EC 414 / God’s War

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President Putin’s Long Tail
 

As I wrote in an earlier blog (EC 389ff) of this series, the fault with Russia is not because the aggressions of the U.S. and its lackeys at NATO have put it on the defensive, but because it refuses to acknowledge its humiliation at the hands of the Byzantine Emperor Alexis I and/or the orthodox Patriarch Nicholas III.

 

While I have stuck with the version of Anna Comnena’s story of events in Byzantium, there are interpretations that argue that the one who condemned John Basil (aka Basil the Physician http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basil_the_Physician ) to death was not Alexis I (who but executed him), but the orthodox Patriarch Nicholas III of Constantinople , the very man who accepted the Western version of Christianity and the primacy of the Western Pope.

 

As the aim in these blogs is not to give a precise description of past events, but a general outline only, it is entirely possible that it was Nicholas III, aka Grammaticus (aka Annas or Caiaphas, re John 18:19, 22), who the New Testament portrays as the ‘high priest’ who condemns John Basil (possibly John the Baptist) to the authorities.

 

As a number of links describe Alexius I as a ‘hunter’, who in that capacity captures John Basil, a major opponent of taxation through collection of reindeer furs, resulted in civil unrest between the local populace and the ‘Normans’. The unrest occurred in situ, i.e., the region of Byzantium, before these grew to such a scale as forced the Franks to flee from Byzantium to what we know as the Benelux countries today.

 

Apparently Patriarch Nicholas III favored the institution of taxation as a permanent feature of government. This not only created a schism between primal Christendom and those who rebelled against taxation (the latter primarily among the predecessors of Islam). The failure of the rebels to rid themselves of the Patriarch http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Manzikert created a near  permanent division between what we know today as the East and the West. It is the failure of native Christians, to rid themselves from him that caused Nicholas III—in order to save himself—to seek union with Pope Urban II, an event resulting in the betrayal of the nature of humankind.

 

Such is the ‘tail’ that Russia, a presumptuous guardian of a falsified  ‘faith’ drags behind it http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Believers .

 

Though the 17^th century tyrannical reforms by Patriarch Nikon of Moscow may to a degree (a la history longue durée) be confused with those of the tyrant Patriarch Nicholas III of 11^th century Byzantium, both Patriarchs effectively surrendered the social order of the people of the wood and East to the order of the urban desert people of the West.

 

The betrayal by the high priests of the orthodox Church of the ludi or people of the East, not to mention the offshoot of primal Christendom, re Islam, is what started what we know today as information wars (aka INFOWAR), that is, misrepresentation of history for as long as a thousand years.

Since the so-called Norman-Byzantine war http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine%E2%80%93Norman_wars never really ended, but have returned to haunt us with renewed vengeance in Ukraine, it ought to be in the interest of humankind to reexamine its past. At least this writer hopes, that such a reexamination will point out that the result of the victory by the West was but the short-term creation of a civilization that has largely assumed the role of a vampire with a wingspan that covers our globe. The same vampire is not only sucking up all the natural resources of planet Earth, but as the French analyst Paul Virilio writes (City of Panic, Bert 2007, p 44):

 

“And so, after the sacking of Mespotamian memory [with the U.S. military studiously looking the other way] and the pillaging of the treasuries of Summer, this ‘information war’ revealed[s] itself for what it was[is]: a war against history, an attempt to destroy our origins…. A preventive war against this ‘immemorial’ memory that just wont go away… for those who pretend to rule …the present…[with] the ubiquity and instantaneity of the real time of telecommunications.”

 

Though Russia’s President Putin is not to be blamed for the aggressiveness of the West and can only sympathize with the need of Russia to resist it, one hopes that he is sufficiently informed about the real dimension of infowars and that continuing to mute the underlying issues (do we live in a green world or a grey one?) continues the consolidation of the rule of God under the rule of Man until the Sun no longer rises.

 

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ATTENTION CITYGENS! TIME TO PAY UP! (3)

The yet untold reason why Abu Jezu was rescued by the firebird is that it was not only the Third Baba Yana who wished to capture him, but in front of the Yule fireplace stood also a dozen internal revenue tax collectors http://cdn-imgs-mag.aeon.co/images/2012/10/Paying-the-Tax-by-Brueghal-the-Younger.jpg  ready to pounce on his “No tax” chocolate bars as Christmas gifts. All the bars were labeled: “Eat this chocolate, and you will have the courage not to ever pay taxes”. Rather provocatively another line lobbied the idea that: “Taxes are only for Citygens”.

As far as this writer knows, the “No Taxes” idea may not be such a far fetched idea. If what (some) market analysts predict comes true: that we stand before another financial and economic collapse (did the previous one actually end?) http://www.testosteronepit.com/home/2014/5/2/the-last-two-times-this-happened-the-stock-market-crashed.html , and the Ukrainians and then other Europeans are rushed into yet another war http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user5/imageroot/2014/05/Ukraine%20troop%20map.jpg , and on this occasion there is no wood left for people to flee to save themselves, but the only escape remaining is to seek Death in Great Numbers, then government may actually start considering its practicability. If it does not, banks stand in danger of becoming known as ‘cemeteries’, because “…people will start taking their money with them”.

Incredible as it may sound when it comes to “taking IT with you”, it was proven to be practicable by no lesser authority on the theory of Life After Death as the Cheshire Cat, who was created by that opium smoker Lewis Carroll, who said: “Every adventure requires a first step” https://img0.etsystatic.com/015/1/6070018/il_340x270.429163900_j5p1.jpg . Whether the Cheshire cat actually said this does not really matter, because the ‘civilization’ constructed out of taxing people is not only cruel, but quite weird and unbelievable.

Just to make the No Tax proposal more realistic:

Most of us know that without ‘free’ gifts life on Earth could not exist. The people who lived in the wood used to call these gifts ‘gifts of nature’ (berries, roots, seeds, mushrooms). Monkeys call these same gifts “bananas”, while donkies call them “oats”.

One of the ‘free’ gifts of nature were the reindeer of Eurasia, who the Evenks (and other people) used to use as animals who gave them milk. University professors, corrupted by the prejudices of modern government, now call these people “hunters-gatherers”, while in reality few of the reindeer were ever killed—except when the marauders of Scandinavia and Western Europe began to practice theft on a permanent basis. This ‘theft’ was imposed by one of the first words in ‘new speak’: “taxes”. To secure the practice of theft for perpetuity, it had to be made believable as a ‘benign’ activity, which is why early income from theft was used to create, the government, its bureaucracy, and ‘bulletins’ that declared the ‘new laws’.

Before the invention of ‘taxes’, the People lived in nature without government. In these ‘nature’ days, the idea of government was in the heads of the people only, and the Head of the Head was known as God, who little by little was caused to become a King. Ever since tax collecting became accepted as an ‘institution’, the wealth gained by taxing People spread, and there appeared an ever greater number of oligarchs, then known as Princes.

Eventually, the Princes thought that the King (God was still supporting him then) had too much power and decided to overthrow him. In fact, this happened in relatively very recent times. King John of England was one of the earlier victims of the Princes. He was made to abdicate in 1215 to the Magna Charta, alleged to be the 1^ST written document supporting ‘democracy’. The second victim was King Louis VI of France who lost his head to the guillotine in 1793. While the third and last King to die was Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, who was shot with his entire family in 1917.

Ever since the death of King Nicholas II of Russia, ‘democracy’ has been the rage of the New World or the New Order, which began in reality with the death of the Eurasian wood, which happened sometime around the 9^th or 10^th centuries CE. It was at this time that the idea of ‘no government’ and self-government with ‘no taxes’ began to face repression and extermination. The repression of the imaginary king was sealed by the actual death of one of the ‘imaginary’ kings who were wanderers and teachers of self-government. This ‘imaginary’ King’s name was, most likely, King John or John Basil, and he was killed by Emperor Alexis I of Byzantium, who was one of the early examples of a King as a Capitalist. This means, he was one of the first oligarchs made wealthy by taxing the People with a fur tax, aka jasak.

It was the First Capitalist King Alexis I who created, so to speak, the First King. This first King was still a fiction, because his image was built on that of John Basil with the difference that Chez Jezu agreed to accept tax collecting. When tax collecting began to be preached by the ‘new wandering preachers’, there began also what we know as the era of religious wars. These religious wars were more or less put to an end in 1648 with the Treaty known as The Treaty of Westphalia http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/European_History/Religious_Wars_in_Europe#Peace_of_Westphalia_.281648.29 .

The defeat of ‘religions’ enabled the capitalists to make use of their favorite ‘newspeak’ word ‘progress’. By the beginning of the 19^th century, nature had been brought to its knees by cities attracting an increasing number of countryside people, who lived in the new urban setting in horrendous conditions. I think of the painting by Vincent van Gogh, The Potato Eaters http://www.literaryramblings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/vangoghpotatoeaters.jpg  as illustrative of the exchange that the people of the wood were forced to make.

Today, with the renewed ‘drang nach Osten’ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drang_nach_Osten , led by the U.S. and NATO, we have almost come to the end of this pseudo ‘democratic’ era. Still, there is yet one enormous barrier before the cavalry of the ‘pale horse’ can be toppled: the Prisoners of ‘Democracy’ have to engineer for themselves a break from their jail, which has been engineered for them, from the beginning, by the leading postmodern and neo-capitalist nations: the U.S.A., and F.E.U.