Watch Out For The Germans

You know when you see this term 'the elite' these days, I'm not sure exactly what people understand it to mean.

On the surface, there is, for instance, a strata of people in Germany, who are in the league of the 'extremely wealthy.' These are individuals who personally have from say, fifty million euros in cash above debt and forward maintenance costs on property (unlike the French 'moneyed class' who have exactly no money at all and a huge forward expenses bill in view all the time but own nice old buildings) - to um, fifty billion euros and above. They have these huge highly secured buildings in Bavaria and Eastern Switzerland, in which note shuffling machines work virtually day-long so that the bills on the bottoms of the stacks don't wear away to dust... You think I'm kidding, don't you?

This one's not a bad bloke, all in all. He owns, he owns,
owns, well... ...everything!
Give or take not very much that's left over in the West.

So the 'elite' Germans hang out at extremely private functions now and then, in which they pat themselves on the backs for all the things they have done. In several cases this consists of being smart enough to have been adopted by the original Reimann Family bosses (they had no actual genetic kids, as far as anyone knows), and as a consequence now own a conglomerate which is just about (IE probably is) the world's richest corporate group.

Now. Now... Nyeee-o-o-o-w...

Apologies to those fellas and fellettes here of rare and uncommon gender. You think you are or have been, or 'did/were and thereabouts' - running an agenda for awhile; something social/political and broadly-based - or maybe just that others like yourself have been and you are helping tag along or render support, whatever.

Well, see, it's not all exactly like you think it is, see...

See certain of these big industrial German families have some strange members in them... ...really really st-r-a-a-a-a-an-g-e. 

Trust me - it's not going to end up where you suspected it could have.

There's a two-layered thing going on: on the one hand, these companies take someone else's crafted product, cheat on the in-puts, multiply the volumes, and then sell it to the stupid public as a 'luxury' item and 'brand.' At which point the thing itself is unrecognizable to those who actually made up the original market (the buyer, and it prolly just was one buyer in some cases!).

And then along came the GFC. But then there was the 'bail-out' scheme across the globe, in which all their capital assets went up on paper and were underwritten by various taxpayer cohorts in several countries.

It's Burberry, but not any Burberry you
and I are allowed to buy

Were there really any sales of the genuine items? Nah, probably not or at best the same amount as always - which is 'not very many.' When the governments and their central banks flushed cash into the coffers of the top-tier racketeers then meaningful numbers of 'sales' appeared on balance sheets signed-off by the remnants of the global auditing racket absent Arthur Andersen (the actual only honest guys all along! ...Funny 'bout that.).

But, behind it all there's a few of these German guys who fear something - and they have long-range plans to keep themselves in charge forever or at least for as long as.

And these guys are a lot lot smarter than you could ordinarily suppose based on what you might typically observe about humanity - and they are quite capable of putting one face on for the chief accountants and clerks of the Singapore government, or for the Eurasia Group, or for the Atlantic Council, and they are quite another thing alone in private among themselves. They are... ...meta-schemically unstable. LOL


AND THEN ON ANOTHER HAND (you thought I'd forgotten about that), they have deep personal philosophies rooted in the days of mid-18th Century Europe and Germany, even later on as well to the late-19th Century and tiny tightly secretive inner circles of German philosophical fraternal groups. These formalized mindsets are crystallized in some of the more bizarre schools of European psychology (and now, certainly, American and English as well of course).