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Senseless War, Part 1: Owen Wister’s 1915 book “The Pentecost of Calamity,” about Germany  

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The Pentecost of Calamity (background – first fleet)

Introduction by Mary W Maxwell, LLB

Today is Australia Day, 2022, with the country turning 21, calculating by the date of Federation as 1901. Have we grown up?  I think we started to grow up during the pandemic. The editor of GumshoeNews.com, Ms Dee McLachlan, is preparing an Australia Day video to celebrate the maturing of our brains. It can’t be played on the day, today, as a heat wave in Melbourne is causing Dee to mount a personal “industrial action.”

Thus I asked her if we could run a short series on war, as that’s what’s on everyone’s minds, thanks to the US provoking Russia over the matter of Ukraine. (See James O’Neill’s backgrounders on that here. and here)

A regular commenter at Gumshoe, the well-read Julius Skoolafish, has been peppering us with links to outstanding studies of World War I.  Some of the best coverage appeared at the time. See my review of Emile Dillon’s The Inside story of the Peace Conference.  Dillon was indeed there.

One lead from Skoolafish (presumably not is real name?) caused me to order a copy of the book The Pentecost of Calamity by Owen Wister.  The used-book website (abebooks.com) warned that the condition of Wister’s book was “fair.” On its arrival I saw that it was printed in 1916, so the fair condition was rally excellent, considering.

I enjoyed it but hasten t say that I do not know Wister’s background. You can form an opinion from the text below.  Today’s Part 1 blames the Prussia-fication of Germany, starting in 1870, — which Wister himself witnessed. I am unable to say if his analysis is accurate.

Normally we don’t publish an item at Gumshoe if we haven’t looked into it.  However, I claim that Wister’s views are worth reading just for the exercise of it. Unlike Emile Dillon who analyzed the 1919 Peace Conference with an eye to realpolitik, Wister’s approach is cultural.

Try this sample today and in due course we will present more of this 1915 book. (Copyright no bar!). If you can’t wait for the next installment, hurry over to gutenberg.org which is where it is all pdf’d nicely.

This begins where the author has just attended an opera in Frankfurt, where the audience was largely made up of children age 10 to 15.

From Owen Wister’s The Pentecost of Calamity, Chapters 4, 5, 6, and 9, abridged:

IV

The overture began. “Hush!” went several little voices; the sprightly, expectant Babel fell to silence; they listened like a congregation in church.

Then the curtain rose. It was a gay old opera, tuneful, full of boisterous, innocent comedy and simple sentiment. Not Gluck this time; Gluck would have been a trifle severe for their young understandings. The enthusiasm and the attention of these boys and girls, with their clapping of hands and their laughter, soon affected the spirits of the singers as a radiant day in spring; it affected me. I envied the happy parents who had their children round them; it was like some sort of wonderful April light. Beneath it the quaint, sweet old opera shone like a fruit tree in blossom. The actors became as children again themselves; so did the fiddlers; so did the conductor. I doubt if that little old opera, Czaar und Zimmermann, had ever felt younger in its life; and I thought if the spirit of Goethe were watching Frankfurt, his city, to-day, it would add a new happiness to a moment of his Eternity.

Between the acts I was full of questions. What occasion was this? I read the program, wherein was set forth a most interesting account of the composer—his character, life and adventures, with a historic account also of Peter the Great, the hero of the opera; but nothing about the occasion. So in the lobby I addressed myself to a group of the men I had seen dotted among the rows of children. The men were schoolmasters. The occasion was an experiment. The children were of the public schools of Frankfurt—not the oldest scholars, but the middle grades of the schools. For the oldest, Frankfurt had already provided opera days, but this was the first ever given for these younger boys and girls. The cost was twelve-and-a-half cents a seat. If it proved a success, a second would follow in two weeks. At the theater, throughout each winter school term, plays were given expressly for them in this way—the great German classics; but never any opera before to-day.

Well, the performance went on; but I was obliged, near the end of it, to hasten away to my train for Nauheim, most reluctantly leaving the sight and company of those two thousand joyous children of the Frankfurt public schools. “Rosy cheeks predominated; eyeglasses were rare.”—Again I quote from my own diary:—”The children seemed between ten and fifteen. The boys had good foreheads and big backs to their heads.”

V

Nothing can efface this memory, nothing can efface the whole impression of Germany; in retrospect this picture rises clear—the fair aspect and order of the country and the cities, the well-being of the people, their contented faces, their grave adequacy, their kindliness; and, crowning all material prosperity, the feeling for beauty as shown by their gardens, and, better and more important still, the reverent value for their great native poets and musicians, so attentive, so cherishing, seeing to it that the young generation began early its acquaintance with the masterpieces that are Germany’s heritage of inspiration.

Such was the splendor of this empire as it unrolled before me through May and June, 1914, that by contrast the state of its two great neighbors, France and England, seemed distressing and unenviable. Paris was shabby and incoherent, London full of unrest. Instead of Germany’s order, confusion prevailed in France; instead of Germany’s placidity, disturbance prevailed in England; and in both France and England incompetence seemed the chief note. The French face, alike in city or country, was too often a face of worried sadness or revolt; men spoke of political scandals and dissensions petty and unpatriotic in spirit, and a political trial, revealing depths of every sort of baseness and dishonor, filled the newspapers; while in England, besides discord of suffrage and discord of labor, civil war seemed so imminent that no one would have been surprised to hear of it any day.

So that I thought: Suppose a soul, arrived on earth from another world, wholly ignorant of earth, without any mortal ties whatever, were given its choice after a survey of the nations, which it should be born in and belong to? In May, June and July, 1914, my choice would have been, not France, not England, not America, but Germany.

It was on the seventh day of June, 1914, that Frankfurt assembled her school children in the opera house, to further their taste and understanding of Germany’s supreme national art. Exactly eleven months later, on May 7, 1915, a German torpedo sank the Lusitania; and the cities of the Rhine celebrated this also for their school children.

VI

The world is in agony. We witness the most terrible catastrophe known to mankind—most terrible, not from its huge size, but because it is a moral catastrophe. Through centuries of suffering and cruelty, guided by religion, we thought we had attained to knowledge of and belief in a public right between nations, and an honorable warfare, if warfare must be. This has been shattered to pieces. No need to investigate further the atrocities at Liège or Louvain. These and more have indeed been amply proved, but what need of proof after the Lusitania school festival? In that holiday we see the feast of Kultur, the Teutonic climax. How came it to pass? Is it the same Germany who gave those two holidays to her school children? The opera in Frankfurt, and this orgy of barbaric blood-lust, guttural with the deep basses of the fathers and shrill with the trebles of their young? Their young, to whom they teach one day the gentle melodies of Lortzing, and to exult in world-assassination on another?

Goethe said—and the words glow with new prophetic light: “Germans are of yesterday; … a few centuries must still elapse before … it will be said of them, ‘It is long since they were barbarians.'” And again: “National hatred is a peculiar thing. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of Kultur.” But how came it to pass? Do the two holidays proceed from the same Kultur, the same Fatherland?

They do; and nothing in the whole story of mankind is more strange than the case of Germany—how Germany through generations has been carefully trained for this wild spring at the throat of Europe that she has made. The Servian assassination has nothing to do with it, save that it accidentally struck the hour. Months and years before that, Germany was crouching for her spring. In one respect the war she has incubated is the old assault of Xerxes, of Alexander, of Napoleon, of every one who has been visited by the dangerous dream of world conquest. Only, never before has the dream been taught to a people on such a scale, not merely because of the vast modern apparatus, but much more because no subjects of any despot have ever been so politically docile and credulous as the Germans.

In another respect this war resembles strikingly our own and the French Revolution. All three were prepared and fomented by books, by teachings from books. The American brain seized hold of certain doctrines and generalizations of Locke, Montesquieu, Burlamaqui and Beccaria concerning the rights of man and the consent of the governed. The French brain nourished and inspired itself with some theorems of the encyclopedists and of Rousseau about man’s natural innocence and the social contract. The Teutonic brain assimilated some diplomatic and philosophic precepts laid down by Machiavelli, Nietzsche and Treitschke. Indeed, Fichte, during the Winter of 1807-08, at the University of Berlin, made an address to the German people which may be accounted the first famous academic harbinger and source of the present Teutonic state of mind. Here the parallel stops. With America and France, war made way for independence, liberty and freedom, political and moral; Germany would establish everywhere her absolute military despotism. We shall reach in due course the full statement of her creed; we are not ready for it yet.

… The case of Germany is the Prussianizing of Germany. Long after all of us are gone, men will still be studying this war; and, whatever responsibility for it be apportioned among the nations, the huge weight and bulk of guilt will be laid on Prussia and the Hohenzollern—unless, indeed, it befall that Germany conquer the world and the Kaiser dictate his version of History to us all, suppressing all other versions, as he has conducted the training of his subjects since 1888. But this will not be; whatever comes first, this cannot be the end. If I believed that the earth would be Prussianized, life would cease to be desirable.

To me the whole case of Germany, the whole process, seems a fatalistic thing, destined, inevitable; cosmic forces above and beyond men’s comprehension flooding this northern land with their high tide, as once they flooded southern coasts; giving to this Teuton race its turn, its day, its hour of white heat and of bloom, its temperamental greatness, its strength and excess of vital sap, intellectual, procreative—all this grandeur to be hurled into tragedy by its own action.

The process goes back a long way behind Napoleon—who stayed it for a while—to years when we see the Germany of the Reformation, Poetry, Music, the grand Germany, blossoming in the very same moment that the Prussian poison was also germinating. About 1830, Heine perceived and wrote scornfully concerning the new and evil influence. This was a germination of state and family ambition combined, fermenting at last into lust for world dominion. It grows quite visible first in Frederick the Great. By him the Prussian state of mind and international ethics began to be formulated. By force and fraud he annexed weak peoples’ territory. He cut Poland’s body in three, blasphemously inviting Russia and Austria to partake with him of his Eucharist.

Theft has followed theft since Frederick’s. His cynical, strong spirit guided Prussia after Waterloo, guided first the predecessor of Bismarck and next Bismarck himself, with his stealing of Schleswig-Holstein, his dishonest mutilation of the telegram at Ems and the subsequent rape of Alsace and Lorraine in 1870. Very plain it is to see now, and very sad, why the small separate German states that had indeed produced their giants—their Luthers, Goethes, Beethovens—but had always suffered military defeat, had been the shambles of their conquerors for centuries, should after 1870 hail their new-created Emperor. Had he not led them united to the first glory and conquest they had ever known? Had he not got them back Alsace and Lorraine, which France had stolen from them two hundred years ago? So they handed their soul to the Hohenzollern. This marks the beginning of the end.

IX

We can hardly emphasize too much, or sufficiently underline, the moral effect of 1870 on the German nature, the influence it had on the German mind. It is essential to a clear understanding of the full Prussianizing process that now set in. On the German’s innate docility and credulity many have dwelt, but few on what 1870 did to this. Only with Bismarck’s quick, tremendous victory over France as the final explanation is the abject and servile faith that the Germans thenceforth put in Prussia rendered conceivable to reason. They blindly swallowed the sham that Bismarck gave them as universal suffrage. They swallowed extreme political and military restraint. They swallowed a rigid compulsion in schools, which led to the excess in child suicide I have mentioned. They swallowed a state of life where outside the indicated limits almost nothing was permitted and almost everything was forbidden.

But all this proscription is merely material and has been attended by great material welfare. … Prussia put its uniform not only on German bodies but on their brains. Literature and music grew correspondingly sterilized. Drama, fiction, poetry and the comic papers became invaded by a new violence and a new, heavy obscenity. Impatience with the noble German classics was bred by Prussia. What wonder, since freedom was their essence?

Beethoven, after Napoleon made himself Emperor, tore off the dedication of his “Eroica” symphony to Napoleon. And Goethe had said: “Napoleon affords us an example of the danger of elevating oneself to the Absolute and sacrificing everything to the carrying out of an idea.” Goethe fell frankly out of date in Berlin. Symphony orchestras could no longer properly interpret Mozart and Beethoven. A strange blend of frivolity and bestiality began to pervade the whole realm of German art. Scientific eminence degenerated pari passu. No originator of the dimensions of Helmholtz was produced, but a herd of diligent and thorough workers-out of the ideas got from England—like the aniline dyes—or from France—like the Wassermann tests—and seldom credited to their sources. So poor grew the academic tone at Berlin that a Munich professor declined an offer of promotion thither.

For forty years German school children and university students sat in the thickening fumes that exhaled from Berlin, spread everywhere by professors chosen at the fountainhead. Any professor or editor who dared speak anything not dictated by Prussia, for German credulity to write down on its slate, was dealt with as a heretic.

Out of the fumes emerged three colossal shapes—the Super-man, the Super-race and the Super-state: the new Trinity of German worship.

[To be continued]

 

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  1. Erratum! Erratum!

    I did not mean the “prussia-reunification”. I meant the Prussiafication — apres Bismarck when, supposedly, the culture of Germany went Spartan-like. But that is covered in a later installment.

    By the way, whatever we decide about Owen Wister’s accuracy, at least we can’t blame him along that lines that he got his ideas about Germany from Hollywood, now, can we?

    And here’s a boast. I may have said it before. My maternal grandmother, a piano teacher, had a job in a cinema in the 20s, in Boston, playing background music to go along with “the talkies.”

  3. Thanks Mary – I now have a PDF for myself. I hadn’t come across this one.

    I am just up to Chapter II, and on page 18

    “America was ugly and shabby – made so by Americans; Germany was swept and garnished – made so by Germans.”

    Then he kinda sneaks up you …

    “Exactly eleven months later, on May 7, 1915, a German torpedo sank the Lusitania; and the cities of the Rhine celebrated this also for their school children.”

    […] but what need of proof after the Lusitania school festival?

    […] “this orgy of barbaric blood-lust”

    I think by now the author has declared himself … rather like Viscount Bryce [The Bryce report] talking about ‘Babies on Bayonets” or 911-collaborators going on about “the dancing Muslims”.
    I think we need to discuss the Lusitania, its carrying of weapons and ammunitions and Churchill’s personal involvement – and I think we need to find out a bit more about Mr Wister.
    There’s more – but I am hanging in there …

    “how Germany through generations has been carefully trained for this wild spring at the throat of Europe that she has made.”
    !!
    The Servian assassination has nothing to do with it, save that it accidentally struck the hour. Months and years before that, Germany was crouching for her spring.
    !!!!
    He writes well …

  4. “Suppose a soul, arrived on earth from another world, wholly ignorant of earth, without any mortal ties whatever, were given its choice after a survey of the nations, which it should be born in and belong to?”

    As a soul who has just arrived [figuratively] Mister Wister’s piece is intriguing. I have just read one or two other essays and books on various topics (not for this thread) and it is remarkable how convincing two diametrically opposing perspectives on any give topic can be. And no there are not multiple realities – only multiple narratives. If it is not true, it is not history.

    We need to bring Arthur Ponsonby’s “Falsehood in War-Time” back into this discussion.

    (Please get your PDF download to see proper formatting and indentation of quoted passages)

    From the preface:

    “Anne Morelli has summarized and systematized the contents of Ponsonby’s classic in “ten commandments of propaganda”:[7]”

    ‘1. We do not want war.
    ‘2. The opposite party alone is guilty of war.
    ‘3. The enemy is the face of the devil.
    ‘4. We defend a noble cause, not our own interest.
    ‘5. The enemy systematically commits cruelties; our mishaps are involuntary.
    ‘6. The enemy uses forbidden weapons.
    ‘7. We suffer small losses, those of the enemy are enormous.
    ‘8. Artists and intellectuals back our cause.
    ‘9. Our cause is sacred.
    ‘10. All who doubt our propaganda, are traitors.[8][9]

    […]
    Contents

    INTRODUCTION
    ‘1. THE COMMITMENT TO FRANCE [then re-read “carefully trained for this wild spring at the throat of Europe” and “Germany was crouching for her spring”]
    ‘2. SERBIA AND THE MURDER OF THE ARCHDUKE
    ‘3. THE INVASION OF BELGIUM AS A CAUSE OF THE GREAT WAR
    ‘4. GERMANY’S SOLE RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE WAR [ditto Chapter 1 note]
    ‘5. PASSAGE OF RUSSIAN TROOPS THROUGH GREAT BRITAIN
    ‘6. THE MUTILATED NURSE
    ‘7. THE CRIMINAL KAISER
    ‘8. THE BELGIAN BABY WITHOUT HANDS
    ‘9. THE LOUVAIN ALTAR-PIECE
    ‘10. THE CONTEMPTIBLE LITTLE ARMY
    ‘11. DEUTSCHLAND ÜBER ALLES
    ‘12. THE BABY OF COURBECK LOO
    ‘13. THE CRUCIFIED CANADIAN
    ‘14. THE SHOOTING OF THE FRANZÖSLING
    ‘15. LITTLE ALF’S STAMP COLLECTION
    ‘16. THE TATTOOED MAN
    ‘17. THE CORPSE FACTORY
    ‘18. THE BISHOP OF ZANZIBAR’S LETTER
    ‘19. THE GERMAN U-BOAT OUTRAGE
    ‘20. CONSTANTINOPLE
    ‘21. THE “LUSITANIA”
    ‘22. REPORT OF A BROKEN-UP MEETING
    ‘23. ATROCITY STORIES
    ‘24. FAKED PHOTOGRAPHS
    ‘25. THE DOCTORING OF OFFICIAL PAPERS
    ‘26. HYPOCRITICAL INDIGNATION
    ‘27. OTHER LIES
    ‘28. THE MANUFACTURE OF NEWS
    ‘29. WAR AIMS
    ‘30. FOREIGN LIES

    • In Chapter 21 “LUSITANIA” Ponsonby writes

      [Please see your PDF download for proper formatting and indentation of quoted passages]

      […]

      “(d) The event having been condemned as a barbarous act of piracy, it became necessary to show that the Germans gloried in it.

      The first rumour was that a special medal had been bestowed on the crew of the U-boat which sunk the Lusitania as a reward for gallantry. This was dropped when the medal turned out to be a commemoration medal, not a decoration.

      It was then stated that the German Government had had a medal struck in commemoration of the event, but after the armistice had it withdrawn from circulation. In 1919 it was found in a shop in Berlin. In 1920 a traveller in Berlin, Frankfurt, and other parts of Germany could find no one who had ever heard of it or seen it, whereas in England the medals were well known and very easily obtained. It turned out that the medal was originally designed in Munich by a man of the name of Goetz and represents the Lusitania as carrying arms.

      Goetz may be described as a cartoonist in metal; his work was not official, and his Lusitania medal had a very limited circulation. Few Germans appear to have heard of its existence. The large number of casts of the medal, which gave the impression here that they must be as common as pence in Germany, was explained by Lord Newton, who was in charge of propaganda at the Foreign Office in 1916.

      "I asked a West End store if they could undertake the reproduction of it for propaganda purposes. They agreed to do so, and the medals were sold all over the world in neutral countries, especially in America and South America.

      "After some initial difficulty a great success was achieved. I believe it to have been one of the best pieces of propaganda." ("<i>Evening Standard," November 1, 1926).</b>

      The Honorary Secretary of the Medal Committee stated that 250,000 of the medals were sold, and the proceeds were given to the Red Cross and St. Dunstan’s. Each medal was enclosed in a box on which it was stated that the medals were replicas or, the medal distributed in Germany “to commemorate the sinking of the Lusitania.” But many of them in England could be purchased without any box.

      In addition to the medal, leaflets were circulated with pictures of the medal. In one case in Sweden a sentence was printed from the Kölnische Völkzeitung: “We regard with joyous pride this newest exploit of our fleet.” This sentence had been torn from its context and had been originally used in quite another connection.

      It therefore became clear that:

      (1) No medal was given to the crew of the German U- boat.
      (2) No medal was struck in commemoration of the event by the German Government.
      (3) The German Government could not have withdrawn a medal it never issued.
      (4) A metal-worker in Munich designed the medal which was always rare in Germany.
      (5) The large number of medals in circulation was due to the reproduction of Goetz's medal in Great Britain.

      The propaganda value of the medal was great, as Lord Newton admitted. The impression it created was absolutely and intentionally false.”

      End quoted passage – my highlight(s) added

  5. I am not going to analyse anything above excepting matters of the Lusitania.
    Just go to whatreallyhappened.com and see the articles boxed at the top of the site.
    Go to ‘liars for liars by liars’ or similar.
    Then at that part of the site scroll down through all the lies until you come to the Lusitania and bloody well read it and look at the photographs, especially the .303 rounds discovered in the wreck.
    I recall reports of discovery at the time of munitions. Then go back and see the newspaper announcements/warnings at the time.
    The ship was set up with the usual murders resulting, just like 911 and the rest.
    We await the next false usual flag or set up to create a war over the Ukraine.
    By the way, in the boxed index go to “All Wars are BANKER’S Wars.
    So many may contemplate their belly button theories to their hearts content for all time, but it is time to smell the real bs.

  6. Now look what you have started Mary … (and thanks Ned – another good reference)

    “This is a long article. But World War I – which was the first global war, and claimed as many as 65 million lives – has nearly been forgotten about. This article contains many suppressed facts, and I hope you come away from it with a better understanding of how the present connects to the past.”

    James Perloff

    • False Flag at Sea
    • The Lusitania, Woodrow Wilson, and the Deceptions that Dragged America into World War I

    https://jamesperloff.net/false-flag-at-sea/

  7. The world wars are a feast of detail and theatre if that’s what people want, just like Rome.
    The actual substance, money and bloodlines, is thereby obscured.
    We may never get to Bush / Rockerfella connections, pill factories, Krupp, Quandt, Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk, the train line to “the orient” (Istanbul etc),,,,
    Flowery prose does my head in these days but I did notice: “… no subjects of any despot have ever been so politically docile and credulous as the Germans.”

    • This is the first time I heard/read mention the ‘orient express’ in relation to WW1. It originally was conceived as a freight train, it actually went to Bagdad via ferry over the Bosphorus. This turned out a competition to the ones who until then dominated the commercefrom the orient, the ones who ruled the waves.
      Who in turn were mightely pissed off, and happy to sabotage this early kind of silk road with whatever it would take.
      Is history, kind of, repeating itself?

  8. Here is Chris Cuomo on the very night of the Sandy Hook non-shooting. I don’t ask you to invest 15 minutes in this video, maybe a minute or so.
    It out-Lusitanias Lusitania.

  9. Here is Chris Cuomo being interrogated over what I conside the craziest thing — whether he and his bro discussed his bro’s legal troubles.

  10. Julius that was a very thorough examination of the medals, thank you.

    Pres Obama struck medals for the 6 staff members who died heroically.

    Funeral of one of the 20 children at Sandy Hook:

  15. Just bringing these links forward – we can’t understand WWII other than a continuation of WWI, the Balfour Declaration and the Diktat of Versailles … and of course those alleged Forgeries

    WWI

    Hidden History: The Secret Origins of the First World War by Gerry Docherty and Jim MacGregor

    • Jeff J Brown with David Pear On Who And Why WWI Was Started, Then Prolonged. MSM And Your Textbooks Are All Lies.

    Here is the co-author himself, Gerry Docherty in an interview with James Corbett.

    • Gerry Docherty On The Hidden History Of World War One (James Corbett Interview)

    James Corbett produces an excellent three-part series which can be found here

    • WWI Conspiracy

    https://www.corbettreport.com/?s=WWI+Conspiracy

    Part One: To Start A War
    Part Two: The American Front
    Part Three: A New World Order

    Complementary reference (as cited earlier – here is a link to PDF):

    • Ponsonby Arthur – Falsehood in War-Time (1928)

    https://archive.org/details/FalsehoodInWarTime1928

  17. The Great war and the next make perfect sense to dirty bankers/financers/industrialists like…
    JP Morgan and Son. Sell more steel, help out the Rockerfellers, all the Jekyll Island crew. Morgan Snr(2nd Boer war for gold) connects Rothchilds money to Morgan Jnr’s later finding money for Germany after overseen the WW1 reparations distribution including the superior German liners that competed previously with Cunard(Lusitania) and White Star((Morgan)) (Titanic) both English companies that supplied immigrants for US and other markets,The German Banker/Factory/Baron types like Klaus Schwab explain that German insiders were in lockstep, now as then.

    Here we are 100 years later and they have not changed. They drove the spanish flu the same way as today, Germany lost 270,000 from a population 62 Million, half of 1%, 1.5 million. Was a building block to demonisation that again we se here today.

    Remember event 201, looky here Jane Halton
    https://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/event201/players/halton.html
    a mad money redistributor with tax payers picking up the tab.
    Becomes Director of ANZ in 2016 during one of the many scandals at that time, no doupt for her connections to derail ACCC and the Royal Commission that they do
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia_and_New_Zealand_Banking_Group
    Things like agriculture and child labour, destroying family farms with clear intent to monopolise as they do.
    Is on the National covid-19 cordination commission currently but also wears many hats.

    Makes perfect sense from their perspective

    Where does John Howard work these days, he spawned both Halton and Dutton.

  18. Central Europe had to be subdued, to make way for the Imperial Empire, because it was the heartland of Christian sovereignty and family values in tradition, arts and crafts. A hundred metres or so, from house of birth, archeological excavations of stone tablets with private land deeds engraved, from three centuries B.C.
    Interesting to note, at turn of twentieth century, majority of people in British Isles were tenants to landlords. Conversely in Austro Hungarian provinces, with people mainly living in hamlets, citizens owned private property passed on from generation to generation, going back millennia and more.
    This being the fundamental difference between the two opposing forces through history. That’s why communist collectivism and crown imperialism are tied at the hip. Remember my grandmother telling me, that pre ww1, “God walked upon the land”, and after that war, the victorious crown soldiers came to the island bringing fleas from lack of washing and basic hygiene. She called them barbarians, song remains the same, “you will own nothing, and be happy”. These days, one percent have more wealth than ninety nine percent!
    Debt slavery is demoncracy, fact.

  20. The USA does not declare war these days, it simply makes them.

    The ugly US –

    A Dam in Syria Was on a ‘No-Strike’ List. The U.S. Bombed it Anyway.

    A military report warned that striking the giant structure could cause tens of thousands of deaths.

    By Dave Philipps, Azmat Khan and Eric Schmitt | 20 January 2022

    THE NEW YORK TIMES — Near the height of the war against the Islamic State in Syria, a sudden riot of explosions rocked the country’s largest dam, a towering, 18-story structure on the Euphrates River that held back a 25-mile-long reservoir above a valley where hundreds of thousands of people lived.

    The Tabqa Dam was a strategic linchpin and the Islamic State controlled it. The explosions on March 26, 2017, knocked dam workers to the ground and everything went dark. Witnesses say one bomb punched down five floors. A fire spread, and crucial equipment failed. The mighty flow of the Euphrates River suddenly had no way through, the reservoir began to rise, and local authorities used loudspeakers to warn people downstream to flee.

    The Islamic State, the Syrian government and Russia blamed the United States, but the dam was on the U.S. military’s “no-strike list” of protected civilian sites and the commander of the U.S. offensive at the time, then-Lt. Gen. Stephen J. Townsend, said allegations of U.S. involvement were based on “crazy reporting.”

    “The Tabqa Dam is not a coalition target,” he declared emphatically two days after the blasts. […]

    https://www.winterwatch.net/2022/01/a-dam-in-syria-was-on-a-no-strike-list-the-u-s-bombed-it-anyway/

  21. Is it time to write America’s obituary? Is it time to say, ‘Goodbye, America’?
    .
    “We, the Jewish people, control America, and the Americans know it.” — Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, October 3, 2001

    Kevin MacDonald’s review of Wilhelm Marr’s pamphlet, Der Sieg des Judenthums über das Germanenthum, 1879, (“The Victory of Judaism over Germanism”), is a fascinating compendium of pessimistic quotations in which German political pundit Marr concludes gloomily that there was no hope left for Germany.

    It was finished — yes, as early as the 1870s. The Jews, he lamented, were simply too formidable a foe. 

    Marr’s pamphlet ends with these chilling words: “Let us accept the inescapable, since we cannot change it. Its name is: FINIS GERMANIAE—the end of Germany!”

    1.  Is America the new Germany?

    I confess I had no idea the outlook was so bleak in Germany as early as 1879. (Marr’s pamphlet has recently been translated into English and is now available in pdf format).  I had been under the false impression that the notion of Jewish domination came much later — after the publication of the Protocols (1903) and the Russian Revolution (1917).

    We have seen it all happen though. Germany was brought to its knees, exactly as Marr predicted. Its cadaver now lies rotting.

    It was only quite recently that Israel demanded from Germany a further 1 billion Euros ($1.4 billion) in Holocaust reparations for its endlessly traumatized Jewish survivors. Almost 70 years after World War II, the grim extortion racket continues unabated.

    Though World War II ended sixty-eight years ago, the number of Holocaust survivors today is truly phenomenal. This prompted Norman Finkelstein’s mother to ask somewhat cynically, after she had been cheated out of her reparations money by the rabbis who administered the Holocaust Fund: “If everyone who claims to be a survivor actually is one, who did Hitler kill?”

    Good question……………….”

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