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Re: Key Historical Events ...THAT YOU MAY HAVE NEVER HEARD OF
By: AGelbert Date: September 13, 2015, 7:13 pm
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This [color=navy]series
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/>is a remarkable work and a great feat of historical
investigation and research. You should write a book tying these
threads together as you have in these posts.
I have greatly enjoyed reading this. Thanks for your exertions,
AG.
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My wife says I should write a book too. I tell her that my lack
of credentials guarantees I will be ridiculed, regardless of the
facts presented. Maybe I'm just under confident. :(
But they do say that pessimists have a firmer grasp on reality
than optimists. ;)
There is a fellow that has done a great job of exposing the pap
we were taught. He does have the credentials. And, yeah, the
stuffed shirts in Academia have gone out of their way to poo
pooh his thorough research.
Here's a small sample of his efforts:
[quote][font=arial black]Lies My Teacher Told Me:
Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong [/font] by
James W. Loewen. Simon & Schuster, 1995.
Note: The following are notes from the above book. I found the
book seminal, eye-opening, life-changing. I recommend that you
buy and read the entire book. Only by reading the entire book
will you get the whole picture. The following quotes, I hope,
will whet your appetite. --Colby Glass
"..the teaching of history, more than any other discipline, is
dominated by textbooks... the books are boring... [they] exclude
conflict or real suspense. They leave out anything that might
reflect badly upon our national character" (13).
Helen Keller
"Keller.. never wavered in her belief that our society needed
radical change.. she helped found the American Civil Liberties
Union to fight for the free speech of others. She sent $100 to
the NAACP with a letter of support... She supported Eugene V.
Debs, the Socialist candidate, in each of his campaigns for the
presidency..
"One may not agree with Helen Keller's positions. her praise of
the USSR now seems naive, embarrasing, to some even treasonous.
But she was a radical--a fact few Americans know.." (22).
Woodrow Wilson
".. two antidemocratic policies that Wilson carried out: his
racial segregation of the federal government and his military
interventions in foreign countries" (23).
"Under Wilson, the United States intervened in Latin America
more often than at any other time in our history.. In 1917
Woodrow Wilson.. started sending secret monetary aid to the
"White" side of the Russian civil war... This aggression fueled
the suspicions that motivated the Soviets during the Cold
War..." (23-4).
"..Wilson's interventions in Cuba, the Dominican Republic,
Haiti, and Nicaragua set the stage for the dictators Batista,
Trujillo, the Duvaliers, and the Somozas.." (24).
"He was an outspoken white supremacist--his wife was even
worse--and told "darky" stories in cabinet meetings" (27).
"Spurred by Birth of a Nation, William Simmons of Georgia
reestablished the Ku Klux Klan. The racism seeping down from the
White House encouraged this klan.." (28).
"Wilson was not only antiblack; he was also far and away our
most nativist president, repeatedly questioning the loyalty of
those he called "hyphenated Americans"" (29).
"To oppose America's participation in World War I, or even to
be pessimistic about it, was dangerous. The Creel Committee...
After World War I, the Wilson administration's attacks on civil
liberties increased, now with anticommunism as the excuse.
Neither before nor since these campaigns has the United States
come closer to being a police state" (30).
"Because heroification prevents textbooks from showing Wilson's
shortcomings, textbooks are hard pressed to explain the results
of the 1920 election. James Cox, the Democratic candidate who
was Wilson's would-be successor, was crushed by the nonentity
Warren G. Harding, who never even campaigned. [It was] the
biggest landslide in the history of American presidential
politics" (31).
"Could it be that we don't want to think badly
of Woodrow Wilson... We don't want complicated icons.
"People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must
reach conclusions," Helen Keller pointed out.
"Conclusions are not always pleasant"" (35).
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Re: Key Historical Events ...THAT YOU MAY HAVE NEVER HEARD OF
By: AGelbert Date: September 14, 2015, 1:56 pm
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[center]The 5 Times America Elected Donald Trump
[/center]
Still think Trump is a long shot? History says otherwise.
—By Josh Harkinson| Sat Sep. 12, 2015 6:00 AM EDT
If you can't believe that Donald Trump is still the GOP
front-runner, then consider this: America has elected the likes
of The Donald before. There are, deep in our history, plenty of
men who brazenly exploited nativist sentiments to win the White
House or strengthen their grip on the office. Here are five US
presidents who, if they lived today, might, in Trump's words,
"make America great again."
John Adams
Adams was no Trump. America's "big deal" 18th century legal
scholar and Founding Father would have been worth, in today's
dollars, only $19 million. And he never even mastered the
comb-over. But when it comes to making BOLD political moves
while socking it to our enemies abroad, the second president
puts Trump to shame. Determined to quash the immigrant vote,
which mainly benefited Jeffersonian Republicans, Adams and his
Federalist allies in Congress passed the Alien and Sedition Acts
of 1798. The bills lengthened the period of residency required
for citizenship from 5 to 14 years and authorized the president
to deport foreigners considered dangerous. One bill, the Alien
Enemies Act, would later serve as the legal basis for detaining
Japanese-Americans during World War II.
Theodore Roosevelt
Nativists weren't always the kind of people who attended tea
party rallies and watched Fox News. In the early 1900s, some of
the strongest opposition to immigration came from the labor
unions that helped usher Theodore Roosevelt into the White
House. In his first Congressional address, Roosevelt called for
requiring immigrants to meet a "certain standard of economic
fitness" and pass a literacy test—a measure that would
effectively exclude many Southern and Eastern Europeans. After
meeting stiff congressional resistance, Roosevelt brokered a
compromise that established an immigrant head tax of $4 and
created the Dillingham Commission, an investigative panel
stacked with nativist legislators. Its reports accused Southern
and Eastern European immigrants of displacing native workers,
living in crowded and unclean housing, and performing poorly in
school. Unlike Trump, however, Roosevelt never signed a GOP
loyalty pledge. Instead, he left the Republican Party in 1912
and formed his own.
Woodrow Wilson
Woodrow Wilson never had the guts to accuse immigrants of being
rapists, but he did call them low energy. His History of the
American People, published in 1901, complained that most
immigrants to the United States no longer came from "the sturdy
stocks of the North of Europe," but rather from places like
southern Italy, Hungary, and Poland, where "there was neither
skill nor energy nor any initiative of quick intelligence." But
when those comments became an issue during his 1912 presidential
race, Wilson backpedaled and earnestly courted immigrant
groups—or the European ones, anyway. Like most other national
candidates at the time, he remained staunchly opposed to
immigration from Japan and China. "We cannot make a homogenous
population out of a people who do not blend with the Caucasian
race," he said. "Oriental coolieism will give us another race
problem to solve and surely we have had our lesson."
Warren Harding
Before "Make America Great Again," there was "America
First!"—the slogan that in 1920 swept Harding and his fellow
Republicans to power on a platform of curtailing a tide of
immigrants from politically unstable parts of Europe. Harding
signed the Emergency Immigration Act of 1921, effectively
cutting in half the number of immigrants admitted into the
United States. The act also favored immigrant groups from
Northern European countries while steeply limiting immigration
from other parts of the world. "I don't know much about
Americanism," Harding later said, "but it's a damn good word
with which to carry an election."
Herbert Hoover
Hoover proved that rich guys with no experience in elected
office can become president and that America can be for
Americans. At the dawn of the Great Depression, he issued an
executive order calling for the "strict enforcement" of a clause
of the Immigration Act that barred the admission of immigrants
who were "likely to become a public charge." Turning away
virtually all working-class immigrants, his administration
slashed legal immigration from 242,000 people in 1931 to 36,000
the following year. And Hoover stepped up raids on the homes and
workplaces of undocumented immigrants, causing more than 121,000
people, most of them from Mexico, to leave the United States.
Hoover touted his record on immigration during the 1932
election, but it ultimately wasn't enough to keep him from
getting thrown out of office by a bunch of LOSERS who had been
FIRED.
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Agelbert COMMENT 1: Most Americans don't know, and deliberately
are NOT TAUGHT, American history. Woodrow Wilson peddled EMPIRE,
not Democracy, as we were taught.
QUOTE:
Woodrow Wilson".. two antidemocratic policies that Wilson
carried out: his racial segregation of the federal government
and his military interventions in foreign countries" (23).
"Under Wilson, the United States intervened in Latin America
more often than at any other time in our history.. In 1917
Woodrow Wilson.. started sending secret monetary aid to the
"White" side of the Russian civil war... This aggression fueled
the suspicions that motivated the Soviets during the Cold
War..." (23-4).
"..Wilson's interventions in Cuba, the Dominican Republic,
Haiti, and Nicaragua set the stage for the dictators Batista,
Trujillo, the Duvaliers, and the Somozas.." (24).
"He was an outspoken white supremacist--his wife was even
worse--and told "darky" stories in cabinet meetings" (27).
"Spurred by Birth of a Nation, William Simmons of Georgia
reestablished the Ku Klux Klan. The racism seeping down from the
White House encouraged this klan.." (28).
"Wilson was not only antiblack; he was also far and away our
most nativist president, repeatedly questioning the loyalty of
those he called "hyphenated Americans"" (29).
"To oppose America's participation in World War I, or even to
be pessimistic about it, was dangerous. The Creel Committee...
After World War I, the Wilson administration's attacks on civil
liberties increased, now with anticommunism as the excuse.
Neither before nor since these campaigns has the United States
come closer to being a police state" (30).
"Because heroification prevents textbooks from showing Wilson's
shortcomings, textbooks are hard pressed to explain the results
of the 1920 election. James Cox, the Democratic candidate who
was Wilson's would-be successor, was crushed by the nonentity
Warren G. Harding, who never even campaigned. [It was] the
biggest landslide in the history of American presidential
politics" (31).
"Could it be that we don't want to think badly
of Woodrow Wilson... We don't want complicated icons.
"People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must
reach conclusions," Helen Keller pointed out.
"Conclusions are not always pleasant"" (35).
UNQUOTE
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History
Textbook Got Wrong [I]by James W. Loewen. Simon & Schuster,
1995[/I]
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Agelbert COMMENT 2 Great article. However, it's just the tip of
the history iceberg of those former presidents. The fact is,
history has been "sanitized". While you can access how Empathy
Deficit Disordered those tools for TPTB of their time were, you
won't find it in the history books.
For example, Woodrow Wilson is a prime example of a fellow
peddling the old "bringing democracy to the people of world"
TRICK while actually doing exactly the opposite.
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JN_h8NxU48
American History Textbooks' Lies: Everything Your Teacher Got
Wrong - Myths, Education
Most people are propagandized by the leaders of the societies
they live in to believe that history is simply a collection of
facts strung in chronological order. The truth is far more
nuanced.
　
Historians interpret the importance of events as if they are the
only ones qualified to do so, or just leave them out all
together, for allegedly "objective" scholarly reasons. Nothing
could be further from the truth. Human history is rife with key
pivotal events that don't make it into the flag waving, hero
worshipping, designated bad guy demonizing, condensed narrative.
The fact that these key events are deemed "not credible" as key
events by the academic community, despite the fact that said
"scholars" (see lock step lackeys) accept that the event
occurred, should be a red flag to anyone that stills retains the
ability to think critically.
"The Anti-Democratic Elite Fix Was IN From The Very Start of
the USA
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Inaccurate US History Lessons
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Re: Key Historical Events ...THAT YOU MAY HAVE NEVER HEARD OF
By: AGelbert Date: May 30, 2016, 7:40 pm
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[center]The USA seems to have picked up the technique of
sanitizing history with happy talk selective (or downright
Orwellian) interpretations of events from the English.
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47,000 claims were made by slave owners for COMPENSATION when
slavery was abolished. Of the 47,000 claims, 3,000 (which
received about HALF of the money total) were "absentee" slave
owners living in ENGLAND.
They invested in railroads and other empire building techniques,
which built many of the fortunes of the well off families of
today.
The sanitizers of history want to bury that bit of two plus two
equals 20 millions pounds raised by Rothschild's world class
slave owner bailout.
THOSE WHITE PEOPLE became the nucleus of the a significant
percentage of the PRESENT RULING CLASS, to the DETRIMENT of the
slaves that were freed.
So every time anybody wants to crow about the abolishment of
slavery by England, you can set them straight with this video
where an excellent historian, armed with integrity and a zeal
for historical truth, ( Truthdigger of the Week: History
Professor Catherine Hall, Who Rejected Prize From Israel
HTML http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/truthdigger_of_the_week_feminist_professor_catherine_hall_20160528),<br
/>explains exactly what the reality was, AND IS.
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Re: Key Historical Events ...THAT YOU MAY HAVE NEVER HEARD OF
By: AGelbert Date: July 25, 2016, 9:40 pm
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[center]What are some examples that show how we inherit ideas
blindly? ???[/center]
[quote]BY Sol Quintanilla
45.5k Views
Throughout medieval times feasts were often turned into
bloodbaths when men turned their sharp, pointed eating knives
upon their enemies instead of their food.
The blunt tipped table knife wee see today is a remnant of an
order given by king Louis XIV to blunt the table knives used
during feasts to reduce bloodshed.
These dull knives are still produced today even though feasts no
longer carry the same propensity to descend into violence.
Though the point would be a useful addition to the common eating
knife, it is too ingrained in the custom of cutlery
manufacturers to make knives ending in a round tip instead of an
acute point.[/quote]
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[center]Invented to keep people cutting up the food instead of
each other. ;D[/center]
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Re: Key Historical Events ...THAT YOU MAY HAVE NEVER HEARD OF
By: AGelbert Date: October 3, 2016, 12:57 pm
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[center][font=times new roman]A Most Convenient Relationship:
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September 27, 2016 By Medievalists.net
By John D. Blaisdell
Between The Species, Vol.9 (1993)
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SNIPPET:
Introduction: Of all the animals domesticated by humans the cat
is one of the most unique. By nature a nocturnal animal most
other domesticates are diurnal and socially solitary, cats
appear to have been domesticated more for some metaphysical
reason than for any practical advantage. But the feline’s
ability to catch and kill rodents made them a valuable asset to
medieval farmers whose distinction between adequate food
supplies and famine was often related to how much grain the rats
and mice ate.
By the beginning of the eighteenth century, though, a new
attitude engulfed the relationship between the human and the
domestic feline. The cat was no longer viewed strictly as a
working animal but now was considered in some circles as a
treasured companion. This attitude, reflected in epitaphs to
these creatures from the period, suggest that cat may have been
more beneficial as a support system than as a mouse catcher.
While there is strong evidence that the cat was a favorite
companion of the eighteenth-century intellectual elite, there is
also good evidence that this creature was, along with the
hunting dog, beginning to be accepted in a nonworking capacity
by the middle class businessmen of the period. Finally, there is
no question but that the move towards a new sensibility that was
seen in the late eighteenth century proved highly beneficial to
the well-being of this animal.
The cat was probably first domesticated in ancient Egypt. While
some scholars believe the cat was domesticated as early as the
old kingdom, circa 3100- 2300 B.C., there are no written or
artistic records of this animal being a constant companion of
humans before 2000 B.C. By the 16th century B.C. there are
numerous artistic representations of the cat engaging in a close
relationship with humans. By the fifth century B.C. when at
least two Egyptian Gods: Bast and Sekmet, were portrayed as
cats, this animal’s popularity was at an all time high. Hundreds
of these creatures were mummified and placed in special coffins
for the journey into the afterlife. There were strong reactions
if these animals were killed; one classical scholar noted it was
a capital crime to kill a cat and at least once, during the
reign of a Ptolemaic king, a Roman that accidentally killed a
cat was himself almost killed by an Egyptian mob.
Click here
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[center]Smart Humans make friends with us. [/center]
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Re: Key Historical Events ...THAT YOU MAY HAVE NEVER HEARD OF
By: AGelbert Date: November 22, 2016, 1:40 pm
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[center]How the racists of the South have ruled this nation from
the very beginning >:( :( [/center]
By Susan Grigsby
Sunday Nov 16, 2014 · 5:45 PM EST
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Re: Key Historical Events ...THAT YOU MAY HAVE NEVER HEARD OF
By: AGelbert Date: December 9, 2016, 6:09 pm
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[center]The Steady Course To Economic Oligarchy...[/center]
Thom talks about a speech from Franklin D. Roosevelt from
September 23, 1932 at The Commonwealth Club and how FDR
predicted our current state of corporate oligarchy.
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Re: Key Historical Events ...THAT YOU MAY HAVE NEVER HEARD OF
By: AGelbert Date: December 19, 2016, 3:38 pm
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November 7, 2014
[center][font=times new roman]The Counter Revolution of 1776 and
Race to Revolution[/font] [/center]
Gerald Horne talked about his two books, The Counter-Revolution
of 1776: Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States
of America and Race to Revolution: The U.S. and Cuba during
Slavery and Jim Crow.
In The Counter-Revolution of 1776, Professor Horne argues that
the threat of abolition in England and its colonies helped spark
the fight for independence in the United States.
In Race to Revolution, Professor Horne looks at the experiences
of slaves and ex-slaves in the U.S. and Cuba. He spoke at Eso
Won Books in Los Angeles, California.
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Re: Key Historical Events ...THAT YOU MAY HAVE NEVER HEARD OF
By: AGelbert Date: December 19, 2016, 3:51 pm
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[center] Prof. Gerald Horne
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-The Counter Revolution
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Re: Key Historical Events ...THAT YOU MAY HAVE NEVER HEARD OF
By: AGelbert Date: December 21, 2016, 6:14 pm
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[center][size=19pt]Professor Horne says these words are this
[I]enormous metaphor for the black condition in North America
stretching back centuries,[/I] the suffocation, the cry of
despair, the cry of horror. [img
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