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Three Poets of “the Great War” and Three Songs

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(L) Isaac Rosenberg (C) Charles Hamilton Sorley (R) Rupert Brooke

by Mary W Maxwell, LLB

Happy Anzac Day. Happy? There’s a poem below entitled “When You See Millions of the Mouthless Dead.” Gumshoe readers may agree that this feels about right for our era…. Well, at least we can take encouragement from the fact that World War One did in fact come to an end.

These three poets died in the war. Charles Hamilton Sorley was only 20 at death. Rupert Brooke was 27. Isaac Rosenberg was an elderly 28.

The Soldier
BY RUPERT BROOKE

If I should die, think only this of me:
That there’s some corner of a foreign field
That is for ever England. There shall be
In that rich earth a richer dust concealed;
A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware,
Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam;
A body of England’s, breathing English air,
Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home.

And think, this heart, all evil shed away,
A pulse in the eternal mind, no less
Gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given;
Her sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day;
And laughter, learnt of friends; and gentleness,
In hearts at peace, under an English heaven.

Per Wikipedia:

Brooke Square, Skyros

Brooke sailed with the British Mediterranean Expeditionary Force on 28 February 1915 but developed pneumococcal sepsis from an infected mosquito bite. French surgeons carried out two operations to drain the abscess but he died of septicaemia at 4:46 pm on 23 April 1915, on the French hospital ship Duguay-Trouin, moored in a bay off the Greek island of Skyros in the Aegean Sea, while on his way to the landings at Gallipoli.

Break of Day in the Trenches
BY ISAAC ROSENBERG

The darkness crumbles away.
It is the same old druid Time as ever,
Only a live thing leaps my hand,
A queer sardonic rat,
As I pull the parapet’s poppy
To stick behind my ear.
Droll rat, they would shoot you if they knew
Your cosmopolitan sympathies.
Now you have touched this English hand
You will do the same to a German
Soon, no doubt, if it be your pleasure
To cross the sleeping green between.
It seems you inwardly grin as you pass
Strong eyes, fine limbs, haughty athletes,
Less chanced than you for life,
Bonds to the whims of murder,
Sprawled in the bowels of the earth,
The torn fields of France.
What do you see in our eyes
At the shrieking iron and flame
Hurled through still heavens?
What quaver—what heart aghast?
Poppies whose roots are in man’s veins
Drop, and are ever dropping;
But mine in my ear is safe—

Per The Poetry Foundation:

Rosenberg was born on November 25, 1890 in Bristol. His parents, Dovber “Barnett” Rosenberg and Hacha “Hannah” Davidov Rosenberg, were Jewish immigrants from Russia. During Rosenberg’s childhood, they moved into the squalid streets of London’s Jewish ghetto and set up a butcher’s shop. The shop was soon confiscated, however, and Rosenberg’s parents were forced to work as itinerants during the rest of his life.

Also from Rosenberg:

August 1914

What in our lives is burnt
In the fire of this?
The heart’s dear granary?
The much we shall miss?

Three lives hath one life—
Iron, honey, gold.
The gold, the honey gone—
Left is the hard and cold.

Iron are our lives
Molten right through our youth.
A burnt space through ripe fields,
A fair mouth’s broken tooth.

Just a little white with the dust.

When You See Millions of the Mouthless Dead’
BY CHARLES HAMILTON SORLEY

When you see millions of the mouthless dead
Across your dreams in pale battalions go,
Say not soft things as other men have said,
That you’ll remember. For you need not so.
Give them not praise. For, deaf, how should they know
It is not curses heaped on each gashed head?
Nor tears. Their blind eyes see not your tears flow.
Nor honour. It is easy to be dead.
Say only this, “They are dead.” Then add thereto,
“Yet many a better one has died before.”
Then, scanning all the o’ercrowded mass, should you
Perceive one face that you loved heretofore,
It is a spook. None wears the face you knew.
Great death has made all his for evermore.

Charles Hamilton Sorley was born in Aberdeen, Scotland, on May 19, 1895. In 1900, the family moved to England when Sorley’s father, a professor of moral philosophy, accepted a post at Cambridge. In 1908 Sorely received a scholarship to Marlborough College, and after completing his studies there, he was offered a scholarship to University College, Oxford, in 1913. Before beginning at Oxford, however, …he enlisted in the British Army and was sent to the Western Front [and] was killed by a sniper at the Battle of Loos on October 13, 1915. His body was never found…. Thirty-seven of his poems were published posthumously as Marlborough and Other Poems (Cambridge University Press, 1916).

Also from Sorley. We could use this today:

To Germany

You are blind like us. Your hurt no man designed,
And no man claimed the conquest of your land.
But gropers both through fields of thought confined
We stumble and we do not understand.
You only saw your future bigly planned,
And we, the tapering paths of our own mind,
And in each other’s dearest ways we stand,
And hiss and hate. And the blind fight the blind.

When it is peace, then we may view again
With new-won eyes each other’s truer form
And wonder. Grown more loving-king and warm
We’ll grasp firm hands and laugh at the old pain,
When it is peace. But until peace, the storm
The darkness and the thunder and the rain.

Note: I gleaned the above from PoetryFoundation.org, poets.org, and from
Rosemaryandreadingglasses.com

Now for a song or three:

Anzac: I am Australian:

Over There (George M Cohan)

 

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  1. I was reading a letter in the newspaper that was talking about Australians today. She referred to the “snowflake” society.

    The author of this letter believed that Australian society is so ‘politically-corrected’ inclined now that should there be an “invasion” of their culture and ways, the contemporary Australian would embrace them to have their own rights, their livelihood etc removed instead of defending them.

    • Do the vast majority of peoples in western nations suffer from ‘Stockholm syndrome?’ I am starting to think so, look how many people get angry when you try to ‘redpill’ them. The biggest hurdle being that they cannot accept having been brainwashed. Why would anyone think that they have not been brainwashed when brainwashing has been studied for millenia, where most people are brainwashed but you (the one objecting to the redpill) are not?
      I guess this would mean that Stockholm Syndrome is far and away the most common neurological condition.

  2. The irony on this ANZAC morning is that I am speaking with a few ‘protective parents’ that have had the “state” remove their child/ren.
    Forget foreign actors or insurgents; the enemy is within.

    THE ENEMY IS THE STATE.

  3. Appropriate and very touching poems and poets, thank you, Mary.

    This is the first time I hear about Anzac Day and so I looked up its meaning thinking I may not be the only one who doesn’t know:

    “Anzac Day – Wikipedia
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anzac_Day

    Anzac Day is a national day of remembrance in Australia and New Zealand that broadly commemorates all Australians and New Zealanders “who served and died in all wars, conflicts, and peacekeeping operations” and “the contribution and suffering of all those who have served”. Observed on 25 April each year, Anzac Day was originally devised to honour the members of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) who served in the Gallipoli Campaign, their first engagement in the First World War (1914–1918).”

    Since the Armenian Genocide was declared to have been a genocide today by President Biden and eventually, I believe, the Donmeh will become a media topic, I came across this most timely writing by Wayne Madsen on Strategic-Culture site:

    https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2021/02/25/bannonism-a-clear-and-present-danger-to-the-planet/

    Never Forget that Mr. Stephen Bannon said, “Darth Vader, Satan and Dick Cheney are power” as he embarked to be Presidential Candidate Donald J. Trump’s campaign strategist.

    Never Again! Nie Wieder!

    • If Fascism is governments and corporations colluding together, then the democratic party is the fascist party, as all the corporations and Wall St dumped the republican party and went to support Hillary after Trump won the republican nomination in 2016. This point cannot be emphasized enough.
      279 Companies Support Black Lives Matter
      https://realityanddenial.wordpress.com/2020/06/09/279-companies-supporting-violent-antifa-black-lives-matter/

      Whilst there are some tidbits of information in the article you linked, alot of that article reads pretty leftist, eg 6th of January being compared to Mussolini’s Blackshirts, though there were Zionist and Antifa elements embedded within the Jan 6th protests.

      “United Nations Secretary António Guterres recently told the UN Human Rights Council that the threat posed by global neo-Nazis and white supremacists have been “cheered on by people in positions of responsibility in ways that were considered unimaginable not long ago.””
      How many “White Supremacists” have decended onto Capitol Hill since Jan 6th(for example)? You are more likely to find that these “white supremacists” are LARPers than the real thing.
      LARPers “Live Action Role Playing”
      More here:
      https://www.veteranstoday.com/2021/04/12/politics-why-are-americas-nazis-all-jews/
      The Truth About January 6th, 2021 Storming of the Capitol | Know More News LIVE w/ Davey Crocko (1h54m)
      https://www.bitchute.com/video/0LiOxxTWBsAf/

      • So, do you see all this purported manipulation as some sort of threat?

        Or an opportunity/impetus to put your own house in order?

        • All that any Jew-devil rave really does is draw attention to the fact that the overarching problem was eliminated 1,993 years ago and that it therefore now rests with those who refuse to take up the call:

          “Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it.”
          MATHEW 16: 24 – 25

          • Just sharing my experience, because time is short.
            I may have come late to the party, but I’m catching up fast, perhaps even overtaking you.
            But I’m holding my hand out to you, because I don’t want you to be left behind either.

    • “The sooner the nations of the world awake to the threat posed by fascists abusing electoral systems to gain dictatorial power, the possibility of a repeat of the fascist rise to power during the 1920s and 1930s can be snuffed out.”

      So why doesn’t he just say
      “electoral system breaches were central to the fascist rise to power of the 1920s and 1930s” ?

      One more lost soul who figures the lack of any substance, originality or clarity in his/her input can be disguised by stuffing in as many words as possible ?

      Well I guess it worked for Hitler

  4. Every living moment is a miracle granted by the grace of Our Holy Father.
    To hand innocents guns, instead of life generating skills in their late teens, is pure evol. 106 years on, we still have no reason for sending children to overseas wars of occupation.
    Respects and sympathy to those that suffered unnecessarily in all races and creeds.

  5. THE AUSTRALAISE by C.J Dennis

    A Marching Song
    Air – Onward Christian Soldiers

    Fellers of Australier,
    Blokes an’ coves an’ coots,
    Shift yer — carcases,
    Move yer — boots.
    Gird yer — loins up,
    Get yer — gun,
    Set the — enermy
    An’ watch the blighters run.

    CHORUS:
    Get a — move on,
    Have some — sense.
    Learn the — art of
    Self de- — -fence.

    Have some — brains be-
    Neath yer — lids.
    An’ swing a — sabre
    Fer the missus an’ the kids.
    Chuck supportin’ — posts,
    An’ strikin’ — lights,
    Support a —- fam’ly an’
    Strike fer yer — rights.

    CHORUS:
    Get a — move on, etc.

    Joy is — fleetin’,
    Life is — short.
    Wot’s the use uv wastin’ it
    All on — sport?
    Hitch yer — tip-dray
    To a — star.
    Let yer — watchword be
    “Australi- — -ar!”

    CHORUS:
    Get a — move on, etc.

    ‘0w’s the — nation
    Goin’ to ixpand
    ‘Lest us — blokes an’ coves
    Lend a — ‘and?
    ‘Eave yer — apathy
    Down a — chasm;
    ‘Ump yer — burden with
    Enthusi- — -asm.

    CHORUS:
    Get a — move on, etc.

    W’en old mother Britain
    Calls yer native land
    Take a — rifle
    In yer — ‘and
    Keep yer — upper lip
    Stiff as stiff kin be,
    An’ speed a — bullet for
    Post- — -ity.

    CHORUS:
    Get a — move on, etc.

    W’en the — bugle
    Sounds “Ad- — -vance”
    Don’t be like a flock er sheep
    In a — trance
    Biff the — Kaiser
    Where it don’t agree
    Spifler- — -cate him
    To Eternity.

    CHORUS:
    Get a — move on, etc.

    Fellers of Australier,
    Cobbers, chaps an’ mates,
    Hear the — German
    Kickin’ at the gates!
    Blow the — bugle,
    Beat the — drum,
    Upper-cut an’ out the cow
    To kingdom- — -come!

    CHORUS:
    Get a — move on,
    Have some — sense.
    Learn the — art of
    Self de- — -fence.

    (With some acknowledgements to W.T. Goodge.)

    Footnote to 1915 reissue – Where a dash (—) replaces a missing word, the adjective “blessed” may be interpolated. In cases demanding great emphasis, the use of the word “blooming” is permissible. However, any other word may be used that suggests itself as suitable.

    “Den”
    The Bulletin, 12 November 1908, Red page

    Note: Dennis acknowledges W.T. Goodge at the end of this poem. The piece he was referring to was The Great Australian Adjective.

    Note by R.H. Croll –
    “Dennis amended his Australaise, as published in Sydney Bulletin, to make it topical for the First World War and J.G. Roberts and I paid for its publication in this form for distribution to the troops in camp.”
    (undated)
    From McLaren Collection (Baillieu Library, University of Melbourne) item 622/30

    David Low, in his autobiography, made a reference to this poem, to which Alec Chisholm disagreed. Chisholm outlined his objections in the Bulletin, in January 1957, in an article titled “Low and Den”. Early the next year Low had responded to Chisholm in a personal letter and Chisholm clarified the misunderstanding about this poem in “Low and Den”, published, again in the Bulletin, in February 1958.

    This poem was also published in:
    Backblock Ballads and Later Verses,
    Favourite Poems of C.J. Dennis,
    Selected Verse of C.J. Dennis,
    Selected Works of C.J. Dennis.

    http://www.middlemiss.org/lit/authors/denniscj/backblockother/australaise.html

      • Funny you couldn’t say “bloody” in the old days (by my lady ie Mary for non catholics), they used to say “jolly” a lot instead. It changed in the 80’s with Telstra, it used to be called Bloody Telecom, then after about 1985 it was called F#$%en Telstra. Another example of this is an old song about “a Jolly Swagman” which would nowadays be written “a F#$%en Homeless Unemployed” (note gender specificity removed).

        • Good, but it doesn’t scan well, w3.

          Once an effing homeless unemployed camped by a billabong, under the shade of a coolibah tree….

          Maybe if we omit the “effing”. Once a homeless unemployed…

          W3, I never knew that the original “jolly swagman” was carrying a connotation of “bloody.” Is that true?

          • In the hotels they had the public bar on the corner and the saloon bar at the side, ladies did not go in the public bar, that’s where they all said “bloody”, the working class wives all used “jolly” as an adjective if they were angry, this is all slightly before my time but you catch the drift even some years later.

  6. “Leon Gellert was an Adelaide school teacher and poet who volunteered shortly after the outbreak of war and was allotted to South Australia’s most famous battalion – the Fighting Tenth – which had been known before federation as The Adelaide Rifles. This outstanding body of 1000 men was chosen, as part of the Third Brigade, to storm Gallipoli Heights sacrificially on 15 April 1915 in order to allow the other brigades in the Australian and New Zealand Corps to wade ashore without undue loss of life.

    Like Zora Cross’s (*) superb collection of poems, Gellert’s Songs of a Campaign was a spectacular success when published, and he immediately became famous. The book was just what the nation needed in 1917. It satisfied the characteristic Australian love of poetry; but unlike verse written by stay-at-home poets, this collection was written by a soldier who knew what he was talking about.“

    Graham Jenkin “On Libraries Great and Small”, featured article in bibliophile Number 19, December 2020 – Editor Bernard Whimpress.

    https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.96433

    (*) Songs of Love and Life – Zora Cross (audio readings)

    https://archive.org/details/songsofloveandlife_2008_librivox/songsofloveandlife_003_cross_128kb.mp3

  7. So far only Crisscross sent a song. I am not budging on a new article til I get songs. This is an INTERACTIVE website!!!

    Now here is a possible Diggers’ song re Afghanistan:

    • Can I post ‘The Ballad of Brandthem Torrent?” (I only have the lyrics, don’t know the song)

      Still, Mex Ican has an update of that hooting:
      hristchrch Musk hooting – The Indisputable Facts (36m)
      https://www.bitch ute.com/video/F71MCsT7oUG0/

      Sorry for the paw spelling

  8. I met a young soldier
    He said his name was Killer Kyle
    He was shaking all over
    Like a night frightened child
    This is his story
    It’s a tough one for me to sing
    Hard as the squawk and the flap
    And the beat of, the best of black wings

    “They gave me a gun,” he said
    “They gave me a mission
    For the power and the glory
    Propaganda, piss on’em
    There’s a war zone inside me
    I can feel things exploding
    I can’t even hear the fucking music playing
    For the beat, of the beat of black wings”

    He said, “I never had nothin’
    Nothin’ I could believe in
    My girl killed our unborn child
    Without even grievin’
    I put my hands on her belly
    To feel the kid kick in’, damn
    She’d been to some clinic
    Oh, the beat of black wings

    “They want you, they need you
    They train you to kill
    To be a pin on some map
    Some vicarious thrill
    The old hate the young
    That’s the whole heartless thing
    The old pick wars
    We die in ‘em
    To the beat of, the beat of black wings”

    There’s a man drawing pictures
    On the sidewalk with chalk
    Just as fast as he draws them
    Rain come down and wash ‘em off
    “Keep the drinks com in’ girl
    ‘Til I can’t feel anything
    I’m just a chalk mark in a rainstorm
    I’m just the beat of black wings

    Charlie Angel
    Charlie Angel
    Charlie Angel

    The Beat of Black Wings
    Joni Mitchell

    • Thank you Dee–in my opinion this is a starting point to understand the true history of this country called Australia– a lot to digest and process–facts about the hidden war –the mass murders—war crimes and genocide with intent–as for music I tried to find the plaintive voices of the lantern choir–heard in the background. Instead I found this-about an amazing spiritual man whose story travels with me.

      ACKNOWLEDGEMENT SOUGHT: KEVIN GILBERT, ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIANS AND THE WAR OF INVASION
      Posted on April 23, 2014 by Indigenous Histories

      https://indigenoushistories.com/2014/04/23/acknowledgement-sought-kevin-gilbert-aboriginal-australians-and-the-war-of-invasion/

      In early September 1991 Kevin Gilbert was photographed by Richard Briggs against the background of the Australian War Memorial. He carries a cross in almost Christ like manner as he walks towards Anzac Parade. However it is unlikely that this symbolism was Christian. Gilbert’s creation spirit was Baiame. Rather the cross was generally symbolic of the sacrifice of the Aboriginal inhabitants of Australia during more than 200 years of undeclared war against invasion and of the ongoing suffering of his people. Gilbert himself said at the time

      I represent Aboriginal people who have fought with honour and given their lives for justice and for the land – as none have done for so long as my people. This is a memorial to those who have fought and died and continue to die in the continuing massacre against us. Interview with Amanda Uhlmann, Canberra Times 3 September 1991.

  9. Many do not realise that we are presently at war….. a different type of war of infiltration into the public psyche by stealth.
    Very few bullets needed and hidden casualties by other stealthy means, just mass media lies and censorship imposed on unsuspecting people and countries, even we pay for the lies. How stupid are we? SELL THE ABC.
    If you care and are not lazy, spend some time listening to the latest X22Report.com ‘s numbers 2461 a and b.
    If you want to remain ignorant, then do not.
    Pity you will not know of the election audit in Arizona. Why are they examining the alleged paper votes with ultra violet light……. so simple.
    Did you know that there is a bill in Oregan to ban animal farming? Perhaps you will not object to artificial meet and weeds?
    What about the Seth murder, fancy there was a hidden investigation.
    Oh dear, just for Mr Ryan, there are those who know sfa and q means q, btw.

  10. Bollocks!(Bullshit) was all the band could play.
    Bollocks! they played it night and day.
    Bollocks! yes, it was Bollocks!,
    It was Bollocks! Bollocks!
    You could hear it two hundred miles away.

  11. Outstanding, Crossy, outstanding. “You might forget the gas and shells, you’d never forget the mademoiselles, Inky dinky parlez vous.”

    As for the video Dee posted, it is not available in US. What’s it about?

  12. Australian working songs and poems – a rebel heritage
    Mark Gregory
    University of Wollongong, mark.gregory@gmail.com

    http://ro.uow.edu.au/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=5300&context=theses
    Australian working songs and poems – a rebel … – Research Online

    Page 320

    ………..Here we get a glimpse of the economic effects of World War I and the impact of the
    Treaty of Versailles on the German economy and, the beginnings of the hyperinflation
    that would destroy the Weimar Republic, ushering in Hitler and the Nazis.

    They tell me I’ll have trouble with the Bolsheviki breed!

    (To-day my grocer turned me from his door.)

    They say the League of Nations is alive and full of seed.

    (My little wife lies sick upon the floor.)

    The papers say that Tush-muk’s tomb’s ablaze with flowered gold,

    That my soldier-brother’s grave is not forgot.

    (Today I pawned my coat for food, and now I’m feeling cold.

    Christ! Jack, you did not die for what I’ve got.)

    The Prince grows still more democratic, so the papers say!

    The bloody war grows bloodier to me.

    I’ve crises here aplenty : I’ve got to go away

    To fight again for that democracy.

    Just five years after the “war to end all wars” the world is faced with all kinds of crisis,
    national, economic, political and personal. Prince Albert (later King George VI) gets
    married, the French invade the German Ruhr to enforce the draconian WWI reparations,
    Billy Hughes is replaced by Stanley Bruce as Australia’s prime minister, the civil war in
    Ireland ends, Mussolini and his fascist party march into power in Italy, hyperinflation
    begins in Germany and the six hundred and twenty four year old Ottoman Empire is
    coming to an end. The poem above gives us a returned soldier’s summary of 1923,
    counterpoising the world events with his own difficulties. “What I Fought For” views
    the world not from the heights of power but from a down to earth standpoint, one that
    has no confidence in either the promises or the solutions offered by the rulers of the day………..

  13. The announcement by Biden that the Armenians suffered genocide. 24.4.2021.
    The Evergiven (Evergreen) operation.
    Operation Veritas recording of CNN the next scam.
    The war against farming animals as the next climate ‘emergency’.
    Therefore artificial meat to be fed to us. By uncle Bill……. but poor Bill has a problem,
    Gates buying up farmland even in Turkey.
    How 5G to be used ….. for famine.
    Mad cow disease (my interp) is the next pandemic.
    And much more,
    Did you think the Masons had given up on genocide, war and globalist control. If you did, you were wrong. Will they ever stop?
    I have sent a link to Dee:
    Before it’s news.com
    The report:
    ‘The evergreen container ship gave us a clue as to why Joe Biden called out Turkey’s Armenian genocide’. Sorry cannot cut and paste at this time.

    BUT. Relax, the equipment on the ship taken, destroyed and plan thwarted?..
    Humanity 10 globalists ooooooo👻👻👻👻👻👻👻👻👻👻
    Perhaps all presented here soon on gumshoe news whilst the mass media killers rip their lying hearts out.
    Yep ‘hearts’, that is what is threatened if a Mason dogs.

      • Hopefully this link gets in -in time before the gumshoe news curfew

        Cathi Morgan. Very important. Connected to my story—genetic experiments— Tavi etc— William Sargant— around 16 minutes very relevant—experiments— How to influence behaviour

        Amazing woman
        Cathi Morgan’s excellent work on Bases continues. Her research is ground breaking and of vital importance to comprehending the shear scale of the ‘alien’ control of our reality and consciousness.
        Cathi is tracing the paper trail, and the lineage of family involvement in secret population control programs, which she now traces to William of Orange,(Ireland 1690, Battle of Boyne was a Ritual to establish ‘predator’ control over the ancient DNA traces hidden within what we now call the Irish. A DNA trace that Must Not Be Allowed to Awaken. This the centuries of oppression against the Irish and all other ancient blood lines. They can awake and remove this predator

        Yes, King Billy (William of Orange) was Reptilian (Velon) predator.

        With a further interview with a wonderful local researcher on Contract Rebuttal.
        Bases 30 is full of power women, Awake & Aware from the Dingle Bay area of south west Ireland… a place of massive ET activity in the early 1990s

        Cathi’s presentation at Bases 2026 follows as Part 3

  14. “The Globalization of War” by Michel Chossudovsky

    America’s hegemonic project in the post 9/11 era is the “Globalization of War” whereby the U.S.-NATO military machine —coupled with covert intelligence operations, economic sanctions and the thrust of “regime change”— is deployed in all major regions of the world. The threat of pre-emptive nuclear war is also used to black-mail countries into submission.

    This “Long War against Humanity” is carried out at the height of the most serious economic crisis in modern history.

    It is intimately related to a process of global financial restructuring, which has resulted in the collapse of national economies and the impoverishment of large sectors of the World population.

    The ultimate objective is World conquest under the cloak of “human rights” and “Western democracy”.

    • At 16 min the US is ……
      So who uses the US for their evil purposes?
      Thanks cc for the publication.
      Serious time to consider many hangings.
      How about it ABC?
      Sell the Australian bullshit corporation. You lot with you msm killer mates are traitors to humanity.
      Look up the x22 reports and down size your lifestyles and forget being promoted with bs society. You lot will not be able with to walk down the street.
      Remember what happened in France, heads shaved as traitors.
      Well, there might be a silver lining to a shaved head… I might invest in wig manufacturing ……. the hair will come from shaved rats.

  15. Why doesn’t Syria retaliate to Israeli attacks? Nasrallah’s response

    US-Israel play poker, Resistance Axis plays chess.

    « The Resistance Axis is very vigilant and watchful during this period (of transition between Trump & Biden), and must scrupulously take care not to be drawn into an escalation, in the slightest point of this Axis. We must not allow ourselves to be dragged to an unmeasured (large-scale) confrontation, to a (total) war whose timing would be the one chosen by our enemies. Of course, (open) war (against the United States and Israel) will (inevitably) happen one day or another, but we are talking about this current timing (we will choose the time and place of the Great War, not them). »

    Source: https://video.moqawama.org/details.php?cid=1&linkid=2116

    Translation: resistancenews.org

    https://uprootedpalestinians.wordpress.com/2021/01/18/why-doesnt-syria-retaliate-to-israeli-attacks-nasrallahs-response/

  16. A vigil– spirit voices—calling our children home–where the love in deep sorrow brings the longing for peace and new life

    Spirit Songs for Anzac Eve

    “Spirit Songs for Anzac Eve’ was written in 2011 during community preparations for the first of the beautiful lantern-lit vigils at the top of Mount Ainslie above the Australian War Memorial. Thinking of her two New Zealand great grandmothers whose 21-year-old sons were killed in France during the First World War, Glenda Cloughley imagined spirit mothers calling their children one windy evening on the mountain. Judith Kelly, a Noongar woman of the Stolen Generation, added a lament for First Nations women and children. The spirit voices follow the natural cycle of life, where the love in deep sorrow brings the longing for peace and new life. With the city in lockdown during the COVID-19 crisis, Johanna McBride gathered still photos from vigils past and made the video as a meditation on the song for our 10th Peace Vigil on 24 April 2020 which was held on Zoom.

  17. I understand the bravery of our deceived fighting force, but cynically I just look at the picture and see a bombed city with perhaps 100,000 innocent civilians murdered which for some weird reason we have a holiday to celebrate.

    All wars are bankers wars.

    • The link to all wars are banker’s wars by Mike Rivero is at.
      http.//www.whatreallyhappened.com
      Also look up major general smedly Butler:
      ‘War is a racket’ from about 1933.
      Now why are these two presentations: NOT
      Played
      in Parliament House
      Replacing millennial bs studies in our schools.
      On our Australian Bullshit Corporation (ABC) SELL it.
      Broadcast by our lying fake msm,
      Or referred to by killer shock joke spivs.
      ????
      What about in our military schools and police students.
      Simples, they have no interest in keeping us safe.
      So they now want us dead by other means!!

      • Thanks Ned. Which reminds me of this horrible quote –

        “Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.” ― Henry Kissinger.

        • Replace ‘military men…… ‘ with ‘politicians ……… sitting on their dumb lying ‘arses’. … to be corrupted bribed pawns….. with their msm killers…’

  18. “Therefore I praised the dead who were already dead, more than the living who are still alive. Yet, better than both is he who has never existed. Who has never seen the evil work that is done under the sun.”

    Ecclesiastes 4:2-3

  19. On topic, it wasn’t easy but I remembered a song.
    Who can remember, David Bowie used to be an actual English hippy, here’s his anti Vietnam war song from around 1970, it’s before the term Post Traumatic Stress Disorder became a thing. It’s a bit of Zeitgeist the Anzacs would rather un- lest we forget (they haven’t forgotten in Hanoi):
    Running Gun Bliues
    I count the corpses on my left, I find I’m not so tidy
    So I better get away, better make it today
    I’ve cut twenty-three down since Friday
    But I can’t control it, my face is drawn
    My instinct still emotes it
    I slash them cold, I kill them dead
    I broke the gooks, I cracked their heads
    I’ll bomb them out from under the beds
    But now I’ve got the running gun blues
    It seems the peacefuls stopped the war
    Left generals squashed and stifled
    But I’ll slip out again tonight
    ‘Cause they haven’t taken back my rifle
    For I promote oblivion
    And I’ll plug a few civilians
    I’ll slash them cold, I’ll kill them dead
    I’ll break them gooks, I’ll crack their heads
    I’ll slice them till they’re running red
    But now I’ve got the running gun blues
    I’ll slash them cold, I’ll kill them dead
    I’ll break them gooks, I’ll crack their heads
    I’ll slice them till they’re running red
    But now I’ve got the running gun blues
    Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh
    Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh
    Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh
    Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh

    ps
    I mentioned elsewhere they are saying Monash was a Jew !!!
    What are we to do with this world, everything’s all jumbled together.

  20. As the Gumshoe curfew falls (Diane, it never really falls)… as I burst with gratitude (going on the belief that my statement about not writing a new article till I got songs was taken to be a SERIOUS THREAT to readers).

    And aware that Agent 77 needs a few days off, I hereby ask everyone to take a few days off.

    April 28, the ‘SILVER’ anniversary of Port Arthur is looming. Damn!

  21. Jesus spoke truth about the rulers then and now.
    His words are eternal when referring to the opposing force sacrificing our children in all wars.

    “You are of your father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth because there is no truth in him. Whenever he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies.” – John 8:44

    • The conflict of Judaic Law with Christianity –

      Jewish supremacist rabbi, Harry Waton, confessed that not only is Communism Jewish, but that it is simply a mechanism for Jewish world dominion and the subjugation of all non-Jews — a fulfillment of the megalomaniacal messianic vision of the Torah and the Talmud. In his 1939 book, “A Program for The Jews and An Answer To All Anti-Semites: A Program for Humanity”, the racist rabbi wrote:

      “It is not an accident that Judaism gave birth to Marxism, and it is not an accident that the Jews readily took up Marxism; all this was in perfect accord with the progress of Judaism and the Jews. The Jews should realize that Jehovah no longer dwells in heaven, but he dwells in us right here on earth; we must no longer look up to Jehovah as above us and outside of us, but we must see him right within us,” (p. 148) “Since the Jews are the highest and most cultured people on earth, the Jews have a right to subordinate to themselves the rest of mankind and to be the masters over the whole earth. Now, indeed, this is the historic destiny of the Jews,” (p. 99) “Judaism is communism, internationalism, the universal brotherhood of man, the emancipation of the working class and the human society. It is with these spiritual weapons that the Jews will conquer the world and the human race.” (p. 100) [pdf 2012 Feb] The Jew World Order Unmasked

      Matthew 20:27 Context

      24And when the ten heard it, they were moved with indignation against the two brethren. 25 But Jesus called them unto him, and said, Ye know that the princes of the Gentiles exercise dominion over them, and they that are great exercise authority upon them. 26But it shall not be so among you: but whosoever will be great among you, let him be your minister; 27And whosoever will be chief among you, let him be your servant: 28Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many. 29And as they departed from Jericho, a great multitude followed him. 30And, behold, two blind men sitting by the way side, when they heard that Jesus passed by, cried out, saying, Have mercy on us, O Lord, thou Son of David.

  22. ‘Every Time the US “Saves” a Country, It Converts It Either into a Madhouse or a Cemetery’.
    By Prof. Vijay Prashad, April 26 2021

    After great loss of life and the further destruction of Afghan society, the US departs – as it did from Vietnam in 1975 – in defeat: al-Qaeda [covertly supported by the US] has regrouped in different parts of the world, and the Taliban is set to return to the capital, Kabul.

    https://www.globalresearch.ca/every-time-us-saves-country-converts-either-madhouse-cemetery/5743629

  23. “Just look at us. Everything is backwards, everything is upside down. Doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, psychiatrists destroy minds, scientists destroy truth, major media destroys information, religions destroy spirituality and governments destroy freedom.” – Michael Ellner

    • Not sure when he wrote that – but confirms my conviction that the world completed its upsidedown turn when Trump was elected. Note the word ‘completed’

      • Dirty cynic ! ! ! Familiarise yourself with the sayings of Trump.
        A few went roughly as follows:
        “Planes could not do that – it was bombs” (2001)
        “A lot of people have said to me their child went autistic after vaccination”
        “These women say Bill Clinton raped them and Hillary got him off” (2016)
        “I’ve been taking HCQ and I feel fine”
        “I already had the China virus so I should be immune now”
        “My generals told me it was a bomb and they should know” (Beirut 2020)
        and many, many more

        • didn’t read my last sentence? But around january I will say that Trump did not act like a leader. Jan 6th was dead cat bounce. So far, history has proven me right. I’d like to be ‘disappointed’ and see Trump drain the swamp. Really, I would. But, I guess, I’m just a ‘dirty cynic’

  24. Thanks 767
    “Just look at us. Everything is backwards, everything is upside down. Doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, psychiatrists destroy minds, scientists destroy truth, major media destroys information, religions destroy spirituality and governments destroy freedom.” – Michael Ellner

  25. Critically Thinking with Dr T and Dr P – Episode 44 with Special Guests with Dr Carrie Majej . Dr Lee Merritt and Dr Lee Northrup. Kevin Woodman.

  26. X22report.com
    2462a for Mr Ryan.
    2462b for reality, the public fight back, for those with a bit of fight in their backbones.

  27. 175 Years of Border Invasions: The Anniversary of the U.S. War on Mexico and the Roots of Northward Migration
    by Internationalist 360°

    David Vine Amid renewed fear mongering about an “invasion” at the U.S.-Mexico border, this week’s 175th anniversary of the 1846–1848 war the U.S. government instigated with Mexico is a reminder that throughout U.S. history, invasions have gone almost exclusively from north to south, not vice versa. A near-continuous series of invasions—military, political, and economic—moving from […]

    Read more of this post

    https://libya360.wordpress.com/2021/04/23/175-years-of-border-invasions-the-anniversary-of-the-u-s-war-on-mexico-and-the-roots-of-northward-migration/

    • Invasions tend to go from the polar regions toward the equator because of climate reasons. People closer to the poles tend to be motivated by deprivation and desperation.People around the equator tend to become lazy and complacent because there is no imperative for survival. Australia was settled along the south side providing complete safety, even so there were whipped up fears of a Russian invasion during the Victorian gold rushes. Given the incredible wealth of Australia why did England “give it away” in 1901. Is it because it was already fully colonised with banks and companies and the political side was controlled. We must assume it has been controlled through the GG and other agencies since 1901.

      • As the Commonwealth of Australia is a corporation registered in the US it is possible that there is a US trade off with China over the huge US debt held by China.

        The U.S. debt to China is $1.102 trillion, as of May 2017. That’s 28 percent of the $3.9 trillion in Treasury bills, notes, and bonds held by foreign countries. The rest of the $19.8 trillion national debt is owned by either the American people or by the U.S. government itself.Jul 20, 2017

        Australia is not a country, it is a corporate resource and its inhabitants are a human resource.

        So as a trade off for some of the US debt held by China, the big Bankers have said to China, take some of Australia – just a thought.

        Has anything changed?

        W. HUGHES, Premier of Australia, Saturday Evening Post, June 19, 1919 “The Montefiores have taken Australia for their own, and there is not a gold field or a sheep run from Tasmania to New South Wales that does not pay them a heavy tribute. They are the real owners of the antipodean continent. What is the good of our being a wealthy nation, if the wealth is all in the hands of German Jews?”

        • I think it was Trump or someone working for him who said that there was no obligation to repay China (even by fiat money) because they defaulted on debt when Mao took over. Presumably that debt was from ww2 and Chiangkai Shek, so it stands to reason the US supports Taiwan.
          As for commonwealth of australia being a corporation registered in the US, any nutter can name a company some name or another, I don’t know exactly what is prohibited, so the existence of such a registered company in itself doesn’t prove anything one way or another. If England could have sold Australia to pay ww2 debt they probably would have, that would have happened in 1947 when the English had to face up to being broke.
          My guesses – no assertions !

  28. How to invade a country –

    Jewish Magazine To Honor Jewish Journalist Who Said Jews Control The White House & Congress

    Next month, the jewish magazine Moment will hold its “DC Gala & Awards Dinner” honoring four ‘distinguished’ journalists, including Thomas Friedman of The New York Times, who has candidly

    admitted that the pro-Israel AIPAC controls Congress and The White House:

    https://christiansfortruth.com/jewish-magazine-to-honor-jewish-journalist-who-said-jews-control-the-white-house-congress/

    The Khazarian Mafia and their marionettes want to rule the world

    “It was only after September 11 that the Plan [for world domination] emerged in full.”

    http://www.veteranstoday.com/2016/12/23/the-khazarian-mafia-and-their-marionettes-want-to-rule-the-world/

    Sharon to Peres: “We Control America”

    Congressional Pandering to Israel proves him Right

    The Babylonian Talmud adherents control America!

    “The Israelis control the policy in the congress and the senate.”

    Senator Fullbright, Chair of Senate Foreign Relations Committee: 10/07/1973 on CBS’ “Face the Nation”.

    “I am aware how almost impossible it is in this country to carry out a foreign policy [in the Middle East] not approved by the Jews….. terrific control the Jews have over the news media and the barrage

    the Jews have built up on congressmen …. I am very much concerned over the fact that the Jewish influence here is completely dominating the scene and making it almost impossible to get congress to do anything they don’t approve of. The Israeli embassy is practically dictating to the congress through influential Jewish people in the country”

    —–Sec. of State John Foster Dulles quoted on p.99 of Fallen Pillars by Donald Neff

    The long history of bipartisan Congressional support for Israel led former Secretary of State James Baker to call the Congress “The Little Knesset” after Israel’s Knesset (parliament) in Jerusalem. Congress’s embarrassing and unpatriotic display of allegiance to a foreign country that is dependent on American largesse and support is the unknown scandal to the American people. With the media’s strong, biased and sympathetic portrayal of Israel while simultaneously denying any opposing view of Israel or human pictures and stories of the endless suffering of Palestinians, its no

    wonder that we the American people are so unaware of the true face of Israel. Thus shockingly but not surprisingly only 4 % of the American people are aware of Israel’s 34 year brutal military occupation of the Palestinian people…………….

    http://www.mediamonitors.net/khodr49.html

  29. Digressing … slightly

    I believe everything the New York Times has ever written, but only when it satiates my confirmation bias.

    • 1906 – New York Times, 25 March 1906: “Startling reports of the condition and future of Russia’s 6,000,000 Jews were made on March 12 in Berlin to the annual meeting of the Central Jewish Relief League of Germany by Dr. Paul Nathan… He left St. Petersburg with the firm conviction that the Russian Government’s studied policy for the ‘solution’ of the Jewish question is systematic and murderous extermination.”

    • 1915 – Jacob de Hass, The Boston Sunday Globe, 26 September 1915, page 46: “Indeed the only point that all warring elements are agreed upon is that at the end of the holocaust the Jews and Palestine will be more closely related than at present.”

    • 1915 – New York Tribune, 14 October 1915: “What the Turks are doing to Armenians is child’s play compared to what Russia is doing to six million Jews, her own subjects.” [topical considering the words projected out of Biden’s mouth recently]

    Robbie Williams …

    Bloody Russians! 😊

    • How King Edward solved the Jewish lending policy

      Stätütüm dè Jûdèísmö 1275
      From The Statutes of the Realm, vol. I, pp. 220-1

      ” Forasmuch as the King hath seen that divers evils and the disinheriting of good men of his land have happened by the usuries which the Jews have made in time past, and that divers sins have followed thereupon albeit that he and his ancestors have received much benefit from the Jewish people in all times past, neverthless, for the honour of God and the common benefit of the people the King hath ordained and established, that from henceforth no Jew shall lend anything at usury either upon land, or upon rent or upon other thing………….”

      https://www.heretical.com/british/jews1275.html

    • SIX MILLION JEWS 1915 1938 FULL HD (22m)

      about ten times the 6 gorillian was mentioned in the NYT between the years 1915-1938

  30. Wilfred Owen fought till a week before armistice, then was killed. Despite the clear anti-war sentiments of his verses, he went back to the front willingly when he could have stayed on sick-leave after injury. From a poem about a soldier too slow with his gas mask…

    If in some smothering dreams, you too could pace
    Behind the wagon that we flung him in,
    And watch the white eyes writhing in his face,
    His hanging face, like a devil’s sick of sin,
    If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood
    Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs,
    Obscene as cancer,
    Bitter as the cud
    Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,–
    My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
    To children ardent for some desperate glory,
    The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est
    Pro patria mori

    A poet I like a lot is Edward Thomas, mate of Robert Frost. He was killed in 1917, battle of Arras.

  31. Bulletin:

    I came across these two excellent interviews today – sharing as both are very much on topic re war propaganda in general – and a nice bit of history thrown in in both interviews.

    • The West goes insane over Ukraine – RT Renegade Inc interview with Alex Krainer (Vanessa Beeley channel)

    • Interview with Maria Zhakarova – RT (DutchBoy NL channel)

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