Max And Marcus Aurelius

I noticed earlier this week that Max Keiser 1. had a haircut, and 2. that he brought the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius into his discussions on modern economics and finance.

Young people should watch the Keiser Report. He, together with his usual shotgun-rider Stacey Herbert, and their intelligently selected guests (I thought Joel Benjamin this week was absolutely outstandingly good), are the sorts of people the minds of the youth would do well to be corrupted by.

Vignale's De Tomaso Pantera, under
the statue of Marcus Aurelius

There is not a whole lot that I personally know about Marcus Aurelius, possibly due to his reputation as a Stoic philosopher - and I, of course, lean a little more toward the Epicurean. 

However something I do know, if not exactly about him, is that his statue in Rome, in which he is depicted astride a horse, once was entirely covered in gold, and that there is a Roman saying that the statue will once more turn into a fully gold-covered state, on Judgement Day...

Further, I know that virtually no one says they know who the actual original sculptor was.

If you 'Google' it - you won't find anyone who says they know who sculpted it. Even Wiki says that. And as we all know, Google and Wiki are the founts of all knowledge. So therefore, no one knows who sculpted it.

This is, of course, another example of one of these things known as an argumentative leap fallacy. The first statements are factual (Wiki and Google don't know), and the conclusion does not necessarily logically follow: that ('no one knows').

But if you look at the head of the horse in the statue, it is typical of a Persian style of horse statue.

And now allow me to make some argumentative leaps. Obama's head looks like Widodo's. Both were educated using Saudi grants. They are clones owned by the Saudi clan.

Well, this is just plain utter rubbish, of course. There is no way you can prove this kind of lunatic conclusion. There is no proper evidence. And I'm not going to float such a silly, idiotic piece of trash.

'Chandon' in Australia, is an
Australian-made clone of Moet, and
it's owned by Moet but it's not allowed to be
called champagne. It's 1/20th the price.
I wonder if the French think they are getting a French wine
when they buy Moet?

Anyway - champagne for the winners!

Moving on to another one of my entertainment figures - George Galloway - this week he was on RT News repeating the common saying: 'if it waddles like a duck, quacks like a duck, and swims like a duck - it's probably a duck.'

He was saying something very uncomplimentary about Israel, I think, from memory.

So, realizing, as we should, that any leap in logic has its grounds for extreme error, we must take with a grain of salt my view that there is a horse in Tuesday's Melbourne Cup horse race, that is a clone of Shergar.

And if Shergar were in this race, it would win by twenty lengths.

But the interesting thing for me is, the horse is not Shergar, but merely a clone of... And so we are about to see, whether a clone is really always going to fall within a broad parameter of its original version. Because for me, oh yes, it is indeed a clone of Shergar; of that I have absolutely no doubt.

Arcane Versus Occult

Now, I don't whether you know this or not, but the Islamic scholars who specialize in what their book says about the present confrontation between the Islamic East, and the West, have this currently fashionable idea they speak about among themselves, namely that the promordial giants Gog and Magog, have been released, shortly following upon which global catastrophe is sure to follow.

The NSA, listening as they are, ought to start taking note of what I'm going to say over the coming weeks.

Arcane, not occult -
Halloween is coming!

Regardless of whether you are a rational materialist, or someone who gives some actual 'smoke-fire' credence to the impressive internet phenomenon that is Alex Jones/Icke/somebody else/Everybody else(!!) all peppering the bandwidth with tales tall and otherwise about conspiracies, aliens, reptiles and 'the elite' - one ought to realize and accept the importance of the words that people use, and their actual meanings, and what meanings people popularly impose upon those words.

Now I need to stop right here and say that I'm not suggesting there is going to be a nuclear device used somewhere - although, I must tell you, that some Russian sources say Saudi Arabia is already using internationally prohibited weapons with radioactive features, in Yemen right now.

Really, I also must say that within the confines of these kinds of blog-posts, I will be unable to fully describe in merely just a single one of them, everything that requires to be described.

But I can lay some groundwork to begin with.

We all are familiar with the Bohemian Grove subject. On the one hand you might suppose that because what goes on there is (meant to be) kept secret, it is an arcane thing. Arcane, however, does NOT include dark things which must be kept secret due to their darkness.

No; the Bohemian Grove is an occult thing.

Well, many members (of the Bohemian Grove cult) may not see it this way - but that is because THE DO NOT UNDERSTAND THE WORDS THAT ARE BEING USED AND THAT THEY ARE USING THEMSELVES.

Statue of Poseidon in Bologna -
Bologna, means of the 'Boii'

'Bohemian' means of the land of Ogyges, the king who was ruling in Boiotia, when the primordial flood wiped out the world. The gods, decided to destroy the beings on the planet, when the elite ones of them forgot their station and their responsibilities, and aboriginal giants were around, and rampaged, cannibalizing people and consuming and destroying everything.

The Boiotians, were favoured by the god Poseidon, who bears an uncanny resemblance to the Western image of the Devil. Boiotians, had horns on their heads and in every way, were beasts like cows ('bo'-vine) or bulls, and not like the humans they superficially seemed to be.

There is no 'grove' mythologically famous in Boeotia. There are forests but no 'grove.' The grove is sacred to Athena and to Zeus, but not to Poseidon. The owl is sacred to Athena but not to Poseidon.

These Alfa's are made in the Maserati factory
in Bologna - just thought you'd like to know that

The 'Owl of the Bohemian Grove' therefore, is a gross anathema, or a kind of a paganistic blasphemy, if you will - an insult to the actual high gods.

Common modern history says that it was at Bohemian Grove, that the plans and the decision to use the atomic bomb were made.

And so, to wrap up here for this moment: the Islamic scholars talk about Gog and Magog - in their Arabic language Gug ya ma-Gug. Or, Orgyges; 'y' is our 'u' in English.


Orgyges - king of Boiotia. 'Gug.' Or 'Gog' the primordial giant king. Find the king of the Bohemian Grove, and you will find the king, Gog.

Undiscovered Treasures

Have you ever observed that there are these phases in the corporate business world, in which all of a sudden everyone you know turns into a depressive?

It's a bit deceptive though, because there are certain kinds of business people who are not really happy unless they can tell you how they are able to 'see' all the problems, all the negatives, all the downside, and also then complain bitterly about 'how hard their life is.'

D.K. Ludwig -
billionaire builder of supertankers

There was this billionaire back in the Eighties that I recall - you'll remember him: D. K. Ludwig. He specialized in constantly looking dour and miserable and serious and as though carrying the world on his shoulders. On the surface, many of his ventures never were successful in terms of the original stated aims. A strange guy; if you or I had so many failures it would be a wonder we could afford a loaf of bread much less be billionaires. Still, it's what's below the surface with sorts of people, isn't it... I'm in enough trouble as it is so I should best shut up about Ludwig. 

But what about the people who genuinely feel some kind of corporate 'depressive' sense?

I've noticed it would be impossible for them to open their minds to all the other possibilities that exist around them, and which would be positive, beneficial, and uplifting.

From what I've seen of their behaviour, I think they have a hide-bound self-view that dictates very narrowly what kinds of things they must like or what they must aspire to have or to become.

Courvoisier - 'Toast of Paris' event/function/product launch

Of course they worry about insufficient cash, that's only natural.

However one thing - it seems to me - they fail to notice, is how everything they think they want to spend the cash on comes out of what they think they already know about life, and there is never any provision made for things they do not know, or do not know of, yet.

The world is full of as yet undiscovered treasures. And that is the secret of Aladdin's Cave.

Parov Stelar - 'Booty Swing.'

Astroturf And XKeyScore

As you no doubt are aware, there are various covert programs that are 'dropped in' everywhere an on-line computer exists that uses Microsoft. A well-known one of these is 'XKeyScore' which exists on your computer and prioritizes the uploading of data from your computer to the NSA's mega-storage computers.

Real - or brilliant?
What do you think?
It is a game we're talking about...

This program can create a 'lag' in the up-screen loading time each time you type anything that looks like it could contain a URL or anything that might contain your email address or anyone's email address and/or phone number. That is the principle reason why when you buy a new computer it seems quite fast to begin with and then slows down over time. You'll never really find the program itself because they rotate file registry labels so that at one moment they will be 'hkc'-something or other, and then the next they'll be something else. They will leave tell-tale registry footprints that come up as unused or obsolete file pathways.

The data sent is usually just so-called 'meta-data' but they can take whole files including large amounts of text though only when something you have written comes up on a 'selector' list which suggests you have something 'suspicious' that needs to be looked at closely and in detail.

Microsoft has tended to tuck away what used to be a common feature whereby you could easily see at the bottom of your desktop from moment to moment, how much data in packets was being both sent and received. 

What is not so much common knowledge, although there are a few websites where people talk about it, is that the NSA along with its Israeli computing partners (and unfortunately it really is that), hire people who monitor social media of all kinds, and who also participate in the conversations going on. And what is very rarely talked about, is just how many employees are involved in this activity. We are talking in the multiple thousands. Just how much are these people being paid? It couldn't be a normal hourly rate for normal hourly work...? Are these people who have done some kind of deal, such as 'probation/no jail time' and fifty cents an hour-type stuff? Surely not.

Chief of CIA,
Brennan

John Brennan's email being hacked is a silly story, to me. And I don't frankly, believe it.

Oh no. If you are going to hear some real deep insider secrets, you'll hear them in a place like this; only, you won't believe it. 

Condom bombs, eh... Hmn. I already told you about that. I told you that this was the means that assassination weapons were 'moved' into Bahrain during a Formula 1 race, and that an assassination was stalled at the last moment by *** agents. 'Going up,' (the gas filled condom balloon part) is only one half of the story; the other half is the VHALTI device, a small controlled descent-only glider that packs a 'broken-down' weapons payload. It's not only about explosives that 'might' hit some Russian jet in Syria. 'Condom bombs' are not an ISIL invention. I think they were originally a Swedish development as far as actual field unit carry in recent years goes, but the idea's been around for years. 

I think I might have had to delete that post shortly after I posted it.

There are many things that I couldn't possibly post just 'straight out' - not 'just like that.' Meaning, not openly as if I were saying something I believed or something stated as 'a fact,' whether merely baldly asserted or supported by something. 

And the main reason is that I am aware people all have their own outlooks on life, very valid for each person, usually, in terms of their unique individual selves and experiences. People's beliefs are being used these days as the bridge to 'winning them over' to accepting other things sneakily being stuck inside of the whole package. And if I said something that appeared to challenge someone's personal beliefs and so on, it would create dissonance and a (false) bias reaction might result. It's very tempting to believe that you (me, anyone) would always have our wits about us sufficiently to be able to perceive the 'inserted parts;' but it's much more sophisticated than most are led to believe. There are some clever people and clever psychologists involved.

It's all just standard propaganda technique but I don't want to play the game.

I'm happy for you to believe anything your intelligent mind directs you to believe. I'd hope people, whatever side of the political/belief/human structural spectrum they are on, would be able to at the last moment or at a critical moment, sense real danger if it is even within their own cherished belief systems - if these were being deliberately exploited let's say; used against you, as it were.

So I will just tell you which places not to go and you should just not go there. Don't worry about the reasons, they won't be the obvious ones and I'm not going to say what they are anyway.

You probably already will have forgotten which places I said not to go to, previously. 

Do not go to Tel Aviv, Singapore, Bahrain, Saudi or Kuwait. And I really don't care what John Brennan has to say about it. He - and they, have completely gotten lost inside their own nuttiness. The CIA cannot see the forest for the trees. And their strategy will likely be to drop Agent Orange on the trees. Don't go to those places. They are dangerous beyond your wildest imaginings.  

Winner Winx

The four year old mare, Winx, won today's W.S. Cox Plate at Moonee Valley in Melbourne, Australia - and she won it in track record time.

Winx

You see, it's not responsible for someone to suggest before the race that a young mare will win a race like this, against older horses, against male horses, and against the best other horses in the world over the particular distance in question. But that was the case that I believed she could win - yesterday I was 'champing at the bit,' as they say, to say she would win, though at the same time I don't like to feel as if I am 'adding to the burden' by 'declaring' a horse before a race such as the Cox.

But let's look at this - as I hinted at yesterday - another way...  Let's look at it in terms of the cultural and ideological approach that marks the difference between European racehorse owners and trainers - and the Australian approach.

Now European racing people will say different, but my strong impression is that they are really only interested in the money factor, and not in the horses as such.

Yesterday, in the pre-race parade, a thirty year-old past champion of the race - Better Loosen Up - took the field in front of the crowd once more. In 'horse-to-human' years this is about 210 years of age in human years... You have to look after a living thing pretty well to get it to this kind of comparative lifespan.

Better Loosen Up and the great trainer,
David Hayes, whose father Colin Hayes, was
also a great racehorse trainer

The American situation is a little different again, in that they have a much broader-minded approach to medical preparations and treatments that will allow a racehorse to fulfill an athletic and competitive racing career - and so I'm not going to make direct comparisons to the American situation.

It is a reality that there is far greater money involved in the thoroughbred racing scene in England and in Europe than there is, generally, in Australia. Of course there is massive investment in racing in Hong Kong and Singapore and Macau too, but overall, England and Europe possess the wealthiest owners and other participants.

Yet there's many a horse expert, not just myself, who opine that Australian horses are faster, more streamlined in their running and galloping action, and much more intelligently and subtly educated to run and to race. 

So which is best - going for the money in a brute force fashion, or doing it with elegance and 'poetry in motion' so to speak?

There's no contest. Making money - or 'winning' if I may use that analogy - has to include some process that satisfies the mind on the intellectual level and not just on the enumerative monetary basis alone.

Hot air balloon over the Yarra Valley

It's late Spring now in Australia, and the horse-racing scene is filled with events and parties and functions. Alongside the Moonee Valley W.S. Cox Plate day on the same day, the country club at Yarra Valley - where a lot of cooler climate wines are produced - also has its carnival race day, which ends with a party and hot air balloons flying in and fireworks and food and wine, of course.

If you're smart, there are no losers in Australian horse racing, and you can enjoy yourself exceedingly well.