I Did It All For Love...

Vanity. All is vanity...

 

There's little Oswald Cobblepot in the pic above, between the idiot of the Bauer family, Jacob, and some ambassador or other to China.

Got to shake this guy's hand.

 

World's most powerful men...

 

St. Moritz Part II

So if you ever go to St. Moritz, instead of to the next Bilderberg Conference – wherever that is being held (and once it actually has been held in St. Moritz too, by the way) – I would suggest going to the St. Moritz Gourmet Festival. Anyone may.

You’re going to see some hilarious things there. And yes, it will mostly be filled with mighty wealthy people, and even the Chefs who go are at the top end of the food business throughout the world so they are certainly not paupers either by any means.

You’re going to see some old styles and traditions that almost no one else would get away with anywhere else in the world these days. For instance, by choice, whenever there is some big food event, the women actually go off and sit with the other women, leaving the men, to hang out by themselves on their side of the room, or rooms, as these often are. We’re talking about actually during the meal!

And there are women in sable furs like you wouldn’t believe.

Roman Polanski

When Roman Polanski was holed up in Gstaad not too long ago, he had meals brought up to him in secret by some quite amazing Chefs. Gstaad is another one of these ‘ski playgrounds of the vastly wealthy’ – also in Switzerland though 400 kilometres away from St. Moritz.

I include here a pic also of another Russian/Jewish/Polish/half-Catholic expatriate – the late Western Australian city councillor and psychologist, architect, and poly-histor, Paul Ritter... You may recall he was one of the two architects who laid the foundation stones of the original WTC towers. You may not recall that too of course, though I have mentioned it before and now at least you do know it anyway...

The late Paul Ritter

Facts are much stranger than fiction, don’t you know! I have a copy of the recently leaked pre-screenplay text for the upcoming Bond movie ‘Spectre.’ A lot of people do. One of the Schlumberger family girls – Lea Seydoux – is in the cast of the movie.

Modern production needs and funding being what they are, who knows what this movie will turn out to be like.

I think the real problem with the Bond movies nowadays is the difficulty storywriters have of dealing with who the villain character is and why we should regard them as villains, and what they do or did to attain the appellation.

Latest Russian side arm, the Strizh Swift Strike -
is able to fire underwater! Fleming would be pleased!

But I will tell you this: occasionally the Danjaq LLC team has gotten the kernel of the story pretty right. And it will have been drawn from real behind-the-scenes stuff. They all hang out at the same Swiss restaurants and hotels, see... Maybe one day they’ll stop with the American focus groups and the ‘pc’ endings. We’ll get a story then.

 

Don't Go To Singapore

Seriously people - how long have I been going on about this?

Waste of breath, for the most part, isn't it?

St. Moritz

You know I actually get invites to places that Alex Jones and others talk about a lot with some considerable disdain. Most of those ‘events’ which get featured in the general media are these days the second-string though. Too many people already know too much about what is said to be going on at those gatherings and so the ‘hard core’ goes even deeper to ground.

Even so, you can see and feel the trailing whisps...!

King Farouk in St. Moritz -

this was political correctness then...

Even for a muslim...

Take St. Moritz for one example. The Bilderberg Group went there a couple of years ago. I’m not sure though – are the Bilderbergers of the mind to think they are something ‘higher’ or more connected than the normal ski-bunnies and the bunny-masters who go to St. Moritz each season.

This year, while the press is posting pictures of a melted, slurry-darkened, wet St Basils surrounds in Moscow, the snow has been very good in St. Moritz, where they eat a lot of caviar and the dames still feel naked without their Barguzinskaya coats.

Yet I have friends in Moscow and they tell me the snow has been great there – there isn’t any slurry and slippery ice, just the usual pretty white winter scene. I wonder why the usual media is as a man using the same drab wet slurry spoiled scene.

St. Moritz today

Heavy wealth is very tribal. Those who do the Sydney-to-Hobart are distinctly not the same as those who do St. Moritz or Gstaad.

This coming year I will find for you some less-problematic tribal wealth. There is much going on in the background.

Snegurochka

I have personally known one or two industrial designers over the course of a lot of years. Not very many, mind you, just one or two I have known quite well enough to say they were friends whilst they were alive; and they are not, as is implicit in the wording, alive any more of course.

The understandings they communicated to me were simply amazing to me when I was a younger person. When they used words like ‘dynamic,’ and ‘force’ and ‘foreground’- the way they explained the ideas behind such words was totally enlightening to me.

Alfa 4C comes to the USA in 2015

Some design here...

They made everything start out from such simple basics too.

A basic is a foundation, but it may not be simple! But great industrial designers have a way of breaking things down into very simple elements.

Design is a progression using simple building blocks but employing the edges of any defined thing, and the borders or bridges demarking things which are by small degrees separately defined, but closely related. And then when you incorporate action or movement, and time, and severity or gentleness of curvature and density or heaviness or lightness, on the top of ideal straight lines, you begin to get a living structure. Living in time and space, but also alive to the subtle senses possessed by the human being, and conveying meaning to the human mind.

Architects and designers know what to be ‘living’ in these terms means. The contemporary mind insists on trying to adjudge whether a thing ‘exists’ or not, rather than observing that a thing unseen may yet be alive in a subtle way. But even material existence is a far more unusual thing than many ordinary people care to know...

Snegurochka - The Snow Maiden

The genesis of the Snegurochka – the Snow Maiden – dates from long before Communism in Russia. It shows the Russian mindset certainly predated the Communist Russian ideology. If you consult Wikipedia on it, you will see the most blatant anti-Russian and ‘anti-myth’ modern propaganda about it – it’s complete rubbish and deliberately so...

Soon, we shall not have snow anymore. And then even this shall pass into mystery and dubious beliefs of the past. Lol. Climate change you know. (Nods sagely).

But in reality everything old is new again. The latest, most avant-garde popular entertainment – The Legend of Korra – essentially a re-imagined modern anime, is an ancient Greek story with every single piece, even the names, completely intact. Yet the kids think they invented it though. I have not yet consulted the Wiki on this but I know what I shall see there. Aarne-Thompson does not know how to deal with this particular kind of myth... And that’s because like all other post-Cartesian propagandas, Aarne-Thompson too is specious. That is why mainstream schools of psychology despise university academia. Jung is discounted and the pretentiousness of Aarne-Thompson is worshipped as ‘golden truth.’ Personally I think it is an interesting codex (IE., A-T) but no more than that.

I wonder how many people realise that the story of Father Christmas is actually a very old version of CSI?

People write into folklore what was very unusual in its day. And that is the reality of it. All folklore is true, and even though there are no physical straight lines in Nature, yet underneath industrial design there is a subtle ‘straight line’ which is in Nature. And I would counsel even the most cynical or ‘realistic’ to scratch a little deeper beneath the surface than all the sides of modern sociological disputation represent – they are all fundamentally flawed arguments and wrong because they are so politically loaded. People object to the power claimed within the myth. That is only because they themselves have never accessed it or think that they cannot. The Ipsissimus can never reveal himself. He is there though. It’s part of the whole human thing. Think Steve Jobs. And project him another five hundred years from now. Anything is possible. This, you should know as my message of Christmas.  

Think You know, Do You?

On Friday, 15 March 2013, I  posted something here called 'Calling Andy Garcia.'

 

 

No comment

 

A guy who deals in Cuban cigars. And who is a 'friend' of the global-operating casino owner, James Packer. Ta ta, James.

 

 

Otherwise,

 

 

NO COMMENT!

 

 

(The original text posted here on 18 December, was deleted by myself, as indicated that it would be, when it was first posted here.)

 

 

 

A Blistering Attack

And yet at the same time is it entirely realistic of me to keep trying to avoid talking about all of this?

I have said for many months now that I wanted to steer well clear of what was going to happen – it was not a guess any more than the CIA’s ‘misery index’ is just guesswork about whether or not things are likely to get ugly suddenly in any given society.

I actually detest what has been going on – it is very distracting from the things I, you, and everyone in business prefers to focus on.

Modern Arab think tank guy -

Maajid Nawaz

Anderson Cooper’s interview of 16 Dec 2014, of the Quilliam member, Maajid Nawaz, was absolutely spot on: Nawaz said to stop referring to these people as ‘lone wolves,’ because that is not what they are.

I don’t think Nawaz is going to be listened to though. And that means these things will continue all over the world.

This is a free blog and there is no conceivable reason I can think of for me to attract the wrong kind of, and completely unnecessary attention, by blurting something out that would lead to just more of the wrong kinds of questions.

Don’t trust what you are being told by governments though. On the surface they are all holier-than-thou and so-on and stand on television complimenting the field officers for putting their lives on the line and resolving crisis situations involving serious violence and threats of violence.

Underneath it they take twenty million dollars from criminals found guilty of oil subsidy frauds in South Africa, and massive oil frauds in Nigeria, allow those individuals in on forged passports, whilst bunnies stuck with that individual’s identity are jailed in say South Africa, for example – falsely, of course – and then that criminal pays for and is allowed to promote Islamic missionary activities inside the country that are precisely designed to agent provocate people like Mohammad Hassan Manteghi . Oh, I meant ‘Man Haron Monis,’ the name the media is using to talk about the Sydney chocolate shop gunman.

Underneath it, they take massive investment inflows from dictatorships like that of Sri Lanka, and even taken terrorism advice from representatives of those dictatorships, such as Rohan Gunaratna, so-called ‘terrorism expert.’

Another cheap Sydney Barrister-
lol (with Maajid Nawaz, again)

And then, to cap it all, senior intelligence staff, go off to Riyadh and Dubai, to hob-nob with the exact same big-money international money fraudsters in their multi-million dollar lifestyle abodes where they also put up officers from MI6 who are deeply inveigled in the money. Am I guessing? Not really – it’s all contained in a recent Auditor General’s report into questionable ‘tourism planning’ non-tendered contracts worth fifty million put out by the then Gallop Western Australian State Government and continued by the current Liberal Party government.

Sydney – which is a big finance hub of the world, rather than just a large city in Australia – one thing about it, you know when you are there, that it is exciting and fast-paced and very very professional. Full of professional people. Media centre of Australasia. It isn’t cheap to live there.

Trained, Uniformed, Kept Out Of the News

Here is a photograph of the Bangladeshi 'Rapid Action Battalion,' basically an armed group of thugs who act as extra-judical death squads for various factions in the Sunni dominated government of Bangladesh. They include Rohingya elements from across the border in Burma, and travel quite easily in and out of what is now a broken down, dysfunctional country - Thailand - and into a number of foreign countries such as Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Australia.

These, are Laskars.

 

Recently there have been a number of incidents, relatively easily concealed by the state-controlled media of Singapore and Malaysia, that have included car-bombings, violent tourist assaults, other things. When you have a state-controlled media you can characterise such things as 'a disgruntled domestic worker who wasn't paid,' type of thing.

There is some good sense in recent Australian politicians' and police force statements about being alert but not afraid or panicked.

Yes, you have to protect yourself.

Citicorp has its back covered, but you don't because you can't afford the lobbyists with which to get any politician to do anything responsible.

Welcome to today's world.

About a month ago I decided to back off a little because I respect and trust Admiral Rogers, the new head of the NSA. He's battling it uphill though.

The guy in the field is always the last to know...

 

But I expect Admiral Rogers to stick his foot down on some of the things that are being forced on the US by entirely outside interests. No Carlyle Group, no Singapore or Sri Lankan, and no House of Saud 'influence.' Politicians do not seem to understand that taking advice from a dictator is a morally bad choice. But big equals better as far as your average politician is concerned.

 

Let's have this conversation again ten years from now and see where it all stands!

 

Your country and mine will still be forced to go on though, ten years from now and ten times that too. So, let's start to get a few strategic things right soon.

 

If any of the strategies were correct, why is 'it' still happening? And I don't want to hear what I already know is a lie - 'lone wolf.'

 

This is my take on what the present security intelligence agencies know: I don't think they know what they are doing at all! Rogers may make some shifts and that, may start to take follower agencies towards the right ideas.

 

 

Scene Of The Crime

If you read pretty much all of the news services and business and finance news services out there you will never, ever, get actual ‘inside’ information and you’ll always be the last to arrive at the ‘scene of the crime,’ as it were. From what I can see, more or less all of the well-known economic commentators around today are reacting to and reflecting on already known facts which in effect are already past history by the time people start talking about it. I think we all know this.

But this is not for the usual reasons everyone assumes. There is a bigger reason.

People genuinely on the inside are creating the next ‘fact’ of the economic world as it will appear in tomorrow’s newspapers. The 'inside' doesn't really consist of 'facts;' not fully formed ones anyway.

This car will not be built -
because the MD, Dany Bahar, got sacked.
What a shame.

These people are taking on important risk, and no reporter or commentator has the same understanding of risk and consequently, even if or where they hear about it there is an amazing reluctance to say anything until far too late.

“This cannot be.” “This will never happen.” “He’s crazy.” Or better yet, “he’s weird.”

And then you get: “I knew about it...” “My editor refused to run it...”

You want to be at the scene of the crime, and preferably before the crime is committed.

There is no story in Russia.

There is no story about oil.

There is no story about the debt ceiling in the US.

And there are a very large number of other things – events, incidents, ‘troubles,’ ‘issues’ – that you will see in the media this week and next week too, and none of them are stories you need to be concerned about or take a great interest in.

Deadly Ebola is just a thing in a Michael Crichton book written about forty years ago.

The story will become the story all too late – after everything you thought you knew comes crashing to the ground. And then you will ‘know’ something different to what you knew before – when you were being assuredly very fully informed...

The crimes are being planned and plotted even as we speak. Or read.

 

Betty Who?

Sometimes I go to one of the BIG cities - you know what I mean: one of the big 'world' hubs. London, Hong Kong, Johannesburg, Chicago... And Sydney.

 

I don't count places like Singapore because they are not really open to the world in the same way that New York or even Berlin is. Nor some of the sprawling places that are dimensionally huge but otherwise very narrow in their localized form of urbanized culture.

Breakout class act -

Betty Who

 

But Sydney is in the big league. You go out to a live performance in Sydney and you immediately sense everything is right on the beat and that you are where it's at.

 

Betty Who is a new 'breakout' talent that is currently taking the world by storm. She's another of these decent handful or so of modern era performers whose energy is electric and who can get all the subtleties out of a well-written song and hit all the notes note-perfect and with a verbal tempo that is high up there on the front edge of the beat, and yet still remain crystal clear.

 

I think she is also another of these song interpretors who are becoming guaranteed success channels for the hit-machine songwriter Bonnie McKee.

 

Well now we have someone that we can replace the ridiculous Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop with as soon as!! A little photoshop work here and there on the dimensions but there is something about the face, isn't there... It is of course a lot better, but, also similar...

 

A class act is never just window-dressing!

 

But a class act is obvious against the ordinary.

 

 

Holistic Materialism...

I don’t know whether you know about this, or have heard the story – well, it isn’t a story, it’s the truth.  Somewhere in the world – in fact in a fairly famous place, where there are very well-known clothing retailers – not so long ago some people came in from out of town, bought a bunch of industrial-scale, if small and old-fashioned , fabric manufacturing businesses and the machinery that came with the businesses... And busted up the machines, and of course closed the manufacturing plants too.

'Repeat' - a German cashmere boutique;

very high quality.

By standard economic theory, there is the view that this type of thing is always part of a larger chain of events, and that the vulnerability of the old manufacturers was due to their own failure to either manage their revenues or to make sufficient profits – and that furthermore, at some point product output and quality is eventually improved, not lessened just because in the erstwhile it seems that some China-made substitute has replaced the better quality but more expensive and unaffordable and usually fictionally ‘ideal’ standard item.

In the specific case to which I was referring in the first paragraph here, the brand names themselves continued on for a while albeit using China-made products of a similar kind to what they had previously been labelling and selling.

London Town is the actual place where the items were being sold and marketed from, and you shouldn’t jump to a quick conclusion about what the products were, or are.

Now I don’t personally believe that in the long run the highest quality of items in question will not return to the shopfronts from which they had been made famous in the first place. And it is the case that right now, the Chinese manufacturing standard at the high end has improved beyond recognition from the bad old days of say the Sixties and Seventies and even the Eighties too.

My own critical thoughts would lean more to the very great and very negative impact - basically around the whole world - of the leeringly too high costs of being a business established inside of any modern city... It is my suspicion that indeed cities themselves, as dynamic architectural and socio-economic/social-cultural entities, have been broken catastrophically by city councillors and various influential interests and city managers. I don’t believe you will see cities as they have been over the last hundred years. They are going to change in ways that will make them categorically quite different from what they were previously. I don’t mean superficial change; I mean categorical alteration of their very nature and meaning.

Cities are viewed by government, at every level of government, as tax centres and revenue sources; but they are not that any longer. They once were that, and the golden goose has been killed.

 

Under Christmas tree,
is staying under the Christmas tree.
No tolls for thee!

If you stuck all the toll road imposts, whether timed or so-called ‘congestion period’ levies, that you wanted, and increased parking fees, and increased rates and offered more and the most complex and ‘creative’ leases that you possibly could come up with, all that you’d end up doing is go broke yourself like Detroit did – as basic volume of economic activity dried up.

But then no politician or corrupt builder and developer ever sees this or cares that such things can or even will happen. We are long past Corbusier but they refuse to acknowledge it. There is no call for more tall buildings, more buildings, or complicated ‘developments.’ It is not in keeping with the era or the economics. But the standard practices go on.  All these developments will continue on until a literal Doomsday.

A friend asked me whether I thought that corrupt money and money made by cheating and/immoral and unethical ideologies still did not reward those people who do these things with a stack of immediate gratification and many material comforts.

But of course it certainly does reward people in such ways.

That is why Doomsday, when it approaches, is not ever accounted for beforehand.

The ‘whole person,’ must have both sides of the equation: the animal dynamic (or atavistic) materialist side, and the unbiased objective idea forms in their connected logic structures apprehensible to the intellect alone and to the inner visions. You must comprehend the meaning of the Italian designer, or else you are in possession of only the metals and the materials, but not the actual intended point of the construction. The best English brand cars are today made by Germans. And the great (of which there were originally four of...) ‘Lord of Cashmere’ – Berk – is today exclusively a net citizen.

Design - in counterpoint...

Not necessarily in the wrong place but

definitely in counterpoint. 

 

So be it. It is a good thing. Doomsday is only a game on the internet. But it is a real consequence in real cities.

So be it, though.

Simon, Tahiti Looks Nice

I think this was something  from out of an ad from the Seventies... I'll have to check.

 

Anyway this was the popular vision of the super-wealthy back around then.

 

Guy, with large format newspaper, wife, SON, private jet, spa on board.

 

 

I might have to explore the current 'visions' of what it 'might' be like being one of the adequately wealthy. I don't like the phrase 'super wealthy;' it just means someone with a certain kind of OCD.

 

The 'wife' in the advert says to the guy: "Tahiti looks good."

 

Guy picks up phone and says: "Simon, Tahiti."

 

Tahiti food today is a modern commercialised pop version of something 'seafood/Polynesian/rice/coconut/etc...'

 

Sad to say though, I like this kind of commercialisation. These sorts of things get to become commercial because lots of people also like them.

 

Yellow curry shrimp (or prawn, if you're not American.)

 

Some of the venues are not so commercial, but hey guess what? Thank god the food is! Nothing so bad as some swish joint where the food is opinionated and ah, rubbish.

 

So, "Simon - Tahiti looks good..."

 

I don't need my brain troubled by too many complicated thoughts right now. Does anybody?

 

Commercial is good. Christmas is just around the bend - commercial is very good.

 

I will be doing commercial, this Christmas. Jesus approves. Trust me. Jesus knows about money. He once turned a coin with Caesar's head on it over in his hands. Found it in a fish salad. Caesar Salad Tahiti, the dish was called. (There's a huge conference going on in Tahiti right now with some HUGE money movers by the way. ; ) Betcha not too many standard media clots know about THIS!) Lot of walking on water expected to be done next year...

 

 

International Resort Hotel Bora Bora.

 

Where The Light Shines Brightest

Every single day I’m tempted to turn around and suddenly make one of these posts a total tour de force for you. Not yet though, not quite just yet.

The great Gary Vaynerchuk says the most common belief about the age of the Internet is that ‘all content is free.’ And he goes on to say though that the belief is slightly mistaken; he believes we are living in the ‘Age of Thank You.’ An interesting thought. He means it’s important to thank the money that actually flows anywhere! He’s right of course.

I'm not saying where this is -

it is not Domaine Romanee-Conti

You won’t remember now but several years ago I suggested people buy Domaine de la Romanee-Conti bottles of wine – don’t know why they were so relatively inexpensive then, they certainly were the best of the Burgundies then and they still are now. If you were able to get them –and these were odd lots, incomplete cases – but the prices of some of them have gone up over hundredfold. $200 to $20,000+!

I think in investing it is most important to understand - or at least to try to comprehend the mindsets of the people in your market, the mentality of the people around you, even the mindsets of those who appear to be the erstwhile leaders of everything. I must confess I have never seen so much rubbish paraded around as political leadership, banking or economics and finance genius, producing and directing talent in Hollywood... All sorts of things where the identities entertain us with their fantasies – certainly journalism and editorial content in the flagship press carriers. What is going on? Is this the end? A kind of post-industrial, neo-Gothic terminal decadence.

Amazingly I noticed some fairly heavy-duty press machines start to repeat some folklore I had personally been spreading around about how many truly wealthy people there are in the world – they are all gravitating to this mythical figure of around ‘30,000.’ Western super-rich people. That isn’t right; that is tongue-in-cheek stuff about the numbers of clients of the biggest tax-dodgers in Switzerland and Luxembourg and so on. The true figure is more likely around 80,000. But it isn’t more than that.

The DRC Montrachet is produced at around 250 cases a year, the Conti about 450. If all the rich folk wanted to buy a case each – well they simply couldn’t. And there is a huge error buffer if the folklore about who has the wealth is incorrect in any event.

So can you ‘see’ the mindset of the people in your own market?

I mean right now, and also how the passage of a few months will alter their behaviour?

People are saying the wealthy are running out of things to buy.

I don’t care what you say though, the rich do NOT all own DRC; it isn’t mathematically possible. The fact is, you can be as rich as you like in cash, but unless you know what actually exists, you only THINK you own it all!

Here is something that exists – an Australian EDM singer with some Asiatic ancestry there somewhere.  And a really great singer at that:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Discounting 'Easy' Cash

As you know – and I’m sure that you do know it – Monaco is a tax-free sovereign state that is not an actual member of the European Union.

A Californian in Monaco!

Well, a Ferrari California anyway.

While Jean-Claude Juncker is being widely criticized by the media everywhere for his past history as an important  functionary in one of the most pro-tax dodging countries in the world, namely Luxembourg, no one gives a damn about tiny little Monaco with its mere 30-some odd thousand citizens, and its zero income tax regime.

Certainly, it does have a 30% social security contribution by employers within the total salary and wage package everyone participates in, but then, we are still really only talking about an in-put cost on outputs and there is no other tax on productive capital; I’m not certain that there isn’t some kind of arrangement about the sale of real estate, but this is not ever detailed to outsiders. And let’s face it - Monaco has the most expensive real estate on earth...

Monaco does use the euro and gets to stick its own motifs on the currency, and it is a co-operative full member of the Euro-Zone customs provisions, but it does not participate in any other specifically EU treaty or law or national contractual obligation.

Which brings me to my point:

Modern political systems and laws and policies are all motivated by the pre-commitment to volume as the most cheaply attained access to power, money, wealth, and human progress.

Goldman Sachs earlier this week issued a momentous pronouncement to the effect that high returns were not going to happen anywhere for a long time to come.

I’m glad they think so because in a world where every professional investor’s most hard-won insights become common knowledge overnight, I can’t worry about what everyone else does. They know everything already and haven’t got their minds open for anything new. Goldman Sachs knows it all. And the public listens.

For myself I cannot see anything but high returns.

Though not from volume.

Why do I restrict myself to high volume businesses in which a secular Depressive monetary velocity condition has been created by the same politicians and in-name-only ‘bankers who direct everyone to the volume option only?’

Gaudy Night -
Also a novel by Sayers

Here is the difference between a leader and an authority... You see, what we have around us to today, are authorities, not leaders. A leader eats last. Authorities have the first right to all the things that inspire greed and the greedy; as much is said in the Tao Te Ching too - about rulers and leaders.

 

“Let us have one other gaudy night: call to me, all my sad captains; let’s mock the midnight bell.” Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra.

It is midnight in the world.

 

Why They Hate Assange

“The fevered imagination of the British ruling classes...” What a bloody rude and impertinent thing to say by the BBC.

I read that phrase in an article, not a recent article -, in a BBC archive about the beginnings of the New Age Movement.

The article itself is absolutely ridden through with the names of relatives and in-laws of my own father – and thus, I suppose of myself too!

I think I ought to know a little about these people!

Looks a bit like Bruce Dern!

Put it this way,’ Sir George *’ was not quite the person the media likes to cast him as having been. They have their own reasons for intimating that he was a rich, romantic eccentric, and nothing more. He certainly was not a technical scientist as far as I know but then again, I do know that he knew Rosalind Franklin the discoverer of DNA and I also know his private talking was different to when he spoke to students and the general layman public.

Now some things about Sir George still affect real, living people today who are in difficult spots – and I’m not going to create more trouble for them by saying anything too obviously and too publically.

Sir George was an establishment Britisher – but you see, of the day though; not of today. Today’s English establishment are an entirely different class and breed (lol – said that deliberately of course!).

Sir George is widely regarded as the founder of the New Age Movement. And that means that he would not have found favour with say, J. Edgar Hoover. Some current era Republicans would probably like to say the New Age Movement is a Communist thing.

And it may be that.

Sir George’s father bequeathed his estate – Attingham Park – to the British National Trust, and today it is also the home of an ‘educational’ Summer School that exists to network with American academics and students. If you were of a sinister mentality, you could rush to the thought that Attingham Park is a kind of an Anglo-American spy network – certainly a way of recruiting new network members. Which it is of course... But where it once was one of the mainstream British establishment’s own networks, it is if anything now a competing network with the extra-national mercantile elite that has found its way into Whitehall, definitely since the time of Thatcher.

Now I found I had to delete a small segment that ought to logically follow next in this flow of things, but it’s not quite the right time to say it all just yet.

What I am endeavouring to demonstrate to you however, is sufficient background history so that you can observe things did not happen in a vacuum nor did they all fall down in the last shower of rain.

It is not general public knowledge (although it does exist tucked away in an obscure part of the Western Australian State Auditor General’s Report) that the (don’t know what else you could call it) MI6 field operational team was set up and trained with massive Australian government funding on one side of Rottnest Island in order to then to go off and intercept undersea cabling in order to bust in on various Asian government officials private telephone conversations – in the so-called ‘Five Eyes’ scheme supposedly on behalf of its final beneficiary, the US Government. I know I‘ve mentioned here the name of the actual cover company in New Zealand that was used – and that’s never been published anywhere (although I did extract the section after a short while).

Anyway a lot of people don’t understand about ‘tradition.’ Jean-Claude Biver, the CEO of Hublot watches, talks extensively about tradition and how he prefers to match the old with innovation and with a vision of ‘tomorrow.’

Sir George also had a vision of tomorrow. He said not to be afraid of the coming world.

 

Sazerac Cocktail

Myself, I am very Old Fashioned. Some people think the Vieux Carre, or at least the Sazerac Cocktail were in fact the very first cocktails ever made. That is not quite correct but certainly, there is a line of history from their origination in France into New Orleans where the Sazerac first made its appearance in the New World. Thus, if the ‘real’ truth be known, in every New World, the ‘innovation’ there, is something that came from a forgotten, older world.

It’s all the same stuff, which goes round and around and around. People forget.

It pays not to forget though. Where the actual sources are...

 

The Nuances of Doctrine (lol)

It’s useless my trying to explain here how it is that certain bits and pieces of information turn up on these pages. I have mentioned previously that I am from one of the original Shell Trust membership families - this kind of thing counts a lot as to who your natural associations are over a lifetime, I suppose.

 

The Aviary in Chicago -
don't remember it being this good!

Anyway. Internet network communications are not by any means the first or likely to be the last attempts by various governments to keep track of ordinary people for some obscure purpose not immediately obvious to the casual observer. Herod the Great did it a while back, and he may have had the objective of murdering the entire line of politically powerful Aaronic Temple Priests by mischievously employing census records; a fact that casts its shadows till today and the so-called ‘Temple Mount’ situation recently in the news.

A lot of underhanded state power often comes through the seemingly mundane.

Here is an interesting man in today’s world of commercial perfumery:

Subrenat, on left

He is, both a petanque champion player, as well as the head of the European Regulatory Committee overseeing the commercial manufacture and sale of perfumes. Perfumes are of course, a potentially very dangerous product, utilising, as they do, various industrial chemicals and petrochemical by-products and molecular compositions, some of which explode and some of which can cause cancer. Perfume manufacture – synthetic perfume manufacture – requires regulation and licensing. Jean Pierre was chief perfumer at Avon – an American company that maintains a list of millions of customers and virtual customer representatives around the globe.

Hubert Humphrey, another industrial chemist by training, is generally never linked to Brownie Mae Humphrey, later Brownie Wise, the marketing genius behind Tupperware.

And neither is Jean-Pierre Subrenat generally linked in the media with Jean-Jacques Subrenat – a committee member of ICANN (the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers.)

Anyway it is common knowledge in the intelligence communities that both Avon and Tupperware and some suppliers and contractors to McDonalds are in fact part of the United States Intelligence machinery – in particular anything to do with blown plastics and Styrofoam and also ISO, though ISO is an internationally-co-operative engineering and systems management organisation.

All the technical and manufacturing licence data to do with a vast swathe of plastics, petro-chemical, pharmaceutical, electrical, advanced engineering activities – goes through a centralised data collection stream and archival system in Europe and the USA. This is how Boeing knows who to blame for capstan wiring faults, or ‘O’ ring seals on space-shuttles, for instance.

The modern world, being such a complex place, with so many tiny facets that could break down at any moment into a catastrophic contagion of disasters, requires decent management and control of technical systems and also of human involvement with those systems.

And I agree with that.



'Vespers-in-Bed'

It is not a reason for alarm or concern. If people in high places fall out though, and anger, resentment, and pay-back, becomes contemplated, then there are reasons for alarm and concern. And... there is also nothing any one of us can do about it except watch it play through.

 

I recommend sitting back and drinking cocktails and eating cocktail food - perhaps the James Bond favourite 'Vesper Martini,' or the French-American-German (would you believe) Commander's Palace Sazerac. The Sazerac, will come next post...