'Obscured Meanings:' 'Legacy Preference...' OxCam

You wouldn't believe that such extraordinary lengths are taken to cause a deliberate obscuring of facts about even quite recent history on the internet - but it is so.

I have personal knowledge of people who attended Oxford or Cambridge Universities... ...who literally screwed up their degree certificates and threw them in the waste paper bin. You probably won't believe this but it is true that a handful of people did do this.

When you look up the phrase 'legacy preference to University' you will find a consistent swathe of publications on-line almost everywhere talking about the abolishing 'long long ago' of preferential granting of applications from those whose family members HAD ATTENDED one or other of the great Universities. Therefore to make it seem that entry by academic merit must be 'the natural opposite' and the 'democratic and fairer' system that would replace 'family privilege' and unfair 'entitlement.'  

Now...

...that is not what the phrase really means though, does it!

So why do they do this kind of thing? Is there a propaganda element at stake? 

Most certainly. Of course.

And I am going to point this out in an attempt to pin-point the era around which things went badly off the rails for the United Kingdom government and society at the top where decisions are made.

Functionally the matter had been simmering away literally for decades and might have been the product of Post-War social disconnectedness; too many leaders having died in the war itself, too much of the fabric of society that had gone into positive development and social and intellectual progress being destroyed.

The UK Labor Party Prime Minister James Callaghan was at the core 'turning point' really - he shifted to the Right on economic policy with the effect that the purely (IE 'only' or extremely predominantly) meritocratic basis for academic position - which was prized by the economically poorer Left Wing people - was abandoned in favor of the most simplistic economic rationale.

This looks like a scene from the Sony Playstation '007' game.
Haspel knows the plots that have been foiled BY THE CIA, not MI6.
Sir Richard Dearlove thinks Islamic Terrorism is 'overstated.'

You see, up until Thatcher, entry to Oxford and Cambridge was also in some percentage (not only, but at least to a certain percentage) facilitated to favor those WHOSE PARENTS OR CLOSE FAMILY MEMBERS HAD EXCELLED ACADEMICALLY AT THOSE UNIVERSITIES...

It was not merely, 'that a family member had attended.' 

Now this is meaningfully different to just some kind of weak idea of patronage. This is about the perceived value of a continuance of academic legacy. Legacy preference in some degree provides some small hint at a moral compass!

It seems to the dumbed-down only a subtle and small difference, but it was significant enough in the minds of those who threw their 'qualifications' away in disgust, to really matter. And they knew, and foresaw - very correctly - that there would inevitably be a rise to the very top by those highly corruptible people who were motivated by money and power, and who of course, had in fact already used money and power to get places anyway. At every step and stage - be it Eton or some other name school - how much you paid saw to it that your grades and chances benefited, and thus, all else just fell to you like so many dominoes. And this also implied that not only did those who paid money 'get places,' but certainly, there was already a pervasive atmosphere dominated by those who were in fact permissive about ego and 'advantages through bribes.'

This is the crude kinds of people who are running the United Kingdom now - and about whom Julian Assange says 'they are a nefarious lot who are in control of the place.' He bluntly warned Donald Trump not to visit. I take a slightly different perspective from Assange's - which is namely, that the same kinds of people are also cowards and only can do things behind someone's back and in the shadows. They will, I think, smile thinly on the outside to Trump, were he to venture to London, and make a show in public. But they are not to be trusted in any serious way and you cannot guarantee what they might be up to behind your back; that much I also hold to be true along with Mr. Assange.

Several FBI 'Moles' And Why This Is Important To Markets

The media is likely to jump to incorrect conclusions about what has been going on, and what is currently going on inside the Trump White House, as soon as more names are revealed.

I have already specified from a long long time ago that the UK's Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) was involved, and I mean AT THE TOP because of strategy and policy THAT THEY ARE MAKING -  I talked about Sir Alex Allan and mentioned ex-London Met Deputy John Yates; but these names were discussed here only because they already had profile to do with 'dubious' activities and events (the Leveson Media Illegal Wire-Tapping Inquiry, and illegal listening-in to various South East Asian heads of state). They are not the main strategic thinkers at all.

I mean I've known for a long while who ALL the figures are and I could name names that are unlikely to EVER appear in the public media!

As far as the actual FBI 'moles' inside the Trump Campaign are concerned, I will add the name of Alex Nix to the shortlist of those already 'outed' because as soon as his name becomes more obvious in the wider MSM, then it will be easy for people to jump to completely incorrect conclusions: Robert Mercer, who paid Nix whilst he was running Cambridge Analytica, is ONE OF THE US MILINT ASSETS WHO EXPOSED NIX AND HALPER! Mercer is a 'good guy.'

This thing is so far-reaching and has so many highly-placed and really big-time power-brokers involved and with such enormous ambit of nefarious spider-webbing, that once the White House turns up the heat on the conspirators - there is likely to be extreme reactions.

Najib Razak

I mean, even as we speak, can you imagine what would be the consequence, if Najib Razak spilled the beans on all those previously 'connected folk' in NYC and Washington and London who arranged for him to 'disappear' the billions of dollars he was given to shut up about the missing airliner scam...

We are talking about people with HUGE egos getting caught and stuck into the spotlight - and you can hardly see a bigger ego than to witness the comments of Sir Richard Dearlove, actually 'opine' in his expert view, that 'there is some substance to what is in his friend/colleague Christopher Steele's 'dossier.'

The reality is there is no substance at all - so why on earth would someone with as significant a past CV as Dearlove, ex-Chief of MI6, say something as obviously false and tendentious and aggressively anti an elected sitting US President, as what he did say, and in the way he said it? It was a lie, it was false, and he knew it to be false when the words were carefully sent out of his lips after the carefully pre-planned question was put by the BBC interviewer.

No. It's not just 'FBI moles' that are the important fact here - it is who is ultimately behind them, and what was their agenda. And frankly, how did they even know Donald Trump was such a real threat to beat the utterly corrupted Hillary Clinton from such a long a way off from the eventual election? 

Things are never really what they look like, are they. It was never Russian spies and operatives who arranged the election for Trump - it was somebody that made sure that INTERFERENCE FROM MI6(!) and Dearlove and Halper and Nix and the rest (there are a lot of others) was curtailed.

I keep saying this, but I have a document from a Russian source which I will release as soon as the Mueller nonsense is brought to a complete and formal halt. And when you read it it will make your head spin. 

There is no prospect US markets can fall on the strength of current economic data - but if London and what is behind that crowd go nuts and turn nasty because of being found out and pinned to the wall under the spotlight so to speak, they might try to Crash everything out of anger. Personally, if I were looking at it, I would seek to confiscate all the capital of anyone who was involved in subverting the US FBI to spy on US citizens without cause.

Now wouldn't that be amusing.

Might even make Assange chuckle.

As The FBI 'Mole' Is Revealed

Well don't ever forget I told you first.

The 'extract' from the Russian book I posted as a free downloadable PDF SPECIFIED London Secret Service involvement in all of this.

There is a ton of literally 'fake news' or, more properly, deliberate propaganda being pushed on-line and even in the conventional print media at the moment, trying to so-called 'walk back' the Wall Street Journal's Kimberley Strassel's revelation regarding a possible FBI 'mole' inside the Trump Campaign.

The thrust of this 'walk-back' is that there were 'unwitting sources' within the Trump Campaign, and those being named are of course Carter Page, but also George Papadopoulos - but this is simply not the case at all. There definitely was a real mole, at least one, and that person is 'being rumored across the Web' as Stefan Halper, an associate of the one-time Chief of the UK Secret Intelligence Service aka 'MI6' - Sir Richard Dearlove.

To some extent I am personally extremely gratified that being one of those who have kept the embargo rule to do with the basis document from which the extract I posted was taken, Robert Mueller has found himself floundering somewhat for want of 'the fire.' Or maybe 'the light...'

Soon enough Mueller will be completely shut down.

And then I will freely reveal the document in question. The assistance this kind of document can be to you, or to someone who cares about what they are doing, is that through the lens it provides you, your enemies will be revealed. And when you know your enemy and where they go hunting, you can stay away from that part of the forest, especially once the fight-to-the-death begins between the top-line predators. Which it will. In fact, it's already begun, has it not?!

Blend 17

And then comes the time when you are able to purchase your own personal 'first Rolls Royce.'

Suddenly you see that the truly rich, the truly self-reliant and self-made - are not merely unique people but they are also very often alone, or at least kind of 'lonely.'

It's all just for you. The rich lifestyle is a lonely experience;
basically, it's just you.

You will observe how selfish the experience of buying and owning your first Rolls Royce really is. I mean, sure, there are a lot of short videos on YouTube that appear to show people who own them, or things similar to them, but there is something missing from the statements being made in all those videos about the actual experience, which is namely, the sheer personal and very lonely nature of the experience. You can't really share the actual experience itself in the sense of the commonality of feelings except to someone else who is doing the same thing at the exact same time...

And you know, there are a lot of people who wouldn't even like or at all appreciate owning the thing in the first place. My wife's aunt forced her husband to send back the Rolls he bought because she thought it was far too pretentious a thing to own - now bearing in mind this is a fellow who owns an authentic Da Vinci or Michelangelo painting...! ...I'm never sure which and I don't ask. 

Who can share this experience, this frustration and inability to explain the feelings involved to the rest of society which simply just does not understand?

Pure luxury and self-indulgence at these supreme levels re things only you and I fully comprehend - let me show 'us:'

Yesterday, arriving somewhat late to 'the party' to do with it, I opened a small glass jar of Blend 17. I got it at a deep discount of retail price '99 cents' from another multi multi millionaire friend-of-mine, Tony Galati, at his huge market in Wanneroo - 'the Spud Shed.' 

It's got this ultra premium dusky rose/white gold-and-black packaging around it, but the actual container itself is in all other respects the same as the normal glass jar of Vegemite.

Now in the first place, you have to be one of the tiny global minority of people who actually love this item - the usual way of imbibing it being on toast slathered with melting golden, real, full-salted butter.

What an amazing, unique luxury sensation! It's like molten... molten... molten... black liquid silk enriched with many mysterious strange vitamins, and ...salt.

He he he he he ha ha ha ha haaaaaargh! No one else will ever understand; 'except me and thee, and I'm not even certain about thee.'

La Plenitude

Here is some Australian music for you:

Well, actually, it is a collaborative effort between the lyricist and (American) singer, and the musical arranger and composer who goes by the commercial name of 'Elypsis' (happens to be a young Australian fellow).

Any American-Australian cultural link-up has the chance of some quite harmonic characteristics: both places are departures from the squandered British Empire, remnants of the types of people and personalities from that modern culture, mixed up with the very ancient and ineffable features of indigenous cultures (Aboriginal in one case, and American Indian in the other). I don't think the end results are 'all mixed up,' but rather they do find unique ways of blending the very old with the recent.

And of course, when we speak of British, we speak of Europe too; of 'Roman Civilization...'

'Plenitude' is the French expression used these days among the Champagne cognoscenti, to describe the three waves of 'fullness' in the aging of Champagne wine - I mean I would personally definitely use the same word for something like the mighty Penfolds Grange (a red wine), which also goes through these phases where the wine is said to be 'closed' and doesn't completely render its fullness of flavor potential.

'P2' - a second plenitude Dom Perignon (about 14 years old)

And I think we might do well to consider cultures such as the American, and the Australian, in a similar light to do with times and phases: we are, in my estimation, at the very beginning of a great Second Age of the post-British Empire 'modern' culture. 

On the one hand, living as an intellectual inside either of the American or the Australian culture is a highly isolated thing - there is a total lack of intelligence and thoughtfulness in both places, among the presumed 'leading edges' of society. There were early shoots in Australia during the time of Don Dunstan and Gough Whitlam and these were vigorously and quickly destroyed by both Left and Right sides of the political spectrum.

Where the 'destroyers' got things wrong - which they inevitably always do when it comes to these huge questions of great historic Epochs, really - is that they never themselves understood or fully grasped what the underlying economics of their cultures were all about. As indeed the modern Chinese will now also soon discover, that they too, are lacking in fundamental wisdom about economics.

And you can see this in recent idiotic remarks by people like Warren Buffet - who for years and years I told everyone I knew, was always but only living on the wisdom donated him by his early mentor, the great Benjamin Graham. Buffett recently called Bitcoins 'rat poison to the tenth power squared...' Or something like that.

In the modern world you have to specialize
in intellectual isolationism

This is just resentment speaking, it's not intelligence. And let me be the first person you ever heard say that Buffett is not now nor was he ever, quite the brilliant genius that everyone else makes him out to be...

The Bitcoin is unquestionably, at least it is in my mind anyway, because of its characteristic revolutionary, walk-away-from-tradition, very Australian vibe - the invention and creation, as indeed the current mythology is - of an Australian, some guy who called himself 'Satoshi' and who has disappeared off the planet. More or less.

The trouble with all those who want to decry digital cryptocurrency is that they fail to examine that it is functioning as money in the most ancient traditional way there is: namely, people use it in accordance with the obtaining technology of the day. And the obtaining technology is not paper, nor roads, nor buildings - it is electronics and iPhones and other similar gadgets.

Spears, boomerangs, woomeras - mollusk shell and paper-bark money. Buildings and vaults -  gold bricks and piles of paper.

iPhones and USB vaults - digital transaction tokens. Period. Bank it. It ain't happening any other way, sorry Warren. All money is rat poison, anyway; that's one of its standard definitions. Warren Buffett is an idiot. It's a waste of time listening to people like him - he's fixated about himself and about the past, which has moved by and gone now. Is he still rich? It simply doesn't matter. He will never be wealthy in tomorrow's world. He will be a constant loser, if he indeed even lives on for a few more years.