Jay-Z Crowds Out The 'Luxury' Market

There has been a massive pull-back in the expenditure the big connected boards are making in the 'luxury market' scene - we saw how a few months ago Rolex drastically cut back their annual output of watches down to an anemic 600,000 pieces, and this has been followed up across the whole luxury brand vista, with advertisers pulling out of sponsoring big events, pulling out their money from television networks with respect to the annual commercial time 'buys.'

DJ Khaled backs D'usse Cognac, a 'Jay-Z' brand
...Happens to be a very good cognac, by the way.

There is a roaring whisper about the Shanghai/Beijing luxury market as well, which bodes ill for everyone in the rest of the world.

There will be a few excuses made to do with the uncertainty of 'Brexit' but the message we need to take is about underlying problems with a lack of purchasing interest by the so-called affluent consumer class.

It has long been an aphorism among chief executives who operate in the luxury market space that the consumer spend is tied closely to the Wall Street Index on general equities.

And so, on the surface of things you would not expect senior executives and the luxury manufacturing leaders to be making the kinds of investing decisions that they currently are making.

D'usse Cognac - pronounced 'dusay...'

What do they know or suspect that the rest of us do not know about or 'feel...?'

Nothing. They have no clue.

Period. And bank it.

For one thing, the subject they really have no clue about is actual 'luxury.'

Keiser Karl just passed away and he was pretty much the end of it all as far as genuine, authentic quality in design elements for the Western fashion world. David Tang passed not too long ago as well, so that was it for the old 'Empire Far East.' Lagerfeld's mother came from the old Paris 'Salon' world and the genuine wealthy Bohemian displaced aristocracy. Tang was sufficiently borderline close to the real China 'Tang' family of ancient times and ancient wealth and class...

I mean I appreciate that 'Bacardi' (a HUGE, global house) is still a family-owned business, but it is industrialized and megalithic - it makes play into the upper class's luxury consumable world, but to do so it has to go to small French estates and re-brand what those small houses have been making for decades and still make under their own names, and sell for vastly less.

So is it really true that because Jay-Z backs something all of a sudden that 600,000 'strong' list of rich people all goes and buys the 'up-branded' product at ten times the usual price?

God those rich people must be stupid. That's why they're rich; because they are stupid.

Huh?!!

This is an actual rum distillery, and only a tiny part
of the whole industrial plant and facility, which covers 100's of acres.

The Greatest Ever

As a lot of the readers here will know - the racehorse Winx just ran her final professional public course race in the 2019 Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Randwick Racecourse in Sydney, Australia.

Winx is the greatest Champion racehorse I'll see in my lifetime. She retired undefeated, having won 33 races in a row, 25 of them at 'Group 1' level which is a world record.

Winx is by Street Cry from Vegas Showgirl.

I might note, just for personal reasons - and my wife and close friends can attest - that I backed her at her very first start, which she won by ten lengths going away from a good field.

There will be controversy from the overseas pundits and sports writers but the reality is there was never a better horse and there never will be, certainly not in our lifetimes. And as I always underline, European owners and trainers do not genuinely care about their animals as far as I'm concerned, taking exorbitant risks with them often, and always with those people, it's just about the money.

Australians love their animals and racehorse people (by far the majority of them) love their horses and look after them superbly.

The trainer of Winx Christ Waller broke down and was visibly in tears after the race, probably from relief as much as anything else; it's an incredibly stressful position that he has been in, with expectations far beyond the ordinarily 'high' and many people on the outside of course, just snarling and gnashing, who always wish to see tragedy happen to anything successful. Never did happen in this instance, however, and the horse has entered the history books forever.

Okay, So They Lied...

You must have seen all those YouTube videos by now - 'History is One Big Lie;' 'They've Lied To You;' and so on.

Dekobra was a French diplomat who wrote some of the most
seminal modern
thriller and romantic drama novels of all time,
and which have been widely plagiarized by Hollywood in their movies.

Yeah so 'they' lied to us - Hitler 100% never started WWII, Churchill conspired to provoke America's entry into that war, the pyramids are more or less 12,000 years old not 4,500+/- and they are nobody's 'tombs,' the American Indians were already doing as much slaughtering and virtual 'genociding' of what each tribe construed another 'racially-inferior' American Indian tribe to be, and probably more so in fact, as then did the 'invading' Europeans afterwards...! ...And, modern 'elected' governments never work for the people who elected them, or apparently elected them..

Dekobra is widley translated, and is a popular novelist in Arabic

You can't do anything about it to stop it - 'they' are too numerous and have greater fundamental mass power.

Like Jesus and Imam Hussain you 'could' throw yourself into the gaping mouth of the hungry tiger, I suppose...

LOL

You don't know, you know, American Indians are heavily involved in Freemasonry as well. Why do you think they have 'lodges?'

Now.

Now...

No-o-w...

There's this little door, see, just in the garden fence down there at the end behind the big tree. It's very small; you won't be able to fit in through it to escape.

...And in Persian (this book is 'Lost Love').

Here's a pic from out of an old movie that is now owned by Microsoft in conjunction with Disney, who brought it out originally in 1961. In the movie this clever but scatter-brained toy-maker makes a strange 'ray' gun, which can either make you toy-sized (small), or normal-sized (as you were).

If you had that gun you could fit through the door.

  

'Entourages of the Oligarchs'

One of my Russian friends tells me that one of the pet hates of ordinary Russian people today, is the facile wealth accumulated by what are termed 'the entourages of the Oligarchs.'

It is not exactly true that all of the general public at large in Russia appreciates whole-heartedly, the positive balance-sheet economic and effective political, directions taken by VV post the drunkard puppet of the West, Yeltsin.

Can you guess? You can't guess... And what's his significance?

By 'Oligarchs' it is meant by the common Russian public, those who benefited enormously in the 'privatization' process of previously state concerns - in their minds they do tend to still believe that the state would be the better managers or the more responsible and honorable towards the ordinary citizenry. 

Frankly, my friends, the most 'Soviet' of groups in Russia are those among the less privileged classes, and Putin and his circle are virtually not 'Soviet' at all. But does this mean Putin and his administration are, um, totalitarian?

This is a highly contested question, of course.

I cannot answer it satisfactorily to every mind here. I have some insight about it but not that any Western government would care to attend to - they, after all, have better sources and resources than do I. Such, as you will recall, was also the case when 1. The FBI and even parts of the CIA and all of the media opined very strongly that Obama and Clinton were not beholden to the Muslim Brotherhood as represented by those academics and thinkers in London like Jamal Khashoggi and his cousin (or uncle by different accounts) the multi-billionaire Adnan Khashoggi. No doubt the two hundred million sent to Hillary via the Moroccan ruling elites had no connection with the sudden introduction of Imran Arwan, the Pakistani Secret Service operative who had immediate open access to all of the US Secretary of State's communications from that point onwards; 2. The FBI was firmly of the view that 'Russians were colluding with Trump' or something like that, when I openly declared here and elsewhere that it was an element of Londonistan's MI6 that was manufacturing the false narrative all along. In fact I even showed where the 'peeing story' actually came from and that it was a CIA plan to uncover who was illegally intercepting secret coms...

This is also the Pushkin Cafe, but this is the Paris Pushkin Cafe

And as you know, I have long held that 3. Mueller would 'fall into a hole in the road.' 

I even specified that Alexander Downer was a con-artist working for MI6 and fraudulently claiming some loose talk had occurred with George Papadopoulos.

Long long LONG before anyone else you know said any of these things, I said them.

So yeah, everybody else has better sources and resources than I have. Every day, all the time, I'm sure you've noticed just by watching Fox and CNN.

'London City' as you all know, is a separate sovereign place of its own, with no legal obligations to the rest of the UK nor yet the Queen! And so if you subvert London City and the people at the top there - you effectively have control of the UK and much of Europe as well, not to mention those satellite vassals like Singapore and New Zealand.

Now I promised you that I would say something about actual Russian clandestine operations, AFTER the Mueller nonsense had wrapped up - and I shall.

But mostly, people will fail to understand what is being said.

Nevertheless, let's consider some facts:

If you want 'the best dessert in the world' among the nose-bleed level highest upper aristocracies, you go to the Pushkin Cafe in Moscow and ask for their dessert...

It is the best in the world.

Pushkin is famous for many things, he was a young short-story writer who died in a duel at 37 with a proto-Nazi, and he wrote a short story with supernatural elements in it about someone who learned the secret of gambling from 'the Queen of Spades ' ('Pikovaya Dama' means 'Queen of Spades') and this later became an opera by Tchaikovsky.

The secret imparted by this mysterious lady consisted of the numbers 3, 7, and 1.

Russian Pushkin cafe creme brulee

Now, because the education of the Western person is absolutely pathetic these last several decades or more, few or none, will have the slightest clue about anything that I just said.

So what's the point?

Of course Russians fucked up the election for the Democrats - as they did for several of the fronts of London City pretending to be Republicans and who really, have no clue the types pulling their strings. 

I could lay the whole thing out chapter and verse before even Jerrold Nadler - who would just stare and say, 'I don't get it.'

LOL

Got it?

That's how these things are done. And gotten away with too.

...Now. On to the next exciting adventures.

Oh, by the way - there are two billion Muslims on the planet or thereabouts. How many know that Aleksandr Pushkin, the great Russian novelist and short story writer, was part Arabic and his grandfather was a Muslim?

Keep it quiet though, eh. We only have enough oil for our own lamps and things are about to get very dark indeed soon.

Monte Carlo Rose Ball

The 2019 Monte Carlo Rose Ball - a function instituted by Grace Kelly in (wait let me check it up on Google... ...I think it was 1959 from memory) nope it was 1954 - just finished a couple of days ago.

'The Ball' is more than just one evening, as you can gather from the phrase 'just finished.' I mean, how long is the thing after all, for it to only 'just finish?!'

Well, put it this way - if you are Amanda Harlech, one of the real brains and business muscle behind Chanel, you go from the Paris Fashion Week (she has a base in the Paris Ritz), and on to the Monte Carlo Rose Ball without missing a beat, don't you.

Princess Caroline of Monaco is the other half of the 'big hitters' who were as much part of 'Karl Lagerfeld' as Karl was himself. They are not silly people, and by no means ignorant or illiterate. Karl's real substance was made up in large part by his collection of books, hand-written texts and drawings, and even scale models and samples of the work of the greatest fashion designers and stylists of Europe over at least a 100 years. 

This is what a Russian-crafted car with German mechanicals looks like -
looks a bit like 'Captain Black' himself, old Karl Lagerfeld!
This is a Russian coachbuilt, V12 BMW. Available right now.

Now I can tell you something about Karl Lagerfeld that the public accounts will not say, or disclose, or maybe even know. 

And for those of you participating in the up-coming Australia national elections, there is a broadly similar story that applies to the billionaire candidate Clive Palmer.

Both Lagerfeld and Palmer are part Russian, and part CHINESE.

Their families have been in Russia and China doing trade and diplomacy for CENTURIES.

If you think Caroline of Monaco and Amanda Harlech hung out with Keiser Karl just because he was a genius designer and stylist you are mistaken.

Setting for the 'Rose Ball' of Monte Carlo

Karl's father was a diplomat for the Russian government in Paris for years - he is one of these ever so slightly 'displaced' Bohemians, or in his case, more Pomeranian, of noble blood and birth, whose prospects were dimmed on account of the final destruction of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the end of the Russian Tsar. But deep back in the ancient past, he was of the Swedish-Russian aristocracy. Today's fake 'elites' don't want to admit it partly because, as you all know, today's ruling elite are utter and complete rascals and usurpers of the first water, taking advantage of many criminal events, including the massacre of the French aristocracy and then the murder of the Russian Tsar and his family.

Karl Lagerfeld, in my own view, was considerably older than he made out, and even more so than the most conservative public assertions by 'responsible' records.

Today, modern people have this ludicrous gullible credulity about there having been ANY records left after WW's I and then II. This is plain insanity to any self-respecting decent historian.

1930 was the Great Depression following the Crash of '29, but more to the point, if there had have been records maintained in Hamburg then to do with Russian court diplomats and the birth of their children from 'someone' it is the most inane thing to make no comment at all that Hamburg was bombed to the ground during WWII.

No, my friend, I can trust my own private and personal network's accounts - Karl was Russian, or part Russian, part French, part Swedish, and in more ancient times, of even more exotic Asiatic blood. If he was German at all, it was only because those types of people were the rulers in the old Pomerania, near Sweden.