Something Rotten In The State Of Taxus

Sensus Pajak

I smell a rat.

I'm usually pretty good at this.  When pieces don't add up and I get that funny feeling in my stomach, I pay attention.  Here's what's going on...

Recently, the Indonesian tax office announced that it was doing a Sensus Pajak, a tax census.  First time ever.  Folks are required to disclose pretty much anything of value they own, and to who and what you give your money.  That alone doesn't particularly worry me.  The attitude in Indonesia is that, if it weren't for laws, they wouldn't have anything to ignore.

What bothers me is the new IRS form 8938, telling everyone they must disclose all their overseas holdings.  The form is still in the formation stage, but it will be among the goodies coming for next year.

All real estate earning money through rent or other activity.  All foreign bank accounts and financial investments.  So far, you have to descibe and estimate the value of about 80% of where money goes outside the US.  The other 20% are most likely in the offing.

Taken together, these two items start to make a picture.  An email from an acquaintance told me the rest of the story.  At least two other countries are doing something similar.  Now I can see what's going on.

THEY are trying to get a worldwide accounting of what everyone's got.  Bet me there's a clause somewhere that says if you want to play with the World Bank, here's what you have to do.  Bet me...

It starts to sound like THEY are trying to level the playing field globally.  THEY want to bring up the low and take down the high until everyone meets in the middle, and THEY have all the marbles.  All these market shenanigans and currency wars, combined with a global tax census = world government

THEY are using the simple tool of debt to bring the whole world under the heel of banksters.  If a nation or corporation owes money to someone, THEY can twist arms and get what THEY want.  Hell, THEY even have the Vatican tring to convine their sheep.  Any muslim country that doesn't knuckle under is being bombed into dust.  Buddhists and Hindus won't put up much of a fight.  There's better than two-thirds of the world in your pocket.  The rest will fall because there's no one left to help.

THEY are trying to get a global snapshot of atjeull wealth everywhere, and where it goes and what it buys.  THEY want to track as many transactions as THEY can get THEIR claws into.  Imagine the size of that project.  Attempting to control every economic action you and I take, and by economic, I mean pretty much everything we do when two or more people are together.  It's a brute force kind of thing.  THEY think that it's all pretty much down to a couple of pockets of resistance.  THEY are taking out the ones with appreciable resources for 'special treatment'.  If a nation has oil or some other tasty treats, and they aren't playing ball with the Big Boys, then those nations are destroyed to the point of complete submission.  It's truly amazing to contemplate this scale of operation.

Remember back in the 80s when THEY couldn't sell the UN hard enough?  Everybody was sucking up to the UN and folks thought that it would be the global government.  Now it seems as if the UN has been sidelined. Sure, you hear about it once in a while, when someone is pitching global warming or African famine.  For the most part, though, THEY have taken the spotlight off of international and regional governments and put all the attention on banks.

I mean, think about it.  If you can bring the entire globe to its knees economically, so that people don't have the energy to even protest any more, then you pop up with the Magic Solution.  Everyone is awed by your brilliance and foresight.  They praise your name as they settle once again in air-conditioned comfort, with food in their bellies and sports on TeeVee.  Ah, the feeling of wall-to-wall carpet and hot baths!  You'd do anything to keep that going, wouldn't you?  Whose ass do I gotta kiss to keep all this comfort?  And when I get that raise, I'll buy a bigger TeeVee!

Can't you just see it?

Think about how many people, over how many years, have worked THEIR tails off to bring the world to the point where we will call THEM our saviors!  We will joyfully submit or lose our place at the trough.  THEY really and truly want to own EVERYTHING.

It just floors me thinking about it.  Why would anyone want that much?  I mean, you get your own jet and people move to give you room to walk, but so what?  What kind of bent and diseased mind would spend centuries cooking up a scheme to take over the world?

At some point, people will either be pushed too far, or they will all knuckle under together in a plush prison of global scale.  No protest is going to change it.  The only thing that can bring THEM to THEIR knees is to complete leave the system and set up an alternate economy that can't be tracked, traced or taxed.  That's it.  Nothing more and nothing less.

Over the years I've listened to dozens, if not hundreds of people tell me where their line in the sand was.  Without exception, every one of those lines has been mowed over and mulched, and...nothing.  All the 'occupiers'?  They're not trying to get free, they're asking for handouts and to take the work of productive people and give them back their carpet and TeeVee and hot water.  Why didn't they fight when the revenuers showed up at the door to auction off their lives?

Nope, looks like most folks will just drop to their knees and hold out their hands in supplication to receive the gifts from their gods.  If all those 'occupiers' were being productive, they'd be discussing alternative economies and currencies and getting out of the system altogether.  Not try to make is more generous to them individually.

It's rather sad, really, to watch the YouTube videos of the protests and listen to what they have to say...or at least what we are being allowed to hear them say.  Either way, that's the message getting out.  And the actions don't seem to be telling a different story.

Form 8938

In the meantime, I'm faced with these two forms.  The Sensus Pajak wants to know how much I pay for electricty, and whose name the account is in.  It wants to know if I have a personal maid or driver, and how much I pay them and what their names are.  It wants details of my living arrangements and how much I spend for all that.

On the other side of the world, I've got another form that wants to know everything I own and where I keep my money outside the US.  Would that I had anything to report, but who are they to want to know?

What was that about fair share and related rubbish?  I trust you saw how much profit GE and ExxonMobil made last quarter, and more to the point, how much they paid in US taxes...$0.  There's your fair share.

It's a mighty big picture to take in.  Like a Seurat, you kinda have to back up a ways to really appreciate the size and complexity of it.  In fact, it really is like a pointilist painting.  Up close, it's just specs of color all piled up on top of each other.  But, if you back away, it all blends into an incredible picture of massive proportions.    Most folks never really see it, because they pass by a foot away and just see dots of color.  Few pace back against the far wall of the museum to soak in the intricate tapestry.

So, time to march off and take a full accounting of everything I have and what I do with it and where I leave it when I'm not playing with it.  Won't be much longer before I'll have to take inventory of my pockets every morning and evening, and fill out the online report to Massah.  Yep, can't wait for the moment to come.

Boy, the smell of dead rat is getting rather strong in here...

What's A Few Dead Mohawks?

Here comes the sun...

Just got this in email from a friend of mine:

From the Examiner:
BRANTFORD, ON, CANADA - Mass graves of Mohawk children have been uncovered by ground-penetrating radar at the Mohawk Institute, a residential school for Mohawk operated by the Church of England and the Vatican before its closure in 1970. 
According to Rev. Kevin Annett, Secretary of the International Tribunal for Crimes of Church and States (www.itccs.org), the Mohawk Institute was "set up by the Anglican Church of England in 1832 to imprison and destroy generations of Mohawk children. This very first Indian [First Nations] residential school in Canada lasted until 1970, and, like in most residential schools, more than half of the children imprisoned there never returned. Many of them are buried all around the school."
Preliminary scanning by ground penetrating radar adjacent to the now closed main building Mohawk Institute has revealed that "between 15-20 feet of soil" was brought in and put over the mass graves just before the Mohawk Institute closed in 1970 in order to camouflage the mass graves of Mohawk Children and avoid prosecution for genocide and crimes against humanity under the Geneva Conventions, the International Criminal Court, and cooperating national courts.

[emphasis added]

I think it can be said that the Vatican, without doubt or equal, is the most egregious violator of human rights and dignity ever unleashed on the face of the Earth.  And before you go get your panties in a bunch, under the rules of Political Correctness, I'm allowed to say that because I'm a former Catholic (pre-awakening).

When it comes to laundry lists of evil doings, no one and nothing holds and candle to the Vatican.  At least as far as Western history goes, it is the very root and cause of all the worst occasions recorded (and not) in the past 2,000 years.  It is truly the wolf in sheep's clothing.

Don't get me wrong, Catholics have produced some fine thinkers and writers, but like any Great Lie, there must be some element of Truth to make it seem plausible.  There can be no doubt in the aware observer's mind that the Vatican's dissolution would be one of the brightest and most revealing moments in all of recorded history.  Not only would it liberate vast amounts of land and wealth serving to enslave Mankind, it would also open the greatest reservoir of information in a single location that anyone can identify.

Isis and Mary, Horus and Jesus

The sheer power of an institution to so completely control people's minds that it can preach love and forgiveness, while practicing horrible and terrifying acts of murder and destruction on a scale unparalleled in the common era, is absolutely boggling.  The levels of denial and deniability that have been stacked one upon the other for centuries goes beyond the ability of a well-developed vocabulary.

The discovery of hundreds of Mohawk children murdered by an institution directly tied to the Vatican removes all doubt about the mission and methods of that operation.  One could pawn it off as an isolated event not officially sanctioned by the Vatican, but the same sould be said about the invasion of the New World by servants of the Holy Roman Empire, or the Crusades or the various Inquisitions.  At what point does the world stop and say, "Wait a minute!  These aren't the actions of love and acceptance!"

The worst crime is the building of a religion based on debt, which has fostered centuries of slavery, blood sacrifice and pure evil.  Ask any christian to show you a symbol of their faith, and they will invariably produce an instrument of torture.  Some, like Catholics, will produce one with the image of a man brutally tortured and nailed to the device.  And the programming is so strong, they don't see anything wrong with this!  Just imagine the double-think involved in that one simple gesture!

Maybe you need a little help.  Here's an assignment.  Go to your nearest cathedral and study the artwork closely.  Then go the local exhibit of ancient Egytian art.  If you start to notice a bunch of similarities, and perhaps the scales slip just slightly from your eyes, then you've started your personal road to healing.  Congratulations!

At the root of christianity is the dogma of debt.  It is the core of all the ills of the world today.  The concept that Mankind owes the god or gods a debt for being human.  Debt-based religions have been around a long time, and every last one of them, without exception, end with bloody sacrifice and a quasi-religious ruling priesthood that demans complete and utter submission to them, as agents of the god/gods.

This lovely bit of dogma is the foundation of our banking system, which is so gracefully imploding before our very eyes.  Confession is the predecessor of psychology.  Communion is the socially acceptable means of human sacrifice, after which comes the ritual cannibalism.   If you want to know who "THEY" are, just look at the fine folks who elected Pope Benedict XVI.

It doesn't matter if you are a protestant or reformed or a Hinnian or a Olsteenite...the core message is the same.  You are a worthless sinner and you owe a debt to god/gods.  You have no personal value unless you are redeemed, and you can't be redeemed without the elite "THEY" saying so.  And then you owe them a lifelong debt for saving you.

What a load of hogwash.

I want to puke every time I hear someone say, "I worship Yahweh!"  I just look at them in stunned silence.  How could anyone worship something that is a murderous, deceitful, genocidal banker?  How can anyone worship something that loves you so much, that if you break any of its rules, it will burn and torture you for all eternity?  And how in the hell can you worship one god that is really three gods, but requires you to believe in one god while recognizing all three equally at the same time?  What kind of nonsense is THAT?

The Vatican truly is evil incarnate.  How could an institution, supposedly keeping the world safe until god2 gets back, murder and destroy hundreds, if not (more likely) millions of innocents, simply because they are heathens who don't believe in all the rubbish it espouses?  Worse yet are those who have been deeply scarred for life by vicious and cynical attacks by authority figures they were trained to worship as gods incarnate.  The paedophilia rampant in the churches is not the act of love, but the act of destruction of innocence and joy and all that is good and right.  And it is only the tip of a vast iceberg that is lurking beneath the surface, waiting to sink all of Mankind.

If you want to protest, then protest the source.  If you want to fight, then fight the real enemy.  It's like a mesquite tree.  You can hack it down to the ground, but it will grow back in a month, bigger and nastier.  You have to blast out the roots and yank the thing out of the ground and burn the root ball.  Otherwise, you have don't nothing but waste your time.

"I own you! Hahaha!"

The Vatican is the origin of corporate 'personhood.'  The Vatican is the root of slavery and banksterism.  The Vatican is the root of horrific suffering and death.

If you want to be truly and finally free, then destroy the foundation of the prison.  Cutting the chains will only get you more chains.  Very few cultures have broken free of the debt gods, but the ones who have, have survived in peace for thousands of years.  Those that haven't have all consumed themselves in a final act of self-immolation.  It behooves every thinking human being to start studying, and fast!  Time is really short now. The final conflagration is upon us.  If we survive, it will be because we have finally destroyed the prison, not just the gates.

Irishman On A Barstool

While the title of this column may seem redundant, it comes from the old saying: Put two Irishmen on barstools and they'll solve the world's problems in a night.


Being Irish AND Texan makes us imminently qualified to save the world.  Certainly, those two groups are the only being on the planet with a point of view big enough to even consider the task.  With that said, it falls once again on our shoulders to straighten out this mess we ironically call Western Civilization.


Like any farmer will tell you, you can't kill the weed unless you kill the root.  Many folks will tell you that money is the root of all evil.  We beg to differ, seeing more clearly than most.  Actually, the Root of All Evil is Matthew 18:20.  In case your New Testament is a bit rusty, this line says, "For where two or three come together in my name, there am I with them."


We know what you're thinking: "How could one line in an ancient work of fiction be the cause of all problems in the world today?"  We hear you.  Took us a while to figure this out, as well.  It just doesn't seem possible, right?


Well, follow along here...


The Roman Church (the Eastern churches are a little more sane) read this line as saying, when people gather at church, it constitutes a Body in Christ, or Corpus Christi.  Remember that word "corpus," it will come back to haunt us.


As a Body, this group therefore acted in concert as one being for the greater glory of God, and could not be separated into its individual components, or human being.  As the theological reasoning goes, this Body became the spiritually purified Corpus Christi, fed by his Flesh and Blood.  It acted as a single Mind, ultimately uniting the katholikos, or Universe, under the single banner of God (which gets into Law of Flags pretty darned fast).


This concept was incorporated (see? there's that word again) into the Ecclesiastical and Canonical Law, which was basically Roman Administrative Law inherited from the Law of Hammurabi via the (Holy) Roman Empire.  The Law of Hammurabi is the first known codification of contract, which is the foundation for all that follows from it.


So, the Roman Church decided that any group of its members constituted a Body, and was therefore incorporated, or 'within the Body'.  


By applying the Law of Contract, the Church decided that each member of the corporation (embodiment) was essentially under contract with the Body as a whole.  Thus, they were required to perform certain duties to ensure the health of the Body, such as pay taxes (donate money, tithing), observe certain rules and rites, and so forth.  If one failed to do this, he or she could be ex communicare, or 'out of communication' with the rest of the Body.


Now, since the (Holy) Roman Empire pretty much dominated the Western Hemispere for 1,000 years, it stands to reason that the Ecclesiastical and Canonical Law would underpin pretty much all other law in the nations subject to it.


Almost every voyage of 'discovery', such as Columbus', were invasions of conquest to claim the world for the Body of Christ.  If you didn't 'volunteer' to convert to Catholicism, you were summarily slaughtered.  If the color of your skin was anything less than the pearly white color of Jay-zus, then you were a lesser Creation and needed extra purifying (by whatever means were most painful).


What's that?  You don't think Jay-zus was white?  Just look at a thousand years of art throughout Europe.  He looks pretty danged white to me.


Back to the topic at hand...


When you were baptized, and later just by being born and 'registered', you became a part of the Corpus.  The modern nation-state operates almost identically to the (Holy) Roman Empire and its official church.  As a means of control, you are made fealty to the State, which is turn pays fealty to Rome.  It's just a hierarchical structure ultimately leading to the ruling God-head.  In other words, it's a pyramid with God at the top and His Ambassador (the pope) His designated ruler until He gets back from wherever it is He goes in times like these.

Pyramid?  With an All-Seeing All-Knowing God at the top?  Hmmm...where have we seen that image before?


Thus, we come to the modern situation.  We have groups of people acting in unison to effect change in the world.  They are united in purpose and vision, and thus constitute a Body under the law.  Since they are corporate, they are called a person without distinction for individuals within that Body.  Therefore, they enjoy a 'corporate veil' that shields the individual 'cells' of the Body from personal liability for the actions of the Body, since the Body is groups of cells acting together in common cause.


Now, with all that lined up, we can clearly see that the mega-corporations that run our lives and have more rights than individual human beings are nothing more than an extension of one line in one gospel in one book written back in the 300s.  Since these corporations are probably 90% of the problem with current society, we have a clear and defined means to change the world.  It requires three steps:


1) Immediately stop the requirement to 'register' (tell the king) the details of every birth, and all the documents and IDs based on that registration.


2) Strip corporations of their veils and legal status as 'persons', and limit the term 'person' to mean a single, solitary, natural human being.


3) Strip the Roman Church of its sovereign legal status, and forbid all churches everywhere from owning property of any kind, and take away their tax-free status.  They may only hold property as individuals, and the individuals are liable for the actions of the organizations they run.


You could write the law on a single sheet of paper, double-spaced for clarity.  Once passed and signed into law, it would take all of about three months to bring the world to a New Age of Liberty and Freedom, the likes of which have seldom been seen throughout history.

So, true to our Irish-Texan heritage, we have solved pretty much all of the world's problems in 1,000 words or less.  We think that anyone who deeply ponders the broad implications of both the status quo, and the beauty of the world without artificial 'persons', will have to agree with us.  In fact, you have to agree with us just because we're Irish-Texan and infallible in our reasoning.  Heck, the world should band together as a single body and declare us pope!


Ugh!  What are we saying?  Letting our power run away with us again...


Oh, and one other little change.  How about making politicians joinly and severally liable for any damages caused by laws that they pass?  Maybe that would get them to actually read the dam nthings before they vote on them.  Or maybe not....

In The Name Of The Son

I hope folks took a minute (or sixty) to listen to the interview with Santos Bonacci.  He's an Ozzie (we won't hold that against him) who's figured it out.  There's thousands who have, and in the sidebar links, there's a British site that goes into some detail, and well as the Texas site 'showmethelaw.org'.  The paperwork and how-tos are all out there.  Just be careful where you get your materials.  There's a lot of fakers and folks who just haven't gotten it yet.

I have certainly spent enough time in jail myself.  But as I've mentioned here before, once I got it figured out, I drove for nearly 10 years in a car with no inspection, registration or any other permission, including a driver's license.  Sure, for a while I got hundreds of tickets.  Beat nearly all of them.  Eventually, the cops around my area got the idea that I wasn't going to change, so they did and left me alone.

I have a Texas passport.  Once you figure it out, you can make your own.  You can declare your land a sovereign nation, though I wouldn't try that just yet.  The world's not ready for the whole truth.  Besides, your neighbors start to get jealous of you and start turning you into ever government agency they can think of.  Keeps you busy.

At any rate, perhaps you are now wondering what the magic bullet is?  It's both very simple and highly complex.  The complexity keeps folks busy chasing shadows so they don't look and the very simple truth at the center of the whole thing.

The truth is, the Roman Empire never fell.  On the contrary, it owns you, your soul and all your property.  That's right, the Book of Revelations took place in the year AD 1302, and the Anti-Christ was a lovely fellow named Bonaface VIII.  Since you were born, you've had the Mark of the Beast, and you've probably looked at it dozens of times and didn't even know it.

You see, there's this story.  It features a guy named Jesus, who had some followers.  Well, he says to one of them, 'you're my rock and on you I will build my church.'  Good guess!  The guy's name was Peter.  Anyway, in the story, there's this line about giving Peter the Keys to the Kingdom and telling him that what he binds on Earth will be bound in Heaven  To make a long story short, Peter and whoever he appoints later are in charge of the Earth and everything in it until this guy Jesus returns.  It's true, because God said so.

Sounds like Divine Right of Kings to me.  Maybe that's why all the kings of Europe had to be blessed by Peter's replacements.  They really didn't have Divine Right until God's Ambassador gave it to them.

That kind of power would make you really, well...powerful.  Especially if everyone believed it.

So, the Roman Empire morphs into something called the Holy Roman Empire.  Same wonderful bunch of people, different brand.  The Emperors were replaced by popes, to soften up the image in later re-brandings, but it's the same thing.

That brings us to this guy, Bonaface VIII.  He decided that if he was in charge of the world and everything in it until Jesus came back, that he needed to start locking things up all legal-like.  At that point, he created a Trust.  First one ever.  Put all of Euope into it.  He and his replacements would hold full title to Life, the Universe and Everything, as trustees.  Just until Jesus came back, of course.

Problem is, that Book they were basing all this on is a complete fabrication.  At least the way we've all be taught to read it.  It is an amalgam of stories dating back to Babylon.  The dying/rising god-turned-man.  The 12 followers.  All of it.

Most of the parables come from Buddha, pretty much word for word.  The central figures come from Vishnu.  The plot line comes from Babylonian myths.  The sun worship, well most people have heard of that.  The point is, Jesus and Peter never existed, at least in any form that we imagine.

But, there's this really powerful guy called a pope, and he has legal title and deed to all land and every soul on Earth.  The power to do this is based on a fiction, and you still wonder why legal fictions like corporations can be 'persons'?

OK, so at this point, you should click over and read the Law of Flags.  You'll need that information to really grasp the subtleties coming up.  And a couple of data points.  Ever notice that all the US flags in schools, courts and many other places have the gold fringe?  The other point to think about is, why does Western law use so many Latin phrases?

If your sharp, and we know you are because you read this blog, then you're already starting to see the Bigger Picture.

Back to Bonaface.  So, he took over everything in Europe and put it in a trust (you should read up on those, as well).  Then, a century of so later, a guy names Sylvester put the Americas in a second trust.  Later, another guy (whose name I forget) put Asia into a third trust.  Together, the three trusts are called the Sequagint KV, sextum being the number six, three times, is 666.  Hmmm...the Mark of the Beast.

When you are born, your parents 'registered' your birth and got a 'certificate'.  Look up the legal definitions.  Regis means 'king,' so 'register' means to inform the king, which is why your birth certificate has a line for 'informant'.  You need that number on the certificate to get any form of government ID.  You need ID to get a job, travel, conduct any kind of commerce at all.  You have the Mark of the Beast.

The number on your birth certificate registers you with the Vatican, which now owns you as part of the Trust. You are a beneficiary of a vast treasure in Heaven, and it is the Vatican's (self-appointed) job to get you there, no matter what it has to do to you here.

Thus, you are a slave because your parents unwittingly 'registered' your birth, and you probably did the same with your kids.  You are now under Roman law, using Latin phrases written in the Roman alphabet, and some people still have Roman numerals in their names.  You are now a subject of the Holy Roman Empire, but it actually gives you power, if you know how to use it.

You can literally tell judges what to do, make prosecutors (pro se cutus-in the flesh) pay any and all fines for you.  In fact, you can psych out prosecutors before court starts by asking if they brought their checkbook to court.

As I said at the start, it's a very simple idea, but very complex, at the same time.  This rabbit hole goes much deeper, because all that power didn't come just from a work of fiction.  That book is actually coded information.  And information is power, if you guard it and make others pay to learn it.  It's occult, or hidden knowledge of an ancient art called astrology.  And yes, it can give you power if you know how to use it and others don't know about it.  All those stories about 12 followers, a sun (I mean son of course), crosses, miracles, loaves and fishes, servants carrying water.  It's all there, and it's why the pope wears a fish head for a hat.  It's the Age of Pisces.  Didn't you know that?  Before thsi was Aries, which is why Muslims slaughter goats and Christians worship good shepherds.  Before that, it was Taurus, which is why Hindus worship bulls and the Hebrews built a golden calf.  After this is the Age of Auquarius, which is why Jesus is heard to tell his followers to look for the servant carrying a jar of water.  It's all there in black and white.  Virgins, warrior kinds, eagles.

I hear you.  "But what does all this have to do with me?"

Ah, well, there's a way out.  All you have to do is learn all this stuff.  Please don't forget the Law of Admiralty.  If you know what and when to speak, then you can literally become your own king, and extract yourself from the Matrix.

It's called the Redemption Process, and it's not for the faint of heart.  It takes a lot of study to find out just how simple it is, and what you learn will make you so powerful it will literally scare the hell out of you.  Just be careful.  Governments are cracking down because so many folks are learning about and using this information.  If you don't know exactly what you are doing, you WILL go to jail...a lot.  I know.

The Process is a little tricky, but it's mostly paperwork.  Knowing what to do with it is the real trick.  Do a little study on your own, and we'll come back to this topic later.  I've given you enough names and terms to keep you busy for, oh, about a year or so.

Happy Research!

Oh, and all the stuff about secret societies and all that?  Forget about them.  Their just focus groups for the Big Marketing Firm in Rome.

Pax Romanae

Ah, once again we celebrate that time-honored pagan celebration of Easter.  It began with Maundy Thursday, led into Good Friday, followed by Holy Saturday, and culminates in Easter Sunday.  If you are a Christian, then you have most likely been read (few actually actively read...) the Gospel accounts:

On Thursday, at sundown, Jesus and the Apostles gathered for the Passover meal.  Later, some of them repair to the garden for a walk and some fresh air.  Jesus gets arrested, taken before the Sanhedrin, gets condemned to death, but wait!, let's let the Romans do it so we don't get blamed for killing a major political figure.  So they haul Jesus to Pontius Pilat, who in turn interviews Jesus but doesn't get very far.  So he sends our hero half way across Palestine, to Herod, who plays around with Jesus a bit and then sends him half-way across Palestine again, to let old PP have another go.  Old PP takes our hero out back and has him whipped a little, then puts him up in front of the crowd, who naturally chooses the thieving, murdering liar Barabbas over our hero (a perfect example of democracy in action).  Thus at a loss on what to do with Jesus, PP orders him taken up the hill and crucified at the mob's request.  Finally, by noon on Friday, Jesus is hung out to dry.

That has got to be one of the fastest examples of the Wheels of Justice ever recorded!  In less than 12 hours, Jesus has a couple of trials, is hauled back and forth across Palestine, sees pretty much the entire ruling class of the region, and dies by noon the next day.  Pardon me if I have a problem with this story.  In fact, even the Gospels seem to have a bit of a problem.  Matthew, Luke and Mark pack all the action into one night, but good, old John says it a little different, giving us two days.  Hmmm...and that's the Gospel Truth.  Go read it.

So, we have this little time-line problem going.  But, that's not all...

You see, the story of God-Becomes-Man-Dies-And-Resurrects was ancient even in Jesus' time.  In fact, the story is one of the oldest in Humanity's collection of stories.  By some accounts, this story is well over 10,000 years old.

One example is the Egyptian story of Osiris.  Seems Ossy got into a battle and was hacked into 14 pieces.  His sister/wife Isis collected the pieces, all except for the phallus which disappeared, and reassembled them inside a tree trunk.  The missing phallus was replaced with a magical device that allowed Isis to impregnate herself before she sealed up the tree trunk and threw it in the Nile.  Three days later, Osiris was resurrected in his new trans-human form (with the magical phallus, we presume).

Now the whole bit with tree trunks and three days has a familiar ring to it, que no?  Not to mention the rather thinly veiled renditions of Mary and Jesus in the image of Isis and Horus.

To all this, we add the story of the Roman emperor Constantine.  He was watching the Roman Empire sliding inexorably into the history books, led in part by infighting among dozens of competing religions.  In an effort to quell the bickering and save the empire, he ordered a bunch of religious types into a room in Turkey and told them to come up with something.  Which they did.  It is called the Universal Roman Church, or Roman Catholic.

The council of Nicea blended pieces of several religions into a single amalgam that made everyone happy.  The monotheists had One God.  The polytheists had a Trinity.  The goddess worshipers were given Mary and the Osiris worshipers were given Jesus.  The Sun worshipers were given Sunday and those who just needed a pantheon and ancestor worship were given saints.

None of it really resembled Christianity, which was a whole different beast.  The Christians believed that their guy was the new Fisher King, come to establish the Kingdom of the New Age.  Their religio-political movement was an outcrop on the Essenes, who in turn had blended certain aspects of Judaism and Buddhism.  Their system postulated apotheosis, in which every man could become god through certain practices.

The whole idea of apotheosis is really central to this whole thing.  Certainly, the Buddhists believe in it, and various sects throughout Western history believe in it.  There are hints of it throughout the Old and New Testaments, even as Jesus said 'all this I do, you can do, and more.'  In the US, George Washington is assumed to has undergone apotheosis, and that moment is enshrined on the ceiling of the US capitol dome.  Some scholars argue that Jesus also went through this process, as he began by calling himself the Son of Man, but later changed to the Son of God.  Go read it.  I'm not making this up.

At any rate, Constantine (remember him?) had hit on a solution to the ills of the Roman Empire.  Now, the emperor was truly the center of the official religion, and that religion had something for everyone.  No matter what your parental belief system was, you could find the core beliefs all tied up in a neat little box in this Universal Church.

Did it work?  Well, the Catholic Church is the richest, most powerful organization on Earth...right now.  It is the single largest land owner, and the leaders of the world still come to the Emperor (now called Pope) to get their blessing and approval.  Roman Law is the core of most legal systems on Earth.  Pretty much all corporations are given their legal status as 'persons' through a complex and very well hidden link to the Vatican.  In fact, the Vatican is the only sovereign religious headquarters on Earth.  And it has survived and perpetuated the Roman Empire throughout the world for 2,000 years.

Don't know about you, but that sounds pretty darned successful to me.  In fact, few seem to realize it, but the Godfather series of books and films were really a documentary.  I avoided watching any of the films until last year.  Despite their fame and adulation, I had no desire to see them.  I knew what was in them.  I had seen it first-hand.  The scene where Michael gets absolution from the future pope...well, there you go.

The banking ills of the world are laid at the feet of the Vatican.  Its bank is the root of all evil.  All roads lead to Rome.  That's why no matter what horrible things the Church leaders do, the institution is untouchable.  No major event on Earth occurs without the blessing and approval of the Vatican.

Oh, and who killed JFK?  The Vatican, of course.  JFK signed an Executive Order creating a new, independent US currency based on silver.  Look it up.  He died not long after that.  How dare a Catholic stand up to the secular power of the Holy Roman Empire?  From that point forward, we were given the Pax Americana.  Now why do you think they'd use a 2,000 year old dead language for that term, and run everything out of a city in Virginia that is up to its gills in Graeco-Roman architecture?

And trust me, when the American Empire, and the Pax Americana falls into dust, the Romans will still be there.

Those who don't study history are doomed to repeat it.

All In Da Family

The large wooden doors swing open to reveal a massive oak and leather desk with rich curtained French doors behind them. Behind the desk is one of those leather office chairs you only find in board rooms and CEO offices. Its back is to us.

We enter and stop at the head of the desk. The chair slowly creaks around to reveal none other than Marlon Brando in character as Don Corleone, godfather of a successful mob family. He speaks to us:

Ah, Michael! Ahm glad you come to visit me like I ask you. You want a drink? I got some nice wine from Vinny when he come back from da old country.

We take the wine and sit down across from the desk as the padrino leans back in his chair and talks wistfully:

You know, Michael, back in da old dais, we knowd who was da good guys and who was the bad guys. The Fam-lease played one side a da game, and the gummint played da udder side.

It was simple den. We ran da rackets and paid da gumshoes to leave us alone. Ya miss a payment, dey show up and knock some heads. Nowadays, ya can't tell who's on what side, anymore. Da only diff-rence is dey got badges and a little respect. It's all PR Michael.

If we was smart back den, we woulda bought up some newspapers. We never tot like dat, you see. We never tink you just manage what people tink and you can run wild.

Deez gummint boys got us licked. Day use da same tactics like we do, making people pay for protection and roughin' dem up if dey don't keep to rules we set out. I mean, dees TSA goons are more stupit dan Guido der when he's got a bottle of product, ya knows?

But here's da ting, Michael. Ah been lookin' into dis for a while now. Da key is da gumshoes made a deal wid doze Jew boys down in da City. We missed da Big Pik-cha here. Dey made a deal wid da JPMorgan and Goldman fam-lease, and now dey got da whole ting wrapped up, ya know wha I mean>?

Look at all doze Jew boys down der in Washington. Seems like every time I turn around, dey put anudder Morgan boy or Goldman boy in some office wid a lotta power, and dey are runnin' da show.

Da udder ting dey got on us, us good press. All da time, deez news boys are bowin' and scrapin' to da gummint and Jew boys. No maddah what dey do, ya can't find a bad story on 'em. All peaches 'n' cream, I tell ya.

We nod appreciatively. Il Padrino has a way of bringing complex concepts down to more managable terms.

"But Godfather, what can we do now," we ask. "They've got 50 years on us. It's going to be impossible to compete with that."

Don't worry, Michael. Dey got 50 years? We got a thousant! Ah got ya an appointment with Papa in Roma. Da Vatican Bank's gonna help us put ta-gedder a package dat will take back some of our territory, see? Id ain't gonna be easy, Michael. Deez bastuds got a good jump on da game already. But, we got a lot more punch dan dey do, capiche? When ya meet wid Papa, he's gonna lay out da plan. All weez gotta do is stick to it. I want you to run da show, here. We don't need da udder fam-lease tryin' to make a play for our bag.

Artie and Phillie, dey're too stupit to play dis big, an' da udder fam-lease don't got da stroke we do in Roma. If ya play it smart, Michael, you can built up an empire like nobuddy's ever seen.

Ahm gonna buy a newspaper chain while yer in Roma. We're gonna play by der rules, but we're gonna do it betta. Yer gonna be da padrino someday, so done screw dis up. You got da bisnis degree and ya know how da game is playt. Da best part, if ya get da badge, ya can wax 'em and no buddy ever gonna know, cause you got da authority and ya got da press to bury da bodies for ya.

You ponder the implications for a moment, then ask, "Padrino, why all of the sudden do you want to get into government? It's not our traditional market."

Simple, Michael. Youse just gotta read dat great Wop from Venucci, Macchiavelli. All gummint is violence. If somebuddy steps outta line, ya whack 'em. Ya make 'em pay protection. Ya can even make 'em pay for air and waddah. It's brilliant! On toppa dat, you're legitimate. Da people all come to you for protection, cuz dey been trained from bert to follow what-evah you say. Da best part, is you got all da guns! If somebuddy don't follow what you tell 'em, ya whack 'em. Hoos gonna tell ya 'no?'

Ya, doze Jew boys from across town, dey figgerd it out bafore we did, but dat don't mean we can't learn from 'em. We been playin' dis game all wrong. Ya see, gummint and da fam-lease is all da same. Only ting is, day got schools and da press.

When ya meet with Papa, he's gonna spell it all out. Come da next election, weez gonna change the rules a liddle. It's all perception, Michael.

If you're a mafia on the da outside, everybuddy's out ta get ya. But, if are the mafia on da INSIDE, den ya got no competition. It's all how ya look at it.

"It's brilliant, padrino. But, how do we make sure we get our people inside?"

The Godfather chuckles.

We steal der game, Michael. Dey got everybuddy using doze electronic votin' machines. Whoever runs da machines, runs da world. I already got our boys inside on dat end. You know Paulie's boy, Anthony? He got a degree in computers and went to work for one of dem big software companies that has a contract wid da gummint to make da machines. Don't worry. We got dat part in da bag already.

We sit back in our chair and sip the wine pensively. It seemed like a fool-proof plan. With the backing of Rome, it was no fail. We picture ourselves in the Oval Office with a cigar and an intern, only much better looking than 'that woman.'

Yup, the Don had outdone himself. The Jewish bankers were already losing the PR game and the market was ripe for a take-over. The pockets in Rome were the deepest in the world. And with control of the schools and the media, no one would have the brain to put up a fight, much less win it.

As we sit there dreaming, suddenly Mel Brooks pops into our thoughts. He delivers the great line from "Robin Hood: Men In Tights"- It's good ta be da king!

How true...how true.