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Three years into the conquest of the Incas, how did the Spaniards respond to the Incan uprising, lead by their puppet emperor Manco? How did the despicable behaviour of Pizarro and his men spark the rebellion? And, how would the terrifying assault of Manco and his Incan warriors, on a stranded contingent of Spaniards, play out…?  Join Dominic and Tom, as they reach the thrilling climax of this tragic, dramatic tale of death, conquest and betrayal…   _______ Twitter: @TheRestHistory @holland_tom @dcsandbrook Video Editors: Jack Meek + Harry Swan  Social Producer: Harry Balden Producers: Tabby Syrett & Aaliyah Akude  Executive Producer: Dom Johnson  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

El cocinero español que triunfa en Londres desde hace décadas, cuenta su trayectoria desde que dejó su pueblecito de Cáceres para ir primero a Madrid y después a Londres; cuenta cómo vivió sus primeros pasos como empleado y después como empresario o las duras consecuencias del Bréxit.Mucho más en la Sección Comer de La Vanguardia.

This week on the Go To Food Podcast, we sit down with the godfather of Spanish food in London, José Pizarro. From carving jamón door to door in the 90s with a bottle of Rioja under his arm, to building a Bermondsey Street empire that changed how Britain eats, José's story is one of graft, instinct and relentless belief in the flavours of home.We dive straight into Andalucía and his unforgettable Cádiz food trips during bluefin tuna season, unpacking the 3,000-year-old almadraba tradition, divers herding 450 kilo fish, and the almost mythical morillo cut from just above the eye. He explains how he would cook it, plancha, good salt, bread, maybe a perfect anchovy, and why that single bite can be one of the greatest things you will ever eat. We talk sangria with cava not prosecco, gin tonics done properly, and why Cádiz right now might be Spain's most exciting region.Then we rewind to Extremadura: milking cows at dawn, sucking warm milk straight from the cow, cream skimmed thick off the top for toast and sugar, migas fried for hours in olive oil, and baby goat stewed simply with garlic, paprika and wine. He tells us about hating his mum's lentils with chorizo as a child, only for them to become one of the last meals he would ever choose. We hear about concentration struggles at school, nearly becoming a dentist, the moment he realised he could not face a desk for life, and the six-month gap that changed everything when he fell in love with kitchens from the sink up.There are brilliant London stories too: arriving unable to speak English, nearly going home, wild Gaudí era parties, Air Brothers and the simplicity that shaped him, Brindisa and those electric early Borough Market mornings frying eggs, potatoes and jamón for shoppers with proper bags. He reflects on opening José and Pizarro before Bermondsey was Bermondsey, cooking for artists at White Cube, earning the Royal Cross of Isabel la Católica from the King of Spain, and still having his 92-year-old mum gently judging his cooking. Add nightmare kitchen floods, brutally honest takes on government and hospitality, a whistle-stop guide to where to eat in Cádiz, Galicia and Seville, and a perfect sign-off with Paco de Lucía, and you have one of the richest, funniest and most heartfelt episodes we've recorded.Pre Order Ben's Incredible Book - All You Can Eat - By Clicking Here - https://www.amazon.co.uk/All-You-Can-Eat-British/dp/1805221523Get 2 Months of Blinq For Free - With Code - GOTOBLINQ - https://blinqme.com/Order The Greatest Meat In The Country From HG Walter Here & Have Restaurant Quality Meals From Home - www.hgwalter.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

La Ventana MetropolitanaVigo y su área metropolitana concentran la actualidad con la celebración del motor clásico en el Ifevi y el inicio de los carnavales en Cangas, Salvaterra y A Guarda. En el plano asistencial, la huelga médica registra seguimientos desiguales mientras profesionales del lupus debaten avances en el Álvaro Cunqueiro, centro donde permanece ingresado un hombre de 67 años tras ser atropellado en la calle Pizarro. La conselleira de Vivenda e Planificación de Infraestruturas, María Martínez Alegre, ha analizado el desarrollo de los polígonos de Navia y la urgencia de convenios urbanísticos, en una jornada donde Abel Caballero ha insistido en la gratuidad de la AP-9 y el túnel de la A-52 en O Porriño. El litoral vigués mantiene 12 banderas azules pese a la ausencia de Samil, al tiempo que proyectos como Polibris impulsan la limpieza de plásticos marinos. Finalmente, el sector pesquero de A Guarda lamenta pérdidas por los temporales y el ámbito cultural destaca la exposición de José María Barreiro en la Casa das Artes.

Daniel Pizarro Hermann (chileno), Nació en 1971. Obras principales: La carta propia. Plaza del sol nocturno. Úlceras del tiempo.Hombre en venta. Estos son algunos de los rasgos que se destacan en su obra:La serie Odisea de la especie tiene un enfoque filosófico/reflexivo sobre el tiempo, lo social, lo íntimo vs lo colectivo. En Úlceras del tiempo, se presenta al “Tiempo” como un personaje fantasmal, que recorre los relatos y hace de nexo entre las heridas internas (personales) y las heridas colectivas. Hay una preocupación por cómo el pasado, las cicatrices personales o sociales, marcan/corrompen lo presente. En Hombre en venta, profundiza la crítica social: se comenta algo de la alienación, precariedad, clases sociales, la condición del artista en un contexto social difícil, lo que el ser humano pierde bajo ciertas condiciones dominantes.

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Listen in as we discuss the most impactful employment law regulations of 2025 and forecast what employers can expect in 2026. Subscribe to our podcast today to stay up to date on employment issues from law experts worldwide.Host: Alexandra Aguilar Garcia (email) (BLP / Costa Rica)Guest Speaker: Lloyd Isgut (email) (Pizarro & González / Puerto Rico)Support the showRegister on the ELA website here to receive email invitations to future programs.

Que el proceso para tramitar VISA no sea un obstáculo, déjate guiar y con la mayor confianza lograrlo. Ella es Katia Quirós Pizarro de Visalízate

El Desierto Florido en la región de Atacama deslumbra con sus colores y se espera que se extienda hasta noviembre. Turistas han llegado al lugar para presenciar el espectáculo vegetal, sin embargo, hay quienes dañan el ecosistema pisando las flores. Para profundizar en este tema, conversamos con César Pizarro, jefe de Conservación de la Conaf Atacama.

Jaime Pizarro, ministro del Deporte, se refirió en Canal 24 Horas a la promulgación de la ley que aumenta 60 minutos la actividad física en los colegios.

En la edición de Los Tenores de este jueves 15 de enero, nuestros panelistas anticiparon el partido amistoso de Colo Colo ante Olimpia, supieron del nuevo amistoso que agendaron los albos en Uruguay y el nuevo lío que se armó entre Blanco y Negro y Fernando Felicevich por el fichaje de Damián Pizarro. Leo Burgueño, Pancho Mouat, Danilo Díaz, Manolo Fernández y Carlos Costas conversaron con Gonzalo Echeverría, uno de los querellantes en contra de Sartor, tras los nuevos movimientos que se están viviendo en Azul Azul. Además, analizaron las cartas que maneja el presidente electo, José Antonio Kast, para ocupar la plaza del Ministerio del Deporte. Revive la edición de Los Tenores de este jueves 15 de enero y no te pierdas ningún detalle del “clásico de las dos”.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

En la edición de Los Tenores de este lunes 5 de enero, nuestros panelistas analizaron la inminente salida de Vicente Pizarro de Colo Colo y los movimientos que realizan los albos en el mercado de fichajes. Pamela Juanita Cordero, Rodrigo Hernández, Danilo Díaz, Víctor Cruces y Carlos Costas comentaron el inicio de la pretemporada de la Universidad de Chile y la posibilidad de que Matías Sepúlveda deje el cuadro azul. Además, abordaron la presentación de Justo Giani como refuerzo de la Universidad Católica, los puestos que la UC busca reforzar y la opinión de Juan Tagle sobre el caso de Deportes Iquique y Unión Española ante la ANFP. Revive la edición de Los Tenores de este lunes 5 de enero y no te pierdas ningún detalle del “clásico de las dos”.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this festive descent into methodological despair, Chris and Matt convene a secret cabal of elite psychology podcasters within the Decoding Cloister, operating under the distant yet reassuring gaze of Arch-Wizard Paul Bloom, whose role is largely ceremonial but nonetheless morally binding.Joining them are Dave Pizarro (Very Bad Wizards) and Michael Inzlicht (Two Psychologists Four Beers, emeritus), for what can only be described as an end-of-year audit of social psychology's moral character.What follows is a mixture of intense hubris, disciplinary self-loathing, and revolutionary insights, delivered via one of the most sadistic Christmas quizzes ever devised. The quiz format allows the episode to do what psychology does best: create the feeling of measurement while hovering dangerously close to intuition.Alongside the quiz, we engage in some meta-commentary and sensemaking reflections on audience capture and the state of psychology-themed podcasts in 2025. In other words, it's Christmas, so naturally everyone is discussing perverse incentives, damaged reputations, and the slow moral corrosion of institutions.So join us, won't you? For the first International Congress on Psychology-Themed Podcasting and Gurus…LinksMickey's SubstackMickey's Work and Play LabTwo Psychologists Four BeersVery Bad WizardsUhlmann, E. L., Pizarro, D. A., & Diermeier, D. (2015). A person-centered approach to moral judgment. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 10(1), 72-81.Ovsyannikova, D., de Mello, V. O., & Inzlicht, M. (2025). Third-party evaluators perceive AI as more compassionate than expert humans. Communications Psychology, 3(1), 4.ReferencesAlter, A. L., Oppenheimer, D. M., Epley, N., & Eyre, R. N. (2007). Overcoming intuition: Metacognitive difficulty activates analytic reasoning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 136(4), 569–576.Aarts, H., & Dijksterhuis, A. (2003). The silence of the library: Environment, situational norm, and social behavior. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 84(1), 18–28.Zimbardo, P. G. (1973). On the ethics of intervention in human psychological research: With special reference to the Stanford Prison Experiment. Cognition, 2(2), 243–256.Resnick, B. (2018, June 13). The Stanford Prison Experiment was massively influential. We just learned it was a fraud. Vox.Festinger, L., Riecken, H. W., & Schachter, S. (1956). When prophecy fails. University of Minnesota Press.

Frente a la ruta a seguir, Pizarro fue enfática en que este proceso, si se desarrolla, no será liderado por los políticos, sino por las organizaciones sociales y la sociedad civil. La campaña presidencial serviría únicamente como un "vehículo para un diálogo social".See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Verónica González defiende el trabajo de Guido Pizarro al mando de Tigres hasta llevar al equipo a la final contra Toluca. Ojo al debate Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Há 90 anos, morria Fernando António Nogueira Pessoa (1888-1935), um dos maiores poetas do século 20. Mas o português não chegou a ver o próprio sucesso: a maior parte de sua obra foi publicada postumamente, após a descoberta, em seu apartamento, de uma arca com mais de 30 mil manuscritos. Papéis assinados não só por Pessoa, mas por dezenas de heterônimos, entre eles Álvaro de Campos, Alberto Caeiro e Ricardo Reis. Este episódio especial, em formato narrativo, investiga a vida e o legado de Pessoa — um quebra-cabeça que continua entretendo estudiosos, artistas e leitores. Com apresentação de Paulo Werneck, o episódio tem participação de Jerónimo Pizarro, Ida Alves, Eucanaã Ferraz, Leonardo Gandolfi, Eduardo Giannetti e Maria de Medeiros, que ainda lê trechos no podcast. O episódio foi realizado com o apoio do Camões – Instituto da Cooperação e da Língua e da Lei Rouanet - Incentivo a Projetos Culturais. Assine a Quatro Cinco Um por R$ 10/mês: https://bit.ly/Assine451  Seja um Ouvinte Entusiasta e apoie o 451 MHz: https://bit.ly/Assine451  

La conquête du vaste empire inca, pourtant à son apogée, par une escouade d'Espagnols s'est faite avec une facilité déconcertante par le conquistador Pizarro. Mention légales : Vos données de connexion, dont votre adresse IP, sont traités par Radio Classique, responsable de traitement, sur la base de son intérêt légitime, par l'intermédiaire de son sous-traitant Ausha, à des fins de réalisation de statistiques agréées et de lutte contre la fraude. Ces données sont supprimées en temps réel pour la finalité statistique et sous cinq mois à compter de la collecte à des fins de lutte contre la fraude. Pour plus d'informations sur les traitements réalisés par Radio Classique et exercer vos droits, consultez notre Politique de confidentialité.Hébergé par Ausha. Visitez ausha.co/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.

María del Mar Pizarro, representante a la Cámara por el Pacto Histórico y dueña del local Before Club,  aseguró que aportó videos clave para identificar fugitivo.

La senadora María José Pizarro anunció que ha tomado la decisión de renunciar a ser la cabeza de lista al Senado por el Pacto Histórico. De acuerdo con la senador, la decisión surge tras una serie de movimientos previos en su carrera política, incluyendo la declinación de su aspiración presidencial.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode of the Colombia Calling podcast, host Richard McColl interviews Dutch journalist Robert Friele about his book on the Pizarro family, exploring their significant role in Colombian history and politics. The conversation delves into the storied family's legacy, the political landscape of Colombia, and the unique characteristics of the M-19 guerrilla movement. Friele shares insights from his research, the challenges of interviewing family members, and the impact of Carlos Pizarro's assassination on Colombian society. The discussion also touches on the reception of Friele's book and the upcoming launch events in Colombia. Tune in for this and the Colombia Briefing with Emily Hart. -- Check out Colombia Calling, the longest-running English-language podcast about Colombia. Richard McColl's latest book The Mompos Project: A Tale of Love, Hotels and Madness in Colombia Richard McColl's book on Colombian history and politics Colombia at a Crossroads: a Historical and Social Biography La Casa Amarilla, Mompos Hotel San Rafael, Mompos Colombia Calling podcast Latin News podcast

Iván Cepeda fue el ganador de la consulta y se convierte en el candidato oficial del Pacto Histórico

El Comité Político del Pacto Histórico decidirá si Carolina Corcho o María José Pizarro encabezará la lista al Senado, mientras el huracán Melissa causa estragos en Jamaica y el invierno deja inundaciones y cierres viales en gran parte del país. En otras noticias, la Corte Suprema negó una tutela al exdirector del DAPRE Carlos Ramón González, y la Procuraduría defendió la ampliación de la jornada de votación en la consulta del Pacto Histórico.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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El Consejo Nacional Electoral acaba de reconocer oficialmente la personería jurídica del partido Progresistas, liderado por la senadora María José Pizarro.Una decisión que despeja el camino político dentro del Pacto Histórico, tras semanas de tensión y dudas sobre su futuro electoral.Además, la Corte Constitucional aprueba una ley clave contra la suplantación de identidad, el Tribunal admite la demanda por el contrato de pasaportes, y se revelan cifras alarmantes sobre el reclutamiento infantil en Colombia.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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La precandidata presidencial del Pacto Histórico habló en 6AM de la decisión de no hacer parte de una consulta popular

La senadora y precandidata presidencial, María José Pizarro denunció un intento de exclusión electoral para el 2026 y anunció acciones internacionales.

En el RatPack de Mesa Central, Iván Valenzuela y Angélica Bulnes conversaron con el ministro del Deporte, Jaime Pizarro, sobre el Mundial Sub 20 de fútbol.

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The Secret History of Gold comes out this week. Here for your viewing pleasure is a fim about gold based on the first chapter.“Gold will be slave or master”HoraceIn 2021, a metal detectorist with the eyebrow-raising name of Ole Ginnerup Schytz dug up a hoard of Viking gold in a field in Denmark. The gold was just as it was when it was buried 1,500 years before, if a little dirtier. The same goes for the jewellery unearthed at the Varna Necropolis in Bulgaria in 1972. The beads, bracelets, rings and necklaces are as good as when they were buried 6,700 years ago.In the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, there is a golden tooth bridge — a gold wire used to bind teeth and dental implants — made over 4,000 years ago. It could go in your mouth today.No other substance is as long-lasting as gold — not diamonds, not tungsten carbide, not boron nitride. Gold does not corrode; it does not tarnish or decay; it does not break down over time. This sets it apart from every other substance. Iron rusts, wood rots, silver tarnishes. Gold never changes. Left alone, it stays itself. And it never loses its shine — how about that?Despite its permanence, you can shape this enormously ductile metal into pretty much anything. An ounce of gold can be stretched into a wire 50 miles long or plate a copper wire 1,000 miles long. It can be beaten into a leaf just one atom thick. Yet there is one thing you cannot do and that is destroy it. Life may be temporary, but gold is permanent. It really is forever.This means that all the gold that has ever been mined, estimated to be 216,000 tonnes, still exists somewhere. Put together it would fit into a cube with 22-metre sides. Visualise a square building seven storeys high — and that would be all the gold ever.With some effort, you can dissolve gold in certain chemical solutions, alloy it with other metals, or even vaporise it. But the gold will always be there. It is theoretically possible to destroy gold through nuclear reactions and other such extreme methods, but in practical terms, gold is indestructible. It is the closest thing we have on earth to immortality.Perhaps that is why almost every ancient culture we know of associated gold with the eternal. The Egyptians believed the flesh of gods was made of gold, and that it gave you safe passage into the afterlife. In Greek myth, the Golden Apples of the Hesperides, which Hercules was sent to retrieve, conferred immortality on whoever ate them. The South Americans saw gold as the link between humanity and the cosmos. They were not far wrong.Gold was present in the dust that formed the solar system. It sits in the earth's crust today, just as it did when our planet was formed some 4.6 billion years ago. That little bit of gold you may be wearing on your finger or around your neck is actually older than the earth itself. In fact, it is older than the solar system. To touch gold is as close as you will ever come to touching eternity.And yet the world's most famous investor is not impressed.‘It gets dug out of the ground in Africa, or some place,' said Warren Buffett. ‘Then we melt it down, dig another hole, bury it again and pay people to stand around guarding it. It has no utility. Anyone watching from Mars would be scratching their head.'He's right. Gold does nothing. It does not even pay a yield. It just sits there inert. We use other metals to construct things, cut things or conduct things, but gold's industrial uses are minimal. It is a good conductor of electricity, but copper and silver are better and cheaper. It has some use in dentistry, medical applications and nanotechnology. It is finding more and more use in outer space — back whence it came — where it is used to coat spacecraft, astronauts' visors and heat shields. But, in the grand scheme of things, these uses are paltry.Gold's only purpose is to store and display prosperity. It is dense and tangible wealth: pure money.Though you may not realise it, we still use gold as money today. Not so much as a medium to exchange value but store it.In 1970, about 27 per cent of all the gold in the world was in the form of gold coinage and central bank or government reserves. Today, even with the gold standard long since dead, the percentage is about the same.The most powerful nation on earth, the United States, keeps 70 per cent of its foreign exchange holdings in gold. Its great rival, China, is both the world's largest producer and the world's largest importer. It has built up reserves that, as we shall discover, are likely as great as the USA's. If you buying gold or silver coins to protect yourself in these “interesting times” - and I urge you to - as always I recommend The Pure Gold Company. Pricing is competitive, quality of service is high. They deliver to the UK, the US, Canada and Europe or you can store your gold with them. More here.Ordinary people and institutions the world over use gold to store wealth. Across myriad cultures gold is gifted at landmark life events — births and weddings — because of its intrinsic value.In fact, gold's purchasing power has increased over the millennia, as human beings have grown more productive. The same ounce of gold said by economic historians to have bought King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon 350 loaves of bread could buy you more than 1,000 loaves today. The same gold dinar (roughly 1/7 oz) that, in the time of the Koran in the seventh century, bought you a lamb would buy you three lambs today. Those same four or five aurei (1 oz) which bought you a fine linen tunic in ancient Rome would buy you considerably more clothing today.In 1972, 0.07 ounces of gold would buy you a barrel of oil. Here we are in 2024 and a barrel of oil costs 0.02 ounces of gold — it's significantly cheaper than it was fifty years ago.House prices, too, if you measure them in gold, have stayed constant. It is only when they are measured in fiat currency that they have appreciated so relentlessly (and destructively).In other words, an ounce of gold buys you as much, and sometimes more, food, clothing, energy and shelter as it did ten years ago, a hundred years ago or even thousands of years ago. As gold lasts, so does its purchasing power. You cannot say the same about modern national currencies.Rare and expensive to mine, the supply of gold is constrained. This is in stark contrast to modern money — electronic, debt-based fiat money to give it its full name — the supply of which multiplies every year as governments spend and borrowing balloons.As if by Natural Law, gold supply has increased at the same rate as the global population — roughly 2 per cent per annum. The population of the world has slightly more than doubled since 1850. So has gold supply. The correlation has held for centuries, except for one fifty-year period during the gold rushes of the late nineteenth century, when gold supply per capita increased.Gold has the added attraction of being beautiful. It shines and glistens and sparkles. It captivates and allures. The word ‘gold' derives from the Sanskrit ‘jval', meaning ‘to shine'. That's why we use it as jewellery — to show off our wealth and success, as well as to store it. Indeed, in nomadic prehistory, and still in parts of the world today, carrying your wealth on your person as jewellery was the safest way to keep it.The universe has given us this captivatingly beautiful, dense, inert, malleable, scarce, useless and permanent substance whose only use is to be money. To quote historian Peter Bernstein, ‘nothing is as useless and useful all at the same time'.But after thousands of years of gold being official money, in the early twentieth century there was a seismic shift. Neither the British, German nor French government had enough gold to pay for the First World War. They abandoned gold backing to print the money they needed. In the inter-war years, nations briefly attempted a return to gold standards, but they failed. The two prevailing monetary theories clashed: gold-backed versus state-issued currency. Gold standard advocates, such as Montagu Norman, Governor of the Bank of England, considered gold to be one of the key pillars of a free society along with property rights and habeas corpus. ‘We have gold because we cannot trust governments,' said President Herbert Hoover in 1933. This was a sentiment echoed by one of the founders of the London School of Economics, George Bernard Shaw — to whom I am grateful for demonstrating that it is possible to have a career as both a comedian and a financial writer. ‘You have to choose (as a voter),' he said, ‘between trusting to the natural stability of gold and the natural stability of the honesty and intelligence of the members of the Government… I advise you, as long as the Capitalist system lasts, to vote for gold.'On the other hand, many, such as economist John Maynard Keynes, advocated the idea of fiat currency to give government greater control over the economy and the ability to manipulate the money supply. Keynes put fixation with gold in the Freudian realms of sex and religion. The gold standard, he famously said after the First World War — and rightly, as it turned out — was ‘already a barbarous relic'. Freud himself related fascination with gold to the erotic fantasies and interests of early childhood.Needless to say, Keynes and fiat money prevailed. By the end of the 1930s, most of Europe had left the gold standard. The US followed, but not completely until 1971, in order to meet the ballooning costs of its welfare system and its war in Vietnam.But compare both gold's universality (everyone everywhere knows gold has value) and its purchasing power to national currencies and you have to wonder why we don't use it officially today. There is a very good reason: power.Sticking to the discipline of the gold standard means governments can't just create money or run deficits to the same extent. Instead, they have to rein in their spending, which they are not prepared to do, especially in the twenty-first century, when they make so many promises to win elections. Balanced books, let alone independent money, have become an impossibility. If you seek an answer as to why the state has grown so large in the West, look no further than our system of money. When one body in a society has the power to create money at no cost to itself, it is inevitable that that body will grow disproportionately large. So it is in the twenty-first century, where state spending in many social democracies is now not far off 50 per cent of GDP, sometimes higher.Many arguments about gold will quickly slide into a political argument about the role of government. It is a deeply political metal. Those who favour gold tend to favour small government, free markets and individual responsibility. I count myself in that camp. Those who dismiss it tend to favour large government and state planning.I have argued many times that money is the blood of a society. It must be healthy. So much starts with money: values, morals, behaviour, ambitions, manners, even family size. Money must be sound and true. At the moment it is neither. Gold, however, is both. ‘Because gold is honest money it is disliked by dishonest men,' said former Republican Congressman Ron Paul. As Dorothy is advised in The Wizard of Oz (which was, as we shall discover, part allegory), maybe the time has come to once again ‘follow the yellow brick road'.On the other hand, maybe the twilight of gold has arrived, as Niall Ferguson argued in his history of debt and money, The Cash Nexus. Gold's future, he said, is ‘mainly as jewellery' or ‘in parts of the world with primitive or unstable monetary and financial systems'. Gold may have been money for 5,000 years, or even 10,000 years, but so was the horse a means of transport, and then along came the motor car.A history of gold is inevitably a history of money, but it is also a history of greed, obsession and ambition. Gold is beautiful. Gold is compelling. It is wealth in its purest, most distilled form. ‘Gold is a child of Zeus,' runs the ancient Greek lyric. ‘Neither moth nor rust devoureth it; but the mind of man is devoured by this supreme possession.' Perhaps that's why Thomas Edison said gold was ‘an invention of Satan'. Wealth, and all the emotions that come with it, can do strange things to people.Gold has led people to do the most brilliant, the most brave, the most inventive, the most innovative and the most terrible things. ‘More men have been knocked off balance by gold than by love,' runs the saying, usually attributed to Benjamin Disraeli. Where gold is concerned, emotion, not logic, prevails. Even in today's markets it is a speculative asset whose price is driven by greed and fear, not by fundamental production numbers.Its gleam has drawn man across oceans, across continents and into the unknown. It lured Jason and the Argonauts, Alexander the Great, numerous Caesars, da Gama, Cortés, Pizarro and Raleigh. Brilliant new civilisations have emerged as a result of the quest for gold, yet so have slavery, war, deceit, death and devastation. Describing the gold mines of ancient Egypt, the historian Diodorus Siculus wrote, ‘there is absolutely no consideration nor relaxation for sick or maimed, for aged man or weak woman. All are forced to labour at their tasks until they die, worn out by misery amid their toil.' His description could apply to many an illegal mine in Africa today.The English critic John Ruskin told a story of a man who boarded a ship with all his money: a bag of gold coins. Several days into the voyage a terrible storm blew up. ‘Abandon ship!' came the cry. The man strapped his bag around his waist and jumped overboard, only to sink to the bottom of the sea. ‘Now,' asked Ruskin, ‘as he was sinking — had he the gold? Or had the gold him?'As the Chinese proverb goes, ‘The miser does not own the gold; the gold owns the miser.'Gold may be a dead metal. Inert, unchanging and lifeless. But its hold over humanity never relents. It has adorned us since before the dawn of civilisation and, as money, underpinned economies ever since. Desire for it has driven mankind forwards, the prime impulse for quest and conquest, for exploration and discovery. From its origins in the hearts of dying stars to its quiet presence today beneath the machinery of modern finance, gold has seen it all. How many secrets does this silent witness keep? This book tells the story of gold. It unveils the schemes, intrigues and forces that have shaped our world in the relentless pursuit of this ancient asset, which, even in this digital age, still wields immense power.That was Chapter One of The Secret History of Gold The Secret History of Gold is available to pre-order at Amazon, Waterstones and all good bookshops. I hear the audiobook, read by me, is excellent. The book comes out on August 28.Hurry! 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En Sin Anestesia de La Luciérnaga estuvo la precandidata presidencial María José Pizarro para hablar acerca de su fórmula para las elecciones 2026

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