bad tölz & lake kochel (kochelsee) / bavaria

old city centre in bad tölz, bavaria (bayern)

two of us

just spent a nice evening with the best of all wives in bad tölz + kochelsee, great! bdw, why bad tölz? well, i just thought there will be a time in the future i can live from my investing returns, google ads, publishing, etc ... and then i only need a stable internet connection and do not have to live in one of the most expensive cities in the world (which munich without any doubt is). well, bad tölz is by car less than a hour away from munich and much closer to the nature and green fields. on top u can really touch the first alp mountains there ... yep, we liked to see the city before we would start any serious planning concerning our future move :-)

wanna see more pictures? just move 2 my google album

instead of having a dinner there, we have chosen to take a bath in the nearby lake kochel (kochelsee)

can u see me in the water, my dears?

doug casey / casey research

doug casey (source: the daily bell)

a great, great, great interview with libertarian perspective on gold, money, economy, politics, corruption, 9/11, osama bin laden, freedom, liberty, prosperity, ron paul, investing, mankind, ...

done & published by the daily bell on september 4, 2011 (~a really hard stuff, takes some time 2 read it, but its soooooo important 2 know => enjoy it anyway :-)

and yes, doug also invests in junior mining companies, like me  ;-)

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I didn’t coin the phrase “Greater Depression,” that was Doug Casey, my partner; and I think Doug had it exactly right. I think, you know, there has been so much of a, as I’ve said, this sort of rising tide of bad policy and extreme spending and a takeover of the economy – and not just the US economy, but all of the economies by these governments, the nation-states – that things have reached the point, people tend to think that things are going to stay the same and continue as they are, but they don’t. Sooner or later, history shows over and over again, things break, systems break, and I think we are very close to that. There is never a good time to fix this kind of a problem. So politicians will always make the choice to not actually address the problem, but rather to leave it to the next person’s watch. This isn’t – this would be a horrible time, absolutely a horrible time to fix the problems that face the American economy. Slashing the deficit, slashing the debt, slashing the government spending at this point would have catastrophic consequences to the average person. There would be riots in the street; but if you don’t fix it now, when do you fix it? Okay, well, do you fix it in the next year? No. Do you fix it the year after? The government will do whatever it can to keep pushing this down the road, but they can’t push it down the road much further. ~ david galland, managing director @ www.caseyresearch.com

(source: zerohedge.com)

addendum january 4th, 2012: doug casey on north korea's baby kim ...
hi friends, ive subscribed for casey research newsletter some time ago and of course dont have enough time to read it, but 2day ive just opened the current copy and couldnt stop reading it until finished 

what does it mean? easy, if u are a hard core fan of econopolitics just open this link and read abt north korea's baby kim, iran, ron paul, education, freedom, prosperity, danger for peace coming out of u.s. army / u.s. government, gold, gold stocks, etc

all other folks just skip the issue 

addendum january 5th, 2012: when is the right time to leave the USA?

folks, before i share a link to doug's next nice2read + really interesting econopolitics interview, i will tell ya his views are not 100% my perspective. why not? well, instead of leaving the sinking ship i would rather repair & fix it, u know? imho is the current almost worldwide #OccupyWallStreet movement the best possible outcry for real democracy and a sustainable life in peace, we shouldnt miss that chance ... and yes, there is still that ron paul 4 president 2012 chance #2 issue

motto: love it, change it or leave it

Doug Casey Addresses Getting Out of Dodge - Casey Research

last but not least, an interesting interview with dough casey (even if i didn't like the noisy place he was interviewed in and completely disliked dough's opinion on uranium which is IMHO really really dangerous and expensive if all costs were billed to the electric power companies instead of taxpayers):

go gold bugs go and lets crash the fraudulent paper money system NOW

morocco

cold days + cold nights + cold wind + cold water in the tourist mekka ‚agadir‘, OMG! much much colder than munich, we have had SUMMER in germany the last few days .... hmmmmm, do u have any idea why do folks call africa the hot continent? so what, lets enjoy holidays anyway :-) 

btw, there is a wifi access in the lobby, so i had to see how badly crashed the gold + silver price yesterday (more than -4% each) and then -5% today after gold reached the crazy all-time-high of $1,912 per ounce in the early trading hours in asia/australia on tuesday. of course, i had to laugh when i saw that many mining companies were down 5% cos it is the same rate they were up on the previous day. yes, homo sapiens financialis is really that stupid, ive told ya before, didnt i? 

well, i will prolly start the trading battle again as investing makes completely no sense at current levels of stupidity all over the financial markets. as for now i dont have any finance lecture here in order to give my 'peace of mind' some chance :-). so whats my current literature? eckhart tolle‘s 'the power of now – a guide to spirutual enlightenment'. so when you can follow my gibberish from now on, the enlightenment stuff really works! optimistic me, i still hope there will be a day in the future my writing makes any sense, u see? 

of course, there will be some additional insights and a picasa photo album soon, but pls be patient as our vacation just begun. as for me, i hope to learn more abt the arab color revolutions, 2 see the castle + port of agadir, 2 visit the atlas mountains and the city of marrakech, …

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thx goodness, ive found the only warm place in agadir 2day! it was inside the hamam, my dear :-). btw, are there any arab (speaking) folks who would like to translate the message written below the castle ruines of agadir?

any ideas out there? 

... allah, homeland, king :)

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the challenging and thus quite unfriendly ‚tasting‘ muslim ramadan month was over after the 1st week of our stay and from one day to another changed the local people to friendly, smiling, sports playing and jokes making folks. hmmmm, what a difference when they are ‚allowed‘ to drink and eat during the day! if u asked me, the god(s) dont like suffering people and the rigid ramadan rules are made by people not by god i believe … of course, im not a quran expert, but as far as i can remember, one of my munich muslim friends told me that the ‚no food no drinks‘ rule is s.th. what can be tried by highly conscious muslim believers and it is even forbidden in many cases (pregnant women, elderly, children, on trips, sick people, etc) and it is definitely not a rule for all. after all, she has studied quran and would be prolly a quran school theacher if she had participated (and passed) the exams, not me … well, who knows whats good and whats wrong? prolly noone completely, so lets accept strange behaviour as part of foreign culture and do not try to convince the folks to change it as the others also do not try to change us :-) 

well, what else? 

• volleyball on the beach ~ the only place with concrete below the thinny sand foil in the universe of sand! many (small) injuries happened, i can tell ya ;-( 
• playing cards with my wife + youngest daughter. not too much fun as ive seldom won a game and never won the whole battle, omd! 
• swimming or rather jumping in the waves ~ we stock traders know a lot abt the waves, so i was ahead the crowd once again :-) 
• marrakech ~ unesco's world cultural heritage ~ a disappointment for me, ive prolly expected too much (see the attached picasa pictures below). at least our travel guide youssef was great and told us a lot abt the city & moroccain history.
• jeep safari ~ a great day trip to the fisherman folks living in caves directly on the beach, berber taxi (donkey ride), sahara, berber limousine (camel ride), city of tiznit with its medivial city walls + stinking 'open air' meat shops in 40+ degrees celsius (btw, it was the same in tunisia and in the caribbean [dominican republic] but never in far east => ???), berber lunch (lunch), a silver manufacture, atlas mountains, massa river, dam (drinking water + agricultural water, no power generation) ~ a real surprise in the middle of all that dry countryside, … 
• the CIA sponsored color revolutions (10m hits by google)? ive no clue abt that issue here in morocco; the morrocans seem to like their king + he also doesnt claim he was elected democratically + on top we were told he tries 2 help the poor, but there is a huuuuuge gap between the rich and poor (and there always has been) so we never know what happens next ... especially because morocco is also without oil an interesting place 2 control for its geographical presence and thus somehow important for the 'new world order' idea (we do not wanna google that term, want we?) ... 
• good holiday wheather in the 2nd week of our stay (hot days + cold nights + cold wind + cold water) ~ hell, why did nobody tell us that there is ALWAYS ugly fog in agadir in augusts? well, i do always tell ya when i know s.th. for sure, like the gold rallies in augusts issue, u see?
• catastrophic bureaucracy ~ passport controls, entry card, exit card, money change (esp. from dirhams back to €uros / dollars), very slow (and shallow!) airport controls/processing, ...
• any ideas 4 improvement? yep, it is a interesting country, but it is a little bit pity that they throw their waste on the streets, beaches, fields, wilderness … everywhere ;-( ... my dear maroccans, pls keep your country clean ... and yes, do s.th. against bureaucracy :-)

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last but not least: pictures, pictures, pictures ... but watch out, ive posted far too many, so pls open/enlarge only the most promising ones: link 2 my google album 😄

1,900.00

gold, gold, gold!

 

source: dab bank, munich (btw, they have a gold 2 go ATM inside and they had it many months before theyve bought a usual fiat money ATM. haha, now u see after which criteria i choose my banks ;-)

go gold bugs go and lets finally crash the fraudulent paper money system :-)

what a run in the last few days:

source: dab bank, munich

$1,900 per ounce? OMG!!! good-bye paper money mafia, good-bye wealth redistribution from main street 2 wall street, good-bye public debts and never-to-repay budget deficits, good-bye senseless wars (iraq, afghanistan, on terror, syria, ...), good-bye senseless subsidies of nature destroying agriculture (palm oil, biofuels, ...), ...

welcome honest money + fair honest world ;-)

peter schiff

folks, my 100+ gold/silver companies portfolio has to agree 100% with peters speech ... well, the gold stocks are still flat and mostly below their 2008 highs cos we stupid earthlings (~ investors) like better government bonds than gold stocks   ...

c ' est la vie

ps : do u know whats the best proof that there is intelligent life outside the earth? they have never tried to contact us

eof

poland

folks, did i tell ya ive 5 weeks off? not yet? dont worry abt my agenda, my dear ... and yes, i really have that much free time this summer and im not a teacher ... thx goodness im not a teacher... just imagine i would have 20 or 30 children in my class as crazy as my daughters, OMG! what to do that long? lets spend the 1st week in poland => lets visit my wife's family and lets try to understand that crazy woman by learning more abt her country ... it is an interesting country, indeed ...

there are many things to do when u visit family, u know?

• first of all, your family believes u came cos u have nothing to eat and thus they feed you like if there were no tomorrow ...
• u have thought poland is country of vodka, didnt u? yep, it is and it is also a country of tea! they start drinking tea from their glass cups in the morning and didnt stop till they go sleep ... but they never forget which cup is for tea and which one for vodka :-)
• shopping ~ well, there are still many (small) fashion producers, so we always visit the local polish markets and buy some stuff in order 2 support local communities (instead of chinese communities like the most other consumers do) ... the polish clothes are even a little bit cheaper than the stuff we could buy in munich
• łódź ~ this 1m people city was our 1st stop ~ former textile industry stronghold ~ not too nice i woudda say ...
• trębaczew ~ our 2nd stop ~ few cousins of my wife are fruits farmers, basically apple farmers ... thx goodness, it isnt apple harvest time yet, but there is always s.th. to do .... well, ive helped for a hour or two to collect fallen apples in huge pallets for some industrial use (apple concentrate for juice?) so i can tell ya what hard work means! well, im  n o t  g o i n g  2  seek such hard earned money any time soon! ill rather stick 2 my programming & investing for some more time :-)
• ive ridden a old polish WSK motorcycle prolly elder than myself
• lech wałęsa ~ a man, who crashed the socialism and changed the world for a little bit better one
• airplane tragedy 2010 + pictures from our last years visit
• ...

a picture says more than 1,000 words? fine, lets move 2 my picasa album

ps: what abt the craziest of all wives? i will never ever understand her, my dear ... she is from different planet, i guess, but i love her anyway :-)

gold $1,814 per ounce?!?

candles, gold, red wine? yep, lets go back to honest money, honest accounting, honest world :-)

gold rallies like crazy .... OMG+OMG+OMG ... $1,814 per ounce 2night ... and my gold/silver stocks portfolio still approx 27% down YTD  ... my dear mining stocks, when will you finally wake up?

go GOLD bugs go and lets CRASH the fraudulent PAPER MONEY system NOW 

ps: with a gold standard there would be no senseless wars in afghanistan, libya, iraq, ... no stupid bailouts of wall street, no stupid nature destroying subventions for agriculture (palm oil, biofuels, ...), no  exponential public debts  ... and everything would be a little bit slower and more sustainable, wouldn it? why do i think so? well, if we had to earn and save honest money (gold+silver) first, we wouldnt 'invest' it in afghanistan / libya / iraq / etc in that stupid way we use to use our easy-to-print paper dollars, €uros, pounds, yens,  ...


go gold bugs go!

just my 2 golden cents