SUMMARY 5. From December 2017 through at least July 2021, defendants Safeguard Metals LLC, a California-based company that sells precious metals coins to retail investors, and Jeffrey Ikahn, its owner, acted as investment advisers and persuaded investors to sell their existing securities, transfer the proceeds into self-directed Individual Retirement Accounts (“SDIRAs”), and invest the proceeds …
Author Archives: Outlandish Lion
Burn Your Ships
Excerpt from “The 33 Strategies Of War” by Robert Greene Chapter 4 Create a sense of urgency and desperation – The Death-Ground Strategy You are your own worst enemy. You waste precious time dreaming of the future instead of engaging in the present. Since nothing seems urgent to you, you are only half involved in …
The Manipulated Man
Excerpt from “The Manipulated Man” by Esther Vilar breaking them in “To ensure that the happiness of man in subjugation is brought about by a woman and not by other men or some sort of animal, or even by one of the above-mentioned- social systems, a series of training exercises are built into man’s life, …
Notes From Underground
Excerpt from Notes From Underground by Fydor Dostoyevsky “My schoolfellows met me with spiteful and merciless jibes because I was not like any of them. But I could not endure their taunts; I could not give in to them with the ignoble readiness with which they gave in to one another. I hated them from …
PsYcHeDeLiC LiOn
How To Handle Defeat
“Defeat is bitter. Bitter to the common soldier, but trebly bitter to his general. The soldier may comfort himself with the thought that, whatever the result, he has done his duty faithfully and steadfastly, but the commander has failed in his duty if he has not won victory—for that is his duty. He has no …
Leave The Past Behind
The Mindset Of A Capitalist
“Consequently, besides all the good things in life I want to give myself, I also want to increase my capital. How will I achieve this goal? Armed with this capital I propose to exploit you, and I propose that you permit me to exploit you. You will work and I will collect and appropriate and …
Ecclesiastes
Ecclesiastes 1 Everything Is Meaningless 1) The words of the Teacher, son of David, king in Jerusalem: 2) “Meaningless! Meaningless!” says the Teacher. “Utterly meaningless! Everything is meaningless.” 3) What do people gain from all their labors at which they toil under the sun?4) Generations come and generations go, but the earth remains forever.5) The sun rises and the …
Daniel in the Lion’s Den
Daniel 6 1) It pleased Darius to appoint 120 satraps to rule throughout the kingdom, 2) With three administrators over them, one of whom was Daniel. The satraps were made accountable to them so that the king might not suffer loss. 3) Now Daniel so distinguished himself among the administrators and the satraps by his exceptional qualities that the king …
You Can't Stop A Person With The Heart Of A Lion 