This page has been archived and commenting is disabled.

Veteran's Day Weekend Humor: World War I Explained On Facebook

Tyler Durden's picture




 

As we remember the fallen this weekend...

Prussia: Oh, f##k you France.

 

(click image for huge legible version)

 

 

(h/t Jim Quinn's Burning Platform blog)

 

- advertisements -

Comment viewing options

Select your preferred way to display the comments and click "Save settings" to activate your changes.
Sun, 11/10/2013 - 17:18 | 4141135 Flakmeister
Flakmeister's picture

Read the "Guns of August"  by Barbara Tuchman....

Sun, 11/10/2013 - 17:54 | 4141207 djsmps
djsmps's picture

Read any book by Barbara Tuchman.

Sun, 11/10/2013 - 18:03 | 4141221 Looney
Looney's picture

Just wondering... How many of our "exceptional" people percentage-wise know when, where, and how the WWI started... and ended?

Looney

Sun, 11/10/2013 - 18:07 | 4141239 SafelyGraze
SafelyGraze's picture

this was a good graphic

especially all the entries by entities who financed the wars and profited from them

makes you realize that the main fb conversation behind the scenes was about who would lend how much to whom

or maybe that was in the *other* graphic. 

Sun, 11/10/2013 - 18:40 | 4141303 jbvtme
jbvtme's picture

not withstanding...may god bless our soldiers.  without them there could be no war

Sun, 11/10/2013 - 19:54 | 4141493 Lore
Lore's picture

+1.  The treatise has not yet been written that will enlighten and motivate new generations to "remove themselves from the equation," so to speak. 

In modern context, "Support The Troops" must stand among the Top Ten Most Glib Bumper Stickers. 

Sun, 11/10/2013 - 19:54 | 4141499 Flakmeister
Flakmeister's picture

Buying a magnetic yellow ribbon is helluva lot easier than supporting the Draft...

Sun, 11/10/2013 - 20:02 | 4141510 Lore
Lore's picture

Hi Flak!  Guess we're on the same page.  I suppose the next resource war will be rationalised in some fashion with "Global Warming." :o)

Sun, 11/10/2013 - 19:53 | 4141497 robertocarlos
robertocarlos's picture

They are heroes and victims, depending on when exactly you look in the box.

Sun, 11/10/2013 - 21:25 | 4141701 A Nanny Moose
A Nanny Moose's picture

Without blind obedience of the people, to government, there could be no war.

Sun, 11/10/2013 - 18:32 | 4141287 Diogenes
Diogenes's picture

Sarajevo, Bosnia.In a Graf und Stift touring car. Ended in a railway car at Compiegne France.

Sun, 11/10/2013 - 18:53 | 4141325 knukles
knukles's picture

Outlaw cars.

Sun, 11/10/2013 - 20:01 | 4141513 kaiserhoff
kaiserhoff's picture

Really didn't end.

It extended into world war II and gave serious power to world communism.

 

Sun, 11/10/2013 - 22:30 | 4141721 Harbanger
Harbanger's picture

Correction, The MIC we have today started with the creation of the Fed in 1913.  So you should say,  -"Extended into world war III and gave complete power to world communism."  The Global collective bitchez!  That's always been the goal, we are all World citizens now.

Sun, 11/10/2013 - 23:54 | 4142033 Flakmeister
Flakmeister's picture

No, it started when the Pentagon was built...

You may choose to blame a lot of shit on the FED, but that ain't gonna stick...

Mon, 11/11/2013 - 00:12 | 4142057 Harbanger
Harbanger's picture

I'm not going to argue with you Flak, we have more important things to worry about like the global cooling phase we're entering.  My point is not to make things "stick".  That's for politicians and marketeers, I'm not selling anything.

Mon, 11/11/2013 - 01:40 | 4142145 Flakmeister
Flakmeister's picture

You certainly are selling something, an indefensible opinion that is held by very very few people...

PS If you are going to troll, you are going to have to do better than that... Global cooling, really?

Mon, 11/11/2013 - 08:50 | 4142328 detached.amusement
detached.amusement's picture

Its too bad we all cant place money on it, then you could owe us your bitcoins

Mon, 11/11/2013 - 09:25 | 4142371 Flakmeister
Flakmeister's picture

I would gladly lay any amount of money...

I don't normally scalp fools but with you I might make an exception...

Sun, 11/10/2013 - 18:39 | 4141299 duo
duo's picture

A skirmish in Galacia?  The fall of the first Belgian fortress at Liege?

I wouldn't consider the Archduke's murder the first shot of the war.

I don't think the final shot of the war was accurately documented due to the communications technology of the time.  Heck, they were using mirrors and pigeons.

Sun, 11/10/2013 - 18:54 | 4141328 knukles
knukles's picture

You can keep your pigeons if you like them

Sun, 11/10/2013 - 20:15 | 4141537 nmewn
nmewn's picture

I'm sorry people are losing their pigeons based on assurances I made.

Sun, 11/10/2013 - 20:20 | 4141545 akak
akak's picture

You didn't build that pigeon coop ... somebody else did that.

Sun, 11/10/2013 - 20:24 | 4141557 nmewn
nmewn's picture

Besides, we think that pigeon coop is not good for you, so we're outlawing it.

Sun, 11/10/2013 - 21:05 | 4141658 kaiserhoff
kaiserhoff's picture

By executive order, retroactive five years, with triple penalties and fines enforced by the KGB, er the IRS.

Sun, 11/10/2013 - 20:56 | 4141531 akak
akak's picture

 

Just wondering... How many of our "exceptional" people percentage-wise know when, where, and how the WWI started... and ended?

What?! 

Are you telling me that World Wrestling has ended?

Say it ain't so Joe!

Sun, 11/10/2013 - 20:58 | 4141644 Brutlstrudl
Brutlstrudl's picture

Charlemagne started WW1 by breaking the law of Primogeniture by dividing his propertty among his three sons. The rest is history.

Sun, 11/10/2013 - 22:23 | 4141855 smlbizman
smlbizman's picture

was that kid charlemagne.....so its steely dans fault.....whoda thunk..

Sun, 11/10/2013 - 21:27 | 4141709 scrappy
scrappy's picture

Banksters?

Sun, 11/10/2013 - 18:00 | 4141227 Flakmeister
Flakmeister's picture

Best viewed through a distant mirror...

Sun, 11/10/2013 - 21:40 | 4141740 2¢Wurth
2¢Wurth's picture

Objects in this mirror may be closer than they appear...

Mon, 11/11/2013 - 06:44 | 4142258 StandardDeviant
StandardDeviant's picture

Tuchman's "The March of Folly" is my favourite.  But I think she needs to add a few chapters to the next printing.

Mon, 11/11/2013 - 09:26 | 4142369 DanDaley
DanDaley's picture

What's coming is going to be more like A Distant Mirror -the 1300s in France when local warlords raped, plundered, and competed for land and serfs -oh, and don't forget the Black Plague...light reading.

Sun, 11/10/2013 - 17:20 | 4141141 DoChenRollingBearing
DoChenRollingBearing's picture

Tomorrow, November 11, is also supposed to tbe the National Electric Grid Shutdown Simulation.

Sun, 11/10/2013 - 17:53 | 4141202 Sedaeng
Sedaeng's picture

According to SPP.org, the origination of the PDF document stating the how and when of gridex II, it is actually taking place on Nov 13th & 14th

29 page PDF file here

Sun, 11/10/2013 - 18:12 | 4141252 seek
seek's picture

The 13th and 14th are the same dates I have as well.

Sun, 11/10/2013 - 17:20 | 4141142 Flakmeister
Flakmeister's picture

  ----> Russia Mobilized first

  ----> Germany Mobilized first

Sun, 11/10/2013 - 18:22 | 4141265 johny2
johny2's picture

read more! germany was tricked into the war, but the Russia was also pushed into it. I reckon the real culprits are out of the fb history above.

Sun, 11/10/2013 - 19:37 | 4141447 Flakmeister
Flakmeister's picture

I have read plenty...

I suggest you acquaint yourself with J.M. Roberts's History of the Twentieth Century...

Sun, 11/10/2013 - 20:42 | 4141592 johny2
johny2's picture

It is always good to read more, so thanks. The empires fighting over the colonies and the lots of debt being made at the same time is how I look at it. Your take seem that Germany was attacked while they were having few beers with their bratwursts and contemplating how good is the pacifism.

Mon, 11/11/2013 - 00:29 | 4142080 disabledvet
disabledvet's picture

I saw all the horror pictures of World War II when I was a kid and it didn't bother me in the least. now I can't bring myself to post a you tube video of the building of the B-29's in Wichita because I find it too disturbing. Part of me is mad as hell and part of me is relieved vis a vis all the b.s and what's going on now. was glad to see the Sec Def in New York City trying to get out the message to hire vets. Was watching football with the folks and we all laughed at how the still ongoing (forever?) war didn't even exist. Everyone in Europe knows "the Great War" though. the ghost of William Tecumseh Sherman walks that Continent...and to my knowledge he never once set foot on it. the USA will never stand down from "post 9/11." we'll find a way to finance it directly from Wall Street itself (are we already?) if we have to. But right now...everything looks like money is everything and the only thing.

Mon, 11/11/2013 - 06:52 | 4142263 johny2
johny2's picture

The truth has been made illegal already. Even on the ZH, Voltaire would have been prohibited today. But it still has lots of good information, and is worth visiting, if only to find out what is next that is planned for the sheeple.

Sun, 11/10/2013 - 21:28 | 4141712 optimator
optimator's picture

Latest book I've read on it is the most detailed of all.  "Guns of August" pales compared to this one.

 

http://www.amazon.com/July-1914-Countdown-Sean-McMeekin/dp/0465031455/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1384133140&sr=1-1&keywords=july+1914

Sun, 11/10/2013 - 21:32 | 4141719 StychoKiller
StychoKiller's picture

"The Creature from Jekyll Island,..." names names!

Sun, 11/10/2013 - 21:49 | 4141760 flapdoodle
flapdoodle's picture

I was under the impression Austria/Hungary (a.k.a "the corpse") mobilized first, gave Serbia an ultimatum, invaded Serbia, and got its clock cleaned, and then the big boys got into the fight...

Mon, 11/11/2013 - 08:54 | 4142333 Drachma
Drachma's picture

Wallstreet mobilized first. Without the financiers, there is no mobilization.

Mon, 11/11/2013 - 15:49 | 4143362 Joe A
Joe A's picture

They gave Serbia an ultimatum they could not accept. NATO repeated that trick in 1999.

Mon, 11/11/2013 - 09:29 | 4142377 DanDaley
DanDaley's picture

Flack, I can't believe I actually agree with you...okay, the Germans had been building their railroads to their borders for a good 20 years to facilitate invasions to those neighbors. 

Mon, 11/11/2013 - 10:48 | 4142545 Flakmeister
Flakmeister's picture

All the great powers were doing it, Germany merely mastered it best...

Every one had a war college and everyone had an attack plan...

Mon, 11/11/2013 - 16:31 | 4143488 InTheLandOfTheBlind
InTheLandOfTheBlind's picture

that last sentence says it all.... everybody is doing it and everybody but the hoople heads know... there is no such thing as a nation that is a victim unless it is to its own stupidity.... all is fair in love and war 

Sun, 11/10/2013 - 17:23 | 4141151 besnook
besnook's picture

this should be the state approved curriculum for every middle school student in the world.

Sun, 11/10/2013 - 18:31 | 4141283 duo
duo's picture

Woodrow Wilson during the 1916 presidential campaign:  "If you like your neutrality, you can keep it".

Woodrow Wilson after being re-elected:  War with Germany, Fourteen Points, make the world safe for democracy.  Now let's get those troop ships filled with flu-carrying soldiers.  Oh, and we'll hang the whites out to dry when they had a chance against the Bolsheviks!

Sun, 11/10/2013 - 19:04 | 4141343 Dick Buttkiss
Dick Buttkiss's picture

You forgot something:

I am a most unhappy man. [With the signing of the Federal Reserve Act into law 100 years ago] I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is now controlled by its system of credit. Our system of  credit is concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men. We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most  completely controlled and dominated Governments in the civilized world no longer a Government by free opinion, no longer a Government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a Government by the opinion and duress of a small group of dominant men.

 

Mon, 11/11/2013 - 11:30 | 4142650 sschu
sschu's picture

WW1 lie, Fed Reserve Act, Income Tax, 14 points fiasco, League of Nations failure.

Was there a worse President that Wilson?  

Elect a university president supposed intellectual progressive to the leader of a nation and this is what you get.

sschu

Mon, 11/11/2013 - 16:34 | 4143507 InTheLandOfTheBlind
InTheLandOfTheBlind's picture

check back in a couple of yrs

Sun, 11/10/2013 - 17:28 | 4141155 Seize Mars
Seize Mars's picture

It would be nice if it didn't always boil down to the same shit over and over: the Germans were building a pipeline from Iraq all the way through the Balkans and into Germany.

Meanwhile, the "Anglo Persian Oil Company" (later BP) was desperate to ensure Rockefeller control over the region. The Germans were NOT ALLOWED the pipeline, the war was the enforcement mechanism.

By the way, do you think it's a fucking coincidence that "Camp Bondsteel," a US Army base, is currently located in Kosovo? Nobody gets a pipeline past that thing, I bet.

Sun, 11/10/2013 - 17:41 | 4141181 Flakmeister
Flakmeister's picture

Revisionist history at its finest....

Not to downplay the emerging role of oil at the time but the above is of little relevance...

Mon, 11/11/2013 - 08:37 | 4142315 Disenchanted
Disenchanted's picture

re: "Revisionist history"

Usually used as a slur meaning the status quo establishment does not want someone telling the truth about what really happened...

Mon, 11/11/2013 - 09:46 | 4142399 Flakmeister
Flakmeister's picture

No, a dollop of made up shit to suit one person's world view...

Mon, 11/11/2013 - 09:57 | 4142424 Disenchanted
Disenchanted's picture

The original versions of history usually have more than their fair share of "dollops of made up shit."

 

 

History is the version of past events that people[the victors] have decided to agree upon. ~ usually attributed to Napolean

 

You mentioned Barbara Tuchman and her book earlier, I'm sure she gave us a completely even account of history and had no irons in the fire whatsoever...

From Wiki:

 

Tuchman was the daughter of the banker Maurice Wertheim. She was a first cousin of New York district attorney Robert M. Morgenthau, a niece of Henry Morgenthau, Jr. and granddaughter of Henry Morgenthau Sr., Woodrow Wilson's Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire.

Mon, 11/11/2013 - 16:23 | 4142500 Flakmeister
Flakmeister's picture

That is why I read many sources and come to my own conclusions as opposed to clinging to some obscure interpretation of dubious value that supports a preferred world view like so many here....

Tuchman is one of my favorite historians because of her writing style...

As for connections, you are aware of the 6 degrees of separation, it is very easy to connect people to suggest a conspiratoral agenda...

----

Try reading Haig's Command if you want a lesson in how victors write the history...

Sun, 11/10/2013 - 17:49 | 4141194 ThirdWorldDude
ThirdWorldDude's picture

True that, Gazpromia has no plans of including Kosovo within South Stream.

Bondsteel's role is to make sure The Empire gets it's cut of the spoils of war in its protectorate and of course posing as a major terrrist training facility.

 

(Recommended viewing - "The Weight of Chains", a 2 hour journey through the Balkan clusterfuck)

Sun, 11/10/2013 - 17:51 | 4141199 Terminus C
Terminus C's picture

Not sure about the pipeline, but they were building the Berlin to Baghdad Railway.

Sun, 11/10/2013 - 20:44 | 4141613 Seize Mars
Seize Mars's picture

terminus

Sorry my bad, I think. I believe you're right. It was a railway, not a pipeline.

Sun, 11/10/2013 - 17:33 | 4141164 lolmao500
lolmao500's picture

In other news, in the real world, shit about to go down...

The propaganda on Israeli news sites...

http://www.jpost.com/Experts/Zero-Hour-Israel-must-now-choose-between-at...

Zero Hour: Israel must now choose between attack and enslavement

Aka let's bomb Iran NOW!

While this is going on behind the scenes...

Netanyahu scrambling as he phones world leaders

By applying game theory you will figure out that the probability of an Israeli attack on Iran is 100%

Netanyahu phoned with Obama, Hollande, Merkel, Putin. Then Putin phone the Saudi King.

Bibi: the deal threatens our survival and on matters of Jewish survival, I will not be silenced.

Netanyahu goes for the jugular: Iran wants nuclear tipped ICBM's that can hit North America "Coming to a theater near you."

Bibi: Iranians murder Syrians, sponsor terrorism, they cannot be allowed to have nuclear weapons.

French friend of @Netanyahu stiffened @FabiusLaurent's resolve at Geneva talks by telling him Israel might soon attack Iran - @Channel2News

Bibi is a fucking NUT.

http://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=744462

‘Israel will attack Iran if you sign the deal, French MP told Fabius’ Paris legislator Meyer Habib, a friend of Netanyahu, called his FM in Geneva to warn of likely response should accord be signed, Israeli TV reports

Israel should be bombed if they destroy the world economy and start WW3 because of their nutjob leader.

Sun, 11/10/2013 - 18:11 | 4141244 JustObserving
JustObserving's picture

No chance of Iran nuclear deal as US Senate about to impose new sanctions:

Egged on by the Israelis, the US Senate is poised to pass new sanctions that threaten to derail the talks before they get to their planned next round in 10 days' time. (Guardian)

That's what happens when you hand over all your intelligence to a foreign power to use without any legal restrictions - it can blackmail the US Senate very easily:

A secret memo provided by former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden to the British Guardian newspaper reveals that the US spy agency is funneling raw intelligence data, including information from intercepted communications of US citizens, to Israeli intelligence.

“The National Security Agency routinely shares raw intelligence with Israel without first sifting it to remove information about US citizens,” theGuardian article by Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras and Ewen MacAskill reports.

 The undated five-page memo records an agreement reached between the NSA and its Israeli counterpart, the ISNU (Israeli Sigint National Unit), in March 2009, during the first months of the Obama administration.

While insisting that the Israelis operate with deference to the US Constitution and law, the memo adds, “This agreement is not intended to create any legally enforceable rights and shall not be construed to be either an international agreement or a legally binding instrument according to international law.” In other words, in practice ISNU and the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad are free to do as they please.

The most extraordinary passage in the memo requires that the Israeli spooks “destroy upon recognition” any communication provided by the NSA “that is either to or from an official of the US government.” It goes on to spell out that this includes “officials of the Executive Branch (including the White House, Cabinet Departments, and independent agencies); the US House of Representatives and Senate (members and staff); and the US Federal Court System (including, but not limited to, the Supreme Court).”

The stunning implication of this passage is that NSA spying targets not only ordinary American citizens, but also Supreme Court justices, members of Congress and the White House itself. One could hardly ask for a more naked exposure of a police state.

http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/09/13/surv-s13.html

 

Sun, 11/10/2013 - 18:28 | 4141276 lolmao500
lolmao500's picture

This incestuous relationship with Israel needs to end. NOW.

Sun, 11/10/2013 - 20:45 | 4141615 Seize Mars
Seize Mars's picture

Agreed.

Mon, 11/11/2013 - 00:35 | 4142090 disabledvet
disabledvet's picture

what I read (between hikes while watching football) was that the French had already torpedoed the negotiations. The Iranians seemed to have sent a far from cryptic message to Paris in response...and the Steelers just scored a touchdown against the Bills.

Sun, 11/10/2013 - 18:40 | 4141264 besnook
besnook's picture

israel is like the storybook evil genius. they will not attack iran. they will attack the usa while framing iran to muster the american ignorant into war with iran. game theory should include the chance of the usa buying into the scheme and the consequence of action and inaction.

here is the timeline. everyone bought into 9/11, the whole world did. for years it was verboten to discuss alternatives to the approved 9/11. my small part in all this was to declare jihad on the us/israel special relationship. in the beginning i was kicked off more sites than i can count as an antisemite even though i never mentioned jews specifically. suddenly, and it was sudden, i was able to post anti israel information on more and more mainstream boards. today, criticism of israel and israel/usa policy is a staple of every mainstream site in the world. this could not have happened without the necessary "approval" of the establishment. the walt and mearsheimer book, carter's book, finklestein and other anti zionists were given widespread mainstream coverage. meanwhile the 9/11 truth movement, in conjunction with the antizionists have made millions of people who thought otherwise or not at all question the approved meme. even ron paul helped change the debate platform.  two very little known quotes revealed the game. one was from a former military intel officer well connected with upper management(zabrosky) who, after outlining his case for mossad and 9/11, said that all his military contacts were aghast when he presented his case to them and he declared that if his argument became common knowledge israel would disappear implying that was the response relayed to him. others have come forward with similar credentials to essentially say the same thing. indeed, when patraeus was centcom(?) commander he testified before congress that israel policy was the greatest threat to usa security in the WORLD.  later, in a report that hardly anyone knew about the gossip queen of the daily news(?) reported that kissinger told her israel would not exist in ten years.

now, the plan is in action, the usa disses israel on syria and iran. yesterday kerry told the israelis on national tv that a third intifada was justified if israel does not negotiate peace with the palestinians in good faith. HOLY SHIT! those words cannot be any part of some diplomatic sleight of hand for trapping the palestinians. this isn't like the buried iraq memo that trapped saddam into the gulf war. the whole world saw kerry give the palis approval for violence in response to israeli intransigence.

the end game is here. france is israel's last defender and it may be token resistance for political reasons. history says israel will not go down quietly. they are a badger that needs to be taken down swiftly and decisively. i hope kissinger was right. nuke israel for peace in the middle east. israel is fond of saying you don't negotiate with terrorists, you bomb them. israel needs a dose of its own medicine.

Sun, 11/10/2013 - 20:20 | 4141546 robertocarlos
robertocarlos's picture

So the Carolina Panthers should continue partying?

Sun, 11/10/2013 - 21:15 | 4141674 Dapper Dan
Dapper Dan's picture

 

You may find this interesting regarding Max Blumenthal's new book.

the comment section is worth the read also

Right wing finds new way to dismiss Blumenthal: liken him to Dostoyevsky on November 8, 2013

Two more attacks on Max Blumenthal’s book about Israel, and two more raves.

There’s a hit job on the book and on the author’s father, Sidney Blumenthal, up at Buzzfeed, by Rosie Gray. And at Tablet, Liel Liebovitz says Goliath is a “brilliant novel”: that a zealous Blumenthal has dreamed up an evil Israel the same way that zealous nihilists in Dostoevsky’s novel The Possessed distorted Russia in order to destroy it.

First to the praise. Larry Gross (director of USC’s Annenberg School of Communications) has a rave up at Truthdig that dispenses with Liebovitz’s claim that the book is distorted. Yes it’s an indictment, but all the facts are facts, and they speak to a deep truth. Gross:

the term that came to mind was heart stopper. The book is hard to read, despite its short chapters and accessible prose, because of its relentless parade of facts—details, names, places, events—that add up to a portrait of pain and despair and injustice.

I don’t need to be told that the book is one-sided, that the author fails to acknowledge the many exceptions to the patterns and policies he reports, or that he doesn’t give equal, or much attention, really, to the aggressive and even murderous acts committed by the enemies of Israel. That’s really not the point. Because, if Blumenthal’s account is accurate—and even his most visible critic so far, Eric Alterman, notes that he is “mostly technically accurate”—then it is a damning and depressing portrait of a society that has been accustomed to presenting itself to the world as a righteous actor, the “Middle East’s only democracy,” surrounded by implacable enemies and forced to defend itself by any means necessary..

 

http://mondoweiss.net/2013/11/writers-ideological-punching.html

 

Sun, 11/10/2013 - 21:56 | 4141786 besnook
besnook's picture

i always found it black humor funny when the zionists argued that muslim leaders did not condemn terrorism when many did(cair for one) because the truth is there has never been a jewish organization that criticized israel's behavior, not even jstreet which is just a cover for extreme zionist views of other zionist.orgs.

Sun, 11/10/2013 - 23:24 | 4141976 Buckaroo Banzai
Buckaroo Banzai's picture

Means nothing. Muslims are notorious liars, the Koran authorizes them to say or do anything to advance Islam and kill or forcibly convert the infidel.

I don't have a clue what to make of the Middle East, but it is obvious that Israel is surrounded by either bloodthirsty lunatics, or lying sacks of shit, or both. My fear is that Israel, having been surrounded and forced to fight these evil fucks for the better part of a century, is becoming more and more like them, which is terrifying.

Mon, 11/11/2013 - 01:47 | 4142148 sadmamapatriot
sadmamapatriot's picture

I think you might have nailed it, Buckaroo Banzai.

Mon, 11/11/2013 - 03:59 | 4142205 Flagit
Flagit's picture

My fear is that Israel, having been surrounded and forced to fight these evil fucks for the better part of a century,

the whold story of todays israel is strange. it was a result of ww2.

Sun, 11/10/2013 - 22:09 | 4141825 Mike in GA
Mike in GA's picture

I stand with Israel.

Sun, 11/10/2013 - 22:43 | 4141886 Oldwood
Oldwood's picture

And so what happens if Israel is nuked? Are we going to have a street party like the Muslims did after 9-11? Crazies to the left of us and the devil on the right.

Sun, 11/10/2013 - 22:50 | 4141897 besnook
besnook's picture

i think a simple bay of pigs type sellout is the practical solution and, yes, a lot of scotch and beer will be bought that week in an american wide celebration of the usa.

Sun, 11/10/2013 - 19:05 | 4141350 Urban Redneck
Urban Redneck's picture

This is getting redonkulous.

There is a simple equitable solution for peace, prosperity, and global domination-

the Russians open an overseas base above Qom and position Topol-M missile batteries there, the Chinese (not the Pakistanis) lease the Saudi base at Al-Watah and station DF-25s there.

Then everyone has an existential crisis and there is no proliferation, and the Qataris will have an excuse to kick the US out of Doha (saving the US taxpayers' grandchildren a few bucks) and Barack can exit the US from the bathtub as unceremoniously as Wilson and Heath exited the British 40 years ago, and Chinese and Russians can babysit the brats and pick up the tab.

And then we can all get back to what's really important, ensuring the spice flows and the transition to the next monetary paradigm can progress.

M.A.D.

Sun, 11/10/2013 - 20:47 | 4141623 optimator
optimator's picture

The Israeli Samson Option means they can't be touched by anyone!

Sun, 11/10/2013 - 21:42 | 4141746 StychoKiller
StychoKiller's picture

It's my understanding that Samson died in the rubble he created, just saying.

Sun, 11/10/2013 - 17:33 | 4141168 q99x2
q99x2's picture

Judging by Germany today you would think they had one the wars.

Maybe they never gave up.

Sun, 11/10/2013 - 19:39 | 4141455 Flakmeister
Flakmeister's picture

Judging by the appearance and maintainence of the WWI cemetaries you would be fooled into thinking who won and who lost....

Sun, 11/10/2013 - 17:39 | 4141177 orez65
orez65's picture

Woodrow Wilson is probably the worst President of the US.

He entered the war at the behest of the banksters that were afraid that the Brits would not be able to pay their loans to the US.

Hundreds of thousands of Americans killed for money owed to banksters. Fuck you Woodrow.

Icing on the cake: the flu pandemic which started in Kansas US was transmitted to the entire world. Way to go Woodrow.

Super icing on the cake: Woodrow approves the Federal Reserve. Can this shit head get any worse?

Yes, the fucking League of Nations!

Why does a great country like the US elect so many psycopaths to be President?????

Sun, 11/10/2013 - 17:45 | 4141189 Flakmeister
Flakmeister's picture

Could you list in your opinion the 5 greatest presidents since the Civil War for us and why they were?

Sun, 11/10/2013 - 17:56 | 4141208 lolmao500
lolmao500's picture

Greatest president since the civil war? Harding.

Post-ww1 depression? He did nothing... the economy cleared itself within 18 months and it was back up again... then the roaring 20s came. No too big to fail BS, no bailouts, no interest rate change... everyone that had to go bankrupt went bankrupt.

Thank god that hack Keynes wasn't popular yet...

Seriously if I could back in time, I wouldn't kill Hitler, I would kill Keynes.

Sun, 11/10/2013 - 18:04 | 4141233 Flakmeister
Flakmeister's picture

I suggest you read the "Lords of Finance" to get a better handle about what was going on in the twenties...

As for Harding, need I mention Tea Pot Dome and any other number of scandals? Possibly the most corrupt adminstration of the 20th century...

Sun, 11/10/2013 - 18:22 | 4141261 BoNeSxxx
BoNeSxxx's picture

Only one... Kennedy.

And only because he told the establishment to go fuck themselves.

The rest, as they say, is history.

Sun, 11/10/2013 - 21:13 | 4141670 zhandax
zhandax's picture

He did nothing... the economy cleared itself within 18 months and it was back up again

Actually he did better than nothing...he cut spending.

Sun, 11/10/2013 - 18:34 | 4141285 lolmao500
lolmao500's picture

Who cares about their little scandals? I'm looking at the big picture here, long term impact on America.

Wilson and FDR are the worst.

Then you got FED heads and then you got Bush and Obama giving unprecedented power to the office of the president.

Worst presidents in US history :

1. Wilson

2. FDR

3. Obama

4. Bush

5. Nixon

6. Clinton

7. LBJ

Sun, 11/10/2013 - 19:17 | 4141376 Flakmeister
Flakmeister's picture

What you don't know about history would fill many textbooks or so it would seem...

Surprised you did not throw in Teddie given your obvious bias...

Sun, 11/10/2013 - 19:28 | 4141390 Burticus
Burticus's picture

You forgot Lincoln, the American equivalent of King George, with his War Against Southern Independence, the bloodiest war in American history, complete with fiat paper currency.  He made membership in the union mandatory, at the point of a gun, rather than voluntary, and belongs near or at the top of $#!++!e$+ presidents.

And you need to remove from your list Obomber, the Kenyan Usurper, since he is not a natural born citizen and never qualified for the office, so is not a lawful president.

Sun, 11/10/2013 - 19:31 | 4141423 Flakmeister
Flakmeister's picture

I said post Civil War...  

Please learn to read...

And if what you say about Obama had a shred of truth to it, you should be equally aghast at the Presidential aspirations of that noted hoser Tex Cruz...

Somehow, I just can't believe you would be bothered by such a minor detail..

Sun, 11/10/2013 - 23:28 | 4141989 Buckaroo Banzai
Buckaroo Banzai's picture

Lincoln was president for 5 days after the War of Northern Aggression ended. So technically, he belongs on the list.

Sun, 11/10/2013 - 23:43 | 4142017 Flakmeister
Flakmeister's picture

Since you are clearly such an expert, could you explain the "Cornerstone Speech" for us all... 

Sun, 11/10/2013 - 21:20 | 4141687 lolmao500
lolmao500's picture

Post-civil war... but yeah Lincoln is in the top 3 of all time... long term effects on the country, he's probably number one. Wilson number 2, FDR number 3.

Sun, 11/10/2013 - 17:59 | 4141220 Tasty Sandwich
Tasty Sandwich's picture

 

 

Any man who wants to be president is either an egomaniac or crazy.

  • Dwight D. Eisenhower
Mon, 11/11/2013 - 08:52 | 4142332 Disenchanted
Disenchanted's picture
Wilsonian Slaughter

(from 2009)

 

This story matters because culturally dominant, politically connected, activist evangelicalism unites Wilson, Bush, and Obama. Rather than simply seeking ideological kinship between Democrats and Republicans, or liberals and neoconservatives, we ought also to look for theological kinship—or at least for the remnants of theology. Doing so makes clear why Obama aligned himself with Rick Warren and why, in the current issue of Foreign Affairs, Slaughter favorably quotes Warren’s claim that “the only thing big enough to solve the problems of spiritual emptiness, selfish leadership, poverty, disease, and ignorance is the network of millions of churches all around the world.” The transformationists in church and state have a common cause. And this is not a recent development. Throughout American history, the purpose-driven church has worked hand in hand with the purpose-driven nation.

 

Any effort to build a post-Wilsonian foreign policy will have to deal honestly with American evangelicalism’s historic role in reorienting the church and the state toward social activism and global meliorism. Righteous interventionism appeals to our national vanity and piety. We have to face the fact that there is something deeply and authentically American about Wilsonianism. We cannot pretend that the transformationist impulse is something alien to our history and nature, or that it has been thrust upon us. Even Ronald Reagan frequently quoted Tom Paine’s boast that “we have it in our power to begin the world over again.” To some, an America without the impulse to do good seems like no America at all. And this makes realistic foreign policy a hard sell. Wilson labeled realism “selfish.” He replaced it with a “service” ethic that continues to dominate the American temperament. Faced with these realities, conservatives will have to figure out how to rehabilitate the language of national interests, safety, and modesty.

 

Mon, 11/11/2013 - 17:19 | 4143630 Flakmeister
Flakmeister's picture

The only thing progressive about some of the commentators here is how they get seem to get progressively thicker and obtuse...

Sun, 11/10/2013 - 17:42 | 4141185 WelfareFTW
WelfareFTW's picture

yeah poor ol' USA minding our own business.. yeah right!

need to update that shit to say war monger Woodrow Wilson, sent munitions and innocent Civilians into a war zone after Germany explicitly took out an ad in the NY Times telling the US to not enter the War Zone.

Sun, 11/10/2013 - 17:51 | 4141197 Dear Infinity
Dear Infinity's picture

Zuckerberg allowed this?


Sun, 11/10/2013 - 18:49 | 4141320 Goldilocks
Goldilocks's picture

Bwa ha ha ha ha ha ha (ha)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMwYF9jnZ88 (0:35)

Sun, 11/10/2013 - 17:56 | 4141215 buzzsaw99
buzzsaw99's picture

WW2 Germany has now updated their profile to include: "Not paying back jack shit and this ain't over by a long shot".

Sun, 11/10/2013 - 21:16 | 4141678 optimator
optimator's picture

 

Germany made its last reparations payment for World War I on Oct. 3, 2013 settling its outstanding debt from the 1919 Versailles Treaty.  France and Britain needed the reparations to repay their own debts. Both countries had borrowed vast sums from the US during the war. Germany only settled about an eighth of its treaty obligations by the time Hitler suspended payments.

Sun, 11/10/2013 - 17:59 | 4141222 Radical Marijuana
Radical Marijuana's picture

I thought that was a good way to provide a simple summary. Of course, it left out the most important players, the international bankers pulling the strings of everyone else, and so, the only ones to end up getting what they wanted.

Sun, 11/10/2013 - 18:02 | 4141231 MontgomeryScott
MontgomeryScott's picture

All wars are Bankers' wars (Micheal Rivero).

DoubleyouDubyaOne (WWI, for those who can't see the phonetic spelling) was a REHEARSAL for what was to come. The bankers dec=ided to test the POWER of the 'Federal Reserve Act Of 1913' (as well as some other shit they had accomplished in the rest of the world), by instigating the first-ever 'truly' global war. Well, they saw the results, and these were favorable to their bottom line, after all...

i was wondering who 'Tyler Durden' is, by the way. He keeps posting all kinds of shit on the internet...

I found this video that seems to explain it (in some way):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgNF7_EWEZo

This, maybe better:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIwToj3p3vM

YAY! REVISIONIST HISTORY 101!

Sun, 11/10/2013 - 18:14 | 4141253 ebworthen
ebworthen's picture

Good stuff.

All I can think of is the poor Men, Boys, and innocent civilians who died for a bunch of Bankers and Financiers.

The more things change, the more they stay the same. 

Wonder what Haliburton stock is doing and how the Poppy crop in Afghanistan is this year?

Sun, 11/10/2013 - 20:11 | 4141533 janus
janus's picture

as per the BBC this weekend, poppies are up @20% YOY...most especially in helmund.

ahhhh, good ole helmund, the most prized province of haliburtistan.  

it's sorta like this, minus the technicolor (TM).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RG2keYgBiZc

attractive to the eye,

soothing to the smell.../

now they'll sleep,

janus

Sun, 11/10/2013 - 18:32 | 4141290 Zero Point
Zero Point's picture

Can't find a very good link right off the bat, but also check out the distinct possibility that the "Spanish" flu originated in camp Funston amongst interred war objectors, and was in fact an engineered bio-weapon.

WW1 may not have killed enough people for the elite.

Sun, 11/10/2013 - 18:54 | 4141329 Analyse2
Analyse2's picture

WW1 was really a suicide for Europe, and France paid the higher price.

The casualties France suffered in WWI as a percentage of their population and total mobilized are staggering, representing a demographic disaster of incomparable scale.

Casualties of World War I in France:

- 1,697,800 dead,

- 4,266,000 wounded (of whom 1.5 million were permanently maimed)

- 537,000 made prisoner or missing

In total 73% of the 8,410,000 men mobilized (for a population of 40 million).

This also means that 60% of men between the ages of 18 and 28 died or were permanently maimed.

You can have an idea of what these figures woud represent for the present population of the US: 

- 13,412,000 dead

- 33,701,400 wounded (of whom 11,850,000 permanently maimed)

- 4,242,000 made prisoner or missing

Can you imagine US reaction to casualties on that scale?

And the French DID NOT SURRENDER Mr Jay Leno (your stupid jokes are really not very funny) …

Most amazing is that the totally ignorant US generation now see the French as cowards because of the avalanche of neo-cons propaganda and silly jokes after the firm and sensible refusal of the French to join America in Irak, in 2003.

Sun, 11/10/2013 - 19:15 | 4141368 Flakmeister
Flakmeister's picture

Well said...

I, for one, have visited the Verdun Memorial and the Ossuary there...IIRC, the bones of over 100,000 unidentified soldiers are there. Only then did the magnitude of what had occured become physically tangible...

Along with Verdun, I visited British cemetaries at Ypres, a German one near Neuville Ste. Vaast and the Canadian memorial at Vimy Ridge. I missed the American one near St. Mihiel....

One of the most sobering weeks of my life...

Sun, 11/10/2013 - 21:41 | 4141741 ajax
ajax's picture

 

 

Young Winston Churchill wore a French army helmet in the trenches during WWI in honour of the bravery and valour of the French soldiers.

The French have always made incredible soldiers. 

Go back to your tasteless herpes jokes Leno you asshat.

Sun, 11/10/2013 - 19:32 | 4141426 Zero Point
Zero Point's picture

Yes, the French are better at nuking small islands, far, far away from France. and considering their behaviour in North Africa recently, your point about Iraq is fucking garbage quite frankly.

Sun, 11/10/2013 - 19:34 | 4141437 Flakmeister
Flakmeister's picture

Don't you have some back issues of the John Birch Society newsletter to catch up on?

Sun, 11/10/2013 - 20:02 | 4141516 Zero Point
Zero Point's picture

Too busy. Your mum has gotten too fat to fuck herself now.

Sun, 11/10/2013 - 20:59 | 4141646 Flakmeister
Flakmeister's picture

Is that really the best you can do?

BTW, she's dead...

Asshole...

Mon, 11/11/2013 - 15:57 | 4143382 Analyse2
Analyse2's picture

@Zero Point

As you were born in New Zealand, I’ll explain you a few things kindly:

1) The French nuclear testings have been conducted in French Polynesia in the Islands of Moruroa and Fangataufa which are not less than 4,200 kilometers away of New-Zealand. The distance to the nearest inhabited island (Tureia) is 100 kilometers, the distance to the French territory of Tahiti is 1,200 kilometers.

After June 5, 1975 the tests were always conducted underground.

All these nuclear testings have been stopped a long time ago : We have not any French nuke popping off in the pacific for more than 17 YEARS now.

2) Concerning North Africa: France give their independence to Marocco and Tunisia as soon as 1956.

In Algeria - there was a French community of 1 million there – and unhappily it was only after a civil war (won by the French army) that De Gaulle gave the independence in 1962, after a referendum attesting that the Algerians, initially very splitted, had become largely in favor of independence.

On the whole they got a better treatment than the Maoris or Australian natives.

Sun, 11/10/2013 - 19:48 | 4141479 W74
W74's picture

"You can have an idea of what these figures woud represent for the present population of the US:"

The Zionists are more than willing to sacrifice that amount (of Americans, not their own of course).  More if necessary.

Sun, 11/10/2013 - 19:57 | 4141507 Flakmeister
Flakmeister's picture

Simply amazing, the flotsam and jetsam that washes up on ZH shore...

Sun, 11/10/2013 - 20:28 | 4141563 janus
janus's picture

great post analyze II...

yeah, the french are pussies; which is why they brought the entire continent (minus that noble island set in the silver strand) to its goddam knees under the awesomeness of one NB -- greatest man of the modern era, btw.

french soldiers are some of the world's finest...PERIOD(.)

and, jay leno...please-oh-please retire; your squeaky douche-baggery has saturated late night monologues too long. 

all that being said, the french have wedged themselves into a tight spot viz. the israelis...wonder what could come of all this?

est fin?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igJgPb0cgaA

sacre bleu!,

janus

Sun, 11/10/2013 - 21:44 | 4141751 ajax
ajax's picture

 

 

+ 1000 Janus

Sun, 11/10/2013 - 20:49 | 4141625 exonomic halfbreed
exonomic halfbreed's picture

In the debriefing of Reinhard Gehlen I beleive he claimed at a later date that he was told by his debriefer that the flu had been a project of the U.S.  I find this hard to beleive but I suppose it was possible.

Sun, 11/10/2013 - 19:22 | 4141387 drdolittle
drdolittle's picture

I thought that was fun. Thanks for posting Tyler. Not really legit cause none of the behing the scenes players were named but still. The amazing worthlessness all those young men died for.

Sun, 11/10/2013 - 19:46 | 4141472 W74
W74's picture

Oh Zionism.  And to think there are tens of millions of the brainwashed who think it's still a good idea and who are more than willing to sacrifice others to keep and maintain it (many being too fat and/or stupid to pick of a rifle and do it themselves) in far away lands.

Sun, 11/10/2013 - 19:29 | 4141404 22winmag
22winmag's picture

JPM made big bucks financing and fomenting WWI.

 

Here is an oldie but a goodie regarding the Great War...

 

http://www.lewrockwell.com/2004/01/john-j-dwyer/the-united-states-and-worldwari/

Mon, 11/11/2013 - 10:43 | 4142527 therevolutionwas
therevolutionwas's picture

Thank you for the link.

Must we thank Gore for the internet which gives us easy access to all this revisionist history?  sarc

Sun, 11/10/2013 - 20:42 | 4141605 lakecity55
lakecity55's picture

(current story)

PTB: OMG the Iranians might build a nuke!  We must attack! Pump it up in the press!

Iranians: you all know we have black market nukes. You only wish to place us under the Red Shield National Bank. Fuck Off!

PTB: Money is the last of our concerns! You must not make nukes!

Iranians: Fuck Off!

Russians: Yeah!

Syria: Help!

Sun, 11/10/2013 - 20:43 | 4141608 sunkeye
sunkeye's picture

Fan-fucking-tastic link (Tho I had to Zoom to + 500% read the fucking thing No big.

Scrolling down it I was LOLing at the wit. Too fucking funny no lie.

But then I stopped b/c I dunno It just wasn't funny loling at so many dead guys' wasted lives.

Peace.

Mon, 11/11/2013 - 04:59 | 4142222 putaipan
putaipan's picture

hey-

Mon, 11/11/2013 - 05:18 | 4142229 Flagit
Flagit's picture

too soon?

Sun, 11/10/2013 - 21:16 | 4141677 Constitutional ...
Constitutional Republic's picture

Gallows humor. Excellent. It is a somber time, best relieved with the indomitable human spirit to overcome all woes.

'If you can laugh at yourself, then you will never fail to be amused.'

For those who gave their all on the fields of battle, thank you for giving me the right to write. 

It's true that war is a racket. However, greater love hath no man than to lay down his life for his comrade.

Sun, 11/10/2013 - 21:20 | 4141689 fogman
fogman's picture

Read "American Betrayal" by Diana West , Operation Snowball  to get a better idea of how we're manipulated into these wars.

Sun, 11/10/2013 - 21:37 | 4141736 Constitutional ...
Constitutional Republic's picture

It is true that we are manipulated into these wars waged for private profit by the sociopaths. War is a racket.

Sun, 11/10/2013 - 21:50 | 4141772 fogman
fogman's picture

merican Betrayal has to do with the Communist infiltration of the US goverment in the 1930 and how they took over our foreign  policy . Lend Lease is a giant vacume cleaner to send our wealth to the Soviets while our men were left with nothing to fight with in the Pacific leading up to the war.

Operation Snowball shows how Harry Dexter White was able to cut off shipments of raw material to Japan inorder to goad them into attacking us.

We were suffering a collapse of demand for our products. Why woould we have stoped exports?

Sun, 11/10/2013 - 23:51 | 4142030 Flakmeister
Flakmeister's picture

Wow, all I can say is wow....

Sun, 11/10/2013 - 21:38 | 4141732 optimator
optimator's picture

The first mobilization of 1914?  First Lord of the Admiralty Winnie Churchill mobilzing the fleet without even notifying Parliament.  As First Lord he was also the one that set up the Lusitainia.  Yes the same Churchill who guaranteed the Poles he'd protect them if they only stood up to Hitler and didn't give any territory back.

Sun, 11/10/2013 - 23:50 | 4142027 Flakmeister
Flakmeister's picture

Well noted...

I will defend WC vis a vis Hitler though... It might well have been a case of a broken clock be right twice a day, but he was the only one really paying attention at the time...

Sun, 11/10/2013 - 22:32 | 4141868 barroter
barroter's picture

I liked the part where Influenza makes his appearance.

Sun, 11/10/2013 - 23:02 | 4141925 Cycle
Cycle's picture

Good reading or re-reading for Veteran's Day.

http://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html

Mon, 11/11/2013 - 02:45 | 4142176 Lordflin
Lordflin's picture

This was hilarious... I needed a good laugh... Thank you.

Mon, 11/11/2013 - 04:58 | 4142220 LongMarch
LongMarch's picture

Dan Carlin has started on this very topic.

Too good to miss.

http://www.dancarlin.com//disp.php/hharchive

 

Mon, 11/11/2013 - 05:22 | 4142231 BlackVoid
BlackVoid's picture

It might be funny, but it is parroting tha mainstream lies and deception.

How about the Berlin - Baghdad railway? How about the Serb assassin being a British asset?

TOTAL MAINSTREAM BS.

Mon, 11/11/2013 - 10:44 | 4142531 Flakmeister
Flakmeister's picture

Go ahead and write a properly researched scholarly book making your case, otherwise you are merely projecting your beliefs...

Mon, 11/11/2013 - 11:29 | 4142648 Bryan
Bryan's picture

haha!  Funniest thing ever!

Mon, 11/11/2013 - 12:00 | 4142731 Meat Hammer
Meat Hammer's picture

I wonder if Israel is going to bomb Iran as we're all polishing the yellow ribbons on our bumpers.

Do NOT follow this link or you will be banned from the site!