The Problematic Hunt Brothers

Nelson Bunker Hunt, the leader of four brothers, was charged in 1985 with manipulating and attempting to manipulate the price of silver futures contracts. (The eldest of the brothers, Haroldson Hunt, was never involved in the silver incident at all - because he had been lobotomized for 'erratic behavior.' He lived to old age).

Nelson Bunker had, for more than a decade earlier, been accumulating large amounts of silver - to the extent that the media regularly says that he tried to 'corner the silver market' and to 'gain a silver monopoly.'

There's some silver for you...

Well that's an impossibility for several reasons - the chief one being that the Earth, the ground, rocks and stones, are the source of silver, not some human being. To have an actual monopoly, you need to be the sole source of something, to be able to control the source, and not merely to have the power to constrain delivery. Because as every economics student knows, it is the hardest task of all, the be able to protect a real monopoly.

Generally speaking, governments too don't like you to have a monopoly. Not on anything people really need. So you'll find you are up against them as well.

To make money from a monopoly, you have to possess the actual source, and be able to disguise that you have it, and then, give the impression that no one really wants the thing anyway... ...all the while taking advantage of selling into a steeply rising market, and controlling supply as you go so that the steepness of the demand curve versus its supply, is not negatively affected.

It is very very hard to even give examples of real monopolies - usually, you have effective monopolies, and still, academics will argue over definitions and various nuances of the thing.

Through the secret door, right? To the
magical realm of mythical 'profits...'
You have to be able to find such a door in the first place! 

Here is an example of a current-era effective monopoly - it's something that comes from only one place with respect to the nomenclature (similar to what the French government has achieved with the word 'Champagne'), and has been 'owned' by the Chinese government for at least ten years now, placing the actual supply and processed output, into, well, in fact what looks like exactly zero worldwide supply whatsoever. Just what they are doing with any new production I do not know.

Technically, the Chinese government cannot 'own' the sandalwood trees nor even their output in India, but reports put the whole situation down to 'widespread corruption.' All that actually happened was that the supply itself became ridiculously minuscule, even though in reality, the auction prices themselves actually fell.

In the commercial, the retail scene, the world's acknowledged number 1 producer of a product known as 'Mysore Sandalwood' cologne and aftershave - Evelyn & Crabtree, an American-owned originally British manufacturer, seems to have either literally gone broke, or been split up into a Canadian arm which produces a different style and branding level, of product, while the American arm has completely abandoned its previously top selling lines.

There is no suggestion of 'China corruption' there, of course. Right?

Anyway, a few of us over here, ten years ago and more, would go through at least one to two bottles of this concoction each every year. It was okay, well, yeah it was pretty good, but frankly, I am not the world's greatest fan of sandalwood, though this particular product was very good in its own right. I used to complain when it was going for around fifty dollars a bottle at the end of production - when it was oh perhaps twenty or thirty for many many years previously.

And the price? Well go on then - you look it up on Ebay...

Could I find something of exactly the same standard and quality somewhere - elsewhere -  today? Yes absolutely. Apparently no one else knows how though - since you can see what the prevailing price is for 'old stock' and that is, if you can even get your hands on any!

Is this the monopoly I was earlier speaking of? No, it is not. I don't even think this really is a monopoly as such - it's more of a 'collector's rarity' thing with a limited market. But, it will serve to show what utterly ludicrous prices are commanded by such things where somehow, the market, or 'a' market suddenly takes it into its head to go after that thing with a fervor.

Bunker Hunt also funded a bunch of Christian University Campus organizations the largest one being what is today known as CRU, which is a so-called 'New' Evangelical Christian organization. They are going to secure a monopoly on God, salvation and you going to heaven, by re-branding Jesus. I say these things quite deliberately to provoke not necessarily you, the reader, or at least that one who may be a Christian and an Evangelical and so on - but just those guys with a ton of money and unlimited stupidity. Too much money, really, for one to suspect that they really have a purchase on what it is the Good Book teaches.

'Sufficient money' will do. And let it fall as the morning dew... Of course, this is in Christianity - in Islam, adequate provision is called 'rizq' in Arabic. Sadly. So we don't need any of that today. No 'rizq' today, thank you. 

The Problem With 'Disclosing'

In this case, sadly, I don't exactly mean 'Disclosure' as in you know ET!!

I mean if I open up a little more about my past history...

This creates its own problems because more often than not people, some at least, will be apt to go 'oh he's big-noting himself/name-dropping' whatever.

Macalister Mansion, Penang. This is where I lived.

But I'm doing it now to give some basis to how I ever would have been able to get 'access' in the first place. I'm not an industrial chemist and I know little to nothing at all about engineering; at one time I had a strong grasp on circuit design and some cutting edge ideas to do with electronics. God I'm look a million years old now, I'm less than useless in that area now - I've lost it all because my head is full of 'other matters.' Besides which it's all 'drop in' modules and software in chips. Nobody's addressing 'new function innovation' anyway.

So look, my adoptive step-brother was head of the Secret Intelligence Service of a country won't say which one and you'll prolly guess it wrong anyway. So don't. He is by birth from literally the same family as Kamal Adham the founder of Saudi Secret Intelligence.

One of my uncles I think I've said before, was the second of the two-man team who had sole access to the secured 'special ingredient' Wrigleys stuck into their latex processing for chewing gum manufacture. Whenever they used the ingredient, both people had to bring one key each to open the safe.

I'm going to post a pic of a house that I lived in for a few weeks and then we moved next door to a MUCH BIGGER place where we stayed for years and years. The American ambassador's residence up the road a few miles, not many, was EVEN BIGGER STILL.

Sir Norman Macalister, the governor of Prince of Wales Island, built the house in this pic. It is today, an hotel - of 'eight rooms.'

And... it's a hotel now

Even back then when I was a kid, it never had a grassed front yard, only granite rock chips or 'blue metal rocks' or whatever you call the stuff. Sayid Arafin, one of my dad's teaching student lecturers, lived there with his family - because he had a big family and he was the only local with the necessary aristocratic profile to 'accept' what the others were too shy to take. For some reason my mother didn't like the place and we went to an even bigger, but more sprawling place next door.

...So this US major, see, escorted around by the US ambassador surname 'Gordon' who went on to work for several White House administrations and had even at one time been involved in the Nixon, I think, earlier failed tilt - well he had some 'grunts' and some other muscle with heavy machinery, cut a patch in the rainforest, and they literally descended an air-conditioned PX cabin there, while they were 'exploring' something. Next to that, a quarter mile away, was the mine where the local government cut the granite rocks from. And what were they doing in the 'small patch' right in the middle of very very deep and thick multi-layered rainforest and canopy?

Well, I can't say, see.

And you wouldn't even believe me anyway. It was 'just a project' and nobody would have asked any questions. And those that actually knew, well, they were people who kept their mouths shut - and they were mostly academics but in uniform. One of them - Munroe Leaf (well his actual name was 'Monroe;' Wilbur Monroe Leaf) - was one of those academics. And I've mentioned him before in connection with my personal life. Man, come on guys - I'm not sure that you are EVER going to get any closer to it all. I mean - there is Cathy O'Brien... You know, funny, she is about the same age as me. Everyone thinks she's nuts, I think. I think she's probably just 'injudicious.'

Cathy O'Brien - conspiracy theorist 'MKUltra' LOL

Anyway.

And I absolutely 100% ironclad guarantee you, that at least half a dozen different objectives were part of that 'thing' going on in the rainforest: taking flora samples, testing the earth for hundreds of yards down, photographing 'new plant species,' testing new equipment, seeing if they could find or extract new chemical compounds from whatever was there. Even testing the Eastman High Altitude cameras to see what they could 'see' into the forest canopy. So... So, tucked away in all of that - which were all absolutely important, valid things - were these academics, see; and what they were doing, which no one was allowed to ask about.

Anyway. Any-w-a-a-a-y... 

There's lots of hard 'legacy' I have retained from those days - those days when my sister's godfather, head of station Singapore, et cetera... And my uncle at Shell.... And my other uncle... And and and. 

Listen. There's stuff I could tell you about people that would make your head spin and catch on fire.

And what is the good of it all? Well - I could possibly give you a 'heads up' as and when and we are pretty close to the 'when.'

17x the speed of sound. No, honest!

I 'might' get some early warning.

And meanwhile, I have already 'did get' some (LOL, can't help the lack of grammar) uniquely trade-able commercial things. And so that's where we're heading, that's the actual plan. We're going to make some money.

The rest is I feel some sympathy for atheists - I am not one - because some here will have been through the Vietnam thing and some the Korean thing, and I doubt the youngsters who were in Iraq or Afghanistan can leave their NetFlix and come here... So I can't say no one has seen what is about to happen and that's why they 'don't have religion.' I don't think we've ever seen the mess that the world is in right now though.

But what will really change? Nothing. People will die, and you're going to have to pick your way through the dead bodies.

Maybe I have provoked some of the atheists here to answer the fundamental question: 'what does it all mean??'

Everybody has plenty to say before the blood starts really flowing though. Then you find out what people really 'believe.' The rest doesn't count.

Are we there yet? Not yet.

I'm not waiting. I'm doing 'Kung Fu defense' steps already. How about you?

Philosophical Comfort...

It's a difficult decision for me - well, I have to give it some thought anyway - as to whether to go the route of just demonstrating how we suddenly made some pretty sizable money here, or whether to deal with that second to establishing a basis for being able to intellectually rest within a solid framework of understanding our world, and our life.

Which one do you think is the more difficult...?

That was a Jesus question too, or so I recall from some old texts. You know, as in, He asked the people around him whether they thought it was easier to 'forgive their sins' or to do material miracles.

Mystical fire... LOL

I know there are some, what I would term 'kids' by which I mean people, who read here - actually they would have to be rather smart people - who are much younger than most of us who venture here!

Now they're going to potentially fall into the trap of becoming too wrapped-up in the 'cares of the world,' as they say, where in fact, they would be far better off in some effectively, Benedictine-style Monastery!! LOL Well, okay, maybe not so extreme of a life of seclusion from 'the world.'

Just earlier today, I had a discussion with one of our closest colleagues here, who happens to be a Muslim, perhaps more of a 'Westminster' version - as in, like a 'Baronness Warsi' of the UK House of Lords-style of Muslim. And this conversation was to do with the Iraqi scholar Sheikh Ahmed Al-Gubbanchi. Al-Gubbanchi is one of the top three Arabic language and Islamic scholars in the world today, the other two being Mufti Abu Layth and Christian Prince, the latter one being a Christian not a Muslim albeit he is formally trained in Islamic Jurisprudence.

That's one of the Maktoum's shaking the Sheikh's hand.
Ahmed Al-Gubbanchi is on the right.

Al-Gubbanchi is widely misquoted in the West and also misquoted and completely misunderstood in the Middle East as well. Most Muslims want to cut his head off.

However, what he has proposed is that the Quran is a text inspired by some 'spiritual wind,' yet otherwise it is the expression of men and not exactly the actual written speech of Allah.

And the meaning of this is that the words in it, are an expression in the context of the times, of various ideas, which require re-interpreting into our modern language and context. This is more or less exactly the same proposition that Christian apologists have regarding the Old Testament - namely, that it is a human-made narrative account of people's interactions with spiritual morality and also of what they perceived as encounters with 'God.'

I am mentioning this in reference to a rather peculiar notion I am, let's say, slowly edging forward here, namely that again, let's say, you suddenly see a whole lot of money being 'miraculously,' as it were, made here, and maybe you even get a piece of the action rather easily - then what happens next, though? Do you sit back, waiting for super-advanced Alien intelligent beings to knock on your door, and take you away in their space craft to some phase of extended physical longevity but which is still more or less 'burdened' with the problematic nature of human proclivities and regular tendency to do 'wickedness?'

There's no point making money unless you can relax with it.

What would be the point of that?

Right now in the American Christian mindset, there is a clear dichotomy between the so-called 'Progressives' and 'New Age' Christians, and the regular Scriptural Christians, who consider things like 'Yoga' and 'Reiki' and other Eastern or Oriental teachings clear-cut 'works of Satan' and demonic and 'non-Christian.' Of course we just don't need to even go into where atheists or agnostics stand in the considerations. 

Older readers here can look after themselves at least to the extent that they will have already found some way to come to their own judgments about things, especially any new things that they see. Everything does have to 'sit well' in the experienced reality... The closer you get to death the more you come to some form of terms with what that means - and categorically, what it does mean, is that it is natural.

So really, you (the mature people) want to make the money, and if it looks as though - oh dear, this was made by some 'very very strange process;' it doesn't necessarily matter that you spin your remaining years out just living a natural life then, thereafter. That was going to happen anyway. You don't need to go for a ride in a space craft that travels even faster than '17x the speed of sound' (Donald Trump's recent admission about the latest US missile technology). Not if you have the latest M3 BMW in the garage.

But for the younger people, their feet are going to get itchy. Especially if they 'see' something, get a real inkling that something funny has been going on. And so what I am suggesting is, that you need to get your mind into a real, a realistic, place of being comfortable and completely satisfied in its framework of understanding how the Universe works, aka 'what it is all about.'

Stupid stupid joke - 'blague' is the French-Swiss word for it.

And that is completely possible. You're not going to find it at any University anywhere on the planet. Give that idea up.

And I'm not going to give any ideas away too openly here.

But it is possible. You can get there. And you should try to.

Because you see, you cannot get 'up there' unless they know, you are not going to stab them in the back. Promises promises, right? Humans. SMH. You keep on telling yourself that you are trustworthy. Are you so sure? Really?

The 'Yoga Christians' are just falling prey to commercial enterprises, oh maybe there are a few 'demonic forces' around too - I mean, if there ever was a 'Reptilian' it would have to be that Kenneth Copeland(!) So sue me.

The Scriptural Christians are nearly there but even they will not face those 'never spoken about' passages that none of them even know, apparently, although they'll quote you every other thing in there and preach at you about all of those all day long.

I would definitely entertain anyone who wants to challenge some of the things I have been saying - there must be someone who has fixed, firm views, you know, strong-minded, beliefs that run way counter to what I am saying. I'd love to take on the smart, learned American Christians like Dr Michael Heiser - he has some decent ideas... Or Melissa Dougherty. The trouble is they have material lives - I don't. So I really don't feel like messing with them too much. I can afford to risk my life, and they can't. So they're mostly stuck in the blinds even though they see the cracks of light. Like the men of Hindustan, they're partly right...

The video below was one of the brand new things she played
in the live-stream, out in the open, in the cold, at Gstaad, Switzerland
just the other day.

So... When, not if, WHEN, you start to see the money turn up in force here - I am not going to signal punches to any potential competitors at all (and that's just plain standard operating procedure, 'across the Universe' as far as I can ascertain) - if you're a kid and you start having 'moral philosophy doubts/questions/cravings for information' then by all means contact me privately. Not yet though; wait till you see the green of the green-backs!

Right now, as in, RIGHT NOW, we have been able to acquire something not too dissimilar from 'ten tiles of gold-pressed Latinum.' LOL I don't even know what the whole stock is worth, I haven't calculated. But it's extremely valuable, in very rare supply, has a stunning high demand among pretty much only very rich people, and yeah, I have it all; as in ALL. I have the monopoly.

Protecting a monopoly is a task. You can never show what you're doing, or how you make the money, because in this day and age, as soon as you do that, all the sharks rush in.

We're so far in front now though, it hurts.

Any Bartok classical music fans here:

Beware Of Clever Dissembling

As always, we have to be aware that anything valuable and powerful within its own lane, is apt to be 'stolen' and proposed in a copy form - a false form - of the real thing. And people get away with that because the bulk of the general population is not equipped with anywhere near sufficient critical thinking skills.

It's absolutely as true in the modern world of science as it is anywhere else - in fact this is one of the places where it is particularly easy to employ the so-called 'straw man' tactic. This is where someone says a person has said such-and-such (which they haven't), and then they tear down that false depiction with its deliberately inherent flaws.

This is a huge 'Christian' music festival called 'Awakenings.'
It is not the same thing I have been referring to. It is something designed
arguably, to commercially exploit marketplaces like Brazil
and elsewhere that there are a
lot of Christian religious in the general population. It is doubtful in my own mind,
how actually 'Christian' this particular thing is in the first place!

And of course it's very true in the world of religions. 'Religion' coming from the Latin root 'to be bound.' In other words, you are obligated, bound, to someone or something.

But even such things as the Sanskrit Vedas, are taken by all of these modern-day 'yoga' teachers and 'masters' and what-not, twisted around, and vended to people as the real thing. They are not. None these 'experts' either really reads these texts, or if they do, many deliberately misconstrue what is being said in there.

Yes there are a tiny few Veda scholars who have an understanding of what is being said; too few to say that if you go and practice 'Yoga' you are really doing what it says in the Vedas. And there are plenty enough ethnically Indian people who will scream me down on this, but it remains the case - what I have said.

The same is true of those purporting to be able to teach just about any religion there is, be it Christianity, any of the Nordic systems, tribal systems.

Colors of the past

So why do I think that just because we 'discover' there really are alien beings out there, some right here too - somehow this challenges the stupidity and ignorance already 'in place' in the minds of a huge proportion of the population?

LOL

I don't!

You need personal critical thinking now, you needed it beforehand, before any such 'revelations' appear in the 'officially respected' media - and you will certainly need it afterwards. You'll need it when we move firmly into the Age of AI.

Now. 

I'm going to show you some reality.

This is the level of things going one right now.

If you have a really good headset-style earphones, you will notice that at around (exactly in fact) 1:05 in, after a brief lowering of the overall sound level, there is a 'clicking sound' that should be seeming to come from your rear and slightly off to the left. 

Colors of the 'now.'

In the old old old days, there was this thing called 'clock code,' where one covert person, would make a finger-mark on a dusty car window or some dusty screen, in the shape of a circle, and then place a mark at the relative 'hour mark' that they wanted the other person to meet with them. It still works!

And you can easily locate someone, if you know what you're looking for, even in a vast crowd... ...if you were given the appropriate signal.

I promise I will soon find some nice, sedate, calming music:

...Everything's easy when you've been told what to 'watch' for; everything's easy 'when you know how.'

And Critical Thinking

This is addressed to all of those younger people who may be reading here.

There is a difference between someone telling you what to think, and the possibility that there is actually a genuine authentic 100% constant source of truth. And I do mean 'truth' as opposed to just 'true information' or 'correct/accurate information.'

Someone telling you what to think is quite likely to be an indication of that someone also trying to control you. And that is not a good thing. Even if you are that young you are under the control and authority of parents - even then, responsible parents are going to guide you towards, or at least give you enough opportunity, to discover firstly good and accurate information, and then also moral and ethical examples so that you will make your own good judgments about various things.

They're going to try and take you here - to the world
of AI. But you will be prepared for it.

When people are not secure in their own ideas and a sense of what sound knowledge really is, then they turn into little dictators and resort to telling, rather than soliciting critical thinking in other people.

The absolute worst, and most misleading thing you are ever going to hear (and numerous hugely famous world figures have said this misleading thing and are often quoted on it), is 'no one has a monopoly on truth.'

That is not only the stupidest thing you can be told, it is outrageously false.

What those people who have voiced the notion - and who are sincere people - might really mean, is that you shouldn't just swallow what someone is telling you without yourself being able to make clear, objective, independent judgments on those things. 

The good side of modern technology.

The rest who swing the phrase around are being dissemblers - that are saying it to impress you that they are open and honest and ought to be trusted since they are encouraging you to think skeptically... ...but then they always mean that you are to be skeptical about others, and not about themselves.

'Critical thinking' means you have to search by yourself to find a sound, objectively correct basis for making a particular judgment about something. 

Often there are important matters that can have two opposite ways of being morally a-judged: should I lie to someone who has a serious life-threatening condition in order to relieve them of counter-productive anxiety - or should I tell them the truth because one should never lie...? These things are sometimes characterized as 'black or white' issues. They need not in actuality be only one thing or the other, what I'm talking about is simply when these are considered as 'black or white' issues; having only two, usually opposite 'values' in terms of the way you are expected to judge them.

And then there are those matters where there could be a multiplicity of varied potential judgments - and these things are treated as 'matters of degree.'

But in all of these situations there is an initial uncertainty about something that requires it to be judged by the human mind applying moral values or complex utilitarian yardsticks, or 'best possible educated guesses' such as when an experimental scientist has to take a certain risk before he or she can find out with authentic certainty what an outcome, usually a potentially dangerous outcome will be. The testing of the nuclear bomb would be an example of that.

The good side of Paris restaurants - the real side; this
is a real high class place.

Critical thinking means that in the end, you are required to make judgment yourself. If such 'judgments' are only you blindly following someone else's edict, then you are being manipulated and mind-controlled.

The Universe, however, and its underlying physics are a total and complete monopoly of truth. They will do 'their thing' regardless of what you only think, or 'believe.'

The really big and malicious liars, will take you right up next to reality and truth, so so close, but not sufficiently close to actually breach the necessary and vital boundary conditions allowing whatever it is they are saying to be inside the definition of the thing they are telling you about.

Is the Universe 'the Source?' Can you vibrate into a magnetic attraction any particular thing you want, because this is some kind of 'law' of physics?

Or is only some word, some 'holy name' the thing alone, that, without visible process or scientific mechanism, makes or allows things to happen?

If you look at someone as the only source of truth, that is close to a cult phenomenon. 

Now here's a thing - let's say you're a Christian, and you therefore know and or believe, that Jesus is the ONLY source of Truth, the ultimate source of Truth, in fact, the Truth - the relevant scriptural texts actually tell you outright you don't need to rely on that as dogma or mere doctrine: your job is to stick your fingers into the bleeding palms without which personal experience you need not just believe it, because in fact you might not have the faith to believe it.

The complexity of Bouillabaisse... 

But the complication, the complexity of these kinds of 'high end' epistemology discussions is that in the obverse, if you just then suppose personal experiences, are the sole necessary factor, then you are feeding sensory stimulation which can very rapidly turn into a form of addiction - so once again, you are being 'mind controlled.'

The truth is (see what I mean, there is a truth as you will now find), that it is a very subtle, balanced combination of all of our available tools - the mind, logical thinking, and personal sensory, physical, experience/s, and as much objectivity and independence as possible that we can muster, that gives us the way to a reliable outcome of our judgments as to what is true and what is good or bad.

So, despite that Nelson Mandela said 'no one has a monopoly on truth' he was completely wrong because what you just read above in the immediate above paragraph is the absolute monopoly mechanism and pathway to truth.

Use it.

Truth has a monopoly on Truth. Truth is a thing. I'm not necessarily sure what kind of a thing, but it is a definite 'thing' in the sense that it is both a 1. process path and 2. an outcome and 3. a definition of reality. All at the same time. ; )

Truth is Reality.

...They're both Bouillabaisse, they're both good,
but they are different.

Reality can be very very complex. But that is no excuse to suggest there is no such thing as absolute reality. There is an absolute reality, and we are living in it.

'Monopoly' in economics always means it is exchanged expensively. You get truth and you will be rich. You get it. Though you have to get it yourself. 

'No one has a monopoly on truth.' Totally wrong, but I'm not explaining it beyond the limit that I went to just here in this post. I gave you the process path. And that's way enough to get you to where you want to go.

The oldies around here already know this stuff. They use it all the time. It doesn't necessarily make them totally happy all the time, and it doesn't make them rich all the time or enough of the time as much as they want - and that's because we're all only human and we can make mistakes, or be too slow, or too lazy or whatever.

But we're not stupid though. And you shouldn't be either. There are absolutely no reasons whatsoever for you to be stupid. So don't be.

You don't look, you won't find.

All the good stuff is hidden stuff.