WWI Podcasts

August 25, 2014

Continuing with the theme of the 100th Anniversary of World War I (1914-2014), Carolyn Yeager focuses on the transparancy of the accusations of barbarism and drunkenness on the part of the German soldier in Belgium. In the second hour, who is telling the most lies in the current Ukraine war is discussed. Highlights include:

• The theme of the Germans "descending from their past high culture to the level of barbarians" is repeatedly used by the Allies, thus the fire that destroyed much of the world-famous library at Louvain (Leuven) is played up;
• Most of the stories recounting atrocities are by nameless people, and were later rebuked as false by authorities;
• Gottlieb von Jagow, German minister of State, wrote that the fire broke out after explosion of a convoy of benzine, which was caused by shots fired during the battle with the illegal civilian shooters;
• Photograph fakery, both in the form of false captions and in the more sinister creation of fake scenes, events, etc. are much more common than people realize - some examples given;
• The suppression and/or ommision of parts of the content of diplomatic reports and/or telegram messages was common;
• Of the nations, Russia was the most extreme in lying, followed by France;
• The pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine and the Putin govt. are using lies as a strategy, meaning they have no shame about it and don't really expect to be believed;
• Bill Finck writes an article in which he compares the situation in today's Russia with the United States in the 1950's, when the undermining of the White majority began.

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 Britain'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.