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Since 2001 when I sank 15% of my net worth into gold at $270 I have read
100s of arguments by writers who have taken great pains to explain why the
gold price will soon stop rising and enter a prolonged decline, Prechter
the most well known among them. As the price went from $300, to $400, to
$600, to $800, to $1,000 and on and on, one ersatz expert after another
delivered a creative and intricate forecast of a return to declining gold
prices as the price doubled and doubled again.

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“As the closing credits roll, before listing the cast and crew, the filmmakers first list the things banned by the junta IMF and the Troika. They include: peace movements, strikes, labor unions, long hair on men, The Beatles, other modern and popular music (“la musique populaire”), Sophocles, Leo Tolstoy, Aeschylus, writing that Socrates was homosexual, Eugène Ionesco, Jean-Paul Sartre, Anton Chekhov, Harold Pinter, Edward Albee, Mark Twain, Samuel Beckett, the bar association, sociology, international encyclopedias, free press, and new math. Also banned is the letter Z, which was used as a symbolic reminder that Grigoris Lambrakis and by extension the spirit of resistance lives (zi = “he (Lambrakis) lives”).”

• Z is a 1969 French language political thriller directed by Costa Gavras

“In 2006, James Berardinelli wrote, “Z was the third feature film from Greek-born Costa-Gavras, but it is the movie that captured him to the world’s attention, winning a Best Foreign Language Film Oscar. It introduced the director’s signature approach of combining overt political messages with edge-of-the-seat tension.”[3] Jonathan Richards wrote in 2009, “It’s hard to overstate the impact that this Oscar-winning procedural thriller had in 1969, on a world roiling in political activism, repression, and discord. In the U.S., the Vietnam War was on the front burner, the populace was passionately engaged, and the police riots outside the ’68 Chicago Democratic Convention and the murder of Black Panther Fred Hampton were raw wounds. With this stylish, intense indictment of the assassination of a leftist political leader by a right wing government cabal in his native Greece, director Costa-Gavras struck a nerve that resonated here and around the globe.”

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