sexuels, réduisant la chair des misérables à un simple livre de comptes. Ses journaux cryptés regorgent d'entrées glaçantes où l'on peut lire par exemple : "La petite blanchisseuse, 15 ans : 2 francs", ou encore "Fille de la rue de la Verrerie. 16 ans. 1 franc 50.", au milieu de froides descriptions anatomiques codées en espagnol. La cruauté de cet homme s'illustre de manière encore plus tragique avec Juliette Drouet, la maîtresse dévouée qui lui a sacrifié cinquante ans de son existence. Pendant que l'écrivain s'érigeait en champion universel de la liberté, il exigeait de sa compagne une soumission totale, l'enfermant à double tour et anéantissant sa carrière d'actrice. Alors qu'il amassait une fortune colossale grâce à ses droits d'auteur, il prenait un plaisir sadique à la maintenir dans une pauvreté humiliante. Sa correspondance dévoile le calvaire d'une femme brisée. Transie de froid l'hiver, Juliette devait le supplier pour payer le boucher ou acheter du bois, lui écrivant avec désespoir : "Je suis si pauvre, mon adoré, que je n'ai plus de souliers à mettre à mes pieds". Pendant qu'elle mettait ses propres robes en gage pour survivre, Hugo dépensait sans compter pour multiplier les passes avec des adolescentes des quartiers pauvres. Le monde littéraire entretient aujourd'hui une amnésie bien commode pour protéger la statue d'or du grand républicain au Panthéon. Ses propres écrits décrivent plutôt un rentier de la morale qui sublimait la pauvreté dans ses livres pour mieux l'acheter et l'asservir dans son lit.
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Here is the answer to fears about AI killing us all - devised in 1942. See especially law 0.
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The real cost of housing: When the main source of a nation's income is 'wealth through leveraged real estate debt', and the cycle swings, they'd be better to rent in a trailer park and buy gold.
Beeb boards the debt-shilling bus. Look at the collective effort to normalise more debt, whether it’s these 100% mortgages or Help to Buy Votes. It’s all underlining one message: “It’s ok to borrow more!” It’s not. It’s the cause of the housing crisis.
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Latest: Banks have £915billion of our money in savings accounts paying average 1.64% and £305bn in accounts paying 0% - average 1.23%. They can deposit that with BoE which pays Bank Rate 3.75%. Over last 12 months banks made £28.5bn profit on our money! (BoE Table A6.1, 29/7/26)
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Windsor Hills/ La Brea Crash: Nicole Linton's murder trial is underway in Los Angeles County Superior Court. Opening statements began around September 8, 2026. Of course her lawyers are claiming 'mentally unstable' state at the time of the event.
Slowing down the Windsor Hills, La Brea crash 8 times reveals the Mercedes hit the rear of the black car, shattering the gas tank which immediately exploded as it and another car were bulldozed across the road
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Melissa Ronaldson - The Herbal Barge Herbal medicine, online courses. herbalbarge.co.uk
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