I'm gonna try writing a foreward, I'm good at those
>MY ATTEMPT AT A FOREWARD
Foreward.
What keeps you up at night?
Letâs pretend.
Letâs pretend for a moment that itâs December 24th 1913 and weâre maritime detectives.
We wake up on this cold December morning to read the newspaper and find that the United States government has just established the Federal Reserve. The Fed is a new central banking system that has been created after a series of financial panics led to the desire for the control of the monetary system in order to alleviate financial crises. In the future, if the stock market or dollar value looks bad, the Federal Reserve can step in and protect the people and their money.
The creation of The Fed comes after multiple failed attempts to do so in the past, but this time the major opponents of a government operated bank were unable to present their cases. The three men who had opposed and successfully stopped the pervious attempts to create a federal banking system were all dead. They had all died together and they all died on a boat that sunk a year before.
Weâll, as maritime detectives we just canât help ourselves. This is a mystery! We can get to the bottom of this. A terrible murder has taken place on an ocean liner and we must discover the truth. There are multiple victims and a lot of facts to sift through but weâll do our best.
Letâs start with the oceanic equivalent of a 911 call and examine the signal flare that was meant to alert authorities that something was amiss. Upon inspection we find that the traditional RED flares meant to signal distress have been replaced by WHITE flares, the kind that signify no problems are present and any passerbyâs should carry on.
Letâs examine the radio equipment and the logs kept of the transmissions. The equipment has been lost in the incident and all known communications with the distressed vessel are incomplete or misunderstood by nearby vessels.
Letâs look at the owner of the ship, JP Morgan, and find that he was not on board at the time of the criminal activity. However, a handful of the worldâs financial elite, including three men who opposed central banking, were his guests on the ship and died in the ensuing incident.
Letâs look at the captain. With a spotless record and a mind for safety, why would he put the most famous ocean liner ever built in danger for the sake of an inconsequential arrival deadline?
Letâs look at the ship. Why was its unsinkable design horribly flawed? It allowed for the perception of safety, but not actually keep anyone safe. Why was the ship dangerously undersupplied with life rafts? Why were magnetically sealed doors used to keep third class passengers below deck?
Letâs examine the murder weapon. A large iceberg that slammed into the ship as it churned through an Atlantic Ocean ice field in the middle of the night.
Now as maritime detectives, weâre stumped. There are too many loose ends and not enough answers. The three men whose deaths weâre investigating are counted among the 1300 people who died and have become a statistic. John Astor, Benjamin Guggenheim, and Isa Strauss all perished onboard the Titanic, leaving the next attempt to create The Federal Reserve unopposed.
Sitting in our study we look at the facts before us. The morning has turned into late afternoon and weâre stuck looking at leads and dead ends. Itâs Christmas Eve and weâre with our families, smiling and eating and having fun. But our mind cannot tear itself away from the feeling that something is wrong. We have a restless night and wake up having slept little and no closer to answers.
But itâs Christmas Day, and our lives are waiting. We put the mystery aside and join our families in celebration of life.
Now letâs not pretend. Itâs you and me now. Us. This story is based upon truths. There are many lingering questions surrounding the sinking of the Titanic and some are as simple as âWhy were the emergency signal flares white and not red?â Some are more complex like âWhy was the unsinkable design so horribly flawed?â And others just donât have any answers. The questions like, âDid JP Morgan intentionally sink the Titanic, killing Astor, Guggenheim, and Strauss and allowing for the creation of the Federal Banking system?â have no real answer.
Or do they?
Hindsight is 20/20 and as humans, we are in no better a position to look back upon our history and question it than we are now. We can question not just the acts themselves, but the intent behind them. Who benefitted, and why? The timeline is long enough that we can see the paths of businesses and people and track their every move and how theyâve gained control. Control of our banks and control of our governments. Control of our lives.
What follows is an attempt by We, the People, to regain control of our lives, our governments, our banks. We are not at their mercy.
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