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Originally posted by Ridhya
reply to post by ProtoplasmicTraveler
That you mingled with the very oppressing powers is suspect, and maybe what you learned of them is only what they WANTED you to learn... nonetheless I have the sight you do, I should be able to tell your character quickly!
When you cant trust thepublic sector then you call Ridhya, mercenary of the people, but his price is soul, not material. Will protect if your moral bank account is full! I hear hes unkillable
Originally posted by fieldfly
An extremely well presented (and IMO highly plausible) theory. Thank you for sharing.
I have only one question;
By recounting the circumstances that led you to that privileged position, which in turn afforded you such an insight into the working practices of TPTB, you will have undoubtedly exposed your identity.
You also state that you "have it on good authority" that TPTB would be happy for the masses to 'wake up'.
Do I take it then, that you present this information with the full blessing of TPTB, and that you are, in some way, authorized to post it here?
Originally posted by Ridhya
reply to post by ProtoplasmicTraveler
That you mingled with the very oppressing powers is suspect, and maybe what you learned of them is only what they WANTED you to learn... nonetheless I have the sight you do, I should be able to tell your character quickly!
When you cant trust thepublic sector then you call Ridhya, mercenary of the people, but his price is soul, not material. Will protect if your moral bank account is full! I hear hes unkillable
Originally posted by jboogienoj
Originally posted by Ridhya
reply to post by ProtoplasmicTraveler
That you mingled with the very oppressing powers is suspect, and maybe what you learned of them is only what they WANTED you to learn... nonetheless I have the sight you do, I should be able to tell your character quickly!
When you cant trust thepublic sector then you call Ridhya, mercenary of the people, but his price is soul, not material. Will protect if your moral bank account is full! I hear hes unkillable
Ya for sure. The info is very intriguing but you certainly brought doubt in my heart when the travel agent story came up. Regardless very interesting read.... I'll be following this thread closely. Good stuff
Evidently he heard some impressive things about me!
In answer to your other questions, I can't think of a Power that Be that own's their own Travel Agency.
The profit margins are very small, and the fines and penalties if you screw up a code are very high.
However most of the Powers that Be who own corporate jets own them through their corporations. They own their yachts through their corporations too. Sometimes their corporations have small to mid-sized travel offices that are capable of handling routine things.
This particular actually did have access to all those things through his corporation. In the case of his corporation's travel department he found their expertise in some things to be lacking. Doing a job and doing a good job, and doing an excellent job, and doing an outsanding job are in fact four seperate things my friend.
In the case of private jets most of the people who have them use them when it makes sense and go commerical when it makes sense.
Flying a private plane is a logistical enterprise in and of itself. Not only do you have to get clearance for it which is not always easy to do in communist and third world countries, but once you are there you have to make suitable arrangements for your pilot or send them back home.
That means working out the logisitics for your pilots accomodations and ground transportation. You also have to arrange in some cases for security for your plane while it sits on the ground. If you have a flight crew to serve you, you also have to arrange similiar accomodations for them.
The further you are from your home base, where you normally fly your plain out of, and the longer you are gone from your home base the more expensive and troublesome that all becomes.
Do you really understand the logistics of travelling in and out of remote places and third world countries and dictatorships?
I do/did, do you really know what's on the ground in all those places, I do/did.
In this case he got to kill two birds with one stone, he got a pretext to meet me, "Someone he had heard some impressive things about" and to get the expertise and services he was most looking for and could afford to pay for.
Any other questions?
Originally posted by tooo many pills
Well if they would be happy we all woke up, why do they purposely train us wrong? ie Public Schooling
Yes I paid a heck of a price for being my own man, for sticking to my guns, for demanding my freedom, for rejecting what I knew was false and a lie, but I ask you would it have been so hard, or high, had I not been the only one doing it? If I could do it why couldn’t and why wouldn’t other people.
Maybe that’s a question you could answer for me?
My friend I have offered you the only explanation and account that I have.
Most of your questions are you asking me to theorize the inner workings and motivations and actions of someone else’s mind.
Those questions would best be asked of that person whose motivations you are trying to figure out.
I would submit to you that all your questions are simply based on your own imagined theories of how the world at large must work in order to validate your own theories by insisting that they must fit circumstances and situations you have no actual practical experience or participation in.
What you have largely done is failed to take into account that some situations require discretion. Doing things in a discrete manner requires someone discrete.
Further you have failed to take into account location, location, location. Do you have any idea where this Travel Agency was located or the type of clientelle it normally attracted?
I respect your right to have freewill and to use it to be skeptical. However having said that, since I can’t answer for another person the questions you are asking, and my own answers are insufficient to satisfy your skepticism the only thing I can suggest to you is to exercise your own freewill to draw what ever conclusions you wish.
That won’t necessarily make your conclusions correct, but it will make you happy nonetheless because you arrived at them all on your own utilizing your own process.
Do you have something on topic you wish to add to the thread?
This is a cop out on your part. Again, you’re making the claim that a person who happens to be high up the food chain approached you, yet when one clearly examines this it doesn’t hold up. None of this is based on “my own imagined theories” but based on facts, facts you’ve failed to address (refer to the questions pertaining to American Express Travel for more insight.) See, what you fail to realize is you don’t know what experiences I’ve had with anyone. Why? Because I don’t come on here telling people about them and then shrinking back when questioned. However, I’ll throw you a bone, you are 100% correct when you say you climb the ladder and either have to deal with them or get completely shut out. Everything else you’ve said is suspect and should be examined more thoroughly and taken as a grain of salt unless proven otherwise.
Originally posted by Ridhya
reply to post by ProtoplasmicTraveler
The well's guardian was Mimr who was a Jotunn (giant), not a witch, and he was the wisest of all things. I have never heard the world built upon the back of a dragon, the world was created from the felling of Ymir, the progenitor of all giants. Also I dont believe it is certain which eye Odin sacrificed though I heard left more often. And I have not read the Eddas for some time so could be mistaken about the eye.
...not to take away from your point or anything!
My friend the fact that a CFR Member owns American Express Travel does not mean American Express Travel provides superior service or anyone amongst the Powers that Be has to use it.
I can assure you if you talked to any array of first class world travelers American Express Travel Services would not be the way that they would go. They are like McDonalds. If it’s available great, if it’s not they are dead in the water.
They aren’t going to actually bribe anyone, or use any real clout to do anything for anyone other than in a uniform corporate way. That’s why the most discerning travelers don’t use them.
Your fixation on American Express being CFR owned as being of some consequence in how people get around is based simply on your own theory and not any practical experience.
Most of the world’s best hotels are very old; few of them are chain owned. In fact of the 42 Superior Deluxe hotels World Wide, which is the highest distinction a Hotel can receive and a nearly impossible one to be awarded, only 3 of them are owned by a chain like Hilton or Marriott.
Nor no matter how wealthy you are, are you going to call the head of AMR to book a flight on American Airlines, his time,
and the person’s time calling is more valuable than that. He is just going to have to refer it down about five levels to get to the person who actually could handle the booking.
Nor do these people NOT pay each other for services, in large part because all these companies are performance based, meaning the people down the food chain who actually have to do the work, get a percentage of the revenue.
Nor are they going to make exceptions in their book keeping. Some of these men make upwards to 20,000 dollars a minute. They aren’t actually real thrilled in wasting each other’s time on that level for things that each have people under them to do.
Some of the Powers that Be are notoriously cheap, they would cut off a testicle before they would waste a dollar they didn’t have to. They have a lot of money because they respect money. For most of them it’s simply a way to keep score and something to leverage when they want to take something over.
There is a big difference between the New Rich and the Old Money in how they spend their money, one flaunts it to impress, the other doesn’t.
How you a person with limited money imagines how these people live is just that how you imagine that they live.
The fact that you put nothing out there other than how you imagine things must work and don’t have anything in the way of real experiences or real numbers to base it on kind of suggests that doesn’t it?
Corporate Jets age rapidly based on hours in the air, the more you fly them the quicker they fall apart, when they are down for maintenance depending on the parts they need, they can be down for days and even weeks at a time.
Corporate Jets also crash a lot more than commercial jets because the Major Airlines have a better ability to keep theirs serviced and parts stockpiled.
I have had three customers die over the years in corporate jet crashes, with a total of 17 people lost on those flights. I have only had one customer die on a commercial plane crash.
Security for these people is always based on assessed threat related to where they are going and to do what.
Trust me
Oliver North did not fly into Tehran on an American Private Jet, or and American Military Plane, he would have been shot out of the sky. He flew in on Iran Air, and he didn’t buy the ticket from the Whitehouse Travel Office, he called someone discrete that he was told to who handled those arrangements discretely for them, and it sure wasn’t American Express.
These people also like to go slumming it from time to time, they like to chase girls, they like to chase boys, and you don’t do that very easily surrounded by a group of armed men. They are not dependent on their entourages and there is no law that says they have to take their entourages. Several Presidents of the United States were adept at slipping their Secret Service Details for hours on end to go wandering around not just Washington on foot and by cab, but other cities they were visiting. The President of the United States is the most secured person in the world.
One of the Rockefellers was either eaten by sharks or eaten by head hunters while in Borneo in the early 1970’s collecting shrunken heads. Yes when Nelson went he took a massive military presence to look for him but that was more to search the terrain than to protect him, they looked for him for about a month.
When J Paul Getty was first discovered to be the reputed richest man in the world he was living in a single hotel room in the George V Paris ( a superior deluxe hotel) and ran ... His Chef was instructed to always prepare meals for guests based on their economic position in life, he had three levels of pricing that the Chef had to stick to, 7, 12, and 17 dollars max for a guest like Baron Rothschild. When his grandson was kidnapped he refused to pay the ransom even after the kidnappers cut off one of his ears and sent it to him in the mail. He made his son beg him to loan to him the money and pay him back with interest.
They eat in popular restaurants in the most fashionable parts of cities like Los Angeles, New York, Miami, London, Paris, Rome, etc. they can in fact go anywhere they want, anyway they want anytime they want.
When they go to the Bohemian Grove at various points they actually walk around naked as a Jay Bird, there are no body guards within the compound and let me tell you it’s a huge compound with thousands of acres.
I understand you imagine you know how things work all the time, but the reality is once again that’s all you are doing is imagining.
The fact of the matter is that to the very wealthy who can afford anything and everything its the little things and touches that money can't buy that they most appreciate.
They search out the best and to them who is best are the people who can deliver those little things money can't buy in the process of providing the things money can buy.
If you don't actually know and understand that you don't know and understand rich people.
I am sorry but it’s not possible for me to trade my real world for your pretend one.
Now once again I am going to ask you to try to get back on topic.
Do you realize that I added that bit about how I met these people to answer someone else’s question based on how some of these people think behave and act?
Please try to participate in the thread in an on topic way now.