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To: Bubba Ho-Tep; know-the-law
600 industrialists killed, huh? Out of the 1514 people killed on the Titanic, 693 of them were the crew. That leaves 821. Of those, 141 were Third Class women and children--not exactly likely to be industrialists. That leaves 680. By that claim, then, almost 90 percent of the men, women and chldren from First and Second Class, plus the men from Third Class, were industrialists.

It wasn't 600, obviously. But top industrialists and other wealthy men who were against Morgan and the Fed were indeed on the ship, and Morgan did cancel.

In the wheels-within-wheels category, the reason putting them on a sinking ship may have been chosen for their deaths (never an easy thing to do against the super-wealthy, let alone a bunch of them at the same time), is that the Wealthy Industrialist Cabal was already generally aware of the fact that the Titanic was going to be sunk anyway.

There's a lot of evidence that Titanic's sister ship, the Olympic, was fatally damaged in a previous human error NY Port collision that would NOT be covered by insurance, and which would scrap the ship - and bankrupt White Star Lines. So, after bringing it carefully, and slowly, across the Atlantic, it was put into the yard alongside the almost completed - and nearly identical - Titanic, and the names were swapped.

The "Olympic" was thereby re-created out of the new Titanic, and the "Titanic" was actually the damaged Olympic. The only thing left was to get rid of the damaged Olympic/Titanic. So an experience captain was brought out of near retirement for the "maiden voyage" and promptly ordered full speed through a known ice field at night, while he got drunk and went to sleep, waiting for the inevitable collision (probably to be made inevitable by a deck officer in on it).

Ironically, it was the high caliber of the watch that killed the ship by warning it too soon. Instead of hitting the berg head-on, which would have collapsed the forward holds but NOT sunk the ship, the side-swipe ripped open a long gash that enabled enough holds to fill with water that the weight distribution of the ship shifted, tilting it and filling ever more holds, and dooming it.

So the careful plan of cashing in the insurance (act of God instead of negligence) worked, but the claim of "unsinkability" was lost. And of course, knowing they were going to do this, putting the anti-Fed industrialists on board to drown was the icing on the cake. Which was itself duly covered up by being shocked, shocked I say, that there weren't enough lifeboats, and then passing laws requiring them in the future, and praising themselves for, of all things, looking out for people's safety.

And you wonder who's behind Obama? LOL!

26 posted on 03/09/2012 10:09:38 AM PST by Talisker (He who commands, must obey.)
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To: Talisker

Right, so your argument is that this critical body of opponents to the federal reserve were all somehow compelled to book passage on the Titanic. How did that work?


30 posted on 03/09/2012 10:56:29 AM PST by Bubba Ho-Tep ("More weight!"--Giles Corey)
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To: Talisker

Oh dear.

“There’s a lot of evidence that Titanic’s sister ship, the Olympic, was fatally damaged in a previous human error NY Port collision that would NOT be covered by insurance, and which would scrap the ship - and bankrupt White Star Lines. So, after bringing it carefully, and slowly, across the Atlantic, it was put into the yard alongside the almost completed - and nearly identical - Titanic, and the names were swapped.”

It was not “fatally” damaged. Otherwise it would’ve never made it across the Atlantic. And since when was it in an accident in New York *before* the Titanic?

‘So an experience captain was brought out of near retirement for the “maiden voyage” and promptly ordered full speed through a known ice field at night, while he got drunk and went to sleep, waiting for the inevitable collision (probably to be made inevitable by a deck officer in on it).’

Neither of which, it turns out according to latest research, was unusual (despite the myth). Nor am I aware Capt. Smith was “drunk”. I’m sure Smith really wanted to risk dying on his last voyage.

“Ironically, it was the high caliber of the watch that killed the ship by warning it too soon. Instead of hitting the berg head-on, which would have collapsed the forward holds but NOT sunk the ship, the side-swipe ripped open a long gash that enabled enough holds to fill with water that the weight distribution of the ship shifted, tilting it and filling ever more holds, and dooming it.”

But it wasn’t a long gash (old assumption myth) - it was a series of holes and apparently lower-quality rivets popped open from there.


42 posted on 03/09/2012 2:17:58 PM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Technological progress cannot be legislated.)
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