Number, and Craft

This is one of the most important things any practical economist requires to know about the modern world.

'Number, and Craft.'

These subject headings are the very basis of science. 

Ignorantly, young people assume that science is some fact of eternal existence, or that being so in fact existential and real, that clever humans (the clever ones, at least) more or less always employed some form of it, and that we, in today's world, are so outstandingly clever and possessed of such amazing instruments, that we are the premier scientists and that this is the Age of Science.

Because of the subject matter in the painting, a lot of people
think this is Camillo Agrippa, but it is his contemporary,
Luca Pacioli, more or less the inventor of modern accounting.

It might be the Age of Science; it is also the Age of Abject Stupidity.

There is nothing valuable about 'science.'

You see, there has always been a hint of a dispute between the thinkers of the 'Austrian Circle' and those who emerged from the very Renaissance itself. Thus, we have what all of modern academia calls 'the Zilsel Thesis' - which holds that the aristocratic layer that housed the abstract and rational purist thinkers, came together with the craft workshops in Italy and Spain and Poland and Germany, in the Renaissance, which practiced rule-of-thumb habits following basic experimentation; and then these two bodies of human endeavor when joined, led to 'science.'

...And, by contrast, we have the position enunciated by Camillo Agrippa, the world's greatest fencing master and (fencing) thinker who ever lived.

Agrippa maintained that number and space and time existed objectively, and that the combinations of number in space, and number in time, produced 'motion' and all perfect motion was beautiful, and decisive.

This is Spanish bespoke - the Spanish cut is quite distinct from the
various Italian, as well as the closer Parisian lines. Spanish bespoke has maintained
a closer tie to its Renaissance heart and roots.

Agrippa never needed to doubt that 2 + 2 = 4 whereas Karl Popper (not actually ever a member of the Austrian Circle) spent the whole of his life doubting it and at the same time suggesting it couldn't be proven nor could it be falsified and therefore it was not a scientific thing.

Eow-kayyyy.

Agrippa lived during a time at which it was possible to 'wear swords' and thus, he composed a vast treatise on 'the wearing sword.'

Bruce Lee never needed to wear a sword. And he was aware of Agrippa and spoke about him.

710bhp F8 Tributo - science or Renaissance art?

See that kids? You don't know anything.

You watch the Hollywood movies with the little old grey or green guy who 'raises rocks with The Force,' but you cannot do that yourself and you don't even think it can be done for real.

Yeah it can.

Proof Of ET Life On Earth Now

He he.

You don't trust me on this, do you? LOL

And why should you!

I had a conversation this past week with an inveterate world traveler, and he said to me that the place that had given him 'really weird vibes,' of all the places he had ever been to - was Milan.

Our conversation didn't go as far as me asking him if he meant that the fashion photography that always goes on there, in the streets, maybe presented too many 'out there' people wearing 'out there' clothes in front of everyone's eyes... And frankly I'm not sure he meant that at all; he never mentioned clothes or fashion or style or anything like that - he said the people were odd and the place, well, gave him a strange and unsettling feeling inside.

I have never been to Milan so I don't know what my impressions might be.

This is just Milan fashion stuff, right... It's nothing weird,
or 'special.'

As far as anything really strange, as in 'ET strange,' you would hope that as a human you would be able to discern that something was not quite all that it appeared to be, if the 'ET' in front of you were masquerading as a human being. And even if, to push the theory a touch further, the ET in question came from a species visually similar and in other respects physically and intellectually rather similar to your stock standard Earth human.

In some pretty obscure Arabic folklore, there are ET's here from Lyra and also from Altair in the Constellation 'Tarazed,' or 'Shahin-i-Tarazu;' (Aquila).

What are they doing here? Why do they come here?

This is an 'Eastern Bloc' gentleman, a classical composer,
who wrote something called 'Vega/Lyra' or something like that.
It's like... ...propaganda. It's not important; you don't need to know
too much about it. 

These people are meant to be here - they are allowed by Allah, to be here, and they have specific tasks to perform. ...According to the folkloric traditions.

On another front, this past week too, some US media outlets were reporting that the NSA had complete recordings of Alexander Downer's meetings and conversations with George Papadopoulos, in which no such things ever occurred, that the FBI claimed had occurred, to do with Papadopoulos telling Downer in that London wine bar, that 'the Russians' had dirt on Hillary from stolen email archives. What they did have, in the sense of incriminating conversations, were recorded conversations of Stefan Halper telling Downer what to do and what to say and what actions to take subsequently.

Now there is just absolutely no evidence whatsoever as far as I can tell, that any government anywhere, really has hard definitive knowledge of or communications from ET's - be they from Lyra or Altair or anywhere at all.

And what would be the point anyway? Unless they are going to turn up in their big eagle craft, and snatch a few odd human subjects away off to the way-stations out there  somewhere beyond the Moon (oiketeriae) to brief them on or train them for some matter or other and then re-install them back here on Earth after a while to carry out some purpose that we simpletons may only speculate about, almost like a futuristic science fiction/fantasy proposition... ...then, well, it's all just so much 'National Enquirer' material, isn't it?

Ah. Now. Speaking of which... The National Enquirer this week passed its ownership over to the CIA. And believe me, this part of this article, will not remain posted up here for very long.

Who's your daddy? 

Plans, A, B, And Maybe Even C

This latest podcast from Richard Martin really does capture the mood that you can see emerging from the broad mindset out there:

http://www.richardmartinswakeupcall.podbean.com/

His lead item this round is entitled A Good 'Plan B' Is Essential.

And how right that is.

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Meanwhile back over here right now, I am posting the link to one of the easiest to use, simplest to download, and completely reliable digital wallets around:

https://electrum.org/#home

And that's the link to the Electrum BitCoin Wallet.

If you're not all that familiar with the world of digital crypto currencies, I recommend the Electrum Wallet because since BitCoin is the most liquid and easiest digital crypto currency to buy and sell out of - into a totally global market - you will find it by far the easiest way to transact any business and execute any elements of 'Our Plan.'

You can start at the Electrum Wallet but if you are up-to-speed enough with all of this type of technology, and you want to have a multi-currency wallet with all of the bells and whistles, accounting packages and automatic exchange calculation software then there is nothing better than the Exodus package - here:

https://www.exodus.io/

I'm not fixated about any specific target mark-to-market value for an initial issue (of digital currency or Utility Tokens), but I can see the logic for a calculation of $100,000.00 - in the broader market - from the relatively modest, if not indeed tiny, base of what I have termed 'critical mass' of members here and in allied 'groups' and a projected uptake of our digital cryptos from that 'critical mass' alone as it stands right now.

What would be a much more realistic projection into the true global digital currencies market would be in the millions - but let's 'prove the point' first, at the modest level Beta Test.

I'll go back to 'normal posts' next article on, but there will be this drumbeat from here going forward as we push some of the 'on-line marketing tool' buttons, and ensure that plenty of people register via the basic email address - which is this one:

interdeq@iinet.net.au

And, for those interested to email and 'register' (get direct private communications about what is going on), perhaps just type 'dut reg' into the email subject line.'DUT' is Digital Utility Token.

And what's the basic plan?

1. Digital Utility Token
2. Supported by a real underlying funds flow (currently from commercial product and service closed user groups, P2P, and certainly also standard treasury functions)
3. Open Exchange Activity (digital currency trading - highly managed to support 'market makers' and their pricing)
4. Exchangeable to Gold  

An Astonishing Money Story...

I suppose those of you who have been reading for a long time now, will still know pretty scant details of what I was doing um, twenty and more years ago.

Well, in order to raise the shutters a little to allow some insight, I'm going to go by way of some old 'stories' - which are all completely true by the way, which doesn't mean the militantly skeptical are going to credit them, necessarily.

Just a suspicious-looking guy!

Anyway... ...once upon a time, my sister worked for Australasia/Pacific's biggest licensed bookmaker (you know, guy who gives odds on gambling propositions and takes your money and gives you more money if what you predicted turns out correctly called). That gentleman's name was Rod Evans, and he was the individual who 'carried' all of the money for the most senior Australian government officials and politicians. Robert J. Hawke, Australia's most electorally-successful Labor Party leader and at one point longest-serving Prime Minister - was a close friend of Rod Evans. And so was the most feared Labor politician at the time, the Premier of New South Wales, Neville Wran.

It was my own personal car, that was used I guess 'covertly' to transport Neville Wran around when he came across to visit various of his friends in the West, including Rod Evans. Evans was part of the so-called 'Curtin Circle' which gathered in private in a secret room in the back of a strange set of buildings in East Perth, principally 'Chopstix Chinese Restaurant' and the Independent Order of Oddfellows' office. And so many a time I ushered a few identities into there and saw seated around the boardroom table, Rod, the Prime Minister, Bob Hawke, Wran, some race horse trainers, prominent bankers and lawyers and others.

My business partner, Bill Cocks and myself were on more than one occasion, doing that type of accidental 'thing' in that kind of place 'accidentally' but actually it was because 'they' trusted us; they implicitly trusted Bill and I was a young acolyte - that they also trusted. And they could trust me and I lived up to that trust. I was many times asked by various 'Royal Commissions' to voluntarily give evidence and never did and neither did I ever put myself in the position where authorities decided they had to compel me to give evidence.

Most of the people I met there in such places are all deceased now. Hawke died earlier this year, in May.

Anywa-a-a-a-ay... Most people today are not aware that one of the amazing successes of Neville Wran's life was that he was part of the most successful race horse gambling syndicate of all time - the Legal Eagles -, comprised of young lawyers, all of whom went onto serious and highly successful careers in the law, or diplomacy or corporate business touching on law matters.

Now... ...that having been said, yet nevertheless the most successful professional gambler I know or have ever met - is me.

I learned from the leader of the original Legal Eagles, and from others of their group, but I have maintained the 'life' and to some extent the lifestyle also, where they all retired and did other things as the mechanics of gaming changed over the years: odds quoted are now based on different algorithms compared to what bookmakers were wont to use, technology has altered a few structural factors, and well, people and society is a touch different too.

And it isn't that they didn't or couldn't keep up with the times, and that I did, but that they didn't keep up with social changes going on... Because the main lessons used by the original syndicate for undertaking professional risk all still apply and possibly they apply all the more so now than they ever did in the past.

The 'modern' economy depicted... ...same dog, different leg-action, as
my one-time boss in the Chicago Merchant Bank used to say.

Over the past, oh god, even thirty years, I have never felt things in the economy occasioned an approach to priced money markets (of any kind) that you could view altogether seriously.

The thing that kids and the inexperienced, the unsuspecting even unsuspecting self-presuming commercial institutions and banks and the like, never realize is that operations like the Legal Eagles when they make a threat in earnest it is a threat in deadly earnest; they are making a 'deadly' threat to the nature of and the underlying assumptions of your business (that is to say, of the bankers' and rival operators' businesses). They will cause you to close up. Or so radically have to change what you are doing that the effect is the same.

Now.

At any one time, I would have avenues of direct personal contact with all, of the big gamblers in South East Asia, and in Australasia and in that mix sit also groups who are based in the Middle East and who are Arabic.

And there has never been a moment until recently, at which I would say anything in 'deadly serious' - to any of these people.

So now I have spoken to some of these and I am moving forward on a specific plan.

As you can see, RR stole the color scheme:
'Mandarin Duck' and Admiralty Blue. ...Which is the factory
promoted scheme for the RR Dawn, a fine car, don't worry about that!
Everything old is new again. There is nothing new under the sun.
Stuff that worked before once, can still work now too.
Got the point...?

For those of you who are militantly skeptical of anything and everything and even when Santa Claus drops fifty bucks on your own floor in front of the fireplace you question what picking it up entails - then you can put it down to the fact that I do have some authentic documented expertise in tax avoidance and money laundering (although I would dispute that it can really be termed that). However, the truth is, why people such as the Legal Eagles are successful is that they observe some massive flaw in a system, a flaw at the same time both easy to exploit but then so complex to know and understand in the first place (unless you did know it), that you are afforded a good long go at making money from it before others realize what is going on and then change all the rules and re-restructure the system to close the um 'loophole.'

I mean things are not designed or meant for you and I to make money!

Except the apex thinkers regularly 'break the bank.'

Now if you choose to stay around these pages from here on in, you are part of the apex thinkers and the apex predators also, in a sense.

I'm not hitching my wagon here to any named brand like say the Fuze Smart Card, but this is the kind of thing which will be part of the future. And it is definitely something that is on my radar. These things have far greater capacity than simply carry every credit card/cash card/bank card facility along with your bio-metrics and all of that jazz - they are intelligent cards...

They can do intelligent things. 

First though, we have ta find us some-a intelligent people who can intelligent-ize some good things fer us. Know any o' them kinda folk? LOL

And So Back To Materialism

And there was a rich man, a tax collector, despised by the Jews for being a traitor to them, since he worked for the Romans collecting their taxes - and he sought to see this Jesus, of whom he had heard that it was the God Dionysus returned; healing the sick, raising the dead and turning water into exceptional wine, as Dionysus had done among his reveling followers in Persia and Asia Minor and among the Pontic Greeks, where Athena Herself had once shown Herself to those people and danced the knife dance there before them.

And Zacchaeus, the rich man (for that was his name) climbed a ficus sycamore tree to better see above the thronging crowd.

Marc Chagall - American Windows

And Jesus called out to him by name: 'Zacchaeus, come down, for I have need of your house for this evening.'

And Zacchaeus was very pleased.

In modern physics, the Macrocosm is expanding at the rate of hundreds of millions of miles an hour, and it is expanding beyond our capacity to measure it or know precisely where, or even if, at some point, matter slows down through inertia, reaches some state of absolute energy equilibrium creating a wall of immobility, or through the simple attraction of mass, retreats back again - an expanding and contracting Universe.

And again, in the direction of the Microcosm, things become so small that we are unable to 'see' them even through or most sophisticated instruments, and we are able to infer things only, at this point of our knowledge and understanding reaching what we suppose to be the basic components to everything: gluons, and muons, and mesons, and Bosons, and 'flavors,' and core logic principals of 'form' like chirality and pulse dynamics, and electromagnetic energy and fields.

Da Vinci's Vitruvian Man (a drawing by Da Vinci based on notes by the Roman architect Vitruvius) marks the conceptual nexus 'between' as it were, the outer extent of the Macrocosm, and the deepest interior of the Microcosm. The standard definition of 'God' being some intelligence and power which exceeds even those extremes or oven limits of matter and space.

Yet the mid-point is not the lesser point...