Southampton | Home of the Titanic Conspiracy

The Titanic Conspiracy is fun to dive into because it's so multi layered, unexpected and fascinating.

There's a Federal Reserve creation element, freaky prescience, JP Morgan, shareholder in White Star Lines cancelling his ticket hours before embarking, the bizarre near miss collisions, the refusal by the Rothschilds to insure the ship, as well as the insurance scam between the Titanic and its sister ship The Olympic, which also had a collision in the same Southampton waters. 

It's a coincidence theorists wet dream and a conspiracy theorists nightmare, as it's very difficult to impose an overarching narrative on all the events which really start with the novel about the sinking of the Titan some 14 years before.

Death - It's a Part of Life

Yesterday my mother passed away peacefully at Southampton University Hospital after battling brain cancer for the last year and a half. I couldn't be more happier for her now that she is at peace and released from the struggle to draw breath. I want to thank all of you who have been so kind and supportive. You know who you are.

The Life and Times of Lord Mountbatten - Part One of Twelve | The King's Ships Were at Sea

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Like most people it would be difficult to give Mountbatten a solid thumbs up or down. He had some good things (for himself) and a lot of bad things (for others). I've yet to find credible testimony corroborating accusations of child abuse, though I know credible people who are sure he did.

In the late 60's Mountbatten wished to leave a TV legacy of his life which by any measure was quite extraordinary with or without the fuck ups, like his ineptitude over the Dieppe Landing that cost 1380 mainly Canadian lives with a further 2000 captured from a force of 5000. In those days a toff could just say 'we learned valuable lessons for the future' and nobody questioned it but now we know he made a huge mistake when pressing forward with the landing despite the Germans being alerted.

Mountbatten never thought he did anything wrong and you can see from this TV series that he's a completely solipsistic douchebag, though he does have exquisite manners.

That doesn't mean he didn't have what it takes for other tasks in his life. He was promoted for his failures, and eventually seemed to emerge as a born organizer but he was never very good in battle. He had that ability to tell the chaps he was in charge during an age where leadership was ordained rather than earned.

By the time this 12 part television puff piece had been produced, the bright young things at Thames Television could see he was a pompous fool with many chapters of shame to his history. They pummel him with damning praise  through polite questions that you can see over here. 

It's worth it to see how the most high are lost to hubris, and fail to see the times they are a changing.