The City of London told everyone that Big Ben would chime again, this New Year at midnight - and, it did not do that. Instead, all the live stream video feeds around the world (except for RT News' feed, which they ran themselves) were disrupted with fuzzy images of a drawing of Big Ben, and then all the streaming services cut prematurely.
The cost (so far) for 'renovating' or whatever they're doing to the clock and to its bells and striking mechanism - is one hundred million US Dollars.
Now, never let it be said that we here, at British-R-Us (despite we are actually ET Alien hybrids, right...) are unable to bring you chiming things. That actually work as well.
Superb Brit actress Honeysuckle Weeks, plays Agatha Christie in the latest episodes of the Frankie Drake Mysteries.
This thing here is a snip at $538,000.
It is the Christophe Claret Soprano.
Let's buy one, okay Bill Smith?
That's along with the Ferrari Roma that you want.
Ding dong ding dong - ding ding ding, donggggg!
This video does go on a bit even for a short clip of merely 1 minute and 35 seconds - so, you have to skip to 1:13 to get to the important bit.
For an average-priced good quality French burgundy wine - a red one - you will be paying a minimum, of seven hundred dollars a bottle, USD.
I have had DRC, so I have some idea of what they are currently making.
The sparkling white burgundies area is a slightly different thing, because here you are talking about the nuances of the grape without the skins. ...Which are very thin anyway, and difficult to get the color from for making the reds.
Humans have got technology, God has got, like, dead leaves. They're complimentary though, you have to admit.
Down here in Australia we have a sparkling red wine made completely from pinot noir grapes - and it is made in Nuriootpa South Australia. So we're are talking the Barossa Valley, South Australia. And they know what they're doing down there.
The price is seven Australian dollars.
Nobody, absolutely nobody, is going to pay you seven hundred dollars for it.
Well you find me a better sparkling burgundy anywhere in the world and I'll give you a medal.
It is deep, dark, resinous - literally resinous - also utterly sweet and rich and luscious (is it luscious? Yes, it's luscious!) and tannin-y at the same time.
And seven whole dollars, which is around not even five dollars your money.
You pay one thousand five hundred for what are considered 'the world's best' sparkling burgundies - and you are completely wasting your money in a side-by-side comparison.
This is the world, though, you see. This is the human race. Never will they ever admit a thing is true, when they want to believe some other kind of nonsense which is perfectly untrue.
Theoretically, tonight London's Big Ben will chime again for the first time in four years.
I'm not going to name the wine I was talking about...
I guarantee you you will be able to get this wine in America. 'Cheap as chips' as they say in London town.
And by the way, unless things have drastically improved since the last time I was there, don't hold too many high expectations about 'London chips!' Or London town 'fish and chips' for that matter too when it comes to that as well.
Trust me my friends, when they open the Gates of Paradise, most people are looking in other directions.
'God save Queen Victoria the First.' What it says, at the base line there.
Well don't you worry about the 'most people.' You just worry about yourself.
There's not that many people in here either, that's the cool thing.
Plenty of 'stuff' to go around.
Dionysus is not Jesus, right...
LOL
So you say.
"Jesus, thanks for the *'ng wine, dude, you've made me completely drunk!"
"Yeah no worries, Calvin. They're gonna crucify you in the morning."
"I don't think so, Jesus. Not this time. Different plan. We're playing my game now, sorry."
Where do they get this idea that the Kabbalah phrase 'ein sof' means 'infinite?'
It doesn't mean 'infinite.' The whole thing comes from the dangerous and deadly friction between Islam and the Spanish intellectual Jews. So they tried to pretend they were admitting the 'One-ness' thing of Allah.
Deep, dark, and resinous.
Means 'One Wisdom.'
Well let me tell you something: 'Jesus,' this Jesus God guy that everything thinks is this benign simpleton -, is a highly advanced, intelligent, subtle, nuanced... ...cheap red.
He wants everyone to like Him. He wants to be accessible. And He's cheap and available.
He's basically everywhere. Except nobody wants to treat Him the way He should be treated.
Christians: 'I want to die and go to Heaven.'
Why? Why do you want to die and go to Heaven?
'Because things suck here.'
Oh really? You got five bucks? Ah * it. Here, give me your glass.
'WTF is that?!'
Yeah, yeah, that's right. It's called 'Heaven.'
'But what if it runs out?'
LOL
I don't know. Let's see if it can do that...
'But I just want to see Aliens... Hick!'
No problem. Throw some morning glories in there with the wine.
'But I want to fly around in their technology.'
You can't. You're drunk.
'Calvin, you're looking a bit strange. What's with those eyes of yours?'
Really? You don't say... How 'bout that... Like I said, you're drunk and you're not seeing straight. Here. Have another glass.
Today the pop singer and live stage performer Katy Perry begins her residency at the Resorts World Casino in Las Vegas.
Resorts World is owned by the Malaysian Genting Group, but underlying this particular Las Vegas facility are also a number of other Asian and Middle Eastern billionaire interests, besides the main one, and additionally, there is a small handful of American interests such as the Hilton Group involved in the gaming and hotel/resorts venture.
Colored lights for kids.
One of those who is involved is a gentleman that I have at least met and chatted with on many occasions albeit that was quite some time ago now, when he was still living in the shadow of his China tycoon father - a man who dominated the children's sweets market in Hong Kong particularly.
Robert Kuok was already a very very wealthy individual when he spent most of his day at the Perth Stock Exchange trading floor, before retiring to one of the several of his penthouses around South Perth or Mounts Bay Road at the foot of Mount Eliza overlooking the city.
A lot of people knew Robert Kuok and he had the reputation of being a softly-spoken, polite, very friendly, rather innocent person who looked up to his father and I believe brother who were both still alive back then.
Anyway he's a multi-billionaire today and has several ice cream shops and lollie shops whatever you call them - in the Las Vegas complex - not to mention that he still, as the remaining representative of the 'Sugar Kings' Kuok Family, owns god-only-knows what all else around the whole entire world.
Apsaras and Gandharvas
When you get to be 'our age' over here - you know what I mean - the world is mostly just dead boring.
I mean sure you can have billions. And this coming year, for those with the drive, enthusiasm for work (and that would be Katy Perry for sure!), you can be very financially successful - it is the Chinese Year of the Black (a rare type) Water Tiger.
Looking over his recent pics, I know absolutely for sure and certain that Robert Kuok has not changed one little bit. He looks the same person. I think he 'sticks to his knitting' (although he was never afraid to jump into some tech stocks back in the day, with some success I must say, from what I knew off the trading floor).
Recently a couple of people from a 'special interest' group - mushrooms and things - pressed me a bit to give out what was this famous 'analog' (legal substitute) of the key Amanita Muscaria active ingredients and I said 'Nah I couldn't do that.'
I am not even close to being any kind of chemist and in that area we already have the esteemed Cornell U professor somewhere somewhere - that we could ask the advice of if it got down to actual matters of molecular structure and all of this. Not that it will ever. I wouldn't have thought.
Alexandra Badois - played the track below this week.
Besides, when CIA did all these experiments via the Danish Plumrose Group in Singapore and Thailand, they already had access to the best industrial chemists and neurologists in the world and they knew what they were doing even back then.
You will recall that a very mysterious and now long since virtually mythical figure 'Jean Yves Leroy' at Shiseido had been dabbling post-WWII in Singapore with chemical creations that activated certain brain centers via olfactory compounds, for um, um, well anyway, someone back then - but then, all of his bottles of 'Nombre Noir' were destroyed and he 'killed himself' never to be heard of again.
Russian government-owned news service RT or Sputnik or whatever they called themselves released the story last week about Danish orphans being experimented on by 'someone' (they didn't exactly say who) with the backing of CIA...
LOL
Yeah, nah. Can't just give this kind of stuff out.
I find it more than a little bit funny, these days, that people think they can 'get educated' at Universities, and that there, somehow, they will have access to 'all knowledge of the world, head, heart and mind; Ka-He-Va.'
Yep. You wanna work hard and have billions - off you go then.
Don't let me stop you.
I also find it more than just a little bit funny that people don't think they will ever die either or that money is going to save their necks and give them a 'comfortable old age.'
Or that disaster will not strike them and kill them all off for good.
Because after all, it was only during the time of King Arthur long long ago that even the best of knights did bad things too and started wars and whatnot and failed to find the Holy Grail because they were not 'perfect' enough.
Isn't that so, Sir Pellinore?
You might have a billion dollars.
So what.
Every hair on your head is numbered.
A lot of people don't believe that.
What is 'perfect?'
What does it mean to be perfect, and to live a perfect life such that the Grail Guardians would let you in?
I know that the thought will flash through some people's heads 'But Mr Kuok inherited a thriving cash-flow business from his enterprising father and brother; I'm sure if I had just such a charmed start that I too could have a billion dollars...'
And so he did, and so too you most prolly could.
Speaking of coffee then, coffee is a lot better with some sugar in it, and kids like sweets though, not coffee.
I like coffee.
Kids tend not to like coffee because it tastes bitter!
And sure, it does taste bitter, though not if you froth up some full-cream milk and add cardamom, honey, saffron and rose to it.
Actual song starts at around 1 minute 10 or so, although, I would let the thing play properly and let it 'sneak up on you.' They say, you know (well, Louis Theroux's father wrote it in the movie Pretty Woman), that if you cry the first time you see an opera live, the music is in your soul.
The state in Brazil called Bahia has been suffering massive flooding in recent weeks because of the bursting of a series of dams in the northern parts of Bahia.
In addition to the displacement of thousands of residents, there have also been landslides and literally whole towns and entire regions are still under water.
Earlier this year, the major coffee-growing region of Minas Gerais - which is the state on the southern boundary of Bahia - was struck by unusual frost, destroying 30 percent of the coffee crop.
Is still more valuable than gold.
Since at least 2018 in fact, there has been nothing but a continuing set of incidents, mostly of natural disasters until this last one that has to do with the structural collapsing of several very large dams all at the same time.
Can the world price of coffee survive all of this - all of these accidents?
Well it can, because the World Federal Reserve Coffee Board simply creates and issues whatever amount of coffee that the global market needs in order to assure supply. It does this by 'manifesting' fully and properly fermented coffee beans - all of the highest grade, 'high grown' Blue Mountain Arabica type - and whenever necessary, there are also 'back room' departments in which this supply of beans is roasted by specialty roasters to absolute perfection. All of this is so that the world supply can always be guaranteed, at the permanent highest quality, and with prices that can be stabilized at all times. (There are still coffee 'traders' but because the prices are controlled, most traders always lose money and the biggest ones are continuously bailed-out by the WFRCB in order that there can be an 'organised market' for coffee producers and coffee wholesale pricing).
Additionally, the WFRCB ran a series of important global 'stress tests' among all of its registered distributing houses, and, although they acknowledged there was pressure from a new technical development known as 'crypto-coffee,' nevertheless they were assured from the stress test exercises, that they would certainly be able to totally control the whole world and that nothing at all would upset their apple-cart, so to speak -, or as in this case, the coffee cart-el.
Conspiracy theorists had been promoting a false story that the world's premier leading scientist Dr Anthony Fauci, had successfully conducted some interesting experiments with funding from the US Congress, and that he had been able to create in a secret laboratory, a coffee bacteria which was deadly to drinkers but which they could not avoid ingesting because of course, coffee is addictive.
...And gold!
According to these same conspiracy theorists, originally, Dr Fauci had worked on a patented antidote (which patent he shared in his own personal name along with financial backers George Soros and Bill Gates) that was able to be added to the coffee as a white milk substitute - but his marketing department vetoed that idea because of course, milk is racist.
As at this current moment, the US Congress has passed vital legislation implementing a raft of laws with severe penalties for anyone caught promoting or spreading any such false conspiracy stories about the coffee market, or Dr Fauci or anyone formally registered with the WFRCB - other than as legitimate news items to be covered only by legitimate news outlets with the view of alerting people to the dangers and risks of false information about coffee.
Dr Fauci has recently been on record as stating quite categorically, that he does not have any such 'coffee bacteria' or any other form of biological medium that involves coffee and the global coffee crop, and that everyone should simply rest assured, and take his word for it, that coffee prices will always remain low and stable at these low low prices for ever - and that any false stories in social media to the effect that he has personally been buying coffee futures, are all outrageous lies.
Better than gold, and saffron - even Persian red saffron!
He was in favor of the idea of a US Presidential decree, making it a Federal offense for anyone to be caught hoarding stockpiles of coffee in order to make a quick buck from profiteering when, sorry, in the impossible eventthat, coffee prices should ever go up at any time at all in the future; now, soon, or even at all ever. And he was also in favor too, of the proposition that Federally-funded black-masked jack-booted thugs should go door-to-door, enforcing such rules and laws and decrees, and that these heroes should be fully-armed with tasers and semi-automatics that could and should, be deployed against the children of any miscreant parents, in order to 'teach them a lesson about who's boss around here.'
Apparently, according to the US academic Carroll Quigley, democracies come about when private people have access to the best weapons and use them...
Havana Syndrome anyone?
...Still do not hear the knocking of the FBI on my door.
And what they don't know won't hurt them.
'Transverse audio waves,' eh. LOL
If things were not 'on hold' for right now... I mean, hey, you gotta buy some coffee, right.
Current coffee futures is at the 25 year mid-point at around $2.30 a trade unit (230 US cents per pound). The full contract physical form is 37,500 pounds (of 'green bean' coffee). But I would go down to your local shop and just buy a bunch of coffee in jars or tins.
Those who are from above, speak of what they know.
'I don't care so much about philosophy and knowledge, and renunciation just yet - let me have at least, even just little of this - mountains of gold stuff!' First, and then, I will worry about all of this ineffable whatever later.
This is the correct attitude.
This is a real place, and the photo has not been manipulated in any way.
The point is not that you must not have wealth. And nor is it that you may not have material wealth before you are able to reach to the 'heavenly abodes.'
According to popular Sub-Continent folklore, the magically enlightened philosophers live in a secret place on Mount Meru. Even the Tibetans believe this.
Of course though, they do not. 'They...'
Well maybe they do live somewhere like that, but as even the common popular folklore has it, it is a secret place. So how would any of the ordinary people know, just exactly where it is?
Further, the Celestial Light is an incorrect translation of the wording that is used - even in the Hebrew deep texts; the wording is more - 'enlightenment.'
...Imagine that you are seated in a circular arrangement somewhere with a few people that you really like.
And that none of you have eyes. At least, not like you have them here.
(I am about to take you by the hand and place that hand of yours into the mountains of gold, by the way).
In the ancient Sanskrit, the identity who oversees all of this is the goddess Vach, or sometimes written as 'Vac.' In the Norse, it is Vor. Both are pronounced exactly the same way.
So, you guys all have no eyes.
'God' - that is, real actual God God, is light. But then again, not 'light' like we see photons speeding around in our material Universe; this 'light' is everywhere absolutely all at once - not only everywhere, but everywhence. It is in the past, it is in the now, it is in the future.
And because it is everywhere and in every time, in fact what 'is not' or 'is not yet,' in our material Universe, was already first 'there' in that other unexplainable place.
You must first have the mountains of wealth, the mountains of gold there.
And that is easy.
You have no eyes. Instead, there is light only, in the places that your 'eyes' were. The light shines inward, into your mind, and throughout your whole emotional being, and outward, in beams to the others there with you and it flows in them and out through them.
Vor provides you all with the light, and since it is actual God anyway, you are caught up in the light and since the light has Supreme Power whatever you 'Vac' (or 'Vor') becomes fully real. Well, it was already real anyway. The difference being that when you were living as a human being, you were not 'there.' And you were relatively powerless.
You'll all blind yourselves though - and you will blind those others that you have dragged in there with you - if you start out with the 'God light' intensity.
Start out nice and moderate like a large moon in the still evening in the Tropics maybe.
And only then, turn it up until you hit that intense blue, like some expensive diamond you bought in Antwerp!
And mind your manners though, right? It's not Birmingham where you are! (Jeremy Clarkson does not think much of Birmingham, and neither do I).
