President Woodrow Wilson is busy writing love notes to his girlfriend, Edith. Churchill leaves London Admiralty in the hands of Fisher to cavort with his mistress in Paris. Err, to reconnoiter the Western front.
The Germans are imploring their Kaiser to STOP sinking neutral merchant ships lest they draw the Americans into the war.
When the Rothschild’s want war there is war. They operate all sides of every conflict. After killing all moneyed people with scruples in the Titanic hoax, and establishing the central bank of The Federal Reserve in 1913, it’s time for the Rothschild’s to put their master plan in action.
Begin World War One.
The limey Brits leave the Lusitania alone, without promised Navy escort in the headwaters off Liverpool, knowing there are deadly u-boats in the vicinity.
Captain Schwieger of underboot U-20 is running low on fuel. He starts back to the fatherland with three torpedoes. He sees the Lusitania in the clear waters off Queenstown. The passenger ship is traveling too fast for the U-boat. Then the unthinkable happens. Captain Turner of The Lusitania turns directly towards the submarine.
Schwieger floods his torpedo tube and launches his finest artillery. It takes about 15 minutes for the massive Lusitania to sink.
Crushing death and grief. The black soot of 4 massive boilers exploding fires of brimstone onto the helpless crew and passengers.
Lusitania Final Departure MAY 1915
The RED SHIELD of EDOM strikes again.
Germany, Brits, America- property of the GD central bank(s) – God Help US ALL. Everyone.
The money is so incredibly fake. OMG.
The Lusitania disaster pulls the dumb Americans into the war, thereby writing the execution order for thousands of GI’s stupid enough to die for the GD bank.
Another way to write this sentence: The covid hoax pulls the dumb people into the war, thereby writing the execution order for millions of Vaccinated Morons stupid enough to die for the GD bank.
Another way to write this sentence: The smart phone and smart TV pulls the dumb people into the war, thereby writing the execution order for millions of Americans stupid enough to die for the GD bank.
All Wars Are Banker’s Wars.
Begin World War Two
Begin World War Three
Great book about the sinking of the Lusitania
Dead Wake by Erik Larson Book Review
My highlights and annotations.
Dead Wake by Erik Larson
Book last read: 2026-04-01 17:57:05
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Chapter 9: A Word from the Captain
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Chapter progress: 66.67%
Highlight: The truth is that the Lusitania is the safest boat on the sea. She is too fast for any submarine. No German war vessel can get her or near her.
Notes: Hubris
Chapter 11: Lusitania: The Old Sailorman
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Chapter progress: 56.25%
Highlight: parsimony
Notes: Extreme unwillingness to spend money or use resources.
Chapter 12: Washington: The Lonely Place
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Highlight: Britain, which, as an island nation that imported two-thirds of its food, was utterly dependent on seaborne trade
Notes: How to win against limey brits.
Chapter 12: Washington: The Lonely Place
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Chapter progress: 87.8%
Highlight: She became a skilled golfer and was the first woman in Washington to acquire a driver’s license. She tooled around the city in an electric car.
Notes: Edith. Wilson’s girlfriend.
Chapter 14: U-20: The Happiest U-Boat
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Highlight: Lowell Thomas, for his 1928 book, Raiders of the
Notes: Raiders of the deep
Chapter 17: Lusitania: A Cavalcade of Passengers
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Highlight: Here came Charles Frohman, the theater impresario, who had made Ethel Barrymore a star and had brought the play Peter Pan to America, for which he dressed Maude Adams in a woodsy tunic with a broad collar, and in so doing forever engraved a particular image of the boy in the world’s imagination
Notes: Peter Pan
Chapter 17: Lusitania: A Cavalcade of Passengers
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Highlight: Vanderbilt was also a member of what a Minnesota newspaper called the “Just Missed It” club, a fortunate group whose roster included Theodore Dreiser, Guglielmo Marconi, and J. P. Morgan, all of whom had planned to sail on the Titanic but for one reason or another had changed their minds
Notes: Just missed it. Club of Edom
Chapter 17: Lusitania: A Cavalcade of Passengers
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Highlight: As an author, he was best known for his inspirational book, A Message to Garcia, about the value of personal initiative, and for an account of the Titanic disaster that centered on one woman’s refusal to enter a lifeboat without her husband
Chapter 17: Lusitania: A Cavalcade of Passengers
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Highlight: inanition
Chapter 17: Lusitania: A Cavalcade of Passengers
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Chapter progress: 81.08%
Highlight: the Arts and Crafts movement, then in full sway, which held that craftsmanship provided both satisfaction and rescue from the perceived dehumanization of the industrial revolution
Notes: Research
Chapter 19: Washington: Lost
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Highlight: Wilson particularly liked, called Round My House: Notes of Rural Life in France in Peace and War, by Philip Gilbert
Notes: President Wilson
Chapter 38: Room 40: Schwieger Revealed
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Highlight: After noting that Germany’s submarine campaign had sharply reduced traffic from America, Churchill told Runciman: “For our part, we want the traffic—the more the better; and if some of it gets into trouble, better still.”
Notes: American Patsy.
Chapter 48: London; Washington: The King’s Question
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Chapter progress: 50.0%
Highlight: The king turned to House at one point, and asked, “Suppose they should sink the Lusitania with American passengers aboard?”
Notes: The Brits left the Lusitania unescorted hoping it would be sunk to draw America into war.
Chapter 48: London; Washington: The King’s Question
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Highlight: AT THE White House, with a fresh spring Friday in the offing, Wilson wrote again to Edith
Notes: Woodrow Wilson is distracted with his love notes to his girlfriend. She plays hard to get.
Chapter 49: The Irish Sea: Funnels on The Horizon
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Highlight: Strangely, the ship had no escorts whatsoever. Even stranger, in Schwieger’s view, was that the vessel was in these waters at all, especially after his two successful attacks the day before. That the ship “was not sent through the North Channel is inexplicable,” he wrote in his log.
Notes: It’s a setup.
Chapter 59: Lusitania: A Queen’s End
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Highlight: THIS UPHEAVAL was a singular feature of the ship’s demise, commented upon by many survivors. The sea rose as a plateau of water that spread in all directions. It carried bodies and masses of debris, and was accompanied by a strange sound.
Notes: Death sounder.
Chapter 62: U-20: Parting Shot
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Highlight: LATER, A WOMAN WHO CLAIMED TO BE SCHWIEGER’S FIANCÉE told a newspaper reporter that the attack on the Lusitania had left Schwieger a shattered man
Notes: Shattered man
Chapter 64: Queenstown: The Lost
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Highlight: OF THE LUSITANIA’S 1,959 PASSENGERS AND CREW, only 764 survived; the total of deaths was 1,195. The 3 German stowaways brought the total to 1,198. Of 33 infants aboard, only 6 survived. Over 600 passengers were never found. Among the dead were 123 Americans.
Notes: The stats.
Chapter 64: Queenstown: The Lost
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Chapter progress: 97.14%
Highlight: When the thing really comes, God gives to each the help he needs to live or to die
Notes: Help me God.
Chapter 66: London: Blame
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Chapter progress: 66.67%
Highlight: there was indeed a plot, however imperfect, to endanger the Lusitania in order to involve the United States in the war.”
Notes: Red shield makes war
Chapter 66: London: Blame
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Chapter progress: 73.33%
Highlight: The neglect to provide naval escort for her in the narrow waters as she approached her destination was all the more remarkable as no less than twenty-three British merchant vessels had been torpedoed and sunk by German U-boats near the coasts of Britain and Ireland in the preceding seven days
Notes: Conspiracy rules
Chapter 67: Washington; Berlin; London: The Last Blunder
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Chapter progress: 4.88%
Highlight: In God’s name, how could any nation calling itself civilized purpose so horrible a thing.”
Notes: Bomb the girl’s school. USA
Chapter 67: Washington; Berlin; London: The Last Blunder
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Chapter progress: 9.76%
Highlight: German popular reaction to the sinking of the Lusitania was exultant. A Berlin newspaper declared May 7 “the day which marked the end of the epoch of English supremacy of the seas
Notes: May 7. The day that will live in infamy.
Chapter 67: Washington; Berlin; London: The Last Blunder
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Chapter progress: 12.2%
Highlight: You read of thousands [of] Russians or Germans being killed and pass it over without qualm. This will bring it home to you.”
Notes: Ai warfare
Chapter 67: Washington; Berlin; London: The Last Blunder
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Chapter progress: 14.63%
Highlight: There is such a thing as a nation being so right that it does not need to convince others by force that it is right
Notes: Lol
Chapter 67: Washington; Berlin; London: The Last Blunder
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Chapter progress: 85.37%
Highlight: he cast America’s coming fight in lofty terms. “The world,” he said, “must be made safe for democracy.”
Notes: Lol. Mandatory injections and lockdowns.
Chapter 67: Washington; Berlin; London: The Last Blunder
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Chapter progress: 97.56%
Highlight: the moment captured in an immediately famous painting by Bernard Gribble, The Return of the Mayflower
Chapter 68: Epilogue: Personal Effects
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Highlight: Charles Lauriat wrote a book about his experience, entitled The Lusitania’s Last Voyage
Chapter 69: Sources and Acknowledgments
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Chapter progress: 84.62%
Highlight: Lowell Thomas’s 1928 book about World War I U-boats and their crews, Raiders of the Deep
Chapter 70: Notes
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Chapter progress: 37.3%
Highlight: Jack Lawrence’s memoir, When the Ships Came In,
Chapter 70: Notes
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Chapter progress: 63.78%
Highlight: Thunderstruck
Notes: Larson
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