WWI Podcasts

June 14, 2014

With Guest Paul Hickman. Carolyn and Paul start with the Naval Defence Act of 1889 and from there trace some of the tensions that built up between the UK and Germany. Some of the events and "personality clashes" that are discussed are:

• The competition for naval supremacy ushered in by Britian's "two power standard";
• Cecil Rhodes and British expansionist ideas;
• The Jameson raid and the Kruger telegram;
• The 2nd Boer War;
• The European royal family entanglements and their effect on Kaiser Wilhelm II;
• Fears brought on by the Berlin-Bagdad Railway;
• Germany's increasing economic and trade strength;
• The Zionist plan for Palestine and the Landman Document;
• German help in fomenting revolution in Russia in 1916.
  

May 31, 2014

The current year 2014 is the centenary (100th anniversary) of the start of what came to be called the First World War, called "The Great War" before WWII. To learn how and why this war took place, Carolyn goes to two sources: Thomas Dalton's "The Jewish Hand in the World Wars, part 1" and the introduction and first chapter of The Hidden History: Secret Origins of the First World War by Gerry Docherty and Jim MacGregor. To the question: Were the Jews or the British responsible? How about both?

• How a small number of Jews can control entire nations;
• Zionists set out to obtain ownership of Palestine for the Jews;
• The English establishment was willing to make deals with Jewish Zionists to bring the USA into the war;
• Cecil Rhodes and the Society of the Elect were a secret group of very powerful Englishmen with the goal of controlling the entire world;
• The behavior of England in South Africa/Rhodesia is a preview of their nonchalance about the slaughter of millions of Europeans in 1914-18;
• Are the Royal Institute of International Affairs and it's American counterpart, the Council on Foreign Relations, the direct descendants of Cecil Rhodes' "Association of Helpers"?
  

Feb. 18, 2013

Two treaties from WWI that are overshadowed by the Treaty of Versailles, which the Germans of 1920 were forced to sign, were the Treaty of Saint-Germain between the Allied Powers and Austria, and the Treaty of Trianon between the Allies and Hungary. Some highlights:

• How the World War got started – it wasn’t German militarism;
• Monarchies were overturned in favor of Democratic Republics;
• Austrians were denied the right to name their smaller “rump” country German-Austria;
• Hungary’s new borders gave them 72% less territory and 64% less population than pre-war;
• Two new countries were created: Czechoslovakia and the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes;
• The Allies (France, Britain, U.S.), in spite of their stated policy of self-determination for all people, hypocritically rejected the idea of plebiscites;
• Widespread unemployment and loss of exchange of goods in the entire region was the result of the harsh treaty provisions.

Map shows Austria and Hungary in their current size surrounded by all the territory that was taken from them and given to others post-WWI.