History – Page 2 – More from Ab Irato

Amerigo Vespucci- the liar and cheat America is named after

Another carefully rewritten story with only a kernel of truth to it.

https://www.thisamericanlife.org/216/give-the-people-what-they-want

Inspector for feeble mindedness

The history of eugenics in Canada is fascinating. Note that Darwin’s cousin Francis Galt on is the one who invented the concept.

http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/m/article/eugenics-keeping-canada-sane-feature/

We don’t talk about German POWs

Lies by omission.. Who knows about the 500,000 prisoners of war, most of whom were German? Answer: almost no one.

Reporter Karen Duffin and her father were talking one day when, just as an aside, he mentioned the Nazi prisoners of war that worked on his Idaho farm when he was a kid. Karen was shocked … and then immediately obsessed. So she spoke with historians, dug through the National Archives and oral histories, and uncovered the astonishing story of a small town in Alabama overwhelmed by thousands of German prisoners of war. Along the way, she discovered that a very fundamental question – one that w

* Duration: 32:05, Played: 2:39

* Published: 2015-05-22 6:51:33 PM

* Episode Download Link (29 MB): https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/audio.wnyc.org/radiolab_podcast/radiolab_podcast15nazicamp.mp3?awparams=morgan%3Afalse

* Show Notes: http://www.radiolab.org/story/nazi-summer-camp/

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Niagara Falls are fake – or at least not 100% natural (real)

The falls are very engineered and far from their natural form.

Niagara Falls might be at its most spectacular in winter. Over the recent holidays, the icy cascade captured the public’s imagination: numerous newspapers ran stories about the frozen wonderland, and social media posts about the falls were widely shared.

Source: How Niagara Falls is a wonder of natural — and artificial — beauty | Toronto Star

Death by Derivatives • Damn Interesting

Options/futures – quite a history going back a long way. This site has a great audio option as well.

In April of 1873, an unhappy man walked along Clark Street in downtown Chicago. His name was Aymar de Belloy. There was a gun in his pocket, and a nickel – enough for one final glass of beer.

Source: Death by Derivatives • Damn Interesting

The Weight of Chains

Just finished watching this fast paced (and a bit confusing) Michael Moore style documentary on the destruction and rebuilding in an EU/US image of Yugoslavia.

It was an excellent deconstruction of the NATO Balkan assault of the 90s. In two hours you will know more about what really happened then 10 years of new bytes leaked past the Clinton-Lewinsky sideshow, clearly meant as distractive pablum for the American audience.

The Life and Death of Heinrich Himmler – David Irving

Fascinating history of the most reviled humans in recent history.

Even if it isn’t true, which I think it is, it should never be censored and its teller imprisoned.

Let’s hear it for the boys

These aren’t Fred’s boys.

Apparently I have missed Memorial Day by being on the road in Guanajuato. I gather I should have thanked Our Boys for their service to the exceptional nation. I will pass. My tolerance for nauseating twaddle has diminished with the years.

Source: Memorial Day and the Rising Gorge: More than I Can Take | Fred On Everything

Albino thesis

Here’s some black history you haven’t heard.

It is no exaggeration that this post deals with one of the greatest and perhaps least discussed deception in American history, and as far as I can tell, human history. It is the distortion and erasure of ‘black history,’ not only American but global. I’ll go straight to the point, and elaborate in the ensuing paragraphs: that the parts of the Americas reached by European ‘explorers’ initially and for the subsequent 300 years were populated mostly by indigenous people who would be and are today called black, that the trans-Atlantic slave trade for all intents and purposes never happened, and that the identities of ‘colored,’ ‘negro’ and later ‘African-American’ were manufactured by the Western political establishment in a 200-year campaign of paper genocide to deprive black people of their native America and (ostensibly, given the state of tribal sovereignty) pass sole claim to indigenous rights to nomadic and semi-nomadic, ethnically different people known as ‘Native Americans,’ who were a minority group in these first-encountered areas and a majority only in the Plains, Arctic, and Southwest regions.

Source: Black Lives Matter. So Does (Real) Black History. – pats-blog

Mystery Babylon: The History of Ecumenism, Public Education & Geopolitical Intrigue

Another great discussion.

Chris Kendall and John Adams of The Afternoon Commute invited me back to explore the subjects of textual studies, the Documentary Hypothesis, Julius Wellhausen, German Higher Criticism, the Reformation, Renaissance Humanism, Ecumenism, Zionism, Dominion Theology, Millennialism, Theosophy, Spiritism and “Direct Revelation,” Revivalism, Utopianism, Roman Catholicism and Vatican II, the World Council of Churches and the Rockefellers, Rick Warren, Mega Churches, The Charismatic Movement, Materialism

* Duration: 3:14h, Played: 3:12h

* Published: 2016-07-23 1:14:35 PM

* Episode Download Link (89 MB): https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/9045372/ts_1057264.mp3

* Show Notes: https://www.spreaker.com/user/acrnetwork/mystery-babylon-the-history-of-ecumenism

* Episode Feed: Jay’s Analysis – https://www.spreaker.com/show/1423846/episodes/feed