Marcus Licinius Crassus

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Bust of Marcus Licinius Crassus (ca. 115 BC – 53 BC); the man with the "gold glut"…

Marcus Licinius Crassus (Latin: M·LICINIVS·P·F·P·N·CRASSVS)* (ca. 115 BC – 53 BC) was a Roman general and politician, who commanded Sulla's decisive victory at the bloody Colline gate, suppressed the slave revolt led by Spartacus and entered into a secret pact, known as the First Triumvirate, with Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus and Gaius Julius Caesar. One of the richest men of the era and still ranked in the top 10 List of most wealthy historical figures, Crassus still desired recognition for military victories in the shape of a triumph. This desire for a triumph led him into Syria, where he was defeated and killed in the Roman defeat at Carrhae which was fought with the Parthian Spahbod Surena in the venerable Mesopotamian River Valley (now under siege by us Americans); captured by the defending Parthian forces, the producers of the world's most famous lavender gold, poured a mouthful of hot, molten gold to satisfy the "glut" of the Roman capitalist, senator and 3rd leg of the ruling Triumvirate of Pax Romana… A befitting finale, for the aggressive, greedy, Barbarian Roman! . . .

The Washington Ruling Elite is en route to the same finale, be it ancient Babylon (Baghdad) or Kosovo! … It's in the cards, believe you me! Those who ignore the lessons of history deserve to repeat the same mistakes and experience the same crushing end, with Tchaikovsky's 1812 OVERTURE cannonade, memorializing the finale of another Germanic origin Western hero - Napoleon!

ONLY this time it's "black gold": black petroleum and black Obama, tsk? tsk! I must admit, even I didn't expect such a double whammy for the East Coast abusive elite, but, alas… Have Gun Will Travel, eh! Our elite just loves guns, blood & guts (taught at the Military Academies, such as West Point, where most of my friends and colleagues graduated from), upmanship, racism, perennial hot *& cold conflict, rape of femme fatale Caucasian women, sports events, disposal units…, now their time is up: at the local garbage dump!

Crassus' significance in world history, however, stems from his financial and political support of the impoverished young epileptic, Julius Caesar, which support allowed Caesar to embark upon his own political career.

*In English: "Marcus Licinius Crassus, son of Publius, grandson of Publius"; see, Plutarch, Life of Crassus, 6 (trans. Perrin, 1916). "It is said that in Bruttium he actually proscribed a man without Sulla's orders, merely to get his property, and that for this reason Sulla, who disapproved of his conduct, never employed him again on public business"; and, Spartacus, 1960: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054331/

LEGACY…

Anguillicola crassus [WesternCiv seems to be infected with some 'crud' carried by the Gothic host, our DC Ruling Elite?]!

The state of being colonized by Anguillicola nematodes is termed anguilli- colosis; don't we white, Caucasian Americans feel like colonized by the Gothic Anguillicola crassus?

We're just loved to death by the Bangladesh German cavalcade in our midst! Anguillicola crassus is a parasitic nemat-ode worm that lives in the swimbladders of eels (Anguilla spp.) and appears to spread easily among eel populations after introduction to a body of water. It is considered to be one of the threats to the sustainability of populations of European eel (Anguilla anguilla). It was introduced to the European continent in the 1980s, where it was reported independently from Germany and Italy in 1982, having probably been introduced from Japan. It is

1 thought to have reached England in 1987 from continental Europe. It is a natural parasite of the Japanese eel in its native range.

The life cycle of A. crassus begins when the adult nematode releases thousands of eggs in the eel's swimbladder. The eggs pass through the eel's digestive tract and the larvae emerge in the water and settle onto the substrate. They are ingested by their intermediate host, which is often a copepod or other crustacean but may also be a fish. The nematode larva reaches its infective stage within this intermediate host. The host is eaten by an eel, and the nematode finds its way from the eel's digestive tract to its swimbladder. An eel with an advanced parasite load shows symptoms such as bleeding lesions and swimbladder collapse. The eel becomes more susceptible to disease, its rate of growth slows, and if the infestation is severe enough, it may die. Since the swimbladder is the buoyant organ which allows the eel to swim, a severe parasite infestation can hamper its ability to reach its spawning grounds…?...

Our DC ruling elite may not be infected with Anguillicola crassus possessed by the eel but there is no doubt about an in-ingrained defective aggressive gene – from the ol' homeland in Bangla- desh – therefrom "deviance", or whatever we choose to call the malady, but it's still the Crassus syndrome of ingrained, built-in dominance and thirst for greed, hegemony, ruling power over other men, plus that nouveauriche arrogance, ignorance and atavistic aggression. – PSC.

PS. I wrote recently: If Obama occupies the Executive Mansion in January, avoids becoming a puppet of the Ruling Elite, unilaterally removing our military forces from foreign occupation, and quickly (if that's possible anymore) balances the national budget, revamping the federal Treasury bookkeeping, freezing the reserves at Ft. Knox, taxing the rich and famous, hence curtailing their life styles, maybe there's a chance… I hope so, honestly, but I don't see it from this vantage point of review and analysis of sociopolitical and economic events, with the military-industrial complex rumbling and grumbling, i.e. the flailing financial markets are in deep trouble. ONLY resources- rich Russia could save the show, if they would, but I'm not sure they're ready to commit Siberian raw material wealth on such asinine Anglo-Saxon frills and thrills in wayward foreign experiments, the old traditional religious and recent political enemy, even if the Ruskies knew how to do it timely enough to save the moribund show?

Therefore, the Alexander the Great's syndrome, offending the Oracle at Siwa, dying in Baghdad, the sacred cradle of civilization, for his overextension in foreign conquest and sins in warfare, just as we Americans shall no doubt face the providential tribunal, for never realizing the difference between the sacred and the profane…

YUP, meeting the wrath of our Maker on the formidable, reinforced river banks of the historical Tigris and Euphrates Rivers of venerable Mesopotamia, where ancient myth and offended blood-lines shall take their revenge!

World view at the time of Alexander the Great, reconstruction based on Hecataeus' ancient map of the world from the 5th century BC.

Can we imagine nowadays, this late in the history of WesternCiv, the great Macedonian general and leader of the civilized world said: "This attack on Persia is final.., there will be no more wars in the history of the world!" - Speech at Gaugemala,331 BC