Hot Towel Massage (KGB 'old school' stuff)

I suppose one of the most galling things for the corporate media these days, is that the President of the Commonwealth of Independent States, is just so glossy mag-friendly:

From: Gettyimages - Vladimir Putin at a recent
Russian Institute Graduation

There's not a lot going on in the world of glamour, luxury, and frivolous spending these days. I'm not certain why, and I have been toying with the notion that maybe for a few years there has been this global elite with a vast gravy train of money driving the luxury lifestyle platforms and that suddenly they've all disappeared - also taking their gravy away, too.

Me personally I am being forced to revert to pretty ancient classical standbys of the luxury lifestyle ('lifestyle' is a compound noun, by the way, as my eleven year old autistic kid has recently pointed out to me) - the word itself being more than just the sum of its parts; after all, one could have a poverty-stricken 'style' of life, and no one would refer to it as a 'lifestyle' with quite the same glow of meaning!

It's at times like these that the value and worth of a damned good butler can be clearly demonstrated. Butlers are nothing if not mild forms of 'entertainment directors.' Private household staff are extreme rarities these days - but I know of at least one wealthy South African chappy who not only has a butler in his home, but a female one at that. Seriously!

I have yet to see this kind of extravagance proclaimed by those 'wealthy global elite in your face' *-holes who messed up everything in the world, of any meaning and substance, since around the time of the dolt Margaret Thatcher. Even the latest James Bond flick is being 'delayed' until maybe 2020 - the fact being of course, that it never made enough money on the last go-around to extract sufficient cash from that particular gravy train to fund the next iteration in a self-contained way. See what I mean? They messed stuff up. They chose to ignore the classical truth and reality, and started all of this nonsense about twisting what the Bond character was about, and twisting the story basis, and twisting everything save whatever suited their insane 'globalist agendas.'

Poljot 3133 Chronograph - 'President's Watch.'

You will still get the same stupid voices - 'oh but that's just your opinion, some people liked the new Bond, and it still made a lot of money.' No, nobody likes the 'new' Bond except fools and mentally defective knaves, and no, it didn't make any money. 'Published' movie revenue figures have been cons for years - they are based around forced pre-sale agreements with the distribution chains (cinema chains) who are all basically owned by the same coterie of families (mostly just one family - Kirby) and incestuous un-audited Swiss-registered trusts; they certainly don't represent audited actual ticket sales numbers at the Box Office.

The Bond franchise turned into rubbish produced by your typical nouveau riche non-entity with absolutely zero creativity and even less taste or class. If I see another movie wherein the idea of drama is portrayed by actors rushing about with pointless appalled looks on their faces as someone throws marbles into the air, or on the ground, or down the drain-pipers - whatever...

Drama - in case you were presently lacking in a truly plangent sense of it - is when an old expert barber cautiously unfolds a very hot towel, and gingerly places it entirely over your face, having first sprayed it with an exclusive and very privately-patronage'd properly, natural pernambuco-wood aged, and fermented, Bay Rum. 

Amber Rudd says not to jump to conclusions about who did the 'nerve gas' thing this week in England. It wasn't the Russians, that's for sure. What happened was so lacking in creativity and so old fashioned. It has all the hallmarks of the team that supplied us with Alexander Downer, and Christopher Steele. 

The Tragedy Of Today's Media

Yesterday I suggested to some people elsewhere, that I thought the corporate media, and consequently, much of the public, had now lost sight of the rabbit down the rabbit-hole.

At this point I could tell you 'a story' - one which is perfectly true and accurate in every detail, and you certainly would not believe it, but the telling of it would put David Icke to shame.

But I can't really tell you... Not that whole entire explicit story, anyway. I can maybe, fence around it a bit.

When you watch the basic media, you get the impression there are 'good guys' and there are 'bad guys.' And any specific person is targeted as 'a bad guy,' or in the obverse, 'unquestionably a good guy.'

Well, you realize of course, that 'the good guys' are not good for you or me; they are only in it for their own 'good.' And the bad guys are merely those against the first lot...

Thus as Carter Page told Chris Hayes, 'the propaganda deliberately sent out against me based on known false information...' And as often the case with Carter, the rest of the sentence consists of an eye-raise. But in any case, what you are indeed watching re 'the good guys' v. 'the bad guys' is propaganda, and only propaganda. And it is propaganda on behalf of 'the first guy;' (IE, the theoretical 'good guy/s').

Now the media has become so blinkered, so narrow-minded in its pressing of the propaganda it has been told to push, so tunnel-visioned and fixated, that it doesn't observe when others appear on the stage, as it were. And we have had 'others' appear on the stage... There is now a 'good guy,' a 'bad guy,' and a third guy.

The third guy is kind of like the White Rabbit in Alice in Wonderland. He's crucial to the story, in fact.

The tragedy of today's media is they cannot tell when their masters miscalculated badly, and dangerously - that is to say, resulting in risk that could be catastrophic for everyone.

"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'