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  3. CNN reporting Nikki Haley resigned because Putin had told Dumpf to repeatedly sexually assault her!

  4. I can’t watch the posted video, given that reading or watching historical accounts of WWI is difficult to do. The idiocy of the generals, and other field officers, was extraordinary. And the Battle for Verdun was the worst of it. The mutinies in the trenches was good. Especially the mutinies by the Germans.

    1. The death of European Manhood, and the rise of the Progressive Ideologies like Communism, Socialism, and Fascism all occurred in this time period.

      I don’t know if Europe will survive. Looking at its birthrates, and its leaders, I think it has decided to commit suicide.

      1. WW I was fought to preserve monarchy and mercantilism. The Euros have never demonstrated an ability to rule themselves without tribalism. Read 1914 and then Vimy and lost all sympathy for Euroland. Canada did not become a country as so described in the history books. The youth of Canada was sacrificed there for interests that had nothing to do with Canada. Canadians should consider what country we would have now if all those young men had not been sacrificed.

        Germany was not the evil incarnate but simply one of a group of countries that fought that war. The Americans should have stayed out in 1917 and it would have forced peace talks as both sides had spent themselves into poverty both financially and morally. Because the USA saved the Allies it meant that WW II was inevitable.

        1. CT, the neo-cons have written that the U.S. was right to intervene in late 1917 onwards, saying that German militarism was in full swing back then. I respect the neo-cons in many areas, but here you are right. If Britain, Canada, and the U.S. would have not intervened, the world today would be a better place.

          The is a folk song called “Dancing at Whistin”, about women, in a small English town, near the end of WWI, dancing with themselves at a get-together, since all the younger males were all dead. The male populations in Europe all shrank, and in WWII as well. This is how disastrous WWI was. I agree that the deaths snd wounring of young Canadian men was inexcusable.

          1. Yes.

            Selectively forgotten in all the cod commentary here is the rather boring historical fact that 1) Austria-Hungary invaded Serbia and 2) Germany invaded Belgium, France and Luxemburg, thus precipitating the Great War.

          2. The author, Barbara Tuchman, forgets to mention that both Britain and France resented the unification of the German states by Bismarck in the 1860s and did their best to frustrate that which in turn led to an arms race and the alliance arrangement.

    2. One of the best movies about WWI: Paths of Glory, 1957, Kirk Douglas starring. Slaughter and mutiny ….. essentially an anti war film. The German singer (wife of Stanley Kubrik) incredibly appealing though only appearing for one song. Recommended.

      “Crazy” doesn’t do justice to trench warfare.

    3. John Batchelor has often had items dealing with WW I on his show. In some of his introductions and comments, he’s likened it to the curse of Europe and the curse of the 20th century.

    1. Great Catch Roseberry..!!

      That Article reinforces my contentions for the past 6 years…

      CLIMATE CHANGE is an Effort by Global Marxist Elites (Incl. Every Western POLITICAL Leader with the odd exception) to Destroy Western Hemisphere nations by CREATING Energy Poverty in order to facilitate the REAL Goal of installing MARXISM – Communism throughout the PLANET. But CC is only half the story – the other being Population Replacement via Migration and importation of faux refugees.

      Time for an Inquisition….Conservative Style.

    2. Classic GIGO. Shoddy data analysis, with idiotic “adjustments,” so sloppy it’s more like a 1st year university paper.

      “Climate Bombshell: Global Warming Scare Is Based on ‘Careless and Amateur’ Data, Finds Audit.”

      “McLean’s report could scarcely have come at a more embarrassing time for the IPCC. On Monday, it will release its 2018 Summary for Policy Makers claiming that the global warming crisis is more urgent than ever. But what McLean’s audit strongly suggests is that these claims are based on data that simply cannot be trusted.”

      Such are the inaccuracies in the data record, McLean believes, that it is impossible to know how much global temperatures have really risen. But he estimates that of the 0.6 degrees C that the planet has warmed since 1950, perhaps one third has been exaggerated.”

      So the real figure, he estimates, is a warming of 0.4 degrees C in the last seven decades. “Most people can’t even notice a change in temperature of 1 degree C for one moment to the next. So the idea that governments are spending so much money on the basis of a rise in temperature a fraction of that spread over almost 70 years is just idiotic beyond belief.”

      The Hadley Centre and Met Office will find it difficult to dismiss McLean as a crank. In March 2016, he advised them of certain errors which they promptly corrected. So he’s an authority they take seriously.”

      https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/10/07/damning-audit-climate-change-scare-based-on-unreliable-data/

    3. Roseberry, Sheila Gunn, at the Rebel is on to the notion that the media is ramping up climate alarmism in the lead up to the up coming Globalist Climate Meetings. This narrative helps the Liberal / NDP / Green politicians disqualify their opponents. Here is a tweet from a writer for Canada’s “Newspaper of Record” https://twitter.com/nspector4/status/1050063908256460800 where he ‘explains’ why you’re an extremist Party if you aren’t buying into the need for a carbon tax of $135 to $5,500 per tonne. Apparently those are the tax levels required according to the latest Globalist approved Nobel Laureate in economics Nordhaus.

      Imagine, being a Climate Change Economist: that’s like building an arm of science on the foundation of science fiction known as Economics, which is built on the bedrock of science fiction known as Climate Science. Who wants to bet the future of their on two levels of abstraction? The Liberal / NDP / Green coalition do. Enough insanity.

      1. Federally the Tories are probably green and should be added to the Liberal / NDP / Green / Green Cons list.

      1. Part 2 – the quicksand

        “#DataGate! First ever audit of global temperature data finds freezing
        tropical islands, boiling towns, boats on land”

        http://joannenova.com.au/2018/10/first-audit-of-global-temperature-data-finds-freezing-tropical-islands-boiling-towns-boats-on-land/

        Headlines here

        “Climate Bombshell: Global Warming Scare Is Based on ‘Careless and
        Amateur’ Data, Finds Audit”

        https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/10/07/damning-audit-climate-change-scare-based-on-unreliable-data/

        But no doubt that won’t make the YSM

        Australian Medical Association is all over the IPCC conclusions – I wonder if they would allow the use of drugs with a similar data backing?

        (tried posting as one but presumably too many links and it didn’t show”

  7. Verdun. The war was precipitated by three RULING monarchies vying to hold onto power.

    By Jan. 1915, 1 million British men had volunteered for the trenches. The unwashed on both sides believed the war was going to be over by Christmas. They weren’t told which Christmas.

    The Franco-Prussian War of 1870 had been a dress rehearsal using new war machinery. Falkenhym knew the war was not going to be won by storming enemy lines. Not only Verdun, but the whole war amounted to an “ausblutung / bleeding out.”

  8. It has often been stated that the carnage of WWI and indeed the American Civil War was a result of weaponry advancing faster than the tactics employed to deal with the better weapons.

    1. A few years ago, back when it was still worth watching, History Television showed a documentary about WW I and technology. It was suggested that it was the convergence of a number of different technologies (such as the airplane, the machine gun, and telegraphy) that led to not only the high casualty rates but also the standoff because both sides had the same machines and used similar tactics.

    2. While up to 20 million died during WW1, over 40 million are estimated to have died from influenza shortly after the war ended.

  14. The irony is that the swift German assault, sweeping through Belgium and down nearly to Paris, and ultimately repulsed by a rapid French mobile counterattack exploiting a gap in the German lines, had convinced the French that static defenses made little sense. That was why the great Verdun fortresses had been stripped of guns and men. Then Major Reynal and the tiny force at Fort Vaux held out against a huge assault for a week – even for four days after the Germans got inside – and could have held out longer had they more men and water. The French drew the lesson that fixed fortifications were in fact the way to defend at minimal cost in lives – and spent the next 20 years and much of their military budget building the Maginot Line, mentally prepared to fight that way, and spent enormous amounts of time training to defend using those assets. The incredible feats and heroism of Reynal and his small band contributed mightily to France’s swift defeat in 1940.

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