Aditi sent me this:
Submerged stone structures lying just below the waters off Yonaguni Jima are actually the ruins of a Japanese Atlantis—an ancient city sunk by an earthquake about 2,000 years ago.
That’s the belief of Masaaki Kimura, a marine geologist at the University of the Ryukyus in Japan who has been diving at the site [...]
Category Archives: History
Each One Tells His Own Version
Events In 1955
I find this to be very interesting, unless Wikipedia is just completely wrong:
January 22 - Pentagon unveils plans to develop ICBM with nuclear payload
Three days later, January 25, the USSR finally stops fighting against Nazi Germany (WTF?)
Three days later, January 28, Congress authorizes Eisenhower to use force to protect Taiwan from China.
Fifteen days later, Eisenhower [...]
How To Join The Illuminati
Those Poor Misunderstood Illuminati
The Illuminati, I’m prepared to say, are woefully misunderstood. How exactly it all happened, I’m not sure. But somewhere along the line, public perception of the mysterious group and Illuminism, the philosophical ideal behind it, got ridiculously entangled with just about every kind of conspiracy theory out there. Untangling all those strands [...]
Sovereign Individuals
Great article, brief, to the point, inspirational. Excellent candidate for print-out and distribution.
The modern concept of sovereignty and of nation-states began after the Thirty Years War, and with the Peace of Westphalia that ended that war in 1648. The Thirty Years War was primarily a war of churches and religions. The Peace of Westphalia ended [...]
Self-Ownership & Negative Liberty
Two interesting and highly useful terms and concepts within the study of the personal and party sciences:
Self-Ownership: “Self-ownership (or sovereignty of the individual or individual sovereignty) is the condition where an individual has the exclusive moral right to control his or her own body and life. The concept has been originated inside mainstream anarchist theory, [...]
Samuel Bowles’ Local Scrip
Very interesting in relation to the Tim Boucher Dollars idea:
FEDERAL currency was in short supply during the Great Depression, so local banks, stores, town governments and others with initiative issued their own scrip. In Springfield, Massachusetts, the publisher of the Springfield Union News, Samuel Bowles, began to pay his employees in scrip redeemable at local [...]
