Baselworld

Baselworld, as you all know, is this trade fair for watch-makers, held each year in Basel in a dedicated pavilion now with several specialist, added-on halls for specific kinds of designs and innovations.

I'm not sure whether I've said it before in this Blog, but I have been saying to several friends in a one-to-one setting that I've had the distinct impression ever since around the time a little bit before the Trump election, that there has been a drop-off in spending on luxury goods, a drop-off in the advertising in that sector, and a general decline in the visual presence of apparent 'wealth' everywhere.

This year's (2018) Baselworld figures completely supported that view, because there was a HUGE drop-off in the number of exhibitors, in fact roughly a half of them failed to show this year.

Boy, that's some drop-off.

Surely it could not have been the case that Hillary Clinton and all the people in that camp were the 'wealthy' people in the world and now they have all become pee'd off and taken their bat and ball away and gone into hiding...?

Answer: well YES! Yes, it was them. And yes, they were the wealthy people, because stealing from the public makes you rich!

They must have all consulted with their psychics just during the run-up to the US election, who all said that Hillary would be wiped out, and that would spell disaster for them and spell the end to their gravy train. What a shame.

'Cuz now that only leaves me and thee and maybe three other guys around the whole entire world with any real interest in spending attrocious and unjustifiable large sums of money on silly stoopid things and we ain't got any money anyway... Shame.

Well, actually I have a lot of money but I'm waiting for the interest rates to sky-rocket even more in the US and then all of a sudden I'll 'find' this satchel that I'd left or lost somewhere prolly in the garden shed out the back, or sumthin'...

Anyway so I gotta tell yer about expensive watches at Baselworld, see.

I have this big problem deciding what to spend my last half million on each time I get down to that 'nuther 'last half million' - on the one hand, people would at least notice me being driven up to the front doors of His Majesty's Theater in the heart of the city here, late, and in fact just to watch the catalog song from Don Giovanni out in the hall via the closed circuit screens, drink a glass of champagne and then toddle off to Billy Lee's to eat some Chinese dinner; if I were driven in a relatively decent Rolls.

This is 'just' a Casio, but it is made with Samurai sword
'murasaki-gane' gold alloy - around $7,000.

No one, absolutely no one though, would notice if I walked past the front doors, or went in ('to catch the catalog song from Don Giovanni...' LOL) wearing just a Gran Sasso Nile Cotton pullover and black slacks ($2,000), kangaroo hide slippers handmade bespoke from a Sydney crafts-person ($3,000), and a '*' (ain't tellin' you) brand Westminster chime tourbillon ($500,000) on my wrist - and I'd have had to borrow cash for the clothes and shoes.

There are a lot of things that make such watches so expensive, but one of them these days is the amazing new kinds of metals and glass or optically-clear materials and strange alloys.

One of the most amazing things they do nowadays is create these strange alloys of pure gold (around 75%) and ultra high grade ceramics, the latter of which is a porous substance and harder than gold - most of the really best watch internal mechanisms are made from 'Mich-au' or 'Michaud' or sometimes also called 'Michor;' combinations of ceramic and pure gold.

There is not much point trying to tell people who are not already 'in the sickness' for expensive watches and things like that, about the significance of design and the brilliance of particular designers.

No no no. Waste of time. Ding Dong!

'Obscured Meanings:' 'Legacy Preference...' OxCam

You wouldn't believe that such extraordinary lengths are taken to cause a deliberate obscuring of facts about even quite recent history on the internet - but it is so.

I have personal knowledge of people who attended Oxford or Cambridge Universities... ...who literally screwed up their degree certificates and threw them in the waste paper bin. You probably won't believe this but it is true that a handful of people did do this.

When you look up the phrase 'legacy preference to University' you will find a consistent swathe of publications on-line almost everywhere talking about the abolishing 'long long ago' of preferential granting of applications from those whose family members HAD ATTENDED one or other of the great Universities. Therefore to make it seem that entry by academic merit must be 'the natural opposite' and the 'democratic and fairer' system that would replace 'family privilege' and unfair 'entitlement.'  

Now...

...that is not what the phrase really means though, does it!

So why do they do this kind of thing? Is there a propaganda element at stake? 

Most certainly. Of course.

And I am going to point this out in an attempt to pin-point the era around which things went badly off the rails for the United Kingdom government and society at the top where decisions are made.

Functionally the matter had been simmering away literally for decades and might have been the product of Post-War social disconnectedness; too many leaders having died in the war itself, too much of the fabric of society that had gone into positive development and social and intellectual progress being destroyed.

The UK Labor Party Prime Minister James Callaghan was at the core 'turning point' really - he shifted to the Right on economic policy with the effect that the purely (IE 'only' or extremely predominantly) meritocratic basis for academic position - which was prized by the economically poorer Left Wing people - was abandoned in favor of the most simplistic economic rationale.

This looks like a scene from the Sony Playstation '007' game.
Haspel knows the plots that have been foiled BY THE CIA, not MI6.
Sir Richard Dearlove thinks Islamic Terrorism is 'overstated.'

You see, up until Thatcher, entry to Oxford and Cambridge was also in some percentage (not only, but at least to a certain percentage) facilitated to favor those WHOSE PARENTS OR CLOSE FAMILY MEMBERS HAD EXCELLED ACADEMICALLY AT THOSE UNIVERSITIES...

It was not merely, 'that a family member had attended.' 

Now this is meaningfully different to just some kind of weak idea of patronage. This is about the perceived value of a continuance of academic legacy. Legacy preference in some degree provides some small hint at a moral compass!

It seems to the dumbed-down only a subtle and small difference, but it was significant enough in the minds of those who threw their 'qualifications' away in disgust, to really matter. And they knew, and foresaw - very correctly - that there would inevitably be a rise to the very top by those highly corruptible people who were motivated by money and power, and who of course, had in fact already used money and power to get places anyway. At every step and stage - be it Eton or some other name school - how much you paid saw to it that your grades and chances benefited, and thus, all else just fell to you like so many dominoes. And this also implied that not only did those who paid money 'get places,' but certainly, there was already a pervasive atmosphere dominated by those who were in fact permissive about ego and 'advantages through bribes.'

This is the crude kinds of people who are running the United Kingdom now - and about whom Julian Assange says 'they are a nefarious lot who are in control of the place.' He bluntly warned Donald Trump not to visit. I take a slightly different perspective from Assange's - which is namely, that the same kinds of people are also cowards and only can do things behind someone's back and in the shadows. They will, I think, smile thinly on the outside to Trump, were he to venture to London, and make a show in public. But they are not to be trusted in any serious way and you cannot guarantee what they might be up to behind your back; that much I also hold to be true along with Mr. Assange.

Several FBI 'Moles' And Why This Is Important To Markets

The media is likely to jump to incorrect conclusions about what has been going on, and what is currently going on inside the Trump White House, as soon as more names are revealed.

I have already specified from a long long time ago that the UK's Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) was involved, and I mean AT THE TOP because of strategy and policy THAT THEY ARE MAKING -  I talked about Sir Alex Allan and mentioned ex-London Met Deputy John Yates; but these names were discussed here only because they already had profile to do with 'dubious' activities and events (the Leveson Media Illegal Wire-Tapping Inquiry, and illegal listening-in to various South East Asian heads of state). They are not the main strategic thinkers at all.

I mean I've known for a long while who ALL the figures are and I could name names that are unlikely to EVER appear in the public media!

As far as the actual FBI 'moles' inside the Trump Campaign are concerned, I will add the name of Alex Nix to the shortlist of those already 'outed' because as soon as his name becomes more obvious in the wider MSM, then it will be easy for people to jump to completely incorrect conclusions: Robert Mercer, who paid Nix whilst he was running Cambridge Analytica, is ONE OF THE US MILINT ASSETS WHO EXPOSED NIX AND HALPER! Mercer is a 'good guy.'

This thing is so far-reaching and has so many highly-placed and really big-time power-brokers involved and with such enormous ambit of nefarious spider-webbing, that once the White House turns up the heat on the conspirators - there is likely to be extreme reactions.

Najib Razak

I mean, even as we speak, can you imagine what would be the consequence, if Najib Razak spilled the beans on all those previously 'connected folk' in NYC and Washington and London who arranged for him to 'disappear' the billions of dollars he was given to shut up about the missing airliner scam...

We are talking about people with HUGE egos getting caught and stuck into the spotlight - and you can hardly see a bigger ego than to witness the comments of Sir Richard Dearlove, actually 'opine' in his expert view, that 'there is some substance to what is in his friend/colleague Christopher Steele's 'dossier.'

The reality is there is no substance at all - so why on earth would someone with as significant a past CV as Dearlove, ex-Chief of MI6, say something as obviously false and tendentious and aggressively anti an elected sitting US President, as what he did say, and in the way he said it? It was a lie, it was false, and he knew it to be false when the words were carefully sent out of his lips after the carefully pre-planned question was put by the BBC interviewer.

No. It's not just 'FBI moles' that are the important fact here - it is who is ultimately behind them, and what was their agenda. And frankly, how did they even know Donald Trump was such a real threat to beat the utterly corrupted Hillary Clinton from such a long a way off from the eventual election? 

Things are never really what they look like, are they. It was never Russian spies and operatives who arranged the election for Trump - it was somebody that made sure that INTERFERENCE FROM MI6(!) and Dearlove and Halper and Nix and the rest (there are a lot of others) was curtailed.

I keep saying this, but I have a document from a Russian source which I will release as soon as the Mueller nonsense is brought to a complete and formal halt. And when you read it it will make your head spin. 

There is no prospect US markets can fall on the strength of current economic data - but if London and what is behind that crowd go nuts and turn nasty because of being found out and pinned to the wall under the spotlight so to speak, they might try to Crash everything out of anger. Personally, if I were looking at it, I would seek to confiscate all the capital of anyone who was involved in subverting the US FBI to spy on US citizens without cause.

Now wouldn't that be amusing.

Might even make Assange chuckle.

As The FBI 'Mole' Is Revealed

Well don't ever forget I told you first.

The 'extract' from the Russian book I posted as a free downloadable PDF SPECIFIED London Secret Service involvement in all of this.

There is a ton of literally 'fake news' or, more properly, deliberate propaganda being pushed on-line and even in the conventional print media at the moment, trying to so-called 'walk back' the Wall Street Journal's Kimberley Strassel's revelation regarding a possible FBI 'mole' inside the Trump Campaign.

The thrust of this 'walk-back' is that there were 'unwitting sources' within the Trump Campaign, and those being named are of course Carter Page, but also George Papadopoulos - but this is simply not the case at all. There definitely was a real mole, at least one, and that person is 'being rumored across the Web' as Stefan Halper, an associate of the one-time Chief of the UK Secret Intelligence Service aka 'MI6' - Sir Richard Dearlove.

To some extent I am personally extremely gratified that being one of those who have kept the embargo rule to do with the basis document from which the extract I posted was taken, Robert Mueller has found himself floundering somewhat for want of 'the fire.' Or maybe 'the light...'

Soon enough Mueller will be completely shut down.

And then I will freely reveal the document in question. The assistance this kind of document can be to you, or to someone who cares about what they are doing, is that through the lens it provides you, your enemies will be revealed. And when you know your enemy and where they go hunting, you can stay away from that part of the forest, especially once the fight-to-the-death begins between the top-line predators. Which it will. In fact, it's already begun, has it not?!

Blend 17

And then comes the time when you are able to purchase your own personal 'first Rolls Royce.'

Suddenly you see that the truly rich, the truly self-reliant and self-made - are not merely unique people but they are also very often alone, or at least kind of 'lonely.'

It's all just for you. The rich lifestyle is a lonely experience;
basically, it's just you.

You will observe how selfish the experience of buying and owning your first Rolls Royce really is. I mean, sure, there are a lot of short videos on YouTube that appear to show people who own them, or things similar to them, but there is something missing from the statements being made in all those videos about the actual experience, which is namely, the sheer personal and very lonely nature of the experience. You can't really share the actual experience itself in the sense of the commonality of feelings except to someone else who is doing the same thing at the exact same time...

And you know, there are a lot of people who wouldn't even like or at all appreciate owning the thing in the first place. My wife's aunt forced her husband to send back the Rolls he bought because she thought it was far too pretentious a thing to own - now bearing in mind this is a fellow who owns an authentic Da Vinci or Michelangelo painting...! ...I'm never sure which and I don't ask. 

Who can share this experience, this frustration and inability to explain the feelings involved to the rest of society which simply just does not understand?

Pure luxury and self-indulgence at these supreme levels re things only you and I fully comprehend - let me show 'us:'

Yesterday, arriving somewhat late to 'the party' to do with it, I opened a small glass jar of Blend 17. I got it at a deep discount of retail price '99 cents' from another multi multi millionaire friend-of-mine, Tony Galati, at his huge market in Wanneroo - 'the Spud Shed.' 

It's got this ultra premium dusky rose/white gold-and-black packaging around it, but the actual container itself is in all other respects the same as the normal glass jar of Vegemite.

Now in the first place, you have to be one of the tiny global minority of people who actually love this item - the usual way of imbibing it being on toast slathered with melting golden, real, full-salted butter.

What an amazing, unique luxury sensation! It's like molten... molten... molten... black liquid silk enriched with many mysterious strange vitamins, and ...salt.

He he he he he ha ha ha ha haaaaaargh! No one else will ever understand; 'except me and thee, and I'm not even certain about thee.'