What Does it Mean to “Lay Out the Red Carpet”? 

A Red Carpet is a sign of royalty. Take a deep breath, and read the amazing story. In Biblical times, Phoenician tribes lived in Canaan, that we now called Lebanon. Their symbol was a purple Phoenix, the bird of fire representing survival and renewal from death. 

However in Greek, the word “Phoenix” or φοίνιξ means the color “Purple”. That’s interesting! 

The Phoenicians were skilled maritime seafarers who established a string of safe harbors. Eventually they found their way throughout the Mediterranean to Greece, Italy, Turkey, Spain, Carthage, and Rome. They even settled in the British Isles and the Americas. 

Phoenicians Developed a Maritime Culture that Spanned the World.

Phoenicians Created a Monopoly on Murex Snails used as Purple Dye for Priceless Royal Vestments!

Murex snails made royal purple dye worth its weight in gold.

Tyrian purple dye was made by the Phoenicians, particularly those of Carthage. The dye produced a striking color ranging from lush purple to deep crimson, and would not fade in the sunlight. For some reason it was so exorbitantly high-priced, that the dye itself was worth more than its weight in gold! “Twelve thousand snails of Murex brandaris yielded no more than 1.4 grams of pure dye, enough to color only the trim of single garment”. Garments made with the purple cloth could be worn only by kings, queens, and their families. Any non-royal person wearing this color would be punished or disdained.

The ancient Phoenicians lived in Canaan, and perfected the technique of producing this dye. In fact, the name Canaan originally meant “Land of the Purple”, from the Akkadian word “Kinahhu” meaning “Purple”. The vast Phoenician maritime snail trade network lasted over a thousand years, during which they amassed enormous wealth. 

The land of Canaan and Phoenicia were considered the same country, and even the Bible uses these two terms interchangeably. This is the race known as the Greeks and Phoenicians. the Bible refers to them as the descendants of the Sons of Cain. 

“Phoenicians” Migrate to Italy, build Venice, and become the “Venetians”, the Ruling Banking Families of the World.

A Red Carpet is a sign of royalty. And controlling the price of dyes was an important part of maintaining status. Was the “Red Carpet” treatment used for Kings based on the royal dyes?

By the year 1500, the primary 13 families of Venice had built the wealthiest city in the world, complete with glistening palazzos, canals, and ships. The Venetian navy at Arsenale was the most skilled in the Mediterranean, with a shipbuilding factory that could turn out a fully equipped warship in a single day.

At its peak the Venetian Republic had expanded to include Constantinople, parts of Turkey, Greece, Bulgaria, Albania, Macedonia, Bosnia, Herzegovina, Serbia, Florence, Sicily, Malta, Crete, and Northern Italy. They also created cash markets for resources from the colonial world, such as slaves, coffee, tea, sugar, opium, medicines, and oh yes – poppies! The Vatican played two sides against the middle to sponsor the Reformation, carefully choosing Martin Luther and their major players, while at the same time imposing rigid dogma in Catholic countries via the Council of Trent,  

Phoenician migration and trade routes were vast.
The Phoenicians migrated to Venice, Europe, and the Americas, bringing their customs with them. Of mixed heritage part reptilian, part Aryan, they skillfully created trading networks all over the world. They closely guarded their merchant networks, and became extremely wealthy. They traveled the entire Mediterranean, Europe, British Isles, and the Americas. Eventually the Phoenicians made homes in many cities of Europe, especially Carthage, Alexandria, Rome, London, and Venice.

It is said that in the 7th century, a small group of Phoenicians landed on an uninhabitable swamp and archipelago near Venice, Italy. They were able to create a series of artificial islands out of the marsh using pine trees floated downriver from the Dolomite Alps. When buried vertically below the water level, these tree trunks made a firm foundation for a large city. 

The Venetians had no land. They were not land owners. They created their own land out of the marshy swamp. And it became, for a time, the richest and most dazzling city in the world. 

In 812 Venice became a Byzantine province of the Eastern Roman Empire. Byzantium opened all its ports to the Venetians. The lagoon city quickly developed into a state trading power of extraordinary wealth. Venice had an advantageous location for importing Asian goods into central Europe via the Adriatic, far more convenient than sailing all the way around Africa or Gibraltar to London or Holland.

The resourceful Venetian traders assisted ships carrying silks, spices, tea, sugar into Europe from Asia. Essentially, all trade between East and West came through Venice. Venice accumulated a large trade surplus, which was held in gold. Eventually the glass factories were moved to the island of Murano, which became the Costantini legacy of Venetian Glass that we know today.

After the fall of the Roman Empire in 467 AD, gold production was suspended throughout Europe, and Constantinople was the only city that minted gold coins. This suspension of gold production is said to be a primary cause of the “Dark Ages” recession in the Western Europe for about a thousand years.

Pyramid of Control

The Venetian Black Nobility families who have secretly ruled the world for centuries may include some or all of these names (alphabetical):

• Aldobrandini
• Borgia
• Breakspear
• Conti
• Chigi
• Colonna
• Guelf- Ghibelline
• Medici
• Gaetani
• Pamphili
• Este
• Farnese
• Orsini
• Pallavicini
• Somaglia

Conscious Capitalism is a gold or asset-backed global digital networked economy through decentralized local groups of like-minded people, where groups organize to be partly moneyless and partly self-sufficient, with larger resources shared in common and carefully managed. Read more…

Conscious Capitalism resolves the inequalities of Adam Smith’s “Wealth of Nations”. It assumes the total elimination of the self-serving elite class system, through catastrophic crash or slow disintegration. A policy of non-secretive open book accounting gives transparent public access to all banking and financial information. A digital trade system allows a separate cash exchange rate for each country, and optional moneyless barter exchange by contract agreement. Large accumulations of wealth are not allowed – accumulated assets over a certain limit are recycled back to the common people.  

In the future, society’s success should be measured not by GNP, but by some other measure, maybe health, education level, wisdom, longevity, or even better – GNH Gross National Happiness like they do in Bhutan!