Year: 2010
For Sale: Old Fashioned Skullduggery
Secret societies, alleged grave robbing, little black books, Thor, the possible skull of Geronimo, grizzly human remains, shadowy establishment figures, ex-Presidents, conspiracies, the CIA and supreme court judges. While these may certainly sound like the frustrated ramblings of DeCount O'Blather on a wet-wristed Wednesday wankathon (TM) , they also happen to be involved in an upcoming lot for sale at Christies which has quite a few people in a bit of a tizzy. Sale em's Lot Lot 157 contains memorabilia from the infamous Skull & Bones secret society, based at Yale University. Home of America's elite, the societies members have included a veritable 'who's who' of establishment figures throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, including both George Bush's, and John Kerry. Founded in the 19th century, the society owns its own windowless fortress property, as well as a 40-acre Island in upstate New York, where members can get away from...
Tracking the Protocols of the Elders of Zion
(Henry Ford - one of the Protocols most ardent supporters and publishers) The Protocols of the Elders of Zion has often been called the 'original conspiracy theory' - a known anti-semitic forgery which, despite an abundance of research showing that it is a fake, continues to replicate and spread. The following map is part of a project (for a course at the University of Edinburgh) which attempts to understand how poor research, multi-located narratives and the 'will of the web' can ensure that dangerous, patently false ideas can continue to thrive and thrive. This map attempts to track the spread of the 'Protocols' - a forgery which purports to be the 'secret agenda' of the Jewish people and their plans for global domination. To properly view the embedded content, I suggest you click this view in a larger map option:View Tracking the Protocols of the Elders of Zion in a larger map