Ya Think?

Friends in low places. We all have those, right?

Well you should. 

Yesterday at my local shopping center people were a bit amazed when this old African woman, who usually asks for coins, came up to me, had a few words and then 'high five'd' me.

Great great actress - actually pretending not
to know how to wink and still winking anyway.

...I had noticed earlier that she had this brand new coat on.

So what do you think? Can you guess?

Anyway, years and years ago - many years ago - when there was still a real commodities futures market, this trader for National Australia Bank, who traded for Will Buttrose (Ita Buttrose's brother) by name of 'Wayne G.,' well, we had this competition between us over who would develop this program first that would be able to 'make a million bucks in thirty minutes.'

Prominent Australian, Ita Buttrose - occupies all of the media's attention and you can't get her off the Google Images pages - is currently head of the Australian Broadcasting Commission.

In those days it was basically all about the technology, the screens, the live-feeds - and even the Telex private direct lines. Computer processing speed was a thing.

It's all different now and at any rate, even back then, I would prefer to do things the really old fashioned way, by doing direct trades with Mocatta and Degussa and Norilsk and only then, list stuff afterwards on CBOT or COMEX. And I had a Platts membership account. Well most of these things don't even exist anymore (except for the Russians, of course, who have been buying gold bullion like there is no tomorrow for paper junk). Just as a side note, in those days, we thought Bernie Madoff was this private bit-player who maybe had some inherited real estate in slum areas of Chicago - he had a really small, miserably-lit old, old, office in the main city block under some overhead rail tracks...

Argh! We don't remember this! But,
he was dressed by Alan Flusser.

If you had good hand-eye co-ordination and you could think rapidly, you stood a chance of becoming quite proficient taking some scalps in the screen action.

There was one guy, literally a burn-out from Air-Traffic Controlling, who turned his hand to this stuff and within one year ended up owning a large local real estate company, which is still around and still 'big.' But he was also pretty OCD, I thought. 

'A million bucks in thirty minutes' is about the structure, the template, not even the algorithms - and in the end it's also a little bit about 'your belief' because if you believe the Fed will indeed underwrite junk corporate bonds well anyone can still 'make a million' at least on paper and realizable 'on delivery/maturity' whichever comes first. I mean it's just a given that a large amount of deep discounts will be met at 100 cents on the dollar...

'Belief' is eventually linked to 'opportunity cost' choices.

Would you buy Boeing, Ford, Caterpillar, v. pure gold bullion? One will make you a million, and the other will definitely not but it will rise and it will be safe every step along the way.

Who knows? Who knows what choice sits well with any particular individual? If it's only about choice.

But we want BOTH; we want all outcome opportunities fully delivered. That's what we really want. With equivalent risk which is preferably running at 'no risk at all' or near enough to.

So was Roger Stone taking any kind of risk?

'Go to work, Bud.'

He didn't do anything wrong - unless you think him running his mouth is particularly wrong...

I mean Robert Mueller claims that he (Stone) lied to him. 

And this is on the amazing 'proof' that one 'log-in' by Guccifer 2.0 was from the GRU in Moscow, or some IP address said to be used by them. And that was because, 'probably' the GRU officer 'forgot' to use his VoIP security scrambler.

Which then somehow means that Stone necessarily knew that Guccifer was a Russian agent and who had hacked Hillary Clinton's emails.

Yet Roger Stone says he knew/knows who 'Guccifer' is and has offered to say who it is, and that he was not the person from whom Stone had gotten his actual information.

Theoretically, 'Guccifer' is a hacker, called 'Marcel Lehel,' currently in a US prison.

And, I happen to know that this is only very partly correct. But so what? No one cares.

I even asked Lionel Nation to comment on Stone's tailor, the esteemed Alan Flusser, and he literally said to me: 'Who?'

$1,500 a pair. What?!! Yep, and not even by Alan Flusser, either.

But no worries, right; the general media knows more than what we all talk about freely here.

Yeah, so... ...Alan Flusser. Dressed Gordon Gekko.

'Who?' 

Okay so listen to me very carefully - the US Military is not able to deny, that they had a small, highly secretive program, many decades ago, that was intended to monitor, what people like Wernher von Braun had claimed, were, as in literally were, either 'merely' the Lebensborn, albeit a very very clandestine segment of those, or actual human-alien hybrid children 'made' in that project of the Germans during the War.

John Ratcliffe would not be able to deny it, if he were asked about it. Because there are files about it.

Except that no one, so far as I know, at any high level, really treated any of it too seriously after about the Seventies. All the same, you should know, that CIA continued the monitoring, as a soft exercise for their people who were close to retirement from active field operations, and who had previously been well, the very active people... ...as in, you know, blew up bridges in Yugoslavia under cover of being priests and nuns by day; those kind of people.

CIA, nothing if not diligent over time.

And then. And then. Something happened in Florida, see.

More on that when we are allowed to say.

Meanwhile...

It is what it is.