Thanks for this gruesome but fascinating account of what war is like from the perspective of the unlucky souls doing the fighting. The more I learn of history the greater my contempt of the “ruling elites” who foment and finance war for the sake of their greed, and the “fearless leaders” who are typically cunning egomaniac sociopaths or perverts who lust for glory and promise peace while they pursue war, like Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Roosevelt, or in this case, Jefferson Davis and Abraham Lincoln. The average Southern soldier was brainwashed to believe that he was fighting for “state’s rights” while the average Union soldier was brainwashed to believe that he was fighting to “save the union.” But an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth means only that everyone will be blind and toothless. It’s obvious that the war was fomented and financed by British banksters for the purpose of regaining British control of the American government. What if Lincoln and been murdered before the war instead of afterwards, and the Southern states had been allowed to secede peacefully? It wouldn’t have taken long for the cotton gin to arrive, which rendered slaves a liability instead of an asset. The Industrial Revolution would have embraced black and white alike as valuable laborers, engineers, inventors and technicians, and the Industrial Revolution would have arrived sooner, proceeded faster, and produced even greater benefits. But peace, common sense, and decency is never given a chance. Government is mafia on steroids, and politics enables mediocrity to even the score with ability. The “fearless leaders” who dominate government generally do so via cunning, deceit, treachery, and murder, and are quite incapable of things like common sense, love, decency, fairness, and fair play. It’s rare to find any fearless leaders who accomplished anything genuinely useful. The few who exhibit such characteristics usually wind up prematurely dead, like President Kennedy and his brother. No wonder no civilization has yet stood the test of time. There’s got to be a better way, and we had better find it fast, because this civilization is now under assault from multiple directions:
1. Excessive concentration of wealth and power via central banking in the hands of worthless wastrels and idiot oligarchs like George Soros who think that promoting crime and license will save civilization
2. Corrupt corporations that live forever, like Dracula, and have more powers and privileges than a living human being, like Frankenstein
3. Wanton environmental pollution by toxic pesticides, herbicides, automobile exhaust, chlorinated water, and industrial wastes that contaminate the food we eat, the the beverages we drink, and the air we breathe
4. Toxic medical drugs and stressful medical treatments that undermine longevity
5. Corrupt medical professions and corporations that seek profits at the price of public health
6. Venal politicians who thoughtlessly poison the future for the sake of bribes
7. Declining fertility and intelligence even as increasingly complicated technology requires greater intelligence
8. Compound interest and corruption that sucks money out of circulation at exponentially increasing rates, strangulates commerce, and renders people homeless and starving.
Appreciate the article. War is an awful enterprise and the human costs are tremendous.
It took me half a lifetime to realize Abraham Lincoln was a dictator in the finest sense of the word. I was raised to believe the propaganda about The Civil War and had to do my own learning. The Civil War could of been avoided entirely but the greedy bankers saw an opportunity that aligned with Lincoln's desire to keep the Union together no matter the cost, constitution be da*ned. The entire slave thing may have been important for a few people in select northern states but it is a gigantic propaganda operation that most Americans today believe. Sad. Regardless, a united America would go on to rule the world in the next century.
I just wish we had more historical honesty when we teach our children. Propaganda is effective and people eat it up.
William Forster was an immigrant from Ireland who arrived at the time of the Potato Famine and became a gunnery sergeant in the New York Heavy Artillery.
The Irish Holocaust
Ireland 1845-1850: Famine Lies vs. Holocaust Facts
Only when you, the Diaspora and the Proud Irish Men and Women, spread the truth of what really happened during that terrible time in Ireland's history of 1845-1850 and seek recognition and justice, only when you stand up for the truth, can the 5+ Million souls who perished, truly Rest In Peace.
Ireland’s Landlords During The Holocaust. Who Were They?
This is a follow-up to my "Ireland 1845-1850: the Perfect Holocaust, and Who Kept it 'Perfect'."
That book wrought some changes in the official narrative of 1845-1850 Ireland. The Exhibits B in my book was/is of records of ships' manifests of Irish food landing in English ports while Ireland starved. Exhibits C names all of Britain's armed forces that robbed the Irish of their production of those foods. Included are names and English provenances of each of the sixty-seven British army regiments, the thirty-seven English landlords' militias, the carbine-toting constabulary, Coast Guard facilities, etc. Exhibits D include the location by county and town land of each of Ireland's food processing facilities; each grain kiln, grain mill, flour mill, grain-using brewery and distillery, woolen mill (mutton and lamb), livestock pound, etc. Exhibits E is a partial list of Ireland's landlords of those years, while the results of the foregoing are shown in the book's Exhibits A show the consequences of the above; the locations of some two hundred of the mass graves left behind. Nobody has disputed any of the above - nobody can. That evidence of Irish food exports became so readily verifiable in old copies of The Times (London), etc. that historiographers ceased denying that Irish food was exported while its people starved. To concede the fact of the vast export of Irish food while continuing to falsely exculpate the British government, Ireland's academia 1) falsely ignored the existences in Ireland of Britain's perpetrating armed forces, and 2) falsely conjured Ireland's English landlords of that era as "Irish landlords." The changed official narrative thus became "It was the rich Irish landlords that starved the poor Irish."
Thanks for the insights.
Thanks for this gruesome but fascinating account of what war is like from the perspective of the unlucky souls doing the fighting. The more I learn of history the greater my contempt of the “ruling elites” who foment and finance war for the sake of their greed, and the “fearless leaders” who are typically cunning egomaniac sociopaths or perverts who lust for glory and promise peace while they pursue war, like Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Roosevelt, or in this case, Jefferson Davis and Abraham Lincoln. The average Southern soldier was brainwashed to believe that he was fighting for “state’s rights” while the average Union soldier was brainwashed to believe that he was fighting to “save the union.” But an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth means only that everyone will be blind and toothless. It’s obvious that the war was fomented and financed by British banksters for the purpose of regaining British control of the American government. What if Lincoln and been murdered before the war instead of afterwards, and the Southern states had been allowed to secede peacefully? It wouldn’t have taken long for the cotton gin to arrive, which rendered slaves a liability instead of an asset. The Industrial Revolution would have embraced black and white alike as valuable laborers, engineers, inventors and technicians, and the Industrial Revolution would have arrived sooner, proceeded faster, and produced even greater benefits. But peace, common sense, and decency is never given a chance. Government is mafia on steroids, and politics enables mediocrity to even the score with ability. The “fearless leaders” who dominate government generally do so via cunning, deceit, treachery, and murder, and are quite incapable of things like common sense, love, decency, fairness, and fair play. It’s rare to find any fearless leaders who accomplished anything genuinely useful. The few who exhibit such characteristics usually wind up prematurely dead, like President Kennedy and his brother. No wonder no civilization has yet stood the test of time. There’s got to be a better way, and we had better find it fast, because this civilization is now under assault from multiple directions:
1. Excessive concentration of wealth and power via central banking in the hands of worthless wastrels and idiot oligarchs like George Soros who think that promoting crime and license will save civilization
2. Corrupt corporations that live forever, like Dracula, and have more powers and privileges than a living human being, like Frankenstein
3. Wanton environmental pollution by toxic pesticides, herbicides, automobile exhaust, chlorinated water, and industrial wastes that contaminate the food we eat, the the beverages we drink, and the air we breathe
4. Toxic medical drugs and stressful medical treatments that undermine longevity
5. Corrupt medical professions and corporations that seek profits at the price of public health
6. Venal politicians who thoughtlessly poison the future for the sake of bribes
7. Declining fertility and intelligence even as increasingly complicated technology requires greater intelligence
8. Compound interest and corruption that sucks money out of circulation at exponentially increasing rates, strangulates commerce, and renders people homeless and starving.
God help us all.
Appreciate the article. War is an awful enterprise and the human costs are tremendous.
It took me half a lifetime to realize Abraham Lincoln was a dictator in the finest sense of the word. I was raised to believe the propaganda about The Civil War and had to do my own learning. The Civil War could of been avoided entirely but the greedy bankers saw an opportunity that aligned with Lincoln's desire to keep the Union together no matter the cost, constitution be da*ned. The entire slave thing may have been important for a few people in select northern states but it is a gigantic propaganda operation that most Americans today believe. Sad. Regardless, a united America would go on to rule the world in the next century.
I just wish we had more historical honesty when we teach our children. Propaganda is effective and people eat it up.
Dear Richard
William Forster was an immigrant from Ireland who arrived at the time of the Potato Famine and became a gunnery sergeant in the New York Heavy Artillery.
The Irish Holocaust
Ireland 1845-1850: Famine Lies vs. Holocaust Facts
Only when you, the Diaspora and the Proud Irish Men and Women, spread the truth of what really happened during that terrible time in Ireland's history of 1845-1850 and seek recognition and justice, only when you stand up for the truth, can the 5+ Million souls who perished, truly Rest In Peace.
by Christopher Fogarty
http://www.irishholocaust.org
Ireland’s Landlords During The Holocaust. Who Were They?
This is a follow-up to my "Ireland 1845-1850: the Perfect Holocaust, and Who Kept it 'Perfect'."
That book wrought some changes in the official narrative of 1845-1850 Ireland. The Exhibits B in my book was/is of records of ships' manifests of Irish food landing in English ports while Ireland starved. Exhibits C names all of Britain's armed forces that robbed the Irish of their production of those foods. Included are names and English provenances of each of the sixty-seven British army regiments, the thirty-seven English landlords' militias, the carbine-toting constabulary, Coast Guard facilities, etc. Exhibits D include the location by county and town land of each of Ireland's food processing facilities; each grain kiln, grain mill, flour mill, grain-using brewery and distillery, woolen mill (mutton and lamb), livestock pound, etc. Exhibits E is a partial list of Ireland's landlords of those years, while the results of the foregoing are shown in the book's Exhibits A show the consequences of the above; the locations of some two hundred of the mass graves left behind. Nobody has disputed any of the above - nobody can. That evidence of Irish food exports became so readily verifiable in old copies of The Times (London), etc. that historiographers ceased denying that Irish food was exported while its people starved. To concede the fact of the vast export of Irish food while continuing to falsely exculpate the British government, Ireland's academia 1) falsely ignored the existences in Ireland of Britain's perpetrating armed forces, and 2) falsely conjured Ireland's English landlords of that era as "Irish landlords." The changed official narrative thus became "It was the rich Irish landlords that starved the poor Irish."
by Christopher Fogarty
http://www.irishholocaust.org/landlords.html
Mark