If you read Norman Cantor on Medieval History, Charles Adams on the history of taxation, Will Durant on the Reformation, what emerges is we really do not have religious wars, we have real-estate and tax-farming wars. The real-estate is important because powers-that-be do not want to own and run mines, they just want to tax the output. As much as possible.
I'll say it again: Islam spread not because of some violent streak in Islam, but because of odious administration of justice in the lands defeated by Islam. Hitler could not beat the German dominated Switzerland because Hitler could not make the Swiss a better offer than they already had. USA could not defeat the Vietnamese for the same reason. USA should have read British and Soviet travel guides before touring Afghanistan.
One of the biggest mistakes one can make in life is to believe one's own PR. If you say your system is the bestest in the whole wide universe, and you keep saying it, you might start to believe it. Disaster usually follows. Ask the British Raj and the Soviets.
Taxation is the handmaiden of usury. If money can be lent, secured by the income on future taxes, at usury, then at once the deal is leveraged income and leveraged oppression. Bonds force entire populations to take the loan, at usury. At once you get power ever more concentrated as working people are ever more hampered. That power can be concentrated to the point that a few people can oblige entire nations to pick up the tab for a war, even against their will. Obama won because he promised to be anti-War. He lied, of course, like all politicians, but he did promise and he did win. Romney is falling behind because he is clear he wants more war.
The fights in the Middle East are presented in the West as religious wars. I doubt it. Those who seek violence are hardly following religious precepts.
Some western Christians, especially Roman Catholic politicians in USA, rage in fear of Moslem fundamentalists. This is distressing to Eastern Catholics, who have lived in peace and prosperity for over a thousand years with Moslems. It was Crusaders who sacked Greek Orthodox Constantinople and weakened it for and eventual Islamic takeover.
Christians killing Christians might be a better line of inquiry than Moslems killing Christians. There is no doubt more blood involved. And the heart of it is usury.
Here is a Christian news reporter, in Syria, reporting on what is happening to his country. A "rebel" (USA-backed) sniper killed him while he was reporting. Tracking him was easy since he used twitter, etc. These wars have killed a lot of Christians. They've killed a lot of reporters who do not follow the Western PR.
I'll say it again: Islam spread not because of some violent streak in Islam, but because of odious administration of justice in the lands defeated by Islam. Hitler could not beat the German dominated Switzerland because Hitler could not make the Swiss a better offer than they already had. USA could not defeat the Vietnamese for the same reason. USA should have read British and Soviet travel guides before touring Afghanistan.
One of the biggest mistakes one can make in life is to believe one's own PR. If you say your system is the bestest in the whole wide universe, and you keep saying it, you might start to believe it. Disaster usually follows. Ask the British Raj and the Soviets.
Taxation is the handmaiden of usury. If money can be lent, secured by the income on future taxes, at usury, then at once the deal is leveraged income and leveraged oppression. Bonds force entire populations to take the loan, at usury. At once you get power ever more concentrated as working people are ever more hampered. That power can be concentrated to the point that a few people can oblige entire nations to pick up the tab for a war, even against their will. Obama won because he promised to be anti-War. He lied, of course, like all politicians, but he did promise and he did win. Romney is falling behind because he is clear he wants more war.
The fights in the Middle East are presented in the West as religious wars. I doubt it. Those who seek violence are hardly following religious precepts.
Some western Christians, especially Roman Catholic politicians in USA, rage in fear of Moslem fundamentalists. This is distressing to Eastern Catholics, who have lived in peace and prosperity for over a thousand years with Moslems. It was Crusaders who sacked Greek Orthodox Constantinople and weakened it for and eventual Islamic takeover.
Christians killing Christians might be a better line of inquiry than Moslems killing Christians. There is no doubt more blood involved. And the heart of it is usury.
Here is a Christian news reporter, in Syria, reporting on what is happening to his country. A "rebel" (USA-backed) sniper killed him while he was reporting. Tracking him was easy since he used twitter, etc. These wars have killed a lot of Christians. They've killed a lot of reporters who do not follow the Western PR.
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| Maya Nasser, the television reporter who died on 26 September covering blasts in Damascus. Photograph: EPA |
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