Scandals / Cover Ups – Page 6

McMartin Preschool

(Manhattan Beach, CA) A case which involved over 450 children in the 3-5 year old range over a period of years. The story occupied national …

Chinagate Fundraising Scandal

A campaign finance controversy in 1996 in which the Clinton’s illegally took money from foreign governments and military establishments. Like the Nixon administration, however, it …

Dutroux Pedophile Ring

The case begins in 1995 when multiple young girls began disappearing around the area of Bertrix. Marc Dutroux, the abductor, was linked to a VIP …

Boys Town Pedophile Ring

In 1988, authorities looked into allegations that prominent citizens of Nebraska, as well as high-level U.S. politicians, were involved in a child prostitution and drug trafficking …

Wonderland Pedophile Ring

(Operation Cathedral in UK) In Sept 1998, a child sex ring was raided – what the BBC described as “a larger and more sinister paedophile network …

Waco Seige

79 Branch Davidians (men, women, and children) were massacred outside of Waco, Texas by the FBI and ATF after a 51-day stand-off. Contrary to the …

Ruby Ridge Siege

The site of an 11-day siege near Naples, ID, beginning on Aug 21, 1992 at the remote mountaintop residence of Randy Weaver, a former US Army combat …

Congress Overrides President Trump’s Veto of $740 Billion Defense Bill

4 years ago

The Senate voted to override President Donald Trump’s veto of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for 2021. The upper house on Friday afternoon passed the bill without the president’s signature with an 80–13 vote—the first time a Trump veto has been overridden. The debate over the bill was ended earlier in the day with the same result. Thirteen senators voted to sustain Trump’s veto of the bill, including Republicans Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Rand Paul (R-Ky.), Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), Mike Braun (R-Ind.), Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), Mike Lee (R-Utah), and John Kennedy … Read More

Nancy Pelosi Bans ‘Gender’ Terms Like Mother, Daughter, Father, Son in House Rules

4 years ago

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Rules Committee Chairman James McGovern (D-MA) unveiled the rules for the 117th Congress on Friday, which contain “future-focused” proposals, including the elimination of gendered terms, such as “father, mother, son, and daughter.” “This package, which will be introduced and voted on once the new Congress convenes, includes sweeping ethics reforms, increases accountability for the American people, and makes this House of Representatives the most inclusive in history,” said the House Committee on Rules in a statement. House Speaker Pelosi went on to say … Read More

Virginia State Senator Dies at Age 60 After Contracting Covid-19

4 years ago

At least that’s the official story: Virginia state Sen. Ben Chafin Jr. has died after contracting Covid-19, according to a statement from his office. He was 60 years old. “State Senator Augustus Benton (Ben) Chafin, Jr., a native son of Russell County located in Southwest Virginia, passed away on January 1, 2021 from Covid-19 complications,” the statement said. The Republican lawmaker’s family thanked the VCU Medical Center in Richmond for “its vigorous care and heartfelt support during his two weeks of medical services there.” Chafin, a cattle farmer and … Read More

Report: Record 3,000 Christian Sites in Europe Vandalized in 2019

5 years ago

Christian sites in Europe suffered a record number of attacks in the year 2019, with some 3,000 Christian churches, schools, cemeteries, and monuments vandalized, looted, or defaced. Reports compiling the anti-Christian acts during the year document a range of profanation including arson, defecation, desecration, looting, mockery, Satanism, theft, urination, and vandalism. “Sadly, 2019 was punctuated by increasing incidents of desecration and vandalism of churches around Europe, along with the 2019 fire at the Notre-Dame Cathedral, which captured worldwide attention,” the director of The Observatory on Intolerance and Discrimination Against Christians … Read More

Chemicals Common In Toothpaste And Personal Care Items Are Causing Early Puberty

6 years ago

Abstract STUDY QUESTION: Are in-utero or peripubertal exposures to phthalates, parabens and other phenols found in personal care products associated with timing of pubertal onset in boys and girls? SUMMARY ANSWER: We found some associations of altered pubertal timing in girls, but little evidence in boys. WHAT IS KNOWN ALREADY: Certain chemicals in personal care and consumer products, including low molecular weight phthalates, parabens and phenols, or their precursors, are associated with altered pubertal timing in animal studies. STUDY DESIGN, SIZE, DURATION: Data were from the Center for … Read More

Study: Antioxidant and Associated Capacities of Camu Camu (Myrciaria dubia): A Systematic Review

10 years ago

A study published in the Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine (see below) confirms the value of camu camu, an berry grown deep in the Amazonian rain forest that contains more vitamin C than any other fruit, along with a host of other beneficial plant compounds.. The researchers state that camu camu is a “well-researched and innovative natural product, has the potential to contribute, possibly substantially,” to the management of diseases and conditions linked to inflammation and oxidative stress. In spring 2018, researchers also found that supplementing with camu … Read More

Vaccines and Autism: a New Scientific Review

14 years ago

Sharyl Attkisson, who would later resign from CBS News due to bias, covered the story for CBS… For all those who’ve declared the autism-vaccine debate over – a new scientific review begs to differ. It considers a host of peer-reviewed, published theories that show possible connections between vaccines and autism. The article in the Journal of Immunotoxicology (Jan-Mar Quarterly, 2011) is entitled “Theoretical aspects of autism: Causes–A review.” The author is Helen Ratajczak, surprisingly herself a former senior scientist at a pharmaceutical firm. Ratajczak did what nobody else … Read More

The Y2K Computer Glitch Scare that Wasn’t

25 years ago

The year 2000 (Y2K) problem scared the world. Although some were ready to “party like it’s 1999,” others predicted catastrophe at the end of the year because of a programming assumption from the early days of computers. Y2K entered the cultural conversation over concerns that technology and automated systems would fail when their clocks had to convert the date from Dec. 31, 1999 to Jan. 1, 2000. Age of Technological Fear any assumed that electronics would not be able to compute dates that did not begin with “19” … Read More

‘The Biggest Secret’ is Published. David Icke Introduces Mind Controlled Slave Arizona Wilder, Who Claimed to Perform Satanic Rituals for …

26 years ago

Below you will find an essay written by the Spell-checker and reviewer of the draft of Icke’s book, Ivan Fraser, and after that an update on Arizona Wilder. Wilder would later recant much of her testimony given in ‘The Biggest Secret’ claiming most recently that: “Gradually, she realized that the whole lizard thing was just a cover story fed to her by mind manipulators, and distanced herself from that particular branch of the conspiranoid community.” David Icke, Arizona Wilder and the Biggest Secret By Ivan Fraser | 10/16-08 … Read More

NAFTA comes into force. Did Ross Perot’s Prediction of a ‘Giant Sucking Sound’ of Jobs & Businesses Leaving the US come True?

31 years ago

Under Bill Clinton (a CFR member who selected 12 CFR members for his cabinet), the United States enacted NAFTA, an economic alliance with Mexico and Canada. This arrangement was created by the establishment, not by the American people, who did not suspect the game being played on them. Not only did NAFTA swamp us with cheap, job-destroying imports, but it was designed to be the foundation for a continental economic union leading to political union. Robert Pastor (CFR), a key architect of North American integration, acknowledged in the … Read More

Canadian Journalist, Serge Monast, Exposes Project Blue Beam – a Scientific Plan to Usher in a One World Religion and New World Order

31 years ago

Following is the transcript of a taped presentation by Serge Monast, a French-speaking Canadian journalist. Although there was no date on the tape, Monast speaks of 1983 as “eleven years ago”, so we will assume this talk took place in 1994. We heard rumors from time to time of harassment against Mr. Monast, and later had heard that he was killed. That is an unconfirmed (by us) report. Because the tape from which we transcribed was not of high quality, and along with the very heavy French accent, … Read More

John Coleman Publishes ‘The Conspirators Hierarchy, the Committee of 300’

33 years ago

The book, The Conspirators Hierarchy, the Committee of 300, was written by John Coleman, a man who once claimed to have worked for the CIA and MI6. Coleman learned by the early 90s that an international committee, spearheaded by the Bilderberg Group and Western intelligence agencies, would guide the world toward a “post-industrial” hellscape controlled by technocrats who came to influence during the Carter administration. “At least 4 billion ‘useless eaters’ shall be eliminated by the year 2050 by means of limited wars, organized epidemics of fatal rapid-acting diseases … Read More

‘The Humanist’ Published an Essay by John Dunphy Entitled ‘A Religion for A New Age’ with the Public School Classroom as its B…

42 years ago

The Secular Humanist Bulletin has given writer John Dunphy another platform from which to present his views about how the humanists plan to use the public school classroom to proselytize for their ideology. The Humanist magazine published an essay by John Dunphy in its January/February 1983 issue entitled “A Religion for A New Age.” This essay has been widely quoted ever since as evidence of the humanists’ plan to impose their values on public school children. Now, the Secular Humanist Bulletin of Summer 1994 (described on its masthead … Read More

John Holdren, Future Science Czar Under Obama, Advocates for Forced Abortions and Mass Sterilization Through the Water Supply for Population Control

48 years ago

John Holdren, later appointed by Obama as Science Czar (2009), in his book “Ecoscience”, he advocates for extreme totalitarian measures (such as forced abortion and mass sterilization through water supply) to control the population: “Indeed, it has been concluded that compulsory population-control laws, even including laws requiring compulsory abortion, could be sustained under the existing Constitution if the population crisis became sufficiently severe to endanger the society.” and “One way to carry out this disapproval might be to insist that all illegitimate babies be put up for adoption … Read More

The Beginnings of BCCI’s Arrival in America, the Bank that would Quickly Become a Magnet for Drug Money Laundering and Other Corruption

48 years ago

Two Indonesian billionaires come to Arkansas. Mochtar Riady and Liem Sioe Liong are close to Indonesian President, General Suharto. Riady is looking for an American bank to buy. Riady’s agent is Jackson Stephens, who also brokers the arrival of BCCI to this country and steers BCCI’s founder, Hassan Abedi, to Bert Lance. Apparently because of pressure from Indonesia, Riady withdraws his bid to buy Lance’s 30% share of the National Bank of Georgia. Instead, a BCCI front man buys the shares and Abedi moves to secretly take over … Read More

‘The Rockefeller File’ by Gary Allen is Published

49 years ago

Congressman Larry P. McDonald, who spearheaded efforts against the New World Order, wrote the introduction to The Rockefeller File which stated: “Dear Reader: The super rich in America enjoy power and prerogatives un-imaginable to most of us. Who can conceive of owning a private empire that includes 100 homes, 2,500 servants, untold thousands of luxuries, and untold millions of dollars? America has a royal family of finance that has known such riches for generations. It is, of course, the Rockefellers. But if the Rockefellers were content with their … Read More

Dr. Carroll Quigley Publishes ‘Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time”

59 years ago

Carroll Quigley was an insider according to his own words: “I have studied it (secret international network) for twenty years and was permitted for two years, in the early 1960s, to examine its papers and secret records. I have no aversion to it or to most of its aims and have, for much of my life, been close to it and to many of its instruments … I have objected both in the past and recently, to a few of its policies … but in general my chief … Read More

A Jewish Defector, Benjamin Freedman, Warns America About the Pagan Conspiracy to Take Over the World

64 years ago

A speech was given before a patriotic audience at the Willard Hotel in Washington, D.C., on behalf of Conde McGinley’s patriotic newspaper of that time, Common Sense. Freedman gives an insider’s viewpoint (as a high-level insider of Jewish organizations) of history over the last 100 years and beyond, as he discusses that the so called Jews are actually a Pagan and Barbarian tribe that adopted the Talmudic religion, and are the true conspirators behind the shadow government, and clandestine takeover of the world. Introductory Note — Benjamin H … Read More

Alice Bailey Publishes ‘Externalization of the Hierarchy’ – the Plan to Impose a Satanic New World Order on Society

68 years ago

Alice and Foster Bailey founded the “Lucifer Publishing Company” in honor of her god Lucifer, then changed to the Lucis Trust in 1922 (“‘Lucifer’ and ‘Lucis’ come from the same word root, lucis being the Latin genitive case meaning of light.”). Its activities include the Arcane School, World Goodwill, Triangles, a quarterly magazine called The Beacon, and a publishing company primarily intended to publish Bailey’s 24 books. The Arcane School gives instruction and (mis)guidance in meditation, via correspondence, based on the ideas in Bailey’s books. World Goodwill is intended to promote … Read More

Communist Defector Bella Dodd, a CPUSA Leader, Publishes ‘School of Darkness’ & Claims that The New World Order is Communism

71 years ago

Bella Dodd, a former leader in the Communist Party of America (CPUSA) in the 1930’s and 40’s who defected, wrote “School of Darkness”, which reveals that Communism was a hoax perpetrated by Jewish Illuminati financiers “to control the common man” and to advance world tyranny. Dodd describes Communism as “a strange secret cult” whose goal is the destruction of Western (i.e. Christian) Civilization. Millions of naive idealists (“innocents”) are tricked by its talk of helping the poor, but it cares only for power. Bella Dodd was born Maria Asunta … Read More

89 U.S. Cities were Being Fluoridated by 1950 with Industrial Waste Fluoride from ALCOA Despite No Evidence that it Reduced Tooth Decay

75 years ago

By 1950, 89 US cities were being fluoridated through the water supply, despite no credible evidence ever submitted that demonstrated that it reduced tooth decay (see 1937 entry), or did anything other than cause disease, misery, and death. By 1950, ALCOA, who had funded the research and falsified data to save millions in disposing of the poisonous chemical, was in a new line of business: selling sodium fluoride to cities to put into their water supply. ALCOA was advertising the blessed purity of its sodium fluoride. Reality had … Read More

Operation Mockingbird: The CIA Operation to Control the Media and Have them Circulate Propaganda

77 years ago

In 1948 Frank Wisner was appointed director of the Office of Special Projects. Soon afterwards it was renamed the Office of Policy Coordination (OPC). This became the espionage and counter-intelligence branch of the Central Intelligence Agency. Wisner was told to create an organization that concentrated on “propaganda, economic warfare; preventive direct action, including sabotage, anti-sabotage, demolition and evacuation measures; subversion against hostile states, including assistance to underground resistance groups, and support of indigenous anti-Communist elements in threatened countries of the free world.” Later that year Wisner established Mockingbird, … Read More

Guatemala Syphilis Experiment (1946-53): U.S. Doctors Secretly Infected Soldiers, Prisoners and Mental Patients with Syphilis and other STD’s

79 years ago

US government scientists who infected Guatemalans with syphilis and gonorrhea as part of a study that began in 1946 knew they were violating ethical rules according to a US presidential panel. The researchers infected hundreds of prisoners, psychiatric patients and sex workers during the 1940s to study the effects of penicillin. None of the Guatemalans were informed. Dr Amy Gutmann, head of the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues, called the research a “shameful piece of medical history”. “It is important that we accurately document this … Read More

Did Winston Churchill Engineer a Famine in Bengal, India that Starved 3 Million men, Women, and Children to Death?

82 years ago

3 million people died in a Winston Churchill engineered famine. While Britain stockpiled food, even importing tens of thousands of pounds of rice from India, Churchill, knowing their dire situation, refused to send any of the food to India, choosing to stockpile until the price went up. He even chose to bypass India on food shipments from Australia, a previous stop for the ships. The sweeping famine of Bengal occurred simultaneously with the German-inflicted genocide in Europe. While Churchill formulated policies to free Britain from the clutches of Hitler’s superior … Read More

Superman and Captain America Enter WWII Before the U.S. Thanks to Timely Comics (now Marvel Comics) War Propaganda. Batman Follows Suit in ’42

84 years ago

Timely Comics and National Allied Publications became involved in the U.S. war effort during World War II. In propagating the collaborative wartime message of WWII, many superheroes entered the war. In exemplification, National Allied Publications, a predecessor to DC Comics, in 1938, introduced Superman in Action Comics #1 and by early 1941; Superman was fighting a Nazi paratrooper in the air. Through the creation and publication of comics, it illustrated the necessity to target the enemies’ vulnerabilities in character and reputation. Timely Comics, later to become Marvel Comics, created Captain America and he entered World War II in early 1941: “Captain America … Read More

Lundberg Publishes an Expose of ‘America’s 60 Families’. “This Defacto Government is… Invisible, Shadowy. It is the Gove…

88 years ago

Dynasties listed below were included in America’s 60 Families, Ferdinand Lundberg’s 1937 expose on the super-rich. Ferdinand Lundberg used tax records to uncover the often impenetrable financial and political machinations of the 60 Families, effectively publishing a directory of names and occupations of family scions as well as estimates of their fortunes. “The United States is owned and dominated today by a hierarchy of its sixty richest families, buttressed by no more than ninety families of lesser wealth… These families are the living center of the modern industrial … Read More

John Maynard Keynes: “By… Inflation, Governments can Confiscate, Secretly and Unobserved, an Important Part of the Wealth of Their Citizen…

105 years ago

Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the Capitalist System was to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens. By this method they not only confiscate, but they confiscate arbitrarily; and, while the process impoverishes many, it actually enriches some. The sight of this arbitrary rearrangement of riches strikes not only at security, but at confidence in the equity of the existing distribution of wealth. Those … Read More

Samuel Zane Batten Wrote a Book Titled “The New World Order”, Published by the American Baptist Publication Society

106 years ago

As the Interchurch World Movement was gaining momentum, Samuel Zane Batten wrote a book titled “The New World Order”, published in 1919 by the American Baptist Publication Society. In this book, Batten paints a picture of a world entering a new phase in which a “new order” is rising out of the turmoil of World War. Batten proposed that a “world federation” be created which would be supported by an “international mind” and justified by a faith of “world patriotism.” It begins: The world can never again be … Read More

Mortality Rates of Smallpox Increased Drastically Following Mass Vaccinations in the Philippines

107 years ago

Possibly as early as December 1917, but certainly by the first of 1918, the US Army began the forced vaccination of 3,285,376 natives in the Philippines when no epidemic was brewing, only the sporadic cases of the usual mild nature. Of the vaccinated persons, 47,369 came down with small-pox, and of these 16,477 died. In 1919 the experiment was doubled. 7,670,252 natives were vaccinated. Of these 65,180 victims came down with small-pox, and 44,408 died. In the first experiment, one-third died, and in the second, two-thirds of the … Read More

The Scofield Reference Bible is First Printed to Advance the Zionist Deception

116 years ago

Prior to the Scofield Bible, the Rockefellers were instrumental in orchestrating the Modernist movement, assaulting every fundamental doctrine of Christianity, for the long-range ecumenical purpose of absorbing it into a one-world religion. The Fundamentalist movement rejected Modernism, intending to stand by the faith’s original tenets. Unfortunately, as we will now see, Fundamentalism was itself infiltrated and hijacked, consistent with the Rothschild strategy of funding both sides of wars. Fundamentalist churches were targeted to enlist their support for the Zionist agenda. The two principal agents in this scheme were … Read More

Ellis Island Immigration Station Opens

133 years ago

In December, 1891 seventeen-year-old Annie Moore of County Cork, climbed aboard the USS Nevada, along with her two younger brothers, in Queensland, Ireland (now known as Cobh). On January 1, 1892 they disembarked to join their parents in New York, the first of seven hundred new immigrants to enter the United States through Ellis Island, formerly considered part of New York but declared by a judge, New Jersey-owned in 1998. By the year of its closure in 1954, more than twelve million more would follow Annie through the … Read More

The Emancipation Proclamation Goes into Effect

162 years ago

In the 1857 Dred Scott decision, the U. S. Supreme Court – disregarding the constitutionally-authorized ban – declared that Congress could not interfere with slavery or prohibit it in any territory, thereby “reopening the African slave trade [through] perversions of judicial power.” Republicans won the election of 1860 and, in accordance with this plank in their platform, they begin to take action to end slavery. For example, in 1862, they passed a federal law prohibiting slavery in the federal territories – a direct affront to the 1857 Dred … Read More

Secret Document ‘The Permanent Instructions of the Alta Vendita: A Masonic Blueprint for the Subversion of the Catholic Church’ is Publish…

166 years ago

The Permanent Instruction of the Alta Vendita (commonly called the Alta Vendita) is a document, originally published in French in 1859, purportedly produced by the highest lodge of the Italian Carbonari and written by “Piccolo Tigre,” codename for Giuseppe Mazzini. In his book ‘Athanasius and the Church of Our Time’, Bishop Rudolph Graber quoted a Freemason who declared that “the goal (of the Illuminati) is no longer the destruction of the Church, but to make use of it by infiltrating it.” In other words, since the Illuminati (who had … Read More

The Preface of Websters 1828 Dictionary States ‘the Christian Religion Must be the Basis of Any Government intended to Secure the Rights… …

197 years ago

Noah Webster publishes the American Dictionary. He wrote in the preface of his 1828 Dictionary: “In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed…. No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people.” Noah Webster was a truly remarkable man, shrewd, passionate, learned and energetic, God-fearing and … Read More

Sir Walter Scott Publishes ‘The Life of Napoleon’ & in Volume II He States that the French Revolution was planned by the Illuminati

198 years ago

Sir Walter Scott publishes his nine volume set, ‘The Life of Napoleon’ and in Volume II he states that the French Revolution was planned by the Illuminati (Adam Weishaupt) and was financed by the money changers of Europe (The Rothschilds). Sir Walter Scott sums up the situation with these words — “These financiers used the (French) Government as bankrupt prodigals are treated by usurious money-lenders who, feeding the extravagance with one hand, with the other wring out of their ruined fortunes the most unreasonable recompenses for their advances. By a … Read More

The Importation of Slaves into the United States was Prohibited

217 years ago

WE Americans live in a society awash in historical celebrations. The last few years have witnessed commemorations of the bicentennial of the Louisiana Purchase (2003) and the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II (2005). Looming on the horizon are the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln’s birth (2009) and the sesquicentennial of the outbreak of the Civil War (2011). But one significant milestone went strangely unnoticed: the 200th anniversary of Jan. 1, 1808, when the importation of slaves into the United States was prohibited. This neglect stands … Read More

Thomas Jefferson sends his ‘Wall of Separation’ Danbury Letter: Did He Intend to Separate Church and State?

223 years ago

Thomas Jefferson sent his ‘wall of separation’ letter to the Danbury Baptist Association to assure them that although the state offered them religious freedoms only “as favors granted, and not as inalienable rights,” that at least the national Congress could never make a law respecting an establishment of religion. The First Amendment, then, erected “a wall of separation between church and state.” In 1947 the Supreme Court does just what the First Amendment set out to prohibit, federal control over religious matters of the people. Thomas Jefferson assured … Read More

William Paley Published ‘Natural Theology’: “the Kind of Carefully Designed Structures we See in the Living World Point Clearly to a…

223 years ago

William Paley (1743-1805), in his 1802 classic, Natural Theology, summarized the viewpoint of the scientists. He argued that the kind of carefully designed structures we see in the living world point clearly to a Designer. If we see a watch, we know that it had a designer and maker; it would be foolish to imagine that it made itself. This is the “argument by design.” All about us is the world of nature, and over our heads at night is a universe of stars. We can ignore or … Read More

Abbe Augustin Barruel’s Publishes his 4-Volume Study, ‘Memoirs Illustrating the History of Jacobinism’

226 years ago

Abbe Augustin Barruel’s publishes his impressive four-volume study, ‘Memoirs Illustrating the History of Jacobinism’, covering the same matter and basically coming to the same conclusions having no knowledge of Robison’s book, Proofs of Conspiracy’ published just one year earlier. According to a joint deposition signed by Professor Renner and his three colleagues, the object of the first degrees of Illuminism was to train the adepts in the system of espionage. Once the member had so committed himself to such nefarious acts of espionage, treason, or other treacherous enterprises, … Read More

John Robison publishes a book entitled “Proofs of a Conspiracy’ after Being Invited into the Illuminati and Shown Weishaupt’s Secret Plans

227 years ago

John Robison publishes a book entitled “Proofs of a Conspiracy Against All the Religions and Governments of Europe, Carried on in the Secret Meetings of Free Masons, Illuminati, and Reading Societies” in which he reveals that Adam Weishaupt had attempted to recruit him. He exposes the diabolical aims of the Illuminati to the world. Very few people are aware that the intense drama of our twentieth century — the life and death struggle between capitalism and Communism, freedom and slavery — has its origins in the late eighteenth … Read More

William Paley: “Condemnation before investigation is the height of ignorance”

231 years ago

This is the story of a famous quotation and the environments in which it has adapted and survived. To the 20th and 21st centuries, the story would seem to begin in the year 1939 when the book Alcoholics Anonymous was published. A contributing author of that text used a quotation to head his chapter. He attributed the quotation to a man named Herbert Spencer, presumably the 19th century British philosopher, evolutionist, and sociologist: “There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against … Read More

Mary Wollstonecraft’s Vindication of the Rights of Woman is Published

233 years ago

“Women are told from their infancy, and taught by the example of their mothers, that a little knowledge of human weakness, justly termed cunning, softness of temper, outward obedience, and a scrupulous attention to a puerile kind of propriety, will obtain for them the protection of man; and should they be beautiful, every thing else is needless, for at least twenty years of their lives.” – Wollstonecraft, 19 This, in essence, is the major reason Wollstonecraft identifies regarding why women are subordinate to men: every facet of their upbringing from … Read More

George Washington Inspires a Tired and Defeated Army to Continue the Fight for Liberty

248 years ago

George Washington faced a grim moment January 1, 1777. All enlistments for the Continental Army had expired on that date and all of the army, or at least what was left of it, was free to go home. This would not just cripple the Revolution, but probably end it. He gathered his troops together, the drum roll began, and the general asked all those willing to extend their tours to step forward. Not one soul moved. Then, as Tim Ballard tells it in his book The Washington Hypothesis, … Read More

A Secret Society called The Knights of the Apocalypse is Established in Italy Supposedly to Protect the Catholic Church from the Antichrist

332 years ago

In true secret society form, there isn’t a whole lot out there on the Knights of the Apocalypse – but what we do know is thoroughly compelling. The arcane group was established in Italy in 1693 by Augustine Gabrino, the son of a merchant. The purpose of the society was supposedly to protect the Catholic Church against the Antichrist, and it would seem that Gabrino took his duty rather seriously. In the same year the secret society was founded, Gabrino was at the heart of two strange outbursts in the church. In the first, … Read More

Europe’s Black Death Kills 50 to 75 Million People

677 years ago

Every child learns at school that the Black Death was spread by rats which carried infected fleas. But the textbooks may need to be changed, as a new study suggests rodents have been unfairly blamed for the plague which killed millions of people across medieval Europe. The Black Death, it appears, may not have been spread by filthy rats, but by lice and fleas carried by humans instead. Researchers from Oslo University created a mathematical model for how people would have died if rats were the villains. But … Read More