Sailing In Calmer Waters

But let us see shift away from all of the 'too hot' stuff about modern politics and so on...

Allow me to take a brief look at what is going on these days in the world of live tournament poker.

I remember, I think, recently, I was suggesting here that you can 'discern' certain potential psychological states of gamblers from the colors in the clothing that they wear.

And I personally believe that to be a true factor that reflects some underlying states-of-mind in people who are doing, well, anything really, not just gambling.

The current vogue among tournament poker players is jackets with poker industry logos on the shoulders, caps, maybe different kinds of hats, dark glasses sometimes, sneakers. Although I haven't seen anyone wearing velvet sneakers yet...

Vans brand velvet chukkas

Now, what do you think the theory behind this 'symbolism' is?

There are University courses in psychology which go into people's responses to color: red implies 'action,' or 'danger,' green means 'go,' or 'fresh/growth,' white means you have to spend a lot of time with a cleaning cloth...

In the Vedic system, colors have definite causes stemming from the release of energy from a higher state dropping down to a lower state - which is pretty much what modern electronics also says.

However in the ancient Vedic teachings, the higher mind equates to intense white, and the immediate lower purple/indigo equates to the so-called 'third eye,' then blue is the throat area, green the heart, just below that is the golden-yellow navel, and beneath that are the red energy circles.

A gambler wearing purple or mauve or violet (who has subconsciously selected that color feature) might be someone who has been doing a lot of calculating and is stepping down from that phase after their thinking has reached a temporary conclusion. This is a person who could be a successful risk-taker on course, or at a poker table. 

Why all this 'Q' stuff is Dangerous

It's possible that a young Washington DC reporter by name 'Jack Posobiec' knows who 'Q' is.

That is to say, the current 'Q' phenomenon identity, and not the engineer who gave Bond all those Aston Martins to smash up!

And if he does (know) I commend him that he has had the self-control to not 'out' the person behind 'Q.' Well so far at least.

Personally I cannot see that this person 'Q' has actually ever broken any law while perpetrating this gigantic hoax on the public - that hoax being, that somehow 'Q' is some 'insider' very close to the Trump top people who is able to 'tweet' out insider 'messages' from the Trump Team at the very top. 'Q' has never claimed to BE either an Intelligence operative nor what is being claimed for him now, a MILITARY Intelligence insider - all he's done is encourage these kinds of views among groups of people avidly interested in all things modern politics and of course, Trump v everyone/everything else.

But from that point on we head into murkier waters... You see, 'Q' may be someone with let's just say, a checkered history as far as the Federal Law is concerned.

He may have many enemies from those he has betrayed over his career as a hacker.

And as a source and informer and operative for the FBI.

And that's where things get a lot more problematical, because, if 'Q' is doing the bidding say, for John Brennan or for Robert Mueller, or for some group at the top of the DNC - then although 'Q' might be in a spot of trouble were he 'unmasked' then god almighty(!) a few big-time public figures would be in HUGE difficulties if they were to be revealed as pulling 'Q's' strings.

Now why do I suggest 'Q' is doing someone else's bidding?

Well because he's done it before, for the FBI no less.

Now I'm not going to divulge who 'Q' is because this is a very serious business - as those of you who can put two and two together will immediately realize.

I'm going to post a very poor pic of 'Q' and probably I'll have to take it down and replace it with a pic of the James Bond 'Q' very very VERY soon.

Media Reports are WRONG re Nunes in London

Any Google search right now on the day-before-yesterday's trip by Congressman Devin Nunes to Londonistan to discuss the matters associated with the UK SPY Christopher Steele's dodgy dossier which was used as a fraudulent reason to enact covert listening-in to privileged conversations of US political figures, will show endless pages and lists of highly negative blurbs about Nunes having made a 'failed' visit to see the heads of the UK secret agencies like MI5, MI6, and so on.

There are at least three substantial items of protocol that go against what the corporate media is suggesting:

Firstly, there is little basis for a Congressman, even one who is the head of a Congressional Committee, to necessarily be granted virtually ad hoc on-the-record access to executive managers of another government's Intelligence departments or Services! Especially not if it seems, for all the world, like they've been caught doing something wrong and now some foreign politician is going to come over and what - scold them? 

A really nice afternoon tea twist is mulled sherry with
maple syrup cream

Secondly, the status of 'Congressman' is not on the same level as salaried employees of a government department.

Thirdly, if it was a fact-finding endeavor there are already procedures and processes by which such interchanges will normally be sought, and might occur.

Additionally, the new Foreign Secretary of the UK, Jeremy Hunt just made an official visit to the US - was he snubbed as far as anyone knows, only to have Devin Nunes roll up at Whitehall in order potentially to receive an official snub in return (you know, just to see what might happen)...?

This bigoted myopic lunacy that has struck the modern press and general corporate media is not serving anyone at all, frankly.

For one thing, the Theresa May government can be considered politically fragile - why are the media, whose first interest seems to be in damaging the US government, rushing headlong into smashing up May's UK government at the same time as mere 'collateral damage?'

Devin Nunes is critically, not just a senior member of the US government, but he has a political role - I mean this is critical and fundamental to understand in our modern Western democracies. It just makes more sense on every test, that a political appointee therefore, or an official aide to the political function of the UK government, be designated to meet him.

And that's what happened.

Like many English things, sherry is a stolen thing -
from Spain, you see; a word more on this down the bottom
of the page...

Not only that, but I hate to tell you guys from spook-land out there who monitor this blogspot, that Madeleine Alessandri is a spy...

And you know it. Or you should know it from her having received the Order of Saint Michael and Saint George from the Queen, and as such, it appears on the official public Gazette of the United Kingdom. All lawyers who appear either in the UK Gazette with 'foreign affairs' designations, or who are gazetted in the publication of the relevant foreign country in which they are working, are lawyers whose job is expressly to act for spies who get caught.

Didn't you know that?

Anyway, let's move back to afternoon tea in London. 

Sailors in Liverpool docks (which is a great place and from which excellent English people hail) used to get stuck into the casks of imported Spanish sherry early in the mornings, see? And from this habit came the phrase 'Liverpool milk...' But when some clever wags sampled the Amontillado from Versos, they opined 'if that is Liverpool milk, then this is Bristol cream.'

And that is why we have this thing nowadays called 'Harveys Bristol Cream Sherry.' 

'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...