Dear Lexi,

Speaking of coffee and chocolate Aldi's sells a chocolate candy bar called Coffee & Cream. To my taste it is delicious. The bar is divided into 36 rectangles, and I try to limit myself to one rectangle a day.

Dear David,

Thank You. I shall definitely buy a few to have
with my coffee.

One of my favourite chocolates used to be plums coated
in a rich dark chocolate that I'd get as a "Mother's
Day" gift. I haven't seen them in shops for a while
though. And of course Almond Rocca always went down well.

I fail to understand why this presumed elite has been so thoroughly incompetent at creating a new world order over the last 40 to 50 years – there didn't used to be hundreds if not thousands of Chinese and Russian billionaires and business oligarchs. What's that all about? Even that Ikea bloke's a recent blow-in, along with all those computer geek impresarios.

Besides, there are all forms of categories and subcategories of elites in the world – musical, sporting, religious, intellectual, artistic, for example.

And the world of models! Including its subsets; head, body, butt and hand. Oh, and super (nearly forgot to include myself for a second).

I even think there's an undisputed Conspiracy Theorist Elite – a self-selected and self-promoting few around the world, powered by dark energy. Who like Internet virtual Black Holes are orbited – out here in the 'realer' world (like OLO) – by lower mass, but still dense, objects caught in the deadly attraction of the end-of-everything Event Horizons before inevitably disappearing up their own singularity.

It only takes imagination to find an elite to which each of us can make a claim – perversely, this may only be in our own minds.

Wm I think you have a slightly wrong handle on some of your elites. Your sporting, music & other such Johny come lately are mostly just a flash in the pan, soon gone back to their peasent roots. Sure a few will hang on for a few generations, & perhaps make it into the really rare atmosphere of the true elites, but so what?

Then you must remember the periodic turnover of true elites. There are always things like the French & Russian revolution, & china's cultural revolution to reset the scene. Hell even William in 1066 made a big change to the pommy elite of the day.

Still, provided they stay in their ivory towers, I don't mind. It is when they get too big for their boots, with things like the climate change scam, that we might have to get nasty.

As long as I can have my 40Ft yacht, I don't mind at all that theirs is 400Ft. You can only sleep in one bed, & eat at one table so I have no need of a mansion, & the times I raced Ferraris they were an awful things.

Wouldn't it be horrible having to dress for dinner most nights. So if they keep out of my hair, they are welcome.

Sonofglion I probably blacken myself in some eyes for saying this.
But you are on the right track.
Money equals power and that brings corruption and lack of direction.
I ask why, why we can not insure the GFC is over, or that it will never happen again.
Why too can we not stop starvation , or wars?
Could it just be the more out of control our world gets the closer we get to excepting one world government?
Think deeply it seems odd that many just think it to be another conspiracy theory.
Yet a monument to the new world order stands that tells us like it or not we are to be ruled that way and population to drop by 80%!

Hasbeen wrote: Then you must remember the periodic turnover of true elites. There are always things like the French & Russian revolution, & china's cultural revolution to reset the scene.

Dear Hasbeen,

I think that if you examine matters more closely you will find that the seeds for the new elite are usually present in the old elite.

Lenin came from a wealthy Russian family in Simbirsk. George Washington was the richest man in the American colonies. Mao was a classmate of Chiang Kai-Shek, head of the government before the communist takeover. Maximilien de Robespierre was born in Arras, France. His family has been traced back to the 12th century in Picardy; some of his direct ancestors in the male line were notaries in the village of Carvin near Arras from the beginning of the 17th century. He presided over the Reign of Terror in the French Revolution. Castro was the illegitimate son of a wealthy farmer who acknowledged his paternity.

In general revolutionary leaders do not come from nowhere. They come from part of the power structure of the previous regime. Those who are nowhere generally remain nowhere.