Jeremy Hackett And James Bond

Okay so this is not ‘new’ but hey, you’re just not going to see it in the sunset media...

Various groups and experts in investment have been hollering about the sheer criminality of it for months but there’s no one much out there listening. GATA, Max Keiser, Casey Research – all these kinds of info moles were onto it first and Max of course, did his usual sardonic laugh; well, it’s now a cynical laugh.

 

Old School

The US Commodities Exchange operating company, CME, introduced this thing they are calling the ‘Central Banks Incentive Program’ – which is a discount program for any foreign central bank that trades in commodities in the USA. Now look, this is not only specifically illegal, but it is rampagingly criminal-minded; nobody can say they are not aware of the meaning of this kind of thing. The excuse the CME is giving –not that it is being compelled by anyone to offer any excuse - is that by encouraging foreign central banks to trade in commodities on US Exchanges, this helps ‘provide liquidity.’ Well, no, Central Banks don’t help provide liquidity they are liquidity, because they have a limitless ability to print legal tender, whose specific and only point is that of the preserving of the government monopoly right on money issuance. And their only role is in protection of the currency itself and of the banking conduits thereof; they use interest rate policy to assist the viability and acceptability of the currency – not to affect commodity market prices, my god that would just be plain open fraud.

 Which brings me to the ambiguity over ‘right and wrong’ in today’s world.

Everyone’s going to have an opinion on all of the problematic issues of - terrorism and urban violence and invading people’s privacy, and freedom of expression and freedom of religion or the rationality of modern science, or the politicisation of medicine. And so they should.

Of course, they say that winners write the final history.

My concern is that history is taking too long to be written at the precise present time... Which I realise is a little illogical of a statement since it includes the relativism of the passage of time.

 

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Ian Fleming re-incarnation!

Why I like Jeremy Hackett’s menswear company, is that he focuses less on old school ideas of ‘Empire,’ and much more on quality of clothes and an identifiable British culture of design. Which is the problem I have with the current producers of the official James Bond movies – I don’t think they can distinguish between ‘jump cut editing,’ or ‘flash photography,’ or Hollywood tropes and jingoism (what the common popular view of the British Empire and its presumed morality is) - and a narrative that is genuinely faithful to Ian Fleming and/or even Kevin McClory, for that matter. The latter of whom, just for the record, was my father’s second cousin through the Irish Bell family. Dame Gertrude Bell, as I have regularly noted here, being the British Foreign Office instrument that established the House of Saud.

Without tea and sugar and ships and the Royal Science Academy – what, really, is the British Empire?! Now let me remind you all – these things are all of them from the Stuarts, not the Windsors. And the real British Secret Service contains the following heads of department: Clifford, Arlington, Buckingham, Ashley, and Lauderdale.  The CABAL. Now you watch the current producers turn all of this on its head and confabulate the CABAL, with SPECTRE.  

 

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You stay here, though. I’ll show you THE Secret Service.