My stance on the Israel and Palestine conflict is this, return the land taken by the Romans to the Israelites; all of it, like half Oklahoma, was returned to the Native Americans. The difference is the Native Americans are working with the people there and understanding that they are not the ones who wronged them. But the people in this conflict are both ignoring the gray being that they at some point had ancestors inhabiting that land and say, “No, it’s mine, not yours get off.”
“The Jewish people’s connection to the land goes back some 4,000 years when, according to the Bible, God bequeathed it to the Jewish people through an unconditional covenant with Abraham. The Bible also records the Israelites’ settlement of the land and the establishment of the Davidic Kingdom there. Over the next 3,000 years the Jewish people suffered two exiles; however, a Jewish presence always remained.
The second exile began when Roman forces destroyed Jerusalem in AD 70, slaughtered many Jewish inhabitants, took others into captivity to Rome, and caused many others to flee. In AD 135, Emperor Hadrian attempted to remove all traces of Jewish identity from the area by building a pagan city he named Aelia Capitolina over Jerusalem and erecting a temple to Jupiter on the Temple Mount. He also renamed the area of Judea “Palestine” after the Philistines, the ancient enemies of the Israelites.
Paganism eventually gave way to Christianity in Rome, and the Christian Byzantine Empire ruled over the region of Palestine for some 300 years until the Islamic invasion of the seventh century. After that, Islam ruled the land of Israel for some 1,400 years until the defeat and breakup of the crumbling Ottoman Empire in World War I.”
A more detailed version of the events look for “Vespasian” to skip to the good parts.
“Vespasian was one of the finest generals Rome had, and his son, Titus, was a brave and brilliant subordinate commander. They arrived on the scene in December, trailed by four legions, heavy cavalry and thousands of tributary auxiliaries. When the weather warmed, the war began in earnest.
A scarred survivor of many a campaign, Vespasian was not only experienced but also cold-bloodedly methodical and calculating – the perfect man for the complex task at hand. The defeat of the XII Legion had inspired a far more powerful uprising in Galilee and Judea. The Jews improved the fortifications of their cities and savvier leaders emerged. In Galilee, John of Giscala dominated. John was a charismatic figure who worried the Sanhedrin up in Jerusalem, many of whom still sought to hedge their bets, while others wanted no rivals to their authority.
The priests dispatched Josephus to command the fighters in Galilee. A member of the priestly class himself, but seemingly short on military experience, Josephus was a choice that still baffles historians; at the same time, they’re grateful, since Josephus, a genius of treachery, became the war’s historian after he jumped sides to back the Romans. Josephus left us the most-detailed (if not entirely trustworthy) account of a Roman campaign – one he observed from both sides.
Vespasian ground down resistance in Galilee, conquering cities in their turn, slaughtering and enslaving any populations that resisted. Jotapata was a bloodbath, but the most dramatic siege was of a city built on a stark, steep spur of the Golan Heights: Gamla.
The remote, forlorn ruins left by the Roman siege remain today, as do the legends of the Jews’ impassioned faith and courage to resist. Even Roman military engineering was initially confounded by the difficulty of approaching the city’s walls, and Vespasian was reluctant to sacrifice his veterans if he could starve out a population. But in this age of messianic fervor hunger strengthened the spirit of resistance, and Vespasian at last saw no alternative to storming the city and its towering citadel.
Easier said than done. The Jewish defenders fought off one attack after another, luring the Roman soldiers into successive traps in the maze of narrow streets and on terraced rooftops. Titus himself led forays against the Zealots and their supporters, engaging in merciless hand-to-hand combat as the Romans speared and stabbed their way up the heights, while the defenders hurled down rocks on their helmets and shields.
When Roman brawn cornered the last defenders in the citadel, legend tells us that hundreds of men, women and children hurled themselves from the ramparts to their deaths rather than be enslaved. Modern studies suggest that, given the position and form of the citadel, only a small number actually could have perished through such a self-sacrifice, but an inspiring narrative was born.
Military logic ruled that, having pacified the north, Vespasian should exploit his momentum and bear down on Jerusalem. But this time the turn of events was decided by politics not in Palestine, but in Rome.
The demented emperor Nero was driven to suicide, sparking a bloody contest to seize the throne. Vespasian halted his southward advance, watching and waiting from afar as would-be emperors dueled between the Rhine, Danube and Tiber. He already had been counseled by an unlikely source that matters would work to his benefit.
That prophet was Josephus, the former Jewish general who, upon capture, immediately told Vespasian that he was destined to become emperor. The flattering prediction spared Josephus’ life, although he had remained in chains while the rebellion in Galilee was crushed.
After two grisly legion-on-legion battles near Cremona, the bloodletting over Rome came to an end. Without unsheathing his sword, Vespasian was proclaimed emperor by his troops.
It was time to go to Rome. But Vespasian left the troops a new commander: his son Titus, who would finish the task of annihilating the Zealots. As for Josephus, he shed his chains to become an adviser to Titus on the Jews and how to defeat them. The turncoat would live to a ripe old age of comfort and wealth in Rome, writing and rewriting history to his advantage.”
For those who wish not to read, I offer a podcast episode halfway through that covers the revolt that leads to the taking of Judea. I stress this podcast is educational and is only linked for those who want to listen.
#GeorgeFloyd #Racism #Segregation #BlackJimCrow So the black people are setting up modern-day segregation with rules for those not meant to be there. I mean, integration blacks were “allowed” there but talk to a white girl see what happens. Like Biden and all Critical Race Theorists deploying racism to fight racism, and all racists can do *%&$ themselves. Also, question just one question what about the “Whites” who live in the area they have segregated and claimed for the black supremacists?
There is more violence in the Caliphate set up by terrorists as usual.
“For residents of the neighborhood where George Floyd lost his life last May, peace and quiet increasingly seems like a pipe dream.”
“A grim tragedy erupted on Saturday night when another man died near what is now called George Floyd Square, an intersection of blocks that serves as a permanent vigil. This time, no police were involved in the killing of the victim, who authorities said died after suffering multiple gunshot wounds.”
Let’s not forget the deaths that occurred in the CHAZ or CHOP.
“One victim, age 16, arrived at Harborview Medical Center at 3:30 a.m. from the CHOP area, transported there by Seattle Fire Department medics, and died in the hospital. The other victim, 14, was taken to the hospital in a private vehicle and remained in critical condition in intensive care, said a spokeswoman for Harborview.”
Like the people who live in the area where George Floyd died the people who were held prisoner in the Caliphate setup by Antifa they are also suffering, wonder if they will file alaw suit to fight back against the BLM terrorism and end their Caliphate.
“At least one lawsuit has been filed against the mayor and Gov. Jay Inslee, claiming that allowing the CHOP zone to emerge put people living in the area in danger. A crowd of protesters converged on the mayor’s house on Sunday, chanting for her to step down.”
“The first shooting occurred early on the morning of June 20. A 19-year-old man was shot and transported to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead. A 33-year-old man was also shot nearby.”
“The second shooting occurred the next day. A 17-year-old boy who was shot was treated at Harborview Medical Center and released. Then two days later, the police said they were investigating yet another shooting in the early morning hours near the protest zone, with one person injured. In a news briefing on Monday morning in the CHOP zone, Chief Carmen Best of the Seattle Police Department said that when the police arrived at the site after multiple 911 calls about gunfire, they found a white Jeep Cherokee “riddled with bullet holes” and were told that two men had been inside. The investigation was immediately made more difficult, she said, by the fact that evidence had been compromised. “It is abundantly clear to our detectives, people had been in and out of the car after the shooting,” she said.”
Inflation is here, thanks to Trump and Biden just printing money as if that worked for Rome or the US in the 2008 crash, it didn’t. Aside from inflation and price control edicts (Government regulations), we also mirror Rome’s infighting Proud Boys, BLM; Blue Lives Matter, KKK, and Antifa. Antifa is a movement founded in Germany post-WWI pre-WWII the violence can be tied to economic strife.
As listening to these episodes exposed rival gangs tied to people in positions of power or aspiring towards roles of power, which seem similar to today’s political climate.
[The History of Rome] 030- Gaius Gracchus #theHistoryOfRome
So the economic sanctions were just that a new means of exercising power over another where war is with force (guns and other weapons) the other is with financial reward or punishment.
The thing that caused the need for the formation of Antifa was the economic strife of the German population with the historical prejudice against Jewish from being able to participate in the economy leading them to be known for hoarding money, as that is the commodity needed to trade. The likely hood of the Jewish population to be shopkeepers or barters is to allow them to earn an income.
“After World War I, Germany was deep in debt. Soldiers back from the war needed money for pensions. War widows needed compensation. Reparations to France and Britain were enormous. And no other country would lend it money.
So Germany’s central bank printed a bunch of money and loaned it to the government. The result was possibly the most destructive case of inflation in history.
During the Weimar inflation, people carted money around in wheelbarrows to do their shopping. At one point, it cost a million marks to mail a letter. The currency was so worthless, it was used as wallpaper in German bathrooms. Money started losing value by the second:”
As this article describes, the discrimination on the Jewish population from Roman times to the present day caused them to be known as shopkeepers and merchants.
After the Christianization, the common bondage of Christians and Jewish was Roman discrimination now was uniquely on the Jewish population and religion. As even in ROmes decline to a regional power (Byzantine) from the Hegemonic power, the culture Rome left was present and evident in Midevil Europe and forward.
So from the politicians printing money like it is monopoly money being tied to the petrol-dollar formerly the gold standard but with an ever-expanding money supply and fix medium (gold) inflation was inevitable. Hence, we switch over to the petrol dollar based on the selling unit price of crude oil, and that’s why the USA is so beholden to Russia and Iran, both oil-rich countries. This is why when Russia and Saudi Arabia’s oil stand-off caught the interest of the market. Aside from the threat to the petrol dollar also being the advent and increasing use of Green Energy.
Let’s not forget the advent and increased use of green energy (Nuclear, Solar, Wind, and Geo-Thermal), also a threat to the current system of the Petrodollar.
To generate revenue for the government, the Fed and Treasury are buying up Corporate Bonds (Debt). Also, this may be a means to offset the downfall that is inevitable with the increased or planned increased use of green energy.
The Fed says it is going to start buying individual corporate bonds
That is also why the Gasoline tax will be replaced with the proposed Mile tax by Biden’s admin as fewer people use traditional combustion engines and more hybrids/electric cars. This also is not a new thing as per the 2015 article:
So when Pete Buttigieg suggested it, and no, it was not in Biden’s infrastructure plan, in the end, this wasn’t anything new, as I found out while looking around.
Buttigieg suggests ‘vehicle miles tax’ to pay for infrastructure projects
Fuel taxes have provided 85% to 90% of the money in the Highway Trust Fund in most years, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service. But since 2008, Congress has transferred $157 billion from the general treasury to the Highway Trust Fund to cover the shortfall for authorized programs, according to the Congressional Budget Office.
After Pete Buttigieg said at his January confirmation hearing for transportation secretary that he was open to all funding options, his spokesman quickly clarified that those options did not include a gas tax increase.
Last week, Buttigieg acknowledged the “difficulty in Washington” in raising the gas tax and said other options are needed “if we want to preserve that user-pays principle.”
He told CNBC on Friday that a vehicle-miles-traveled tax “shows a lot of promise” as a sustainable funding stream.
But it’s not promising enough for Biden’s plan.
“The Secretary was having a broad conversation about a variety of ways to fund transportation,” spokesman Benjamin Halle said in a statement. “To be clear, he never said that VMT was under consideration by the White House as part of this infrastructure plan – and it is not.”
A gas tax? A mileage tax? Biden wary of user fees to pay for roads, bridges, and highways
“In exchange for the oil-producing countries only accepting dollars for oil, the US would support regimes like Saudi Arabia. This tied the dollar to oil, giving it a de facto commodity backing, and keeping it as the dominant currency — as close to a universal world currency as we’ve seen. Dollars are, or rather were, accepted anywhere on the planet.”
Let’s not forget many foreign policies are influenced by the need to bolster the USD at any cost.
“No, America invaded Iraq and killed Saddam Hussein because Hussein sought to be paid for his oil exports in euros. This threatened to end the easy dollar times, as a shift to the euro as the currency of note for oil would have sunk the dollar.
In 2001, Venezuela’s ambassador to Russia mentioned that Venezuela wanted to switch to the euro for all of Venezuela’s oil sales. It took less than 12 months for the CIA to assist on a coup attempt against Chavez’s government.”
Forget the Gold Standard: The World has had an Oil-Backed Currency for Years
Gold Standard and the Petrodollar In 1971, the US abandoned the Gold Standard and created the Petrodollar. Is oil, therefore, what has backed US Currency for the last 38 years?
“Rome also suffered from the bane of all welfare states, inflation. The massive demands on the government to spend for this and that created pressures for the creation of new money. The Roman coin, the denarius, was cheapened and debased by one emperor after another to pay for the expensive programs. Once 94% silver, the denarius, by 268 A.D., was little more than a piece of junk containing only .02% silver. Flooding the economy with all this new and cheapened money had predictable results: prices skyrocketed, savings were eroded, and the people became angry and frustrated. Businessmen were often blamed for the rising prices even as government continued its spendthrift ways.
In the year 301, Emperor Diocletian responded with his famous “Edict of 301.” This law established a system of comprehensive wage and price controls, to be enforced by a penalty of death. The chaos that ensued inspired the historian Lactantius to write in 314 A.D.: “After the many oppressions which he put in practice had brought a general dearth upon the empire, he then set himself to regulate the prices of all vendible things. There was much bloodshed upon very slight and trifling accounts; and the people brought provisions no more to markets, since they could not get a reasonable price for them; and this increased the dearth so much that at last after many had died by it, the law itself was laid aside.”
All this robbery and tyranny by the State was a reflection of the breakdown of moral law in Roman society. The people had lost all respect for private property. I am reminded of the New York City blackout of 1977, when all it took was for the lights to go out for hundreds to go on a shopping spree.”
For more context, here is a blog in which the same tone and message as above are expressed with more highlighting on the similarities strictly financial misdeeds as I quote below and provide the link for your pleasure to read in-depth.
“In setting the scene for his description of the crisis, Cornelius Tacitus (a senator who wrote approximately eighty years after the crisis and provides the best ancient account of the events) tells us that usury had long plagued Rome, resulting in high interest rates and harsh enforcement of contractual terms.4 In the early 40s BCE, Julius Caesar had attempted to remedy this problem by passing a law stating that creditors had to invest a certain portion of their capital in Italian land in order to lend at interest; we do not know the exact date or provisions of this legislation. The law fell into disuse over the following decades, but it remained on the books and was revived in 33 CE when a flood of cases brought against prominent individuals alleged widespread violation of the land-owning requirement.
The number of cases quickly overwhelmed the court tasked with these matters, which referred the issue to the senate, and the senate in turn referred the issue to Tiberius. Amazingly—and hyperbolically, in all likelihood—Tacitus tells us that every one of the 600 senators was in personal violation of this law, and they sought Tiberius’s indulgence. He instituted a grace period of eighteen months in which all personal finances were to be brought into accordance with the law.
What followed was a credit crisis. Creditors called in all their loans in order to buy land, and in addition, according to Tacitus, the sale at auction of the assets of those who had already been convicted of violating this law—and whose property had therefore been seized—concentrated substantial amounts of coin in the imperial treasury and out of circulation. The senate then passed a resolution that creditors invest two-thirds of their capital in Italian land, and that debtors pay back the same amount of their loans.5 But what happened in fact was that creditors demanded that loans be paid back in their entirety, and debtors were morally obligated to pay the full amount.
This touched off the worst of the crisis. Debtors tried to sell their lands to raise funds for repayment, but the flood of property onto the market depressed prices. Those who could not make enough from the sale of their lands to repay their loans, as well as those who could not sell at all, turned to money-lenders who charged exorbitant rates. This recourse failed in many cases, and a great number of debtors were brought into court. When judgments came against them, many were ejected from their lands.
The senatorial decree had made matters worse. It was intended to prop up land values, but because it forced many to sell their properties, prices dropped. The creditors who were required to invest in land held onto the funds from the loans they had managed to call in, figuring that they would allow land prices to continue to fall before they made the purchases that would bring them into conformity with the law. The result was a collapse in land values and a shortage of credit that drove up interest rates.
At this point, Tiberius stepped in. He distributed 100 million sestertii to specially chartered banks in order to make available three-year, interest-free loans.6 Each loan was secured against land of twice its value. Tacitus tells us that this restored credit and encouraged the eventual reemergence of private lenders as well. His description of the events ends with the statement that the provisions of the senatorial decree concerning the amount of capital to be invested in land was not followed, for, “as quite often in such things,” observance of the law was strict at first, but lax in short order.”
The Financial Crisis, Then and Now: Ancient Rome and 2008 CE
For more context, I implore you to watch this documentary about expanding the international market into China and the cause of the 2008 market bubble crash. Like in Rome (48- The Second Triumvirate), the housing market and means to collect taxes fail when you print and issue money or loans for people to open/start businesses and houses without the means to pay the loan back.
In this episode of the podcast, the topic of the reclamation of houses and property of individual all in an attempt to bring in more tax revenue ignoring the concept now known as supply and demand supplementing the article “The Financial Crisis, Then and Now: Ancient Rome and 2008 CE” and “The Fall of Rome and Modern Parallels.”
Now imagine a two-parent household with two kids, a car, and a garage, with savings to pass on; the dream right say was on 70,000 in 1970 (on the gold standard)
1970 – 70,000.00 is as of today (4/18/2021) adjusted for inflation is $477,870.88 in 2021. That is an inflation rate of 582.7%
#News #Chicago #Crime #Politics Can all Communists just shut up? AOC and her ilk will make the USA the new North Korea and Venezuela or worse. The kid did have a gun; watch the video in the links below and see the officer walks behind the gate and the gun is there. Was the kid unarmed at the time of being shot? Yes, were there reports of shots fired that lead the kid to be running from police at 2:30 am, well how else do you explain that. Now the defense of split-second does play here as the kid had just dropped the gun, and well, the officer last saw him spin 360 bent over and reacted. It happens in a mere second on the video. This is not a black or white issue, but Communist would have you think otherwise.
#Economy #IllegalAlien #Immigration Illegally here, be it overstayed visa of illegal border crossing NO BENEFITS, NONE but the Democrats love giving away tax dollars to illegals as Republicans do with corporations.
“We need to make this a political issue for Gov. Murphy,” one source on the call said. “He’s banking his reelection on portraying himself as being the most progressive governor. We’re going to call him out on what being progressive really means.”
“The last thing that legal citizens who are waiting month upon month upon month for their unemployment benefits want to hear is that tax dollars, whether state or federal, are being used for illegal immigrants,” he said last week on NJ PBS. “Let’s take care of those that follow the rules first before we start looking to other populations.”
I am new to international politics sites Antiwar.com and https://libertarianinstitute.org/ have educated me on the issues with the supplement World Politics Review Podcast. So if I am reading this right from Conflict After the Cold War, Indecisive wars create shorter periods of peace as opposed to decisive wars creating longer periods of peace. So this oil war that Bush started because of weapons of mass destruction in which Obama, Biden, and Trump all kept going because it will garner them political points, also war is when one nation is in conflict with another nation when one or both fail to see their bartering position is not as strong as they think it is and those conflicts are usually resolved by conflict resulting in the weaker nation conceding and the rebalancing of powers on the international market. The conflict being decisively ended or indecisively ended determines how long we have before a new conflict breaks out. So this war has lasted 20 plus years of “liberal states” imposing their rule on other states that are not of their ideological belief and function. I ask who is the dictator and when the liberal states act more like a realist in action liberal on paper makes you wonder.
“Wars usually end when the fighting nations agree on their relative strength, and wars usually begin when fighting nations disagree on their relative strength.”
“In peace time the relations between two diplomats are like relations between two merchants … The treaties he signs are simply more courteous versions of commercial contracts.”
“The expansionist and competitive behavior of nineteenth-century European states rested on no less ideal a basis; it just so happened that the ideology driving it was less explicit than the doctrines of the twentieth century. For one thing, most “liberal” European societies were illiberal insofar as they believed in the legitimacy of imperialism, that is, the right of one nation to rule over other nations without regard for the wishes of the ruled.”
Reading this book I see why others in other nations loathe the USA and western “liberal” states.
I am still reading and this is for others to lead me to other resources or inform me on why we are in this eternal loop of war and peace.
I have three general rules that I use when writing fiction, particularly longer form fiction. I mean, there are more than three rules, but I want to talk about these three interrelated rules today. The first is that if it doesn’t meet the needs of the story, it doesn’t belong. I just read about a […]
H.R.127 will make the 2nd Amendment unusable to the rabble. I wonder if all the Commies, I mean Democrats regret electing Commie Joe as many liberals armed themselves via the Right To Bear Arms this year and it was lead by females and minorities, but HR127 will levy an 800$ tax outpricing the people from affording the gun, or publicly listing ALL who have a gun i.e. a registrar or registry like in Hitler’s Germany or Australia. More here: https://fromanobody.home.blog/2021/02/02/h-r-127-will-make-the-2nd-amendment-unusable-to-the-rabble/
I really hate Republicans but I wish all Democrats and only Democrats be it voter or politician suffered their policies like stripping away their right to talk and defend themselves.
Joe Biden is going to use any thing to his advantage.
I am reading the Boulder shooter was bullied for being Muslim, and in turn, this leads people through Critical Race Theory to say it was because of White Supremacy he did his actions. When I wear my trench coat, I am stereotyped by my co-workers and friends (out of humor) as the mentioned above activity. So if I were to do it, would that, could I blame the actions of the snide comments that are levied my way, or is it me who does the deed? Careful because if he can blame others, so can I.
So California who through tricks appeared in the black budget wise, NY already had a 6-8 billion dollar shortfall in 2019 before the pandemic. Also restricting states from controlling their own taxation within is wrong.
There are Federal and State Taxes and at this rate the marble cake federalism we have is becoming more like federal runner states bypassing the states rights. That’s with the Federalizing of local elections with H.R.1 – For The People Act https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/1/text
The financial transparency and bipartisan panels for redistricting I can see an argument for I mean from AOC and up people from out of state and district donate to her to run and represent one district. That’s shadow money and leads to corruption, in my opinion. And hopefully avoids the Gerrymandering that occurs when one party controls the state legislator. Coming off a recent Cencus you can see the risk. All the other expansions and removing of the States rights in favor of mob or popular rule by decree of the Federal Government is in opposition to the original agreement of Sovereign States uniting to defend their freedom. Read the Federalist Papers and that is clear, but now the members of the Union of States that make the United States are being moved for contemplating the thought of leaving.
This was for seen as Obama and Biden expanded the role of the government and now are continuing their work.
Thoughts outloud 