The May Queen...

And the High Society's May Queen Gala Ball is happening this year...

Yes, you guessed it (not!):

In Qatar! No, seriously. For real, it is here; started May 1 and moves onto ships.

How 'bout dat...?

This is from the actual - real - French initial 'pagan' ball this year

A lot of dingbats from today's University campuses fancy they are 'pagan,' you see, and so they apparently know what the festival of 'Beltane' is all about. Seriously, they really believe they are 'Wiccans,' and they know all about this stuff. Technically, the festival falls on May the First. And what is going on with all these young kids today painting themselves and playing with fire and so on is Neo-Paganism, and not actual Gaelic folkloric practice. 

But for those who are in particular circles, Qatar is acceptable because Beltane is a festival of interaction with the Si - the fairy peoples - and the Middle East does have places where these beings dwell...

Fire.

Meanwhile, In Actual High Society...

This:

Oh, you think this is from a movie, or something?

No, no. This is just a bunch of people at the Grand Bal a Chateau Versailles, 2019.

And here they are again:

Woman in lilac on the right is Madame June Clovis, aka 'Louis' as in
le Roi Louis... Oh yes but yes. 'Clovis' became 'Louis' down through history,
but some of those in that mob have gone back to 'Clovis' or ahem... 'Clos de ville,'
or 'Coverdale.'

So... Met Gala, ya think. Ya think?

And what we shall be posting in the immediate next article here - is going to send your head spinning. 

The Modern Media's Parallel Construction Fraud

A clue to this type of thing is the utilizing of similarly sounding names and words and terminology... And it is widespread enough these days for smart people to be on the look-out for. The purpose is often commercial, that is, for money. Political campaigns do it for political power, obviously, but behind that is still the fundamental money motive.

An example of a potential 'parallel construction' fraud -
this is not a pic from the movie or from during its making, obviously

It's quite an effective propaganda tool because with continuous repetition it becomes like a computer virus that self-replicates - a process in which people just uncritically repeat what is false until such a large audience 'know' the parallel constructed version that it becomes the 'lore' and then the 'truth.'

If you look at the standard modern media and observe the stories about 'society' especially celebrity society and the 'upper crust' you will see things like the Met Gala and whatever Hollywood 'red carpet' thing is 'happening' - and from this you can easily start to imagine (use your imagination; get images and ideas in your head that are essentially factually false but still drive emotional responses at some level... lol; just sayin') that the current 'fashion' among the rich and the connected and the elite and whatever else terms one can throw at 'them,' is LGBTQ, ungendered, heavily surgery-'enhanced' and 'progressive' (a label I once might have given to myself).

'Spies Like Us' - we all go to the same bad tailor and (better) hairdresser

I just got some pics from people who took quite a long time releasing them... ...but most of them are shots taken from earlier this year. You might think they are from centuries ago, but mais non, they are more or less from right now. 

Now... ...I could also say there will be shots taken later this year, but that could easily be misconstrued so I won't say it.

Paris - earlier this year, 2019

Running Across The Town Square, Books Under Cloak

Somewhere in these pages over recent months (and just from memory, so I might not be able to point to where exactly right away) in quite a number of places, there will be phrases along the lines of '...and I have visions of running through the town square as the fire burns, with a stack of important books tightly held under my arm.'

However in all likelihood these books will be only of importance to me. And maybe a handful of others around the globe.

This is Trinity College Library, Dublin, not 'Trinity Hall' Cambridge...

You know, even such tomes as 'the Picatrix' are around in multiple copies and it is only a rare, a very rare range of titles, for which few or only one or two completely intact copies still remain to us. Professor Jonathan Bate (Professor of English Literature, Oxford) was on a Sky Television news backgrounder this week talking about god only knows what, I don't remember, but I do remember one particular phrase he uttered in running: 'as the classics drift away from us and are forgotten...'

See what I mean? This is THE head of English Literature at Oxford University right now. He received his first degrees from Trinity Hall, Cambridge. Why did he say that...? 'drift away and are forgotten...'

What does he mean? These things serve merely the purpose of artifacts? Is that what he means?

You can afford to forget something if it had no integral function of itself, and served only as an artifact, apart from which the core knowledge entailed was well enough known to everyone or at least to a sufficient number of experts.

Dr Pieczenik

Now here I'm going to dove-tail in another, yes another, reference to my earlier article respondent who mentioned that Charteris was not (or at least not credited as, or not widely believed to have been) a screenwriter for any Bond movie: Dr Steve Pieczenik, the US Intelligence psychologist who worked on some original regime changes in the Middle East decades ago now, was also on his YT channel saying that JFK had read '6 Days Of The Condor' liked it, but failed to appreciate it's significance as it might have applied to himself. Now as you all know 6 Days Of The Condor was made into the movie 3 Days Of The Condor and the book was originally published in 1974, long after Kennedy was assassinated. So was Dr P wrong? Was he mistaken? He seemed to be quite positive and definite in what he was saying.

The original manuscript you see, albeit written by James Grady, a personal friend of Dr Pieczenik's, was penned in outline form much earlier on by Lee Metcalf, the Senator and Congressman who started or helped start the DIA - the US Defense Intelligence Agency.

I could I suppose be altogether condescending and patronizing and appear as if turning personal folklore into fact, but here, here, let me offer all of you just this - and when you read it, read it very carefully, taking note of when I posted it here, and what happened shortly thereafter. Things are not always what they seem, are they, gunny...

And so, yes, a few more incidents are coming up the turnpike shortly, and we will indeed be speaking of them beforehand. 

Quoted, from this Blogspot, of Thursday 14 Feb, 2019:

"Thomas Sheridan recently produced a short series of YouTube articles about his visit to Sri Lanka, from where he brought back a small figurine of 'Kali' and then he just groaned that it had been badly smashed when it went through customs in Dubai... Well, it is common practice for almost all the Muslim personnel there to literally deliberately smash small idols - and they are known to do it regardless that some naiive traveler is simply passing through there. Sheridan is a widely-acknowledged expert on some aspects of British folk religions and what is termed Irish paganism, and he is a very fact-based, logical thinker on those subjects."    

Things You Won't Get From Wikipedia

Responding to a comment from a reader in an earlier article about the latest Bond mis-adventure, caused me once again to just shake my head at today's sad condition of the media and the misleading and often subtly deceptive information resources we all have and regularly turn to - I suppose, particularly, Wikipedia.

I understand that a fundamental protocol of what allows certain things to make it to a Wiki page and certain other things to 'not,' is this academia, campus-based 'peer review' and fact-checking volunteer scheme they have. Granted the Wiki began with a huge global co-operation of librarians and especially campus-based librarians, then no doubt they desire to preserve some kind of intellectual territoriality but so much of what they allow up onto the main pages is just so much nonsense really.

Lord Nicholas Windsor - his dad is the head of UK freemasonry (I think).
He went to Oxford, not Cambridge, unlike Charteris.

Nobody these days seems to have the common sense capacity to think through ideas logically and adjust things that appear through constant repetition but simply cannot be true realistically-speaking.

I mean, my own uncle went to school with Charles Yin (Leslie Charteris) and my father was just a year younger than Yin - and they not only thus lived in the same eras, but either in the same physical locations in the world and certainly in the exact same social circles.

If you go by Wiki, Charles Yin was footloose, moved around a lot, appearing to struggle from one job to another... ...and what I think you're meant to draw from this is that by travelling as much as he did at a young age, and experiencing so many jobs he gained a lot of experience for his eventual career as a writer.

Dr Peter Duncan, Cambridge expert on Russia -
the individual most singly responsible for current MI6 Russian policy. 

Wiki very casually explains that Charles Yin went to King's College Cambridge and Rossall School. I don't even want to go into what that means to knowledgeable people but if you look up even the silly Wiki entries and read through them at some point you are going to trip over certain er, 'associations' and 'clubs' let's say, that will give you cause to stop and think.

On Charteris himself (Bowyer-Yin), the Wikipedia entry again very casually says firstly that his father was 'a physician,' and that (and I find the phrasing quite rude, frankly) he - ' claimed to be able to trace his lineage back to the emperors of the Shang Dynasty.'

Well okay, let me tell you something about his father - he was the A-Number One Chinese physician across the whole of South East Asia, having surgeries all over the place from Siam (as it was then) to Ceylon (as it was also known then). He had a partner who was a compounding chemist as well as a medical GP - Doctor Lim - and in 1954, Doctor Suat Yin was the first and only person in South East Asia to own and drive a 'gull-wing' Mercedes 300 SL. And that was because he had the monopoly rights to manufacture medicinal morphine from the US Military (because it was a militarily controlled substance) into South East Asia. His partner Doctor Lim was highly versed in the chemistry and entire process of manufacturing medical morphine including the so-called Indian latex method of extraction and had been since long before WWII - and the US Army recognized this doubly so because Lim was an industrial chemist of sorts who also consulted to the wartime rubber (rubber latex, not poppy latex) plantations and first stage process works in Ceylon and India and Malaysia.

Wiki absurdly tells that Charteris worked on a rubber plantation. Doing what, exactly, did he 'work' on a rubber plantation - as a Tamil cutting rubber, or maybe a Chinese rubber tapper...? Rubber plantations were owned by literally the most wealthy people more or less in the world, due to the exorbitant prices on rubber caused by the wars.

Leslie Charteris - I hate to tell you all this - was a writer by no accident; he is related to the Mitford Sisters through his mother's family and their link to the Redesdale and Denham Baronetcy. Yeah he 'drove a bus' as Wiki rightly says - he tested out vehicles for my father's aunt and her then husband, who started the Green Line Busing Company of Thailand and Singapore. Probably worth - the bus company - today's equivalent of thirty to fifty million dollars or more.

Sometimes, I give up, honestly. 

Original Mercedes 300 SL

So, the comment pointed out that Charteris had never worked as a writer on a Bond movie. And that is certainly a conclusion one can draw from the Wiki entry on his work. He was contracted to Paramount, in any case, not Columbia. A little point about 'movies' generally... In the old days, movies were made by photographing on special film stock made by petrochemical companies exclusively. Shell made most of the film stock. It cost HUGE sums to even buy the unexposed canisters of film stock, never mind the movie cameras. Bell and Howell, Hughes Tool Corporation, and MGM either made the main parts or owned all the actual fully-made cameras - and the first two of these were deeply linked to the petroleum exploration and drilling industry. Now there are things that I can tell you about the movie 'Thunderball' that very few others alive today can - for one thing it was not all filmed in the Bahamas, although the story is set there and the movie intends you to believe it is all Bahamian scenery. 

John Hopkins has the screen credit as co-screenplay writer on 'Thunderball' - a story which was devised by Kevin McClory and produced by him. McClory was first cousin to the then Managing Director of Shell Far East, who provided the film stock at the expense of Shell.

Hopkins was also from Cambridge University - and hit his head and drowned in his pool in California in 1998, and, according to Wikipedia, that was 'following an accident in which he slipped.' 

Whatever.


Any-hew... Thanks to the Singapore government decently retaining some real history about itself, here is the official entry in its own records about Dr Yin Suat Chuan:

http://www.nas.gov.sg/archivesonline/photographs/record-details/b0701eba-1162-11e3-83d5-0050568939ad