Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Fading Paradise
    Fading Paradise
    Fading Paradise
    Ebook67 pages58 minutes

    Fading Paradise

    By CD Moulton

    ()

    Read preview

    About this ebook

    This is a warning to those who would invest in Panama ́. Take the greatest care. Join in trying to have the president crack down hard on scams. This is a great country with a terrible worldwide reputation because the corruption and badly thought-out laws favor crooks over victims. This president has the strength and ability to make changes, but will he?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCD Moulton
    Release dateMar 25, 2012
    ISBN9781476450315
    Fading Paradise
    Author

    CD Moulton

    Born in Florida, travelled the world as a rock guitarist with some big names in the late sixties, early seventies. Been everything from a high steel worker to longshoreman, from musician to bar owner, and much more. Educated in botany and genetics. Now living in paradise (Panamá!)

    Read more from Cd Moulton

    Related to Fading Paradise

    Related ebooks

    Public Policy For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Table Talk

      Sep 1, 2022

      Table Talk
      10 min read

    • Article

      Jarvis Cocker I REMEMBER…

      Aug 17, 2021

      Jarvis Cocker I REMEMBER…
      4 min read

    • Article

      Your LETTERS

      Nov 12, 2021

      Your LETTERS
      7 min read

    • Article

      Allan Dick TODAY

      Jul 3, 2023

      I’ve done a lot of driving and had a lot to do with cars in my life – and it’s not really slowing down. In March, or April, I was asked to speak to a gathering of Rolls-Royce owners in Dunedin. It was the 30th Anniversary of the Rolls-Royce and Bentl

      5 min read

    • Article

      Hot Chip

      Dec 15, 2018

      Hot Chip
      2 min read

    • Article

      SMALL Ponds

      Aug 6, 2018

      SMALL Ponds
      18 min read

    • Article

      Life of Bryan

      Sep 15, 2023

      Life of Bryan
      31 min read

    • Article

      Write AWAY

      Oct 28, 2020

      Write AWAY
      2 min read

    • Article

      SMALL Ponds

      Aug 5, 2019

      SMALL Ponds
      17 min read

    • Article

      The Island Guy

      Jul 11, 2023

      The Island Guy
      8 min read

    • Article

      Something Like Vertigo

      Aug 17, 2017

      Something Like Vertigo
      12 min read

    • Article

      It’s Time We Started Stressing: The Millions Interviews Earl Swift

      Oct 2, 2018

      With his seventh book, Chesapeake Requiem: A Year With the Watermen of Vanishing Tangier Island, Earl Swift has hit the trifecta sought by all writers of nonfiction but achieved by very few. The book is the fruit of deep-dive, immersive research; it

      6 min read

    • Article

      Adrian Smith

      Sep 17, 2020

      IRON MAIDEN AXEMAN and songwriter since 1980 – aside from that brief break in the 90s – Adrian Smith has contributed more than a few chapters (and hits) to the band’s four–decade-plus career. With their 2020 tour plans scuppered, he has found time to

      5 min read

    • Article

      Florida Man

      Dec 1, 2023

      Florida Man
      17 min read

    • Article

      Lloyd Cole

      Mar 14, 2022

      Lloyd Cole
      5 min read

    • Article

      A Love Supreme

      Oct 9, 2021

      A Love Supreme
      5 min read

    • Article

      Feedback

      Mar 1, 2024

      Feedback
      5 min read

    • Article

      Your Letters

      Sep 10, 2020

      Your Letters
      5 min read

    • Article

      My So-called Cottage Life

      Jun 26, 2019

      My So-called Cottage Life
      7 min read

    • Article

      A Conch’s Life

      Jun 13, 2017

      A Conch’s Life
      8 min read

    • Article

      An Artist In All Things

      Oct 2, 2019

      An Artist In All Things
      12 min read

    • Article

      Where Teens Used to Hang Out

      Dec 12, 2023

      Where Teens Used to Hang Out
      7 min read

    • Article

      Charles Snider

      May 8, 2020

      Charles Snider
      4 min read

    • Article

      Kurtis Mantronik

      Nov 3, 2021

      Kurtis Mantronik likes to keep moving. Born in Jamaica, he then moved to Canada before joining his mother in a New York apartment in the late-70s. He spent 11 years in the UK and has eventually ended up in Johannesburg, South Africa. (More about that

      9 min read

    • Article

      Colin Murray

      Aug 15, 2022

      Colin Murray
      5 min read

    • Article

      Kurtis Mantronik

      Dec 21, 2021

      Kurtis Mantronik
      10 min read

    • Article

      And Nature For All

      May 13, 2021

      And Nature For All
      9 min read

    • Article

      Natalie Merchant

      Apr 13, 2023

      Natalie Merchant
      6 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for Fading Paradise

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      Fading Paradise - CD Moulton

      Fading Paradise

      Contemplating What Could Have Been

      and a warning to anyone who would invest in Panamá

      DON’T!

      © 2012 & 2015 C. D. Moulton

      all rights reserved

      This work may be copied and distributed by anyone so long as it remains under the name and license of C. D. Moulton and so long as there is no charge for the work.

      About the author

      CD Moulton has traveled extensively over much of the world both in the music business, where he was a rock guitarist, songwriter and arranger and in an import/export business. He has been everything from a bar owner to auto salvage (junkyard) manager, longshoreman to high steel worker, orchid grower to landscaper, tropical fish farmer to commercial fisherman. He started writing books in 1983 and has published more than 250 books as of January 1, 2015. His most popular books to date are about research with orchids, though much of his science fiction and fantasy work has proven popular. He wrote the CD Grimes, PI series and the Det. Nick Storie series, Clint Faraday series and many other works.

      He now resides in Puerto Armuelles, Panamá, where he writes books, plays music with friends, does research with orchids and medicinal plants – and pursues his favorite ways to spend his time: beach bum and roaming the mountain jungles doing his botanical research. He has lately become involved in fighting for the rights of the indigenous people, who are among his closest friends, and in fighting the extreme corruption in the courts and police in Panamá.

      He offers the free e-book, Fading Paradise, that explains what he has been through because of the corruption.

      Contents

      Background

      2005

      2006

      2007

      2008

      2009

      2010-2012

      The Scams #1

      Trick #2

      Number 3

      Age Discrimination in Banking

      The June Step

      July

      August 31

      Sept. 5

      Sept. 12

      November 1

      Non-reply Nov. 3

      January 1, 2015

      Sept. 10, 2015

      Oct. 10, 2015

      Background

      Charles David Moulton was born in May of 1938 in Lakeland, Florida.

      I have been involved with many projects of many types, in many places. First job: running a concession stand at Lake Thonotosassa, Florida. We had a citrus grove there and owned the property on the south shore of the lake in the only place the road was close to the lake.

      Before moving to Lake Thonotosassa, in 1949, we were living at 3110 Bay Villa in Tampa, Florida. My father was a bookkeeper for Swift & Company and found the place at Thonotosassa through friends. In 1949 nobody wanted lakefront property. Who needed all that sand and stuff? It was very cheap, even for the time. Lake Thonotosassa was only a few miles from Tampa and it was easy to commute. The grammar school at the lake was quite good and the bus to Franklin Jr. High and, later, Hillsborough High School, was only a mile from the house.

      No, I didn’t walk five miles through the snow to school and back every day. I rode a bicycle the one mile and we didn’t have snow in Central Florida – except once, and it didn’t stick.

      We built the concession stand and a boat launching ramp to the lake. It was already known as a great place to fish for speckled perch (Crappie) and largemouth bass. The water skiing craze hit in 1950. The lake was the only one big enough (2 miles across) for the sport. Even the people from Cypress Gardens would come there to practice. My brother was very skilled on water skis, though I could never quite master the art, hanging straight back from the boat. That’s all. (Later, when in San Francisco, my girlfriend, Inga, from Denmark talked me into going to BC for skiing, I was a natural. I could never roller skate, but was a natural on ice. The odd thing is that I do not like snow and ice. I am very warm-blooded. That is one major reason for my now living in Panamá.)

      The concession stand flourished. We were making $600 per week at a time when a good salary was $60 per week. We also had 10 acres of bearing citrus – yet there was never any money. We later found that my father was giving everything to the church. It is one reason I have such disdain for religious matters and feel the churches today are no more than commercial ventures. Not long after Dad died from bone cancer, the church branch he established folded. The only help the family got when he died was from the Masons, with whom I don’t agree on many points, but they are very strong on many other points.

      While attending Hillsborough High School, a friend, Robert Whitman, would come to the lake for duck hunting and with others for swimming parties and such. His

      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1