Myth of the 20th Century: Recent Episodes
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If the financial world were an iceberg, the tip would be our day to day experience at the checkout, what we read in the business press, and what even our own government tells us. The bulk of the financial system, however, is largely hidden, tucked away in offshore bank accounts, secret agreements between top bankers and regulators, and in understandings within the social clubs of the elite. Tonight we have the privilege to be joined by one who has spent time in those circles, but unlike most of them, is willing to share some of the details of their inner-workings. Because of the complex nature of the topic, we take time to go into areas otherwise obscured by arcana, but only with the intent of revealing the who, why, and what the puppetmasters behind some of the bigger events in recent history – including the COVID crisis and subsequent lockdowns – are really planning for us.
— Brought to you by —
Very special guest Stormy Waters @NormanDodd_knew
https://bitchute.com/video/38vPLLpvcC3E/https://odysee.com/@myth20c:5/shadow_banking:bMyth of the 20th Century – Episode 287 – Shadow Banking – with Stormy Waters – After Dark
== References ==
- The House of Rothschild, Werker (1934)
- Christine Lagarde convicted – IMF head found guilty of criminal charges over massive government payout, Walker (2016) – https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/christine-lagarde-convicted-imf-head-found-guilty-of-negligence-in-fraud-trial-a7484586.html
- Dealing with the next downturn – From unconventional monetary policy to unprecedented policy coordination, Bartsch et. al. (2019) – https://www.suerf.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/f_77ae1a5da3b68dc65a9d1648242a29a7_8209_suerf.pdf
- The City of London, Romanoff (2022) – https://www.unz.com/lromanoff/the-city-of-london/
- What Is The Fed Hiding? A Hidden Bailout Of The Banks?, Investment Research Dynamics (2021) – https://investmentresearchdynamics.com/financial-markets/what-is-the-fed-hiding-a-hidden-bailout-of-the-banks/
- There’s an $80 trillion ‘blind spot’ in the financial system that could spell trouble for markets as debts held off-balance sheet grow at a rapid pace, Fox (2022) – https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/currencies/80-trillion-off-balance-sheet-debt-blind-spot-financial-system-2022-12
- These 4 Charts Show That Slowly But Surely, Startup Funding Deal Sizes Are Shrinking , Teare (2023) – https://news.crunchbase.com/venture/funding-rounds-average-mean-startups-charts/
- These Are the Bank Bailout Charts the Fed Hopes You’ll Never See in One Place, Martens (2023) – https://wallstreetonparade.com/2023/12/these-are-the-bank-bailout-charts-the-fed-hopes-youll-never-see-in-one-place/
- Banks based in the City of London – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Banks_based_in_the_City_of_London
- Friedrich List – National System of Political Economy, Myth of the 20th Century (2024) – https://myth20c.wordpress.com/2024/04/07/friedrich-list-national-system-of-political-economy/
- The ‘Robber Barons’ Who Tried to Save America w/ Stormy Waters – Complete, Pete Quinones (2024) – https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-robber-barons-who-tried-to-save-america-w-stormy/id1263295815?i=1000679820782
- JP Morgan – https://www.chartgirl.com/jpmorgan/
With the recent fires in Los Angeles capturing international headlines, with some estimates placing the property damage above that of Hurricane Katrina, America’s previous record holder for natural disasters, discussion is returning to the competency crisis in our elected officials and government services provided by the likes of FEMA, which have been slow to respond and ineffective to act over the past several years. In 2024, when Hurricane Helene slammed into parts of Appalachia leaving entire towns flooded and cut off, officials did little to mitigate the problem – to the point where in some cases government agents were actively obstructing private relief efforts. Tonight we are joined by returning guest Lamprey Milt to discuss his recent article on the floods in Asheville, his time living there, prospects for rebuilding, and lessons learned in light of the recent fires in California.
— Brought to you by —
Very special guest Lamprey Milt
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@MGTOWCHATS/videos
Bitchute: https://www.bitchute.com/channel/mgtow-chats/
Articles: https://theamericansun.com/author/lampreymilt/
https://bitchute.com/video/LileRdJFoSPV/https://odysee.com/@myth20c:5/asheville:7Myth of the 20th Century – Episode 286 – Fires, Floods, and FEMA – After Dark
— References —
- Portlandia, Armisen, Brownstein and Krisel (2011)
- Flaming McDonalds Wrappers – After Dark, Myth of the 20th Century (2020) – https://myth20c.wordpress.com/2020/09/18/flaming-mcdonalds-wrappers-after-dark/
- Hurricane Katrina, Myth of the 20th Century (2021) – https://myth20c.wordpress.com/2021/02/03/hurricane-katrina/
- 40 Afghan refugees being resettled in Asheville, Wakeman (2021) – https://mountainx.com/news/40-afghan-refugees-being-resettled-in-asheville-nted/
- Op-ed: WNC’s missing flood-control lakes, BusinessNC (2025) – https://businessnc.com/op-ed-wncs-missing-flood-control-lakes/
- Swananowhere, Milt (2025) – https://theamericansun.substack.com/p/swananowhere
Born into royalty in 356BC and tutored by none other than Aristotle himself, Alexander the Great was born into power and privilege. While lesser men would have opted for a life of ease and erudition – Alexander set out on a path that would change history forever. From the day he assumed power after witnessing his father’s assassination as a young man to conquering the Persian empire before he turned 30, the King of Macedon brought about long lasting cultural, trade, and military effects on the people of the near and middle east well into the Roman era. Tonight we are delighted to be rejoined by author James LaFond to recount this pivotal era in antiquity and to examine the impact it had on that time as well as implications for today.
— Brought to you by —
Very special guest James LaFond
James’ website: https://www.jameslafond.com/
James’ Substack: https://lockhartandlafond.substack.com/
James LaFond’s books: https://www.jameslafond.com/go?f=print
Lynn Lockhart & The Crackpot Podcast – https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChfybQ3WBKBnCksVkoSmPYg
https://bitchute.com/video/62kb1oJpswol/https://odysee.com/@myth20c:5/alexander:bMyth of the 20th Century – Episode 285 – Alexander the Great – with James LaFond
— References —
- Parallel Lives, Plutarch (1470)
- Anabases, Xenophon (401 BC)
- The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Gibbons (1776)
- Arrian’s Life of Alexander the Great, De Selincourt (1962)
- The Devil’s Horsemen: The Mongol Invasion of Europe, Chambers (1979)
- Gulf Strike (board game), Herman (1983)
- The Walking Drum, L’Amour (1984)
- Alexander, Stone (2004)
- The Babylonian Woe, Astle (2015)
- The First Boxers, LaFond (2015)
- Wake Christopher, LaFond (2024) – https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DNYVRX4Y
- Writ Hate, LaFond (2024) – https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DRCY4CZN
- American Dog, LaFond (2025) – https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DT16Q1KH
Plutarch, who lived in a Greek province during the height of the Roman Empire, is widely regarded for his biographies of great leaders in the ancient world. In his work on Tiberius Gracchus, a Roman politician killed for his advocacy of land reform, Plutarch wrote, “The rich men of the neighborhood contrived to get these lands again into their possession, under other people’s names, and at last would not stick to claim most of them publicly in their own. The poor, who were thus deprived of their farms, were no longer either ready, as they had formerly been, to serve in war or careful in the education of their children; insomuch that in a short time there were comparatively few freemen remaining in all Italy, which swarmed with workhouses full of foreign-born slaves. These the rich men employed in cultivating their ground of which they dispossessed the citizens.” Tonight, in review of the events of 2024, we discuss the many parallels between the American and Roman empires, in particular as it pertains to the use of foreign labor at the expense of its own citizens, and the continual destabilizing effects it has wrought on the people, politics and culture of the broader Western world.
Myth of the 20th Century – Episode 284 – 2024 – Year in Review
https://bitchute.com/video/4iR8utf3mYYD/https://odysee.com/@myth20c:5/2024:04— References —
- Tiberius Gracchus, Plutarch (75) – https://classics.mit.edu/Plutarch/tiberius.html
- Dr. Strangelove, Kubrick (1964)
- Goodfellas, Scorsese (1990)
- New evidence of widespread wage theft in the H-1B visa program, Hira and Costa (2021) – https://www.epi.org/publication/new-evidence-widespread-wage-theft-in-the-h-1b-program/
- Boeing – Troubled Skies, Myth of the 20th Century (2022) – https://myth20c.wordpress.com/2022/03/31/boeing-troubled-skies/
- Nvidia v. Intel v. AMD – Who’s winning the AI battle?, Karaahmetovic (2023) – https://finbold.com/nvidia-v-intel-v-amd-whos-winning-the-ai-battle/
- The Syria Riddle: How It May Turn Into the First BRICS War, Escobar (2024) – https://www.unz.com/pescobar/the-syria-riddle-how-it-may-turn-into-the-first-brics-war/
- The Ukraine War After the Penny Has Dropped – Make That the Oreshnik, Helmer (2024) – https://www.unz.com/article/the-ukraine-war-after-the-penny-has-dropped-make-that-the-oreshnik/
- Bukele: Seeking God’s Wisdom, Taking Down MS-13, Advice to Trump (2024) – https://tuckercarlson.com/bukele
- Exclusive: Tucker Carlson Interviews Vladimir Putin (2024) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOCWBhuDdDo
- The Javier Milei Interview (2024) – https://tuckercarlson.com/javier-milei
- Harvard President Resigns Amid Controversy, Moody (2024) – https://www.insidehighered.com/news/governance/executive-leadership/2024/01/02/harvard-president-resigns-amid-controversy
- John Mearsheimer and Jeffrey Sachs | All-In Summit 2024 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvFtyDy_Bt0
- Netflix accuses VMware of patent infringement, Herijgers (2024) – https://www.techzine.eu/news/privacy-compliance/127403/netflix-accuses-vmware-of-patent-infringement/
- Boeing’s terrible year is ending with the worst aviation tragedy of 2024, Isidore (2024) – https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/31/business/boeing-terrible-year-ends-with-tragedy/index.html
- Joe Rogan Experience #2234 – Marc Andreessen (2024) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ye8MOfxD5nU
- Episode 1153: A Look Inside the Culture of India w/ Jayant Bhandari, Pete Quinones (2024) – https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-1153-a-look-inside-the-culture-of-india/id1263295815?i=1000682284004
- Dear Elon, Sam Hyde (2024) – https://x.com/wigger/status/1873892448692486480
- Letter to David Sacks, Adam Smith (2024) – https://x.com/myth20c/status/1873785241556705521
- Donald Trump promises to declare Mexican cartels terrorist organizations ‘immediately’ (2025) – https://www.deseret.com/politics/2025/01/02/donald-trump-calls-mexican-drug-cartels-foreign-terrorist-organizations/
- United States Fed Funds Interest Rate – https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/interest-rate
- Eugyppius – https://substack.com/@eugyppius
In the history of Western civilization, there have been periods of relative peace, followed by stagnation, war and rebirth. This cycle has repeated multiple times, and is seemingly brought about by inexorable cultural processes. Many have speculated the West is in a period of decline, but signs of a rebirth are not completely absent. Tonight’s guest, Mike from Imperium Press, has written ‘The Cultured Thug Handbook’ – putting forth the notion that to bring us out of the depths of decay, we must enculture our leaders to break free of the stasis of the now, and capture the possibilities of the future by embracing their inner thug – a return to the warrior – a philosopher king.
— Brought to you by —
Very special guest Mike from Imperium Press
– Substack – https://imperiumpress.substack.com/
– Podcast – https://hearthfireradio.com/
– Telegram – @ImperiumPress
– Twitter – @kulturedads
– imperiumpress.org
https://www.bitchute.com/video/COgrxCgfl5fb
https://odysee.com/@myth20c:5/cultured_thug_handbook:1Myth of the 20th Century – Episode 283 – The Cultured Thug Handbook
— References —
– Parallel Lives, Plutarch (1470)
– The Ancient City, Fustel de Coulanges (1864)
– Cycles in History – The Fourth Turning, Myth of the 20th Century (2017) – https://myth20c.wordpress.com/2017/11/15/cycles-in-history-the-fourth-turning/
– Biological Leninism, Spandrell (2017) – https://archive.org/details/spandrell-biological-lenninism
– National System of Political Economy, List and O’Beirne (2022) – https://www.imperiumpress.org/shop/national-system-of-political-economy/
– The Populist Delusion, Parvini (2022) – https://www.imperiumpress.org/shop/populist-delusion/
– Friedrich List – National System of Political Economy, Myth of the 20th Century (2024) – https://myth20c.wordpress.com/2024/04/07/friedrich-list-national-system-of-political-economy/
– Mitra-Varuna (Indo-European) – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitra-Varuna_(Indo-European)
– Master–slave morality – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master%E2%80%93slave_morality
– Wolves of Vinland – https://newreligiousmovements.org/v-z/wolves-of-vinland/
-Recommended Authors:
Homer
Hans Herman Hoppe
Karl Ludwig von Haller
The Book of Job
Joseph de Maistre
Robert Filmer
In the arena of competing ideas of the political right, some have argued for allowing the rot in the system to fall away and collapse, while others have advocated for taking a chainsaw to the problems. Our guest, Mr. Charles Haywood, unambiguously favors the latter. From his vantage point of having worked successfully in the legal and business world, Mr. Haywood lays out his vision for “human flourishing in the post-liberal era” from his writing and podcast at The Worthy House. Today we discuss with him his thoughts on the legal system, our mutual fascination with Elon Musk and his attempt to quell the administrative state, and how populist uprisings can and sometimes do lead to positive political change.
— Brought to you by —
Very special guest Charles Haywood
The Worth House – https://theworthyhouse.com/
Twitter: https://x.com/TheWorthyHouse
https://bitchute.com/video/eWA4IeLq6qDT/https://odysee.com/@myth20c:5/charles_haywood:2Myth of the 20th Century – Episode 282 – Charles Haywood – The Worthy House
— References —
- Orbánland: How I Came To Understand Viktor Orbán’s Hungary And The Future Of Europe, Haywood (2019) – https://theworthyhouse.com/2019/07/31/orbanland-how-i-came-to-understand-viktor-orbans-hungary-and-the-future-of-europe-lasse-skytt/
- Nvidia’s High-Stakes Legal Battle: Could This Court Ruling Change Everything?, Marshall (2024) – https://elblog.pl/2024/11/14/nvidias-high-stakes-legal-battle-could-this-court-ruling-change-everything/
- On the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, Haywood (2024) – https://theworthyhouse.com/2024/11/19/on-the-1956-hungarian-revolution/
- Trump, Bukele, Milei: How This Trio Could Change Latin America’s Political Game, Diaz (2024) – https://wearemitu.com/wearemitu/news/trump-bukele-milei-latin-america-political-landscape/
- How the Left Betrayed the Jews, Kotkin (2024) – https://americanmind.org/salvo/how-the-left-betrayed-the-jews/
- Recommended authors on Hungarian History:
- Carlile Aylmer Macartney – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlile_Aylmer_Macartney
- Deborah S Cornelius – https://independent.academia.edu/DeborahCornelius
Legend has it that before setting out for the Trans-Antarctic Expedition in 1914, Ernest Shackleton posted an ad in a London newspaper proclaiming, “Men wanted for hazardous journey. Low wages, bitter cold, long hours of complete darkness. Safe return doubtful. Honour and recognition in event of success.” If there is a parallel to the audacity of a leader in the 21st century, it has to be Elon Musk. Transforming not only the automotive and energy sectors with behemoth Tesla, artificial intelligence with full self driving, Twitter and now X, but building interplanetary rockets and a constellation of internet satellites, Musk has proven time and time again that what seemed hazardous, with long hours, questionable financials, and to most seemingly impossible – in actuality is very much possible with Musk at the helm. Some have compared him to Steve Jobs of Apple fame, but in many ways Musk has far surpassed him. Tonight we are joined by returning guest Woe from Stone Choir, who used to work at Apple, to try to fathom the depth and breadth of Elon’s many endeavors, and try to understand what it all means in the greater scope of human civilization.
— Brought to you by —
Very special guest Woe @treblewoe
Podcast RSS: https://rss.podfora.com/stone-choir/
https://stone-choir.com/
https://bitchute.com/video/IkJaIzQC1D1F/https://odysee.com/@myth20c:5/elon_musk:4Myth of the 20th Century – Episode 281 – Elon Musk
— References —
- Launch costs to low Earth orbit, 1980-2100 – https://futuretimeline.net/data-trends/6.htm
- Watch a young Elon Musk get his first supercar in 1999, CNN – https://www.cnn.com/videos/business/2021/01/07/elon-musk-gets-his-mclaren-supercar-1999-vault-orig.cnn
- Tesla drops after Musk warns of ‘manufacturing hell’, Yahoo Finance (2017) – https://finance.yahoo.com/video/tesla-drops-musk-warns-manufacturing-201114243.html
- Tesla FSD Super Training Computer Dojo May Already Be Using In-House NPU Chips, Fox (2020) – https://www.tesmanian.com/blogs/tesmanian-blog/tesla-fsd-super-training-computer-dojo-may-already-using-in-house-npu-chips
- John McAfee – Uncharted Waters, Myth of the 20th Century (2020) – https://myth20c.wordpress.com/2020/04/15/john-mcafee-uncharted-waters/
- John McAfee – Silicon Industrial Complex, Myth of the 20th Century (2020) – https://myth20c.wordpress.com/2020/07/22/john-mcafee-silicon-industrial-complex/
- Elon Musk talks “wokeness,” Elizabeth Warren, the Metaverse, and more in Babylon Bee interview, Merano (2021) – https://www.teslarati.com/elon-musk-elizabeth-warren-woke-culture-interview-video/
- Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated upon reentry 20 years ago today, Parks (2023) – https://www.astronomy.com/space-exploration/space-shuttle-columbia-disintegrated-upon-reentry-20-years-ago-today/
- Elon Musk, Isaacson (2023)
- The DOGE Hit List, Vol. 1: Office of Space Commerce, Oslo (2024) – https://theamericansun.substack.com/p/the-doge-hit-list-vol-1-office-of
- SpaceX launches 400th Falcon 9 flight and 100th from Vandenberg Space Force Base, Trivalo (2024) – https://www.eonmsk.com/2024/11/24/spacex-launches-400th-falcon-9-flight-and-100th-from-vandenberg-space-force-base/
- Elon Musk’s messy divorce with California leaves ugly grievances all around, Rainey (2024) – https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-07-23/elon-musk-space-x-california
- Elon Musk’s Liquid-Cooled xAI and Tesla Supercomputer Clusters: Revolutionizing Tech, Justin D (2024) – https://gearmusk.com/2024/07/08/liquid-cooled-xai-and-tesla-supercomputers/
- China is building its own Starlink – even as questions surround Musk’s constellation, Corbett (2024) – https://www.defenseone.com/technology/2024/02/china-building-its-own-starlinkeven-questions-surround-musks-constellation/394453/
- Deus Ex Machina – Apple and the Ghost of Steve Jobs, Myth of the 20th Century (2024) – https://myth20c.wordpress.com/2024/05/20/deus-ex-machina-apple-and-the-ghost-of-steve-jobs/
- Pournelle’s Iron Law of Bureaucracy – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Pournelle#Pournelle’s_laws
- Farzad – The Robots are Coming – https://www.youtube.com/@farzyness
- Auburn Duesenberg Museum – https://automobilemuseum.org/
America has a relatively short modern history, often glossed over by historians more interested in the old and ancient world. To author and independent historian James LaFond, however, this has created an opportunity to uncover some of the more fascinating yet often unspoken truths spanning from the history of slavery, combat and sports culture, and the criminal underworld. Tonight James shares his stories of living in what he refers to as Plantation America, and also gives us insight into his writing process and what it takes to truly develop a deep understanding of the myths and truths guiding our ever changing culture.
— Brought to you by —
Very special guest James LaFond
James’ website: https://www.jameslafond.com/
James’ Substack: https://lockhartandlafond.substack.com/
James LaFond’s books: https://www.jameslafond.com/go?f=print
Lynn Lockhart & The Crackpot Podcast – https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChfybQ3WBKBnCksVkoSmPYg
with Nick Mason, Hans Lander, General Lance and Adam Smith
https://bitchute.com/video/qv1B6ySanzTO/https://odysee.com/@myth20c:5/return_of_the_champion:8Myth of the 20th Century – Episode 280 – Return of the Champion – James LaFond – After Dark
— References —
- You Can’t Win, Black (1926)
- The Searchers, Ford (1956)
- Starship Troopers, Heinlein (1959)
- The Magnificent Seven, Sturges (1960)
- Deathwish, Garfield (1974)
- Rollerball, Jewison (1975)
- Hegira, Bear (1979)
- The Shadow of the Torturer, Wolfe (1980)
- Blade Runner. Scott (1982)
- Blood Music, Bear (1985)
- Prey, Crichton (2002)
- Quantico, Bear (2005)
- Three-Body Problem, Cixin (2008)
- Why Are So Many Pro Basketball Owners Jewish (Like Donald Sterling)?, Nathan-Kazis (2014) – https://forward.com/israel/197643/why-are-so-many-pro-basketball-owners-jewish-like/
- Bone Tomahawk, Zahler (2015)
- The SPARS Pandemic, 2025-2028, Schoch-Spana et. al. (2017) – https://ia902805.us.archive.org/25/items/spars-2025a-2028/spars%202025a2028_text.pdf
- James LaFond – Sports – Ritual Hegemony, Myth of the 20th Century (2018) – https://myth20c.wordpress.com/2018/01/10/james-lafond-sports-ritual-hegemony/
- Hell’s Angels – Sympathy for the Devil, Myth of the 20th Century (2018) – https://myth20c.wordpress.com/2018/05/09/hells-angels-sympathy-for-the-devil/
- Sodom and Gomorrah: Inside Jeffrey Epstein’s private island, Keek (2020) – https://filmdaily.co/news/inside-jeffrey-epstein-island/
- The Filthy Few, LaFond (2021) – https://www.lulu.com/shop/samuel-finlay-and-james-lafond/the-filthy-few/hardcover/product-r4jw4j.html
- Down Where the Devil Don’t Go, Bingham – https://www.amazon.com/Down-Where-Devil-Dont-Go/dp/0989697223
- The New York City Crime Report with Pat Dixon – https://nyccrimereport.libsyn.com/
On December 10th, 1993, Id Software released the video game Doom, unleashing a wave of digital monsters on millions of plasma rifle wielding gamers eagerly awaiting this genre-piercing work of action horror. Considered the Godfather of first-person shooters, the game inspired hundreds of imitators in this category over the years, propelled by advances in graphics cards driving sales of the latest PC hardware by enthusiasts seeking to obliterate their opponents in the new multiplayer concept of ‘deathmatches’ more quickly and in full 3D glory. Computing has come a long way since the early days of Doom’s DOS based experience, going so far as to have playable levels automatically generated by artificial intelligence. But the shockwaves left by Doom’s original programmers, particularly John Carmack and John Romero, are still being felt today, and the gaming industry has arguably not seen a design or a set of designers as groundbreaking as what these pioneers created back in the renegade early days of push-it-to-the-limits PC gaming.
— Brought to you by —
Very special guest General Lance
https://link.space/@LancesLegion
https://lanceslegion.substack.com
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAioE7UWN_tV6gVFcqQZqPw
DVX Publishing – https://www.dvxpublishingcompany.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/LancesLegion
Myth of the 20th Century – Episode 279 – Masters of Doom – After Dark
https://bitchute.com/video/Q6XtXjFM9HQY/
https://odysee.com/@myth20c:5/Doom:95— References —
Legal Code of Alfred the Great, Alfred the Great (896) – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doom_book
Blair Witch Project, Myrick and Sanchez (1999)
Masters of Doom, Kushner (2003)
Doom, Bartkowiak (2005)
GTA V is the Most Expensive Video Game Ever Produced, Richter (2013) – https://www.statista.com/chart/1466/most-expensive-video-games-of-all-time/
Activision Buys Major League Gaming, an E-Sports Giant, Muncy (2016) – https://www.wired.com/2016/01/activision-major-league-gaming/
Joe Rogan Experience #1342 – John Carmack, Powerful JRE (2019) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udlMSe5-zP8
Doom II: Nuts 100% Kills – 85 Revenants vs 850 Cyberdemons, Zero Master (2021) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2Hx8RGxiPI
John Carmack: Doom, Quake, VR, AGI, Programming, Video Games, and Rockets, Lex Friedman (2022) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I845O57ZSy4
New AI model can hallucinate a game of 1993’s Doom in real time, Edwards (2024) – https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/08/new-ai-model-can-hallucinate-a-game-of-1993s-doom-in-real-time/
How does Deus EX treat real, current conspiracy theories? – https://www.reddit.com/r/Deusex/comments/wupaql/how_does_deus_ex_treat_real_current_conspiracy/
Red vs. Blue Machinima – https://www.wired.com/2017/04/red-vs-blue-machinima/
Atari video game burial – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_video_game_burial
Video Game Industry Stats – https://www.gamingscan.com/gaming-statistics/
Doom (franchise) – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doom_(franchise)
Halo (franchise) – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halo_(franchise)
Capitalism, like any large scale socioeconomic system, has had its share of successes and failures. But the story of Enron, which went from the ranks of the Fortune 500 and darling of Wall Street to bankruptcy in a matter of months in late 2001, served as a lowmark for American business culture in terms of corporate greed as the largest bankruptcy to stem from fraud in United States history. Tonight we are joined by Ace Niederhoff from the mean streets of high finance to delve into the who, what, why, and perhaps most importantly, if the failure of Enron was an indictment of capitalism, or was it proof of how efficiently is removes the bad actors when corruption is revealed.
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https://odysee.com/@myth20c:5/Enron_Scandal:0Myth of the 20th Century – Episode 278 – Enron – The Smartest Guys in the Room
— References —
– Trading Places, Landis (1983)
– The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature, Ridley (1993)
– Is Enron Overpriced?, McClean (2001) – https://money.cnn.com/2006/01/13/news/companies/enronoriginal_fortune/index.htm
– The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron, McLean, Elkind (2003)
– Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, Gibney (2005)
– The Episode with the Electric Truck Fraud Scandal, Brown (2020) – https://www.truckinginfo.com/10125824/the-episode-with-the-electric-truck-fraud-scandal
– Confessions of a Private Equity Operator, Myth of the 20th Century (2024) – https://myth20c.wordpress.com/2024/06/02/confessions-of-a-private-equity-operator/
– Episode 1: American Origins: Precursors to Pilgrims, The Manifest Destiny Podcast (2024) – https://manifestdestinypodcast.substack.com/p/episode-1-precursors-to-pilgrims
– Levelized cost of electricity – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levelized_cost_of_electricity
Geography is the study of how people and place interact. In our modern, interconnected world, with globe-spanning supply chains and near-light speed internet, it becomes easy to forget just how critical the land we inhabit has shaped our civilization’s culture, technology, economy, and over time the very people that call these places home. Tonight, we are joined by Dark Enlightenment to survey history’s great civilizations from Eurasia through the Americas, and examine how geography has made or broken countless wars, trade routes, and in general the ability of a people to either thrive or perish.
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https://odysee.com/@myth20c:5/prisoners_geography:aMyth of the 20th Century – Episode 277 – Prisoners of Geography
— References —
– Prisoners of Geography, Marshall (2015)
– Exxon Mobil – Peak Oil and its Consequences, Myth of the 20th Century (2022) – https://myth20c.wordpress.com/2022/07/10/exxon-mobil-peak-oil-and-its-consequences/
– Zeihan – After Dark – the Collapse of Globalization, Myth of the 20th Century (2022) – https://myth20c.wordpress.com/2022/10/31/zeihan-after-dark-the-collapse-of-globalization/
– Here’s what you need to know about BYD, the Chinese EV giant that just overtook Tesla, He (2024) – https://finance.yahoo.com/news/know-byd-chinese-ev-giant-124004580.html
– Exclusive: Tucker Carlson Interviews Vladimir Putin, Carlson (2024) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOCWBhuDdDo
– Task and Purpose – https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSq3p5NKEtyp5Rjd4ctiEbg
Recently we spoke with Corey from the Stone Choir podcast to talk about the moral, legal and societal ramifications of the CRISPR gene editing technology. Tonight we are honored to have a genetic researcher offer his technical expertise and experience with the inner workings of the biotechnology field, including areas ranging from the increasing computational demands of molecule discovery to the political and financial dynamics of the varied research groups involved in the ever growing search for biological improvements and cures. With this as a backdrop, we compare the institutional quality of the United States, Europe, and Asia, and reflect on the implications for continuance of trends in research and manufacturing excellence in the broader economy.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/8QzFHt4rjsTAhttps://odysee.com/@myth20c:5/crispr_ii:9Myth of the 20th Century – Episode 276 – Editing Humanity – Part II – American Genomics and the Truth about CRISPR
— References —
- The Mythical Man-Month, Brooks (1975)
- Gung Ho, Howard (1986)
- The Cathedral and the Bazaar, Raymond (1999)
- The Underground History of American Education, Gatto (2000)
- The Heroes of CRISPR, Lander (2016) – https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(15)01705-5
- UC Berkeley suffers big loss in CRISPR patent fight: What’s next for the powerful gene-editing technology?, Netburn (2017) – https://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-crispr-patent-decision-20170215-story.html
- American Factory, Bognar (2019)
- CRISPR, the revolutionary genetic ‘scissors,’ honored by Chemistry Nobel, Cohen (2020) – https://www.science.org/content/article/crispr-revolutionary-genetic-scissors-honored-chemistry-nobel
- Statistician to the Stars – William M Briggs, Myth of the 20th Century (2024) – https://myth20c.wordpress.com/2024/05/09/statistician-to-the-stars-william-m-briggs/
- Editing Humanity – The CRISPR Revolution and the New Era of Genome Editing, Myth of the 20th Century (2024) – https://myth20c.wordpress.com/2024/08/04/editing-humanity-the-crispr-revolution-and-the-new-era-of-genome-editing/
- Top 10 Universities in ISC World University Rankings by Subject 2020 in Industrial Biotechnology – https://isc.ac/en/news/1755/top-10-universities-in-isc-world-university-rankings-by-subject-2020-in-industrial-biotechnology
- H.R.5546 – National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986 – https://www.congress.gov/bill/99th-congress/house-bill/5546
- Biotechnology Innovation Scorecard – Productivity – https://www.thinkbiotech.com/globalbiotech/category/Productivity
- Polymerase chain reaction – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymerase_chain_reaction
- All Employees, Manufacturing (MANEMP) – https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MANEMP
On the morning of May 20th, 1927, Charles Lindbergh took off from Long Island, New York in a plane he helped design on the first successful solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean. 33 hours later, after braving 3,600 miles over ice cold water and bone chilling fog in the North Atlantic, Lindbergh touched down in Paris, France to cheering crowds. Upon his return to the United States, over 4 million people in a jubilant crowd attended his parade, just to get a glimpse of their hero. Like his father before him, Charles saw the devastating effect the First World War had on Europe, and with war clouds returning to the continent by the 1930s, Lindbergh sought to keep America out of the conflict. His movement, called ‘America First’, saw many of the forces behind calls to bring the American arsenal to bear in Europe to have little resemblance to the common people of the country, whom they asked to bear the brunt of the sacrifice, and in citing these forces, brought out a barrage of censorship, criticism and job losses to many of his supporters. This seemingly confirmed Lindbergh’s suspicions of the pernicious motives of the Second World War, and the courage to speak out in many ways paralleled what it took to cross the Atlantic a decade prior. Today we are joined by returning guest Zach Logos to examine the legacy of the ‘America First’ movement and its implications to the modern era, where once again America seems entangled in an endless series of foreign wars that offer little if no benefit to the average American.
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https://odysee.com/@myth20c:5/america_first:dMyth of the 20th Century – Episode 275 – American Spirit – Charles Lindbergh and the America First Movement— References —
– The Deer Hunter, Cimino (1978)
– Henry Ford – Life, Work and Legacy, Myth of the 20th Century (2017) – https://myth20c.wordpress.com/2017/09/21/henry-ford-life-work-and-legacy/
– Forging America – The Story of Bethlehem Steel, Myth of the 20th Century (2020) – https://myth20c.wordpress.com/2020/09/03/forging-america-the-story-of-bethlehem-steel/
– Marcus Aurelius – Stoicism in a time of Empire, Myth of the 20th Century (2024) – https://myth20c.wordpress.com/2024/06/21/marcus-aurelius-stoicism-in-a-time-of-empire/
– Charles Lindbergh’s America First Des Moines Speech – http://www.charleslindbergh.com/americanfirst/speech.asp
– Billionaire space race – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billionaire_space_race
As technology has advanced throughout human history, societies have adapted their way of life to try to incorporate the advantages offered while limiting the consequences. The automobile for example freed people from the limited range and unpredictable nature of the horse, but also created a need for traffic safety laws and research into pollution controls. Similarly with biotechnology and genetic engineering, the promise of curing disease motivates many to continue research, but the demonstrated and potential consequences of genetic abnormalities and eugenic warfare make this technology a power that may not be best left to the creative classes and better kept under close scrutiny if allowed at all. Tonight we discuss this topic in the context of Kevin Davies’ work ‘Editing Humanity’ on the CRISPR gene editing technique with the help of returning guest Corey Mahler from the Stone Choir podcast to offer a Christian perspective on this profoundly human topic with its deep moral implications.
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https://www.bitchute.com/video/jPIHYDD0d9dU/https://odysee.com/@myth20c:5/CRISPR:96Myth of the 20th Century – Episode 274 – Editing Humanity – The CRISPR Revolution and the New Era of Genome Editing— References —
- Andromeda Strain, Crichton (1969)
- Cracking the Genome: Inside the Race To Unlock Human DNA, Davies (2001)
- Anti-Tech Revolution: Why and How, Kaczynski (2016)
- Editing Humanity – The CRISPR Revolution and the New Era of Genome Editing, Davies (2020)
- The Mystery, Myth and Reality of Plum Island – https://science.howstuffworks.com/life/biology-fields/mystery-myth-reality-plum-island.htm
- Prisoner’s Dilemma – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner’s_dilemma
The world has rarely seen a time where two powers dominate the entire globe – almost utterly and completely – like in the latter half of the 20th Century with the United States and the Soviet Union, as our guest Thomas777 tonight points out. After the end of the Cold War in 1991, it also became easy to feel like the era of major global conflict was over, and forget just how deadly and potentially catastrophic with nuclear weapons the preceding eras had become. During the post World War II era, with the Axis powers having been thoroughly defeated, the (former) allies, replete with their battle tested armies and massive armaments and industrial bases, aligned against each other into capitalist and communist blocs. With the stakes never before this high, and the entire world hoping to avoid another cataclysmic 100 million dead, the United States began funding think tanks to come up with ways to do this – most notably at the RAND Corporation. During their early years, and up until the height of the Cold War, RAND attracted thousands of famous and highly influential intellects from the fields of physics, mathematics, statistics, economics and more, many of who went on to win Nobel prizes, focusing on war strategy, production planning, and predictive modeling of adversaries using theoretical and computerized simulations. But as the Vietnam War demonstrated the limits of these approaches in entrenched nationalist struggles, and as general sentiment for military research soured, the organization today is a shadow of its former self, and stands amidst a crowded field of beltway adjacent think tanks, going through the white paper motions without demonstrating anything of true note – perhaps like much of the rest of the broader US military establishment.
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https://bitchute.com/video/03XpsQbGZdvQ/https://odysee.com/@myth20c:5/RAND:1Myth of the 20th Century – Soldiers of Reason – The RAND Corporation – with Thomas777— References —
- On War, Clausewitz (1832)
- Cybernetics, Wiener (1948)
- On Thermonuclear War, Kahn (1960)
- The Pentagon Papers, New York Times (1971) – https://www.nytimes.com/spotlight/the-pentagon-papers
- The Terror Network, Sterling (1981)
- Inside the Soviet Army, Suvarov (1982)
- WarGames, Badham (1983)
- Beautiful Mind, Howard (2001)
- Soldiers of Reason, Abella (2008)
- The Fog of War, Morris (2008)
- TMBS Doc – Private Gov – The Rand Corp Meritocracy, Bessner (2020) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yu13l7JMhe4
- Zeihan – After Dark – the Collapse of Globalization, Myth of the 20th Century (2022) – https://myth20c.wordpress.com/2022/10/31/zeihan-after-dark-the-collapse-of-globalization/
- Episode 889: The ‘Cold War’ Pt. 16 – The Q&A Finale – w/ Thomas777 (2023) – https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-889-the-cold-war-pt-16-the-q-a-finale-w-thomas777/id1263295815?i=1000611518316
- Episode 1079: Trump is Targeted w/ Thomas777 and Dark Enlightenment, The Pete Quiñones Show (2024) – https://www.spreaker.com/episode/episode-1079-trump-is-targeted-w-thomas777-and-dark-enlightenment–60686297
- Proud Prophet – Reagan’s Nuclear War Briefing Declassified – https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/nuclear-vault/2016-12-22/reagans-nuclear-war-briefing-declassified
- Pournelle’s Iron Law of Bureaucracy – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Pournelle#Pournelle’s_laws
- Arrow’s impossibility theorem – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow%27s_impossibility_theorem
- Nash Equilibrium – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nash_equilibrium
- Shoe-banging incident – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoe-banging_incident
- Simplex algorithm – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simplex_algorithm
Serving as emperor of Rome from 161AD to 189AD, Marcus Aurelius was considered the last of the five ‘good emperors’, and oversaw a time of relative peace and prosperity at home while stabilizing the empire’s frontiers abroad. Noted for his modesty and dedication to stoic philosophy, Aurelius’ writings serve as a guidepost for many seeking wisdom on life, rule, and what we leave behind. Tonight we are joined by Zach from Logos Revealed to examine Aurelius’ most famous work, ‘Meditations’, and to explore its lessons for leadership in a corrupt modern world.
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https://www.bitchute.com/video/6T7MWPxOAG8g/https://odysee.com/@myth20c:5/marcus_aurelius:dMyth of the 20th Century – Episode 272 – Marcus Aurelius – Stoicism in a time of Empire
— References —
- Republic, Plato (375 BC)
- Meditations, Aurelius (180)
- Coriolanus, Shakespeare (1605)
- Gladiator, Scott (2000)
Wall Street has famously been a place for young and ambitious people looking to make a career in finance, and has been host to numerous boom and bust phases, whether it be the IPO craze of the late 90s or the mortgage derivative boom in the 2000s. In the 1980s, leveraged buyout (LBO) firms like KKR spearheaded the then largest takeover deal ever in the purchase of RJR Nabisco, as chronicled by the bestselling book ‘Barbarians at the Gate’. As these types of takeovers typically involved large amounts of debt and cost cutting layoffs to pay for the debt, LBOs grew unpopular by the 1990s, eventually leading to the industry rebranding under the Private Equity banner. But despite the name change, cheap interest rates following the 2008 financial crisis led to a massive rise in funds of private equity management by over 1,000 times today over 1980, with perhaps a trillion dollars controlled by the top 30 firms of the likes of Blackstone, KKR, and the Carlyle Group. Tonight we are joined by New Yorker Ace Neiderhoff to give us an insider take on this often misunderstood but tremendously significant industry, and also offer guidance to those seeking to make it in one of the toughest and most competitive cities in the world.
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https://www.bitchute.com/video/qB4xpBfG1A6J/https://odysee.com/@myth20c:5/private_equity:5Myth of the 20th Century – Episode 271 – Confessions of a Private Equity Operator
— References —
- Intelligent Investor, Graham (1949)
- Barbarians as the Gate, Burrough (1989)
- Investment Banking: Valuation, Leveraged Buyouts, and Mergers and Acquisitions, 2nd Edition, Rosenbaum et. al. (2013) – https://a.co/d/iIY95mD
- Big Short, McKay (2015)
- The Secretive Industry Devouring the U.S. Economy, Karma (2023) – https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/10/private-equity-publicly-traded-companies/675788/
- Private Equity 2023 Year-in-Review and 2024 Outlook: Clearer Skies Emerge for Private Equity Amidst Challenges, Cherry Bekaert (2023) – https://www.cbh.com/guide/reports/private-equity-industry-report-2023-trends-and-2024-outlook/
- Nobel Laureate Romer Says AI Hype Risks Repeat of Crypto Bubble, Savov (2024) – https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/nobel-laureate-romer-says-ai-hype-risks-repeat-of-crypto-bubble/ar-BB1neec0
- 2023-2024 Best Business Schools – The Princeton Review – https://www.princetonreview.com/business-school-rankings/best-business-schools
- Wall Street Oasis – https://www.wallstreetoasis.com/
Since its founding in 1976, Apple has been at or near the center of personal computing. Led by legendary founder Steve Jobs, who described the company as lying at the intersection between liberal arts and technology, Apple pioneered the introduction of the graphical user interface, the music player, and the smartphone to everyday people around the world. Since his passing, however, the company, led by former operations manager Tim Cook, has delivered strong unit growth and profit numbers, but has not been able to introduce a revolutionary new product or paradigm in the way we think about the world of information technology. To the question of has the soul of the company left the building permanently, we are joined tonight by returning guest Woe, from the excellent Stone Choir podcast, to share his perspectives as an over 15 year Apple veteran on the company’s place in the culture of Silicon Valley and the broader moral issues in the coming era of artificial intelligence.
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https://www.bitchute.com/video/0kT456mDVaJt/https://odysee.com/@myth20c:5/Apple:67Myth of the 20th Century – Episode 270 – Deus Ex Machina – Apple and the Ghost of Steve Jobs
— References —
- Blood Meridian, McCarthy (1985)
- Steve Jobs, Isaacson (2011)
- Ex Machina, Garland (2014)
- After Steve: How Apple Became a Trillion-Dollar Company and Lost Its Soul, Mickle (2022)
- Apple M1 Chip: Everything You Need to Know, Clover (2022) – https://www.macrumors.com/guide/m1/
- Stone Choir – Christian Nationalism, Myth of the 20th Century (2023) – https://myth20c.wordpress.com/2023/08/06/stone-choir-christian-nationalism/
- The Big Lie, Stone Choir (2023) – https://stone-choir.com/the-big-lie/
- Stone Choir – After Dark – Good vs Evil, Myth of the 20th Century (2023) – https://myth20c.wordpress.com/2023/10/02/stone-choir-after-dark-good-vs-evil/
- Apple is reportedly exploring a partnership with Google for Gemini-powered feature on iPhones, Mehta (2024) – https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/17/apple-is-reportedly-exploring-a-partnership-with-google-for-gemini-powered-feature-on-iphones/
- Technology, Stone Choir (2024) – https://stone-choir.com/technology/
- This is what dismantling the Apple Car project looks like, Potuck (2024) – https://9to5mac.com/2024/05/02/what-dismantling-the-apple-car-project-looks-like/
Mark Twain once quipped, regarding truth in journalism, that “there are lies, damned lies – and then there are statistics.” Interpretations vary, but a common take away is that people lie to others using fancy numbers. This is almost certainly true – but what is explored with tonight’s guest, statistician and professor William M. Briggs, is the tendency for people to deceive themselves by assigning undue authority to complex mathematical models and their practitioners – and not questioning the assumptions that inevitably go into those models in areas such as climate change and the recent COVID scare. In his books ‘Everything You Believe is Wrong’ and ‘Uncertainty’, Briggs examines many of these commonly held fallacies, and we discuss those findings along with his experience in the academic world to understand the implications it has for doing science in an increasingly non-scientific culture.
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- How the Laws of Physics Lie, Cartwright (1983)
- The Intellectual Capacity Of Women, Stove (1995) – https://www.wmbriggs.com/post/17124/
- SJWs Always Lie: Taking Down the Thought Police, Day (2015)
- Uncertainty: The Soul of Modeling, Probability & Statistics, Briggs (2016) – https://www.amazon.com/Uncertainty-Soul-Modeling-Probability-Statistics/dp/3319397559
- Everything You Believe Is Wrong, Briggs (2021) – https://www.amazon.com/Everything-Believe-Wrong-William-Briggs/dp/1087987156
- What Happened After Peter Thiel Paid 271 Students to Drop Out of College?, MSN (2024) – https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/02/24/2311221/what-happened-after-peter-thiel-paid-271-students-to-drop-out-of-college
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The Pete Quinones Show – Episode 1043 – Generation 68 – The Elite Revolution and Its Legacy
Adam and Lance join Pete to talk about the content of Kerry Bolton’s latest book, “Generation ’68: The Elite Revolution and Its Legacy.” They discuss Bolton’s assertion that the cultural revolution of the 1960s in the West was a top-down project by elites.
THE BOOK: Generation ’68: The Elite Revolution and Its Legacy by Kerry Bolton
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Economics today is an institutionalized profession, with academic departments, research grants, and millions of practitioners in the finance and government sectors. In the late 18th and early 19th century, however, economists were not part of any formalized profession, and ranged in background from professors of logic and moral philosophy in the case of Adam Smith to dilettantish journalists with wealthy patrons in the case of Karl Marx. Friedrich List, a former German bureaucrat and eventual entrepreneur emigre to America, saw firsthand the important interplay between government and industry, particularly around protective tariffs for developing a manufacturing sector – serving as a potential “missing link” in the body of thought between the extremes of radical laissez faire free markets and top down centrally planned economies. As the world continues on a path towards de-globalization and increasing polarization, List’s system of National Economics provides a guidebook to many developing and developed economies alike that seek to increase their level of independence and sovereignty.
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- Wealth of Nations, Smith (1776)
- On War, Clausewitz (1832)
- The Collapse of Complex Societies, Tainter (1988)
- Governing the Market, Wade (1990)
- Korean Tiger – the Park Chung-Hee Era, Myth of the 20th Century (2020) – https://myth20c.wordpress.com/2020/03/04/korean-tiger-the-park-chung-hee-era/
- The Ancient City, Fustel de Coulanges (2020) – https://www.imperiumpress.org/shop/the-ancient-city/
- Why I am Not a Liberal, Bowden, Pankhurst et. al. (2020) – https://www.imperiumpress.org/shop/why-i-am-not-a-liberal/
- Patriarcha – The Complete Political Works, Filmer (2021) – https://www.imperiumpress.org/shop/patriarcha-the-complete-works/
- National System of Political Economy, List and O’Beirne (2022) – https://www.imperiumpress.org/shop/national-system-of-political-economy/
- The Populist Delusion, Parvini (2022) – https://www.imperiumpress.org/shop/populist-delusion/
- Breeding the Human Herd, Dutton (2023) – https://www.imperiumpress.org/shop/breeding-the-human-herd/
- Germanic Theology, Powers (2024) – https://www.imperiumpress.org/shop/germanic-theology-vol-i/
Vladimir Putin recently won reelection as Russia’s president by a wide margin, making him the country’s longest serving ruler since Josef Stalin. Both men have also uniquely presided over their country’s largest-scale conflicts, throwing support to the argument that economic sanctions placed on countries during war only serve to entrench rather than dislodge their leaders. But the long-term sustainability of a war-style command economy remains less clear, with notable examples of North Korea and arguably the Soviet Union itself raising real concerns of how people can fall behind over time without a relaxing of the central authority. Tonight, we are rejoined by Lance, our frequent military expert and contributor to help us unravel some of the mystery of the military and economic machinations of the Putin regime and how it compares to other stratagems in America and around the world.
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Very special guest General Lance
https://link.space/@LancesLegion
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAioE7UWN_tV6gVFcqQZqPw
DVX Publishing – https://www.dvxpublishingcompany.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/LancesLegion
with Adam Smith and Hans Lander
Lance’s new book: Caesar Bellator – https://www.amazon.com/dp/1957583193
https://www.bitchute.com/video/9CIL1UP1KvBt/https://odysee.com/@myth20c:5/russian_war_economy:dMyth of the 20th Century – Episode 277 – Russia at War – Command Economy
— References —
- FM100-2-1 The Soviet Army Operations and Tactics, US Army (1984) – https://archive.org/details/fm100-2-1/mode/1up
- The Fall and Rise of Russian Electronic Warfare, Clark (2022) – https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-fall-and-rise-of-russian-electronic-warfare
- Ukraine loses 16 US-made armored vehicles, group says, but Kyiv’s forces still gain territory, CNN (2023) – https://edition.cnn.com/europe/live-news/russia-ukraine-war-news-06-12-23/h_677ac2bebb1d8324ffd538ac5124876e
- Putin’s war fired up Russia’s economy and beat sanctions – but big problems lie ahead, Summa Money (2024) – https://summamoney.com/investing/the-daily/putins-war-fired-up-russias-economy-and-beat-sanctions-but-big-problems-lie-ahead/
- War against Ukraine to cost Russia $1.3 trillion in lost growth – Secretary Austin, The New Voice of Ukraine (2024) – https://ca.news.yahoo.com/war-against-ukraine-cost-russia-183000980.html
- Exclusive: Russia producing three times more artillery shells than US and Europe for Ukraine, CNN (2024) – https://www.wral.com/story/exclusive-russia-producing-three-times-more-artillery-shells-than-us-and-europe-for-ukraine/21322737/
- Economic impact of the Russian invasion of Ukraine – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_impact_of_the_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine
Many of us on the disaffected political right got here at one point or another through libertarianism, which appeals to those most usually content with doing their own thing. If 2020 taught us anything, however, with COVID lockdowns, riots, and suspicious elections, the powers that be are not only not content with allowing free choice, but are more than willing to use violence to maintain their power. Tonight, Pete Quinones joins us to share his journey through libertarianism and his assessment of the conservative political project, concluding organized political force may be the only way to protect the personal values many of us hold.
— Brought to you by —
The Pete Quinones Show – https://freemanbeyondthewall.libsyn.com/
https://findmyfrens.net/petequinones/
https://petessubstack.com/
https://www.bitchute.com/video/Fn1EOhTQsF7X/
https://odysee.com/@myth20c:5/pete_q:dMyth of the 20th Century – Episode 266 – Free Man Beyond the Wall – Pete Quinones
— References —
- Letters on the Spanish Inquisition, Maistre (1843) – https://archive.org/details/lettersonspanish00maisuoft/page/140/mode/2up
- Patchwork: A Political System for the 21st Century, Moldbug (2008) – https://www.unqualified-reservations.org/2008/11/patchwork-positive-vision-part-1/
- Wolf of Wall Street, Scorsese (2013)
- Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future, Thiel (2014)
- Peter Thiel’s War On Gawker: A Timeline, Forbes (2016) – https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattdrange/2016/06/21/peter-thiels-war-on-gawker-a-timeline/
- Spanish Civil War – Fascist Uprising, Myth of the 20th Century (2018) – https://myth20c.wordpress.com/2018/01/31/spanish-civil-war-fascist-uprising/
- Israel’s first moon mission lost moments before landing, Temming (2019) – https://www.sciencenews.org/article/israel-moon-mission-spacecraft-crash
- Episode 759: Throwback A Survey of the Neo-Conservative Ideology w/ Paul Gottfried, Quinones (2022) – https://freemanbeyondthewall.libsyn.com/episode-759-0
- Erik Prince wants to sell you a “secure” smartphone that’s too good to be true, O’Neill (2022) – https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/08/19/1058243/erik-prince-wants-to-sell-you-a-secure-smartphone-thats-too-good-to-be-true/
- Episode 904: Joseph de Maistre’s ‘On the Spanish Inquisition’ Pt. 1 w/ Aaron from Timeline Earth, Quinones (2023) – https://freemanbeyondthewall.libsyn.com/episode-904
- Episode 978: The Point of No Return w/ Dr. E Michael Jones, Quinones (2023) – https://freemanbeyondthewall.libsyn.com/episode-978
- Episode 993: PragerU and the ‘Con-Inc’ Agenda w/ Dark Enlightenment, Quinones (2023) – https://freemanbeyondthewall.libsyn.com/episode-993
- Episode 1004: October 7th and Its Consequences w/ Ron Unz, Quinones (2024)- https://freemanbeyondthewall.libsyn.com/episode-1004
- EPISODE 1020: THE POST WW2 ‘ORDER’ W/ MARK WEBER, Quinones (2024) – https://www.podbean.com/site/EpisodeDownload/DIR1D812E60RKQER
- Argentina – Chainsaw Economics, Myth of the 20th Century (2024) – https://myth20c.wordpress.com/2024/01/22/argentina-chainsaw-economics/
- Google Declares War, Myth of the 20th Century (2024) – https://theamericansun.substack.com/p/google-declares-war
- Project 2025 – https://www.project2025.org/
The largest country in Latin America – in terms of population, land mass, and economy – is a crown worn indisputably by Brazil. But the history of this land, spanning four timezones and over five centuries of development, is one marked by tumultuous governance and political conflict, with different crowns worn by monarchs, military dictators, and democratic politicians alike, ruling over a teeming population of millions of former slaves, colonists and wannabe conquistadors. Tonight, we are joined by Lance from Lance’s Legion to help us work out the nuances of this complex and fascinating country, as well as impart some of the potential lessons of managing a large and complex demography with high rates of poverty and crime.
— Brought to you by —
Very special guest General Lance
https://link.space/@LancesLegion
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAioE7UWN_tV6gVFcqQZqPw
DVX Publishing – https://www.dvxpublishingcompany.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/LancesLegion
https://www.bitchute.com/video/2mmWlw8HSKuf/https://odysee.com/@myth20c:5/brazil:50Myth of the 20th Century – Episode 265 – Brazil – a Tumble in the Jungle
— References —
- Starship Troopers, Heinlein (1959)
- Platoon, Stone (1986)
- Full Metal Jacket, Kubrick (1987)
- Extreme Ownership, Willink (2015)
- Dichotomy of Leadership, Willink (2018)
- Coluna Miguel Costa-Prestes – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coluna_Prestes
- The Itaipu Hydroelectric Dam Project, Brazil – https://www.power-technology.com/projects/itaipu-hydroelectric/?cf-view
- History of the Empire of Brazil – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Empire_of_Brazil\
- Maps of Brazil – https://www.worldatlas.com/maps/brazil
- Brazil Real GDP per Capita, from 1900 – https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Brazil-Real-GDP-per-capita-since-1900_fig3_346923358
- War of the Triple Alliance – https://www.britannica.com/event/War-of-the-Triple-Alliance
- A Global Map of Culture Types – http://honorshame.com/global-map-of-culture-types/
- Violence in Brazil – https://www.wilsoncenter.org/blog-post/brazils-violence-map-shows-alarming-trends
Located at the southern end of South America and comprising much of Patagonia, a region known for its ruggedly beautiful, yet empty expanses, Argentina is a country distant geographically as well as one metaphysically often forgotten. That all changed last year when Javier Milei won election to President and perhaps most notably held a rally wielding a chainsaw, promising to slash government bureaucracy and free up the society in an attempt to revitalize the long-struggling economy, plagued for decades by slow growth, chronic inflation, and currency crises. Tonight, we are joined by returning guest Lynn Lockhart, who has family from the land of silver, to help us understand more about Argetina’s history and colorful new president, as well as the implications for radical reform against incumbent systems more broadly.
— Brought to you by —
Very special guest Lynn Lockhart @LynnLock328
- The Crackpot Podcast – https://thecrackpotpodcast.jimdo.com/
- Books – https://jameslafond.blogspot.com/p/james-lafond-starter-pack.html
https://www.bitchute.com/video/7AUDaEeC53Dp/https://odysee.com/@myth20c:5/argentina_milei:6Myth of the 20th Century – Episode 264 – Argentina – Chainsaw Economics— References —
- Little House on the Prairie, Wilder (1932)
- The Manipulated Man, Vilar (1971)
- African Decolonization – Empire of Dust, Myth of the 20th Century (2018) – https://myth20c.wordpress.com/2018/06/07/african-decolonization-empire-of-dust/
- Minding the Gap – Homeschooling, Myth of the 20th Century (2018) – https://myth20c.wordpress.com/2018/12/05/minding-the-gap-homeschooling/
- Crippling blackout hits tens of millions in South America, CBS News (2019) – https://www.cbsnews.com/news/south-america-blackout-power-grid-failure-leaves-44-million-without-electricity-across-argentina-and-uruguay/
- Argentina – The Evita Review, Myth of the 20th Century (2020) – https://myth20c.wordpress.com/2020/10/15/argentina-the-evita-review/
- The Rise of Nayib Bukele, El Salvador’s Authoritarian President, Blitzer (2022) – https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/09/12/the-rise-of-nayib-bukele-el-salvadors-authoritarian-president
- Someone Has to Say It – Tom Kawczynski, Myth of the 20th Century (2023) – https://myth20c.wordpress.com/2023/07/14/someone-has-to-say-it-tom-kawczynski/
- The market triumphs: Milei manages to improve rent prices with deregulatory measures, Rondon (2024) – https://voz.us/the-market-triumphs-milei-manages-to-improve-rent-prices-with-deregulatory-measures/?lang=en
Tonight we discuss some of this past year’s highlights, starting with the run on Silicon Valley Bank and near repeat of the 2008 financial crisis. We then cover the geopolitical implications of the ongoing conflict in Ukraine mixed in with the attacks in Israel, crisis at the border, and the changing world of technology as AI continues to touch more of our everyday lives. As a bonus, we are excited to welcome back longtime co-hosts Nick and Hank to help us round out the year, and to give us some perspective as what this year may yet bring.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/aS4eGVbBh4vN/https://odysee.com/@myth20c:5/2023_YnR:5Myth of the 20th Century – Episode 263 – 2023 – Year in Review
— References —
- BANKING CRISIS – After Dark, Myth of the 20th Century (2023) – https://myth20c.wordpress.com/2023/03/17/banking-crisis-after-dark/
- US Pending Home Sales Index Holds at Lowest Level on Record, Sasso (2023) – https://finance.yahoo.com/news/us-pending-home-sales-index-150000975.html
- Sam Bankman-Fried found guilty of seven counts of fraud in stunning fall for former crypto billionaire, Morrow (2023) – https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/02/business/ftx-sbf-fraud-trial-verdict/index.html
- Forbes mocked as another ‘30 Under 30’ honoree joins the ranks of fraudsters Elizabeth Holmes, SBF, Barrbi (2023) – https://nypost.com/2023/04/05/forbes-mocked-as-another-30-under-30-honoree-accused-of-fraud-incredible-track-record/
- The World on the Brink – After Dark, Myth of the 20th Century (2023) – https://myth20c.wordpress.com/2023/11/15/the-world-on-the-brink-after-dark/
- Gaza Strikes Back, Giraldi (2023) – https://www.unz.com/pgiraldi/gaza-strikes-back/
- AI and Open Borders, Henry Delacroix (2023) – https://theamericansun.substack.com/p/ai-open-borders
- The Great Geopolitical Compass of the 2020’s (Israel vs. Palestine & Russia vs. Ukraine), Stark (2024) – https://www.unz.com/article/the-great-geopolitical-compass-of-the-2020s-israel-vs-palestine-russia-vs-ukraine/
We were invited to join this year’s Milleniyule marathon, hosted by Millenial Woes, to discuss some of the biggest “myths” of the 20th century. We were honored to be invited and thoroughly enjoyed the conversation.
To find more of Woe’s work and listen to his full catalog, checkout https://www.millennialwoes.com and https://www.millennialwoes.com/millenniyule?y=2023
https://odysee.com/@millennialwoes:4/MY2023MythOfThe20thCentury:3https://www.bitchute.com/video/WzJNW4BBl3pI/https://twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1gqxvQPwQNzJBMillenniyule 2023 – Myth of the 20th Century— References —
- Threads, Jackson (1984)
- Icebreaker – Who Started the Second World War?, Myth of the 20th Century (2019) – https://myth20c.wordpress.com/2019/07/03/icebreaker-who-started-the-second-world-war/
- The Russian Revolution and its Consequences – Dr. Matthew Rafael Johnson, Myth of the 20th Century (2019) – https://myth20c.wordpress.com/2019/11/27/the-russian-revolution-and-its-consequences-dr-matthew-rafael-johnson/
- F-35 Joint Strike Fighter – a Lockheed Insider’s Story, Myth of the 20th Century (2019) – https://myth20c.wordpress.com/2019/07/18/f-35-joint-strike-fighter-a-lockheed-insiders-story/
- The Money Game – ZMAN on Financialization of the Economy, Myth of the 20th Century (2020) – https://myth20c.wordpress.com/2020/07/31/the-money-game-zman-on-financialization-of-the-economy/
- Forging America – The Story of Bethlehem Steel, Myth of the 20th Century (2020) – https://myth20c.wordpress.com/2020/09/03/forging-america-the-story-of-bethlehem-steel/
- The Automotive Industry, Myth of the 20th Century (2020) – https://myth20c.wordpress.com/2020/10/22/the-automotive-industry/
- The Machine that Built the World, Myth of the 20th Century (2020) – https://myth20c.wordpress.com/2020/12/12/the-machine-that-built-the-world/
- General Dynamics – The Defender, Myth of the 20th Century (2021) – https://myth20c.wordpress.com/2021/04/09/general-dynamics-the-defender/
- Myth of the 20th Century – James LaFond, Myth of the 20th Century (2021) – https://myth20c.wordpress.com/2021/01/27/myth-of-the-20th-century-james-lafond/
- Soviet Cybernetics – Red Plenty, Myth of the 20th Century (2021) – https://myth20c.wordpress.com/2021/12/09/soviet-cybernetics-red-plenty/
- Boeing – Troubled Skies, Myth of the 20th Century (2022) – https://myth20c.wordpress.com/2022/03/31/boeing-troubled-skies/
In pagan Germany sometime in the 8th century, legend has it that a Christian monk, who would later become known as Saint Boniface, gathered a tribe of non-believers around him and their most sacred tree. Thought to incite a vengeful bolt of lightning from Thor himself if cut down, Boniface, in front of all who could see, felled the tree with a single chop of the axe, aided by a gust of wind seemingly from another divinity, and no lightning. In that moment, the onlookers were converted to Christianity. Tonight, we are joined by the author of ‘The Boniface Option’, Pastor Andrew, to explore why the analogy of a bold and visceral attack against false idols may be fitting for addressing the troubles of our “trashworld” times.
Very special guest Pastor Andrew
The Boniface Option: A Strategy For Christian Counteroffensive in a Post-Christian Nation – https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CFZ84K7T
Contra Mundum – Sojourners in a Strange Land – https://contramundum.life/
https://news.gab.com/tag/andrew-isker/
https://twitter.com/BonifaceOption
https://www.bitchute.com/video/leptjuQvylMT/https://odysee.com/@myth20c:5/boniface_option:9Myth of the 20th Century – Episode 262 – The Boniface Option
— References —
- Christian Nationalism: A Biblical Guide For Taking Dominion And Discipling Nations, Isker, Torba (2022)
- The Boniface Option: A Strategy For Christian Counteroffensive in a Post-Christian Nation, Isker (2023)
- Stone Choir – Christian Nationalism, Myth of the 20th Century (2023) – https://myth20c.wordpress.com/2023/08/06/stone-choir-christian-nationalism/
- Stone Choir – After Dark – Good vs Evil, Myth of the 20th Century (2023) – https://myth20c.wordpress.com/2023/08/06/stone-choir-christian-nationalism/
- How to Get Excommunicated in 2023, Dee (2023) – https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/how-to-get-excommunicated-in-2023
- Why Polemics: A Review of Andrew Isker’s “The Boniface Option”, Oslo (2023) – https://theamericansun.substack.com/p/why-polemics-a-review-of-andrew-iskers-the-boniface-option
- Can The Grill Americans Be Radicalized? (Contra Mundum, Episode 29), Boniface Option (2023) – https://bonifaceoption.substack.com/p/can-the-grill-americans-be-radicalized-f41
- Chronicles – a Magazine of American Culture – https://chroniclesmagazine.org/
- Reviewing ‘The Boniface Option’, Drehrer (2023) – https://roddreher.substack.com/p/reviewing-the-boniface-option
The world has never lacked for a troubling incident or cause for concern. But there are times when the drumbeats reach a crescendo, and in the case of war, the potential for large scale conflict seems to rise when a hegemon begins declining, and rival powers see their opportunity to increase their share. Ray Dalio, having made his success running the world’s largest global macro hedge fund and authoring several books on the major forces shaping world history, recently raised his estimate on the chance of World War III occurring in the next two years from 35% to 50%. Given how high the stakes are in that outcome, those are not the most encouraging odds. Tonight, we are joined by returning guest Lance to discuss the recent conflicts in the Middle and Near East, as well as the potential for such in the Far East and the general escalation amongst the nuclear armed superpowers.
— Brought to you by —
Very special guest General Lance
https://link.space/@LancesLegion
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAioE7UWN_tV6gVFcqQZqPw
DVX Publishing – https://www.dvxpublishingcompany.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/LancesLegion
https://odysee.com/@myth20c:5/world_on_the_brink:5https://rumble.com/v3vvwfz-the-world-on-the-brink-after-dark-myth20c-ep261.htmlMyth of the 20th Century – Episode 261 – The World on the Brink – After Dark
— References —
- Dr. Strangelove, Kubrick (1964)
- Black Swan, Taleb (2007)
- Can the Navy Defend Its Aircraft Carriers From Death by Submarine?, Hollings (2022) – https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/can-navy-defend-its-aircraft-carriers-death-submarine-199177
- WAR ROOM – THE MODERN PELOPONNESIAN WARS feat. Myth of the 20th Cent., Lances Legion (2022) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JmKInRXiak
- Superpower Rivalry in the 21st Century, Myth of the 20th Century (2023) – https://myth20c.wordpress.com/2023/06/20/superpower-rivalry-in-the-21st-century/
- Saudi Arabia and the (End of the) Petrodollar, Myth of the 20th Century (2023) – https://myth20c.wordpress.com/2023/07/23/saudi-arabia-and-the-end-of-the-petrodollar/
- Americans, Weary of Foreign Conflicts, Face Another, New York Times (2023) – https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/21/us/united-states-israel-ukraine-war.html
- What are carrier strike groups, the ships the US sent near Israel?, Atherton (2023) – https://www.popsci.com/technology/us-aircraft-carrier-strike-groups/
- Zelensky begs US for cash on ‘credit’ to be paid back after the war, Barshis (2023) – https://humanevents.com/2023/11/07/zelensky-begs-us-for-cash-on-credit-to-be-paid-back-after-the-war
- San Francisco using fencing, barriers to secure APEC summit where Xi, Biden will meet, DNYUZ (2023) – https://dnyuz.com/2023/11/13/san-francisco-using-fencing-barriers-to-secure-apec-summit-where-xi-biden-will-meet/
- From Ukraine to the Middle East: On the Brink of World War 3, Dugin (2023) – https://www.geopolitika.ru/en/article/ukraine-middle-east-brink-world-war-3
Even before humans developed metal tools, stonework, jewelry and mineral wealth have been an integral part in human society. With the advent of the industrial revolution, with coal being exploited as a primary energy source for heating and locomotion, even more minerals ranging from copper to iron to aluminum became accessible on a scale never before seen. Now, with fossil fuels such as coal and oil becoming more difficult to source and pressure from environmental concerns causing a search for greener energy, a new frontier in mining for the green economy, ranging from lithium to cobalt, has opened, raising new challenges and opportunities in the never ending search for wealth from beneath.
Myth of the 20th Century – Episode 260 – Mining – From the Depths of the Earth – After Dark
https://www.bitchute.com/video/ZQVDsaFFY5hOhttps://odysee.com/@myth20c:5/mining:09— References —
- Other People’s Money, Jewison (1991)
- The Machine that Built the World, Myth of the 20th Century (2020) – https://myth20c.wordpress.com/2020/12/12/the-machine-that-built-the-world/
- The Ukraine Crisis – After Dark, Myth of the 20th Century (2022) – https://myth20c.wordpress.com/2022/03/18/the-ukraine-crisis-after-dark/
- The World for Sale – Commodity Trading in Uncertain Times, Myth of the 20th Century (2022) – https://myth20c.wordpress.com/2022/12/19/the-world-for-sale-commodity-trading-in-uncertain-times/
- Mineral commodity summaries 2023, USGS (2023) – https://www.usgs.gov/publications/mineral-commodity-summaries-2023
- Mark P. Mills, Manhattan Institute – https://manhattan.institute/person/mark-p-mills
- Art Berman – https://www.artberman.com/
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The world is a complex place, filled with good and evil – and almost everything in between. The challenge of navigating this is that we are all tempted by something that we want, but ultimately will be our undoing. Christians frame this battle between God and Satan, with humans caught in the struggle to choose. What makes this even more difficult is it is not simply a matter of choice, but also of action. To avoid sin, we must resist its lure, but most, if not all, can without help. This is where faith provides solace, and in the final judgement, salvation. Tonight we are joined by two gentleman who have dedicated the search for what is good in the form of the excellent Stone Choir podcast, which explores many of these fundamental issues, and provides a guide to those who have sought a light in these dark times.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/0B2oTVpa8sJ1/
https://odysee.com/@myth20c:5/good_vs_evil:cMyth of the 20th Century – Episode 259 – Stone Choir – After Dark – Good vs Evil
— References —
– Paradise Lost, Milton (1667)
– On Human Race: IQ, Stone Choir (2023) – https://stone-choir.com/on-human-race-iq/
– Perfect Hatred, Stone Choir (2023) – https://stone-choir.com/perfect-hatred/
– A Young Man’s Life, Stone Choir (2023) – https://stone-choir.com/a-young-mans-life/
– Normalcy Bias, Stone Choir (2023) – https://stone-choir.com/normalcy-bias/
Estimates place the amount of the earth’s land area dedicated to buildings and other fixed structures to be no more than 3%. But of that land, nearly half is exclusive to roads and parking structures in some urban areas. This fact, obviously a consequence of the prevalence of the automobile, illustrates the importance of transportation, a key pillar to modern civilization. Connecting people, goods and services has always been important, but as the cost of movement has dropped and the speed has increased, the value of the network has only grown, which Metcalfe defined as proportional to the square of the nodes, or in this case, destinations. As technology pushes us farther and more safely, the era of globalization may very well extend beyond the globe and into the stars.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/9wUEHSmIWRk7/
https://odysee.com/@myth20c:5/transportation:dMyth of the 20th Century – Episode 258 – The Evolution of Transportation
— References —
– The Box, Levinson (2006)
– The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business, Myth of the 20th Century (2021) – https://myth20c.wordpress.com/2021/05/14/the-visible-hand-the-managerial-revolution-in-american-business/
– Cadillac Desert – The American West and Its Disappearing Water, Myth of the 20th Century (2022) – https://myth20c.wordpress.com/2022/08/30/cadillac-desert-the-american-west-and-its-disappearing-water/
– Essays on the History of Transportation and Technology, Kemp (2014)
– Geography of Transport Systems, 5th Edition, Rodrigue (2020)
Australia, a name derived from the Latin for “southern land”, sits as a continent unto itself at the far reaches of the Asian landmass, receiving its first settlers over 50,000 years ago when the ice age connected the two by a land bridge. It was not until the European settlements in the 17th century did... Read More
In a time of increasing skepticism of globalization, stemming from losses in jobs, cultural heritage, and sovereignty over ones own homeland, nationalism has re-emerged onto the political stage in protest movements and increasingly populist governments. Christian nationalism, focused on the incorporation of church doctrine into a nation and often a sovereign, is not a new... Read More
In 1945 near the end of WWII, US President Franklin Roosevelt, on his way back from the Yalta summit, met on the cruiser USS Quincy in the Suez Canal with Kign Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia. The meeting, prompted by Roosevelt asking how the United States had outlasted the mighty German war machine, was motivated... Read More
Carl von Clausewitz described war as politics by other means. In many ways the reverse could be said, with the modern state in the West seemingly arrayed against its own citizens in a constant battle of misdirection and interference in their lives. Tom Kawczynski, author of ‘Surviving the Fall of America’ and former town manager... Read More
As a show that has primarily focused on geopolitical history, we at the Myth of the 20th Century have not touched on the subject of women as much as others. But given the importance of women to all societies, and especially those facing declining birth rates, existential ennui, and many other social ills seemingly common... Read More
Soon after the end of the Second World War, the United States and the Soviet Union emerged as ‘superpowers’, leaders of the two primary ideological power blocks across the world’s major continents. After nearly 50 years of competition, the United States emerged victorious, and led an unprecedented era of ‘globalization’ for the next 20 years... Read More
Viewed as a microcosm of Manifest Destiny beyond the confines of the geographical limits of the continental United States, the annexation of the Hawaiian Islands by the US in the late 19th century marked the beginning of what we now consider the global American Empire. To the Hawaiian peoples, it was a clearly just as if not moreso a historic moment, albeit done for reasons of pragmatic acceptance of their minor power relationship in an ocean surrounded by much larger political and economic forces. The Hawaiian Islands, given their incredible strategic military location in the middle of the Pacific, would inevitably come under the sway of one of the surrounding powers. It was almost always less a question of if, but rather a question of when – and how.
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https://odysee.com/@myth20c:5/pineapple:aMyth of the 20th Century – Episode 251 – Pineapple Imperialism – a History of Hawaii
— References —
– The Influence of Sea Power upon History, Mahan (1890)
– Overthrow: America’s Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq, Kinzer (2006)
– Banana Imperialism – Central America and the Rise of the United Fruit Company, Myth of the 20th Century (2020) – https://myth20c.wordpress.com/2020/02/05/banana-imperialism-central-america-and-the-rise-of-the-united-fruit-company/
– Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America, Hämäläinen (2022)
The English word ‘bank’ meaning a depository and lending institution, derives from the Italian word ‘banca’, or ‘bench.’ This belies the origins of modern finance in Renaissance Italy, where deals initially struck at coffee house bench evolved into the great trading and banking houses of the Medicis, where double-entry book keeping enabled the matching of debtors with creditors that spurred the growth of industrial Europe over the coming centuries. Today, with daily capital flows measured in the trillions of dollars enabled by high-speed fiber optics and a global communications network, major decisions happen much more quickly, and because of the levered nature of fractional reserve finance, regional concern can magnify into global contagion faster than an actual pandemic. In the case of last weekend, where Silicon Valley Bank, one of the top-30 global banks went into receivership, the political institutions of the United States were caught off guard, and in an attempt to quell further concerns, went into overdrive this week as the Federal Reserve discount window was opened guaranteeing the assets of all major banks. Not to be outdone, the Swiss National Bank just intervened in the takeover of Credit Suisse, a century and half years old institution, to further halt panic in European markets. Memories of the 2008 financial crisis are on everyone’s mind, and the ripple effects of these events are surely to continue throughout the year.
https://odysee.com/@myth20c:5/banking_crisis:5https://rumble.com/v2dix4a-banking-crisis-after-dark-myth20c-ep250.htmlMyth of the 20th Century – Episode 250 – BANKING CRISIS – After Dark
— References —
- The Big Fraud – Savings and Loan Crisis, Myth of the 20th Century (2018) – https://myth20c.wordpress.com/2018/11/14/the-big-fraud-savings-and-loan-crisis/
- Number of Banks in the U.S., 1966-2017 (Graph), ILSR (2019) – https://ilsr.org/number-banks-u-s-1966-2014/
- How JPMorgan Maneuvered During the Fall of Silicon Valley Bank, LaCapra, Roddan (2023) – https://www.theinformation.com/articles/how-jpmorgan-maneuvered-during-the-fall-of-silicon-valley-bank
- JP Morgan Eye on the Market, Cembalest (2023) – https://am.jpmorgan.com/content/dam/jpm-am-aem/global/en/insights/eye-on-the-market/silicon-valley-bank-failure-amv.pdf
- Credit Suisse Default Swaps Are 18 Times UBS, 9 Times Deutsche Bank, Vossos (2023) – https://finance.yahoo.com/news/credit-suisse-default-swaps-18-093144418.html
- SPDR S&P Regional Banking ETF (KRE) – https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/KRE
- Federal Reserve Total Assets – https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WALCL
- Inflation, Prices and Interest Rates – https://fredaccount.stlouisfed.org/public/dashboard/42741
Ray Dalio, founder of Bridgewater Associates, has written several books on the world of investing and the economy in general based on his years of experience as manager of the world’s largest hedge fund. In the latest of his ‘Principles’ series, Dalio applies his quantitative approach of macro investing to analyzing countries, seeking to identify the factors that lead to strength such as education and work ethic, as well as lagging indicators such as a reserve currency that allow a country to spend beyond its means but ultimately presage a fall from dominance. Notably, Dalio sees China’s rise to the top of global power as likely, with America, while ahead, slowly declining. Tonight we debate the merits of his analysis, as well as the overall validity of a global macroeconomic approach that overlooks key factors such as demographics in forecasting long term power status.
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https://odysee.com/@myth20c:5/changing_world_order:3— References —
– America’s 60 Families, Lundberg (1937)
– The Fate of Empires and Search for Survival, Glubb (1978)
– Gung Ho, Howard (1986)
– Dynamic Hedging: Managing Vanilla and Exotic Options, Taleb (1997)
– The Fourth Turning, Howe & Strauss (1997)
– The House of Rothschild (series), Ferguson (1999)
– The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World, Ferguson (2008)
– A Gift to My Children: A Father’s Lessons For Life And Investing, Rogers (2009)
– The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable, Taleb (2010)
– Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder, Taleb (2012)
– Cycles in History – The Fourth Turning, Myth of the 20th Century (2017) – https://myth20c.wordpress.com/2017/11/15/cycles-in-history-the-fourth-turning/
– Principles for Navigating Big Debt Crises, Dalio (2018)
– American Factory, Bognar and Reichert (2019)
– China Factory Blast: Death Toll Rises to 64, Hundreds Injured, PTI (2019) – https://www.thequint.com/news/world/chemical-plant-blast-china
– The Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail, Dalio (2021)
– The End of the World is Just the Beginning, Zeihan (2022)
– Zeihan – After Dark – the Collapse of Globalization, Myth of the 20th Century (2022) – https://myth20c.wordpress.com/2022/10/31/zeihan-after-dark-the-collapse-of-globalization/
– Train Fatalities, Injuries, and Accidents by Type of Accident – https://www.bts.gov/content/train-fatalities-injuries-and-accidents-type-accidenta
Stagflation. Fuel Prices. Shortages. Political Turmoil. War in Europe. Roe V. Wade. Crypto Collapse. Counter-counter culture. Most years have one or two seminal, defining events that set the societal zeitgeist, but in 2022 so many events vied for attention that most people had to take time not only to revaluate what it means for the future, but also simply how to filter out the signal from the noise. Tonight we dive into the year, starting with the Ukrainian conflict, and ending with what might be emerging as an escalating one in Mexico, but in between cover the economic and cultural shakeups that continue to leave shockwaves into 2023.
— Brought to you by —
Very special guest Borzoi
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https://odysee.com/@myth20c:5/2022_YnR:eMyth of the 20th Century – Episode 248 – 2022 Year in Review
— References —
– Ralph Brewster and Howard Hughes speak during the investigation of 40 million, CriticalPast (1947) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xJ_aZ-bhkw
– The Big Fraud – Savings and Loan Crisis, Myth of the 20th Century (2018) – https://myth20c.wordpress.com/2018/11/14/the-big-fraud-savings-and-loan-crisis/
– World’s largest plane destroyed in Ukraine, Guy (2022) – https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/antonov-an-225-largest-plane-destroyed-ukraine-scli-intl/index.html
– The Aviator, Scorsese (2004)
– The 9th Company, Bondarchuk (2005)
– Cyprus – a Nation Divided, Myth of the 20th Century (2021) – https://myth20c.wordpress.com/2021/03/04/cyprus-a-nation-divided/
– San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities, Shellenberger (2021)
– Nord Stream bombing: Does the needle of suspicion point towards the US?, Sofuoglu (2022) – https://www.trtworld.com/magazine/nord-stream-bombing-does-the-needle-of-suspicion-point-towards-the-us-61383
– THE END NEARS September 24 Doomsday conspiracy grows as official who sparked social media frenzy after weird video breaks silence, Hornik (2022) – https://www.the-sun.com/news/6282565/doomsday-conspiracy-official-weird-video-breaks-silence/
– Zeihan – After Dark – the Collapse of Globalization, Myth of the 20th Century (2022) – https://myth20c.wordpress.com/2022/10/31/zeihan-after-dark-the-collapse-of-globalization/
– Kanye West doubles down on anti-Semitic tweet, Smith (2022) – https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11311837/Kanye-West-doubles-anti-Semitic-tweet-claiming-calling-bad-business.html
– A timeline of Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter, Wile (2022) – https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/twitter-elon-musk-timeline-what-happened-so-far-rcna57532
– Chesa Boudin’s recall is great for San Francisco – and all crime-plagued cities, like NYC, Gelinas (2022) – https://nypost.com/2022/06/08/chesa-boudins-recall-is-great-for-all-crime-plagued-cities/
– Jeff Sachs lab origin intercept
– MicroStrategy: Ignore The Haters And Hold Through The Crypto Winter, Investor Trip (2022) – https://seekingalpha.com/article/4568319-microstrategy-ignore-haters-hold-through-crypto-winter
– Elon Musk says ‘populist Bomb’ is destroying humanity (2023) – https://fa.news/articles/367769/
– Mexican capo’s arrest a gesture to U.S., not signal of change in drug war strategy, Sherman et. al. (2023) – https://www.inquirer.com/news/nation-world/mexico-drug-war-sinaloa-cartel-arrest-el-chapo-son-us-relations-20230107.html
– Crossover of the Year: Rogan x Zeihan – https://zeihan.com/crossover-of-the-year-rogan-x-zeihan/
– History of Bombay under Portuguese rule (1534–1661) – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Bombay_under_Portuguese_rule_(1534%E2%80%931661)
– Moon of Alabama – https://www.moonofalabama.org/
The exchange of goods and services has existed since the earliest forms of civilization, from simple barter arrangements at the local town square to Phoenician traders navigating the Mediterranean with goods from Europe and North Africa. Today, however, the scope of exchange is truly massive, with online commerce coming to dominate nearly all segments of retail, and the scale encompassing transoceanic trade routes totaling 11 billion tons in maritime cargoes in 2021. Underpinning all this lies an extremely complex web of producers, shippers, pipelines, warehouses, and commodities traders that include the massive concerns such as Koch Industries in energy and Glencore in metals, with over 100,000 employees each. Billions of dollars have been made and lost in commodities futures, and as volatility continues to disrupt prices of everyday items from gasoline to grain, the trend of ever tighter global trade integration seen since the end of the Cold War may start to unravel as regional blocks choose to have closer and more reliable supply chains.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/rICRukMD3jIe/https://odysee.com/@myth20c:5/commodities:fMyth of the 20th Century – Episode 247 -The World for Sale – Commodity Trading in Uncertain Times
– I, Pencil, Friedman (1980) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67tHtpac5ws
– Trading Places, Landis (1983)
– Commodity Market Integration, 1500-2000, Findlay and O’Rourke (2001) – https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w8579/w8579.pdf
– The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron, McLean and Elkind (2003)
– Quantum of Solace, Forster (2008)
– On speculators and hedgers in currency futures markets: who leads whom?, Röthig (2010) – https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ijfe.410
– The Futures: The Rise of the Speculator and the Origins of the World’s Biggest Markets, Lambert (2012)
– Swiss commodity traders under scrutiny at UNCTAD forum, UCTAD (2015) – https://unctad.org/news/swiss-commodity-traders-under-scrutiny-unctad-forum
– Hugo Chavez Ruined Venezuela, Papadopoulos (2019) – https://www.realclearhistory.com/2019/02/04/hugo_chavez_ruined_venezuela_10107.html
– What is a Commodity Super Cycle?, LePan (2019) – https://www.visualcapitalist.com/what-is-a-commodity-super-cycle/
– The most underrated Bond movie on Netflix reveals a real-world crisis, Yarlagadda (2021) – https://www.inverse.com/science/james-bond-water-war
– The World for Sale, Blas and Farchy (2021)
– Soviet Cybernetics – Red Plenty, Myth of the 20th Century (2021) – https://myth20c.wordpress.com/2021/12/09/soviet-cybernetics-red-plenty/
– Cadillac Desert – The American West and Its Disappearing Water, Myth of the 20th Century (2022) – https://myth20c.wordpress.com/2022/08/30/cadillac-desert-the-american-west-and-its-disappearing-water/
– Zeihan – After Dark – the Collapse of Globalization, Myth of the 20th Century (2022) – https://myth20c.wordpress.com/2022/10/31/zeihan-after-dark-the-collapse-of-globalization/
– Price War$, Russell (2022)
– April 2022 Commodity Market Outlook: The Impact of the War in Ukraine on Commodity Markets, World Bank (2022) – https://reliefweb.int/report/world/april-2022-commodity-market-outlook-impact-war-ukraine-commodity-markets
– Interactive Map: Crude Oil Pipelines and Refineries of the U.S. and Canada, Kostandi (2022) – https://www.visualcapitalist.com/interactive-map-crude-oil-pipelines-and-refineries-of-the-u-s-and-canada/
– World Top Commodities Trading Companies List by Market Cap as on Jan 7th, 2022 – https://www.value.today/world-top-companies/commodities-trading
– Trends and geography of world seaborne trade in 2021 – https://hbs.unctad.org/world-seaborne-trade/
– Understanding the Nasdaq Veles California Water Index, CME Group – https://www.cmegroup.com/education/courses/introduction-to-the-nasdaq-veles-water-index-futures/understanding-the-nasdaq-veles-california-water-index.html
– Visualizing Copper’s Global Supply Chain – https://www.visualcapitalist.com/sp/coppers-supply-chain/
– Futures and Options on Futures – https://thismatter.com/money/futures/futures.htm
Ever since the Great Recession and financial crisis of the late 2000s, the American economic model of building large suburban housing developments with cheap credit and sometimes even cheaper building materials and standards has been called into question. Setting aside all the jobs generated in construction, banking, and other financial intermediation, municipal governments also depend... Read More
In the world of geopolitics, there are those that decide, and those that recommend. While it is debatable who wields more actual power, it is clear that the number of advisers, consultants, analysts, strategists and self-appointed experts clearly outweighs that of the policy makers. Peter Zeihan, a unique blend of the recommender class, has made... Read More
According to the BBC, “a false flag is a political or military action carried out with the intention of blaming an opponent for it. Nations have often done this by staging a real or simulated attack on their own side and saying the enemy did it, as a pretext for going to war. The term... Read More
Prior to 1900, the western United States comprised less than 5% of the country’s total population. By 2000, that number had quadrupled to over 20%, and was on track to continue growing as a percentage of the total until only recently, where the southern states have begun outpacing it in term of number of people... Read More
With the alleged assassination of Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri by US forces and the shooting of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in the past few weeks, conspiracy theories abound as to the motives behind potential realignment in global politics and the media news cycle. Also in the news is economist Jeffrey Sachs making... Read More
Since the industrial revolution and the advent of fossil fuels in place of manual labor powering nearly all aspects of civilization from agriculture to transportation to manufacturing, human productivity and population have exploded, going from under 1 billion in 1750 to a projected population of 10 billion in 2100. In the 20th century, oil became... Read More
From the 14th through the early 20th century, the Middle East consisted of a hybrid civilization composed of various tribes and peoples stretching from the Balkans down through the Arabian Peninsula under the auspices of the Ottoman Empire. To its promoters, Constantinople administered a multicultural society that balanced ethnic and religious differences into a harmonious... Read More
As a $60 billion a year investment bank engaged in market making and asset management for equities, fixed income, commodity and derivative securities for large institutional clients, Goldman Sachs, having been founded in 1869, is arguably the world’s most recognizable name on Wall Street. Known for attracting some of the best financial talent, it is... Read More
With a spate of recent news stories about fires and other incidents forcing closures of over 20 food processing and distribution centers in the United States, Canada and Europe this year, people have started wondering if there has been a concerted effort to undermine food security in and around the industrialized world. Comparing to previous... Read More
Published in 1992, political scientist Francis Fukuyama’s ‘End of History’ described a world in which he saw the 70+ year struggle between the authoritarian styles of government meeting an unequivocal end with the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. What triumphed – principally the American system of ‘liberal democratic... Read More
In 2019, Airbus surpassed for the first time Boeing as the largest aerospace company in the world, as two crashes of Boeing’s 737-Max airplane forced a grounding of the fleet and a halt in sales, eventually costing it $20 billion in associated fines and delays. While Boeing maintains a relatively strong overall safety record as... Read More
Following our interview with Dr. Matthew Raphael Johnson on the crisis in Ukraine, we wanted to do a brief follow up on the potential long-reaching supply chain implications of the broader conflict between the West and East. Russia, being targeted now by nearly all Western nations with sanctions aimed at its financial payments infrastructure, telecommunications,... Read More
The Russian invasion of eastern Ukraine on February 24th, 2022 surprised many around the world for its speed and scale, making it the largest military operation in Europe since World War II. Western media was quick to condemn the action as a flagrant act of aggression on the part of Russia’s leader Vladimir Putin, while... Read More
In the founding myths of the Chinese Communist Party, youth and student movements play a crucial role, with the Red Guard and Cultural Revolution being ideological tidal waves that transformed the nation. In the founding myths of post Cold War neo-liberalism, it was another student movement – the one that took place on June 4th,... Read More
The history of the Trojan War, assiduously studied and thoroughly documented today, was passed down through the centuries not by academic text, but by oral tradition. The conduit for communication, rather than scholarly prose, was the campfire poetry best told in the Iliad by Homer, author of the other great Greek epic The Odyssey. How... Read More
In terms of sheer drama and trauma, few years in recent memory compare to 2020, with the CoViD scare and BLM riots reaching worldwide. In 2021, by comparison, the past year was really more a continuation and consolidation of the last, as the Kyle Rittenhouse trial came to a surprising end, and the power elite... Read More
The great upheavals which precede changes of civilization, such as the fall of the Roman Empire and the foundation of the Arabian Empire, seem at first sight determined more especially by political transformations, foreign invasion, or the overthrow of dynasties. But a more attentive study of these events shows that behind their apparent causes the... Read More
“Cybernetics attempts to find the common elements in the functioning of automatic machines and of the human nervous system, and to develop a theory which will cover the entire field of control and communication in machines and living organisms.” -Dr. Norbert Wiener writing in The Scientific American. Taken slightly less literally, in communist Russia, central... Read More
Since the early days of European colonization in North America, the great abundance of natural resources was apparent to settlers and their colonial sponsors alike. Timber was chief among these, as the tremendous size and unspoiled nature of the forests that spanned from Canada down through Florida provided fuel, building materiel, and a source of... Read More
In the genre of horror literature, most plots revolve around the protagonists contending with a threat that is trying to kill them. In Thomas Ligotti’s works, however, the threat is not necessarily an external one, but that of existence itself. In his characteristically pessimistic way, Ligotti’s view is that with suffering outweighing the joys of... Read More
In small societies, such as hunter-gatherers, warrior tribes, or rural farmers, honor and reputation form a large part of one’s personal stock and trade. In larger civilizations, however, where power is measured in money and influence, honor becomes an inconvenience to accumulating wealth for the unscrupulous. The last honorable man – in a society of... Read More
In the aftermath of the Second World War, Europe – particularly the Axis Power countries – was the prime battleground for dominance between the emergent superpowers of the United States and the Soviet Union. Along with East and West Germany, Italy was similarly divided along ideological lines, with pro-American, typically business-oriented interests, pitted against mostly... Read More
“All the democratic circles in America and Europe, in particular the Italian intelligence agency, know very well that the catastrophic attack was planned and carried out by the American CIA and Mossad, with the help of the Zionist world, to accuse the Arab countries and to persuade the Western powers to go into Iraq and... Read More
Philosophy is a subject many engage in casually during parties, pillow chat – or even podcasts. But philosophy as a discipline is a field reserved for those serious – or fortunate enough – to have the time to dedicate to it. Usually concerning the more fundamental questions of existence and society, in the most basic... Read More
As the US officially draws down its presence in Afghanistan, the Taliban has wasted no time in reclaiming territory, forcing the American military to send in 5,000 marines to defend its Kabul embassy from becoming overrun. Meanwhile, the domestic war on ‘vaccine hesitants’ has brought about even more draconian measures on travel and employment. Tonight... Read More
Filmed in 1936 Berlin during the Olympic games, Leni Riefenstahl’s ‘Olympia’ showcased the German celebration of international competition and virtues of athletic performance, sportsmanship, and, despite what critics may claim – goodwill amongst nations and peoples. Controversy however was inevitable as the Second World War was just around the corner, and tensions between the great... Read More
Landlocked and at the ancient crossroads of the Mongol, Persian, Alexandrian and British empires, Afghanistan has long held a history as a conduit for other peoples. In more recent history, the Soviet occupation from 1979 to 1989 was only succeeded very briefly by a local Taliban coalition to then be knocked out by the United... Read More
With American Independence Day rapidly approaching, and the heat of the summer bearing down on an already overstretched water and energy grid, thoughts of breaking away tempt the soul. With the breakdown of public infrastructure in the East Coast with the Colonial Pipeline, and official policy of rolling electricity blackouts in California spreading to the... Read More
Written in 1973 by Jean Raspail, ‘The Camp of the Saints’ depicts a dystopian scenario where France and the West in general is overrun with third world immigrants. Called a ’Stunningly Racist French Novel’ by the urban liberal clickfarm of record, The Huffington Post, readers without any preconceived notions of the book may ask themselves,... Read More
Returning from a brief hiatus, we wanted to cover some of the more significant developments in recent weeks, including the latest attempts to get us to take the vaccine, PATCON 2.0, war in the Middle East, and a massive continuation of the consolidation we’ve seen in the financial markets. More of the same, perhaps, but... Read More
As Vietnam War imagery goes, Kent State is up there with the self-immolating monk and children running from a napalm strike. The picture of Mary Ann Vecchio, standing over the body of Jeffrey Miller who, along with three others, had been shot and killed by Ohio National Guardsman in 1970 during a protest over the... Read More
Growing up in the generation following the second world war, Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin and Ulrike Meinhof lead the West German militant Red Army Faction in a series of bombings, kidnappings and assassinations during the 1970s that led to the death of 35 people. Identifying with various leftist and communist causes including anti-imperialism, Maoism, and... Read More
In the days of Calvin Coolidge, it was said the “business of America is business.” By contrast to other cultures like the Japanese, whose “business is the Japanese”, America’s combination as a youthful country and having a vast untapped frontier, especially in its early years, made the one common denominator of a polyglot nation a... Read More
“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will... Read More
Set in the Rocky Mountains in the not too distant future, ‘Ghost Snatchers’ is a novel by James LaFond about an army of SJWs and their legions of color descending upon the last remaining redoubt of heritage Americans using Afghanistan War tactics. Originally scheduled to talk about his book, James joins us this evening just... Read More
In the world of modern military contracting, giants such as Lockheed and Boeing immediately come to mind. But back in the era of Cold War defense spending, one company stood out, reaching the number one spot in terms of sales in the 1980s – General Dynamics. With divisions spanning ground, naval and air based weapons... Read More
“The trial never ends. We wanted to see if you had the ability to expand your mind and your horizons. And for one brief moment, you did. For that one fraction of a second, you were open to options you had never considered. That is the exploration that awaits you. Not mapping stars and studying... Read More
Described as a “praxis against American mono thought”, Cody Wilson’s work at Defense Distributed, which designs and builds machines that allow you to design and build implements of defense, has been an integral part of the modern conversation on the right and means to bear arms. Wilson himself has long held an interest in civic... Read More
If Hollywood had a successful, iconoclastic director known for questioning the mainstream American narrative – something many view as a contradiction in terms – it might very well be Oliver Stone. With a career spanning over 40 years as a screenwriter and director, Stone has covered topics such as the drug trade in Scarface, overseas... Read More
Situated in one of the most beautiful parts of Europe, Cyprus is a popular destination for many tourists looking to enjoy the Mediterranean sun and an island lifestyle. Its natural advantages, however, also have attracted various powers throughout the millennia to occupy the island for its economic as well as strategic military value. To this... Read More
The one thing all of us have in common is we had a mother and father. A man, and a woman. No exceptions. We are all the product of those that, evolutionarily speaking, were fit enough to make it to the next round. In the course of human history, there have been exceptions to this... Read More
Looking at it philosophically, one can’t avoid the conclusion that it is corruption, not tyranny, which leads to the overthrow of governments. A strong and vigorous government, no matter how oppressive, usually need not fear revolution. But a corrupt, inefficient, decadent government — even a benevolent one — is always ripe for revolution. The system... Read More
If the United States appeared invulnerable following the dissolution of its biggest geo-strategic rival, the Soviet Union, in 1990 and America’s military victory against Soviet-equipped tanks in Iraq in 1991, the 2000s began to chip away at this image starting with the destruction of the Twin Towers in New York City in 2001. By 2005,... Read More
“With the departure into the study of modernist philosophy as a psychotoxin hostile to ethnic identity and masculine solidarity, Rosenberg is creeping up the steps to the final crime scene of WWI that his quest is calibrated to somehow reverse. He is the coroner invited by his conscience and his own well- tempered sword of... Read More
Composed by an unknown bard sometime in the 8th century, Beowulf took on legendary status among the Anglo Saxon people as a folk tale describing a king, a culture, and the origins of a group that for centuries languished in the shadows, only to rise to world significance in the years to come. Myth of... Read More
Much of the history we in the English speaking world have of World War II focuses on the campaigns in Russia, Messerschmitts dogfighting with Spitfires over London, and the massive island campaigns in the Pacific between the Japanese and Americans. But one of the two founding members of the Axis Powers, Italy, receives much less... Read More
When the history books are written about 2020, the narrative will be controlled by the victors, as is always the case. The counter-narrative, as much as is possible, will still exist, but only be whispered in the dark corners of society. The truth, however, has an enduring appeal to those that are curious, and just... Read More
It’s been a while since all the crew here at Myth of the 20th Century could get together, but in the spirit of Christmas we are happy to say this time we managed. From all of us we hope you have good holiday, and to remember when external forces try to divide us, it is... Read More
In many parts of the world today, it is routine to witness people, especially the young, dying of malnutrition and related diseases such as tuberculosis. In New York, were the TB rate was once 700 per 100,000, dropped quickly to 200 after the introduction of proper sanitation and hygiene in the early 20th century. The... Read More
The modern world is an integrated system of almost unfathomable complexity, built upon sub systems, technologies, people and practices that if partially removed or neglected sufficiently, result in disastrous supply chain break downs as witnessed in wartime or as the world seized up in response to an over-hyped flu virus in 2020. One of the... Read More
In the summer of 1975, two FBI agents were shot and killed after pursuing a vehicle onto private property near the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. This had come after several tense years of strife on the reservation, including the armed Wounded Knee standoff where the FBI encircled for 71 days members of... Read More
Japan is a country with a deep history of self reliance, demonstrating time and again that for a small island nation lacking in natural resources, they can not only hold their own, but come to dominate militarily, economically, and culturally. By the 1980s, Japan’s prowess in the economy had become apparent, with the manufacturing sector... Read More
In the not too distant future, New York has been walled off, isolating the once great city and turning it into an open air prison camp. The United States, still a military and technological force, is struggling however economically and socially, not to mention politically as its superpower status is challenged by China and Russia.... Read More
If you believe in (D)emocracy, one typically votes. But if you didn’t – this year, someone else might have voted for you. There has always been election fraud in America, with the political machines of Chicago, New York, and Boston coming to mind, but for a US Presidential Election, 2020, like in other areas of... Read More
Nyarlathotep . . . the crawling chaos . . . I am the last . . . I will tell the audient void. . . . This episode of the Myth of the 20th Century is brought to you by the oft-maligned, ever nefarious and frequently sporadic Tales from the Trough. New episode appearing on... Read More
The transportation equipment industry, broadly defined, includes all manufacturers of road, rail, water, and air vehicles, making up the largest component of the US manufacturing sector, constituting 3% of value added in the economy in 2019 when including related industries such as steel and petroleum. It has declined from 6% of the economy in 1955,... Read More
Once possessing the highest GDP per capita in the world by the end of the 19th century, with its capital city Buenos Aires being called the Paris of South America, Argentina has since fallen to a country that while prosperous, remains prone to financial crises and political turmoil. In dealing with this, Juan and Eva... Read More
We had a more historically focused show planned this week, but because of scheduling conflicts we’re doing an After Dark. Cheers. Music Credit: Kino (Кино) – Shut the Door Behind Me Myth of the 20th Century – Episode 189 – Missiles and Martinis – After Dark — References — Princes of the Yen, Werner (2003)... Read More
Humans, like all biological organisms, seek to leverage their natural surroundings to their benefit. The human capacity for rapid transformation of their environment, especially in modern times, is so great that some have come to call it by its own geological epoch, the Anthropocene. As with any power dynamic, incentives exist such that those with... Read More
Hailed by many as the greatest city in the world, New York grew from a series of small settlements in the 17th century to a bustling metropolis by the 19th through a combination of excellent geography, intensive trade and industrial development, and a concentration of cultural and business acumen. The growth produced tremendous problems along... Read More
When the fires of 2020 have finally died down, and the ashes have fallen to earth and smoke no longer clouds the air, one thing is certain – uncertainly and lack of clarity is the pattern that the leaders of this fallen nation have inflicted on the population either by design, gross incompetence, or both.... Read More
After the end of the second world war, America strode triumphant, unmatched the world over in surviving capital stock, industrial capacity, and economic and military power. No other industry epitomized this power more than steel, with the saying “where steel goes, the nation goes” capturing the alignment between the incentives of the business, working, and... Read More
If the events of 2020 have had a common theme, it is there is nowhere to hide. If the plague doesn’t get you, the riots will, followed by a helpful dose of economic displacement and firestorms from 20,000 simultaneous lightning strikes as seen in California recently. If this all doesn’t make one believe in a... Read More
Viewed from the lens of a business, whether in the form of t-shirts, movies, amusement parks or even cruises, the ubiquity of Disney’s empire is a sight to behold. Viewed as a cultural phenomenon, the company and the legacy of its founder in particular demonstrate similarly profound impacts on the moral framework of America and... Read More
In the words of historian and noted Russian scholar Dr. Matthew Raphael Johnson, the Soviet Union was the only empire to fall without a war. To the ordinary Russian citizen, however, the 1990s were no less tragic as life expectancy, average income, and birthrates all plummeted as crime, alcoholism and unemployment all rose. As the... Read More
Herbert Hoover’s reputation as President is quite often thought of in less favorable terms, having presided over the United States as it entered into the depths of the Great Depression in the 1930s. After the economic boom of the 1920s, the contrast was stark, and increasingly clear in Americans’ minds as Hoover’s limited attempts at... Read More
In 1880, the financial sector’s share of US GDP was slightly over 1%. By 2009, however, it had grown close to 10%. Including the related industries of insurance and real estate, that share swells to 21% in 2019, making it the single largest segment of the American economy, followed by trade and transport at 15%... Read More
In a world of psy-ops, plutocrats and pandemics, many normal people are becoming desensitized if not immune to the latest scandals and dictates from the powers that be in one of the strangest years on record. Security pioneer and entrepreneur John McAfee, however, has long been familiar with world of cyber spying and industrial espionage.... Read More
Before the Industrial Revolution, economists saw land and agriculture as the fundamental source of wealth. When feudalism gave way to mass production and the increased power of manufacturing, labor and capital became the chief measures of economic might. With the coming of the information age, however, power has shifted away from large factories and massive... Read More
Power is an ancient concept, with formalized attempts at understanding it going back to at least Machiavelli and almost certainly to Sun Tzu. In a more modern context, authors Mesquita and Smith in their 2011 book ‘The Dictator’s Handbook’ explore the factors that drive how politicians gain and retain power, with special emphasis on coalition... Read More
Founded in 1892 by Thomas Edison with the backing of J.P. Morgan, General Electric has been a stalwart of American business for most of its history. Sprawling over a multitude of industrial divisions, including electric turbines, jet engines, locomotives and medical devices, the conglomerate outperformed its rivals in the 1980s and 90s by a wide... Read More
Ever since the fall of the Soviet Union in 1990 and Francis Fukuyama declaring the ‘End of History’ with the ascendancy of the ‘Washington Consensus’, America has led the charge of globalization as a means of expanding and solidifying its empire. In theory, this means the general ‘liberalization’ of political systems, favoring democracies over authoritarian... Read More
Hailed by many as the greatest American movie ever made, Orson Welles’ debut film is a technical and artistic triumph, showcasing his acting ability and creative vision. As a commentary on great wealth and media power as a vehicle to high society, but not to close relationships, ‘Citizen Kane’ set the standard and remains a... Read More
In E. Michael Jones’ seminal work ‘Slaughter of Cities’ on the decline of ethnic-American urban neighborhoods in the 1960s and 70s, he notes the coordinated attempt by the elites and social engineers to destabilize individual races and form deracinated, relatively homogeneous black urban ghettos and white suburbs. The legacy of this phenomenon has not abated,... Read More
Nestled in the highest mountain region in the world, separated by treacherous passages, boundless desert and locked between the world’s two most populous nations, Tibet is home to an ancient people and a religion that transcends much of modernity. Maintaining this position has required a multitude of strategies over the centuries, including alliances ranging from... Read More
If people once held a sense that the newspapers, television and radio outlets of yesteryear possessed a touch of political bias, but made an honest attempt at focusing on reporting the facts, the campaign and election of Donald J. Trump in 2016 threw the modern day equivalent of that belief into almost indisputable doubt. The... Read More
The popular conception of the special forces solider parachuting in behind enemy lines and single-handedly taking on entire divisions under extreme duress is one promoted by Hollywood and tacitly endorsed by the Pentagon. Given some of the more successful missions such as in Panama and the more infamous ones such as Desert One, this reputation... Read More
In the midst of all the Corona confusion, with restaurants closed and supermarkets crowded with mask-wearing cart-pushers, we thought it timely to do a brief around the campfire chat about what we can all agree on: most people don’t know how to cook. As with most things in life, however, things change, and just as... Read More
It’s been a few months since we last spoke with James LaFond, but in the mean time the world has gone from civilized to ??? seemingly overnight, and James has re-emerged from his time spent out West writing and training to return to the Imperial auspices of the East Coast to connect with old friends... Read More
In Franklin D. Roosevelt’s first inaugural address as President of the United States in 1933, he famously proclaimed the ‘only thing we have to fear is fear itself.’ Stated in the depths of the Great Depression, the United States would soon undergo a great transformation that increased the role of the Federal Government in the... Read More
Made famous for creating the first and most successful anti-virus software company in the 1980s and later for his sometimes extravagant and always unique lifestyle, John McAfee, outspoken critic of over-reaching government and current developer and evangelist of decentralized blockchain technologies and privacy coins joins us today to give us an update on where he... Read More
In the world of geopolitical strategy, the number of so called experts or analysts is too innumerable to count. But in the rarified world of actual foreign policy decision making and influence, the list drastically shortens to only a few names. Although not as famous as rival Henry Kissinger, Zbigniew Brzezinski’s term as chief foreign... Read More
‘Diamonds are Forever’, as the saying goes, imparts a sense of strength, legacy, and significance. From a geological point of view, diamonds, formed over millions of years, are indeed ancient and enduring. From a cultural standpoint, however, the concept of a mass market for diamonds in the form of wedding rings and like is a... Read More
In a time of crisis, anything seems possible. In today’s slow moving descent into globalism, which James Bowery describes as a system that turned us all into ‘mechanical turks’, the recent emergence of a global pandemic has thrown all previous assumptions into question and opens the possibility for something new. With a strong science background... Read More
Don the mask. Myth of the 20th Century – Episode 162 – Emergency Broadcast – Plague Wars Edition — References — – Deliverance, Boorman (1972) – Invaders Within – Outbreak and the Threat of Bioweapons, Myth of the 20th Century (2020) – https://myth20c.wordpress.com/2020/01/29/invaders-within-outbreak-and-the-threat-of-bioweapons/ – The Largest Financial Event Of Our Lifetime Is Upon Us, Nugget’s... Read More
In 1883, Otto von Bismarck enacted a series of stated-funded social programs geared towards offering direct financial assistance to poorer segments of German society. Often viewed cynically as an attempt at staving off socialist revolution in the working class, Bismarck’s system for the rapidly industrializing (and militarizing) nation has proven a model for many governments... Read More
In the West today, and throughout much of the 20th century, rapid Asian economic development was something that proceeded so consistently that it appeared as if by natural law. Like Japan before it and with China today, however, behind the scenes were often very driven leaders who, in South Korea’s case, seized power in a... Read More
Italy is a country with the world’s highest number of world heritage sites, yet often finishes low on the list of best places for doing business. Historically Italy has sent millions abroad throughout Europe and the Americas, forming one of the world’s largest diaspora networks, yet today has one of the highest net immigrations in... Read More
Cybernetics is a term that, broadly defined, encompasses nearly all human-system interaction. More narrowly, and with help of Hollywood, images of intelligent robots and computer-enhanced humans come to mind. But in the real world, and especially when it comes to dealing with issues of pervasive scale and self-reinforcing centers of power such as social networks,... Read More
With Superbowl LV having failed to garner much interest in dissident spheres, many were surprised to learn the Oscars – Hollywood’s annual coronation ceremony for the most approved-of messages and mediums – had come and gone as well. In an era of very real danger in the form of pandemic outbreaks and very fake politics,... Read More
Agriculture has historically played a central role in global empires, from wheat in North Africa during the Roman Era to sugar in the Caribbean during the era of French and British domination. But in the case of American imperialism, the little beforehand known banana plant became crucial in the rise of American money and power... Read More
With the threat of yet another virus spreading from China and the Chinese government effectively quarantining millions of people inside the city of Wuhan, the world is asking what is the threat of contagion given the rapid spread of symptoms and our increasingly globalized system. Theories range on the origin of the disease from poor... Read More
Situated on the northern reaches of Ukraine in what was once the heart of the western Soviet empire, the Chernobyl nuclear exclusion zone now consists of nearly 3,000 square kilometers of pristine forest that is eerily devoid of any sizable human population. At the heart of this atomic wasteland sits the now defunct and still... Read More
“December 7th, 1941 – a day which will live in infamy.” So said President Franklin Roosevelt in his speech to Congress in asking for a declaration of war against Japan, citing the attack on Pearl Harbor in which over 2,000 Americans were killed. Framing the event as an unprovoked attack on American soil, FDR led... Read More
Depending on whom you ask, the Mormon Church and the people that form their membership is either a fringe group on the edge of the American frontier and the Christian theological tradition, or a successful if unique people that have managed to become a regular part of American society. But what is rarely in dispute... Read More
If 2019 could be summed up in a single phrase, it might be the year that conspiracy theories became mainstream. With the very public arrest of Wikileaks’s founder Julian Assange and the still unexplained burning of the world’s most well known Cathedral in Notre Dame, things came to a head when convicted sex offender Jeffrey... Read More
Created in 1987, Konami’s Metal Gear series not only developed a new genre of video game with its incorporation of ‘tactics’ and ‘espionage’, it arguably transcended the entire video game category in its later iterations into the art, film and soap opera genres. Touching upon the human themes of duty, honor, and loyalty with the... Read More
As the winter months set in, nature becomes a cruel reminder of one’s mortality. As maritime traditions go, navigating the waters of the Great Lakes was always a treacherous one, combining extreme cold, enormous size, and gale-force winds that could reach hurricane force. On November 10th, 1975, nearby ships and shore radio stations lost contact... Read More
Doctor Matthew Rafael Johnson, noted scholar on Russian history, Orthodoxy, and its relationship with the modern world joins us today to discuss the origins of the October Revolution, it geopolitical ramifications, and the parallels of the Soviet Empire with the modern day American one. In his own words, “Professor Johnson’s academic work is dedicated to... Read More
Innovation is a difficult thing to measure. But when the list of scientific, industrial, and commercial breakthroughs is as long as those credited to Bell Labs, one must recognize the truly groundbreaking run at the claim to have been, for a period arguably spanning at least 20 to 30 years, the most consistently innovative research... Read More
Something is rotten in Denmark. In an age of near-instantaneous access to place and substance, and an over-abundance of people sharing their amazing experiences with it, people in America report being less happy, taking longer to form families, and an overall feeling that something is wrong. By contrast, the Amish, living on the very same... Read More
Happy Hallows, heretics. Myth of the 20th Century – Episode 145 – Halloween 2019 – After Dark — References — – Vineland, Pynchon (1990) – The Nightly News, Hickman (2006) – Conspiracy Theories, Sunstein and Vermule (2008) – https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1084585 – American Horror Story, Murphy (2011) – Ep 67 Mourning McCain, Mourning Empire feat Michael Tracey,... Read More
In the winter of 1978-79 in Britain, strikes crippled the entire country, stopping food deliveries, medical services, and even proper burial of the dead. The recently elected prime minister Margaret Thatcher stated, “We’ve seen picketing that threatens to bring the country to its knees—emptying our shops, endangering our farms, closing our factories, taking our jobs.... Read More
Understanding the full extent of corruption in the United States government is something even legal scholars struggle with. But int the 1980s and early 1990s, Herculean efforts were made in the days before the internet to follow leads and conduct investigative journalism on nefarious activity by agencies such as the CIA by reporters including Gary... Read More
As a pilot, the profession brings one above the rest as a matter of course. As a military pilot, flying brings one into danger as a matter of duty. As a man, Hans-Ulrich Rudel rose above all others, certainly in the context of World War II and within the German Military. Flying over 2,000 missions... Read More
Known for his prolific output and incisive analysis on the culture war and broader struggle facing Europeans and Americans, the Z Man lives close to Washington and knows all too well the insider nature of the power elite that rule over us. Tonight he joins us for a discussion of the ‘great chain of causality’,... Read More
The rise of the Private Military Contractor, or PMC, may seem like a recent phenomena, but the tradition of hiring mercenary armies is an ancient one. These enigmatic ‘soldiers of fortune’ wear no flag, offer seemingly little loyalty to anyone other than the highest bidder, and operate globally using the latest in military hardware and... Read More
Written in the wake of modern mankind’s worst violent cataclysm to date, the Great War, Lothrop Stoddard’s ‘The Rising Tide of Color’ noted the sharp decline of European civilization and the breaking of its dominance over the colored world it had held since the advent of colonialism in the 15th century. Stoddard went on to... Read More
Invention is often described as 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration. In the high-flying game of venture capital, where the stakes are in the billions of dollars and the competition is on a global scale, the odds for true invention are even longer. Words like innovation are often bandied about, with recent entrants like ‘disruption’ taking... Read More
International arms smuggling is one of those businesses that captures the imagination of authors and Hollywood producers alike, conjuring images of suave but savvy businessmen in sharply pressed suits sitting in cafes in some European resort town hammering out three simultaneous interconnected deals on their satellite phone. Figures like this have and do exist, yet... Read More
You had questions, we attempted some answers. It’s been about a year since we last did a Q&A, and since then we’ve broken 10,000 subscribers, been tossed off of YouTube, and witnessed the slow devolution of yet more of the American Empire. We’re also very fortunate to have an audience smart enough to know all... Read More
If you look at the mainstream news today, one gets the distinct impression that the planet is headed for a cataclysmic environmental shift driven by the earth’s changing climate. What you will not hear, however, is that this shift may very well come from cooling of the planet by reduced solar activity, and not the... Read More
In democratic republics such as the United States, power is officially held by elected officials who are supposedly held to account by the electorate. In one of his last speeches, however, US President John F. Kennedy warned the public against shadowy forces who hold power by operating through secretive networks. Shortly thereafter he was assassinated.... Read More
Built in the depths of the Great Depression, the Hoover Dam rises over 700 feet along the canyon walls of the Colorado River. Originally named the Boulder Dam and officially begun in 1933 after decades of contentious debate over the feasibility of such an ambitious project, the dam opened in 1936 as the largest hydroelectric... Read More
A civilization’s state of development is most often readily apparent in its buildings. The capacity for stepping beyond the limits of nature, and forging into the realm of modernity is enshrined in the time capsules that are major works of architecture and infrastructure. When historians and anthropologists trace the path from pre-historic societies to today,... Read More
“The Israel lobby is one of the most powerful and pervasive special interest groups in the United States. It consists of a multitude of powerful institutions and individuals that work to influence Congress, the president, academia, the media, religious institutions, and American public opinion on behalf of Israel.” -Alison Weir Myth of the 20th Century... Read More
James LaFond, author, fighter, and anthropologist of all things urban and unseen by the aspirational and increasingly disconnected bourgeois classes of American cities rejoins the crew tonight for a much overdue conversation. Since we last spoke James has traveled and lived in various cities across the country, spent a night on the streets of Manhattan,... Read More
Representing 2-7% of the Pentagon’s annual budget, and with a projected lifetime cost of over $1 trillion dollars, the Joint Strike Fighter program with its three variations of the F-35 airframe for the US Air Force, Navy, and Marines and over a dozen partner countries is the most expensive weapons system in history. For point... Read More
Fiction writers today have a plethora of options for getting their stories out, from e-books to streaming video to old fashioned print. But the challenge of capturing people’s imagination, in addition to slipping through the ever-tightening electronic net in an age of censorship has made the task of right-leaning authors all the more difficult in... Read More
Viktor Suvorov, author of over a dozen books on the inner workings of the Soviet military apparatus, from the Red Army to the Spetsnaz, put forward the earth shattering thesis in his work ‘Icebreaker’ that Hitler’s invasion of the USSR in 1941 was a pre-emptive strike designed to cut the legs out from under a... Read More
Looking at the revenue projections of Fortune 500 companies or the GDP growth estimates of the world’s industrialized countries, one can’t help but notice everything indicating unlimited expansion and wealth opportunities in the future. ‘Upwards and to the right’ as they say in management consulting. But when analyzing historical progressions of large companies, countries, or... Read More
When looking back at the world’s great civilizations, one notes they all reached an expiration point. What drives their decline and ultimate collapse, however, is one of the most debated topics in history. According to noted scholars Joseph Tainter and John Michael Greer, collapse occurs when a civilization reaches a point of unsustainable complexity that... Read More
If you visit rural America, many of the roads will have names like ‘Farm to Market’ – implying an ebb and flow of life centered around agriculture. As America developed in the 20th century, many of these places grew less populated, and those near city centers were replaced by shopping malls and suburban housing as... Read More
America today – in business, government, and most elite institutional organizations – operates under a rubric many would describe as managerialism. It is a belief that the best results can be achieved through rigorous quantitative measurement and elimination of processes (and people) that do not measure up. It is a decidedly material approach to running... Read More
Torture – a centuries old practice. When Francis Fukuyama coined the phrase ‘The End of History’, the West in his view strode triumphant, demonstrating the virtues of democratic capitalism and the integration of peoples into a open and liberal framework over that of repressive government regimes of the Communist Bloc. When the War on Terror... Read More
If culture is something that develops after the need to survive is met, identity is something that exists when your homeland is stripped away and you are left to decide what really matters. Dr. Tom Sunic, former Croatian diplomat and scholar on all issues European and his adopted country America, discusses with us what it... Read More
“Spetsnaz has no distinguishing badge or insignia – officially, at any rate. But unofficially the spetsnaz badge is a wolf, or rather a pack of wolves. The wolf is a strong, proud animal which is remarkable for its quite incredible powers of endurance. A wolf can run for hours through deep snow at great speed,... Read More
The United States today is the world’s top agricultural exporter, sending roughly half of what it grows, raises and farms abroad for a world hungry for beef, pork, grain and other foodstuffs essential to life, health and nutrition. Although less than two percent of Americans actively farm for a living, the legacy of demographic settlement... Read More
When a society views you as irrelevant, or even worse – expendable, you owe it no loyalty. Entertainment is supposed to be more surreal than reality. Yet when looking at society today, one gets the sense that we are living in a version more extreme than that portrayed by Blade Runner (AI, mega corporations and... Read More
Deep in the jungles of Colombia, a place so thick with vegetation and rugged with mountains that the government was unable to defeat a guerrilla insurgency for 53 years, law and order is a matter of who wields the strongest weapon. Sitting at the crossroads of South and North America as well as the Atlantic... Read More
America is dead. Long live America. What do you do when you wake up to discover that the country you grew up in has slowly, quietly, but steadily been taken away from you? The process of demographic and economic change in the United States has been underway for the better part of a century, yet... Read More
Considered by many as the greatest chess player of all time, Robert James Fischer at an early age showed an aptitude for chess that few others would compare. His rise to dominance was rapid, as was his fall from the public eye and then into notoriety later in life. Bobby Fischer was outspoken, iconoclastic, and... Read More
Richard Nixon once remarked that environmental concerns were a bipartisan issue because a poisoned river doesn’t care what party you’re in. The two main political parties in the United States, however, have assumed a position in practice very akin to bipartisanship. But instead of cooperating in the effort to conserve natural resources, they have leaned... Read More
Built around the genius of aeronautical engineer Clarence “Kelly” Johnson and his successors, Lockheed Aircraft Corporation created the “Skunk Works” division dedicated to secretive development of advanced aeronautical hardware. By the 1950s they had secured a contract with the CIA for the U-2 spy plane, followed by the SR-71 Blackbird in the 1960s. Serving the... Read More
America’s involvement in Vietnam was a long and complicated ordeal that cost trillions of inflation-adjusted dollars and millions of lives. Why the media decided to fixate on the massacre at My Lai, where 400 or so people perished, raises questions as to the seriousness of America’s political process and the hypocrisy of how it views... Read More
Alienation and disillusionment from society at large is nothing new. Many modern religious and other communities today were themselves born out of frustration historically with the way things were proceeding in the mainstream. What sets them apart, however, is that fact that they are still around – the track record for most intentional communities is... Read More
Serial killers, known throughout history, maintain a unique place in American pop culture, reported on and sensationalized by the media. Tonight we discuss some of the history behind this phenomenon, causal factors, and cultural artifacts that remain with us today. The Myth of the 20th Century – Episode 110 – Serial Killers and the American... Read More
Although hesitant to adopt a set political label, The Distributist, whose channel includes wide-ranging philosophical discussions and in-depth analysis of civilizational political strategy, nonetheless considers himself part the ‘Western Tradition’. In typical rigorous fashion, The Distributist defines this with the C.L.E.A.R. acronym. C for Christendom, L for lived philosophy, E for ethical, A for ageless... Read More
In the middle of the 19th century, Ireland faced a crisis that killed 5.2 million of her people. The most common historical narrative is that the over-dependence on potatoes led to a famine when the crop became blighted by disease. Christopher Fogarty, author of the ‘The Perfect Holocaust’ and many works on this time period,... Read More
Edward the VIII, King of England and Germanophile, was forced to abdicate on December 11th, 1936. He died in Paris, France, at age 77 in 1972 with his wife Wallis Simpson and no children. The reasons for his abdication are disputed, but the two most common are his involvement with the divorcee (and American) Simpson,... Read More
William Joyce, derisively nicknamed Lord Haw-Haw by the British press during wartime, was executed on January 3rd, 1946 of treason after a brief trial. Prior to and during the Second World War, Joyce sought to reform the British system away from benefiting the merchant class and more towards benefiting the citizenry through restrictions on trade... Read More
“America is like a healthy body and its resistance is threefold: its patriotism, its morality and its spiritual life. If we can undermine these three areas, America will collapse from within.” -Joseph Stalin. In the 1987 television miniseries ‘Amerika’, the United States has indeed collapsed – and the Soviet Union has occupied it along with... Read More
Whenever a crisis occurs – especially one with tragic overtones such as that with Sandy Hook Elementary in 2012 with the shooting of 20 children – all manner of people come forward to offer opinion, speculation, and conjecture on agendas and theories that only have a tenuous connection to the truth. While a free society... Read More
As the Trump administration unravelled bits of the Neocolonial American Empire in Korea and Syria, the death of John McCain and George HW Bush represented a shift in American politics in 2018 away from overseas aggression and more towards pro-worker trade deals and border security at home. And while the prospects for online activism have... Read More
The legend of the Christmas Truce of 1914 told that amidst the fighting of the most devastating and impersonal war to date, English and German soldiers met at various points on December 25th to exchange gifts, sing songs, and reflect on why they were killing their own brothers in Europe. Myth of the 20th Century... Read More
Agriculture is without question foundational to civilization. It makes possible the surplus of food – and time – necessary for large populations to congregate and develop in areas such as industry, art, science and culture. As the global population has swelled to over 7 billion, the advances in agricultural production has both enabled and bound... Read More
Ryan Landry of The American Sun joins us for our 100th episode to discuss the legacy of HW Bush, the Trump Administration, trouble in France, and a few other important developments in our world today. — Brought to you by — Very special guest Ryan Landry http://theamericansun.com The Myth of the 20th Century – Episode... Read More
The future well being of one’s children is arguably the most important thing a parent can focus on. In addition to choosing a good mate, encouraging strong peer groups while your child is maturing have been shown as the two most important factors in helping them develop successfully. Beyond that, education is arguably an important... Read More
With a history of conflict with its neighbors beginning as early as the days of the British Mandate in Palestine all the way up through the 21st century, Israel has managed not only to survive but thrive in terms of military strength and the destabilization of its neighbors. With a population 3% the size and... Read More
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 marked a pivotal change in American society, accelerating the trend of integration of racial groups in public as well as private life. But rarely do people in the mainstream question whether it was to any benefit to the ordinary citizen’s life, including that of black people. Today Sam Dickson,... Read More
Savings and Loans were originally designed as community thrift institutions geared towards helping working class American families save for owning a home. As interest rate volatility in the 1970s brought on by rampant inflation caused S&Ls to lose money, pressure mounted to relax regulatory standards and allow riskier, higher yield investment speculation involving high-profile commercial... Read More
Formed in 1958 with the founding members of Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg and the Netherlands, the European Union has since expanded to include 28 member states with a combined population of over 512 million. Joining us this week is former European Parliament Minister Nick Griffin of the UK to talk about the forces driving... Read More
After the military’s withdrawal in Vietnam, national scandals and the revelations brought about in the Church hearings of the CIA’s illegal activities in the 1970s, the 1980s brought about a renewed period of American muscularity with Ronald Reagan’s focus on combating the Soviet Union. With the release of ‘The Hunt for Red October’ in 1984,... Read More
Born to a wealthy British family and the son of a preacher, Aleister Crowley, whom his mother called ‘The Beast’, became infamous later in life for his influence on the occult. Although Crowley was not, according to many religious scholars, a Satanist, his exploration of ancient Egyptian deities and adopting Baphomet’s name in a mystical... Read More
War is an expensive business, and historically to the victors went the spoils. When an invading army such as the Japanese during its imperial drive to conquer Asia sought treasure, it did so by looting the vast historical and cultural artifacts of places like China and Burma with their temples full of gold. When the... Read More
The Catholic Church has for centuries stood as a center of power and influence throughout the world, with a reach today of over 1 billion members. In America, the influence of the Church rose most significantly during the late 19th and early 20th centuries with the waves of Catholic European immigrants, much to the chagrin... Read More
Vietnam’s history as a people and culture dates back thousands of years. But as an independent nation in modern history, the country is very young. After centuries of foreign occupation ranging from the Chinese, Japanese, French, and finally the Americans, in 1975 the Vietnamese nation came into its current form. After going through colonialism, the... Read More
Jack Welch once said that “a union is only needed when the manager is a horse’s ass.” But what happens when the union is led by one? In the case of the Teamsters, home to over one million transport workers and led by the infamous Jimmy Hoffa until his disappearance in 1975, and now again... Read More
Centered at the heart of Europe, Germany has long played a critical role in modern European political economics. As the Cold War superpowers emerged in the aftermath of the Second World War, partitioning of Germany into East and West left a permanent scar on the people as their own culture and autonomy was subordinated to the ideologies of market-driven capitalism and centrally planned communism. In 1989, when the borders between East and West Germany were opened in a series of surprise events, the psychological and cultural walls that separated the German people were slower to go down than the physical barriers. Today, as a reunified Germany nears its 30th anniversary, Cold War politics seem to remain as the United States heavily influences the direction of NATO and the EU, resisting the development of positive relations between Germany and Russia and a general rise of German leadership in the world.
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https://www.bitchute.com/video/unevreQVhSRF/ Myth of the 20th Century – Episode 88 – Cold Brotherhood – The Reunification of Germany
— References —
– Animal Farm, Orwell (1945)
– Tragedy and Hope, Quigley (1966)
– The Grand Chessboard, Brzezinski (1997)
– THREATS AND RESPONSES: WASHINGTON; U.S. Gives German Opposition Leader Royal Treatment, Purdum (2003) – https://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/26/world/threats-responses-washington-us-gives-german-opposition-leader-royal-treatment.html
– Goodbye Lenin, Becker (2004)
– Revolution and Resistance in Eastern Europe, McDermott and Stibbe (2006)
– The Lives of Others, Henckel von Donnersmarck (2007)
– Deal mit Todesfolge, Sandmeyer (2007) – https://www.stern.de/politik/geschichte/uwe-barschel-deal-mit-todesfolge-3267522.html
– Chronik des Mauerfalls (Timeline of how the Wall Fell), Hertle (2009)
– Die Vermessung des Eisernen Vorhangs (Measuring the Iron Curtain), Nass (2010)
– Deutschland Schafft Sich Ab, Sarrazin (2010)
– Im Herzen der Finsternis, Kloth (2010) – http://www.spiegel.de/einestages/sturm-auf-die-stasi-zentrale-a-948696.html
– Lebenslüge der Bundesrepublik, Bahr (2011) – https://jungefreiheit.de/wissen/geschichte/2011/lebensluege-der-bundesrepublik
– SNOWDOWN der Kanzlerakte, dank EDWARD?, Petrick (2014) – https://www.freitag.de/autoren/joachim-petrick/snowdown-der-kanzlerakte-dank-edward
– War der Sturm auf die Stasizentrale 1990 inszeniert?, Kellerhoff (2016) – https://www.welt.de/geschichte/article151020738/War-der-Sturm-auf-die-Stasizentrale-1990-inszeniert.html
– German Reunification – Unfinished Business, Bromley (2017)
– 1948: Stunde eins, Fülberth (2018) – https://www.freitag.de/autoren/georg-fuelberth/1948-stunde-eins
– Feindliche Über-Nahme, Sarrazin (2018)
“We do not demand for our own people any more than the basic human rights which we would extend to every nation, people and tribe on this planet: the right to preserve their own territory, traditions and ethnic identity. The right to preserve, in other words, the things which, by marking their differences from the mass of humanity, make them human and turn their society from an ant heap into a community.” -Nick Griffin, British National Party chairman from 1999 to 2014. A longtime veteran of local, national, and transnational politics, Mr. Griffin joins us to talk about the challenges facing European people as a whole, and practical implications for nationalists living under the broader sweep of an Anglo-Zionist empire.
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https://www.bitchute.com/video/2MBGrBfXBnxN/ The Myth of the 20th Century – Episode 87 – Nationalism in the Shadow of Empire – Nick Griffin
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— References —
– Europe: Faith and Plan, Mosley (1958)
– What Lies Behind the English Defence League, Griffin (2013) – http://blog.balder.org/media/pdf/Nick-Griffin-What-Lies-Behind-The-English-Defence-League.pdf
– America Collapse Vs Europe Collapse, Langness (2018) – http://www.europeancivilwar.com/america-collapse-vs-europe-collapse/
– Farmlands, Southern (2018) – https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8614536/
– Supranational Society: Masterlist of 1,300 NGOs and the Top 400 People in Them, Reijden – https://isgp-studies.com/ngo-list-foundations-and-think-tanks-worldwide#tops
Following the Civil War, the notion of unity in the United States was more than just wishful thinking. As Reconstruction came to an informal close in the 1870s, the excesses of the Gilded Age with the increasing power of the banking and industrial classes created the political climate for the Progressive Era in the 1890s. Running on the platform of scientific management, temperance, anti-corruption, and reforms in treatment of workers and women, progressive politicians sought to address some of the problems of a rapidly urbanizing society and consolidate the diverse populations and territories of the Union. Industrialists, for their part, began sponsoring universities and academic professions such as economics in an attempt to steer public discourse and pass legislation such as the Sherman Antitrust Act which while on the surface decreased the power of the big business but in effect allowed it to create more indirect cartels with backdoor relationships with the very government which ostensibly sought to control it.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/LEp8hGrzjDw4/ Myth of the 20th Century – Episode 86 – The Progressive Era – Roots of American Bureaucracy
— References —
– The Jungle, Sinclair (1906)
– The Principles of Scientific Management, Taylor (1911)
– The Worldly Philosophers, Heilbroner (1955)
– The Triumph of Conservatism, Kolko (1977)
– Eugenics – A Reassessment, Lynn (2001) – http://emilkirkegaard.dk/en/wp-content/uploads/Richard-Lynn-Eugenics.pdf
– The Underground History of American Education, Gatto (2003)
– A Patriot’s History of the United States, Allen and Schweikart (2004)
– The Fate Of Progress, Eisenach (2004) https://www.claremont.org/crb/article/the-fate-of-progress/
– The Roots of American Bureaucracy, 1830-1900, Nelson (2006)
– The Progressive Movement and the Transformation of American Politics, Schambra and West (2007) – https://www.heritage.org/political-process/report/the-progressive-movement-and-the-transformation-american-politics
– The Cross of War: Christian Nationalism and U.S. Expansion in the Spanish-American War, McCullough (2014)
– Illiberal Reformers: Race, Eugenics, and American Economics in the Progressive Era, Leonard (2017)
– The Gilded Age: 1876–1912: Overture to the American Century, Axelrod (2017)
– How the Gilded Age Got That Way, Bordewich (2017) – https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-the-gilded-age-got-that-way-1503683705
– Problem Reaction Solution: Internet Censorship Edition, Corbett Report (2018) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqC82zmHccU
– Old Populism and the New Ideas of Michał Kalecki, Toporowski (2018) – https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2018/05/old-populism-and-the-new-ideas-of-michal-kalecki/
– Leninism and Bioleninism, Spandrell (2018) – https://bloodyshovel.wordpress.com/2018/01/21/leninism-and-bioleninism/
— Timeline –1865 – The Civil War ends with a total victory by the Union, resulting in national empowerment of the American Northeast.
1883 – The Pendleton CIvil Service Act is passed, creating the foundations for the modern bureaucratic institutions that exist within the American federal government.
1885 – The American Economics Association (AEA) is established, thereby strengthening the economics profession in the United States. Professional economists begin to network and attain jobs in the American government.
1887 – The Interstate Commerce Act is passed, allowing the government to regulate nearly all cross-border economic activity across the USA.
1890 – The Sherman-Antitrust Act is passed. American corporate trusts and horizontally-integrated firms are placed under direct political pressure, although economic fallout is counter-intuitive and strengthens the oligarchic class.
1898 – The Spanish-American War swiftly begins and ends, resulting in the codification of progressive foreign policy in military adventurism, nominally known as ‘humanitarian interventionism’.
1901 – The Industrial Commission, established in 1898, delivers a report to Theodore Roosevelt detailing the interplay between key corporate monopolies/trusts and capital market manipulation.
1906 – Meat and drug inspection becomes the responsibility of the Federal Government.
1913 – The tenor of American society irrevocably changed with the passing of the 16th and 17th Amendments. These allowed for direct, progressive scales of taxation on personal income, and the direct elections of American Senators by the populaces of the constituent states.
1920 – After decades of Progressive efforts through legal, cultural and academic institutions, women are granted the right to vote and Prohibition is ratified by the US Congress. Majority of the American population now lives in urban areas, and United States has the largest, most complex economy in the world.
Marshaling a people to a common cause is never an easy task. In the case of the Jews, who have through history been spread throughout the world into highly segregated communities, in the late 1800s the movements of world Communism and nationalist Zionism vied for mindshare among the Jewish diaspora. After the death of Theodor Herzl, the father of modern political Zionism, in 1904, Zeev Jabotinsky came to prominence as the leader of Revisionist Zionism and the chief proponent of the right and duty of return for international Jewry to the land of Palestine. Although he died in 1940 before the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948, his ideas went on to form the basis for much of the political theory behind the Israeli government and in particular the modern political party of the Likud.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/ZCn0kTsTaeEn/ Myth of the 20th Century – Episode 85 – Common Cause – Jabotinsky and Revisionist Zionism
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– Zionism versus Bolshevism – A Struggle for the Soul of the Jewish People, Churchill (1920)
– The Jewish Legion during the First World War, Watts (2004)
– The Jewish Radical Right, Kaplan (2005)
– Iron Kingdom, Clark (2006)
– The Transfer Agreement, Black (2009)
– Zionism, Islam and the West, Bolton (2015)
– Zeev Jabotinsky, The Full Wiki – http://www.thefullwiki.org/Zeev_Jabotinsky
On June 8th, 1967, the USS Liberty was attacked and nearly sunk by Israeli warplanes. The event was quickly covered up, but the survivors of the vessel and the 34 dead American sailors shall not be forgotten.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/Kxc45IWbl2uv/ Myth of the 20th Century – Episode 84 – The USS Liberty – Adrift Over Troubled Waters
— References —
– Dead in the Water, BBC (2002) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjOH1XMAwZA
– Remembering the U.S.S. Liberty, Giraldi (2017) – http://www.unz.com/pgiraldi/remembering-the-u-s-s-liberty-2/
– New revelations in attack on American spy ship – Chicago Tribune (2017) – http://www.chicagotribune.com/chi-liberty_tuesoct02-story.html
Myth is a fundamental part of what binds and propels a nation forwards towards a shared goal, and in the case of Israel and the surrounding Arab states following the end of the British Mandate in 1948, the mythology of David versus Goliath certainly played to the Israelis’ advantage in mustering national solidarity against the armies of Egypt, Syria, Lebanon and Jordan. In the Six-Day War in 1967, however, what may have appeared to be superior force at least numerically on the Arab side quickly turned into a rout as the Israelis swiftly destroyed their opponents’ armies. In Egypt in particular, the Arab nationalist leader Gamal Nasser suffered a major blow to his prestige as a military commander, and his myth as a greater Arab leader was never able to recover.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/ZY1r5ucgopWL/ Myth of the 20th Century – Episode 83 – The Six Day War
— References —
– Why Arabs Lose Wars, De Atkine (1999) – https://www.meforum.org/articles/other/why-arabs-lose-wars
– Six Days of War, Oren (2002)
– Six Day War (1967) | The 50 Years War: Israel & the Arabs [3/6] (2017) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmiDswF9FLM
– Six Days and 50 Years of War, Stephens (2017) – https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/02/opinion/six-days-and-50-years-of-war.html