"In Perfect Moments, I Want To..."

"Annihilate the guard and surrender - but I cannot be that tender."

LOL

Who...?

Anyone, anyone?

But onto the material physical world of manifested creativity, one of the chief designers at Rolls Royce, conceived the beautiful Faberge 'Spirit of Ecstasy' Egg, which was brought into reality by the House of Faberge last year. It's been doing the rounds of places like Doha and the like, where us Plebs never much venture because we have too few bucks to even breathe the expensive Oud-redolent out air there.

Faberge Rolls Royce 'Spirit of Ecstasy'

Alex Innes, the designer behind the shape, proves once again, albeit it is among a small nay, tiny set of examples of design and creativity in today's world - that humans are not yet completely exhausted as a creating species... Even so though, you would have to say that at virtually every level of popular culture now at least, it is decidedly an effete Age.

In the hands of the top-end mass-market commercial corporations and their chosen design-houses (they are always groups and virtually never individuals in this sector), the exhausted phase of society and culture expresses itself visually in particular in artificial 'cleanliness,' and an imposition of 'purity' onto complicated things and complex systems. Here is an example by the German Design House Cheil - in theory this is a Korean company underneath the Samsung Brand, but in all practicality it is run by Germans. There appears to be some sense in which the top people don't trust in people's capacity to handle sophistication.

This is going to be the style of the Samsung 'pop-up' stores around the world
for the near-term future. An example of what I consider extremely bad design... (There's a truly gratuitous comment for ya).
And yet, there are some stunningly good Samsung 'pop-up' stores around - but these are
where the shopping center management itself imposed their own 'conditions' and effectively,' their own design ideas.

The true leading-edge of human thinking and society and culture now is becoming ever that much more thinned out... There are fewer and fewer people with the active mindsets capable of appreciating sophisticated things and trusting humanity and the intellectual power of human beings.

What does this mean for the future?

I can but smile. Although it is not a nice; not a generous, smile.

Glacial, Slow Revelation re Bugging People

Middle of Summer in Europe is the main 'Vienna Waltz Concerts,' see...

Time when they have to try and 'shoe-horn' the Chairman of the Bank For International Settlements into some kind of tux, maybe, and then after that drama, actually shove him through the two-leaf main hall doors to get him into the theater.

Augustin Carsten is a bloody damn big guy.

Champagne cocktails for after-show parties! 

Not even going to stick a pic of him here - it would damage the 'feel' of the place that much.

The BIS (Bank for International Settlements), basically the thing that runs all of your mainstream retail and commercial banking worldwide, is a NAZI organization, begun by NAZIS and NAZI sympathizers in Switzerland, and funded after the War through melted gold taken from people of all kinds killed in and around Germany and whose gold was taken from them. And that's just a plain fact. Sorry.

Most of those NAZIS involved in banking on 'the wrong side' during the WAR, positioned themselves AFTER the War in... wait for it... wait for it...

Big name opera singer opens the show.
They mostly never show you on the TV, but people have tickets and are seated
all around the auditorium above the dance floor...

Mexico.

Strange how there is this controversy over porous borders down there... Ahem. Cough.

Anyway not to worry. Tonight there is the main Vienna Walzer Concert and party, and Saturday is the 'Supreme Concert.' Continua continua, as the Romans say. Things go on - the story is fundamentally the same. The power-plays are being enacted now beneath the radar; though less so now due to the internet and communication technology and computers. Will we all credit what was going on - when we finally find out... 

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.