Macron - The Danger Of Rhetoric

I think there are several unforeseen 'issues' with the present era of global internet communications - firstly and probably foremost being that in every other phase in which there was a broad stock market collapse, the 'insider' distribution agenda was signaled quietly and surreptitiously as the professional short-sellers 'took their bacon,' as they say. This time around - not that we are exactly close to the collapse right now, but - everyone will be acquiring 'hacked' information and there will be no secrets as to who was there 'too quickly'/first with best information, and knowing what is being sold and where all the money is actually going.

This is a beautiful 'messenger bag.'
You have to have a message, though, to be worthy of owning such a thing...
Don't you think...

Secondly, I think politically we are at around the same kind of moment that ancient Athens saw, when the public was exhausted from the lies about state finances, and they were used to the rhetoric that politicians employed, and it became too transparent that politicians were only relying on rhetorical tricks.

I think the public in France finds Macron's rhetoric far too transparent - he is very clearly not being at all forthright about who he is working for, and he is using fairly obvious rhetorical tricks to try and convince the general public to 'feel' good about him; it's just plain not working!

The internet has succeeded in quickly spreading knowledge to the broader public, including enlightening them as a majority about high-quality analysis of politics, and this has meant politicians themselves are being caught on the back foot as far as being able to rely on tools and techniques they used in the past to get away with stuff.

There may not be that many of you who will quickly
'get' what the implication of this pic is.
Anyway, it is a pic of a foulard. As in Foulard Rouge.

But you can also see these same people are apparently incapable of adjusting quickly enough so as to be able to find and to use different techniques and skills and then hang on that way - and yet all the same they still want to cling on regardless; they will definitely not just let go and re-group and come back with better ideas. No, they are intent on using the idiotically bad ideas they have to remain. These people are going to take the public on head-on with force and with naked violence in order to grab onto absolute power - which is in any case what they are lusting for really. If they were not, they would at least try to be a little more inventive in their rhetoric: Macron actually managed to say this kind of thing - 'if it means higher pay (my brackets; 'to me'), then I am a Yellow Jacket!' This is a fairly standard fallacy of argument by association with however, completely different underlying qualifications.

Seriously, does he - did he ever - hope to get away with it?

You see either he is wildly incompetent and will therefore easily be kicked out - or he is a right little *hole and quite capable of murder to remain in power.

Now, there are those people in France who know him well enough to know which of these really does apply...

Without question this is a tragedy unfolding in front of our eyes.   

Baba au Rhum

This dessert - which can today be bought basically in Paris from the exact same family whose ancestors invented it - is not 'babka cake infused with rum.' Although that is more or less what you are getting technically these days...

It's in fact an Ottoman Turkish thing; even an Arabic Muslim item - since originally it was made using saffron and soaked raisins and fresh grapes, and a Spanish wine known as Malaga Wine.

This is the Stohrer 'Ali Baba.'

'Rhum' is a place, not a type of alcohol; ancient 'Rhum' is the coast of Ionia, Turkey. In it's modern form, the dessert was created in Venice, where the Far East, and the near East, and pretty much everywhere else, met the West. 'Bab' means 'gate,' not 'cake.'

I mean it is still called 'Baba au Rhum' not 'Babka au Rum.' And it is indeed historically and literally the case that the person for whom the dessert was made, was a fan of the story of Ali Baba and the use of 'Baba' was quite deliberate and intentional.

Stohrer, the family company that makes the original versions in Paris today, still call the main example the 'Stohrer Ali Baba.'

Now I tell this story to tell you this other one...

Today when people talk about wealth they talk about money. The gods only understand wealth in terms of food.

And the opposite of the supernatural powers of Good, are spoken of in terms of spoiled food: 'Lord of the Flies,' 'neither cold nor hot I spit you out...'

The greatest mind today who speaks about fashion and clothing to the cognoscenti - Robert Pante says things like: 'you have to dress, not tasteful, but tasty!'

I have a copy of the highly secret movie that John Malkovich made for Remy Martin, which has been placed inside a 'time-capsule' to be opened after a hundred years - the amount of time it takes for a Louis XIII cognac to be made. I don't know anyone from the layers of the super-wealthy who are at all interested in seeing it for money (they of course want to see it for free) - but they will pay for all kinds of other things, always which they are sold on as 'urgent/critical/important.'

Same thing but from Alain Ducasse

Now here's the rub see - the great ancient Greek philosopher Parmenides said it first as far as I know: 'if you are seeking pure happiness in the highest order, the philosopher and the one who finds and comprehends Truth has it, while the individual who thinks money and power provide the greatest rewards as far as happiness goes are not just mistaken but wildly so.'

The secret movie was hacked by the exact same people who got all those emails of John Podesta and Hillary Clinton but I don't think the media is going to care about the Remy Martin cognac flick. They'll probably want RM to pay for the exposure. 

It's an absolutely great movie, by the way. 'It'll make your life better,' as food blogger Mikey Chen often says.

Only Enough Oil For My Lamp

One would like to think that they (IE 'we,' 'I') could have some knowledge or skill or value to other human beings... I no longer think that way.

There are a lot of things I can do - but I cannot do them for others, mostly; mostly I cannot. But I can do them for myself and a few, a tiny handful of friends who in any event all have similar skills and kind of manage to get by.

One friend of ours here very recently got a personal 'invite' to a really upscale hillside restaurant to view some presentation or other about gold and pink diamonds.

Hundred grand at least

I don't think he will go but in case he's tossing up whether to or not I'd advise against it (IE against going).

If those people had have asked him to give such a presentation well, that would be a different matter... Now do you see, Smithy? What's the possible chances they would ever give a better presentation than you could, Smith? Zero Nil Nothing; None At All. 

Selling is a peculiar business. Not all that many really know how to do it although they all claim they can and are experts and everyone in business in the world does it to some lesser or greater extent and everyone has a 'rule book' about it.

Pink diamonds... Hard stones, light or pale red/reddish. Expensive, tend to be small. Hand over your money; and now here's your small pink stone/s. Bye y'all.

In our immediate last article we talked about M. Christophe Claret, the watch-designer and watch-maker. He's been designing and making high end watches for most of the really big brand names for quite a few years - Ulysse Nardin's famous chiming alarm watches were all designed and made by him, to name just one truly prominent brand.

Any kind of quality minute repeater or chiming watch retails for at least a hundred thousand US dollars - but I as I said the actual legit authentic Christophe Claret is half a million. So if you had a half a million, you face the choice of buying either the Rolls Royce Dawn, or a wristwatch... And you'd have no change left over.

FIVE hundred thousand bucks...

But you know the world goes through 'vogues,' sometimes there is a lot of buyer cash sloshing around, sometimes there is very little.

I shouldn't be unkind to pink diamonds per se - I like pink diamonds. 

I'm definitely never unkind to decent restaurants - love those!

The problem today with all of these fellows who make out they are the main game - you know, people like Emmanuel Macron, for example, for god's sake they wear damn notch-collar jackets...

These people are going to end up in the ditch and they will take a lot of other people there with them.

And how do I know this? Because I have this lamp, see, which shines a light a little further ahead into the darkness of the future.

Frankly, the question you want to ask is, what is the 'oil' for said lamp.

Bond Movie Producers Have 'All The Money In The World'

Meaning, they have way enough money to arrange for any car to be in the flick, any accoutrements, any types of guns, planes, helicopters, ships, space-ships, whatever.

Or clothes, shoes, champagne, vodka.

I hope you can start to see the problem with all of these present-day 'action/adventure/thriller' movies - yes they have this formula about playing chase-y around the park, in hot cars, being pursued by serious men in black helicopters, while Bond or Tom Cruise or Matt Damon or Mark Wahlberg or whoever never creases his Savile Row threads not even just a little (slight exaggeration there because I think this latter thing has happened; but you get my point), but is it actually true that the gear is all that hot, really...?

Part of the whole attraction is the suave mindset being show-cased as amazing clothes, and expensive cars - and sheer style.

Or it's meant to be that.

You are forced to watch these 'Eau Sauvage' ads with Johnny Depp right now on Fox, where he drives a classic American car up Route 66 and digs some sand in the cactus desert, and buries something - none of which really makes any kind of sense at all... 

I feel sorry for the kids these days - they are getting a hapless mish-mash, a parody of the old school hard-boiled Raymond Chandler thriller thing, but which doesn't genuinely add up to the genuine article.

You see, no rich person who is savvy, about clothes, or cars, or accessories, or style, uses the kinds of high-priced junk being foisted onto the mass market as 'the genuine article.'

I promised a friend here that I would post a few examples of today's 'real thing' but that I would also pull these pics and articles down after a short while - and I will, so you'd better take note now if you're interested in this kind of affair even just slightly...

Here is a real watch - it costs half a million dollars (literally it is $500,000 and worth every penny:

The Christophe Claret Soprano Minute Repeater -
which chimes out the exact peal of the famous Westminster Cathedral Bells

And here is a brand new - and by that I mean these things are fully handmade brand new from scratch in England - car, about a million bucks each:

You think Lancia is out of business? Oh but no - this is the Lancia Aurelia Outlaw,
and it is brand new to you for around $1,000,000. Cheap at twice the price.

Aurelia Outlaw - better than a Pagani Huayra? You bet.

And here is the proper Chelsea Boot - most kids have no idea that this, is the kind of shoe (boot) worn by John Steed of the Avengers, beneath his Savile Row trouser; this is a Tony Gaziano special (Gaziano & Girling):

Even the great Jason King wore Chelsea Boots, as well as 'whole-cut' loafers and benchmade suedes too, which are among the most difficult of shoes to make properly:

All from the great Tony Girling of Gaziano & Girling, in London and Northamptonshire.

  

Lee Stranahan Bewails

Lee Stranahan is the Washington investigative reporter who actually interfaced with 'Guccifer 2.0, (theoretically, the main intermediary between Wikileaks and the wider media) - and in fact it is on the official government record (because his name was raised in one of the House Oversight Committee hearings in this regard) that he spoke by phone with 'Guccifer 2.0;' this latter being the conduit of the leaked DNC/Podesta/Hillary Clinton email server archives.

He's been on-line via the 'Open Mind' YouTube channel this week bewailing the media circus that was Roger Stone's arraignment hearing resulting from Mueller's bizarre accusations about Stone lying to someone.

Lee Stranahan - this is the Breibart journalist who was the
original conduit of the Wikileaks Clinton emails material

Stranahan was right there on the Court House steps when Roger Stone emerged doing his signature 'Nixon two-fingered salute,' and he made the point that he could have yelled something along with the other reporters there to Stone and everyone would have shut up because they all know what his involvement in all of this is. But no one has the balls - and certainly their producers have forbidden it - to interview Stranahan directly on purpose about the whole subject.

You see, even Robert Mueller has a lot to hide that has not ever been made public at all - yet. And there is a complete conspiracy of silence going on - from CNN all the way to Fox - to refrain from raising the matter of Natalia Veselnitskaya with regard to the Trump Russia fairy tale. This stuff all pre-dates Trump.

Robert Mueller is himself clearly implicated in bringing Veselnitskaya into the USA in order for her to try and gain access to candidate Trump or at least to senior members of his Team - she was barred from entry to the US literally by Mueller and Rosenstein and the FBI earlier, because of the problems with the convicted casino criminal and money launderer Bill Browder and cases in Russia involving Veselnitskaya as a lawyer there. 

German Khan - a seriously top European industrial and commercial
banker, whose son-in-law was charged by Robert Mueller with some nonsense
that will never appear in a final legitimate court hearing.
Mueller is running a 'political threat' backstop scam designed to try and
keep attention off himself and corrupt people in the US for as long as possible.  

Now Browder, has some involvement with Mueller and James Comey -, when it comes to money laundering, via Letter1 Energy and Alfa Bank and their libel suits against Christopher Steele and Orbis - both of whom knew about financial transactions Alfa Bank was making (all of which were totally legal, but it was never a prominent group whose owners and members were not really known about until 'someone at HSBC' leaked all of these details to Orbis). Browder was a client of HSBC, and HSBC subsequently settled a Federal case of money laundering to do with Browder's companies, but not to do with Alfa Bank. Yet what was leaked to the press was that Alfa Bank was a client/customer of HSBC, but not that Browder was and that Browder's companies were among the main money laundering targets!! The other targets were Iranian groups breaking the sanctions with the cash that Obama and Congress had handed to them, and Uranium One, the company that bribed a lot of US officials so that they could take control of US nuclear materials...

Robert Mueller was the head of the FBI section advising Hillary Clinton on the 'sign-off' for granting permission to sell the nuclear materials.

And so I suppose rightly does Lee Stranahan bewail the utter BS that is coming out in the media, and the entirely false trail being laid to do with Roger Stone - who has absolutely ZERO involvement in anything whatsoever.