Take Me to Your Leader … oh wait. Never Mind.

You’re telling me there’s a power-mad cabal that’s been kneeling on humanity’s neck for the past 2,000 years? Maybe so, my friend, but it’s not “The Jews.”

The Venetian Arsenal, apparently the world’s first mass industrial production facility. The product was: heavily armed warships.

All right, since this is Substack, please shut the fuck up for a minute and let me talk.

Ethnic Jews, in my thoroughly American experience living at a central node of what is without a doubt a criminal global empire, are among the most lively, intelligent, soulful, humorous, philosophically interesting and humane individuals I’ve ever come across. A majority of my closest friends were born Jewish, and grew up with me right here in New York, the aptly named “Empire State,” which happens for now to be one of the more important headquarters offices of this global criminal operation. None of these mensches identify as particularly religious, much less as right-wing Zionists bent on exterminating and/or banishing all ethnic Arab peoples from Greater Israel. Each of them is struggling with the consequences of what has been occurring in Israel, Gaza and the West Bank. As am I.

As obsessively suspicious as I am that an evil cabal of fabulously rich and corrupt motherfuckers is fucking with humanity on a global scale and has been for a couple of thousand years at least, I’m even more convinced that the driving force of all this evil is not, and never was … “the Jews.”

I repeat: “The Jews” are not remotely in charge. “Zionism,” a dead-end paradigm among the many dead-end paradigms foisted upon the human race to divide and manipulate us, was introduced by the actual criminal masterminds, when two of their other dead-end paradigms — Nazism and Soviet Communism — failed to succeed in sufficiently knocking the Jewish people down. So the empire decided that if you can’t beat them, give them some state-of-the-art weaponry and a district office from which to kick some ass on your other long-term patsy projects, softening them up for later final solution-izing.

Anyway…

While I heartily appreciate free and open good-faith dialogue, I do have some personal lines that I will not cross, and I will not be cleverly manipulated, bait-and-switched and cornered into siding with concepts or incentives that are anathema to me. There exists on any media platform, including here on Substack, multiple subsets of rigidly agenda-driven individuals who tend to introduce themselves in a heartfelt and benign manner before slipping in the more radical and noxious elements of their worldviews. Foremost among these types is the ubiquitous Jew hater, piggybacking on antiwar, anti-predatory-capitalist, anti totalitarian, anti-woke, anti-imperialist sentiment, pretending to be a fellow traveler of some sort before opening things up and blaming the whole shebang on “the Jews” while gleefully staining the entire tribe as “satanic, greedy, bloodthirsty, evil,” and a lot of other things not so nice.

When that happens, I’m not sorry to say, you totally and completely lose me … whether I get around to muting or blocking you right away or not.

I am on record on this platform sporadically bloviating about my possibly ill-informed suspicion that there is and has been since early in the first millennium a relatively small cadre of extra-national, multigenerational power players who seek to manage global affairs, and have been doing so with exponentially increasing efficacy since the mid-1800s. While I imagine this “cabal” to be largely Western European (Roman/Venetian/Dutch/British/American and belatedly Israeli, among other participating nodes of operation), at no point did I ever intimate that the global capitalist mafia might have its roots in Judaism or Zionism.

A Venetian Doge (Francesco Erizzo). That’s right, students of irony, DOGE. Not a Jew. Raised a giant naval fleet to battle the Ottomans over Crete. Despite the silly hat, he was a powerful oligarch, whose Jewish bankers did his bidding, as did everyone else under his skinny thumb.

Instead, I and a smattering of other armchair history nerds posit that the empire that today is approaching total world domination began with the mutation of Rome into a maritime and fiduciary power via its powerful city state of Venice, and that this empire, instead of “falling,” took to the sea and to sliding in through the back door of competing land-based power structures. By the middle of the second millennium the Venetians had put together the planet’s first mass-produced, industrial-strength seagoing armada to beat back the Ottomans in 1571, and their commerce-dominating international banking and intelligence network reigned over the pan-Mediterranean world for centuries. That doesn’t sound to me particularly like an empire that “fell.” Might have been a foundational bit of “fake news.”

A would-be 21st-century Doge. So far, it looks like he may be biting off a bit more than he can chew, and is busy being manipulated and used by the real powers that be, as is his former pal in the Oval Office.

Murky yet tantalizing evidence exists to suggest that the embattled Venetian oligarchy, constantly hemmed in by competing European nation-states, transferred the core of its operations to Amsterdam and later London as they abandoned Venice to Napoleon and other pesky entities, taking control of Dutch and then British banking, government, intelligence and military establishments, and embarking on far-reaching seafaring colonial ventures. England, a sizable and defensible rock comfortably just off the coast of the troublesomely vulnerable Eurasian continent, was the perfect perch from which the crafty Venetian expat shipbuilders could mount their global mercantilist empire. At the same time, these shape-shifting oligarchs are suspected to have supercharged their adopted colonial empire’s financial sector to redouble their divide-and-conquer manipulations among European nations, later repeating the process around the globe … including the Middle East.

Thomas Cromwell was chief minister to King Henry VIII from 1534 to 1540, when he was beheaded … a little too late to stop the Venetian takeover. Cromwell spent a lot of time in Italy during Venetian rule, and it is suspected that he had been “turned” and was an agent for the Venetian oligarchy, set up to steer Henry and Britain against the papacy and pave the way for Venetian infiltration of the English government, finance and industry.

Similar theories to the one above, laid out by people with a Jew-hating bone to pick, commonly feature Jewish bankers as the manipulators and agents provocateurs, rather than the wealthy behind-the-scenes oligarchs who employed and used them. This line of “thinking” is seriously flawed, and has been glommed upon by virulent anti-semites over the centuries to provide rationalization for sporadic killing sprees, eventually culminating in Hitler’s failed “final solution” and the pogroms of Eastern Europe (each of which, again, had been richly funded by City of London financiers). It would seem today that a spate of serious Jew hatred has once again emerged from its fetid hidey-hole, partially sparked by Israel’s catastrophically harsh response to Hamas’s horror-film-inspired rampage outside the razor-wired walls of Gaza on October 7, 2023.

All of which nonetheless fits the modus operandi of the ancient world’s most successful and powerful mafia-building, power-corrupting infiltration experts, the Venetians, who ceded their brilliantly cunning system to the English oligarchy, who subsequently transmitted it to and shared its secrets with selected Americans and others around the globe who had been groomed to join the club. And onward, into the uncertain future.

By the way, America, congratulations for having escaped the empire’s clutches for about five minutes (actually 60 years or so) thanks in part to the wily French, who were still in the game in the late 1700s). Our much vaunted Constitution and Bill of Rights and so-called “separation of powers” have since all been undermined and control of our cherished political and financial institutions was returned to the empire and its American oligarchy, even before John Wilkes Booth entered the theater.

John Wilkes Booth, alleged agent provocateur.

But I digress, as usual.

Despite the ongoing ethnic cleansing of Gaza’s penned-up population by the state of Israel, I’m not going to join in the demonization of an entire ethnic group, nor am I going to ascribe to the erroneous categorization of “the Jews” as having any controlling role in the global capitalist mafia, whether at its inception in the Middle Ages or over its long evolution into the behemoth kneeling on humanity’s neck today.

Rather than blame “Zionists” as the crafty puppeteers behind the scenes, I consider Zionism and the state of Israel to be a relatively recent political concoction and an ongoing project of British/American intelligence and business elites, in which “the Jews” of the Levant have been every bit the manipulated pawns of empire as have the Balkanized and divided Islamic “nations” of the rest of the Middle East in the wake of World War I. I also theorize that similar large-scale modern-era manipulations have been taking place all over the globe for at least three centuries. I offer that the British Empire, the chosen vehicle for global hegemony during the 19th century after successfully dealing with Holland, Spain, France and Portugal, manipulated through its agents and financiers events in North America (including funding and arming both sides of the American Civil War and the American genocide of native populations), fomented the Hindu/Muslim conflict in India and plotted to create Pakistan, fractured and plundered southeast Asia and China, armed and funded the rise of Germany as a bulwark against France, and plotted against the entrenched oligarchy of Tsarist Russia by aiding and financing the Bolshevik communist cause.

I’m not going to regurgitate here every source I’ve consulted to come to these conclusions. I recommend just following the money, as usual. It’s not easy, but much of it is right there in plain sight, although completely ignored by mainstream “history” books written over the centuries by shortsighted or compromised mouthpieces of the empire. History, having been written and propagandized by the winners, is largely a cherry-picked amalgamation of convenient truths. By all means do your own research, but for christ’s sake, watch out for traps set by Jew haters, agenda floggers, cultists and other miscreants.

As the 20th century dawned, the dividing, arming and setting of nations against each other for profit continued, culminating in two world wars, the creation, arming and neutralizing of the Third Reich, Imperial Japan and the USSR, the extension and transfer of much of British empirical duties and industrial production to the American understudy, the creation, arming and financing of the Zionist state of Israel, and the funding and grooming of the Chinese socio-capitalist hybrid, among other similar geopolitical manipulations on every continent.

Of course, in this highly theoretical, wildly unpopular scenario, there are and have been individuals of multiple ethnic and national lines of descent populating the ruling cadre through the centuries, including a number of Italian, Swiss, Spanish, French, German, Scandinavian, Jewish, British and American power players and families. But each and every major power player owes allegiance not to any one nation or “ism”, but to the oligarchic empire’s central node, which remains extra-national and has relocated multiple times to the safest and most defensible locale(s) on the planet, using the alpha nations (Venice, Holland, Britain, the U.S.) in succession over the centuries as powerful chess pieces, and their “enemies” through the years (starting with the Ottoman Empire and continuing with France, Spain, Germany, Russia and many others) as patsies and foils.

All of the above is what I strongly suspect to have been true, and to be happening still, while the old divide-and-conquer modality continues to metastasize through advanced technological domination into what today’s tech overlords and their fabulously wealthy and powerful patrons imagine will be a more manageable, less volatile global socioeconomic and political enterprise.

So far, though, it still doesn’t look like they’ll have the whole thing in the bag any time soon. Humans are an unruly sort.

Which brings me back to the point. Again, all of the above is merely informed theorizing on my part. What I have strongly resisted while mulling on this is ascribing the will to dominate and control world affairs to any one category of humans. The core empire has become a surprisingly “diverse” and increasingly inclusive effort, and could even include you, as long as you’re willing to give up your petty personal beliefs and illusions, know the right people, toe the line and not run afoul of the program.

Sorry, but it also certainly helps right now to be either a male or surgically enhanced female, of Western European or other compliant colonial descent, devoid of any unhelpful ethical or moral standards, and disinclined to make an appreciable stink about the unceasing amount of death, disease, destruction, environmental degradation and penury being visited on a growing percentage of the globe's population, all in order to feed the expanding digital coffers of the already wealthy and connected.

Meanwhile, as bad as things are for a growing number of Americans …

… Just about nothing on earth currently sucks more than being a parent of a dead Palestinian child, bombed in a hospital in Gaza.

I don’t personally know many Palestinians. My only close friends from the Arab world include an Egyptian who immigrated to the U.S. in the 1990s, met, fell in love with and married a female American friend of mine, had a kid and moved to Georgia, where he sadly died too young, of cancer. One of my very best friends is a Syrian Druze gentleman who is married to one of my wife’s best friends. Much like the Palestinians, his people were semi-permanently marginalized by the British, French and Americans following the breakup of the Ottoman Empire at the end of World War One, when lines were drawn in the sand creating Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Iraq and Turkey, each containing a significant Druze minority. The Druze in Syria aren’t doing much better than Palestinians in Israel, and have frequently been targeted for extermination by elements of the former Islamic State … some of whom seem to have found their way into the new post-Assad Syrian government that’s being cozied up to by the Trump administration.

Basing national territorial claims on ethnic or religious history is a repeated tactic of British-style hegemony, and has resulted in a long, bloody history of terrible conflict.

The Israeli/Palestinian conflict is one of these conflagrations, spawned and inflamed under the aegis of the British/American empire. Whether the medieval-era history I’ve alluded to adds up or not, this section of my analysis seems irrefutable. The initial excesses of Israeli usurpation of Palestinian lands was a project of this empire, beginning after the First World War. The continued conflict is part of the same project, as was the rise of more authoritarian, less accommodating regimes in Israel and among the Palestinians, leading to the incendiary activities of October 7. The catastrophic ongoing Israeli response has served to fracture nearly a century of international goodwill toward the empire’s post-World War II Jewish resettlement project, as well as toward Jews in general.

But rest assured, should Israel somehow find the will to break its chains and cease doing the will of its imperial masters, the Zionist experiment will be dropped like an unsupported rock into the roiling lava pit with the rest of the Middle East.

Of course I’ve wanted Israeli forces to stop the indiscriminate killing of Palestinian civilians. I also believe the empire should cool its and Israel’s jets, return a shitload of land to the Palestinians, and attempt to broker an international peace.

But that has never been the empire’s MO, and it truly looks from here as if it is doubling and tripling down everywhere on the globe at once, including in Israel and Gaza, at the same time attempting to usher in a new era of worldwide oligarchic dominance, masquerading as “populism.” Trapped in this new technology-driven panopticon that’s being implemented above, beneath and around us, it’s remarkably easy to be influenced into one dead-end silo or another, preaching to the converted while fending off incessant attacks from legions of rightists, leftists, centrists, anarchists, libertarians, religionists of all stripes, spiritualists, woke crusaders, stone cold atheists, technocrats, accelerationists, transhumanists, Zionists and Jew-hating AI Nazi robots.

As if on purpose.

Anyway, to whomever is listening, stop killing Palestinians. Stop killing Ukrainians, Burmese, Burkinabé, Malians, Pakistanis, Indians, Uyghurs, Russians, Amsazigh, Syrians, Druze, Nigeriens, Chadians, Yemenis, Sudanese, Ethiopians, Colombians, Venezuelans, Afghanis, Somalis, Nigerians, Congolese, Kurds, Mexicans, Camaroonians, Biafrans, Haitians, Jamaicans, Kashmiris, Philippines, New Guineans, Bangladeshis, Iraqis, Libyans, Central Africans, Hondurans, Peruvians, Salvadorans, Black Americans, Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Iranians (Persians), etc., etc.

Stop hating on any and all of these people.

And for fuck’s sake, stop blaming Jews. No one tribe of humans has a monopoly on evil.