Archive for the ‘History’ Category
Official Stories Counter-Arguments for a Culture in Need by Liam Scheff “Official stories exist to protect officials.” With the opening line as our guide, we’re going to pry open the vault of “official-dom” and see what lies beneath. Drawing information from 10 years of investigative journalism, Liam invites you to join the hunt for the [...]
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I’m writing my first book – almost finished, see you in June – and was unfolding from my head stories of inventors; I remembered that I had one in my family – an uncle, a great uncle. No, a great-great uncle, I thought. And I knew he was the father of Helen Watson, who married [...]
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Please write your own letter, NOW, immediately, to your Senator, and to the President and his cabinet. Here’s mine: “Dear Mr. President, and Senators; You must do everything you can to turn back the tide of heinous and insane fascism burning through Washington. S.1867, which has been passed, with some nonsense provisions to make it [...]
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Anonymous – Will it Change Your Mind, or Make You Care? A Movie Enticement, by Liam Scheff If I told you the Earth was shaped like a pear, would you believe me? You’d say, “No, it’s round!” And you’d be right. Except that Earth is ever-so-slightly pear-shaped. If I told you so, would you be [...]
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by Liam Scheff It’s been said that if a lie is told often enough, it begins to sound true. And so, you can bet that a fib that has been repeated for four hundred years may be hard to shake off. On Thursday’s Robert Scott Bell Show (10/20/11), RSB and Liam Scheff speak with Mark [...]
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9-11 / Comics / FDA / History / The AIDS Investigation / The Art of War
Tags: agent orange, aids, America, azt, bush, cheney, hiv, Iraq, Karl Rove, nationalism, PNAC, rumsfeld, tribalism, Vietnam, war
October 17, 2011
Say something critical of my country, and you’re likely to hear, “America! Love it or Leave it!” Well, how about, “America, Let’s tell the Whole Truth About it!” Please add your bit of hidden truth, piece of buried history, and let’s see if we can learn to tell the truth. Honesty leads to better things [...]
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Hi Monsanto! How are you doing, you evil, psychopathic, bloodsucking, agent-orange, polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB), saccharin, nutrasweet/aspartame, BST, rBGH, Roundup pesticide, genetically-mutant terminator seed producing, food-patenting bunch of modern-day nazi scumbags? We’ve spotted you! And we, the people, are not happy with what you’ve been up to, for so, so, sooo long. Our fault for sleeping. [...]
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Dear Washington, Please fire yourselves. Or, hire this guy, and me too. I’ll show you where to cut spending. (NIH, Iraqifornia, CDC, ADM, Monsanto, KBR, Halliburton, “Made in Chinexico-Malaysindia”, NAFTA, etc, et al, and more). Ron Paul Issues Statement on S&P Downgrading of U.S. Credit Rating – “Washington must take heed, and act to [...]
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Become a Conspiracy Realist by Liam Scheff We Americans aren’t terribly good students of history. We are, in fact, more enamored with the myth of our country, and now, with the digital and artificial worlds of internet, movies and television, than we are with the actual history of our nation. “America the beautiful; America, the [...]
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Join Liam Scheff and guests for this weekend’s radio shows: Listen live or download MP3 for later, on the Intel Hub. Toll Free Call In Number: 1 (877) 598-8549 or 646-727-3387. Saturday 2PM EST: Treating Vaccine Damage. Liam welcomes special guest April Boden, mother of a vaccine-damaged child, and author of Aydan’s Road to Recovery. [...]
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Join Liam Scheff and guests for this weekend’s radio-paloooza! Listen live or download MP3 for later, on the Intel Hub. Toll Free Call In Number: 1 (877) 598-8549 or 646-727-3387. Saturday 7PM EST – Join Liam as he tells true stories from life as it’s lived. Liam recounts a chance meeting with a certain doctor [...]
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Originally from Dec 1, 2007. Happy Saturnalia… From today’s Wall Street Journal, a very good, and succinct History of the holiday, by historian and author John Steele Gordon. A few excerpts: “In its earliest days, Christianity did not celebrate the Nativity at all. Only two of the four Gospels even mention it. Instead, the Church [...]
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Join me on TheIntelHubNewsNetwork Saturdays and Sundays at SEVEN PM EST for The Investigation. This weekend: Saturday 7PM EST – “Expanding Earth?” We talk with Tokyo-based journalist, long-time writer for the Japan Times, 20 year ex-patriot in Japan, former US Navy air-traffic controller, 9/11 activist, and all-around nice guy Jeff Ogrisseg, for a report on [...]
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Radio Tonight: Join me this weekend, both Saturday and Sunday, 6PM EST on “The Investigation” [Click the link and choose the 'play' button to stream live]. Click here to stop and start the audio stream: Topics – Saturday: How do you investigate a topic, issue or subject that is hard to talk about? How do [...]
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The Hollow Men, by T.S. Eliot; text, analysis.
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9-11 / History / The Popular Culture
Tags: A.I.G., Bailout, Bernanke, clinton, DJIA, Dow Jones, Frank, Geitner, General Motors, Goldman Sachs, obama, Pelosi, Reed, wall street
October 19, 2010
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9-11 / Guest Editorial / History
Tags: 9/11, Abraham Lincoln, Afghanistan, American History, Christopher Columbus, George Washington, Iraq, Japan Times, Jeff Ogrisseg, Kent State, Life Magazine, Programing the American Mind, Shock and Awe, Terrorism, Twin Towers, Vietnam
August 24, 2010
Death has gotten in the way: Pt. 1 Instilled sensitivities prevent us from questioning 9/11 by Jeff Ogrisseg Exclusive for Challenging Scientism Shock and awe. Watch helplessly as a thousand people die at once for reasons you can’t begin to comprehend. Repeat as necessary to produce the worst possible fears. – Burning towers, South and [...]
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Books / Comics / History / Pixelmator and Photoshop / Shakespeare / Top 20
Tags: cartoon art, comics, drawing, edward de vere, graphic novel, liam scheff, mark anderson, oxfordian, painting, shakespeare, shakespeare by another name, sketching
February 12, 2010
Shakespeare, Not Shakespeare Part One: His Second Best Bed Interview with Mark Anderson by Liam Scheff “Talk of court news; and we’ll talk with them too, Who loses and who wins; who’s in, who’s out; And take upon us the mystery of things, As if we were God’s spies…” —King Lear, Act V, Scene iii [...]
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Here in the great State of Massachusetts, a great many irritated people, tired of immense taxation, voted for a pretty decent, hard working fellow from a local town to represent their interests and to oppose D.C. desires, as State Senator. And it’s good as far as it goes. It might hold up the massive health [...]
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It’s about time for two from the archive: Is Gore’s Global Warming Just Another Narcissistic Leftist Fantasy? And Al Gore Causes Global Warming. The second post, in which I ridiculed the Left’s useless suggestions for decreasing pollution, and then suggested raising money for “Global Warming” programs by making star-studded environmental disaster movies, was published years [...]
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Let me ask my friends, especially my liberal friends, the following question: What’s the last large Government-run program that went really reeeaally well? I mean, when was the last time that a large, costly, immense, gargantuan, nation-straddling tax-and-spend program came in within. . . oh. . . 150 percent of its original budget? 200 percent? [...]
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It’s historic, and I congratulate, and embrace my finally multi-cultural-to-the-top nation. (If “Harvard” equals “multicultural). But, whatever, I get it, and wish the dude well. But it’s gonna be rough seas, Captain. So, who has made the best, most prescient, and most succinct political analysis thus far? None other than my childhood touchstone, Mad Magazine?
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I present for your edification and enjoyment, two chapters from Mark Twain’s short biography of one “Will Shaksper”, or William Shakespeare, the man from Stratford. Twain, nee Clemens, had some singular and small doubts about some of the more popular claims about this great writer (for example, that he was who he was claimed to [...]
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You’ve heard the news? Court Voids Gay Marriage Ban. California [Here]. And I’ve heard the radio talk-show hounds tell me that it’s “Anti-Democratic! Against the Will of the People to have a Law Forced into Our Lives!” (But we’ve heard that before….)
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And it’s so clear, straightforward and logical, that you’re gonna have a “Why isn’t that already a LAW!” moment, I guarantee. Let’s call it…. The XXVIII Amendment: No Children, No Siblings, And No Spouses.
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Moreover, as your aforesaid envoys are of opinion, these very peoples living in the said islands and countries believe in one God, the Creator in heaven, and seem sufficiently disposed to embrace the Catholic faith and be trained in good morals. And it is hoped that, were they instructed, the name of the Savior, our [...]
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We [therefore] weighing all and singular the premises with due meditation, and noting that since we had formerly by other letters of ours granted among other things free and ample faculty to the aforesaid King Alfonso—to invade, search out, capture, vanquish, and subdue all Saracens and pagans whatsoever, and other enemies of Christ wheresoever placed, [...]
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The Father of our Country was a practical man, to be sure. How to deal with a never-ceasing enemy? When killing them won’t work, use the coin. Below find reprinted a letter from George Washington to James Duane, dated September 7, 1783, in which General, and President Washington gives expression to an ever-evolving idea: How [...]
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I’d like to be a bee and other poems, from Introduction to Italian Poetry Torquato Tasso (1544-1595) “Un’ape esser vorrei” I’d like to be a bee Un’ape esser vorrei, Donna bella e crudele, Che susurrando in voi suggese il mele I’d like to be a bee, beautiful (and cruel) lady, who, murmuring, would suck the [...]
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- “Since we your Majesty and your lordships desire a simple reply, I will answer without distinctions…. Unless I am convicted by the testimony of Sacred Scripture or by evident Reason (I do not accept the authority of popes and councils, for they have contradicted each other), my conscience is captive to the word of God.”
- “I cannot and I will not recant anything, for to go against my conscience is neither right nor safe. God help me. Amen.”
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I’m going to China… The thought is sinking in… Mostly because it’s true, but also because it’s happening soon (3+ weeks), and I have so much to do before I go… Empty an apartment, get rid of furniture, box the remaining books, and figure out what to do with the bits of a/v cable, stacked [...]
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From Will Durant’s Heroes of History, abbreviated from his Story of Civilization volume 2, The Life of Greece. Read more WillDurant.com At Ephesus, whose temple to Artemis Diana was among the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, Heracleitus, three hundred years before Plato, expounded, in enigmatic apothegms, a philosophy of evolution that must have delighted [...]
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From Will Durant’s Heroes of History, abbreviated from his Story of Civilization volume 2, The Life of Greece. Read more WillDurant.com Who were the ancient Greeks and whence did they come? They came from all directions: from western Asia, from the islands of the Aegean Sea, from Crete, Egypt, and the Balkans, some even from [...]
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From The Art of War, translation by Samuel B. Griffith . In respect to the employment of troops, ground may be classified as dispersive, frontier, key, communicating, focal, serious, difficult, encircled, and death. 1) When a feudal lord fights in his own territory, he is in dispersive ground. Here officers and men long to return [...]
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Excerpts from Will Durant’s Heroes of History, abbreviated from his Story of Civilization volume 5, The Renaissance. Read more WillDurant.com The most fascinating figure of the Renaissance was born on April 15, 1452, near the village of Vinci, some sixty miles from Florence. His mother was a peasant girl, Caterina, who had not bothered to [...]
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From The Art of War, this translation and introduction by Samuel B. Griffith (a wonderful version, available Here). Biography of Sun Tzu (as it appears in the Shih Chi, Sun Tzu Wu Chi’s Lieh Chuan). Sun Tzu [?circa 453-221 B.C. - The Warring States Period ] was a native of Ch’i who by means of [...]
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From Will Durant’s Heroes of History, abbreviated from his Story of Civilization volume 3, Caesar and Christ. Read more WillDurant.com The Philosopher Kings of Rome – Nerva to Hadrian Hear Gibbon’s judgment: “If a man were to be called upon to fix the period in the history of the world during which the condition of [...]
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From Will Durant’s Heroes of History, abbreviated from his Story of Civilization volume 3, Caesar and Christ. Read more WillDurant.com The Philosopher Kings of Rome pt. 2: Antoninus Pius to Marcus Aurelius Titus Aurelius Antoninus was named Pius by the Senate because he excelled in the virtues honored by the old Roman Republic: filial devotion, [...]
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There, on the wall directly facing the apotheosis of theology in the Disputa, is the glorification of philosophy: Plato of the Jovelike brow, deep eyes, flowing white hair and beard, with a finger pointing upward to his perfect state; Aristotle walking quietly beside him, thirty years younger, handsome and cheerful, holding out his hand with a downward palm, as if to bring his master’s soaring idealism back to earth and the possible;
Socrates counting off his arguments on his fingers, with armed Alcibiades listening to him lovingly; Pythagoras trying to imprison in harmonic tables the music of the spheres; a fair lady who might be Aspasia; Heracleitus writing Ephesian riddles; Diogenes lying carelessly disrobed on the marble steps;
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He established in Florence (1455) a Platonic Academy for the study of Plato, and enabled Marsilio Ficino to give half a lifetime to the translation and exposition of Plato’s works. Now, after a reign of four hundred years, scholasticism lost its sovereignty over philosophy in the West, and the exhilarating spirit of Plato entered like energizing yeast into the rising body of European thought.
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No, I’m not talking about Condit, Clinton, Kennedy, Jefferson, Cleveland or Harding. Not them, but those who inspired them. Here are some historical notes on the perversions of the leaders of Rome; truly an inspiration to our folks in Washington (All quotes from Suetonius’ The Twelve Caesars): The emperor Otho (A.D. 69) – The first [...]
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Notes from the beginning of one Empire (from the end of another). From Suetonius’ The Twelve Emperors: “Aware that the City was architecturally unworth of her position as capital of the Roman Empire, besides being vulnerable to fire and river floods, Augustus [the first Emperor of Rome,] so improved her appearance that he could justifiably [...]
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Currently Reading: Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus The 12 Emperors. Julius Caesar1 (grabs the crown) Augustus (Octavian)1 (catches it) Tiberius (dirty old man) Gaius Caligula (loves horses) Claudius (a nicer fella) Nero (not so nice) Galba (short and brutish — moiduhd!) Otho (ladies man, or just a lady?) Vitellius (see Galba) Vespasian1 (finally, a better rogue) Titus1 [...]
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A few thoughts on African loss of life (and eugenics), for those for whom history began before 1979. We’re told that Africa has an AIDS problem. I used to think this was so. But after copious reading research and discussion, I am more than fairly convinced that Africa has a number of severe problems that [...]
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– The woman in question “The older I get, the greater a burden I feel that I worked for this man and actually liked him…he was criminal and I just didn’t recognize it,” confesses Traudl Junge in “Blind Spot – Hitler‘s Secretary.” Junge met Adolph Hitler when she was a fatherless, impressionable teenager. By 22 [...]
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Radio: Join me on "The Robert Scott Bell Show" Mon-Fri 12-2
