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Characteristic features of oligarchy

Aristotle, sense objects

not thought objects

Bestialism, humanity as

beasts

'Master race elite of

aristocratic families

Elite imposes serfdom/

slavery on mass

'Multicultural racism

Geopolitics, divide and

conquer, balance of

power

Usury, monetarism

Hatred of science and progress

Myth of overpopulation

Colonial empire

roe

The essence of oligarchism is summed up in the idea of

the empire, in which an elite identifying itself as a master

race rules over a degraded mass of slaves or other oppressed

victims. If oligarchical methods are allowed to dominate

human affairs, they always create a breakdown crisis of civi

lization, with economic depression, war, famine, plague,

and pestilence. Examples of this are the 14th-century Black

Plague and the Thirty Years' War (1618-48), both of whichwere created by Venetian intelligence. The post-industrial

society and the derivatives crisis have brought about the po

tential for a new collapse of civilization in our own time.

This crisis can only be reversed by repudiating in practice the

axioms of the oligarchical mentality.

'A pillar of the oligarchical system is the family fortune,

or as it is called in Italian. he continuity of the family

fortune which eas money through usury and looting is oen

more important than the biological continuity across genera

tions of the family that owns the fortune. In enice, thelargest was the endowment of the Basilica of St. Mark,

which was closely associated with the Venetian state trea

sury, and which absorbed the family fortunes of nobles who

died without heirs. This was administered by the pro

curers of St. Mark, whose position was one of the most

powerful under the Venetian system. Around this central

were grouped the individual family fortunes of the

great oligarchical families, such as the Mocenigo, the Co

aro, the Dandolo, the Contarini, the Morosini, the Zorzi, and

the Tron. Until the end of the 18th century, the dozen or

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G2 IOrigins of the Venetan paky n theancient world Babylon and the 'Whore of Baby on

Hiram of Tyre, Phoenicians

Persian Empire

Temple of Apollo at Delphi

Isocrates plan: Philip of acedoia

Roman Empire; reforms of Aurelian, Dioceian, and

Constantine

Byzantine Empire

so wealthiest Venetian families had holdings comparable or

superior to the very wealthiest families anywhere in Europe.When the Venetian oligarchy transferred many of its amilies

and assets to northe Europe, the Venetian provied

the nucleus of the great Bank of Amsterdam, which domi

nated Europe during the 17th centry, and of the Bank of

England, which became the leading ank of the 18th century.I

In the pre-Christian world around the Mediterranean, oli-

garchical political forces included Babylon in Mesopotamia.

The "whore of Babylon condemnd in the Apocalypse of

St. John the Divine is not amysti

construct, but a very

specic power cartel of evil oligarchical families. Other oli

garchial centers included Hiram ofyre and the Phoenicians.

he Persian Empire was an oligarchy. In the Greek worl,the center of oligarchical banking nd intelligence was the

Temple of Apollo at Delphi, whose agents included Lycurgus

of Sparta and later Aristotle. The elphic Apollo trie an

failed to secure the conquest of Gree e by the Persian Empire.

Then the Delphic Apollo developed the Isocrates plan, which

called for King Philip ofMacedoni

to conquer Athens and

the other great city-states so as t I set up an oligarchical

empire that would operate as a west version of the Persian

Empire. This plan failed when Philp died, and the Platonic

Academy of Athens decisively in uenced Alexander the

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Great, who nally destryed the Persian Emire before beingassassinated by Aristote Later, the Delhi Aollo intervened into the wars between Rome and the Etrusan ities tomake Rome the key ower of Italy and then of the entireMediteanean

Rome dominated the Mediterranean by about 2 BCThere followed a seris of ivil wars that aimed at deidingwhere the aital of the new emire would be and who would the ruling family hese are asoiated with the SoialWar, the onit between Marius and Sulla, the st Triumvirate (Julius Caesar, Pomey the Great, and L Crassus), andthe seond Triumvirate (Otavian, Mar Antony, and Leidus) Mar Antony and Cleoatra wanted the aital of thenew emire to be at Alexandria in Egyt Otavian (Augustus) seured an alliane with the ult of Sol Invitus

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Mithra and beame emerr, dfeating the other cotendersAfter the series of monsters led the uia-Cudi emerors (Tiberius, Caigula, e, et a) the empi stgtdbetween 80 and 80 AD undr suh gures s d dTrajan Then, between 80 A nd 280 AD, the empiollased It was reorganied y Aureian, Dioceti, dConstantine with a series of masures hat ceterd o bning any hange in the tehnoogy f the means of pruction, and very heavy taxation he Diocetian rgrm ed tothe deoulation of the ities, erfdom for farmers, and theollase of iviliation into a olonged Drk Age

The Roman Empire in the West nally osed i 7AD But the Roman Emire i the East, sometims cedthe Byantine Emire, contiued for amost thousdyears, until 453. And if the toman Emre is onsidered

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Venice was at the height of its power in the 14th centu. By 1S qO, it hadcompensated for the encroachments of the ttoman Empire, b expanding its

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territory inland along the Po River, al the way to the ates of Milan Inaddition to the territories shown n black, at ne time Venice

as the Ottoman dynasty of an ongoing Byzantine Empir,then the Byzantine Empir kept going until shotly aerWold Wa I. With cetain exceptions, the ling dynastiesof Byzantium continued the oligachical licy of Diletin

nd Constantine.Venice, the city built on islands in the lagoons and mashes of the northe Adriatic Sea, is supposed to have beenfounded by efugees om the Italian mainland who weeeing from Attila he Hun in 452 A.D. arly on, Venicebecame the location of a Benedictine mnastery on the islandof St. George Majo. St. Geoge is not a Christian saint, butrathe a disguise for Apolo, Perseus, and Marduk, idols ofthe oligahy. Around A.D, the Venetians claim to haveelected thei st doge, o duke. This post was not hedity,but was contolled by an election in which only the nobility

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controled coastal strips of the Criean Peninsula. Atvarious times, England, Fnce, many German

states, ad pain (a Genoa) wereenslaved by

ebt to theenetans

and theirsa t

el li

es including

Genoa.

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could tke pat. For this son, Vece eneo itself a rpUblic. I

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Vnic ws nv p of wn civilizio .

In the yeas aound 8 A.D., lemgne K o Fanks, using the ideas of St. Augusne epe vveciviliation m the D Aes. Vice e Chalemagne. Chlene's son, I ep o unsuccesslly to conq the Vee magne was forced to ognie e s easte or Byzantine Epi, ud he po o Emperor Nicephos. Venice s eve p o civiliation. I

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ances with certain Byzantine dynasties and conicts withthe Holy Roman Empire based in Germany The Venetianeconomy grew through usuy and slavery By 0 the Venetians had tax-free trading rights in the entire ByzantineEmpire The Venetians were one of th min factors behind

the Crusades against the Muslim power in the easte Mediteanean In the Fouth Crusade of 0 AD the Venetians

use an army of French feudal knights to capture and lootConstantinope the Othodox Christian city which was the

capita of the Byzantine Empire The Venetian doge EnricoDandoo was declared the lord of onequarer and onehalf

of onequater of te Byzantine Empire and the Venetians

imposed a shotlived puppet state caled the Latin Empire

By this point Venice had replaced Byzntium as the bearerof the oligarchica heritage of the Roman Empire

During te 00s the Venetians now at the apex of their

military and naval power set out to creat a new RomaEmpire with its center at Venice They expanded into theGreek islands the Black Sea and the Italian mainland They

helped to defeat the Hohenstaufen rulers of Germany andItay Venetian intelligence assisted Ghengis Khan as he at

tacked and wiped out powers that had resisted Venice TheVenetians caused the death of the poet and political gure

Dante Aihieri who developed the concept of the modesovereign nationstate in opposition to the Venetian plans forempire A seies of wars with Genoa ed later to the de factomeger of Venice and Genoa The Venetian bankers oencaed Lombards began to loot many parts of Europe wthusurious loans Henry III of England in the years aer became insolvent aer taking huge Lombard loans to nance

foreign wars at 0 to 0% interest These transactions

created the basis for the Venetian Party in England Whenthe Lomard bankers went bankrpt because the Englishfaied to pay a breakdown crisis of the European economyensued This led to a new colapse of European civilization

including the onset of the Black Plague which depopulatedthe continent In the midst of the chaos the Venetians encour

aged their ally Eward III of Englnd to wag war againstFrance in the conict that became the Hundred Years' ar

(33943) which huled France into chaos efore St Joanof Arc defeated the English This was then followed by the

Wars of the Roses in England As a result of Venetian domination the 4th centy had become a catastrophe for civili

zation

The basis for the Golden RenaissanceIn the midst of the crisis of the 300s the friends of Dante

an Petarca ai the asis for the Italian Golden Renaissancewich eached its culmination with Nicolaus of Cusa PopePius II an the Medicisponsored Council of Florence of1439 The Venetians fought the Renaissance with a policy ofexpansion on the Italian mainland or terra jerma, whichougt them to the outskirts of Milan More fundamentallyte Venetians pomote the pagan philosophy of Arstotle

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against the Christian Platonis of the Florentines he schoolof the Rilto ws an Aristotelian academy where Venetinpatricians lectured and studied their favorite phiosopheAuthors like Bararo and Beo populaized an stotelin"humanism The University of Padua ecame the great European center for Aristotelian studies

Venice also encouraged the Ottoman Turks to avace

against Constantinople whic was now controe Paleologue dynasty of emperos When Cusa and his frienssucceeded in reuniting the Roman Catholic Church an teOrthodox and other easte churches at te Counci of Fore

nce the Venetians tried to saotage this result The utimatesabotage was the Ottoman conquest of Constantiope in3 which was assisted by Venetian agents and povocateurs Venic refused to respond to Pope Pius II (AeneasSilvius Piccolomini) when he caled for the recovery of Con

stantinopleThe progrm of Cusa Pius I Machiavell Leonaro da

Vinci and other Italian Renaisance leader for the creation

of powerful nationa states proved impossile to cary out inItaly The rst nationstate was created in Franc by King

Louis XI during the 460s and 40s The successful atnuilding methods of Louis XI compeled attention an imita

tion in England an Spain Despite their incessant intues

the Venetians were now confronted with large nation stateswhose military power greatly exceeded anything that Venicecould mobilize

The League of CmraiThe Venetians ied to use e power of the ne ation

states especially France to csh Milan an ao f

Venetian expansion But amassados for the kin of nceand the Austrian emperor met t Camrai in Deceme 108

and agreed to create a Eurpen lague for t iseement of Venice he Leagu of Camrai soon incFrance Spain Germany the apacy Milan Forence

vo Mantua Ferraa and othrs At the attle of Ao

in Aprl 09 the Venetian mecenaries were defeted the Frech and Venice temporarily lost years of landconquests

Venetian diplomacy playe on the gree of he ensePope Julius II Della Rovere who was rie to reak p theLeague of Cambai By rapi iplomatic maneuves Venice

managed to survive althoug foreign armies theatee tooveun the lagoons on seve occasions an te ct as

nearly bankrupt Venice's lontem outlook was ve iespecially ecause the Portuguse ha opene a ote to siaround the Cape of Good Hoe The Venetians consbuilding a Suez canal but dece agaist it

One result of the Cambrai csis was the ecision of Vetian intelligence to create the Protestant Refotion e

goal was to divide Europe for oe to two centuries in eiiouswars that would prevent any cmination ike the eau ofCamrai from ever again eig assembled against Venice

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Intelligence assets of Pomponazzi,Contarini, Zorzi, 1510-60

Gli spirituali, Vittoria

Colonna

Spalatin, prime minister

of Frederick the Wise of

Saxony (Luther's

protector)

Martin Luther

King Henry VIII of

England

John Calvin of Geneva

Cecil family, Thomas

Cromwell

Edmund Spenser

Sir Philip Sydney

St. gnatius of Loyola

Jesuit Order

Council of Trent

Index of prohibited books

asparo Contarini

The leading gure of the Protestant Reformation the rst

Protestant in mode Europe was Gasparo Contarini. Conta

rini was a pupil of the Padua Aristotelian Pietro Pomponazzi

who denied the immortality of the human soul Contarini

pioneered the Protestant doctrine of salvation by faith alonewith no regard for good works of charity Contarini organized

a group of Italian Protestants called gli spirituali, including

oligarchs like Vittoria Colonna and Giulia Gonzaga. Contari

ni's networks encouraged and protected Martin uther and

later John Calvin of Geneva. Contarini sent his neighbor and

relative Francesco Zorzi to England to support King Henry

VIII's plan to divorce Catherine of Aragon Zorzi acted as

Henry's sex counselor. As a result Henry created the Angli

can Church on a VenetianByzantine model and opened a

phase of hostility to Spain. Henceforth the Venetians would

use England for attacks on Spain and France. Zorzi created a

Rosicrucianfreemasonic party at the English court that laterproduced writers like Edmund Spenser and Sir Philip

Sydney.

Contarini was also the leader of the Catholic Counter

Reformation. He sponsored St. Ignatius of oyola and se

cured papal approval for the creation of the Society of Jesus

as an ocial order of the church Contarini also began the

process of organizing the Council of Trent with a letter on

church reform that praised Aristotle while condemning Eras

mus the leading Platonist of the day. The Venetians domi

nated the college of cardinals and created the Index of Prohib

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FGU4 IAssets of Ridotto Morosini GovanParty, and Paolo Sarpi 159-160

Galileo Galilei

Sir Francis Bacon

Thomas Hobbes

John Milton

John Locke

Christian von Anhalt,

Christoph von Donha,

Frederick of the

Palatinate, Max von

Thurn und Taxis

(Defenestration of

Prague, Winter King,

and Thirty Years' War)

itd Boo whh b,nned wo Dante and Aeneas

Silvius Piccolomini (Pope Pius II)

As the CounterReformation ad anced the Containi

networks split into two wings. One was the pro-Protestant

spirituali, who later evolved into th party of the Venetian

oligarchy called the giovani, and who serviced growng net

works in France Holland England and Scotland. On the

other wing were the zelani, oriented toward repression and

the Inquisition and typied by Pope Paul IV Caraffa. The

zelati evolved into the oligarchical arty called the vecch

who serviced Venetian networks in the Vatican and the Hapsburg dominions. The apparent coni of the two groups was

orchestrated to serve Venetian projects.

A pp During the decades after 1570 the salon of the Ridotto

Morosini family was the focus of heirs of the pro-Protestant

wing of the Contarini spirituali networks. These were the

giovai, whose networks were strongst in the Atlantic pow

ers of France England Hollandand

Scotland. The central

gure here was the Servite monk Pao 0 Sarpi assisted by his

deputy Fulgenzio Micanzio. Sarpi as the main Venetian

propagandist in the struggle against the papacy during thetime of the papal interdict against

Veice

in 1606. Sarpi and

Micanzio were in close touch withthe

Stuart

cout n Londo

and especially with Sir Francis Baco and Thomas Hobbes

who got their ideas from Sarpi's Pnsi and Ae d Ben

Pensare. Sarpi's agents in Prague Heidelberg and Vienna

deliberately organized the Thirty Yars' War whch killed

half the population of Germany and onethird of the popula

tion of Europe.

Sarpi also marks a tuing point n the methods used by

Venetian intelligence to combat scince Under Zorzi and

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Contarini, the Venetians had been openly hostile to Cusa andother leading scientists Sarpi realized that the Venetiansmust now present themselves as the great champions of science, but on the basis o Aristotelian formalism and sensecertainty By eizing control of the scientic communityom the inside the Venetians could corrupt scientic meth-od and strangle the process of discovery. Sarpi sponsored

and directed the career f Galileo Galilei, whom the Venetians used for an empiricist counterattack against the Platonic

method of Johannes Kepler

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Growth of the Venetian PartyDuring the 16s, te Venetian fondi were tran

nort, oen to te Bank of mterdam, an later t t founded Bank of England. Dung te reign o Bl M

the Stuart period, te civil wa in Englan, te tatof Cromwell, the Stuart Restoration, and te 188 ntation of William of Orange as ing of Englan t

Venetian Englis olgarchy, te Venetian o Engagrew in power.

During the rst alf of t 170s, t mt imt

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activities of Venetian intelligence were directed by a saloncalled the conversazione losoca e felice, which centeredaround the gure of Antonio Schinella Conti. Conti was aVenetian nobleman, originally a follower of Descates, wholived for a time in Paris, where he was close to Malebranche.Conti went to London where he became a friend of Sir IsaacNewton. Conti directed the operations that made Newton aninteational celebrity, including especially the creation of apro-Newton party of French Anglophiles and Anglomaniacswho came to become known as the French Enlightenment.Conti's agents in this effot incuded Montesquieu and Voltaire. Conti was also active in ntrigues against the Germanphilosopher, scientist, and economist Gottfried WilhelmLeibniz, whom Conti portrayed as a plagiarist of Newton.Conti also inuenced Georg Ludwig of Hanover, later KingGeorge I of England, against eibniz.

The Conti conversazione was also sponsored by the Emoand Memmo oligarchical families. Participants included Giammaria Ortes, the Venetian economist who asserted that thecarying capacity of the planet eath could never exceed 3billion persons. Ortes was a student of the proGalileo activistGuido randi of Pisa. Ortes applied Newtons metod tothe socalled social sciences. Ortes denied the possibility ofprogress or higher standards of living, supported free trade,opposed dirigist economics, and polemicized against theideas of the American Revolution. The ideas of Conti, Ortes,and their network were brought into Great Britain under thesupervision of William Petty, the Earl of Shelbue, whowas the de facto doge of the British oligarchy around the timeof the American Revolution. The Shelbue stable of writers,including Adam Smith, Jeremy Bentham, Thomas Malthus,James Mil, John Stuat Mill, Charles Darwin, and otherexponents of British philosophical radicalism, all take theirmain ideas from Conti and especially Ortes.

Francesco Algarotti, author of a treatise on Newtonianscience for ladies, was another Venetian in the orbit of theConti conversazione. Algarotti was close to Voltaire, and,along with the French scientist Pierre Louis de Maupertuis,he helped form the homosexual harem around British alyFrederick the Great of Prussia. Frederick the Great was Britais principal continental ally during the Seven Years' Waragainst France, when British victories in India and Canadamade them the supreme aval power of the world. The homo

sexual Frederick made Algarotti his court chamberlain at hispalace of Sans Souci.

Maupetuis had become famous when he went to alandto measure a degree of the local meridian, and came backcaiming that he had conrmed one of Newton's ostulates.Frederick made him the president of the Berlin Academy ofSciences. Frederick coresponded with Voltaire all his life;Voltaire lived at Sans Souci and Berlin between 1750 and1753 Voltaire quarreled with Maupertuis and attacked himin his "Diatribe of Doctor Akakia. The mathematiciansLeonhard Euler of Switzerland and Joseph Louis Lagrange

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Venetian ideas

Free trade

Central banking

Utiltariansm, the

greatest good for the

greatest number

Carrying capacity

Overpopulation

Limits to growth

Small is beautiful

Multiculturalism

Empircism

Positivism

Sociology

Anthropology

Ethnology

Eugenics

ofin were so associted wth drik caa.The Conti salon directed the activties of Venetia intel

gence agent Giacomo Casanova, a prtg of the homosexuaSeator Bragadin. Casanova was emloyed primaiy in operations agaist ing Lous XV of France. During the Warof the Spaish Successio, the Veetians had heped theBritish to emerge as a great power at

Ihe expense o Holland

and Spain. In the War of the Austran Succession and theSeven Years War, the Veetians heled the British to deeatthe French as a worldwide naval poer, ousting them fomIndia and Canada. Later, the Ventia agent AessadroCagliostro would destabilize Louis VI with the Queensnecklace affair of 1785 which, according to Napoeon Bonapae, reresented the opening of the

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French Revolution.Venice ceased to exist as an in ependent state after its

conquest by Napoleon in 177 a the Austan takeoverof the lagoon under the Treaty of Oampo Formio. ut theinuece of the Venetian oligarchy ver culture and politicshas remained immense. From 145 t9 about 168 one o the

most impotant of these inuences ws the European Societyof Culture (SEC), based in Venice ad directed by UmbetoCampagnolo. The SEC operated freey in easte and westeEurope and agitated against the nationstate in the name ofsupeational values. The SEC launhed the career of FranzFanon, author of the Wretched of he Earth, whose deasform a justication for terrorism. Th premier foundation of

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the world is the Cini Foundation, whch provides ideologicadirectives for the far wealthier but Junior oundatos whnames like Ford, Rockefeler, Caegie, acArthur, andVolkswagen.

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