The Grand Mechanism

Emanating from the features of individual kings and usurpers in Shakespeare's History plays, there gradually emerges the image of history itself. The image of the Grand Mechanism.
The flattering index of a direful pageant,
One heav'd a-high to be hurl'd down below . . . --- Richard III, 4.4.85-6

 The Grand Mechanism , a staircase by which tyrants rise to power. Each step up requires treachery and killing until they reach the top and achieve power only to fall victim to those climbing the stairs behind them. The actions that bring them to the top bring about their demise.

The Iron Mountain

...The report starts by defining the traditional view of the functions of war. It claims that there are three:

1. to defend a nation from military attack by another or to deter such an attack;
2. to defend or advance a national interest; and
3. to maintain or increase a nation's military power for its own sake.

It continues by stating that these are the "visible" functions, and that there are "invisible, or implied, functions" as well. These are spelled out in the report, but all functions have one common purpose: "War has provided both ancient and modern society with a debatable system for stabilizing and controlling national economies. No alternate method of control has yet been tested in a complex modern economy that has shown it is remotely comparable in scope or effectiveness. War fills certain functions essential to the stability of our society; until other ways of filling them are developed, the war system must be maintained — and improved in effectiveness."

The report then goes on to detail what the "invisible functions" of war are:

War... is the principal organizing force in most societies.
... The possibility of war provided the sense of external necessity without which no government can long remain in power.
The historical record reveals one instance after another where the failure... of a regime to maintain the credibility of a war threat led to its dissolution.
War... provides anti-social elements with an acceptable role in the social structure.
The younger, and more dangerous, of these hostile social groupings have been kept under control by the Selective Service System.
As a control device... the draft can again be defended...
The level of the draft calls tends to follow the major fluctuations in the unemployment rate...
Man destroys surplus members of his own species by organized warfare.
War is the principal motivational force for the development of science...
War is a... general social release... for the dissipation of general boredom.
War... enables the physically deteriorating older generation to maintain its control of the younger, destroying it if necessary.


The Unseen Hand by Ralph Epperson

A box full of Darkness

The Unseen Hand / THE ROTHSCHILD FAMILY

THE ROTHSCHILD FAMILY

This European banking family was started by the father, Amschel Moses Bauer (they were later to change their last name to Rothschild) who started in the banking business in a meager way. After some early success in the loaning of money to local governments, Amschel decided to expand his banking establishment by loaning to national governments. He set up his five sons in banking houses, each in a different country.

Meyer Rothschild was sent to Frankfort, Germany; Solomon to Vienna, Austria; Nathan to London, England; Carl to Naples, Italy; and James to Paris, France.

With the Rothschild sons scattered all over Europe, each operating a banking house, the family could easily convince any government that it should continue to pay its debts, or the force of the "balance of power" politics would be used against the debtor's nation. In other words, the Rothschild family would play one government against another by the threat of war. Each government would feel cornered into paying its debts by the threat of a war which would take away its kingdom. The brothers could finance both sides of the conflict thereby insuring not only that the debtor would pay its debts but that enormous fortunes would be made in the financing of the war.

This power was visualized by Meyer Rothschild when he summarized the strategy thus: "Permit me to control the money of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws."

The Unseen Hand _ Abraham Lincoln

Mr. Abraham Lincoln started having thoughts about his own assassination during the 1860 convention.
He went upstairs and, exhausted by repressed excitement, he lay down on the couch in Mrs. Lincoln's sitting room.
While lying there he was disturbed to see in the mirror two images of himself which were alike, except that one was not so clear as the other. The double reflection awakened the primitive vein in the superstition always present in him. He rose and lay down again to see if the paler shadow would vanish, but he saw it once more....
The next morning... he went home and reclined on the couch to see if there was not something wrong with the mirror itself. He was reassured to find it played the same trick. When he tried to show it to Mrs. Lincoln, however, the second reflection failed to appear.
Mrs. Lincoln took it as a sign that he was to have two terms in the Presidency, but she feared the paleness of one of the figures signified that he would not live through the second term.
'I am sure,' he said to his partner once, 'I shall meet with some terrible end...'

The Unseen Hand

To whom should we complain?

To Whom Should We Complain?

لمن نشكوا مآسينا ؟
To whom should we complain?
ومن يُصغي لشكوانا ويُجدينا ؟
And who listens to our complaints?
أنشكو موتنا ذلاً لوالينا ؟
Should we complain of our death by humiliation to our lord and master?
وهل موتٌ سيحيينا ؟!
And will death bring us back to life?
قطيعٌ نحنُ .. والجزار راعينا
We are a herd of sheep and the butcher is our shepherd
ومنفيون …… نمشي في أراضينا
And we are exiles…walking in our own lands
ونحملُ نعشنا قسرًا … بأيدينا
We carry our coffin unwillingly
ونُعربُ عن تعازينا …… لنا .. فينا
And express our condolences…from ourselves…to ourselves

Ahmed Matar _ revolutionary Iraqi poet 

From what I have read !

"No amount of guilt can change the past and no amount of worrying can change the future. Go easy on yourself for the outcome of all affairs is determined by Allah's Decree. If something is meant to go elsewhere, it will never come on your way, but if it is yours by destiny, from you it cannot flee.''

(Umar ibn al-Khattab r.a)

" Indeed, with every hardship comes ease, with every hardship comes ease."

(Surah94: 5-6)

وما من كاتب إلا سيفنـى .. 

و يبقي الدهر ما كتبت يداه

فلا تكتب بكفك غير شيء .. 

يسرك في القيامة أن تراه

And no writer but they will perish

Though time will keep what they wrote

So do not write anything with your hand except

That which will please you on the day of resurrection