Deceptive Methods

Deceptive Methods | Episode 7 - Edward VIII: Prince, King, Duke... Nazi?

Edward VIII was the king of the United Kingdom for 11 months when he abdicated the throne for love in 1936. His subsequent exile meant that he would never officially work as a royal ever again. But his actions after exile were nothing short of treason. Was he an innocent fool or actively involved in the conspiracies to reclaim his throne? This was a potentially explosive secret that the English royal family and government did not want anyone to know and there were many hands involved in the cover-up, up to and including world leaders and Prime Minister Winston Churchill himself. In this episode, we will discuss the “traitor” English Prince, King, then Duke, Edward VIII. 1. Axis History website. www.axishistory.com 2. Larman, Alexander. The Crown in Crisis: Countdown to the Abdication. St. Martin’s Griffith Press, 2022. 3. Lownie, Andrew. Traitor King: The Scandalous Exile of the Duke & Duchess of Windsor. Pegasus Publishing. 2021. 4. Schwartz, Dana. The Duke and Adolph Hitler. Noble Blood Podcast. 2022. Patrick Maguire. Edward VIII. Red Box Politics. 2022. 5. Vanderhoof, Erin. Inside Traitor King and the Case That Edward VIII Was a Nazi Sympathizer. Vanity Fair. 2022.

The Knights Templar

The Knights Templar are basically a conspiracy in themselves.  It’s hard to think of another organization that has as much of a reach as the Templars.  They are guardians of the holy grail, a mystical order, have magical secret rights, and are the forefathers of secret organizations.  Historically. the Templars were a religious military order, watching over pilgrims who were travelling on Crusades, guarding fortresses, and fighting Muslims in the Holy Land.  Let’s look into how the Templars became one of the most mysterious organizations in history—and you won’t believe how short that history really is. Sources:  1.    Cybulskie, Danièle. “The Afterlife of the Templars: FIGHTING INJUSTICE TO RULING THE WORLD.” Medieval Warfare, vol. 6, no. 5, 2016, pp. 34–37. 2.    Day, Elizabeth. “Da Vinci Code bestseller is plagiarism, authors claim.” The Telegraph, October 3, 2004. 3.    Holt, Andrew. “The New Knighthood: BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX AND THE TEMPLARS.” Medieval Warfare, vol. 6, no. 5, 2016, pp. 13–17. 4.    Howe, John. “The Rule: MILITARY SECRETS OF THE KNIGHTS TEMPLAR.” Medieval Warfare, vol 6 no 5, 2016, pp. 20–25. 5.    Koch, Ariel. “The New Crusaders: Contemporary Extreme Right Symbolism and Rhetoric.” Perspectives on Terrorism, vol. 11, no. 5, 2017, pp. 13–24. 6.    Konieczny, Peter. “Who Were the Templars?: THE RISE AND FALL OF A MILITARY ORDER.” Medieval Warfare, vol. 6, no. 5, 2016, pp. 6–9. 7.    LACY, NORRIS J. “‘The Da Vinci Code’: Dan Brown and The Grail That Never Was.” Arthuriana, vol. 14, no. 3, 2004, pp. 81–93. 8.    Menache, Sophia. “The Templar Order: A Failed Ideal?” The Catholic Historical Review, vol 79 no 1, 1993, pp. 1–21. 9.    What Should We Believe About the Knights Templar?  Parts 1 and 2.  Our Fake History Podcast.  Host: Sebastian Major.  2022 10.    Tyerman, Christopher. God’s War: A New History of the Crusades. Harvard University Press, 2006.

The St. Bartholomew's Day massacre

The Marriage of Princess Margot of France and Prince Henry of Navarre was supposed to bring peace between the warring Catholic and Protestant factions in France.  But since we know history around here, we know this was not meant to be.  There was peace… for a few days.  Then everything went tits up when all the Protestant leaders and their families were ordered to be executed by none other than the Queen Regent of France, Catherine de’ Medici. Sources:   1.    Catherine de’ Medici, Italian Orphan.  Stuff You Missed in History Class Podcast hosted by Candace Keener and Sarah Dowdey.  2010. 2.    Catherine de’ Medici and the Scarlet Nuptials.  Stuff You Missed in History Class Podcast hosted by Candace Keener and Sarah Dowdey.  2010. 3.    Catherine de Medici: We Heard She Ate Babies for Breakfast.  Criminalia Podcast Hosted by Holly Frey and Maria Trimarchi.  2020. 4.   Diefendorf, Barbara. “Prologue to a Massacre: Popular Unrest in Paris, 1557-1572.” The American Historical Review. 1985.  https://doi.org/10.2307/1859659 [https://doi.org/10.2307/1859659].  5.    St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre.  In Our Time: History Podcast.  2003.

Three Mile Island Nuclear Meltdown

The worst commercial nuclear accident to happen on American soil occurred in small-town Pennsylvania in 1979. On the International Nuclear Event Scale, TMI scores a 5. What followed was not only a massive cleanup but also massive corporate and government cover-ups with the motivation to silence those who would whistleblow against the state of nuclear regulation and industry.   Sources:   1.    10 Reasons to Oppose Nuclear Energy.  Green America. https://www.greenamerica.org/fight-dirty-energy/amazon-build-cleaner-cloud/10-reasons-oppose-nuclear-energy [https://www.greenamerica.org/fight-dirty-energy/amazon-build-cleaner-cloud/10-reasons-oppose-nuclear-energy]   2.    Accidents at Nuclear Power Plants and Cancer Risk. National Cancer Institute.  https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/causes-prevention/risk/radiation/nuclear-accidents-fact-sheet [https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/causes-prevention/risk/radiation/nuclear-accidents-fact-sheet] 3.    Backgrounder on the Three Mile Island Accident. US NRC. https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/fact-sheets/TMIle-isle.html [https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/fact-sheets/TMIle-isle.html] 4.    Meltdown: Three Mile Island.  Netflix  5.    Nuclear Power.  Wikipedia  6.    The Nuclear Nightmare That Almost Took Out the East Coast.  New York Post.  https://nypost.com/2022/05/04/how-a-brave-engineer-saved-the-us-from-nuclear-catastrophe-new-doc/ [https://nypost.com/2022/05/04/how-a-brave-engineer-saved-the-us-from-nuclear-catastrophe-new-doc/]   7.    Three Mile Island Accident. World Nuclear Association.  https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/safety-and-security/safety-of-plants/three-mile-island-accident.aspx [https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/safety-and-security/safety-of-plants/three-mile-island-accident.aspx]

Crusade Against Cannabis

The history surrounding the process to illegalize cannabis sativa is long and complex.  The illegalization of cannabis is mainly attributed to the crusade of one man, Harry Anslinger.  Whether his crusade is attributed to racism, a quest for power, or a mission to help people by cutting off the source of drug use—we will discuss them all in this episode. Sources: 1.    ANSLINGER, HARRY JACOB, AND U.S. DRUG POLICY. https://www.encyclopedia.com/education/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/anslinger-harry-jacob-and-us-drug-policy [https://www.encyclopedia.com/education/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/anslinger-harry-jacob-and-us-drug-policy]   2.    Anslinger: The Untold Cannabis Conspiracy Podcast. Annie Rouse.  3.    Chapter 7.1 Drug Use in History. Social Problems. Minnesota Libraries Publishing, 2010. Creative Commons License (CC BY-NC-SA).  4.    Reefer Madness. Eric Schlosser.  The Atlantic, August 1994.  https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1994/08/reefer-madness/303476/ [https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1994/08/reefer-madness/303476/] 5.    Shanghai Opium Conference. https://www.encyclopedia.com/education/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/shanghai-opium-conference [https://www.encyclopedia.com/education/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/shanghai-opium-conference] 6.    Why the US Made Marijuana Illegal. https://www.history.com/news/why-the-u-s-made-marijuana-illegal [https://www.history.com/news/why-the-u-s-made-marijuana-illegal] 7.    Wikipedia (Harry J. Anslinger; Marihuana Tax Act 1937; Victor Licata; Uniform State Narcotic Drug Act)