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  • #201
  • Oct 3, 2016 7:32pm Oct 3, 2016 7:32pm
Quoting Exodus
{quote}That is too horrific a supposition.

Fair enough!

I'm just of the mind set to question everything until every option is exhausted in getting to the truth.
  • #202
  • Oct 4, 2016 4:35am Oct 4, 2016 4:35am
Quoting ThunderHeart
{quote} All valid questions Jen! I was a soldier in the first Gulf War, (Operation Desert Storm) in which was a UN sanctioned war, comprised of Multi-national coalition forces to drive Saddam back into Iraq from his initial invasion of Kuwait. My job at the time was with the 165th S.O.A.R.S. specialty group armed Reconnaissance where we had to provide survey info and security to contractor engineers to help with the shutting down of Oil wells that Saddam had purposefully set on fire, causing environmental catastrophe. My last active mission was...
Thanks for the different perspective. I understand in those early days, it wasn't so clear that Blair was a lying, power crazed nut job and I guess Bush wasn't far off. I do have a lot of respect for the armed forces, but sometimes I struggle to comprehend how they can just go and do what they do. How does all the breaking down and re-programming affect you as a person in the longer term? Coupled with the horrors you must have witnessed? Does it take a strong mind to overcome all that? Or is it a beneficial experience to make you a better person?
  • #203
  • Oct 4, 2016 4:55am Oct 4, 2016 4:55am
Quoting ThunderHeart
{quote} I feel the same way you do Jen. Sometimes, more often than not, that all I want to do is find a quiet place in some corner of the Earth, and live out my life in peace. Make a living by having a small restaurant, with books, coffee, and good food as the theme is by all measures a much more simpler way to live. I don't want to be rich, just comfortable. Being rich just makes one a target for all the other nonsense of greed and influence that serves as unwanted attention. 9-11 among other aspects in history that are questionable, certainly...
Don't go into the restaurant business! It is hard work like no other (well, compared to what I knew anyway ). I had an 80 cover restaurant just outside London and employed 14 people, full and part timers. I helped out on the bar most weekends and it was tough. Saturday night we would typically finish at 3 in the morning and back Sunday 9am to get ready to open at 12. What I found particularly hard was to be nice and keep smiling at those drunk leches all bloody night! I've seen it all, French waiter being a drama queen threatening to shoot himself (without a gun ) throwing himself on the kitchen floor in the middle of service, Italian chefs doing untold acts on slabs of meat in the cold room... it was never boring, that's for sure.

When you have money, you keep very quiet and don't flaunt it like the Kartrashians. The size of your brain is inversely proportional to the size of your arse, so unless you can balance champagne flutes on your arse, you should have enough brain cells to realise that you don't keep bling worth millions lying around. Lucky I'm not into bling, I really couldn't give a damn about jewellery. I do like German cars though instead .
  • #204
  • Oct 4, 2016 7:14am Oct 4, 2016 7:14am
Britain is GREAT again! I saw him live Brilliant.
https://youtu.be/4looWiwpEmc
  • #205
  • Oct 4, 2016 7:59am Oct 4, 2016 7:59am
Quoting jen101
{quote} Thanks for the different perspective. I understand in those early days, it wasn't so clear that Blair was a lying, power crazed nut job and I guess Bush wasn't far off. I do have a lot of respect for the armed forces, but sometimes I struggle to comprehend how they can just go and do what they do. How does all the breaking down and re-programming affect you as a person in the longer term? Coupled with the horrors you must have witnessed? Does it take a strong mind to overcome all that? Or is it a beneficial experience to make you a better...
I think it just depends on the person, and what type of training and what type of soldier you were. For me, I was an warrant officer due to scoring high on entry tests and having a college education so I wasn't exposed as much to the combat duties that an infantry soldier is accustomed to, but I have had my share of life altering experiences, only because I was responsible for guiding a group of men. For ordinary soldiers like the typical 18 year, who enter green I imagine it is a lot more challenging mentally for them. Things like PTSD is something that effects every one to some degree, again it just depends on the person and what they were exposed to. Fortunately there has been progress made in terms of debriefing and adjustment programs for integrating soldiers back into civilian life after serving a deployment tour for an extended period of time. Also the extended periods away from home is extremely tough on some especially the ones who are married. I remember meeting a young man who I had to train, who had a wife that just had their first child. After six months of him being in Iraq, she decided one day to go into the porn industry. I could not imagine what he was feeling at the time, but instances like this where one feels helpless to do anything sometimes drives people to do crazy things. Among the leading deaths to military active duty members is suicide. Rape was another, for enlisted women. When I was stationed in Iraq, the men to women ratio was 10-1, so women pretty much had every guy fawning on them 24/7.

I guess the toughest part for me was learning of a friend of mine who after serving active duty, went into the private contractor business providing security details escorting Oil trucks between Kuwait Baghdad and Basra. He and his buddies were allegedly pulled over by Iraqi insurgents dressed up as Police officers, when being opened fired upon, eventually they were kidnapped and never to be found again. There was a investigative reporter who did a story on him who also revealed that a lot of these private contractors were injecting themselves with Adrenalin type steroids, which was a bit of a shocker to me. Some of these security companies were lax in their security protocols and had a lot of shady stuff going on, and didn't care much about their employees, as they were getting fat pay checks from the Government contracts that they were getting. The full story is in the link below.

http://www.socnet.com/archive/index.php/t-71494.html


As far as coping and life after, it was not easy, but I am thankful for having a supportive group to get me through my initial culture shock phase, and my experiences I think has made me a better, stronger person. One of my strongest assets I gained as a result from my military experiences is being able to quickly assess people and having situational awareness. Survival skills never really leave you, as they are instinctual and you never know when those skills come in handy. After time passes though, things get better, you know as the saying goes, Time heals all wounds, is true. Not for all but for a lot.
  • #206
  • Oct 4, 2016 8:18am Oct 4, 2016 8:18am
Quoting jen101
{quote} Don't go into the restaurant business! It is hard work like no other (well, compared to what I knew anyway ). I had an 80 cover restaurant just outside London and employed 14 people, full and part timers. I helped out on the bar most weekends and it was tough. Saturday night we would typically finish at 3 in the morning and back Sunday 9am to get ready to open at 12. What I found particularly hard was to be nice and keep smiling at those drunk leches all bloody night! I've seen it all, French waiter being a drama queen threatening...

Good advice. However, I do not plan on having something that you are describing. I wouldn't serve alcohol, just coffee, some healthy drinks and some food. I want to create a relaxed environment for people to come in relax, maybe play chess, or other stuff that is creative, read and promote some kind of literary angle as a theme. I don't know, just something I have thought about for a while.

AS far as money, I don't want to get too big that I get the attention from the more powerful orgs or Government wanting to take me down if you know what I mean. Believe me, I am already a very low key person, so I don't go out actively seeking attention for vanity sake. But it just seems that once your bank account reaches a certain decimal amount, certain players take notice, whether one is aware or not.

Also I wouldn't want to be a celebrity in a million years, as I truly feel sorry for those who are. I can't imagine always being in the tabloids or everyone knowing who you are, that kind of life style must suck! I can't also imagine having to alter my plans to go somewhere for fear of someone recognizing me. How is that being free?
  • #207
  • Oct 4, 2016 8:48am Oct 4, 2016 8:48am
Quoting jen101
Britain is GREAT again! I saw him live Brilliant. https://youtu.be/4looWiwpEmc
Funny! I could imagine getting lost in London somewhere with this guy on a 4am bender!
  • #208
  • Oct 4, 2016 12:32pm Oct 4, 2016 12:32pm
Quoting ThunderHeart
{quote} Good advice. However, I do not plan on having something that you are describing. I wouldn't serve alcohol, just coffee, some healthy drinks and some food. I want to create a relaxed environment for people to come in relax, maybe play chess, or other stuff that is creative, read and promote some kind of literary angle as a theme. I don't know, just something I have thought about for a while. AS far as money, I don't want to get too big that I get the attention from the more powerful orgs or Government wanting to take me down if you know what...
Hmm. That sounds like a lot of time and commitment for very little. As with any business the objective is to maximise profits for minimal effort. Alcohol is a good way to achieve that as there is such a big markup. On a Saturday night invariably we would be turning away a lot of people. You can't increase your seating capacity so you have to make them spend more in order to increase revenue. I used to really press my waiting staff to push the drinks in particular wine. Give the middle age leches some attention and it's the easiest thing in the world to get them to order another bottle (of expensive wine). I also had Italian waiters who charmed the women

For max profits I recommend getting a McDonald's franchise! Seriously. I nearly did. You need good passing traffic and you have a money printer. That would be the only thing I would consider doing in future if I was to venture back into the restaurant game.
  • #209
  • Oct 4, 2016 2:03pm Oct 4, 2016 2:03pm
Quoting jen101
{quote} OK, let's take a step back then. Why put yourself at the whim of our megalomaniac leaders in the first place? Sorry, I'm being challenging and difficult now, which is a woman's prerogative . I don't mean any offence.
Just checking in, been out of it for today.

Observe the Abu Hamsa type (or any other insurrectionist), they prey on the mid-teens because their sense of morals is just developing and they can be steered with the 'right' choice of phrase. So too, the many enlisted men (and women) who join to serve their country and protect their homes in the belief that they are doing 'a good job'. Which they mainly are because there is an undoubted need for defence, as ThunderHeart wrote ... mankind is basically evil.

It is only the wisdom of years that clears the smoke so that you can identify the mirrors.
Carbon-Dioxide: the gas of life! https://youtu.be/ttJBdr6eBuo
  • #210
  • Oct 4, 2016 10:49pm Oct 4, 2016 10:49pm
Quoting shermaine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDa9Ij299bI

Spread betting is not available in US Markets or in Singapore for retail traders. However that being said, there is a lot of useful information in this clip. Thanks for sharing!
  • #211
  • Oct 4, 2016 10:54pm Oct 4, 2016 10:54pm
https://youtu.be/RlDs8ZwE2qY
  • #212
  • Oct 5, 2016 1:01am Oct 5, 2016 1:01am
Quoting shermaine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDa9Ij299bI
Welcome to the forum

Participants in this thread are generally polite, elsewhere in the website you will need a thick skin
Carbon-Dioxide: the gas of life! https://youtu.be/ttJBdr6eBuo
  • #213
  • Oct 5, 2016 1:02am Oct 5, 2016 1:02am
From the look of the palette of emoticons I'd say an FF WhatsApp interface is imminent......
Carbon-Dioxide: the gas of life! https://youtu.be/ttJBdr6eBuo
  • #214
  • Oct 5, 2016 7:37am Oct 5, 2016 7:37am
https://youtu.be/-HW4htiujCE

Such a hauntingly beautiful song!
  • #215
  • Oct 5, 2016 9:54am Oct 5, 2016 9:54am
https://youtu.be/ursfTpxb_00
  • #216
  • Oct 5, 2016 10:09am Oct 5, 2016 10:09am
https://youtu.be/kRFUBIK6g2w

Interesting insight into the mass migration into Europe
  • #217
  • Oct 5, 2016 12:36pm Oct 5, 2016 12:36pm
GBP is weak because of the Conservative Party Conference with May talking tough. Despite the tantrums of the left, Brexit stands, we have a timeline and there will be no messing around. Theresa's got more balls than all those limp wristed drips together. Funny that the IMF has revised their forecast for the UK, with growth predicted to exceed all the other G7 economies this year, when prior to Brexit it predicted catastrophe.
  • #218
  • Oct 5, 2016 3:31pm Oct 5, 2016 3:31pm
Quoting jen101
GBP is weak because of the Conservative Party Conference with May talking tough. Despite the tantrums of the left, Brexit stands, we have a timeline and there will be no messing around. Theresa's got more balls than all those limp wristed drips together. Funny that the IMF has revised their forecast for the UK, with growth predicted to exceed all the other G7 economies this year, when prior to Brexit it predicted catastrophe.

The revisionism post Brexit, by those who claimed their would be an immediate economic shock and recession, is very frustrating. They can't own the fact that they were wrong. I too thought there would be some a greater shock than we got, but I believed that Osborne grossly exaggerated his claims of the economic impact.

Economist Meryvn King comes out of this looking really good as being one of the few who kept a level head and refused to play the game, as does the economist Steve Keen.

It makes sense why the economists were singing the same tune, as my mate who works in the finance sector said, 'if you are going to be wrong, you want to be wrong with everybody else'. In otherwords better to be wrong within a group and not risk your career because you will be forgotten in the crowd, rather than be wrong standing out on a limb and where you will be remembered 'as that guy,' thereby risking your reputation and career.
  • #219
  • Oct 5, 2016 7:34pm Oct 5, 2016 7:34pm
Quoting verv
{quote} The revisionism post Brexit, by those who claimed their would be an immediate economic shock and recession, is very frustrating. They can't own the fact that they were wrong. I too thought there would be some a greater shock than we got, but I believed that Osborne grossly exaggerated his claims of the economic impact. Economist Meryvn King comes out of this looking really good as being one of the few who kept a level head and refused to play the game, as does the economist Steve Keen. It makes sense why the economists were singing the same...
No question about it! I think that goes for anyone in any country, in any culture. The people who can't admit that they were wrong are simply the court jesters who probably don't know the difference between truth and fiction, and are complicit in continuing the spin. These same people have no self respect to know or see how foolish they look to the public. Truly amazing!
  • #220
  • Edited 9:37pm Oct 5, 2016 7:45pm | Edited 9:37pm
Quoting jen101
GBP is weak because of the Conservative Party Conference with May talking tough. Despite the tantrums of the left, Brexit stands, we have a timeline and there will be no messing around. Theresa's got more balls than all those limp wristed drips together. Funny that the IMF has revised their forecast for the UK, with growth predicted to exceed all the other G7 economies this year, when prior to Brexit it predicted catastrophe.
I agree! All GBP macro data in the last two months, and post BREXIT, should have the sterling on a bullish trend. The fact it is struggling is more indicative that the market is reading too much into comments and not the actual data. This is a confounding situation to say in the least. Sometimes I have to wonder if this is intentional as we see evidence of May's comments suggesting a "Hard exit" and suddenly the market for the GBP goes into a extended Bearish phase. Same goes for Draghi, as just the other day, were he mentioned tapering on current QE program for EURO, and the market reacts. Bankers and heads of CB's lips are too loose, and it is my opinion that some kind of reform to address this is needed. Same BS with the FED and their talking heads media pundits with speculation of their projections of a raised interest rate.

Also, I have been reading recently about countries trying to prevent FX from being sold. I wonder about this too. More on this later as I am recalling off the top of my head as I am writing this.

http://www.forexbrokerz.com/news/germany-considers-ban-binary-options-forex-trading
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