Month For Running Second

And so, a week after the moderate run of the race horse Shamal Wind in the King's Stand Stakes, we learn that the mare will go to the Irish stallion Sea The Stars - considered by authorities on the sport as one of the greatest race horses of all time! And if you don't believe me, just Google it!

Now I can tell you what this might imply as far as the last run of the horse is concerned but to cut a long story short, no one risks a mare that is accepted for such an illustrious stallion in any kind of 'violence' racing at Ascot - which is known as a track with let's just say, 'peculiarities...'

For one thing, the prize money is ridiculously low and that generally implies the place has more to do with showing a horse to the breeding industry than actually racing it.

His Highness, Aga Khan

Sea The Stars won the Prix de  L'Arc de Triomphe, and the Epsom as well so it is some special kind of horse.

Not only that, it stands at the Aga Khan's Stud in Ballydoyle in Ireland. Recalling, as we must, that the Aga Khan owned the greatest race horse of all modern times - Shergar. That was the one the IRA stole and killed.

Now I gotta tell ya I have a high opinion of the Aga Khan so I won't be indulging any conspiracy theories about any of this, other than to point out that the Aga Khan has been determined to breed close to what Shergar represented as a 'type' of racing animal. 

And so as far as I'm concerned, if, three or four years from now some Aussie horse starts somewhere as a rank outsider because everyone has forgotten what its dam-side really is, then it won't be any kind of surprise to me if the horse won by the length of the straight and made someone a quiet fortune.

Webber does an advert for Porsche

Anyway it has been the month for Aussies running second - Brazen Beau, the ten million dollar stallion, just ran a close second in the Diamond Jubilee Stakes at Royal Ascot, and Mark Webber drove for his Porsche team into the second podium position at Le Mans.

'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 !%$#$%$#%^.'