GPBear
The Tape Crusader
Basically what happened was this guy, Ezra Pound, was a very influential editor, writer, and poet in the early 20th century modernist movement. Then a lot of his friends ended up dying in WWI. So WWII comes around and he kinda loses it, defects to Italy and starts broadcasting fascist radio messages that eventually get him arrested and thrown into a tiny outdoor cage, where he writes the first of his poems, called 'Cantos,' on toilet paper. This first poem was called 'The Pisan Cantos,' after where he was held, Pisa. It won him acclaim and awards.
After this, he's put into St. Elizabeth's mental hospital for a good portion of his life. During this time, he takes visitors, students, writers, etc. And continues to write The Cantos. Which is this sprawling work of historical, epic poetry. He basically wanted to do for American history regarding the Revolutionary War in The Cantos, what Homer, and Virgil did for Greece/Rome regarding the Trojan War. So mythologizing people like Alexander Hamilton, Andrew Jackson. By studying the Revolutionary War, he gets into the Rothschilds due to them funding Hessian Mercanaries. Which leads him down this spiral into antisemitism. One of the students visiting him, was Eustace Mullins. The story goes, Ezra Pound pulled out a dollar bill, and pointed to where it said "In debt to the Federal Reserve" (or whatever it says) and basically told him to go sleuth that out. For the next year, Mullins did the first investigative work into the Fed. Which Libertarians, neocon conspiracy theorists, and militant black illuminati experts still harp on today, "We're all slaves to the federal reserve, man!"
So basically, the whole Rothschild, deep conspiracy going hundreds of years. It's all just childsplay when you compare it to Ezra Pound's lifeswork of not only writing about some jewish conspiracy, but by doing it in poetry. And tying in historical figures.
That said, it's important to note several things. The first, his friends died in WWI and he went nuts. So basically, anything before then is quality work, and after is more an interesting case study in how world wars effected modernist poets. But more importantly,
When Ezra Pound was released, 10 years before he died, he basically realized he had gone completely insane. He didn't write anymore. If I remember, The Cantos might even end with "It does not cohere," in reference to Hercules dying words, "It all coheres." Basically Pound was saying "Everything you just read does not make any sense."
In a conversation with Allen Ginsberg, he said his biggest regret was that "Suburban antisemitism." And that it basically ruined his lifes work (which it did). Ginsberg tried to point out that Pound had at least pointed a way for poets before WWI, but Pound was too guilty to even admit that. Which is why Pound is my favorite writer/artist. He spent his entire life working on this epic poem, only to realize at the end he was wrong. And instead of trying to explain away that he was wrong in order to keep his lifeswork, he did the honorable thing of saying "Oh shyt I fukked up bad..."
The other important thing to note, about Eustace Mullins, the grandfather of federal reserve conspiracy theories, is that the man was absolutely insane. This is what I learned from Mullins, you can be very smart, maybe a genius, able to hold hour long conversations on complex issues, write countless books. But the issues you're talking about could be absolutely crazy, and you yourself, can be insane. In other words, smart people can be crazy too. Case and point, I've heard Mullins talking about how one of the outcast kids of the Royal Families would transform into a hound-lizard beast and trounce around Buckingham Palace.
After this, he's put into St. Elizabeth's mental hospital for a good portion of his life. During this time, he takes visitors, students, writers, etc. And continues to write The Cantos. Which is this sprawling work of historical, epic poetry. He basically wanted to do for American history regarding the Revolutionary War in The Cantos, what Homer, and Virgil did for Greece/Rome regarding the Trojan War. So mythologizing people like Alexander Hamilton, Andrew Jackson. By studying the Revolutionary War, he gets into the Rothschilds due to them funding Hessian Mercanaries. Which leads him down this spiral into antisemitism. One of the students visiting him, was Eustace Mullins. The story goes, Ezra Pound pulled out a dollar bill, and pointed to where it said "In debt to the Federal Reserve" (or whatever it says) and basically told him to go sleuth that out. For the next year, Mullins did the first investigative work into the Fed. Which Libertarians, neocon conspiracy theorists, and militant black illuminati experts still harp on today, "We're all slaves to the federal reserve, man!"
So basically, the whole Rothschild, deep conspiracy going hundreds of years. It's all just childsplay when you compare it to Ezra Pound's lifeswork of not only writing about some jewish conspiracy, but by doing it in poetry. And tying in historical figures.
That said, it's important to note several things. The first, his friends died in WWI and he went nuts. So basically, anything before then is quality work, and after is more an interesting case study in how world wars effected modernist poets. But more importantly,
When Ezra Pound was released, 10 years before he died, he basically realized he had gone completely insane. He didn't write anymore. If I remember, The Cantos might even end with "It does not cohere," in reference to Hercules dying words, "It all coheres." Basically Pound was saying "Everything you just read does not make any sense."
In a conversation with Allen Ginsberg, he said his biggest regret was that "Suburban antisemitism." And that it basically ruined his lifes work (which it did). Ginsberg tried to point out that Pound had at least pointed a way for poets before WWI, but Pound was too guilty to even admit that. Which is why Pound is my favorite writer/artist. He spent his entire life working on this epic poem, only to realize at the end he was wrong. And instead of trying to explain away that he was wrong in order to keep his lifeswork, he did the honorable thing of saying "Oh shyt I fukked up bad..."
The other important thing to note, about Eustace Mullins, the grandfather of federal reserve conspiracy theories, is that the man was absolutely insane. This is what I learned from Mullins, you can be very smart, maybe a genius, able to hold hour long conversations on complex issues, write countless books. But the issues you're talking about could be absolutely crazy, and you yourself, can be insane. In other words, smart people can be crazy too. Case and point, I've heard Mullins talking about how one of the outcast kids of the Royal Families would transform into a hound-lizard beast and trounce around Buckingham Palace.
is bullshyt. The levees couldn't hold the water, were already in bad shape and needed repairs, and "exploded". Thats how 9th ward and shyt flooded out. The city had funds appropriated for repair and didn't use them. The projects near Lake Pontchartrain wasn't a priority when the cash cow is French Quarter and Bourbon st.
I just know that this worlds fukked but gotta make that pay either way