Latest Articles: History
High Hitler: how Nazi drug abuse steered the course of history
Post Date: 2016-09-28 18:07:39 by Ada
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German writer Norman Ohler’s astonishing account of methamphetamine addiction in the Third Reich changes what we know about the second world war The German writer Norman Ohler lives on the top floor of a 19th-century apartment building on the south bank of the river Spree in Kreuzberg, Berlin. Visiting him there is a vertiginous experience. For one thing, he works – and likes to entertain visitors – in what he calls his “writing tower”, a flimsy-seeming, glass-walled turret perched right on the very edge of the roof. (Look down, if you dare, and you will see his little boat moored far below.) For another, there is the fact that from this vantage point it is ...
Anti-Racist Action: Who Are These Losers?
Post Date: 2016-09-18 13:44:47 by X-15
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((Know your enemy tutorial)) The origins of Anti-Racist Action. Many readers of American Renaissance are aware of “anti-racist” activist networks, but very little has been written about them. These networks are the most militant proponents of political correctness and are ideologically very much with the grain of mainstream social trends. They have many chapters throughout the country. And yet they are notoriously shady and obscure—most members of the public are unaware of them. Indeed, they operate in near secrecy, and their members often wear masks at public events. Worse still, they are violent; they proclaim this proudly in their literature. In this article I would like ...
The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre 1948
Post Date: 2016-09-04 14:44:56 by BTP Holdings
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Published on Jan 4, 2016 Fred Dobbs and Bob Curtin, two Americans searching for work in Mexico, convince an old prospector to help them mine for gold in the Sierra Madre Mountains. Director: John Huston Writers: John Huston (screenplay), B. Traven (based on the novel by) Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Walter Huston, Tim Holt Poster Comment:This is the full length classic.
We Dont Need No Stinkin Badges!
Post Date: 2016-09-04 14:33:45 by BTP Holdings
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Uploaded on Feb 25, 2010 The original clip from The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. While the phrase became popularized as "We don't need no stinking badges," the original version goes like this: "Badges? We ain't got no badges. We don't need no badges! I don't have to show you any stinkin' badges!"
Way down upon the Suwannee River
Post Date: 2016-09-01 08:08:20 by BTP Holdings
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Uploaded on Mar 22, 2010 My drive to Florida landed me in the Suwannee River area. "Old Folks at Home" written by Stephen Foster in 1851 Performed by Pete Seeger as part of his historical "American Favorite Ballads" recordings for the Smithsonian Folkways label in the 1960's This song has been edited to remove one line of verse.
Evidence of Whitewashed Civil War Massacre Found in the Trash
Post Date: 2016-08-30 19:57:47 by BTP Holdings
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Evidence of Whitewashed Civil War Massacre Found in the Trash August 30, 2016 SS_LacyInterview In an exclusive interview with AMERICAN FREE PRESS, Clint Lacy, the author of the book Blood in the Ozarks: Union War Crimes Against Southern Sympathizers and Civilians in Occupied Missouri, provides new details on a Christmas Day war crime that was carried out Union soldiers during the Civil War and then covered up for over a century. By Dave Gahary Sometimes events can innocently conspire to create significant results, as in the case of the book Blood in the Ozarks: Union War Crimes Against Southern Sympathizers and Civilians in Occupied Missouri. If not for a chance occurrence and some ...
American Pravda: Alexander Cockburn and the British Spies
Post Date: 2016-08-30 07:29:37 by Ada
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About a decade ago I’d gotten a little friendly with the late Alexander Cockburn, one of America’s premier radical journalists and the founder of Counterpunch, a leading leftist webzine. With virtually all of America’s mainstream media outlets endlessly cheerleading for the total insanity of our Iraq War, Counterpunch was a port in the storm, and gained considerable credibility in my eyes. Although Alex lived in the far northern reaches of the Golden State, the rural North Coast close to the Oregon border where much of the local cash economy was based on illegal marijuana growing, he periodically took trips down to the Bay Area, and sometimes dropped by Palo Alto to have ...
Without law, liberty becomes licentiousness
Post Date: 2016-08-25 21:11:29 by BTP Holdings
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Without law, liberty becomes licentiousness Posted on August 25, 2016 by Bob Livingston Gavel with broken handle The public has been trained to think in terms of what is legal and what is illegal. The politicians and their elite bosses operate above the law and outside the law. For them, legal is what they say it is or is not. Hillary Clinton personifies the system. The FBI and Department of (In)Justice – or, as some call it, the Department of Just Us – have always given the Clinton crime family a pass to operate outside the law. But it is not just them. Politicians, bureaucrats, judges and their friends are untouchables. Yes, occasionally one or two are sacrificed on the ...
10 Misconceptions Surrounding The Real Dracula
Post Date: 2016-08-25 16:11:33 by NeoconsNailed
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While everyone considers Vlad Tepes the inspiration for Dracula, Bram Stoker’s son, Irving, claimed that his father came up with the idea in a dream. Proof has been elusive for decades, since most of Stoker’s research notes were missing until they turned up at Philadelphia’s Rosenbach Museum & Library in 1972. Between Stoker’s death in 1912 and the reappearance of his notes, historians developed the idea that Stoker was present at a dinner party with Henry Irving and Hungarian professor Arminius Vambery—who must have talked about Vlad Tepes. The link between Dracula and Vlad III first showed up in 1958 in the work of researcher Basil Kirtley. He pointed to ...
Secret documents lift lid on WWII mutiny by US troops in north Queensland
Post Date: 2016-08-24 11:26:47 by Dakmar
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An Australian historian has uncovered hidden documents which reveal that African American troops used machine guns to attack their white officers in a siege on a US base in north Queensland in 1942. Information about the Townsville mutiny has never been released to the public. But the story began to come to light when James Cook University's Ray Holyoak first began researching why US congressman Lyndon B Johnson visited Townsville for three days back in 1942. What he discovered was evidence detailing one of the biggest uprisings within the US military. "For 70 years there's been a rumour in Townsville that there was a mutiny among African-American servicemen. In the last ...
10 Ways World War I Affects Us Today
Post Date: 2016-08-17 09:36:09 by Ada
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We tend to think of history as a collection of abstract facts that have no bearing on the “real world,” but everything connects across the timeline. Big, world-changing events don’t just change things when they happen; they send out shock waves that reverberate into the present. Like William Faulkner said, “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” Click for Full Text!
This ‘little whorehouse’ in Texas helped a president (LBJ) relieve stress
Post Date: 2016-08-14 23:22:23 by X-15
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Sometime in the mid-1960s, Edna Milton, the madam in charge of the Chicken Ranch in La Grange, Texas, received a phone call from a regular customer who had become an aide to President Lyndon Johnson. The man wondered if Milton had access to a “closed car” (not a convertible), because “someone’s wanting to come out there, but they don’t want to go in their own car.” Milton only had a convertible available, so the visit never happened. But as Jayme Lynn Blaschke writes in the action-packed history of the brothel that inspired the Broadway play and film “The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas” and the ZZ Top hit “La Grange,” that ...
Royal palace discovered in area believed to be birthplace of King Arthur
Post Date: 2016-08-10 12:46:47 by X-15
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A royal palace has been discovered in the area reputed to be the birthplace of King Arthur. The palace discovered at Tintagel in Cornwall is believed to date from the sixth century - around the time that the legendary king may have lived. They believe the one-metre thick walls being unearthed are from a 6th century palace belonging to the rulers of the ancient south-west British kingdom of Dumnonia. Excavations have been taking place at the site as part of a five-year research project being run by English Heritage at the 13th century Tintagel Castle in Cornwall to find out more about the historic site from the fifth to the seventh centuries. Using cutting edge techniques, Cornwall ...
The ancients are getting less ancient: 4000yo noodles, 3000yo butter found
Post Date: 2016-08-07 23:11:32 by NeoconsNailed
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It’s no secret that we humans love to eat good food and consume refreshing drinks. Not surprisingly, we have made several finds at historical sites that show it’s always been this way. As we continue to uncover our past, we have found the exact treats that people enjoyed throughout time. Click for Full Text!Poster Comment:It's amazing how little has changed in our lifestyles over millennia. Listverse is a great site you can subscribe to and receive sets of fun facts on cool topics every day. The above is one -- another is http://listverse.com/2016/07/31/10-amazing-new-discoveries-at-famous- monuments/ There are artists' conceptions of what an ancient Roman downtown might ...
The Federalists’ Revenge
Post Date: 2016-08-05 17:24:06 by Ada
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America’s Counter-Revolution: The Constitution Revisited, Sheldon Richman, Griffin & Lash, 135 pages America’s Counter-Revolution, dedicated “To the constitutionalists of all parties,” gives new meaning to the word pithy. In 20 short chapters (most of which were previously columns in the Freeman and elsewhere) Sheldon Richman achieves a remarkable thematic coherence, giving the reader a nice window into American constitutional argument and thus into American history. Building on Arthur E. Ekirch’s Decline of American Liberalism (1955), Richman concludes that the Federalists gave America a vague constitution having the appearance of limited powers but marred ...
Englishness: the horror, the horror / cume cumulative
Post Date: 2016-08-04 15:15:41 by NeoconsNailed
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Durham University Graves When excavations were being made for a proposed library addition at Durham University in the United Kingdom, a surprising discovery was made: two graves containing 1,700 bodies from the 17th century. The graves had not been previously recorded, so many were scratching their heads as to the origin of the tragedy. The graves come from a dark and bloody time in England’s history: the English Civil War. It is believed that the bodies belonged to Scottish soldiers taken captive after the Battle of Dunbar in 1650. They were captured by the English revolutionary Oliver Cromwell and probably died from starvation or disease and buried in mass graves then forgotten. It ...
The Middle East: Great Going, Great Father!
Post Date: 2016-07-29 08:48:09 by Ada
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My last two articles, judging from the volume of email I got, were very well received. People want to know how history, like the seasons, tends to happen in cycles and patterns that are somewhat predictable. When it comes to the United States government repeating history, that is easier to predict than the weather. One thing I touched on in a previous article is the fact that the West, and the United States government who pulls the entire West along like a child pulls a toy wagon, is unable to understand the concept of tribal violence. In truth, tribal and clan violence has not changed, as far as motivations for it go, in several thousands of years. First, let us understand that this ...
Bleeding Syria, Meet Bleeding Kansas
Post Date: 2016-07-27 12:33:39 by Ada
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My last article about United States history left out one of the government’s greatest achievements: A civil war that was the bloodiest and heaviest in casualties than any other war in U.S. history. There were so many dead, to this day, we still don’t know how many died but it could be as high as 750,000. That’s higher than World War Two which had weapons not even in the planning stages during the Civil War. Indeed, we ARE “The Greatest Nation On Earth” if we are discussing numbers of dead racked up during a civil war. Why am I bringing this up now? Because there is an interesting dynamic going on with the way our government sees the Syrian Civil War. The United ...
Atlantis located off Arabian coast
Post Date: 2016-07-27 01:06:18 by Tatarewicz
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C2C...In the first half, research physicist and author Stan Deyo discussed his most recent work, a startling new theory on the location of Atlantis. He believes that an enormous asteroid impacted Earth around 2200 – 2300 BC, leaving a crater some 250 miles in diameter, part of which is along the eastern coastline of India. The crater was covered up because it shoved the surface of India up over the ocean bed up toward the Himalayas when it hit, he explained. Before the impact, Atlantis was a huge island that included the Arabian peninsula, Deyo suggested. But with subsequent massive flooding, land movements, and tsunamis, part of the island sank, another part was raised up, and it ...
American History in Thirty Minutes or Less (Or It's Free)
Post Date: 2016-07-26 08:40:03 by Ada
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Someone recently posed these questions to me: “Jack, isn’t there some way you could say America is the greatest nation on earth? I mean, look at all we’ve done! Isn’t that greatness, after all?” Now, these are valid questions. America has accomplished some rather remarkable things, but they’re not quite the same things the government-approved school history textbooks tell us. Therefore, allow me to explain. 1.) Up The Revolution: The American Revolution, as we all know, made America safe from British puddings and Earl Grey tea. It also confirmed apple pie, mom, and not-yet-invented Chevrolets as the ne plus ultra of Americana. Quite a number of people who ...
10 Unsolved Mysteries In The Lives Of Great Composers
Post Date: 2016-07-25 09:09:09 by Ada
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The composer Edward Elgar enjoyed creating a sense of mystery: One of his most famous compositions is a series known as the Enigma Variations, of which he stated, “The enigma I will not explain—its ‘dark saying’ must be left unguessed.” While not every great composer has played with ambiguity as deliberately as Elgar did, many mysteries can still be found in their actions in the world of baroque and classical music, either in the works they wrote or within the events of their own lives. This list takes a chronological look at certain mysteries surrounding some of the greatest composers of music over the past few centuries. Click for Full Text!
Sacrifice or State Incompetence?
Post Date: 2016-07-25 09:01:06 by Ada
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A hundred years ago, British units (alongside a smaller French force) attacked the Germans on an eleven-mile wide front in Picardy, straddling the Somme River. The attack was the attempt to break through on the Western Front, and in accordance with emerging artillery doctrine and practice, the German lines were saturated with shells for a week in advance. But when the artillery stopped to allow the British to attack, the Germans raced out of their deep dugouts, manned their machine guns, and mowed down the British attackers. Nearly 20,000 British soldiers died on this day, July 1, a hundred years ago. Many historians of World War I today argue that this battle was a kind of victory since ...
16,700-Year-Old Tools Found in Texas Change Known History of North America
Post Date: 2016-07-22 09:46:37 by Ada
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Archaeologists in Texas have found a set of 16,700-year-old tools which are among the oldest discovered in the West. Until now, it was believed that the culture that represented the continent’s first inhabitants was the Clovis culture. However, the discovery of the ancient tools now challenges that theory, providing evidence that human occupation precedes the arrival of the Clovis people by thousands of years. According to the Western Digs, archeologists discovered the tools about half an hour north of Austin in Texas, at the site called Gault. They were located a meter deep in water-logged silty clay. The site contained more than 90 stone tools and some human remains including ...
Quashing invention, murdering inventors -- it's what governments do
Post Date: 2016-07-21 10:01:23 by NeoconsNailed
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5 Lost Technologies That Will Never Be Rediscovered Click for Full Text! Poster Comment:From 2000 years ago to our time, a dismaying pattern. They didn't steal Thomas Brown's anti-gravity work, they just classified it -- which is about like censoring documents and calling them "redacted".
It wasn’t easy, but B-29 Doc takes to Wichita skies
Post Date: 2016-07-20 00:55:58 by X-15
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Getting Doc off the ground for the first time in 60 years wasn’t easy, but on Sunday morning the the Boeing B-29 Superfortress finally eased into the air for what turned out to be a brief first flight. The Wichita-built, World War II bomber lifted off from a McConnell Air Force Base runway heading south at about 9 a.m. on Sunday and stayed airborne for about seven minutes before landing on the north end of the same runway. Officials attributed the short flight to an engine information sensor that turned on and prompted the crew to cut short the milestone flight. Still, Doc took off, flew in a sort of half-circle pattern beyond McConnell and landed safely, said Jim Murphy, ...
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