Absorb This First...

Here is a pic of the latest Zagato Design Center treatment of an already amazing automotive - the Aston Martin Vanquish:

The Zagato AM Vanquish

So, I suppose everyone generally accepts that Italy plays a very strong hand in the world of industrial design. Zagato is an obvious and visible 'name' (to car aficionados) of one of the countless ateliers and industrial design studios that exist in Italy.

American industrialists may argue that it is the US that produces the true leading edge of 'design' in the modern world because of the leading role it plays in high speed assembly technology/automated production lines, and in computing and industrial chemicals - all of these elements have led to widespread and commercial and practical utility that the US provides for markets across the globe. And you cannot argue with that proposition when it comes to ranking which country contributes most financially, to industrial creativity and design... Because of the post-WWII 'Marshall Plan,' it is really American know-how and management that produced the economic miracles of Japan and Germany. 

However another way to look at things is to consider the aesthetic aspect of design - and when you go down this route, you inevitably end up in Italy.

Aesthetics is a study of the mind which concerns how our brains interpret things as being ugly, or beautiful. But 'aesthetics' in the most sophisticated modern sense, is also a language with a large and complex vocabulary - and which spans all the senses. The Italians have a lot of words which convey highly-nuanced meanings: 'spianato' for instance, is a word seen in classical music - EG 'Chopin's Andante Spianato.' It means 'smoothed.' In industrial design you can start with a solid shape that has - begins with - sharp edges, and then when you smooth those edges down you get a different final object, with a totally different visual and tactile sense about what it, the object, is or is meant to be compared with the underlying original basic model.

Because we live in a world today in which it has become 'normal' to have a design 'brutalism' expressed in ordinary usual communications, a virtually only semiotic language with no grammar, complex syntax, or subtlety, we would ordinarily never even realize when sophisticated people are employing a complete language in front of our eyes using some other sensory channel than that of words and hearing...

A photograph taken by Brutalism Architecture
photographer, Deane Madsen

A Slightly Silly Example

Okay well it might seem like a silly example...

Culture, at least I believe anyway, is tied to the economic tides. Because it is superficially the story these days, that everyone cares exclusively about science and facts and evidence (they don't; they are psychologically motivated through feelings and not through logic virtually at all), academia in particular fails to preserve cultural memory and is a deep black sink-hole for social and cultural knowledge memory.

There is no more outstanding an example to my idiosyncratic mind, than when it comes to the recipe for an 'American Sundae.' (There's the silly example bit!).

Fortnum and Mason's American Sundae,
not far off but still not the real thing

All the same, regardless of whether you think this example is silly or not, you will not find anywhere on-line any recipe or photograph for and of a genuine original 'American Sundae.' You will find countless (literally countless) things that look like an American Sundae, but you will not find one single actual American Sundae...  

Now who do we blame for this exemplary evil omission? Oxford University? Cambridge, where Stefan Halper lectures? Harvard? Yale? Princeton? ...Where?

The Sundae is a story tied to technology (the invention and industrial manufacture and widespread commercialization of refrigeration systems), and to war and patriotism, as well as to big money.

What happens if we get 'the Roaring Twenties' again?

John Jacob Astor IV is intimately associated with the invention of certain iterations of the general basic ice cream parfait, which became famous among the very well-to-do and the upper crust. Now I have been into this aspect somewhere previously but this time, I shall simply skip to the actual recipe - or so much of it which will allow you to understand that I am fundamentally correct here: nobody today has much remaining social-cultural memory of what exactly the 'Old Glory Ice Cream Sundae' is.

Categorically, it was first invented by an African-American cook. He styled his invention after the American flag - aka 'Old Glory.'

As you know, the American flag consists of 'the stars and stripes.' And the colors are Old Glory red, white, and Old Glory blue. The study of flags is known as 'vexillology.' The American athlete Martin Sheridan, said: 'this flag dips to no earthly king.'

Some people have proposed that the stars are meant to have originally been gold because gold doesn't tarnish, although they may have been originally silver, which does tarnish and turn black or green.

I have no fixed or firm view of it other than that I know what the original 'Old Glory Ice Cream Sundae' is. It includes vanilla ice cream, and cherry syrup and strawberry ice cream, and something which appears like 'star dust.' And I will not go into the 'Old Glory blue' aspect because I'm keeping most of the recipe a secret; still.

Astor owned the Knickerbocker hotel at a time when the the US was flooded with money, and when the Knickerbocker ballroom actually had specific velvet roped-off areas marked 'champagne only.' And tickets into these areas went for hundreds of dollars when the price of a hotel room for the night was $2. 

Afterwards, of course, you had the Prohibition Era - 1920 to 1933. But until then, the Knickerbocker was probably one of the most alcoholic-indulged places on the planet ever outside of Bacchus's palace!

The 'Old Glory Ice Cream Sundae' contains copious amounts of alcohol. The colt cherries or maraschino cherries used are steeped in maraschino brandy, for one thing.   

Minister Anthony Loke Cancels MH370 Search

I am utterly no fan at all of Malaysia's Mahathir Mohamad, but the very first thing his new Minister for Transport Anthony Loke did when assuming that office, was to announce the immediate cancelling of the search for the missing Malaysian Airliner, MH370.

The total amounts of money that have been spent by a range of countries is uncountable, in the sense that largely, the expenditure is not transparent. Firstly, the so-called Joint Agency Coordination Center was lead by an ostensibly 'Australian' identity, retired Air Chief Marshal Sir Angus Houston, with the Australian government agreeing to spend $200 million dollars on the search, the People's Republic of China spending $20 million, and the Malaysian government $120 million.

Anthony Loke aka Asian rapper 'Ton-loc.' Not.

On top of that there have been various payments to consultants, offshore (mainly US and European) contractors, and suppliers of in one case, $60 million directly from the Malaysian government to one particular US service provider and contractor. Additionally of course, there are insurance pay-outs to families. 

The funny thing about huge troughs of cash... ...especially those initiated by governments and politicians - they virtually never achieve their stated actual goals but do still manage to 'spread the love' around their little circles.

And I'll not say any more about that. Nod nod wink wink, know what I mean?

Sir Angus received the US National Intelligence Distinguished Service Medal in 2011. 

...Let it never be forgotten, that who set up the Pakistan Army in the very first place directly after Partition - who else, than, yes, the Australian Army. They love us in Pakistan and we understand them and why not? You show me the money and I'll prove to you cows walk on the moon too.

A spicy hot-sour soup - Russian chilies in there, too,
as you can see. 

It's all about the money boys and girls. It's always about the money - sure Stefan Halper is a lunatic, but in the end, his masters in Whitehall are not that crazy and need the bribes from those run-away ex-Russian oligarchs that hate VV Putin and friends. What, do you seriously think the average UK politician is in it for the good of the people??? LOL 

The Question Is, Can They Handle It?

The question is whether the slightly-above-average-intelligence, member of the public in the USA, will be able to handle the truth when it all eventually comes out - or whether it will just have to be the case that people such as William Binney or Jerome Corsi will have to live with enough of the truth getting out to enable things getting back on a level keel.

I mean it's just not ever been said - if you notice - just exactly how, realistically, the Putin Kremlin ever did succeed in actually, once again, realistically, helping Donald Trump attain the Presidency. A handful of trolls going on-line simply doesn't cut it.

And although 'they' tried (the MSM and the Democrats and so on) to float the story that Viktor Vekselberg donated a lot of money to Trump, or to the Trump Campaign, and that he and other Russians assisted in 'laundering' money through Moscow for Trump (I mean so what of it, even if it were true which it isn't?!) - it just plain simply did not ever happen; none of those things stand up to hard scrutiny.

Sir Angus Houston
First he was head of the Joint Agency Coordination
Center trying to find MH370, then, he was Special Envoy to the Ukraine to
meddle around with MH17. Born in the UK, emigrated to Aus in 1968

So in what real ways might have Vladimir Putin helped Donald Trump into office? You see one of the problems with the narrative about Russia, is that both Ed Snowden and Julian Assange raised the alarm about what Obama and Clinton were doing long before Russia got into the story at all - and in fact, Russia failed to ever fulsomely believe or accept Snowden's bona fides as an actual 'whistleblower' and honest asylum seeker, and they have never backed Assange either. There are simply zero facts to support any indication of Russia ever having helped Julian Assange at all. Nerds and geeks helped Assange and some of the key ones were even Democrat sympathizers! 

And even right as we speak, the main direction of the ordinary media's coverage is to do with the fact that clearly the FBI was acting on things LONG BEFORE the Steele dossier, and LONG BEFORE they claimed they were suspecting some kind of Russian entry into the Trump Campaign.

So here's the problem see - what if they were reacting to something but not to anything that was obviously Russian as such in the first instance, and what if they indeed rightly feared someone was going to upset their apple-cart and have installed some outsider (IE Trump)? And what if they got blind-sided by their own 'conscience' over having just stiffed the Russians over Yanukovych in the Ukraine, and became obsessed and fixated on Russia when, well, in fact they were initially trying to uncover something real enough, it was just not Russia though that they were 'seeing,' which was simply a mirage they chased that served to cover over the genuine 'thing.'

See people have very weak memories: the scandal was to do with the NSA bugging you... It was not ever to do with them bugging or wiretapping Donald Trump whom no one had ever heard of (that much) in context of someone running for highest office AT THE TIME WHEN THE FBI ACTUALLY FIRST STARTED THIS 'OPERATION' of theirs that they are now running for cover about. But then suddenly because of the political consequences of his having run so well, and then having won as well, the whole thing has turned into this media circus focusing on Donald Trump.

It's not about Trump. It's about you.

Assange said, and Snowden confirmed, that they were bugging you.

Sir Alex Allan,
head of the UK's blah blah blah et cetera

Oh, and me. But then I knew they were bugging me because I was one of the senior (commercial arena) managers of the top NSA programmers run from out of the SEA station. Happens to be also, that I was a long-time asset of someone's... I'll not say whose (asset). More to the point, although I was 'just an asset' rather than an operative, I had had very very sophisticated training early on due to some program which was eventually put on the shelf and not followed-through on.

And then miracle of miracles, we stumbled (there is a 'we' of us, not just a 'me') onto this insane venture of MI6's - 'the Five Eyes' idiocy, right under our very noses, literally head-quartered right next to our business!

Now it's time for me to give old Sir Richard Dearlove and Sir Alex Allan a clue on how come we found out about them and what they were up to... It's okay now because they are nailed to the ground. Nailed! I was a proposed protected witness in the 'WA Inc' Royal Commission but I never showed; my boss did and he became what's called here a 'super grass!!' And, at one point during the hearings, they convened the court at night in St Georges Terrace here (the main financial drag), and got the court to wear these special glasses, you see. Anyhew... The whole about fifteen to fifty foot level above the street and footpath was crisscrossed with red laser beams! And these were the beams from the audio-visual bugging devices being used largely by commercial operators against all the stock brokers and bankers, and federal cops and so on, and even George Soros's office, which was right here in Allendale Square! 

Now the brother of my boss was the station chief of the Yugoslavian Secret Service, at the same time as he was in the Reserve Bank of Australia, and, although I never personally did any of this 'bugging' and electronic monkey-business myself, I used to get segments of reports that might have been useful to our investment business from that source.

Get it? I knew, from the second day that Alex Allan started propositioning the then Premier of Western Australia Dr Geoffrey Gallop, about being allowed to run a covert Intelligence program here - albeit it was on an official co-operative basis (although I still think it was illegal and improper in the way they did it), where he was doing it, what he was doing, and simply everything about it. And so did the US Embassy know.

The only people who thought it was a secret was the UK government and the Western Australian political officials on both sides of the aisle, and the government employees who were part of the operation.

So then something else happened. The Kremlin (and others, including Serbian officials, and hugely wealthy Americans) tasked someone, to seed something into the NSA covert traffic.

And that's what happened. With the effect that they (MI6 and the NSA's Intel receivers in the White House) took off on this wild goose chase using Christopher Steele to report ON THE SEEDED FALSE TRAIL.

Yes, they traced some 'hacks' and bot programs to 'Lumumba' with certain Russian key phrases inside the coding - but it was 'Lumumba Hall,' which is in Belgrade University, not Moscow's 'Lumumba University' in Moscow!

Girl in a car with red seats

The Serbs were very pissed about Clinton's idiotic bombing of Serbia, and the CIA under Brennan actually thought that because Flynn was very openly anti-Islam - he must have been under the sway of RUSSIAN influence because they had supported Serbia against the Islamic sides in that war. Actually, he was just anti-Islamic terrorism generally, because, well, he was against it. And that's all. Brennan's CIA was errant and fixated about Russia. Russia had no, or very little, hand in anything.

But then something else happened, which was really hugely disturbing to the White House, and that was that Donald Trump began to be the beneficiary of public 'revelations' from Assange and Snowden and others that were extremely damaging to Hillary and to the Democrats - and this was seen as being the product of Russian Secret Intelligence activity. It wasn't.

...Partly, it was the product of AMERICAN Intelligence Services pro-activity in support of Donald Trump. 

Carter Page wearing a RED HAT! OMG

MI6 made the same mistake about Carter Page - because he read the play of recent history on the side of the Serbs and the Russians versus NATO and the Eu-Commission - they thought he simply must have been a Russian spy and/or operative. And they have said so. They are wrong, as the courts have told them.

Now the question is, can the US public handle it?

Can they handle that someone, but not 'the Russians' had a sense of the NSA surveillance and how wide it was, and decided to check that, and then, when they proved to themselves how bad it was, they turned that against the NSA and the CIA and MI6. Result? The following - 

Fact:

Clinton got booted.

Fact:

MI6 got uncovered.

Fact:

Trump got elected.

Fact:

Steele got smashed for the fool that he always was.

Fact:

Brennan got booted.

Fact:

Comey got booted.

So to be honest with you all, at this stage, I'm not particularly afraid of these guys (IE the above-mentioned names and anyone associated with that side of the arm-wrestle). I am always afraid of things getting too early into the public sphere where they can be twisted around (IE. used for wrong motives).

...Now so far we have just been drip-feeding out stuff close to the edge of the curve, even though if you're honest you'll grant it was almost always ahead of what was in the public domain. I mean, obviously we're not the only people who have been putting inside stuff out to the public from real sources. Hey, we 'know' there are 12 Russian trolls/bots also doing it! Don't we (know that)? 

...but now, he's wearing a blue hat, sadly!

For example, to this minute, although I saw Bill Still and Sean Hannity use the name 'Obama' in connection to Halper nobody has yet said he was actually meeting personally with Halper. But I have said it here. Lt General Flynn's son is verging on saying it openly on his Twitter feed over the last few days.

This has been a criminal enterprise by John Brennan and Stefan Halper (and by implication with him of course MI6) and James Comey and Barack Obama, and now also by Robert Mueller. It's the biggest scandal of all time to do with the US Republic and its agencies. It's not a political scandal, it's a criminal scandal.

Shortly, I will - 'we,' will - be putting some things out there that are far off the edge of the curve; they will be about the not-so-immediate future. No way will the media suddenly follow up the next day or the next week repeating what we post here. But you can benefit by keeping what is posted, in mind, when you consider what is going on in front of your eyes and what it will probably mean.

You can make a lot of money just sticking your bucket, not where you see the money flowing right now, but where you can estimate it might flow, if our strategic analysis turns out to be better than what you might get from these types of 'geniuses' and 'experts' and 'powerful' people - you know, like: Clapper and Brennan and Clinton and Obama and Comey and Mueller and 'SIR' Richard Dearlove or 'Professor' Stefan Halper.

Trust me here (I know people decry that phrase...) but if you went to a lecture by Carter Page, in which his eyes looked straight ahead, and his slightly gormless grin was fixed on that open face and he nodded when he should have shaken his head and so on -, you might learn a thing or two, if you could read carefully between the lines. I mean, hey, he has a Cannondale Mountain Bike, after all! What does that tell you? Bill... What do you think?

The real answer is 'we don't know.' LOL And that's the difference between a professional and a bunch of amateurs, eh Sir Richard...

The Dinosaur Crashes To The Ground!

Robert Mueller - the gift that just keeps on giving.

Funny thing about the Great Game (and this is for you too, young Kimball O'Hara, well actually especially), is that it is almost never truly clear what sides there are and who is on which side or the other.

'Our side' is good, their side is bad... Some people don't even believe that - they think 'our side' is our side, and their side is just, not our side and that's all that matters.

Their side is maybe, not bad, it's just not our side, that's all.

I don't go along with that kind of thinking. People who are bad are not on 'our side.'

Which leaves me with this little tidbit for the day, which you have not heard anywhere else just yet unless you read Lee Stranahan's twitter feed or watch the Alex Jones Channel because I have managed to get the word out in those places about ten minutes ago...

Barack Obama was a member of the same Washington private club that the FBI spy, Stefan Halper went to.

Let's see Mueller jump over that one!

My my.