Arabism, Orientalism, Modern-esque...

Jones - is this your dad here?

You didn't know he was a famous Paris DJ now, did you...

Claude Challe

This is Claude Challe, a Tunisian who started, along with the Romanian interior designer Raymond Visan, the hugely successful 'Buddha Bar' establishments, virtually right across the globe now.

The absolute 'best-est' one though, is the nightclub/dance-floor, cocktail bar with restaurant, and ultra-private dining rooms - in Monaco.

Most of you will be at least vaguely familiar with the phrase 'Buddha Bar' because it occasionally comes up on your Foxtel music backing between when you are couch surfing and channel switching to try and find (foolishly) anything actually worth watching.

Monaco 

The 'Buddha Bar' LP music is indeed compilations put together by Claude Challe literally from either the Bucharest Buddha Bar or the Monaco one and at least earlier on, his Paris dance clubs and studios.

Buddha Bar menus are all pretty much upscale 'Asian Fusion' food, but the local establishments do also tend to reflect the general local standards too - and consequently, it is the Dubai and the Monaco Buddha Bars that are far and away the most exciting and high quality when it comes to what you are served. 

Paris is today unlivable and the prices are beyond the simply exorbitant. You are better off going to Dubai or Monaco... ...where not only will you get real value for money, but the quality of service and the general atmosphere and interior designs and decor are absolutely stunning. There is a thing called 'Secret Gateway' in Monaco, which you will give you privileged access to the ultimate... ...um ...and quite special... ...moments.

Paris Opera Anniversary

Today is the 250th Anniversary of the Paris Opera, founded by Louis XIV the Sun King.

The program schedule consists mainly of sections of the massive Wagnerian Ring Cycle - which is scheduled to be run in complete form as the mainstay of the season next year, 2020.

Paris Opera 

As usual Wikipedia gives us what appear like full factual details but which are scant elements of the whole matter - for one glaring example, the account leaps from 1669 to 1875 from the moment when the actual patent letters were signed by Louis, to the time 200 years later when the Opera Garnier (theater auditorium) was built, with not a single word on where or how or when if any, actual operas were held in the location or under the name of the Paris Opera.

Common sense, sorely missing in many places these days, would grant that either the Sun King was about to take an unusual zillion-dollar flyer on the theoretical future creation both of an opera company of players, as well as some suitable building to house the productions and seat thousands... ...or such a place and people had been being trialed for some time already.

Anyhew...

Enough with the whinging already. We have the Wiki. And we're stuck with it. Tomorrow's people will possess the foundations upon which they no doubt will attempt to go to Mars.

Beautiful as it indeed is, it is in danger of being burned to the ground as Pierre Boulez once offered sarcastically, to do. Since after all, we simply must have some space in Paris city for another monument to um, Macron as Jupiter and maybe a smaller one to Baal.

Verona

Burn the Opera to the ground, I say.

Of course the Palais Garnier and the entirety of the Paris Opera complex are stunningly beautiful buildings and artworks.

But the best large opera facility in Europe is undoubtedly the Verona Amphitheater, and this is where the best opera singers headline the schedules.

Anna Netrebko and Yusif Eyvazov... Muslim name, as you will
note, both of them just from a successful season in Dubai.

You See, The Problem With MI6, Is This

Now you will see in the media - as a direct result of the upcoming declassified transcript documents relating to Alexander Downer's taping of George Papadopoulos - that the UK government will claim that it only knew of some of the matters regarding Russian interference in US elections, and compromising material uncovered by Christopher Steele (this latter of which is entirely false material, as we now know) around 2016 just AFTER the election of Donald Trump. And the UK government has itself just begun the 'backgrounder narrative' of its 'story' (fairy tale) by releasing to its own home media, that memos were received by heads of its Intelligence Services, and the relevant ministers including the Prime Minister, at that time (IE, 2016).

The problem with these lies, is that they are pathetic attempts at covering up a depth of lying that raises a lot of serious questions:

Sir Alex Allan, was the UK High Commissioner in Western Australia even before 1999. He was previously, a personal private secretary to UK Prime Minister John Major. Major owns several businesses in Western Australia, establishments I have personally been to to meet with UK spies. And, there are several of our friends who read here and sometimes contribute articles, who were themselves also there or who directly know about those instances and circumstances. And that would have been before 2010.

Allan was the Chairman of the UK JIO, which gathered and analysed information from MI5, MI6 and material from GCHQ - he was/is himself a computer communications expert in his own right. I have met him a few times. I found him, frankly, a very nice man on the surface.

Foreground, extreme left - Joseph Mifsud.
Interesting robes...

The trouble with the current 'official' story is that it is my personal knowledge, and it is also reflected in mainstream media reports at close to the times in question, albeit somewhat buried now - that Sir Alex was a personal friend and colleague of Alexander Downer, this latter individual as you all now know having been the AUSTRALIAN High Commissioner in London and evidently the person who taped George Papadopoulos, or at least one of the key people who did.

...And you all who have been here from the start KNOW FOR SURE that I am telling the truth 'cuz I posted it in here back near enough to the times in question!

So who am I then, eh? Anyone, anyone? ; ))

Who are we, Bill? Ssshhh. Don't answer that. Not fully, anyway. Not yet. Coz the show ain't over yet. LOL

Fun times in Carson City. 

This Title Is Cryptic

One of the well-known jokes about all the James Bond books, is that if Bond were a real human being, and he really did consume as much alcohol as indicated in those stories... ...he would have to be a Freeman of London City.

One of the 'freedoms' of these folk, is that whilst within the perimeter of the City of London, they shall be 'bundled off into a taxi and conveyed home' if a policeman finds one of them drunk and incapable of driving or perhaps actually even walking responsibly anywhere.

There are a lot of aspects to 'the City of London' that are not spoken about virtually anywhere. No one - absolutely no one at all - is permitted into the City to bear arms against a Freeman, or prosecute them in any way, or do any kind of personal aggression against such an individual; and no one ever has. That is, not even UK soldiers, brigades, armies or any powerful group, ever have nor under present circumstances will they ever enter there to touch a single hair of any of the 'Freemen.'

And the only real way for that to be able to be continuously effected, is that there are mirror organisations - all of them highly secret - outside of the City who procure this situation, and ensure that it remains the way that it is.

The City of London runs things in the United Kingdom. 

Theresa May is a 'Freeman of the City of London.'

Christopher Steele worked inside of offices funded by Freeman of the City of London run through various charities.

The City of London is extremely powerful. But, alas, it is largely composed of drunkards and knaves now, who aspire to the heights of the old French Court of the Louis' and to European actual 'royalty' per se - and so they mimic a lot of the fashion statements of the (past) day that were aspects of that old world. At the same time, by force of practical experienced reality, and their money, they try to use and exploit modern technology to do whatever they want to do. When you see various 'names' of organizations that crop up in the newspapers these days concerning various scandals and the messy exploding of the underhanded things that were being undertaken... ...read 'Freeman of the City.'


ADDENDUM These characters love to be seen as just some quaint old jocular folkloric sort of merely local cultural phenomenon, mostly game fellows who are agreeable with doing silly dress-ups for the sake of American and Japanese and recently rich Chinese tourists. Don't fall for it. They are deeply sinister and wholly evil.

Why The Media Is Dead

Yes, it is actually quite dead. And it ain't coming back to life.

For years and years they wanted an easy path to significance and courted the press secretaries of politicians and ended up being absorbed into the clique.

By having 'exclusives' with important people (government ministers and the like) meant the media company owners could sack street level reporters. Just taking in hook, line and sinker the press releases, the hand-outs, the sponsored content meant you could next sack all the journalists as well. This happened over decades rather than any short amount of time.

Meanwhile, the world went to hell.

And this has had an enormous psychological impact on people, especially the so-called elites - for they, have seen themselves as different from, different to, and above, everyone else. But they failed to gouge out their own eyes and so they are completely surrounded by the murder and mayhem they themselves helped establish as a fixture of modern life.

Psychopathic or not, they have become depressed as a result and live within a cult of death in order to try and adapt somehow to the reality around them, that they possess no means to escape.

All 'mainstream' news media these days consists of the following few elements: something desperate, maudlin, unsolvable, and then next of course death, the superficial pronouncement of someone else's extraordinary wealth (always not real), dystopian images, and falsified definitions.

And there is virtually nothing that reflects what is really there, out there, on the actual streets, in the homes, or countrysides or establishments either of race or culture - because there is literally no one out there with a camera. Yes RT is out there but they don't represent the mainstream media at all.

The city of Paris is gone. It is no more. It will never come back now. 

In this month of Ramadan, we can consider the moon... We can realize that the main reason the new Bond will fail, just like politicians are wreaking havoc worldwide, destroying the great cities of the world, and all else like grasshoppers and locusts in a plague - is that the people involved are illiterate. And it just plain does not matter how many University degrees they have.

If you asked anyone on this new Bond 25 set and crew and production team and its directors (whichever of the proposed ones survive till the end...) - off the top of their head: what was the great classic opera music that really was featured in the soundtrack credited to Marvin Hamlisch, due to John Barry being unable to work in the UK for tax reasons... (Direct quote from the Wikipedia entry) UNABLE TO WORK IN THE UK FOR TAX REASONS. Can you believe it. I mean it's certainly true.

The point I'm making for my friend Ian Dickerson, is that 'tax reasons' contribute a lot to the lies told by Hollywood.

Wikipedia says that Chopin, Bach and Saint-Saens are reportedly heard in the movie. I mean sure they are there, but what was 'Hamlisch's' composed score based on? 

Antonin Dvorak's 'Song To The Moon' from 'Rusalka' the fairy-tale about the Little Mermaid.