Merv

“I met Henry Kissinger in the fall of 1970 at a dinner given for him by Joyce Haber and her husband, Doug Kramer, head of Paramount's television department. Ali was seated next to the President's national security adviser. I was at another table. Every time I looked over, she was laughing. Could this guy be that funny? He sure didn't look it.

Toward the end of the meal, he stood up and thanked his hosts, adding as he looked around the room, "One day I hope I, too, can get a tan." His timing was terrific.

Ali brought him over. "Henry, this is my husband."

She was already calling him Henry.

He gave her a smile. "You mean the king of Hollywood?"

I shook his hand. "You can make me king if you star in one of my pictures."

"I'm always open to negotiate. Which one?"

"The Godfather."

"For the lead?"

"No, the consigliere."

"I'll have to speak with the President about it."

What charm. He didn't cut quite the same figure, but he was Cary Grant with a German accent.

The next day I had the chutzpah to invite him to lunch at Paramount. I never thought he'd accept.

Touring the studio, he seemed as awed as I would be on a personal tour of the White House. When I told him Walter Matthau was on the lot making Plaza Suite he said, "Do you think I could watch him do a scene?" Maybe our friendship started that way—the recognition between two men that inside each of us was a little kid. It wasn't long before we were on the phone almost every day, three thousand miles apart. Surprise! It had nothing to do with girls.

It's been said many times before, but politics and show business really are two sides of the same coin. Particularly the kind of politics Henry and I were involved with. After all, as Henry frequently said, working for Richard Nixon wasn't too different from working for Charles Bluhdorn.

We'd laugh that both our phones were tapped, then shock the tappers. Henry would say, "The Israelis are really difficult to deal with, Robert."

"It's true, then. You're having sex with Golda Meir."

"Robert, I'm not that much of a patriot. Tell me, are Raquel's breasts for real?"

Two little kids. I don't think Henry could ever quite believe his sudden media celebrity, but nobody was ever better than Henry at playing out the courtship.

I believe it was Sunday morning, January 24, 1972, when I got a call from Henry in Palm Springs.

"Thanks for letting me know you're in town, pal."

His voice was solemn. "I didn't expect to be. I know you're busy, Bob, but if you could spare the time I'd appreciate you're driving down here. Check into a hotel; call me when you arrive."

"Sure, Henry."

"Can you stay a day or two?"

"No problem."

Strange, he didn't invite me to stay with him. Henry was staying at the home of Leonard Firestone, the tire mag-nate. After checking into the Palm Springs Racquet Club, I called, Henry gave me the address of the Firestone home and told me to take a cab. Waiting for me at the Firestone compound were half of the Secret Service. Walking in, there was Henry, front and center, putting a finger to his mouth not to talk. We walked outside and onto the golf course.

"You're a good friend, Robert, to be here. I wouldn't have imposed on you if it weren't important."

"It's an honor, Henry."

He glanced back at the Firestone house. "It's all bugged, Robert. That's why we're on the eighteenth hole." Then, as if ordering a hot dog with mustard and sauerkraut, he continued, "A week from Wednesday I'm turning in my resignation."

"What?"

"I'm resigning."

"Why?"

"Why is not the question. I'm being told to."

As naive as a kid in junior high, I blurted, "You're making history. You're the best thing they've got in the whole administration."

"That's the reason. Believe it or not," he said it with a laugh. "This little Jew boy is getting out of hand. I can't help it and they can't seem to contain it."

In the worst of times, he was telling me of the story of his demise with a sense of humor. Now that's a great man!

"Haldeman giving him the benefit of the doubt," Henry continued, "he looks upon people of our persuasion with, to say the least, little kindness. The President that's a different case." He laughed again. "I can't blame him.

The more credit I get, the more he broods. Haig, he works for me, but does he like me? He rates right below Haldeman. The sad part of the whole thing is that the secretary of state, William Rogers, who's a very bright statesman, has a big problem with me —we are diametrically opposed on every international policy."

"What about Ehrlichman?" I asked.

"Bobby," he laughed, "whose side would you be on?" Now at the seventeenth hole, like a kid in kindergarten, he threw me a question. 

"Can you help me?"

The national security adviser to the President of the United States asking me for help? Maybe he should be fired.

"Me?" I began to laugh. "Why me, Henry? I know nothing about politics."

"Bob, you said it to me: 'Politics is nothing more than second-rate show business.'"

"It's a good line, Henry, but this ain't no joke. You've got the most brilliant statesmen in the world at your beck and call."

"That's why I'm calling on you. Whatever they advise, I've already thought of myself. Maybe you'll come up with the unexpected."

"Those are my words, Henry."

"I know. I copied them." He laughed.

We walked the golf course until the sun went down. I threw out suggestion after suggestion—from settling the war in Vietnam to making peace with Castro. Even if it were possible to do, it was impossible for Henry to achieve, for the simple reason he was confined to the United States.

"Why do you think I'm in Palm Springs talking to you?" He laughed. "It's getting dark. Go back to your hotel.

Put on your thinking cap. Naturally, respect the confidence of the conversation. Come back tomorrow at ten and we'll continue walking the golf course. Let them call a cab for you; I don't trust the cars. And take a cab back in the morning."

Walking back to the Firestone estate, he whispered, "Don't forget. Tomorrow I'm down to nine days." I didn't get two minutes' sleep the entire night. The only words I could say as I paced the floor were "The unexpected, the unexpected, the unexpected." I wrote down fifteen ideas to throw at him. We discussed all of them when we walked the golf course the next morning. From Walter Cronkite to Katharine Graham, idea after idea either had already been thought of or was impractical or unsympathetic to Henry's plight—until the last.

"This guy, Hugh Sidey from Life, he's also Time's Washington bureau chief—he writes about you like you're the second coming of Christ. It's you who told me that from the President to a junior congressman, every Monday morning the first thing read is Time, Newsweek, and the Washington Post. Let's say, Hugh Sidey praised the brilliant insight of the President in picking Henry Kissinger, labeling it the most incisive appointment he's made since being elected president."

A dazed look from Henry.

"Sounds theatrical I know," I said, "but we're in the same business, pal."

In the spirit of confidentiality, I'm jumping ahead. February 4, 1972, Life appeared with a story written by guess who: Hugh Sidey. Its theme? Henry Kissinger and his historic influence on the presidency. The first number two man who has ever wielded such power with such authority. Three days later, February 7, 1972, front and center on the desk of the President of the United States, every cabinet member, and all the senators and congressmen was Time magazine. The cover? Henry Kissinger. The cover story?

PURSUIT OF PEACE AND POWER

Not conducted by Richard Nixon, but by his "triple, secret agent," Kissinger — on whose "diverse talents, energy, and intellect" the President had to rely.

In the middle of a furious argument with Francis Coppola, I was interrupted by a call from the White House.

"Robert, you can still call me at the same number."

We both laughed like kids.

Less than sixty days after Nixon's landslide reelection of 1972, I sat beside Henry in the Grand Ballroom of the Beverly Hilton Hotel. It was the American Film Institute's first Life Achievement Award. The recipient was John Ford, the crusty director of Stagecoach, The Grapes of Wrath, Young Mr. Lincoln, and The Searchers, the quintessential symbol of American conservatism in the most liberal of liberal community of the arts. President Nixon himself attended, as did Ehrlichman. Haldeman, a true Aryan, strutted by the tables not wishing to pay homage to liberal Hollywood.

Front and center was Henry's table. Beside him was not young Mr. Lincoln, but young Mr. Evans. Our table, contrary to the others of the White House hierarchy, was a glamorous one. I think Henry and I were the only two Republicans seated. Haldeman, Marine haircut and all, nodded a cursory greeting to Henry. No smile, no handshake. His expression said it all. He wasn't looking to make new friends.

When Nixon stood to pay homage to Ford, the entire room, Democrats and Republicans, stood applauding their newly reelected President. He and the First Lady received the longest, most enthusiastic, exhilarating applause that I've ever heard paid to anyone. It gave the entire room — and certainly me — a chill of patriotism to know that any American could be looked upon with such high esteem.

Within sixty days the scandal of Watergate had turned into a brush fire. The liberal media on the warpath made the American populace question rather than accept Nixon's legitimacy. His staunch cabinet now shaky, his own presidency in question. The order of the day in the White House was firing. His chief of staff, Haldeman — fired. Ehrlichman was about to get the axe as well. Nixon's historic breakthroughs now all but forgotten, the only one left — unscathed, no less — was the little Jew boy, Henry.

In May 1973, at Henry's insistence, I joined him at a White House dinner honoring West Germany's chancellor, Willy Brandt. Henry had asked me to arrive early so we could schmooze about some girl he had met.

A knock on the door. It was Ehrlichman. Why was he there? His office was now completely empty. He had come by to bid Henry good-bye. Henry shook his hand and wished him luck. No more Ehrlichman.

Now we both started getting dressed for the black-tie state dinner. I was already dressed when Henry was having trouble with his tie. Fixing it right, he then put his jacket on. Smiling, he looked at me.

"You look like a male model, Bob."

I couldn't be that much of a liar—he didn't. He was at least twenty pounds overweight and if he added another two, the jacket button would have popped.

"Losing a few pounds wouldn't hurt."

"You won't tell anyone this, will you, Bob?"

"What?"

"I can't afford to." I began laughing. "It's true, between alimony, child support, and taxes, I can't afford to lose weight. I'd have to buy a new wardrobe and I don't have it in my budget."

"If I told this to anyone, Henry, they'd put me away."

"Me too, so don't tell it to anybody."

"What kind of world is this, Henry? My butler makes more money than you." Then he whispered in my ear, "Come on, I want to show you something."

Like Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer, we snuck down the corridor into the sacred quarters of the Oval Office. It was empty. Henry knew the President and First Lady were getting attired for their grand entrance to honor their state guest. We Fred Astaired it through the Oval Office, passing the official desk of the President, toward a wood-paneled door. Henry opened it. There we stood, the ambassador and the actor, right smack in the middle of the President's private john! On the wall, within arm's length away was the President's private phone. There for his convenience, a hot button to each of his staff. Only one of the six buttons had a name below it; the others were all empty.

Our eyes met. Beaming, Henry pointed.

"I'm the only name left." A Kissinger laugh. "Remember Palm Springs .. Bobby?"

MARCH 14, 1972.

"Sidney, guess who's coming to dinner."

"Yeah?"

"Henry."

"Kissinger?"

"Yeah!"

"You sure it's right?"

"It's great! Why?"

"It ain't no ordinary film. That's why. It's about the boys — the organization. It's a hot ticket."

Was I hearing right? These words were coming from Sidney Korshak. The man whom The New York Times called one of the five most powerful people in the United States. For close to twenty years Sidney was not only my consigliere, but my godfather and closest friend.

In the past year alone, two phone calls of his saved my ass. Literally. The first, to stop the heavy muscle from threatening not only my life, but my newborn kid's as well.

"Get the fuck outta our town, will ya? We don't want nothin' to happen to you or your kid. Go to Kansas City or St. Louis if ya wanna, but New York ain't opening up for ya," was the threat from New York's families five.

One call from Korshak, suddenly, threats turned to smiles and doors, once closed, opened with an embrace.

Al Pacino had signed for another picture, The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight, and was contractually unavail-able. A second call from Korshak—Pacino became available. Why was he now giving me heat?

"C'mon, Sidney. It's a fuckin' movie. It'll be a bash — the biggest opening of the decade!"

"Yeah, and he'll make it bigger."

"So what. It's my coming out party. He wants to be there. What's wrong with that?"

"Nothing and everything." Silence. "How's Ali?"

"Fine."

"Is that all you can tell me?"

"Yeah. Why?"

"Just asking. Did you fuck her yet?"

"No..."

He hung up.

I looked in the bedroom. Ali was still asleep. Or at least pretending to be.

The night before, she had flown in from El Paso on the Gulf + Western private jet without a moment's rest — starting with a six A.M. wake-up call on Sam Peckinpah's The Getaway. It was after one in the morning when she finally landed at Teterboro Airport in New Jersey, during the worst March snowstorm in New York's memory.

For the past hour I'd been on the phone to Marlon Brando's agent, Marlon Brando's lawyer, Marlon Brando's manager, trying to persuade Marlon to fly from L.A. to New York for the world premiere of The Godfather.

Brando had never gone to a premiere in his life. But months before, he'd agreed to godfather the premiere of The Godfather. It would be his "fuck you" to the world—his comeback in spades.

What a coup! It didn't last long. Anna Kashfi — Marlon's crazed ex-wife—kidnapped their son, Christian. Marlon canceled out. Two days before the premiere, Christian was found. I tasted the drama. It had to work.

Only one person could persuade Brando to make the opening—Christian's psychiatrist. I was waiting for her return call when the loudspeaker announced the arrival of Ali's plane. I rushed to the gate to greet my lady who but two months earlier, against her strong wishes, I'd packed off to Texas to star with Steve McQueen in The Getaway.

Two months had passed, and I hadn't once bothered to visit her on location. The very lady who but hours before we married had whispered, "I love you, Evans. I love you." —then, curling up beside me "forever."

"Forever," I whispered back.

"Never leave me. Promise?"

"Promise."

"Not even for two weeks."

"Not for one."

"I'm a hot lady, Evans."

"Never change."

"Then never let anything get between us, promise?"

"Promise."

Pale and windblown, she entered the terminal. Quickly, we embraced. Instead of kissing her, I whispered, "Wait here. I'm expecting a call."

"I'm exhausted, Evans. Can't you call from the hotel?"

When I told her I couldn't chance missing it, because it was a call from Brando's kid's psychiatrist, she looked at me as if I were the one who needed a shrink.

She was asleep before she hit the bench. Ali MacGraw, the biggest female movie star in the world, curled up in the waiting room of a freezing, two-bit airport, while her husband waited for the fuckin' phone to ring.

It rang! For the next hour Ali could have been back in El Paso as I went back and forth with Christian's psychia-trist, trying to make her an offer that even Marlon couldn't refuse a private jet for him and Christian. Father and son sharing the accolades together. What better reunion? The doctor wavered.

"I'll call you back."

"I've got him. I've got him," I said to myself, pacing back and forth, waiting for the phone to ring. It did. Anx-iously, I grabbed the receiver. Brando? He passed!

By now, it was almost three A.M. I hustled Ali through the falling snow, into the waiting limo. Before the door closed, she was asleep again—this time on my shoulder. I was glad as my thoughts had little to do with her—only,

"How do I better Brando?" Would you say I was sick?

The next morning, the alarm blasted at 9:30. Instead of turning over to make love, I rushed to the phone in the living room. Weeks ago I had invited Henry Kissinger to the premiere. My timing couldn't have been worse. The North Vietnamese offensive had just begun. Naturally, he begged off.

"Hello, this is Robert Evans. May I please speak to Dr. Kissinger?"

"Dr. Kissinger is with the President, Mr. Evans. He'll have to call you back."

"Have him call me as soon as possible, please. It's urgent."

Quicker than a junior agent at the William Morris agency, within ten minutes, Kissinger was on the phone.

"Bob, what's the urgency?"

"I need you in New York."

He laughed, "When?"

"Tonight."

"The Paris peace talks—they've just blown apart."

"I know—it's on every channel. But I need you with me tonight, Henry—real bad."

"Why?"

"The Godfather."

"What?"

I couldn't tell him I was calling because Brando flaked out.

"Tonight it's for me, Henry. It's the premiere. Win or lose, it would be worth it if I could walk in with you."

"We're in the middle of a blizzard." He paused. "I'm in with the President all day?" Again, he paused. "I have a seven-thirty breakfast that I can't get out of." A cough. "I'm leaving the country tomorrow."

"Henry, I need you tonight."

Only later did I learn that his "leaving the country" was in actuality a secret mission to Moscow; that his 7:30 breakfast was with Joint Chiefs of Staff to resolve the mining of Haiphong harbor.

A long pause. "I'll get back to you."

The phone rang. It was my boss, Charlie Bluhdorn, chairman of Gulf + Western, the conglomerate that owned Paramount Pictures. As usual, Charlie wanted to take my head off for something I had no control over. Life and Newsweek were on the stands with cover stories about The Godfather. Where was Time?

"We need a triple blitz, Evans. A triple blitz. You can do it. I know you can."

"I'm trying, Charlie."

'Try harder. For me, Evans, for me."

The Carlyle operator interrupted, "Mr. Evans, the White House on the line."

"The White House? What White House?" Bluhdorn screeched.

"Call you back, Charlie."

It was one of Kissinger's assistants. Blizzard and all, the doctor was flying in to be with me.

"What time?" she asked.

Protecting myself, "Six-thirty," I said.

"Would you mind if the doctor changes at your hotel?"

Quickly, I dialed Bluhdorn back.

"Charlie, Kissinger's coming!"

"Kissinger? Kissinger? Evans, I love you! I love you!"

The management of the St. Regis Hotel rued the day they accepted to take on the opening night party. Celebrated, highly profiled? Yes. But nothing was worth the grief of having to deal with the likes of me!

With less than twenty-four hours till post time, I called for a full dress rehearsal. On inspection, I made them change the napkins, silverware, candles, and—oh yes—the food.

After tasting it, I shook my head, "No, it's too bland. Get me a new chef. A Sicilian." Then I took on the orchestra leader. "Play The Godfather theme over and over until everyone is seated."

"But Mr. Evans—"

"Don't argue!"

He didn't. He knew I'd fire him.

Finally, I gathered together the eighteen security guards I'd hired to protect the party from crashers. In keeping with the spirit of the night, all were dressed in double-breasted, striped gangsters' suits and large-brimmed hats, rented from Strock Theatrical Costumes.

The fire ordinance of the St. Regis ballroom would not permit more than 470 people at the post-premiere bash.

When more than 2,000 people are invited to the premiere, "the Crash Factor" becomes the paramount factor in protecting the bash from a potential disaster.

Protection being only as good as its weakest link, one by one, I placed each striped suit at his immovable station

-starting with the outside revolving doors, then to the lobby itself, to every elevator, back and front, every staircase, back and front, to every lavatory and terrace. Did I plug every hole? I'd know in twenty-four hours.

I shook Ali awake. "Better get some breakfast, baby. There's a car waiting. You've got to make it to Halston and back by four. Gotta go. Love ya." She crawled back under the covers.

There was a rap on the door. It was Mary Cronin, a reporter from Time. She was there to see Al Pacino. Since Pacino lived in a cellar—no joke, a cellar—I'd arranged for them to meet in my suite for the interview.

Al showed up a few minutes later, unshaven, wearing a Navy pea coat and a knit hat pulled down over his ears. A second-story man? Possibly. But not the subject of a Time cover.

Quickly, he pulled me aside. "Can you loan me a fiver? I need it for the cab tonight."

I slipped him two crisp C notes, which he pocketed without blinking. With that, I left, scratching my head. This kid's the star of The Godfather?

Was my ass on the line! It was me who fought the entire Paramount organization to cancel the Christmas opening, give us time, get it right, touch a bit of magic. Not unlike a parachute jumper, a picture gets one shot—if it doesn't open, it's dead.

"Come on, fellas, back me!" No one did except Bluhdorn. Even my so-called loyal cabinet begged me not to press my luck. 

"Fuck luck, fellas, it's instinct. If I can't press it, I should fold." 

Luck fucked me —a blizzard in the middle of March.

Outside, the storm was getting worse. I trudged to Meledandri, my tailor, for the final fitting of my new dinner suit—black velvet jacket and gray flannels. Then to the St. Regis, where I completed the seating plan as well as tasted the new chef's rigatoni. Then by foot all the way across town to Loew's State, where I was greeted by Al Lo Presti-—Paramount's ace acoustic guru.

"Is that you, Evans? You look like a fuckin' snowball."

"Fuck you too. Let's get the sound right, okay?"

"Don't worry, no one's gonna show anyway. There ain't no way to get here." Both of us burst out laughing. How could this be happening to us?

Not trusting anybody but ourselves, we planned our strategy to ensure that the sound levels would be correct for our now questionable night of triumph. During the premiere, Al would bicycle between the two projection booths, listening to my instructions from the walkie-talkie neatly tucked in the inside breast pocket of my velvet dinner jacket.)

Back at the hotel, Ali came in from Halston's. Being tired did not stop her from being accommodating, as she tried on various outfits for my appraising eye to pick. After settling on black feathers over a simple black sheath, we added a tight-fitting black "ostrich" hat, since she didn't have time to get her hair done.

The Bluhdorns, my brother, Charlie, and his date, and a few others were invited over at 6:30 for a taste of caviar and champagne. My first guest arrived early—Henry Kissinger.

At 7:45 Ali and I joined Henry in the backseat of the limo. Pulling up to the theater, Henry leaned over. "Bobby, will there be a lot of press?"

"A lot."

Somberly, shaking his head. "The President's going to love this."

The doors opened. Enough flashbulbs went off to light up New Jersey. On one arm—Ali MacGraw—the ravishing Mrs. Evans; on the other, the most charismatic statesman in the world. Was this really happening to me?

The paparazzi became so unruly that extra police were called in to physically push them back.

"Dr. Kissinger, why are you here tonight?" one of them yelled.

"I was forced," he smiled.

"By who?"

Looking at me, "By Bobby."

"Did he make you an offer you couldn't refuse?"

When the lights went down and Nino Rota's music swelled, my whole life seemed to pass before me. Here, sitting between Henry and Ali, watching this epic unfold, I felt that everything my life was about had led up to this moment.

Two hours and fifty-six minutes later Diane Keaton asked Pacino if he was responsible for all the killings.

"No," he lied, then walked into the family library, leaving her behind to watch two of his hit men, Richard Castellano and Richard Bright, come in to kiss their new godfather's ring. The doors slowly closed on Keaton's face—the screen went to black—the credits started to roll. No applause —not a sound—just silence. Scary? No, eerie.

"It's a bomb," I said to myself. I looked at Ali, then Henry. Their faces too were solemn.

"Let's get out of here."

In the backseat of the limo, Henry shrugged. "Reminds me of Washington; just different names, different faces."

No compliment. He must have hated it.

Squeezing my hand, Ali whispered, "Evans, I'm so proud of you. It's brilliant." What else could she say, she was my wife.

Am I an idiot giving a party? It's a mob picture, not a musical.

Wrong again. It was a blast! I played master of ceremonies, introducing anyone and everyone. From Mario Puzo to Francis Coppola, they all made it to the stage.

The screaming, the fights, the threats that never let up since day one of filming, were worth it. Even Francis Coppola, the director whom I'd hired over Paramount's objections and then personally fired four different times during the post-production editing, came over to hug me, closing the book on two years of terrible battles—from casting to music and the final edit.

Two jarring moments put a slight dent in the evening. Spotting Sidney and Bernice Korshak at a table across the floor, I rushed over and kissed Bernice.

"Without the big man, none of this could have happened. Join our table, will you?"

Not cracking a smile, he shook his head. "No."

"Why?"

"And give the fuckin' press a field day?"

"Come on, Sidney, it's your night too."

Like a vise, he grabbed my arm. "Don't ever bring me and Kissinger together in public. Ever! Now go back to your table, spend some time with your wife, schmuck."

I hadn't been back at my table for more than five minutes when Jimmy Caan, who exploded into stardom that night, rushed over. An embrace? No! He grabbed my other arm. "You cut my whole fuckin' part out." Did I hear right?

Sure. An actor is an actor is an actor is an actor.

Ali never looked more radiant. For the rest of the night we danced as one. Holding her tightly in my arms, I felt I was the luckiest man in the world. It was the highest moment of my life.

Was I dreaming it? I was. It was all a façade. The beginning of the end.

Excerpt From

The Kid Stays in the Picture

Robert Evans

The Seal of Dracula

Christopher Lee talks about his Dracula ring and why he didn't speak in ...

“This ring is a copy of a similar ring 

worn by a Central European actor;

His ame was Bela Lugosi — 

now, that that's the correct way of pronouncing it 

but that was probably 

a little bit too much for people to take 

and so he became immortalised 

under The Name of Bela Lugosi —

He made His Name, as indeed did I, in the playing 

of a certain rather strange Transylvanian nobleman…

It might interest you to know that Transylvania still exists 

and I've been there and the name of that no woman of course immortalised in one book and known throughout the world now was quite simply the word Dracula 

I wore this me I can't remember how many pictures I explore again that bar but I certainly did Wed his son as a tribute to Lugosi so I wore this ring the picture that we are referring to that I'm talking about now in a more particular sense is called Dracula : Prince of Darkness which is the second 

Dracula picture that I was in and interestingly enough 

there was a gap of something like seven years between 

the first one/second while because I think,

the first one was made in 1957 or 8 and 

the second one certainly was made in 1965.

People all over the world who've seen that film 

have asked me why I didn't speak in it 

I didn't say work growing powerful 

The Answer is very simple :

I got The Script and the lines were literally unsayable, 

they were not Bram Stoker this was a great fight 

I used to have over the years with ham I kept on saying 

“Why don't you use Stoker's words, 

Stoker's dialogue?”

if you like so somebody used to write up lines like 

I am the apocalypse and I mean beyond belief 

so I said “I'm sorry I'm not saying these lines 

you know, you could get a terrific laughs 

which I'm quite convinced 

we would have done

The First Order

In order to ensure Security, and 

continuing Stability, The Republic

will be reorganised into

The First Galactic Empire —

For a Safe, and Secure…..

Society.

Napoleon To Nashville: 

France, 1st Nation State 

And How It Was Destroyed

Timeline of French Constitutional governments

• Dark Blue : strong executive power, authoritarian

• Purple : relative balance between executive and legislative

• Red : strong legislative power, all-powerful assembly(ies).

(Please note that this legend is indicative and cannot reflect the multiple nuances from one regime to another.)

Over the past 500 years, all of human history has revolved around one central conflict over the past 500 years all political issues have boiled down to one dominant issue over the past 500 years the entire battle of ideas has depended on one decisive engagement one side of that central conflict has been the cause of the modern nation-state emerging from the Renaissance the modern nation-states that found its profit in Dante Alighieri during the disasters of the 1300s the modern nation-state was launched as a plan at the Council of Florence in 1439 a pilot project was created in Florence under Cosimo and Lorenzo de Medici during the 1400s and then later in the 1400 the modern nation-state found its first full expression in the France of louis xi the stunning success to blue e xi was quickly imitated by the tudor new monarchy in England and for a time it seemed that the modern nation-state would sweep over the globe the other side of that central conflict of the past 500 years has been the empire the world government universal monarchy the Empire sums up everything that is primitive barbaric and hateful in human life the Empire is based on the irrational dominations of the noble families the Oleg are the aristocrats they are steeped in racism usury geopolitics slavery feudalism cult ISM speciality and cruelty the Empire corresponds to an infantile psychosis of the human species the Empire is the nightmare from which we are all seeking to awake by 1500 the stage was set for the oligarchy and its Imperial theme to be consigned to the garbage can of history but the forces of the nation-state in the Renaissance proved too weak the Empire has survived regroups and counter-attacked today The Empire in its current form of the British Venetian united nations world government threatens to overwhelm the fragile bulwarks of world civilisation and precipitate humanity into a new Dark Age. 

The twilight is deepening around us the lights go out one by one the onset of Darkness is near is it a momentary eclipse for the final outcome the final coming of a long colder and night for mankind the outcome is not in the stars but in our hands to decide in modern times the Venetian oligarchy and their successors of the British Empire have constituted the world command center of the imperial cause over the past several years two important masses of population and culture have been mobilized as assets by the Anglo-Venetians one is France this once great nation has put on the British yoke and accepted Servette subservience to London in the form of a new anglo-french alliance of a new aunt our besties are this is no surprise France submitted to Napoleon the monstrous figure of Empire gone man for the past 200 years since the time of Napoleon with brief intervals like the de Gaulle period France has usually played the role of a Venetian puppet state the forces of human progress exist in France but they are now in full retreat today a regime of British toadies in Paris persecute Jacques Chaminade the leading partisan of the modern nation-state in France and this same regime joins with the British Empire to make up one corner of the four-cornered chess game of the post-cold war world the anglo-french auntaunt goes back to the disaster that was Napoleon and it goes back to three centuries of Venetian cultural operations in France that have afflicted that country with the most grotesque Venetian culture in modern world the second mass of population and culture mobilized by the Anglo Venetians is under the influence of the conservative revolution here in the United States we're talking about the neutered ones newts and his friends like Governor Thomas Ridge of Pennsylvania they are raving fascist ideologues and they are increasingly hated but the fact is that they have a social base what social base supports robbing children of their school lunches robbing the ages of their medical coverage and rolling back the social conquests of centuries it is the same social base that welcomed the Bonaparte family to the United States supported slavery and secession seized our government under Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson promoted Mussolini and Hitler and punished us with the novels of Robert Penn Warren and William Faulkner the social base of newton ridge of the Anglophile neo confederates the nostalgic nashville fugitives the pro-british Country and Western fascists let us start with the birth of the nation state until 1500 all human societies were to class society they had an elite and a mass the elite was tiny and tended towards oligarchy ISM and the mass of impoverished illiterate slaves or peasants was huge and inert by the 1400s though the Medici system of trade and manufacturing had produced something new Under the Sun a city based class devoted to the industrial production of textiles and clothing as the leading edge of a broad array of manufacturing and trade this was the modern middle class up to that time a reforming King might make some improvement but he could not go too far for fear of antagonizing the elite and it's all the graphical components now there was a new class a reforming King might turn to for support the middle class soon reforming Kings like Louie xi of France and Henry the seventh of England began to lean on the middle class as a means of dealing with the rebellious feudal barons the oligarchs and it started in France medieval France was the room which was born more than 500 years ago the modern form of nation-states during the reign of king louie xi ruled 1461 to 1483 never before in history had such a state existed although the idea of fostering and developing the Commonwealth and thus the common good of the nation as a whole was even then a very old idea and in many ways a very simple idea the creation of that state and France was based on the work of great thinkers including Nicolas of cruz' and piccolo nominee both pictured here who in 1439 brought to fruition the council of florence and after Louie's time in 1508 forged the League of Cambre a military alliance of all of Europe to defeat the center of oligarchy evil evil Venice and her project to be a new roman empire Piccolomini who would later become pope pius ii described the venetian problem well piccolo meanie said as among brute beasts aquatic creatures have very little intelligence so among human beings Venetians are the least just and the least capable of humanity they wish to appear Christian before the world but in reality they never think of God and except for the state which they regard as a deity they hold nothing sacred Nikola Cruz's book the Concord anthea católica written before the Council of Florence laid the basis for the sovereign nation state government must be based on the firm knowledge that crews aright men have been endowed with reason which distinguishes them from animals who'sa concludes that government will work only with the consent of the governed because only with consent will the government be governed be free to exercise that creative reasons that godlike quality which enabled man to master nature and transform it Cruz's ideas were at the center of the agreements between the eastern and western churches and what we now know is the Florentine initiated European gold and Renaissance Cosimo de Medici also pictured here provided both the political impetus and the financing for the Council of Florence in fact in 1461 louis xi rebuffed an alliance with Venice and consolidated an alliance with Cosimo de Medici and the Florentine Republic Cardinal bazarian hidden up there read the official proclamation of the union of the two churches for the Greek at the Council of Florence and he would later become a papal envoy to the court of luigi 11th the venetian dominated feudal system a system where an elite 5% of the population on the other 95% much as they owned cattle brought europe to disaster 100 years before the council of florence the venetian state modeled on that of white purchases Faridah through its military machine and its aggressive subversive subversion of all national interests dominated the Mediterranean through that denominated every government of Europe and what you see there is the Venetian shipping lane then it stuck up there in the Adriatic and from that position controlled the entire Mediterranean and those were the routes they traveled through the population of Europe overall collapsed in the 14th century the banking system collapsed after in order to give looting directed by Venetian and Lombard banking houses 20 million people one quarter of the population of Europe died of the Black Death multiple versions of religious coats most of which call themselves Christian but were in fact pagan became popular many of them proclaimed that all of these catastrophes were signs from God that we had reached the end of the world France which was then the most populous nation in your was so weakened and so corrupted by feudalism that France herself was almost wiped off the face of the earth when defeated by a much smaller English army in 1415 at the Battle of Agincourt it was only two combined forces of the Brotherhood of the common life in northern Europe and the Dante Petrov resistance below the Alps which supported Joan of Arc and thus set the preconditions for Louie the eleventh Joan of Arc had a rapid string of military victory starting with the uplifting of the siege of Orleans 14:29 and these victories were very much a function of her ability to rally those elements of the French leadership and the French population to a higher ordered concept of the nation based on the dignity of man the Brotherhood of the common life they laid teaching order educated poor and orphan boys and employed them in copying before the invention of printing copying the great classics of science and philosophy both paintings you see here by Jean Luc a a court painter the Louie the 11th and Vander Heiden a French Flemish artists highlight this movement of books and learning a little bit okay visited Italy soon after the Council of Florence to paint the portrait of Pope Eugenius the fourth who presided over the Council of Florence Louie knew all these painters very well a Duke old painter from Milan studied with Van der Weide and in Brussels while though he was living there before he became king and Louis personally intervened to settle a dispute between the two painters so that the teaching itself could continue Louis preferred diplomacy to war he created a strong national military capability to avoid the bloody devastation of warfare one of Louie's first acts as king was to establish a food supply and regular housing for the army he said crisis for which such food would be bought high enough to ensure a constant supply but regulated to prevent gouge the national treasury by war privateers he established a postal system with regular stations throughout the country to ensure the rapid delivery of military intelligence such a system functioning in times of peace or war covered long distances at a fast knowable and regular pace a letter could travel 300 or 350 kilometers in 24 hours Louis built an armaments manufacturing capability in Paris it blasts and tore Louie's primary concern was to build a national army which would be independent of the control of the feudal lords he built for the first time a well-armed well-trained and well-paid infantry an army which would continue into the modern era one of his military mobilizations created Swiss style armaments in two months a record time and at high prices set by the King to ensure both speed and quality of manufacturer military and Arsenal's and foundries were built on waterways to have cannon and artillery rivers were made navigable to ensure the flow of agriculture and military goods the ports of the land of Marseilles La Rochelle onion on the Atlantic Rochelle on the Atlantic and Bordeaux on the Atlantic were developed a census was taken of all the potentially productive land and the state took over all unclaimed land in order to put it back into production edicts were issued by the Kings forbidding hunting on agricultural land which had long been the privilege of the feudal oligarchs swamps were drained to bring more land into cultivation wheat production and distribution were organized to make sure that the prices were kept low and towns would always have wheat available farmers were protected from the seizure of their necessary tools and implements if they were not able to keep up with debt payments a law was passed to allow the nobility to work and making it to their advantage financially to work in most of Europe a nobleman would lose his financial privileges if he engaged in productive industry stringent regulations were issued for food shops sanitary laws along with the introduction of municipal services and water management establishment of fire companies made the growth of cities the center of national development Louie enacted labor laws to protect the rights of foreign workers he encouraged the immigration of Engineers printers musicians miners farmers armed specialists iron foundry workers cauldron makers weavers and silk tires immigrants were supplied with the instruments of labour and land for their habitation with the restriction that they must make the land productive when we abolish the states rights to seize the land property and manufacturers of foreign-born subjects and allow them to become free subjects of France France the prototype of the sovereign nation state had now become the lethal threat to Venice she was designed to be the Venetians proudly carried the mantle of pagan Rome they allow the Ottoman Turks to take over Constantinople in 1453 following the Imperial tradition of switching the ruling administrative leaves while maintaining the same oligarchical Empire Cardinal Vissarion in 1471 wrote an open letter here illustrated to the princes of Europe printed in Paris on one of Europe's first printing presses by Louise printer Guillaume de chelly calling for the warfare against the Venetian lackeys and Constantinople the Ottoman Turks warfare that could have destroyed the Venetians was inaugurated with the 1508 League of Cambre France was then ruled by King Louie the twelve whose fathers charged early on have been captured by the English during the ignominy is French defeat at Agincourt Louis the 12th uncle the famed bastard of Orleans had been in charge of the defense of or Lyon and had rallied to the cause of Joan of Arc Cardinal George them was who negotiated the treaty for the League of Cambre so nuncle also fought with Joe Navarro George then voise was the protege of one of Luigi Levin's most trusted advisors and diplomats his older brother the Bishop of Al b-movie dem was a large with his French at the time of the league of Cambre were some of the greatest minds of Europe Leonardo da Vinci began to work for King Louie the 12th and 1507 when he became a court painter in a military engineer the French ambassador to Venice was the Greek exile Janos masterís who before working for the French King taught Greek in Florence and built the library of lorenzo de medici Laskaris was a protege of cardinal vissarion an inherited vissarion's role as the protector of the greek platanus in the west erasmus the most important intellectual figure of 16th century europe collaborated with Laskaris in 1508 while both were in venice working on several projects one of which produced the first printed edition of the complete works of Plato in Greek in 1513 okay Venice suffered a crushing military defeat on May 9th 1509 at the Battle of Annie Abdullah the French forces were led by Leonardo DaVinci's patron shah's dam was the nephew of Cardinal George dams laws never before had such a crushing blow been handed to Venice this near victory was lost with the betrayal by pope julius ii who in his short sightedness and greed made a deal with the Venetians in 1511 and turned the league of Cambre into a holy League of all of Europe against France series of wars and sued which lasted several years but worse than the destruction and the loss of human lives that betrayal by julius ii cost the human race its chance to destroy the institutional center of organised evil instead the backlash against the treat this pope created a fertile ground for new forms of venetian intrigue the Venetians had to change their strategy they had just learned that they could not defeat this new kind of enemy the nation-state militarily you see here louis xi painted by bouquet and a front piece louise order of san michele louie xi was an individual who changed history the modern-day guardians of the venetian heritage have attempted to bury the history of louis xi and his work modern writers truly proclaimed that louis created the sovereign nation state but like modern capitalists maybe they had ross perot in mind worked only to satisfy his own ego and ruled with extreme cruelty you get the same story in France a tourist at Monsta Michelle finds in the guidebook a king at the end of the Middle Ages louie xi wasn't able but cool gnarrk the slanderous characterization was ordered by Venice north the British Empire the poisons hanwen Sir Walter Scott the vehicle is 1823 novel Quentin durwood Scott wrote that if the earth were deprived of feudalism it would be difficult to conceive the existence of virtue among the human race luigi 11 in his crushing of feudalism was in Scotts words of a character so purely selfish he ruined almost an incarnation of the devil himself Scott's novel was translated into French immediately and the French lackeys for the English had been repeating Scott's lies ever since [Applause] now the War of the League of Cambre had proved that louis xi modern french nation-state was a threat to the survival of Venice 

The Venetians wanted to destroy France, but how direct military force was out of the question the Venetians therefore decided on a strategy of cultural and political subversion the subversion of France between 1500 and 1800s by the Venetians has few parallels in modern history of all the national cultures of the modern age the French is the most prestigious in culture the anglo-americans provide trash for the mass market but the French provide the luxury goods for the elite in Asia Africa Latin America intellectuals and elite who are tired of MacDonald's turn above all to France this culture however stems from centuries of an unrelenting operation by Venetian like Paulo Safi and Antonio Conte and century after century the most famous French writers have professed their admiration for Venice made their personal pilgrimages to Venice exceptions there are but they are few and far between as Machiavelli or Leonardo might have put it the Cuccia process a Anup for Korea Venice Tianna French culture is a Venetian monstrosity British Prime Minister Robert Walpole gloated that the French are ten times more idiotic than the British because they are so easily duped the French of course pride themselves on their knowledge their urbanity on their glittering cynical intelligence they think that they are the true sophisticates and connoisseurs of intrigue the worst thing that can happen to them is to be fooled….

Well, The Worst has happened and the proud French are the dupes. they are the dupes the fall guys and the suckers of the Venetians British oligarchs who went along with the Venetians stood to gain 20 oligarchs who went along with the Venetians stood only to lose  — The French are the pathetic losers.

Now, The Venetians had been profiling France since The Fourth Crusade of 1202, when Doge Enrico Dandolo talked the French feudal Knights into capturing Constantinople for The Venetians the old chronicles have repaired the clergy and villa come on show us something about the minds of the French Dukes the heart of the Venetian cultural warfare was the no soul thesis — Aristotle had taught Man has no soul; The Venetians thought the same thing. This is not theology, this is the essence of politics : The no soul thesis means that Man has no reason; Man is an animal; Man is a beast.

Now, The Soul is empirically there and you know it through your creativity, through your own insights and discoveries, the fruits of which are permanent and immortal; you know your soul through love and through your yearning for The Good — if Man is a beast then The Oligarchy and The Empire are simply unavoidable and Venetians are materialist in this sense —

now the no soul thesis has technical names it's called mortal ism annihilationism deniro psychism and all of them mean the same thing no human soul around 1500 at the University of Padua in Venice the unity there was a famous professor Pietro papparazzi warts-and-all his doctrine was that there is no immortal human soul in other words that there is no soul at all the whole person dies body and soul the main idea of what is called the Padua School of Aristotelian ISM is that there is no human soul and this was also taught at the School of Medicine around 1600 the same thing was taught at Padua by cesare cremonini when cremonini died he ordered a tombstone with the inscription hitch Yakut Toto scream oniy knows here lies all of cremonini the idea was that there had been no soul and that all of cremonini had into the grave paparazzi and cremonini with the teachers and inspiration of many famous French writers as we will see but no soul thesis is the infallible marker of a Venetian agent every Venetian agent every Venetian asset claims man has no soul this includes Papa not see Contarini cremonini antonio conte and in England the no soul idea was proclaimed by Venetian assets like Robert Fludd Thomas Hobbes John Milton and so forth every time you have the no soul thesis you have a Venetian agent and vice-versa the modern Venetian party in France was founded by Paolo Safi a no soul Satanist and the chief Venetian policy maker of the period around 1600 the best name for the Venetian Party of France is the Cabal of The Libertines that is what they called themselves their Creed was the no soul thesis which you can call Satanism or atheism to found the Cabal of the libertine sadhvi first needed a war of religion I have shown the casbah token today near Venice was the prime mover behind both Martin Luther and King Henry the eighth thus creating both Lutheranism and Anglicanism neither of these doctrines however could be sold in France so a new and more militant form of Protestantism had to be created it featured total depravity and absolute predestination and it came to be called Calvinism John Calvin had to be taught how to create a synthetic religion he was created by the L'Etoile family a family of Venetian ages his teacher was Pierre faizon de l'etoile now this Pierre Kazon de l'etoile was a Venetian operative and his son was an admirer of Paulo sad be the younger de l'etoile wrote in his journal that father Paul the Venetian monk of the survived order is in my judgment the one who has best and most sincerely written for my Lords the Venetians thus wrote the son of Calvin's teacher Calvin was a Venetian agent now the French King at this time was Francis the first who had been in Spanish captivity after the Battle of Pavia in 1525 during the Cambre Wars Francis the first was inclined at first towards a reasonable policy of peace and tolerance until about 1530 for the year of the so called placards affair the placards were leaflets with violent protests against the Pope and the Catholic Mass they were put up in numerous public places and on the door of the Kings bedroom Francis the first went wild 20 heads rolled and Francis began persecuting the Protestants one of the provocateurs had been John Calvin who had been a pre had a previous arrest record for such actions now the last great French writer and perhaps the greatest of them all Francois Rabelais opposed Calvin he wrote in the fourth book of gargantuan of the little Calvinist demons and other imposters of Geneva now Calvinism was directed much more against the king than against the Pope the French Calvinists were called Huguenots Huguenots means confederates Huguenots were drawn chiefly from the oligarchy it is estimated that by about 1570 more than 1/3 and possibly half of the French nobility were Huguenots Huguenots ideology permitted a comeback for these French feudal barons who had been crushed by louis xi the Baron's had been fighting the central monarchy for centuries and now they had a new ideology to rationalize their desire for civil war some all the gods became Huguenots in order to spite their enemies who stayed catholic many oligarchs wanted to determine the religion of their own peasants as they could in germany admiral colony of the Huguenots called in the english well the Gees the leaders of the Catholic party called in the Spanish to form a killing machine crushed in the middle was the state built by louis xi and the expiring baloise monarchy a series of son of Catherine they may be cheap France had non flare-ups of civil war between 1562 and 1598 the French Wars of Religion had no clear front and were marked by looting and raiding operations by groups of armed oligarchs on each side all of the contending factions had leaders who were venetian agents and as time went on more and more were agents of sarpy personally Saffy's main French operative was a Hinault to study a who had been the French ambassador to the Council of Trent Gustav VA helped soppy write his most famous book the history of the Council of Trent among the Venetian operatives were Michel de l'hôpital the Grand Chancellor of France during the 1560 it was on his watch that the weakness of the monarchy let the Civil War get started Michel preached moderation and tolerance he has been called the first politique Michel had studied at Padua for six years he wrote at Latin or glorifying Venice according to the Venetian ambassador Andrea Barbara Michel was always a secret Huguenots philippe do place team of may was the leader of the French Calvinist his nickname was the Huguenots pope he was a direct correspondence of sadhvi he was the finance minister and money man for Henry the fourth who later had dumped him as part of a rapprochement with the Pope Jaco boosted the two th oh you was in correspondence with Safi he visited Venice in his youth and went there again to seek help as a minister for King Henry the third of France the two helped to write the Edict of Nantes of 1598 which provided tolerance but tolerance meaning in armed Huguenots party in the state with its own fortresses the two bequeathed his library to his relatives of the Dupree family and this became a center for the Cabal of The Libertines the to his son was part of the attempt to assassinate reshare EUR by the count of sank mouse now tracing this network is a little bit easier if we recall that the Venetians first supported Henry of Navarre to become King of France as Henry the fourth and they were the first to record the Venetians controlled Henry the fourths advisors like you Plessy mock me when Henry the fourth refused to back Venice against the Vatican refused to start a war with Spain and attacked sadhvi as a heretic Venetian intelligence assassinated Henry the fourth the most popular King in French history after the 1572 massacre of Huguenots on st. Bartholomew's day there was a growing reaction against religious fanaticism this was expressed by a third force called the pulley keep the political ones the putty teeka much misunderstood they were not just fed up with religious fanaticism they were the original form of the cabal of The Libertines under Venetian control the leading politique was Jean Bodin called the first philosopher he was an intelligence agent working for the Duke of Allah song the son of king henry ii and for a time the politique candidates to be king of france Zhou Bo da was a disciple of the Venetian Contarini and possibly also of component C jambo da was in close contact with sakis friend of Medusa VA as well as with Lord Cecil in London bo Dan was involved in plots to kill Queen Elizabeth of England and was a judge in a trial in which a woman was executed for sorcery now his six books of the Commonwealth talk much about sovereignty but this is not the modern concept of sovereignty for the Venetians the slogan of sovereignty was used as a device to create conflict between any governments and the Pope sought B for example define Venetian sovereignty as against Pope Paul v Borghese during the famous struggle of the interdict much of Bo Dan's book is also developed devoted to a weird theory of climate which appears as a racist determinism that is northerners succeed by force southerners succeed by cunning though that talks of tolerance but as we can see in 16th century 17th century England tolerance often meant opening the door to gangs of Venetian madmen organized as religious sect if governor Winn of Massachusetts for example had caved in to Cromwell's pressure to tolerate these sex North America might have become a madhouse of depraved sectarian now the real Jean Bodin comes out in his long unpublished work the so called kept up flow mad a it's a dialogue the scene is Venice famous for its atmosphere of perfect freedom a group of oligarchs discuss religion from the standpoint they have Catholic Jewish naturalist Lutheran Calvinist skeptical and Islamic what they all agree on is that mummies have the power to stir up storms and have miraculous powers of healing that the world is full of demons and the true wisdom is to be found in the mysticism of the Kabbalah they are interested in necrophilia they sing hymns to Isis talk of Hermes Trismegistus and praise Gasparo Contadina the first sentence of the dialogue is well don't you think we've talked enough about the immortality of souls bingo bodom was in tandem with a certain Guillaume Postell the first Frenchman to read the entire Kabbalah and published the Zohar Bowdoin postel shared the same paymaster now according to various sources the discussions described in the hepta plumerias were not a work of fiction but had actually taken place in Venice Postel had attended them the goal of the discussions had been to create a new synthetic syncretic and satanic religion using straps from the three monotheistic faiths after post Elves death road I got the stenographic notes and made them into the heft of flow Maris now pastels Venetian Seminar could only have been sponsored by the jovani party of the venetian oligarchy the party of paulo saw a post l seminar was the foundation of the Cabal of The Libertines the Venetian party of France as for Postel he tried to start cults around the rarest of commodities a Venetian virgin called mother Johanna later Postell claimed that mother had occupied his body through so-called a mutation post cell therefore became an early feminist parallel to budahas Michel de Montaigne the inventor of the essay form and the founder of the modern French ideology of the unate clever urbane cynical skeptical sensual sarpy was in touch with Montaigne throughout no despair he a Montaigne was close to duplicity monet and de - with whom he wanted to retire to his beloved venice at the end of his life Montaigne was Sophie's favorite writer especially for an essay on friendship that had homosexual overtones Montana's partner was Etienne de la Boise another fanatical admirer of Venice only after the laborious he died did Montaigne get married Montaigne wrote of cannibalism well we think cannibalism is barbarous but many cultures think it's fine so who are we to say Voltaire and Rousseau paid tribute to Montaigne as the founder of their tradition now briefly for a few key figures of the Cabal of The Libertines over the centuries the Venetian sent Giordano Bruno to Paris they also sent Venini a disciple of Bruno panini was accused of satanic propaganda and was burned at the stake which of course spreads sympathy for The Libertines at his trial Venini testified that he had attended a Naples meeting of 12 operatives dedicated to spreading atheism in Europe and that he had been assigned to France by drawing straws Giordano Bruno has had a following in France including Cyrano de Bergerac and later fontanelle the permanent secretary of the Academy of Sciences and an ally of Antonio Conte now the leading cultural Academy of the early 1600s was called Academy bootay on please don't understand it's not the Academy's pretense but the Academy PTA on the organiser' was a Lidia dotty of the infamous Diodati family of even friends of saatvik controllers of milton another member was gabrielle new day who had studied with cremonini in Padua and admired him as a day me as a be me as a being the favorite word of The Libertines for somebody who had seen everything clay Bernini appealed to no day because of his powers of deception no day became Cardinal we shall use librarian and participant anticipated simple important ideas of Descartes a third member of the Academy Putin was the philosopher gets on be the dominant philosopher of the mid sixteen hundreds in France s own be taught an empiricism similar to sob be when Gassendi went out of fashion he was replaced by the Rosicrucian they caught who had made his own this suspicious pilgrimage to Venice at about the time that saw he died among the poets of the time there was de bajo who had also studied with cremonini close to de Basel was tale fields of yo who was almost burned at the stake himself this tale fields of VO was Descartes favorite poet they was also in this circle the libertine poet Gaston who was an imitator of the Italian pornographic poet Marino now in these same circles there travelled the atheist and libertine a babe waka bear who with the support of Rochelle yer founded the French Academy on the model of the Venetian control the wrist Italian academies of Italy after we showed your dives the oligarchs rose up in rebellion against Meza ran under the leadership of Cardinal director who was also a prominent author this is the so-called saundh of 1650 of which Lex was the leader many nobles like the or layoffs were at this time atheist Libertines and Condor rebels another famous flounder was La Rochefoucauld the author of many cynical and worldly Maxim's at the beginning of the 1690s we find Pierre Bell the antagonist of lightness there is also Santa LeMans the libertine end boy to London now the Cabal of The Libertines from the very beginning had capabilities for espionage assassination and terrorism a good example is the network of Pierre Julia this is an espionage agent active around 1700 officially as a minister the public record office in London has thousands of pages of espionage reports from Julia's extensive network Sevilla was a Huguenot Minister and a grandson of a translator of Paolo's hot beef after about 1710 the Venetian networks of France were reorganized around Newtonian ISM by antonio conte and as you recall county worked with markets cure and then he worked with Voltaire counties later networks included do fall but also DJ ho and cognac these are the meeting lights of the French encyclopedia the celebrated French encyclopedia now Venetian operatives like Giacomo Casanova moved through the network of the Cabal of The Libertines has a Nova's mission for Venetian intelligence was to attack and undermine the regime of Louis the 15th an official Venetian agent kazanova kazanova was followed by another Venetian agent the count Cagliostro who organized the scandals that helped to start the revolution by generating hatred against Marie Antoinette and Louie the 16th and that is the judgment of Napoleon Bonaparte himself the scandal set up by Kelly Ostrow began the French Revolution none of these operations could have succeeded without the Cabal of The Libertines and we can think of the atmosphere of the vive la Liberte in Mozart's Don Giovanni now finally after three centuries of subversion French society had been degraded to the point that Frenchmen were willing to submit to the dictatorship of a foreigner of a Venetian the Cabal of the libertine sits at the stage for the revolution the terror and for Bonaparte France's most famous dictator turned out to be a Venetian revealing that open secrets that French culture had been produced by 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Assad regime is finish even the Matisse that I am the progressive power except he washed and Marty because I destroyed that country I like the great we found you know the code Seville I like to call it the code repair yard all the countries you say me you are guilty until you prove you are in no time my plan to change people is Minister is like that you have testimonies of the worker and the Bob my lord says the boss is always right really garlicky I take the spirit of gee enlightened mall and I sprayed all over Europe I am unworthy it is why it is for good I want to see what is resonable what makes good stand of cars like see the people bone along the way I have to come to jackal ban he feels the old regime come back all the great men of my time they face with me they so fan we dedicate to me and symphonies and he call it roll a car Hegel he says I am the instrument of the world beauty Goethe good man composed and Oh sinned ow defend me against death Sudan Madame de Stael he's got down yeah yeah and you don't like that there bu t more down weld at the time of the yzma you know that so telling his mind they coming is my LIF I choose my my is he they're gonna fight he's mine is that was it I'm a she take over as a state I have not worthy but not really I am my Familia is one of the leading families of Jenny Corsica for those of course the guy even if I am NOT in for air I am still in senior accounting the Bonaparte's my ancestors they come from Genoa before Columbus come to do well but I am man I open all the careers to challenge I know I know it's true it's true I quit my for there in my teeth down and even through your bands of my old girlfriends I picked on the world my puppet stage I hope I can trust but then all the prizes for sure I never do that I know you like I know I bet he makes the beat army from LA so when I get to the battlefield I have the big butt at y'all but I know you don't win the battle I win the battle and he have to go home after dog then my cries you don't like me you can't move down my policies are I invent the United you are you know the Treaty of Maastricht that is nothing in my flesh that I didn't think of two centuries ago except I usually am a he's through I went to do this in 1807 and I divided the world with Alexandra Alexandra of Volusia long before he got back he accept me as on power of the West II know I am the new Shalem Anya but the British they don't accept the British you know who I am when I start to go there I have to found the dynasty I know you don't like I know but the public opinion back well and demanded for disability disability regime Josephine ever give me a song thought I'd make a good match I have to choose between the woman off and the up or I say to myself I'm the one she's warming off right there and on the other young fool inside I decide I like to be warm enough we death death what their mother she don't like me and I have to take the apps for free I get money Louise she gives me my son anyway I was only Atlanta boom you still don't like me Porco deal and that's so fast I oughta meet that so to hear y'all I know what you see you oh how is the plan my lady Fiona so to speak I am not crying hey mr. Yan I am Barney coffee guy my father he was fight therefore discuss a can he defend an against the French the French take away I'll keep on saying my father they tie up send me to school if I'm stay young hawk reach the cried they make fun of me cry and boom and I am not so strong and I got Yan I don't and I man oh I can and I keep my well the French bones they rot before Moscow in Haiti incident therefore the ship in failure the plant found their bleaching in 40 gal in Spain I longevity la in for the gal barred on their scat there that also leaves and dinner and war Grom and both hands on the pole Oh from my conquest my vampire I keep my web myself doctor it was against that branch I tried to take these plans to the dairy therefore crest of that dr. Yeoh exotica I want to become a tattoo of the independent Corsica three times I try to take Corsica for myself but I thought the tea and the day of the Bastille I used my can old to down the Jacko fan and I like to do it even though I am jackal fan myself but I always liked I know it's a great shot you know what it is the grapeshot like the shotgun but Andre time yeah that King needed to kill a few unread French the grapeshot and the rest would be running now then I saw the English Admiral at the too long and Joseph Roberts Pierre recognized me he's all his brother I was the man they need for the street fighting to fuse the mob finally in the fall of 1795 my colleague Ian to take off arrrg is the direct wire and one director is my friend Bharat bespoke job l say what in of the Royal East mob industry and the direct one my kin on I brought him up off the street with my grape shop multi and Dan with Steve Reilly's but I solved the problem with a wisp of grapeshot that was disparities about them yeah but I like you so much they make me commander of the Army of France later I thought I did when fella is gone Sally wrong the air and who say they as make me let me make my COO of Gmail and I become first consulate-general probably they know I am NOT a pastry off these things I hate the French and I make my colleagues shootings are French I want the world unfair with like capital like re and the French they are the warm bodies that I use but I used each a man the Italian the thought suppose I use them all it was the only problem for the historian is who they compare me with something Jules say there giulio cesare he makes the Roman Empire for me table but thought you forget I crush you out with my army and the way to Marengo that means I am more like a kneebar I am the founder of modern Europe that new Shalem Anya my son he was the king of Rome when he was born I tell the Pope what to do and then I put you in jail I bring my inferior Eagle from Madrid to Moscow even the prestige recognized me I am the greatest man whoa damn time I am the guard of battle multiple versions of religious cults most of which call themselves Christian but were in fact pagan became popular many of them proclaimed that all of these catastrophes were signs from God that we had reached the end of the world France which was then the most populous nation in Europe was so weakened and so corrupted by feudalism that France herself was almost wiped off the face of the earth when defeated by a much smaller English army in 1415 at the Battle of Agincourt it was only the combined forces of the Brotherhood of the common life in Northern Europe and the Dante Petrov resistance below the Alps which supported Joan of Arc and the set the preconditions through Louie the 11th Joan of Arc had a rapid string of military victory starting with the uplifting of the siege of Orleans 14:29 and these victories were very much a function of her ability to rally those elements of the French leadership and the French population to a higher ordered concept of the nation based on the dignity of man the brotherhood of the common life and lay teaching order educated poor and orphan boys and employment employed them in copying before the invention of printing copying the great classics of science and philosophy both paintings you see here by Jean pookay a court painter to luigi xi and Vanderheiden a French Flemish artist highlight this movement of books and learning ok visited Italy soon after the Council of Florence to paint the portrait of Pope Eugenius the fourth who presided over the Council of Florence Louie knew all these painters very well a Duke old painter from Milan studied with Van der Weide and in Brussels while though he was living there before he became king and Louis personally intervened to settle a dispute between the two painters so that the teaching itself could continue Louis preferred diplomacy to war he created a strong national military capability to avoid the bloody devastation of warfare one of Louie's first acts as king was to establish a food supply and regular housing for the army he said crisis for which such food would be bought high enough to ensure a constant supply but regulated to prevent gouging of the National Treasury by war privateers he established a postal system with regular stations throughout the country to ensure the rapid delivery of military intelligence such a system functioning in times of peace or over the past 500 years all of human history has revolved around one central conflict over the past 500 years all political issues have boiled down to one dominant issue over the past 500 years the entire battle of ideas has depended on one decisive engagement one side of that central conflict has been the cause of the modern nation-states emerging from the Renaissance the modern nation-states that found its profit in Dante Alighieri during the disasters of the 1300s the modern nation-state was launched as a plan at the Council of Florence in 1439 a pilot project was created in Florence under Cosimo and Lorenzo de Medici during the 1400s and then later in the fourteen hundred the modern nation-state found its first full expression in the France of louis xi the stunning success of louis xi was quickly imitated by the tudor new monarchy in England and for a time it seemed that the modern nation-state would sweep over the globe the other side of that central conflict of the past 500 years has been the Empire the world government's universal monarchy the Empire sums up everything that is primitive barbaric and hateful in human life the Empire is based on the irrational dominations of the noble families the older guards the aristocrats they are steeped in racism usury geopolitics slavery feudalism cult ism speciality and cruelty the Empire corresponds to an infantile psychosis of the human species the Empire is the nightmare from which we are all seeking to awake by 1500 the stage was set for the oligarchy and its Imperial theme to be consigned to the garbage can of history but the forces of the nation-state in the Renaissance proved too weak the Empire has survived regroups and counter-attacks today the Empire in its current form of the British Venetian united nations world government threatens to overwhelm the fragile bulwarks of world civilization and precipitate humanity into a new Dark Age the twilight is deepening around us the lights go out one by one the onset of darkness is near is it a momentary eclipse or the final outcome the final coming of a long colder night for mankind the outcome is not in the stars but in our hands to decide in modern times the Venetian oligarchy and their successors of the British Empire have constituted the world command center of the imperial cause over the past several years two important masses of population and culture have been mobilized as assets by the Anglo Venetian one is France this once great nation has put on the British yoke and accepted Servette subservience to London in the form of a new anglo-french alliance of a new aunt our best PR this is no surprise France submitted to Napoleon the monstrous figure of empire gone man for the past 200 years since the time of Napoleon with brief intervals like the de gaulle period france has usually played the role of a venetian puppet state the forces of human progress exist in France but they are now in full retreat today a regime of British toadies in Paris persecute Jacques Chaminade the leading partisan of the modern nation-state in France and the same regime joins with the British Empire to make up one corner of the four-cornered chess game of the post-cold war world the anglo-french chantant goes back to the disaster that was Napoleon and it goes back to three centuries of Venetian cultural operations in France that have afflicted that country with the most grotesque Venetian culture in the modern world the second mass of population and culture mobilized by the Anglo Venetians is under the influence of the conservative revolution here in the United States we're talking about the neutered ones newts and his friends like Governor Thomas Ridge of Pennsylvania they are raving fascist ideologues and they are increasingly hated but the fact is that they have a social base what social base supports robbing children of their school lunches robbing the ages of their medical coverage and rolling back the social conquests of centuries it is the same social base that welcomed the Bonaparte family to the United States supported slavery and secession seized our government under Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson promoted Mussolini and Hitler and punished us with the novels of Robert Penn Warren and William Faulkner the social base of newton ridge of the Anglophile neo Confederates the nostalgic Nashville fugitives the pro British Country and Western fascists let us start with the birth of the nation state until 1500 all human societies were to class society they had an elite and a mass the elite was tiny and tended towards oligarchy and the mass of impoverished illiterate slaves or peasants was huge and inert by the 1400s though the Medici system of trade and manufacturing had produced something new Under the Sun a city based class devoted to the industrial production of textiles and clothing as the leading edge of a broad array of manufacturing and trade this was the modern middle class up to that time a reforming King might make some improvement but he could not go too far for fear of antagonizing the elite and it's all the graphical components now there was a new class a reforming King might turn to for support the middle class soon reforming Kings like Louie xi of France Henry the seventh of England began to lean on the middle class as a means of dealing with the rebellious feudal ference behold the gods and it started in France vide vogue France was the room which was born more than 500 years ago the modern form of nation-states during the reign of king louie xi ruled 1461 to 1483 never before in history had such a state existed although the idea of fostering and developing the Commonwealth and thus the common good of the nation as a whole was even then a very old idea and in many ways a very simple idea the creation of that state in France was based on the work of great thinkers including Nicolas of Kooza and piccolo nominee both pictured here who in 1439 brought to fruition the council of florence and after Louis time in 1508 forged the league of can brave a military alliance of all of europe to defeat the center of oligarch evil evil Venice and her project to be a new Roman Empire Piccolomini who would later become pope pius ii described the venetian problem well piccolo meanie said as among brute beasts aquatic creatures have very little intelligence so among human beings Venetians are the least just and the least capable of humanity they wish to appear Christian before the world but in reality they never think of God and except for the state which they regard as a deity they hold nothing sacred Nicola Cruz's book the conquered Anzio católica written before the Council of Florence they de basis for the sovereign nation state government must be based on the firm knowledge that who'sa right men have been endowed with reason which distinguishes them from animals who'sa concludes that government will work only with the consent of the governed because only with consent will the government be governed be free to exercise a creative reasons that godlike quality which enabled man to master nature and transform it causes ideas were at the center of the agreements between the eastern and western churches and what we now know is the Florentine initiated european golden renaissance Cosimo de Medici also pictured here provided both the political impetus and the financing for the Council of Florence in fact in 1461 louis xi rebuffed an alliance with Venice and consolidated an alliance with Cosimo de Medici and the Florentine Republic Carlo bazarian hidden up there read the official proclamation of the union of the two churches for the Greek at the Council of Florence and he would later become a papal envoy to the court of luigi 11th the Venetians dominated feudal system a system where an elite 5% of the population owned the other 95% much as they owned cattle brought Europe to disaster 100 years before the council of florence the venetian state modeled on that of like purchases Faridah through its military machine and its aggressive subversive subversion of all national interests dominated the Mediterranean through that denominated every government of Europe and what you see there is the Venetian shipping lane then it stuck up there in the Adriatic and from that position controlled the entire Mediterranean and those were the routes they traveled through the population of Europe overall collapsed in the 14th century the banking system collapsed after in order to give looting directed by Venetian and mon guard banking houses 20 million people one quarter of the population of Europe died of the Black Death