Lurking In The Background Are All-Powerful Sinister Agents Who Profit From War

Forty Million People Starve To Death.
1958 – 1960.
Chinese leader Chairman Mao decided to compete with the west and out-produce the British steel industry.
Farmers were told to ignore agriculture and concentrate on steel production instead.
A food shortage saw nearly 40 million people starve to death.

Pharaoh Thutmose 111 Of Egypt, 1479 – 1425 BC.
Responsible for the obelisk known as Cleopatra’s Needle on the bank of the Thames, Thutmose 111 never lost a battle in 18 summer campaigns.
He was one of the first rulers to understand supply lines and sea power.
Having inherited the throne of Egypt aged seven, he spent the first two decades as co-regent with his father’s wife.
When she died, he conquered lands in Palestine, Syria, Nubia and Mesopotamia.
It was Thutmose 111 who established Egypt as a major power in the eastern Mediterranean and his reign was a golden era of temple building and great riches (and he was humane in his treatment of the vanquished).
He died aged 61.

Lurking In The Background Are The Sinister Agents.
Yes, we have had disarmament conferences and limitations of arms conferences.
They don’t mean a thing.
One has just failed.
The results of another have been nullified.
We send our professional soldiers and our sailors and our politicians and our diplomats to these conferences.
And what happens?
The professional soldiers and sailors don’t want to disarm.
No admiral wants to be without a ship.
No general wants to be without a command.
Both mean men without jobs.
They are not for disarmament.
They cannot be for limitations of arms.
And at all these conferences, lurking in the background, but all-powerful just the same, are the sinister agents of those who profit by war.
They see to it that these conferences do not disarm or seriously limit armaments.
( Major General Smedley Darlington Butler, 1881 – 1940 )

Charlemagne, 742 – 814.
Charles the Great, King of the Franks, ruled a European empire based mainly around France, Germany and parts of Italy.
Although he could not write, he spoke Teutonic, Latin and Greek.
He was 6ft 4in, a monstrous height for the period, which has since been confirmed by measurement of his skeleton.
Oddly, his father was known as Pepin the Short and was around 5ft tall.
Charlemagne’s first campaign came at the age of 27, when the Pope sought his aid in repelling the Lombards of Italy.
Charlemagne smashed them in the field and took the crown of Lombardy as his own.
From his capital of Aachen in modern-day Germany, he went on to fight 53 campaigns, most of which he led himself.
He defended a Christian Europe from Muslim Saracens and pagan Saxons, often beheading thousands in a single day.
He died aged 72 from a fever.

The Spartacus Revolt Shows Rome Was Rotten To The Core. 
He was the man who had the guts to raise the standard of revolt against the odius servitude that sustained the Roman economy.
He gave hope to the underdogs.
To the gladiators – the captives and criminals obliged to kill each other for the pleasure of spectators – he gave freedom.
He has been identified as one of the world’s first violent left wing revolutionaries.
Most Romans viewed Spartacus as a monster, a demon who almost destroyed the republic.
It was 73 BC when the ex-soldier and thief led a breakout from a gladiator’s training school.
He had only 70 accomplices, armed with no more than knives and skewers.
But in just one year he had accumulated an army of 70,000, and what terrified the Romans was the treachery of those who flocked to his banner.
It was the cooks, the cleaners, the housemaids, the labourers, the little-regarded, who turned against their masters in a rejection of the Roman system.
They defeated the armies of two praetors, then they humiliated two consular armies.
Romans started to fear that Spartacus intended to sack Rome itself.
The Spartacus revolt shows Rome was rotten to the core.

We Must Take The Profit Out Of War.
Three steps must be taken to smash the war racket.
We must take the profit out of war.
We must permit the youth of the land who would bear arms to decide whether or not there should be war.
We must limit our military forces to home defence purposes.
( Major General Smedley Darlington Butler, 1881 – 1940 )

Superstar Is A Hypocrite.
He is a superstar lauded for his commitment to human rights and passionate defence of Brazil’s rainforests.
But Sting, former frontman and singer with Police, has been labelled ‘a hypocrite’ after playing a concert in Uzbekistan organised by the brutal regime of Islam Karimov, in October 2009.
Sting, 58, is reported to have been paid £2 million to sing for Gulnara Karimova, the despot’s daughter.
Enemies of the 72 year-old dictator have been shot in the street and a former British Ambassador to the ex-soviet state even accused him of boiling alive his political opponents.
Ex-communist official Karimov, who came to power in 1989, has locked up 6,000 people who have dared to question his rule.
In 2005, the army slaughtered hundreds who protested against poverty and corruption in the city of Andizhan.
And thousands of children are used as slave labour in huge state cotton plantations.
Sting’s human rights and environmental activism seem to have flown out the window.

We Shot Them Like Dogs.
The Creek War, 1813-1814, also known as the Red Stick War, was an inter-tribal conflict among Creek Indian factions.
The war also engaged U.S. militias, along with the British and Spanish, who backed the Indians to help keep Americans from encroaching on their interests.
Early Creek victories inspired General Andrew Jackson to retaliate with 2,500 men, mostly Tennessee militia, in early November 1814.
To avenge the Creek-led massacre at Fort Mims, Jackson and his men slaughtered 186 Creeks at Tallushatchee.
“We shot them like dogs!” said Davy Crockett.
In desperation, Mvskoke Creek women killed their children so they would not see the soldiers butcher them.

I Was A Racketeer, A Gangster For Capitalism.
I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers
In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism.
I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914.
I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902-1912.
I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916.
I helped make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903.
In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested.
Looking back on it, I might have given Al Capone a few hints.
The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts.
I operated on three continents.
( Major General Smedley Darlington Butler, 1881 – 1940 )

A Green Myth Is On The March Again.
It wants to blame the world’s over-breeding poor people for the planets peril.
Actor Jeremy Irons, who famously has seven homes, including a castle in Ireland says, “There are just too many of us, over-population is driving global warming, mass starvation and accumulating pollution, making the planet uninhabitable”.
Irons thinks a new plague, such as the black death 700 years ago, will be nature’s way of solving the problem.
Environmentalists Jonathon Porritt and David Attenborough both agree with Irons.

Today’s women have an average of 2.6 children.
Not just in the rich world, but almost everywhere.
Half the world now has fewer than the replacement level of children.
That includes Europe, North America, The Caribbean, most of the Far East and the Middle East, including Iran. Yes, Iran.
Women in Tehran today have fewer children than their sisters in New York – and a quarter as many as their mothers had.

Bangladesh is one of the poorest nations.
Its girls are among the least educated in the world, and mostly marry as teenagers.
Yet they have on average just three children each now.
India’s average is even lower at 2.8.

The carbon emissions of one American today are equivalent to those of around four Chinese, 20 Indians, 40 Nigerians or 250 Ethiopians.
How dare rich world greens blame the poor for the planet’s perils?
How dare a man with seven homes point the finger at poor over-breeders?
Some greens need to take a long hard look at themselves.
( Wilfred Soon )