Posted by
Brian Peters on Friday, January 28, 2011 8:30:51 PM
History lesson for most Americans who have been schooled in public schools, World War One, was fought during the years 1914 to 1919, most battles ended in November of 1918, but 'officially', the war finally ended on June 28th, 1919. Here is what started World War One:
The
explosive that was World War One had been long in the stockpiling; the spark
was the assassination of Archduke
Franz Ferdinand, heir to the
Austro-Hungarian throne, in Sarajevo on 28 June 1914. (Click
here to view film footage of Ferdinand arriving at Sarajevo's Town Hall
on 28 June 1914.)
Ferdinand's death at the hands of the
Black Hand, a Serbian nationalist
secret society, set in train a mindlessly mechanical series of events that
culminated in the world's first global war.
Often wars are started with a spark, the assassination of Ferdinand was the spark of the First World War, a war that seen a total of people killed, 8.5 million, 21 million wounded, 7.7 P.O.W.'s and missing. Side effects of the war was disease:
Diseases flourished in the chaotic wartime conditions. In 1914 alone, louse-borne
epidemic typhus killed 200,000 in Serbia.
[206] From 1918 to 1922, Russia had about 25 million infections and 3 million deaths from epidemic typhus.
[207] Whereas before World War I, Russia had about 3.5 million cases of
malaria, its people suffered more than 13 million cases in 1923.
[208] In addition, a major influenza epidemic spread around the world. Overall, the
1918 flu pandemic killed at least 50 million people.
And the economic affect as well: The war had profound economic consequences. Of the 60 million European
soldiers who were mobilised from 1914–1918, 8 million were killed,
7 million were permanently disabled, and 15 million were seriously
injured. Germany lost 15.1% of its active male population,
Austria–Hungary lost 17.1%, and France lost 10.5%.
[200] About 750,000 German civilians died from
starvation caused by the British blockade during the war.
[201] By the end of the war, famine had killed approximately 100,000 people in Lebanon.
[202] The best estimates of the death toll from the
Russian famine of 1921 run from 5 million to 10 million people.
[203]
By 1922, there were between 4.5 million and 7 million homeless children
in Russia as a result of nearly a decade of devastation from World War
I, the Russian Civil War, and the subsequent famine of 1920–1922.
[204] Numerous anti-Soviet Russians fled the country after the Revolution; by the 1930s the northern Chinese city of
Harbin had 100,000 Russians.
Did you catch this in the above paragraph: By the end of the war, famine had killed approximately 100,000 people in Lebanon.
Huh? Lebanon?? !! Yes, Lebanon. The effects of a World War are far reaching.
Now skip yourself to today, what is happening. Egypt is on fire, 'sparked' by the riots and overthrow in Tunisia a week ago. Who would've thought 'Tunisia' would spark a Middle East powder keg?? There are now riots in Yemen, Jordan, Albania, all sparked by the Tunisia 'Jasmine' affect. And in Lebanon.....a belligerent force known as Hezbollah, Hizbollah, has taken over power. Just tonight, Iran is celebrating the rise of 'radical' elements of Islam over the entire Middle East region.
Iran is going to push, prod, foment, as much as they can to incite riots far and wide. This is the moment they have been waiting for, the opportunity to advance their own agenda and power. But that too, will in the end, be fleeting. For if this moment in Egypt, sparked by the riots and over throw in Tunisia, continues, the wave of consequence will be felt Worldwide. As the Suez Canal gets shut down, oil becomes scarce by the day as all OPEC nations begin to solidify their own power at home before they too face angry mobs. The bankers and business World have failed, the politicians have always been inept or corrupt, and a real World War Three could be on the brink of starting. Terrorism is now a World wide fact of life, it was not stopped when it should have been. Islam is on the march World wide, it's goal, the entire World under Islam. Communist China is on the move, they believe it's their Century to rule. Russia is renewing it's own efforts to be the big dog in Europe. India, with it's billions of people, are on the verge of economic super powerdome. Brazil and Venezuela both believe it's their time to rule the America's. Mexico is withering under a narco-civil war. The United States...is led by incompetent yet, purposeful leftist, socialist radical, and it's own Congress, and entire Federal Government, weighed down by political infighting and a destructive litigious system that is doomed to drown itself.
And Western Europe, the sick man of Europe. Self destructed on social welfare for the masses, who have become nothing but ungrateful. The powder keg of Tunisia, who would've thought this even last year. Did anyone while celebrating New Year's Eve this year, even think that a potential domino effect would start in Tunisia? Most people were looking at an assassination of a prominent leader or massive missile strike against a city, not a riot in a small North African nation to be the catalyst for the coming Third World War.
We could've been ready, we could've been prepared or maybe even prevented this.....is only someone would have taken the bloggers, the forum writers, seriously, when we were screaming......watch out, there's a storm on the horizon. Was this what the Mayan Calendar was really about?
Then there's Nostradamus:
(Century 3, Quatrain 31)
“By firepower of armies, not far from the Black Sea,
He will come from Iran to occupy Trebizond