BBC2 - Elizabeth 1's Secret Agents

William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley (a commoner who rose through the ranks, went to Cambridge and spoke five languages) feels like Elizabeth 1's handler in this brilliant BBC2 documentary series. 

I'm watching it as I wish to see how the TV academics are going to handle the John Dee (original 007) subject as the issue of magic has to be processed in a reasonably informed manner.

It reminds me of that Director of MI6 FT interview a few years back where it's pointed out that Oliver Cromwell's spymaster portrait hangs over Sir John Sawyer's desk. 

The handler always playing off the power dialectic, which for Cromwell and Elizabeth was Protestant versus Catholic. 

These days SIS use the Mickey Mouse ISIS threat to steer the state a course of stability through existing power factions. Usually to keep the Corporation city of London minted.

Update: An excellent podcast on Thomas Cromwell.

Trump & Tesla - High Weirdness and Coincidence Lasagna

I'm not an uncritical Trump fan. 

I am however extremely well informed on the Bush/Clinton crime syndicate so I'm happy to treat Trump as a wild card joker in the pack worthy of criticism but also a great thorn in the side of the toxic media elite and their owners.

The Trump Tesla thing is probably just a coincidence lasagna but it's worth knowing and subscribes to my John Titor inspired time travel conspiracy theory that this kind of information intrusion onto past or future-timelines makes a lot of sense and also corroborates Hugh Everett's Many Worlds Interpretation. 

I'm not saying I'm right, I'm just saying that it accounts for a lot less mess than any other explanation.

Jeff Buckley & Elisabeth Fraser of the Cocteau Twins

I've been following Christopher Knowles work on this for a few months now and scratching my head. This interview by the brilliant Higher Side Chats pulls it all into a much clearer framework. There's no money to be made in studying this material. In fact it's only for people who value their time and can afford to take the time out to study it.