Tamil Cooks

“You cannot change their mind even if you expose them to authentic information.” Yuri Bezmenov, a KGB officer who defected to the West in 1970 – speaking in an interview with Ed Griffin in 1983. He wasn't talking about Tamil cooks!

Yuri Bezmenov's main message was that much of US society had been psychologically subverted by systematic and deliberate propaganda techniques for over twenty years and was now virtually capable of only Pavlovian patterns of behaviour designed to produce the conditions from which it would easily be possible to critically destabilize the nation. He claimed half-baked, drug-affected, or cycnical and demoralized people with a type of 'programmed education' had risen to all the control structures and social and bureaucratic positions of power, and that there was no longer any means by which the country could any more access its own common sense or rational thought or logic or real human social awareness.

Some of Bezmenov's writing (and recorded public speaking) refers to the years he spent as a KGB agent interfering with the social, economic and political panorama of India. I personally think that a worldwide common impression now of 'Indian people' as avaricious, corruptible, treacherous, middle-class social and mercantile graspers - bespeaks for the utter, comprehensive, success of the KGB's plan for recruiting and grooming and financially-supporting anyone who showed those traits so that they would more let's say 'competitively' rise to positions of power in every walk of life in India.

Surely, Gandhi ought to have been what we most readily associate with the face of the ordinary Indian personality and character traits... Or at least, powerfully alongside any vision of the unworthy type of Indian individual?

Oh dear. I think Bezmenov could have been rather more correct than makes me feel comfortable.

Some of my family being high up in Shell Far East post-World War II, I spent some time growing up in places like Malaysia (or Malaya, in those days) and it was there around the age of ten that I met the gentleman in this picture. I recall he let me feel around on the area of his head (to prove it) where he had a metal plate – the result of battle injury –, demanding little so-and-so that I of course was! And for which generosity I let him call the orders out for when I had my small 'toy' cannon arrayed, and ready to fire. I recall he was quite thrilled that I had one tiny little piece that actually fired wadding out with the exploding of a small cordite charge. I remind you that by 'cannon' I do mean plural; that is, several cannon. This is the English language, you see. Odd thing, isn't it.

Lt. General Harbakhsh Singh (late). An amazing man.

When I am bored with the banality of modern life, I cook a curry. And I am very good at cooking curries as I grew up with Tamil house staff – who later, by the way, went on to Washington with the American Ambassador when my father and mother decided to retire to a quieter Australian life, away from the embassy party circuit and the twenty-one course Chinese dinners a million light years before the BRIC glamour... And now you know why I smile in my photographs; nothing ever changes. I've seen it all before and I know how it all ends. How it always ends.

Ten was a true vintage year for me – I met J.Paul Getty on the steps of Raffles Singapore that year too. You can't Obama or Bill Gates me none. They are nothing people in a nothing age compared to what has gone before. And they don't have Tamil cooks. A big point. Programmed Pavlovian Australians don't want Tamil boat people, apparently. Why, Malaysians don't even want Tamil cooks now! You have billions (or you owe billions) but you don't have a Tamil cook??! Ridiculous.

All the best,

OMSF.

The Money Room

Bearer Depository Receipts are the big league of finance. Always have been... Don't get confused by the fashionable buzz-words like 'Hedge Fund,' or 'Chinese Market,' or 'Sovereign Wealth Fund.' The amount of 'billionaires' who fall out of media skies and are made, or even self-made, apparently, out of thin air, are simply part of this fantasy world which the popular media tries to make us all live in. ...A lot of it, is sheer promotional marketing to sell a brand.

I have a Money Room. That is, I have companies I own that do.

We issue bearer certificates on vault deposits. And these bearer certificates have active secondary markets here and there around the world.

Bearer Depository Receipts and their secondary trade is generally a private treaty affair between large cash-rich experienced numeraires whose business networks have a global reach and have the requirement to move liquidity or goods from time to time to different locations – and usually for a business purpose, not just for financial speculation. They are not, strictly speaking, public market financial instruments at all; they are private contracts between companies and their fiscal agencies.

I will show you my Money Room (maybe...) and describe a few deals and trades and keep a regular segment here logging the value of our bearer certificates.

TODAY'S VAULT POSITION (per unit bloc):

as at 6 p.m. (UCT) on 12.5.2011...,

Per each One (1) bearer certificate, nominally USD2,000.00 ;

being,

• silver bullion bar 20 ounces @US34.78; $695.60
• listed shares with placement agreement 1 year at 25%
  call discount to lowest average market price last three months. $1,000.00
• attached 25% call  $ -

Total: $1,695.60

Now the benefit of all this if you can't immediately see it, is that effectively it is an entry price positional trade for PHYSICAL SILVER, with a 25% safety valve; if the silver price drops up to 25 per cent on your entry price, you make the call on the share discount, and your second line is topped up with the 25 per cent you lost on the silver entry price. You liquidate both lines and you have lost zero dollars. And then you can re-enter at the new price point. In our companies, we spend most of our time talking to listed companies who want some cash invested now and are prepared to risk the 25% in shares – and then we write unique private contracts and agreements with them and this becomes our second line risk stock. We check that the listed companies have adequate cash resources and we try to satisfy ourselves they will stay around and have adequate market liquidity.

We charge 2.5% combined In and Out and can talk about vault arrangements. We do many variations in the basic design and have done one treaty recently in which the other side requested they vault their own metals and we agreed with that so long as they forwarded us 20% of the metal side. (Therefore they maintained 80% in their own vaults and we stored 20%).

Let's keep a track in this blog of what happens... It will come up regularly as 'The Money Room.'

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Yours Truly,

OMSF.

TAX DODGING, MONEY LAUNDERING?

Who is more exciting to talk to – a top-notch porn star, or a top-flight professional investor and tycoon?

I've met Richard Branson; and he's a rarity. He has presence, charisma, sparkle, and hard-core gravitas too at the same time. Recently I saw him in a television interview and hey!, even he looked a little tired and worn down by the wall-to-wall thickness that seems to be the zeitgeist of the era.

Trump is a bore most of the time. Though don't be fooled, he has one or two decent chops when it comes to selling. But you don't get to see them unless you're where he is when he's decided he wants to make the sale to someone...

On the whole though, today, we are presented by the media with a very incorrect picture of a top money person. The great big secret about big money is they don't want to advertise it at all. So Trump's not really a good example. There's a guy walking your streets, he's not making a splash, he's not trying to impress anyone – and he doesn't need the tax man to see where he's really at. So maybe you don't even want to know him, or learn what he knows, or listen to him... Go away then, this is not for you!

In practice, tax dodging only becomes relevant when you know how to make money in the first place; you really can't make money from cheating on taxes you don't yet even owe! And it's not like 'being prepared' either because that ability to make money is a vast bridge to cross first. But, nevertheless, there is an industry of tax dodging in existence, an industry that fundamentally doesn't work (meaning, can't deliver).

Those who can deliver are amazing people. And very rare. They are not 'an industry.' They are entirely bespoke. The real-life, super-skilled, top-flight money guy or gal is more stunningly thrilling than you can imagine. And they are super-secretive. You can't buy that centrefold at a public newsstand.

But people chase publicity-machine illusions with such vigor! The whole of Dubai is nothing but a conglomeration of contemporary machine-synthetic sportspeople and financial wannabes, most of Singapore a wrapped-in-plastic, self-involved, property bubble of cultureless freaks, and part of every Michelin three-star experience is the middle classes wanting to believe.

Today, Wayne Rooney is paying, apparently, 'tax mitigation experts' to help him keep more from the tax man; and so are a number of his contemporaries in that league of big dollar earners. He'll be wasting his time and his money. As will the others.

Over the last forty years, the big time money laundering and tax cheating has involved people, channels, and locations ripely flowing with wa-a-y excess cash – not cash that needs to be saved, not that Rooney et al need to save! Arab oil money, South American drug money, illegal arms dealing. The style of financial dealing then was governed by the free-flowing spiggots. The free-for-all mentality of the ruling families of the Gulf and oligarchic Pakistan in particular created the background that spawned Agha Hasan Abedi, BCCI and its after-effect: Osama bin Ladin. Visible money laundering and tax law-breaking is all about overwhelming arrogance, egos, and self-important mindless greed.

Today, rueing those early associations, much of the oil elite steers well clear of the London-centric fast life, which is the true philosophical source of the main problem. And today, overpaid, over-hyped, over-pampered 'sportspeople' foisted onto the entire world by Rupert Murdoch's television and iPad monopolies are the feedstock for supposedly clever and also usually London-based accountants.

I am assuming you are not in any one of those above-mentioned groups and tribes, whether leader or minion only.

The principle of effective handling of wealth – which is the correct terminology, and encompasses everything – is rooted in the understanding of the effects of time on strategic structures. And on the incomprehensibility by the authorities of the veritably ambiguous.

The success of tax dodging utterly relies on veritable ambiguity; not just ambiguity alone, but veritable, ambiguity. Veritable, because one absolutely cannot disprove it, but one could prove it, if it were necessary to do so. And of course it also relies on silence and secrecy. L'interdit.

Proper tax dodging and money laundering suits the small to mid-sized trading situation, not the Leviathan, who is really talking about political influence rather than dodging revenuers. But a few tiny bottles of ORB would still get you a couple of Aston Martins no differently than the wallet of Wayne Rooney could, and with far less unwanted attention.

But what is ORB and why will ORB ever be thusly expensive? Because it is forever linked to a world famous brand and type of French wine of which we must now restrain ourselves from speaking the name thereof in case of law suits pending! ...Once again l'interdit. But no substitution will be brooked, and only natural, organic and no synthetic processes allowed there. Therefore also the passage of expensive time. That is why these things are prized and valued in the first place.

Oh yes friends. For ORB is a real thing. It really exists and is known about and traded, used and invested in, in those circles where making money is truly understood.

It is not illegal and attracts no duties and little attention through airports and terminals. And it is the smallest, densest, store of pure dollar – and liquid dollar - value in the world. The implications are obvious. You can shift large sums anywhere. You can store or hide large sums easily. It is fungible, you can intermingle it. There are huge deductible expenses that you can claim for owning and dealing in it. The Rothschilds certainly know about it, but the chances of any London accountant knowing or ever having heard of it are, in my estimation, close to absolutely 'nil.' So much for what Wayne Rooney's money is going to buy him in this area of intellectual know-how. Real knowledge, is real power, but real knowledge and power are really, really, secret.

And so to the porn star... Ah but let's wait till the next posting for all that.

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