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We are live. Oh look at
this, all of a sudden, All

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of a sudden. Well, tomorrow
it will appear. We will be on

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brightyon bradyon Rumble and FTJ Media,
which is kind of like the main channel

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now because we know that that one's
secure and they won't delete anything. But

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I'm looking at a screen right now
that says a premium account on X which

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I still call Twitter is required in
order to extream on the platform. You

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can subscribe on X or stream to
a different destination. Well, what do

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you know? That was never the
case. Now they want I think it's

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like eight bucks a month or something
like that. So now I'm gonna have

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to pay to be on there.
After how long have I been, you

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know, putting the videos up on
Twitter? I wonder if they know.

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I wonder if the people who watch
on there know that's that's some remarkable crap

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right there. The fist is tightening, all right, So I'm removing that

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destination. So we're just run.
We're just rolling with the two today,

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all right. There we have it. So Rumble and FTG Media, which

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is the new name for Speak Free
Radio, We're gonna have a little fun

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to start off and then we're gonna
get into it. I'm not seeing anybody

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though. Where'd you go? Guys? Where did you go? Where's all

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my friends? That's Monday? I
get it. I get it. Well,

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that's really that's really disappointing. I've
liked the fact that Twitter was allowing

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all my stuff up there and not
giving me a hard time with it,

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and now all of a sudden that's
over. Oh well, things happen.

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Speaking of things happening, du an
incorrect screen with the incorrect screen protector on

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it. In no case, because
this dealer, this dealer that I went

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to, it literally took me Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and I would

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have to go back again today to
finally be done with this process. It

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took hours upon hours of my life
away. They gave me a bad one.

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It didn't read my SD card.
They put it in an A fifteen.

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It's a different model. It read
it. So they knew there was

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an issue, and they tried to
tell me that they weren't going to do

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anything about it, and I had
to raise holy hell with them. So

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then they finally following well two days
later, got me a replacement, switched

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everything over, so I had to
try to lug into all my accounts again

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a second time, which is again
pure hell. And each time it wiped

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all of my books that I had
on my phone and lost all the places

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that I had set for like where
I had finished reading and stuff like that.

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So that was annoying. Getting into
the accounts was nearly impossible. One

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of them I still can't because they
want me to do second tier verification for

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what do you call it? For
Patreon, and that account is dead,

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that account, that email account server
doesn't exist anymore and they keep on sending

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a code to it. So form
my phone, I can't get on the

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Patreon. So while I'm gone Friday, we're leaving to go to New York

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for ten days, my daughter and
I. There won't be anything going on

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on Patreon until I get back unless
I can log in from my laptop.

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So if I can, then I'll
do stuff there, okay, And I

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would like to try to try to
squeeze in an exclusive to Patreon members only

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stream one of these days, and
I'm going to invite people who are in,

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you know, in the Patreon.
I'm going to give them the stream

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yard links so they can come in
and actually talk and it'll be like a

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little private session like where we can
discuss stuff. And there's a lot to

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talk about. I mean, as
far as that big event that occurred,

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I'm not going to get too much
into it because it's that's the whole purpose

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of an event like that is to
draw your attention into it, keep you

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occupied with it, and you know
how the story goes, right, get

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you thinking and adding your energy to
something that they want you to do.

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What are they doing in the meantime
that you're not seeing? So there's that.

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And if you don't expect a gun
grab coming from one side of the

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ministration or the other, They've never
they've never dropped the all to do that

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before. And when Reagan got his
little pink pel incident, what happened the

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the Brady Bill, right, So
it doesn't matter what side of the fence

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they pretend to be on, it's
gonna happen. It's gonna it's gonna trickle

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in. You'll start hearing about it
probably this week. Okay, So there's

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that. Today we're going to discuss
some fun well how do I phrase this?

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Last week we touched upon when we
were listening to a loos or watching

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logos Procopius, Procopius, the Secret
History. Right, this particular episode of

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in the series of logos that we're
gonna watch today is directly that. Okay,

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it's gonna be the Procopius. Oh, I might put this up here.

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Good morning, Daisy the lady.
You are awesome. I'm glad when

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you're here. I miss you.
Don't see you too much in telegram anymore,

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but I'm very happy that you're here. Good morning man. So anyway,

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yeah, so, uh, the
Procopious. I started reading it,

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got about thirty six pages deep in
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first section and I'm just getting into
the justin union and Theodora. We're going

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to get kind of like a cliff
noted version of that by watching this video.

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And before I do that, I'm
going to play you a small piece

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of the Alexander the Great episode,
starting with the Gog and Magog story and

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Alexander's alleged fortified you know, defense
against it, because I'm trying I want

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that element to be in this video
so that you see a pattern and it

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goes very far back, certain people
targeting certain other people that we saw happening

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with Visigoths, the ostro Goths and
of course in Germany when they almost exterminated

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the entire German Germanic race from the
planet. And who's doing it every time?

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Okay, so we're going to get
into that too. Yeah, So

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Friday Friday will not be a show
because I'll be on the on the road

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and we will be flying and it's
gonna be an hour three hour difference when

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you get there and all that stuff. So I gotta settle in. I

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gotta spend time with a family at
the whole point of being there. I'm

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gonna try to The dates and times
will be sporadic at best while I'm gone.

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If I have a chance to get
went in, I will. I'm

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planning on doing more recording as far
as with like the go Pro, which

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I totally need to freaking upgrade I
need for this trip. I wish I

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had the go Pro twelve. I
mean, I could order it now,

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but then I don't pay my car
insurance like none of gona not a good

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trade off, all right. So, and I have like an AC that

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I desperately need to fix because it's
over one hundred and ten degrees here in

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most days, and then I pretty
much have to wring myself out just to

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drive down the street. You know. Okay, so let's go for it.

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Let's go, and we'll start off
with something a little bit fun.

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I'd rather do this than talk about, you know, the grassy and all

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stuff that was going on this week. Oh what the hell that's it breaks

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your heart to see it. These
poor people are dropping like flies through no

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faults of their own, and everybody's
blaming it on a coincidence. Well,

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luckily for you, we here at
the Sabatini Protection Agency, we've been in

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the business of coincidence for over two
hundred years. Now. We can't make

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what happened to you people unhappened,
but we can happen to other people some

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coincidence of they're wrong, well said, Coincidence is a two way street.

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Coincidence has happened all the time,
Like put this person right over here,

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Maria, Maria. Maria wanted the
coincidents to happen. They tried to tell

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Mike Tommy that if he wanted to
play school soccer, he had to get

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the thing. So I picked up
the phone and called the Sabatinis And now

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coincidentally, he no longer has to
get the thing and he's still playing school

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soccer. Screw those Mama Lukes and
God blessed the Sabatinis. Didn't she look

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happy to you? Yeah? You
know what, boys, I got a

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three or four coincidences in the trunk
of my car right now. Found with

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your Michael to yourself a favor,
call the Sabatini Family Protection Agency at the

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number below, dominic. What's that
number? One eight hundred gobo go,

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but do me a favor, like
Uncle Vinnie says, what you could you

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use a bernafall one time? With
you guys calling us on your real numbers?

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What do you do? A burner
phone and call the Sabatini Family Protection

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Agency because we're gonna treat you lie
my family. Oddly enough, my grandmother's

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last name is was whatever Sabbatino and
I from what I gather that was the

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Ellis Island id if that's a verb
her name, because he used to be

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Sebentini from what we gather from whatever
little family research that they've done. So

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it's kind of funny though it was
also my my family name. Good times,

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good times. Yeah, don't don't
mess with the ballbusters. There's one

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more I think I can probably get
on here. Let's see if a show

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is on the screen, though,
I gotta tell I cannot tell. Yeah,

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it's throwing it cool all right,
so it's not your l specific,

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but it kind of is. Okay, whatever that works for me. I'm

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glad I can do that. Let's
see if you guys don't hear this one,

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just so yell at me. This
is kind of interesting. I don't

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know why he is wearing what looks
like a disc of ball in his head.

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I mean, you could do a
lot of other things to hide your

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identity, but I guess they wanted
to look like a a rib for his

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pleasure face. I guess I don't
know what's going on with that. Do

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me a favor and watch this video. Oh good, I have to read

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this one. It says this is
what a comment farm looks like. Look

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at all the phones on the wall, all connected. Yeadb deva a suspicious

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Asian looking back of a head here, So you know it's you know,

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it's a very very techy like because
there's an Asian involved. So I wanted

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to show this to you because a
lot of the time when you're arguing with

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someone online, you are arguing with
guys like this who run commenting farms that

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literally exist to make you miserable,
because at this point, commenting farms like

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you just saw on screen are confirmed
to exist in Russia and China, all

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for the purpose of destroying the Western
psyche. Even giant Twitter accounts like Radio

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Genoa. These accounts only exist for
you to start to begin to hate Western

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society by only posting content that makes
you feel like everything around you is burning

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to the ground. So do me
a favor. Unplugged from the Internet for

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a while, and that includes my
own content. Commit to yourself right now

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that you're gonna take a week off
of social media and go outside and touch

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some grass. It's the summertime,
it's beautiful, and I promise you at

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the end of that week, you
will think to yourself, holy, maybe

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I should continue to limit the amount
of time that I'm online. And once

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you start to do that, you, my friend, will begin to really

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start living once again. Do me
a favor and watch this video. Sorry,

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I had to look at something.
It's uh, so let me just

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see if I can answer this in
a I guess I could tell it on

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one second when I get started.
Excuse me, I guess I have to

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re type one more thing something like
that. I think it was close.

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Okay, let's get going to the
next one. Oh O'Riley. That's why

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I have to go get my up
parts. So we are going to start

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with Alexander the Great Lion amongst Men. We're going to start at the fifty

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nine minute mark on the ash logos. It's part of the series our Subverted

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History that we've been listening to.
There's one that I shared last night in

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the Telegram group that's very very good. It's called black and white. It's

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not about race, it's about you
know, there's sometimes the things are what

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they are and there's no subjective reality
that applies. And who does that favor

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when you think in that manner?
Is what the whole point is? And

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are you eroding yourself by following along
and putting in her energy to it?

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Very good and it's also very inspiring
and encouraging too. If you're not in

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the telegram group, just get in
there. It's free, right. And

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if you're looking for all those PDFs
from those books that they've been mentioning in

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the series so far, I put
all those in the Patreon group. Okay,

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And just so you know, the
reason why I haven't been updating since

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the Ducktails Dan episodes is because I
kind of like having the Patreon in existence

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still. And I've been just torpedoed
once for something that I didn't even post

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on Patreon. I don't know if
somebody something, but they said that they

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were scouring the internet for my content. Why do they do that, I

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don't know. And it was offensive
hate speech for some thing or other and

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I had one subscriber at that time. This was a while back, this

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is like years ago, and they
it was three dollars a month that the

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guy was getting me, and they
said that I was using that money for

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a hate group that you can't even
be slightly miffed for three dollars. What

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the hell was I doing with it? Was I forming the you can't even

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be mildly disturbed for three dollars?
So they refunded all the all the whatever

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and then shut it down. And
I appealed to this guy named Blair who

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probably has purple hair, and like, nope, now it's take speech paper.

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I'm sure he has a funky looking
last name. If you understand what

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I'm saying, there Alexander. Great, here we go. It's gonna work.

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Come on, Why was it?
Oh Jesus, I don't even understand

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for acting weird today was very slow
in the response. I'm a little concerned

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about that. All right, let's
get to it. So this is Remember

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I'm starting in the very like towards
the end of the episode. So some

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of the things that he there's a
great build up, and we'll go back

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to this and watch the full thing
together with commentary at some point. But

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this is going to be adding this
to what we're about to watch for the

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full full length episode. It's just
a reinforcing element here, and I think

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we need to listen to it,
and a fascinating side story that seems poorly

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understood to this day. Alexander is
given credit for the construction of what's been

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variously called the Caspian Gates or Alexander's
Gates, whose very location even is still

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debated to this day. The legend
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prevent the passage of what was called
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beaked noses said to eat worms.
That's a that's a clue right there.

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Hooked or beaked noses, and we
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right away that this isn't somehow another
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still does underneath the surface of the
earth, right and maybe related to through

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you know, intermingling with a certain
chosen peoples, dogs, human cadavers,

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and fetuses. It's all so I
cut that off. I'm sorry, Well

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stuff, See see what happens.
See what happens. Look what was that?

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The whole thing dismissed? What I
do not like this? Okay,

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at least it started here, but
that was jack dub which just happened,

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all right. So anyway, what
you're saying is that the cadavers, So

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let's go ahead and finish this.
They called the Caspian Gates or Alexander's Gates,

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whose very location even is still debated
to this day. The legend has

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it that the gates were constructed to
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hordes, depicted in ancient art with
beaked noses said to eat worms, dogs,

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human cadavers, and fetuses. It's
all but impossible to separate fact from

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fiction, but it seems this may
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to the Causars and or relatives of
the Hunnish or Mongol people. An obscure

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account of Friar Carpenies journey to Mongolia
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that these Caspian mountains in Mongolia.
Is quote where the Jews, called Gog

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and Magog by their fellow countrymen,
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Alexander. That's very important. Quote
in the Borgia Map, a copper engraved

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world map probably produced in southern Germany
in fourteen thirty. The most eastern part

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contains two fortified regions depicting Gog and
Magog, with the following Latin inscriptions the

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province of Gog. Let me read
what's on the screen. Note the perspective

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of this map is the inverse of
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top, Europe at the bottom.
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westernmost on the right, in which
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of Art Xerxes, king of the
Persians, Maygog in. These two are

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large people and giants who are full. This is an inversion, and I'm

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sorry, I'm cutting him off.
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the bottom. It says intriguingly.
It's been suggested by many scholars that the

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better translation for the term giants in
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eaters of people full of all kinds
of bad behaviors. These Jews were

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collected by art Exerxes from all parts
of Persia. Scholar Peter Golden speculated that

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the Kasar Ethnos was essentially a conglomerate
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North Caucasian Huns, as well as
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Kessler puts it, the Kasars quote
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even though they weren't descended from Abraham's
seed end quote, which seems reminiscent of

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the similar Edomite or Idumean peoples who
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as well as the label Judite after
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second century BC, which has subsequently
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author of the Fanciful So we had
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released once again upon the world.
Alexander the Great was pretty great if he

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did that. Travels of Sir John
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he had found these Jews in Central
Asia, whereas Gog and Magog. They

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had been imprisoned by Alexander, plotting
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Europe to destroy Christians. One of
the works which gave rise to the legend

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of the Red Jews, or wrote
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Alexander Romance, another fanciful tale,
it simply recounts them as a quote race

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of Heathens. What does that look
like to you? It appears that he's

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eating a small thing, and it
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Bern. I believe it's in Bern, Switzerland, the statue of the guy

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with you know, it's a fountain, and he's got like a satchel,

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and he's has children that are craying
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He's eating one of them by the
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or the child eater. And it
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devours is children. These are a
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I have a strong suspicion here that
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I don't disagree. But by whom
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very uncanny ability to get into either
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into the power itself. And of
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on money that you control, and
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of cultish religion over these cary continuous, continuous carried themes. And then through

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that you can utilize pattern recognition when
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understand exactly the modus operandi of these
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no matter depending on how far removed
you are from the actual what do

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you want to call it, entity
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correct, then you would see,
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I know John, he's been my
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and we know how many problems and
we our children play together and all this

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other stuff. Yeah right, Because
there's differences there, and those people just

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like you are expendable to the ones
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But also I think they're in my
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but they may have some intermingled blood
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about back then, right, because
these depictions seem a little off, or

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it's simply that they are devoted to
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not flesh, that is in fact
assisting them in strange supernatural ways, sup

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supernatural to us, because the understanding
is off, could just be high tech,

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and it seems to always work in
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that whether weapons or geo engineering type
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because there's this common theme consistent since
the beginning. And I understand this could

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also just mean because of nature would
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but the storm God. And we
look at things like Germany and their advancement

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on Russia and how they it was
unseasonably frigid cold so much that you know,

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things were freezing on the on the
weapons of war and not operating right,

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and it halted their advancement to actually
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Weird things like that weird things like
people in the actual book Hellstorm,

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recounting from experience, saying that it
appeared as if these Soviets were in unending

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supply, coming from the ground and
just appearing on the field. I don't

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want to just discount that as being
battle fatigue, and I think, you

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know, let's see if there's something
to that. That's all I'm saying,

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Okay, move on, purposefully enclosed
behind a great wall. This biblical term

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of gog and makeup has become so
convoluted and muddled as to be rendered almost

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useless. But it did seem to
be believed that these gates were constructed to

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keep out a people similar to those
famous or infamous groups so responsible for pushing

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the Germanic people's ever further west throughout
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not merely through the rampaging. Attila
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doesn't he. He has that look
of that first picture with the they had

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like birds feet, but they had
that really large beaked nose. All the

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descriptions of him are not flattering for
what Attila looked like, mixed and mercenary

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armies that seemed endless in number,
but from inside once again that endless in

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number thing. Right, It says, though the Hans and Mongols, even

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the Kazars seemed to have initially had
a ruling cast of Aryan descent, this

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minority seems to have been absorbed,
subsumed through the generations. The Huns that

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pushed the Germanic and original Scythian peoples
westward were described as very different, a

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very different ethnic type by the Gothic
Aryan Christians, with Attila even taking pride

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in being called the scourge of God
side as well through schemes, court intrigue,

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and bribery. The ninth century monk
Christian of Stavolot said the Causars were

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quote living in the lands of Gog
and Magog, and the Arab traveler Ibin

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Fadlan spoke to the same belief.
Quote some hold the opinion that Gog and

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Magog are the Causars, and quote
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right, because that's where Kazario is
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but it's still the same force that's
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You know, we did the same
thing. We created, not we,

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but you understand, the people,
the forces behind our government created the situation

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of having in Israel in the first
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Revolution, was funded and trained in
New York, brought out Switzerland, they

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came in through and you know,
the rest is horrible, horrible history of

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the destruction of the Ruse, which
would also be descendants of Scythians, the

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same targets nearly every time, and
we're doing the same thing. We're building

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up another one in the Ukraine with
an actor, an actor for a president

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attempted to argue that the peoples that
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But unless one stretches the definition of
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Turkic and Mongol and Kazarian forces that
moved into their territory after they'd begun their

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mass migration westward, as some modern
historians unfortunately do, this claim seems a

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bit ridiculous. Additionally, it's recounted
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relatives and offshoots were always allowed free
passage and Alexander seemed to have a great

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respect for the Scythians and their related
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and this seems to have been largely
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Gothic king Gudillah. It said that
in the East Alexander reformed his army and

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took into his special forces mainly peoples
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And it said that from an early
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phalanx, and in fact copied the
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As mentioned, the great leaders Porus
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earned Alexander's respect were almost certainly of
the direct lineage of the Sakai, and

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from these ancient Sakai, in turn
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Saxons and related peoples. To quote
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from the Lngabardians I now passed to
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the term Saxons. Their historian widuknd
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begins by telling what he has learned
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Here he says different opinions are opposed
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held by those who knew the Greeks
and Romans, the Saxons are descended from

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the remnants of Alexander the Great's Macedonian
army. According to the other, which

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is based on native traditions, the
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Endote, and speaking personally, I
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potentially true to varying degrees. The
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but seem to have a fair bitten
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their borderlands, and though they certainly
sparred, with Philip in fact being one

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of the few to briefly best them
with the killing of their king Aetius,

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who apparently took to the field of
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the mutual respect evidenced throughout the historical
record is clear as the dust settled

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and with the passage of time,
as nations and empires rise and fall,

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as populations migrate, and the geopolitical
scene changes and evolves, it's the stories

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and legends that best stand this test
of time, although there are some intriguing

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genetic and cultural anomalies worth noting.
It's said that this large army of Alexander's,

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containing both Macedonians and auxiliaries from several
kindred and allied peoples, left several

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traces along their path, still visible
to this day to the discerning eye.

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The Huns of People are rumored to
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and are famed for living extremely long, healthy, simple and happy lives,

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and for being able to conceive apparently
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Colosh people, because of their higher
frequency of fair skin and blue eyes relative

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to their neighbors, coupled with legends
and cultural traditions of significant numbers of Alexander's

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men settling in the region, has
led to a popular hypothesis that several of

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their descendants were indeed Alexander the Great
soldiers who followed him on his campaign in

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India. Fascinatingly, a genetic study
by Hellenthal in twenty fourteen seems to show

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a genetic connection between the colosh and
modern Austrians and Germans because they are currently

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landlocked in an Islamic and thus fairly
hostile region, a religion to which they've

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steadfastly refused to convert. They are
also a rapidly disappearing people, but are

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said to retain their pride and sense
of identity, nonetheless further proof of the

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power and mystique of this great conqueror
and his seemingly invincible armies, that even

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the hint of genetic or cultural ancestry
might shape a people's notions of themselves across

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millennia. In three point twenty three
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two, Alexander fell mysteriously ill and
languished in bed, likely in agony,

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for nearly This is important too,
because there's another pattern here, the pattern

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that he's going to describe, but
I'm going to reinforce it when he's finished

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two weeks. His inability or unwillingness
to clearly name a successor shouldn't be surprising

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to a personality like Alexander. A
quiet death in bed, after all,

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he'd been through likely seemed impossible,
and the mere discussion of such a possibility

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perhaps insulting, defeatist, or seen
as a bad omen The phrase after me

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the deluge comes from the French king
Louis the fourteenth, but I've always felt

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this sentiment may have just as well
been expressed by Alexander. Chaos would become

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the defining theme of the coming decades
and centuries, as it so often is

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when great men leading vast empires pass
away without leaving a clear roadmap. And

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this is going to be another theme
that, hopefully subconsciously you'll see that justice

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and order come from a certain lineage
of people, and it's brought to other

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places, this idea that democracy is
even a thing that's good in the first

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place, and this idea because it's
mob rule and it's not good, right,

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okay, because then you can hand
it over to the mob, and

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you can influence the mob to get
them all riled up to do all kinds

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of dumb things, hence the French
Revolution and things of that nature. But

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you'll always see chaos wherever this certain
element comes into play, and it's I

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mean inverted in the sense that this
is supposedly progress progressive liberation and all this

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other stuff, and the people are
always convinced to just tear down their own

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walls and defenses, which means they're
strong leadership in favor of this liberation,

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which ends up turning into chaos and
mass murder every single time. On his

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deathbed, some historians claim that when
he was pressed to name a successor,

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Alexander muttered that his empire should go
quote to the strongest. Other sources claimed

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that he passed his signet ring to
his general Herdecus, thereby naming him successor.

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But whatever his choices were or may
have been, one thing is certain.

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No clear succession plan was followed.
Alexander's generals, all of them,

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with the loyalty of their own armies
at their back, would proceed to tear

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each other apart in a vicious internal
struggle that lasted almost half a century before

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four factions emerged victorious. And by
then there was an influence there that was

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agging it on too. This poisoning, this poisoning of people, is rampant,

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and it's a very strong signature to
a marker. It's like a fingerprint

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across history that identifies the actions of
a certain group Macedonia, the Seleucid Empire

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in the East, the Kingdom of
Pergamon in Asia Minor, and the Ptolemaic

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dynasty in Egypt. During the course
of these wars, Alexander's only heir,

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the posthumously born Alexander the Third,
was murdered along with his mother, who

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both fell to poisoning, extinguishing his
bloodline Forever. I've always been a bit

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stunned and baffled at the inclination of
modern historians to discount the possibility of poisoning

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being the cause of his own death. Alexander had spent a lifetime brutally punishing

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traitors, schemers, and intriguers,
and considering the story of Bugois and the

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endless series of poisonings in Persia,
which of course now is part of his

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own empire, and considering that even
the Macedonian court itself was beginning to fall

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victim to this disgusting behavior throughout Alexander's
days. The idea that this man,

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with the robustness of a rasputant and
a guardian angel that seemed to work overtime

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throughout every moment of his life,
could simply pass away bedridden in the prime

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of his life because of too much
wine or the sudden onset of some mystery

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disease seems to me far less believable
and logical, and the theory of foul

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play to give voice to my own
intuitive speculation here with emphasis on speculation,

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because these waters are even still as
murky as ever, I do believe he

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was probably murdered with such an incredibly
high percentage of the foremost men all around

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him during his lifetime, and just
after meeting similar sudden, mysterious deaths,

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and with Alexander being, without a
doubt the foremost target of the jackals who

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use such methods to worm their way
up the ladders of power and influence,

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this seems to me the more likely
case. After years of dismissing the idea,

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at least a portion of relevant academia
is beginning to come around. A

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doctor Shep and a doctor Pat Wheatley
of Otago University published a paper in the

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medical journal Clinical Toxicology making a plausible
case for the type of poison that may

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have been used, One that produces
the physical effects mentioned in the accounts of

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Alexander's last days, and one known
and available to the men of his age

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called white hellboor this could have been
slipped into his wine, and with a

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bit of sweetening to hide the bitterness, may have gone largely unnoticed until it

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was far too late. As history
so clearly attests, it's not enough for

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great men to destroy. They must
create, have a vision for some something

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new to take the place of the
old order or chaos they've brought down.

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I tend to believe Alexander had a
plan, and God only knows how the

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implementation of this vision might have changed
the world, not simply in Alexander's day,

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but all the way up to our
own. The cascading butterfly effects would

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have had an enormous, incalculable impact. Perhaps this plan was a threat or

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a diminution of power to certain hidden
hands behind the scenes. As for who

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might have been behind such a murder
and what their specific motive may have been,

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this stands as a massive looming question
mark, perhaps never to be answered

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to satisfaction. And after all,
the very purpose of any successful conspiracy is

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to covertly accomplish a deed and get
away with it. I suspect that the

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vast majority of conspiracies throughout history remain
wholly unknown and undiscovered. But this is

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a topic for another day, and
it doesn't seem fitting when telling the story

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of a truly great man to focus
too intently on the far smaller and lesser,

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the envious or parasitic types that nipped
at his heels. There's that word

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00:41:20.719 --> 00:41:27.599
again. Parasitic jackals was a nice
word for it, too, cutthroats,

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one might even say, until perhaps
causing his demise. It seems somehow fitting

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that this cowardly and scheming final act
took place in Babylon. For all of

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his faults, Alexander the Great was
one of the most capable soldiers, leaders,

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strategicians, conquerors, and organizers and
uniters of men to ever live,

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A man magnanimous and just to courageous
foes, a despiser and punisher of cowardice

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and treachery and disloyalty. And this
is how you separate out a noble conqueror

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from a mere scoundrel with an army. History is replete with examples of his

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opposite type, who, when a
great enemy warrior is finally brought to heal

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after wreaking such havoc, let their
emotion and petty anger blind them and either

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killed or tortured or otherwise mistreated,
the courageous hero or leader whose only fault

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was his bravery and confidence on the
battlefield. Alexander, however, didn't just

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show courage himself, he genuinely respected
it in his foes. He was a

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man who avoided the blinders and narrow
focus of many martially minded men who came

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before and after him, who sincerely
respected the noble sage, teacher, or

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priest wherever he found them. His
comment to Diogenes, were I not Alexander,

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I would be Diogenes not only strikes
me as probably historically accurate and truthful

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on Alexander's part, but seems to
speak to his character and orientation, and

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his innate respect for knowledge and wisdom
and the truly wise man and his all

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important role. In many ways,
Alexander seems to fit the more ancient and

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lofty definition of genius, a genius
that just happened to choose the martial path

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in his lifetime, no doubt,
feeling pushed by necessity and environmental conditions to

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do so. Despite being typically outnumbered
at times by a ratio of two to

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one or more. He's said to
have never lost a single battle without a

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doubt. There are lessons to be
learned from the life and the death of

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this lion among men, and one
of the most important these is in just

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how clearly he contrasted with his opposite
type. As Persia began to fall ever

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further into the hands of lesser men, her leaders, like Xerxes, took

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to going to war with a massive
procession in tow, including dancers and court

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eunuchs and feasting tables, ensuring the
leaders could indulge in every luxury and vice

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imaginable and live in extreme ease and
comfort as they sent their massive bought armies

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to fight and die. That's an
interesting weight of putting that to bought armies.

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Alexander, on the other hand,
cultivated a highly trained, highly mobile

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force capable of rutally effective blitz creed
tactics, and Alexander himself not only led

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the fighting, but quite literally couldn't
help himself from personally plunging into the thick

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of it, perhaps knowing that he
could dictate the pace and flow of the

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fighting by doing so due to his
soldier's love for him and desire to keep

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him safe at all costs, While
other conquerors used their victories to spitefully punish

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the most successful individual warriors or the
most valiant nations or peoples, and applauded

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treachery whenever it might benefit them.
Alexander had a deep, innate respect for

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the capable warrior and for courage itself, regardless of whether these traits were possessed

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by friend or foe, and despised
treachery and disloyalty, and went out of

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his way to punish those responsible,
even when the treacherous actions stood to benefit

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him more than anything. Alexander seemed
fundamentally honest and forthright in his approach,

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while court intrigue and scheming eunuchs made
use of poison and conspiracies to work from

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the shadows, Alexander, mounted on
his trusty steed at the head of his

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men, basked in the sunlight in
open air, spoke his intent clearly and

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openly, and followed through on his
head threats and promises. He would spend

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a mere thirty two years on this
earth and yet manage to live every last

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one of them to its fullest,
and in doing so, reoriented our collective

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vision of what's possible and left a
lasting imprint on the human psyche that will

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never fade much respect. May the
mortal shall rest in peace, and the

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spirit of the man and the legend
it left in its wake live on.

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Hey yell, it checked up way
here of a good positive examples in the

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world, you know. All right, let's move on to the next one

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we've got. Thank you. First
of all, thank you very much,

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Daisy. That is incredibly amazing.
I greatly appreciate it. And uh yes,

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thank you, thank you so much. I'm humbled. Thank you.

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All right, So this one is
called The Secret History, which is the

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name of Procopius's book, and it's
underground dungeons, murder, demonic visions,

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and the death of the Roman Empire. Sput it back like that, okay

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for those of you, I don't
know if you guys see that or take

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a really close look at the beginning
of this. All of his videos start

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by showing God, Mit uns,
God with us. The history I'm about

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00:48:37.639 --> 00:48:42.880
to relate, uncovered in the Vatican
Library in sixteen twenty three, certainly ranks

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as one of the most strange and
shocking ever written, to the extent that

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initially struck me, just as it
did so many others across the last century

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as nearly unbelievable. It purports to
be an account of absolute evil, for

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lack of a better word, and
human form, written from the perspective of

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perhaps the only man in a position
to see and hear and experience this evil

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00:49:07.079 --> 00:49:15.840
firsthand. It speaks of mass murder, attempted genocide, the most brazen corruption

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00:49:15.119 --> 00:49:23.599
and libid sexual degeneracy, claimed demonic
possession, kidnappings, assassinations, underground dungeons

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00:49:23.639 --> 00:49:30.800
and torture, and a great deal
more in a similar vein. And I

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just want to point this out too, since he's bringing up underground dungeons and

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00:49:35.320 --> 00:49:40.400
torture. We know that those boring
that's what they call, you know,

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the big huge drills that bore tunnels. They did the Gothard Tunnel, which

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00:49:46.159 --> 00:49:52.599
obviously is a roadway. But that
sound that it makes that you hear is

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00:49:52.639 --> 00:49:58.920
the same sound that is recorded in
the early twenty tens to twenty seventeen eighteen

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00:50:00.119 --> 00:50:02.440
people hearing it and feeling rattling and
think that there's earthquakes and all this other

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00:50:02.480 --> 00:50:09.559
stuff in the United States. And
there is those videos of these tunnels where

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there's tons of you know, tractor
trailler trucks going into them. And there's

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a guy like asking them where they're
going, and they're like, yeah,

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they this goes all the way up
to DC, and they're like in Texas

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00:50:20.320 --> 00:50:23.800
or something like that, and all
these intricate tunnels whatever, How do we

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not know? How do we know
that there isn't something going on beneath the

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00:50:28.639 --> 00:50:35.039
surface that is absolute pure hell,
you know, shale if you will,

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Sagol or Tartarus, which is the
worst part of hell in the Greek mythos,

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going on underneath our feet. And
obviously that would be a great way

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00:50:50.840 --> 00:50:53.079
to move troops without being detected,
because they don't have to move on the

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surface and spook and alarm people.
They can just pop up fully ready to

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00:51:00.679 --> 00:51:08.159
go full fleets. But also imagine
if you correlate this with the amount of

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children that are missing every year just
in the US. Understanding what the Jesuits

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are involved in and that they operate
the CIA, it starts to form a

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00:51:17.840 --> 00:51:25.519
picture that's not very good and quite
daunting. And if we knew definitively,

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without a shadow of a doubt,
that this was happening, how would that

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change the way we perceive this ruling
class of politicians and government officials and military

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who has to be involved in order
to pull off something that large, they

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00:51:47.159 --> 00:51:53.719
would need that manpower. What would
we do. We would have to do

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00:51:53.760 --> 00:52:00.639
something right, And it's not as
easy as simply walking away from it and

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00:52:00.719 --> 00:52:05.559
going and hiding in the woods,
because that doesn't solve the problem, and

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00:52:05.599 --> 00:52:10.599
that doesn't free or save any souls
that might be trapped in this torture chamber

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beneath our feet. I'm sure there's
a lot of high tech things going on

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00:52:15.400 --> 00:52:22.840
down there. I'm sure there's potentially
other things that we don't see because they

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00:52:22.840 --> 00:52:30.880
don't come to the surface very often, and experimentations, torture, ritual abuse,

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00:52:30.079 --> 00:52:35.400
all that stuff. And if that's
happening, then I can't help but

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00:52:35.440 --> 00:52:37.320
think of that book. Well,
it's a short story, and it's not

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a very well written one, but
there's a point there. Those who walk

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away from Omylus look it up,
please om e Las if I'm not mistaken.

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And it talks about a child being
kept in almost complete darkness, never

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shown love, never spoken to,
never live to be shown tenderness or care,

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but always constantly put in a state
of terror and misery. And according

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00:53:10.639 --> 00:53:17.760
to the story, the reason why
the people of that town have such a

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wonderful life is because of the living
sacrifice of this child being tortured for some

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reason. That's what fuels their society, and some people who witness it they

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00:53:35.800 --> 00:53:38.880
walk away, which is cowardly because
they don't try to save the child.

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They just walk away and discust.
Well, who does that help. It's

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00:53:45.280 --> 00:53:51.840
a very odd story, but there
might be some deeper message there. Unlike

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most the historical tales I've told in
other videos, this one will contain no

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00:53:55.800 --> 00:54:04.800
heroes or heroism, the unfortunate flip
side of that coin. It's a tale

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of what happens when our worst men
become our most powerful men, when the

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foundations and roots of a robustly healthy, and strong nation are decimated, and

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the state becomes not a unified nation
of like minded kin working towards common goals,

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but a chaotic patchwork of every type
of humanity set at one another's throats,

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each seeking its own immediate benefit.
It's a warning. The author's name

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is Procopious, a man responsible for
some of the most thorough, sober,

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and even handed historical accounts of his
age, and his explosive work is titled

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The Secret History. So impressive were
his other works displaying that unique, even

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00:54:52.519 --> 00:54:57.960
keeled intellectual maturity common to the most
genuinely aristocratic natures of his day, calling

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to mind a Tacitus or Xenophon,
that this secret history was initially thought to

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be a hoax, or its authorship
somehow mistakenly attributed to Procopius. It's only

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00:55:08.280 --> 00:55:13.800
fairly recently, in the broad scope
of history that these theories have been obliterated

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00:55:13.840 --> 00:55:19.360
by a deeper analysis of the writing
style, indicating these words did indeed flow

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from his own hand. So extreme
are the contents that, once again,

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just like others before me, my
first instinct was to search for some obviously

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00:55:28.840 --> 00:55:34.280
ignoble incentive or motive behind his words, something that might cause a man to

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00:55:34.320 --> 00:55:37.199
paint such a picture of the events
of his age for reasons other than a

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service to truth. And though fierce
scholarly debate on this very topic produced a

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handful of possibilities, none of these
have ever struck me as especially convincing.

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J. Bagnellbury, a historian I
appreciate and have mentioned more than once in

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the past, was among the doubters
of its authenticity, a stance he formalized

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with a publishing of an argument on
the topic in eighteen eighty nine. By

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00:56:02.719 --> 00:56:07.559
nineteen twenty three, mirroring so many
of his peers, as new facts came

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to light, he changed his opinion, though he added that Procopius quote must

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00:56:12.760 --> 00:56:17.639
have suffered a brainstorm before writing it. British historian A. H. M.

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Jones accurately called it a venomous pamphlet, but goes on to offer the

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opinion, perhaps formed before its legitimacy
was all but one hundred percent confirmed,

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that it quote doesn't deserve the respect
which is often accorded to it. Speaking

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personally, I've come to lean towards
the words of a later translator who prefaced

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his work with quote, Procopius was
unquestionably on the side of right, and

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the things which are disgusting to us
were equally disgusting to him. End quote.

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Venomous, yes, yet perhaps equally
accurate, necessary, and important.

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If Procopius in those around him did
indeed witness an lived through what they claim

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to have, how could any decent
man not be righteously angry as a result.

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Anthony Caldelus opens up his introduction of
The Secret History with the words Procopius

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felt that he had been living in
a nightmare for most of his adult life.

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Much like Tacitus, one gets the
sense that this is a man cut

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from the old cloth, with high
standards of conduct, decency, and ethics,

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who was witnessing first hand, front
and center, a complete and total

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collapse and degeneration of not just the
Roman Empire, but of the quote civilized

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world. Caldelus tells us Procopius was
unique and courageous, not only in that

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he wrote a neutral and mostly critical
history of the wars of Justinian, who

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was a dangerous man to offend,
but also in that he dared to write

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the secret history when Justinian, the
great spider at the center of the vast

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imperial web, was still alive.
This unique quality infuses his works with the

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suspense of secrets furtively told and outcomes
not yet decided. I believe he was

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consoled as he watched this darkness all
around him by the fact that one day,

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if he should be lucky enough to
sidestep the arbitrary whims of these two

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protagonists and remain alive, he might
finally share a wealth of knowledge, the

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vast majority of which could only be
known by him and would die with him

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and be lost forever. If he
didn't proceed with caution. A final note

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of context before we begin. Our
story takes place in the Eastern Roman Empire,

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centering around the reign of Emperor Justinian
and his impress Theodora from five twenty

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seven to five sixty five a d. When I say Procopius is a first

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hand source, I mean this.
This wasn't some scholar writing in a distant

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library after the events took place,
but a man employed by Justinian to carefully

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document the goings on of his day, frequently accompanying the third major figure of

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this work, the Roman general Belisarius, especially during his battles against the Goths.

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This Belisarius, once so effective and
capable as to earn the admiration of

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Procopius and even genuine praise from his
enemies the Goths, seems a testament to

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what becomes of men and empires when
those in the highest positions of power and

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influence represent their worst and most degenerate, and a rot setsin from the head

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downward. The shift in fortunes,
enthusiasm, and energy during this period is

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epitomized by Procopius's writings and well stated
by Averil Cameron in his Procopius and the

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sixth century quote. Indeed, the
tone of his narrative changes very strikingly when

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he writes of the second Italian expedition. From the lively engaged writing of the

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first books of the Gothic Wars,
the mood changes to one of increasing sadness

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and disappoin ointment. Belisarius, whose
reputation had reached an apogee for Procopius in

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his masterly handling of the entry into
Ravenna in five point forty, achieved nothing

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01:00:09.400 --> 01:00:15.039
on his second expedition to Italy,
and Procopius, while still under the spell

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of his hero, became steadily more
saddened and more and more openly critical.

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The change shows itself in the texture
of his prose. Instead of vigorous descriptions

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of action, we have short lapidary
sentences conveying the bare and unflattering facts.

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The third book of the Gothic Wars
is pervaded by amounting gloom and criticism.

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Procopius was already preparing the full blast
of his rhetoric for expression in this Secret

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History, where he writes of this
second expedition of Belisarius with extreme bitterness.

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End Belisarius, Rome's greatest general of
the age. Had become a literal cuck

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thanks to the machinations of Theodora,
a weak and disgraceful shell of a man,

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01:01:00.760 --> 01:01:05.599
and thus a perfect representation of the
crumbling Eastern Roman Empire, with the

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wind utterly removed from its now flaccid
sails, drifting aimlessly, seemingly just waiting

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01:01:10.719 --> 01:01:15.559
to die, energetic only in the
creative looting of its once great and powerful

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01:01:15.599 --> 01:01:22.880
body, swiftly becoming a putrid corpse. One can't help but notice countless parallels

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01:01:22.880 --> 01:01:28.199
and what you're about to hear with
our present age and conditions, and it's

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my hope that Procopius's words might act
as a testament, warning and education.

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01:01:34.559 --> 01:01:37.840
I can't help but feel this is
exactly what he intended them to be.

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01:01:37.880 --> 01:01:45.079
That is my intent too, that
we see the parallels, and so let's

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begin. Justinian ascended the throne at
approximately the age of forty five. It

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01:01:51.760 --> 01:01:54.559
said that even before he officially took
power, as he acted as a ruler

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01:01:54.599 --> 01:02:00.559
behind the scenes in place of his
increasingly senile and insane uncle Justine, he

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was to somehow tear through the entire
massive financial surplus painstakingly built up over the

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years by his predecessors, a testament
of things to come. When I was

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reading Procopius, they were saying that
Rome was ruled during the time of Justin

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01:02:17.400 --> 01:02:23.800
by a man who his advisers had
to hold his hand, and sometimes they

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had to etch into what he would
have to sign his name, because he

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couldn't write, and they had to
have to guide his hand into the grooves

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01:02:32.559 --> 01:02:37.199
for him to sign things. That
he was one hundred percent completely illiterate.

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He was said by Procopius and others
to bear a striking resemblance to the Emperor

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01:02:44.639 --> 01:02:49.840
Domitian, who was apparently considered quite
ugly, and who ironically was to become

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01:02:49.880 --> 01:02:52.320
so hated by his subjects that they
tore him limb from limb to end his

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01:02:52.400 --> 01:02:57.440
life. He was of middle height, with a round face, and though

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01:02:57.679 --> 01:03:04.239
neither physical extreme, was quote slightly
inclined towards fatness. He was by all

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accounts well above average and intelligence.
In one of the few complementary passages in

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the work, Procopius speaks of him
as fairly temperate and moderated in his personal

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life, sleeping and eating little,
if at all, tireless, and energetic

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in the pursuit of his aims.
A contrast to the completely degenerate gluttons like

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01:03:22.400 --> 01:03:29.400
Caligula, who seemingly gave themselves over
entirely to sensory pleasures. He was also

679
01:03:29.440 --> 01:03:32.920
said to be fairly soft spoken and
not the least bit prone to passionate outburst

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or displays of emotion. And with
these few short sentences we've nearly covered the

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01:03:38.960 --> 01:03:45.000
only neutral or complimentary statements Procopius manages
to give voice to in the entire work.

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It's universally agreed that Justinian style of
leadership was one that sought to glorify

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and strengthen the state at the cost
of its citizens, a path that has

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01:03:55.800 --> 01:04:00.559
had its high points in some exceptional
cases, but only when a homogeneous citizenry

685
01:04:00.639 --> 01:04:05.599
is laboring together in unity towards larger
goals that the vast majority degrees are net

686
01:04:05.679 --> 01:04:11.400
positives, as opposed to using it
as a means of bleeding dry a multicultural

687
01:04:11.440 --> 01:04:16.119
and multi ethnic population to flood the
coffers of a paper tiger empire under the

688
01:04:16.159 --> 01:04:24.599
guise that perhaps new buildings and constructions
might somehow hide its internal decay. And

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01:04:24.760 --> 01:04:30.360
where to even begin with Theodora.
She was low born by any objective standard,

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01:04:30.519 --> 01:04:32.599
and to a family of entertainers,
to a father who was a keeper

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01:04:32.639 --> 01:04:36.840
of wild beasts used in public spectacles, and a mother that seems to have

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01:04:36.880 --> 01:04:44.039
been very much a shrewd yet largely
unsuccessful until Theodora's big break social climber.

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01:04:45.800 --> 01:04:49.960
Several wives of exceedingly powerful men were
low born and yet later managed to distinguish

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themselves with their exceptional grace or virtue
or kind heartedness. Theodora, to put

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01:04:57.199 --> 01:05:01.440
it mildly, was not of this
mold. She and her two sisters were

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01:05:01.800 --> 01:05:06.559
quote actresses, which in this period, as perhaps it should be in our

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01:05:06.599 --> 01:05:13.039
own, was directly synonymous with prostitution. This isn't just to say that the

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public saw the profession of acting as
prostitution, but that the women engaged in

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01:05:16.840 --> 01:05:23.440
one were also engaged in the other. What seems especially horrible about the case

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01:05:23.440 --> 01:05:28.000
of Theodora and her two sisters.
If you think about casting couch and understand,

701
01:05:29.039 --> 01:05:32.920
or if you you know, accept
the stories that we hear as to

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01:05:33.119 --> 01:05:38.679
how Hollywood is actually run, it
would make sense that the same people would

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01:05:38.719 --> 01:05:45.559
be controlling that as well, because
the same system is in place. What

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01:05:45.679 --> 01:05:47.400
you don't see on the outside,
maybe you saw more back then, but

705
01:05:48.440 --> 01:05:57.079
the way it flows, the process
is the same who were encouraged to take

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01:05:57.119 --> 01:06:00.199
to the stage and other activities the
moment they were old enough to do so.

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Is that privately they seem to have
begun prostituting themselves far earlier. Procopius

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01:06:06.760 --> 01:06:11.920
tells us Theodora was still too young
to have intercourse with a man after the

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01:06:11.920 --> 01:06:16.000
manner of women, but she satisfied
the unnatural passions of certain wretches, even

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01:06:16.079 --> 01:06:20.320
the violist of slaves, who followed
their masters to the theater and amused their

711
01:06:20.360 --> 01:06:25.679
leisure by this infamy. She remained
for some time also in a brothel,

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01:06:25.880 --> 01:06:30.440
where she practiced this hateful form of
vice. As soon, however, as

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01:06:30.480 --> 01:06:32.880
she reached the age of puberty.
As she was handsome, her mother sent

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01:06:32.920 --> 01:06:39.079
her into the theatrical troupe, and
she straightway became a simple harlot. As

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01:06:39.119 --> 01:06:44.000
the it kind of sounds like somebody
who pushes their children these days into acting,

716
01:06:45.360 --> 01:06:49.440
you know, basically an offering to
anyone who will give them higher status.

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01:06:49.800 --> 01:06:54.199
They'll offer their own children up to
it to do with what they will,

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01:06:55.039 --> 01:06:59.440
so long as they get what they
want. Their children are a bargaining

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01:06:59.519 --> 01:07:03.280
chip, the old fashioned people called
it, for she was neither a musician,

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01:07:03.440 --> 01:07:09.199
nor a dancer, but merely prostituted
herself to everyone whom she met,

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01:07:09.719 --> 01:07:14.920
giving up every part of her body
to debauchery. She associated chiefly with the

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01:07:14.920 --> 01:07:19.000
theatrical pantomimes, and took part in
their performances, playing in the comic scenes.

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For she was exceedingly witty and amusing, so that she soon became well

724
01:07:24.239 --> 01:07:29.360
known by her acting. She had
no shame whatever, and no one ever

725
01:07:29.400 --> 01:07:33.480
saw her put out of her countenance. But she lent herself to scandalous purposes

726
01:07:33.519 --> 01:07:39.800
without the least hesitation. And he
goes on to offer further details here,

727
01:07:40.239 --> 01:07:46.159
indicating that she became known by anyone
and everyone around her who might be interested

728
01:07:46.199 --> 01:07:53.239
in knowing her, for she was
not only without shame, but especially fond

729
01:07:53.360 --> 01:07:58.880
of encouraging others to be shameless.
And any respectable man who met her in

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01:07:58.920 --> 01:08:02.119
the public streets turned away and made
haste to avoid her, lest his clothes

731
01:08:02.119 --> 01:08:06.960
should be soiled with contact with such
an abandoned creature. As for her fellow

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01:08:08.000 --> 01:08:13.320
actresses, she always abused them most
savagely, for she was exceedingly jealous.

733
01:08:15.239 --> 01:08:18.760
She had married up early in her
life to a man named Hekabullus, but

734
01:08:19.960 --> 01:08:27.119
quarreled with him and was straightway sent
out of the country and thus reverted energetically,

735
01:08:27.359 --> 01:08:33.000
it seems to prostitution, first in
Alexandria, then to Byzantium, engaging

736
01:08:33.039 --> 01:08:39.439
in her profession in every town along
the way. Procopius tells us she became

737
01:08:39.520 --> 01:08:44.159
one of the best known prostitutes of
her time. She was known to have

738
01:08:44.239 --> 01:08:48.520
had at least one child, who
would later be disappeared after inconveniently re emerging

739
01:08:48.640 --> 01:08:54.720
after she became impress, but Procopius
states she had at least one more to

740
01:08:54.760 --> 01:09:00.359
his knowledge. She was also said
to have had several abortions the primitive techniques

741
01:09:00.399 --> 01:09:04.439
of the day, and according to
more than one account, apparently thought little

742
01:09:04.479 --> 01:09:12.159
to nothing of these. And this
kind of is the first inclination of the

743
01:09:12.239 --> 01:09:17.680
types of drugs that were common to
Medea that she would be using for those

744
01:09:17.680 --> 01:09:21.319
types of and that's not always just
a device that like a hook or something

745
01:09:21.359 --> 01:09:26.159
like that. That's I know,
this is an awful way to look at,

746
01:09:26.319 --> 01:09:30.800
you know, to think about things, but also the drugs, the

747
01:09:31.079 --> 01:09:38.920
borders, the inducers of that were
the drugs. That was the drug knowledge

748
01:09:39.800 --> 01:09:44.600
of people like Medea. And that's
not the only thing that alludes back to

749
01:09:44.640 --> 01:09:51.079
media either, so we'll be hearing
more about that Justinian. Despite the strenuous

750
01:09:51.119 --> 01:09:56.039
objections of the Impress of the time, Euphemia, a figure who comes off

751
01:09:56.119 --> 01:10:00.479
as the most attractive paragon of virtue
relative to her degenerates, he not only

752
01:10:00.520 --> 01:10:06.479
decides to marry Theodora, but prevailed
on his increasingly senile uncle Justin, whom

753
01:10:06.479 --> 01:10:11.920
he would soon replace, to permanently
change the ancient laws of the land to

754
01:10:11.960 --> 01:10:18.479
allow patricians to marry quote stage performers. Nothing more, I conceive need be

755
01:10:18.600 --> 01:10:24.279
said about this creature's character, for
all the vices of his heart are thoroughly

756
01:10:24.319 --> 01:10:28.560
displayed in the fact of so unworthy
a marriage. When a man feels no

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01:10:28.760 --> 01:10:31.720
shame at an act of this kind
and braves the loathing of the world,

758
01:10:31.880 --> 01:10:36.119
there is thereafter no path of wickedness
which may not be trodden by him.

759
01:10:36.600 --> 01:10:42.399
But with a face incapable of blushing, he plunges, utterly devoid of scruple,

760
01:10:42.680 --> 01:10:47.760
into the deepest baseness. This permanent
changing of the laws of the land

761
01:10:47.880 --> 01:10:53.239
represents a key component of who Justinian
was, and that he was said to

762
01:10:53.239 --> 01:10:59.159
be a man obsessed with newness and
novelty, a quote reformer, a mindset

763
01:10:59.159 --> 01:11:03.520
that might be equated to today's progressives. Whether this change was to be good

764
01:11:03.680 --> 01:11:08.319
or bad for the public in the
long term seemed to mean little to him.

765
01:11:08.680 --> 01:11:14.399
The mindset certainly granted him immense power. Theodora was very much of the

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01:11:14.439 --> 01:11:18.720
same mind. She despised the upper
middle class and the old guard aristocracy,

767
01:11:19.159 --> 01:11:25.640
and delighted in profoundly changing court protocol. Accordingly, we are told that new

768
01:11:25.720 --> 01:11:30.840
and abasing forms of etiquette were introduced
at court under Justinian and Theodora. It

769
01:11:30.920 --> 01:11:35.920
became obligatory that all persons of whatever
rank should prostrate themselves on entering the presence

770
01:11:35.920 --> 01:11:42.520
of the Emperor and Empress alike.
The spirit of oriental servility in the palace

771
01:11:42.640 --> 01:11:45.119
was shown by the fact that officials
and members of the court, who,

772
01:11:45.479 --> 01:11:50.760
in talking among themselves used to speak
of the sovereigns as Emperor and Empress Basilaus

773
01:11:50.800 --> 01:11:57.239
and Basilis, now began to designate
them as the Lord and the lady,

774
01:11:57.680 --> 01:12:03.119
despotes and despoena describe themselves as their
slaves, and anyone who did not adopt

775
01:12:03.119 --> 01:12:10.920
these forms was considered to have committed
an unpardonable solicism. How strange it must

776
01:12:10.920 --> 01:12:20.399
have been for the most noble patricians. Unpardonable, unpardonable for that just a

777
01:12:20.479 --> 01:12:26.760
simple not acknowledging. Or you didn't
salute your officer today and tell them that

778
01:12:26.840 --> 01:12:30.880
you're his slave, so into the
dungeon you go, or worse. Descended

779
01:12:30.920 --> 01:12:35.359
from generations of the most courageous and
accomplished men, many of whom had devoted

780
01:12:35.399 --> 01:12:40.920
their very lives and livelihoods to the
betterment of the Empire, to be forced

781
01:12:40.920 --> 01:12:46.159
to debase themselves in a servile fashion
before an envious prostitute. Descended from harlots

782
01:12:46.239 --> 01:12:51.880
and circus performers. Very quickly,
all looking on must have realized this impress

783
01:12:53.079 --> 01:13:00.439
was unique and that the coming years
may well be difficult ones. The habits

784
01:13:00.439 --> 01:13:04.640
presented a contrast to the temperance and
simplicity of Justinian. She spent a long

785
01:13:04.720 --> 01:13:08.960
time in her bath. At our
meals, she indulged in every kind of

786
01:13:08.960 --> 01:13:12.760
food and drink. She slept long, both at night and in her daily

787
01:13:12.800 --> 01:13:16.920
siesta. She spent many months of
the year in the suburban palaces on the

788
01:13:16.960 --> 01:13:23.439
seashore, especially at Harian on the
coast of Bythenia, opposite the islands of

789
01:13:23.479 --> 01:13:29.520
the Princes, which Justinian enlarged and
improved. Sometimes she visited the hot springs

790
01:13:29.520 --> 01:13:34.640
of Pythia in Bythynia, where Justinian
also built an imperial residence. On these

791
01:13:34.640 --> 01:13:42.199
occasions she was attended by an immense
retinue of patricians and chamberlains. For Theodora

792
01:13:42.239 --> 01:13:46.359
had all a Parvenu's love of pomp
and show, and she was probably encouraged

793
01:13:46.399 --> 01:13:50.159
by the Emperor, who, though
simple in his own tastes, thought much

794
01:13:50.239 --> 01:13:58.000
of public splendor and elaborate ceremonial as
a means of enhancing the imperial majesty.

795
01:13:58.960 --> 01:14:01.560
Those who attempt to def vin Justinian
and his reign up to the present day

796
01:14:01.880 --> 01:14:08.399
often lawed his building projects as the
foremost proof of his successes, though neglecting

797
01:14:08.439 --> 01:14:11.720
to mention that so many of these
seem to have been built for himself.

798
01:14:11.960 --> 01:14:17.279
Theodora and their small circle of collaborators, their rise was to mark the ascension

799
01:14:17.359 --> 01:14:27.000
of the court eunuch collaborators. Keep
that in mind, and eunuchs are notorious

800
01:14:28.119 --> 01:14:33.439
as being little little spies who spy
on even other eunuchs spies and spy on

801
01:14:33.479 --> 01:14:39.159
their spies, kind of like Jesuits. To levels of power and influence not

802
01:14:39.279 --> 01:14:44.640
seen before, and a dramatic rise
in all aspects of court intrigue, which

803
01:14:44.640 --> 01:14:50.239
seemed to be consistent hallmarks of all
sick or crumbling states or civilizations kind of

804
01:14:50.279 --> 01:14:55.199
like ours. Many of these unichs
seem to have been used as something like

805
01:14:55.279 --> 01:15:02.239
intelligence agents to monitor individuals and groups
and so or cause infighting among certain factions,

806
01:15:02.680 --> 01:15:06.359
and it quickly became known to all
that a court eunuch, especially if

807
01:15:06.359 --> 01:15:12.920
a friend of Theodora, outranked anyone
and everyone in the empire. When this

808
01:15:13.119 --> 01:15:16.880
was coupled with the reputation, she'd
swiftly develop as someone who loved nothing more

809
01:15:16.920 --> 01:15:23.520
than punishing real or perceived enemies.
These eunuchs must have been treated with the

810
01:15:23.560 --> 01:15:30.880
greatest possible deference, bordering on a
paralyzing fear. Procopius tells us her husband

811
01:15:30.000 --> 01:15:33.520
must have been well aware that she
had an intelligence department of her own,

812
01:15:33.960 --> 01:15:38.800
and that secret intrigues were carried on
of which he would not have approved.

813
01:15:39.319 --> 01:15:45.000
But she was clever enough to calculate
just how far she could go. Many

814
01:15:45.159 --> 01:15:48.840
modern academics, in what seems an
almost comical attempt to scour the record to

815
01:15:48.920 --> 01:15:55.439
cherry pick enough isolated elements. To
paint Theodora as a strong feminist icon with

816
01:15:55.560 --> 01:16:00.600
redeeming qualities, often cite the fact
that she'd later direct a signific some of

817
01:16:00.640 --> 01:16:05.119
the public's tax dollars to prostitutes,
presumably as a means of helping reform their

818
01:16:05.119 --> 01:16:11.319
ways, and this may well have
been laudable, but it becomes much more

819
01:16:11.359 --> 01:16:15.279
difficult to view it as such when
the totality of context is considered. A

820
01:16:15.359 --> 01:16:20.920
running theme in Theodora's reign is her
eagerness to fund or assist or otherwise ally

821
01:16:21.000 --> 01:16:27.760
with virtually all of the criminal or
degenerate elements of the empire, almost exclusively,

822
01:16:28.520 --> 01:16:32.119
to the extent that this one redeeming
action so praised by our modern UNIQ

823
01:16:32.199 --> 01:16:36.720
adjacent academia, might just as well
be seen as her wanting to give money

824
01:16:36.800 --> 01:16:43.640
to enrich her friends and the like
minded. However, calling her a feminist

825
01:16:43.840 --> 01:16:48.000
certainly seems accurate to an exceptional degree. Here was someone totally allied to their

826
01:16:48.039 --> 01:16:53.399
own sex, to the extent that
there seemed to exist a permanent and proactive

827
01:16:53.520 --> 01:16:59.920
animosity towards all men. Considering her
lifelong experience with men, perhaps this should

828
01:16:59.920 --> 01:17:03.640
be surprising, but to witness an
emperor and an empire. Giving her such

829
01:17:03.680 --> 01:17:09.880
free license to exercise these demons in
the most aggressive manner without checks and balances

830
01:17:10.319 --> 01:17:15.760
is incredible to behold. Jay Bagnolbery
tells us Theodora was perhaps too eager to

831
01:17:15.800 --> 01:17:21.159
interfere as a sort of beneficent providence
in the private affairs of individual persons,

832
01:17:21.600 --> 01:17:27.000
and her offices were not always appreciated. She is said to have forced two

833
01:17:27.079 --> 01:17:31.079
sisters who belonged to an old senatorial
family and had lost their husbands, to

834
01:17:31.159 --> 01:17:35.319
marry against their will, vulgar men
who were utterly unworthy of them, and

835
01:17:35.399 --> 01:17:40.079
her enemies alleged that in her readiness
to espouse the cause of women, she

836
01:17:40.159 --> 01:17:45.880
committed grave acts of injustice and did
considerable harm. So you can call her

837
01:17:45.880 --> 01:17:50.760
a feminist, but she's forcing women
against their will to marry scoundrels and degrade

838
01:17:50.800 --> 01:17:56.560
their nobility. He had to put
that, and yet to put that.

839
01:17:56.600 --> 01:18:00.560
On the other side of that scale. Wives who were divorced for adult used

840
01:18:00.600 --> 01:18:04.279
to appeal to the Empress and bring
accusations against their husbands, and she always

841
01:18:04.319 --> 01:18:10.000
took their part and compelled the unfortunate
men to pay double the dowry if she

842
01:18:10.039 --> 01:18:14.239
did not cause them to be whipped
and thrown into prison. The result was

843
01:18:14.279 --> 01:18:17.399
that men put up with the infidelity
of their wives rather than run such risks.

844
01:18:19.199 --> 01:18:26.279
Procopius mentions several times intriguingly that she
seemed to exercise a wholly unique influence

845
01:18:26.359 --> 01:18:32.199
over Justinian and credits her quote enchantments. Further context on what he means here

846
01:18:32.319 --> 01:18:38.119
is given when he speaks of other
women in Theodora's circle who almost seemed to

847
01:18:38.119 --> 01:18:45.119
operate in a covert yet extremely organized
and efficient, unified faction. Speaking of

848
01:18:45.159 --> 01:18:49.960
the aforementioned General Belisarius's wife, Antenaya, who was also an actress, also

849
01:18:50.039 --> 01:18:57.039
descended from prostitutes and entertainers, Procopius
tells us she herself at first lived a

850
01:18:57.159 --> 01:19:02.000
lewde life, giving herself up to
unbridled death. Besides this, she devoted

851
01:19:02.000 --> 01:19:05.840
herself to the study of the drugs
which had long been used in her family.

852
01:19:06.079 --> 01:19:12.880
And so there's another connection there.
We am and filled us in quite

853
01:19:12.960 --> 01:19:18.720
heavily with the drugs of the Hellenistic
period and before that, talking like way

854
01:19:18.760 --> 01:19:26.079
before that. But this is one
of those things that still carries on throughout

855
01:19:26.079 --> 01:19:30.399
the historical thread, and there's there's
something to this that we want to make

856
01:19:30.439 --> 01:19:35.319
sure that we keep in mind here
because it's going to manifest itself here and

857
01:19:35.439 --> 01:19:41.800
learn the properties of those that were
essential for carrying out her plans. This

858
01:19:41.920 --> 01:19:45.079
last line is made all the more
intriguing by repeated references to these sudden,

859
01:19:45.159 --> 01:19:50.279
unexpected deaths of otherwise healthy individuals who
happen to be on the bad side of

860
01:19:50.359 --> 01:19:55.479
this coven of women and others.
This is the poisonings, right, We're

861
01:19:55.479 --> 01:19:58.800
talking about the poisonings, and this
is an mo So we got to keep

862
01:19:58.800 --> 01:20:02.600
that. We got to think about
this because there's going to be If you've

863
01:20:02.640 --> 01:20:06.479
read my book and if you understand
the history and you understand the venom aspect

864
01:20:06.520 --> 01:20:13.560
and all this, this is the
greatest defining signature of who's behind what.

865
01:20:14.560 --> 01:20:20.840
And it's completely obvious when you started
to actually see it. Others pushed into

866
01:20:20.920 --> 01:20:29.439
madness or near vegetative states, or
a mindset of completely unthinking compliance, procopious

867
01:20:29.800 --> 01:20:33.000
or at least the translators of his
work even use the term intelligence agent.

868
01:20:33.600 --> 01:20:39.479
In fact, there's a strange reference
regarding Theodora herself before she met Justinian and

869
01:20:39.600 --> 01:20:45.399
presumably in between sex work jobs,
as being employed to create confidential reports about

870
01:20:45.439 --> 01:20:51.079
factions in the region of Antioch where
these reports ultimately landed is anyone's guests,

871
01:20:51.359 --> 01:20:56.199
and may forever remain an unsolved mystery, or we could just say in the

872
01:20:56.239 --> 01:21:01.039
hands of the Kazarians and the cutthroats
and bandits. What it suggests is explosive

873
01:21:01.359 --> 01:21:08.079
and something I've not seen any modern
writer's reference, and Procopius himself only vaguely

874
01:21:08.079 --> 01:21:13.720
alludes to, and he even seems
to do so carefully, namely that arguably

875
01:21:13.760 --> 01:21:16.680
the two most important women in the
Eastern Roman Empire, both of whom were

876
01:21:16.680 --> 01:21:23.000
to develop dominating influences over their powerful
husbands, at least potentially seem to have

877
01:21:23.039 --> 01:21:29.840
been working for unseen forces or as
members of a secret faction, and factions

878
01:21:29.840 --> 01:21:32.800
indeed were the name of the game
in this era, in this region and

879
01:21:33.039 --> 01:21:40.079
environment, the leaders of Eastern Rome, even before Justinian, were becoming masters

880
01:21:40.119 --> 01:21:45.600
of manipulation and control, and had
long fostered not merely bred in circuses as

881
01:21:45.600 --> 01:21:50.399
a means to this end, but
a contrived and theatrically managed split, a

882
01:21:50.439 --> 01:21:56.119
bit similar to our own Republicans and
Democrats in the United States, in this

883
01:21:56.199 --> 01:22:01.960
case called the Blues and the Greens. These were less exclusively political and more

884
01:22:02.000 --> 01:22:06.920
of an element of popular culture,
but this split definitely had both political and

885
01:22:08.000 --> 01:22:14.640
philosophical undertones. They had largely sprung
from the chariot races, a central event

886
01:22:14.760 --> 01:22:17.920
and tradition which had become far more
than a mere game or sporting contest.

887
01:22:18.840 --> 01:22:26.600
The Blue faction contained the establishment and
boot liquor sorts, those seeking imperial favor,

888
01:22:27.079 --> 01:22:31.000
merchants, eunuchs and members of the
Imperial court and their relatives, and

889
01:22:31.119 --> 01:22:36.800
the vast majority of the Jewish population, and around this time had therey Go

890
01:22:38.560 --> 01:22:44.560
taken to mimicking the fashions of foreign
elements such as the Huns. The Greens

891
01:22:44.760 --> 01:22:48.119
seemed to be a rougher sort,
working men, athletes, men of the

892
01:22:48.159 --> 01:22:54.920
middle class, and perhaps those who
lacked connections or simply despised the social climbing

893
01:22:54.960 --> 01:23:00.960
game, though my descriptions here are
almost certainly inaccurate and unfre if for no

894
01:23:00.039 --> 01:23:05.159
other reason then that they freely evolved
and changed shape over time, again much

895
01:23:05.239 --> 01:23:13.199
like our own Republican and Democrat notions, and had no permanently rigid fixed characters.

896
01:23:14.960 --> 01:23:18.439
Neither side seems to have been very
admirable, but especially in an increasingly

897
01:23:18.520 --> 01:23:25.319
corrupt state, it's easier to feel
some sympathy for the Greens. In an

898
01:23:25.359 --> 01:23:30.479
extremely strange back and forth saved for
posterity and tucked away in an appendix of

899
01:23:30.760 --> 01:23:35.359
J. Bagnellbery's History of the Later
Roman Empire, I just like to point

900
01:23:35.399 --> 01:23:42.680
out here that a lot of the
cold blue is represented. You can look

901
01:23:42.680 --> 01:23:47.520
at the flag of visual you can
look at the Ukrainian and you can look

902
01:23:47.560 --> 01:23:51.000
at a lot of different things,
and you'll see that blue. The medical

903
01:23:51.199 --> 01:23:56.840
establishment, blue, Babylonian magic.
If you wanted to curse somebody with some

904
01:23:56.920 --> 01:24:00.159
kind of illness, you used a
blue string on your little idol. Blue

905
01:24:00.279 --> 01:24:03.920
blue, blue, blue. In
this faction of the Blues and the greens,

906
01:24:05.359 --> 01:24:10.640
is this a marker? Is this
an identifying market? Is this like

907
01:24:10.680 --> 01:24:15.399
a gang color? When we see
it appear, everything's quidd and blue when

908
01:24:15.439 --> 01:24:23.159
it comes to the medical and this
group of people are heavily into the drugs

909
01:24:24.159 --> 01:24:31.000
and the sorcery, the poisons.
From the death of Theodosius to the death

910
01:24:31.039 --> 01:24:36.479
of Justinian notes a heated discussion between
the emperor and an angry mob, thought

911
01:24:36.479 --> 01:24:41.279
to be from the period of the
Nica Revolt. Later in Justinian's reign,

912
01:24:42.399 --> 01:24:46.720
the men from the Greens faction protest
injustice and mistreatment, to which the Emperor

913
01:24:46.840 --> 01:24:51.720
is noted to have exclaimed accursed blasphemers. When will ye hold your peace,

914
01:24:54.119 --> 01:24:58.119
the leader of the Greens responds,
if it is the pleasure of your majesty,

915
01:24:58.319 --> 01:25:02.439
I hold my peace. I know
all all, but I say nothing.

916
01:25:03.319 --> 01:25:09.239
Goodbye justice, you are no longer
in fashion. I shall turn and

917
01:25:09.279 --> 01:25:15.439
become a jew end quote. The
anti Jewish sentiment in the Greens seemed a

918
01:25:15.479 --> 01:25:21.359
fairly consistent theme the most famous warrior
and cheer, and if they were,

919
01:25:23.039 --> 01:25:32.039
then that would imply that the the
Blues represented the Jews and Kazarians. I

920
01:25:32.119 --> 01:25:36.279
mean, I say this as an
end, because there are there's differences,

921
01:25:36.760 --> 01:25:45.159
right, but the yahoh Sabaoth or
Saturn cult in essence is what we're talking

922
01:25:45.199 --> 01:25:50.479
about here. Perioteer of his age
Porfirius, who was once a member of

923
01:25:50.520 --> 01:25:56.600
the Blue faction but stated that he
left due to their quote idiocy, was

924
01:25:56.640 --> 01:26:00.000
to at one point lead his supporters
in violent reprisals against the use after a

925
01:26:00.000 --> 01:26:05.840
signal victory on the track. The
warring between these factions seems to have been

926
01:26:05.880 --> 01:26:12.399
designed and stoked to prevent full scale
rebellion, and for many decades it seemed

927
01:26:12.399 --> 01:26:15.880
to have worked very well. The
masses would attend chariot races, yell and

928
01:26:15.960 --> 01:26:20.880
scream at one another, occasionally have
fights or brawls in the streets, but

929
01:26:20.960 --> 01:26:26.039
the focus of their rage would be
one another, helping forestall that type of

930
01:26:26.199 --> 01:26:30.039
introspection and critical thinking that might cause
them all to realize the corrupt games being

931
01:26:30.079 --> 01:26:34.920
played just behind the scenes. According
to Procopius and others, so much of

932
01:26:35.000 --> 01:26:40.680
the energy of Justinian's reign seems to
have been devoted to maintaining this delicate balance,

933
01:26:41.119 --> 01:26:45.359
allowing him to take in and spend
enormous amounts of money and completely reshape

934
01:26:45.399 --> 01:26:50.319
the leadership hierarchy to ensure he might
continue to do so without anyone effectively sounding

935
01:26:50.359 --> 01:26:56.159
the alarm. Even his relationship with
Theodora from the start seems to have had

936
01:26:56.199 --> 01:27:00.199
a calculated public aspect. For a
long time, they appeared at all to

937
01:27:00.239 --> 01:27:04.600
be at variance, both in their
characters and in their actions, But afterwards

938
01:27:04.640 --> 01:27:10.239
this disagreement was seen to have been
purposely arranged between them in order that their

939
01:27:10.279 --> 01:27:14.680
subjects might not come to an agreement
and rise against them, but might all

940
01:27:14.720 --> 01:27:19.279
be divided in their opinion, the
truth of the matter was that Justinian seemed

941
01:27:19.399 --> 01:27:27.560
unable or unwilling to ever tell his
unprecedentedly powerful wife no quote. Custom was

942
01:27:27.600 --> 01:27:31.000
strained to permit her unusual privileges.
For instance, she is said to have

943
01:27:31.039 --> 01:27:35.720
received foreign invoys and presented them with
gifts as if the Roman Empire were under

944
01:27:35.760 --> 01:27:42.159
her rule. Cosroys was amazed when
his ministers a Bergen showed him a letter

945
01:27:42.279 --> 01:27:45.960
which he had received from Theodora,
urging him to press his master to make

946
01:27:45.039 --> 01:27:49.479
peace. Such incidents might well give
the impression that the empire was ruled by

947
01:27:49.560 --> 01:27:55.760
two co equal sovereigns, and some
thought that Theodora had the greater power than

948
01:27:55.960 --> 01:28:00.399
Justinian himself. Such power as she
possessed, she owned to her personal influence

949
01:28:00.399 --> 01:28:05.239
over her husband, and to his
toleration of her intervention and public affairs,

950
01:28:05.640 --> 01:28:12.520
and her influence. Her power being
higher than Justinian isn't just because he was,

951
01:28:13.680 --> 01:28:16.560
you know, subservient to him,
but it is because she had deeper

952
01:28:16.720 --> 01:28:24.279
roots with the criminal element that they've
been talking about since her early days as

953
01:28:24.319 --> 01:28:30.920
a prostitute and an actress and a
spy. They seem to have mastered the

954
01:28:30.079 --> 01:28:35.039
powerful political magic of accusing others of
precisely what they were guilty of themselves,

955
01:28:35.479 --> 01:28:41.840
having the dual effect of reducing the
suspicions directed towards themselves. Think of Germany,

956
01:28:42.479 --> 01:28:49.560
right, the projection of the atrocities
against mankind all falling on Germans shoulders

957
01:28:50.279 --> 01:28:59.600
instead of who was actually the victim
being accused of the crimes of the actual

958
01:28:59.720 --> 01:29:03.880
murder. After all, how could
a person be corrupt if they were so

959
01:29:04.000 --> 01:29:11.960
aggressively prosecuting corruption as well as providing
an ultra efficient means of legally destroying all

960
01:29:12.000 --> 01:29:16.439
of their opponents, much like racism
in our day is used by many of

961
01:29:16.520 --> 01:29:21.800
those filled with the most racial hatred
and animus to prosecute and destroy their opponents

962
01:29:21.840 --> 01:29:29.319
behind a legal facade. This stunningly
corrupt Byzantine court, seemingly composed of prostitutes

963
01:29:29.359 --> 01:29:34.239
and thieves and degenerates and sexual predators
of every stripe, ironically chose pederasty as

964
01:29:34.279 --> 01:29:42.079
their issue du jour, presumably knowing
the Green faction's hatred of pedophiles, laws

965
01:29:42.079 --> 01:29:45.840
were changed to allow a single accusation
even from a slave. Does this not

966
01:29:45.960 --> 01:29:53.359
sound like what they're trying to manufacture
through our society, through our culture?

967
01:29:53.439 --> 01:30:00.880
Right? Now knowing that we're going
to be repulsed by that, provided it

968
01:30:00.920 --> 01:30:04.920
was made by someone in the court's
favor to be sufficient for prosecution. And

969
01:30:05.079 --> 01:30:11.600
one by one the most wealthy and
powerful Green Faction members were accused, convicted,

970
01:30:11.800 --> 01:30:15.920
and not only lost all of their
possessions virtually overnight, but would often

971
01:30:15.960 --> 01:30:19.920
have their genitals cut off before being
publicly paraded through the city. And I

972
01:30:20.000 --> 01:30:26.359
presume that means the person was paraded, not the genitals. Could be a

973
01:30:26.359 --> 01:30:31.640
little bit of both. They paraded
genitos around in the French Revolution. But

974
01:30:31.720 --> 01:30:36.680
here you go, place the crimes
that you commit on the shoulders of your

975
01:30:36.800 --> 01:30:42.319
enemies and get the mob. This
is why democracy, this mob rule,

976
01:30:42.399 --> 01:30:45.520
is such a dangerous thing. As
the public began to realize what was going

977
01:30:45.560 --> 01:30:50.319
on, a complete demographic shift began
to take place. Accordingly, there was

978
01:30:50.359 --> 01:30:55.560
a continual stream of immigration, not
only to the lands of the barbarians,

979
01:30:55.640 --> 01:31:00.279
but also to the nations most remote
from Rome, and one saw a very

980
01:31:00.319 --> 01:31:02.960
great number of foreigners, both in
the country and in each city of the

981
01:31:03.000 --> 01:31:08.920
Empire. For men lightly exchanged their
native land for another, as though their

982
01:31:08.960 --> 01:31:15.319
own country had been captured by an
enemy. Justinian seems to have had a

983
01:31:15.439 --> 01:31:21.159
fascinating relationship with these barbarians, a
relationship all but completely ignored by modern academics

984
01:31:21.920 --> 01:31:27.680
who perhaps fail to connect the dots
and make the logical deductions based on the

985
01:31:27.760 --> 01:31:32.479
larger context picture dots even Eye won't
fully and directly connect within the scope of

986
01:31:32.479 --> 01:31:39.319
his video, but will certainly cover
in the future. Despite his most elite

987
01:31:39.319 --> 01:31:45.600
military forces being small bands of Germanic
mercenaries, especially herols in a time honoured

988
01:31:45.600 --> 01:31:50.199
tradition that would continue for countless generations, extending from the Scythians to Alexander,

989
01:31:50.439 --> 01:31:56.520
to the earliest Caesars of Rome,
to the famed Bahurangian Guard and beyond.

990
01:31:57.239 --> 01:32:01.159
Justinian and Theodora seemed to hold a
special hate for the Goths and their Germanic

991
01:32:01.239 --> 01:32:09.159
kin, and that may also be
because of the influence of those who are

992
01:32:09.279 --> 01:32:13.960
really given them the power if we're
talking about in this particular case where I

993
01:32:13.960 --> 01:32:16.039
guess the Kazars, but you know
they're talking about the Jews here too,

994
01:32:16.079 --> 01:32:23.079
with the Blue Faction. Their hatred
for the Goths represented by those who they

995
01:32:23.800 --> 01:32:28.039
manipulate, which would be the ruling
class, the emperor and the Empress.

996
01:32:29.199 --> 01:32:32.720
Modern academics often write this animosity off
as if due wholly to the fact that

997
01:32:32.760 --> 01:32:38.159
they were Aryan Christians, but this
seems to be only part of the larger

998
01:32:38.239 --> 01:32:43.760
story in strange actions which have been
scarcely mentioned to this very day. As

999
01:32:43.760 --> 01:32:47.640
far as I'm aware, Justinian would
proceed to find creative ways to send vast

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01:32:47.680 --> 01:32:54.079
amounts of wealth to Hunnik and Kazarian
and related forces outside of his borders,

1001
01:32:54.560 --> 01:32:59.720
and even seemingly aid in some of
their military campaigns, while simultaneously working in

1002
01:32:59.760 --> 01:33:05.479
our ically against the Goths and Aryan
Christians. Almost over this is Ukraine right

1003
01:33:05.520 --> 01:33:13.680
now. What we're doing there ways
covertly, as was the Byzantine way in

1004
01:33:13.760 --> 01:33:17.840
a fascinating story for another time.
A successor in the collapsing chaos that was

1005
01:33:17.840 --> 01:33:23.760
the Byzantine Empire, Justinian the Second, approximately one hundred and fifty years after

1006
01:33:23.920 --> 01:33:28.680
the Justinian of our story, so
infuriated his people with his incompetent and corrupt

1007
01:33:28.800 --> 01:33:32.920
rule that he was mutilated and banished. It's mentioned that even this mutilation,

1008
01:33:33.399 --> 01:33:38.680
the removal of his nose and tongue, similar to many of the attempted hangings

1009
01:33:38.680 --> 01:33:44.239
and executions of this period, was
incompetently performed a little fact which seems to

1010
01:33:44.239 --> 01:33:50.079
speak volumes about the caliber of humanity
overseeing the fall of this empire. Immediately,

1011
01:33:50.319 --> 01:33:55.520
Justinian the Second runs to the Kasars, whom he seems to have already

1012
01:33:55.520 --> 01:33:59.960
known well somehow, and marries the
sister of the Kagin, their leader,

1013
01:34:00.479 --> 01:34:06.119
whose name happens fittingly to be Theodora, and immediately begins to plot means of

1014
01:34:06.199 --> 01:34:13.239
restoring himself to power on the Byzantine
throne. What follows is a disgusting series

1015
01:34:13.279 --> 01:34:17.920
of chaotic backstabbing and intrigue, leading
to another and even more bloody reign of

1016
01:34:18.079 --> 01:34:23.159
Justinian the Second, which again is
beyond the scope of this video, but

1017
01:34:23.239 --> 01:34:29.039
I mention this to hint at a
strong and seemingly covert relationship with barbarians beyond

1018
01:34:29.079 --> 01:34:32.720
the border, beginning almost certainly with
the original Justinian and Theodora, if not

1019
01:34:32.840 --> 01:34:38.640
before, and to hint at the
increasingly aggressive and powerful role played by the

1020
01:34:38.760 --> 01:34:45.159
Kazars as kingmakers behind the scenes.
The late Professor Dunlop of Columbia University tells

1021
01:34:45.239 --> 01:34:49.720
us it does not seem an exaggeration
to say at this juncture the Kagan was

1022
01:34:49.760 --> 01:34:56.159
able practically to give a new ruler
to the Greek Empire. In the excavation

1023
01:34:56.239 --> 01:35:00.600
of the Kazarian settlement Sarcle, the
well known Jewish author Arthur V. Kestler

1024
01:35:00.920 --> 01:35:09.119
mentions the discovery of the repurposing of
Byzantine buildings, which somehow feels appropriate quote.

1025
01:35:09.720 --> 01:35:14.319
The builders also used marble columns of
Byzantine origin, dating from the sixth

1026
01:35:14.359 --> 01:35:19.880
century and probably salvaged from some Byzantine
ruin, a nice example of imperial thrift,

1027
01:35:20.399 --> 01:35:27.760
says Arthur Kessler. It was just
two centuries after the Justinian and Theodora

1028
01:35:27.800 --> 01:35:32.520
of our story that the Byzantine Empire
would officially have Kazarian leadership, with Leo

1029
01:35:32.600 --> 01:35:40.319
the Kasar returning to Procopius and the
period at hand. Theodora seemed to hold

1030
01:35:40.399 --> 01:35:45.159
a special hatred for Amalasunta, the
last surviving Gothic princess of the illustrious Amal

1031
01:35:45.319 --> 01:35:50.479
lineage, who made the mistake so
common to Germanic peoples as they increasingly began

1032
01:35:50.520 --> 01:35:58.159
to interact with foreign courts and cultures, of being overly trusting to pull back

1033
01:35:58.199 --> 01:36:01.520
for a moment and view things from
us virtuous, but not when you're among

1034
01:36:01.600 --> 01:36:06.920
jackals. From a psychological perspective,
it might be fairly said that all of

1035
01:36:06.960 --> 01:36:12.840
our thinking as human beings is projection, and that we're only able to see

1036
01:36:12.960 --> 01:36:17.399
or understand what we have within us, Like a cheating spouse who suddenly begins

1037
01:36:17.399 --> 01:36:23.359
accusing their partner of the same those
who inhabit a psychological world of deceit and

1038
01:36:23.439 --> 01:36:30.039
manipulation and subterfuge naturally suspect others of
harboring the same mindsets. And on the

1039
01:36:30.119 --> 01:36:35.359
reverse side of that, if you
are incapable of thinking in such treacherous ways,

1040
01:36:35.399 --> 01:36:42.600
you would not you wouldn't suspect other
people of even being capable of that.

1041
01:36:43.399 --> 01:36:48.960
And that's seemingly what happens to the
Goths, the Scythians, the Germanic

1042
01:36:49.039 --> 01:36:54.560
people, is that they can't conceive
of such treachery, and therefore they don't

1043
01:36:54.600 --> 01:37:00.760
see it coming. And the reverse
is equally true. Amalasunta, daughter of

1044
01:37:00.800 --> 01:37:05.119
the truly admirable Theodoric dealt with in
previous videos, emerged from a world in

1045
01:37:05.159 --> 01:37:12.239
which character and loyalty and nobility was
of paramount importance, in which leaders tended

1046
01:37:12.239 --> 01:37:16.399
to be chosen accordingly. With the
sudden death of so many around her,

1047
01:37:16.920 --> 01:37:23.600
finding herself nearly alone in a world
of Byzantine court intrigue, lacking the contextual

1048
01:37:23.640 --> 01:37:28.720
reference points as to how it truly
functioned, and the vast difference in moral

1049
01:37:28.760 --> 01:37:32.640
and ethical caliber of those involved.
She grew so enamored with the most positive

1050
01:37:32.680 --> 01:37:38.560
aspects of this new Roman world,
especially the libraries and learned men, that

1051
01:37:38.600 --> 01:37:42.439
she allowed herself to be evermore drawn
in. Though she was said to have

1052
01:37:42.479 --> 01:37:46.760
been brilliant and capable, because she
was less familiar with this new human type,

1053
01:37:46.840 --> 01:37:53.119
she still would have been very much
a lamb amongst wolves, and the

1054
01:37:53.319 --> 01:37:59.680
foremost wolf, of course, was
Theodora. As Amalasuntha made the fateful decision

1055
01:37:59.720 --> 01:38:03.399
to try thrust her new friends and
resolved to change her manner of life and

1056
01:38:03.439 --> 01:38:09.640
to retire to Byzantium. Theodora,
considering that she was of illustrious descent and

1057
01:38:09.680 --> 01:38:14.840
a princess, that she was of
singular beauty and exceedingly active in forming plans

1058
01:38:14.880 --> 01:38:18.920
to carry out her wishes, was
seized with suspicion of her distinguished qualities and

1059
01:38:19.000 --> 01:38:24.199
imminent courage, and at the same
time with apprehensions on the account of her

1060
01:38:24.279 --> 01:38:29.520
husband's fickleness. This made her exceedingly
jealous, and she determined to compass the

1061
01:38:29.600 --> 01:38:33.880
death of her rival by intrigue.
She immediately persuaded the Emperor to send a

1062
01:38:33.920 --> 01:38:41.439
man named Peter by himself to Italy
as ambassador to her. On his setting

1063
01:38:41.439 --> 01:38:45.039
out, the Emperor gave him the
instructions which I have mentioned in the proper

1064
01:38:45.079 --> 01:38:47.760
place, where it was impossible for
me to inform my readers of the truth

1065
01:38:48.159 --> 01:38:54.439
for fear of the Empress. The
only order she gave the ambassador was to

1066
01:38:54.720 --> 01:38:59.920
compass the death of Amalasunta with all
possible dispatch, having bribed him with the

1067
01:39:00.159 --> 01:39:05.960
promise of great rewards if he successfully
carried out his instructions. This. Peter

1068
01:39:06.119 --> 01:39:13.199
Barsimes was fittingly one of the most
foul creatures of his day. Described as

1069
01:39:13.319 --> 01:39:17.079
obese, gluttonous, and conniving.
He was a leading banker and usurer who

1070
01:39:17.119 --> 01:39:23.079
was to later work with Justinian and
Theodora to establish an extremely significant silk monopoly

1071
01:39:23.239 --> 01:39:29.319
among them surprise surprise others, and
all but ruin the farmers and middle classes

1072
01:39:29.359 --> 01:39:33.840
of the Empire. Ruining the farmers
and middle classes of the Empire another target,

1073
01:39:34.079 --> 01:39:42.119
another Marxist plank with earlier roots,
stoking the deep seated anger which would

1074
01:39:42.119 --> 01:39:46.600
finally burst forth in open revolt,
and of course Peter was a special favorite

1075
01:39:46.600 --> 01:39:51.479
of Theodora's, a man after her
own heart, seemingly willing to do anything

1076
01:39:51.640 --> 01:39:58.199
under the sun if it led to
greater personal enrichment. It's not detailed how

1077
01:39:58.239 --> 01:40:01.520
he accomplished the murder, and perhaps
the details weren't even clearly known in their

1078
01:40:01.600 --> 01:40:06.479
day, but it seems he may
have sought the help of some compromised Goths

1079
01:40:06.800 --> 01:40:13.439
already angry at Amalasuntha for so embracing
Roman ways. It literally looks like they're

1080
01:40:13.760 --> 01:40:17.359
cutting up a small dog here,
I mean, look at the face on

1081
01:40:17.439 --> 01:40:25.520
that, and raising her son Theodotus
in an overly soft Roman bookish fashion.

1082
01:40:27.399 --> 01:40:30.479
Though we may not know the details, it's not difficult to understand the broad

1083
01:40:30.560 --> 01:40:36.039
strokes, and thus Amalasuntha, like
her father and so many prominent and powerful

1084
01:40:36.039 --> 01:40:42.560
Goths before her, was to die
early under mysterious circumstances, at the hand,

1085
01:40:42.720 --> 01:40:45.800
albeit indirectly, of a woman whose
body count was to grow so vast

1086
01:40:46.119 --> 01:40:53.640
that it became ironically a point of
defense among some modern academics, especially before

1087
01:40:53.680 --> 01:40:58.279
The Secret History was proven to be
a legitimate work of Procopius's hand, with

1088
01:40:58.319 --> 01:41:03.079
the claim that such a laundry list
of murders surely must be invention. This

1089
01:41:03.279 --> 01:41:10.039
reasoning strikes me as ridiculous, especially
considering it's not merely one or two accounts

1090
01:41:10.119 --> 01:41:15.159
that support Procopius here, but nearly
every extant account that in some way supports

1091
01:41:15.439 --> 01:41:19.960
or at least fails to contradict in
any way Procopius's versions of events. The

1092
01:41:20.039 --> 01:41:25.079
idea that we might let such an
individual off the hook precisely because the actions

1093
01:41:25.159 --> 01:41:30.880
seem so incredibly foul strikes me as
the worst of reasoning mistakes. And we

1094
01:41:30.960 --> 01:41:35.119
haven't yet begun to cover her crimes, nor is it even possible to do

1095
01:41:35.199 --> 01:41:40.279
so within this video. But I'd
like to quote Procopius at length for a

1096
01:41:40.319 --> 01:41:45.640
moment, to give greater context here
and a more comprehensive summation of her character

1097
01:41:45.760 --> 01:41:51.560
and mindset. Theodora had become suspicious
of one of her servants named Eriobinds,

1098
01:41:51.800 --> 01:41:57.079
a barbarian by birth but a youth
of great comeliness, whom she'd appointed her

1099
01:41:57.119 --> 01:42:00.840
steward, wishing to purge the imagine
of events, Although as was said,

1100
01:42:00.920 --> 01:42:04.680
she was violently enamored of him,
she caused him to be cruelly beaten with

1101
01:42:04.840 --> 01:42:10.039
rods for no apparent reason. What
became of him afterwards, we do not

1102
01:42:10.159 --> 01:42:14.479
know, nor has anyone seen him
up to the present day. For when

1103
01:42:14.600 --> 01:42:18.239
Theodora desired to keep any of her
actions secret, she took care to prevent

1104
01:42:18.359 --> 01:42:24.159
their being talked about or remembered.
None of those who were privy to them

1105
01:42:24.199 --> 01:42:28.680
were permitted to disclose them, even
to their nearest relations, or to any

1106
01:42:28.840 --> 01:42:32.039
who desired to obtain information on the
subject, however curious they might be.

1107
01:42:33.039 --> 01:42:38.840
No tyrant had ever yet inspired such
fear, since it was impossible for any

1108
01:42:38.880 --> 01:42:43.439
word or deed of her opponents to
pass unnoticed, for she had a number

1109
01:42:43.479 --> 01:42:46.359
of spies in her employ who informed
her of everything that was said and done

1110
01:42:46.439 --> 01:42:51.560
in public places and private houses.
When she desired to punish anyone who offended

1111
01:42:51.600 --> 01:42:56.399
her, she adopted the following plan. If he were a patrician, she

1112
01:42:56.520 --> 01:43:00.720
sent for him privately and handed him
over to one of her confidentially acts tendants,

1113
01:43:00.760 --> 01:43:03.880
with instructions to carry him to the
furthest boundaries of the Empire in the

1114
01:43:03.920 --> 01:43:08.640
dead of knight. Her agent,
having bound the unfortunate man and muffled his

1115
01:43:08.720 --> 01:43:12.439
face, put him on board a
ship, and having accompanied him to the

1116
01:43:12.439 --> 01:43:15.760
place, whether he had been instructed
to convey him departed, having first delivered

1117
01:43:15.840 --> 01:43:20.399
him secretly to another who was experienced
in this kind of service, with orders

1118
01:43:20.439 --> 01:43:24.920
that he was to be kept under
the strictest watch, and that no one

1119
01:43:24.960 --> 01:43:29.439
should be informed of it until either
the Empress took pity on the unfortunate man,

1120
01:43:30.039 --> 01:43:32.960
or worn out by his sufferings.
He at length succumbed and died a

1121
01:43:33.039 --> 01:43:39.439
miserable death. A youth of distinguished
family belonging to the Green faction, named

1122
01:43:39.479 --> 01:43:45.000
Bessianus, had incurred the Impress's displeasure
by speaking of her in sarcastic terms.

1123
01:43:45.520 --> 01:43:48.239
Hearing that she was incensed against him, he fled for refuge to the search

1124
01:43:48.279 --> 01:43:53.640
of Saint Michael, the archangel.
Theodora immediately sent the praytur of the people

1125
01:43:53.720 --> 01:43:57.800
to seize him, bidding him charge
him, however, not with insolence towards

1126
01:43:57.800 --> 01:44:01.039
herself, but with the crime of
sodomy. The magistrate, having dragged him

1127
01:44:01.039 --> 01:44:05.439
in front of the church, subjected
him to such intolerable torments that the whole

1128
01:44:05.439 --> 01:44:10.840
assembled people deeply moved at seeing a
person of such noble mien, and one

1129
01:44:10.840 --> 01:44:15.239
who had been so delicately brought up
exposed to such shameful treatment, immediately commiserated

1130
01:44:15.239 --> 01:44:20.479
his sufferings and cried out with loud
lamentations that reached the heavens, imploring pardon

1131
01:44:20.640 --> 01:44:26.680
for the young man. But Theodora
persisted in her work of punishment and caused

1132
01:44:26.720 --> 01:44:30.039
his death by ordering him to be
castrated. Although he had been neither tried

1133
01:44:30.079 --> 01:44:36.399
nor condemned. His property was confiscated
by the emperor. Thus, this woman,

1134
01:44:36.520 --> 01:44:45.680
when infuriated, respected neither the sanctions. Now let's consider technology and these.

1135
01:44:45.840 --> 01:44:48.560
I hate to use the word deep
fake because we've been conditioned for the

1136
01:44:48.640 --> 01:44:55.520
last four years to believe that anytime
there's something that comes about that is unfavorable

1137
01:44:55.880 --> 01:45:00.640
that comes to light of this discussing
ruling class that we have, that they

1138
01:45:00.680 --> 01:45:05.279
can write it off as being a
deep fake. But just consider this there.

1139
01:45:08.199 --> 01:45:14.560
Their ability to just accuse you of
something like sodomy here and have all

1140
01:45:14.640 --> 01:45:17.720
that done to you just shows the
power and the the and the corruption.

1141
01:45:18.000 --> 01:45:25.560
But imagine if they can convince the
people, the mob that you actually did

1142
01:45:25.600 --> 01:45:30.119
something, and they can utilize you
know, they can use your voice,

1143
01:45:30.439 --> 01:45:34.760
they can use your likeness, they
can probably use your fingerprint in your DNA.

1144
01:45:35.720 --> 01:45:39.800
A lot of people gave up their
DNA for those swabs. And you

1145
01:45:39.840 --> 01:45:42.680
know, every time you go to
a doctor you get blood drawn for just

1146
01:45:42.720 --> 01:45:45.159
about everything. I have a sniffle
here, let's take some blood. They

1147
01:45:45.199 --> 01:45:47.840
can do all kinds of things.
And now you have the technology for the

1148
01:45:48.159 --> 01:45:54.760
official you know, aspects of that. I've been watching videos where Joe Rogan

1149
01:45:54.840 --> 01:46:00.399
saying things he's never said. Uh
in it's it's an advertisement for act that

1150
01:46:00.439 --> 01:46:05.840
they probably don't know that they're involved
in because it's all AI. And just

1151
01:46:05.920 --> 01:46:11.359
imagine the level that they're going to
take this to get rid of people who

1152
01:46:12.439 --> 01:46:16.199
you know, just think for themselves. Forget about having any kind of crime

1153
01:46:16.319 --> 01:46:21.279
or any kind of the M word
when it comes to milli isha if you

1154
01:46:21.319 --> 01:46:28.039
know what I mean that, I'll
get your flagged. Just anything, anything,

1155
01:46:28.199 --> 01:46:30.159
just you know, talking about the
stuff that we talk about here.

1156
01:46:31.319 --> 01:46:36.439
Anything you just don't vote correctly,
even though voting is a fraud. They

1157
01:46:36.479 --> 01:46:44.319
could they've been putting things on people's
computers to blackmail them and to bring them

1158
01:46:44.479 --> 01:46:49.880
to an unjust justice just by simply
the you know, the people who create

1159
01:46:49.920 --> 01:46:54.119
this software and stuff like that know
how to know how to get into it,

1160
01:46:54.720 --> 01:46:59.439
and they can put things on your
computer that would disscust yourself, but

1161
01:46:59.560 --> 01:47:03.479
also people who would see this as
evidence that you are guilty of watching certain

1162
01:47:03.520 --> 01:47:10.119
types of pornography that involves younger all
that stuff. But this is escalating.

1163
01:47:11.199 --> 01:47:14.800
And if we think that they're just
going to come barging through our doors at

1164
01:47:14.880 --> 01:47:17.760
three am, no knock style,
well that's going to happen too. But

1165
01:47:17.880 --> 01:47:25.039
the pretense to get there, I
think we're seeing it being of a technological

1166
01:47:25.720 --> 01:47:30.680
nature so that they can get the
garner the support of the public to do

1167
01:47:30.800 --> 01:47:34.680
so by painting you out to be
something that you're not. And that's where

1168
01:47:34.680 --> 01:47:40.159
it gets really scary. Stuary of
the church, nor the prohibitive authority of

1169
01:47:40.199 --> 01:47:45.119
the laws, nor the intercession of
the people, nor any other obstacle whatsoever.

1170
01:47:45.880 --> 01:47:48.760
Nothing was able to save from her
vengeance anyone who had given her offense.

1171
01:47:49.840 --> 01:47:54.199
She conceived a hatred on the ground
of his belonging to the Green faction.

1172
01:47:54.399 --> 01:47:59.479
For a certain Diogenes, a native
of Constantinople, an agreeable person who

1173
01:47:59.600 --> 01:48:03.279
was liked by the Emperor and everyone
else. In her wrath, she accused

1174
01:48:03.359 --> 01:48:08.279
him in like manner of sodomy,
and, having suborned two of his servants,

1175
01:48:08.439 --> 01:48:12.920
put them up to give evidence against
and to accuse their master. But

1176
01:48:13.239 --> 01:48:15.840
as he was not tried secretly and
in private, as was usual custom,

1177
01:48:15.920 --> 01:48:19.960
but in public. Owing to the
reputation he enjoyed, a number of distinguished

1178
01:48:20.000 --> 01:48:25.840
persons were selected as judges, and
they, scrupulous in the discharge of their

1179
01:48:25.920 --> 01:48:30.760
duties, rejected the testimony of his
servants as insufficient, especially on the ground

1180
01:48:30.800 --> 01:48:34.000
of their not being of legal age. The Impress thereupon caused one of the

1181
01:48:34.000 --> 01:48:39.239
intimate friends of Diogenes, named Theodorus, to be shut up in one of

1182
01:48:39.239 --> 01:48:43.119
her ordinary prisons, and endeavored to
win him over, at one time by

1183
01:48:43.159 --> 01:48:46.840
flattery, at another by ill treatment. When none of these measures proved successful,

1184
01:48:46.960 --> 01:48:49.800
she ordered a cord of ox hide
to be bound around his head,

1185
01:48:50.000 --> 01:48:55.079
over his forehead and ears, and
then to be twisted and tightened. She

1186
01:48:55.199 --> 01:49:00.239
expected that under this treatment his eyes
would have started from their sockets he would

1187
01:49:00.239 --> 01:49:03.880
have lost his sight. But Theodorus
refused to tell a lie. The judges,

1188
01:49:04.000 --> 01:49:08.279
for want of proof, acquitted him, and his acquittal was made the

1189
01:49:08.319 --> 01:49:14.760
occasion of public rejoicing. This was
one of the extremely rare victories for justice

1190
01:49:14.960 --> 01:49:19.880
and the public against the increasingly unjust
designs of Theodora, and it seems to

1191
01:49:19.920 --> 01:49:25.119
have taught her a lesson. From
this point forward, she'd never leave punishment

1192
01:49:25.199 --> 01:49:29.399
in the hands of the public if
she could avoid it, which leads us

1193
01:49:29.520 --> 01:49:32.920
to one of the darkest chapters in
this history. I've spoken of the vast

1194
01:49:32.960 --> 01:49:38.239
amounts of money spent on new building
projects. One of the foremost of these,

1195
01:49:38.600 --> 01:49:42.319
unknown to all but those in the
innermost circle of the court, were

1196
01:49:42.560 --> 01:49:47.279
vast underground dungeons under the palace.
It's anyone's guess how many spent their final

1197
01:49:47.359 --> 01:49:53.760
days in this pitch black hell,
as complicated as a labyrinth, and which

1198
01:49:53.880 --> 01:49:57.960
might be compared to the nether world, wherein she kept imprisoned most of those

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01:49:58.000 --> 01:50:02.600
who had offended her pit. She
cast usus And although and this is what

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01:50:02.680 --> 01:50:08.520
we're looking at, potentially r underneath
our feet here who was of consular family,

1201
01:50:08.760 --> 01:50:13.319
nothing was known for something similar for
certain concerning him, as he sat

1202
01:50:13.359 --> 01:50:15.600
in the darkness, he could not
tell day from night, nor could he

1203
01:50:15.720 --> 01:50:20.199
ask for he who flung him his
daily food. Never spoke, but acted

1204
01:50:20.279 --> 01:50:25.960
like one dumb beast with another.
And this is exactly how they tell the

1205
01:50:26.039 --> 01:50:30.840
tale. And those who walk away
from Mamiless all thought him dead, but

1206
01:50:30.920 --> 01:50:34.720
none dared mention him or allude to
him. No one, not even senators

1207
01:50:34.720 --> 01:50:40.319
and patricians, seems to have been
safe from being disappeared in these years.

1208
01:50:41.279 --> 01:50:45.079
One of those who accompanied Photius to
Ephesus, Theodosius by name, although he

1209
01:50:45.119 --> 01:50:48.920
had attained the rank of senator,
was deprived of all of his property and

1210
01:50:49.000 --> 01:50:54.760
imprisoned by Theodora in an underground dungeon, where she kept him fastened to a

1211
01:50:54.840 --> 01:50:59.279
kind of manger by a rope around
his neck, which was so short that

1212
01:50:59.359 --> 01:51:04.000
it was always quite tense and never
slack. The wretched man was always forced

1213
01:51:04.000 --> 01:51:09.680
to stand upright at this major,
and there to eat and sleep and do

1214
01:51:09.800 --> 01:51:13.960
all of his other needs. There
was no difference between him and an ass,

1215
01:51:14.119 --> 01:51:17.359
save that he did not bray.
No less than four months were passed

1216
01:51:17.359 --> 01:51:23.199
by him in this condition, until
he was seized with melancholy and became violently

1217
01:51:23.279 --> 01:51:28.039
mad, upon which he was released
from his prison, and soon afterwards died.

1218
01:51:30.000 --> 01:51:34.319
And it wasn't just Theodora's enemies who
met this fate. The Roman general

1219
01:51:34.319 --> 01:51:40.800
Belisarius's wife Antonina apparently used them just
as often to destroy her own enemies.

1220
01:51:42.319 --> 01:51:45.119
Belisarius, who once caught Antonina in
the act of cheating. In this very

1221
01:51:45.199 --> 01:51:50.279
dungeon allowed himself to be talked out
of believing his own eyes, though all

1222
01:51:50.319 --> 01:51:56.039
around him apparently knew the obvious truth, and many of his generals and peers

1223
01:51:56.079 --> 01:52:01.800
began to despise him for It came
to a head when Antoninus son Photius,

1224
01:52:01.840 --> 01:52:06.359
from a different father than Belisarius,
began to be an obstacle to her free

1225
01:52:06.439 --> 01:52:12.640
enjoyment of her lovers, and she
contrived to destroy him, using agents to

1226
01:52:12.680 --> 01:52:15.399
set all others against him, to
the point where he finally exploded and used

1227
01:52:15.399 --> 01:52:23.159
his power to drag Antoninus lover to
Belisarius to tell the whole sordid tale directly.

1228
01:52:23.279 --> 01:52:27.439
Belisarius had to have long known most
of these revelations, but at this

1229
01:52:27.600 --> 01:52:32.039
point his denial of the obvious finally
broke down. When Belisarius learned this,

1230
01:52:32.479 --> 01:52:38.079
he flew into a furious rage,
fell at Photius's feet, and besought him

1231
01:52:38.119 --> 01:52:41.399
to avenge him for the cruel wrongs
which he had received at the hands of

1232
01:52:41.439 --> 01:52:44.279
those who should have been the last
to treat him in such a manner.

1233
01:52:44.840 --> 01:52:47.760
My dearest boy, he exclaimed,
you have never known your father, whomever

1234
01:52:47.800 --> 01:52:50.960
he may have been, for he
ended his life while you were still in

1235
01:52:51.000 --> 01:52:56.159
your nurse's arms. His property has
been of little or no assistance to you,

1236
01:52:56.439 --> 01:53:00.319
for he was by no means wealthy, bred under my care, though

1237
01:53:00.359 --> 01:53:02.800
I was but your stepfather. You
have now reached an age when you were

1238
01:53:02.840 --> 01:53:08.239
capable of assisting me to avenge the
wrongs from which I suffer. I have

1239
01:53:08.399 --> 01:53:12.239
raised you to the consulship and have
heaped riches upon you, so that I

1240
01:53:12.319 --> 01:53:15.239
may justly be regarded by you as
your father, your mother, and your

1241
01:53:15.239 --> 01:53:18.079
whole family. For it is not
by the ties of blood, but by

1242
01:53:18.159 --> 01:53:23.479
deeds, that men are accustomed to
measure their attachment to each other. The

1243
01:53:23.560 --> 01:53:27.800
hour has now come when you must
not remain an indifferent spectator of the ruin

1244
01:53:27.880 --> 01:53:30.920
of my house and of the loss
with which I am threatened of so large

1245
01:53:30.920 --> 01:53:35.199
a sum of money, nor the
immeasurable shame which your mother has incurred in

1246
01:53:35.239 --> 01:53:41.199
the sight of all men. Remember
that the sins of women reflect disgrace not

1247
01:53:41.199 --> 01:53:45.680
only on their husbands, but also
upon their children, whose honor suffers all

1248
01:53:45.720 --> 01:53:49.439
the more because of their natural likeness
to their mothers. Be well assured that

1249
01:53:49.680 --> 01:53:53.960
for my own part, I love
my wife with all my heart, and

1250
01:53:54.079 --> 01:53:58.319
should it be granted to me to
punish the dishonorer of my house, I

1251
01:53:58.359 --> 01:54:02.159
will do her no hurt. But
as long as Theodosius remains alive, I

1252
01:54:02.279 --> 01:54:08.600
cannot condone her misconduct. On hearing
these words, Potius replied that he would

1253
01:54:08.640 --> 01:54:12.079
do all he could to aid his
stepfather, but at the same time he

1254
01:54:12.159 --> 01:54:15.199
feared that he himself might come to
some harm by so doing, for he

1255
01:54:15.279 --> 01:54:19.359
was unable to feel any confidence in
Belisarius because of his weakness of character,

1256
01:54:20.039 --> 01:54:26.239
especially where his wife was concerned.
He dreaded the fate of Macedonia and of

1257
01:54:26.279 --> 01:54:30.159
many other victims. For this reason, he insisted that Belisarius should swear fidelity

1258
01:54:30.199 --> 01:54:35.239
to him by the most sacred oaths
known to Christians, and they bound themselves

1259
01:54:35.399 --> 01:54:41.039
never to abandon each other, even
at the cost of their lives. You'll

1260
01:54:41.079 --> 01:54:45.560
notice even here Belisarius refuses to place
blame at his wife's doorstep, and instead

1261
01:54:45.800 --> 01:54:50.199
largely blames her lover, Theodosius,
who by all accounts was something of a

1262
01:54:50.319 --> 01:54:55.439
terrified victim of her intrigues, who
knew if he stepped out of line or

1263
01:54:55.520 --> 01:55:02.119
seriously protested Antonina's obsession with him his
life was over. Photius and Belisarius had

1264
01:55:02.159 --> 01:55:08.000
to know they were playing with fire
here and that Antonina and Theodora had eyes

1265
01:55:08.039 --> 01:55:13.880
and ears everywhere. Shortly after,
Theodora was able to essentially kidnap Theodosius back

1266
01:55:13.920 --> 01:55:19.000
to the palace and triumphantly presented him
as a surprise to Antonina. She's said

1267
01:55:19.000 --> 01:55:24.000
to have stated, quote, dearest
lady, a pearl fell into my hands

1268
01:55:24.079 --> 01:55:27.760
yesterday, so beautiful that I think
no one has ever seen its like.

1269
01:55:28.239 --> 01:55:30.720
If you would like to see it, I will not grudge you the sight

1270
01:55:30.800 --> 01:55:33.399
of it, but will gladly show
it to you, before leading him out

1271
01:55:33.399 --> 01:55:41.159
by the hand like a kept man
and slave back into Antonina's control. Photius

1272
01:55:41.239 --> 01:55:44.880
was thrown into the dungeons to die, it seems, by the women.

1273
01:55:45.600 --> 01:55:49.239
Somehow he managed to escape and took
refuge in one of the most sacred churches

1274
01:55:49.239 --> 01:55:55.079
in Byzantium, a practice which may
sound strange to our ears, but was

1275
01:55:55.119 --> 01:56:00.520
a sacred and inviolable custom throughout most
of history. Didn't A. I mean,

1276
01:56:00.560 --> 01:56:04.119
I don't know how much I'm gonna
trust the story of whether or not

1277
01:56:05.520 --> 01:56:10.479
he's a good guy or not.
But didn't A didn't mister wiki leaks himself

1278
01:56:10.960 --> 01:56:15.439
go to Ecuador, and wasn't he
in a in a church. Those who

1279
01:56:15.479 --> 01:56:19.359
took sanctuary on what was considered such
holy ground, and who were willing to

1280
01:56:19.520 --> 01:56:25.960
remain could not be touched. Theodora, true to form quote, was able

1281
01:56:25.960 --> 01:56:29.920
to drag him even from Evince,
for to her no place was ever sacred

1282
01:56:30.039 --> 01:56:34.199
or unsalable, and she thought nothing
of violating the holiest of sanctuaries. The

1283
01:56:34.279 --> 01:56:40.840
Christian priests and people were struck with
horror at her impiety, but nevertheless yielded

1284
01:56:40.920 --> 01:56:46.079
and submitted to her in everything.
Okay, so it's nine fifty seven right

1285
01:56:46.119 --> 01:56:53.479
now. There's a little bit left
here, about twenty five minutes or so,

1286
01:56:53.479 --> 01:56:56.520
so we're gonna goh, not that
much, but we're gonna go ahead

1287
01:56:56.560 --> 01:57:02.479
and finish this off. So people
over there on FDJ, I believe the

1288
01:57:02.560 --> 01:57:09.760
Sane Asylum with Giuseppe follows me in
about two minutes, so feel free to

1289
01:57:09.800 --> 01:57:14.039
go check that out, and then
you can circle back to that when you

1290
01:57:14.079 --> 01:57:16.079
want to finish watching this, where
you can continue here and go over there

1291
01:57:16.079 --> 01:57:20.319
afterward. He's got about a ten
minute interro, so you might not miss

1292
01:57:20.359 --> 01:57:25.239
too much of that. Just real
quick though. I have to drop this

1293
01:57:25.319 --> 01:57:32.319
and show you guys something, So
give me a moment. All right,

1294
01:57:32.880 --> 01:57:39.600
Hi, how are you? Let's
see it for this up real quick.

1295
01:57:40.159 --> 01:57:43.760
Thank you, Daniel. The information
you share is always appreciated. Thank you,

1296
01:57:44.239 --> 01:57:47.199
thank you for showing up. Let's
see, and thank you again,

1297
01:57:47.319 --> 01:57:53.680
Daisy, my god, Daisy,
that was very kind of you. And

1298
01:57:53.800 --> 01:57:57.239
on that note, I just want
to share this because this is how things

1299
01:57:57.560 --> 01:58:10.000
keep on truck in here. And
so this is the give send go give

1300
01:58:10.079 --> 01:58:15.880
Singo dot com backslash b A A
L B U S T E R S.

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01:58:15.359 --> 01:58:18.680
Okay, you see it there.
It's in the description. You can

1302
01:58:18.680 --> 01:58:25.479
find it there as well. In
the Patreon. Patreon dot com is called

1303
01:58:25.680 --> 01:58:32.520
disguise d I S g U I
S E the limits all right, and

1304
01:58:33.279 --> 01:58:40.359
we are the historical investigators, right
we need to learn the past we can

1305
01:58:40.479 --> 01:58:45.960
understand the present now. This is
also where I've been dropping all the books

1306
01:58:45.000 --> 01:58:54.720
that have been mentioned in these last
few episodes. And also I put in

1307
01:58:56.600 --> 01:59:00.119
there's Procopius right here. This is
the one that we're he's reading from and

1308
01:59:00.199 --> 01:59:04.439
referencing at the moment. Okay,
there's the PDF is attached to this right

1309
01:59:04.479 --> 01:59:10.600
there, and tacticus of Germania.
That's another one you probably want to catch.

1310
01:59:11.479 --> 01:59:15.000
Getka the History of the Germanic People
by Jordanis. And if you scroll

1311
01:59:15.039 --> 01:59:25.279
down a little bit further you'll see
oops, Bill Cooper's Mystery Babylon series transcribed

1312
01:59:26.600 --> 01:59:29.720
Behold a Pale Horse, And that's
the full version, I believe. I

1313
01:59:29.800 --> 01:59:32.760
think that also has the protocols in
it, which will removed from the newer

1314
01:59:32.840 --> 01:59:38.880
versions transhumanism, the history of the
Dangerous Idea and the orld in the book

1315
01:59:39.520 --> 01:59:44.199
all right, And also, like
I said before, there are all right

1316
01:59:44.239 --> 01:59:48.880
by everybody on a FDJ media unless
you decided to stay. There are also

1317
01:59:51.159 --> 01:59:58.600
commercial free podcast versions of the show. So if you're tired of I have

1318
01:59:58.640 --> 02:00:00.680
to I have to monetize because I
have to, you know, justify the

1319
02:00:00.720 --> 02:00:02.840
time and all that stuff. And
it, trust me, it's not a

1320
02:00:02.920 --> 02:00:08.319
lot, but it's something if they
do the monetizations, and I don't have

1321
02:00:08.359 --> 02:00:11.520
control over what they're advertising, which
I don't like either, because they could

1322
02:00:11.520 --> 02:00:14.439
be saying things that are a complete
opposition of what I believe in, So

1323
02:00:14.520 --> 02:00:19.720
that sucks, and it costs you
more money in order to make that so

1324
02:00:19.800 --> 02:00:24.880
that you get to choose. So
it's just it's it's counter intuitive to do

1325
02:00:24.960 --> 02:00:28.840
so at the moment because we're not
that big yet. But anyway, so

1326
02:00:28.920 --> 02:00:32.159
if you want the commercial feed proadcast, the last few episodes I have not

1327
02:00:32.199 --> 02:00:38.880
put up here because I don't think
that the patreon will keep itself going if

1328
02:00:38.920 --> 02:00:43.840
I do, because they do.
Check. Tippy stream is right here,

1329
02:00:44.000 --> 02:00:47.920
tippystream dot com. It's t I
P E E E stream dot com.

1330
02:00:47.960 --> 02:00:51.880
Ballbusters. That's for people who are
out there in the UK. It's in

1331
02:00:51.920 --> 02:00:55.199
euros, so it's easier for you. I think five is like five forty

1332
02:00:55.239 --> 02:00:59.119
five in American and whatever. So
there's also that, all right. You

1333
02:00:59.159 --> 02:01:00.359
know where the book is, you
know what all that stuff is. And

1334
02:01:00.399 --> 02:01:08.760
then you have money Tree Publishing dot
com where you can get interesting things and

1335
02:01:08.840 --> 02:01:13.600
if you want ten percent off you
use code B A A L. All

1336
02:01:13.720 --> 02:01:23.439
right, now back to the show. Let's go to it. Oops,

1337
02:01:27.720 --> 02:01:43.640
they need to do some more customization
to the streamyard business. Here. Bellas

1338
02:01:43.680 --> 02:01:48.199
Sorrius, a weak and now likely
terrified man, took no account of the

1339
02:01:48.239 --> 02:01:54.039
oaths which he had sworn, and
made no effort to avenge Photius's sufferings,

1340
02:01:54.199 --> 02:01:58.920
in spite of the solemn vows which
he had made to do so hereafter coward

1341
02:01:59.000 --> 02:02:02.279
and jerk off is what you call
that, probably by God's will, all

1342
02:02:02.359 --> 02:02:08.840
his warlike enterprises failed. If your
word means nothing, then what are you

1343
02:02:09.680 --> 02:02:15.039
end quote? Regardless of the reasoning
one chooses to embrace, it's true that

1344
02:02:15.079 --> 02:02:20.119
his exceptional few successes against the Goths
in earlier battles were never to be repeated.

1345
02:02:23.760 --> 02:02:28.600
Theodora may well have been something of
a disgusting and disreputable monster, but

1346
02:02:28.880 --> 02:02:31.800
it'd be unfair to paint the picture
that her actions were the most destructive of

1347
02:02:31.920 --> 02:02:39.199
this leading pair. She killed individuals
individually, and while she may have engaged

1348
02:02:39.239 --> 02:02:44.800
in diplomatic projects leading to a great
more death and destruction, this was largely

1349
02:02:45.000 --> 02:02:49.039
Justinian's field of operation, and according
to Procopius, the man may have been

1350
02:02:49.079 --> 02:02:54.520
responsible for death on a larger scale
than nearly any other in all of history.

1351
02:02:55.880 --> 02:02:59.399
Before we move to this equipped,
of course, until you get to

1352
02:03:00.239 --> 02:03:06.920
the Allies in World War Two and
the Bolsheviks, then the you know his

1353
02:03:08.039 --> 02:03:13.520
record is is defeated. Point of
diggression I found fascinating and that I've never

1354
02:03:13.560 --> 02:03:17.399
seen discussed elsewhere. During the time
of the plague, Justinian fell so ill

1355
02:03:17.560 --> 02:03:21.439
that it was somehow reported that he
died. And let me just clarify what

1356
02:03:21.479 --> 02:03:29.000
I mean by that is the terror
bombing of the German people, the starvation

1357
02:03:29.119 --> 02:03:34.479
of them after the war, and
the constant, instill ongoing attempt to exterminate

1358
02:03:34.560 --> 02:03:39.279
them all by a certain group of
people, not talking about that other thing

1359
02:03:39.319 --> 02:03:45.159
that they claim happened and had Nuremberg
trials over, which was oddly enough done

1360
02:03:45.239 --> 02:03:49.000
during perim, which is a celebration
of being able to kill a bunch of

1361
02:03:49.039 --> 02:03:56.800
gentiles. His leading generals, apparently
including Belisarius, made the strange statement that

1362
02:03:56.880 --> 02:04:00.880
if the Romans set any leader in
his place, they'd not acknowledge him.

1363
02:04:00.520 --> 02:04:04.399
Theodora was so sure that this was
in reference to her that she proceeded to

1364
02:04:04.399 --> 02:04:10.439
summon the general's staff and again make
use of her dungeons. This is entirely

1365
02:04:10.479 --> 02:04:15.760
my own speculation. I can't help
but suspect the potentiality that the generals made

1366
02:04:15.760 --> 02:04:20.399
this comment so publicly because they suspected
foul play. After all, if even

1367
02:04:20.439 --> 02:04:25.960
the smallest faction of the stories about
Theodora and her character are accurate, does

1368
02:04:26.000 --> 02:04:30.039
anyone think she'd not consider the possibility
of assuming total power at some stage by

1369
02:04:30.079 --> 02:04:36.640
finding some publicly acceptable means and excuse
of making her husband disappear. Justinian,

1370
02:04:36.800 --> 02:04:42.319
after these strange comments by his generals, was to suddenly recover and resume his

1371
02:04:42.439 --> 02:04:47.279
duties. Is it possible that things
might have been otherwise if the general's intentions

1372
02:04:47.279 --> 02:04:54.800
hadn't been made clear. Procopius makes
a surprising comment with regard to the Goths

1373
02:04:54.840 --> 02:04:59.720
and their Aryan churches. I've mentioned
in the past how incredibly wealthy the Visigothic

1374
02:04:59.720 --> 02:05:03.640
eleaen apparently was. To an extent, will probably never truly know, as

1375
02:05:03.680 --> 02:05:09.720
the vast majority of this disappeared into
Muslim and Jewish hands after the conquests of

1376
02:05:09.720 --> 02:05:15.560
Spain, or remains buried along their
paths of escape. The Ostrogoths were apparently

1377
02:05:15.600 --> 02:05:19.079
no less wealthy, and in fact
seem to have been possibly the wealthiest people

1378
02:05:19.119 --> 02:05:24.840
in the known world. Quote Justinian
ordered all these beliefs to be abandoned in

1379
02:05:24.880 --> 02:05:29.760
favor of the old religion, and
threatened the recusance with legal disability to transmit

1380
02:05:29.800 --> 02:05:32.960
their property to their wives and children
by wit? Does that not sound like

1381
02:05:34.039 --> 02:05:42.119
a saturn cult takeover the complete abolishment
of the asha Goths and the Visigoths.

1382
02:05:43.399 --> 02:05:48.359
A very ancient battle between these people. The churches of these so called heretics,

1383
02:05:48.680 --> 02:05:54.560
especially those belonging to the Aryan heresy, were rich beyond belief. Neither

1384
02:05:54.640 --> 02:05:58.560
the whole of the Senate or any
other of the greatest corporations of the Roman

1385
02:05:58.560 --> 02:06:01.880
Empire could be compared with these churches
in wealth. They had gold and silver,

1386
02:06:01.960 --> 02:06:06.199
plate and jewels more than any man
could count or describe. They owned

1387
02:06:06.239 --> 02:06:12.239
many mansions and villages and large estates
everywhere, and everything else which is reckoned

1388
02:06:12.239 --> 02:06:15.560
and called wealth among men. And
none of the previous emperors had interfered with

1389
02:06:15.640 --> 02:06:20.000
him. Many people, even of
the Orthodox faith, procured through this wealth,

1390
02:06:20.119 --> 02:06:25.079
work and the means of livelihood.
But the Emperor Justinian, first of

1391
02:06:25.119 --> 02:06:29.800
all sequestrated all the property of these
churches and suddenly took away all that they

1392
02:06:29.840 --> 02:06:36.039
possessed, by which many people lost
the means of subsistence. Justinian was likely

1393
02:06:36.079 --> 02:06:41.960
looting, and a crude fortune built
up over generations of the near total dominance

1394
02:06:42.119 --> 02:06:45.560
of vast swaths of territory as part
of a Gothic history that still remains to

1395
02:06:45.600 --> 02:06:50.880
be properly told. He goes on
to speak of Justinian's methods quote, many

1396
02:06:50.920 --> 02:06:56.359
agents were sent straight away to all
parts of the Empire to force whomsoever they

1397
02:06:56.399 --> 02:07:00.640
met, to change the faith of
his forefathers. Homely people, considering this

1398
02:07:00.680 --> 02:07:05.840
an act of impiety, decided to
oppose the Emperor's agents. Hereupon many were

1399
02:07:05.840 --> 02:07:11.640
put to death by the persecuting faction, and many made an end of themselves,

1400
02:07:12.000 --> 02:07:16.359
thinking in their superstitious folly that this
course best satisfied the claims of religion.

1401
02:07:16.840 --> 02:07:20.520
But the greater part of them voluntarily
quitted the land of their forefathers and

1402
02:07:20.600 --> 02:07:26.560
went into exile. The Montanists,
who were settled in Phrygia, shut themselves

1403
02:07:26.640 --> 02:07:30.239
up in their churches, set them
on fire, and perished in the flames.

1404
02:07:30.359 --> 02:07:34.800
And from this time forth nothing was
to be seen in the Roman Empire

1405
02:07:35.039 --> 02:07:44.319
except massacres and flight. Possibly this
as the precursor the first wave of the

1406
02:07:44.399 --> 02:07:54.920
complete decimation of the old justice,
the old nobility, the Germanic, the

1407
02:07:55.000 --> 02:08:03.159
Goth Sathian descents descendants. It's pretty
sick, and who was behind all that?

1408
02:08:03.199 --> 02:08:07.680
Who is behind Theodore and Justinian?
Who was a criminal element that they

1409
02:08:07.319 --> 02:08:13.359
worked Withly, never before in history
was so much wealth and power transferred in

1410
02:08:13.439 --> 02:08:18.920
such a short period of time from
one human type to another. Nearly all

1411
02:08:18.960 --> 02:08:24.439
of those who most closely cooperated with
Justinian and Theodora, especially with regard to

1412
02:08:24.479 --> 02:08:31.000
actions like these, or taxation or
usury or legal prosecution, seem to have

1413
02:08:31.039 --> 02:08:35.279
been the most disreputable and unethical scoundrels. And I say this as someone that

1414
02:08:35.399 --> 02:08:41.399
makes a conscious effort to maintain objectivity
in cases like these. It's almost always

1415
02:08:41.399 --> 02:08:46.640
possible to easily find two sides to
every story if one cares to look hard

1416
02:08:46.720 --> 02:08:50.479
enough. And that's sorry to interrupt
him again, but when you hear the

1417
02:08:50.520 --> 02:08:54.920
word usury, that should be alarm
bells. That imply a certain type of

1418
02:08:54.960 --> 02:09:01.479
people, right certain the actions are
You say, oh, there's a pattern.

1419
02:09:01.920 --> 02:09:05.760
I wonder who was behind that.
I wonder who controlled That's walk away

1420
02:09:05.840 --> 02:09:11.640
embracing some middle ground as the likely
truth. In this case, it seems

1421
02:09:11.640 --> 02:09:16.159
to be an alliance of human beings
fueled by unrestrained, practically demonic greed,

1422
02:09:16.920 --> 02:09:24.479
a grasping and insatiable lust for power
and pleasure and material wealthsing kind of like

1423
02:09:24.640 --> 02:09:33.680
the happy Merchant. It makes the
blood boil. The Secret history outlines how

1424
02:09:33.720 --> 02:09:39.159
this ruling pair became expert, along
with carefully chosen collaborators with relevant skill sets

1425
02:09:39.600 --> 02:09:43.960
of not merely causing the death of
the wealthiest citizens in the empire, but

1426
02:09:43.199 --> 02:09:48.079
of ensuring their last will and testament
as of their death granted their assets to

1427
02:09:48.159 --> 02:09:54.199
the emperor. Procopius flatly claims they
secretly employed forgers to create these wills.

1428
02:09:54.800 --> 02:10:00.800
He mentions a scheme they'd apparently devised
whereby any individual and illegal battle with another

1429
02:10:00.840 --> 02:10:03.800
citizen and on the brink of losing
his own property, could simply grant it

1430
02:10:03.840 --> 02:10:09.960
to the Emperor, thereby earning his
favor. Meaning those who sought legal redress

1431
02:10:09.000 --> 02:10:15.000
for justified wrongs and the reinstatement of
their property or assets, even if they

1432
02:10:15.000 --> 02:10:18.319
were to win their strong case in
court, might then watch helplessly as what

1433
02:10:18.439 --> 02:10:24.439
was rightfully theirs was spitefully handed over
to Justinian. It's said, and not

1434
02:10:24.520 --> 02:10:30.840
just by Procopious, that suicide was
rampant across this period of time, specifically

1435
02:10:30.960 --> 02:10:37.399
among this unfortunate demographic that lost everything
and knew they had absolutely no recourse to

1436
02:10:37.560 --> 02:10:43.079
right these wrongs. The non Germanic
barbarians, however, seemed to have been

1437
02:10:43.159 --> 02:10:52.399
everywhere rewarded. He says, non
Germanic barbarians. He's using clever language to

1438
02:10:52.439 --> 02:10:58.399
describe something without having to say what
he needs to say on YouTube, but

1439
02:10:58.119 --> 02:11:03.359
you can see what were the year
quote. He took a pride in lavishing

1440
02:11:03.399 --> 02:11:07.840
great sums of money upon them,
under the pretext of securing their friendship,

1441
02:11:07.239 --> 02:11:11.399
just as he did in the time
of Emperor Justin. As I have already

1442
02:11:11.399 --> 02:11:15.119
told you, these huns, when
they got the money, sent to some

1443
02:11:15.159 --> 02:11:18.439
of their fellow chieftains with their retainers, and bade them make inroads into the

1444
02:11:18.439 --> 02:11:22.720
Emperor's territory, that they also might
make a bargain with him for the peace

1445
02:11:22.800 --> 02:11:28.079
which he was so ready to purchase. And these don't seem to be the

1446
02:11:28.239 --> 02:11:31.600
quote white Huns, many of whom
had already pushed into the west, kin

1447
02:11:31.720 --> 02:11:35.399
to the Heftalites or the Allans,
and which seemed to have been the fairly

1448
02:11:35.399 --> 02:11:41.000
direct outgrowth of the Scythians, and
to varying degrees maintaining their ancient traditional sense

1449
02:11:41.000 --> 02:11:46.520
of justice, magnanimity, and decency. Rather, these people seemed to be

1450
02:11:46.560 --> 02:11:50.920
the element much closer to the Causars, if not one and the same as

1451
02:11:50.960 --> 02:11:56.079
Procopius fails to even mention the word
kuzar, possibly just due to translation issues,

1452
02:11:56.920 --> 02:12:01.199
despite so many other authors speaking to
the increasingly close connection between Eastern Rome

1453
02:12:01.279 --> 02:12:07.840
and the Kazar people in its latter
days. Essentially in Justinian was robbing the

1454
02:12:07.880 --> 02:12:16.199
Goths blind and enriching their bastardized distant
cousins on a practically unbelievable scale. It's

1455
02:12:16.239 --> 02:12:20.279
interesting to note, in the centuries
after the mass migration of the Scythian and

1456
02:12:20.359 --> 02:12:26.119
Goth into Europe takes place, those
who remained in or flooded into their territories

1457
02:12:26.239 --> 02:12:30.439
came to be known as the white
or black Huns, the white or black

1458
02:12:30.520 --> 02:12:35.239
Bulgars, the white or black Russians, a naming scheme that denotes exactly what

1459
02:12:35.279 --> 02:12:41.239
it appears to and seems to indicate
two separate groups that would increasingly mix and

1460
02:12:41.399 --> 02:12:46.479
merge over the generations. Even the
Kazars at one point were said by some

1461
02:12:46.560 --> 02:12:50.479
to have a fair haired element.
According to the Arab geographer istacrit quote,

1462
02:12:50.520 --> 02:12:54.560
the Kazars do not resemble the Turks. They are black haired and are of

1463
02:12:54.600 --> 02:13:01.039
two kinds, one called the Kara
Khazars black Kazars, who are swarthy verging

1464
02:13:01.039 --> 02:13:03.720
on a deep black as if they
were a kind of Indian, and a

1465
02:13:03.760 --> 02:13:11.199
white kind Ak Kazars, who are
strikingly handsome, end quote. So it

1466
02:13:11.279 --> 02:13:15.680
seems likely that even at this late
date, with these words written around nine

1467
02:13:15.880 --> 02:13:20.039
forty a d. There was still
a small minority, albeit rapidly disappearing due

1468
02:13:20.079 --> 02:13:26.520
to inevitable racial admixture of the genetic
descendants or relatives of the Scythian tribes.

1469
02:13:26.720 --> 02:13:35.039
Genetic admixture means not an ethnic It's
not a race. It's there might be

1470
02:13:35.079 --> 02:13:41.600
a racial element that is there,
but they It's like saying a mutt is

1471
02:13:41.600 --> 02:13:50.399
a purebread and it isn't. These
people are bound by their oath to something

1472
02:13:50.439 --> 02:13:56.479
else in that something else might assist
them to become as successful as they are

1473
02:13:56.520 --> 02:14:03.319
in this intrigue and treachery that they've
brought upon the noble people of the world.

1474
02:14:05.600 --> 02:14:11.840
And finally, we can't ignore the
most extreme and fantastical portion of Procopius

1475
02:14:11.880 --> 02:14:18.000
as the Secret History, the Elements, which no doubt played the leading role

1476
02:14:18.199 --> 02:14:24.079
in this work being received with skepticism
and dismissed by so many. Procopius seems

1477
02:14:24.079 --> 02:14:30.720
to have come to believe that Justinian
and Theodora were quite literally demonic. I'll

1478
02:14:30.760 --> 02:14:41.840
present his words here has parasitically possessed
potentially a an after effect or a result

1479
02:14:41.920 --> 02:14:52.279
of magic of you know, working
with this type of evil that a succumbs,

1480
02:14:52.359 --> 02:14:56.760
that it takes over, that it
possesses. And I think that's there's

1481
02:14:56.800 --> 02:15:01.560
a very strong case for that.
Largely without com make of them what you

1482
02:15:01.640 --> 02:15:05.880
will, I'll only add this,
if such beliefs were held so strongly by

1483
02:15:05.920 --> 02:15:11.199
an increasing number of individuals throughout their
reign, at the very least, this

1484
02:15:11.399 --> 02:15:15.279
is a telling testament to how these
two were perceived by those in positions to

1485
02:15:15.359 --> 02:15:22.199
best truly know them. Quote for
the reasons which I have stated, I

1486
02:15:22.479 --> 02:15:26.279
and many of my position never believed
they were really two human beings, but

1487
02:15:26.520 --> 02:15:31.960
evil demons and what the poets call
scourges of mankind who laid their heads together

1488
02:15:33.039 --> 02:15:37.039
to see how they could fastest and
most easily destroy the race and works of

1489
02:15:37.119 --> 02:15:43.039
men, but who had assumed human
forms and become something between men and demons,

1490
02:15:43.680 --> 02:15:48.600
and thus convulsed the whole world.
One can find proofs of his theory,

1491
02:15:48.720 --> 02:15:54.279
more particularly in the superhuman power with
which they acted. He goes on

1492
02:15:54.319 --> 02:15:58.560
to elaborate, calling these two exceptional
and that over time he gradually came to

1493
02:15:58.560 --> 02:16:03.319
believe that her very goal was to
destroy and cause chaos, death, and

1494
02:16:03.439 --> 02:16:11.319
disorder, and it gets much much
stranger. It is said that Justinian's mother

1495
02:16:11.479 --> 02:16:16.319
told some of her intimates that Justinian
was not the son of Sabatias, her

1496
02:16:16.399 --> 02:16:20.399
husband, or of any human being, but that at the time when she

1497
02:16:20.479 --> 02:16:24.399
became pregnant, an unseen demon companied
with her, whom she only felt as

1498
02:16:24.399 --> 02:16:28.239
when a man has connection with a
woman, and who then vanished away as

1499
02:16:28.279 --> 02:16:33.120
in a dream. Some who have
been in Justinian's company in the palace very

1500
02:16:33.159 --> 02:16:37.920
late at night, men with a
clear conscience, have thought that in his

1501
02:16:37.079 --> 02:16:41.719
place they have beheld a strange and
devilish form. One of them said that

1502
02:16:41.879 --> 02:16:46.920
Justinian suddenly arose from his royal throne
and walked about, although indeed he could

1503
02:16:46.920 --> 02:16:52.159
never sit still for long, and
at that moment his head disappeared, while

1504
02:16:52.159 --> 02:16:56.200
the rest of his body still seemed
to move to and fro. The man

1505
02:16:56.239 --> 02:17:00.639
who beheld this stood trembling and troubled
in mind, not knowing how to believe

1506
02:17:00.680 --> 02:17:03.760
his eyes. Afterwards, the head
joined the body again and united itself to

1507
02:17:03.799 --> 02:17:09.760
the parts from which it had so
strangely been severed. Another declared that as

1508
02:17:09.799 --> 02:17:13.600
he stood beside Justinian, as he
sat, and of a sudden his face

1509
02:17:13.680 --> 02:17:18.879
turned into a shapeless mass of flesh, without either eyebrows or eyes in their

1510
02:17:18.920 --> 02:17:22.920
proper places, or anything else which
makes a man recognizable. But after a

1511
02:17:22.959 --> 02:17:28.079
while he saw the form of his
face come back again. What I write

1512
02:17:28.120 --> 02:17:31.399
here I did not see myself,
but I heard it told by men who

1513
02:17:31.399 --> 02:17:35.120
were positive that they had seen it. He relates the tale of a monk

1514
02:17:35.159 --> 02:17:39.600
seeking audience with Justinian, who suddenly
stopped in his tracks in the palace,

1515
02:17:39.799 --> 02:17:45.440
as if stricken with palsy, and
refused to take another step. Only later,

1516
02:17:45.600 --> 02:17:48.600
after he regained the power of speech, did he explain himself. They

1517
02:17:48.680 --> 02:17:52.920
say that he distinctly stated that he
saw the Chief of the devils sitting on

1518
02:17:54.000 --> 02:17:58.920
his throne in the midst of the
palace. He goes on to relate the

1519
02:18:00.120 --> 02:18:03.879
tales of Theodora's former lovers who'd spoke
of demonic visions, and an anecdote from

1520
02:18:03.920 --> 02:18:09.840
Theodora's friends. She had a dream
which bade her take no thought about money,

1521
02:18:09.159 --> 02:18:13.639
for that when she came to Byzantium, she would share the bed of

1522
02:18:13.680 --> 02:18:18.079
the Chief of the Demons, that
she must manage by all means to become

1523
02:18:18.159 --> 02:18:22.000
his wedded wife, and that afterwards
she would have all the wealth of the

1524
02:18:22.079 --> 02:18:30.239
world at her disposal. Assuming such
stories are purely baseless slander, I don't

1525
02:18:30.239 --> 02:18:35.840
think Procopius deserves exclusive blame as slanderer, considering these were claims not just from

1526
02:18:35.920 --> 02:18:39.840
sources he trusted, but often from
those who had seemingly held no ill will

1527
02:18:41.079 --> 02:18:46.360
towards the pair. Considering the Emperor
and Empress may well have been both directly

1528
02:18:46.440 --> 02:18:52.600
and indirectly responsible for a greater amount
of death and suffering of innocence than nearly

1529
02:18:52.639 --> 02:18:56.559
any who came before them, it's
not difficult to understand how such stories or

1530
02:18:56.600 --> 02:19:03.680
attitudes might have developed. The Church, unaware or uninterested in her history beyond

1531
02:19:03.680 --> 02:19:07.799
the facade of her claimed Christianity and
her assistance to prostitutes, would later go

1532
02:19:07.840 --> 02:19:13.639
on to make Theodora a saint in
one of the most disgusting and blasphemous judgment

1533
02:19:13.799 --> 02:19:18.920
errors in ecclesiastical history, an attestament
to the direction the church leadership would choose

1534
02:19:18.959 --> 02:19:24.159
to take up to the present day. One of the best known stories about

1535
02:19:24.159 --> 02:19:30.639
her and our age perfectly epitomizes the
dishonest caricature of her via sympathetic modern academics

1536
02:19:31.440 --> 02:19:35.559
at the lowest point of the revolt
against Justinian's rule, when the empire was

1537
02:19:35.600 --> 02:19:39.079
in shambles and most of the court
was considering fleeing, she is said to

1538
02:19:39.079 --> 02:19:43.159
have given something of a stirring speech
quote whether it is shocking for a woman

1539
02:19:43.239 --> 02:19:46.239
to speak in the presence of men, or to urge on those who are

1540
02:19:46.239 --> 02:19:50.360
cringing in fear, I think it
is not a matter for discussion at the

1541
02:19:50.399 --> 02:19:54.280
present time, whatever one may think. For those whose affairs have come into

1542
02:19:54.280 --> 02:19:58.040
the greatest danger, there is no
other best choice than to look for what

1543
02:19:58.200 --> 02:20:03.159
is somehow best. I believe that
flight is not in our interest, even

1544
02:20:03.159 --> 02:20:07.440
if it should be possible as now, For it is not possible for a

1545
02:20:07.479 --> 02:20:11.600
person who has come forth into life
to avoid death, but it is not

1546
02:20:11.680 --> 02:20:16.399
possible for one who is ruled to
become a fugitive. I shall never be

1547
02:20:16.520 --> 02:20:20.159
separated from this purple, nor shall
I live for a singer from this purple.

1548
02:20:20.719 --> 02:20:24.440
I know that means royalty, but
it also has I mean, we're

1549
02:20:24.479 --> 02:20:31.000
talking about translations here, right,
I just find that interesting. I'll never

1550
02:20:31.040 --> 02:20:35.040
be separated from this purple. Well
day. If those who encounter me do

1551
02:20:35.159 --> 02:20:39.360
not call me a mistress. If
you wish to be saved my lord,

1552
02:20:39.440 --> 02:20:43.559
that is not a problem. We
have a great deal of money. The

1553
02:20:43.600 --> 02:20:46.879
sea is at hand, and there
are ships. But consider if it will

1554
02:20:46.879 --> 02:20:50.760
benefit you when you have been saved, or if safety would be exchanged happily

1555
02:20:50.799 --> 02:20:54.959
for death. For me, the
old saying is best. That power is

1556
02:20:56.000 --> 02:21:01.440
a splendid shroud, completely devoid of
additional context. This may be viewed as

1557
02:21:01.479 --> 02:21:07.760
somehow courageous or admirable. However,
knowing what we know now from all surviving

1558
02:21:07.840 --> 02:21:13.799
sources about her character and personality,
this seems to be very much the opposite.

1559
02:21:13.879 --> 02:21:18.559
She seems to be stating quite directly
that she doesn't care if everyone around

1560
02:21:18.559 --> 02:21:22.200
her dies and the empire burns to
the ground. She'll not ever relinquish her

1561
02:21:22.239 --> 02:21:28.719
own personal power and the enjoyment she
receives from the absolute servility of all around

1562
02:21:28.719 --> 02:21:35.959
her under any circumstances. As the
final line so clearly states, power to

1563
02:21:35.120 --> 02:21:39.879
her was everything, not the improvement
or well being of the people or the

1564
02:21:39.920 --> 02:21:48.639
empire, but rather her own personal
power. Considering all I've just shared,

1565
02:21:48.000 --> 02:21:52.840
one can't help but wonder, looking
at our present political leadership, financial powers,

1566
02:21:52.879 --> 02:21:58.639
and intelligence services, how many of
those in foremost positions might be the

1567
02:21:58.879 --> 02:22:07.079
genetic cultural or spiritual descendants of these
two and their broader inner circle. Procopius

1568
02:22:07.120 --> 02:22:09.959
seems to have mentioned more than once, with hope in his heart, that

1569
02:22:11.040 --> 02:22:15.360
after their deaths, the truth would
come to light. In fact, this

1570
02:22:15.440 --> 02:22:20.959
seems to have been a leading reason
he wrote this work This Never Happened,

1571
02:22:20.799 --> 02:22:26.399
calling to mind that all important souls
in its regarding the mass human slaughter committed

1572
02:22:26.399 --> 02:22:31.600
by the Bolsheviks, which was to
even far ex seed Justinian and Theodora's toll,

1573
02:22:31.319 --> 02:22:37.200
specifically the last line. The fact
that most of the world is ignorant

1574
02:22:37.319 --> 02:22:41.840
and uncaring about this enormous crime is
proof the global media is in the hands

1575
02:22:41.879 --> 02:22:50.399
of the perpetrators, and perhaps it's
never been otherwise. It's worth noting that

1576
02:22:50.440 --> 02:22:56.280
our term media comes from the literal
location of media in ancient Persia, and

1577
02:22:56.440 --> 02:23:03.280
Hollywood is derived from the holly.
Would you also have Medea Medea right?

1578
02:23:03.520 --> 02:23:09.879
The magic, the drugs, and
that conjuring that goes along with those rituals

1579
02:23:09.520 --> 02:23:15.479
bringing entities into you and could very
well have something to do with what those

1580
02:23:15.479 --> 02:23:20.200
people had witnessed, and knowing who
they affiliated themselves with, they would have

1581
02:23:20.280 --> 02:23:24.719
full knowledge if they were also in
service to that type of evil, and

1582
02:23:24.760 --> 02:23:30.760
they had been since pre Babylon times. They knew, they knew the forces,

1583
02:23:30.799 --> 02:23:35.719
and that's why they played with them
at their own spiritual or soul's detriment.

1584
02:23:37.040 --> 02:23:41.920
That to them gave them favor in
the material world. So that's what

1585
02:23:41.959 --> 02:23:46.719
they ran with. Oh here,
let me read this to it says the

1586
02:23:46.760 --> 02:23:52.479
druids seemed to be connected to the
gradually corrupted magi, likely cognate with the

1587
02:23:52.559 --> 02:24:01.920
rabbi and magid priestly teacher class so
prominent in ancient Medea and later spread with

1588
02:24:03.000 --> 02:24:07.319
the help of Phoenician trade routes Phoenician
Phoenician trade routes throughout much of the world.

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The druids were not initially corrupted,
but they were gradually corrupted magi.

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That's the distinction to be made there
used by Druids in their rituals, magic

1591
02:24:24.520 --> 02:24:31.319
and quote enchantments, a word Procopius
himself uses several times in reference to the

1592
02:24:31.360 --> 02:24:35.200
actions of Theodora and her circle.
The Meads seem to have been, at

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02:24:35.200 --> 02:24:39.840
one point long ago of Aryan stock, as was the vast majority of what

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02:24:39.879 --> 02:24:46.799
we today call Iran. The historian
Justin tells us the Parthians, in whose

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02:24:46.840 --> 02:24:50.920
hands the Empire of the East now
is having divided the world as it were

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02:24:50.000 --> 02:24:56.159
with The Romans were originally exiles from
Scythia. This is apparent from their very

1597
02:24:56.280 --> 02:25:01.600
name, for in the Scythian language
exile those are called PARTHI. Let me

1598
02:25:01.600 --> 02:25:07.200
get this before he changes, is
that the Scythians were later to conquer and

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02:25:07.440 --> 02:25:18.479
rule media media until approximately six point
twenty BC when Zayaxaris treacherously slew all of

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02:25:18.520 --> 02:25:26.879
their leading chieftains at a feast,
and that happened about two to three hundred

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02:25:26.959 --> 02:25:33.319
years before the Hellenistic period. Where
you have you know, Amin supporting and

1602
02:25:33.319 --> 02:25:39.520
promoting this type of treachery, but
trying to basically murder Murky. The waters

1603
02:25:39.719 --> 02:25:46.840
muddle the comprehension to kind of conflate
things that are complete opposition to one another,

1604
02:25:48.600 --> 02:25:54.319
basically dragging the Scythian culture into this
type of corrupted aspect, and that's

1605
02:25:54.399 --> 02:26:00.319
not a just way to do that. He goes on to describe him as

1606
02:26:00.520 --> 02:26:05.520
faithless, insolent, rough and quarrelsome
and a relatively lawless survival of the fittest

1607
02:26:05.600 --> 02:26:11.319
environment. This may have been a
bit harsh, and keep in mind he's

1608
02:26:11.319 --> 02:26:16.200
writing in the third century AD.
After the region truly had devolved into chaos.

1609
02:26:16.000 --> 02:26:20.239
In what I believe to be a
testament to the dangers of strong men

1610
02:26:20.520 --> 02:26:26.040
living divorced from the higher laws capable
of channeling such energy towards noble ends,

1611
02:26:26.319 --> 02:26:31.559
the practice of slavery became rampant,
and the specter of incessant court intrigues,

1612
02:26:31.799 --> 02:26:39.120
poisoning and assassinations reared its ugly head, and something very strange occurs. The

1613
02:26:39.200 --> 02:26:45.120
coins struck in these eras showing the
ruling kings and princes and leaders shift from

1614
02:26:45.159 --> 02:26:50.959
showing a relatively consistent and uniform human
type to suddenly a very different type entirely

1615
02:26:52.520 --> 02:26:56.799
as we enter what's now been termed
the Parthian Dark Age, in which our

1616
02:26:56.920 --> 02:27:01.000
understanding becomes so muddled that even today
it's incredibly difficult to properly sort out.

1617
02:27:03.440 --> 02:27:07.879
This shift seems to mirror what seems
to have occurred in India, Egypt and

1618
02:27:07.000 --> 02:27:11.840
much of Mesopotamia, the Caucuses,
in Scythia, and finally Greece and the

1619
02:27:11.840 --> 02:27:18.280
Eastern Roman Empire, and some might
argue a shift that then spread throughout Europe

1620
02:27:18.559 --> 02:27:24.719
with the help of the Venetian and
Phoenician elements and an increasingly corrupt church led

1621
02:27:24.760 --> 02:27:28.159
by men who, like the Pharisees
of old, seem to everywhere neglect the

1622
02:27:28.280 --> 02:27:33.040
spirit of the law and embrace only
its letter, and then seek to everywhere

1623
02:27:33.040 --> 02:27:41.120
install themselves as masters of this letter, to subjectively interpret or reinterpret and impose

1624
02:27:41.239 --> 02:27:46.079
this new law to their own benefit. I've come to believe Procopius was a

1625
02:27:46.120 --> 02:27:52.760
good man with noble mindset and a
personality that couldn't help but feel disgusted at

1626
02:27:52.760 --> 02:27:56.879
what he seems to have viewed as
a covertly spreading cancer. Having a sense

1627
02:27:56.879 --> 02:28:03.319
for history, I believe he understood
the remifications of this unchecked degenerative chaos,

1628
02:28:03.760 --> 02:28:09.000
and his work seems to have been
an attempt to sound the alarm. Considering

1629
02:28:09.040 --> 02:28:13.680
the work was buried away in the
Vatican Library until recently, and since its

1630
02:28:13.719 --> 02:28:18.559
discovery has largely been passed only between
modern academics attempting to find reasons to dismiss

1631
02:28:18.680 --> 02:28:24.079
or minimize it, one might say
it was a failed attempt. So this

1632
02:28:24.239 --> 02:28:28.440
video is something of a tribute to
the man, his work, and what

1633
02:28:28.520 --> 02:28:35.399
I believe to be his warning.
The names and faces of the specific actors

1634
02:28:35.440 --> 02:28:41.040
on the stage may have changed,
as they always will with time, but

1635
02:28:41.079 --> 02:28:45.159
if we pull back and view things
in the broad, it's easy to see

1636
02:28:45.680 --> 02:28:50.280
his warning is just as valid today
as it's ever been, and that this

1637
02:28:50.479 --> 02:29:05.479
very same battle rages on. And
there we go. Oh, let's see

1638
02:29:05.559 --> 02:29:13.000
what, as you say? I
love myself like this. I've read about

1639
02:29:13.000 --> 02:29:18.239
the creation of evil spirits and one
Enoch. Are these the same as demons?

1640
02:29:18.280 --> 02:29:22.479
I wonder? I don't know.
I think there's something I don't know

1641
02:29:22.520 --> 02:29:28.840
if the books that they write encapsulate
it correctly, and if they do,

1642
02:29:28.959 --> 02:29:33.280
I don't think they would present it
in its straightforward form, because that's part

1643
02:29:33.280 --> 02:29:37.360
of their power, right. So
whatever they tell you in the literal translation

1644
02:29:37.559 --> 02:29:41.760
or whatever, there might be something
that's encrypted with jamantria or some kind of

1645
02:29:41.040 --> 02:29:46.920
mysticism or some kind of code that
would inform those who are initiated as to

1646
02:29:48.200 --> 02:29:52.440
if those are even the books that
they truly use themselves to carry on that

1647
02:29:52.479 --> 02:29:56.479
type of practice. But I doubt
that it's straightforward, and I think a

1648
02:29:56.559 --> 02:30:01.879
lot of it's misleading to keep us
in this little tiny box of understanding and

1649
02:30:01.319 --> 02:30:05.920
comprehension of as to what they actually
are and what they do. That would

1650
02:30:05.959 --> 02:30:09.399
be my guess, especially if it's
coming out of something that's so widespread and

1651
02:30:11.000 --> 02:30:16.639
known to all that you know,
Enoch and this very questionable Old Testament and

1652
02:30:16.719 --> 02:30:20.600
even more questionable New Testament. And
I'm going to say one more thing of

1653
02:30:20.680 --> 02:30:24.520
the whole thing on Amin. By
the time you get around to the you

1654
02:30:24.520 --> 02:30:30.760
know, talking about how the New
Testament translation of the ancient Greek is,

1655
02:30:31.680 --> 02:30:37.280
you know, the primary source or
whatever. Well, given the time that

1656
02:30:37.319 --> 02:30:43.600
it took for that to be written, what was going on during the actual

1657
02:30:43.680 --> 02:30:50.840
present time of the christ era and
for the fifty or so years afterward or

1658
02:30:52.040 --> 02:30:56.639
more where nothing was spoken about it, at least if that's the first thing

1659
02:30:56.719 --> 02:31:03.680
that came about, was it something
that was latched onto by something that would

1660
02:31:03.719 --> 02:31:09.559
co opt it and present it in
a way that they wanted to carry on

1661
02:31:09.600 --> 02:31:16.440
their own back and saturn elements,
but draw in people who they knew,

1662
02:31:16.479 --> 02:31:20.520
and then give them a different character, give them different words to put in

1663
02:31:20.559 --> 02:31:22.760
their mouth. Because if that's the
case, and you say that this is

1664
02:31:22.760 --> 02:31:26.520
the primary source and this is what
Jesus or whoever was about, well then

1665
02:31:26.520 --> 02:31:31.680
you're falling into the same trap that
this is the propaganda that is being told.

1666
02:31:33.520 --> 02:31:37.040
And I don't know, I don't
know how you can verify that that's

1667
02:31:37.239 --> 02:31:43.440
not the case. I just think
that this kind of serves a really dark

1668
02:31:43.479 --> 02:31:48.200
purpose if you go into the mindset
of famine and you know, take that

1669
02:31:48.239 --> 02:31:54.239
as being the gospel truth. Ha
ha ha. I mean, I think

1670
02:31:54.239 --> 02:31:58.639
it's important maybe to of course learn
ancient Greek and read these things yourself,

1671
02:31:58.680 --> 02:32:03.479
but I would caution that even if
you do, how does that mean that

1672
02:32:03.479 --> 02:32:13.440
that's what really transpired, if anything
transpired, or if it's just the first

1673
02:32:13.440 --> 02:32:20.479
attempt a very strange way of depicting
something, and then subsequent retellings made it

1674
02:32:20.520 --> 02:32:26.920
more malleable for more people as the
culture changed throughout history to appeal to more

1675
02:32:26.959 --> 02:32:35.200
people of that era. I don't
know, it's interesting I would personally say

1676
02:32:35.319 --> 02:32:39.559
anything that comes from the roots of
the same people who lie about everything else.

1677
02:32:41.680 --> 02:32:45.280
I don't really think that I would
stake my claim out there. Plus,

1678
02:32:46.600 --> 02:32:48.639
in all respects, it's not my
culture and it's not my people,

1679
02:32:48.719 --> 02:32:54.479
So why would I adopt their religion
or their gods or their god but really

1680
02:32:54.520 --> 02:33:01.120
their gods? You know what I
mean. I'm just gonna go ahead one

1681
02:33:01.159 --> 02:33:07.399
last time and saying, Roalda,
we trust that's a benevolent creator, that

1682
02:33:07.440 --> 02:33:15.040
one is not capable of doing wrong
onlike Saturn, unlike Yahweh, unlike Ball,

1683
02:33:16.639 --> 02:33:18.120
whom if you even look at the
eugaratic texts, you don't really see

1684
02:33:18.120 --> 02:33:22.479
a whole lot of negativity there.
Human characteristics but not really so much.

1685
02:33:24.440 --> 02:33:28.159
And that maybe and that kind of
has a little bit of blood thirstyness to

1686
02:33:28.239 --> 02:33:31.239
her, but that's could just be
the warrior spirit for people who are trying

1687
02:33:31.239 --> 02:33:37.399
to take down her beloved Ball.
But that's it. That's it for today.

1688
02:33:37.520 --> 02:33:39.280
I have to go get some stuff
done and finish my house office order

1689
02:33:39.319 --> 02:33:46.479
so I can go to San Diego. Wednesday might not be a show because

1690
02:33:46.479 --> 02:33:50.639
of that trip to San Diego.
I'll see what's going on. But tomorrow,

1691
02:33:50.680 --> 02:33:54.559
for sure, we'll be here at
eight am and I will be presenting

1692
02:33:54.600 --> 02:34:00.639
you the first part. There's gonna
be two different things we're going to go

1693
02:34:00.680 --> 02:34:05.440
through this series, but I'm doing
in a specific order so it also helps

1694
02:34:05.479 --> 02:34:13.479
to encapsulate what we've been going about
in our research path so that it fits

1695
02:34:13.479 --> 02:34:18.799
in the place better. There's two
more videos that I'm going to play.

1696
02:34:18.840 --> 02:34:24.159
It's going to be the French Revolution, two parter that Asta Logos presented through

1697
02:34:24.159 --> 02:34:28.239
this series. One called black and
white that if you want to go into

1698
02:34:28.280 --> 02:34:31.360
telegraend group has already presented. That's
when he did like three months ago.

1699
02:34:31.399 --> 02:34:35.159
It's this last video that has been
posted. I think there's one little other

1700
02:34:35.200 --> 02:34:37.920
thing too, like another snippet that
I'm going to add to it if I

1701
02:34:39.040 --> 02:34:43.479
remember correctly, But we'll adjust all
that tomorrow. And thank you so much.

1702
02:34:43.799 --> 02:34:45.559
You know how to support the show. If you'd like to thank you

1703
02:34:45.600 --> 02:34:50.639
again Daisy so much for what you
did there, and if anybody else wants

1704
02:34:50.680 --> 02:34:52.799
to do the little things out the
bottom of the chat, thank you so

1705
02:34:52.879 --> 02:35:01.719
much. Have a good day,
and you are all appreciated. Remember that.

1706
02:35:01.920 --> 02:35:09.239
And you're all strong, and you
have good, strong roots of nobility.

1707
02:35:09.239 --> 02:35:16.200
T'll let anybody take that away from
you, that sense of who you are.