'Q is a letter between 'P' and 'R'

It is possible, just very slightly possible, that due to some of the unintended consequences of the internet and web-traffic across the globe, the world of Public Relations and Marketing as we have known it, has crossed a threshold beyond which it can never now return.

In one sense, it is dead. Or, 'they' - PR and Marketing - are dead.

For instance it used to be, that clever sophisticated PR people could capture people's attention and from that point on, sway their minds away from a past belief to a new one.

Devin Nunes just returned from London, where he had sought
some co-operation from the UK government about Christopher Steele

Now though, the audiences have become totally bored with the 'sell' even though it might come from something which looks glitzy or is superficially attractive. Audiences have polarized to one side or the other of a political message - and so only one side looks at its own side's 'marketing' and rarely even looks at anything the other side is 'messaging.' You only need to look at a half a dozen or so YouTube video clips from say MSNBC, CNN, or the BBC, and the very first thing that jumps out is the methodical, 'bot-style' jamming comment posts which drown out any objective critiquing all the way down the page - and the very limited overall 'views' compared with say for example even any 'special interest' video channel. MSNBC might have a few thousand up to in the low tens of thousands for new videos, and not much more than a hundred thousand for a video that has been up for a while.

Alex Jones has over 38 million regular, subscribed viewers and listeners to his private 'InfoWars' board... A hugely disparate number, if you consider the 'Left' and the 'Right' keep having close electoral contests. Now either the electoral figures are grossly fraudulent, or the modern 'Left' doesn't watch any media...

Nevertheless, you can physically see, that some organized interests with money, expend a lot of time and energy pretending that there are supporters for the messaging of the current-era 'Left' - hence the 'crowding out' that goes on on these comment sections on the various YouTube videos. This even has a modern day term to describe it: 'astro-turfing' - to make things look like there is a grass lawn out there when really, it is artificial, plastic, fake.

My point is, though, that the broader 'market' or 'audience' just doesn't care any longer. They are not listening to the propaganda coming from out of the corporate media; they are literally not there, on those video channels, watching - IE they are not watching CNN or MSNBC.

Not only do they not find CNN or MSNBC credible, but they've actually tuned out!

Obviously 'Q' is a marketing ploy, but it is also one that is failing badly in terms of its objective as propaganda. People have tuned out, turned off. 

This thing known as 'Q' is just Left-leaning PR people trying to 'send messages' aka propaganda, in this case designed to trick and confuse... But it has basically not worked.

The public is no longer paying attention. They have become bored with Robert Mueller, the endless and childish bleating about Russians and 'collusion' backed by no facts, and the hyperventilating idiocy of places like CNN. 


PS - CORRECTION!  The public in general has become bored with Mueller as a source of anything significant or ground-shaking. I am quite sure the American voting public will be very interested in the treatment of Devin Nunes by the government of the UK. Did they offer him tea? Was it served by a kind old gent in decent china-wear? 

What You Don't Know Will Kill You

But you see, you do know, because you read here.

So this guy called Zeljko Ranogajec - born in Hobart Tasmania, Australia in 1961 from Croatian immigrants - is the world's biggest gambler, see... He has an annual gambling turnover of a billion dollars. And this is stated in Wikipedia so it must be true.

Now you're not going to read the rest of the stuff that's about to be set down here, anywhere else.

So... 58 people were killed, murdered, in the 2017 Las Vegas shoot-up and 851 injured. Again - that's recorded in Wikipedia.

Do you believe that?

World's wealthiest and most successful gambler,
maybe of all time

Anyway, going back to Ranogajec, who appears in several company filings under the cover-name of 'John Wilson,' has the story of his life laid out in a few books and publications and every serious professional gambler knows that the story cannot be true. By 'serious professional gambler' I mean you and me; we'd better acknowledge that neither of us knows for sure the guaranteed actual subsequent outcome of any given predicted event - because that would make us prophets and not investors, and if the nomenclature was good enough for Kerry Packer, it's certainly good enough for me but I'll attach it to you advisedly. You can refuse the title if you like.

Ranogajec spent all of the early years of his gambling life, mostly in Las Vegas, losing money along with his friend David Walsh, who is a noted social set identity and art dealer here in Australia.

Now there was never a single day, not even one, during the whole entire time I was gambling professionally, that I was behind on my original stakes nor was I ever in a ledger balance position of any weekly 'loss' figure. It just never ever happened - and to some extent that was my eventual problem because psychologically, I got to the point of saying to myself that eventually it would or must happen and that was one of the reasons I retired from that life. However what sustained me during all the years of incredible, high-tension, keyed-up financial risk-taking was the track record of past successes. I don't think a sensible, sane, rational person can go on taking gambler's risks after a long time of having the experiences of regular losing.

You can go on doing something, but it won't be taking natural gaming risks. It might be working for the FBI, or participating in the surreptitious arms dealing industry, or doing undercover work for global investigation agencies, or even on commission for governments - but you would be more than an ordinary fool trying to discover the 'secret' of betting and always winning or winning on average overall. 

Bill Benter, quite a nice guy

Now see the associates of our Mr Ranogajec have done things like occupy some of the political space on the Left here in Australia, or donate large large LARGE sums of money to Bill Clinton and backing Chuck Hagel to the position of Secretary of State (never happened though). Chuck's been on the board of Chevron. And he was instrumental in the vastly financially successful war in Yugoslavia and in the splitting up of the components of Yugoslavia into smaller nations (such as Croatia, and by extension later on, even the Ukraine) some of whom side with NATO and the Clinton Left side of current US DNC politics. He has a foot-print in the recent successful illegal coup d'etat run by the US Administration under Obama and Hillary Clinton against the Ukraine. He is a friend of Alexandra Chalupa, the covert operative who was paymaster along with Robert Mueller in attempts to find dirt on Donald Trump from as far back as 2015/16.

Now now get me though - people like Bill Benter (Benter backed Chuck Hagel) are not by any means altogether bad at all, in fact Benter and Walsh and these types are incredibly valuable to the arts and to theater and just 'culture' as it is presented to the public.

But that's not the point, there are wheels within wheels here in these social circles involving such gentlemen and you cannot, unless you have a formal position on 'an' inside somewhere there, know or be exactly certain who is doing what and with whose money or why with what ultimate aims. 

...Why would anyone, though, be gathering dirt - or in fact as it has turned out - be 'composing' dirt on Donald Trump that long before he was even announced as in the running?

And the answer to that, my friends, is why you keep reading here, because you know that there is an outside chance that if I said the sky is going to fall next Tuesday week, well then, it just might at that.

Art man, David Walsh - also an occasional gambler,
hugely wealthy

As long as you understand there is a difference between a natural gaming risk where there are no unfair advantages, and an organized boat-race masquerading as an 'event' where there are. Ranogajec has been interviewed somewhere during which interchange he said that gaming was about information and that so-called 'low-latency' techniques could be applied there same as they successfully have been, in the stock-markets.

Governments around the world are fairly well-aware of the extraordinarily advanced high tech communications infrastructures that people such as Benter and Ranogajec own and control, and they worry that the privateers have better capacity to indulge in criminal lying and deception than they do - and they do(!). Recently, the Australian versions of the 'Secret Intelligence Service' have been chasing this rabbit down various holes - a rabbit by the code-name of 'Archie' something or other. And they shoved around a character in the racing world called 'Archie Butterfly' among one or two other alias 'Archies.'

So right now don't go around pretending to be 'Archie.' Gucci, maybe; but not Archie... 

Human Psychology and Money

Now unless you already are a professional in this particular field of activity, you will never quickly grasp how overloaded the place is with human beings that are masquerading there...

Sure there are a body of the patrons who are just 'there' being part of the social experience of it all - whether it is simply a large commercial casino, or a horse track, or a poker tournament - but among what will appear to unschooled outsiders as 'the professional players' in the space, virtually no one will see the actual tiny handful of individuals who have no other objective than literally to make a living gambling on the outcomes of events.

Now I will add that in my view the share performance of a quoted stock is also, 'an outcome event' situation. 

One day I'll tell you how you can pick out a professional gambler -
a real one - from the types of clothes they wear, and the colors they choose

Effectively, then, as I have maintained many times, most gaming situations are no more and no less than money markets where prices are determined by supply and demand, and there are regular 'rule-offs' of the market, namely being the event outcome itself determining who gets paid. And then, the market gets re-set for the next go round.

The media, being the kind of animal which likes to talk only about BIG things, will serve up a long litany of identities and their BIG money habits, losses, or wins. 

No casino in the world plans to survive and thrive by 'beating' the tiny handful of individuals who walk away with a hundred dollars or so in constant winnings over say, a pretty long day's gambling, for instance.

Vanessa Rousso - dual French-US citizen 

In my experience as a professional race horse gambler a while back, there were, from my insider knowledge of the local tracks, trainers, owners, breeders, bookmakers and officials, three full-time professional gamblers besides myself, that made a living continuously from the thing, and another two who moved across to buying young horses for very wealthy owners, and commissioning for bookmakers who were 'laying off' big bets. And I can can name them all: Freddy 'the fox' Clyne, John Blackburn, Dave Sommers, with the two additions of Ron Wilson, and Barry Farmer. Now these are all extremely well-known identities in the local racing community. And there were absolutely no others that were legitimate - anyone and everyone else had 'an underlying story' going on. The people I named were pure professional gamblers. That was what they did and all that they did. ...And of course there was a young well-dressed law clerk. And that was about all that anyone knew of who I was. I wasn't a law clerk at that stage - I had the qualifications to be a practicing lawyer and I didn't do that. I was a full-time professional gambler. When they opened the first big casino and hotel complex here I made it to the front pages of the main Weekend Newspaper as 'the guy who effectively left the casino every weekend with a potted plant under his arm...' And the rest of the column explained that the casino didn't like me because I was like a guy who turned up at your house each night and walked off with one of your potted plants under his arm. 'How would you feel? That's how the casino management feels about this gentleman.' And then they named me.

And I was very happy about that!

American whiskey, and hats...
and a gun. LOL

Anyway I tell you all that to tell you this - people who are majorly famous in the world of gambling of some kind are either laundering money for someone and usually some illegal source, or they are operatives installed by some of the world's biggest investigations agencies with a view to getting close to people who are committing crimes (who they then shop to the FBI), or because they are on the look-out for particular specific people who have stolen jewels or money or carried off some insurance fraud or similar and who might turn up at casinos.

You can believe in fairy-tales if you like but no one ever won a million dollar jackpot and no one ever won several million dollars that they kept and aggregated, in poker tournaments. Tournaments are run by investigation agencies and by half a dozen government security and intelligence departments around the world - one of which is certainly Russia and I am going to have to delete that last sentence in a few hours.

Human Social and Psychological Characteristics

As if you need to be told!!

LOL

Well, maybe we can encapsulate certain elements that have more current-moment meaningfulness...

I'm not going to post any pics of these kinds of groups of people but I'm sure you'll be generally aware of the thing - you know, loose cotton garments, beads, rather washed-out orange or purple-y colors...

And chanting. Yes, the chanting.

...So these guys go out to Manasarovar in Tibet, see, and they hang around the edges of this big lake, and then they do yoga poses and chant and all of this stuff.

Manasarovar with Mount Kailash in the background

And then, when their tickets and tourist visas say, they all get up and go back home.

Manasarovar is about 55 miles in distance around, and it's about 15,000 feet above mean sea level.

There are some well-documented phenomena present in the area to do with 'lights,' glowing objects, and apparent 'rays' of light going up and down from the main body of the lake, as well as from the peaks of Mount Kailash which is part of the Himalayas. 

...But there are no scraggly loose-cotton wearing 'beings' 'transporting' up and down from Manasarovar. My impression would be that whoever is going up and down in and out of that lake would look upon the Californian rich people dressed up as weirdo Hindus doing peculiar actions at the lake's edge - as pretty stupid.

'Mana' means intellect or advanced perception, and 'sarovara' means lake  - so if you ever talk to someone about this place maybe refrain from saying LAKE Manasarovar, or Manasarovar LAKE. Because clever informed people do need to repeat tautologies like 'clever intelligence lake lake.' 'Cause you never know who you might be talking to.

'...Mana,' means Intellect or Intelligent. In Sanskrit.

Remember this.

The world is not what it seems, dude.
   

My Resources Are Wa-a-a-ay Better Than...

You know sometimes I'm just tempted to drop a few pics and leave them there without any words of explanation...

The guy on the right is Armand Rousso 

But it would be really unfair of me not to expand just a little on why they have things like 'World Championship Poker' and that kind of fun, wild, money-throwing, party thing.

You see, it's actually owned behind the scenes by the world's biggest private investigations agencies.

What happens is, some group of toughs from, say, Moldova, burgles a Paris jewelry store, and takes zillions in diamonds, and then, they fence these somewhere and then go and do what all people with too much easy money do - they hit the 'rich kids of Instagram' circuit: rave dances, casinos, high stakes poker showdowns...

I mean what you don't understand about today's big league 'security' companies, is that they employ skilled professional forgers, thieves, actors, scam-artists, art dealers, stamp dealers - all kinds of things.

God good, they even have people go around and 'donate' forged checks to political campaigns and a lot of things get 'messed about,' you know...

What, I mean, d'you think the Paul Manafort thing is real, do you?! And that it's about 'tax dodging' and 'money laundering??'

Bwahahaha.

Same guy on the right again - and
Anatoly Karpov, senior planner at FSB