I am reading Parzival with a friend from British Columbia and it has me thinking about the search for the Holy Grail.

I just wrote a note to a subscriber:

“One way to organize your finances is to ask yourself the theoretical question: if the most powerful people in the world were planning to depopulate the global population down to 500 million and the US population down to 100 million, how would I ensure that my family and those I love were among the 100 million and how would I do that in a manner that could contribute to a grassroots/divine effort to transform the situation entirely?”

So, I can relate to a medieval poem about a knight that spends a lifetime searching for something.

16 Comments

  1. Hi Catherine

    I was wondering if there was a link to an older blog post where you first described this idea of planned global de-population by the Powers That Be. You reference it as something you’ve talked about before and I would love to read your take on this matter.

  2. Around the time of the opium wars is when the British east india’s opium business was taken over by Americans. John Kerry’s great grandfather…Russel trust association and founder of the skull and bones society that George Bush belongs to. They bear the same emblem as Pirates, Jesuits ( at least in the famed picture with their founder Ignatius Loyola) and it’s original name was brotherhood of death. Not to Christian. How to position money in the face of evil? Don’t be tempted by wickedness to do wickedness. Spend it however you think is right.

  4. Been flipping through my copy of Mike Davis’s “Late Victorian Holocausts” (2001). Interesting how the same events repeat themselves across different cultures in different centuries, both good and bad. 1740s China was apparently more “christian” than Christian/Catholic Europe (unlike Maoist China’s famines later).

    On 1740s famine relief: China vs. Europe (p.281):

    “No contemporary European society guaranteed subsistence as a human right to its peasantry (ming-sheng is the Chinese term), nor, as the Physiocrats later marveled, could any emulate “the perfect timing of [Guancheng’s] operations:the action taken always kept up with developments and even anticipated them.” Indeed while the Qing were honoring the social contract with the peasantry, contemporary Europeans were dying in the millions from famine and hunger-related diseases following arctic winters and summer droughts in 1740-43. “The mortality peak of the early 1740s,” emphasizes and authority,”is an outstanding fact of European demographic history.” In Europe’s AGE OF REASON, in other words, the “starving masses” were French, Irish and Calabrian, not Chinese.”

    On the Drug War (p. 301):

    “From the beginning of the nineteenth century, the East India Company had relied on opium exports from Bengal to Canton (which in 1832 EARNED A NET PROFIT “AT LEAST FOURTEEN TIMES THE PRIME COST”) ***to finance the growing deficits generated by its expensive military operations*** on the subcontinent. By forcibly enlarging the Chinese demand for the narcotic and, thus, the taxes collected on its export, the two Opium Wars (1839-42 and 1856-58) and the punitive Treaty of Tianjin(1858) revolutionized the revenue base of British India.”Opium,” says John Wong,” serviced the cost of the imperial expansion in India.” Opium shipments from India reached a peak of 87,000 chests in 1879, the biggest drug transaction in world history.”

  5. Catherine,

    Many will agree, I think, that Hans Knappertsbusch’s live production of Parsifal back in the early sixties is the best Parsifal recording ever.

    It is available digitally-remastered ADD in a wonderful DVD set (Amazon has it).

    May I add that a lot of us out here sense the nefarious tsunami long planned by the few, which threatens all.

    With our esteem,
    Rob

  6. I am a big opera fan, more a Puccini lover than Wagner. I shall take your advice, however. Is there a recording you would recommend?

    Thanks!

  7. Catherine, I suggest you obtain a good recording, or, if you ever have a chance, attend a live production of Ricard Wagner’s opera, Parsival. It is both one of his most lyrical and one of his most intense works. And, yes, I know that’s saying something! David

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