4th July 'Alien' Incident Is Planned

Active Intelligence pathways are suggesting there is reason to expect some kind of 'trouble' on the coming 4th of July which will be related to unusual and very high tech, advanced high altitude craft.

Ridiculous though this sounds, it's also still possible nonetheless.

When you look at these 'rumors' that appear in open paths of wider communication, one way of up-grading the potential assessment, is to see whether there have been traces, if even subtle ones, over the recent past which all lead up to the kind of thing actually being foreshadowed.

Just a beautiful pic, as far as I'm concerned;
doesn't particularly mean anything to me!

The 'strange' incident of Jeffrey Alan Lash in which the 'alien agenda' narrative appeared in the media accounts, and the media repeating of statements by NASA contractor Robert Bigelow concerning his belief about aliens living surreptitiously on Earth at the present time - are the kinds of 'traces' that can be genuine because 'dark ops' people tend to 'trial run' their schemes in public view in 'contained' ways beforehand. These two examples are both linked by several seemingly tangential common factors: hotels, gambling, Las Vegas, and illicit weapons and large numbers of weapons. It isn't certain in my mind what the point of these types of escapades is, but I would assume the gunning down of a crowd at night in Las Vegas is/was indeed this kind of 'black operation' exercise. 

And now there are indications of a coming July 4 'incident.'

For me one of the most disruptive factors with regard to getting straightforward access to, and solidly-grounded discussion of 'alien' things, is that if you simply just scan across the net generally for the subject matter involved, there are so many depictions of what 'aliens' look like, or are said to look like, and even those common ones like the so-called 'Nordic whites' are far too disparately described and betray a lot of modern pop folkloric biases, in my view, to do anything more than serve to confuse. And that's especially so because people get very emotionally invested in various 'ideas' and make their assumptions concrete thereby. You can't shift them away from incorrect beliefs via what tiny bits of authentic factual material exists because of their emotional 'overburden' as it were.

I did personally know the head of Eastman High Altitude Photography and he, in fact, was the person who taught me darkroom technique. He happened to be related to the first wife of the 3rd Baron Rothschild -, Nathaniel Mayer Victor R. Without going into things too much more than that, at various official levels of government-private enterprise partnerships, there is little doubt, er, no doubt at all, that there are such things as real, 'alien' beings on and near this planet. 

So I'm not altogether sure what any sort of 'faked' alien incident is going to achieve - except more confusion. And when you confuse the public at large, you are also organizing confusion in young minds of those who would 'be scientists' later on. 

At some point I have a suspicion that you might find the aliens who have been here a good long time now, send us a message to the effect that 'this is us,' and this is 'not us;' or, this is 'you messing around' but it is 'not us.'

And I could post a pic here with the caption 'because this is us' but I won't because it will just become 'just another one' on the far too large heap and get lost in that mess. 

United States Space Force

On June 18, 2018, the 45th President of the United States, President Donald John Trump, announced a directive to create the United States Space Force, which would be the sixth branch of the US Armed Services.

In 2007, I myself personally witnessed one of the two successful firings of hydrogen fluoride laser canons from 'in space-mounted' positions which destroyed two satellites - one initially by the Chinese government of a Chinese satellite, and within months followed by the successful obliteration of a US-owned satellite, by the US.

Superficially it would seem clear that the creation of the new US Space Force is a 'balance' response to the quite obvious stance the Chinese leadership is taking that China must have a presence in near-Earth space that is a military presence.

Atacama ALMA facility (around 16,000 feet above sea-level),
actually has an hotel open to the public - where you can stay,
and look at the stars without the 'light pollution' of cities.

For me it's become virtually impossible to say anything in detail, really, either about 'ET aliens,' or things like the new US Space Force, because not only is there so much already out there covering both subjects, but these are areas filled with tendentiousness - people have strongly-held views and opinions, and even 'facts' are themselves occasionally subjected to the interference of various governments via state-sponsored propaganda, or simply due to natural bias and prejudice that some governments and organisations and people are incapable of being sufficiently self-aware about to rectify in terms of intelligent analysis.

There most certainly are 'ET aliens,' and there are very active government programs to maintain as much leading-edge knowledge about them as would be prudent for national and global human security purposes. Yet at the same time there has been a consistent 'shadowing' as it were of military technology causes, for anything that stands out in the press as otherwise some kind of 'UFO' incident: the Roswell instance is always pitched to relate to some sort of pre-Cold War narrative, rather than any genuine, authentic 'extraterrestrial' affair - and now we have very recently seen the US Naval pilot's (new) authenticated film of some mysterious 'craft' not generally presumed to be part of any current human technical capability... Yet, once again within weeks more or less, the announcement of a 'Space Force;' and thereby creating a hint that this is all about Chinese technological threats rather than anything at all to do with literal 'space aliens' as such flying around incredible 'craft' in front of US Navy planes.

This pic is still Atacama, but Green Bank Virginia also
has a facility for SETI 

Two things are crystal clear and even have effect at official government and academic levels: 1. that the known Universe is very fast, and contains a massively huge number of stars and planets including a large number that could provide conditions that would be able to sustain life as we know it, and 2. there is absolutely zero case history of formal, authentic, two-way acknowledged between 'alien' and any obtaining 'Earth' government body - communication. 

These two things are genuine facts which cannot be disputed.

But these indisputable facts leave wide avenues for intelligent conversations about why these two things have gone together at all - namely, that aliens do not interact either openly to very large numbers of the public, nor directly and openly with human governments; and yet that it is also a mathematical certainty that 'we are not alone.' 

In fact we are certainly not alone.

The Aliens Are Coming To Save Us All

Have you noticed that over the last few years when people are answering a question in the media, and they are going to 'tell you a story,' they begin their answer with - 'So, er, blah blah blah whatever lie they are telling at that time...' It is identifiable because it always starts with '...so,' and then et cetera et cetera.

Should I really say 'lie' or maybe something else is better able to describe what they are doing. The cynical among us will say, no, no; the correct word is simply: 'lie!'

But I think there is more to it than that (IE a lie) alone. I think they are beginning a narrative, literally telling a story, like you would a 'moral tale' that has a social, cultural basis - a 'Grimm's Fairy-Tale' kind of thing. And that's not anything like 'a lie;' it's folklore, or it's meant to be. Frankly some of the things I hear being said - and probably you (hear) as well - are something more like bizarre 'post-modernist' social/cultural fantasy, not much more than ludicrous enunciations designed to encourage wish-fulfillment. It's various forms of 'magical thinking' woven as propaganda, whether political or social. These kinds of things are beyond mere 'lying.'

For a while I got quite annoyed each time I heard this opening phraseology gambit - 'So... etc.'

How advanced are we now - or 'yet?' Is it time?

Today I went to this day-long psychology workshop run by big-league academic professionals, and designed for educators and school administrators (of which I had been 'co-opted' into being one a couple of years ago now). It was typically, all 'evidence-based,' and some of the statistics they threw at us were mildly shocking for me at least since I had not heard some of it previously: such as, for instance, that the single biggest cause of deaths among young Australian men between 18 and something (I forget exactly...!) - was suicide, and was far ahead of road deaths. Well I didn't know that.

And oddly enough, one of the main presenters made quite a few references to cognition and 'self-awareness' and as they sling around a lot these days, 'mindfulness.' He didn't use the actual phrase cognitive dissonance not even one time but he got quite close when he spoke of the (I suppose, obvious) difference between thinking and feeling and that there were traps in believing that what someone feels ought to be what they particularly act on, necessarily. Personally I thought he wasn't fully successfully making the case about this because it seemed all a bit cartoon-ish - simplistic, really - the way he was putting things.

But then I think he did successfully make the case that 'story-telling' in your mind is a significant factor in how we approach the world we experience on a daily basis. Yes I think I can go along with that.

This is part of a modern architectural proposition,
called a 'VIPP' shelter, which is basically something for living
in the wilderness and being close to the wild.
It's an idea designed by Danish architect Morten Bo Jensen.

...So, let me tell you about what got us all here in the world we have to day, and what is going to happen next, and then what happens after that and then after that some more, and what you can or should (typical of all 'post-modernist' academically-brainwashed psychologists, he 'didn't like' the phrase 'should/shouldn't' and then proceeded to tell us of course, that we shouldn't use it...) do about it all. And how to 'be prepared' for what comes 'next' now.

Physically, that is, biologically, we were all 'left' here, 'made' here by extremely advanced people from very very far away in terms of their own usual 'home' planets - everyone knows this! They built one major memorial in Egypt of course. And there were clearly two sphinxes at the start of the lead-up 'roadway' to the great pyramid there - and there are certainly other 'figures' (at least one hydra shaped thing, and a bull, and a very tall obelisk atop of which there were wings - but this has mostly all weathered away now and the hydra is hidden beneath one of the pyramids).

All of these monuments either are themselves, or they contain great teachings, mostly about a kind of mathematics - although we are not genuinely familiar with this specific kind of mathematics since we use separate 'principles' as the basis of maths, and not 'holistic' or 'axial' mathematics, in which there is only one principle, but it has a specific set of change characteristics that run along a specific 'program' or 'quality' or even 'nature' The Ancient Greeks called this 'the Monad' idea.

Anyway... Never mind about that... Moving on in 'our' story here, there are in fact many memorials of the kind that the pyramids is one of - for example, the so-called 'thousand pillar temple' in India - and this is beautifully symmetrically different to the pyramids because it is built on a 'second' (if you assume for convenience that the pyramids represent 'the first') set of geometries but which nonetheless obtain to the same kinds of structural longevity potential and build integrity. Nobody can work out how the pyramids were built, and nobody can work out how this temple was built either - both are complex, megalithic, difficult to comprehend. And, they are significantly different to each other in terms of design... But that's the tell, see: the strange, intellectual complexity. They have both come from the same 'baroque' (yes I know that's a complete anachronism or even 'parachronistic' word to use), logical, yet cursive, mind. ...That's just my personal opinion, of course.

Now when sufficient of the human race arrive at the same stature of mind, then these 'earlier' original sentient beings who put the young human species here, will turn up again and interact along the higher propositions of intelligence with which they are used to engaging in themselves, and that they genuinely actually prefer to. You see, a primitive albeit 'intelligent' mind or mindset, within a biological framework, is a damn dangerous thing!! You would not want to be trying to have any kind of 'higher mathematical/moral/ethical/spiritual/even material' interchange on a long-term basis with the idiots that largely comprise the 'human race(!!)' as we have known it for the last several thousand years.

So, the aliens - these aliens - are obviously not going to be saving us all. But there's plenty of time to play with for the rest of the race or species if you will, to work something out for itself after a good long while. As for me and you though, now, well, keep your eyes and ears open and one day pretty soon you might notice things that 'should' not be here... In front of your very own eyes.

And, so, in the upcoming next few articles, I will be 'telling you a story' in a way - I will be telling a story to you, for you...

Discerning The Reality About Quality

Now we're presently going to get to these three pics I mentioned last time.

But, to background first - I mean to say, this tendency to create generations of kids who 'appear' out of nowhere with absolutely no background whatsoever - no culture, no history, no anything - is not only the overriding zeitgeist of the last fifty years and something which will be notably pinned to this era in the future, and which people rarely consider today, but it is also a 'new' thing in terms of what human societies have ever done over countless thousands of years. No one has ever done this kind of thing before! 

Breakfast for you - many things in the shot, but not 'cluttered'
in terms of object focus; the object is the brunch/breakfast.
It's still a good shot, no extraneous things... 

The consequence of this ludicrous stupidity, is the world has bred a vast swathe of the entire world's currently living population, who are all possessed of utter social stupidity and individual arrogance - they are fed pablum, they produce rubbish, and they 'consume' repetitious stale fare on every level of thing possible that has to do with the affairs of people and society.

The reality is things that have happened before, with essentially the same people, the same families at least - are happening now, as they always have; virtually over and over again.

In the last article I talked about pictorial 'dissonance' and why I was alluding to this was simply as a means of 'seeing' how modern marketing techniques are misapplied because of restricted participation at the top ends of business enterprise, by people with too much money and not enough sound knowledge - although a lot of people come from these old families that have been in trade for centuries, they seem to have retained almost nothing from the past and what made their ancestors successful and even, in some cases, great. 

If you just watch cable and satellite television and the generic corporate media, you will think the world is this multi-polar place, with certain obvious and towering hugely separated 'poles:' Hollywood, the Kardashians, America and thus its antitheses du jour now China and Russia, 'traditional' London and ergo 'Tommy Robinson,' Europe (whatever that was supposed to be anyway), the church, the state, the unwashed masses, the underclasses, the 'elite,' white people black people, poor dumb or under-educated Africans and so on.

Another brand owned by Valiram Group - TWG tea; a bloody silly
marketing scam with every tea-marketing idea known to man in their range.
But still, it's 'where the East and West meets' all the same.

Now I myself personally have this rule about not cluttering up my own blog-pages with pictures that commit all the atrocities that I will point out now: too much noise in the frame, cluttered objects and no genuine object focus, dissonance between emotional messaging and style (what is it with 'fashion' models who look like cadavers -, who were starved to death?). And so I won't be posting examples of where the modern marketers get it all wrong.

But we can post a few examples of where they get it right, and from these examples you can draw some lessons...

High end products are mostly not authentically anymore from Europe, or America - and they are not largely owned by American companies either. Those that are American-owned make a lot of noise and that's about it.

Two thirds of the world's population is in Asia. 

The Kardashians are Amenian - which means they are modern Malaysian. Didn't know that, did you. They are substantially backed by the multi multi billionaire Valiram Group, who have been around international trade since the days of the Armenian Sarkies Brothers and their stand in Asia and particularly Malaysia and Singapore. Kardashians get their lines of handbags, cosmetics, shoes, accessories - made in Malaysia, and Thailand where the quality standards are genuinely high compared to China, albeit China also has a lot of German domiciled companies from which industrial base the China-produced item has significantly advanced upwards in quality.

I have mentioned before that although ALL the on-line records say that the Bond movie 'Thunderball' was filmed in the Bahamas (which it partly was), it was also partly funded and made in Malaysia through the Shell Far East company organisation. Malaysian 'Miss World' of the day was in that and other Bond movies as one of the bikini women everywhere in the background.

The man in the middle
is a consultant from Zurich Institute, but originally from Holland
and the Dutch Shell thing - his name is de Brabant;
and the up-scale styled Romanesque
on the right is Hassan Choudhury, one of the AirAsia managers.

The KLM Royal Dutch Shell group has a huge involvement all across Asia and you can see hints of it in these 'management consultants' looking into and 'advising' about the China market and Eurasia generally - leaving out our very good friend Carter Page and his 'Eurasia Energy Advisers' for a minute - if you look around you will see that all of the 'olden days' big league corporates still have a powerful foothold in Asia and hence, in produced goods and consumer merchandise that is marketed into the Western World, sometimes at the 'high end' luxury level.

Today, it is not London or even Paris to some extent, and not Germany either that you can see the money being made from - it is those Eastern European countries where there still are major craft centers, and also those fairly exotic Asian and Mid-Eastern places too - Oman, Kuwait, certainly India and Pakistan (they made the World Cup official soccer game ball, as you know).

These guys are real billionaires. They are not all-wise, and they get a lot of things badly wrong much of the time, but they also are a source of empowerment to high quality manufacturers and designers ON WHOSE PRODUCT AND/OR SKILL AND KNOW-HOW THE FOCUS OUGHT TO BE... Clean, clear, object-centered focus:

Owned by Czechs, I think, designed by English,
and made under supervision by Italians.
Absolutely first class.

Pictorial Dissonance

It's more normally the case that people use the phrase 'cognitive dissonance' when discussing verbal tactics, and almost never will you encounter them explaining that the tactics of cognitive dissonance are just as easily applied to images, photographs, and movies.

'Q' custom, bespoke Aston Martin Vantage V12 

And we live in such a totally visual culture now that it's probably more important to perceive what propagandists are doing in the visual arena - in the visual media, and also with pics and images generally. I mean sure there are the obvious recent examples of outright propaganda - the kid lying face down in the beach sand, ISIS and their victims in orange jump-suits, all that sort of thing - but what is altogether more subtle and much more damaging, is the sheer 'photographic/stylistic illiteracy' of modern photographers.

Photographic picture composition is a complex area but traditionally it had six main 'rules:' simplicity, symmetrical balance, asymmetrical balance, radial balance, rule of thirds, and 'framing.' But today, a simple Google search for some image or other will reveal a long litany of pics that are cluttered, 'un-composed,' and dissonant.
  
For me it is possible to consider photographic image composition nowadays as part of the overall field of industrial design...

...Beautifully composed pic, in my opinion

Now I want to discuss more deeply why I believe deliberately poor shot composition is a political and sociological propaganda tactic that is pathological.

But for just right now, let me just post a couple of decently-composed modern photographs which show that subtle ways to impart information are intrinsic to the art of modern photography, especially as it is used in on-line endeavors.  

Scott Adams - 'Cognitive Dissonance' YT Article

I've just started noticing very recently, a few people in the general media trotting out this phrase 'cognitive dissonance' once again.

This thing is a most complex theory in the realm of human psychology and many speakers on the subject who would be said to be expert on some particular specialization - well, they take various stances on what the concept really means and how it is applied in human social groups.

Now you can read a broad summary of the subject in your common Wiki entry, but for my own purposes right now I just want to note that often it is simply meant to label a way in which people trying to persuade others, employ emotions that are not necessarily the result of any linked up line of actual formal logic. And as an adjunct to that, there is also the view that some smart people try to create feelings of disturbance and 'un-quiet' by proposing some emotive consequence, but without what is usually thought of as a necessary set of linked logic sequences that would ordinarily lead to that feeling, yet by using assertive ways to communicate, 'force' those feelings all the same. Hence 'dissonance.' The outcome is not in harmony with the preconditions...

Hey Mr Xi, wanna game dude?

Some of you tend to lose interest when I start to post about seemingly unconnected things - consumer goods, exotic food or locations, that kind of thing, and all of a sudden when there is some underlined matter spoken about to do with the, usually underhanded behavior of some government agency or some private corporation, there is a quite clear spike in the numbers of 'views' on the site data summaries.

And that's a mistake on the part of some people because never will you find me jumping to these 'cognitive dissonance'-type cues and/or trigger articles that the media regularly is guilty of broadcasting. 

Even the most covert of 'operations' is not carried out in a vacuum; there is always some antecedent, and some authentic cause and motivation.

'Cognitive dissonance' is principally used by fairly blunt political types and their marketing gurus and 'agencies' to INVALIDATE the electoral power-base's natural opinions and views; if they cannot find or make a logical sequence of facts that connects up to the feelings they are experiencing (and feelings simply MUST be valid, must they not; that is of course, the structure of the fallacy of this thing when maliciously employed), then it is because they ARE IGNORANT, NOT SUFFICIENTLY IN POSSESSION OF 'ELITE' AND RARE FACTS, and therefore must they hand their power over to whoever is vending them the idea that they are the sole source OF those 'confidential/exclusive/secret/privileged/whatever specious excuse' 'facts.'

'Q' bespoke Aston also has 'aero-cowls...' LOL
'Nudge nudge, know wot I mean, say no more!'

Now, one of the main reasons I have this blog and seemingly 'indulge' in all kinds of what seems like wasteful consumerism and materialist talk, is that hiding inside many such things, are the people and the matters and motivations that you will end up truly desiring and needing to know about, and when you read this blog, over time you will see how important things really connect up logically together - whereas the media will often drop on you some thunderbolt from out of the blue that you had no prior warning or awareness of and that will literally attempt to feed you 'cognitive dissonance' so that you are unable to discern the 'hidden hand' - and from which vague and foggy sets of facts it is altogether too easy for people with ulterior motives to proffer causes of social and political evil like 'the Rothschilds,' or 'the Zionists' or 'the Muslims' or 'the Russians' or else the someone-whoever-it-is du jour. 

For instance, 'Paul Manafort may have received $12.7 million in off-the-book funds from Viktor Yanukovych's Party of the Regions political group in the Ukraine.'

How 'may' have? Where does the 'may' have come into it? Who is claiming this?

How many times did anyone in the media alert anyone (especially at any time along the way) that Paul Manafort has been working for the Republican Party and the US government since as far back as Gerald Ford in the '70's?

Many people are speculating that all of this FBI apple-cart turn-over that has happened with the casting down of Comey, Brennan, Clapper - and the destruction of the political essay of Hillary Clinton, is really due to some group of people inside the CIA itself carrying out a 'palace coup' against those leaders of the 'Deep State' elite bureaucrats.

Paul Manafort

Apparently, Paul Manafort has been 'sent to jail' by a judge just now because Mueller's people are angry with the current state of play with their own coup d'etat against Donald Trump.

How many times before Flynn was even a household name did we say here he was a 'good guy?'

Try this on for size and tell me what you think it feels like... Paul Manafort is a deep cover CIA operative. 

And with that in mind, perhaps we can now attend to what I really wish to push you into realizing - we are on the threshold of another 'Roaring Twenties.' And you have not seen that ANYWHERE before have you? Admit it.

Now if I'm right, and I am, what are you going to do NOW, to ensure that you have a head-start on the party.

What Is An Entrepreneur?

I'm addressing this article with particular direction to those younger readers, maybe who have conceived they have some entrepreneurial bent within themselves.

It's all very well to want things, to want expensive things, or to have them and to enjoy having them as a collector - and therewith to require the necessary level of income to be able to maintain the lifestyle entailed.

Yet, having money or making large amounts of money is not an unknown thing on this planet by any means - lots of people do it. And lots of people have the name of 'entrepreneur' and many of those do indeed perform such a function in some form. Too many, however, are merely repeating fairly narrow tried-and-tested, and also mostly 'restricted entry' templates for some traditional business. You can't just jump straight into the high end watch-making business, for example, even though you might be a young lab scientist with some innovative composite material or metal alloy which would be highly suitable and applicable to watch-making.

The Rolex Swiss main manufacturing facility

What is passed off as 'exclusive' or 'luxury' in today's world is highly forward-planned, heavily marketed, and scaled-up industrial production output. It's neither rare nor particularly exclusive in reality at all.

Take a look at the Rolex manufacturing facility in Switzerland - it's vast. It's also closed and locked right now. And that is because the 2018-19-20 models have all been made already; they were made in 2016, pre-marketed until this year's Basel World Trade Fair, and only now are they hitting the retailers from where they will be sold over the next two to three years.

But look at the factory again - it caters to an 'exclusive, high-end market,' does it not?

That would be like, a market of between half a million and a million people.

In truth the point of entrepreneur-ship is not 'selling things' or, not just selling things... It's about finding ways and means to do human things quicker, more easily, less expensively, more efficiently, with better materials - in short it is all about the upward progress of humankind through technology. 

To me this photo is about shot composition and coloration,
not 'money!' What does it say to you?

And to be able to have access to new 'ways and means,' to acquire the technical 'know-how,' you have to be open to learning things that other people reject as possible, or that other people are closed-minded about from the outset.

Now, the number of human beings you will ever encounter, who have that necessary mindset, of being able to accept new propositions, is almost impossibly few... Warren Buffett doesn't have it, and neither does Bill Gates. These men are unarguably rich. But they are not entrepreneurs in the purest sense.

And the lifestyle and feelings and rewards that a real entrepreneur has, are totally different - of a different order and magnitude, that anything people like the Gates or the Buffetts of the world ever get even close to experiencing.

Shock.

But fact, nonetheless.

Glorious Luxuries

One of the best things you're ever going to have, is a Flanders Red Ale, accompanying a 'Carbonnade Flamande' - which is a beef stew made with the aforementioned 'red ale.'

American-made, but nonetheless a traditional 'Flanders-style Red Ale...'

Red Ale is a sour ale made with different kinds of organisms than the usual sort used to ferment normal beer and ale - and then the ale is aged in oak casks for more than a year, often several years. Red malt is also used to give the beer or ale its color - there are, as you know, several kinds and especially colors, of malt used to make various beers and ales.

Red Ale is also fruity in taste, like plums or raisins, and not bitter at all. 

Now although it is commonplace to call thinly-sliced potato chips 'French fries,' they are really more part of Belgian cuisine, and traditionally potato chips, or 'fries,' are served with the 'Carbonnade Flamande.'

I'm not sure whether every wealthy person you meet will know about Flanders Red Ale, but then, there are a lot of things that today's wealthy people are shown and know about by the same token, that the underclasses have very little exposure to - like the 'aero-cowls' on the latest Rolls Royce Dawn convertibles...

'Aero-cowls' on the latest Rolls Royce Dawn convertible

We have left off the 'Russian Propaganda Spy Story' today - which, by the way, following the immediate prior article here, sent the viewer numbers sky-rocketing! Well, we have except that the Flanders ale, is red... 

  

The Russian Propaganda Spy Story

Here it is, at last - 

THE RUSSIAN PROPAGANDA SPY STORY.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1NQNKuFc_eg4fzLDDFrVxZSjrwvqTo96z

In page 126 of the free downloadable PDF, Dr Peter Duncan is named as the key strategist who has been driving the Russia narrative, and who more than likely, 'encouraged' various US chiefs of Intelligence responsibilities - John Brennan, James Comey, others, into a grossly misguided belief about what Russia's involvement in anything was.

You are looking at total competence personified -
and clear-headed objectivity. 

However, on May 4 of this year, General Paul Nakasone took over from the (outstanding) retiring Admiral Mike S. Rogers as 'Unified Command' chief of the NSA and the US Cyber Command. Together with Gina Haspel, the US Intelligence strategy as a general rule, will become more and more objective and based on firm facts, rather than innuendo and UK-bias and Russo-phobic prejudice.

And hopefully, we can all get back to considering the relative merits of various expensive trinkets and other silly nonsense more appropriate to retiring gentlemen, and a few ladies.

Internet Wasta

'Wasta' is an Arabic word - well, in fact it is a modern idiomatic expression in the Middle East from an Arabic root word 'Wasitah.' ...And it means 'the middle part that makes the connections.' It could be employed as meaning 'entrepreneur,' but I'm afraid in the ME vernacular it more has the meaning of 'unseen connections,' and it therefore implies corruption.

At the same time though, when the sun is beating down hot overhead, 'corruption' as it would be seen in the holier-than-thou West (lol), might be the difference between having enough water to live, or not enough so that you will most certainly die.

There is this tendency in the Western media to impute evil intentions whenever they are even vaguely possible, in order to secure the media its audience - the members of which are all highly motivated to see and to read anything of a lurid nature.

At no time at all is the mass of the public interested in the actual truth.

And so it's fascinating for us here to observe the ducks slowly disappearing off the pond quietly, and certainly the media is not telling whether this is simply due to the hand of a human wader pulling the legs of the birds, or if there is some other, bigger creature down in there underneath the surface somewhere - I suppose when you see one of the human 'duck-pullers' go down you are entitled to suspect that there might be creatures other than the usual ones around.

The two Koch brothers who dominate that family and who have been the biggest backers of the Republicans over recent decades have just this week announced they are leaving the stage as far as political influencing is concerned, and even that one of them is retiring from the boards of their main corporate entities.

Today's Koch family's father was an inventor of one of the most important thermal cracking processes for petroleum manufacture, and he originally sold the process to the Soviets but Fred C. Koch ended up despising the Soviets because of their brutality towards their citizens and he was personally moved by the fact that all of his own Russian engineers were murdered by Stalin for all kinds of false charges.

It was extraordinarily easy for the Londonistani MI6 strategists to manipulate David and Charles Koch into running with this insane 'Russia is bad/Russia did everything bad' nonsense.

But the Kochs are now gone.

Cui bono... And that was not a question. 

Massive Luxury Market Contraction

Industry insiders across a broad range of so-called 'luxury sector' products are reporting that there have been deep cut-backs in production numbers implemented by the top-end brands.

Rolex, for example, has cut its total production almost in half, according to knowledgeable sources. And this mirrors the huge drop-off in exhibitors at this year's Basel World trade show for high-end watch makers.

I have been saying here for quite a while now that it has been my own personal impression that there was a sudden implosion in the high-end market co-incident with the commencement of the last US Presidential cycle - before the actual rise of Donald Trump even just as a leading contender. You could see that one by one all the high-end glossy magazines were being bought out or just quite obviously declining in the quality of their presentations and also in the standard of the journalism within the magazines themselves.

It isn't the Rolex that is the truly great product here,
it is the Swiss Super-Luminova lighting ceramic pigment

Now the thing I can't understand about what is going on is - what happens to the remaining numbers of high-end customers, do they get to have to live with absolute rubbish for content or product? I mean to say presumably they still have plenty of cash so how do they get serviced? Do they have to live down in the dumps along with everyone else because Hillary lost, do they? And how come this all started BEFORE she lost, anyway?

No. Frankly, I'm a little bit 'weirded out' by what has been going on.

You look at what happened to Volkswagen for one thing - they got into trouble over their supposed deceit concerning the company's claims about fuel efficiency of some of their engines, and so because of that, the whole company has gone to hell overnight, has it? I think not. 

Even if you accept the narrative that the fuel efficiency claims were wrong - and I don't, because the whole argument was made on the strength of actual driving conditions in America, versus factory test parameters, and everybody knows that American roads were in serious disrepair (my god, I was shocked when I drove there compared to what I had been experiencing in other countries) - there was never any basis for suggesting that other performance parameters were not outstanding. And yet, from my perception of things, you could tell that there was a hole punched in the morale of everybody associated with the brand...

A rare pic with a meaningful shot composition
in terms of the particular product as a modern urban culture item 

I have never seen a worse set of professional photo compositions for the outstanding 'world vehicle' package, namely the Golf R or GTI -  I mean what happened to the brains of the photographers?

Just look through any Google Image search for 'Golf GTI's' and you will find a consistently bad bunch of images and photographs; weak backgrounds, terrible angles, utterly careless, indeed mindlessly poor shot compositions with ugly backgrounds or just plain careless backgrounds.

This car is an outstanding product, an outstanding design package for what it is meant to do for the driver and the owner. And the company has completely let the product down in their marketing standards and brand selling.

There is room for all kinds of opinion when it comes to expensive high-end items, and I am not the sort of person who parrots slogans for a dumbed-down public: at 25,000 dollars, the cheapest entry level Golf is not the same price as a loaf of bread! And at 60,000 dollars the Oettinger Sportsystem aftermarket tuned version or the factory 'Wolfsburg Edition' Golf R is a very expensive piece of merchandise.

This is a truly beautiful car,
and this is the only pic I could find with decent shot composition

VW's are not poor people's cars.

The point about 'luxury market' stuff is that they represent two entirely different sets of values and propositions - there is the technical one, that is to say 'scientific excellence or advancement,' and 'performance parameters,' and there is the poetic, 'design intelligence, and aesthetics' proposition. And sometimes the two even meet in the same final product, but that is rare and not necessary at all for the application of the classification 'luxury product' or 'high-end' item. 

The world's best mechanical watch is not a Swiss watch, with a Swiss style of mechanism, it is a Japanese watch, with an entirely different type of mechanism - a spring-drive mechanism with a MEMS passive quartz component regulator which provides 50,000 beats per hour mechanics that vastly out-guns even the Rolex for smoothness of movements, and the world's most accurate mechanical time-keeping. At almost 8,000 dollars the thing is not by any means 'cheap.'

Seems utterly old-fashioned conventional - the GS 'snowflake.'

As we approach a new 'Roaring Twenties' era in financial markets (oh yes, no one else is predicting this but I am) I laugh at the way in which 'experts' are dealing with the high-end of things in the consumer markets...

Trust me, you think you are broke, perhaps, or less well off than you desire to be, with not a lot on the horizon to inflame your enthusiasm - but...

...you simply cannot imagine where the world is heading over the coming ten years or even more from here.