If you are inclined to do so homework the MSM won’t show you, go to tomgrimshaw.com/tomsblog and search Climate Change topic. Some eye opening data from eminent scientists all the way to the Climate Gate scandal of doctored data.
How To Engineer a Society to Fail
It is easy to make a failure of a person and a society, encourage and reward dependence. Penalize (tax) the producers more and more to support the indigent. Two very simple principles and bingo, you have yourself a failed society. As went Rome, so goes America.
The Financial System Is Falling Apart – And Not By Accident
Gregory Mannarino, the Robin Hood of Wall Street says it is being held together until they are ready to pull the plug.
Think Before You Donate
The same holds true for charities here in Australia, as we learned after the bushfires and floods. You’d do more good putting a fiver in the hand of a homeless person than giving $50 to most charities.
Katharine Hepburn – The Greatest Gift
“The greatest gift ever given to me was the family in which I was raised. All of us were encouraged to think and to cherish what we loved, whom we loved. Whenever doubt came to me, I knew I could defend myself; I could will myself into action.
“My parents felt that we should all be educated, and then we were on our own. I got no support once I announced my desire to be an actress. My family asked if I was happy, and that was that. When I wanted private acting classes, I simply couldn’t afford them, so I asked my father for the money. There was a very long silence. God, was he a stoic. A mountain–hard and silent. But he got me the money. I think it was ten dollars, a lot of money in those days. He told me it was money he got from gambling–on golf and cards–so it was ‘dirty money’ applied to a ‘dirty business.’
“He recognized that I was a fool with money, so when I got paid, he told me to take what I needed for rent and food, and to send the rest to him. He invested it. I am here today, solid, because of him. If I needed a dining table, I would have to ask him for MY money, and he would quiz me on the make and model of the damned table! But it’s that table right over there. Good stuff lasts forever, you see.”
“He kept me honest and tight. I think I still am.”–Katharine Hepburn/Interview with James Grissom/1990.
Photograph by Lucha Nelson, 1933.
Trust Me I’m Lying
A great example of promotional success backing up artistic talent.
I swear every primary school library has 3 million Isaac Asimov books. Why are certain authors prevalent but it’s harder to find say, Proust, Joyce, Ursula Le Guin, or even Camus in libraries? Is it somehow related to copyright laws?
Let me tell you a secret.
From the 1950s when he was forced out of his teaching job until his death in 1992, Isaac Asimov, without fail, met with his publisher (he used the same one for all his fiction and non-fiction works) on the same day every single week without fail.
The purpose of these meetings was to discuss book sales and publishing runs. During his lifetime, Asimov dominated the authoritative work in publishing “Books in Print” that was published every year showing which works were still in print runs and could be ordered directly from the publisher. No library or book store was without it. During his lifetime, almost all of his 500 books could be ordered directly from his publisher and it was only after his death that they cut back the number of his titles that were available.
Asimov, who was not fond of travelling, was still constantly on the go to promote his own works, both fiction and non-fiction.
So, say you’re a librarian looking to add some titles. Call up Asimov’s publisher and they will give you a great deal on the complete set of his works. In addition to filling up your fiction section, Asimov wrote works that could be included in 9 of the 10 major Dewey Decimal classifications.
But back in the day, similarly, Asimov had so many titles he would dominate the Sci-Fi section of most bookstores.
IQ Alone Is Not Enough
According to psychologists, there are four types of Intelligence:
1) Intelligence Quotient (IQ)
2) Emotional Quotient (EQ)
3) Social Quotient (SQ)
4) Adversity Quotient (AQ)
1. Intelligence Quotient (IQ)
This is the measure of your level of comprehension. You need IQ to solve math’s, memorize things, and recall lessons.
2. Emotional Quotient (EQ)
This is the measure of your ability to maintain peace with others, keep to time, be responsible, be honest, respect boundaries, be humble, genuine and considerate.
3. Social Quotient (SQ)
This is the measure of your ability to build a network of friends and maintain it over a long period of time.
People that have higher EQ and SQ tend to go further in life than those with a high IQ but low EQ and SQ. Most schools capitalize on improving IQ levels while EQ and SQ are played down.
A man of high IQ can end up being employed by a man of high EQ and SQ even though he has an average IQ.
Your EQ represents your Character, while your SQ represents your Charisma. Give in to habits that will improve these three Qs, especially your EQ and SQ.
Now there is a 4th one, a new paradigm:
4. The Adversity Quotient (AQ)
The measure of your ability to go through a rough patch in life, and come out of it without losing your mind.
When faced with troubles, AQ determines who will give up, who will abandon their family, and who will consider suicide.
Parents please expose your children to other areas of life than just Academics. They should adore manual labour (never use work as a form of punishment), Sports and Arts.
Develop their IQ, as well as their EQ, SQ and AQ. They should become multifaceted human beings able to do things independently of their parents.
Finally, do not prepare the road for your children. Prepare your children for the road.
(Tom: Just off the top of my head I thought of three others…
5. Financial Intelligence
How many people do not know of apply the basics of financial management?
6. Integrity, Ethics and Discipline
How many people can be coerced or blackmailed into doing something against their better judgement?
7. Situational Awareness
How many people fell for the lies over the last three years because their awareness level was not adequate to smell the inconsistencies or their data collection was too limited to give them pause to consider the illogics?)
The Three Rs
Cash = Freedom. CBDC = Slavery.
Make time to watch and SHARE this 15 minute video that outlines how the CBDC cashless system works. It also explains how your spending often sits as ‘pending’ in your account when doing an electronic transaction.
A friend asked what we can do about this. I replied:
Have reserves of food and physical “cash recoverable” items. Things you can trade like cigarettes, coffee, lighters, bandaids, batteries, antibiotics etc.
Have some gold and silver coins that can be traded if required. You can buy some at www.abcbullion.com.au and they have a sister company where you can store it securely.
Start growing your own fruit and vegetables etc. I got some seeds from Brian at www.AussieGardener.com.au
Keep getting more people up to a level of awareness and responsibility where they can affect their environment positively.
It is not for nothing Bill Gates has been getting out of cash and into physical assets. He is now the largest landholder of US farmland, and Jeff Bezos I heard has less than 5% of his assets in cash.
https://www.richplanet.net/richp_genre.php?ref=300&part=1&gen=11