Misc

This looks like Atlantis. I'm not the first to notice. The criticism of too high and too far from the ocean make no sense since the catastrophe that supposedly destroyed Atlantis may have lifted Atlantis up and out of the ocean. Maybe western Mauritania was ocean not too long ago. That would be past the Pillars of Hercules. Plato could also have been wrong about the size.

The origin of the welfare state in America.Welfare state reading list.

Praise for smuggling. This is more about trade in general than smuggling.

Men who wear red tend to perform better at sports. I'm skeptical. Maybe sports teams which wear red happen to be better managed over the time frame of the study. Maybe 20 years from now, blue teams would do better. But there is something about red.

"Now a study has found that sportsmen with higher testosterone levels are more likely to choose that colour than any other."

The study seems to contradict itself.

"But despite the link with testosterone, those who chose red did not actually  perform better in the study in which 73 men were told they would be performing a competitive task and their performances would be placed on a leaderboard.
They then chose either a red or blue symbol to represent them in the table and completed the tasks, as well as answering questions aimed at gauging whether various personal reasons may have affected their colour choice.
Their testosterone levels were measured from saliva samples at the start of the study and again at the end.
The data revealed that men who chose red had higher baseline testosterone levels – and they rated the colour as having higher levels of characteristics such as dominance and aggression, than men who chose blue.
But colour choice did not seem to be related to performance in the competitive task."

Now they're giving red a bad name.

Claim that Watergate was driven by the Rockefellers to get Nixon out of office because he raised tariffs.

"Whether the Watergate break-in was planned to serve the higher goal or was pounced upon, after the fact, as the grand opportunity, is beside the point. It was there, and it was used. It became the starting point for the Washington Post, its publisher, veteran editor, and two cub reporters to break Richard Nixon into pieces.

And if the Rockefeller people needed an inside man to report on the deteriorating mental state of the president as he heated up in the pressure cooker, they had Henry Kissinger, who was another Rockefeller operative."

"The Washington Post was owned by Katharine Graham, who was herself a very close friend of the Rockefeller Family. Years later, she would be awarded a medal of honor by the University of Chicago, a an institution founded by John D. Rockefeller. On her death, a paid heartfelt obituary was inserted in the NY Times by the trustees, faculty, and staff of Rockefeller University, where she had served on the University Council.

And she and Nixon already hated each other by the early 1970s.

The managing editor of the Washington Post, Ben Bradlee, was an old hand at writing promotional material, having worked in Europe crafting releases for a CIA front group."

How does Deep Throat fit?

Deep Politics, the Unspeakable, and Libertarian Class Analysis reading list