Hard For Me

In theory, from now on I will be keeping my mouth shut on certain matters.

Easy for me to sleep, never easy for me to shut TF UP.

"Talk, Calvin." 

"Are you going to waterboard me? 'Coz if you do that my mouth will not be able to talk and believe me, I'll talk until you are forced to waterboard me to get me to shut up!"

Anyway, Michael Pompeo is IN. The End.

Back to the normal programming...

Sold at this year's Pitti Uomo, but not worn by
visitors. I'd wear it though.

Sometimes what looks like 'negative news' is at least substantial news and it is real and good.

I'm sure you are all aware that prior to iPhone 5's and 6's and Plus+ to infinity and beyond with all of this personal technology, the television interviews of prominent people that you all saw, were heavily subjected to 'video magic.' Video magic is where things that people like 'Rain-hat George Bush' said, that he wasn't supposed to say, were edited out, and even little facial expressions and body language stuff was removed from the finally aired video clip.

The 'red carpet look,' all that 'glamour,' all those glitzy glossy people... It's all fantastically 'digitally produced.'

Last week was the running of a totally famous European high fashion and style festival, the equivalent of which to entertainment, is the Film Oscar: Pitti Uomo. 

The world's current leading (men's) fashion and style commentators, Hugo Jacomet and Sonya Glyn Nicholson, were in attendance throughout the festival and made the observation that the usual people - rich people - who turned up to this thing had just about all taken to wearing plain old jeans this year. I find this kind of observation is a reflection on what they are feeling about the economic conditions (for them) and it usually denotes effects we will see later on in the year in the wider economy.

It's a lot harder, now that everyone has an advanced digital movie camera in their top pocket which can capture reality and stick it up on YouTube -, it's a lot harder to be someone and something that you are not.

Which leaves a little space for unvarnished truth and reality.

You will also recall that pithy observation by some supposed 'former' RUSSIAN spy, Yuri Bezmenov, where he said that Americans would not change their (false) opinions which they hold as hard fact, even when faced with authentic facts which contradicted what they believed. Which I suppose then doesn't explain how Donald Trump got in! He's so obviously the Prince of All Darkness...

But now is the time we can reflect on the beautiful use of the phrase 'alternative facts,' in contrast to what Bezmenov's observation was.

I notice CNN claimed that there was no such thing as an 'alternative' fact - there was only a 'fact.' I disagree. CNN indulges in inauthentic facts all the time. 

Never mind. 

Let us cast our minds to some nice, distant, quiet place, far away from all of this tumult.

Perhaps somewhere on the beautiful Amalfi Coast in Italy.

Sitting here, looking down at the sea, we can gain a different perspective on how life is 'spun' by the Press. When no one is intended to be looking at us to see whether we are rich, or poor, or well-shod, or well-whatever - then certainly, we may wear whatever pleases.

Humans being generally social animals, their speech and manner of talking is almost never just some instantaneous explosion of atavistic emotion, but has a great deal of regard to what the listener is expected to hear.

Art and culture have ways of employing even the detritus of suburbia and human habitation to invent ways of evoking subtle feelings. 

Who we are is often reflected by what we like and how we like to feel and what we have surrounding us in our lives. That is, if we have the room to have a lot of choice in the matter, of course. The mind must serve, health must be adequate, and so on.

A Million Bucks Right Here

"Tell everybody, to have some fun...

"You Only Live Once,

"And when you're dead you're done." Song lyrics 'Let The Good Times Roll.' (1946, Sam Theard and Fleecie Moore).

I dare you not to see the Bond connection... lol.

For all the times recently I have dangled stuff in front of whoever gets to come in here and read these posts - absolutely no one, has connected any of the dots, apparently.

I suppose it's easy for all the super-cynical/super-realists/super-skeptics to question how a person like me even exists, if what I'm saying is 'straight from the horse's mouth' as it were.

Modesty Blaise - foreign language film version

What I'm saying IS straight from the horse's mouth.

You know - those of you who come from the Prudent Beaver's chat board - that I already posed the rhetorical question there 'what's the deal with Hillary's Tiffany blue costumes...?'

I might have even mentioned it here but I don't remember. It's not that important.

Anyhoo - you all know by now that Melania gave Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama and huge Tiffany presentation box when she got to the White House officially.

We might go into Breakfast At Tiffany's by the incomparable Truman Capote one fine day, but just not to-day.

...Anyway, one of these fine days, we're gonna go deeply into the art and science of money laundering and clandestine pathways. What we will be able to do is utterly confound ANYONE trying to 'break through' into the code you and I will be speaking. You see, the NSA is just not that smart. The IRS, and the various versions of that bureaucracy in other parts of the developed world are not that smart either. They really are not. They, maybe like some of you, just won't credit what appears to be 'unreality.' Consequently they will firstly never think to say to themselves 'oh we are looking at someone who REALLY knows his stuff and how to do it,' and secondly no way no day will they ever admit they could ever be bested, and bested UTTERLY.

Morally it is simply unsustainable that people who do the kinds of things I am talking about, are engaging in criminal activity at all - they can be doing it for experimental reasons, to test whether such things could be achieved and they might be operating well under any reportable sums or perhaps, even simply 'paper trading' as it were. They might merely want to maintain genuine secrecy of private communications, none of which is illegal in its substance.

I could even spell out that 'money laundering' is not illegal in certain circumstances but I'm not going to do that here, suffice for the moment that I ASSERT it to be so.

I could explain to you IN DETAIL how voting machines could be tampered with electronically and by computer even where they are not linked to anything on-line ever. I won't do that AT LEAST until after Pompeo gets properly installed. And even then I might not.

Let me just say to you this - there are some 'open questions' that neither the media nor social media or anyone else not directly involved, will ever be able to fully explain or detail the truth about. And that's really the way it should be with genuinely clandestine things.

Not Modesty Blaise

So let's just move along to matters that would be of greater immediate interest, perhaps, to you.

If you want a lot of money, or just some money, and you don't have a lot of collateral you want to tie up or commit as security, or you may have a risky proposal that would not ordinarily get basic support at a reasonable price - generally speaking you are stuck looking at the IPO/private prospectus or fundraising memorandum situation. Neither of which works in today's economic marketplace.

When you go even to Goldman Sachs, they have no means of, or interest in, being actually genuinely up-to-speed with the modern technological world, or the computing and systems advances - they vend commercial services to existing wealthy clients form whom they TAKE fees. They do not MAKE money for people as joint partners in risk.

That is where the entrepreneur - the real one - lives. He/she lives in this space.

The real entrepreneur takes the risk where there really IS risk, and creates the rewards that SUBSEQUENTLY people like GS come along much later on and parasite from.

Which is where Hillary Clinton comes back into the picture.

If you still are desperate to remain a 'super-realist' and a 'super-skeptic' naturally you think she has 'the backing' of the great and the powerful - and as I once joked back in the Eighties, if people were walking down the same street and on one side, there was Australia's then richest man Robert Holmes a'Court offering to speak on some subject, and myself on the other side of the same street speaking on some other subject, NO ONE would listen to me.

Anyway, Holmes a'Court died broke within six months of the Eighties Stock Market Crash.

I told my sister, who worked for Australia's next richest guy Laurie Connell, listen he's going to get into trouble I can help him but he needs to have a heads up real quick. My sister, who knew I was already well and truly a multi-millionaire at the time, and she even knew I had been in the Reserve Bank in let's say, a fairly sensitive information role, said: 'what would he listen to you for?' Anyway, he, died later that same year in prison waiting an appeal to be heard. 

All these public figures - except Connell, who was badly mistreated by people who owed him money - are parasites. They claim to be entrepreneurs or 'helpers' of the poor and the seeking and so on but they aren't that.

I am an entrepreneur. I always have been. 

I could tell you there is a million dollars walking off this page every day and no one, I guarantee you, will challenge me on it.

  

Shimmering Roads

"Surround yourself with those on the same mission as yourself."

This is another one of those 'motivational sayings' that does the rounds on the internet.

Close, but not right.

I mean I'm presuming you want to make a lot of money - or continue doing that. Well, your mission is to make you, a lot of money. So why are others around you sharing that vision, or 'mission,' if you want to call it that? They're uniquely charitable towards you, are they?

Surround yourself with an harmonic force,
not people - the people always follow the force;
they never lead it.

There are so many elevated concepts, far too high off the ground for the average 'realistic' individual, to even vaguely comprehend. The simplistic slogans that have become popular are perfectly useless when it comes to genuinely possessing an understanding of the processes and components of making money.

Action, is not a crucial ingredient, passion, is not one either, commitment isn't, reading too many unconnected books isn't. Those people who concentrate on 'action' end up becoming obsessed with 'doing things,' when many times it's just about being right and NOT doing anything. Those who inflame a passion within can often lose perspective when viewed by other people around them - and then they lose helpers, or potential helpers. Knowing too much in the way of false 'facts' and propagated narratives will simply lead you up someone else's garden path.

And there is so much cheating going on in today's financial markets - it's just not the case that the NSA doesn't capture so-called 'big data' on funds flows and concentrations of economic demand; all of this stuff is conveyed illegally to the select handful of 'smug elite' banksters and they get positioned where you can't. They get positioned first, and early, and cheaply.

Yes there are one or two long duration trends which could be said to be available to be 'worked out' by anyone on the outside. But even so, you won't know the certitude with which those on the inside are working on the same 'idea' about some commodity, let's say. They know it; you only strongly suspect it.

I would say 'surround yourself with powerful harmonic (in-harmony) forces related to the objective you seek and the direction you have set.'

Those self-proclaimed 'elite' are nothing but a bunch of herd animals that are not too bright but do still traipse all over the lush plains eating everything, laying waste to everything and leaving only stubble.

Good Design captures 'harmonic forces'

The lush plains appear in the Spring, you see. It's just a fact of Nature. Regardless of whether you are a believer or not a believer, in man-made (EG the Fed) economic topographical change, in fact nothing has changed at all, since forever. When Trump gets inaugurated tomorrow, change will appear, and it will be Spring-time.

And there's not a goddamned thing the Fed or anybody else can do about it. Jobs will suddenly, mysteriously, be created. Sales turnovers will rise. Properties will be upgraded, values will rise in the middle class segment of the real estate market. Economic growth will occur and build momentum.

It's all very mysterious because in fact none of it was predicted by anyone at Davos or anywhere else a year ago, and then all of a sudden: Trump. Economists didn't know a thing. The media got it completely wrong. The smug elite ruling class politician are now losers.

Gee. Like I say, it's just 'Spring-time' in the economic seasons. That's all.

And all you have to do is put in your bucket, where the money starts to flow - City Councils and State programs. You don't need any 'start up' money - you just need a bucket. And I will explain what a bucket is, in the next article.

Shimmering Silk... and Roads

As you know, there was this Texan guy who supposedly created 'Silk Road' a meant-to-be secure trading platform for the buying and selling of various kinds of contraband, and particularly illegal drugs. He got a life sentence without parole for his efforts.

You can see the 'flow-diagram' (on Wikipedia) presented in the New York court as to how this 'scheme' for opaque trading was meant to take place and I think it's particularly silly.

I mean if this is what the people behind 'Silk Road' really did, and what they thought was some kind of means of keeping such illegal transactions 'secret' maybe he deserved a life sentence - not that anyone does for this kind of thing, really. Ostensibly, it was all about his illegal drug venue, but he was jailed mainly for some claim included in the case that he had hired hitmen to kill people - a claim that was never ever actually proven but sufficiently 'hinted at...'

Really stupid and cannot possibly work

I have said for many years that I am easily the best money launderer and transaction concealer of anyone I know - but outside of my own private clients that I have dealt with for decades, there was only one time someone or some 'group' tried to 'take me up' on the claim and I already had information that these people were from some unsavory English mob located somewhere in Grosvenor Gardens, London... It all became all the funnier when, during the inquiry into what next turned out to be a 'misconceived side-adventure' of the so-called 'Five Eyes' group, two officers in the Australian Federal Police 'posed' a question to me as whether I knew about money laundering and tax dodging, and I said, I admitted really, well yes, I knew A LOT about it.

And they said: 'what, what do you know?'

And I said: 'It's illegal.'

And that was the end of that.

Who can say what 'Silk Road' was really all about - I don't have any inside knowledge about whether or not it may have even been a clever ruse by Federal Authorities to uncover players in the large-scale illegal drugs racket. It doesn't seem to me, however, to have ever been a legitimate means of keeping transactions secret, regardless of what popular opinion holds.

For real examples of the high end, of money laundering, we can consider people like Adnan Khashoggi (pronounced 'Cash-og-ji') who was charged at one point for money laundering in the orders of sums like 300 million dollars, back when that was a lot of money. He never went to jail of course, basically because, just like me, he never actually did any money laundering - because it is illegal.

Interestingly, two months after 9-11, we have one Richard Perle turn up on Khashoggi's Swiss doorstep and have him participate in a small LLP designed to fund some escapade I think, from memory, known nowadays, as the first Iraq War. Khashoggi was this fellow, you might recall, who had a large private jet plane which was later taken over by the Orbis Ophthalmic Charity Foundation, which was used to go around the world doing eye surgery for free for poor people.

I don't know, but I was looking up 'Orbis' the other day, as you do, when you are compiling 'dossiers' and I found the headquarters of them at '9-11 Grosvener Gardens, London.' Might be some different 'Orbis,' though - because as you know, 'Orbis' is a common name, like 'John Smith,' or 'Michael Cohen.'

Hmn, yeah. London... and 'business consultants.' (SMH). 'Shake My Head;' for those who don't know.

The Seeds Are Now Planted

I could say that 'the conditions of vulnerability are there' but the fact is, they have been there for a while and I have this 'sneaking suspicion' that seeds have been sown.

What makes large systems and social structures and government and economic structures vulnerable is the human equation. In the final analysis it's always the human equation.

This car, above - this actual very car -
was reported by Pinkerton's in 2015 as 'stolen' from New York,
and
a $100,000 reward was offered for its return, or info
leading to its return.

You might think this is absurd or silly or breathtakingly naive or impertinent or wildly insolent, but I am going to say to you at this juncture that I have VASTLY more technical and data analysis resources and better information available to me than the US Central Intelligence Agency. And those following here would already know that I have outlined far too many things (that were meant to be secret by governments) over a long time - all of which proved true in the public record - to be 'just' making any kind of sweeping and silly statement. I'm sure I'm the first person in any public record anywhere to say that Osama bin Laden was in Pakistan. I said that many many years before he was 'found' there. I mean, he was always there! It could be the case that the CIA for some reason wanted to hold secret the fact that they also might have known that he was there. I don't know what the true position in that particular regard is. That is to say, I do, but I won't suggest what it is. It could be perceived to be slanderous. I wouldn't be attempting to be slanderous but the uninformed general public could misunderstand the points being made if I were to suggest what the situation might have been or indeed, was.

When you factor in that today, we all of us, have access to superior computing technology than the entire establishment of NASA and US Military Intelligence during the time in which they managed to get men onto the Moon - then the reality is that, if the human equation, that is, the human input and experience and knowledge base is better, then, indeed the results will also be better. The results, that is, of feeding big data into whatever analytical filters you have and are applying.

For instance, I already know the name of the so-called 'former British Intelligence Operative' who has supposedly 'gone to ground' who produced this infamous Russia-Trump report of the last few days. This is not in any media report anywhere. And that is because they have not been told what his name is because, indeed they DID get the story leaked straight from an 'authoritative' source... 

Who are these fine people? One is Carter Page, but
apart from being too close to Saudi money, he is NOT
the 'former' Brit operative. But this pic tells enough of a story
though...

And I already know who leaked the original DNC emails to Wikileaks too. Wasn't the same person; not the same 'leaker.'

I don't know who specifically hacked anything official in the United States because, that would be a criminal offence to know that, I think. So I don't know. In fact I really don't know, but largely because I'm not interested to know and I haven't ever looked to find out. Otherwise I could know - and so there we have the problem with the senators who have been privy to the complete and 'secret' briefings; they have made an intellectual and logical leap which isn't actually there to make. There is a factual difference between 'capability to, and 'having done.'

There is no evidence of any kind indicating 'the Russians' hacked anything.

What there is, is evidence they may have financed research into hacking - just general high-tech hacking. And that is all there is.

There are other major problems with the bullshit (I have to use this word, it's the only accurate one to apply in this case) that the Russians hacked anything official or high level political in the United States. One of the most basic, most fundamentally basic (tautology, I guess!) rules in real Intelligence practice, is that you cannot use an information stream where your opponent knows that you're there - because of the likelihood of deliberate disinformation.

The Russians DID NOT HACK ANYONE. Period.

And they didn't need to...

So let's get really big-time super professional here for a change. The vulnerability of which I speak in this article does not relate to Lt. General Flynn or Mike Pompeo - these guys are way up to speed on all the issues I'm talking about. No. It's not about what the new CIA and NSA and DHS will do next. It's about the fact that people so widely have such poor knowledge and understanding of history that they CANNOT EVER credit what I'm about to say:

All the large hedge funds are fronts for Middle Eastern money. It's the fact that virtually no one will accept this as the fact that it is, which will result in the massive financial losses that will be realized.

You see, there is a reason why Julian Assange ever went to Sweden. It was because he was maneuvering around people like Securitas Inc., and the Stockholm Exchange to see what this was all about. What it is about is fake 'security' companies (not necessarily Securitas) - albeit very financially large ones, engaging with Russians who come to Scandinavia a lot because that is a 'safe border' for them, in order to achieve some 'aims' with those Russians.

The Swedish Stock Exchange is very small, but it houses - as locations of global head offices - the largest US 'security' and 'corporate risk' companies. The shareholder registers, are, as I have said, nothing but fronts for Middle Eastern money.

And it is from here, that people like the so-called 'FORMER' British Intelligence Operative was tasked, by the wealthy backer of US political elite identities, to 'research and report' on something dynamite, regarding Trump.

As a blog-site which ostensibly deals with financial matters, my point to you is this - when things start to fall apart for these 'fronts,' then the money will retire from the stock registers and those companies' share prices will fall. They are only being kept up at the moment by the outside money which has a particular agenda - not by anyone paying them for 'corporate risk' consultancy!!

If anyone sensible in corporate-land wanted real 'risk management consultancy' they wouldn't pay some dolt from SOAS University atrocious money for cut-and-paste jobs from Apartheid era South African security companies!

People like Rex Tillerson ARE sensible.

And let me tell you another thing -  or at least REMIND you - of what I had said a long time ago. the head of Total Oil, Christophe de Margerie, was most certainly not assassinated by Putin! Or anyone Russian. But if you go by the way US senators have been leaping to conclusions from whiffs of evidence, he was certainly assassinated.

As far as 'corporate risk' goes then, one of the biggest seems to be from insider jobs from 'rogue(?)' people in Western Agencies themselves - who bat for NATO, and Middle Eastern Oil Interests. The whole Ukraine thing is about Middle Eastern entry into the Euro gas and energy for steel refineries markets. de Margerie was posing a serious barrier to all of that. And suddenly, he died in 'an accident.'

A pic to do with fictional matters

The whole trick with the smart-ass Londonistanis is this: they buy out huge branded groups, even industry icons and iconic figures, and then they subvert things from the inside and you never get to see how and when the place suddenly turned into a mosque.

It's been going on for Centuries. How many people out there, do you think, would know off the top of their heads, the connection between the Ottoman Muslims, and Napoleon - or the brutally bloodthirsty Emperor of India - the Muslim Tipu Khan, or Tipu Sultan, as he is known in Wikipedia, and Napoleon? And how many of the same people think the most important conspiracy event of the outcome of Waterloo, are 'the Rothschilds'??!!!!!

The Rothschilds might have benefited from being on the short-term winning side of that 'war,' but they never funded the starting of it.

That was strictly an Islamic affair.

Sadly, today, there is no Pinkerton's Detective Agency as such. But there is a company of the same kind of name working for a lot of rich Middle Eastern punk kids...