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We all grew up learning about the U.S. government’s supposed uniqueness; its built-in “checks and balances.” After all, the results of concentrated power without restraint are littered throughout all of human history. America was different…for awhile, at least. Congress was, in theory, the branch of government “closest to the people,” representing each state’s interests. Today? Congress comes around when it’s time to vote, and then you don’t see them again. They represent billionaires and crony corporations. They’re off in other countries, propagandizing the overthrow of foreign governments. They often don’t even bother reading the bills they vote on here at home. And worst of all, they allow the Executive Branch to get away with almost everything. No checks. No balances. What has happened to the republic?

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HITLERS GOLD — THE REAL STORY, SWISS BANKS, THE BIS, DULLES AND THE AFTERMATH

Since the Second World War we have been talking of the horrors of war, the battles, tanks, the men and machines. But none of it could have happened if not for the international industrialists, bankers and law-firms and banking cartels.

In this very special episode, we will go over all these details and cover who these people were, where did what Gold come from and where did it go. The Bank of International Settlements, Sullivan and Cromwell, Allen Dulles, Hjalmar Schacht, Martin Bormann — Hitlers personal secretary and his Gold and stolen art deals.

And where did it all go after the war, and what happened to the businesses, industrialists and bankers. Who paid for it all and who did not. We will cover some of the controversies that came from the Nuremberg trials and lead us into the lessons we failed to learn and on to the new global organizations which seems funded and created similarly to the National Socialists.

The True Origin of WWII: What Historians Get Wrong

The story you were taught about World War II is incomplete.
History textbooks tell us WWII began when Hitler invaded Poland in 1939. But the real origins of the deadliest conflict in human history trace back to bankers, not generals. To boardrooms, not battlefields.
In this video, we expose the economic forces that mainstream narratives conveniently ignore:
→ How the Treaty of Versailles created a financial time bomb that destabilized Europe for two decades
→ The Dawes Plan: How Wall Street pumped billions into Germany, creating a fragile house of cards that collapsed in 1929
→ The exposed connection between the Great Depression and Hitler’s rise from fringe extremist to Chancellor
→ The uncomfortable truth about Ford, General Motors, IBM, and Standard Oil doing business with Nazi Germany—some even after war broke out
→ Why the Nazi economic model required conquest to survive
This isn’t conspiracy theory. This is documented history buried in archives, exposed at Nuremberg, and examined in Congressional investigations. The records exist. Most people just never look.
Understanding how economic forces create political monsters isn’t just about the past. It’s about recognizing the warning signs before the next catastrophe.
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Sources and further reading:

John Maynard Keynes, “The Economic Consequences of the Peace” (1919)
Edwin Black, “IBM and the Holocaust” (2001)
US Holocaust Memorial Museum archives
Centre for Economic Policy Research studies on banking crises and extremism.

Hitler’s American Business Partners

A detailed, well-referenced, and chilling look at American multinational corporations who fueled and profited from the Nazi movement before and during the US involvement in WWII.

The Major Disturbing, Inconvenient Element Never Discussed in the Lead Up to the Beginning of the Second World War (World War II).

Tragically, Here Are Little Known Aspects of the Greatest Conflagration of World History Never Taught in an Academic Setting.

Edwin Black: IBM and the Holocaust

I saw noted author Edwin Black appear at Temple Israel synagogue in Tulsa on November 7, 2011, to present a powerful lecture titled “IBM and the Holocaust.” The event focused on his investigative research into how the corporation’s technology facilitated the logistics of the Nazi regime.

Here Black speaks in Endicott, NY, the birthplace and for many years the headquarters of IBM, on September 15, 2009. He is author of Nazi Nexus: America’s Corporate Connections to Hitler’s Holocaust, and IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance Between Nazi Germany and America’s Most Powerful Corporation.

World War II: The Savage Aftermath

The True History of World War II, by Ron Unz

Ron Unz critically reassesses the established narrative of World War II, exploring overlooked historical evidence, scholarly purges, and contested interpretations that significantly redefine our understanding of the conflict.

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Basic economic logic and thousands of years of recorded history have verified that price controls take a bad economic circumstance and make it even worse. But alas, President Trump, who seems to be looking for a quick fix to pacify public anger for the results of his policies, is pushing for price controls. Whether it be interest rates, credit card rates, electricity rates … the more the government subsidizes and interferes with what’s left of market prices, the bigger and more numerous the problems become.

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From Murray Rothbard’s 1994 essay, “Just War”:

“The Somalian intervention [by the U.S. military] was a perfect case study in the workings of [the] Wilsonian dream. We began the intervention by extolling a ‘new kind of army (a model army if you will, engaged in a new kind of high moral intervention: the U.S. soldier with a CARE package in one hand, and a gun in the other. The new “humanitarian” army, bringing food, peace, and democracy and human rights to the benighted peoples of Somalia, and doing it all the more nobly and altruistically because there was not a scrap of national interest in it for Americans. It was this prospect of a purely altruistic intervention — of universal love imposed by the bayonet — that swung almost the entire “antiwar” Left into the military intervention camp. Well, it did not take long for our actions to have consequences, and the end of the brief Somalian intervention provided a great lesson if we only heed it: the objects of our “humanitarianism” being shot down by American guns, and striking back by highly effective guerilla war against American troops, culminating in savaging the bodies of American soldiers. So much for “humanitarianism,” for a war to impose democracy and human rights; so much for the new model army.”

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Not only is Robert Barnes a master litigator and top-notch attorney but one of the most in depth, articulate, well read and street-smart experienced political analysts in the nation. Whether it involves the institutionalized criminal machine cartels of the Democrats and Republicans or the deep state, he is a true polymath reminiscent of Murray N. Rothbard in his power elite analysis of Realpolitik and geopolitics. He is widely regarded and respected.

Barnes has just completed an in-depth examination of the pulse of D.C. through a round of confidential conversational dialogues and frank inquiries of a wide-range of top level and varied other actors of executive and legislative influentials regarding the international and domestic realities at play today. What he has to report is very important.

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Mike Benz — Riots, Revolution & A World on Fire This Week

Mike Benz — CIA Cocaine Trade in Venezuela Complicates Maduro Charges

Mike Benz chat with Grant Stinchfield tonight (1/8/26) on NewsMax

Trump needs to wake up from the deep sleep slumber engendered by the deep state. For almost 100 years, the US has had a narco-centric foreign policy.

American War Machine: Deep Politics, the CIA Global Drug Connection, and the Road to Afghanistan, by Peter Dale Scott
https://www.amazon.com/American-War-Machine-Connection-Afghanistan/dp/0742555941

The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade, by Alfred W. McCoy
https://www.amazon.com/Politics-Heroin-Complicity-Global-Trade/dp/1556524838

It’s all about drugs. It has always been all about drugs. Researcher Peter Dale Scott has convinced me that the “deep politics” reality of our foreign policy with the Third World since the end of World War II has been narco-centric, behind the Cold War/War on Terror public facade or rationale. We clearly see this in revelations of Jeffrey Epstein/Bear Sterns on Iran-Contra; AIG, Goldman Sachs, and the 2008 bailouts, which have begun to expose the Narcosaurus at the core as never before.

As Larry Chin observed:

AIG’s involvement to US covert operations stretches back to World War II, in its roots as C.V. Starr, the intelligence-related proprietary founded by OSS agent Cornelius Vander Starr. The Starr proprietary was connected to CIA/OSS figures Paul Helliwell and Tommy Corcoran. The notorious CIA fronts connected to C.V. Starr, including Civil Air Transport, Sea Supply, and Air America/Pacific Corp were exposed by Peter Dale Scott in his book Drugs, Oil, and War: The United States in Afghanistan, Colombia, and Indochina. It is also a huge financial “pass-through”, whose counter-parties include Goldman Sachs and (not surprisingly) the same major financial institutions that are the top recipients of the US government’s TARP bailout.

It is no surprise that Barack Obama is the top recipient of AIG funds. AIG’s money also lines the pockets of other members of the Obama administration, and prominent members of Congress, including Senator Christopher Dodd, who has been accused of a sweetheart deal aiding AIG.

For more on intelligence asset Barack Obama’s Wall Street connection, see Charles Gasparino’s book, Bought and Paid For: The Unholy Alliance Between Barack Obama and Wall Street.

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Mike Benz — CIA Cocaine Trade In Venezuela Complicates Maduro Charges

Mike Benz chat with Grant Stinchfield tonight (1/8/26) on NewsMax

Trump needs to wake up from the deep sleep slumber engendered by the deep state. For almost 100 years, the US has had a narco-centric foreign policy.

American War Machine: Deep Politics, the CIA Global Drug Connection, and the Road to Afghanistan, by Peter Dale Scott
https://www.amazon.com/American-War-Machine-Connection-Afghanistan/dp/0742555941

The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade, by Alfred W. McCoy
https://www.amazon.com/Politics-Heroin-Complicity-Global-Trade/dp/1556524838

It’s all about drugs. It has always been all about drugs. Researcher Peter Dale Scott has convinced me that the “deep politics” reality of our foreign policy with the Third World since the end of World War II has been narco-centric, behind the Cold War/War on Terror public facade or rationale. We clearly see this in revelations of Jeffrey Epstein/Bear Sterns on Iran-Contra; AIG, Goldman Sachs, and the 2008 bailouts, which have begun to expose the Narcosaurus at the core as never before.

As Larry Chin observed:

AIG’s involvement to US covert operations stretches back to World War II, in its roots as C.V. Starr, the intelligence-related proprietary founded by OSS agent Cornelius Vander Starr. The Starr proprietary was connected to CIA/OSS figures Paul Helliwell and Tommy Corcoran. The notorious CIA fronts connected to C.V. Starr, including Civil Air Transport, Sea Supply, and Air America/Pacific Corp were exposed by Peter Dale Scott in his book Drugs, Oil, and War: The United States in Afghanistan, Colombia, and Indochina. It is also a huge financial “pass-through”, whose counter-parties include Goldman Sachs and (not surprisingly) the same major financial institutions that are the top recipients of the US government’s TARP bailout.

It is no surprise that Barack Obama is the top recipient of AIG funds. AIG’s money also lines the pockets of other members of the Obama administration, and prominent members of Congress, including Senator Christopher Dodd, who has been accused of a sweetheart deal aiding AIG.

For more on intelligence asset Barack Obama’s Wall Street connection, see Charles Gasparino’s book, Bought and Paid For: The Unholy Alliance Between Barack Obama and Wall Street.

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Mike Benz — CIA Cocaine Trade In Venezuela Complicates Maduro Charges

Mike Benz chat with Grant Stinchfield tonight (1/8/26) on NewsMax

Trump needs to wake up from the deep sleep slumber engendered by the deep state. For almost 100 years, the US has had a narco-centric foreign policy.

American War Machine: Deep Politics, the CIA Global Drug Connection, and the Road to Afghanistan, by Peter Dale Scott
https://www.amazon.com/American-War-Machine-Connection-Afghanistan/dp/0742555941

The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade, by Alfred W. McCoy
https://www.amazon.com/Politics-Heroin-Complicity-Global-Trade/dp/1556524838

It’s all about drugs. It has always been all about drugs. Researcher Peter Dale Scott has convinced me that the “deep politics” reality of our foreign policy with the Third World since the end of World War II has been narco-centric, behind the Cold War/War on Terror public facade or rationale. We clearly see this in revelations of Jeffrey Epstein/Bear Sterns on Iran-Contra; AIG, Goldman Sachs, and the 2008 bailouts, which have begun to expose the Narcosaurus at the core as never before.

As Larry Chin observed:

AIG’s involvement to US covert operations stretches back to World War II, in its roots as C.V. Starr, the intelligence-related proprietary founded by OSS agent Cornelius Vander Starr. The Starr proprietary was connected to CIA/OSS figures Paul Helliwell and Tommy Corcoran. The notorious CIA fronts connected to C.V. Starr, including Civil Air Transport, Sea Supply, and Air America/Pacific Corp were exposed by Peter Dale Scott in his book Drugs, Oil, and War: The United States in Afghanistan, Colombia, and Indochina. It is also a huge financial “pass-through”, whose counter-parties include Goldman Sachs and (not surprisingly) the same major financial institutions that are the top recipients of the US government’s TARP bailout.

It is no surprise that Barack Obama is the top recipient of AIG funds. AIG’s money also lines the pockets of other members of the Obama administration, and prominent members of Congress, including Senator Christopher Dodd, who has been accused of a sweetheart deal aiding AIG.

For more on intelligence asset Barack Obama’s Wall Street connection, see Charles Gasparino’s book, Bought and Paid For: The Unholy Alliance Between Barack Obama and Wall Street.

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Mike Benz — CIA Cocaine Trade In Venezuela Complicates Maduro Charges

Mike Benz chat with Grant Stinchfield tonight (1/8/26) on NewsMax

Trump needs to wake up from the deep sleep slumber engendered by the deep state. For almost 100 years, the US has had a narco-centric foreign policy.

American War Machine: Deep Politics, the CIA Global Drug Connection, and the Road to Afghanistan, by Peter Dale Scott
https://www.amazon.com/American-War-Machine-Connection-Afghanistan/dp/0742555941

The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade, by Alfred W. McCoy
https://www.amazon.com/Politics-Heroin-Complicity-Global-Trade/dp/1556524838

It’s all about drugs. It has always been all about drugs. Researcher Peter Dale Scott has convinced me that the “deep politics” reality of our foreign policy with the Third World since the end of World War II has been narco-centric, behind the Cold War/War on Terror public facade or rationale. We clearly see this in revelations of Jeffrey Epstein/Bear Sterns on Iran-Contra; AIG, Goldman Sachs, and the 2008 bailouts, which have begun to expose the Narcosaurus at the core as never before.

As Larry Chin observed:

AIG’s involvement to US covert operations stretches back to World War II, in its roots as C.V. Starr, the intelligence-related proprietary founded by OSS agent Cornelius Vander Starr. The Starr proprietary was connected to CIA/OSS figures Paul Helliwell and Tommy Corcoran. The notorious CIA fronts connected to C.V. Starr, including Civil Air Transport, Sea Supply, and Air America/Pacific Corp were exposed by Peter Dale Scott in his book Drugs, Oil, and War: The United States in Afghanistan, Colombia, and Indochina. It is also a huge financial “pass-through”, whose counter-parties include Goldman Sachs and (not surprisingly) the same major financial institutions that are the top recipients of the US government’s TARP bailout.

It is no surprise that Barack Obama is the top recipient of AIG funds. AIG’s money also lines the pockets of other members of the Obama administration, and prominent members of Congress, including Senator Christopher Dodd, who has been accused of a sweetheart deal aiding AIG.

For more on intelligence asset Barack Obama’s Wall Street connection, see Charles Gasparino’s book, Bought and Paid For: The Unholy Alliance Between Barack Obama and Wall Street.

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Regarding the new food pyramid, although it is now correct, what is the government doing issuing a food pyramid in the first place?

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Trump/Vance was presented as “the peace ticket,” and was voted in with the expectation of focusing on America instead of the rest of the world. But alas, the addiction to Empire has proven to be too strong once again. The Trump Administration has been laser-focused on foreign nations, while our own nation continues to struggle quite substantially. Yesterday, the president even proposed a $1.5 TRILLION military budget. Are we reaching the mania phase, or what market traders call the “blowoff top” of Empire?

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This is Part 4 of our Going Going, Back Back To Venezuela stream.

Part 1 here: • Going Going, Back Back, To Venezuela Venez…

Part 2 here: • Going Going, Back Back, To Venezuela Venez…

Part 3 here: • Going Going, Back Back, To Venezuela Venez…

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Robert Barnes joins Nick Rekieta to discuss the recent apprehension of Nicolas Maduro, the head of Venezuela. Is this legally sound, is it preferable? Let’s talk about it.

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Black Libertarian: The Story of Zora Neale Hurston, by Marcus Epstein

Isabel Paterson, Rose Wilder Lane, and Zora Neale Hurston on War, Race, the State, and Liberty, by David T. Beito and Linda Royster Beito

Here the tone is celebratory yet deeply probing. The Beitos’ exploration of the commonality of character and individualistic temperament of this trio of remarkable authors makes for fascinating reading. In particular, notice how they extensively deal with Lane’s pioneering work as a wartime columnist with The Pittsburgh Courier, one of America’s largest circulation Black newspapers,

But in the end, it is the damning fact that Rose Wilder Lane, her mother Laura (as well as Paterson and Hurston) strongly opposed Democrat Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the regimentation of his New Deal. That will never be abided by the Empire State sophisticates at The New Yorker (which endorsed Barack Obama). Hence this subtle attack on those middle class Americans who still see the writing of Laura Ingalls Wilder and her daughter Rose as possessing admirable virtues of individualism, self-reliance, independence, and resistance to authority.

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MTV’s dedicated music channels, including MTV Music, MTV 80s, and MTV 90s, ended their 24/7 music broadcasts globally on December 31, 2025, concluding with The Buggles’ “Video Killed the Radio Star,” the same video that launched the channel in 1981, marking the end of an era as streaming and on-demand viewing shifted audience habits. While the main MTV channel continues with reality/entertainment, its music-focused era, defined by iconic videos and shows like TRL, finished with this nostalgic sign-off.

Key Details:

Date: December 31, 2025.

Final Video: “Video Killed the Radio Star” by The Buggles.

Channels Affected: MTV Music, MTV 80s, MTV 90s, Club MTV, MTV Live, and others outside the U.S..

Reason: A shift from traditional TV to streaming and digital platforms.
Legacy: The shutdown signifies the end of linear music television, though the main MTV channel remains focused on entertainment.

And the man behind ii all, who dramatically changed the course of the world’s musical entertainment and popular culture was the visionary entrepreneur Robert Pittman.

Pittman is the co-founder and programmer who led the team that created MTV. He has been CEO of MTV Networks, AOL Networks, Six Flags Theme Parks, Century 21 Real Estate, Time Warner Enterprises and Clear Channel Outdoor, and was COO of America Online, Inc.

His name should rank with Guttenberg, Da Vinci, Galileo, Edison, Tesla, and Newton in his impact upon the world.

Pittman’s many honors include: Robert F. Kennedy Memorial’s 2000 “Ripple of Hope Award” for his commitment to civic and community affairs and his contributions to the advancement of education; receiving the Broadcasters Foundation of America’s 2016 ‘Golden Mike Award’; induction into the Advertising Hall of Fame and the Broadcasting and Cable Hall of Fame; received Adweek’s first Media Visionary award in 2013 and Cablevision Magazine’s “20/20 Vision” award for the 20 people who have had the greatest impact on the cable industry; selection as one of Advertising Age’s “10 Marketers Who Changed American Culture” and “50 Pioneers and Visionaries of TV” and recognition as one of Business Week magazine’s Top 25 Executives of 1998. He was also named one of Life magazine’s “Five Original Thinkers of the ’80s”; recognized as the eighth of Life magazine’s “50 Most Influential Boomers”; included in Time magazine’s 1984 Man-of-the-Year issue “Seven Others who Succeeded”; received the “Star of Hope Award” in January 2014 from the Community Foundation of Northwest Mississippi; was named Success Magazine’s “Pioneer of the New American Start-Up” in 1989; received the 1986 White House Conference on Small Business Award for Entrepreneurial Excellence and the 1984 Council of Fashion Designers of America award; Performance Magazine’s 1982 “Innovator of the Year” award for his work developing MTV and Billboard Magazine’s “Radio Program Manager of the Year” in 1977. In October 2012, he was awarded the Henry A. Grunwald Award for Public Service by Lighthouse International. He also received the American Academy of Achievement’s Golden Plate Award in 1990; International Teleproduction Society’s Lifetime Achievement International Monitor Award and The President’s Award and an Honorary Doctorate from Bank Street College of Education, the school’s highest honor, for his many contributions to the advancement of education.

MTV Debut 8/1/81 Opening and 1st Video — Video Killed the Radio Star

The MTV concept launched a cultural revolution, and its unexpected success made Nina Blackwood, Mark Goodman, Alan Hunter, J.J. Jackson, and Martha Quinn overnight celebrities as the network’s first VJ’s. Stayed in it’s original format for about 10 years before reality shows dominated it’s programming and killed it for most.

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MTV’s dedicated music channels, including MTV Music, MTV 80s, and MTV 90s, ended their 24/7 music broadcasts globally on December 31, 2025, concluding with The Buggles’ “Video Killed the Radio Star,” the same video that launched the channel in 1981, marking the end of an era as streaming and on-demand viewing shifted audience habits. While the main MTV channel continues with reality/entertainment, its music-focused era, defined by iconic videos and shows like TRL, finished with this nostalgic sign-off.

Key Details:

Date: December 31, 2025.

Final Video: “Video Killed the Radio Star” by The Buggles.

Channels Affected: MTV Music, MTV 80s, MTV 90s, Club MTV, MTV Live, and others outside the U.S..

Reason: A shift from traditional TV to streaming and digital platforms.
Legacy: The shutdown signifies the end of linear music television, though the main MTV channel remains focused on entertainment.

And the man behind ii all, who dramatically changed the course of the world’s musical entertainment and popular culture was the visionary entrepreneur Robert Pittman.

Pittman is the co-founder and programmer who led the team that created MTV. He has been CEO of MTV Networks, AOL Networks, Six Flags Theme Parks, Century 21 Real Estate, Time Warner Enterprises and Clear Channel Outdoor, and was COO of America Online, Inc.

His name should rank with Guttenberg, Da Vinci, Galileo, Edison, Tesla, and Newton in his impact upon the world.

Pittman’s many honors include: Robert F. Kennedy Memorial’s 2000 “Ripple of Hope Award” for his commitment to civic and community affairs and his contributions to the advancement of education; receiving the Broadcasters Foundation of America’s 2016 ‘Golden Mike Award’; induction into the Advertising Hall of Fame and the Broadcasting and Cable Hall of Fame; received Adweek’s first Media Visionary award in 2013 and Cablevision Magazine’s “20/20 Vision” award for the 20 people who have had the greatest impact on the cable industry; selection as one of Advertising Age’s “10 Marketers Who Changed American Culture” and “50 Pioneers and Visionaries of TV” and recognition as one of Business Week magazine’s Top 25 Executives of 1998. He was also named one of Life magazine’s “Five Original Thinkers of the ’80s”; recognized as the eighth of Life magazine’s “50 Most Influential Boomers”; included in Time magazine’s 1984 Man-of-the-Year issue “Seven Others who Succeeded”; received the “Star of Hope Award” in January 2014 from the Community Foundation of Northwest Mississippi; was named Success Magazine’s “Pioneer of the New American Start-Up” in 1989; received the 1986 White House Conference on Small Business Award for Entrepreneurial Excellence and the 1984 Council of Fashion Designers of America award; Performance Magazine’s 1982 “Innovator of the Year” award for his work developing MTV and Billboard Magazine’s “Radio Program Manager of the Year” in 1977. In October 2012, he was awarded the Henry A. Grunwald Award for Public Service by Lighthouse International. He also received the American Academy of Achievement’s Golden Plate Award in 1990; International Teleproduction Society’s Lifetime Achievement International Monitor Award and The President’s Award and an Honorary Doctorate from Bank Street College of Education, the school’s highest honor, for his many contributions to the advancement of education.

MTV Debut 8/1/81 Opening and 1st Video — Video Killed the Radio Star

The MTV concept launched a cultural revolution, and its unexpected success made Nina Blackwood, Mark Goodman, Alan Hunter, J.J. Jackson, and Martha Quinn overnight celebrities as the network’s first VJ’s. Stayed in it’s original format for about 10 years before reality shows dominated it’s programming and killed it for most.

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Falsely touted as an “abolitionist” for generations, Alexander Hamilton was an uber “enslaver” who bought slaves at slave auctions for friends, relatives, legal clients, and himself. This article published by the Schuyler Mansion Foundation includes sales receipts and other records of Hamilton’s long history of buying slaves. (Schuyler is the family name of Hamilton’s wife Elizabeth).

Sorry, it’s too late to get your money back from that stupid Broadway play you were duped into seeing.

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“Santa Claus is a very strange figure when you think about it.  Where does he come from and why does he fly through the sky handing out presents at night? This episode traces the connection with an old Norse god and an Anatolian bishop from the 3rd century, and explores the gritty reality of life in the Roman empire for ordinary people.  You will never look at old Saint Nick the same way again.”

“Uncover the surprising origins of Santa Claus, tracing their evolution from ancient Germanic traditions to the modern icon. Explore the historical figure of St. Nicholas and their acts of charity. Journey through centuries of evolving legends and cultural interpretations.”

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In this episode of Radio Rothbard, Ryan and Josh Mawhorter talk about how Thomas Hobbes, even nearly 400 years later, remains a popular spokesman for almost limitless state power. In fact, by Hobbes’s logic, the world should by ruled by a single global dictatorship.

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