Dog-In-The-Hunt News

Honestly, really TRULY ROOOLY - I was trying all this whole entire week to develop a couple of ideas for a new Bond villain... Some characterization besides the ugly guy or the guy with one eye or a scar or some other disfigurement intended to provoke an underlying empathy; because as you know there are theories around the place in creative writing schools to the effect that horror is a kind of mix of tragedy in which we can find some empathetic feelings, tied up with the extreme viciousness and malice of the dark subject that was explained by the personal tragedy involved.

Now I could say that the ordinary news itself provided sufficient material for sourcing some new James Bond movie villain ideas but the fact is, the news is not actually covering certain important matters that are up at that 'global domination(!)' level of story.

Henry Poole, I think... Pretty conservative.

We have seen remarkably little of the reporting regarding the scandals to do with Barclays Bank. 

Surprisingly, you might think, I am personally not one of those who thinks the then top dog at the Investment Banking arm of Barclays, Roger Jenkins, ever did anything illegal or even morally wrong in injecting a GBP322 million advisory services line into the Qatari government's bailing-out of Barclays following the Global Financial Crisis of 2008. His thinking was that although he was being asked by the bank's Chief Executive and Board to find the required multi-billion dollar funding package, it was clear that they were happy to close up his Investment Banking side (which Jenkins was CEO of) by accepting enough to keep their own sides intact and funded and forgetting about everyone else. In the current court case brought by the UK's Serious Fraud Office against Jenkins and two others, it is inevitable that Jenkins will counter that the Qataris themselves would not want to invest so much in a bank WITHOUT an Investment Banking arm.

Jenkins will win the case on an objective view of the facts. That is to say, he will if the UK courts are honest, although it is clear they are not and have not been for a long time. 

Jenkins secured over 7 billion US Dollars for the bail-out funding of Barclays. In the process, there are taped phone calls between others at senior levels of the bank agreeing to unwritten conditions set by key people in the Singapore government's sovereign funds area, for 'pro bono advisory services' in exchange for the Singapore government's recommending the deal to the ruling family of Qatar. So much for the honesty and incorruptibility of the leaders in Singapore. ...As I have been saying for decades.

Just pretty standard Bond stuff.

Again, a lot of people will jump onto the Qataris but in this case I hardly think that is fair. In the whole saga, lost in the media-controlled narratives, we never see why Barclays was in trouble in the first place. The Qataris are super wealthy, we know that. And they are entitled to invest in stuff they think is worth buying. The problem is not what Qatar has done or still does -, but the problems come in because they are super ultra wealthy, that those going to them greedily seek to skim because of the sheer temptation of such large sums. 

So yes, I have been looking at the real world to find a Bond-style super villain but the crooks we see in the real world, are all so banal. I don't see Jenkins as a super villain - he is problematic and likely quite complex and difficult to deal with - but his ultimate boss at the bank, Bob Diamond seems far more sinister to me, yet at the same time he is so utterly banal and venal and in the end, just plain stupid.

Jenkins is glitzy enough and lurid enough in his lifestyle to be a movie figure, but he is just not completely sinister enough. 

...So I am still working on it.

Roger Jenkins - very very wealthy guy.
What if he ended up in a jail with Assange?! LOL
Won't happen, of course.

But once again, the back-story to the Jenkins issue (which begun to be heard in the UK courts this week), is the secret wire-tapping of phone conversations from a long time ago, by the UK Intelligence people - who ultimately were the ones pushing the narrative that Jenkins should be charged. The evidence in the court case however is only able to be heard sourced from the trading floor phone calls that were always taped as part of normal protocol, and from which the UK prosecutors are trying this American 'parallel construction' stunt to create the impression of wrong-doing. But what is really going on is naked jealousy on full display. Jenkins was very visible of a figure in his heydays at Barclays.   

I have business with Qatari sources. They're rich, you see. I have 'a dog in the hunt,' as they say.

Warning - (Pls) Don't Read This Incautiously

The essential difference between myself and say, some public figure like Julian Assange, is that Julian Assange's main capability - and the real reason he was used by various major interest groups (whoever they may be let's just leave that to one side for this immediate discussion) - is a global reach in transmission of information and journalism.

This blogspot here, this one you are reading, is not 'monetized' and I never want it to be. Consequently, fundamentally, it is shadow-obstructed if not exactly blocked as such. And that means that not too many people will ever read what is written down here.

'Old school' 

When I say 'don't read this incautiously' I mean don't jump to the conclusion that this blog needs to present the kinds of hard facts that we all presume ever came from Wikileaks or from Julian Assange - in order to say certain 'conclusion'-style things.

However don't think I don't personally have certain hard facts, and in many many instances, far more detailed and explosive than anything Assange ever had; he had what everyone thinks, and to some extent rightly so, 'the motherlode' namely Hillary Clinton's private emails to John Podesta who was representing the DNC organization. 

The reason I am placing a heavy caveat on what you are about to see, is that I am not jumping to the sorts of typical conclusions about what you will see, that say, some people on Fox would, or some Right Wing commentators will jump to immediately.

No comment...

The only thing I would like you to take away from this is the absolute and guaranteed realization that it is via banks in Qatar, whose headquarters are in fact in London, that certain public figures who are supposedly employed by voting citizens and the public, have and are still funneling simply enormous sums of money that you really wouldn't believe unless you take into consideration amounts such as the hundreds of millions said to have been sent 'back' to Iran, or the sums of cash that went missing in Iraq off US military transport planes - and maybe half of all the heroin and cocaine business in the world.

You see, Qatar is the world's number 1 secret banking destination today, and not Switzerland. It is a tax-free country and is run by highly non-transparent autocratic rulers within a single family who appear to have a lot of friends in Western governments all around the place. I could show you photographs of those rulers with David Cameron, The Duke of Edinburgh, the Queen of England, Hillary Clinton, Theresa May, Angela Merkle, Barack Obama and the real biggie Tony Blair - and on and on. 

But I will just show you this one:

This is New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez with Bob Corker on the side there.
Bob (M.) got a going over with in a recent
criminal corruption indictment which he won in court,
following which though, you will find he doesn't prolly hang out with the same characters anymore.

If you ever ask yourself, well what in the hell is all this animus against Donald Trump and today's FBI under Wray and the DOJ under Bill Barr, really all about and how come people like Kamala Harris are so aggressive questioning Bill Barr about Mueller's report - it's all about money. 

This Is The Basic Problem:

Look you can't blame producer Barbara Broccoli too much. For one thing she is not British, she is American. And in the second place she originally contracted the screenwriters Neal Purvis and Robert Wade because she has seen an earlier work of theirs which she described as being 'dark, witty, sexy and inventive...' ...indeed all the things you would want in a Bond movie.

And then, she hired Martin Campbell the director to try and revive the franchise - which he managed to do especially in Casino Royale, which was a commercial success and really unearthed the English-speaking mainstream public to Eva Green who went onto substantial successes in more movies.

'I just know you guys are going to f* it up!'

But then - and for me you can see the signs already beginning to creep in in Casino Royale when someone is placing various policy pressures onto the director - the whole enterprise goes badly downhill in a very tragic way when the entire Bond 'canon,' let's say, the authentic book-based narrative about what this thing is all about, turns into some kind of political propaganda pantomime horse. 

And that is because there is a difference between 'writer,' and 'screenwriter.' The two things are not the same at all - and neither Purvis nor Wade are acknowledged writers with any real body of print work published beforehand.

A screenwriter is a visual logistics manager or documenting clerk. A writer deals with all kinds of ideas communicated in the first instance through words and language. And there are some ideas that have no visual image analogs to render the real sense of them. In films they require to be implied by scenes, images, and perhaps sound - and even then, they will rely on the audience having an ability to make the impressionistic leaps needed.

'Petrichor' has no direct visual analog. 'Aldehyde' hasn't either. Nor does 'louche;' at least not in the modern world.

Once you have the screenwriters also bringing their own personal private life biases into the stories which are not part of the real originator's 'canon,' you massively run the risk of losing the audience that made you rich in the first place who liked what was there when they were attracted to the product. 

Len Deighton and Leslie Charteris were significant writers long before they worked on Bond films as screenwriters, even though they were both good screenwriters, especially so Charteris. They understood what today's Bond developers appear to have no clue about, which is that the Fleming stories do not revolve around the following:

Weird Characters
Location
Politics
Crazy Objective (of inverted 'protagonist' character; namely, the villain)
Anti-Protagonist (Bond)
Conflict caused by Bond blocking the objective
Car-chase
Violence and pain
Dangerous edges
Explosions
Bigger Explosions
Huge vast explosions
Credits and music

...What they revolve around I do know - but it would cost you a damn lot of money to get it from me!

You're on your own coughing up twenty bucks plus coke and popcorn money for the rubbish you will get from Eon and the two gay guys inclusive one heroin addict. Good luck.

Music is - Arnej 'People Come People Go' (Maor Levi Remix)

Scientist Goes Missing...??!

Like, yeah, so what?

Rami Malek is announced as coming onto the cast of the new Bond scam. And a comedy writer(!) is also announced as THE MAIN SCREENPLAY WRITER(?)

Okay so what has been going on with the Bond franchise for years now is that they hold off on production until they get what they reckon are adequate placement and support contracts before they make the next movie or even commission a script and screenplay. Variety Magazine reported the producers have secured a hundred million dollars from a list of brands like Belvedere vodka, Heineken, Gillette, Omega watches...

So now you know (ought to be able to guess) how the French actress from the Schlumberger family got her part.

Yep. Sony was kicked off the distribution account and substituted with Universal Pictures, who clearly take a far lesser cut now.

The next Bond, whilst it will sink like a stone at the Box Office, will still be a 'success' for the producers, who don't give a f* about talent or being a faithful custodian of the true Bond 'brand,' or thrilling or entertaining the audience or paying real screenwriters or meaningful writers generally.

It seems that the mode for all the big movie franchises now - because people don't spend money going to movie theaters anymore and are getting everything they want from the internet - is product-placement and other angles to make money other than real ticket sales. Marvel creates one disaster after another and still goes on. 

Apparently the main plot line of 'Bond 25' is that a scientist goes missing where Bond is vacationing or maybe more or less in retirement.

Yawn...

And with Malek turning up the continuing undercurrent will be that everything about Bond will be gay-themed and there is not a damned thing real fans of the real books and original films will be able to do about it. 

Scientist missing - no doubt a 'climate change expert' or even better still, could be a vaccination biochemist...

...And Rami Malek. Doing bad impressions of Montserrat Caballé. Why not.

Wonder how much Malek had to tip in to 'get' a spot. He's just come off a 'great success' from er, er, er, global marketing contracts. 

Precious Metals Lack A 'Narrative' Today

I received a communication very recently discussing the prospects for silver.

Categorically it is not possible to view price stability exhibited in both gold and silver markets as absent of interference by 'the Russians...' It must be 'the Russians,' after all - it can't be a concerted effort by the global network of Clearstream-enabled Central Banks. Because then that would be criminal fraud and conspiracy to cheat traders and investors and others.

But regardless of whoever is doing it, it is difficult to see near-term price rises without some obvious change in this scam of limitless forward selling using printed fiat and then 'buying in' on the shaken out 'longs' and even commercial vault holders of physical.

Yet, against the background of this seeming absolute 'control' of the market, is the existence of an unacknowledged crack in the fabric of all bankers' 'space-time continuum.' Clearstream, the public-company owned iteration of what was originally the vital Swiss Settling and Custody Aktiengesetz that all Central Banks previously depended on for the SWIFT system, has had a declining uptake against competing platforms such as the basic internet Blockchain system. What this really means is that something has gone wrong with the 'elite.' They control nothing now. Theoretically, maybe, they could control some aspects of governments' policies to do with the internet, but they literally cannot control the actual internet itself because it is independent - with modern wireless systems - of network infrastructure run by government, or even 'seen' by governments.

We might have to face some situation at some point around the next corner, in which banks and traditional currencies develop insurmountable problems concerning being universally accepted tokens of exchange. I mean it seems silly, but what if dirty Russian 'money' starts transferring London real estate using BitCoin... It's not going to see the City of London prevent them from doing this, because money laundering using false valuations, is how London functions economically at all, and as long as they (the London Freemasonry 'masters') get their 'cut' they're not going to object especially not if it means not getting any 'cut' at all if they do object. If money is 'dirty' because it is from dubious Russian sources, BitCoin is far easier to 'acquire' without the taint if you happen to be a Russian oligarch with access to a Moscow semi-government financial account ledger.

Yeah. We've got a problem all right. And the media doesn't want to talk about it and governments are certainly not going to admit it. Literally, it's already the case that banks are an irrelevancy. Sure they still pay political lobbies, but to do what? They can attain no further control (from where they once were at the zenith) and have actually already lost control of the monetary tiger.

Very nice 'Damascene' silverware

Gold and silver have not changed their roles as a monetary 'backstop.' We can definitely look at slowly averaging a meaningful physical position.

But in terms of wider public demand, the public always needs a media-led 'narrative.' Gold Rush Fever! Spanish Silver! Pirates' Treasure!

Even the Chinese, who once were the leading exponents of silver casting, never talk about gold or silver in the terms they once did. Nor do the Japanese, and nor does anyone else for that matter.

There are some amazing arts that were historically associated with silver mining and silver stores - Damscening, the art of inlaying different metals, usually against silver or gold, produced stunning works in antiquity. Same with Toledo silver worked sword hilts.

A 'dirham' is an Arabic silver coin, as you well know

Sterling silver tea services are still bought at auctions but not given any kind of significant notation in the present-day media.There is a whole specific Russian silver style of craft that used to command huge prices - probably still does, but it is conducted outside of the media's glare.

There is no narrative going on in the general media and the public has lost interest in silver and gold.

And what does that mean?