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David Stockman: Woodrow Wilson's War & Why The Entire 20th Century Was A Mistake

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Submitted by David Stockman via Contra Corner blog,

The Epochal Consequences Of Woodrow Wilson’s War

Remarks by David Stockman

Committee for the Republic

Washington DC January 20, 2015

My humble thesis tonight is that the entire 20th Century was a giant mistake.

And that you can put the blame for this monumental error squarely on Thomas Woodrow Wilson——-a megalomaniacal madman who was the very worst President in American history……..well, except for the last two.

His unforgiveable error was to put the United States into the Great War for utterly no good reason of national interest. The European war posed not an iota of threat to the safety and security of the citizens of Lincoln NE, or Worcester MA or Sacramento CA. In that respect, Wilson’s putative defense of “freedom of the seas” and the rights of neutrals was an empty shibboleth; his call to make the world safe for democracy, a preposterous pipe dream.

Actually, his thinly veiled reason for plunging the US into the cauldron of the Great War was to obtain a seat at the peace conference table——so that he could remake the world in response to god’s calling.

But this was a world about which he was blatantly ignorant; a task for which he was temperamentally unsuited; and an utter chimera based on 14 points that were so abstractly devoid of substance as to constitute mental play dough.

Or, as his alter-ego and sycophant, Colonel House, put it:  Intervention positioned Wilson to play “The noblest part that has ever come to the son of man”.  America thus plunged into Europe’s carnage, and forevermore shed its century-long Republican tradition of anti-militarism and non-intervention in the quarrels of the Old World.

Needless to say, there was absolutely nothing noble that came of Wilson’s intervention. It led to a peace of vengeful victors, triumphant nationalists and avaricious imperialists—-when the war would have otherwise ended in a bedraggled peace of mutually exhausted bankrupts and discredited war parties on both sides.

By so altering the course of history, Wilson’s war bankrupted Europe and midwifed 20th century totalitarianism in Russia and Germany.

These developments, in turn, eventually led to the Great Depression, the Welfare State and Keynesian economics, World War II, the holocaust, the Cold War, the permanent Warfare State and its military-industrial complex.

They also spawned Nixon’s 1971 destruction of sound money, Reagan’s failure to tame Big Government and Greenspan’s destructive cult of monetary central planning.

So, too, flowed the Bush’s wars of intervention and occupation,  their fatal blow to the failed states in the lands of Islam foolishly created by the imperialist map-makers at Versailles and the resulting endless waves of blowback and terrorism now afflicting the world.

And not the least of the ills begotten in Wilson’s war is the modern rogue regime of central bank money printing, and the Bernanke-Yellen plague of bubble economics which never stops showering the 1% with the monumental windfalls from central bank enabled speculation.

Consider the building blocks of that lamentable edifice.

First, had the war ended in 1917 by a mutual withdrawal from the utterly stalemated trenches of the Western Front, as it was destined to, there would have been no disastrous summer offensive by the Kerensky government, or subsequent massive mutiny in Petrograd that enabled Lenin’s flukish seizure of power in November. That is, the 20th century would not have been saddled with a Stalinist nightmare or with a Soviet state that poisoned the peace of nations for 75 years, while the nuclear sword of Damocles hung over the planet.

Likewise, there would have been no abomination known as the Versailles peace treaty; no “stab in the back” legends owing to the Weimar government’s forced signing of the “war guilt” clause; no continuance of England’s brutal post-armistice blockade that delivered Germany’s women and children into starvation and death and left a demobilized 3-million man army destitute, bitter and on a permanent political rampage of vengeance.

So too, there would have been no acquiescence in the dismemberment of Germany and the spreading of its parts and pieces to Poland, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, France, Austria and Italy—–with the consequent revanchist agitation that nourished the Nazi’s with patriotic public support in the rump of the fatherland.

Nor would there have materialized the French occupation of the Ruhr and the war reparations crisis that led to the destruction of the German middle class in the 1923 hyperinflation; and, finally, the history books would have never recorded the Hitlerian ascent to power and all the evils that flowed thereupon.

In short, on the approximate 100th anniversary of Sarajevo, the world has been turned upside down.

The war of victors made possible by Woodrow Wilson destroyed the liberal international economic order—that is, honest money, relatively free trade, rising international capital flows and rapidly growing global economic integration—-which had blossomed during the 40-year span between 1870 and 1914.

That golden age had brought rising living standards, stable prices, massive capital investment, prolific technological progress and pacific relations among the major nations——a condition that was never equaled, either before or since.

Now, owing to Wilson’s fetid patrimony, we have the opposite: A world of the Warfare State, the Welfare State, Central Bank omnipotence and a crushing burden of private and public debts. That is, a thoroughgoing statist regime that is fundamentally inimical to capitalist prosperity, free market governance of economic life and the flourishing of private liberty and constitutional safeguards against the encroachments of the state.

So Wilson has a lot to answer for—-and my allotted 30 minutes can hardly accommodate the full extent of the indictment. But let me try to summarize his own “war guilt” in eight major propositions——a couple of which my give rise to a disagreement or two.

Proposition #1:  Starting with the generic context——the Great War was about nothing worth dying for and engaged no recognizable principle of human betterment. There were many blackish hats, but no white ones.

Instead, it was an avoidable calamity issuing from a cacophony of political incompetence, cowardice, avarice and tomfoolery.

Blame the bombastic and impetuous Kaiser Wilhelm for setting the stage with his foolish dismissal of Bismarck in 1890, failure to renew the Russian reinsurance treaty shortly thereafter and his quixotic build-up of the German Navy after the turn of the century.

Blame the French for lashing themselves to a war declaration that could be triggered by the intrigues of a decadent court in St. Petersburg where the Czar still claimed divine rights and the Czarina ruled behind the scenes on the hideous advice of Rasputin.

Likewise, censure Russia’s foreign minister Sazonov for his delusions of greater Slavic grandeur that had encouraged Serbia’s provocations after Sarajevo; and castigate the doddering emperor Franz Joseph for hanging onto power into his 67th year on the throne and thereby leaving his crumbling empire vulnerable to the suicidal impulses of General Conrad’s war party.

So too, indict the duplicitous German Chancellor, Bethmann-Hollweg, for allowing the Austrians to believe that the Kaiser endorsed their declaration of war on Serbia; and pillory Winston Churchill and London’s war party for failing to recognize that the Schlieffen Plan’s invasion through Belgium was no threat to England, but a unavoidable German defense against a two-front war.

But after all that—- most especially don’t talk about the defense of democracy, the vindication of liberalism or the thwarting of Prussian autocracy and militarism.

The British War party led by the likes of Churchill and Kitchener was all about the glory of empire, not the vindication of democracy; France’ principal war aim was the revanchist drive to recover Alsace-Lorrain—–mainly a German speaking territory for 600 years until it was conquered by Louis XIV.

In any event, German autocracy was already on its last leg as betokened by the arrival of universal social insurance and the election of a socialist-liberal majority in the Reichstag on the eve of the war; and the Austro-Hungarian, Balkan and Ottoman goulash of nationalities, respectively, would have erupted in interminable regional conflicts, regardless of who won the Great War.

In short, nothing of principle or higher morality was at stake in the outcome.

Proposition # 2:  The war posed no national security threat whatsoever to the US.  Presumably, of course, the danger was not the Entente powers—but Germany and its allies.

But how so?  After the Schlieffen Plan offensive failed on September 11, 1914, the German Army became incarcerated in a bloody, bankrupting, two-front land war that ensured its inexorable demise. Likewise, after the battle of Jutland in May 1916, the great German surface fleet was bottled up in its homeports—-an inert flotilla of steel that posed no threat to the American coast 4,000 miles away.

As for the rest of the central powers, the Ottoman and Hapsburg empires already had an appointment with the dustbin of history. Need we even bother with the fourth member—-that is, Bulgaria?

Proposition #3:  Wilson’s pretexts for war on Germany—–submarine warfare and the Zimmerman telegram—-are not half what they are cracked-up to be by Warfare State historians.

As to the so-called freedom of the seas and neutral shipping rights, the story is blatantly simple. In November 1914, England declared the North Sea to be a “war zone”; threatened neutral shipping with deadly sea mines; declared that anything which could conceivably be of use to the German army—directly or indirectly—-to be contraband that would be seized or destroyed; and announced that the resulting blockade of German ports was designed to starve it into submission.

A few months later, Germany announced its submarine warfare policy designed to the stem the flow of food, raw materials and armaments to England in retaliation.  It was the desperate antidote of a land power to England’s crushing sea-borne blockade.

Accordingly, there existed a state of total warfare in the northern European waters—-and the traditional “rights” of neutrals were irrelevant and disregarded by both sides. In arming merchantmen and stowing munitions on passenger liners, England was hypocritical and utterly cavalier about the resulting mortal danger to innocent civilians—–as exemplified by the 4.3 million rifle cartridges and hundreds of tons of other munitions carried in the hull of the Lusitania.

Likewise, German resort to so-called “unrestricted submarine warfare” in February 1917 was brutal and stupid, but came in response to massive domestic political pressure during what was known as the “turnip winter” in Germany.  By then, the country was starving from the English blockade—literally.

Before he resigned on principle in June 1915, Secretary William Jennings Bryan got it right. Had he been less diplomatic he would have said never should American boys be crucified on the cross of Cunard liner state room so that a few thousand wealthy plutocrat could exercise a putative “right” to wallow in luxury while knowingly cruising into in harm’s way.

As to the Zimmerman telegram, it was never delivered to Mexico, but was sent from Berlin as an internal diplomatic communique to the German ambassador in Washington, who had labored mightily to keep his country out of war with the US, and was intercepted by British intelligence, which sat on it for more than a month waiting for an opportune moment to incite America into war hysteria.

In fact, this so-called bombshell was actually just an internal foreign ministry rumination about a possible plan to approach the Mexican president regarding an alliance in the event that the US first went to war with Germany.

Why is this surprising or a casus belli?  Did not the entente bribe Italy into the war with promises of large chunks of Austria? Did not the hapless Rumanians finally join the entente when they were promised Transylvania?  Did not the Greeks bargain endlessly over the Turkish territories they were to be awarded for joining the allies?  Did  not Lawrence of Arabia bribe the Sherif of Mecca with the promise of vast Arabian lands to be extracted from the Turks?

Why, then, would the German’s—-if at war with the USA—- not promise the return of Texas?

Proposition #4:  Europe had expected a short war, and actually got one when the Schlieffen plan offensive bogged down 30 miles outside of Paris on the Marne River in mid-September 1914.  Within three months, the Western Front had formed and coagulated into blood and mud——a ghastly 400 mile corridor of senseless carnage, unspeakable slaughter and incessant military stupidity that stretched from the Flanders coast across Belgium and northern France to the Swiss frontier.

The next four years witnessed an undulating line of trenches,  barbed wire entanglements, tunnels, artillery emplacements and shell-pocked scorched earth that rarely moved more than a few miles in either direction, and which ultimately claimed more than 4 million casualties on the Allied side and 3.5 million on the German side.

If there was any doubt that Wilson’s catastrophic intervention converted a war of attrition, stalemate and eventual mutual exhaustion into Pyrrhic victory for the allies, it was memorialized in four developments during 1916.

In the first, the Germans wagered everything on a massive offensive designed to overrun the fortresses of Verdun——the historic defensive battlements on France’s northeast border that had stood since Roman times, and which had been massively reinforced after the France’s humiliating defeat in Franco-Prussian War of 1870.

But notwithstanding the mobilization of 100 divisions, the greatest artillery bombardment campaign every recorded until then, and repeated infantry offensives from February through November that resulted in upwards of 400,000 German casualties, the Verdun offensive failed.

The second event was its mirror image—-the massive British and French offensive known as the battle of the Somme, which commenced with equally destructive artillery barrages on July 1, 1916 and then for three month sent waves of infantry into the maws of German machine guns and artillery. It too ended in colossal failure, but only after more than 600,000 English and French casualties including a quarter million dead.

In between these bloodbaths, the stalemate was reinforced by the naval showdown at Jutland that cost the British far more sunken ships and drowned sailors than the Germans, but also caused the Germans to retire their surface fleet to port and never again challenge the Royal Navy in open water combat.

Finally, by year-end 1916 the German generals who had destroyed the Russian armies in the East with only a tiny one-ninth fraction of the German army—Generals Hindenburg and Ludendorff —were given command of the Western Front. Presently, they radically changed Germany’s war strategy by recognizing that the growing allied superiority in manpower, owing to the British homeland draft of 1916 and mobilization of forces from throughout the empire, made a German offensive breakthrough will nigh impossible.

The result was the Hindenburg Line—a military marvel based on a checkerboard array of hardened pillbox machine gunners and maneuver forces rather than mass infantry on the front lines, and an intricate labyrinth of highly engineered tunnels, deep earth shelters, rail connections, heavy artillery and flexible reserves in the rear. It was also augmented by the transfer of Germany’s eastern armies to the western front—-giving it 200 divisions and 4 million men on the Hindenburg Line.

This precluded any hope of Entente victory. By 1917 there were not enough able-bodied draft age men left in France and England to overcome the Hindenburg Line, which, in turn,  was designed to bleed white the entente armies led by butchers like Generals Haig and Joffre until their governments sued for peace.

Thus, with the Russian army’s disintegration in the east and the stalemate frozen indefinitely in the west by early 1917, it was only a matter of months before mutinies among the French lines, demoralization in London, mass starvation and privation in Germany and bankruptcy all around would have led to a peace of exhaustion and a European-wide political revolt against the war makers.

Wilson’s intervention thus did not remake the world. But it did radically re-channel the contours of 20th century history. And, as they say, not in a good way.

Proposition #5:  Wilson’s epochal error not only produced the abomination of Versailles and all its progeny, but also the transformation of the Federal Reserve from a passive “banker’s bank” to an interventionist central bank knee-deep in Wall Street, government finance and macroeconomic management.

This, too, was a crucial historical hinge point because Carter Glass’ 1913 act forbid the new Reserve banks to even own government bonds; empowered them only to passively discount for cash good commercial credits and receivables brought to the rediscount window by member banks; and contemplated no open market interventions in debt markets or any remit with respect to GDP growth, jobs, inflation, housing or all the rest of modern day monetary central planning targets.

In fact, Carter Glass’ “banker’s bank” didn’t care whether the growth rate was positive 4%, negative 4% or anything in-between; its modest job was to channel liquidity into the banking system in response to the ebb and flow of commerce and production.

Jobs, growth and prosperity were to remain the unplanned outcome of millions of producers, consumers, investors, savers, entrepreneurs and speculators operating on the free market, not the business of the state.

But Wilson’s war took the national debt from about $1 billion or $11 per capita—–a level which had been maintained since the Battle of Gettysburg—-to $27 billion, including upwards of $10 billion re-loaned to the allies to enable them to continue the war. There is not a chance that this massive eruption of Federal borrowing could have been financed out of domestic savings in the private market.

So the Fed charter was changed owing to the exigencies of war to permit it to own government debt and to discount private loans collateralized by Treasury paper.

In due course, the famous and massive Liberty Bond drives became a glorified Ponzi scheme. Patriotic Americans borrowed money from their banks and pledged their war bonds; the banks borrowed money from the Fed, and re-pledged their customer’s collateral.  The Reserve banks, in turn, created the billions they loaned to the commercial banks out of thin air, thereby pegging interest rates low for the duration of the war.

When Wilson was done saving the world, America had an interventionist central bank schooled in the art of interest rate pegging and rampant expansion of fiat credit not anchored in the real bills of commerce and trade; and its incipient Warfare and Welfare states had an agency of public debt monetization that could permit massive government spending without the inconvenience of high taxes on the people or the crowding out of business investment by high interest rates on the private market for savings.

Proposition # 6:   By prolonging the war and massively increasing the level of debt and money printing on all sides, Wilson’s folly prevented a proper post-war resumption of the classical gold standard at the pre-war parities.

This failure of resumption, in turn, paved the way for the breakdown of monetary order and world trade in 1931—–a break which turned a standard post-war economic cleansing into the Great Depression, and a decade of protectionism, beggar-thy-neighbor currency manipulation and ultimately rearmament and statist dirigisme.

In essence, the English and French governments had raised billions from their citizens on the solemn promise that it would be repaid at the pre-war parities; that the war bonds were money good in gold.

But the combatant governments had printed too much fiat currency and inflation during the war, and through domestic regimentation, heavy taxation and unfathomable combat destruction of economic life in northern France had drastically impaired their private economies.

Accordingly, under Churchill’s foolish leadership England re-pegged to gold at the old parity in 1925, but had no political will or capacity to reduce bloated war-time wages, costs and prices in a commensurate manner, or to live with the austerity and shrunken living standards that honest liquidation of its war debts required.

At the same time, France ended up betraying its war time lenders, and re-pegged the Franc two years later at a drastically depreciated level. This resulted in a spurt of beggar-thy-neighbor prosperity and the accumulation of pound sterling claims that would eventually blow-up the London money market and the sterling based “gold exchange standard” that the Bank of England and British Treasury had peddled as a poor man’s way back on gold.

Yet under this “gold lite” contraption, France, Holland, Sweden and other surplus countries accumulated huge amounts of sterling liabilities in lieu of settling their accounts in bullion—–that is, they loaned billions to the British. They did this on the promise and the confidence that the pound sterling would remain at $4.87 per dollar come hell or high water—-just as it had for 200 years of peacetime before.

But British politicians betrayed their promises and their central bank creditors September 1931 by suspending redemption and floating the pound——-shattering the parity and causing the decade-long struggle for resumption of an honest gold standard to fail.  Depressionary contraction of world trade, capital flows and capitalist enterprise inherently followed.

Proposition # 7:  By turning America overnight into the granary, arsenal and banker of the Entente, the US economy was distorted, bloated and deformed into a giant, but unstable and unsustainable global exporter and creditor.

During the war years, for example, US exports increased by 4X and GDP soared from $40 billion to $90 billion.  Incomes and land prices soared in the farm belt, and steel, chemical, machinery, munitions and ship construction boomed like never before—–in substantial part because Uncle Sam essentially provided vendor finance to the bankrupt allies in desperate need of both military and civilian goods.

Under classic rules, there should have been a nasty correction after the war—-as the world got back to honest money and sound finance.  But it didn’t happen because the newly unleashed Fed fueled an incredible boom on Wall Street and a massive junk bond market in foreign loans.

In today economic scale, the latter amounted to upwards of $2 trillion and, in effect, kept the war boom in exports and capital spending going right up until 1929. Accordingly, the great collapse of 1929-1932 was not a mysterious failure of capitalism; it was the delayed liquidation of Wilson’s war boom.

After the crash, exports and capital spending plunged by 80% when the foreign junk bond binge ended in the face of massive defaults abroad; and that, in turn, led to a traumatic liquidation of industrial inventories and a collapse of credit fueled purchases of consumer durables like refrigerators and autos. The latter, for example, dropped from 5 million to 1.5 million units per year after 1929.

Proposition # 8:  In short, the Great Depression was a unique historical event owing to the vast financial deformations of the Great War——deformations which were drastically exaggerated by its prolongation from Wilson’s intervention and the massive credit expansion unleashed by the Fed and Bank of England during and after the war.

Stated differently, the trauma of the 1930s was not the result of the inherent flaws or purported cyclical instabilities of free market capitalism; it was, instead, the delayed legacy of the financial carnage of the Great War and the failed 1920s efforts to restore the liberal order of sound money, open trade and unimpeded money and capital flows.

But this trauma was thoroughly misunderstood, and therefore did give rise to the curse of Keynesian economics and did unleash the politicians to meddle in virtually every aspect of economic life, culminating in the statist and crony capitalist dystopia that has emerged in this century.

Needless to say, that is Thomas Woodrow Wilson’s worst sin of all.

 

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Sun, 01/25/2015 - 08:39 | 5701700 Wahooo
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Sounds like he waited to reflect until he was on his death bed. Too late.

Sun, 01/25/2015 - 12:39 | 5702130 WillyGroper
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So did McNamara.

That doesn't resurrect all that were murdered and the families destroyed by him.

Sun, 01/25/2015 - 17:25 | 5703349 me again
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He went to Princeton, you moron; why the fuck should I care if anybody repented or not ? Are you a complete idiot.

Sun, 01/25/2015 - 01:54 | 5701447 yogibear
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"This Act (the Federal Reserve Act, Dec. 23rd 1913) establishes the most gigantic trust on earth. When the President (Woodrow Wilson) signs the Bill, the invisible government of the Monetary Power will be legalized... The worst legislative crime of the ages is perpetrated by this banking and currency Bill."

- Congressman Charles A. Lindbergh Sr.

Sun, 01/25/2015 - 10:24 | 5701824 Miss Expectations
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Taft was setting things up...

 

I recommend, then, first, the adoption of a joint resolution by two-thirds of both Houses, proposing to the States an amendment to the Constitution granting to the Federal Government the right to levy and collect an income tax without apportionment among the several States according to population; and, second, the enactment, as part of the pending revenue measure, either as a substitute for, or in addition to, the inheritance tax, of an excise tax upon all corporations, measured by 2 percent of their net income.   Howard Taft  http://piercingtheillusion.org/index.php/the-income-tax/howard-taft-on-t...

Sun, 01/25/2015 - 12:14 | 5702050 Cathartes Aura
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that Lindbergh lineage and their governmental escapades bears fruit with deeper investigations - quite drama-tic those scripted narratives, lots of buried secrets treasure. . .

yet another political family dynasty, generations embedded at the trough.

Sun, 01/25/2015 - 02:17 | 5701462 Kina
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Everything the USA has done is to do with domestic and geopolical hegemony.

They have come a long way, made a pigs breakfast everywhere...and ruined countries hither and tither.....BUT as always when permit corruption as a means to your ends it will come back to bite you.....and thus Military industrial complex syphons off trillions from government in return worse and worse outcomes and hardware.

Just like the Romans short changing soldiers, hiring mercaneries and corrupting their coin...we have the US poisoning their own financial system....and producing military crap like the F-35 JSF ....and make allies buy this crap at 10s of billions of dollars.  Spending/giving trillions to defense corporations for Iraq and Afgahnistan campaigns....

In the end the enemies of US allies and the USA will have military hardware superior as it comes from a non corrupt military industrial complex.

 

The F-35 has cost the USA god knows how much....but it will be lucky to outperform the FA-18.. when it can get in the air long enough...

THis detailed analysis shows you just how much crap the F-35 is....

http://www.ausairpower.net/jsf.html

 

Sun, 01/25/2015 - 02:15 | 5701463 MEFOBILLS
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Stockman conveniently forgets that Morgan interests pulled Teddy out of retirement and funded Bull Moose party. This Split vote away from Taft. thus morgan Rothschild interests have their man Woodrow in office.

Now connect the dots to Balfour doctrine where our international friends promise to get america in the war in return for Palestein.

Now connect dots further to Aldriich amendment period where propaganda money issued out of wall st banks to fund propaganda for press, and to find a dupe university professor. In other words the bankers went looking for Woodrow before they found him.

Stock mans beloved federal reserve system was funded by money powers who used gold. The same people have their fingerprints on election of 1912, 16th amendment,17th, WW1 and 2' and pretty much all modern wars.

So stockman...please look a little deeper. You left out a lot of the story. The bits that make private banking look so wonderful are the actual culprits

How is it that England could give palestein to Zionists when she had no empire control whatsoever over this region?

I apologize for spelling as using a pad. Stockman right in that Woodrow terrible president. But he was a dupe who was handled by money powers. He stated I fear I have destroyed my country. Typical of an arrogant college professor

Sun, 01/25/2015 - 11:08 | 5701905 MEFOBILLS
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I have a keyboard now.  The money powers always attacked the U.S., starting from the very beginning - while in the crib; even at the constitutional convention.

Woodrow simply represents the consummation of a long struggle, where Federalism and political will of a people were thwarted and subordinated.  That then led to today's world:

Stockman conveniently forgets or doesn't acknowledge the maneuvering of our tribal friends.  Without watching this group, you simply cannot know Western History.  It's impossible.  WE HAVE TO LOOK AT ZIONIST/JEWISH/KABALLAH straight on and please don't be dissuaded by cries of Anti-Semitism. 

Stockman..you probably are self censoring your mind in a thought control Orwellian fashion, as you don't want to "offend."

Here's more on my original post:

 

 

 

Now I have a keyboard.

 

Stockman,

 

I want you to research a little more before you write on Woodrow.  He is a pivotal person in history and the way he got into power tells more than what he did afterwards.

Please read up on the Aldrich affair, and you will find that usury money was aimed at both the press and at perverting college presidents.  Our Zionist money power friends have always aimed their money firehose at the press and at government.  Why?  Because it allows private rentiers to own money power Oligarchy.

 

The objective was to eventually put in Federal Reserve Act and its associated machinery.  The election in 1912 was also completely maneuvered by international banking interests.   Teddy was brought out of retirement with appeals to his ego.  And of course, he was fully funded by dialectic of money power interests.  We know the Morgans are subordinate to Rothschilds.   There was no way that Taft was going to sign the Aldrich bill, so he had to go. 

 

Money powers find easy ways to trap gullible goyim.  Honey traps, getting them caught up in some sort of immoral affair, usually with an underage girl.  Bribery, threats – etc.  No doubt Woodrow was both compromised in this way, and he had an insufferable superiority ego problem, which made him putty in the hands of the “tribe.”  Actually, Woodrow had no idea how money powered work, he imagined it like so many people do.

 

So, all the machinery was put into place with Woodrow.  He had his Jewish handler, Colonel House, there to mind him and make sure he did their master’s bidding.   Machinery like 16’th amendment allowed direct income taxes to bail out banks, 17’th amendment (the most pernicious) broke Senator relations to their states, and  to then subordinate to bribery/lobbyist money.  IRS, then WW1. . And of course the Federal Reserve Act, which was the Aldrich amendment in all but name.

 

Woodrow campaigned on the slogan he wouldn’t get America in the War.  Yet he did.  Why?   

 

So, now you need to look into the Balfour declaration.  England was losing the war to Germany as her food supplies had been interdicted.  England was ready to sue for peace, yet our international friends said they could bail England out by having America come into the war. 

 

There were competing objectives of Zionist money power.  1) Get private banking corporation to host U.S. Republic in the same method as Bank of England (1694).  2) Protect England as City of London is the prime banking center  3) Get Balfour declaration.  The leverage for Balfour was bringing America into the war.  4)The ultimate objective is then Palestine, today Israel.  Why?:  To fulfill ancient Kabballah prophecy.

 

So, in effect, we have parasitic psychopathic money powers guiding man secretly in accordance with ancient “satanic” ideology. 

 

Money power should be harnessed to moral law.  It should not be given over to USURY seeking privateers, who then think they are GOD, and hence are allowed to maneuver man into cycles of destruction.

 

So, Hell NO, Stockman: your ideas on private credit money and private markets don’t comport with real history, and you cannot ignore the connections…especially now that you have been warned.

Sun, 01/25/2015 - 12:54 | 5702238 WillyGroper
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Expand that a bit to the "Black Pope" and those 13 bloodlines.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLAfr5FreNM

Israhell appears to be doing the bid of the VatiCON. Is not the present "White Pope" a Jesuit? Oh, but who is he to judge...Doing a complete 180 from doctrine. Is he NOT pushing for one world religion? Take that to 1943 B'hai...it will be worship of the State.

Sun, 01/25/2015 - 14:55 | 5702819 Buckaroo Banzai
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Pope Francis appears to be retarded both mentally and spiritually. It seems more likely that he is the puppet, not the puppeteer.

Sun, 01/25/2015 - 17:29 | 5703377 me again
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Please post more. You are actually educated. a very, very, rare status.

Sun, 01/25/2015 - 02:21 | 5701469 Batman11
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Do these sound like the words of an ego-maniac?

Despite these warnings, Woodrow Wilson signed the 1913 Federal Reserve Act. A few years later he wrote: I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is 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. -Woodrow  Wilson

Yes he made a terrible mistake, he handed the US over to the Banksters.


Sun, 01/25/2015 - 07:42 | 5701659 GreatUncle
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And at that point all those that fled from Europe to America to escape finally caught up with them.

THE BANKSTERS.

Sun, 01/25/2015 - 08:37 | 5701699 Wahooo
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If he really did say that, then he is guilty as charged. And spineless, too.

Sun, 01/25/2015 - 17:20 | 5703325 ThroxxOfVron
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"Yes he made a terrible mistake, he handed the US over to the Banksters. "

 

Some mistakes are so terrible that they cannot and should not be forgiven no matter how contrite the person who made the mistake claims to be later.

Sun, 01/25/2015 - 17:33 | 5703389 me again
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It's not goddam MISTAKE ! He was bought ! forgiven my ass. Treason is punishable by death.

Sun, 01/25/2015 - 02:21 | 5701470 sosoome
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WW was the worst by far due to fundamentally changing this country from a nation of States into a Nation State by pushing through the 16th and 17th amendments, without which the Federal Reserve would be a pussy.

Sun, 01/25/2015 - 02:46 | 5701476 Yen Cross
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     I've seen a lot of "bullshit"

 You're a bunch of Pussies/

 Fuck You, I'm going to watch South Park reruns

 I told you bitches to protect your trades.

 Fucking ReTreades

  "Old Tires"

Sun, 01/25/2015 - 07:48 | 5701662 fel.temp.reparatio
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...a bit too much blow tonight, Yen?

Sun, 01/25/2015 - 17:33 | 5703399 me again
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Could we get this moron blocked from this site; he's really useless.

Sun, 01/25/2015 - 02:53 | 5701507 I Write Code
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Stockman makes many good points but wtf are we supposed to do with it?

I would like to see the depths of Wilson's failures taught to school kids, but I'm not holding my breath.

Sun, 01/25/2015 - 03:09 | 5701519 Yen Cross
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 Ok let's talk corner stones/

Sun, 01/25/2015 - 03:15 | 5701524 401K of Dooom
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Stockman is the Robert S. MacNamara of the GOP.  He is looking for sympathy from the media and polite society.  He is entitled to his own opinion but not his own facts.  Besides, he has done well after he left the Reagan administration.  I wonder why he cannot enjoy his money?  Maybe his girlfriend keeps imposing her view of history on him?  Who knows.

Sun, 01/25/2015 - 03:51 | 5701543 Jack Daniels Esq
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So thats why we have the dumb black muslim

Sun, 01/25/2015 - 04:18 | 5701556 Bernanke'sDaddy
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This was on Saker's blog tonight.

 

To all you mouthbreathing fuckwads who bash on the Novorussia supporters and  those of us  who at least acknowledge Russia for standing up to ZATO, kiss my ass and here you go:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?x-yt-cl=84503534&x-yt-ts=1421914688&v=jW1J...

Sun, 01/25/2015 - 13:17 | 5702368 WillyGroper
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"To all you mouthbreathing fuckwads"

"I'll have more flexibility after the election"

http://www.westernjournalism.com/are-world-heritage-sites-being-used-to-train-russian-troops-in-the-us/

NOTHING is as it appears.

Sun, 01/25/2015 - 05:40 | 5701604 MeBizarro
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Alot of revisionist 'what-ifs' including that the Prussian autocrats would have been swept aside in Germany or that Russia would have somehow remained stable and under an autocratic monarchy despite profound troubles the past 20 years including a massive defeat to the Japanese in 1905 and constant plots to overthrow/kill Czar Nicholas II including several that almost succeeded.

Yes the US entered WW1 for multiple reasons but a lot of what Stockman asserts here as an almost certainity is a stretch too.  

Sun, 01/25/2015 - 17:37 | 5703419 me again
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The US did NOT enter WW1 for "multiple reasons".

Sun, 01/25/2015 - 05:53 | 5701610 Flying Wombat
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Lots of food for thought here.  I've consolidated all the videos on to one page.  Tylers, feel free to reprint my TND article.

Eric Dubin, Managing Editor, The News Doctors

# # # #

US-Russia: Avoiding a New Cold War (Panel Discussion w/ Video)  

TND Editor's Spotlight:  Economists For Peace & Security Panel Discussion  

The following is a panel discussion on the current state of US/Russian relations, historical context and ultimately, discussion on how to avoid a new Cold War.  The event was organized by Economists For Peace & Security and took place on January 4, 2015 in Boston, Massachusetts.  Charles Knight participated on the panel and also separately published an article on the same subject via the Project on Defense Alternatives.  We highly recommend you read that article first before playing panel session videos.   

Click here to access the program:
http://thenewsdoctors.com/?p=273924

Sun, 01/25/2015 - 06:03 | 5701613 Pinstripe
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Wow, there are so many errors in Stockman's rant it's not even worth getting worked up. Stockman should study the Central powers, particularly the Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian closer before spreading so much disinformation.

Sun, 01/25/2015 - 09:22 | 5701744 Fix-ItSilly
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Why write an unsupported negative? Insecure or wrong?

Sun, 01/25/2015 - 06:07 | 5701616 flacorps
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There is of course an anti-semitic version floating around that has Wilson blackmailed into war:   http://www.sweetliberty.org/issues/hoax/unt.htm

Sun, 01/25/2015 - 09:32 | 5701757 IndianaJohn
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For all I know, an anti-semite is one who kills Palestinians.

Sun, 01/25/2015 - 06:28 | 5701623 Joe A
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Interesting read. But probably his biggest sin was the creation of the FED.

Anyway, America and later NATO became capitalism's army. Bombing and destroying countries to pave the way for 'nation building', the IMF and WB, and international lenders. Because they think they are right. But everywhere they go from Bosnia and Kosovo to Iraq, Lybia and Afghanistan they leave behind failed states.

Sun, 01/25/2015 - 08:30 | 5701694 Wahooo
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When finance became a goal rather than a tool, we were lost.

Sun, 01/25/2015 - 06:36 | 5701624 falak pema
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I'm glad ZH printed this.

I pointed this article out some days ago and got my butt kicked for saying it 'cos it was printed in a site that was not "kosher" to some forum member.

Substance over Form...TY Tylers.

Its worth a discussion even tho it is water flowing under the bridge of the American century that morphed IMO around 22 November 1963--  (but I do admit its a personal historical bias as its corresponds to MY lifeline, and current generation people may have another viewpoint) ! 

Sun, 01/25/2015 - 17:40 | 5703435 me again
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Yes; good for you. 22 Nov. was the experiment that worked; when they found out they could get away with anything; and ever since then, it's been "now". 

Sun, 01/25/2015 - 07:29 | 5701645 Dajd45
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Very simplistic and whistfully childlike. As though people don't get involved in wars, conflict  and diametrically opposed political viewpoints, without considering the consequences  And, that the Chaos theory can be avoided.

Wilson didn't start the war, and no-one in Europe had an inclination or idea as to how to avoid it. And Stalin and Hitler, just like Mao, Pol Pot, Sadam Hussein, Gaddafi and others would have come through in other disguises. 

Still, an interesting proposition, but no-one was that powerful to escape the inevitable. As for the US involvement, maybe you are right, but nothing is certain. The emotions of the time, the Luisitania, U-boats, Shipping losses, etc. different attitudes, approaches and interests. to these issues. Changing priorities, targets and intersts in different countries, for 2000 years, or more, and will be in the future, Can't really change human nature; avarice, envy, ambition, power, opportunity, megalomania, etc.!!  

Sun, 01/25/2015 - 17:43 | 5703451 me again
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Un-acceptable. no one said he started the War; that's a red herring. He took us into the war at the head of a propaganda machine; for financial purposes; which is treason.

Sun, 01/25/2015 - 07:37 | 5701657 GreatUncle
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What we humans or the dumb politicians / economists fail to understand is that wether it be war / QE / keynsian economics / sactions etc. you distort the already distorted economic mechanism further and iif it is to inflate / increase debt THE WRONG DIRECTION.

ANY ATTEMPT TO CORRECT IT LATER FAILS AS NOBODY WANTS TO TAKE THE ECONOMIC PAIN TODAY.

As an example, the stock markets pumped by many multiples of worth not justified by levels of earnings cannot be allowed to fall so a cost is incurred to keep propping it up (actually worse) making it go higher.

TRUTH NOW - Through modern technological efficiency as wages fell then assets prices should fall supported by the number of people that can afford them. What we got is a central bank of QE action to keep them inflated and it costs. THE BIGGEST MISTAKE WAS TO IMPLEMENT KEYNES BY A BUNCH OF GREEDY RETARDS.

If you look at it objectively OUR LEADERS / ELITES / CENTRAL BANKERS are trying to deny the advancement of humanity through economic measures because those economic measures make them kings and stuff the population. The debt? Well if costs fall then it is time to pay down debt and become free from the debt imprisonment created by the LEADERS / ELITES / CENTRAL BANKERS they attached in your name.

 

 

Sun, 01/25/2015 - 07:48 | 5701668 orkneylad
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Flimsy.  One might just as well blame China for inventing paper money.

Sun, 01/25/2015 - 08:36 | 5701698 Ckierst1
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I don't dispute that WW was a terrible president.  In my opinion, however, Dishonest Abe Lincoln was the worst, destroying the Founders' creation, plunging the nation into a bloodbath and enabling the imperial Presidency, thus to set the stage for the events to follow in US history, even to the present day with the pillaging of the middle class by the gov/bankstas/MIC.

Sun, 01/25/2015 - 13:12 | 5702335 Savyindallas
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I have mixed views on Lincoln  -He was a terrible tyrant while at war, but I can't help but think that the South was duped by Rothschild bankers in London to secede so as to reduce the economic threat of America to British colonialsim and mercantilism. Didn't Tsar Nicholas offer Lincoln some aid with the Russian navy to keep the Brits out of the war? The South had serious and legitimate economic gripes against the North, aside from slavery. The war was a tragedy. They could and should have worked out their differences. Lincoln should have tolerated secession and worked to peacefully resolve the issues which kept us apart. It could and should have been done. Slavery would have died out in the South in 20-30 years anyway. It was inevitable. any nation in civil war or a war for survival will revert to a police state and totalitarianism. Doesn't excuse Lincoln, but explains part of it. Once war starts, they never end as expected  -quickly. Look at WW1 and WW2 - we should be mindful of that as we continue to promote wars in the ME, Ukraine and with Russia-especially in the age of nukes.  

Sun, 01/25/2015 - 17:48 | 5703480 me again
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There is no possibility of a "mixed view" on Lincoln. Your reasoning is screwed. you can't use "his war", (it was widely called "Lincolns War" at the time), as an excuse for Lincolns Tyranny !! You need to read a lot more. He was the founder of the modern Republican party; which at that time was unambiguously the party of central power, central government control, and outrageoius crony capitalism.

Sun, 01/25/2015 - 08:51 | 5701711 Ziz
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Ah, isn't the retrospectoscope is a wonderful thing !!    Such clear vision and avoiding the last 100 years would all have been so simple but for one clod- bumbling idiot. The fool, if only Stockers had been there to lend a guiding hand,all would have sweetness and light.

Actually, whilst I do not have a lot of time for Wilson- he was obnoxiously high minded and pontifical, profoundly unfitted for the wicked world he found himself dragged into- his nauseating naivety made him the accessory to a lot of what followed- he wasn't all bad.

He was, however, devious, eg he kept the US army far too small until well into early 1917 - in the end it never had time to catch up and left nearly all the hard fighting in the West to the British and French who beat the Germans on the battlefield by force of arms while the not-very-well--quipped Americans -mainly- just stood around watching right to the end. Pershing had calculated on 1919 as the year when he would make a serious move and when it ended in late 1918 he was left looking rather foolish.

Yes , I know about St Mihiel  and the Argonne but they were sideshows in the great scheme of things.

 

Some of Stockman's assertions leave one gasping :-

  "First, had the war ended in 1917 by a mutual withdrawal from the utterly stalemated trenches of the Western Front, as it was destined to ---"  

 where on earth does he get that from ? An almost Wilsonian lack of grasp of reality. If Stockman ever tries to read the history of the era he would grasp that in 1917 both sides were exhausted but utterly determined to carry on. There was no sign diplomatically or militarily of either or both giving in and "mutual withdrawal" was never entertained. 

This article is really a catalogue of "if only's" and relies on if a butterfly beats its wings in the Gulf of Mexico it causes a storm in the eastern Arlantic approach to history.

Wilson was a twat - a Ronald Reagan would have been far better- but there was more to it than that.

Sun, 01/25/2015 - 08:59 | 5701718 overmedicatedun...
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good for you Mr Stockman. we can fight about items  side notes and cause. showing a light into history that is rare in public media. many here grind a favorite axe, run off into the weeds of slavery and civil war, banks and palestine, lincoln, roosevelts are some examples..all good stuff.

On the major point of USA joining in WWI..few here will argue it was anything but a mistake. How the Fed was structured did change and it's role expanded is fact. That often the elites pick flawed (syphlitic in wilson -closet bisexual & dubius constitutional standing for another) is of couse because they can be controlled..if one goes off the plan they got dallas, or watergate ops.

For many here we benefit from seldom thought views of our history. We understand better the forces impacting our life and wealth.

ZH is where the media mind control can sometimes be avoided.

 

 

 

Sun, 01/25/2015 - 10:41 | 5701743 IndianaJohn
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Howard Katz (d.2011) writes on the same subject in financial detail. Well researched and highly readable, I buy this inexpensive book to hand to bright kids.  http://www.amazon.com/Warmongers-non-fiction-Howard-S-Katz/dp/0916728064/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1422191103&sr=1-2&keywords=the+warmongers

But he does not mention that in WW II we finally killed our mother, Europe. Nor mentioned is that we have lived a degenerate life since then.

Sun, 01/25/2015 - 09:37 | 5701765 KashNCarry
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Hindsight is 20/20

Sun, 01/25/2015 - 10:16 | 5701804 Latitude25
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I've noticed recently that my LCS is out of almost all gold and silver bullion products.  This guy says the same thing on CNBC

http://www.thedailysheeple.com/rick-harrison-has-some-interesting-things...

Anyone else seeing this also?

Sun, 01/25/2015 - 10:21 | 5701812 hotrod
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Thought provoking and I certainly had to use my dictionary.  Shibboleth?

Sun, 01/25/2015 - 10:24 | 5701821 Stimulati
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Wow, this article is dumb. Calling WWI Wilson's War is one of the stupidest things I've ever read. This article blames Wilson for the war, when he was not present at the beginning and then blames Wilson for its results when everybody who knows any history knows Wilson's peace proposals were discarded by the Allies in favor of more punitive measures.

Why not go full throttle and blame Clinton for WWI? It makes as much sense and is more direct to the point.

Sun, 01/25/2015 - 12:56 | 5702244 Savyindallas
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The article is right  -yes Wilson was duped and controlled by the real power brokers. Just like Obama. You are quiblling over semantics. The first step is to educate people as to real history and the lies and misconceptions which lead to wars  -then we can edicate them on the Hidden hand  and real power behind the actions of puppet presidents and corrupted and controlled muppet elected officials. 

Sun, 01/25/2015 - 13:52 | 5702561 Stimulati
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Even if Wilson was duped into the war (and I agree it was a mistake to get involved in the war), the war and Europe's destruction was hardly Wilson's fault.  The aftermath, with Wilson's peace proposals discarded, were also hardly Wilson's fault.  So blame Wilson for the +100k American deaths.  But he is not to blame for the turmoil that followed. 

The big takeaway here is that American Presidents from the South frequently lead us into war and we should be cautious about that.  James Madison, James Polk, Woodrow Wilson, Lyndon Johnson, George Bush Sr., George Bush Jr.  That doesn't even account for the Civil War which was caused by the South's traitorous rejection of the US Constitution.  Vote for Southern Presidents at our countries peril.

Sun, 01/25/2015 - 17:45 | 5703460 TheGreatRecovery
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I don't consider the Bush family to be a Southern family.  I consider them to be from the State of Maine.

Sun, 01/25/2015 - 10:49 | 5701857 Counterpunch
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Stockman needs to do some more research. 

http://www.amazon.com/Against-Our-Better-Judgment-history-ebook/dp/B00J0...


 

 

There were many factors that dragged the US into war in both World War 1, and Iraq. 

In both cases, any examination which leaves out the disproportionate influence of Zionist Jews in lobbying for war, due to ignorance, or cowardice, or gate-keeping - all else aside, is simply poor history.

Zionism was one of the major ones and it is fair to wonder if had the Balfour Treaty and the  "understanding" it represented never existed, if the US would have entered that war at all.  I doubt it.  EVen given what the bankers likely wanted - of course many of them were Jewish -the Warburgs and Rothschilds etc. but there were plenty of Anglos as well.

I believe organized international Zionism  {which especially at the time did not at all mean "the Jews" so fucking spare me} - [separate and apart from Ford's "The International Jew" - he was deemed a good and intelligent man until writing that, and of course, the issue isn't was he lying or inaccurate, but could he be allowed to say what he said...] was a necessary, but not sufficient influence on Wilson.  Of course, the Committee on Public Information had to propagandize the American people.....Lippman and Bernays aside, a mostly Anglo affair, parenthetically.

The influence of Zionist Jews on the decision to go to Iraq can not be seriously debated on the merits. 

If those two links don't convince you of heavy Jewish [and dual citizen] influence - you're a fucking idiot.  This isn't conspiracy theorizing or over-generalizing or dealing in canards.  It's names, positions of influence, and explicit, public policy goals.

It's simply a matter of "anti-Semitism" and semantic drift - now, criticism of Israeli influence, or war crimes, is "anti-Semitic" and so is any discussion of disproportionate Jewish power and influence in media, banking, law, Hollywood....

everywhere, it seems, but the infantry. Well...  the American infantry.

[ahem]

Such is the magickal power of "anti-Semite" that Israel's endemic and growing racism [rooted in Jewish Supremacism rooted in Jewish religious texts] and Jewish influence in news media that Americans are never told  about it.

 

http://www.alternet.org/world/how-israel-covers-its-ugly-racial-holy-war

http://www.unz.com/article/whom-the-gods-would-destroy-they-first-make-m...

 

It would be "anti-Semitic" to discuss Israeli racism.

 

That's Full Metal Orwell.

 

As to Israel/Palestine - the trick is just to not cover Palestinian victims


http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/rania-khalek/us-media-erase-israeli-...

http://ifamericansknew.org/cur_sit/pal-violence.html

 

Meanawhile, Zionism, and Israel has been nothing but a parasite on the United States - and the blood and treasure of its people - 98% of whom aren't Jewish, but whose government's foreign policy is all but controlled by organized Jewish/Zionist groups [granted - with the voting support of 50 million Scofield Bible mesmerized EVangelicals who are earnest but ignorant of how they've been tricked]...

 

Israel has always lied to, deceived, and betrayed the United States.

 

https://consortiumnews.com/2014/10/02/how-israel-out-foxed-us-presidents...

 

And Zionism betrayed tens of thousands of American men, 99% of whom were not Jewish and were often the children or grandchildren of people who had escaped poverty and/or persecution in Ireland and Germany and Italy, precisely in order to create a new "Israel" for "Jews" whose ancestors had not lived in Palestine for 1,000 years - if they had ever lived there at all.

 

Sun, 01/25/2015 - 10:50 | 5701871 Seize Mars
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counterpunch

You have successfully identified the problem. Now, what is to be done about it?

Sun, 01/25/2015 - 12:00 | 5701995 anachronism
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Henry Ford believed -or maybe just hoped- that the American people could arm themselves against the sedition of Zionism (International Jewry), if only they could be informed about the problem. He may still be right to have thought so. The problem is that Jews won't let the subject of Zionist influence (outright control in some areas) over America to be discussed in America -or anywhere else in the "Western World", for that matter.

Jews maintain and enhance their power over public discourse in America through the focused application of money. The most significant way their money is used to control the publc is evident in our politics.

If the U.S. Congres passed legislation that would eliminate "crowd funding", it would go a long way towards reducing the influence of Jews over our country. I use the term "crowd funding" to cover all types of groups who raise money on behalf of individual politicians, of political action committees, political parties, and of public advocacy groups. Every donation must be registered under the name of the person who is making it: No Anonymous Donations. No Pooling of Donations by any intermediary. (No NRA, No AIPAC, No Sierra Club, No AARP, etc. can channel funds to political candidates or political parties.)

Secondly -and by far more importantly- no person should be allowed to make a donation to a political candidate for whom he/she is ineligible to vote. That eliminates all funding by non-U.S. citizens. That also eliminates some wealthy individual (s) from using their money to influence the outcome of elections in jurisdictions in which they do not reside.

Jews account for less than 3% of our population; but they account for more than 60% of the money that funds political elections and they control much more than that. If they had to show their "true colors" )because each of their donations should be made personally and in public), and if they can only contribute to the campaigns of candidates they can personally vote for, then the influence of Jews over the rest of us will eventually be reduced to a level that reflects their percentage of our population.

We shouldn't have to get Congress to pass such a law. The intent is clearly to establish the equality of voters, and to protect the concept of "one man-one vote". This was very clearly the intent and presumption of the framers of our Constitution. I am not sure if conceopt of "political parties" was envisioned by them at the time. Unfortunately, the Supeme Court ruling in favor of Citizens United about 5 years ago makes it necessary to pass such a law..

Sun, 01/25/2015 - 13:57 | 5702580 MedTechEntrepreneur
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" less than 3% of our population; but they..."

Oh yes....how many times have I read this?  Look, what you are really saying is that the Goyim are just too stupid and are duped by the crafty Jew. 3% of the population cant control anything without the consent of the 97%.  So, blame yourself, your family, your ancestors. 

Sun, 01/25/2015 - 17:20 | 5703331 MEFOBILLS
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I keep hearing this thesis, and it is logically wrong on many levels:   It refers to Jewish money power:

 

And to make this argument leads people astray  - as if in-group maneuverings were an impossibility.

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" less than 3% of our population; but they..."


Oh yes....how many times have I read this?  Look, what you are really saying is that the Goyim are just too stupid and are duped by the crafty Jew. 3% of the population cant control anything without the consent of the 97%.  So, blame yourself, your family, your ancestors

The answer is that a determined in-group, coupled with money power, can and does usurp society.  Witness the Bolsheveik revolution.  Witness the take-over of Britain with the Orange Kings/Cromwell and the like.

 

The maneuvering that led up to the Federal Reserve act.

 

These actions happened.   To deny it is to put your head in the sand.   Oh it is just a few people.  Yes, Nero was just one man.  It is power relations that matter not numbers.  So, the “oh its just a small number of people” argument doesn’t wash.

 

Why does this determined minority do these actions?  Their philosophy, or ideology if you will, predicates this output. 

 

Refusing to read up on Jewish in-group behavior, and coming to grips with their historical perfidy, especially trying to undo Western Christian Civilization is no longer optional.  Enough warning have been issued by me and people like me for you deniers to start taking it seriously.

 

The Goyim is not stupid, he is trusting.  This trusting instinct is what allows advanced civilization.  The Goyim can be lead astray easily because he accepts things in a trusting way without critical reasoning.    This is probably an evolutionary thing as a function of the last ice age.

Sun, 01/25/2015 - 11:04 | 5701896 anachronism
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I agree with every thing youw wrote about Zionism and the role that it played in driving Wilson into his decision to go to war. But I gave you a negative vote, because it was a discredit to Stockman's work.

Stockman gave a very credible case for why Woodrow Wilson should be regarded as America's worst president. That was his point. That he made the case so well without bringing up the insidious and nefarious manipulation by Jews (especially the way they used his extramarital affair as leverage against him) deserves credit rather than ridicule.

Think of the audience to whom he was presenting his case. Think just how quickly they and so many others in America would shut him out of the process and turn away from his point of view and, instead, embrace the opposite, if he introduced the influence of Zionists to the arguments. 

Sun, 01/25/2015 - 11:50 | 5701991 AynRandFan
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I read up to the point where you called me a fucking idiot if I didn't agree.  Fuck you.

Sun, 01/25/2015 - 10:46 | 5701862 Seize Mars
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End the FED and the bullshit stops.

Sun, 01/25/2015 - 10:59 | 5701887 Stimulati
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Really? You think there was no bullshit before the Fed? Care to share the perspective of a black person or Indian? Did the Fed cause Wounded Knee? How about the Panics of 1873 and 1893? Deflation was very hard on the economy in the late 19th century. Why were so many people uprooting and traveling west if prosperity was so great before the Fed? You guys fear the Fed the way a child fears the boogeyman.

Sun, 01/25/2015 - 12:24 | 5702072 Cathartes Aura
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"The Fed" is a convenient lightning rod for people to focus their anger on, the same way (s)elected puppets are use-full - if one can keep all their hate focused on a singular target, then no other knowledge or awareness is sought, or even needed really.

ponder that "ending the Fed" as a rally cry might just bring about that global meme so desired by some.

the narrative continues to unfold. . .

Sun, 01/25/2015 - 12:49 | 5702206 Savyindallas
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Yes it's the critical and essential first step, but it will take decades to rid the nation of the psychopaths and perverts who hold political offices, own the media, control Wall Street and academia. The sheeple will have to be detoxed and deprogrammed from the poison and lies that have effectively controlled them. I fear we will never get there without a total collapse and a period of Maoist/Stalinist purge and enlavement. Psychopaths and Luciferians rule - the devil will likekly get his due and exact his pound of flesh before we achieve redemption. Many souls have been lost  -Satan wants more. 

Sun, 01/25/2015 - 10:58 | 5701880 lakecity55
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Pretty accurate if you distill it down to: Central Banking Power and unrestrained Progressivism.

Sun, 01/25/2015 - 11:10 | 5701907 ualfltdispatch
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I learned all I wanted, and more, about this shit stain after reading The Creature from Jekyll Island.  ...The original story of what a structured matrix Americans are now plugged in to.  ...certainly a Red Pill I suggest to everyone I meet, not that it will change anything.  -It's just sometimes helpful to know you're being led to slaughter amongts the mental slaves you share oxygen with. - That small bit of knowledge gives you the peace needed to die a citizen of confidence, rather than one of confusion the moment the megalomaniac's utopic blade is placed upon your neck.

Sun, 01/25/2015 - 11:11 | 5701908 Psquared
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This is no humble thesis. Stockman blames everything on Wilson and WWI. One of his fallacious assumptions is that prior to our entry into WWI that the US followed an isolationist policy of non-intervention. But the truth is that the US was a meddler in European foreign affairs before WWI. The Spanish-American War 16 years earlier was interventionist and led to meddling in the Phillipines and Cuba. It is also an example of covert and secret ops and outright warfare against an Old European Monarchy. I do agree that history is a river and small events can change it's course over a long period of time. Mistakes were made by the allies when they won but had the US stayed out it is likely they would not have won and the world might look very different. We can't take a short term view of this and while 100 years seems like take a long view it is not. Human history moves in much larger cycles and so complaining that all the ills of the 21st century started 100 years ago is not very accurate or historic.

Sun, 01/25/2015 - 11:10 | 5701910 Billy Shears
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Amazingly interesting how people so easily manipulated are, or are considered, megalomaniacs.

Sun, 01/25/2015 - 11:22 | 5701924 MasterControl
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This article mentions the name "obama" zero times.

Sun, 01/25/2015 - 11:34 | 5701955 Fix It Again Timmy
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Positions of power and authority usually are assumed by psychopaths, sociopaths and megalomaniacs.  Now, one knows the costs to society posed by alcoholics, yet they have a brilliant path to recovery through AA after which they can become productive members of society.  What we need is a 12-step program for psychopaths, sociopaths and megalomaniacs; without such a program, society will continue to be ravaged by these maniacs.  We certainly know that those personality types will never voluntarily submit themselves to such a program and the fact that they, through connections, etc., are ABOVE the law paints a dim hope for the common man who suffers the follies perpetrated by these deviants.  The only hope is to hold these miscreants accountable to the law and I have no idea how that would be accomplished; I can only say that our well-being will depend on it.

Sun, 01/25/2015 - 12:00 | 5701999 AgentScruffy
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I'd say these positions attract narcissists - by the boatload. Often even the ones claiming they're going to save us all (locally or nationally) from all the other bad actors, are, narcissists. (Whether or not a given narcissist in question are also sociopaths etc. is another question.) Like malignant narcissists, they think they're "special" -more special than others, that they're entitled to be in "special" company, and that they're brilliant, no matter how barren the landscape of their life has been, that all their failures can be excused by, well, the fact they're so brilliant that no one will give them a fair shot. Someone else always gets in their way. All they need is more power, right? To be fair, they'll have pseudo-accomplishments listed, that they obtained via the help of mommy or daddy, or via the help of money inherited from the same.
When they get into office they'll be able to access everybody's money to create more phony accomplishments.

Sun, 01/25/2015 - 11:44 | 5701976 Tom Green Swedish
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Duh.  You didn't see the Europeans hopping in when American had a civil war.

Sun, 01/25/2015 - 11:46 | 5701985 AynRandFan
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David "look at me!" Stockman will advance any thesis as long as he is the only hero.  Just another annoying buzzing sound in a media-weary world.

Sun, 01/25/2015 - 11:50 | 5701993 sam site
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You treat Wilson as some sort of a lone idiot that ruined our country by approving the Fed and getting us into WW1.

Eric Jon Phelps connects all the dots in his analysis showing that a hidden European Crime Syndicate using stolen Vatican gold and using an army of Jesuit, Masonic and Zionist agents, planned the entire set of events from 1890 through the present in order to enslave and control the world.

As Roosevelt said, "In politics, there are no accidents".  Wilson was just another agent coerced by power, bribery and death threats from a vicious hidden cabal of "dominant men" as he called them.

see

Eric Jon Phelps - Vatican Assassins, Jesuit Order, Knights of Malta
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_F31TmQ9GwU

 

Sun, 01/25/2015 - 11:59 | 5702023 AgentScruffy
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Go back to reading your comic books.

Sun, 01/25/2015 - 12:25 | 5702077 SandDab
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Sam Site's the only one to mention the Jesuits and wins the thread. 

Sun, 01/25/2015 - 12:41 | 5702147 Savyindallas
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This may or may not be enteirly true, but Wilson was the Muppet/puppett they used to achive their aims. Just like Obama. The head of the Jesuits was not the Commander in Chief of the army. 

Sun, 01/25/2015 - 13:22 | 5702391 WillyGroper
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Those pesky 13 bloodlines.

Hmmm imagine Mr. Ed & Teresa's lineage.

Sun, 01/25/2015 - 17:09 | 5703280 Boubou
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Very true. Even the noble , intellgent and incorruptible me, myself,  feel more comfortable hating or worshiping an individual, when in fact, covert and overt groups control all our public figures and what they say and do.

Public opinion is not a big factor in any of this since it is so easily contolled - more so now than at any time.

 

How naive and pathetic seem the words of JFK today;-

“And so it is to the printing press--to the recorder of man's deeds, the keeper of his conscience, the courier of his news--that we look for strength and assistance, confident that with your help man will be what he was born to be: free and independent.” 

? John F. Kennedy

Sun, 01/25/2015 - 11:57 | 5702016 AgentScruffy
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Great book: The Illusion of Victory: America in World War 1 by Thomas Fleming.
A page-turner. You'll come away seeing Wilson, an administrator from Princeton, as yes, completely unsuited for the job and merely good at giving speeches.
http://www.amazon.com/Illusion-Victory-America-World-War-ebook/dp/B00AFY...

In this sweeping historical canvas, Thomas Fleming undertakes nothing less than a drastic revision of our experience in World War I. He reveals how the British and French duped Wilson into thinking the war was as good as won, and there would be no need to send an army overseas. He describes a harried president making speech after speech proclaiming America's ideals while supporting espionage and sedition acts that sent critics to federal prisons...Thoroughly researched and dramatically told, The Illusion of Victory offers compelling testimony to the power of a president's visionary ideals-as well as a starkly cautionary tale about the dangers of applying them in a war-maddened world.

Sun, 01/25/2015 - 12:14 | 5702053 DrNybble
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"...completely unsuited for the job and merely good at giving speeches."

Sounds a lot like what we now have in the WH.

Sun, 01/25/2015 - 12:19 | 5702067 Savyindallas
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It's a classic. Have it in my library. Should be a required text in all schools  -as should Buchanan's "The Unnecessary War" speaking of how we were conned into WW2. 

Sun, 01/25/2015 - 12:22 | 5702069 rejected
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Caution.... The following is not politically correct.

The first president of these united States was far worse for it was he along with his compadres whom helped write the constitution that was necessary to enable the tyranny we witness today. The only reason given for the constitution to replace the Articles was a strong central government. The States were sovereign and had complete control of the National Government under the Articles. The first president signed into law the first central bank, and presided over the Whiskey rebellion. Of the bank he said he 'thought' it was unconstitutional but signed it anyway. The Whiskey rebellion was the first act of war of the central government on it's citizens brought about by their unwillingness to pay taxes after a bloody revolution just won for that very reason.

The constitution was so badly written it allowed for it's rewriting and government reorganization through amendments. The first ten were only put in to satisfy some of the more cautious states. They didn't even make those 'persistent' in that they could not be removed by amendment. The entire form of government was changed by the seventeenth which removed states from their rightful participation in the national government. Otherwise the states would still have their militias and yes we would still be required to train as part of those militias as part of government of the People.

Without the constitution there would not have been a second central bank. Jackson was by far the best president as far as that goes but like the others he saw the "necessity" of a strong central government.

The uncivil war would have never occurred as other States would not have had "legal" authority to dictate terms to other sovereign States. As most appear to buy into the war was fought for slavery,,, slavery was already on its way out and would have been a non issue in ten to twenty years. The standing army would not have become a part of our heritage now a obese, unruly, and terrible foe of the People.

Obviously the federal reserve would not have been. The sixteenth, seventeenth would not have been,,, making us slaves to a bank. WWI, WWII and the rest would not have occurred as well. The government we all see and mostly agree what a monster it is would not exist. No Kora, no Vietnam, no Iraq, no Afghanistan, no Libya, no Yugoslavia, no Serbia, no Yemen, and no Ukraine. No NDAA, no Patriot Act, No gun confiscation schemes (at least from a national government), and on and on.

The founders were educated men. They knew from history no republics constitution ever held up for long. They had to know this one would fail as well, especially when written so poorly citizen rights were at risk. Today citizens are called civilians, are subjected to Mal treatment by the now national militarized, and crazed police, spied on their every move, their livelihoods shipped offshore, cheap labor imported in search of greater profits for bankers and corporations and dependent on government handouts,  their markets completely controlled by same and a huge unpayable debt in their name. Our young are indoctrinated fodder for the war machine, our families broken, our belief models scoffed at and everyone at each others throats for their small piece of pie that doesn't exist.

One cannot go back and change things so we are stuck with watching and participating with what ever is in the cards. If true freedom is to ever ring it's bell again it will be at a cost of much blood.

In short, Wilson was following the path the founders laid out, as was Lincoln, Roosevelt, Obama and the rest. Everything done in baby steps the first two hundred years. Now things are speeding up as they know even the dumbest of the indoctrinated will be able to see what their doing and thus the need to finish it quickly.

 

Sun, 01/25/2015 - 12:59 | 5702197 SandDab
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What about the idea that the South had decided to flip on the North and buy all the farming equipment from Jesuit-controlled England.  The southern state Jesuits wanted "Free Trade" before the industrial base in the north was prepared for the new competition.  Would have bankrupted the fledgling North and eventually led to the European Black Nobilty and Jesuits as our leaders and slavemasters (like now).  Lincoln is on record saying the Jesuits were the reason for the war, but wouldn't reveal this for fear that a 'religious war' would have killed too many.

Sun, 01/25/2015 - 12:59 | 5702273 rejected
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My Post was not about the uncivil war except to note that the event probably would not have taken place had it not been for the ratification of the constitution. Lincoln was as corrupt as the rest if not more so.

Sun, 01/25/2015 - 12:29 | 5702091 optimator
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Everyone is missing the "Man of the Century", sometimes even called the "Man of the Centuries".

First to mobilize in WW I, when mobilizatiion was an act or war.  As First Lord of the Admiralty, and with out consulting his government Winston S. Churchill mobilized the fleet.

"It is most important to attract neutral shipping to our shores in the hope especially of embroiling the United States with Germany . . . . For our part we want the traffic — the more the better; and if some of it gets into trouble, better still."

And set up the Lusitainia:

http://lovkap.blogspot.com/2012/03/churchill-and-j-p-morgan-sunk-lusitan...

Sun, 01/25/2015 - 12:36 | 5702107 Felix da Kat
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Be it as it may, had these wars not unfolded as they did, your mother would not have met your father. You wouldn't exist. Timing and chance occurrences determines the fate of all. Thinking otherwise is wishfulness.

Sun, 01/25/2015 - 12:51 | 5702221 Last of the Mid...
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Great story, let's elect another megalomaniacal madman  who is totally incompetent. We could even make him gay and black. Then lets go incite a bunch of wars in say. . . the middle east for the proupose of . .  well fuck whatever. and intervene in areas of the world we have no fucking reason to be in the first place. And of course don't ever use the phrase "islamic extremist" cuz, at his heart our little megalomaniacal madman is that exactly. You could just ask Al. .

Sun, 01/25/2015 - 16:12 | 5703079 gdpetti
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You would be referring to Gladio Team B ops? As opposed to Team A in the European theatre?

If the President wasn't named "Wilson", it would just have been some other 'useful idiot' chosen to front the oligarchic interests, same as Ike, Reagan and all the gang that followed. Blaming all of this on one man is a joke as his illness and his wife running the show at that time isn't mentioned, nor all the intrigue in that so-called 'assassination'... Methinks Stockman is a wee bit out of his 'box' on this one. Everything happens for a reason, and the name of the puppet or front man is never, repeat never important. A rose by any other name has the same thorns... or it isn't really a 'rose', now is it? It's all a game of control, one eon after the next... we exist in Purgatory, wrap your mind around that and then understand that only those that 'seek' the exit out of Plato's Cave, will ever 'find' it. Everyone has a part to play, same with seekers. The game, by designed, doesn't intend for everyone to suddenly wake up and realize they are all sheep being herded through their lives. The game is purposely designed to prevent that, just ask that Macchiavelli dude, he recognized the same age-old patterns and wrote them down when seeking a job with the local oligarchy in his area. If Wilson realized any of this, his name wouldn't have been presented as a potential candidate for 'higher office'. Sometimes things do indeed get a little out of control, such as when the CIA setup Nixon in that Watergate farce, and some little state governor from Georgia called Jimmy Carter got in and could have done some damage to the NWO plans, but thankfully he wasn't smart enough to realize WTF was going on and surrounded himself with all the usual suspects for 'advice and consent'... and thus they used his name to do what they would've done anyway... control, it's always about control. Does anyone really think this college functionary was put in office because he knew what he was doing??? Really??

Sun, 01/25/2015 - 12:55 | 5702232 Hubbs
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Wilson unleashed the FED for the sole purpose of the wealthy and connected to get an unlimited  supply of money which would allow them to concentrate even more power and wealth-via wars, corporations, and control of the the political process. This could not be done under a gold standard.

They are careful to restrict the supply of money to themselves and not the other 99.9% so that runway infaltion does not ensue. They get to use the money first before it is stepped on by inflation.

 

The rest of the 99% have to do do useful productive work for their money. (err.. scratch that maybe only 10-50% are doing useful work, the rest are on the government dole...the price TPTB have to pay to keep elected officials to do their bidding.)

Sun, 01/25/2015 - 13:33 | 5702452 Winston Smith 2009
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Considering how many major technological advances were made during WWII and solely because of the cold war thereafter, I really wonder where we'd be today tech-wise if it hadn't happened. For instance, the Internet was designed to be a nuclear war survivable comm network.

Sun, 01/25/2015 - 13:33 | 5702462 Atomizer
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Shorty after the earthquake in Washington, DC. Mrs Atomizer and I visited the Washington National Cathedral. That dumb asses tomb was parked in a corner of the church. Have many great photo's of cathedral on damage assessment. That jackass is included. 

Sun, 01/25/2015 - 15:31 | 5702945 Salzburg1756
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If you want to know about the causes of the two world wars, read:

http://www.lulu.com/shop/gerd-schultze-rhonhof/1939-the-war-that-had-man...

Sun, 01/25/2015 - 16:13 | 5703088 claytonmoore50
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This whole comment section is turning into mental masturbation

Sun, 01/25/2015 - 18:50 | 5703764 Optimusprime
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As usual with Mr Stockman, there is much useful information and analysis proffered; too much indeed to take up in a brief post.  Two major lacunae:  1) No mention of the role of Barnard Baruch as the director of US economy during the war (thus no scintilla of reflection on the consequences of this early "tribal" control of the US); and 2) No consideration of the Harding "correction" that indeed represented at least a stab at "return to normalcy. 

 

Still, overall a good contribution.

Sun, 01/25/2015 - 19:39 | 5703953 aaheart
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Woodrow made all of these crucial decisions with the "help" of a small group of Jewish Zionists bent on controlling the money system and political system of the United States. They chose Wilson to be their nymphomaniac pawn in the White House. Jacob Schiff, head of Kuhn Loeb Bank; Paul Warburg, brother-in-law to Schiff; Bernard Baruch, a leading Wall Street mogul; and Edward Mandell House, (originally “Huis”), who was an agent for the Rothschilds financed and guided his ascendancy to the presidency of the USA. They bailed him out of trouble from a fling with a colleague's wife and they knew they had him hooked. He was very grateful until on his dying bed he acknowledged the damage he had done to his country. World War I set the stage for the destruction of Germany, Nazism, the Balfour Declaration, the State of Israel, and Armageddon.

Sun, 01/25/2015 - 21:37 | 5704375 munch
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Would have been better and more convincing, Mr. Stockman,  if you had said these things when you were near power, instead of living the lie for the majority of your capable years.  That White House office, those press interviews, that income and pension, the meetings with the POTUS - nothing was materially different then from now but you were pretty happy with things when you were a member of the elite.  Now when no White House pass is available and would make no difference in your advanced years, suddenly  the Federal Reserve is a pernacious institution.

Mon, 01/26/2015 - 01:17 | 5705080 Magooo
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All major wars are about energy including WW1.

 

Oil and the origins of the
‘War to make the world safe for Democracy’

By F. William Engdahl, 22 June, 2007

 

Abstract:

 

At first almost unnoticed after 1850, then with significant intensity after the onset of the Great Depression of 1873 in Britain, the sun began to set on the British Empire. By the end of the 19th Century, though the City of London remained undisputed financier of the world, British industrial excellence was in terminal decline. The decline paralleled an equally dramatic rise of a new industrial Great Power on the European stage, the German Reich. Germany soon passed England in output of steel, in quality of machine tools, chemicals and electrical goods. Beginning the 1880’s a group of leading German industrialists and bankers around Deutsche Bank’s Georg von Siemens, recognized the urgent need for some form of colonial sources of raw materials as well as industrial export outlet. With Africa and Asia long since claimed by the other Great Powers, above all Great Britain, German policy set out to develop a special economic sphere in the imperial provinces of the debt-ridden Ottoman Empire.

 

The policy was termed “penetration pacifique” an economic dependency which would be sealed with German military advisors and equipment. Initially, the policy was not greeted with joy in Paris, St. Petersburg or London, but it was tolerated. Deutsche Bank even sought, unsuccessfully, to enlist City of London financial backing for the keystone of the Ottoman expansion policy—the Berlin-to-Baghdad railway project, a project of enormous scale and complexity that would link the interior of Anatolia and Mesopotamia (today Iraq) to Germany. What Berlin and Deutsche Bank did not say was that they had secured subsurface mineral rights, including for oil along the path of the railway, and that their geologists had discovered petroleum in Mosul, Kirkuk and Basra.

  The conversion of the British Navy under Churchill to oil from coal meant a high risk strategy as England had abundant coal but no then-known oil. It secured a major concession from the Shah of Persia in the early 1900’s. The Baghdad rail link was increasingly seen in London as a threat to precisely this oil security. The British response to the growing German disruption of the European balance of power after the 1890’s was to carefully craft a series of public and secret alliances with France and with Russia—former rivals—to encircle Germany. As well, she deployed a series of less public intrigues to disrupt the Balkans and encourage a revolt against the Ottoman Sultan via the Young Turks that severely weakened the prospects for the German Drang nach Osten.

The dynamic of the rise of German assertiveness, including in addition to the Baghdad rail, the decision in 1900 to build a modern navy over two decades that could rival England’s, set the stage for the outbreak of a war in August 1914 whose real significance was a colossal and tragic struggle for who would succeed the ebbing power of the British Empire. The resolution of that epic struggle was to take a second world war and another quarter century before the victor was undeniably established. The role of oil in the events leading to war in 1914 is too  little appreciated.  When the historical process behind the war is examined from this light a quite different picture emerges.

The British Empire in the decades following 1873 and the American Century hegemony in the decades following approximately 1973 have more in common than is generally appreciated.

 

More http://www.engdahl.oilgeopolitics.net/History/Oil_and_the_Origins_of_Wor...

Mon, 01/26/2015 - 12:47 | 5706614 TheGreatRecovery
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One might think that ALL the USA Presidents were bad.  But I like to try to think like Captain Jack Aubrey of "Master and Commander": "one must always choose the lesser of two Weevils".  That's why I always vote.  I have no idea how badly I might do if I became President.  I also like the saying about "let he who is without sin cast the first stone".  Nevertheless, many people with great power do seem to be psychopaths.  Machiavelli provided the explanation which makes the most sense to me.

Mon, 01/26/2015 - 17:59 | 5708018 Heavy
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This is the sort of thing you'll never get to learn in school, good luck kids.

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