One of the most popular subjects and matters of contention here on ATS, are the New World Order Conspiracies. Some people are convinced that behind the scenes lays a powerful shadow government and organization dedicated to the proposition of a One World Government that drives and manipulates political events towards it. While others believe that this is all a myth and fabrication to play upon and manipulate our fears of such a world for other nefarious reasons. While some, believe neither, that we live in a world of random events, unrelated, and unconnected, that is naturally evolving in reactionary ways.
So today this April 25th, the anniversary of Earth Day whose ultimate goal is to institute that One World Government, and indeed so many of the mechanisms of it has been put in place, by the United Nations, a world wide holiday to commemorate that we are all one people, and share this one world together, it’s time to take a real hard look at the planet we all live on and just what is going on with it, and on it.
Now whether you are a hardened skeptic, patriot, or proponent of One World Government, or a pacifist, environmentalist or statist or nationalist, I think we can all agree with a couple of things.
One is that our planet is engaged in nonstop warfare and violence, and has been for thousands of years, and two, that many people around the globe are starving and destitute despite an abundance of resources and technology that makes that unnecessary.
In fact most of us, if not all of us, accept this violence, and deprivation as a part of life and the world, that we can really do nothing about.
So a very interesting question becomes why, do we believe that this violence and deprivation is something we accept and can do nothing about.
To find out the answers, we must travel back, on the roads that brought us here, and as we travel back, we shall discover how All Roads Lead to Rome!
In the Beginning
Legend tells us that a great flood had swept the land. Different cultures and different religions tell of this great flood, from the Bible and Noah’s Ark, to the Babylonians and their Creation Stories, to the Maya and their hieroglyphs.
While we might never know what caused this flood, it is likely safe to assume this flood occurred, whether it was the poles reversing themselves because of a completion of the Galaxy’s orbit, as many believe will occur again on 2012, or and Ice Age melting and flooding the lands, or a displeased God unhappy with the people and their ways are all speculations. None of us were there, none of us can really know for sure, because none of us were there, but it’s likely based on so much archeological and scripture reference that at some point several thousand years ago humanity suffered this apocalypse and had to start all over again.
Where did it start, it started in Troy.
Located near modern day Constantinople, the city the Roman Emperor Constantine founded to herald in the new age of Christianity, Troy lay very near, the reputed resting place of Noah’s Ark, Mt. Ararat in Turkey.
Its founders likely were survivors of the great flood, and knew of the wonders of the World before the flood. Legends of Atlantis, a mythical, ancient and advanced civilization spring to mind. Legends later told of by the Greeks, who would come to play a central role, in how events of the new civilizations would unfold.
To understand more, we must understand more about three important city-states, Troy, Athens and Sparta.
The Trinity, a Tale of Three Cities
As the temperate and fertile Eastern Mediterranean lands developed into civilization, three cities, and three different philosophies would collide and converge in an epic struggle for predominance and dominance.
The Trojan Wars of Homer’s Iliad one of humankind’s oldest written stories was born of this struggle.
Troy represented the Gods, the bloodlines of the pre-flood world, the technologies and spirituality saved from those days. The belief that divine universal forces, that could be called upon and evoked through prayers and offerings, with distinct personalities and powers, could aide and benefit humankind directly, if they were respected and appeased and obeyed.
Athens would come to represent the Wisdom of Man, the great Philosophies and Philosophers, who would ponder the meaning of life and the universe in humanistic and not spiritualistic forms. While they paid homage to the same God’s the Trojans did, they were searching for something more, and different, internally in human terms, to understand the mind, and heart and soul in human ways, and to develop a form and system of conduct based upon them. One of these was a concept we are all familiar, Democracy, that believe that every free man and woman should have a voice, in how we live and live with one another and are governed.
Sparta would come to represent courage and warfare, human’s desire to dominate others through force, power, violence and cunning, and strength of arms. They too would pay homage to the Gods of Troy which they shared with Athens, and they too like the Athenians were looking to carve their place in the world. To master it and become the Masters of it, through their own decided approaches.
Inevitably these three would clash.
But let us look a moment at how that struggle between these three city-states, mirrors our own internal struggles.
The Trinity a Tale of Being Human
Many would argue inside us exist three different entities, two that we are quite familiar with, Freud would call these the Id and the Ego, and the Chinese philosophers the Ying and the Yang.
They represent the conscious hemispheres of the human mind. The left side of the brain, the right side of the brain, each an almost exact duplicate of the other, divided down the middle and joined together.
The Left Side of the Brain = Sparta
It is full of desires, impetuousness, and courage and cunning; it tempts us constantly with pleasures and vanities, and encourages us to pursue them, by any and all means.
The Right Side of the Brain = Athens
It is contemplative, and considered, cautions and intro and retrospective, it observes and weighs, and quantifies and qualifies, it battles the Left Brain’s impulses, trying to apply its own yardstick to when it is safe and wise and right to pursue or not pursue the things the Left Brain desires.
The Higher Subconscious Self = God, Universal Knowledge and Power = Troy
The Id, Ego and Super Ego according to Freud
The Ying and the Yang from the Tao
No matter what religion you are or aren’t, whether you are even atheist, or agnostic, we all have questions, why we are here, who we are, the real purpose of our existence, and a inherent suspicion that in the grand scheme of things that there is more to our lives in our sentient and corporal, temporal states than meets the eye. Our Higher Subconscious Self is neither as concerned nor preoccupied with the physical things and esthetics that our Left Brain and Right Brain are, it thinks in higher spiritual terms, in universal terms, in terms of what is beyond the veil of this life, and our brief time here. Troy was dedicated to these propositions understanding the Universe through the Gods and their powers and the path to the higher self.
They saw themselves above the Athenians and the Spartans, for this reason, while the Spartans and Athenians each believed that there way was the correct way.
The Spartans would ask, what do you want, and then go out and get it, by taking it.
The Athenians would ask, who are you, and as they defined it, try to create it.
The Trojans would ask, what am I, and look to the heavens and the earth and the Gods to decipher it.
Eventually Sparta and Athens would ally themselves to battle the Trojans. A battle that history tells us they won after many years and much blood shed.
But did they win.
Now we must begin to look at phonetics, to sounds, and the powerful vibrations that they create when uttered and thought, to begin understanding more.
Rome = Roam
Legend tells us as Troy fell, through trickery and deception of the Trojan horse, one of its greatest heroes and princes so beloved by the God’s with their aid escaped the doomed city.
Aeneas
Aeneas would make his way from Troy via Carthage, to Italy where his descendents Romulus and Remus would found on seven fabled hills along the Tiber a city named Rome.
Rome though would be like no other city or nation before it. It would not be dependent upon just one philosophy or one way, instead, it would learn to incorporate the best of them all, into an ever evolving system, meant to constantly and progressively be superior to all that stood before it and all that opposed it.
The Gods of Troy would have their place, the Wisdom and Democracy of Athens would fit right in to, and so would the insatiable desire for conquest and more, and the courage of Sparta.
Rome would become the first multicultural state. As it expanded rapidly it did so with an inviting and almost irrepressible entreaty.
“Rome offers you War or Peace; it matters not to Rome which you decide”
The Romans would in fact travel far and wide, allowing the neighboring kings, kingdoms and peoples to join it willingly, and to then incorporate the best of those new ideas, and sciences, into their own, along with their Gods and religious beliefs, or if they failed to join willingly, Roman would conquer them by force of arms and do the same.
The more Rome expanded, the more it incorporated, the more diverse it became, the more unstoppable it became.
As its stature and legends and power grew, so too did its enemies in their determination to not be swallowed by it.
A Second Tale of Three Cities, the Evolution of the Trinity of City-States
While Greece, Sparta, Egypt and others would fall relatively easy under Roman hegemony two other City States would pose problems for Rome in at times exasperating and costly ways.
Carthage
Carthage and Rome were on a collision course practically from the beginning. When Aeneas fled Troy he took refuge at first in Carthage, where its princess and then queen would fall in love with him, and beg him to marry her. Aeneas though rescued by the Gods from death at Troy had a destiny to Roam and to Rome and would reject her, leaving her a spurned woman who would burn herself alive on the pyre she had built to burn all her gifts to him left behind when he set off for Italy.
The enmity between the Carthaginians and the Romans was a particularly bitter one, made all the more bitter as Rome having taken over all of the Italian boot, and Greece and portions of Egypt and Africa became a true sea power.
The Carthaginians were first and foremost merchants, masters of the seas, and the trade routes, and the competition Rome was now providing as it sought to emulate this new aspect of trade, international trade and profit through it, was galling and profit robbing for the Carthaginians.
Rome was learning a new trick, vying competitively for the same lucrative markets, and building a fleet and navy to rival Carthage’s.
Rome was determined to roam to wherever fortune might take it, to display the courage and cunning of the Spartans to dominate and conquest those that stood in its way, to use the wisdom of the Athenians in incorporating them productively into their system.
In this process Rome would establish one of many enduring things that still affect the world to this day in controlling ways.
The Laws of the Sea!
Maritime and Common Roman Laws are the basis of the laws that bind us all into a governing system still to this day.
Maritime Law
Jerusalem
Jerusalem, would pose another challenge for Rome in serious ways. The Hebrews had for centuries been wandering in and out of Middle Eastern Kingdoms from Babylon to Egypt, as Slave Traders, Mercenaries, Artisans and Craftsman, Masons, and Political Advisors and Financiers.
There unnamed God(s) were associated with magical and mystical celestial events, and generally feared, as they earned a Separate but Equal status for their race.
Unlike the Semites who populated the area, the Hebrew too, were from the Anatolia region of Armenia and Turkey, fair skinned and light eyed. They too like the Trojans dated back to the time of the great flood, and in their wandering they had amassed great riches through their wheeling and dealings, machinations and sometimes outright thievery.
Above all Rome’s desire to roam and conquest required gold, gold to equip men and armies, gold to build ships, gold to build roads, gold to bribe Kings into submission when it was cheaper than the cost of armed conflict. Gold to feed the hungry citizens of Rome whose birthright was free bread and circuses.
The Hebrew Tribes had Gold to lend, and Gold to tax, and like the smart business people they were, they recognized they had a real leverage in that. A leverage that would tax Rome itself at times, as it sought to borrow, what it could not tax or steal to finance its expansion.
The Hebrews would teach the Romans the principles of usury, loaning money, and gaining power as a lender and creditor and how to leverage these things.
Wikipedia Usury
Jewish Encyclopeida Usury
Part of today’s system of fractional reserve banking and fiat de facto instrument of debt currencies, run by central banks, are all regulated through the International Monetary Fund, and institution created by the United Nations at it’s birth, to principally enslave nations to debt, and to control them through debt.
International Monetary Fund
Bread and Circuses
Bread and Circuses
As Rome expanded it was by and large a very good place to live for its day. The Roman Republic had developed a system of representative democracy very similar to our own, the Laws were précise and fixed, judgments were not arbitrary nor capricious and Roman Citizens had extreme privileges and rights in this system.
One of them was Bread and Circuses, poor Roman plebes of the common class who could not feed themselves were guaranteed free bread by the state, and sundry entertainments from theatre and plays, to music to gladiatorial combat and other forms of sports.
It was a costly system, but a system that served Rome’s Patrician Senatorial and Political Class citizens well. Power and position meant opportunity for more wealth in the Roman Republic, much like it does in our Republic.
Citizen’s votes were highly sought after and many Patricians were all too happy to buy them.
Rome’s citizens enjoyed the highest standard of living in the world, fresh running water, free baths to stay clean and sanitary, medicine and sciences and technologies unrivaled anywhere else.
Yet it came at a price. The price of constant conquest, to rob the less organized kingdoms of their gold and wealth and enslave their citizens into the service of Rome, to constantly build and expand and pay for these amenities and luxuries.
Slavery would defer the cost, but at the expense of jobs, jobs for the citizens, so keeping the increasingly unemployed Roman citizen fed, and entertained and happy with their state in life was paramount.
In time this would prove to be a great problem.
A problem both in cost and control, at one point the slaves’ outnumbered free citizens of Rome two to one. One Senator famously proposed placing armbands on the slaves so all could tell the difference between who was free and who was a slave on Rome’s teeming streets, to which the other Senators replied are you mad, and have them know how many of them there are?
Eventually a new system of slavery would be required, one that allowed the slaves to think they were free so they would never have a need to rebel.
Rome would learn to adapt in incredible ways.
Yet another great challenge confronted Rome.
To serve in the Roman Armies you had to be a free citizen, and not of the Plebian Class, but one who owned land. The Romans believed if you did not own a piece of Rome you had nothing to die for.
To further the perspective of the true Roman Warrior, you likewise had to also be single, with no wife and no children. The Romans believed you would not hold your ranks and stand firm in a pitched battle if you had something to live for.
Yet as these brave landed free Romans died in war after war and battle after battle, with no heirs to leave their lands to, three things continually happened.
The first was that the Patrician Class in the Senate often bought the lands, on the cheap, consolidating more and more of Rome’s productive farm land into fewer and fewer hands. Much like today the corporations consolidate more and more of lucrative businesses and commerce into fewer and fewer hands.
The second thing was that they were more often than not to use slaves to work the lands, and jobs became more and more scarce. Much like the corporations today, use automated robots and assembly lines or cheap foreign workers.
The third was that fewer and fewer Free Romans owned land, and had no wives and children, to join the army.
Sulla and Caesar a Tale of Two Dictators
Rome like today’s republics was not short of its political intrigues and machinations. The Roman Republic was set up to be balanced. Two Consuls would lead the Roman State as equals; one would field Rome’s Armies in the wars, while another would stay in Rome to preside over the Senate. The Senate represented the Patrician class by and large; the Tribune of the Plebes represented the common man with a veto over the Senate. The Consuls also had Veto Power.
Romans were ambitious by nature, and Sulla took this to the extreme. Sulla was born of relative modest means and little social standing, but had the good fortune to marry well and choose his consorts well, all of whom were wealthy, and all of whom would die untimely deaths leaving their fortunes to him.
When through perhaps the most adept political maneuvering Rome had ever seen he was elected Consul along with Gaius Marius he won the prestige of being able to field Rome’s armies, while Gaius stayed in Rome.
Sulla would have exceptional luck there, too, earning the highest, and hardest of all Roman victories and awards, the treasured Grass Crown.
Sulla
Only awarded to a Consul that saved a Roman Legion from defeat and annihilation in battle, and rarely awarded because the Legion itself had to bestow through vote on the Consul, a most embarrassing thing to do!
Woven from the grasses and the flowers on the field of battle, it was the epitome of a Roman’s highest achievement.
When the jealous Gaius Marius denied Sulla his triumphal parade and celebration, an incensed Sulla brazenly marched his army into the City and seized power.
Gaius Marius
Gaius Marius
Roman armies were never allowed inside the city, and Sulla had broken Rome’s most sacred law and trust in its officials.
Yet Sulla was undeterred and set about eliminating his political opponents and seizing their estates and fortunes to replenish the nearly bankrupt Roman treasury.
Rome’s first Civil War would see Sulla coming out on top, and becoming its first Dictator.
He proclaimed he was intent on restoring the Republic and that is just what he did, and at the height of his power, a few short years later, he would step down, and retire to his coastal villa to write his memoires.
A young Gaius Julius Caesar a relative of Gaius Marius would flee to Greece during these purges and later proclaim Sulla a fool for relinquishing his dictatorial powers.
The seed had been planted, the die had been cast, and the days of the Roman Republic were numbered
Divide and Conquer, Winning the World through Arithmetic
Like Sulla Gaius Julius Caesar was an ambitious man, also of little social standing at birth, but with powerful benefactors like Gaius Marius.
Gaius Julius Caesar
He would follow a similar path, to accumulate initial wealth and increased social standing, enter the military and politics and distinguish himself at both.
As fortune would have it Caesar once elected Consul would have the privilege of leading his army to Gaul, modern day France, to lay siege to its rich lands, and plunder it. Wealth he would use wisely at ingratiating himself to the citizens of Rome.
At one point Caesar made it to the Rhine River in Germania and daringly bridged it to march his entire army across.
He marched for several days on the other side, encountering no opposition from the fierce German tribes.
Yet he discovered something, something that would be reinforced when a short time later he would visit Britannia. The world seemed to stretch on forever, and even a person as ambitious as he, would be hard pressed to conquer it all in one life time.
He discovered another thing. That he could vastly multiply his own forces by setting competing tribes and kings against one another. Arming them with information and intelligence, weapons and gold, and exploiting their rivalries, would save him men and time, and in essence so weaken the victor in the process; they were then much easier pickings to conquer then later.
Caesar realized that the world could be conquered through simple math, dividing people by exploiting their differences, priming them to fight one another over their differences, and then profiting off of that fight, and then seizing victory later over the weakened victors.
Rome would learn to use nationalistic, ethnic and even religious differences, to prompt people into destroying and killing each other for it!
Caesar realized that deploying skilled agent provocateurs to exploit these differences, prime them and capitalize on them would give Rome great advantage.
These agents of course would have to work with a certain degree of secrecy; after all they would be rejected if they out and out told the people they were exploiting their plans.
This would lead to the birth of Intelligence Agents and Spies, and Secret Societies.
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