Bob Naja

Engineer during most of the day,the remaining time goes for researching and blogging The Muddled East history and politics. Retweets are not endorsements

[Bob Naja @BOBNAJA]

#Beirut 's skyline an atheist line, Mohammad's Crescent, Jesus's Cross. Make your pick

[Dr. M.F. Khan @Dr_TheHistories]

In 1903, the French government expelled the Carthusian monks from their monastery in the Alps and seized everything they owned.

The monastery. The distillery. The equipment. All of it. There was just one little problem.

Only two monks in the entire order knew the recipe for Chartreuse, and they had memorized it. There was nothing written down that the government could take.

The French government hired chemists to reverse-engineer it. They analyzed every bottle they could find. They ran every test available to early 20th Century science. They could not replicate it. The liqueur they produced under the Chartreuse name was so inferior that it destroyed the brand almost immediately. Sales collapsed. The company the government set up to produce it went bankrupt in 1929.

The monks, meanwhile, had relocated to Tarragona in Spain and were producing the real thing the entire time.

In 1929, the same year the French government's operation went under, the monks quietly bought back the rights to their own name and returned to their monastery.

The recipe is still known by exactly two monks at any given time. When one dies or becomes too ill to continue, he passes his portion to a successor. The full recipe has never been written down in a form that has left the order.

Chartreuse is made from 130 Alpine plants and herbs. The monks tend the distillery themselves. They take no outside employees into the production process. The 1605 manuscript that started all of this is still held in the monastery archive.

The French Third Republic lasted from 1870 to 1940. The monks are still there, still making Chartreuse.

© Eats History

#drthehistories

[Bob Naja @BOBNAJA]

Whether you are believer or not, Western Civilization owes its dominance to the Catholic church!

[Pope Respecter @poperespecter1]

One of the most mind blowing 10 minutes of video Christianity has ever produced.

[Bob Naja @BOBNAJA]

If there is a test that Lebanon needs during this period is an IQ one for its minister of education

[Bob Naja @BOBNAJA]

The intolerable imbecility

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Poodles are out of this world

[Bob Naja @BOBNAJA]

The editor of the Atlantic magazine !!

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

🚨 DISGUSTING: Tucker Carlson completely exposes Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg. He confirms the prominent journalist literally volunteered as a prison camp guard for Israel!

He reveals the Zionist lobby actively suppresses anti-war voices to protect their foreign agenda.

[Bob Naja @BOBNAJA]

@AmberWoods100 Another Atlantis for Tech billionaires. What better place to test their new form of governance but in a country like Argentina that was dismantled to the ground by its megalomaniac president

[Thierry from arvy 🇨🇭 @ThierryBorgeat]

🚨 Gold and silver are getting hit just as hard as Bitcoin. And that tells you something.

In the last two weeks:
– Gold has fallen from around $4,540 to $4,160, roughly 8%
– Silver has dropped from about $78 to $64, roughly 18%

No crisis headline. No rate shock. No catalyst.

Here's why that matters.

Gold is the asset you're supposed to run toward when things get scary. When stocks fall and gold rises, that's a flight to safety. Normal. Healthy.

But when gold, silver, and Bitcoin all fall together, at the same time, with no obvious reason, that is not a flight to safety.

That's a flight to cash.

When investors are forced to raise money, they don't sell what they want to sell. They sell what they can. The most liquid things they own. Gold. Silver. Bitcoin. The assets that trade instantly, anywhere, anytime.

And remember what's pulling cash out of the system right now:
– The largest IPO in history is hitting the tape this week
– OpenAI and Anthropic are lining up behind it, ~$200B more
– Google flipped from buying back $60B a year to issuing $80B
– Private credit funds are gating redemptions
– Margin debt sits at an all-time high relative to GDP

Trillions in supply, all demanding the same thing at the same moment. Liquidity.

When every safe haven and every risk asset sells off together, the asset isn't the story.

The plumbing is.

Gold isn't falling because gold is broken.

It's falling because somebody, somewhere, needs the cash more than they need the hedge.

That's what the late stage of a liquidity cycle looks like.

Not panic.

Just everyone quietly reaching for the same exit.

[Bob Naja @BOBNAJA]

@OsherFeldman There is a noun for this:
Hasbarbarism: employ deceit to cover atrocities

[Bob Naja @BOBNAJA]

@karimbitar Thank you for sharing

[Bob Naja @BOBNAJA]

Father of Major Elie Nicolas murdered by Israel in South Lebanon mourning his lost son in his funeral procession

[nadine 10452km2 🇱🇧 @Nadineleb4]

والد الشهيد ايلي نقرلا
كم قلب بي بدك تحرق يا نواف بوقوفك مع المجرم

⭕️استشهدوا دفاعاً عن الوطن لبنان 🇱🇧

[Bob Naja @BOBNAJA]

AI can't fix no leakin' pipe

No matter how much AI crawls into the job market the plumber's crack will remain a fixture under our wash basins

[Bob Naja @BOBNAJA]

@beirut_007 Kim Ta3o La Un

[Bob Naja @BOBNAJA]

Must read book by Pamuk, along many others he wrote

[Dominique de Villepin @Villepin]

Je veux vous parler d’un roman qui commence comme une histoire d’amour et finit en méditation sur le temps : « Le Musée de l’innocence » d’Orhan Pamuk.

Istanbul, des années 1970 aux décennies suivantes. Salons, codes, pudeurs, mensonges, une ville où l’on s’aime sous le regard des autres. Kemal est promis à Sibel. Puis surgit Füsun. La passion éclate. Elle est choc, obsession, bonheur comme une fulgurance, puis la peur, puis la perte.

L’innocence du titre, c’est celle du moment, cet instant où l’on croit encore que le bonheur peut durer. C’est celle d’un homme qui collectionne chaque fragment de son amour dans une ville et une société qui changent.

L’amour est un travail de mémoire. Les objets sont les archives de la vie. La société fabrique des tragédies intimes. Enfin, la nostalgie peut devenir une œuvre Voilà les leçons de ce livre, et à le lire on comprend que la modernité n’est pas seulement un progrès ; elle est aussi une disparition.

L’innocence est fragile, et Pamuk en fait une manière d’habiter la vie. Là où le Taj Mahal élevait l’amour dans un palais de marbre, lui l’enferme dans un palais de poussière.

[Bob Naja @BOBNAJA]

This is dedicated to every Lebanese immigrant, including my two lovely daughters, and to every person displaced from the south of Lebanon, planning on coming back home

Roads go ever ever on,
Over rock and under tree,
By caves where never sun has shone,
By streams that never find the sea;
Over snow by winter sown,
And through the merry flowers of June,
Over grass and over stone,
And under mountains in the moon.

Roads go ever ever on
Under cloud and under star,
Yet feet that wandering have gone
Turn at last to home afar.
Eyes that fire and sword have seen
And horror in the halls of stone
Look at last on meadows green
And trees and hills they long have known

The Hobbit
J.R.R. Tolkien

[Bob Naja @BOBNAJA]

@RealCandaceO I guess Moby lost his D**k in Russia 😅

[Bob Naja @BOBNAJA]

Mount Tiramasu

[忘れられない動画 @tanatana5252]

地理の問題
これらの高原はどこに位置している？

[Bob Naja @BOBNAJA]

Brilliant analysis on the audacity of hope

[Athenaeum Book Club @athenaeumbc]

https://t.co/T1iuRVUwbe

[illuminatibot @iluminatibot]

Can't do it, sorry.

[Bob Naja @BOBNAJA]

A voice in the wilderness

https://t.co/9tuNwDWUf6