'Impeded?'

Somehow, the horse I was interested to watch, Shamal Wind, became 'impeded at the start' and really didn't have much of a chance after that even though it finished better than mid-field.

Once again at Ascot, the ground surface saw the entire body of horses drift across the strip-cut and rather high turf, from the left to the right for some reason only the jockeys will know for certain.

What d'you mean 'impeded?'

Muthmir hit the boards for a solid third.

I'm not quite sure what the phrase 'impeded at the start' means...

But alas, of course, this is in the nature of all matters where money is concerned.

Though as I indicated I did not personally bet on this fascinating race. The race is fascinating for reasons that I will not go into here, but those reasons are well-known to seasoned race horse gamblers.

Fashion is another reason to go to these things although the dress rules are too rigid for me.

What 'Was' The Middle Class?

A better question is - how can you go to Bilderberg when the 24 Hours of Le Mans is on?

And another important question is - why was the Middle Class...

General Motors' Chevrolet Corvette is the answer.

The new Corvette ZO6 - or its racing version at least - just won the GTE Pro division of the 2015 Le Mans race, and it was a bullet-proof exhibition.

For such a fantastic looking car in real life,
there are very few really good pics of it...

Fans of this icon brand and design ethos know that it represents many significant cultural things - it embodies a kind of practical futurology realized into a 'now' practicality, it embodies hope, it enshrines later Post-War industrialism and the prosperity of an American Middle Class at its zenith.

It ought to have receded into cultural nostalgia but the latest iteration of this design mode is probably the best sports car in the world today using advanced technology both in its construction and contained in the vehicle itself.

Le Mans is the 'holy grail' of world motor sport. It is the pinnacle challenge of speed and endurance, reliability and performance.

The standard news media studiously avoids giving much attention to Le Mans, who knows why? One can but speculate...

In the spectrum of what is available for money, the Corvette is not expensive. Especially not for what it actually is.

I don't own a Corvette but I am spiritually 'a Corvette person.'

I may pine for the late Fifties halcyon social and family cultural era - but I'm only going to think about it like a song. Or maybe... like a sonata.

Not like some 'always faithful' chant. Not like some 'Sempre Fidelis.' More like a real song.

Ascot When Not At Bilderberg

It's high summer in England and that means the race tracks are not as much of a quagmire as they otherwise usually are, and Sheikh Hamdan is likely to be in attendance on one of the major tracks somewhere.

Shamal Wind - will probably be wearing
different colours, maybe red and white,
in the King's Stand Stakes on Tuesday. 

10 million dollars buys you a day at the ISIL front if you are the US government, or a truly great racehorse - say something like the Sheikh's new acquisition, Brazen Beau.

Although entered for Tuesday's King's Stand Stakes at Ascot, the horse will more likely appear in the Diamond Jubilee Stakes a couple of weeks later on.

Another horse, Shamal Wind - which is quite a different kind of horse, has the ability to do amazing things in the King's Stand Stakes but it will depend on whether the surface of the track is not too treacherous and is able to provide some reasonable footing for genuinely attacking sprinters.

These kinds of races are not the sort of thing I gamble serious money on but they are intensely interesting all the same, partly because of the sheer frisson of the Ascot Track itself, and partly because if the really quick horses run to their capability on the day you will witness something truly special indeed.

Shamal Wind has one of the most amazing finishing bursts of any racehorse I have ever seen and is a sight to behold on her day.

How can the Sheikh be expected to waste his time at the Bilderberg Conference when he has the Ascot King's Stand Stakes to go to!

Interesting people do interesting things,
like have tea and Persian Fairy Floss.

He's a sensible man, the Sheikh. He owns a different horse in the same race - Muthmir - which isn't a bad horse by any means, but it isn't as exciting as Shamal Wind. This is definitely a fascinating race to watch. 

And I will be watching it. I'm not interested in things like the Bilderberger silly nonsense anymore. Unless Alex Jones or someone can come up with something entertaining about it. It's a bunch of crooks holding hands. And? The point is?

So they don't want us to know what they are talking about...So what. I don't want to know. Because no one there has any brains and they are never going to be able to say anything of interest to me anyway... I'm just not interested.



   

'The Greeks Imagined...'

For reasons that are unclear to me, you will see, all over the internet, when searching for information or commentaries about many subjects, very repetitious stock phrases that use presumptions that are virtually never challenged anywhere, but become the substance particularly of academic peer reviewed studies and of course, conclusions.

Here's an example: 'the Greeks imagined the Universe to be like the inside of a large brass bowl, with stars being kinds of jewels that are placed as adornments in the heavens.'

Oh very poetic.

Which 'Greeks,' I wonder, are being referred to here.

The Ancient Greeks imagined a forest
to be a bunch of trees!
Well fancy that.

Would it perhaps the satirist playwright Aristophanes, who was trying to poke fun at the wives of Athenian politicians left at home in the kitchens whilst their husbands were considering lofty matters of State elsewhere...

Or perhaps it was one of the speeches of a droll character inside one of the comedies.

'The Greeks.' This is a blanket presumption that all Greeks of ancient times all held the same view about a particular something - or about anything; which is so absurd an idea as to be more than slightly bizarre to my mind at least. And yet - this is the kind of taken-for-granted statement that abounds in today's world in which 'scientists' are completely right about everything all of the time.

'Hadron' comes from a Greek word that means 'huge.' And so the massive equipment that causes small particles to collide into each other at the stated 'considerable energy,' certainly, if nothing else, comes at a huge monetary cost.

It is not easy to challenge the various speech-makers everywhere on Ted Talks and other platforms for the mainstream mind-leaders, because no one will ever be afforded the chance to ask one of them, 'well, what Greek have you ever read fully?' I remember getting into an argument with the Dean of the Philosophy Department at the University I attended when I asked why it appeared the main lecturer seemed to only know of commentaries on various ancient Greek texts but had never seemed to know actually what was in the source texts themselves and never had a single source text on their book list. 

Moreover, once it comes to exact definitions and translations of words, we get into the rarified atmosphere in which virtually no one at all lives these days! So much so that proper names get regularly mistaken for ordinary nouns and their adjectival uses go missing.

BUT - someone seems to know what are in some of the old texts, because a lot of modern science (albet admittedly using modern instruments to 'produce' 'data') is just the re-naming using modern era words, and the attribution to modern people, of things that were long ago discovered or known. And then, when that won't do, there is this 'cutting in two' of some mysterious object (like a sub-atomic particle) and the consequent pronoucement about some new discovery of a particle or its force or characteristic.

Max Planck

The last truly great item of quantum science that was really discovered was Planck's Constant - if for no other obvious reason than that as an actual number, it is not some '1' (unity) or its opposite (and therefore '2' in total) or the 'up' or 'down,' or left or right spin through some axis of some otherwise perfectly unknown 'thing' said to exist.

Will Self, the radical journalist, after having been given a guided tour of the CERN facility, said he thought the whole thing was a scam designed to extract a whole of money from a group of governments - but it could not be that. Scientists are never motivated by money. Or power.

Being motivated by money and power would put them back in the time of the 1738 CE (means also 1738 AD) creation by the Rajput king Sawai Singh of the mysterious Jantar Mantar - which is widely and incorrectly translated these days once again all over the internet as the 'calculations formulae' structure. In fact it means the HUGE MAGICAL OCULUS - a machine or mechanism through which the king could see into the past and the future and all over space, and also via which he could cast magical chants in order to exert power over anyone or everyone. 

The trouble with people who find much to argue with me over this perspective, is that none of them have read any of the Greek texts that go into the ontology of arithmetic, and the ontology of geometry - and the calculus extensions in those texts into what we now call quantum level mechanics, and the nature of the Universe.

What is true is that 'the Greeks did not imagine,' anything about the Universe - except those Greeks who were writers of fantasy stories. And as far as 'the IIluminati' goes, well, Pythagoras never imparted anything to students who were not with him consistently for fourteen years! So I'm not sure how 'what the Greeks knew or imagined' is known to anyone not actually inside those Pythagorean Schools for one example of 'the Greeks.'

The functional value of Planck's Constant appears in the nuclear bomb. The functional value of the Higgs Boson, much to many people's disappointment, has not yet appeared anywhere.

However, I note that the 'Higgs Boson' is the symmetrical opposite (thus 1 thing of 2 things...) of either the fundamental particle or force or unit type of energy of the ordinary electromagnetic field. It is opposite because it cannot be turned off. And because it cannot be turned off, we can not ever observe it by differentiation. Scientists however know that it exists. As surely as there are grant funders who exist. 

The Delhi Jantar Mantar. Inside the structures and outside all around
are strange metal devices and instruments,
beautifully made and with obscure symbols all over them,
though at least one of them, is a sundial.

Trust me, if you invert the Higgs Boson field by causing it to rotate around its own axis ( if you could find one thereof) incredibly fast, you can create a black hole in the positive pole, whereupon it can eat itself continuously and yet spew itself back out through the negative pole - however each subsequent packet of spewed re-circulated particles is a new Universe; which is a way we get into 'String Theory.' String Theory, as you know, is a bunch of numbers but not just any numbers, they are the exact same numbers we ordinarily use every day, it's just that er, er, er, they are named after a prominent modern scientist that fell down in yesterday's shower of rain in Oxford or somewhere. Lucky us. Everything is so different because of today's science. So, so, different.

God people were so stupid in the past. Up until Planck, people looked at atomic and sub-atomic particles, but after Einstein, we can now look into 'space' and 'time!' 

Tomorrow, we will be able to to look into smoke and mirrors too. Smoke and mirrors do exist, because they are possibly the symmetrical antitheses of space and time. Not ordinary 'smoke' and 'mirrors' of course, you understand, but 'smoke x 2 to the 1/3 power >*&^$^&*^^$#' and 'mirrors x square root of !%$#$%$#%^.'

The Ozymandias Economy

So, if you go to the 42nd floor of the Leadenhall Building in London - which is an 'events dining venue' rather than an actual commercial restaurant - you will see the typical wine and water glasses, silver knives and forks and spoons, and candelabra, and white table clothes, of the Georgian style of London upper class dining.

Leadenhall Building is the tallest, triangular thing

Which all seems a bit peculiar if you consider the actual building itself - which is all steel and ballistic-proof glass and hailed as ultra-modern.

Down below somewhere, if you look at the skyline of all these new buildings in the City of London - down below near the Leadenhall Building somewhere - is the old Leadenhall Market which I showed you last week.

The Leadenhall Building is on the site of the old P&O premises designed by family connections of mine so I'll have to admit to the potential for prejudice. All the same, modern architecture conducted for the large trusts that bank pension and superannuation funds largely, is missing the elements of true modernity when it comes to actual modern life and lifestyle.

Koishimaru silk interior of a high end spa

If you compare what interior designers do for the high end luxury private spas around the globe, you will find not merely the usual 'modern-esque' commitment to simple and clear lines, but also the desire to be around luxurious textures, and emotional motifs. Today's expensive architecture of tall buildings on the other hand is really just an extension of Brutalism, and a fetish for certain materials - glass and steel and aluminium.

 

For me it is a wonder that so much money in the hands of mindless and talentless and artless committees can have stayed intact for so long - there is no possibility they are making the right decisions over the investment of those funds just as they are very far short of what modern technology and materials innovations and genuine architecture and design can do.

But then, there were also Pharaohs for a long time too, and it was only Shelley the poet who really put the final line under them two thousand year after they had already long died out!

Often, because we are living life, we neither see what we are looking at, nor comprehend what we are witnessing, nor do the ants themselves understand their own position. The ancient classical Sanskrit philosophers knew about ants - they wrote that every one of them thinks he alone is the King of Worlds. If it's not hydrogen embrittlement, it is Osama, and if not Osama, then some asteroid.

Asteroid? Did I say, 'asteroid?' Mistake, I'm sure.