"Americans Don't Know Baudelaire..."

Yeah well they should - Jim Morrison of the band 'The Doors' would stand in front of a rock and roll audience and quote whole passages and entire poems by Charles Baudelaire to the backing of some pretty heavy rock music.

I suppose possibly the worst aspect of the announcement made at the end of this week by the Deputy AG in the United States, is the sheer 'dumb-down' level of everything in it (IE in his announcement).

Ever since everyone in the 'good guys' Intelligence Community was instructed to STFU about just about anything even vaguely covert or operational or likely to be controversial, all of a sudden no one in this bizarre WPP Group PLC-informed strata of the FBI seems to know anything other than that the usual, stock-standard 'provocateur' trainees have been somewhere in the picture there.

Clearly, there is no longer access to the NSA's archiving of every single electronic communication by absolutely everyone... No longer any 'key word search' runs either, by the 'neo-Marxist Left' installed inside government bureaucracies, in those archives to 'turn up' anyone or anything of any genuinely political interest to the corporate WPP-owned and run media. Forget anything of genuine security value! Nobody's looking and nobody seems to give a damn. At least not in the 'Obama overhang' segments. ...Who happen to still be at the top of various particular organizations in government.

However if you believe that a couple of restaurant operators and kitchen-hands in Moscow are the best the SVR can show-case of their work and capability, you are nuts. Well, 'most unwise,' to put it mildly and less rudely.

Here is an example of the level of intellect and the sophistication required to be able to even get close to understanding how State-run spying of the kind the Russians do, operates, or is operated now:

Surviving The New Wealth Boom

There has been a catastrophic, and utterly typical miscalculation right through the last thirty years - by governments around the world, by the media, by a lot of academia although not all of it, and especially by observers who have been making commentary and giving advice about 'how to survive the coming Crash/Panic/Disaster. The only disaster of genuine note was their categorical mistake about what was happening. Yes we saw a lot of deflation. We have not see the complete collapse in real estate prices that might have accompanied the dollar deflation and the retail price deflation in a wide range of consumer goods. 

Essentially what we lived through was an era in which banks colluding with the media and government printed paper money to support capital assets they already controlled but wished to continue 'vending' to the labor (real value output) pool. And they achieved that. It was more or less an accidental effect of their miscreant real intentions to survive at the cost of everyone else when they 'saw' (thought they saw) disaster ahead. This was all talked about in Plato when he discussed 'imperfect societies' more than two thousand years ago.

Why?

But that's the point of my article here - we forget. Even over a short amount of time, people tend to be distracted away from things they regard as valuable, and towards 'the urgent' or the 'imminent disastrous' or 'the important.' And in that process they forget a lot of what previously was cultural memory.

'Modernity' is a cultural mistake. It's not 'sophistication,' or 'advancement.' Baudelaire coined the word 'modernity' and he decried it.

In this article and in the following short few, I shall be linking to other people's videos whose work will give a lead into the meaning of culture and style, in particular - as a means of preparing you for the amazing, unprecedented, and totally miscalculated for, and widely unforeseen new 'Golden Era' of the old Roaring Twenties revisited. Yes yes, oh yes. This is what will ensue.

And so to the first linked video:

The Baudelaire Thrust

Charles Baudelaire's name turned up in the recent video of a great Parisian style leader, the redoubtable M. Hugo Jacomet, of whom I have also made mention once or twice here previously.

Hugo is a wag of the finest kind. He commented that Baudelaire, whose poems and writings were well-known to French people, would likely not be known to Americans. 

I fear he was making a dig there, at the sheer general disinterest in anything truly cultural and not simple-minded these days.

A 'modern' thriller or detective story
or 'noir' piece must point out its cultural
heritage...

Baudelaire is important for many many things, one of them being that he invented the term 'modernity...'

Another, being that he was the first to translate Edgar Allan Poe into French.

Even Americans 'of modernity' should known Baudelaire - he was featured in the stage performances of Jim Morrison of The Doors, who would quote his poems in French to the backing of heavy rock music from The Doors.

Yes, so so many things.

You can really create a kind of a 'perjury trap' (smirk) for smart-asses - if you happen to be speaking with one in the company of a decent objective judge (IE friend) - by raising the subject of Baudelaire, or at least, injecting his name into the conversation somewhere...

What kind of 'trap' in specifics? Well, you know those types who always want to gainsay anything you say, and make out they 'know things' (that is, are smarter than you), have been to institutions of 'higher education' and all of that... Well, you see Baudelaire is someone whose impact on modern life is a lot more significant than anyone much around these days is really aware. And you can expose the fraudulent who claim they are educated and intellectual with a little of Baudelaire...

Music is by Veeshy - 'Aural Ambience'

Mueller's All Twisted Up

This story about 'Russia whatever' is becoming more and more twisted up and basically, the players behind the story are tangling themselves up in their own lies.

There is no 'Russia collusion' story of any fact.

We have to ask the question as to why on earth the DNC elite ever even conceived of some inveigling of the government of Russia into the Donald Trump campaign - it makes no sense at any level unless you wish to impugn the Democrats with bizarre and illiterate racism on account of the pseudo-Russian (well, Slavic) nationality of Trump's wife. 

Spies like us

Once each of these shady customers from the FBI have to front the Congressional questioning you will see mass slaughter and self-immolation of parts of the senior management of the FBI!

People like Ohr and Strzok will never be able to contain their own hubris once challenged by heavyweights. 

I think someone ought to start penning a new book about the day the FBI was routed, and it might well be called 'Ohr and Strzok.'

As the informational air-hoses were all cut off within the Secret Intelligent establishment that backed Trump (that is, cut off by them, those who support Trump - cutting off general informational leaking, which usually happens all the time), suddenly all the narratives the media have been pushing have turned into crackpot, lunatic, self-involved gibberish that exposes just how opinionated, ego-driven, and nutty the FBI and the up-till-so-recently 'ruling elite' was. And only those not prepared to listen to instructions were still leaking... Leaking what they didn't know because they were in fact, no longer the loop in the first place, where they once had been. Q-Anon fits into this category; Q-Anon is a problematic source. 

As the saying goes 'not time yet, Morgiana.'

So nope, you won't be getting' nuttin' from me just yet... LOL

Do I know? 

Sure I know.

You who have been reading here for a while must have gotten a tiny shiver run up your spine when the 'old darling,' 'the salmon that jumped onto the hook for you,' (phrases of the great Oz Prime Minister Paul Keating about Downer) ex-Aussie Foreign Minister Alexander Downer claimed to be the original source for George Papadopoulos' claim that the Russians had something on Trump.

I have told you all many times that Downer would come down to my restaurant in London Court, a place that Downer shares ownership of with current Foreign Minister Julie Bishop. Downer literally would be wearing pantyhose and eye-shadow out in public; he was a very weird bloke. It's no secret to you - because I have been telling you this for years - that the British Secret Service used the place as a launch pad for what it was 'doing' vis-a-vis the so-called 'Five Eyes' underhanded nonsense.

You see, there's the dog there - same dog, same leg-action: bugging people, listening to confidential conversations, high level political stuff...

I just accidentally owned that restaurant...

Bacardi - 'Casa Elegante' cocktail

Like I told the local head of the Australian 'Federal' something or other, not allowed to say what - 'there's often more than just one animal in the forest where you think you were going hunting bunnies because you though you were the big predator.'

World's a big place, a big sea, lot's of fish; some big, some little...

Where will we be off to next, d'you think?

You know - where's the next big game play...

Time to open another restaurant somewhere else, d'you think.

I'd love to do Japan - Yokohama. Maybe a Bacardi Legacy Cocktail Bar. The second-best Intelligence gathering service in the world was always JETRO - the Japan Export Trade Organization. They were even better than the Germans. And they can keep secrets.

Now they're co-operating with the CIA bigly. It will be interesting.

Everyone's Gone To The Moon

Like - wha-ah?

What happened? All of a sudden there are no wealthy spenders left in the world?!

Seriously, I was told by a friend in the London diamond business that all of the wealthy people who used to fly in and shop and spend money and everything - have all just disappeared now that Donald Trump has taken the White House.

It's not actually that I find it hard to believe, because over the same six months and a bit, I noticed all the luxury magazines I used to get turn into the standard basic cheap trash selling clothes and 'fashion,' instead of the kind of glossy pic spreads filled with expensive product placements but alongside the occasional very decent high-brow article. They're not even trying any more.

It's bizarre.

Where'd all the wealthy people go?!

But in a way it kind of confirms what I had believed for a while - namely that the pretend wealthy people who were making their way to the public eye at least in the 'lux/glam' venues, were all just fake and had their 'money' from theft and fraud sponsored by this so-called 'Global Elite' circus show.

Third rate, no class - big-mouths with big heads and lots of money from obscure forms of 'business.'

And now all of a sudden the money's stopped, has it?

A sad unhappy rich person. Poor man...

Trump cuts taxes bigly but you can't make money? ...Means they never made money in the first place; they thieved it. And they thieved it with the support of government and politicians and the backing of the vast media conglomerates.

So what happens now?

Now that everyone's gone to the Moon, apparently. That was of course, a song written and performed by the Decca Records artist and later on, the incredibly successful pop songwriter and producer, Jonathan King - who was the subject of a lot of police and court action over the last ten years to do with his personal life. King was also a very highly-educated literature scholar who graduated from Cambridge when you really had to have some academic ability to achieve that. 

King's story is much more complicated than that of Jimmy Savile - Savile was part of the political establishment, while King was detested by it, on both sides.