S01E136: How To Kill Your Friends And Influence Morons
Tonight’s Tarot:
https://tarotx.net/tarot-card-meanings/linestrider-tarot/queen-of-pentacles.html
Freaks of Hazard:
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MakeHeroism also had some more submissions for an intro!
dag also came thru with a huge stack of isos to check out!
Spaz has sent numerous Life magazine RIPE FOR PLUNDERING OF IMAGES!
THE MOLLUSK IS ART DECO
CALL ME SHELL SHOCKED
Shell PLC, also known as Royal Dutch Shell, is the second largest investor-owned oil and gas company in the world by revenue (after ExxonMobil), and among the world's largest companies out of any industry, according to Forbes. It is Europe’s Standard Oil, the largest company in the world not headquartered in the USA or China. Unknown to many, including those in the Netherlands, The Dutch Royal Family are Europe’s Rockefellers, having chartered and financed the Royal Dutch Petroleum Company in the late 1800’s, and having been part-owners through the industrial revolution and the development of the internal combustion engine.
According to these SEC documents…
“The numerous companies in which Royal Dutch and Shell Transport own investments are collectively referred to as the Royal Dutch/Shell Group of Companies. Royal Dutch and Shell Transport are the Parent Companies of the Group but are not themselves part of it. The Royal Dutch/Shell Group of Companies has grown out of an alliance made in 1907 between Royal Dutch and Shell Transport, by which the two companies agreed to merge their interests on a 60:40 basis while remaining separate and distinct entities. Arrangements between Royal Dutch and Shell Transport provide, inter alia, that, notwithstanding variations in shareholdings, Royal Dutch and Shell Transport shall share in the aggregate net assets and in the aggregate dividends and interest received from Group companies in the proportion of 60:40.
The Royal Dutch Petroleum Company
The Royal Dutch/Shell Group was formed in 1907 when a merging of the interests of Royal Dutch and Shell Transport took place, in which each company retained its separate identity. Royal Dutch was established in The Hague in 1890 after receiving a concession to drill for oil in Sumatra, in the Dutch East Indies. It had the support of King William III, hence the name Royal Dutch. The promoters of this venture had found oil in 1885, but needed funds to exploit their discovery. In the early years the firm was under the energetic direction of J.B. August Kessler under whom, in 1892, it exported its first oil. In 1896 a 30-year-old bookkeeper, Henri Deterding, joined the company and in 1901 he became its chief executive. The predominant use for petroleum in the late 19th century was as paraffin or kerosene, which was used for heating and lighting. However, Sumatra’s oil was particularly rich in gasoline, the product used by the internal combustion engine, and it was therefore well placed to take advantage of the growth in demand for oil which the motor car was to bring.
Henri Deterding and the Rothschilds
Deterding was one of the great entrepreneurial figures of the 20th century. He combined remarkable strategic vision with acute financial awareness born of his early training as a bookkeeper. His ambition was to build a company to rival the world’s largest oil enterprise, John D. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil Company of the United States. Deterding preferred to achieve this ambition through alliances and agreements rather than competition. In 1903, as part of this strategy, he formed a marketing company, the Asiatic Petroleum Company, owned jointly by Royal Dutch, Shell, and the Paris branch of the Rothschild family, the latter of which had substantial Russian production interests. A crucial intermediary figure in making this alliance was Fred Lane, who had been one of the original directors of Shell Transport, but who had become closely identified with the Paris Rothschilds. Lane was the Rothschilds’ Paris firm’s London agent, of the shipping brokers Lane & Macandrew.
Shell’s Origins
The “Shell” Transport and Trading Company’s origins lay in the activities of a London merchant, Marcus Samuel, who began his career in the 1830s selling boxes made from shells brought from the East. The business gradually expanded the number of commodities in which it traded. When Marcus Samuel Sr. died in 1870, his sons Marcus and Samuel continued to be involved in far eastern trade. During the 1880s the Samuels, through intermediary Fred Lane, began selling the Russian oil of the Rothschilds to the Far East, breaking the monopoly previously held by Standard Oil. In 1892 the Suez Canal Company was persuaded to allow oil tankers to pass through the canal, which lowered the cost of Russian oil in the Far East, and allowed Samuel to increase rapidly its market share. Later in the 1890s fears that Russian supplies might be reduced led Samuel to search for a secure source of oil nearer his Far Eastern markets, and in 1898 a major oil field was discovered in Dutch Borneo, a year after the launch of “Shell” Transport and Trading Ltd.
Shell And Royal Dutch
Shell Transport grew rapidly. By 1900 the company possessed oil fields and a refinery in Borneo and a fleet of oil tankers. However, Marcus Samuel was above all a merchant, lacking organizational skills and ignorant of the technicalities of the oil business. After 1900 he lost interest in the details of the business, and in 1902 became lord mayor of London. By the early 1900s Shell Transport had made a series of costly mistakes, including a disastrous involvement with Texas oil. When Texaco hit a large oil gusher in 1901, Samuel agreed to buy the oil. The flow of oil was not continuous and stopped altogether in the summer of 1902. The formation of the Asiatic Petroleum Company left Deterding in control of Shell’s sales in the East. By 1906 Shell’s financial situation was so bad that Deterding was able to impose his own terms for a merger of the two concerns, with the Dutch holding 60% of what came to be known as the group.
Another Dutch company of note… Unilever. The current PM started his career at Unilever.
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THE BLOOD COLLAGES
Oh my GOD! I’m in love!!!
John Bingley Garland, ca. 1850–1860
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/garland-blood-collages
“The Blood Book is handmade, folio-sized, with a handsome marbled endpaper and forty-three pages of exquisitely crafted decoupage. John Bingley Garland, the manuscript’s creator, used collage techniques, excising illustrations from other books to assemble elegant, balanced compositions. Most of the source material is Romantic engravings by William Blake and his ilk, but there are also brilliantly colored flowers and fruits. Snakes are a favorite motif, butterflies another. A small bird is centered on every page. The space between the images is filled with tiny hand-written script that reads like a staccato sermon. “One! yet has larger bounties! to bestow! Joys! Powers! untasted! In a World like this, Powers!” etc.
The book’s reputation, however, rests on a decorative detail that overwhelms: To each page, Garland added languid, crimson drops in red India ink, hanging from the cut-out images like pendalogues from a chandelier. Blood drips from platters of grapes and tree boughs, statuaries and skeletons. Crosses seep, a cheetah drools, angels dangle bloody sashes. A bouquet of white chrysanthemums is spritzed.
To be clear, Garland’s blood is not that of surgery or crime or menses, but of religious iconography. He obviously intended the blood to represent Christ’s own. And yet the final work suggests that the properties of actual blood tugged the artist’s shirtsleeves, pulling him away from the symbol and towards its source. It’s as if God gave Garland permission to fetishize hemorrhage. The Blood Book isn’t the only evidence of this fixation. Garland also made several single-page collages, now dispersed in various museums. In these, the imagery is more densely layered and the compositions more clamorous than those in the Blood Book, but the trademark drips remain.”
Check out these beautiful 1883 steel plate engravings of the Raven by Gustave Doré!
Gustave Doré’s Hauntingly Beautiful 1883 Illustrations for Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven”
OPENER
INTERMISSION
Gimme Blood by Houdini Roadshow
Scooby-Doo 2 Was Much More Faithful
CLOSER
TAKE THESE, IT’S DANGEROUS TO GO ALONE!
I just finished 2nd half of show 💥 Excellent. Thank you for bringing another piece of the PUZZLe Lavish, kudos. GREAT show notes MothMan. I too love kazoo of ‘Friends’ however, appetite for Destruction Kazoo hilarious.
May I recommend an Abba kazoo cover ‘Danxing Queen’ 😉
YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! FUCK SHELL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!