Quo Vadis MMXVI

A Look Behind the Malaise of the World

Bu John Twigg

This morning as I began my workday the Latin phrase Quo Vadis came to mind but I wasn't quite sure what it meant so I looked it up on Google.

I knew the phrase was a title on a book in my father's collection but if I had read it as a kid 50 years ago or so I had long since forgotten its details (welcome to aging, eh) but of course Google came through brilliantly: the book is a classic novel written in 1896 by Henryk Sienkiewicz and it was made into an epic American movie in 1951 by MGM, which cost $7.6 million to make and earned $21 million in box office sales.

So what does it mean, and what was its appeal? It means "where are you going?" and according to Christian apocrypha it was spoken by the risen Jesus to Saint Peter as he was leaving Rome and who afterwards decided to return to Rome and thus be crucified upside down for the cause of Christ - but the rest of the Quo Vadis story is fascinating and quite probably contains some important lessons for the world today.

The gist (since people want me to write shorter blogs) is that Roman Emperor Nero was campaigning against the rising tide of Christians then in Rome and so to make them look bad he started fires around the city and tried to make it look like the Christians had started them, leading to the crucifixion of Peter and many others.

Did Nero invent false-flagging?

How does that relate to today's world? Well that arsoning of Rome surely was one of the earliest examples of what we now call "false flag events" in which some interests - usually wealthy, powerful and privileged people like Nero was in his day - engineer catastrophes and mass-casualty events for financial and political gain and usually try to make it look like someone else did it, or certainly not the actual perpetrators.

Another of the older examples came with the founding of insurance companies in the Middle Ages in London when start-up insurance firms began torching their rivals' insured properties to try to bankrupt them and give the remaining companies an oligopoly.

Perpetraitors, maybe?

Conspiracy theorists of course can cite dozens of false-flag events in recent years, of which the 9/11 attack on the Twin Towers in 2001 is the most obvious because there is no way a small group of rag-tag quasi terrorists could have gained the flying skills needed to get three large jets to so precisely hit the targets where and when they did (so obviously they were aided by homing beacons and/or remote control of the planes' uninterruptible auto-pilots - probably both, according to the in-depth research published on the Abel Danger website over the years, one summary of which theory can be seen here ). [They also allege that the passenger planes were flown out to sea and replaced for the hits by droned dummy planes, which is maybe.]

Financial gains behind 9/11?

The objectives of the 9/11 attack apparently included a variety of gains for the perps including insurance payouts (some double insurance had been placed on the Twin Towers shortly before they were torched), elimination of competition (e.g. removing the CO2e carbon-trading system being developed by Carlton Bartels in the Cantor Fitzgerald offices atop the north tower, which greatly benefited a rival carbon trading system based in Chicago), elimination of troublesome litigation (e.g. U.S. government versus Enron and many others lost when WTC 7 was "pulled down"), and causing stock-market gyrations that insiders could benefit from (e.g. 4,000 put options placed on two airline stocks in days before 9/11 here ).

Even Donald Trump recently acknowledged in a media interview and later a campaign rally at Bluffton, South Carolina that the real perpetrators of 9/11 have yet to be identified and he further alleged that the Saudis may have been behind it all, which is a bit ironic insofar as the Abel Danger group recently alleged in several  postings  that Trump and/or some his companies may have been involved with the actual 9/11 perps!

 "Abel Danger (AD) alleges that Trump Shuttle Inc. used scabbed-up unions in the Boeing supply chain to launch a death-pool service in 1988 where high rollers could bet on the times of death of Boeing passengers and pilots while Trump's scabs destroyed evidence of murder for hire," they said in a new column not yet posted on their website.

" AD claims that Trump Shuttle's bankers led by Citibank, hired Serco’s 8(a) companies to pimp children to Five Eyes' cabinet officials and extort the development of the mission-critical FADEC software needed to support long-range death-pool services with modified Boeing aircraft," they alleged (as Abel Danger have been doing for many years now without a legal challenge).

Engineered attacks increasing?

But 9/11 was only one of many such events, some of which may involve insurance company interests sabotaging big accounts of their rival firms, such as alleged in the Deepwater Horizon well blow-out described by Abel Danger in a video interview and previous postings , and such events seem to be continuing, such as Malaysian Airways losing two planes only four months apart, amongst many others.

Alas there are a growing number of social and political upheavals around now, such as the terrorist attack on a rock concert at the Bataclan concert hall in Paris on Nov. 13, 2015, killing 130 people, which may have been organized by so-far-unknown third parties, and the shootings in San Bernardino on Dec. 2, 2015 which killed 14 people and wounded 22, which reportedly were inspired by but not directed by foreign terrorists.

And then there are the civil and religious wars in and around Syria, which are clearly backed by outsider interests, the mob rapes and gropes of European women by various Muslims [who enabled them to be there??], the waves of corruption and economic dysfunctions in Asia [too many to list, e.g. Japan resorting to negative interest rates, China jailing journalists], the inhumane horrors in Africa, rampant criminality in Latin America and so much more such as the impending breakup of the European Union.

Yes the rather too much friends-and-insiders favours stuff is happening right here in B.C. too, not to mention the unsolved scandal of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and other First Nations problems as exposed by B.C.-based author Kevin Annett in his new book Murder By Decree  - further information on that and another new book is available here ). His gist is remarkably similar to other conspiracy theories: children and girls are kidnapped for use in various sex trades, possibly including entrapment and blackmail of influential politicians, business leaders and maybe even some church and service-group leaders.

Carbon capping a smokescreen?

Indeed all these false-flag and other cover-ups of wrongdoing by wealthy elites and their minions are probably more widespread than even most of the most zealous conspiracy theorists suppose because they may include such things as using a false alarm about the supposed urgency of global warming being caused mainly by human emissions of CO2 in order to smokescreen (i.e. false-flag) the many other far more serious and more urgent threats to human well-being, not least being the rampant corruption amongst the one-per-centers who now own about 90 per cent of the world's wealth, as Sanders alleges and even Trump somewhat acknowledges as true too.

In case my readers doubt that, please consider the pith and substance of the Carbon Disclosure Project ( CDP ), whose members include some of the largest and wealthiest people and businesses in the world, and the assets of their members make it possibly the largest pool of capital in the world.

As Wikipedia reports, the collection of self-reported data from thousands of companies is supported by 822 institutional investors with US$95 trillion under management and the CDP has obtained backing from blue chip investors including HSBC, JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Merrill Lynch, Goldman Sachs, American International Group, and State Street Corp.

And the CDP, which was founded in 2003 by the children and minions of the British upper class, is now growing globally by getting the investment dealers and big banks to refuse to make new placements into companies unless and until they adopt carbon mitigation strategies, i.e. more blackmail!

Yes it's ostensibly a good thing to reduce carbon pollution but carbon monoxide and methane are far worse than carbon dioxide as pollutants and GHGs and reducing carbon pollution is or should be a far less urgent priority for mankind than say reducing diseases, poverty and usury, protecting and purifying water, ending civil wars and especially less important than finding a way to avoid the nuclear war that's prophesied in the Bible to take place between the very powers now encircling Jerusalem.

Turning points loom in politics

So what is to be done? And where is the world heading? Those are two questions coming to the fore now with the Canadian federal government of rookie Prime Minister Justin Trudeau delivering its first budget tomorrow, with British Columbia racing towards a provincial election in May 2017, and especially with the United States now gripped in a toxic campaign for the Presidential election in November this year.

An excellent analysis of that latter challenge was published this morning on the Tyee by Mitchell Anderson which makes the point that the old establishment cabals in both the Republican and Democratic parties are now in danger of being supplanted by outsider populists (Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders), and that could be a good thing for the American public interest. But it also reinforces my point that old-money elites have been controlling and corrupting and false-flagging our politics and economics and news media for far too long now and in far too many ways too, most of which modes are unknown to most people who disdain any and all conspiracy theories .

"(Trump) plays the long list of wedge issues like a pipe organ, rousing marginalized masses with an authentic cynicism unmatched by his compromised challengers," wrote Anderson. "The Republican establishment can only watch in horror as a machine of their own making is commandeered by an opportunistic interloper beyond their control,"  - which makes the valid point that political parties and hence governments are controlled by machines run by cabals of friends and insiders.

Control by cabals is common

Control of things like courts and cops and cabinets by cabals of pals is not illegal unless and until that control reaches the point of abusing due process and beginning to favour those same pals and political donors moreso than non-pals, or even enriching those insiders while beggaring the outsiders, which seems to happen a lot all around the world, even in Western democracies.

It's happening here in B.C. too even though it is being routinely exposed by Dermod Travis of Integrity B.C. , especially a report on political donations viewable here which links dozens of donations to project awards, and it's allegedly in some websites mounted by John Carten such as the Water War Crimes viewable here , and it's evident in several other messy court cases involving alleging misfeasance of B.C. land and resources.

Unfortunately British Columbia probably is a small and relatively clean and fair player when it comes to graft and corruption, but it still does get caught up in it, which is evident in today's news that the environmental review of the $12-billion Pacific Northwest LNG project near Prince Rupert has been unexpectedly extended for three months by the federal government, ostensibly to provide more time to assess the plant's impacts on salmon fry using nearby beds of eelgrass but perhaps also because the main proponent, Petronas, has since become mired in a massive $1 billion political corruption scandal in its home base of Malaysia which is large enough to earn a special report by the Wall Street Journal.

Dauncey book and other solutions

But there IS still some hope, such as in the optimistic vision in Guy Dauncey's newly-published book Journey to the Future: A Better World is Possible, which portrays what Vancouver, the world's greenest city, could look like in 2032, and happily Dauncey's policy recipes include a lot more ideas than merely capping CO2, such as moving towards proportional representation systems so that governments will be less able to devolve decisions to handfulls of backroom operatives as is the case now.

More information about Dauncey's work is viewable at www.earthfuture.com/  and video copies of two interviews I did with him can be viewed on YouTube at first  and second

Or as a friend told me this afternoon, "We must make things work better for working people" and that includes financially-successful people who work hard to earn their higher incomes and resent it all the more when their families are taxed heavily in order to finance political vote-buying redistribution systems.

Indeed there do need to be sea changes in how people behave, from top to bottom of the social ladders, and there need to be incentives rather than penalties for those who succeed, to make the tax systems perceived by all to be fair to all.

"The solution is not class warfare," he said, disdaining the platform rhetoric of Bernie Sanders and claiming that only inflames and clouds the minds of voters.

"The middle class is being taxed out of business," my friend said, arguing there needs to be a better discussion of such issues.

Indeed. And I have dozens or even hundreds of ideas about how B.C. could grow its economy with new clean and green industries but because they are novel and in some ways radical they have not yet been embraced by any political parties.

Such as? Glad you asked: restarting the Bank of B.C. and enabling it to issue an honest home-grown currency, enabling bulk-water exports through a single-window sales agent for the Province [which BTW owns the water], legalizing and fairly taxing marijuana, adding a new green-energy ferry crossing from YVR to Gabriola, starting a full-employment program, adopting a universal income to supplant means-tested ones, and lots of other things like eliminating MSP premiums and strengthening health, settling native land claims bilaterally (without the feds) and yes - adopting some proportional-rep ideas but retaining the British Parliamentary tradition, etc etc.

It's the beginning of Spring and that's a good time for a new day in human politics.

feedback welcome to john@johntwigg.com .