Venice called itself the Serene Republic, but its sinister institutions provide an unmatched continuity of the most hideous oligarchical rule for more than 15 centuries, from the Roman Empire, through the British Empire until the present.

Venice was the centre of efforts to destroy the advanced European civilization of the 11th and 12th centuries and bears a burden of guilt for the ascendancy of the Black Nobility Guelphs and the black plague.

The Venetians were spies for Ghengis Khan, guiding them to sack Baghdad.

Napoleon forced the end of this vile cartel during his Italian campaign of 1797, but the cancer had already infected Geneva, Amsterdam, London and elsewhere.

Though the sovereignty of Venice had been extinguished, its methods lived on to the 20th century.

We know these methods as fascism.

Venice is today, through its Cini Foundation and its Societé Europeenne de Culture — the think-tank of the Club Of Rome. Venice is the supranational homeland of the New Dark Ages gang, the unifying symbol for the utopian lunatic fringe in the international intelligence community today.

Between 300 and 400 AD, the Roman aristocrats who later became infamous — Candiano, Faliero, Dandolo — found the islands of Venice lagoons provided an invulnerable refuge as they fled the Goth, Hun and Langobard armies. The main influx came during the raids of Attila the Hun in 452 AD.

Venice survived, thanks to an alliance with Emperor Justinian in Constantinople, an alliance forged by intermarriage of Venetian oligarchs with the nobility of Byzantium. Thus, a faction embodying the traditions of the Roman Senate continued beyond the fall of Rome in 476.

The basis of Venetian opulence was slavery, practiced against Saracens, Mongols, Turks and Christians. This included Italians and Greeks, who were most highly valued as galley slaves. Germans and Russians were shipped in from Tana. Later, owning black African slaves became popular among the nobility.

Islands like Crete, Cyprus, Corfu, Naxos and smaller holdings in the Aegean were worked by slave labour, directly under the authority of the Venetian regime.

In later centuries, the harems of the entire Ottoman Empire, from the Balkans to Morocco, were stocked by Venetian-procured slaves.

Venice became the leading port of the Mediterranean. Indistinguishable from slave operations were piracy and buccaneering, two other staples of the Venetian economy.

Wars with Genoa or others were opportunities to loot. Piracy was routine commerce during decades of treachery and anarchy.

Venetian production from the earliest period was essentially nil, apart from salt and the glass manufacture of Murano. The role of the Venetian merchant was as a profiteer who conned both buyer and seller, backing up his monopolisation with war galleys of the battle fleet. Venice remained impervious to invasion from the first settlement until 1797.

In the typology of Plato’s Republic, Venice was an oligarchy, “a constitution according to property, in which the rich govern and the poor man has no share”; “rule of the few, a constitution of evils”. By 1297, all male members of the 150 noble families had the permanent right to a seat in the Gran Consiglio, or Great Council, which grew to 2000 members around the year 1500 and thereafter slowly declined. They kept ambassadors in all national courts, war ministers and naval officers.

Dante

Dante visited Venice in 1321. He died shortly after leaving. He was forced to follow a path through the swamps, caught malaria and died. A boat may have been available, but to board it meant certain assassination! Venetian records of the event have conveniently disappeared.

What was the Venetian political method?

The weaker power plays off two or more major empires. First, the Langobard Kingdom of Italy was played against the Byzantines. Then they attempted to play the Byzantines off against the Carolingian Empire in the West, which almost misfired.

In the 11th century, the Venetians successfully incited Norman barons, operating out of Sicily under Robert Guiscard, to attack Byzantium and they then moved in to offer the desperate Byzantines protection. The price for that protection was mentioned in the famous Golden Bull of 1082. It was a decree of the Byzantine Emperor by which Venice acquired customs-free access to the Eastern empire, where the Greeks themselves had to pay a tax of 10 percent on their transactions. Thus began a hatred for Venice among the Greek population which persists to the present day.

In the 16th century, the Venetian strategy was to play the Ottoman Turks against the Spanish and Austrian Hapsburgs and then to play the Hapsburgs off against the French! Venice played the Portuguese off against the Dutch and the Dutch against the English, the English against the French!

The Venetians also goaded forces of the East to attack Christendom. Venice was the manipulator of Saracens, Mongols and Turks. In particular, the Venetians were more willing to see territory (except Venetian territory) occupied by Turks than by any other power.

Venice was repeatedly confronted by a triumphant enemy who had to be manipulated to self-destruct, not in any old way, but in a precise and specific way that served the Venetian interests.

Does this sound impossible?

What is astounding is how often it has succeeded & still does! Effectively, they used their enemies as mercenaries by ensnaring them in debt and offering to cancel the debt if they fought for Venice!

From 1203 to 1204, Constantinople was besieged by the joint Franco-Venetian force and Byzantium was sacked in an orgy of violence and destruction. Venice took over part of Constantinople and created a permanent Venetian colony with its own battle fleet. Lemnos, Gallipoli, Crete, Naxos and the large island of Euboa were annexed. On the Ionian side, the Venetians snatched Modon, Koron & several islands incl Corfu. The loot from Constantinople was greater than anything Europe saw until the Spanish fleets from the Americas centuries later!

Venice acquired an empire of naval bases in the eastern Mediterranean & the sultan of Egypt bribed them to keep the Crusaders out of Palestine!

Bonus!

Another factor was the Mongol hordes. At the time the Venetians were sacking Constantinople, Ghengis Khan ruled over an empire from Korea to Iran and which was advancing west. Batu, a nephew of Ghengis, defeated the Bulgarians in 1236, captured Ukraine in 1240 and swept into Poland.

The Mongols did not go in like reckless barbarians. They advanced according to a careful plan. At every stage, the Mongols were informed by Venetian merchants, like Marco Polo’s father. Later, Polo himself was welcomed at the court of Kublai and became an administrator to the Khan.

So the great Marco Polo and the Venetian family from which he came was responsible for directing the destruction of Ghengis Khan against Europe. The omnipresent Venetian intelligence was also a factor in the Mongol destruction of the Arab cultural center of Baghdad in 1258.

Shakespeare’s play, “Othello, The Moor of Venice,” is an analysis of the Venetian technique. It was written and performed shortly after 1603, when the Venetians and Genoese had acquired power in England through the accession of their puppet, James I, to the throne.

Othello is hired out to Venice as a mercenary at the apex of his power, having just won a victory over the Turkish fleet attacking Cyprus. He enjoys the full confidence of the Senate and has just married Desdemona, the daughter of a patrician.

Othello, the Moor barbarian, is something of a dumb giant! His proficiency in war is unmatched, but his emotions tend decidedly toward the naive & infantile. He has no insight into affairs of state or psychology. Above all, he is superstitious and is inclined to be jealous.

These weaknesses are exploited by Iago, a member of Othello’s staff who intends to destroy him. Iago is like a Venetian intelligence officer, an expert manipulator:

“Make the Moor thank me, love me and reward me for making him an ass and practicing upon his peace even to madness.”

Iago sets up a fight that leads to a wounding. After this, he manipulates Desdemona’s naive desire to help a friend into prima facie evidence that Desdemona is an adulteress. Iago is then able to goad Othello into killing Desdemona, and finally, himself.

So we can see that Shakespeare — presumably his audience — were familiar with the style and cruelty of Venetian geo-politics.

The real danger for Venice by 1600 was a hostile power that developed defenses against manipulation and deceit. In the face of such, Venice did, and does, kill.

The foundation of a new Roman Empire became, in Venice, from the middle of the 15th century-on, the leading obsession of the oligarchs.

Much Venetian energy was devoted to a rapid expansion up the Po Valley toward Milan, but they were stymied for 40 years by the Medici.

Machiavelli noted that the two most dangerous forces in Italy around the turn of that century were the Venetians and the pope. His hatred was directed especially against Venice for wanting to subjugate Italy in a new Roman Empire, and he despised Venice for its armies of mercenaries. All Europe turned against Venice. Machiavelli exulted when the Venetians lost everything that they had conquered over the past 800 years.

With nothing left but the lagoons, the Venetian position was desperate, due to their reputation for arrogance, breach of promises, lechery and sodomy.

The Italian Renaissance during the rest of the 16th century was only one event of several in Europe. Another was the Protestant Reformation. Luther’s real clout was publicity, which owed much to the Venetian publishing presses turning out 40,000 copies of his “heretical” writings. Playing both sides of the religious argument against each other, the Venetians raised up Ignatius Loyola from abject poverty, sent him to Jerusalem and back, and backed him as he established the Jesuits, who were dedicated to serve the pope in crushing Protestantism. They sat back and watched the fireworks.

In around 1570, Venice had the first example in Europe of a “salon” for socialising and literary discussion: the Ridotto Morosini, sponsored by the ancient family of the same name. Here the seeds were sown that would later produce free thought, l’esprit libertin and The Philosophes. They initiated the Enlightenment.

The Ridotto Morosini salon was in favor of tolerance and science, against everything doctrinaire and narrow. They sheltered Galileo against the Inquisition. Out of the Morosini salon came a rare public faction in Venetian history, the Giovani. The Giovani wanted profound innovations in Venetian foreign policy. They wished to cement alliances with the countries to whom they felt the future belonged: France, England and the Netherlands.

The main supporter of Venice internationally was James I, the Stuart ruler of England & Scotland.

In 1603, Venice and Genoa teamed up, created a banking dynasty and assumed direction of the finances of Stuart England, imparting their characteristic ruthless methods to the British East India Company. The financial centre of old Venice was on the move north.

Venice and Genoa created the Amsterdam Bank — the financial fulcrum of the 17th century — and the Dutch East India Company.

Venice and Genoa were also the midwives for the great financial power growing up in Geneva, which controlled the French public debt, and they continued to foster the Enlightenment.

The Venetians began a major move into maritime insurance and other types of insurance. These ventures live on today in the biggest business enterprise associated with Venice, the Assicurazioni Generali Venezia: one of the biggest insurance and real estate holdings in the world.

On May 12, 1797, the Gran Consiglio of Venice obeyed Napoleon’s ultimatum and voted itself out of existence.
Four thousand French infantrymen paraded where foreign troops had never before in history been seen. The Venetian “Republic” was gone, yet it now existed in a more clandestine form.

Three thousand Venetian naval personnel, about one-third of their available strength, were serving the British Royal Navy just as the American Revolution began.

During the 19th century and onwards, with its military and financial power hidden, Venice’s political power grew greater than ever.

Count Coudenhove-Kalergi, founder of the Pan-European Union, lived in Venice and hosted a visit by Nietzsche. Thomas Malthus plagiarised a Venetian when he wrote his Essay on Population.

Plans for destroying the Ottoman and Russian empires, (WWI) were made by Venitian spy Alexander Parvus.

Today, the Club of Rome is the influence that represents the essence of Venetian methods. The Club of Rome convinces people to commit collective suicide by accepting the genocidal doctrine of zero growth. It seeks to abolish sovereign nations and create a totalitarian global state.

Perhaps the most daring of plans by the Club of Rome is to financialise nature itself. “Climate change” is its most spectacular propaganda.

Truly, the most urgent task of this generation is to definitively liquidate the manipulative horror that is Venice and its oligarchic hierarchy.

See Webster Tarpley, Against Oligarchy: The Venetian Conspiracy (http://tarpley.net/online-books/against-oligarchy/the-venetian-conspiracy/)

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