John, war is inbred in our society. We read about it in school, we hear about it on our grandfather's knee, it's in almost every motion picture we watch, it's either preached against or supported in our houses of worship. It's everywhere. It's the grease that lubricates our industries. I could go on but you get the picture.
I joined the military in 1966 and became part of the spear of freedom and democracy. Or, so I thought at the time. It took 17 years for the fog to clear. As a senior captain I was part of operations that were, let's just say, less than commendable. I quit that job and suffered the consequences in the next promotion cycle. Would I change my decision. No.
As general Butler once said, "War is a racket ". He was more correct than he knew.
Indeed, war (i.e. competition to the death) is inbred in every living organism on this planet. Nature is completely about killing off competitors, survival of the fittest. You people who speak against war as if it is wrong, you fight against nature itself, at your own peril.
Kind of sounds like 9/11 don’t you think. No one that could defend any kind of attack was around…a building that collapses no where near any planes or “implosions” of the trade centre, insurance being tripled days before, many being told not to report to work that day…time for people to STOP trusting liars, thieves and psychopaths
I am 69 years old. In grade school lessons about WWII we were told that the military knew the attack was coming, but FER was sleeping and everyone was afraid to wake him up. Maybe that was what got me started thinking everything the government says is a lie
More so bankers could pile up profits. Modern wars are never started by bloodthirsty soldiers, but by string-pullers behind the scenes.
The USA did very well out of both world wars by sitting out the first 3 years (WW1) and the first 2 years and 3 months (WW2). It came in when the combatants were exhausted and bankrupt, claimed victory, and scooped the plunder. Cunning and cold-blooded - but not military strategy. It was financial strategy. At the time of Pearl Harbor, US firms were still supplying the Germans with war material. Just business. Joseph Heller's "Catch-22" captures the spirit perfectly.
My father left his teaching job in Glasgow and went off to war just before Pearl Harbor. His convoy crossed the Indian Ocean to India while Nagumo Force was rampaging - had their paths crossed he and all his comrades would have died. If he had known why he was fighting, he would have stayed at home.
I cannot seem to find some of my prior comments. John, you're not practicing censorship of your commentors, are you? Perhaps if I were paying you it would be different?
Yes correct. FDR wanted to enter the war in Europe, but the American public was opposed to war, especially after World War I. FDR needed a good excuse, and the attack by Japan was an answer. British intelligence had already intercepted messages about the Pearl Harbor attack. They had already broken the Japanese codes.
Before the attack, all the aircraft carriers were sent to sea, leaving the old battleships to weather the attack, killing the service members on those ships. FDR thought this was a good sacrifice, since the American public would certainly rally around the flag and demand that the nation go to war.
To find a war the US was justified in entering, we would need to go back to the War of 1812. All wars since have been manipulated and or orchestrated by warmongers, politicians, and Neocons.
Wars always cause inflation, kill, and maim humans, and destroy infrastructure. A handful of individuals get rich while we accumulate a 37 trillion dollar debt. Almost all of that debt is from wars. We are still paying interest on WW1.
The irony is that the average person does not want wars; they want to work, be with family, and enjoy life. Yet the average person fights and dies in every war. Politicians never get themselves or their families' hands bloody by fighting in wars.
I think it was John Lennon who said that the working class of one country would never fight the working class of another without being propagandized into doing so.
It is exactly the same with 9/11. The US government knew that the attack was coming. Their claim that they could not have anticipated an attack from the air was a lie.
If historians became able to keep a running list of the false flags used to trigger an agenda, including the fields of medicine, bio weaponry, geoengineering, ad nauseam,
Great article, John. Your family has sacrificed much for this country.
I am equally as intrigued by the American elites' support of Hitler and Germany both leading up to and including the war. Ford engines, for example, were used extensively by the Nazis from my understanding and, of course, Henry Ford was notoriously against Jews. The Bush family was pro-Germany, as well. Did America enter that war because of all the technology (and talent) Germany had for looting? Hmm.
The Pacific theater is often overlooked and forgotten when discussing WW2 unless the subject of the atomic bomb or Pearl Harbor comes up even though, in my opinion, Japan presented a much more prescient risk to the American homeland than Germany ever could unless, of course, they had finished getting the Bomb first.
But Ford also did business with the Bolsheviks, a party where Jews were overrepresented versus Russia as a whole. The late Anthony Sutton wrote books about Wall Street's dealings with both Hitler and the Soviets. An AI summary on Ford:
"Ford Motor Company entered into a major agreement with the Soviet Union on May 31, 1929, marking its first significant business venture in the country prior to World War II. The deal, signed in Dearborn, Michigan, involved Ford providing technical assistance, factory blueprints, equipment, and training to help construct and operate the Gorky Automobile Plant (GAZ) near Nizhny Novgorod (then known as Gorky), one of the USSR’s first large-scale automobile factories . . . "
And regarding the infamous Nazi tattoos, again from AI: "The five-digit tattoos applied to prisoners at Auschwitz—most notably to non-Germans beginning in the summer of 1943—originated as IBM Hollerith punch card identification numbers."
As the Godfather says, nothing personal, it's just business (and I'd add, politics).
"My grandfather and his two brothers in the Navy (Harold and Robert) went to their graves believing that the men who run the U.S. government genuinely care about the citizenry and tell the truth when it comes to matters of life and death." Many have been fooled by lying USgovs. One thing about today is we are being given much proof about the lying ripoff mafia bosses that have run the USA for many decades. They are still the "powers" that should never have been, but still are!
Didn't Churchill know that the attack on Pearl Harbour was about to happen but he kept quiet because he needed the Americans to stop sitting on the fence? The British, back then, would have carried on fighting to the last man and then Hitler would have won and the Americans would have just traded with Nazi Europe whilst helping themselves to the remnants of the British Empire. So Churchill needed to force things along before it was too late. Funnily enough, they did help themselves to the choice bits of the Empire - and much good is it doing now (not)!!!!
This will have a much biglier affect the the Strait of Hormuz. Runs on Bankster Institutions and precious metals.
BlackRock’s $26 billion HPS Corporate Lending Fund was hit with $1.2 billion in redemption requests this quarter. That’s about 9.3% of the entire fund. But the structure only allows 5% to leave at once.
John, war is inbred in our society. We read about it in school, we hear about it on our grandfather's knee, it's in almost every motion picture we watch, it's either preached against or supported in our houses of worship. It's everywhere. It's the grease that lubricates our industries. I could go on but you get the picture.
I joined the military in 1966 and became part of the spear of freedom and democracy. Or, so I thought at the time. It took 17 years for the fog to clear. As a senior captain I was part of operations that were, let's just say, less than commendable. I quit that job and suffered the consequences in the next promotion cycle. Would I change my decision. No.
As general Butler once said, "War is a racket ". He was more correct than he knew.
Indeed, I agree with everything you wrote, and I am sorry you had to suffer this reality in such a deeply personal way.
I just commented on that below! I covered Gen. butler in my book and how he blew the lid on the billionaires: https://unorthodoxy.substack.com/p/donating-to-a-good-cause-how-billionaires
Thanks for this comment on the fog clearing. I’ve written a piece on why some who served don’t like being told “thank you for your service” and how that phrase itself is war propaganda: https://unorthodoxy.substack.com/p/how-saying-thank-you-for-your-service
War is inbred in man, not just in one country or society.
Indeed, war (i.e. competition to the death) is inbred in every living organism on this planet. Nature is completely about killing off competitors, survival of the fittest. You people who speak against war as if it is wrong, you fight against nature itself, at your own peril.
Kind of sounds like 9/11 don’t you think. No one that could defend any kind of attack was around…a building that collapses no where near any planes or “implosions” of the trade centre, insurance being tripled days before, many being told not to report to work that day…time for people to STOP trusting liars, thieves and psychopaths
Katrina, I wrote about 9/11 in my article above, but I specifically focused on 9/11 here: https://unorthodoxy.substack.com/p/the-big-three-how-false-flags-shape-0f8
Thanks Franklin, I will take a look
9/11 wasn't committed by 19 Muslim hijackers.
I believe it was an inside job...just like so many other false flag events.
I am 69 years old. In grade school lessons about WWII we were told that the military knew the attack was coming, but FER was sleeping and everyone was afraid to wake him up. Maybe that was what got me started thinking everything the government says is a lie
"Day of Deceit" by Robert Stinnett: 386 pages of hard evidence.
I was going to post this book title also but you beat me to it.
“Great minds think alike - "
Also mentioned in the article linked by John Leake. Great book.
Canonical.
John, I’ve covered something similar last year when the whole Israel and Hamas situation started. Here’s my piece called “how wars happen”
https://unorthodoxy.substack.com/p/how-wars-happen-or-how-theyre-let
All those men died at Pearl so men can play "war".
More so bankers could pile up profits. Modern wars are never started by bloodthirsty soldiers, but by string-pullers behind the scenes.
The USA did very well out of both world wars by sitting out the first 3 years (WW1) and the first 2 years and 3 months (WW2). It came in when the combatants were exhausted and bankrupt, claimed victory, and scooped the plunder. Cunning and cold-blooded - but not military strategy. It was financial strategy. At the time of Pearl Harbor, US firms were still supplying the Germans with war material. Just business. Joseph Heller's "Catch-22" captures the spirit perfectly.
My father left his teaching job in Glasgow and went off to war just before Pearl Harbor. His convoy crossed the Indian Ocean to India while Nagumo Force was rampaging - had their paths crossed he and all his comrades would have died. If he had known why he was fighting, he would have stayed at home.
All wars are Banker Wars. This was told to us by the Great General Smeldly Butler: https://unorthodoxy.substack.com/p/donating-to-a-good-cause-how-billionaires
If you guys want to see how wars are bankers wars, wait till you see the Holocaust in a whole new light: https://unorthodoxy.substack.com/p/the-holocaust-examined
So psychopaths can play war
I cannot seem to find some of my prior comments. John, you're not practicing censorship of your commentors, are you? Perhaps if I were paying you it would be different?
We cut off Japans oil supply. We moved our Pacific fleet from San Diego to Pearl Harbor making it a sitting duck. We egged on the Japanese
Yes correct. FDR wanted to enter the war in Europe, but the American public was opposed to war, especially after World War I. FDR needed a good excuse, and the attack by Japan was an answer. British intelligence had already intercepted messages about the Pearl Harbor attack. They had already broken the Japanese codes.
Before the attack, all the aircraft carriers were sent to sea, leaving the old battleships to weather the attack, killing the service members on those ships. FDR thought this was a good sacrifice, since the American public would certainly rally around the flag and demand that the nation go to war.
To find a war the US was justified in entering, we would need to go back to the War of 1812. All wars since have been manipulated and or orchestrated by warmongers, politicians, and Neocons.
Wars always cause inflation, kill, and maim humans, and destroy infrastructure. A handful of individuals get rich while we accumulate a 37 trillion dollar debt. Almost all of that debt is from wars. We are still paying interest on WW1.
The irony is that the average person does not want wars; they want to work, be with family, and enjoy life. Yet the average person fights and dies in every war. Politicians never get themselves or their families' hands bloody by fighting in wars.
I think it was John Lennon who said that the working class of one country would never fight the working class of another without being propagandized into doing so.
It is exactly the same with 9/11. The US government knew that the attack was coming. Their claim that they could not have anticipated an attack from the air was a lie.
If historians became able to keep a running list of the false flags used to trigger an agenda, including the fields of medicine, bio weaponry, geoengineering, ad nauseam,
it would no doubt fill volumes.
Great article, John. Your family has sacrificed much for this country.
I am equally as intrigued by the American elites' support of Hitler and Germany both leading up to and including the war. Ford engines, for example, were used extensively by the Nazis from my understanding and, of course, Henry Ford was notoriously against Jews. The Bush family was pro-Germany, as well. Did America enter that war because of all the technology (and talent) Germany had for looting? Hmm.
The Pacific theater is often overlooked and forgotten when discussing WW2 unless the subject of the atomic bomb or Pearl Harbor comes up even though, in my opinion, Japan presented a much more prescient risk to the American homeland than Germany ever could unless, of course, they had finished getting the Bomb first.
But Ford also did business with the Bolsheviks, a party where Jews were overrepresented versus Russia as a whole. The late Anthony Sutton wrote books about Wall Street's dealings with both Hitler and the Soviets. An AI summary on Ford:
"Ford Motor Company entered into a major agreement with the Soviet Union on May 31, 1929, marking its first significant business venture in the country prior to World War II. The deal, signed in Dearborn, Michigan, involved Ford providing technical assistance, factory blueprints, equipment, and training to help construct and operate the Gorky Automobile Plant (GAZ) near Nizhny Novgorod (then known as Gorky), one of the USSR’s first large-scale automobile factories . . . "
And regarding the infamous Nazi tattoos, again from AI: "The five-digit tattoos applied to prisoners at Auschwitz—most notably to non-Germans beginning in the summer of 1943—originated as IBM Hollerith punch card identification numbers."
As the Godfather says, nothing personal, it's just business (and I'd add, politics).
"My grandfather and his two brothers in the Navy (Harold and Robert) went to their graves believing that the men who run the U.S. government genuinely care about the citizenry and tell the truth when it comes to matters of life and death." Many have been fooled by lying USgovs. One thing about today is we are being given much proof about the lying ripoff mafia bosses that have run the USA for many decades. They are still the "powers" that should never have been, but still are!
Didn't Churchill know that the attack on Pearl Harbour was about to happen but he kept quiet because he needed the Americans to stop sitting on the fence? The British, back then, would have carried on fighting to the last man and then Hitler would have won and the Americans would have just traded with Nazi Europe whilst helping themselves to the remnants of the British Empire. So Churchill needed to force things along before it was too late. Funnily enough, they did help themselves to the choice bits of the Empire - and much good is it doing now (not)!!!!
This will have a much biglier affect the the Strait of Hormuz. Runs on Bankster Institutions and precious metals.
BlackRock’s $26 billion HPS Corporate Lending Fund was hit with $1.2 billion in redemption requests this quarter. That’s about 9.3% of the entire fund. But the structure only allows 5% to leave at once.
Old news, but good refresher for the insouciant.