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The Rothschild Zionist Banksters... Why They Love Making War! Search

4:49 / 43:33The Rothschild Zionist Banksters... Why They Love Making War! AshwaqSubscribe827Add to Share More45,820 views958 40ShareEmbedEmail Start at: Published on Jun 12, 2015The Rothschild Zionist Banksters... Why They Love Making War! All credit for this video must go to Zane Henry and Michael Rivero. I only re-uploaded it to help get the word out about the people killing all of us for money. The Bankers! . Written and spoken by Michael Rivero. The written version is here: http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTI... Original Video: All Wars Are Bankers' Wars http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hfEBu... Video by Zane Henry. This video is in the public domain. The producers have waived their copyright to this video. Listen to a post production conversation between the producers by clicking on this mp3: https://soundcloud.com/eonitao-state/... You are welcome to make copies and to distribute this video freely. A free downloader is available here: http://www.dvdvideosoft.com/products/... You might need this CD burner application (because the above application might be a little buggy) http://www.2download.co/cdburnerxp.ht... If you have a PC you can use the above link (download the software first) to download it and burn it to a DVD and it is easy to do it. It is for your friends that don't have a computer and may have a DVD player instead or to give out to the public as a form of activism. If you have a Mac you need a Mac compatible YouTube downloader and you will have to use iMovie or somtn to do it. If you have any trouble you may write to me or search YouTube for tech answers. If you would rather have someone do it for you go here for DVDs (really affordable): http://www.dollardvdprojectliberty.comCategoryLicenseCreated usingSource videosEducationStandard YouTube LicenseYouTube Video EditorView attributionsSHOW LESSCOMMENTS • 324 Add a public comment...Top comments Master of Zero10 months agoWhy are these Rothschild rats even aloud to live ??Reply 66  View all 50 replies ST I1 day agoSeriously this is tin-foil hat stuff. The Rothschilds financed the battle of Waterloo. That was not a banker's war that was a war of domination in which our side (British/US/Aus/NZ/British Canada) was victorious. I find it really sad that this sort of stuff gets traction. If people learnt History in schools it just would not happen. The bigger story is why do people not learn history in schools .Reply   Gina Brosman1 year agoThe Blood Sucking ROTHSCHIDS have stolen trillions from America!!!!Reply 40  View all 36 replies Arthur Fiorillo5 days agoDead flies make a perfumer's oil stink, so a little foolishness is weightier than wisdom and honor. 2A wise man's heart directs him toward the right, but the foolish man's heart directs him toward the left. 3Even when the fool walks along the road, his sense is lacking and he demonstrates to everyone that he is a fool.…we know how you walk down the street FOOL!Reply 1   jdareyah1 month agoOne of the first places the Zionist Rothschilds had their Central Bank was in Germany. Matter of Fact Rothschild is a German name meaning Red Shield which they adopted. With that said, anyone who thinks Hitler was at odds against the Jewish bankers/People is completely clueless of history. It was Jews who put Hitler in Power, it was jews who financed Hitler and Hitler worked for Jews. Also NAZi is short for AshkeNAZI and also National Zionism....The Jews were the NAZIS'. Let go a little deeper, The USA after WW2 under code name Project paperclip brought NAZI scientists to the USA to perform experiments, and so forth in  which we get NASA. But here is the $6 million question. Why would Jews who run our govt (USA) bring NAZI (Their supposed enemy) to the land they control as a ally? Unless they wasn't enemies at all and were the same people.....Jews are NAZI, NAZi are Jews. Lastly, Hitler was raised by Jews (adopted) look it up. He was their puppet just like Trump, Obama, Clintons, Bush and all other so called world leadersRead moreReply 27  View all 27 replies wuteva341 year agoWar = PROFIT Reply 20   Andre EWERT1 month agoBankers Motto: we don't make Wars, we fund them...lolReply 19  View all 5 replies Stan Dalby1 week agoAndre EWERT Macmillan, New York, p. 326 * When people of this class are stricken by guilt feelings while plotting world wars and economic depressions which will bring misery, suffering and death to millions of the world’s inhabitants, they sometimes have qualms. These qualms are jeered at by their peers as "a failure of nerve". After a bout with their psychiatrists, they return to their work with renewed gusto, with no further digressions of pity for "the little people" who are to be their victims.  Carroll Quigley : Tragedy & Hope   The Ultimate Bankster Quote – from a former Governor of the Bank of England (1920 – 1944) Posted on April 4, 2011 | 32 Comments “Capital must protect itself in every possible way, both by combination and legislation. Debts must be collected, mortgages foreclosed as rapidly as possible. “When, through process of law, the common people lose their homes, they will become more docile and more easily governed through the strong arm of the government applied by a central power of wealth under leading financiers. “These truths are well known among our principal men, who are now engaged in forming an imperialism to govern the world. By dividing the voter through the political party system, we can get them to expend their energies in fighting for questions of no importance. “It is thus, by discrete action, we can secure for ourselves that which has been so well planned and so successfully accomplished.”Read moreReply   C Brown5 days agoI remember that one! As; It's not what your country can do for you; It's what you can do for your country! Trump's doing, exactly that ~ for his country!Reply 1   istt4 months agoThis video nicely ties everything together.Reply 18   Garrielee Peck11 months agodisgusting  look at are countries  now these fucking family's  I hope one day the people  will wake up and say enough  is enough  of all this they should be all in bloody prison these couple family's are destroying  billions  of people  livesReply 16  View all 8 replies s galax1 week agoGarrielee Peck entire human history are manipulated by this rots leeches unless people start realising this they are gonna get washed into drains.....Reply 2   Kami Khan1 month agoExcellent Very informative video.Reply 9   David Adams1 week agoKami Khan does anyone have a good answer to these bankster s I do .it's called order1776.Reply 3   Rubin Schmidt4 days agoDavid Adams... Another "Declaration" ???Reply   Mr4thetruth9 months ago (edited)Watched this video several times, each time it gets better.Reply 9   Rebecca Sanchez1 month agoMr4thetruth   That is just what I am doing.   History explained beautifully.Reply 8   apokalypse 20162 weeks agoits a great video , giving phantastic informations ....Reply 2   Jack Rizzo1 week agoI can't believe I found this video by accident. I have believed every word of this for years after doing my own research. I can't really add anything to this as it is perfect. You can indeed research everything in this video on your own and find the truth in every bit of it because I have over the last 10 years. When I saw Assad had banned the dollar in Syria in 2013 because his own currency was hyper inflating I knew instantly we would be accusing him of being a tyrant and going into Syria to kill him. Im sorry guys but the truth is the US has not been the good guys for a long time. Our military works for the banking cartel and they invade sovereign nations and kill leaders and install their own puppet governments under false claims and propaganda. Its disgusting.Read moreReply 5   donald clark2 weeks agoJared Kushner is a AshkeNAZI jew Rothschilds zionistReply 5  View all 3 replies donald clark2 days agoYes and they are many of them too.Reply   qB Hawk1 month agoOnly 25 people has watched this? Must be common knowledge - it just was not taught this way in our school system. Everyone is hypnotized at birth, to not know who they are.Where did we come from and why are we here. It's like the blind came here to lead the blind when the answer is always in the mirror. History has repeated its message to capitalist ... A word that has hidden meanings. That is as above is below KARMAReply 5   Pure Water2 weeks agoAlternative Media is a treasure !!! I used to live, unconsciously, in a ring of lies.Reply 4   Richard Barton2 days agoyou have no idea how deep the rabbit hole truly goes...you can start learning right here: www.annavonreitz.comReply   SkylineToTheSeaAndMe1 month ago (edited)The "money junkies" obviously aren't money junkies for the sake of money. They are money junkies to wield power and control over nations, governments, and people (politicians mainly). This is has it has always been. Money buys power and control. Their goal is that of the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion: An entire planet governed by Jewish Zionist hegemony (Monarchs) as they believe their destiny "granted by God" entails.    "Zionist Plans for World Domination": Baruch Levy, Letter to Karl Marx, La Revue de Paris, p. 54, June 1, 1928 Address of the Jew Laventria Beria, The Communist Textbook on Psychopolitics, page 8: “Use the courts, use the judges, use the constitution of the country, use its medical societies and its laws to further our ends. Do not stint in your labor in this direction. And when you have succeeded you will discover that you can now effect your own legislation at will and you can, by careful organization, by constant campaigns about the terrors of society, by pretense as to your effectiveness, make the capitalist himself, by his own appropriation, finance a large portion of the quiet Communist conquest of that nation.” “The Jewish people as a whole will be its own Messiah. It will attain world dominion by the dissolution of other races, by the abolition of frontiers, the annihilation of monarchy, and by the establishment of a world republic in which the Jews will everywhere exercise the privilege of citizenship. In this new world order the Children of Israel will furnish all the leaders without encountering opposition. The Governments of the different peoples forming the world republic will fall without difficulty into the hands of the Jews. It will then be possible for the Jewish rulers to abolish private property, and everywhere to make use of the resources of the state. Thus will the promise of the Talmud be fulfilled, in which is said that when the Messianic time is come the Jews will have all the property of the whole world in their hands.”Read moreReply 4  View all 5 replies John Pallyswine2 days agoRivero = a Spanish Catholic descent whose ancestors INVADED, EXTERMINATED, RAPED , DISPLACED and murdered innocent natives of the AMERICAS.   The muSSlim loves to invade and killReply   John Pallyswine2 days agoI LOVE ZIONISM. The only good muSSlim is a dead muSSlim Rivero = a Spanish Catholic descent whose ancestors INVADED, EXTERMINATED, RAPED , DISPLACED and murdered innocent natives of the AMERICAS.   The muSSlim loves to invade and killReply   Ashwaq1 year agoReply 4  View all 4 replies apokalypse 20162 weeks agowir deutschen patrioten werden uns in zukunft im amerikan. netz austauschen müssen , wenn das mit dem größenwahnsinnigen maasloch so weiter geht .... brd = ddr2 ... brd = stasi-diktatur .... kennst du die berühmte und schockierende rede von rabinovich ???.... google :  REDE -- RABBI -- RABINOVICH -- 1952 .... bitte abspeichern und verbreiten !!!! .... hier noch ein paar video-tips auf youtube : HEIL  MERKEL !!!! ...... MONIKA  SCHAEFER -- HOLOCAUST .... DER  HOLOKLAUS ..... VICTOR  THORN -- HOLOCAUST .... URSULA  HAVERBECK -- INTERVIEW  PANORAMA .... DAVID  COLE -- AUSCHWITZ ..... ERNST  ZÜNDEL -- DAVID  COLE ....Read moreReply 1   Andrew_koala2 weeks ago+Bubba Rogowski There is no apostrophe in Videos ( placing an apostrophe makes it VIDEO IS) Do you even know what an apostrophe is used for ? And Yes I already know about the videos you mentioned. And read more books to improve your English. And it wasn't the LAST war year 1945. Neither was it the LAST. Last means LAST - meaning no more to come -- That is what LAST means. Look up in the dictionary the meaning of the word  PREVIOUS ...Read moreReply   Lupita Cadena2 weeks agoThe Jews, the Rothschild's have been the cancer of humanity for many centuries. The Jews are known to be greedy, liars, murderers, road robbers, impersonators, thieves, diabolical manipulators, mind controllers who have position themselves in the highest echelons of the US society to suck the wealth of the whole nation and make us go and fight wars for their Zionist dream of Greater Israel, the New World Order and the conquest of the whole world.Reply 3   Larisa Vetrova2 weeks agoA remarkable video and most convincing - Yes, it sounds like there are only two classes of citizens: the Rulers-Murderers & the Slaves. Pityful and Yes Hitler did an astounding job for Germany  between 1933 and 1938 when the US had been for a decade enslaved by a botched "New Deal" orchestrated by FDR and Wall StreetReply 3   mr halvi2 weeks agoAmerica has never been great the only  thing that comes out of Jewmerica is Lust Greed and war and everybody's  a fucking hero. can't wait for Hollywood to fall into the sea. and if you think Trump is going to save you, dream the impossible dream. and Clinton that fucking old cunt should be shot. the Globalists have everyone in their sites and the destruction of America is happening from within and in order for the NWO to happen America has to be destroyed and this is happening right NOW. But don't give up hope there's a PILL for everything that's wrong with America, I couldn't begin to imagine what would be happening in the country if there was no internet or iPhone (poof) no more service and what about the Pharmacy if they all of a sudden didn't have pills for the 92% of Americans on some kind of pill. They have been making movies about this for some time now. and the latest was WWz. The Jews have almost succeeded in total control just ask brother Nathanel the convert I mean the paid actor. When everyone wakes up it will be too late. Trump is receiving bad intel big mistake #  bombing. war is eminent. Trump cannot stop what is about to happen but he will be blamed for it.Read moreReply 3  View all 6 replies mr halvi1 week agoThe federal reserve is the main part of the swamp, they should be charged with crimes against humanity.Reply 1   mr halvi1 week agoPersonally . I don't think The Trumpster can drain the swamp. it's to big and dirty on both sides, the only way is to pull an Adolf. Rumor has it Trump ran to position himself and his family for what's to come. does anybody really believe the elite will allow Trump to change their lifestyle , they'll play him like a deck of cards and force him to war just like in 1939.Reply   Cheyenne Sellers5 days agoSo in a nutshell, the Jew Banksters will start a war if a country does not accept a Rothschild owned private Central Bank to lend money with interest to the country's government. This is what is happening in Syria today. Assad did not want a private Central Bank in his country, but relented to try to keep the peace. Didn't work out for Assad because the Jew Banksters were not happy - now they want two very profitable pipelines run through Syria. Also, North Korea doesn't want a Rothschild Central Bank and neither does Iran. The Jew Bankers are chomping at the bit to start a war with these two countries in the near future. If North Korea and Iran fall to the Jew Banksters, the financial arm of the New World Order will be complete.Read moreReply 2   Susan Miller2 days agoCheyenne Sellers also, the US dollar is only as valuable as the petrodollar system is on any given day - a system which helps line the vaults of these central banks... Qaddafi wanted to dump the petrodollar before he was overthrown.Reply   Douglas Kay2 weeks agoMost of us have known this for years but pointing out facts to the majority is a waste of time.Reply 2  Show moreAutoplay  Up nextBanksters - William Black tells the real truthMyfisto Pheles182,854 views8:06TRUMP IS THE SWAMP: Trump's Jewish Elite MAFIA and The 5 Dancing Israelis (2017)TruthMediaRevolution338,210 views24:04JFK Jr Unbelievable Cover-Up DocumentaryWorld Documentaries Channel1,046,240 views1:43:56Goy Guide To World History Part 1 - 7Veritas Vincit Omnia61,288 views2:47:08The men who crashed the worldFauzInfoVids3,407,873 views42:31A 6000 Year History Of The Jew World Order

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SaaS vs. On-Premise: Which CRM Solution is Better For You?

SaaS CRM, CRM free, CRM software...?

While several new business software technologies are catching the media buzz – including social CRM, Hosted CRM, open source CRM, customer experience management, mobile CRM, CRM free, SaaS CRM, crm software and business intelligence solutions – none seem to match the confidence in continued growth as the combination of software-as-a-service and cloud computing. "Cloud Software as a Service (SaaS) offerings continue to grow impressively," affirms Ahmar Abbas, SVP, remote infrastructure management of CSS Corp., a global IT company. "SaaS-only vendors have risen in all key software domains and have successfully challenged the packaged software application companies." There are solid reasons for such widespread and enthusiastic adoption rates. "The virtues of a hosted solution are legendary," says Bill Johnson, CEO of Jesubi. "SaaS providers hardware is consistently upgraded and amortized against thousands of other customers; software upgrades happen dynamically with no involvement from the end-user; response times allow for end-user success; and there are no incremental service fees to manage the hardware infrastructure or break-fix issues." "It's too common-sensical in today's economy to do anything other than a hosted solution," suggests Johnson. It appears that companies from large to small are quick to seize these advantages and learn from the experience. "According to our most recent survey, cloud and SaaS are still gaining market share, and a lot of the myths are being shaken off," explains Shari Lava, senior research analyst for Info-Tech Research. "The total cost of ownership (TCO) is about the same after three years – so don't make your decision based on that," she advises. "And SaaS products have nearly equal functionality." Considering myths have been busted and the old rules of thumb have been given the finger, how is one to know whether or not to thumb a ride on the cloud computing and SaaS CRM bandwagon? Info-Tech's Lava breaks it down this way: Choose CRM SaaS if … There is a lack of executive support or CRM strategy and you need a departmental solution right away. You need to speed up the customer relationship management implementation process. You need a business software solution right now that can grow with you as needed. A lot of companies that went through a failed big-bang CRM project are trying SaaS CRM, but are doing so cautiously and want to see results before they continue their roll outs. You have too few IT staff available to support and administrate the business system over the long term. You have no disaster recovery plan for CRM so keeping it on someone else's locations seems smart. Little offline capability is needed. Choose On-Premise or Hosted CRM if … There is a legislative or regulatory requirement to host your own data or keep it in a certain jurisdiction. You require complex system integration with large data volumes. Info-Tech's survey suggests that customers are still having some trouble getting the kind of tight integration mid-size and large companies need. Solving this challenge is key for SaaS CRM solutions to continue to move up market. Data integration can be tricky enough to begin with, but there are several factors that complicate it further, such as large data volumes integrated across the web and firewall configuration issues. You want to align CRM software with your existing Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software system and the on-premise product is different or superior. Heavy offline capability is required. In Defend Hosting we provide both types of solutions: SaaS CRM (CRM as a service). You can read here more information or click here to go directly to our specialized CRM site IncomeCRM.com Hosted CRM. We can install and maintain your CRM free or CRM software on premise or hosted in our datacenters, with our Virtual Private Servers or Dedicated Servers.  

Top 5 Rewards of SaaS CRM

Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). It’s no coincidence that the last SaaS risk may actually be a SaaS reward. SaaS entry costs are certainly lower and SaaS converts capital expenditures into operational expenses (capex to opex). Studies form analyst firms such as Yankee Group and Gartner have illustrated that even with the recurring nature of the SaaS subscription model, the cumulative effect of subscriptions may still be much less than the one-time capital expenditure associated with on-premise CRM systems.Verification strategy: As suggested, to determine whether SaaS TCO is a risk or a reward, create a multiple year cash projection that is reflective of your organizational environment. For on-premise systems, don’t shortchange the calculation by failing to include real world expenses such as computer hardware, redundant systems, platform software (such as databases, operating systems, backup programs, etc.), application software annual maintenance fees, and labor associated with system administration, database administration, near annual system upgrades, information security and IT trouble-shooting. Also remember that hardware must be upgraded or recycled about every three years. Realistic cost projections should also include the management time involved with operating in house information systems. Focus on Core Competencies. It’s been my observation that this SaaS reward varies in importance by region; being a top purchase criteria in America and one of a top 3 or 4 in the Middle East, Latin America and Eastern Europe. In a conversation I had with Gartner’s Rob Desisto, he commented that cost is not the primary decision criteria for SaaS, instead limited resources and time to market are the most influential factors. Clearly, outsourcing a non-core competency such as business software administration to outside experts removes what is often viewed as a headache function and reallocates management time to more critical areas.Verification strategy: SaaS providers manage the IT infrastructure, delivery platform, maintenance releases, new version upgrades, backups, disaster recovery and information security. Even though these functions are handled by the provider, IT buyers are wise to understand these processes and in particular their frequency and how they may affect the customers utilization of the application. Predictable Expenses. SaaS pricing models are normally per user per month subscriptions. This type of utility based pricing is simple, predictable and reduces cost surprises and overruns.Verification strategy: The caveat here is to avoid shelfware, or maybe its now called cloudware. Vendors often require customers to prepay SaaS subscriptions in order to secure aggressive discounts. While such a move may be financially worthwhile, it is generally cost ineffective to pay for user subscriptions prior to the go-live cut-over or before those users come online. Instead, defer most user subscriptions during the implementation period and agree to a schedule whereby subscriptions are activated as users begin using the system. Accelerated Time To Market. With no hardware to implement and no software to install, SaaS deployments are much faster than on-premise CRM software implementations. Due in part to their browser-based interfaces and intuitive navigation, on-demand systems often also achieve a shorter learning curve and more successful user adoption.Verification strategy: Implementation consultants are very valuable, but expensive. A time and cost implementation comparison between SaaS and on-premise deployments will reveal the cost savings. Business Agility. SaaS applications permit companies to scale up or down their user count or software utilization on-demand. This is a big change from on-premise systems which require IT departments to purchase, implement and forever manage expensive IT infrastructures ‘just in case’ they’re needed – and provides no refunds or credits if the company doesn’t grow according to projections or reduces staff.Verification strategy: Make sure you don’t turn this SaaS reward into a risk with a vendor contract that imposes minimum user counts or penalties for subscription reductions. Focusing on risks and rewards which deliver bottom line business impact, and not getting sidetracked into the nebulous techno jargon, will aid business and IT buyers in determining whether SaaS CRM software systems make the best business sense for their organisations.   Read the full article

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My thoughts on A Calculus of Angels (book 2 of the Age of Unreason series)

Okay, holy hell this was a good one, Greg definitely improved from the first book and it really shows. The characters are better written and more interesting, the tech has been expanded and we even have a new villain and side characters! While the first book swapped the focus between Adrienne and Ben with a chapter about one and the next about the other, this book does the same but also throws in our new deuteragonist Red Shoes the Choctaw shaman, with everyone pretty much coming together in the same place near the end. So now that we've got the intro out of the way, let's hit the major points!

Setting and pacing: Taking place 3 years after the first book, we find ourselves in a post apocalyptic world after the massive meteor fell wiping out Britain, France, and the Netherlands and throwing the rest of the world into disjointed chaos. For Countries like Italy and what's left of France, there are no rulers, only people leading small, scattered factions (except for Venice, having the Sultan of Turkey).

In the three years Adrienne has since given birth to Nicholas' son, whom she named after him; along with her and Crecy finally finding safety with a faction lead by The Duke of Loraine and an old friend of Nicholas'.

Ben, Sir Isaac, and Robert are now in Prague working for the emperor in exchange for being able to live there. After a failed kidnapping by Russians, Ben finds himself with a new bodyguard in the form of Captain Peter Frisk.

Back in America Red Shoes, an ambassador of the Choctaw people, decides to join Blackbeard, now trying to become a governor for a North Carolina settlement, in order to convince the settlers to end their hostility towards the Choctaw and see if anything is left of the Old World.

The pacing has gotten much better since the first book, it no longer feels like a chore to read through certain chapters and things move more quickly with better focus on more important situations while mixing in some verbal humor and period-scentric sarcasm.

Characters: Our main duo have grown a lot in the past three years. Ben, now 17, has grown to be like any other hormonal teen, he's had to run for his life from a man whose daughter he slept with; he's made, as Robert puts it "Jesus shoes", a pair of shoes that allow him to stand and walk/run on water (something he loves to show off); and, sadly, his pride and ego have taken hold of him when he isn't blaming himself for what happened to London. He also has a few rather adorable moments with the Emperor's five year old daughter, clearing his name by convincing her that an evil shape-shifting sorcerer who wishes to kill the emperor captured Ben, put him in coffin in the river, and disguising himself as Ben; until the real Ben used a magic potion to shrink to the size of a gnat and escape to tell her. His ability to come up with ideas on the fly has also gotten better, going from 'let's throw this thing and see if it works' to 'let's use kite lines to guide Kraftspistol shots and lightning at the airships.' Now if only he could work on trying to stop being so thick headed and understand things from another person's perspective, instead of doing shit like making Isaac cry...

Adrienne has taken some HELLA levels in badass. While in the first book she was a smart but boring damsel character (note: not a damsel in distress, she's never had to be rescued. But a damsel character that is mostly the boring but smart lady) she’s now a fighter and a loving mother with a strong sense of morality. SPOILER: when she learns that in the chaos of a town turned against them, six soldiers are attempting to rape a 13 year old girl, Adrienne grabs a pistol, bursts in bashing the men over the head, and commanding them to leave the girl alone or Adrienne herself would kill them. She also has new supernatural powers and the ability to speak to and control a Malakus (or Djinn, as she calls it) that can alter the alchemical elements and even connect and melt swords in a man's hands. This power actually earns the undying loyalty of the Duke's soldiers and the affections of Hercule D'Argenson, Nicholas' old friend. While also having a long budding relationship with Crecy, who is an absolute joy, especially when drunk.

Sir Isaac Newton has kinda become that "good job, son" guy to Ben, caring for him very deeply but estranging himself because, as anyone who's read about him knows, Newton was never exactly a very sociable person (his soured relationship with Fatio also DIDN’T help); Ben even gets in a spat calling him out on this before the final battle when Isaac wants to flee Venice and take Ben with him. They end up forgiving each other when Newton changes his mind at the last second and rescues Ben, Robert, and Charles from Peter's skyship after the battle leaves it sinking quickly, leading to a touchingly sweet hug between master and apprentice. However, his standoff-ishness has pushed him out of focus compared to the first book in order for Ben to come in more.

Red Shoes has, sadly, taken on the semi-damsel role. He's powerful and likable with many wondrous powers that tie in closely with his native heritage; but at times he can be a bit dull in the personality section. But the personality flaw is overshadowed by damn near everything else about him, especially once he forms a close bond with Tug, who after Red Shoes rescues them from a torturous death cult, views him as the bravest man in Blackbeard's crew and a dear friend. He's your wise, powerful, strong native man that was able to beat the ever loving shit out of a cult as they were trying to torture him, all while having to fight off the demons that follow him and the various levels of trauma that comes with the death of his Shadow Children (familiars that he conjures from his own soul at the cost of his mental and spiritual health).

Peter the Great follows the same formula of Louis, he's a villain that won't hesitate to torture his own son, even if it pains him, but he's also quite friendly and understanding to Adrienne, Crecy, and their group, even being described as having a childlike hunger for exploration and love of showing people his many inventions such the flying airships. You can definitely see the antagonist side but it's counteracted by his general affability and modesty (while Louis would be decked out in gold, jewels and everything kingly; Peter prefers common uniforms that don't even show a rank much less the fact that he's the Tsar). I can't really say if this is even close to an accurate portrayal seeing as how I know more about Karl XII than Peter; speaking of which.

Peter Frisk/Charles XII (I would say spoiler, but just google Karl XII and you'll figure this out after like, 2 minutes on wikipedia) is portrayed as the (depending on who you ask) gloriously beautiful disaster of a train wreck that he was. Going from king to essentially babysitter of a monarchy hating teenager and his often drunk friend for a few months all while dealing with assassination attempts, kidnapping attempts, and the eventual invasion of Prague; he's relatively calm and friendly towards Ben until the big reveal and final battle. In the last stand against the Russians we see everything Charles is famous for. His near inhuman skills as tactician with an idea Ben came up with on the spot, the almost reckless gusto that drove him to charge into every battle even after his defeat at Poltava, his ability to skyrocket morale when everybody wants to run and leave him to either flee or be captured. And when he finally gets near Peter all of his built up anger explodes turning his axe-crazy ferocity up to eleven, one scene basically describing him as a cyclone of blood as his blade damn near decapitates and slaughters everyone in his way; even a historically accurate moment where he catches and enemy blade with his hand before brutally semi-beheading the sword's wielder (the grabbing blade part, not the decapitation). In the end, we also see his trustworthiness, when he keeps his word to the people of Venice, paying them in compensation for the losses of life and collateral damages before heading off to find Peter again because Charles, even in reality, was pretty much a Swedish JRPG protagonist with an unending rivalry/vendetta against Peter.

End thoughts: This volume was damn good, like I said before and I can but can't wait to read the next one. I can wait because I'll let this text thread I sent to Lucky speak for itself: 

On a side note, I think the reason this series has impacted me more than something like say, Skulduggery Pleasant, is because of the fandom. I think there's only myself and maybe two other people in here, we're basically the book version of the Bravestarr fandom; two people and a shoestring with no fanfics and only one piece of fanart. Because of the lack of content and a wikipedia page that can barely even be called that, I'm stuck going in completely blind. I don't know whose going to die or how the battles will play out and reading through some chapters actually had me gripping my hands and damn near curling in on the computer and I love it!

While the SP fandom is much larger and I can't really filter out book 8 and 9 spoilers because they've been out so long and anyone and their mother could find out everything by browsing the tag or going straight to the fan-made wiki, so while a character's death may hurt it doesn't have the same 'throw the book against the wall screaming' effect on me as The Age of Unreason series does.

All in all, I stand by my point, I'm stuck between wanting to hug Greg Keyes and wanting punch him, he knows how to tug your heart strings and drag you in by them, my tears are probably feeding him and god help us all if you get him, Derek Landy, and George R.R Martin in the same room to come up with a story. please check out this series, I need people to talk to.