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LOGO DAEDALUS: Well, I just wanted to say thank you. First off, your books have been extremely important to me. I’ve done, I think, some good work in helping to popularize them on Twitter or X, I guess we’re calling it these days.

But when I first found your work, I was really coming from more of a literary studies sort of perspective. I studied Russian literature and Russian in college, and was mostly interested in literature, and then slowly became interested in economics, more from a literary perspective.

In your one of your interviews about your biography, you described going into musical composition, classical composition, and then finding a sort of aesthetic satisfaction in the study of economics.

I found that very inspiring personally, because I feel sort of the same way. The appeal to Marx and other political economists like Veblen and guys like that, guys like yourself, was that they gave me the same satisfaction of reading a great novel, especially like a great satirical novel. And that’s been sort of my interest in all of this… how economics is sort of an outgrowth of literary satire, and the genre of the anatomy that people like Northrop Frye would describe. So I think of you as like the greatest living satirist in the world – you make me laugh more than anyone in the whole world. So thank you.

MICHAEL HUDSON: Well, you understand where my mentality is at.

LOGO DAEDALUS: If there’s any question I could start off with – I’m sure you’re going to cover this in the book you’re working on. I‘ve been a long time follower of your work. So I’m waiting patiently for the next book in the cycle on debt covering the crusades and onward, because that’s a particular interest of mine from a literary perspective on Christian hermeneutics. The translation of the Lord’s Prayer was a major thing for me – the “forgive us our debts” and whatnot. Tying this into material economics really opened all of this up for me.

So I believe you referred to a specific school of the Catholics, men who come up with the justification for charging interest on debts, but under a different name, so it doesn’t qualify as usury. I was wondering if you could go into detail about when specifically you would say this shift happened and under what dispensation?

MICHAEL HUDSON: Well, funny, you should put the question that way about literary

discussion, because most of the discussions about economics in the 13th and 14th Century – and that’s when the schoolmen were coming up with their justification of interest – the best discussions were all of a literary character, of course, by Dante. I mean Dante describes putting all the usurers back in the seventh circle of hell.

And there was a kind of theme of usurers being put together with the sodomites, in the sense that they said lending is sterile. Lending does not produce an economic return for the borrower. The borrower has pay the interest out of whatever they earn elsewhere.

If it’s the government borrowing money to go wage war, then it has to levy taxes, and this reduces the population. If it’s an individual who borrows from a usurer, then they have to cut back their consumption or lose their property, or lose their economic freedom and fall into debt bondage.

So it’s the literary people that describe this, just like in Greek and Roman history. It’s the literary writers that describe what was happening in the creditor landowning oligarchy that ended up stifling Rome. Also, in the 20th Century it was the literary historians that won the Nobel Literature Prize for writing about antiquity, or were nominated… people like Theodor Mommsen and Guglielmo Ferraro. They were viewed as literary historians.

Economists don’t talk about debt, they don’t talk about finance, they don’t talk about interest, or how it began at all, because it didn’t begin in the private sector. It was the Catholic Church that created and sponsored the first international banking in the 12th and 13th Century. And they sponsored it because the Roman church wanted to essentially take over all of Christianity, and the crusades were waged mainly against Christians.

The official crusade, the first real crusade, was in southern Italy and Sicily by Robert Guiscard. The Catholic Church asked, who are we going to get to kill the Christians that don’t agree with us? Who are we going to get to fight the Germans? The Germans wanted a decent, balanced church without all of the craziness and fighting against everybody who didn’t agree with you. How are we going to fight against the Muslim territories? But most of all, how are we going to fight against Orthodox Christianity, the majority of Christianity. There were five Patriarchates in the 12th Century. Rome was the least important. The most important was Constantinople, then, Antioch, then Alexandria, and then Jerusalem.

Rome was at the nadir in the 9th and 10th Century. The Catholic Church histories call it the pornocracy, because it was basically just the local families of a wealthy Roman suburb called Tusculum that sort of had controlled the church as their own personal set of sinecures for themselves, and they were so corrupt that you had Germans set out to try to reform it.

And then they said, how are we going to get rid of the nepotism and the fact that the Vatican is captured by churches? – basically, so they could find either young women or boys to screw… the utter corruption that you read about these families. They asked, how are we going to make some semblance of Christianity again? And they tried to reform.

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Well after them came another reform that wanted to prevent an aristocracy from taking over the Catholic Church and making it a family business. They did not want to let the clergy and popes be married, because if they marry, they’re going to have kids, and if they have kids, they’re going to make them the Pope. That’s what happened from the 9th and the 10th Century in Tusculum. You can find it all on Wikipedia or in the Catholic Church histories. They’re sort of embarrassed.

So that made Western Christianity, Roman Christianity, different from all the other Christian churches that permitted priests to get married.

LOGO DAEDALUS: Yeah, that used to be something you had to do. That was a way of demonstrating that you were invested in the community that you were overseeing.

MICHAEL HUDSON: Sure, and the German reformers wanted to make the Christian church part of society, even playing a role in trade and in the military. They wanted, you know, to have a Christian community. That’s not what ended up happening.

And also, the Roman church wanted to introduce this theory of the the Trinity that basically said Jesus wasn’t the Son of God, he wasn’t a human being, and he nothing to do with being a political or social leader, or leading opposition to the creditor class. It was all about God.

And the Catholic Church basically had been poisoned in the 4th and 5th Century by two of the most evil theologians in history, Cyril of Alexandria, who based the Christian church on anti-semitism because he wanted to drive out all of the Christians who weren’t under his personal control. And most early Christians were Jewish. So he led pogroms against the Jews in addition to killing Hypatia, who was a mathematician, and he put in the Trinity idea and elevated the Virgin Mary to the Trinity, knowing that that’s the one thing the Jews were not going to go along with because they wouldn’t have a woman as part of the Trinity.

LOGO DAEDALUS: Well, it’s like a constant refrain in the Old Testament where they’re putting up the stack of idols to the Queen of Heaven and things like that, which becomes a major problem for the reformers. That’s one of the first things I think Jehu does in the Old Testament, is destroy all of the shrines to the Queen of Heaven.

MICHAEL HUDSON: Right. And the other person, of course, St. Augustine, the Bishop of Hippo in North Africa, said, how do we get rid of the fact that a lot of Christians don’t like interest? They also don’t like landlordship, and if there’s a landowner that’s a creditor reducing people to bondage – according to the documents that have survived – they raid the guy’s house, and they freed the bond persons.

So Augustine said, look, we’ve got to kill all of these Christians that are not pro-Roman. And he said, you’ve got to give their churches to us, not them… and he said, we’ve got to get rid of the fact that in the Lord’s Prayer they’re all praying “forgive us our debts,” because the all the debts are owed to you – my constituency, the Romans, the 0.1%.

And so he said, it’s not really about debt at all. It’s about sin, and we’re all born with sin,

and there’s nothing we can do, just like you have to pay a debt, you have to pay for the sin, and you have to pay us, the church. And this led to a large argument, and there were Welsh, British theologians…

LOGO DAEDALUS: The Pelagians!

MICHAEL HUDSON: Who said, no, if we’re Christians, we want to do good things, good works for the world. You know, we want to use our money to help people, maybe to forgive the debt. Augustine said, no, no, I’m excommunicating you. You can’t have anything. You can’t have people spend their own money in helping the society around them. You have to give to the poor. The poor are us. The poor are us clergy who are going and helping them – we get the money. And it’s all about sin. And the sin is inborn. There is nothing you can do but go through us, and when you die, give us your estate so that you can go to heaven by giving us the money.

I mean he sounds like one of today’s Protestant evangelical leaders. So this was the Roman setting for that.

This did not characterize the Eastern Christian Church orthodoxy. It was Constantinople and the rest of the Patriarchates… Antioch, Alexandria and Jerusalem that we’re following pretty close to the original Christianity. The Romans said, we’ve got to fight against that in order to control the entire church and make it all celibate, so that we can’t have the Tusculum people, the Popes, making it a family.

They had the same problem that they had that Stalin pointed to in World War II. He said, How many armies does the Pope have? Well, they didn’t have an army. So what were they going to do? They found Norman warlords who had come down and were raiding the lands of Southern Italy and the Popes said, to Robert Guiscard, well, we’ll give you the kingship of Southern Italy and Sicily – Sicily was the key – if you promise to be pledge fealty and become our vassal King, then we will back your divine kingship.

And he did. He became king. And a couple of decades later, you had another warlord, William the Conqueror, and they made a deal. They said, William, if you want to take over Britain we will make you King. You have to promise to give us tribute and perform vassalage to us and do pretty much what we say. And William the Conqueror made the deal. He became King, and it was the Catholic Church.

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Well, then they went into the Crusades, really, to take over the lands that Constantinople held as Orthodox Christianity, especially in what used to be Yugoslavia – the whole peninsula going down the Balkans. Greece, they tried to grab that land. They opposed Germany, because the German Emperor was the Holy Roman Emperor, and that upset Constantinople, because they said, wait a minute, we’re the Roman Empire. We’re the New Rome. You’re not the New Rome. You’re old Rome. We’re the real Rome. You’re just on the sideline there.

So the Catholic Church, the Romans, said, how are we going to have the British King and the Sicilian King fight against the Germans and Constantinople? The sinews of war are money. They needed money. How are we going to raise money? That’s when it was the church itself that created the banking class… merchant bankers in Northern Italy and right across in the Alps – the trans-Alpine bankers. Roman popes would go to the British Kings, especially at first King John, and then his son, Henry the Third, and say, you know, we want you to go into debt to pay for an army to go and fight the Germans, who somehow gained more control over southern Italy and moving into Spain and Sicily.

So this led to a fight within the church. And you have wonderful documentation from the analysts at the time who wrote the annals, like Matthew Paris, who wrote all about all of this in great detail. He was a friend of Henry the Third and was very well situated at the monastery in Saint Albans, where he worked.

So the when Henry the Third was was told, well, you have to raise money and we’ll make your son King of Italy, as long as he pledges fealty and pays us tribute like you’ve been doing. Well, if you can imagine, the nobility fought back and said, wait, we don’t want to pay taxes in order for you to go to war to fight the churches war, that’s not our war. Well, this fight had already occurred in 1215 with the Magna Carta under King John. King John wanted to look for Vatican support to grab the land. He was called John Lackland, while Richard was fighting in Jerusalem. And so the the Barons got together and wrote the Magna Carta.

And John wrote something finally – you know they were going to overthrow him – so he said, okay, I’ll agree with all of your demands and I promise if I go back on my word then everything I say will be negated in all of this and I promise not to go and ask for any override.

Well, as soon as they signed it – I guess he was the Donald Trump of his day, or Barack Obama – he immediately went to the Pope and said excommunicate all of these people who will not let me serve you. And the Pope excommunicated the Barons that supported the Magna Carta.

In the 1250s, under Henry the Third, the same thing happened. Henry the Third wanted to go into debt to fight the Germans in Sicily and the church said, if you disagree with usury we will excommunicate you. And you can imagine the turmoil this caused in the church. The church used to excommunicate usurers and now they’re excommunicating those who oppose usury.

What happened? Well, when the Pope kills other people and does usury it’s not a crime, to quote Richard Nixon, basically. It was all okay. The theologians were put to work to figure out how to get rid of all these critics of usury because the church is all about usury now. We have to create a banking class that will make its money by war lending to Kings who will go fight our wars against people who will not accept Roman leadership over the Orthodox Christian leadership and the German support of it.

So that’s when the churchmen came in and said, we have a new word – it’s not called usury anymore, lets call it interest. And they acted as if somehow loans were made – not to wage war, not to fight and kill people, not to serve the Vatican – but just to do mercantile trade. Because after all most of the bankers had made their money in mercantile trade. They we’re merchant families and became merchant bankers.

Well, they had a whole logic that we were taught in the history of economic thought when I was in college in the 1960s, and it was the problem of foreign exchange dealing. That’s not really interest – you’re charged a fee for foreign exchange. And since these were international loans you’re changing from one currency into another so you’re allowed to make agio.

LOGO DAEDALUS: Take your bite.

MICHAEL HUDSON: Yeah, just like when you exchange money at the airport they take a cut.

Also, if a merchant banker lends money he is not able to use this to make profits for himself. So he is giving up the profits, and that’s called lucrum cessans – you stop getting lucre, money. They get compensated, and the rate was 22%. And if you’re late, the late fee is another 22%. The church became a Visa card.

So it ended up in England to be 44% that they had to pay, and this was all legitimized by the churchmen as interest. Well, you can understand if someone is late in paying it costs money, so what did the bankers do? Well Matthew Paris, and local bishops in England, described just exactly what they did. They said, okay, you borrowed from us, now you have to pay us.

The repayment is going to be in just one month or two. Well, normally you make a loan and pay at harvest time, because at harvest time – a year later – is when you get the money to pay the loan. Soon, you end up doubling the interest rates with the late fee. And the small print was easy to manipulate if you were a banker.

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And the Popes all stood behind that and basically got together and essentially reversed Christianity’s long standing opposition to Christianity. And this is after St. Augustine changed the Lord’s prayer to “forgive us our sins” for which you have to pay the church to get to heaven, instead of “forgive us our debts” that you’d have to pay to the Romans – if we’re following Christian documentation.

So it was the Roman church that created the banking class. It’s very funny, there’s hardly any of this impetus on the church in economic histories. And a lot of it is because of Jewish historians that were understandably concerned about the fact that there was so much anti-semitism aimed at the Jews. Some, even many Jews, if they’re merchants, did lend money. But Matthew Paris and others say, well, they weren’t charging as much as the Christians. Well, Christians immediately – wanting to get rid of the Jewish money lenders – got King Henry’s son Edward to exile the Jews from England. And Phillip the Fourth exiled them from France.

And so the Jews did not play a role in this creation of international banking – it was the church. And I’m just amazed at how the Jewish historians haven’t said that this whole idea of identifying Jews with international banking has been used as an anti-semitic accusation. They did not play any role at all. The Vatican, when it was organizing the war loans to its vassal Kings, did not borrow from the Jews. They would confiscate their money, but they wouldn’t borrow, and they would certainly not pay interest.

The role of Jews when they were brought into England was the fact that they were the merchant class. And the warlords didn’t know too much about creating mercantile trade or production because they were robbers, not merchants.

LOGO DAEDALUS: Well, listen, they did a lot of human trafficking so they had some industries.

MICHAEL HUDSON: Right, so it was the Jewish population that had the background of organizing trade credit, along with the Islamic lenders. But of course the English and French chose to let the Jews in but not the Muslims, basically.

LOGO DAEDALUS: That is making me think – I’m a big fan of Thorstein Veblen, and I know you’re a big fan of Veblen, too. He has this great, little essay he wrote called An Experiment In Trusts, which is about the origin of financial trusts with the Jomsvikings, in their slate trading corporations that they would establish.

So I’ve been interested in how these Norman warlords are the reason why the Catholic Church develops this whole ideology so it can justify the extraction of interest. Why is it that none of this is ever covered in mainstream economics?

It seems to lead to what now looks like a massive rise in anti-semitism you could say, but it’s really more like how Marx and Engels described anti-semitism as like, retarded political economy. Because it’s these people who are genuinely trying to understand how the system of economics that we live under works and where it came from, but, outside of you, there’s really not many great resources to point people toward in order to come to an understanding of the actual history of these things. And most of the people who are going to tell them that story are just going to tell them the Jews invented banking and here we are.

MICHAEL HUDSON: Well, there’s a reason for this tunnel vision. If you look at Böhm-Bawerk and all of the apologists to justify the charging of interest, they all do it on an individual bases. Well, if a lender makes a loan then he’s not able to spend this money on his own consumption. So he is giving up something and he is being paid for being abstinent.

That led Karl Marx to say that the Rothschilds should be the most abstinent family in all of Europe – obviously, if you’re a very wealthy banker you don’t really give up consumption. Because the money that you do get, the interest and others, you make new loans. You don’t consume more with it, you make new loans. And you mentioned trusts – you’re corporatizing, essentially, a monopoly, a business monopoly. Well, this is because of the genius of financial organization.

By the 13th and 14th, you had the banking class decide… how can we extend the market for our loans? Well, I mentioned the fact that the Barons of England first opposed King John taking on debt with the Magna Carta. And then Henry the Third, again the Barons opposed it. And most Kingdoms of Europe – there was a kind of parliament of one kind or another – that had the power to block the Kings from taxing and said, you have to tax for the benefit of the country. And at that time they didn’t believe that going to war for somebody else’s war was for the country. The King was constrained.

When a King took on debt from the international bankers there were only two resources a King had. One was his own royal domain – that part of the land that belonged to him personally. The royal domain was much less than the church domain. The largest landowner in almost every kingdom in medieval times was the church, not the King. So the King had that, and the King had the power to tax subject to parliamentary constraint.

So, the bankers got together – and remember, they’re merchant bankers who did foreign trade as well as war lending – and they said, well, you’re able to charge customs duties, and that does not require parliamentary approval. They found the small print in the legal code and said you can organize the import and export trade.

So you had the English Kings, Edward and onward, being able to make a corporation or partnership group out of England’s wool trade. And England would export the wool to Flanders and the low countries, to weave into cloth to send to Italy to be made into fashions. And the money would then go from Italy back to England via the low countries to pay for the wool. And that the triangular flow that you had in England, basically.

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So the way that Kings were able to make money without taxing the people was to make royal corporations that would be monopolies. By the 17th Century these extended to the East and West India Corporations. And the Bank of England was a corporation. You’d create a monopoly, you’d give it to the company to raise money, and you’d say, were going to sell it, and that’s how we get the money to pay our foreign creditors. And so the creditors sort of help the Kings organize their finances so they could raise enough money to pay the debts they took on.

Well, by the late 17th Century, you had leading Kings who were all Catholics. French, the Spanish, and the Austrian, the Hapsburg Kings, all kept defaulting again and again and again in the 17th Century because, even though Spain had all of this silver coming in from the New World, it just went right out. The silver was squandered on luxury spending. None of the money being used was spent on developing its own handicraft industry.

Instead, with all of this money coming in, they taxed handicraft labor and other labor, and you had a huge emigration of skill labor. And Adman Smith pointed to this – they’d go to places like England, or the Protestant countries, where things were free. And the Protestant countries had a completely different form of political organization than the royal autocracies. The idea came from the self-governing cities of Europe, like Venice for instance, or Genoa and Florence. These self-governing cities would elect leaders, and because they were a commune, all of the members of the community were liable for the debts that the community took on. And the bankers said, this is a wonderful idea, if only we could have nations act this way.

Well, you had a lot of these communities in the Dutch countries – and these communities joined together to create Holland. And the idea of having a whole national government as a community where all of the citizens were liable for debts and not only the King. If a King ran into debt and couldn’t pay and the debtor went bankrupt then the bank lost the money. Because they didn’t have any recourse to all the money in England when the King didn’t have the ability tax all of the citizens. But the new parliamentary democracies became something that have been called fiscal states. The bankers took the lead in organizing these fiscal states where the leadership in Holland and especially in England after the 1688 revolution that brought King George to England – all of that became the new kind of political organization.

And the result was that the parliamentary democracies were able to borrow from creditors to get the military loans to defend themselves against the Catholic Kings who were attacking them to take them over. And the Catholic Kings couldn’t raise war loans because they were no longer as credit worthy as the democracies that could tax the entire population against them.

So, it is very funny – Max Webber talked about the Protestant revolution as promoting a financial class because of its ethic of personal gain. But it was really the organization of the fiscal state that made the big change for what really emerged from all of this. And ever since, the Bank of England, and later the English and French governments tried to raise more money by selling off their monopoly of the slave trade. France sold the Mississippi bubble based on plantation slave agriculture in Louisiana. And England had the South Sea bubble – they had conquered Spain and had the Asiento monopoly on the slave trade. Everyone thought that the slave trade was going to be the industry of the future, sort of like computers today… so basically a bubble.

So, you have the financial sector helping governments organize mercantile monopolies and organize finances. And the bankers of the 13th Century backed royal autocracies because the church was able to protect the Kings against the nobility, who would not want to pay the war debts they took on.

By the 17th Century the banking class said, well, we really can’t afford autocracies anymore because they go to war – and because they’re an autocracy – all the debts are owned only by the King because the King controls everything, but there’s the rest of society around them… so now were going to switch to the opposite position that we had originally: we’re going to back the parliaments that we opposed when parliaments wouldn’t pay the debts, because now, under the new fiscal parliamentary states, the parliaments are promising to pay the debts. Because that was the condition on which they were able to borrow war loans from the banks. So that made them more credit worthy and they could borrow on better terms than the autocratic Kings who really couldn’t borrow at all. And that shifted the economic and military advantage to Northern Europe because of the banking class.

Well, what happened is the banking class basically created a new web of interconnections within Europe that took the place of what used to be the Catholic Church. Instead of the Catholic Church creating a system of integration – largely economic, and above all financial with Europe – what this financial class created became the new organizer of the system of integration that shaped Europe and it’s gone right down to the present day.

The banking class, through government, has backed governments who promote creditor interest. Because, if governments do not promote creditor interest then nobody will lend to it because it’s not credit worthy anymore. When it goes to war it’s not going to be able to get as much money as the other groups and war is fought by money and paying mercenaries.

And that’s sort of the big theme of my book. The title I’ve come up with is A Political History of the West’s Financial Takeoff from the Crusades to World War I. And I’m working on the final chapters and rewriting the chapter summary now.

LOGO DAEDALUS: Amazing. I can’t wait to read it. If there’s one last thing I could ask you about – I guess we’ll go to current events.

MICHAEL HUDSON: Very briefly, because I don’t want to drain your audiences attention.

LOGO DAEDALUS: I just wanted to throw this by you because I just read your interview with Ben Norton on the tariffs. There’s a great Veblen quote where he says, “all business sagacity reduces in the financial estimation to a judicious use of sabotage.”

MICAHEL HUDSON: Ah ha!

LOGO DAEDALUS: Would you describe that basically what’s going on is an attempt to sabotage the global economy – that’s all that it comes down to?

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MICHAEL HUDSON: Well, Veblens point was that it was the financial sector that sabotaged industrial capitalism. It’s the financial system that seeks to make its gains financially – capital gains, corporate raiding, living in the short term, paying out profits as quickly as it can instead of reinvesting its profits in long term investment like the German banks were doing. So it’s a shift from industrial capitalism to finance capitalism that ended up destroying industrial capitalism leading to deindustrialization.

Veblen’s pointing on how the American economy was turned into a rentier economy, largely on real estate. Because 80% of bank loans are for real estate. And the effect of increasing the loan to value ratio is you lend more and more money against any given property or home or office building and the effect is to constantly inflate real state prices. Well, the financial sector gained enough power over the government by being able to make mortgage interest the primary financial return along with monopoly rent.

So you have land rent and monopoly rent being the objective of finance capitalism, not industrial profits. So the finance sector took the lead against classical economics. And the fight against classical economics was much like that of the Roman Church against early Christianity. The whole idea of classical economics and the free market – from the French physiocrats to Adam Smith to John Stuart Mill and Marx, all the way up to Veblen – was that a free market is one free from the landlord class and its land rent. Free from monopolies and monopoly rent. And free from predatory banking and its interest, which was a form of monopoly rent because banks had a monopoly on being able to create money and credit with government banking.

And so, as the financial sector took over governments moving toward the apotheosis that you have in America since the Supreme Court Citizens United case – essentially privatizing the election process, saying anybody can fund elections – you have a shift of politics to favor the financialization of the economy, which in turn favors land rent, monopoly rent and interest. And also the financial class became the major donors to the Universities. Especially the business schools, and they backed economic curriculum that rewrites all of economic history as if its all individuals… well, international banking began when merchants wanted to lend money to handicraft people who were exporting to other people, weaving cloth, it was all part of business and its was all very productive. No discussion at all over the fact that that wasn’t what created banking. It was war lending that base of the international banking class. This is not a private enterprise approach to history.

So, you have part of the financialization of the economy taking over the industrial aims – increasing labor productivity, raising wages, increasing the internal market. Now you have just the opposite. You have more and more of the economy siphoned off in the form of the various forms of various rent and less and less available for personal spending, the internal market, and private capital investment. So that’s basically the dynamic, which has gone hand in hand with an ideological airbrushing of history. When I went to graduate school, 60 years ago, we not only had the history of economic thought where you knew what Adam Smith really wrote – I wrote my book J is for Junk Economics on how the vocabulary has changed – we also had economic history. And even though the economic history wasn’t what I wrote about, at least you had economic history and a long term approach and you realized that markets are shaped by government, by society, by public policy, and there’s no room to analyze that.

LOGO DAEDALUS: Yeah. There’s the irony that the creation of markets and all these things that are the bedrock of libertarian theory are all government creations, they’re all public goods – a corporation is a public good, markets in general are a public good. These things didn’t emerge from voluntary individuals but were state projects.

MICHAEL HUDSON: Right.

L OGO DAEDALUS: That’s an irony that’s very difficult for libertarians to see.

MICHAEL HUDSON: Well that’s the neoliberalism. Economists are brought up with a tunnel vision. That’s the problem. They don’t see that there’s a role of government because the financial sector wants to take over government and dismantle it, and make what used used to be government – including all of the public enterprises and natural public monopolies and the election process – all part of the financial sector, not part of the political sector.

LOGO DAEDALUS: Yeah, yeah… yeah. We’ll hopefully things get better, but it’s going to be a long road ahead. How do we change this view on economics en masse, how it is even possible when all of the institutions are effectively captured by the most powerful interests in the world to teach the exact opposite.

MICHAEL HUDSON: Well, the only way I can do it is by writing my books. No publisher has been eager to publish my books so they’re all done by my research foundation. They’re published by a Chinese group.

LOGO DAEDALUS: Chinese, yeah.

MICHAEL HUDSON: I translate my books into Chinese so obviously this idea is very popular there because they have a public-private economy and they’re open to this idea. Other countries translate the books but there’s very little English language discussion of this so there’s no market for publishers to write books like this because – how do you fit the ideas that I just described in the academic curriculum? It is not going to be in the economic courses because there’s no economic history anymore, maybe in the literary courses but I don’t think I’m going to win any literary prize for this. People don’t know how to characterize this approach just explained in the last 45 minutes.

LOGO DAEDALUS: Well, it’s the approach that me and my listeners are a big fan of so keep up the good work. Thanks for letting me talk to you, man. Its been a dream of mine for a while and… get some rest. Stay strong, stay healthy.

MICHAEL HUDSON: Thank you, I look forward to what your group comments on and what they see in all of this.

LOGO DAEDALUS: Yeah, alright man, well, thanks again.

MICHAEL HUDSON: Thank you.

LOGO DAEDALUS: Peace out.

MICHAEL HUDSON: Bye bye.

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  1. Who will organize the debate between E. Michael Jones (defends the Church and criticizes Jews) and Michael Hudson (defends the Jews and blames the Church) on this great topic?

    Please step up.

  2. @inspector general

    Would Hudson talk to Jones? This is a pretty amazing presentation that it is all the fault of the Roman Catholics and the poor Jews were just trying to get by. Hudson is fascinating but I am not sure if he is very informative.

  3. I wish somebody would edit these transcriptions. They are awful. It’s like reading baby babble. Very few real sentences, all this repetition and circling around and unclear referents and just–babble. Gah

  4. Notsofast says:

    hudson appears to be a red diaper baby of trotskyist pedigree and he actually bought the rights to trotsky’s writings, after trotsky’s widow had passed away. his father was trotskyist trade unionist, who was jailed in the 30’s under the smith act, for advocating the violent overthrow of the government, under fdr.

    this places him in the camp of the neocons, many of which were trotskyists and the bush family, who’s patriarch prescott bush, also advocated the overthrow of fdr, during the aborted bankster coup. this plot was revealed by the incredible smedley butler, author of war is a racket, where he outlined the true nature of the american imperialist war machine.

    while hudson’s father and prescott bush, seem to be on opposite sides of the divide, they are two sides of the same coin, kind of like that swastika/star of david coin, the zionists wanted to use to “buy” palestine. they both advocate the idea of permanent revolution, that would later morph into the rainbow revolutions of the zioneocon empire and their permanent war of terror on the world.

    before i am attacked by hudson groupies, for misrepresenting hudson’s intentions, i would like to point out, the contortions he goes through to down play and ignore the role of jewish supremacism, in the origins, financing and profiteering, of the endless wars and the jewish supremacist war mongers, best represented by the house of rothschild, baron rothschild and the city of london.

    i find most economists to be clueless adult children, who never actually participated in building any kind of business, large or small, but insist on ‘splaing the intricacies of complex economic models, that have nothing to do with real world business. these model are then used by war mongers, to then sell us ponzinomic fraud, to fund their never ending wars. no better example of this than supply side economics, our own pcr pulled from his ass, which was then was used by reagan and bush, to kick off our decades long wars of terror on the entire world.

    if the workers of the world should really control the means of production, why do trades unions not start their own workerowned businesses, rather than giving all their union dues to corrupt politicians, who never give them any return on their “investment”. why not build the workers paradise, rather than just strong arming concessions, out of the greedy businesses, outcompete them economically, to prove the superior nature of their economic models? i guess it’s easier to just start a revolution, than to build a new way of living.

  5. @Notsofast

    Revolutions are always financed from outside. Otherwise they fail miserably, because fighting spirit and a just cause are not enough to win, unfortunately.

    • Replies: @Notsofast
    , @Miville
  6. Notsofast says:
    @Mosafer Hastam

    and there’s a lot of money to be made, especially when you finance both sides of a “why don’t you and him fight” war.

    • Replies: @Poupon Marx
  7. The church has always been about control through fear, it starts off with good intentions…then the grifters see an opportunity.

    The Kings and Queens of Europe were just the roaming criminal gangs of yor. After bloody conquests, they legitimised themselves through pomp, ceremonies and a network of retainers and bribes, all to feed off the hard work of the peasant.

    If you believe in Jesus then you wouldn’t go anywhere near a church. As for the banking system, lending at interest would of been happening before it was chronicled and legitimised, those criminals who became King or Pope are always looking for ways to live off others and would of turned the underground private arrangements into institutions for their benefit.

    Human history has been one of struggle against the parasite, who demanded sheep and other types of commodities as tribute, which are bulky, hence the invention of money and a centre of control of the money supply.

    • Agree: Rev. Spooner
    • Disagree: Sprumford
  8. Anonymous[189] • Disclaimer says:
    @Notsofast

    I’ll give Hudson the benefit of the doubt and assume he’s just a confused 86-year old man who doesn’t understand what he’s talking about. But can you imagine how many young minds he’s vitiated with this tendentious pseudo-history?

    It’s also bizarre that Hudson is a self-proclaimed communist. Communism is so passé and fulfilled its purpose, as a bulldozer to destroy all nationalisms to facilitate the control of global finance which has had Zionism as its nationalism.

    • Agree: Seraphim
    • Replies: @Iris
  9. Miville says:
    @Mosafer Hastam

    Political causes that need a revolution to be implemented are never just and never in the commoners’ interests. Revolutions always start an tentative usurpations of power by an over-ambitious prince wanting to by-pass the tradition. The French Revolution started not in some poor village along river Yvette but in the Duke of Orleans’ palais royal where the fashionable crowd was encouraged to gather, read gazettes and discuss politics while sipping coffees served at supernatural prices. When they talked about abolishing privileges they targeted workers’ corporations in the name of right to work, far more than the nobles who could exchange their former rent-bringing privileges like any investment fund.

  10. ulithi says:
    @inspector general

    If Jones’s economic knowledge is as simplistically lightweight as Hudson’s knowledge of Church history, the debate will be less than informative. Hudson Channeling Zinn in his version of A Simpletons History of the Early Church…{{ the most evil theologians in history, Cyril of Alexandria, who based the Christian church on anti-semitism because he wanted to drive out all of the Christians who weren’t under his personal control. And most early Christians were Jewish. So he led pogroms against the Jews in addition to killing Hypatia, who was a mathematician, and he put in the Trinity idea and elevated the Virgin Mary to the Trinity,…}} . Perhaps Hudson confuses Cyril of Alexandria with Athenasius of Alexandria who is most associated with Trinitarianism. Perhaps Hudson has digested too many Jack Chick cartoons when he claims Cyril or any Catholic has ever ” elevated the Virgin Mary to the Trinity..”. Baby baby bable indeed.

    • Agree: Seraphim
    • Replies: @TruthEnjoyer
  11. @Emil Nikola Richard

    A Jones and Hudson conversation on Usury, now that is a great idea.

  12. @Notsofast

    The biggest kept secret from the Working Class is this. Nothing has value unless a human hand has touched it.

    • Replies: @Pythas
  13. Mr. Hudson, I must admit to being surprised at how well informed you are on Church history. You did a great job delicately explaining some important topics… such as the Crusades, the depravity of the 9th century Roman church and that pathetic hack Augustine.

    I was not aware of how involved the Vatican was with fiat banking. Good to know.

    • Agree: Efficacious
    • Replies: @Seraphim
  14. twerp says:

    this is without doubt the single dumbest article ever published on Unz Review

  15. Two important points on nomenclature that academics too often overlook…

    A person who tries to follow the teachings of Christ is a Christian. A person who attempts to follow the teachings of the Pope is a “papist.”

    Papists (like E.M. Jones) give themselves away by going on and on about the splendor of Papal outfits and the thousands of extravagant Cathedrals built at the expense of the poor. Papists very rarely have anything to say about Jesus or the Bible. It’s all about their sectarian “universal” traditions.

    Also, papists on the Vatican payroll (including many academics) were absolutely critical in carrying out the repressive Inquisitions.

    Papists did and still do despise Christian reformers, whom they routinely condemn as “heretics.” When a Vatican loyalist uses the slur “Protestant” it’s like using Negro instead of Nigger. They really mean heretic, while claiming to hold a monopoly on Church teaching.

    Of course, that doesn’t mean everything that so-called Protestants say is correct. Not by a mile. The biggest confusion come from mistaking Freedom of Religion with Subsidized Religion… something nearly all Corporate Western Churches fail to distinguish. That confusion leads to so much unnecessary strife.

    • Agree: Odyssey
  16. MarylinM says:

    Semantic shit pretzel.

    The Roman Empire, starting with Julius the Caesar, and later the Catholic Empire, starting with Carol the Great, and later the British Empire, were all financed by the Jewish Letters of Credit. Exclusively. Latin “credi” means “believe”, as in “yes, we have actual money, trust us”.

    Not to mention the Sumerian Empire, or later the Persian Empire, or later the Muslim Empire, or the Federal Reserve, etc.

    Give credit where credit is due.

  17. HUDSON So it’s the literary people that describe this, just like in Greek and Roman history. It’s the literary writers that describe what was happening in the creditor landowning oligarchy that ended up stifling Rome. Also, in the 20th Century…..

    And we anticipate here of course Hudson will mention the most famous literary GIANT of the 20th century who wrote extensively and literately and poetically about the Hudson’s top hot topic, USURY, Ezra Pound, but…..no! Hudson mentions two relatively unknowns…..odd, eh?

    Well, we know who tried to kill Pound and why, and who saved him.

    So does Hudson have an unstated agenda, throughout all his work, of protecting the eternal poor little tribal victims?

    I’m all for his trashing and thrashing of Augustine, who deserves a good trashing and thrashing if anybody does, but is it truly true that the ‘good at trade Jew’ was a victim of Popish financiers and their royal allies? As someone suggested, let’s get Mr. Jones and Mr. Hudson into a debate on the subject and demand some source material!

    • Replies: @Fin of a cobra
  18. jRealist says:

    Hudson is a Trotskyist, and he is going along with the Jewish program of dividing Christians. The medieval Catholic Church was against usury. That is a fact.

    In Rennaissance times thes weakened because of the influence of Medici and other banking families, but there were Catholics who opposed aln that, like Savonarola.

    Protestantism Judaized Christianity, which is why we have entire economies based on usury.

    And raising the status of the Virgin Mary was not done because that wouud piss off the Jews. It was a way of raising thn status of women. And Jews resented that, of course.

    Hudson here is producing pure drivel…

    • Replies: @Zumbuddi
  19. Seraphim says:
    @Emil Nikola Richard

    Surprisingly (or not) Hudson seems to take some liberties with historical truth even when thoroughly documented.
    One may say that it was a slip of the tongue when he said ”the 1688 revolution that brought King George to England” when everybody knows that it was Willem Hendrik (aka William of Orange), sovereign Prince of Orange from birth, Stadtholder of Holland, Zeeland, Utrecht, Guelders, and Overijssel in the Dutch Republic, who became King of England, Ireland and Scotland in 1688 (retaining all his former titles).
    But his assertion that ”St. Augustine changed the Lord’s prayer to “forgive us our sins” for which you have to pay the church to get to heaven, instead of “forgive us our debts” that you’d have to pay to the Romans – if we’re following Christian documentation” is a deliberate falsehood. If we’re following Christian documentation we know that the original prayer say ”debts” and ”debtors”:
    Greek ὀφειλήματα (debts); ὀφειλέταις (debtors).
    Latin debita (debts); debitoribus (debtors).
    Slavonic долги (debts); должником (debtors).
    Augustine and translators (like Wycliffe) used “debt” language in this verse.

    It was William Tyndale (1494–1536), the great English reformer who first translated the Bible into English from Hebrew and Greek texts, who for some reason preferred “trespasses” (“and forgeve us oure treaspases, even as we forgeve them which treaspas us”) and became entrenched the Anglican Book of Common Prayer in 1549, and as of the 1979 edition it was still being used.
    King James Version went back to using “debts.”

    Where he got completely crazy revealing his biases is in that unrelated to the subject passage: The Catholic Church basically had been poisoned in the 4th and 5th Century by two of the most evil theologians in history, Cyril of Alexandria [the other being Augustin], who based the Christian church on anti-semitism because he wanted to drive out all of the Christians who weren’t under his personal control. And most early Christians were Jewish. So he led pogroms against the Jews in addition to killing Hypatia, who was a mathematician, and he put in the Trinity idea and elevated the Virgin Mary to the Trinity, knowing that that’s the one thing the Jews were not going to go along with because they wouldn’t have a woman as part of the Trinity.
    What credibility can he retain when he is capable to utter with adamant confidence such enormities? Good Lord.

    • Agree: Sprumford
    • Replies: @Emil Nikola Richard
  20. Aragorn says:
    @Notsofast

    Prescott Bush, was it that Bush that financed Adolf Hitler Rothschild, until the Congress shut it down ? A later Bush listen to stories about goats, with “US” under attack. You should really see that video ! Gangster with the fingers jammed 😄

    • Replies: @Notsofast
  21. Aragorn says:

    The banking hoax out of Christian bandits are a fact, as the book “The Da Vinci Code” are built on facts. The technical for to use zeros as “money” are to a big part from a monster, mass murdering in the hospitals, like another monster, the “pacifist” Einstein, created the hoax “nuclear weapon”. You live in a World where monsters use technology to manipulat humans by abstractions.

  22. GMC says:

    Gee, I thought when Rome , right after Colombo finished planting the Spanish flag everywhere in the New World, decreed, that anyone now dealing with Spain, France, etc. etc. etc. – which is run by the Pope and Rome – must relocate to the Catholic religion , otherwise you can’t do bizz in our New World lands. And after that, every Jew businessman became a ” born again Catholic”, changed their names and the rest is history – as in now the Jews had a piece of the Big Roman Pie. Of course, someone thought up the Doctrine of Discovery , which sealed the deal for even more Catholic Expansion into the New World – I wonder who thought of that murdering Plan and passed it onto Rome ?

    The Jews and Muslims have always been slick businessmen , but the Jews beat the Muslims and the “honest” Christians when it comes to overtaking the financial rackets. They knew that most people are greedy and will help them get their ways , as long as the 3rd party gets paid well. They took over Rome, Venice, London and the USA like it was nothing – and it was the Greedy Gene in the rightly placed people that sealed the Deals for the Tribe. They made Trillions – now What ?

  23. Aragorn says:
    @Notsofast

    Trade Unions con the workers by give them plastic credit cards. Is it so hard to understand that technology can be used to create a herd of cattle, feed, not allowed to feed from nature?

  24. Seraphim says:
    @Steve Penfield

    Un-informed or rather dis-informed is more to the point.

  25. The faith of the average Catholic churchgoer is Christian, but the Vatican is Satanic.

    The Vatican City is less than a square mile of Italy, but contains so much art, treasures and gold, they had to build vaults under the buildings for the treasures, valued at many billions of euros. There is so much gold leaf and gold in the Vatican that even the Sun King Louis XIV would be envious. The gold candlesticks carried during Mass, are so heavy that the priests have difficulty carrying them. The Pope and his cardinals, bishops and priests eat gourmet food for breakfast, lunch, dinner and supper, prepared in the finest of Italian cuisine, the food supplied from selected farms.

    Most of it financed by collection in churches from nearly 1.5 billion faithful Catholics around the world. In good faith, Catholics in poor countries give equivalnet of a hundred dollars of more a year – a lot of money for them – in the belief that the money will be distributed to even poorer people. But as the Wall Street Journal found out: “The Vatican advertises that it has set aside 50 million euros to help the poor and suffering, but a new WSJ investigation found that only 10 percent of what is given goes to those who need it.” Source: CBC.

    The Vatican’s own bank and finance department invests the money in the most satanic place on Earth – Wall Street, which destroys and takes more lives with its financial markets and usury than military wars. The Wall Street banking cartel’s globalist neoliberal market economy, which their politicians in all countries implement for them, are responsible for the state of the world: 1.1 billion people are impoverished, a poverty that kills, 900 million are in a state of hunger, and 1 in 4 children do not have food and clean drinking water every day. Source: UNICEF. Numbers that are only getting worse by the day.

    “The Vatican has major investments with the Rothschilds in Britain, France and the United States, with Hambros Bank, Credit Suisse in London and Zurich. In the United States they have major investments with Morgan Bank, Chase-Manhattan Bank, First National Bank of New York, Bankers Trust Company and others. “The Vatican has billions in shares in the most powerful international corporations such as Gulf Oil, Shell, General Motors, Bethlehem Steel, General Electric, International Business Machines, T.W.A., etc.

    “You can get an idea of hw much real estate and other forms of wealth controlled by the Catholic Church, from the statement of a member of the Catholic Conference in New York; ‘his Church probably ranks second to the total annual purchases of the United States government.’

    “Another statement by a Catholic priest is perhaps even more telling: ‘The Catholic Church must be the largest corporation in the United States. We have branches in every state. Our holdings of property and real estate exceed those of Standard Oil, A.T.&T. and U.S. Steel combined. And our list of dues-paying members must be second only to the tax rolls of the United States government.’” “The Catholic Church, when all its assets are included, is the most formidable stockholder in the world.

    The Wall Street Journal said the Vatican’s financial transactions in the United States alone, were so large that they very often sold or bought gold for many millions of dollars or more at once”. “The Vatican’s gold holdings have been estimated by the United Nations World Magazine to amount to many billions of dollars. A large part of this is stored in gold bars at the US Federal Reserve, the rest in banks in England and Switzerland.

    “But this is only a small part of the wealth of the Vatican, which in the United States alone is greater than the five richest giant corporations in the country. When all the property, land, stocks in Italy and stocks abroad are added, the staggering wealth of the Catholic Church becomes so formidable that it defies any rational assessment”. Source: Avro Manhattan, excerpt from his book The Vatican Billions.

    The Vatican State’s countless sex scandals over many decades, in which thousands of children have been abused, should come as no surprise, when the legal age of consent in Vatican City was only 12 years old until 2013. This made sexual abuse institutional. It was only after strong pressure from the Italian authorities that they raised it to 18 years old. That does not stop the abusers, there are still many allegations of abuse today.

    Pope Francis has emphasized the need to accept and welcome lgbtqia+. The Vatican is well aware that the organization has departments that promote sex with children and animals. There is a reason why he and previous popes have not made it a priority to uncover these matters, but rather covered them up.

    When you examine the church’ organizations more closely, most of the clergymen are khazars in Christian denominations, Catholic and otherwise. Their job is to maintain the belief of the common churchgoers that the jews are the chosen people. They are not, they are og the seed of Lucifer. The Vatican is proof of that.

    The The Protocols of the Elders of Zion written in 1895 are the best known, but there is a protocol from 1489, which became known when the FBI declassified documents about the 1895 Protocols. Here one of the advices, read orders, is, “Make your sons canons and clergymen so that they can destroy their churches.”

    The FBI’s (Federal Bureau of Investigations) archives of declassified documents on the Protocols. Translated from English. Pdf document page 5 of 139.
    Appendix. 1-A Protocol from 1489.
    “The Revue des Etudes Juives, financed by James de Rothschild, published in 1880, shows how true (also the earlier) Protocols are, when they say that the learned elders of Zion have been working on their plans for centuries. On January 13, 1489, Chemor, the Jewish rabbi of Arles in Provence, France, wrote to the Great Sanhedrin in Constantinople for advice”. This was his reply: (summary).
    “The advice of the great satraps and rabbis is:
    – Become Christians, but keep the laws of Moses in your hearts.
    – Make your sons merchants so that they can plunder the Christians.
    – Make your sons and daughters doctors and pharmacists so that they can kill the Christians.
    – Make your sons canons and clergymen so that they may destroy their churches.
    – Make your sons advocates (politicians) and lawyers so that you may put Christians under the yoke and dominate the world.
    DO NOT DEVIATE FROM THIS ORDER.
    Signed V.S.S.V. F. F., Prince of the Jews, 21. Caslue, (Nov.) 1489”.

    The Unz Review may publish this comment as an article.

    • Thanks: Steve Penfield
    • Replies: @craicaassmofo
  26. Only on the Unz Review can we have catholic E. Michael Jones and anti-catholic Michael Hudson side by side. Wonderful! For an overview of what the Roman Church did for us (in addition to the economic issue here discussed), I recommend my own:

    • Thanks: Odyssey
  27. Zumbuddi says:
    @jRealist

    Hack professors who consulted the comic book version of The Prince have bastardized Machiavelli.

    Niccoló considered Savonarola in the same category as the four “princes” he analyzed: Moses, Cyrus, Theseus and Romulus. Savonarola did not achieve their power because he did not maintain the monopoly on violence:

    “If Moses, Cyrus, Theseus, and Romulus had been unarmed they could not have enforced their constitutions for long—as happened in our time to Fra Girolamo Savonarola, who was ruined with his new order of things immediately the multitude believed in him no longer, and he had no means of keeping steadfast those who believed or of making the unbelievers to believe.”

    Smedley Butler said, All wars are Bankers wars.
    Even more significantly, “there are no bankers in foxholes.”

  28. @WingsofaDove

    And we anticipate here of course Hudson will mention the most famous literary GIANT of the 20th century who wrote extensively and literately and poetically about the Hudson’s top hot topic, USURY, Ezra Pound, but…..no! Hudson mentions two relatively unknowns…..odd, eh?

    Same thought went through my mind as I read this piece: where the hell is Ezra Pound?! I kept expecting the name Pound to appear. But it never does. No Canto  XLV, no “monopoly of issue,” no “receipt for no work at all.” Not even a footnote. Surprising? Yes. Suspicious? Perhaps.

    So I did what you suggested without suggesting it: here below the more tab is a rebuttal as Pound himself might have done it, using some of Hudson’s own categories: war-finance, papal indulgence, legal euphemism, the rise of the fiscal state. But whereas Hudson cautiously avoids naming names beyond institutional actors, Pound names them by family, city, and guild.

    Pound wouldn’t have pretended that Jewish financiers were incidental. He named the Pierleoni, the Rothschilds, the Goldschmidts, not as scapegoats, but as nodes in the system of loan-capital abstracted from labor. He also named the Medici, the Fuggers, the Peruzzis, the Montagus, the Morgans. For him, usury was a heresy against nature, not necessarily a tribal patent.

    So yes, it’s “odd,” as you put it, that Hudson ignores the one man who made usury itself the central poetic theme of his life’s work. Was it oversight, suppression, or some subterranean loyalty? Hard to say. But it does leave a Pound-shaped hole in this whole piece. Here below is the Pound-rebuttal…

    [MORE]
    Usura  versus  Ecclesia: Ezra  Pound, Michael  Hudson, and the Long War over Credit

    Part I – Foundations: Definitions, Genealogies, and the False Dawn of Papal Capital

    1 | Invocation: Pound’s Hammer on the Anvil of Money

    “With usura, hath no man a house of good stone… With usura is no picture made to endure nor to live with…”

    Ezra Pound begins where stone splinters and pigment fades. Usury is not a price; it is a solvent that erodes the very form of culture. In Canto XLV he brands it a sin against natura and techne, a sterile intercourse that breeds nothing but dust. His programme is explicit: name the parasite, trace its historical metamorphoses, and restore a currency anchored to labor and craft.

    Michael Hudson’s recent transcript, “The Catholic Church, the Crusades, and the Origins of International Banking,” pivots on the same word usury but assigns the original crime to a different custodian: Rome itself. The papacy, he claims, “created a banking class that will make its money by war-lending to Kings… We have a new word—let’s call it interest.”

    Between Pound’s poetic fury and Hudson’s economic archaeology yawns a chronological and causal gulf. This essay—four parts, each a thousand-word canto—will test Hudson’s thesis against Pound’s canon and the wider documentary record.

    2 | Clarifying Terms: Usury, Interest, Rent

    Pound’s lexicon is austere: usury is any receipt for no work performed, any claim on the future that is not redeemed by present labor. Hence his axiom in ABC of Economics: “Money is a receipt for work done. Usury is a receipt for no work at all.”

    Hudson endeavors to historicize the semantic shift: canonists of the thirteenth century, pressed by crusader debts, “came in and said, we have a new word—it’s not called usury anymore, let’s call it interest.”

    Here we confront the first fault-line: Pound treats the word usury as a perennial moral constant; Hudson frames it as a theological euphemism engineered by papal bankers. The difference matters, because Pound’s indictment is ontological—usury desecrates form in every age—while Hudson’s is institutional, locating culpability in the medieval Church’s accommodation with Norman warlords.

    3 | Pound’s Genealogy of the Parasite

    “I am writing for humanity in a world eaten by usury. I write for a cultural heritage that includes centuries of anti-usurious doctrine…”

    Pound’s villains are the Lombard exchange dealers, the Florentine cambium houses, the Fuggers who tied credit to metal, and, finally, the central-bank cartel of London and New York. His chronology leaps:

    Templar Giro (12th c.) – deposit-transfer without interest; tolerated.
    Lombard & Florentine Contracts (13th–14th c.) – uso di cambio masks interest under currency spread.
    Fugger Hegemony (16th c.) – mining pledges monetize empire, “credit tied to metal, not to men.”
    Bank of England (1694) – “The monopoly of issue has passed into private hands. This is the political fact.”
    Federal Reserve (1913) – “The worst crime since Calvary.”

    Note the absence of papal primacy. For Pound, Rome is not origin but accomplice—one node in a longer drift from community credit to private monopoly.

    4 | Hudson’s Counter-Chronology

    Hudson inverts that narrative. He plants the taproot in the Curia itself, arguing that the Church “created and sponsored the first international banking in the 12th and 13th century” to finance crusades against Orthodox rivals and recalcitrant German reformers. Key assertions:

    Norman warlords in Sicily required vast loans; the papacy legitimized their creditors.
    The Schoolmen crafted lucrum cessans (foregone profit) and damnum emergens (potential loss) to justify 22% exchange fees—double that when late. “The Church became a Visa card.”
    Canon law’s shift from debt to sin (“forgive us our sins” replaces “forgive us our debts”) masked the political economy of interest.

    Hudson’s narrative is rich in anecdote—Matthew Paris, wool monopolies, Barons excommunicated for resisting tax—but it telescopes a complex evolution into one decisive papal betrayal.

    5 | First Test: The Third Lateran Council (1179)

    If Rome indeed endorsed interest in the twelfth century, the conciliar record should show it. Yet Canon 25 of Lateran III still thunders:

    “All clerics that exact usury shall be deposed, and lay usurers denied Christian burial.”

    This uncompromising ban endured, on parchment at least, until Benedict XIV’s Vix Pervenit in 1745. Pound applauds that continuity—

    “Dante puts usurers in the seventh circle, among the violent”

    —and sees its eventual erosion as evidence of secular, not sacerdotal, capture.

    Hudson concedes Dante’s verdict yet insists the bankers had already captured the papal payroll. The documents reveal a tension: legislation condemned interest, practice evaded it through currency tricks. Which matters more—theory or praxis?

    6 | Second Test: The Templar Cheque

    Hudson credits the Curia with inventing the letter of credit. But the earliest trans-Mediterranean giro belonged to the Knights Templar—an order quasi-military, quasi-monastic, but largely autonomous from papal finance.

    Pilgrims could deposit pounds sterling in London and redeem livres tournois in Acre, paying a modest agio for exchange risk.

    Pound, surveying the same terrain, finds here a proto-credit system not yet corrupted by interest; its fees covered guard and transport, not speculative rent. Thus, where Hudson sees papal policy, Pound sees local trust networks.

    7 | Weighing Method: Literary versus Archival Evidence

    Hudson admits his narrative leans on “literary people… Dante describes putting all the usurers back in the seventh circle of hell.”

    Pound, a poet, might salute the method—but he warns against conflating sermon with ledger. His mantra,

    “This thing, that hath a code and not a core…”

    targets precisely the scholastic casuistry Hudson catalogs—texts without the moral marrow.

    The danger is circular: condemn Church hypocrisy, then cite that hypocrisy as proof of doctrinal change.

    Archival tallies of Florentine exchange loans and Vatican account books often show lower effective rates (8–15%) than the notorious 44% compound alleged by Hudson. The discrepancy begs quantitative corroboration.

    8 | Preliminary Verdict

    Pound indicts a long drift from community credit to private monopoly, with the papacy one compromised actor among many.
    Hudson posits a papal big bang of finance, after which all later banking merely elaborates Curial precedent.

    Which frame clarifies the modern impasse—central-bank seigniorage, derivatives that “eat the heart out of labor,” and cathedrals that crumble while skyscrapers rise?

    Part II will sift the Lombard technique, the Florentine cambium, and the Fugger metal lien against both narratives, measuring each by Pound’s commandment:

    “Look to the form—does it nourish the mason’s hand, or does it fatten the usurer’s purse?”

    Part II – Instruments: The Lombard Weave, Florentine Cambium, and Fugger Metal
    How usury migrated from crusader debts to imperial balance-sheets, and where Pound and Hudson part company.

    1 | The Lombard Pivot: Currency Spread as Disguise

    “The Lombard was crafty… but the technique was known in Venice before the sack of Byzantium.”

    Ezra Pound’s aside in Canto LXXIV identifies the real innovation: profiting from exchange differentials rather than naked interest. Lombard houses set up booths beside medieval fairs, lending in one coin and demanding repayment in another.

    The margin—agio—looked like a foreign-exchange fee, but functioned as usury hidden in arithmetic.

    Michael Hudson cites the same ruse, calling it the moment when “churchmen came in and said, we have a new word—it’s not called usury anymore, let’s call it interest” and legitimized a 22% agio plus another 22% late fee: “the Church became a Visa card.”

    Where they diverge is agency. Hudson casts the Curia as architect; Pound treats the bankers as independent technologists who exploited Rome’s need for crusader cash.

    Canon law thundered against usury; Lombard ledgers quietly monetized papal IOUs. The mask, not the cassock, did the work.

    2 | Florence: Cambium Contracts and the Double-Book Ledger

    By the 1290s the Bardi and Peruzzi ran what amounted to a medieval SWIFT network. A merchant in Bruges could forward a bill to Avignon; the Curia would reimburse him in florins—minus a “handling fee” embedded in a fictive exchange rate.

    Pound’s judgment is acid:

    “The Medici learned to bank with the coat of arms of a saint and the ledger of a pirate.”

    Hudson glimpses the same sleight of hand when he explains lucrum cessans—the schoolman’s notion that a lender deserves payment for profits foregone.

    But he implies the doctrine arose inside the Church. The records suggest otherwise: jurists like Baldus of Perugia tried to retrofit moral casing onto practices merchants had already normalized. The tail wagged the theologian.

    What mattered for Pound was the cultural fallout:

    “With usura the line grows thick / with usura is no clear demarcation.”

    Cambium blurred not only currencies but art—commissions cheapened, marble traded for account entries. For Hudson the moral centre is political economy; for Pound it is aesthetic form.

    3 | Empire of Ore: The Fugger Mutation

    “With the Fuggers began the second phase—credit tied to metal, not to men.”

    In 1519 Jakob Fugger collateralized the Habsburg crown with future silver from Schwaz and copper from Neusohl. Interest was extracted not as a percentage on a loan but as a mortgage on the planet’s bowels.

    Hudson’s transcript skirts this pivot, leaping instead to seventeenth-century royal defaults. Pound would insist the divergence is decisive: usury stopped hiding in exchange tricks and yoked itself to extractive monopolies—mines, colonies, spice routes.

    Europe’s balance of power tilted toward whoever controlled bullion and the bills of exchange securitized upon it.

    The cultural cost escalated likewise: Flemish retables replaced local altarpieces; Andalusian mudéjar craftsmen vanished as mines devoured budgets.

    For Pound, the metal-pledge moment is where money “ceased to be a receipt for work done” and became a lien on future conquest.

    4 | Rates, Risks, and the Question of 44%

    Hudson’s headline figure—22% interest plus 22% penalty in thirteenth-century England—derives from chronicler Matthew Paris, who lambasted papal tax-farmers.

    Pound read the same chronicles but treated such spikes as outliers driven by war panic. Typical cambium spreads hovered nearer 8–15%. Whose statistic should govern the narrative?

    Macro series compiled by Carlo Cipolla on Florentine exchange rates rarely breach 15% except during famine or siege.
    Royal tallies in English pipe rolls show effective costs dropping under 10% once bullion imports steadied after 1270.

    Pound would argue that even “moderate” usury corrodes art and polity; Hudson hunts scandalous peaks to indict the Curia.

    The data points suggest a synthesis: Rome’s emergency levies did reach 44% during Sicilian campaigns, but long-run averages tell a slower, subtler story of systemic seepage.

    5 | From Papal Client to Parliamentary Creditor

    By the 1640s the centre of gravity had shifted north. The same banking houses that once backed papal crusades now financed parliamentary states—Holland, then England post-1694.

    Hudson acknowledges the flip:

    “The banking class said, we really can’t afford autocracies anymore… under the new fiscal states, the parliaments promise to pay the debts.”

    Pound seizes this as the decisive betrayal:

    “The monopoly of issue has passed into private hands. This is the political fact.”

    Bank charters converted what had been episodic war finance into a standing rent on every transaction.

    Here the two analyses converge—Hudson on creditor capture, Pound on the usurocracy—but their genealogies remain inverted.

    6 | Weighing Blame: Papacy, Bankers, or Both?

    Hudson’s indictment – The Vatican created the banking class to fund wars, excommunicated anti-usurers, and renamed the sin “interest.”
    Pound’s indictment – Merchant-bankers engineered techniques first, then tempted the Curia, monarchs, and finally parliaments into dependency.

    Archival cross-checking shows a feedback loop: crusade levies solicited Lombard innovation; Lombard profits seduced Florentine giants; Florentine insolvencies opened space for Fugger metal finance; Fugger precedents hardened into the chartered banks Pound called the “worst crime since Calvary.”

    Both perspectives capture arcs of truth; each risks monocausal reduction.

    7 | The Aesthetic Ledger

    Only Pound insists that ledgers bleed marbles. When Hudson analogizes the Church to a “Visa card,” he speaks the language of discipline and rent.

    Pound goes further: usury mutilates perception itself. When exchange-rates replace patronage, cathedrals are roofed in plasterboard, frescoes crack in damp ateliers, and the guild-master loses his apprentice to wage-serfdom.

    The Lombard agio is thus a line drawn across the painter’s palette.

    Hudson’s political economy notes the oppression; Pound hears the cracking of the lyre.

    8 | Transit to Part III

    We have followed the parasite from Lombard counters to Florentine counting-houses and Fugger strongrooms.

    Part III will track its march into statute: the English Act in Restraint of Usury (1545), the Dutch funded debt, and the “monopoly of issue” that Pound names as the capstone crime.

    Along the route we will test Hudson’s claim that parliamentary finance merely refined a papal model, measuring each assertion against guild records, Exchange Alley pamphlets, and Pound’s prophetic refrain:

    “Look to the form.”

    Part III – Statutes and Engines: From Tudor Tolerance to the Chartered Bank Leviathan

    1 | The Act that Unlocked the Coffers (1545)

    Henry VIII’s Act in Restraint of Usury did not abolish the sin; it legalized a measured slice—10% per annum—under parliamentary seal.

    Pound’s verdict is lapidary:

    “And England, once green, passed to the merchant’s register—by Act and by silence.”

    Michael Hudson hardly pauses here; for him the decisive clerical volte‑face lies two centuries earlier. Yet the statute marks a juridical Rubicon.

    Canon law still thundered against interestus, but Westminster quietly decoupled moral theology from commercial practice.

    Pound reads this not as progress but apostasy: the guilds that once governed price and craft were overruled by a sovereign who sold indulgence to the moneylender instead of the pilgrim.

    Usury was no longer a hidden agio in currency spread; it wore the crown’s signet.

    The immediate cultural cost, Pound claims, was visible in brick and lime: cheap lath supplanted oak beams, plaster replaced ashlar.

    “With usura the line grows thick… no clear demarcation.”

    Parliament imagined a stable credit market; the mason felt the mortar crumble.

    2 | From City Commune to Fiscal State: Dutch Alchemy of Debt

    Hudson’s transcript offers a vivid tableau of Holland’s funded debt: self-governing provinces, each citizen “liable for the debts,” turned the medieval commune outward to a national scale.

    Bondholders gained priority over crown and clergy alike.

    Pound would grant the ingenuity but mourn the metaphysics. Where Bruges had once traded cloth for spices, Amsterdam securitized future taxes.

    The ledger ceased to record goods in motion; it now recorded claims on the labor of unborn burghers.

    In Pound’s eyes this is usury’s second molt: from Florentine cambium to perpetual funded debt.

    Hudson celebrates the superior credit of these fiscal states, noting how they out-borrowed “Catholic kings who kept defaulting.”

    Pound retorts that default, though painful, at least acknowledged limit; funded debt made insolvency permanent by rolling it forward—an elegance of bookkeeping masking a bondage of generations.

    3 | 1694: The “Monopoly of Issue” and the Birth of Leviathan

    All threads converge at the Bank of England. Pound calls it

    “the monopoly of issue… the political fact.”

    Hudson, too, sees in the chartered bank a creditor coup: war finance outsourced to a joint-stock corporation that lent the crown its own coin at interest. But their emphases diverge.

    Hudson stresses organizational genius—how creditors “helped kings organize their finances so they could raise enough money to pay foreign debts.”

    Pound stresses ontological theft—private agents now mint what had been a public covenant.

    Money, once a “receipt for work done,” becomes a talisman printed against the taxpayer’s future.

    Both agree the shift empowered Protestant polities, yet Pound would remind Hudson that England’s victory carried a cultural bill: enclosure of commons, dispossession of yeomen, the replacing of the “green land” with cockpit mills.

    The Cantos drip with bitterness at an empire built on paper debentures rather than guild timber.

    4 | Bubbles of Empire: Mississippi, South Sea, and the Slave Ledger

    Hudson traces how governments, addicted to easy credit, “sold off their monopoly of the slave trade” to inflate asset bubbles.

    Here Pound and Hudson lock step: speculative manias are usury unmasked.

    “Credit tied to metal, not to men,”

    Pound lamented of the Fuggers; the South Sea Company tied credit to human flesh.
    Where Pound differs is in diagnosis. Hudson sees imperial bubble finance as an extension of papal war loans; Pound sees a qualitative degradation: the ledger now treats people themselves as “collateral.”

    The cultural recoil is immediate: music halls boom while parish orchestras decay, Georgian terraces rise while village roofs sag.

    The bubble’s aftermath severs metropolis from countryside—an aesthetic wound.

    5 | Toward the Hinge of 1913

    Hudson’s narrative pauses at the Industrial Revolution, promising a sequel to World War I. Pound leaps ahead with prophetic fury:

    “The worst crime since Calvary—the 1913 Act—whereby the people’s credit was stolen.”

    The U.S. Federal Reserve is to him the final perfection of the Bank of England model, global in scale, abstract in operation.

    Hudson may concur that central banking entrenches creditor power, yet he understates the symbolic breach.

    For Pound, the Fed completes the arc from Tudor statute to Leviathan charter: the total privatization of the money prism, letting usury refract every beam of labor into rentier color.

    6 | Reconciling the Two Lenses

    Hudson’s strength – He reconstructs the geopolitical scaffolding: crusade levies, royal defaults, fiscal states, global bubbles.
    Pound’s strength – He intuits the metaphysical hemorrhage: how each legal tweak degrades form, silence, and stone.

    To fuse them is to see statute and cathedral as one dialectic.

    English MPs who capped interest at 10% in 1545 also capped the arch of English rood-screens; Dutch regents whose bonds financed sea walls also financed tulip mania; Bank of England directors whose notes paid Marlborough’s regiments also fenced in the Midlands poor.

    7 | Restating the Divergence

    Agent of Origin – Hudson: papal finance; Pound: merchant innovation turned state monopoly.
    Metric of Harm – Hudson: fiscal extraction and class hierarchy; Pound: mutilation of culture and nature.
    Culmination – Hudson: modern debt imperialism; Pound: central-bank seigniorage and the death of craftsmanship.

    Both indict the same beast but glimpse different heads.

    Hudson charts its appetite; Pound hears its roar in the cracked bell of St. Mary-le-Bow.

    8 | Prelude to the Finale

    Part IV will descend into the twentieth-century climax—Federal Reserve, Bretton Woods, and the digital derivative—testing whether Hudson’s papal genesis or Pound’s usurocratic teleology better explains the present hour of deindustrialized rust and algorithmic rent.

    We will close where Pound began: the artisan’s bench—asking whether any polity can still mint a coin anchored to labor, lucid in form, immune to the Minotaur of compound interest.

    Part IV – Catastrophe and Counter‑Spell: From the Federal Reserve to the Digital Derivative

    1 | 1913: The Culmination of the Parasite

    Ezra Pound saw the Federal Reserve Act as the endgame of a seven‑century drift:

    “The worst crime since Calvary— the 1913 Act—whereby the people’s credit was stolen.”

    This was not mere polemic. By giving a privately owned cartel the power to emit legal tender, Washington replicated on a planetary scale what the Bank of England had done for Britain in 1694—the monopoly of issue Pound had railed against decades earlier.

    Michael Hudson’s story dovetails here. He traces the same pivot from royal debt to parliamentary debt to central‑bank debt, showing how financiers evolved from papal tax‑farmers into silent partners of modern states.

    The objective, he argues, shifted from industrial profit to land rent and monopoly rent—a pure siphon of unearned income that “siphons off the economy” and depresses wages and productive investment.

    Pound supplies the cultural corollary: with every dollar of unfunded credit, the carpenter’s chisel grows dull, the violin cracks, the mural peels.

    2 | Bretton Woods: Usura Wears a Flag

    In 1944 the victors gathered at Bretton Woods to enthrone the dollar as the world’s clearing unit. Pound, then confined in St. Elizabeths, called the agreement

    “Pax Usurocratia”

    —peace bought with tribute.

    Hudson would grant the label: the International Monetary Fund and World Bank institutionalized a system in which creditor states set the rules of trade, tax, and default, exporting their monetary discipline while importing real resources.

    Where they differ lies in emphasis. Hudson stresses geopolitics—how dollar seigniorage funds foreign bases, sanctions, coups.

    Pound sees aesthetic entropy: skyscrapers of mirrored glass substitute for masoned cornices; suburban tract houses replace guild carpentry.

    The same mechanism—interest on reserve holdings—generates both strategic power and cultural thinning.

    3 | From Petrodollar to Spreadsheet: Algorithmic Usury

    By the 1970s the dollar severed its last gold ligament; credit became pure ledger. Swap markets, Eurodollars, and eventually collateralized debt obligations turned interest into self‑replicating code.

    Hudson calls it “finance capitalism”—capital gains without capital goods. Pound, prophetically, had warned of this abstraction:

    “This thing, that hath a code and not a core…”

    With derivative leverage at 20:1, usury no longer needed wheat, wool, or copper; it needed only volatility.

    The cultural cost is quantifiable: Detroit’s foundries rust while trading floors glow; art schools close while non‑fungible tokens boom.

    Pound’s line mutates for the digital age:

    “With usura, no silicon wafer sings.”

    Hudson’s spreadsheets and Pound’s cantos converge on the same indictment: the algorithm is a ghost that feeds on labor it cannot name.

    4 | Hudson’s Rentier Matrix versus Pound’s Usurocracy

    Hudson diagnoses a triple rentier lock—land, monopoly, and financial—each reinforced by law, each immune to classical market discipline.

    Pound would call this the final ossification of the medieval sin: interest divorced from risk, rent divorced from stewardship, price divorced from value.

    Yet Hudson’s genealogy traces the rot to papal war finance; Pound traces it to the banker’s seizure of issue.

    Reconciling the two requires a dialectic: ecclesiastical casuistry provided the first loophole (lucrum cessans, damnum emergens), but the decisive power shift occurred when private syndicates could mint sovereign IOUs at will.

    One supplied the legal fig-leaf, the other the printing press.

    5 | Prescription: Toward a Credit Anchored to Labor

    Both thinkers refuse fatalism. Pound proposed state‑created credit and demurrage currency that rots like apples, compelling circulation and denying hoarders their tithe.

    Hudson recommends debt write‑downs, land‑value taxation, and public banking to break the rentier chokehold.

    The common ground is clear:

    Restore Issue to the Commons. Money must be a receipt for work, not a lien on future taxes.
    Cancel Odious Debt. Jubilee is not charity—it is survival, as medieval canonists once knew.
    Tax Ground Rent, Not Wages. Land’s unearned increment should fund public works, not private yachts.
    Limit Financial Leverage. Every derivative must anchor to a tangible asset or vanish.

    Implement these and Pound’s mason may again carve stone for centuries; Hudson’s economist may chart growth that enriches rather than extracts.

    6 | Coda: The Stone and the Screen

    “With usura no stone of the cathedral stands,”

    Pound intoned.
    A century later Hudson charts how the same usury now hollows digital cathedrals—universities, newsrooms, legislatures—until they are façades masking private monopolies.

    The poet and the political economist, despite their quarrel over origins, compose a single jeremiad: credit has become the Minotaur; culture its labyrinth of collateral.

    Whether the slaying blow comes from a public bank charter, a blockchain demurrage coin, or a long‑awaited Jubilee, the criterion will remain Poundian:

    Does the new money nourish the builder’s hand and the singer’s throat, or does it fatten the invisible rentier?

    Until that question governs policy, Hudson’s spreadsheets will tally ruin and Pound’s canto will echo, unanswered, across the cracked vaults of a civilization mortgaged to its own abstraction.

    Suggested reading for the brave:
    Carol Quigley, Tragedy and Hope—a chronicle of banking power that complements Hudson’s fiscal archaeology and vindicates Pound’s dread of the usurocracy.

  29. Jim H says:

    ‘LOGO DAEDALUS: The Pelagians!’

    Oy vey!

    I don’t exactly know who the Pelagians are.

    But like the Klingons, they sound pretty bad.

    I was a highwayman
    Along the coach roads I did ride
    With sword and pistol by my side
    Many a young maid lost her baubles to my trade
    Many a soldier shed his lifeblood on my blade
    The bastards hung me in the spring of twenty-five
    But I am still alive

    — The Highwaymen, Highwayman

    • Replies: @G. Poulin
  30. Jucapa says:
    @inspector general

    EMJ came to my mind as well, especially his book, on money/economics “Barren Metal,” I hope he chimes in on MH’s interview.

  31. Critique says:

    Any article which talks about “pogroms against Jews” should be viewed with suspicion.

  32. Agent76 says:

    April 15, 2023 History: The Federal Reserve Cartel: Freemasons and The House of Rothschild

    Outstanding historical analysis of relevance to an understanding of the so-called “Deep State” and today’s global financial establishment. First published on June 8, 2011. Nathan Rothschild: One Rothschild family biography mentions a London meeting where an “International Banking Syndicate” decided to pit the American North against the South as part of a “divide and conquer” strategy.

    https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-federal-reserve-cartel-freemasons-and-the-house-of-rothschild/25179

  33. @Seraphim

    It is disingenous to cherry pick some artifact of some variety of Christianity over thousands of years and millions of people and then argue Christians anything . . .. Michael Hudson knows better but that is ignorant and lazy on top of disingenuous. And it isn’t critical to the argument is trying to show. : (

  34. Iris says:
    @Anonymous

    It’s also bizarre that Hudson is a self-proclaimed communist

    I believe that Mr Hudson is not a communist, he is a Trotskyist, either self-proclaimed or covert, I am not sure.

    Trotskyists are the worst enemy of Communists. Unlike the Communists, who triggered sympathy and achieved adhesion in the millions due to their Labour-supporting ideology, the Trotskyists always constituted an extremely tiny majority, mostly made of Jews in Europe.

    Willingly or not, Trotskyists always were the “enemy within”, the Trojan horse brought in and supported by the wealthy class to destroy the Labour movement from within. Other for their scheming and trickery, they never achieved political representation in Western Europe, at times the Communists often did. Most of Trotskyists ended up becoming Neo-Conservatives, which is testimony to their true nature.

    • Replies: @Critique
    , @Big Z
    , @Anonymous
  35. @Northern Light.

    That is not the one from 1489 he mentioned.

    Internet search calls it the Constantinople Letter or something like that and claims it is a 19th c. forgery.

    Any good links would be helpful.

    • Replies: @Northern Light.
  36. Danvil says:

    Remember, it’s the Catholics that have taken over finance and usury. Great Catholic men like: Larry Fink, Steve Schwarzman, Michael Milken, Michael Milken, Ivan Boesky etc. run the entire vulture capitalist world.

    No mention of the Jews financing King Billy Of Orange from Holland, chopping off the Catholic king’s head and unleashing Cromwell on Ireland and carrying out a mass slaughter of Catholics. This reminds me of the Catholic Prime Minister of Israel murdering hundreds of thousands of civilians in Gaza. Darn Catholics!

    • Thanks: Iris
    • Replies: @AntiMason
    , @Ed Case
  37. @Notsofast

    Jewish Private Capital, Inc. Unlimited continues to buy up the world. Many medium sized businesses here in South Florida have been acquired by Jews, e.g., restaurants, apartment buildings, single family homes, and just about anything you can think of.

    A few macro examples:

    Paul Singer’s Hedge Fund bought enough stock in Southwest Airlines to put their people on the board, where they will no attempt to squeeze more profit at the disadvantage of employees and passengers. The stock price will go up.

    Jewish Private Capital loaned Panama, Argentina, Brazil, Equador and othe Latin American countries money, with their land and resources as collateral. The loans were calculated to be very unlikely to be repaid. Result? The Fund will take ownership of the the country’s land and resources as collateral.

    This happened in Moldavia, where the corrupt EU backed government borrowed money from Blackrock for defense purchases. That money cannot be paid back and Blackrock now has taken possession of Moldavian farm land. Which is unconstitutional.

    There are but a minority of ongoing purchases of assets worldwide. Blackrock, State Street, and Vanguard – all Jewish controlled – have 30 TRILLION dollars under management. Private Jewish Capital only needs a certain minority of stock in order to gain board seats. From there they will control the Company. One lever of control is the Wall Street rating of the stock [buy, sell, hold ] and other outside pressures to bear. Of course Jews have either outright control or enormous influence of the media throughout the “Free” [guffaw] World”. Rupert Murdock’s holdings being a good example, e.g., the Wall Street Journal, The Economist, Financial Times, etc, etc, etc.

    Under present political, economic, and social conditions today, they are unstoppable. Only Russia, China, and Iran have a firewall that keeps their seepage and sewage out. To a lesser extent, India.

    • Replies: @Iris
    , @Notsofast
    , @Pythas
  38. I see lots of heat and fury analyzing the latest Pope selection. I think it really boils down to…

    1. Will the new Pope lead his Church in the direction of the humble, peaceful, dynamic 1st Century Church… OR

    2. Will he lead his flock in the direction of the 4th century post-Constantine pagan church, with its sick obsession with honorary titles, elaborate rituals, flowing robes and Vatican extravagances?

    The best thing that ever happened to the Church of Rome was (after its long and violent resistance) losing its church-state Empire status in the 19th century. The prior ~15 centuries of Papal domination were absolutely horrible.

  39. @obwandiyag

    Thank you obwandiyag, I thought I was the only idiot in the room who had a tough time making sense of it all.
    I like Michael Hudson but find him curiously inarticulate at times.

  40. Critique says:
    @Iris

    Hudson appears to have deep Trotskyist connections. I also vaguely recall him talking about this in an interview.

    BTW, until now, I thought some of the things he said were OK. But the above is pure drivel, and its alterior motives are all too obvious.

    From Hudson’s wiki page:

    Biography
    Early life and education
    Hudson was born on March 14, 1939,[3] in Minneapolis.[4] His father, Nathaniel Carlos Hudson (1908–2003), received an MBA from the University of Minnesota in 1929.[4] His father joined the trade union struggle, became an active Trotskyist trade unionist, editor of the Northwest Organizer and The Industrial Organizer, and wrote articles for other trade union publications. When Hudson was three years old, his father was jailed “under the Smith Act for advocating the overthrow of the government through force and violence,” according to Hudson.[5] He had been one of the leaders of the Minneapolis general strikes from 1934 to 1936.[4]

    Hudson received his primary and secondary education in a private school at the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools. After his graduation, he entered the University of Chicago with two majors: Germanic philology and history. In 1959, Hudson graduated from the University of Chicago with a bachelor’s degree. After graduation, he worked as an assistant to Jeremy Kaplan at the Free Press in Chicago. He managed to obtain the rights to the English language editions of the works of György Lukács as well as the rights to the archives and works of Leon Trotsky after the death of Trotsky’s widow, Natalia Sedova.[6]

    • Replies: @Iris
  41. Iris says:
    @Poupon Marx

    Thank you Poupon Marx, for succinctly describing how the world really works.

    One gets much more informed insight from your short comment than for millions of pages by Mr Michael Hudson.

    • Replies: @Poupon Marx
  42. Notsofast says:
    @Aragorn

    now in defense of our fearless leader, he was reading that goat story to the first graders. granted they had to help him, with some of the words he was struggling with but he was large and in charge, remember he was the “decider”.

  43. @Steve Penfield

    Donald Day spent twenty-two years in the Baltics as a Chicago Tribune Correspondent. In his book Onward Christian Soldiers, he writes of the poverty he witnessed in Poland when traveling there, yet the Orthodox Catholic Church was ever present, sucking what wealth there was from the Polish people.

  44. @Emil Nikola Richard

    Yes, there were Jewish moneylenders from time immemorial, but was it a thoroughly organized enterprise. Jews being highly involved in trading had capital in their possession -thus money lending existed. Jews could charge interest to non-Jews, but not to fellow Jews. I forget where I read it, but I heard this story of organized banking being first organized by the Venetians and other noble northern Italian families (and Roman as well) rather than the Church alone. I believe the author I read (wish I could remember name) said that the Church waffled on usury for a while, but was fully on board by the Renaissance. I will pose the question about when did Jews get involved in international banking on a larger level? Was it the Rothschilds? I know that Jews were given much more freedom in Britain after Cromwell (1640s-50s) -but where does it put them on the timeline of international banking? Hudson goes on about Orthodoxy, but really was Orthodoxy, after the fall of Constantinople really a threat? Was it any kind of a threat until Peter the Great of Russia?

    • Replies: @Ribald Corello
  45. Notsofast says:
    @Poupon Marx

    agree but as to your last sentence, here’s a comment that i just left, that hasn’t posted yet:

    Behind the scenes, Israeli advisors have trained Indian intelligence and urban combat units, and Israeli cybersecurity firms—some allegedly tied to NSO Group–grade spyware—have helped India track dissent, espionage threats, and insurgent networks. Israel, officially outside both NATO and BRICS, has become a central nervous system in the world’s most volatile flashpoints—from the Golan Heights to Gujarat.

    well there’s your problem right there, as they say the devil is in the details. modi’s duplicitous nature was fully revealed in his support and participation, in the israeli genocide of the people of gaza. this is truly sad, for israel has been revealed to the world, as the genocidal monsters they are. they have lost support for their dark apartheid state all around the world. now they have the chance to buddy up, to a billion hindus and take advantage of their existing hatred of muslims, generated by 800 years of conflict.

    i wouldn’t be surprised if the “terrorist attact”, wasn’t a false flag, staged by the same people that brought you “isis”. this is also playing into the hands of the u.s., that want to destroy brics. perhaps india should be replaced by iran, as the “i” in brics, to insure harmony and stability in the group. modi is a fool, who is hooking his wagon to a dying horse, as evidenced by his rafales all being shot down before they could come into the range of their pathetic mica missiles.

    i fear the worst for india, sadly. here’s a link to that article:

    https://www.unz.com/article/from-farmers-to-firepower/

  46. Pythas says:
    @One Nobody

    That’s right value is subjective, internal. A rap record by some inner city hood rat has absolutely no value to me and never will. So at least you know something about the subjective value theory from the Austrian school. Very good. As far as the Roman church, or jew synagogue, or muslim mosque these religions are nothing but corporations now who by the way always need money. Give us money, gives us, give us, give us…

  47. Pythas says:
    @Poupon Marx

    Ya and the kikes did this by controlling that central bank or banks and the money printing press (thank you Gutenberg the German for creating the printing press). The jews can be stopped these kikes are not and I repeat not invincible. All one country has to do is quarantine them from owning any property or business in said country. Perfect example, National Socialists Germany in the 1930’s and 1940’s. There’s the template to follow…

  48. Rich says:

    My understanding is that this Hudson guy is formally educated. That he could be so totally miseducated shows our universities are putting out total garbage. I’m sure this character was his teachers’ pet, repeating all their nonsense and lies. This article was so thoroughly inaccurate that I had to read through it like I was staring at a horrible accident. This is what we’re up against. We may be doomed.

  49. Mefobills says:
    @inspector general

    It was the Jews. The Aiparu were already super money powered by the time of the axial Bronze Age when the old testament was written.

    Hudson leaves these traveling merchants out of account. The money power came from their tons of metal money won at usury. Silver would fetch 3X the gold in India.

    Think of it like a battery. The east west mechanism of usury was controlled by the highwaymen who controlled the overland routes. The Christian church in many ways is a reaction against the Haibaru. So is Islam. Mecca and Medina were entrepot cities on the routes.

    • Replies: @DustyBuddy
  50. AntiMason says:
    @Danvil

    Most people here are OK with usury as long as it is done by Catholics. Fink does not practice usury btw. He manages an investment fund. Mostly invest in stocks. Most money come from small savers.

  51. G. Poulin says:
    @Jim H

    The Pelagians were Christians who thought you had to actually do something to get saved, instead of hoping that when God plays eenie-meeny-miney-moe, he picks you. They were opposed by Augustine, the inventor of the ludicrous “grace alone” doctrine based on an ignorant mis-reading of the letters of Saint Paul.

    • Replies: @werpor
  52. Iris says:
    @Critique

    Hudson appears to have deep Trotskyist connections. I also vaguely recall him talking about this in an interview.

    BTW, until now, I thought some of the things he said were OK. But the above is pure drivel, and its ulterior motives are all too obvious.

    This is my personal and very limited recollection of discussions undertaken on the UR.
    At some point, in view of the Israeli barbarity towards Palestinians, commenters started deriding the traditional Leftist position claiming that “poor Israel was only the instrument of American imperialism in the Middle East“. This lead to an article on the subject by Diana Johnstone, where she chose Mr Michael Hudson as exemplifying the intellectuals defending this thesis.
    https://www.unz.com/article/the-debate-over-israel-as-us-aircraft-carrier/

    But the more the Gaza genocide progressed, the more this thesis appeared for what it is: either a pathetic delusion or a wicked cover-up.
    Biden was bowing to a crime that was costing the Democrats their re-election to the White House, while every other Western country supporting Israel was now their de facto accomplice at the ICJ Gaza Genocide case.

    In view of the blatant, which is that Israel controls and defines the USA’ foreign policy for its own goals, agaisnt America’s soft power, global image and national interest, public commenters started showing the same intellectual integrity displayed by Pr John Mearsheimer since 2007. Honest analysts started openly recognising that the Israeli tail wags the American dog.

    So Mr Hudson came up with an article detailing his version of reality, where he first casually disclosed his long-term association with Israeli interests:

    I think I should start with my own background, because 50 years ago, in 1974, I was working with the Hudson Institute, with Herman Kahn, and my colleagues there were a number of Mossad agents who were being trained. Uzi Arad was there, and he became the head of Mossad and is currently the main advisor to Benjamin Netanyahu.

    And then more importantly, he managed to squeeze in, yet again, his twisted version of reality, where Israel is still the tool of American imperialism:

    For the United States, what they wanted was the oil reserves in the Middle East. And again and again, I heard the phrase, ‘you’re our landed aircraft carrier in Israel’.

    https://www.unz.com/mhudson/the-truth-about-the-destruction-of-gaza/

    What beggars belief, in view of the insane massacre of Gaza children, broadcast in broad daylight, is why is this old man still using his small intellectual authority to defend the indefensible.

    • Thanks: Notsofast
  53. Skeptikal says:
    @obwandiyag

    I agree.

    In this case I think the main problem is the interviewer, who does not zero in when Hudson starts to wander, and ask the right questions to make Hudson reframe and focus his arguments more clearly.

    Quite a lot of the time I had no idea whom Hudson was actually talking about—unclear antecedents, or no antecedents.

    And who the heck was Henry III? Never heard of him. Well, he had a lot of trouble with the barons, which Hudson talks about, but Hudson assumes we all know who Henry III was.
    Here is Google AI’s response to the question “Who was Henry III of England?”

    Henry III was the King of England who ruled from 1216 to 1272, the son and successor of King John. He was the first child king in England after the Norman Conquest. Despite his long reign, he faced numerous challenges, including the Barons’ War and ongoing disputes with the barons over taxation and his foreign policy. Henry III is known for rebuilding Westminster Abbey in the Gothic style and for being forced to establish an early form of Parliament during his reign.
    Here’s a more detailed look:
    Key Facts:

    Reign: 1216-1272

    Father: King John
    Age at Accession: Nine years old
    Challenges: Barons’ War, disputes over taxation, foreign policy failures, including the attempt to conquer Sicily
    Accomplishments: Rebuilding Westminster Abbey, establishment of an early form of Parliament, charitable donations
    Legacy: Often portrayed as a weak and indecisive ruler, but England prospered under his long reign, according to the New World Encyclopedia.

    Notable Events:

    The Barons’ War: .

    Faced immediate conflict with rebellious barons due to his father’s unpopular rule and failure to uphold the Magna Carta.
    Failed Campaigns in France:
    .
    Attempts to reclaim Angevin lands in France led to financial strain and further conflict with the barons.
    Provisions of Oxford and Westminster:
    .
    Barons forced Henry to agree to reforms that limited his power and established a council of advisors, marking a significant step towards the development of Parliament.
    Second Barons’ War:
    .
    The king’s continued disregard for the Provisions of Oxford and his reliance on French advisors led to a second revolt under Simon de Montfort, who even captured Henry.
    Westminster Abbey:
    .
    Henry III is credited with rebuilding the abbey in the new Gothic style and establishing it as a major religious and political center.

  54. MarylinM says:

    If the entire purpose of forming a sovereign nation under a common Constitution is to
    “… promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity”, then why would that nation allow itself to be taken over by a private money syndicate? Wasn’t then the 1913 coup a treason by the people’s Representatives in Congress? And wasn’t Woodrow Wilson, installed as President specifically for his idealistic naiveté, ruthfully abused? And would that not be a just, sufficient and a complete, cause to dismiss Congress in its entirety, and in perpetuity, and replace the Indirect Democracy model it epitomizes, with a Direct Representation model via personal electronic device ? A model that was not technologically available in 1913, but is now readily available to all, and available world wide ? After all, bribing 300 mln people armed with phones and AI, is infinitely more expensive, than bribing 400+ maleable career politruks. No private money syndicate could manage such enormous cost, especially in an open, instant messaging, forum. More so, Direct Representation will naturally incentivize popular participation in the nation’s collective management, that the Indirect Representation now so effectively disincentivizes.

    And isn’t the “money” merely a lubricant to enable commerce, and thus to “promote the general Welfare”? The entire planet knows this by now as the Modern Money Theory – an observation that inflation is not a calamity we were taught to avoid like death, but merely a collateral effect of money flow. The flood of “credit” after the 2008 boo-boo proving all that in affirmative, both in US, and especially so in China, where ” cat color don’t matter, only if it catch mice”.

    The time is now.

    Mazel Tov

  55. joe Webb says:
    @Notsofast

    real good comment.

    As an ex leftie, ani-com faction, I have never taken anything Hudson says as nothing more than leftist economic cant.

    What the Left has to say about economics is always suspect.

    Hudson is probably a Jew, although you don’t have to be a jew to be nuts, but it helps.

    To write anything these days, there is always a Jewish question to be addressed. Hudson does not address… Ergo, Hudson is a jew.

  56. frankie p says:
    @Fin of a cobra

    Thank you. Excellent comparison. Most enlightening.

  57. Mefobills says:

    Economists don’t talk about debt, they don’t talk about finance, they don’t talk about interest, or how it began at all, because it didn’t begin in the private sector. It was the Catholic Church that created and sponsored the first international banking in the 12th and 13th Century.

    The first private banks were ships bobbing at anchor, and they would put out a lantern, to let borrowers know they were open for business. This was before Christianity. It’s true, economists are usually functionaries and apologists of the system they operate within.. The first banks were state banks… the Temple priests in the barley cults e.g. Sumer (also before Christianity).

    https://www.unz.com/mhudson/the-delphic-oracle-was-their-davos/#comment-3141839

    The above link was in response to a Hudson article in 2019.

    To borrow the talents, you had to row out to the ship acting as a bank. This would be Jew-debts from the Aiparu who had ton’s of gold already by this time in history. The g0d-king city states were out-maneuvered by the merchant. Gold was international money, as it could be melted down and spirited out of the country. So, while this wasn’t double entry private debt creation, it was still gold debts that couldn’t be paid. The debt claims grew outside of nature, and thus people were put into debt slavery.

    __________________________ reprint from link above:

    What Hudson doesn’t talk about are triangular flow of debts between Persia, Sparta, Babylon.

    It goes like this: Babylon makes loans to Persia, payable at a high rate of 33 1/3 %. After paying back the principle, Persia found she could not keep up with compounding interest, payable in Gold. Commerce grinds to a halt in Persia. King Cyrus of Persia went to war against Babylon 536BC and won and recovered the gold.

    Persia then spends its conquered gold and there is a flash of economic activity. New cities, new armies, new industries, and this flood of wealth sent Persian merchants to Greece.

    Greeks want Persian wares, so they borrow with the promise of returning the loans plus INTEREST.

    In 412 BC Sparta borrowed 5,ooo talents from Persia to build warships. In 405 BC, Lysander of Sparta used these ships to destroy the whole Athenian fleet, which was attacked while drawn up on a beach.

    This then made Sparta the number 1 economy in Greece, on borrowed gold. Sparta also had its internal money, the peleanor, which was iron disks dipped in vinegar. However, the external debts in gold were compounding.

    When Sparta conquered Athens, she TRANSFERRED THE DEBTS, to Athens. Greeks really began killing Greeks at this point in time.

    Usury based money makes populations go insane.

    In 336 BC Alexander noticed the treasury was empty, so he attacked Persia. Persia had the gold from her interest charges on Athens. Alexander’s Grecian phalanx won against the Persians, gained an empire, and also millions in talents of gold from Darius’s banks and temples.

    Rome also was a usury empire as Hudson points out, it had to conquest to pay the debts to its oligarchy. After the second Punic war, this went into overdrive, especially as Rome adopted precious metal money as its money type.

    _______________

    This history of man is that of the kings having their head up their rectum. Or, the King’s economic advisors have their head up inside of their rectum; witness Trump and his advisors giving bad advice.

    Kings don’t realize that all money within their kingdom, is the sovereign right of the king. This immense money power means that Kings don’t have to put up with all sorts of crap, including bad behavior from the church. Money is law, not gold.

    A good example of an ignorant king – is Putin not having nationalized the Russian central bank, and leaving Nabiullina in place. Or, the U.S., allowing itself be hoaxed and jewed in the 1912 election, thus overturning the republic. The U.S. became finance capitalist after 1912.

  58. @inspector general

    Jones would take Hudson’s head off in debate. Let’s hope it happens. Hudson can argue all he wants with cherry-picked data, but let’s let mankind decide whether the Jews are rightfully categorized down through all ages by the OED definition of “to jew,” meaning to overcharge, underpay, chisel, and cheat. Such fine people, the Jews.

    Going back to Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice, the Jews were rightfully viewed as evil. The Venetian ghetto wasn’t a prison, but a heavily fortified enclave protecting the Jews from recriminations for their depradations against the most vulnerable people, those hopelessly in debt to the Jews. Let’s move forward to post-WW I and the same Jews repossessing the farms of German soldiers who died on the battlefield, throwing the wife and children into the street. Gaza is not some anomaly, but what the Jews are really all about.

    • Replies: @werpor
  59. Ed Case says:
    @Danvil

    Depending on where you live, you’ll be getting a few hundred to a few hundred thousand Gazans moving in pretty soon.
    When they’re stealing the washing off your clothesline and climbing through your windows, keep telling yourself:

    These are an oppressed people, Jews bad!

  60. Odyssey says:

    A few details in the interview shed a little more light on what the mainstream is hiding. The Vatican is a mafia organization that separated from the mother church and by its nature is trying to conquer new territories, i.e. the whole world.

    In doing so, it uses all means, genocides, extermination and enslavement of peoples, creation of artificial nations, by provoking wars. For the first time, we hear that the main goal of the Vatican was the destruction of Orthodoxy, which is still relevant today.

    At one point, they even succeeded. Faced with the Ottoman threat to Europe, they blackmailed Orthodoxy, took over all the churches and introduced the Catholic sermon in Constantinople, which was supported by both the emperor and the patriarch of Constantinople, and all the Orthodox churches signed their own abolition.

    Only the Serbs did not send a representative to the Council of Florence, which was later heard of, and the uprisings of the people in Constantinople began, and over time, one by one the Orthodox churches withdrew their signature on their own self-abolition. Therefore, the primary goal of the Vatican is the destruction of the Serbs as a nation, and they have been doing so for several generations, inspiring Croats and Germans to do so at every convenient historical opportunity.

    The paradox is, or perhaps not, that it was precisely the Serbs who were crucial for the development of Christianity and its existence as a world religion, because they were the first to persecute Christians (emperor Decius, who was the first to systematically persecute Christians, Diocletian, who was the most fierce), tolerated Christianity (emperor Galerius with the Edict of Toleration), Constantine and Licinius, who issued the Edict of Milan to legalise the Christianity, St. Jerome, who was the first to translate the Bible into Latin, which is still used, Justinian, who built the largest churches, Martin Luther, who started Protestantism.

    We follow the Vatican’s conquest of territories and the destruction of Orthodoxy in southern Italy, the destruction of Orthodoxy in England. The destruction in France is not mentioned, but there is an attempt to destroy Serbia (Hudson says – where Yugoslavia was).

    In addition to the financial domain, the Vatican has also destroyed the spiritual sphere, such as history, where we have countless forgeries that even readers on the unz consider mainstream and react very frustrated when something appears that is not in accordance with their indoctrinated matrix. Now we have a personal and organizational union of the Vatican and Zionist circles that have a common strategy in conquering the world.

    • Agree: Hulkamania
  61. Mefobills says:
    @Fin of a cobra

    Pound’s lexicon is austere: usury is any receipt for no work performed, any claim on the future that is not redeemed by present labor. Hence his axiom in ABC of Economics: “Money is a receipt for work done. Usury is a receipt for no work at all.”

    Silvio Gesell’s definition of usury is good too. Gesell defines usury as a power relationship. The usurer is extracting life energy via a superior power relation. Since creditors are over debtors in power, then creditors are usurers. Creditors create debts, and the word debt and sin were synonymous in languages at the time of Jesus. All monetary debt/credit relations should be pre- examined by law, to determine usury, prior to the contract being signed. The Venetians did this before they became corrupted (about the time of Jew entry in Venice, when the Arsinoe canal was dredged). They would examine all contracts and determine who held the risk, and how credits and debts would play out..

    Gesell goes on to describe a situation where a gold holder is out-waiting a producer of goods and wares. The goods are perishable. Let’s say they are eggs. The egg producer become more desperate over time, to sell his perishable wares, and hence is lowering his prices. The holder of the gold coin, which is shiny and does not rust, is in the power position. The gold holder retreats and waits for the low price. The power relation is simply the nature of a noble metal (doesn’t rust) vs perishable goods. Time does not rust gold. Gesell thus comprehends time as a component of usury.

    Civilizational usury was done by the Aipaur/Haibaru/Jew on the trade routes. The people of the west were worked to death in the silver mines, so the merchant could spirit sliver out of the west, to then take usury arbitrage of 3X on the trade routes. The excess gold/silver now pocketed would go to pay “toughs” to protect the routes. This is a power relation, where the taking of life energy (people working to death in the mines), vectors to a hidden pick pocket (the Haibaru), slicing of exchange rate arbitrage for him and his crime family. This is civilizational usury, draining the West and the east: Indus valley.

    This sort of bad behavior can exist in all civilizations, as man is a rent seeking animal. It takes a King and his enlightened/selected cadre, to then work as god’s agents on earth. The divine right of kings was abrogated when the Jew invented corporatocracy, dethroning the Kings, and making themselves hidden rulers/creditors. It didn’t help when Christianity had become perverted, but usury has existed since forever, even before money was invented.

    Since usury it is a power relation, and creditor is over debtor; then creditors would always attempt to extract rents, as much as they could get. HEY, your daughter can work in my household as a sex slave – she is young and juicy. Your debt to me is over, once you transfer your daughter into my household.

    The village elder, king, or Temple priests would step in, to balance credits/debts, and prevent sordid gain taking. Perverted Christianity, especially Judeo-Christianity does not have the ability to discern anymore.

    • Agree: Hulkamania
  62. Anonymous[359] • Disclaimer says:
    @Fin of a cobra

    DOCUMENTARY ON THE HISTORY OF USURY/ CENTRAL BANKING…https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZyQbNl6Dss

  63. Big Z says:
    @Iris

    Agree with that👍

  64. @Odyssey

    The personal and organizational union you’re referring to is already in existence between Serbia and Israel, both of them are fraudulent countries pushing holocaust narratives to oppress their neighbors.

  65. @Steve Penfield

    “The Catholic Church is this perpetually defeated thing, that always winds up vanquishing its enemies.”

    This includes enemies such as Pope Francis (Bergolio the Marxist), or any other Pope. Incredibly, it includes Unz “inta-leck-chuls.” What’s funny about all this “Papist” talk, is that for the grand majority of the 2,000 year old Church, Catholics had no idea who the Pope was. 1958? No regular Joe had any idea who Pope Pius XII was. Zero. It’s only now in the TV-cell phone-Internet-Instagram age that it’s an issue. Oh, brother.

    Of course, it’s the confused Protestants, with their 10,000 different sects, each claiming to be right, that always obsess over the “Papists.” LOL

  66. Anonymous[495] • Disclaimer says:
    @Iris

    The BBC once did a descriptive rating of all religions in the world in which one of the definitive determining criterions was whether divorce was possible, impossible, easy or difficult. And, actually, all conceptions of reality are variants of Dualism and Non-Dualism. Metaphysical Non-Dualism is very difficult to comprehend even theoretically, let alone to actualize, (because you would have to grasp that evil and darkness don’t exist, it only appears that way, and even the world does not exist, it only appears that way). Which is why something like Monism is usually passed off to the unwary as “Non-Dualism” instead of real Non-Dualism. (In Monism, a neutral God creates both good and evil, as he likes.)

    Dualism, on the other hand, is instantly clear to the simple minded, like Freud (a Jewish radical Dualist), or Jung (a Christian relative Dualist). In radical Dualism, there is light and darkness, good and evil, but, in realized Manichaeism, darkness and evil are not merely the absence of light, but an existential Anti-Light, and evil is an active substance, which exists on its own. In other words, evil, in Dualism/Manichaeism, is divine. A reality in itself. In that state of mind you could have a flashlight which produces darkness, and in modern science, (which, unlike traditional science, is Dualism), you do (“Dark holes,” “Anti-matter,” and lead can be transmuted into gold). And when a person “understands” Dualism, and thinks that Evil is one of two gods, he has an “enlightenment” experience in which he thinks everything has now become clear to him. He is an Illuminati. Also known as “indoctrination.”

    The epitome of Dualism, its supreme manifestation, is classical Manichaeism, which, in its derived forms, such as Southern Baptists, Mormons, Calvinists, Shi`ism, Tibetan Buddhism, is the most wide-spread religion in the world today. Or, in its non-religious, progressive form, for rationalists, which is Communism (or “Existentialism” or “Freudiansm”). In Manichaeism there is a god of Good, and a god of Evil (although Faustus denied to Augustine that that was what Manichaeans actually believed. It only looked that way, according to him. Which, you will note, is an irony.) In Marxism the two gods are Thesis and Anti-Thesis, and their interaction is the “Laws of Dialectical Materialism.”

    A hundred years after Mani, who had been received by Shah Shapur in 242 AD as a useful agent of development for the Sassanid state, was thrown into prison, where he died, by a successor king, Bahram, under the influence of a Zoroastrian priest, Kartir, Manichaeism split into two groups. The two groups are: those who said you could have Manichaeism in one kingdom within an unregenerate world and those who said you could not have real Manichaeism anywhere until you have Manichaeism everywhere. This split always occurs. Again and again. (Fatimids, Stalinists: “Communism in one country”) and the “Pure” (Qarmatis, Trotskyites: no Communism without “World Revolution,” just preparatory slaughter of “reactionary” elements.) And then the Trotskyites became Neocons. They are not “conservatives.” For them, it is not a perfect world, until everyone can change their gender every day, which, for them, is “Real Freedom.” Are they conservatives?

  67. Odyssey says:
    @TruthEnjoyer

    My truth is a little lower so you’ll need knee pads. Enjoy, you have my permission.

    • Replies: @TruthEnjoyer
  68. @craicaassmofo

    Pdf page 5 from the top, reads: 8 Appendix. 1-A Protocol of 1489.

    Pdf document page 5 of 139, from top of the page:
    Appendix. 1-A Protocol from 1489.
    “The Revue des Etudes Juives, financed by James de Rothschild, published in 1880, shows how true Protocols are, are in saying that the learned elders of Zion have carrying out their plans for centuries. On January 13, 1489, Chemor, Jewish rabbi of Arles in Provence, France, wrote to the Great Sanhedrin in Constantinople for advice”. This was his reply: (condensed).
    “The advice of the great satraps and rabbis is:
    – Become Christians, but keep the laws of Moses in your hearts.
    – Make your sons merchants that they may despoil the Christians.
    – Make your sons and daughters doctors and pharmacists that they may take away Christian lives.
    – Make your sons canons and clerics so that they may destroy their churches.
    – Make your sons advocates and lawyers that you may put Christians under the yoke and dominate the world.
    DO NOT SWERVE FROM THIS ORDER.
    Signed V.S.S.V. F. F., Prince of the Jews, 21. Caslue, (Nov.) 1489”.

  69. @Odyssey

    What meaningful difference is there really between the serb and the jew? They are both subversive ethno-narcissists who cause more trouble than they are worth. Once the jewish holocaust narrative crumbles so will the victim narrative conjured up by the treacherous serbs, both share the same rotten root in post-war propaganda.

    • Replies: @Odyssey
  70. Hudson’s ethno-religious background has as much influence as his trotskyist heritage in his pseud0-historical tirade against the Catholic Church. He identifies with the protestant princes who rebelled against Catholicism as positive agents in the history of economic development. This is despite the fact that the credit these princes acquired came via looting catholic monasteries, this is the true source of they’re ability to conjure up credit for either war or banking.

    This intentional obfuscation is particularly galling as it explicitly contradicts established marxist orthodoxy. Marx himself credits these catholic monasteries with enriching the peasant class and eventually allowing enough wealth concentration to allow the emergence of a middle class. Hudson doesn’t even have enough integrity as a communist to make this distinction.

    Hudson and his protestant brethren lack the guts to admit that they could not think of any other use of this rich heritage other than using this stolen capital to fund an international capitalist reign of terror that is sustained by immiserating their kinsmen in unrepayable debt. To admit this truth is to admit how inadequate they really are.

  71. @Emil Nikola Richard

    Hudson makes sense in a few areas, and in other areas he will always be a kook who serves exactly what it is he thinks he opposes.

    Anybody who thinks Rabbinic Judaism was not operating on the worst possible usury all through th decline of the Western Roman Empire and then throughout the Dark Ages, when Jews began gravitating in large numbers to live among and near al Germanic tribes, who somehow keep finding money to keep building new pirate ships, is invincibly ignorant. That Jewish drive to cozy up to all things Germanic, while opposing all things ‘Roman,’ was so defining that over a few centuries Yiddish, which is nothing but Jewish Saxon – Jews devising their ethnic dialect of German, became the international language of Jewry. And Jewry has never stopped finding Germanic tribes/ national cultures to finance via usury to wage war against – well, the world.

    • Replies: @Odyssey
  72. @inspector general

    The reality is that it was both the papist cult and the Jews, who have always operated together since the papist cult was formed 1000 years ago. Everywhere the papist cult has spread, it has brought Jews with it.

    • Agree: Odyssey
  73. Odyssey says:
    @TruthEnjoyer

    You are clearly one of the Croats who were assigned the dirtiest jobs by the Vatican mafia organization. That is why the Croats are the only genocidal group in the world and I have yet to see a single Croat who has ever acknowledged the Croatian-Catholic genocide of the Serbs. Here are a few more details from a comment that you can read in full:

    https://www.unz.com/article/the-stakes-in-the-2025-papal-conclave/#comment-7102670

    There were 100s of locations in WW2 Nazi Croatia (pit caves, pits, villages, towns, etc.) where Serbs were slaughtered including multiple large extermination camps. Croats even had at least one extermination camp just for Serbian children. Estimates of Serb deaths in the largest, but not the only one, extermination camp called Jasenovac (5 times the size of Auschwitz) according to Gideon Greif [2], were at least 1.4 million. He explained that Serbs were tortured/slaughtered in 57 different ways.

    He also mentioned that the total number is for sure higher as many victims were not buried in mass graves, but rather thrown into Sava river, burned in furnaces, made soap of (yes you read that right – Croats made soap of murdered Serbs), etc. Note that those were extermination camps and not concentration camps, as Croats did not feed the prisoners, since they were brought in to be slaughtered asap.

    According to American WW2 findings/reports, around 1,300 Croatian Catholic priests took direct part in murders, rapes, etc. Yes, you read that right – Croatian Catholic priests slitting throats, raping women and girls, torturing people, etc. as reported by USA WW2 archives.

    These 57 ways of killing Serbs, inspired by the Vatican, can be seen in the following table. Now if you condemn these Croatian crimes I will immediately withdraw my qualification that the Croats are a genocidal group without a single exception.

    View post on imgur.com

    • Replies: @TruthEnjoyer
  74. Odyssey says:
    @Anti-Talmud Former Rabbi

    Yiddish has many German words but it is NOT a dialect of German.
    Go to the neighbouring thread – T.Zaja (Slava Khazaria), read comments about this issue and make your comment.

  75. @Iris

    Like most people on the left (or “the right”), Hudson allows the anti-semitism taboo to cloud his reasoning. They are allowed to criticize “Zionists,” but a switch is flipped in their minds when it comes to extending any criticism to Jews themselves, or even to recognizing Jews as a coherent interest group.

    • Replies: @Mefobills
  76. @Odyssey

    You intransigent serbian subhuman, the communists burned all the official records at the end of the war in order to inflate the suffering of the serbs while covering up atrocities committed against slovenes and croats. Your endless whining is reminiscent of the victim complex shared by the rapacious jews, both of you are haunted by fantastic projections of supposed grievances committed against you fueled by paranoid fantasies that arise from your own dishonesty and projection. The orthodox slavs are experts in endless ethnic moaning and self-victimization, they share these traits with jews, greeks, arabs, and all other orientals.

    This godawful attitude arises from the refusal to participate in the Body of Christ. The refusal of the orthodox laity to obey the orthodox bishops in adhering to the authority of the pope violates the order of heaven. The orthodox laity have therefore ceased to be orthodox, there is no orthodoxy when the laity disobey the careful and loving stewardship of the successors of Christ in the bishops. Today there is only a variety of ethnic mafias who act in rebellion to true orthodoxy, what example have the serbs set other than regicide, disunity, and disobedience?

    Serb you are to obey your betters, your unruly mob of unrepentant traitors are not orthodox. You are a horde of barbarians occupying the seats of orthodoxy while masturbating to fantasies of your lost “greatness”, seeking to achieve “theosis”.

    • Replies: @Anon001
    , @Anon001
  77. @TruthEnjoyer

    That’s funny. The kind of BIG and insane lie always told by the most evil. Like the serpent in the Garden.

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  78. @Odyssey

    And what language group do you assert Yiddish belongs to?

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  79. @TruthEnjoyer

    Is Hudson a self-proclaimed Marxist? Obviously he is not any kind of doctrinaire Marxist.

    Your opening paragraph is one that every person needs to grasp. The Reformation was two things: One is a vehicle for a brilliant but also neurotic and rebellious (because he hated his father) Saxon monk devising a new slogan that he asserted was not merely true but that was the total essence of ‘The Gospel.’ The other, which the Saxon monk seems never to have considered possible and which the Saxon then embraced as necessary to bring the truth to the world, was that a bunch of younger brothers and sons, as well as cousins and nephews, of the titled nobility and the super rich peasants saw the theological and philosophical debates as excuse to take up arms to back the Saxon revolutionary monk on the ground, which then meant they would be able to take from their kin all they wanted, as long as they killed enough people to win battles.

    Obviously, the Reformation won in areas in which its adherents killed the most people and inflicted the most terror on average citizens. And yes, every major Reformation group got some funding from Jews as part of the drive to steal all that they could.

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  80. Critique says:
    @Iris

    Overall, I agree with your assessment, I have the same problem with Chomsky too. On the other hand, I am also in academia, and I know how things work there. A few people are allowed to criticize Israel, as long as they do it the way Hudson does it in your cited passages, or how Chomsky does it, which is the same. It is all about US imperialism, it is not Israel’s fault, and US imperialism has nothing to do either with Israelis, nor Jews living in America. I do not like this, but I am used to it, if Hudson had some reasons behind talking that way, one could explain it away, especially, since it is not one of his commonly discussed topics anyway. Being in academia, I am happy, that these people express SOME criticism of Israel, even if it leaves a lot to be desired (one should not take it too seriously though, especially, since they never identify the root causes).

    The above article, though, takes this behavior to another level, because there are no mitigating circumstances. It is a stupid Trotskyist type, divide and conquer, attack, and is mostly complete drivel.

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  81. @Anti-Talmud Former Rabbi

    Wherever he falls in the marxist spectrum, the pseudo-history he has presented here is a radical break with the established marxist focus on the source of the material wealth of the protestant princes who set into motion the modern capitalist economy. Marx at least decried this injustice, Hudson doesn’t want to admit that his ethnic kinsmen whether capitalist or communist lacked the moral restraint to provide a superior alternative to the Catholic system. Both of them feature suppression of wages leading to economic and demographic stagnation.

  82. Mefobills says:
    @Hulkamania

    Like most people on the left (or “the right”), Hudson allows the anti-semitism taboo to cloud his reasoning. They are allowed to criticize “Zionists,” but a switch is flipped in their minds when it comes to extending any criticism to Jews themselves, or even to recognizing Jews as a coherent interest group.

    Hudson is actually pretty brave. He was receiving death threats when he was an economic advisor to Dennis Kucinich, during a presidential run in 2004/2008.

    But yes, all Americans are subject to intense propaganda from birth, especially about the sanctified nature of the Jew. I’m American, I know by personal experience. We even had Jews come into our public school, to test us on our narrative control programming- to see if we had any bad-think. Conflating the old testament with the new, is done by attaching old and new testaments in the same book. Old Testamentarianism abrogates the new testament. The new testament is supercession, it supersedes the old. Ergo, the two should not be bound in the same book.

    A church that breaks the two books apart will be a step forward in moving the Overton window away from the Jewish grip on American mind space.

    I always place 1650 as a big bang event in history. That is the date which Manessha Ben Israel died, and also when John Winthrop died.

    Manessaha was a champion for the Jewish construct of Finance Capitalism and Corporatocracy. Other elements of this Jewish control scheme was debt slavery banks of issue at hypothecation. The first debt spreading banks, the Wessel banks, coupled with corporate towns, and then corporate control (Dutch East Indies), all came together in a giant Jewish skull Fu#ck on humanity.

    All of the Jewish methods of Kritarchy, Kakistocracy, Debt Slavery, Propaganda, Xenocracy, and Finance Oligarchy came together in one place at one time. Manessah was especially effective at propaganda using the first printing presses. He also scourged dissenters against the new control scheme, such as Spinoza.

    By contrast, John Winthrop invented Industrial Capitalism, and notions of “General Welfare.” The created labor money, bills of credit – issued by treasury. Then they invented the first sector approach to economy.

    China uses industrial capitalism, and before them was the Kaiser/Hitler, and before them was the inventors.

    Hudson is also wrong, on attributing the physiocrats with industrial capitalism. It is simply not true. A real truth can stand up to assaults.

    So, OK – Hudson is wrong on many things. But, lets be sanguine about it, he also is correct on many things, and has a large body of work that is of very high importance. Others, can then parcel out his work, and distill it down to hardened truth, especially in the coming centuries.

    The Jews will kill you if you attack them directly. If you have money power, it is a simple matter of deploying your paid-for agents.

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  83. @Critique

    It is all about US imperialism, it is not Israel’s fault, and US imperialism has nothing to do either with Israelis, nor Jews living in America.

    Hudson has never reduced the conflict to just U.S. imperialism or absolved the Israelis of responsibility. Here’s what he says:

    “So, the genocide that you’re seeing today is an explicit policy, and that was a policy of the forefathers, the founders of Israel. The idea of a land without people was a land without Arabs in it, the land without non-Jewish people. That’s really what it meant. They were to be driven out starting even before the official funding of Israel, the first Nakba, the Arab Holocaust. And the two of the Israeli prime ministers were members of the Stern gang of terrorists. The terrorists became the rulers of Israel. They escaped from British jail and they joined to found Israel. So, what you’re seeing today is the final solution to this plan. And the founders of Israel were so obsessed with the Nazis, essentially, they wanted to do to them what they did to us, is how they explained it to people…

    For the United States, what they wanted was the oil reserves in the Middle East. And again and again, I heard the phrase, you’re our landed aircraft carrier in Israel. Uzi Arad, the future Mossad head, would be very uncomfortable at this because he wanted Israel to be run by the Israelis. But they realized that for Israel to get by with the money that it needed for its balance of payments, it had to be in a partnership with the United States…

    So I think I want to make it clear that this is not simply an Israeli war against Hamas. It’s an American-backed Israeli war. Each of them have their own objectives. Israel’s objective is to have a land without non-Jewish population. And America’s aim is to have Israel acting as the local coordinator, as it has been coordinating the work with ISIS and the ISIS commanders to turn them against targets provided by the United States.

    Basically, that’s the duopoly that’s been created.”

    https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2024/04/michael-hudson-the-truth-about-the-destruction-of-the-palestinians.html

  84. @Mefobills

    I have an academic background, an engineering empirical and concrete background, and a lifelong cultural anthropology field observer background. I consume large amounts of information of various subjects regularly and connect information relationally across many disciplines.

    I find many intellectuals like Hudson, the Classical This or Than, The This School or That boring, tedious, slippery clutches that create heat but little actual work. I interpret events, trends and broad phenonmena in ways and method that suits the data and info, AND gives it meaning.

    What doesn’t work for me are abstractions, nomenclature that is arbitrary, and more abstractions that are derived from previous abstractions. That creates sandcastles without foundations of cause-effect, validation, and relatable events. Better are the uses of analogy, parallels, relations, and intersecting vectors. The very common and useful methods of the Orient.

    What determines human generation of ideas that generate actions?
    -Power. What will be the advantage and gain for me [singular or plural].
    -Freedom from pain and suffering.
    -Wealth accumulation
    -Authority and respect
    -Altruism. The most unreliable to qualify and quantify due to ulterior and inferior motives that frequently are attendant.

    [MORE]

    Academics and intellectuals are the last to be counted and relied upon, because they lack experience of trial and error, experiment and failure, modifying ideas when Reality jams the gears, etc., etc.
    Many are endowed and committed to absurd doctrines and ideas whose relevance declined or dissolved solely to buoy a career; so they cling to a thesis like a life raft at sea.

    Reality, which is the Universe known and unknown, is too vast, too complex, too ironic, and too contradictory for finite descriptions and prescriptions, as well as proscriptions. A clear examaple of the scramble brain approach is a poster on here who went native on a Caribbean Island and constantly parroted Pure Liberlatrinism, the Pure Anarchy of zero structure.

    Men strive for recognition, for stature, for standing, for poses of superiority and attention. This is what drives most Ideas and Theses, Plans, Theory Generators. ” I wanna be somebody! I wanna be a boss!!”

    Take all you -isms and shove it. Same with your neo-schmeos.

    Hudson and people like him have never demonstrated Real World competence in actually running an enterprise, business, etc., never met a payroll, a hard deadline where non-performance meant millions of dollars of losses, etc.

    Russia and China are so economically successful because the use common sense, and sense what works, like an engineer or STEM person. [who is honest]. In engineering, dishonesty, sloth and incompleteness almost always reveals itself catastrophically.
    Well, there it is.

    Video Link

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  85. @Iris

    Flash! NATO now engaged in piracy of ships in international waters.

    Video Link

    Obviously, the JUSA knows of this and tacitly approves and pretends it is not a part.

    “In the Vorld today…..” – Henry Kissajerker….only pain and suffering will deter or alter behavior of countries or power centers. Like a retarded overgrown mesomorph school bully, with all brawn and no brains, only a bloody nose, black eyes, and painful blows will alter behavior. It’s what the JUSA needs TO SAVE IT FROM ITSELF; a very painful, destructive event, that it was warned against but nonetheless ignored or invited. This slap in the fact, cold water ice bath will impress the sheep heads across the Fruited Plain and Nutted Mountains, and Sewer Cities.
    “America, America, why did G-d shit on thee?” Because you earned it, and didn’t learn it”

  86. @Anti-Talmud Former Rabbi

    Are you really a former rabbi? Are you now a Christian another believer or an atheist? I was involved with the Israeli ultra-Orthodox Jewish community for 18 years before I was baptized by Methodist missionaries from South Africa. I would be honored if you would look at my writings:
    https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1-NFIb2HgjKE1bJGuv2zRQF0z2fyEVGe1?usp=drive_link
    Mevashir613@gmail.com

  87. @Brooklyn Dave

    Maybe you read the story about organized banking in David Graebers “Debt: The first 5000 years”. If not, you might want to pick the book up. Strongly recommended.

  88. Anon001 says:
    @TruthEnjoyer

    You intransigent serbian subhuman …

    You sound like one deeply disturbed Croat.

    What happened? What ticked you off? Did you find any Orthodox Christian icons together with a baptismal certificate of your great granddad in the attic, showing that he was an Orthodox Christian Serb prior to his forced conversion to Catholicism?

    BTW, will you be attending coming Croatian Nazi singer Thomson rock concert in Contemporary Nazi Croatia (ethnically cleansed, <5% non-Croats)? Have you reserved your seat considering that 500,000 tickets have already been sold?

    In case you do not recall, below are the pictures from his 2007 concert. His lyrics openly praise mass murder of Orthodox Christian Serbs and advocate attack on Serbia!

    [1] 2007 – Croatian Nazi salutes, caps and shirts at 2007 concert of the Nazi singer Marko Perković – Thompson celebrating Croatia’s 1995 mass-murder and expulsion of the Orthodox Christian Serbs
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    [2] 2022 – Croatian Nazi Dinamo Zagreb fans performing the Nazi salute in the streets of Milan. | Twitter
    https://twitter.com/stoolfootball/status/1570092654981009414

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  89. Odyssey says:
    @Anti-Talmud Former Rabbi

    ATFR, it is part of a longer story and should be viewed in a broader context.
    In short, it is related to the origin of the Ashkenazim (who made up 92% of the total number of Jews just before ww2). All mainstream hypotheses (Rhineland, Khazar, Punic and others) are wrong and fall precisely on Yiddish. Attempts to explain it only by genetics have been unsuccessful because contradictory conclusions are obtained.

    Only the so-called Odyssey’s hypothesis provides explanations without logical holes. It includes the so-called Penelope Paradox and the so-called Telemach’s thesis.

    PP, unlike all other hypotheses, explains how the number of Ashkenazim in Europe increased by over 200 times over the course of 5-600 years (which is, by other hypotheses, considered a demographic boom, but which is allegedly natural), while the population growth of Europe was only 7 times, although there were families with many children everywhere.

    The Telemach’s thesis, on the other hand, claims that Yiddish is older than the German language, so impossible that Yiddish is one of the German dialects.

    How (and when) else could it have spread throughout Eastern Europe (there is the nonsense about language replacement)?
    Secondly, what language preceded Yiddish, for which we also have the same nonsense about another language replacement, but even the most aggressive advocates of the Khazar theory (your antipode, an indoctrinated goyim,Anti-Talmud Current Rabbito), cannot come up with a single meaningful half-sentence.

    We will politely wait for Ron to correct the errors in his Punic theory before we approach the author of OH and ask him to present his theory.

  90. Anon001 says:
    @TruthEnjoyer

    The refusal of the orthodox laity to obey the orthodox bishops in adhering to the authority of the pope violates the order of heaven.

    You mean an unholy sea of Catholic heretics, schismatics, pederasts and molesters [1][2][3][4][5][6]?

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    [1] Cardinal Dolan and Bishop Barres – looking so into each other (Vatican, Nov 15, 2019) – YouTube (3 mins 6 sec)

    Video Link

    [2] The Cardinal Cover-Up: Joseph Sciambra interviews Catholic priest abuse survivor Chris O’Leary | YouTube

    Video Link
    [3] Google Search: Movie Spotlight
    https://www.google.com/search?q=(movie%20OR%20film)%20spotlight

    Spotlight is a 2015 American biographical drama film based on true events. The film follows The Boston Globe’s Spotlight newspaper investigative journalist unit team, and its investigation into a decades-long coverup of widespread and systemic child s*x abuse by numerous priests of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston.

    [4] Sacrificed by Chris O’Leary | Catholic priest abuse survivor
    https://anchor.fm/sacrificed

    Sacrificed is a survivor’s eye view of the Catholic *** abuse crisis that picks up where SPOTLIGHT left off, answering the question, “And then what happened?” Hosted by survivor Chris O’Leary, Sacrificed explores his efforts to get help from the Archdiocese of St. Louis, the Catholic Church, and the Pope. Efforts that, despite the PA grand jury report and VOS ESTIS, proved fruitless. It’s a story many Catholics won’t want to hear, but must be told. Because, if the Catholic Church can do what it’s done to survivors, what else can it justify doing? Rationalize? To innocent children most of all.

    [5] Chris O’Leary Twitter | Catholic priest abuse survivor
    https://twitter.com/IvanDOesnot

    [6] The Corrupter of Boys: S*d*my, Scandal, and the Medieval Clergy (The Middle Ages Series): Dyan Elliott | ISBN 0812252527 | Amazon Books
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  91. Mefobills says:
    @Poupon Marx

    I have an academic background, an engineering empirical and concrete background, and a lifelong cultural anthropology field observer background. I consume large amounts of information of various subjects regularly and connect information relationally across many disciplines.

    You are still a midwit, on the sociopathic spectrum… a slightly more intelligent version of Truth Vigilante. The weight of your words is all that matters, and your having to qualify yourself implies low self esteem… you have to build yourself up. Its obvious you were never really successful despite your pronouncements.

    I find many intellectuals like Hudson, the Classical This or Than, The This School or That boring, tedious, slippery clutches that create heat but little actual work. I interpret events, trends and broad phenonmena in ways and method that suits the data and info, AND gives it meaning.

    Nobody cares that you find intellectuals boring. This is you elevating yourself again, as if you are more than them.

    Your only job on these boards is to elevate others, not tear them down with ad-hominems – and certainly not to self-aggrandize.

    You are a classic asshole. See book at link below for detecting your type. Don’t worry though, all the comments here at UNZ will be scraped and sorted by an AI, and your personality profile will come up with warnings.

  92. @Anon001

    The Ustashe movement was a reaction to serbian oppression of croation identity. It is unfortunate that it remains a cultural force in crotia today, but the serbs set the standard through their constant appeals to the mob. The Ustashe movement is a rival to the Catholic Church, the bishops would chastise priests for placing the Ustashe flag on the altar. The Serbian gang through their intransigence inspire similar movements in the groups they oppress, be it the Ustashe or islam.

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  93. Odyssey says:
    @Mefobills

    a slightly more intelligent version of Truth Vigilante.

    If you had said that earlier, I would have run in and (pre-emptively) defended him with my fists without asking any questions, regardless of the fact that he is a bulgarophile (in his environment, it is considered cool to be a moron, fair dinkum) and an anti-talmud current rabbito, who has no idea about the outcome of the ww1, but now, unfortunately, I have to reluctantly agree with you…
    By the way, you can learn something about Jung and his view of Nazism-tulipism from PM.

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  94. Odyssey says:
    @TruthEnjoyer

    During a tour of Serbian villages in Dalmatia, Italian General Alexandro Luzano had the opportunity to see first-hand how Serbs were suffering from the Ustasha dagger, and he wrote a letter to Benito Mussolini in which he described the atrocities of Pavelić’s “Aryans”.

    General Alessandro Luzano writes to Mussolini:

    “Dear Duke,

    My boundless loyalty to you, I hope, gives me the right to depart from strict military protocol in some respects. That’s why I’m in a hurry to describe an event that I personally attended three weeks ago.

    While visiting the counties of Stolac, Čapljina and Ljubinje (between 60 and 130 km north of Dubrovnik) – I learned from our intelligence officers that Pavelić’s Ustaše, the previous day, had committed a crime in a village (Prebilovci), and that, when word got out, they would , the surrounding Serbs to be disturbed again.

    I lack words to describe what I found there. In a large school classroom, I found a murdered teacher and 120 of her students! No child was older than 12! Crime is an inappropriate and naive word. It was beyond all madness!

    [MORE]

    They cut off the heads of many and arranged them on the students’ desks. The Ustashas pulled out the intestines from the dismembered entrails and, like New Year’s ribbons, stretched them under the ceiling and nailed them into the walls! The swarm of flies and the unbearable stench did not allow us to stay there longer. I noticed an open bag of salt in the corner and realized to my horror that they were slaughtering them slowly, salting their necks! And just as we were leaving, a child’s cooing was heard in the back pew. I’m sending two soldiers to see what’s up. They brought out one student, he was still alive, he was breathing with his larynx cut in half! I take that poor child to our military hospital in my car, we bring him back to consciousness and we learn the full truth about the tragedy from him.

    The criminals first, on a shift, raped a Serbian teacher (her name is Stana Arnautović) and then killed her in front of the children. They also raped eight-year-old girls. During all that time, an orchestra of gypsies brought in by force sang and beat tambourines!

    To the eternal shame of our Roman church, a man of God, a pastor, participated in all this! The boy we rescued recovered quickly. And as soon as the wound healed, due to our carelessness, he escaped from the hospital and went to his village to look for his relatives. We sent a patrol after him, but in vain; they found him slaughtered on the threshold of the house! Of the thousand or so souls in the village, there is no one left! On the same day, we discovered this later, when the crime was committed in the school, the Ustasha captured another 800 inhabitants of the village of Prebilovci and threw them all into a pit or killed them in animalistic fashion on the way to the pit. Only about 300 men were saved. They were the only ones who managed to break through the Ustasha ring around the village and escape to the mountains! Those 300 survivors are stronger than Pavelic’s most elite division. Everything they had to lose they lost! Children, wives, mothers, sisters, houses, property. They are even freed from the fear of death. The meaning of their life is only in revenge, in their terrible revenge is, in a way, shame that they survived! And Herzegovina, Bosnia, Lika, Dalmatia are full of such villages, such as Prebilovci.

    The massacres of Serbs reached such proportions that many water sources were polluted in those regions. From a spring in Popovo Polje, not far from the pit into which 4,000 Serbs were thrown, reddish water gushed out, I saw it for myself! An indelible stain will fall on the conscience of Italy and our culture, if, while there is time, we do not distance ourselves from the Ustasha and prevent us from being accused of supporting insanity!”

    After such events, the Italian army came to the protection of Serbian life and expelled the Ustasha from Istria and Dalmatia.

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  95. @Odyssey

    How do you get Serb Martin Luther?

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  96. @Odyssey

    The serbs allied with the italians in the occupied territories in order to undermine the croats. The testimony you have quoted here cannot be corroborated due the destruction of all official records and likely fabrication of evidence by the communist party assisted by the serbian church. This is likely another fantastic projection in the same vein as the Israelis whining about supposed “rapes” committed by Hamas on October 7.

  97. Odyssey says:
    @Emil Nikola Richard

    The original surname Ljutić (from – ljut, angry = hot), a great tribe from which Leibniz also descended. True, like all converts (just look at this TruthEnjoyer) he was a great Serbophobe. Ljutici can be seen on every map of Germany from the Middle Ages.

    Serbs were also Catherine the Great (on maps – from Zerbst, i.e. Serb), Bismarck, etc. If you know (no one knows!) when the Germans crossed the Rhine River (also a Serbian name) and entered present-day Germany, then everything else is logical (e.g. all the old toponyms in present-day Germany were Serbian, just like the term ‘German’ itself, which no one knows). Berlin was founded and named by Serbs (Germans came 6-700 years later).

    The dynastic houses of Hohenzollern and Mecklenburg, Duchies and Kings of Prussia are also of Serbian origin.

    All this is the best-kept secret on the unz that causes huge nervousness among the Panzers (aka fake Aryans and fake Goths). Lol.

    On the picture is a statue of Niklot in Schwerin who was a prince of the Serbian tribe Bodrići and the ancestor of the House of Mecklenburg (ruled until 1918).

    View post on imgur.com

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  98. Anon001 says:
    @TruthEnjoyer

    The Ustashe movement is a rival to the Catholic Church …

    More lies and fiction from Nazi Croatia? You should change your alias to LiesEnjoyer.

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    According to American WW2 findings and reports, around 1,300 Croatian Catholic priests took direct part in the genocide of the Orthodox Christian Serbs (aka the Vatican’s Holocaust) [1], i.e. in murders, rapes, torture, etc., along with Ustashe. Catholic Croats and Bosnian Muslims started the slaughter after Ante Pavelic [2] and his crew came back from Vatican with the blessing from Pope Pius XII (aka Hitler’s Pope).

    According to the reports German Nazi officers themselves compiled, the ones stationed in Nazi Croatia during WW2 [2], close to 2 million Serb civilians were exterminated in the most gruesome and bestial ways in 100s of locations including large extermination camps like Jasenovac, which was 5 times the size of Auschwitz.

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    [1] The Vatican’s Holocaust (The Genocide of the Serbian People in WW2) by Avro Manhattan. Read it to understand why it was put on Vatican’s Forbidden Books List (Index Librorum Prohibitorum).

    • HTML #1: https://www.reformation.org/holocaus.html
    • HTML #2: https://chcpublications.net/Vatican_Holocaust_Croatia.html
    • PDF: https://chcpublications.net/Vatican_Holocaust_Croatia.pdf
    • EPUB: https://chcpublications.net/Vatican_Holocaust_Croatia.epub⬇

    [2] WWII – Independent State of Croatia | Nazi Croatia | NDH – Wikipedia
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent_State_of_Croatia

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  99. @ulithi

    His economic knowledge far outstrips anything Hudson has to offer, every point Hudson has made in this article has been expounded upon in depth in Jones’s expansive book “Barren Metal”.

  100. @Fin of a cobra

    Thanks for that, took me a while to carefully read through it, very well done!

    Maybe you can respond to a few questions/observations.

    Neither Hudson nor Pound, that I have seen, address the fact that nowadays the ‘normal citizen’ is just as keen on ‘getting some ah dat usury’ as rich creditors. I mean in the form of savings accounts….investing in bonds either directly or via a pension fund of some kind. A sizeable percentage of the middle class citizenry would strongly object to having THEIR interest illegal-ized. So how is usury, in today’s age, an elites only operation?

    (Hudson also never talks, in his proposal to deter to ‘rent seeking’, about the ubiquitous middle class investing strategy of ‘rent seeking’ in the form of buying an apt on credit, as an investment strategy, and renting it out to pay the mortgage)

    Also, if every demand finds a supply is it not inevitable that the demand for credit will find a supplier who charges interest, even if usury is made illegal? In fact legalizing and codifying interest could be seen as a way of preventing loan sharking types of operations…..

    Finally, if human society is based on organized violence, will not organized violence simply take the wealth if it cannot get it by borrowing? Didn’t the kings used to put their creditors in prison when the kings couldn’t pay their debts?

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  101. Odyssey says:

    The Catholic Crusaders, mentioned by Hudson, sacked the Roman capital of Constantinople. Unprecedented atrocities, murders and rapes were committed and a huge cultural and artistic treasure was stolen.

    The horses of St. Mark were stolen and taken to Milan (pictured below). The Portrait of the Four Tetrarchs, a porphyry sculpture group of four Serbian-Roman emperors dating from around 300 AD. These emperors ruled the entire Roman Empire at that time were also looted (map in the picture).

    The sculptural group has been fixed to a corner of the façade of St Mark’s Basilica in Venice, Italy since the Middle Ages. It formed part of the decorations of the Philadelphion in Constantinople, and was removed to Venice in 1204.

    The sculpture represents 4 Serbian-Roman tetrarchs. Diocletian was the Serbian emperor who initiated the creation of the tetrarchy and appointed Maximian as his co-augustus. Both had their Caesars – Galerius and Constantius I.

    Constantius I was Constantine’s father. Galerius was Diocletian’s son-in-law. Maximian married his elder daughter to Constantius I, (his second wife) and his younger daughter to Constantine himself (also his second wife).

    His son was Maxentius, the governor of Rome who drowned in the Tiber River during the attack of Constantine, who, according to tradition, saw a Christian sign in the sky and heard a voice saying ‘By this conquer‘.

    Maximian tried to usurp power from Constantine, so Constantine chased him across Europe, caught him in Marseilles, and generously allowed him to commit suicide.

    Gallerius was the first to issue the 311 Act of Toleration of Christians and, sensing competition in the young Constantine, had previously provoked him to fight a lion in the arena as a gladiator, which Constantine did and defeated the lion.
    https://i.imgur.com/tb1myRC.png

    The entire Roman Empire was ruled by 4 Serbian emperors:

    View post on imgur.com

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  102. @Anon001

    Again, you are making the similarities between jews ands serbs clearer. You are literally quoting a jewish propagandist in order to support your narrative of serbian victimization. The jewish victim narrative is crumbling due to gaza, once it goes under similar scrutiny will be applied to the fantastic lies of the serbs. They both share the same origin in torture and fabrication concocted by serbs, jews, and communists.

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  103. @Odyssey

    The Greeks acted treacherously in regards to the foreign mercenaries they were hosting, it was another typical example of Greek hubris leading to their own downfall. It was minor when compared to the massacre of the Latins conducted two decades earlier. We see the real face of the oriental mob in your endless whining, having rebelled against your bishops you have no other frame of reference than your personal grievances. Your people have ceased to be orthodox due to disobedience to the emperor and the bishops. Nowhere in the canons of the Church does it say that an unruly laity may do whatever it fancies on a whim, it is an oriental heresy.

  104. Odyssey says:

    + Carlo Maria Viganò, Archbishop
    June 20, 2024:

    The Catholic Church has been slowly but surely taken over, and Bergoglio has been given the task of making it a philanthropic agency, the “church of humanity, of inclusion, of the environment” at the service of the nєω ωσrℓ∂ σr∂єr.

    The resignation of Benedict XVI and the appointment by the St. Gallen Mafia of a successor in line with the diktats of the Agenda 2030 was intended to allow – and has succeeded in allowing – the global coup to take place with the complicity and authoritative support of the Church of Rome. Bergoglio is to the Church what other world leaders are to their nations: traitors, subversives, and final liquidators of traditional society who are certain of impunity.

    I repudiate, reject, and condemn the scandals, errors, and heresies of Jorge Mario Bergoglio, who manifests an absolutely tyrannical management of power, exercised against the purpose that legitimizes Authority in the Church: an authority that is vicarious of that of Christ, and as such must obey Him alone. This separation of the Papacy from its legitimizing principle, which is Christ the High Priest, transforms the ministerium into a self-referential tyranny.

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  105. @Odyssey

    Honestly, it is not surprising that an uppity serb would quote the fake traditionalist Vigano, one among many charlatans and crypto-protestants who run cover for the jews. The serb is inextricably drawn to the conceited pretensions of dishonest moral mediocrities, no wonder they so often ally with jews and fake conservatives. Whether it is the fabricated holocaust/serbian victim narrative or the currently fraudulent crypto-jewish “traditionalist” movement, they are all based on masturbatory fantasies that detract from moral fault, like your “theosis”.

  106. Odyssey says:

    Who were the Jesuits to whom the Pope Francis belonged?

    They are one of the notorious papal monastic orders founded by the Spaniard Ignacio Loyola in the sixteenth century, with the motto, “Ad maiorem Dei gloriam” (“For the greater glory of God”). The main goal of the work was the restoration of Roman Catholicism, threatened by the Protestant Reformation. For this purpose, Loyola set absolute obedience to the Pope and the spirit of papism as the basic principle of the order (although, in fact, the order had a great influence on the popes and was a kind of “church within a church”). A Jesuit, by order of higher authorities, could be sent anywhere and at any time to preach; he, as Loyola claims, had to consider that white is black, and vice versa, to recognize the authority of a wordless animal over himself, if God “appointed” him as an elder.

    The Jesuits spread very quickly throughout Western Europe. By establishing many secondary and higher schools, they greatly influenced the development of the European intelligentsia; trying to dominate people’s consciences through their confessions, they managed to gain sympathy in a short time. Also, they were allowed to lie and do other similar things, which should serve “for the greater glory of God”. Since they proved to be unscrupulous in the realization of their intentions and characterless in their supposed pleasing to God, the saying “the end justifies the means” was attributed to them, and to tell someone that they were a “Jesuit” meant to tell them that they were hypocrites and scoundrels, masked by the face of humanity.

    The Jesuits got involved in the work of the Inquisition, and with fire and sword they tried to spread papism in North and South America, among the local Indian population who threatened them. The Pope gave them the right to sell indulgences (forgiveness of sins), which they used abundantly, so people who helped materially were given the order of forgiveness of all sins twice – once during life and once upon death.

    The Jesuits are a militant organization within the Catholic “Church”, organized like an army with ranks. The head of the Order is the General and he is actually the Black Pope, the real ruler of the Vatican. The first General and founder of the Order is the Spanish priest Ignacio Loyola, who in 1534, during the reign of Pope Paul III, believed that the “church” had to fight against heresy (the growing number of supporters of Protestantism) with covert and violent methods.

    The famous “Ilumbrados” of the Jesuits was also the infamous Francis Borgia. Although many still believe today that they are only a part of the Roman Catholic Church with their specific teaching, their historical role is much darker and unknown to many people. Loyola is also the founder of the first Illuminati (Ilumbrados).

  107. “Well after them came another reform that wanted to prevent an aristocracy from taking over the Catholic Church and making it a family business. They did not want to let the clergy and popes be married, because if they marry, they’re going to have kids, and if they have kids, they’re going to make them the Pope.”

    This is surprisingly ahistorical anti Catholic polemics

    Celibacy is of Apostolic Origins and any reliable historian should know that in the fourth century ( I’m just going by memory) about AD 344. Pope Siricius issued his decretals demanding all priests return to The Apostolic praxis of celibacy for unmarried priests and continence for married men who received Holy Orders

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  108. Mystagogue says: • Website

    Late occult author Tracy R. Twyman was very immersed in this subject: The Templars as being the origins of the Financial Power of today and the banking system.

    In fact, she delves into the source of this power and the Masons metaphysically, as she is relating today’s world order to what Baphomet had initiated (whom she was in communication with through out her life.)

    This had cost the author her sanity; a Faustian deal she had with the ‘Devil’ for the information that no other was able to tap into and its origins.

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  109. Odyssey says:

    Orthodox England – King Edward died on January 5, 1066. One year and one day after his death, on January 6, 1067, the Roman Catholic William the Conqueror was crowned king of England in Westminster Abbey.

    Then began a terrible campaign of pillage and bloodshed by the Conqueror against the English people, which culminated in the pseudo-council of Winchester in 1070, when papal legates deposed the Orthodox Archbishop Stigand, who had refused to crown William, and placed the Roman Catholic Lanfranc in his place.

    On October 15, 1072, the last English Orthodox bishop, Ethelric of Durham, after anathematizing the Pope, died in prison at Westminster, and the grace of the priesthood left the English land, in accordance with King Edward’s prophecy. This period was remembered as terror and robbery against England’s population.

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  110. @WingsofaDove

    You raised four strong questions, each worth unpacking. Here’s how Pound would see them:

    1. Isn’t the average person also benefiting from usury now, not just the rich?

    You point out that regular people have savings accounts and investments that earn interest. If that’s usury, then you’d be right: it’s not just an elite issue. Many middle-class folks would lose something if interest were abolished.

    Pound’s Answer: Yes, regular people do benefit from interest, but only a little. The problem is, the system itself is built around making the big winners those who control capital: banks, financiers, landlords, but not those who work or produce. Even if small investors get crumbs, the whole system drains value from work and channels it to ownership. That’s what Pound called “usury”: taking profit without creating value.

    2. …

    [MORE]
    2. Isn’t rent-seeking now something many regular people do too, like buying property to rent out?

    You’re saying it’s not just elites exploiting others and that middle-class landlords also use debt to buy properties and charge rent to pay the mortgage.

    Pound’s Answer: Exactly, and that’s part of the problem. The system trains people to become little rentiers. It’s seen as smart investment, but in reality, it’s a game where people use borrowed money to make others pay them just for existing. That’s not productive labor, but rather extraction. And it spreads the damage.

    3. If people need credit, won’t someone always provide it, even if it’s illegal?

    You’re suggesting that banning interest just drives lending underground, where it could be more dangerous, just like loan sharks.

    Pound’s Answer: There’s truth to that. But the answer isn’t letting the sharks run the bank. The solution is to organize credit publicly, fairly, without profit motive. Like Social Credit: let the state issue money for the people, not for banker gain. Legalizing usury doesn’t fix the danger, it legitimizes it.

    4. Isn’t society based on power, and won’t those in power just take wealth by force if they can’t borrow it?

    You’re pointing to a deeper issue: if rulers can’t use credit, they might just seize what they want anyway.

    Pound’s Answer: Yes, power can always be abused. But usury isn’t the answer to tyranny: it’s another kind of tyranny. Letting creditors control nations is no better than kings looting subjects. What we need is a just system where money serves people, not people enslaved to money.

    In summary: You’re right that usury today touches everyone. But that’s the danger: it’s become normal, even when it eats away at the real economy. Pound’s fight was never just against rich bankers. It was against a system that turns life, labor, and art into mere numbers on a loan sheet. That’s what we must fix.

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  111. @Odyssey

    Serb you have as much intellectual and moral integrity as the Israelis in their genocide of Gaza. Your pseudo-historical screeds hold as much water as Ashkenazi jews claiming to share the same heritage as the semitic peoples of Palestine today. You are not even orthodox, you practice the malformed religion of Slavism, the unruly slavic ethnicities of the balkans do not share common standards or values. Truth is dictated by mob rule, in this regard you are similar to the perfidious jews and their talmud. There is no concept of truth in your ethnic club, only shifting values that change according to convenience.

  112. Mefobills says:
    @Odyssey

    By the way, you can learn something about Jung and his view of Nazism-tulipism from PM.

    I highly doubt Poop-on has anything to offer me on Nazi economy, my being an American Nazi. Being an American Nazi is in alignment with the founding fathers, which shows how far we Americans have been jewed and have fallen.

    Also, poop on being an ass-hole automatically disqualifies his inputs. No team of any sort: scientific, production, intellectual, can withstand even one ass-hole. You have to ruthlessly purge them. Isolation and ejection of ass-holes is the major thesis of the book I posted earlier, and is a bible all managers should follow. (If you are a manager and don’t follow the ass-hole rules, then shame on you.)

    Ron Unz does not understand the ass-hole rules, but then he is a pure free-speech absolutist.

    With regards to the Slavs, it was ridiculous that Hitler turned east toward conquest. It would have been beyond easy to lift them up economically, and join them into common prosperity. Clifford Hughes Douglas even wrote Hitler begging him to listen and learn social credit theory. Also, where was Schacht, Hitler’s advisor? Schacht was one of those timid people, who go along to get along.

    The Danube valley might actually finally become a viable economic zone.

    Watch below video, and you will find out that there is little daylight between me and the guest speaker. See- this is how you lift people up rather than tearing them down. You have to actually understand how the world really works, and it is finance capital that rules the world. It rules through debt instrument creation.

    I’ve spent over a million words here at UNZ beating that theme, and I’m the one who is correct, which is slowly becoming more acknowledged by “intellectuals.” The video below is proof that there is a dawning awareness.

    In the business world, I always ruthlessly ejected the ass-holes, a pre-requisite for success. There is nothing an ass-hole can offer, they have to be purged.


    Video Link

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  113. Mefobills says:
    @Mystagogue

    Late occult author Tracy R. Twyman was very immersed in this subject: The Templars as being the origins of the Financial Power of today and the banking system.

    It wasn’t the Templars. It wasn’t the Venetians.

    It was the Jews.

    You can draw a Venn diagram, and put all the Jewish modes of control into it. There is a specific time and place it was created. Amsterdam around 1650, roughly two hundred years after the Jew were expelled from Spain is when it happened. The inside of your Venn diagram has to include corporatocracy, and banks of issue at hypothecation. Both of these elements must be present for modern Jew money power to predominate.

    In 1492, the Jews were already money-powered with thousands of ton’s of gold in hand, due to usury on the trade routes. People that posit Templar or Venetian theory, do not understand money-power, or how debt instruments work to create a permanent creditor over debtor relationship for civilization. No longer is it a hierarchy of god/man/woman/child. Now it is creditor over debtor, with the creditors positing themselves as god’s special creatures. They are only justifying their usury takings as ass-hole predators.

    The Venetians actually had a non-usurious system (for awhile)

    Jew actions after expulsion:

    Step 1: Get free-dumb of religion. That took about 70 years.
    Step 2: Take control over corporate towns, by putting the towns people into debts. You already have gold, so you can issue gold debts.
    Step 3: Agitate for war with Spain, because you are still butt-hurting from being expelled.
    Step 4: Engage the now debt slave Dutch into the 80 years war.
    Step 5: Use your gold as the basis for “banks of issue at hypothecation,” the Wessel banks.
    Step 6: Convert the finance markets for sordid gain taking, with new inventions such as gets/puts and forward contracts. This works because we Jews already have a pirate network located in entrepot cities ringing the Mediterranean and overland in the middle east. We are international people, residing in these cities.
    Step 7: Deploy at least 700 Sephardic Jews, and even if they are unlicensed, be sure and convert the finance markets, such that debt instrument we create, can flow into the markets. This way we can make the Dutch people into commodities to be bought and sold.
    Step 8: Now that we are the new rulers, create the Dutch East Indies corporation, so that we can go back to our ancestral ways of arbitraging gold and silver exchange rates. Usury is what fuels our tribe.
    Step 9: Work with our finance equivalents in England, the son’s of Jews left behind after King Edward kicked us out. We want to join with England, another maritime power.

    It wasn’t a Venician or a Templar who was inserted as a King into England. William of Orange was very obviously NOT DUTCH, but was Sephardic Jew in physiognomy. The conceit was that protestants needed protection.

    Oh wait! I forgot to add that Manessah Ben Israel fomented Protestantism (old testamentarianism) via his printing of Athias Bibles in English, while also trying to get English kings hooked on gold-debts.

    All you need to know, to purge stupid theories like Venician Black Nobility, or Templars “ruling” is to notice William of Orange being a Jew. Why would a non English person be a king, a person who cannot even speak English. You also have to notice that the BOE was the first debt spreading bank to control a country. Then you have to notice the crime of burning the Talley Sticks, the former sovereign money (Kings money) of England – they had to burn the evidence. The Dutch were usurped, and then the English. Both of these people groups became debt slaves, and commodities to be bought and sold in finance markets.

    It was the Jews, and their system of debt slavery was modified over thousands of years. The modern western finance capitalist debt slavery system was perfected in Amsterdam, in the 200 years after Spanish expulsion.

    When (during Rome) Trajan’s armies went north into Parthia, the Jews went berserk, killing thousands of Greeks. Trajan had accidentally interdicted the routes, the Jews real source of power and usury.

    I also didn’t include the creation of parliamentary democracy, with an upper house of lords (the debt instrument holders), who have the whip hand over the lower house permanent debtors. This is why Jews love democracy; this form of whip hand democracy is their favorite way of hiding out.

    The Jewish finance class are not stupid by any stretch of the imagination. Owning propaganda organs ,makes sure that normie goyim have their heads filled with harmless (to the Jew) narratives. We must keep the goy cows quiescent and munching on grass, so we can extract from them as a parasite.

    Once you have identified their control schemes, only then can you und0 them. Know thy enemy.

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  114. @Odyssey

    I am seeing two dinky Ljutici current; one Montenegro and one Croatia. But there was much other information downstream of that. Thank you. There seemed ambiguity on if the Niklot fellow was a pagan.

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  115. @Mefobills

    Mefobills, you deliver the goods. Since you’re a specialist, I’d be curious to get your opinion on the information presented in this article published on the Schiller Institute website arguing that Venetian bankers (Jews I guess although the author doesn’t mention that) crashed the world economy in the 1340’s and caused the black plague.

    https://archive.schillerinstitute.com/fid_91-96/954_Gallagher_Venice_rig.html

    Very interesting article, germane to Hudson’s arguments.

  116. Mefobills says:
    @Odyssey

    The only history that matters is economic history. Any other way of trying to connect dots, is like feeling entrails or bones, and then making proclamations. Normies cannot connect dots because they are typically economically illiterate. That includes Ron Unz, but he is getting there. Hudson should know better, when he makes mistakes. But, then nobody is perfect, and he means well. I do draw the line at ass-holes and sociopaths though.

    Orthodox England – King Edward died on January 5, 1066. One year and one day after his death, on January 6, 1067, the Roman Catholic William the Conqueror was crowned king of England in Westminster Abbey.

    William the Conqueror was funded. All movements, invasions, and operations are funded! Black lives matter was funded, who funded it? The NAACP was funded, who funded it?

    The “Norman Conquest” of England in 1066 — financed by jewish loans from Rouen, Normandy — was the first JEWISH conquest of any Western country

    The Aiparu/Haibaru/Jew needed silver from the West, to then take the 3X usury gains on their routes. Gold was plentiful in the Indus Valley, and they needed silver to exchange. By 1066, this was already late in history, and the Jew had been working his routes for at least 4,000 years.

    https://johndenugent.com/norman-conquest-england-1066-financed-jewish-loans-rouen-normandy-first-jewish-conquest-in-west/

    The Normans bring in the Jews

    Above all, I can never forget or forgive this about the Normans: that it was they who brought the Jews into England. They shipped them in from Normandy to tax the previously Jew-free English with grinding fees into despair and poverty, all to raise money for countless imperial Norman projects that involved sending Englands hardy Anglo-Saxon peasants overseas into foreign wars to die for their foreign aristocrats.

    The Jews were not brought in as slaves by the Normans. Bringing in a foreign “tax collector” people is classic Xenocracy.

    The Jewish “Venn diagram” of control that I mention in an above post, includes Xenocracy. To rule over another people group, you need an army of rootless people. The blood and soil people of the land you are invading hate you, so you need your own loyal in-group. The Jews are not just any xenocracy, they have their own in-group parasitic methods honed over thousand of years. Is it likely that the “Norman Vikings” were sophisticates that understood Jewish method?

    The question you have to ask yourself, was it the Normans who were in charge, or the Jews. Who funded the invasion?

    Knowing how Jews string pull, and having “tons of gold” at hand (taken over thousands of years at usury), then who likely funded the Norman invasion.

    There is no way of knowing for sure it was the Jews in this case, but intelligent people can draw parallels. The skunk does not change its stripes, especially when the stripes have been working for them for thousands of years.

    The Norman invasion is probably the first Jewish funded invasion, to then have a new crime base of operations. The pattern of having Goy front men being the muscle fits.

    Jews entered into England in 1066, and Longshanks expelled them in 1290.

    200 years is plenty of time for debts to compound, and for putting “house to house.” To have a ruling landed and finance oligarchy.

    The Jews were indeed expelled in 1290 by the Norman king Edward I (but Longshanks ” he was six-foot-three “ took action only after decades of public uproar over both their usury and repeated acts of child ritual murder). However, some Jews stayed behind. Judaism was not being racially defined then, and by the simple act of converting, by oath, to Christianity and going to church a few times (AS IN SPAIN UNTIL THE INQUISITION CAME ALONG) the Jew could stay.

    The Jews who stayed behind are implicated in later history, when Amsterdam’s Jew’s re-invaded England during the Glorious revolution. This was to plant seeds for their new debt-slavery scheme of finance capitalism.

    Today’s English-Jewish cousinhood is a function of blood-lines, and shared greed. The Jews left behind, bred into the English nobility. This is why so many of the English aristocrats have a “horse look,” typical of Semitic/Neanderthal hybrids. Cro-Magnon Aryan “Vikings” have a very different look.

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  117. Mefobills says:
    @DustyBuddy

    Here is 1500 on, with regard to Venice in a comment I made. They were in deep decline.

    https://www.unz.com/mhudson/us-dollar-hegemony-ended-abruptly-last-wednesday/?showcomments#comment-5268978

    I will have to think about 1340’s period to answer your question thoughtfully.

    LaRouche and Hudson had a blood feud, which is why Hudson is historically blinded by any territory the schillerinstitue has covered.

    I also find LaRouche making mistakes. But, Venetians did become corrupted after the Arsinoe Canal was dredged, when they came into close contact with the Jew. Venice did engage in sending silver down the Canal to join in with the Jewish arbitrage on Gold/Silver.

    I will have to comprehend the exact dates and times to verify the accuracy of schiller people.

    Generally, if they don’t have the stones to look at the Jew, then they are compromised. They have engaged in mental deception.

  118. @DustyBuddy

    Lyndon LaRouche and Webster Tarpley have a trove of fascinating facts and sensational speculations and it’s fun to debate which is which. Venetians Phoenecians Canaanites Babylonians Jews. It’s all great.

    If you use any of it just don’t ever let out where exactly you got it from. : )

  119. @Emil Nikola Richard

    My eyes generally glaze over when Mr. Odd You See! posts, glance, skim, move on. That is not to say that laughing at the mentally ill is morally wrong, no no. In fact, did you know that our term “mentally ill” is a Serbian word?

    If you can imagine someone (we call them “clients” these days not “patients”) sitting in the all-purpose room of a locked facility getting its ration of internet time, now you’re well equipped to read his rantings.

  120. amor fati says:
    @Notsofast

    this places him in the camp of the neocons, many of which were trotskyists

    Would this explain why he hangs out with that odious commie Richard Wolff?

  121. Mefobills says:
    @DustyBuddy

    Up until the 13’th century, only the Moslems and Byzantium struck gold coins in sufficient numbers, nearly identical in size and grain weight. Moslem coins have been found in hoards throughout Europe, England and Scandinavia. Why do you think that is? There was a connection between the east and the west.

    Moslem conquest of Spain, allowed them to have slave labor to work the gold and silver mines. Spain was also the conduit for the movement of Jews from Asia to Europe. Jews are the link between Islam and Christendom. Byzantine gold coins were the interdiction of gold flowing from the east, in connivance with the Haibaru/Jew on the east side. But silver was desirable as it did not “wear” out. Silver was desirable for everyday commerce. Moslem gold coins into the west were a different route, with Jews as intermediaries. It went through Venice.

    The overland east – west route going across the Bosporous (where Constantinople is) was end-arounded by Venice. Is end-arounded a word? The former east-west mechanism was bypassed so Venice could take the mechanism for itself. You could even say the schism in the Christian church is related to this event.

    In 639 AD, the Arsinoe canal (where Suez is now) was silted over. The Moslem ruler Amri cleared it, so it was open in the early 8’th century. Venice went against Byzantium’s orders against trading with Moslems. Venice made huge profits of hundreds of a percent per shipment. Again, the 3X ratio of silver to gold gains are hard for malformed usury men to not engage in. They want the easy life. Usury is seductive. Gotta get that gold!

    Venice had tapped into the east/west Haibaru secret mechanism. This is a main spring of history. Monetary history is what matters. The Byzantine empire was keeping a lid on the gold/silver ratio on the West side of the Bosporous (Christendom), by controlling their coin, the Bezant.

    The ratio was 7:1 gold/silver in the early 8’th century. Whoever could dominate this secret arbitrage mechanism became the ruler. This is where the Venetian conspiracy comes from, and it was a secret conspiracy to hide their outsized gains. But it has nothing to do with a second stream of subversion that was Jewish, and came through Amsterdam. Jewish subversion was through Spain, to the Lowlands to England, then onward to America. Venice was kaput by 1500 AD.

    The Canal’s total route was described by Alexander Del Mar. The Ptolemaic (and Roman) route was by Alexandria, the Nile, the Canal, Berenice, Saiba and Muscat. Del Mar recounts the route from a document “periplus Maris Erthraei” of Arrian.

    From the east came spices, especially pepper; silks, gold weaved cloth, perfumes, drugs, and gold. Especially gold.

    To the east (via Venetian shipping) went slaves, timber, iron, and silver. Especially Silver!
    The slaves included white slaves, and Jews were the intermediary – as Jews have always been the “merchant class” engaging in money laundering and slavery. Aiparu means minor merchant in Egyptian.

    So, yes, the Venetians became corrupted to the siren song of easy profits and usury. The misidentification of metal as money has long been a problem for humans. There might be something to epigenetics, where gold worship is coded in the DNA. Gold worship is almost psychopathic.

    If you scan the LaRouche Shiller document for Jew, not one word, not one peep. The closest you get is this:

    On top of all this, from the 1320’s on, there was a “massive flight of silver oltremare [“over the sea,” that is, to Venice’s maritime empire in the Middle East and Byzantium—PBG], which upset the equilibrium of Europe in the mid-Fourteenth century.” Venetian exports of silver from Europe from 1325-50 equalled “perhaps 25 percent of all the silver being mined in Europe at that time.” Standard silver coin had been the stable currency of the Holy Roman Empire in Europe, and of England, since Charlemagne’s time. This massive export from Venice to the East “created chronic balance of payments problems as far away as England and Flanders,” and severe problems in making payments in trade. France “was emptied of silver coinage.” King Phillip’s mintmaster estimated that 100 tons of silver had been exported “to the land of the Saracens” (the Islamic Middle East).

    They only mention the land of the Saracens (Moslems). Nothing about Jewish intermediaries, nothing about the Haibaru transiting the routes for thousands of years.

    You don’t have to be Jewish to have a Jewish usury spirit, as Venice going bad proves. But, if you build a complex edifice designed to parasitize others, then I draw the line. Man cannot evolve to his higher self if greedy parasites are continually lying, invading, milking, and weakening their host nations. Many of these host nations were on an upward path, including NSDAP Germany. As an American, I can say we also became a host.

    China is on an upward trajectory; they still have to learn to erase debts though. Germany was destroyed in world war. Russia was almost destroyed in the 90’s.

    To avoid becoming a host to parasites, requires a proper authoritarian “king.” It most especially requires making gold/silver illegal as internal national money.

    The article on Venice notices that they did not have a proper power vertical, so they were undermined from within.

  122. Nowhere says:

    If you want to know who the real boss is, look at the one you can’t criticise…
    Catholic church…?

  123. Mefobills says:
    @WingsofaDove

    If you think interest is usury, then your are wrong headed. You can have a positive interest economy, but it takes certain rules/laws.

    Also, if every demand finds a supply is it not inevitable that the demand for credit will find a supplier who charges interest, even if usury is made illegal? In fact legalizing and codifying interest could be seen as a way of preventing loan sharking types of operations…..

    Usury is a power relation. Interest is not usury. Interest that cannot be paid naturally, is usury.

    The only credit issued is to be sovereign credit. All money is circulation is the “kings” money anyway.

    There was no problem during the Talley Stick Era, after Longshanks kicked out the Jews.

    There are two ways to deal with interest. In the tally stick era, they had yearly fairs. When you left the fair, credit and debts had to be balanced. That includes interest on loans. Heads were knocked together, so that creditors and debtors would come to agreement.

    I notice that Hudson has not noticed this period of history, which is arguably superior to the Christian Jubilee of 50 years. This was yearly!

    The other way, was comprehended by John Winthrop, and written down by Cotton Mather. You just issue debt free notes, so that interest on private debts can be paid. These were called Massachusets Bills.

    Yes- the American Colonials were far more advanced monetarily than we are today.

    Finally, if human society is based on organized violence, will not organized violence simply take the wealth if it cannot get it by borrowing? Didn’t the kings used to put their creditors in prison when the kings couldn’t pay their debts?

    The kings were dumb-asses and thought that gold and silver were money. The wood talley stick era lasted longer than USA has been around. There were no gold debt problems with talley sticks. The English people of the upper middle age era were practically in paradise.

    If kings borrowed gold/silver – especially from the Jew, that was so they could engage in war. In foreign lands if your soldiers wanted some trim from the foreign ladies, you needed silver. Or if you wanted anything “over there”, only international money would do.

    The way you pay your soldiers is with “goods” over there, so they can trade for local currency. Then they can use that local currency for trim, or whatever. The ladies liked American hosiery just fine during WW2. Or cigarettes. The soldiers only need SOME foreign currency, not their entire paycheck in gold/silver. Dumbassery is a real problem. Most people are normies, with average IQ’s.

    Civilization requires selecting and training an elite, who also have empathy. These elites would immediately recognize the need to eject the Jew, or limit them as has been done in Iran.

    Converting to gold/silver in the second Punic war, was Rome’s downfall. You cannot have gold interest on gold money debts. You would have to flog the population to mine gold in an exponential way, as interest is an exponential function. That invites punishment and slavery.

    I mean in the form of savings accounts….investing in bonds either directly or via a pension fund of some kind.

    Interest is not usury. Quoting Pound is a problem, he was a poet not an economic historian like me. The Canadian credit economy after 1938, had no problems with people earning interest on their savings. Public debts were flat from 38 to 77. I’ve explained it in my comment history somewhere. Basically they had a state bank, and limited house loans to trusts – something like a savings a loan.

    Scahcts Mefobills fluxed interest OUTWARD from the Reichsbank to the bill holder. Germany had a positive interest economy with no issues.

    It is the Jew debt finance capital system that is the problem, where there are no “Massachusets Bills” debt free available to pay down debts.

  124. @Mefobills

    If you scan the LaRouche Shiller document for Jew, not one word, not one peep.

    When David Icke says Reptilian, that is code for Jew. When LaRouch writes Venetian, that is code for Jew. These guys like (liked) to travel around without looking behind them for an assassin once every minute.

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  125. Odyssey says:
    @Emil Nikola Richard

    That was the time when the violent seizure of Serbian territories (the territory of present-day Germany) began under the banner of Christianising the Baltics, during which there were many wars and millions of victims, which the mainstream is mostly silent about and which continues to this day (drang nach osten).

    You might be interested in a few definitions with the most basic information about the Serbs who were the natives of present-day Germany before the Germans came there. There is also a map showing the Limes Sorabicus (Serbian border) established by Charlemagne, although Serbs lived on both sides.
    If you zoom in, you can see the names of many Serbian tribes, including the Ljutici.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niklot
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Mecklenburg
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorbian_March
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Hohenzollern

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  126. Anon001 says:
    @TruthEnjoyer

    The jewish victim narrative …

    Didn’t Contemporary Nazi Croatia apologize to the Jewish people [1][2]? The president (Stipe Mesić) himself? You see, Croats cannot help themselves – mendacity is your middle name!

    Of course, you only apologized to the Jewish people because you had to, just like Germany, and not because you were sorry. When there is no punishment for not apologizing for your crimes, like genocide against Orthodox Christian Serbs, aka Vatican’s Holocaust, there is no apology, just like Germany did not apologize to the Serbian people either.

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    Below are some Croatian soldiers “fighting” Serbian civilians “hegemony” [3][4]!

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    [1] Croation President Asks [Jews for] Forgiveness | Israel National News
    https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/12175

    [2] Croatian President Brings Israel Olive Branch – Los Angeles Times
    https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-nov-01-mn-64189-story.html

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    [3] WW2: Croat soldier with slaughtered Orthodox Christian Serb civilians
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    [4] WW2: The Ustashe / Croats, too extreme even for the Nazis
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    800+ Anon001 Comments Archive @ The Unz Review | TUR
    https://www.unz.com/comments/all/?commenterfilter=anon001
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  127. werpor says:
    @G. Poulin

    If one conceives a Christ, it follows that to be a Christian one must follow His injunctions. Striving to be like Him does not make one a Christian. Being like Him makes one a Christian.

    Purchasing say, skis and all of the related equipment does not make one a skier.

    Claiming love for another is not the same as feeling loved.

    Strumming a guitar does not make one a musician.

    Graduating from a university does not mean one is educated.

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  128. Odyssey says:
    @Mefobills

    You are only confirming what I have already said about the personal and organizational union of the Vatican and the Zionists that has lasted since William the Conqueror to this day. Even Catholics themselves say today that the Vatican has been taken over by the Zionists.

    In England it is even more so, there has been a genetic synergy between the English and the Jews, not only business. Longshanks also waged war against the Celts (we remember – Braveheart) when he banned their language, names and sports. Until then, the Celts had the same names as the Serbs (Harvard linguist Joshua Whatmough collected and published these names) and some of them have survived to this day despite the ban.

    This is why so many of the English aristocrats have a “horse look,” typical of Semitic/Neanderthal hybrids. Cro-Magnon Aryan “Vikings” have a very different look.

    By the way, the Vikings were mostly Slavs and it would be interesting to say who the Aryans were.

  129. Odyssey says:
    @Mefobills

    Your opinion about Hitler’s intention to conquer Slavic lands instead of improving them economically is a bit naive, because, as an American you have no sense of history.

    And you should know (although the mainstream doesn’t write about it) that indigenous Serbs lived in present-day Germany and that Germans only came there during the time of Charlemagne. I already said in another comment that it was Serbian (aka Slavic) territory and that drang nach osten lasted for more than 1000 years. That is a constant of European (German) politics and you are right that it is basically the economy.

    Germany before ww2 did not have oil, gas, minerals, fertile land and it is logical to expect that they would try to steal them from someone. That was the main cause of ww2 and not this imbecile discussion about the alleged German preemptive attack on the Soviet Union, which is advocated by your buddy-mate, anti-talmud current rabbito, all dumbass to dumbass panzers and even Ron.

    I even offered a simplified (economic!) formula:

    Lebensraum?
    If fake -> the German attack on the USSR was preemptive
    If real -> the German attack was an aggression to seize Slavic land and destroy and enslave Slavs.

  130. @Anon001

    The political class make the same concessions to Mammon that they do everywhere else, what is telling though is your incessant desire to be like the perfidious jews. All of your screeching is reminiscent to the jews moaning about the six million who died in non-existent gas chambers, behind wooden doors, while applying impossible physics to burn the bodies. The jews are proven liars, the sand are shifting underneath their feet as they commit their genocide of Gaza that you Serbs provide weapons for. Once the world is inoculated from jewish kvetching the balkans too will be freed from the wannabe kikes, the perfidious Serbs.

  131. werpor says:
    @antitheticus

    I know something about Jews. The exact same thing happened in England after WW I. My paternal Grandfather died from being gassed and blown off his horse. He died in England after the War. My Grandfather owned properties and some were mortgaged. He was a Jew. As soon as he died the ‘lenders’ foreclosed on his properties claiming my Grandmother was not equipped to manage them.

    The lenders were Jews. My Grandmother then refused to accept or be associated with Jews henceforth. I never cognized my dad’s appearance or sensibilities were anything especially different than my friends fathers. He was not the least bit religious but he was wise.

    Oddly though I was sympathetic to Jewish claims although my dad was not. I was born in 1948 and as a boy I was subjected to the same increasingly amplified claims as anyone watching TV or reading the NY Times was. I was an avid reader from childhood — especially history. Gradually this interest began to include the history of money. And by the time I was in my early 20’s, philosophy, and economics as well.

    Ever so gradually I began to find that certain facts I’d come across did not jive with conventional wisdom. In fact, they were often so discordant I took a long time to take my conclusions as more than likely the case than not. Frankly Gaza was the last straw for me! There is something wrong with the Jew. No not every Jew. But I am surprised that we in the so called West for the most part are silent!

    Why? Every last thing I thought we in the West stood for — we have repudiated! We have descended into abject savagery.

  132. @Mefobills

    Thanks very much for taking the time to reply. The information you provide is valuable. The article does include the following line, which I take to be a heartening dog whistle at the very least:

    “As Frederick Lane demonstrates, this was the dominant trade of Venice by no later than 1310. Like today’s “mega-speculators” in currencies and derivatives, such as the Morgan- and Rothschild-backed George Soros and Marc Rich, the Venetian banks and bullion-dealers were backed by large pools of capital and protection.”

    Perhaps like Hudson he simply does not wish to touch the third rail.

    Ron Unz, perhaps you could give Mefobills a column here, as his comments are more interesting than most of the published content.

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  133. Mefobills says:
    @Odyssey

    As a Nazi, I acknowledge the German people still had the starvation in their minds. They even shipped Ukraianian black soil back to Germany by rail.

    Germany had farm productivity go up by releasing debts. Many of the farms had transferred in a debt cycle to the international creditor during the hyperinflation. To fix the farm/food problem also included inducing college kids and others to help with the harvest.

    England mined the harbors to increase starvation, since Germany was a food deficit country.

    Hitler was also army/land power focused.

    And if that is not enough, Stalin said “I read your book, Hitler.”

  134. anon[145] • Disclaimer says:
    @werpor

    When St. Paul said the law was our schoolmaster to point us to Christ, well that was certainly true of him. Here was a trained man in the law who could quote off from memory all 650 laws without breaking a sweat. Where will find anone in the christian world who could say the same thing? lol try this, go ask any Christian you come across to quote off the Ten Commandments and see what happens? You’ll get the Pelagian response! Most have become anitnomian which St. Paul would have looked upon as horrifying. How pray tell does one know what holiness and righteousness is if one hasn’t been trained in law to begin with?

    What a predicament then St. Paul must have found himself when bringing the message of the Gospel of Christ to the Gentile heathen races when our schoolmasters were what? Idol worshippers to begin with and then filled with every kind of uncleanness and sin thereafter. That unfortunately is what separates the Gentile world from the Jewish world with Christ ending up being for the Jews a stumbling block and for the Gentile world/races a fool. Gentiles are after knowledge and wisdom not in some resurrected from dead crucified man.

    And money St. Paul had to support himself with ten making and living mostly homeless? No wonder we find him telling the early church that the least they could do was support his efforts at evangelism. Today evangelists well some of them anyway have multi-million dollars planes to fly them around the country? I had to laugh this morning at the flak that trump is getting for the gift of a 747 which had me thinking about the crazy Christian Zionists who were given gifts of planes from Israel which they got from America and paid nothing for? lol Does it get any more crazier?

    It never ceases to dumbfound me and Christ was right, the few there be that will make it into heaven.

    Christianity? How the mighty have fallen!!

    They both will fall into the ditch? Yes, indeed too many falling into the ditch these days! Matthew 15:14

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  135. Mefobills says:
    @DustyBuddy

    “As Frederick Lane demonstrates, this was the dominant trade of Venice by no later than 1310.

    Think in terms of pivots.

    The Templars were a pivot, with a banking network. My view is that people make a mountain out of this molehill.

    There was a big pivot with sea-power, meaning Venice, having the ability to arbitrage and drain silver out of the West.

    There was another pivot, with Vasco de Gama, discovering the Southern route. So, the “drain” of silver to the east, undermined further the overland system that had been dominated by the Haibaru.

    When the Jews were kicked out of Spain in 1492, it was a crises for them, They lost a host country, and very shortly afterward Vasco De-Gama discovered the Southern Route. The new “maritime highway” fell to the Portuguese. This is why Portugal got so rich so quick. The Portuguese built a “string of pearls” ports to protect their new-found wealth route/mechanism.

    The Portuguese unloaded in Antwerp first, and later in Amsterdam. In the meantime, the Jew was infiltrating Portugal and Holland. The Jew was in crises, and needed to attach themselves to shipping powers.

    This attachment mechanism was already perfected in previous centuries, even before Rome. The fall of Greece and Solon’s reforms, were due to silver debts to the “Aiparu.”

    Constantine building a fortified city and interdicting the routes is a pivot. Venice doing a “maritime” end-run is a pivot. Portugal doing another maritime end-run is a pivot, which also sealed Venice’s fate.

    The Jews fighting back after 1492, attaching themselves to Holland and next England, was a pivot. The latest English pivot included many new methods of subversion, leading to today’s grid control system.

    Basically, the new Jew system was genius, a full spectrum debt slavery system. Rule from behind with finance capital.

    The Venicians and Templars were mere pikers, and they did not have full spectrum conquest as part of their motivation, just greed. They were not intending to parasitize and host other civilizations.

    Any discussion about the Templars or Venetians, or even the Christian church being the progenitor for todays finance capital debt slavery system is a diversion.

    The Jew (or Jewish finance class if you prefer) is guilty of pre-meditated murder of higher civilizations.

  136. @Odyssey

    Since you know what you are looking at you might not realize that those of us who do not know what we are looking at might find the design elements of that map are ghastly. If anybody knows where the same information is found on a decent map that would be handy.

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  137. Mefobills says:
    @Mefobills

    I’m replying to my own comment, because it is important. The video I posted is important – watch it!

    Michael Hudson is a truth seeker, who has a high accuracy rate. However the origins of international banking that led to today’s clown-world, were laid down by 1650.

    AC generally means after Christ, and BC means before Christ. One could say, Christ was a big bang event. Before and After.

    1650 is another AC/BC. After corporatocracy and before corporatocracy. A BIG BANG. A pivot point. Historians are blinkered when it comes to this period, this big bang.

    Both Menasseh and Winthrop died around 1650, as God has a sense of humor. Menasseh Ben Israel is the one human most responsible for today’s origins of international banking AND corporatocracy. Both together, add up to a new system for man.

    This would be banks of issue at hypothecation, meaning debt slavery. Debt instrument creation now happened inside of stock-owned corporation, along with bank credit (as the banker’s liability), and this credit then flowed outward into the economy. Effectively it was corporate debt money, not kings money.

    THINK VERY CAREFULLY, THIS WAS A CRIME AGAINST NATURE EQUAL TO THE JESUS EVENT.

    Jesus mission was to reverse debt polarization of the day, as his stated mission was to re-start the jubilee. Jesus rebalanced and re-established the logos order.

    Menasseh’s mission instead, was to install a permanent debt polarization system of finance capitalism.

    Think very carefully again. Menasseh system overcame man’s previous Logos condition, a condition for man, since the beginning of time.

    The logos hierarchy for man is: God/Man/Woman/Child. God is over man, and man is over woman, and woman is over child. (Women no longer over boys after age 12).

    For civilization it is similar: God/God’s agent on Earth/Nation The national people group are a family, and have a god king father that is their representative on earth; and this god-king rules by divine right of kings.

    The JEW, especially Menasseh, undid the logos hierarchy that goes all the way back into pre-history.

    The new Jewish hierarchy is Credit/Debt. Permanent creditor over debtors. A creditor class has ejected the God-King. The King was ejected from Temple and Throne, and a creditor usurper installed himself.

    This is a grotesque crime against the entire corpus of human history, to invert the natural order, to then take in-group gains as a parasite. I cannot emphasize it enough, this was a big bang event. Clown world was created in 1650.

    In 1650, there was before the world, two systems. Winthrop’s was not banks of issue at debt, it was “kings money” basically sovereign money. Any debt association was related to the ability of the Puritans to pay it back, hence public debts. It was an equity system, where the equity of labor was constantly improved via improved industry and commons. Any public debt was the kings debt was equity was the ability of the commonwealth to lift themselves up.

    The Winthrop system and the Talley-Stick system are not so different. The Talley sticks were basically public debts owed to the King for Corvee labor. The King then directs his sovereign credit as god’s agent on earth, to then lift up all boats – for the commonweal.

    Menasseh was NOT INTERESTED in the commonweal, but only his Jewish ingroup. This parallel to the Jesus event should not be overlooked.

    That is why the “origins of international banking” needs to have a date fixed permanently in people’s memory space, and the date I pick is 1650, when the two different systems were presented to man, in a big bang event.

    Now that you know the big bang event AC, or after corporatocracy (especially banks as corporations) came into being, and it was Jewish, then you can watch the video. George does an accurate job of modeling the world. If you understand the lead up to 1650, and then understand what is presented in the video. then you are ahead of 99.5% of all people on the planet.

  138. zimriel says:

    I’m mainly here to point out that Cyril had nothing to do with Hypatia’s death, as O’Neill had to point out in his “History For Atheists” blog. Hudson should know better!
    As to Cyril’s thoughts on unz.com’s favourite Semites, such could hardly be worse than the thoughts of his chief rival who was, uh, John Chrysostom.

  139. @Mefobills

    That video put me to sleep. Those models are great for fitting the data backwards but they can’t tell you anything about the greedy guys you don’t know about now who will do crimes down the road.

    Who has a good model of mafia gangs? That is what we would need for the expert soothsaying. When Vladimir Putin arrived into the big time already nobody in New York London Paris Brussels Basel ever heard of him.

  140. Odyssey says:
    @anon

    Paul was a Pharisee who had never seen Christ. Moreover, he persecuted Christians for 7 years after the crucifixion until he was enlightened on the road to Damascus. Everything we know about the gospels comes from Paul and his selection of existing texts.

    There was a movement that wanted to make a radical break with the teachings of Moses, but Paul was in favour of compromise, probably for political reasons, because he wanted as many Judeans as possible to accept Christ as the messiah. However, we can thank Paul for being uncircumcised.

    Both, he and Peter travelled to the Helm (Balkans) before going to Rome. In Sirmium (which few people know was declared the main capital of the Roman Empire by Diocletian) the first Christian diocese in the world was founded, just a year after the crucifixion, which almost no one knows either.

    Paul performed the first baptisms in the Trebisnica River in caves near Dubrovnik, where he was hiding from Nero, while Peter spent a lot of time in Sirmium (40 km from Belgrade). The Serbs were the first to accept Christianity. In the end, both ended up as Nero’s victims, Peter was hanged in Nero’s garden and later Paul was beheaded.

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  141. Odyssey says:
    @Emil Nikola Richard

    You have many references to Limes Sorabicus, one of which (wiki) I gave in the comment above (Sorbian March). Incidentally, the Germans later changed the name Serb to Sorb to distinguish the Baltic Serbs from the Balkans Serbs. Another name for them was Wends (e.g. Wendish Crusade, when the Crusaders turned away and instead of the Middle East went to war against much closer Baltic Serbs to seize their land).

    At that time, the name Serbs was used for all future Slavs because that term was not yet in use and they all spoke the Serbian language from which the other Slavic languages ​​would later develop. Btw, the German name for the Belgian city of Liège is still Ljutich today.

  142. @Mefobills

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  143. Odyssey says:
    @notanonymoushere

    What else can be expected from a circumcised albanian goat botherer, just like from that Croatian Ustasha above, who Enjoys sucking (my) Truth while kneeling, and at the same time also repeating (like botherer) a couple sentences like a broken gramophone record.

  144. Seraphim says:
    @Mefobills

    One historical fact that is almost never talked about is the role played during centuries by the Sephardi family of the Benveniste.
    They were given the surname of de la Cavalleria by the knights Templar who protected the family and the family in turn administered the tax system of the Templars. The family made its mark in Catalonia where they produced administrators and intellectuals. The kingdoms of Castilla and Aragon not only tolerate the Sephardim but allowed them to participate in the “cultural and economic life”.
    The Benveniste family originated from Narbonne, brought there by the Carolingian Kings (maybe even Charlemagne) from Baghdad (the hub of the so-called Radhanites, the traders of the Silk Road- all Jews) and played for centuries the role of Nasi , leader of the community, considered descendants of King David, and played always the role of tax collectors and financial advisers to Crowns of the Kingdom of Aragon and the County of Barcelona. Some of them became conversos.
    A branch which did not convert and had to leave Spain produced the figures of Francisco Mendes and his brother, Diego Mendes, the masterminds behind an influential and globally renowned trading enterprise and bank, with agents across Europe and around the Mediterranean. The House of Mendes and the House of Benveniste likely began as a company centered on trading precious valuables and employing currency arbitrage. With the onset of the Age of Discovery and the Portuguese discovery of a sea route to India, the Mendes brothers became particularly notable spice traders. They also expanded into silver trading, a crucial payment method for Asian traders who supplied the business with spices. , of Dona Gracia Mendez Benveniste (wife of Francesco), of Joseph Nasi Mendez Benveniste (her nephew).
    The House of Mendes/Benveniste dealt with King Henry II of France, Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, his sister Mary, Governor of the Low Countries, Popes Paul III and Paul IV, and Suleiman the Magnificent, the Ottoman Sultan. These dealings involved commercial activities, loans, and bribes. It established businesses in Antwerp and Venice.
    In 1558, Doña Gracia and her nephew Joseph were granted a long-term lease on the Tiberias region in Galilee (part of Ottoman Syria at the time), from Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent, in exchange for guaranteeing a substantial increase in the yearly tax revenues, where she began to rebuild the area’s abandoned towns to make them available to refugees so they could settle there if they wished, one of the earliest attempts at a modern Zionist movement.

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    , @DustyBuddy
  145. @Mefobills

    Mr. Mefobills, thanks for the response. I read up on the tally sticks, I’d never heard of them before, thanks for the reference, fascinating. Reminds me of the fact that our education system seems to intentionally ignore basic monetary/financial history. As you have mentioned, financial history/currency etc is central to human society. Why isn’t it studied from grade school on up?

    Elsewhere you mentioned Manessah Ben Israel and the key date of 1650. Could you provide a link concerning him and finance? I looked at wikipedia but found nothing. Perhaps you’ve already written about 1650 and ‘bank of issue of hypothecation’ and ‘corporotacracy’? Any links to your work?

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    , @Mefobills
  146. anon[941] • Disclaimer says:
    @Odyssey

    I remember reading that the German army found serbia an impossible terrain to travel through let alone conquer. Its valleys, hills, rivers were mostly impassable.

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  147. @Mefobills

    Oh my goodness! Such a pile of stupendously varied, meretricious and delusive trash, refuse, and unusable toxic compost. Well, let’s start from the top, shall we?

    The weight of your words is all that matters, and your having to qualify yourself implies low self esteem… you have to build yourself up. Its obvious[?] you were never really successful despite your pronouncements.

    Stating one’s experience [of all types], background, history, achievements, etc. are indications of “low self esteem…”? And further, provide strong indications of low success…?”

    Seems capricious and..um…unintelligent. Ipso facto, fatso.

    “Nobody cares that you find intellectuals boring. This is you elevating yourself again, as if you are more than them.”

    Thomas Sowell, the most important economist of the last 100 years. [Huh? Measured by the results of him almost always – near perfectly – correct in his pronouncements and predictions.] One of his salient and solid maxims is “The more highly educated you are, the more likely you will be blinded by your belief that your specialized knowledge [abstract and very specific… and derivative] is likely to predict and engender validity in another field of knowledge or discipline. This applies to you, Booby My Foo Foo Bills.

    Here is the general case and outline in analogy and comparison with other actualities. In your case, all you have transcribed is a very limited, bordered process of a piece of, a portion of the all the subsets of Economics. That consists of the mechanisms, structured, and actions of various instruments of debt, usury, interest, “money”, and transactions and transactions. While is undeniably true that this information of the economic history of the World is valid and useful, its limitations are similar to all histories, in that they cannot be assumed to be automatically reapplied endlessly, because they are synthetic, I..e, created and borne out of human actions and thoughts, which do not automatically repeat organically and intrinsically, like tectonic plate movement, or earth’s orbit track and characteristics, for example.

    Which is to say, you fit the characterization of the undergraduate college student, cribbing his professors’ lecture notes. In other words, your comments are standard textbook explanations and frameworks of economic circumstances and the human effects and feedback. You seem to present these details cogently and in readable form. But…this is only one slice of the pizza, one piece of the puzzle, one type of machine in the interdependent Power Plant. Take this tour as analogous to the integration of all these elementals and discrete independent variables that comprise the entire set of what we may term “Reality”, the entire Power Plant. One element, your description of the histories of economies of money generation, intrinsic changes and modifications and the subsequent changes in human society and power dynamics.

    Consider the array of medical specialists today. Would an orthopedist of knee and hip replacements work on a spine? Of course not. Than, specialization is shown to be not consistent with knowledge sufficiently to operate, opine, and alter other processes and objects, why would your encapsulated world be applicable to a wider range of same? The true test is an empirical one, a “test bed” trial, to see if the observed performance, inductive data matches the deducted principles, predictions and hypothesis.

    Like so many people of dwarfed personal development, due to intrinsic and extrinsic factors, you feel confident telling us that “economics is everything”, controls the human organism – like salinity does oysters in estuaries, and coastal tidewater flats. That would exclude inventions like firearms, machines, automation, religion [real faith], and other physical and changes in the milieu. Amish and Mennonites have a different value system and none of what you impute and puke has any relevance to this people.

    Russia confounds every doctrinaire snail oil salesmen like you. “Drink this and ALL your troubles will go away”. “Material Determinism”, “Rationalism”, “This tactile, sensate Reality is all that there is”, “Man Made Laws can be formulated that explain EVERYTHING. And control EVERYTHING, too. This is you, my Little Apparatchik.
    Nobody important in Russia is guided or led by academic doctrines and intellectual purism. It’s not the body of the soup or the stock. It’s a sprinkling in the pot. Russians operate on Common Sense, because the country, as does China, thinks like engineers do. Russians are coldly analytical AND deeply connected emotionally to there sub-conscious, aware of the Animus and the Shadow. Russians are connected to the Mystical, and appreciate where analytical, empirical, and rational tools end and Infinite begins. They are complex people, intellectual, effective, serious, and more of a whole being of Collective Consciousness than Germans.

    Your immaturity, naiveté, and foolish overestimation exposed:

    “I am an American Nazi”

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  148. @Mefobills

    “Asshole” is a useful guide. It’s for people who are sequestered and see things in black and white, like White College Women, half of whom are on psychotropic meds.
    You seem like the sheltered man child who will never be given a group to lead, control, and inspire. A Teaching Assistant lecturing incoming Freshmen is your metier. They are easily fooled. Government organizations and academia are full of fluffy men, ding dong women, and housebroken puppies who would do anything for their tenure and stipend. They don’t have too many “Assholes”, by which I mean someone who will shake up the lethargy, the stillness, the silliness, and the sloth and minimum munchkins. Cut through it, sometimes brutally when necessary. A lot of great men, who led, went against the leaden normalcy—-were “Assholes”. It is simpletonian to not differentiate between good and bad Assholes.

    Finally, please tell me why you think you are so smart, effective, contain vital information and wiz bang wisdom. Have you created anything? Applied CONCRETELY your economic history to unlock solutions for our times. How do your intertwined ideas and formulations relate to action? Your moniker is MeFoBills. That implies the boundaries, and a sense of your conception of a mechanism[s] that unlock doors of emollient and salve of suffering and oppression. Wattca goan a do????? MEFOBILLS!!! That’s the elixir, the Pixie Dust, the greatest suppository in the history of the World. It’s gonna break loose, flow the juice, bring Bob Marley’s predictions and predilections to fruitville market.

    Me Fo Bills

    A Mefo bill (sometimes written as MEFO bill) was a six-month promissory note, drawn upon the dummy company Metallurgische Forschungsgesellschaft (Metallurgical Research Corporation), devised by the German Central Bank President, Hjalmar Schacht, in 1934. These bills could be discounted by any German bank at any time, and these banks, in turn, could rediscount the bills at the Reichsbank at any time within the last three months of their earliest maturity.[1] They therefore acted as a highly liquid means of payment to finance the Nazi German government’s programme of rearmament, allowing them to rearm under the Versailles Treaty.
    Mefo bills followed the scheme for which the Öffa bills were the blueprint.
    As Germany was rearming against the terms of the Treaty of Versailles, the Nazi government needed a form of money that did not leave a paper trail and allowed them to spend past the treaty terms on military rearmament.[2] It is assumed that billions of MEFO bills were issued throughout the regime’s time in power, though the records are not precise.[
    Hjalmar Schacht formed the limited liability company Metallurgische Forschungsgesellschaft, m.b.H., or “MEFO” for short. The company’s “Mefo bills” served as bills of exchange, convertible into Reichsmark upon request. “MEFO” had no product, service or operation. It was solely a balance sheet entity.

    Mefo bills were issued to mature in six months, but with a provision for indefinite 90-day extensions at the government’s behest. To further entice investors, Mefo bills carried an annual interest rate of 4%, higher than that of other trade bills at the time.
    To make sure that the bills were never exchanged for Reichsmarks, which would lead to inflation, the 90-day maturation period was continually extended until the maturation was changed to a period of five years by 1939.[5] The exact total volume of Mefo bills issued was kept secret. However, as previously stated, it is assumed billions were printed.
    Essentially, Mefo bills enabled the German Reich to run a greater deficit than it would otherwise have been able to. By 1938, there were 12 billion Reichsmarks of Mefo bills, compared with 19 billion of standard government bonds.[6] This enabled the German government to increase war production while delaying the economic problems associated with draining government funds.
    Economic consequences
    The Nazi government’s continued use of debt funding created a large financial deficit. However, MEFO bills were very effective in providing funds. Previous to the MEFO program, the Reichsbank was not allowed to loan more than 100 million reichsmarks to the government.[1] MEFO bills allowed billions in military and public-works funding. Germany through MEFO bills, began printing money. However, inflation did not increase. This is because the Nazi government rarely redeemed MEFO bills.[1] In addition, the interest rate and supposed security of the MEFO bills meant most were kept in circulation and rarely cashed.[3]
    MEFO bills concealed military spending forbidden by the Treaty of Versailles.

    People marvel at the Third Reich and its rapid rise to prosperity and industrialization. Where did the revenue come from? Not earned external money from trade. Hidden funders like the Wall Street Bankers and the City of London? Perhaps but certainly by issuing (printing press) fiat paper money. These “were” borrowed paper money from industries, which trade them among themselves, and were forbidden to cash them for Deutschmarks. That’s because they were like the Fed borrowing money from itself from the capital markets in dollars. Mefobills were not denominated in D.marks. And the 4% interest. Where did that come from? Directly from selling more of this imaginary money. It was a Ponzi scheme. One day those bill would have to be redeemed. And to do that, like America, Hitler would need to confiscate the wealth and resources of other countries, including free labor.
    This is a multi-staged process, just like the American Fed. If the Reich had prevailed, there would still be huge bills and deficits to reckon with. The costs of administering conquered countries, spreading out the military to suppress unwilling populations and subversive movements would be prohibited. Hitler would then find out that having bitten off big chunks of others’ pizza, the digestion of it would prove to be a disaster surprise. At this point, comes International Jewish Private Capital to extend credit.
    So, either way, Hitler was “good for the Jews”. They got their “6 million died in the Holocaust as immediate down payment.

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  149. Iris says:
    @Critique

    Overall, I agree with your assessment, I have the same problem with Chomsky too. On the other hand, I am also in academia, and I know how things work there.

    Thanks for your reply and for your measured view; I really appreciate it.

    The point you make is very fair and realistic, people in academia can only go so far as their public persona allows them to, and that was actually well stated by Chomsky himself. The role of so-called liberal intellectuals is to enhance the ruling order by very a finely-tuned tolerated level of dissidence.

    Noam Chomsky has noted that slight deviations from the orthodoxy of power can be met with removal. “The liberal intellectuals…are typically the guardians at the gates: we’ll go this far, but not one millimeter farther; and it’s terrifying to think that somebody might go a millimeter farther.”

    read://https_www.kennedysandking.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.kennedysandking.com%2Fjohn-f-kennedy-articles%2Fexecution-of-jfk-extremism-defense-of-liberty

    The problem I have with pseudo objectors like Michael Hudson and Noam Chomsky is that they express valid opinions on secondary facts, but cannot help gaslighting their public on the main issues, while they are not obliged to.

    Why does Michael Hudson keep, in 2025, expressing his opinion that Israel is an instrument of US foreign policy, when International Relations are NOT his area of expertise, and while people more competent than him such , as John Mearsheimer, say the contrary?

    One problem I have with Chomsky is his laughable statement that “9/11 doesn’t matter“.
    9/11 is obviously the most important geopolitical event of the 21st Century, comparable only to the rise of China. I don’t know the context of his reflexion, maybe his excuse is that he tried to avoid an uncomfortable question during the course of a live discussion.

    But why does Chomsky ALSO lie and gaslight his public about Kennedy’s intentions to withdraw from Vietnam? This crucial decision goes along with JFK’s plans for detente with the USSR and control of nuclear weapons, which was arguably the most burning issue post-WW2.
    As a “liberal”, shouldn’t he celebrate the intellectual legacy of JFK?

    Could the two academics above not have assumed positions similar to Professor Jeffrey Sachs’ for instance, also a prominent Jewish academic and even more so, an official deeply involved in UN diplomacy?
    Sachs cannot be as radical as us anonymous commenters, but he is pretty irreproachable in my opinion, he never uses his intellectual authority into tricking his audience into a mendacious, diversionary trains of thought. He says what is right and stops when he can’t say no more. No deception, no gaslighting.

    Noam Chomsky’s problem with recognising JFK’s singularity is that JFK was the target of the Zionist establishment due to his opposition to Israel acquiring nuclear weapons.
    The difference with Jeffrey Sachs is that Noam Chomsky, and Michael Hudson most probably, are covert Zionist supporters, the worst kind.

  150. Mefobills says:
    @Seraphim

    Thanks. Very interesting.

    With the onset of the Age of Discovery and the Portuguese discovery of a sea route to India, the Mendes brothers became particularly notable spice traders. They also expanded into silver trading, a crucial payment method for Asian traders who supplied the business with spices.

    Were the brothers Sephardic Jews? After Spanish expulsion, Jews did go up into Portugal.

    where she began to rebuild the area’s abandoned towns to make them available to refugees so they could settle there if they wished, one of the earliest attempts at a modern Zionist movement.

    I agree this sounds like the first attempt.

    When Rothschild got on board at first Zionist conference, Rothschild coordinated with other finance Jews – to recycle their usury gains into new Zionist zones, like Palestine. They also wanted Crimea, but that has been erased from history.

    If you don’t follow the Jew, you cannot understand Western History. Thanks.

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  151. Layman says:

    I admire Michael Hudson as an economic historian but apparently Church history is just not his piece of cake. The characteristic of Cyril of Alexandria (one of the deepest Church teachers) is entirely wrong incl. accusing him of killing Hypatia which no competent Church historian would agree with; the thing about “inducing Mary to the Trinity” is beyond preposterous, showing that Michael unfortunately is not a theologian at all. I couldn’t bring myself to read past that point.

    Michael, with deepest respect, please don’t go into theological matters (except economic issues such as interest and fair price), you overstep your boundaries and cast shade on your scholarly work, which is otherwise, in my view, impeccable.

  152. Mefobills says:
    @WingsofaDove

    Manasseh was leader of the Jewish community. I just use him to personify the Jewish and other banker activities of the day. Manasseh mostly operated to issue propaganda.

    With the opening of the Cape route, Antwerp became the supreme trading center for the world. This was where gold, and spices were unloaded. It basically became the new East-West node. (Former nodes were Constantinople, then Venice.)

    German and Italian merchant bankers ,the Fuggers and Affaitadi competed with each other for Spices, and special favor from the Portuguese crown.

    The Kingdom of Portugal was created by Burgundian Knights during Christian re-conquest of Spain. For Portugal to take over the east/west mechanism, she had to go to war with the Arabs. The new fortified harbors, or string of pearls, was the island of Goa (1510), Ormuz (1515), Malacca (1511). In east Africa it was Sofala (1505) and Mozambique (1507).

    Portugal also tried to close the red sea, to deny the Venetians their route to metal money by way of Alexandria.

    In Antwerp it was Sir Thomas Gresham who floated gold loans to Queen Elizabeth 1. This is where Gresham’s law comes from, which is more gold buggery. Gresham erected the London exchange as an exact copy of Antwerp’s bourse. In 1522, Antwerp pawnbrokers (Jews) asked for City of London to be put up as collateral for a loan. See how debt works? Debt is a sin in all the older language. Literally Debt is Sin.

    Calvin (1509-1564) and old testamentarianism was supported by the Jewish community, especially later in history by Manasseh and his printing presses.

    Antwerp was superseded by Amsterdam. How? When Charles V abdicated the throne in France (1555), he gave his Netherlands possessions to his foolish son, Phillip 2 of Spain.

    (Idiot sons are a problem for Kingdoms, part of the downfall of Goys. The Hungarian method of constitutional kingdoms is better.)

    Phillip’s taxes caused a revolt in 1565. Calvinists supported the revolt, and they flocked to northern Netherlands, which then became Holland.

    In 1585, Antwerp was attacked by the Prince of Parma by blockading the mouth of the Schelde river, and this strangled the people. About 20,000 of so merchants from Antwerp fled to Amsterdam.

    So, basically Amsterdam became Judeo Christian Calvinist, and they were sympathetic to the Jews, and many new Sephardic Jewish merchants from Antwerp arrived.

    The relative power of Europe transferred from Catholic to Jewish/ Jude0-Christian, at this one place in history, and at this time. But the date of 1650 is convenient to remember.

    Manasseh was downstream of Antwerp getting shut down, as he was born in Portugal in 1604, but moved to the Netherlands in 1610.

    There were no Ashkenazi Jews in Amsterdam until 1674. In 1674, Sephardic were 2,500 and Ashkenazi 5,000. In other words, the Ashkenazi started flooding in.

    Ashkenazi flood, would be something like the Bantu flooding into white south Africa; Ashkenazi were pulled into Amsterdam to work in “finance,” and other trades.

    Manasseh began printing bibles in 1627. He also printed the first Hebrew book. He engaged in geopolitical operations, especially his relations with Oliver Cromwell. (A history of Jews in England, by Tovey).

    Manasseh led the efforts to gain re-admission of Jews to England. Manasseh can be considered as a super-parasite, working for Jewish interests, and against England.

    Herbert Bloom (Economic Activities of Jews of Amsterdam) counted 318 Jewish printers from the time of Manasseh up until 1732. The average printer published 3,000 copies, which was a high amount considering the population. In other words, the Jews were very active in propaganda and narrative control.

    From 1625 on, there were Seditious books smuggled into England. The books were to attack England’s social order, to make it ripe for the insertion of the parasite.

    1634 – Flagellum Ponstificum (Bastwick)
    1652 – Aplogetical Narration (Lilburne)
    1657 – Killing no Murder
    1673 – England’s Appeal from the Private Cabal at Whitehall (Lisola)

    This printing of propaganda and bibles was not profitable, but instead was funded by recycled usury dollars. It was not the profit motive of “capitalism,” it was Jewish subversion. The usury came from the arbitraging of silver and gold.

    This is why I pick Manasseh and the year 1650, but there was a lead up to the 1650 date.

    It might also be possible that John Winthrop, when he landed in Massachusets Bay in 1630, was carrying an English Bible printed by Manasseh in Amsterdam .

    Manasseh (Jewish method and finance capital) vs Winthrop (American method and industrial capitalism) would be a “god having a sense of humor” moment. 1650 has symmetry, and it a good point in historical time for the big bang event of Jewish takeover, and especially their invention of finance capitalism.

  153. Mefobills says:
    @WingsofaDove

    Reminds me of the fact that our education system seems to intentionally ignore basic monetary/financial history. As you have mentioned, financial history/currency etc is central to human society. Why isn’t it studied from grade school on up?

    Narrative control includes public schools. An estrogen laden school marm, hectors boys from on high. They are not allowed to engage in taboo topics. Once a memory circuit has been myelin sheathed, it is hard to undo. Negroes are magical! There is magick dirt!

    The preferable type of schooling for white boys, is the Greek Trivium Method.

    White boys can intellectually wrestle and engage with each other, because they are the same race and sex. This is how the ancient Greeks produced so much genius. No girls allowed!

    No topic was off limits, and they fearlessly engaged with the world, trying to understand it. Their debates were also fierce, and sometimes their idiots would get an elbow to the face.

    In this Ron Unz forum, the idiots keep on blabbing and throwing up smoke screens. But, Ron Unz is a free speech absolutist. There can be no metaphorical elbows to the face as needed. The idiots were shunned in the Trivium schools, or they learned to keep their mouth shut and allow the smarter boys to debate, and then come to generally agreed upon conclusions. These agreed upon conclusions were the closest thing to the truth. They were truth seekers.

    The ancient Greeks had free speech, but eventually their idiots – who were completely defeated in debates, knew they were beaten, or there would be a sharp elbow to the face by those who agreed to the general truth. The boys also were taught to search out and find facts on their own, before engaging in debates. Fact finding, debates, then general acknowledgment about the found truth.

    Basically, the Goyish people of the world are now operating in a clown world environment, antithetical to goy’s Greco-Roman ancestors. Accept Clownworld narrative with no debate, or be doxed. This is also very Jewish, and Talmud thumpers, thump their “holy” books for the wisdom of the sages.

    Western world finance clown environment is Jewish, helped along with compromised and greedy goys, many of whom are judeo-christian.. Clownworld includes didatic teaching from on high in skools, including teaching from the pulpit. TEACHER LEAVE THEM KIDS ALONE!

    Didactic teaching is a structured method where teachers deliver lessons directly to students, focusing on clear, organized instruction and factual information. This approach is often teacher-centered and emphasizes the transmission of knowledge from the educator to the learner.

  154. Mefobills says:
    @Poupon Marx

    Asshole” is a useful guide. It’s for people who are sequestered and see things in black and white, like White College Women, half of whom are on psychotropic meds.
    You seem like the sheltered man child who will never be given a group to lead, control, and inspire.

    Is your sociopathic butt-hurting because I called you out?

    You are an idiot ass hole type who needs a sharp elbow to the face.

    Anybody can look at your comment history and notice how often you engage in ad-hominins, literally pissing down people’s necks.

    And yes, I did lead and control, and your type I would ferret out and flush out so fast you wouldn’t believe it. You are an ass-hole of the highest rank. Flushing your type is job number one of an effective leader/manager.

    None of my million words of commentary here will you find me self-aggrandizing. People pick their leaders, and you are not a leader. Followers like to see humility and self-effacement, characteristics you do not possess.

    Super asshole, and you could not resist getting a word in edgewise.

    The other Unz commentators don’t know how to deal with your type, and Ron Unz, being a free speech absolutist does not ban sociopaths. I obviously have much experience as a manager/leader dealing with ass-holes. You have to confront them.

    Ron is making a mistake in my opinion, as there are limits to free speech, especially abusive speech. You don’t get ahead by tearing other people down, which is what you do. You lift them up.

  155. @Mefobills

    It might help if you would slow down a little bit. We don’t need a grand unified theory of history which is sort of reductio ad absurdum in any case.

    Your Bloom citation does not look like it can be verified at all and it definitely cannot be verified fast.

    Ashkenazi flood, would be something like the Bantu flooding into white south Africa; Ashkenazi were pulled into Amsterdam to work in “finance,” and other trades.

    Bantus are a large percent of Africa. Ashkenazi and Bantu are not at all alike. This statement is absurd. Also they are near pitch black and cannot camoflauge their beings.

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  156. Mefobills says:
    @Poupon Marx

    Which is to say, you fit the characterization of the undergraduate college student, cribbing his professors’ lecture notes.

    The above is you and your sociopathy looking for a “handle” to then build a strawman.

    Mostly my comments to you are aimed at UNZ editors, who are falling down on the job. Sociopaths should not be allowed to speak. The UNZ editors are apparently not trained. Strawmen, ad-hominems, etc. That is you.

    Normies are scared away, when sociopaths like you, start flaming them with ad-hominins, etc.. I am trained from early life for sniffing out the ass-holes. I sniff them out, and then bounce them on their ass.

    If you do a word search on my comment history, using the term “bouncer” you will find somebody who once asked me what I did. It might be several years old now. I don’t feel the need to build myself up, because all that matters is the weight of your words. You disagree with that, obviously, because of your mal formed personality.

    Bouncing was my first job. Why? I was a good fit for the job, because I am unusually large, and can handle myself in violent encounters. Little pip-squeaks are like gnats. You were the kid on the playground, who was the pip-squeak. I know your type.

    I’m not anywhere near at an “undergraduate college kid level,” that is you and your imagination going out of control trying to find a handle. Very early on in my life, as a bouncer – you are the manager in charge of the club, basically to make sure things are kept in order. I became a bouncer, because my ex 304, who also was a sex addict, asked me to do fill in at the club “for her.” After that first night, I figured it was easy money. I did it for fun mostly, but it was also serious, as we had some killings.

  157. Odyssey says:
    @anon

    Partially correct. Probably referring to Bosnia and Herzegovina (from WW2) which is also Serbian land although half of current Serbia is also mountainous (their WW1 experience), but half is Pannonian terrain. More important is the fighting instinct in interaction with the terrain and the Serbs were very disappointed in Clinton and Blair for not sending 200K ground troops as they promised during the 1999 aggression instead of dropping bombs from a height of 5 km. They would probably have broken their Vietnamese record already in the first year of the aggression.

  158. Odyssey says:
    @Mefobills

    There were no Ashkenazi Jews in Amsterdam until 1674. In 1674, Sephardic were 2,500 and Ashkenazi 5,000. In other words, the Ashkenazi started flooding in.

    Where did they come from and what language did they speak?

  159. Mefobills says:
    @Emil Nikola Richard

    It might help if you would slow down a little bit. We don’t need a grand unified theory of history which is sort of reductio ad absurdum in any case.

    If you don’t like, it don’t read, and don’t comment. It wasn’t you that asked about Manesseh. The dates are very easy to follow and in sequence order. It’s a digestible Pablum rate for normies, and you are having a hard time?

    Your Bloom citation does not look like it can be verified at all and it definitely cannot be verified fast.

    Then don’t verify it. I was asked for source material, so here it is. You don’t believe it, that’s your problem. If you do want to believe it, then here it is:

    Herbert Bloom, Economic Activities of the Jews in Amsterdam. (Port Washington, NY; Kennikat 1935)

    Bantus are a large percent of Africa. Ashkenazi and Bantu are not at all alike. This statement is absurd

    It not an absurd analogy. South Africa was depopulated when the Dutch arrived. After the conditions were ripe (meaning the white farms were built), the Bantu flooded down into the South, and South Africa as been fuk#ed up ever since. NO BANTUS, then suddenly BANTUS

    Same goes for Amsterdam, the flooding of Ashkenazi’s was not helpful. The Jew population was also mentioned by Bloom on page 176, is that accurate enough for you? NO ASHKENAZI, then suddenly ASHKENAZI

    It should be obvious that I like to push back against idiot comments.

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  160. @Odyssey

    Jews moving up into Northern Europe did so primarily being what they always have been since they gave up herding: merchants and bankers. And they truly saw great opportunities in financing Viking/Varangian raiding. They did not lose Aramaic because of new genes but because they developed their own patois among Germanic tribes. Jews chose Germanic precisely because they saw it as anti-Latin, anti-Roman.

    Yiddish is the Germanic dialect that Jews created for themselves. It never was about any genetic based tribalism. It was about Jews devising that which served their interests best living in Europe, specifically in northern and Eastern Europe. It spread all over because Jews went all over. Just like today when English, which also is Germanic: Anglo-Saxon, is the international Jewish language. That change came for the same basic reason that Jews devised Yiddish: it works bets for Jewish ‘business.’

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  161. Seraphim says:
    @Mefobills

    Yes, the brothers were Marrano Jews, born in Portugal where the family took refuge in 1492.
    Wikipedia has a number of decent articles (with the relevant bibliography) about Benveniste, Gracia Mendez (aka Beatriz de Luna Miques), her nephew Joseph Nasi (aka João Miques) Duke of Naxos, who played a great role in the Ottoman politics (e.g. Due to his trading connections in Europe, he was able to exercise great influence on Ottoman foreign policy. Among his achievements were negotiating peace with Poland and influencing the new election of the Polish king. He was awarded the monopoly of the beeswax trade with Poland, and of the wine trade with Moldavia, and maneuvered in the latter country to keep princes favorable to his policies in power).
    You may try to access the following:
    Mendes, Benveniste, de Luna, Micas, Nasci: The State of the Art (1532-1558), in THE JEWISH QUARTERLY REVIEW, LXXXVIII, Nos. 3-4 (January-April, 1998) 135-211.

    It is imperative to follow the Jew, if you want to understand Western History.

  162. @Odyssey

    Charlemagne ordered the Saxon tribe to move far east, out of his jurisdiction because he, and his scholars at the developing University of Paris, saw Saxons as a tribe that was largely incorrigible and nearly incapable of being civilized in a Christian sense. So, indeed, when the Saxons went far east, they encountered many Slavic peoples, which they began terrorizing immediately.

    A Saxon is a Saxon. As Charlemagne knew.

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  163. Ron is making a mistake in my opinion, as there are limits to free speech, especially abusive speech.

    Well, certainly there are, Mr. American Nazi. But you said National Socialism was compatible with the Founding Farthers. You can’t be that stupid, so you must be a deceiver, liar, and propagandist. Either a Hasbara or one who has the same MO and amorality.

    Your reply is a whining “Don’t hit me no mo” plea of someone like a priest caught in a police sweep of a bordello. Your recitation of your professor’s notes on a limited subject, hermetically sealed off from the grand sweep and depth and profundity of human experience shows how far your reach has exceeded you grasp. [gasp!]

    I call the Readers’ and Commentariat’s attenion to a disagreement we had over the performance of the Russian economy, the performance of the Central Bank of Russia and its Governor, Elvira Nabiullina.
    At that time, the Ruble was devalued, and Russia was struggling to replace the imports that had been used in various businesses. A time of some uncertainty.

    In summation, the selection of a new Central Bank Governor in 2011 had several contenders besides Elvira. The two leaders besides Elvira were ideological points on the spectrum. One was a Dr. Ron Paul, tight money candidate like his successor, the other was more toward Keynesian Economics, pro government intervention, lower interest rates to spur growth and of course, implied if not stated explicitly, more regulation of the private sector. This waste discharge was a former candidate for the Presidency and was associated with the Communist Party. This member of the Russian Academy of Science, professional intellectual, author of books, but one on whom important concrete matters of practical consequence ever were involved looked good on paper. And he had plenty in his chorus-from the academy and similar sources.

    But Elvira, had some major mojo. One, she had a solid track record working in the economic ministies since 1992. She was characterized as completely analytical, a master of detail, and forthright in her opinions-which were usually correct. Like Margaret Thatcher, who intimidated her ministers, by doing more research and more thorough familiarization, so Elvira was warily respected, due to her fearlessness which resulted in her peers having to back down or concede. She had an exemplary record of BEING RIGHT, as events subsequently unfolded.
    Her composure and demeanor emit two contrary signals: one, a short, owlish introvert, very modest and self contained. Two, an intensity, steady gaze, and intense seriousness. Her entire career was a display of the practical, common sense, decision maker who combined past lessons with probabilities driven by data. Finally, she worked with closely with Putin as an advisor.

    [MORE]

    She is not ethnically Russian but a Tatar. Coming from a Republic with a separate language. The dominant religion is Islam. Her brilliance brought her to Moscow. There were supporters and detractors. Supporters were impressed with her command of the territory and methods, plus her ability to manage and lead. Her detractors-like you and your reasons [she’s a woman, she doesn’t have a signal ideology [a tag or identifier in order to classify and pigeonhole the person], were intimidated by qualifications derived from results and outcomes.

    I do remember you saying that your boy who wanted to bull rush the State into economic steering and herding, is just what is predictable from limited database intellectuals. Intellectuals are of course drawn to socialism because there they can hide in bureaucracy, in [Thomas Sowell’s words, “They are only interested in process, not outcomes.” {Same with bureaucrats}]. Socialism MUST work because it is conceived by the Natural Aristocracy and Reality must be changed and modified to conform with
    with this inspired constellation of eternal truiffs.

    Well, anyhow, I have from quite a while back perceived a fleeting thought from the panel of incomplete conceptions and lack of closure of a set of propositions. How could such a roaring economy – primarily military – have been created so quickly, requiring vast sums of money? From where? I cannot tolerate questions that need to be answered from explanations that purport to deliver a whole and complete package.

    Hitler was locked into conquest, purloining and stealing resources of other countries to finance German megalomania and dominance of uber alles. It’s a never ending spiral, which the United States adopted in its quest for world wide dominance. More conquest to fund ever more conquest, and to pay for what has been conquered. Steal resources. Lie. Deceive. Mischaracterize yourself. Evildoers get to a point that is irreversible. And must be destroyed.

  164. Odyssey says:
    @Anti-Talmud Former Rabbi

    Aramaic? The ancestors of European Jews spoke Aramaic? And that language transformed into Yiddish in today’s Germany? So the Ashkenazi are originally from the Middle East whose Aramaic language became Yiddish?

    What is the difference between Ashkenazi and Sephardi since the same can be said for Sephardi? Why did Hebrew arise if Aramaic is still a living language in the Middle East? Is Aramaic a Semitic or Indo-European (whatever that means) language? Where do the so-called ‘Slavic’ words in Yiddish in Germany come from? Who were the Eastern European (e.g. Russian) Ashkenazi and where did they come from?

    You indirectly confirm Telemach’s thesis (Yiddish is older than German since it originated from Aramaic) but the Penelope Paradox remains (where did 92% of the Ashkenazi out of the total number of Jews [8 million] before WW2 come from)? Something is creaking in your structure.

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  165. Odyssey says:
    @Anti-Talmud Former Rabbi

    Are you confirming with this that it was only during the time of Charlemagne that the Germans crossed the Rhine and entered Serbian territory, i.e. present-day Germany (Serbs also lived on the other side of the Rhine, but let’s ignore that for now)? Who were the Saxons in fact? Was another name for them the Lusatian Serbs? Where did they originate from?

  166. Seraphim says:
    @Mefobills

    Let us add some few comments on your sentence: When Rothschild got on board at first Zionist conference, Rothschild coordinated with other finance Jews – to recycle their usury gains into new Zionist zones, like Palestine. They also wanted Crimea, but that has been erased from history.
    Only to better understand why the ”war on Ukraine”.
    Indeed Rothschilds are sort of ”newcomers”, amanuensis of the ”other finance Jews” like the Warburgs, Shiffs (in laws of the ‘Warburgs’), Oppenheimers, Cassels, Montefiores, Goldsmith, Ephrussi, Ginzburgs, Poliakovs (all so ”Russian”), the real Jewish ”nobility” (Lords and ”peers of the realm” in England, barons and counts in Austria and in ”antisemitic” Russia), the crème de la crème in France, Presidents in Argentina (Milei is a cousin of Netanyahu), Mexico (grand-daughter of Chone Juan Sheinbaum Abramovitz, emigrated from Lithuania in 1928, becoming a jewelry merchant and a member of the Mexican Communist Party, daughter of Annie Pardo from a Sephardi Jewish family who arrived in Mexico in 1946, after fleeing from the ”persecution of Jews” in Bulgaria during World War II), in-laws ”Holocaust survivors” Berkowits-Kushner (immigrated from Poland in 1949), of the present POTUS, and many more (Kristols, Kagans, Nulands, Podhoretzes, Wolfowitzes, Perles, Maxwells, Epsteins, among others- Hollywood ”moguls” y compris). It’s a can of worms that you open at your own peril.
    You may wonder with whom is Zelenski related?

  167. Odyssey says:
    @Odyssey

    In summary – how did Aramaic become a German language (i.e. its dialect)?

    You probably see for yourself that this is as absurd as the thesis of a double Ashkenazim language replacement in all of Eastern Europe, first from some unknown (maybe Aramaic?) to the so-called Slavic and a little later from Slavic to Yiddish with German vocabulary, whereby, of that original language (Aramaic?) not a trace or sound remained.

  168. @Mefobills

    Herbert Bloom, Economic Activities of the Jews in Amsterdam. (Port Washington, NY; Kennikat 1935)

    When internet readers find your citations inaccessible they might presume that you are inaccurate, erroneous, or making shit up. This also applies when you go on and on and on and on.

  169. @Mefobills

    Thank you for this detailed chronology naming key individuals Calvin and Manasseh.

    You’ve made mention of this before and your credibility established here left no room for doubt, but these details are very helpful as to this monumental place and time, including Calvin being born in the decade following the 1492 expulsion of the Jews from Spain by Isabella and Ferdinand.

    Calvin (1509-1564) and old testamentarianism was supported by the Jewish community, especially later in history by Manasseh and his printing presses.

    Phillip’s taxes caused a revolt in 1565. Calvinists supported the revolt, and they flocked to northern Netherlands, which then became Holland.

    So, basically Amsterdam became Judeo Christian Calvinist, and they were sympathetic to the Jews, and many new Sephardic Jewish merchants from Antwerp arrived.

    Manasseh was leader of the Jewish community. I just use him to personify the Jewish and other banker activities of the day. Manasseh mostly operated to issue propaganda.

    Manasseh began printing bibles in 1627. He also printed the first Hebrew book. He engaged in geopolitical operations, especially his relations with Oliver Cromwell. (A history of Jews in England, by Tovey).

    Manasseh led the efforts to gain re-admission of Jews to England. Manasseh can be considered as a super-parasite, working for Jewish interests, and against England.

    Herbert Bloom (Economic Activities of Jews of Amsterdam) counted 318 Jewish printers from the time of Manasseh up until 1732. The average printer published 3,000 copies, which was a high amount considering the population. In other words, the Jews were very active in propaganda and narrative control.

    From 1625 on, there were Seditious books smuggled into England. The books were to attack England’s social order, to make it ripe for the insertion of the parasite.

    1634 – Flagellum Ponstificum (Bastwick)
    1652 – Aplogetical Narration (Lilburne)
    1657 – Killing no Murder
    1673 – England’s Appeal from the Private Cabal at Whitehall (Lisola)

    This printing of propaganda and bibles was not profitable, but instead was funded by recycled usury dollars. It was not the profit motive of “capitalism,” it was Jewish subversion. The usury came from the arbitraging of silver and gold.

    This is why I pick Manasseh and the year 1650, but there was a lead up to the 1650 date.

    It might also be possible that John Winthrop, when he landed in Massachusets Bay in 1630, was carrying an English Bible printed by Manasseh in Amsterdam .

    Manasseh (Jewish method and finance capital(ism)) vs Winthrop (American method and industrial capitalism) would be a “god having a sense of humor” moment. 1650 has symmetry, and it a good point in historical time for the big bang event of Jewish takeover, and especially their invention of finance capitalism.

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  170. @Mefobills

    Deep observations on the dynamics in the public school environment that styme insightful discussion of realities necessary for reaching un/under recognized truths.

    And yet in some ways experiencing those dynamics seem to enable products of those schools to be less naive about, or inhibited by, political correctness in adulthood.

  171. @Farrakhan.DDuke.AliceWalker.AllAgree

    Judeo Christian is a term that no Christian should use under any circumstances to describe anything. It is a falsity coined by Jewish snakes. Innocent ignorant people using it is not an excuse.

    Amsterdam Christian business men partnering with Jews Monday through Friday were in over their heads. Same for the follow on English dupes. If they were Christians. Hypocrites come in all varieties.

  172. Anonymous[102] • Disclaimer says:
    @Odyssey

    Paul is a fictional character created on paper, a poster boy, in order to carry on an ideological struggle. He was a Post Office Box. There are a lot of fictional realities in your world view. Or delusions as they are called.

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  173. @Seraphim

    Thanks for this. The Benveniste rabbit hole goes deep. The early 20th century Zionist Abraham Yahuda, who bought most of the (fraud) Isaac Newton’s archives (full of proto-Zionist ramblings and Kabbalah magick, but no draft of the Principia, hmm), was a Benveniste. At nineteen Yahuda was already being given private audiences with the likes of Theodor Herzl, because he was a Nasi prince and the Jews remember. Columbus, recently proven to be Jewish, was part of the Benveniste La Cavalleria. His expedition was also a psy-op and fake. The Jews had been running across the ocean long before that. Yahuda’s nephew wrote a book arguing that Hebrew is just deformed Greek. It’s no surprise at all that through the Mendes line they controlled global trade. They once ran the world, and they want to rule it again.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbus%27s_letter_on_the_first_voyage

    “In the letter, Christopher Columbus does not describe the journey itself, saying only that he traveled thirty-three days and arrived at the islands of “the Indies” (las Indias), “all of which I took possession for our Highnesses, with proclaiming heralds and flying royal standards, and no one objecting”. He describes the islands as being inhabited by “Indians” (Indios).”

    First, note the 33 which signals a spook hoax. Second, note that no manuscript exists, and the fact that this fake news was simultaneously printed in all the big Jewish printing centers like Basel and Antwerp.

    From the chronological revisionist Marfulls-Pujada: “The more the official history is explored, the more evident it is that the project of the Catholic Monarchs is, essentially, a company of converted Jews associated with a lineage, that of the Benvenist, who are all subsequently dispossessed of their powers and privileges.” For those who are into Fomenko, here’s the fascinating article:

    https://chronologia.org/en/articles/marfull/20211124_kalonymus_colom_colon.html

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  174. Odyssey says:
    @Anonymous

    Another truth-enjoyer? Ok, bring your knee pads and stay and wait for your turn.

  175. @Mefobills

    If you think interest is usury, then you are wrong headed.

    Interest is not usury.

    Please help with the comprehension of this.

    Michael Hudson emphasizes that any level of interest is usury because it causes the amount of indebtedness to grow merely with the passage of time. E. Michael Jones titled his landmark book “Barren Metal” (subtitled “A History of Capitalism as the Conflict between Labor and Usury“) and says things like metal coins can not copulate and multiply like ewes and rams.

    These two guys’ definition seems persuasive and preferable.

    This makes me think the first two people whose work educated me on the Jewish Question, Kevin MacDonald then David Duke, who seem to say usury is “excessive interest”, are mistaken which would be understandable because they’re not expert specialist finance and economic historians like Michael Hudson.

    This makes perfect sense

    The only credit issued is to be sovereign credit.

    when the sovereign seeks to help the people instead of being “a hostile elite” as Kevin MacDonald accurately describes the Jews who relentlessly seek to exploit the goyim. It seems to be what is going on in China.

    There are two ways to deal with interest. In the tally stick era, they had yearly fairs. When you left the fair, credit and debts had to be balanced. That includes interest on loans. Heads were knocked together, so that creditors and debtors would come to agreement.

    I notice that Hudson has not noticed this period of history, which is arguably superior to the Christian Jubilee of 50 years. This was yearly!

    Is this annual debt forgiveness instead of every 7th year as the Jews forgave each other under Deut. 15:1 prior to their “prozbul” ?

    https://www.jpost.com/judaism/article-717252

    The other way, was comprehended by John Winthrop, and written down by Cotton Mather. You just issue debt free notes, so that interest on private debts can be paid. These were called Massachusets Bills.

    Is this government-issued payments for citizens to apply to pay off debts owed to non-government entities?

  176. Seraphim says:
    @DustyBuddy

    I am not in the Fomenko stuff. It rather confuses what was known for a long time.
    The Jewish origin of Columbus is nothing new.

    It was suggested first by a the German Rabbi Meyer Kaiserling, specialist on the history of Spanish Jewry and the Marranos, in his book Christopher Columbus and the Participation of the Jews in the Spanish and Portuguese Discoveries, 1894, written at the request of the Spanish government on the occasion of the 400th anniversary of the discovery of America. He didn’t affirm specifically that Columbus himself was Jew.

    Spanish intellectuals became the first to claim that Columbus was a Sephardic Jew, hoping to further elevate Spain’s status, in the wake of the losses of 1898, as the trailblazer of European civilization in the Americas. The Spanish historian and writer Celso Garcia de la Riega was the first to openly attack Genoese theory at a conference held in Madrid in 1898 at the request of the Geographical Society of Madrid. It came out as a book Colón, español. Su origen y patria in which asserted that not only some of Columbus’ crew had Spanish Jewish origins, but Columbus himself. He was accused of falsifying documents.
    In 1933, American Jewish writer Maurice David purported to offer Spanish archival evidence to demonstrate Columbus’ Spanish Jewish bona fides, interestingly to enhance the status of the Sephardis despised by the Ashkenazi Jews which made the bulk of the American Jewery.
    Nobel Prize nominee Salvador de Madariaga endorsed the theory of Columbus’ Jewish origins in his 1949 book CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS BEING THE LIFE OF THE VERY MAGNIFICENT LORD DON CRISTOBAL COLON.

    The name Benveniste came from the Spanish expression “bien viniste” meaning ‘(you) have arrived well’. It was rather an appellation applied to Makhir ben Yehudah Zakkai of Narbonne, brought from Babylon by Charlemagne (as the legend says) upon his arrival in Narbonne. It echoes the Biblical ”Blessed the one who comes in the name of the Lord”. His family enjoyed for centuries many privileges and its members bore the title of “nasi” and were hailed as ”Rex Iudaeorum (King of the Jews) at Narbonne. The place of residence of the Makhir family at Narbonne was designated in official documents as “Cortada Regis Judæorum”at Narbonne. The place of residence of the Makhir family at Narbonne was designated in official documents as “Cortada Regis Judæorum” (the Court of the Kings of the Jews). The theory of Zuckerman that Makhir was actually identical with Natronai ben Habibi, an exilarch deposed and exiled in a dispute between two branches of the family of Bostanai in the late eighth century, is very plausible since the Benvenisti claimed descendance from King David, like the exilarchs from Babylon.
    Kalonymos (Ancient Greek: Kαλώνυμος) means “beautiful name” and is a translation of the Hebrew “Shem-Tov”. The family is purported to have emigrated to Italy after the destruction of the Temple and from there it spread to Germany and Provence, being one of the most prominent Jewish families.

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