Tha Bankers War

The more I read history, the more I realize that we see only the tip of the ice berg, and not even that much.

I recall reading about a man who travels the US, asking permission to explore old barns.  In them, he finds farming tools, finds the same kinds in almost every old barn, so they must have been very common, but nobody today knows what they were used for. 

The lesson is that in only a very few years, historical facts that were widely known to one generation, are completely forgotten by the next.

History is not so much recorded as it is reconstructed, often from personal letters stashed in an attic for lifetimes.

The ancient Roman city of Herculaneum was all but unknown until the mid-1800s when a well digger fell into it by accident.  This was a large city buried by the same volcano that destroyed the more famous city of Pompeii, yet Herculaneum disappeared from history.

One of the most disturbing facts of hidden history I learned concerns how World War One got started, and how America got into it despite President Woodrow Wilson's vow to stay out of it.

A more accurate name for that war might be The Bankers War.  US bankers loaned so much money to Britain and France that when it appeared that Germany was about to win, the bankers ran in panic to Wilson and got a bailout, not just in money, but in American blood, simply to recover their ill advised investment.

All sides in that war were grievously at fault, and the war need never have begun, and could easily have been ended early on.

This was why in 1941, only a very small proportion of Americans wanted anything to do with fighting Hitler.  Few people believed he was any threat to the US, and Americans were distrustful after having been lied to in 1917 and sent to war needlessly.  Hitler was, of course, vastly more evil than was the relatively harmless Kaiser of WW1.

Fast forward to today.  We do not see more than a tiny portion of what is going on in current events.  We have the broad outlines of a corrupt federal government, reeking of scandal, blatantly violating the Constitution, accumulating vast amounts of power, including technologies we can only imagine.

What we do not see is the dark forces at work behind the scenes, the dirty deals, the false propaganda, the assassinations and murders, and more than enough to make a James Bond spy novel seem like Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm.

We are the pawns in a vast game beyond our understanding.  The kings and queens of this chess game casually send thousands of people needlessly to their deaths without so much as a pang of conscience.

This is why I rarely listen to politicians.  I trust very few of them.

--Robert
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