Great essay! I, for one, believed the official narrative longer than I care to admit. My eyes were opened during Covid and I’ve learned a lot since then and still learning today. It turns my guts to realize just how evil people were and still are.
The evil is the debt system. Columbus at first greatly admired the natives he enountered. But the sailor/explorers were so weighed down by debt, knowing they had to bring value back home or they'd be sunk economically and perhaps punished politically too, that they turned into crazed plunderers. Same with Cortez and the Aztecs as in Hispaniola.
But the picture was different up north. There is also some evidence that the Natchez culture was wiped out by disease from the early trappers. Vast areas emptied out and full of game, long before Europeans showed up in any significant numbers.
Yes, there are reports as early as 1634 from french jesuits of devastating small pox epidemics around the canadian great lake area (Ian Glynn and Jenifer Glynn, The Life and Death of Smallpox), though it is hard to verify if the cause of the illness was smallpox in every case. Some tribes stopped all connections with other tribes who were known to be in contact with white colonists or priests. I have a vague theory which might explain the riddle, see separate comment.
Fantastic article. Important and helpful to know the truth. So hard to get the average, indoctrinated, unquestioning, happy to be ignorant person to question what they have been taught. Thank you for compiling this history in a concise and readable way.
Not much has changed, has it? Toxins everywhere, food systems destroyed, stress/overwork just to make ends meet, and resulting ill health (helped along by the medical industrial complex). They’ve just figured out how to make it all profitable.
and then industry comes, the land is killed and all people flood to the cities, where there is no food and no clean water, and then they all get sick and become enslaved to big pharma.
I would like to see this author take on the Irish potato famine myth next. My more recent understanding of the famine is that it was not mostly due to natural blight but more likely due to intentional British policies and practices that led to loss of land by the locals and eventual emigration.
I understand the British debt or the interest on it from the Napoleonic war was paid in large part by exports of food from an Ireland left to starve. I can dig up the refs if anyone asks from The Lost Science Of Money ~ The Mythology Of Money : The Story Of Power by Stephen A. Zarlenga
Thankyou. I've yet to meet St Patrick - but it's wise to not allow demoralisation by focusing on the sins of others. I add a clip because context is wise before assuming to know anything.
The context of the war is the usurp of lawful or just money, then as now.
Clip/
THE BANK OF ENGLAND AND THE IRISH POTATO FAMINE
The Irish famine arose out of the taxation needed to pay the interest to the Bank of England for the millions of new "pounds" it created out of thin air and then "lent" to the government for a century of warfare. From a total population of 8 million, 1,029,000 Irish children, women and men starved to death during a period when landlords exported more than enough food for all. Those who starved were Catholic; most of the landlords were not. "It is interesting to notice the exact statistics of the food that was exported from Ireland during 1845. They are 779,000 quarters of wheat and wheat flour, 93,000 quarters of barley, and 2,353,000 quarters of oats that is to say, enough to feed for twelve months every person in Ireland who died of starvation, nearly four times over," Hollis wrote, citing Mulhall's Dictionary of Statistics. "These exports of food... went out to some extent, to pay the rents to absentee landlords, but, mainly, to pay the interest on the mortgages in English bank- manufactured money, which the Irish landlords, like the English landlords, had raised in order to pay the taxation required to meet the interest on the Napoleonic War Debt. "...(In Ireland) the capital wealth was in the hands of people, whose cultural and political sympathies were with their creditors rather than with the country in which they lived. "Lord George Bentinct suggested the putting of purchasing power into the pockets of the Irish by a scheme of railway building, but...Lord John Russell's Whig Government did not permit it. There were more profitable investments elsewhere.
The Lost Science Of Money ~ The Mythology Of Money: The Story Of Power by Stephen A. Zarlenga
🎯 Another enlightening and brilliantly articulated essay! I've read so many accounts of this particular cultural/intellectual artifact - all of which have referenced the transmission of disease as the culprit - while completely ignoring the far more compelling contributing factors that you've listed here. And until now, I've always failed to reconcile my scepticism around these claims. Thank you!
As so often, we have to reconsider who were the civilized people and who the barbarians. Thank you for this eye-opener.
Years ago I already read several reports from Indeginous people, that their ancestors were not what is usually portrayed. The 'pioneers' did not come to a jungle but to a high civilisation, and destroyed it.
Although this is the first time I read about the intentional genocide, I knew intuitively that some form of genocide occurred long ago. I just didn't know what. This begs the question of is everything a lie? Was the Civil War really about slavery or as Southerners who had relatives fight in that war claim that it was about trade embargoes, like in 1941 to the Japanese? It seems that in both cases, the alleged party responsible for the war starting the war was goaded into it.
I am not suggesting that slavery wasn't an issue; it wasn't a major one as only about 1% of the population could afford a slave. While Southerners may have not fully accepted blacks, they also knew it wasn't worth fighting for. They fought for the right to live the lifestyle they cherished, and for most Southerners that did not include having slaves, nor fighting for the right of the rich to have them.
The so called elites have always waged war against those who lived off the land, whether they be the indigenous populations in all 'civilized' countries or rural Southerners, 99% of whom didn't own slaves nor have the resources to acquire one even if they wanted one. It is happening now, and it is the root of populism in all Western countries, whether they are a die hard Trump supporter or a farmer dumping dung in front of French government building, with his tractor.
One may ask why? Well, here the article mentions controlling access to resources, such as gold and exploiting the land for their uses. While it is true that land exploitation by Europeans was the result, what if even back then, the issue was and still is control over a population? You can't control a population that didn't use money (they bartered instead), that knew how to grow food and if they weren't vegetarians, how to hunt and preserve food without technology, using salt.
Something to think about: where did these conquerors come from? Europe surely had indigenous people, just like non-European lands did. Where did they get their superior weapons? Could we have been lied to about our history so much that the conquerors had to modify the Bible and other holy books, including the Quran to perpetuate this lie? As this article illustrated, see how easy it is to create an illusion and to keep us in the dark, they dumb us down.
Slave owners may not have been the conquerors, but they did participate in a system that exploits human beings deemed 'inferior'. Perhaps the conquerors thought they were superior because of their size or better technology. Reread the Bible with a new lens of conquerors enslaving a planet and keeping them stupid by getting rid of those who have tamed the land and make us dependent upon them.
Whether one agrees with every argument or not, the central point is hard to ignore: the historical record clearly shows widespread violence, forced labor, starvation, land theft, and the destruction of indigenous food systems across the Americas. Those factors alone were more than capable of causing catastrophic population collapse.
The germ theory explanation may explain part of the story, but it can also function as a convenient simplification — one that risks shifting attention away from the documented human actions that occurred.
At the very least, essays like this remind us that history is rarely as tidy as the versions we were taught in school.
It’s messy. It’s uncomfortable. And sometimes it forces us to re-examine assumptions we didn’t even realize we were carrying.
I never have felt the history that we've been taught was true. And the church teaching history from another perspective that doesn't even make it into the school curriculum creates another chasm. We have been so tossed by those in power for so long.
"History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there."
Check out Anatoly Fomenko's work. I don't necessarily agree with everything he says, as his work covers an enormous amount of ground, and I've only read a relatively small amount.
However, there is no question that conventional world history is extremely suspect. Let's put it this way. What if the "Renaissance" wasn't what they told you it was? What if it were JaGR? Just another Great Reset. This is what Fomenko is essentially getting at, even though I don't think he would necessarily call it that.
I was pleasantly surprised by the TV series by Kevin Costner, The West, that details the cruelties perpetrated by the looting invaders on the indigenous Indian populations, who were herded together and exploited and robbed of their natural traditional lifestyle. Worth watching.
(The thing about the bedbugs threw me for a loop too, but I suppose bedbugs are symptomatic of bad hygiene and poverty as disease causing conditions.)
Great piece! We covered this exact issue in great depth in the phenomenal Episode Four of The Viral Delusion. We interviewed Dawn and David, as well as Tom Cowan and others. I know you saw it, but others should check it out!
So often we have been utilizing tunnel vision when it comes to illnesses, no thanks to pharmaceuticals. This article sheds more light on it and explains what’s been left out (purposely or not) by historical records
Great essay! I, for one, believed the official narrative longer than I care to admit. My eyes were opened during Covid and I’ve learned a lot since then and still learning today. It turns my guts to realize just how evil people were and still are.
The evil is the debt system. Columbus at first greatly admired the natives he enountered. But the sailor/explorers were so weighed down by debt, knowing they had to bring value back home or they'd be sunk economically and perhaps punished politically too, that they turned into crazed plunderers. Same with Cortez and the Aztecs as in Hispaniola.
But the picture was different up north. There is also some evidence that the Natchez culture was wiped out by disease from the early trappers. Vast areas emptied out and full of game, long before Europeans showed up in any significant numbers.
Yes, there are reports as early as 1634 from french jesuits of devastating small pox epidemics around the canadian great lake area (Ian Glynn and Jenifer Glynn, The Life and Death of Smallpox), though it is hard to verify if the cause of the illness was smallpox in every case. Some tribes stopped all connections with other tribes who were known to be in contact with white colonists or priests. I have a vague theory which might explain the riddle, see separate comment.
Indeed.
Fantastic article. Important and helpful to know the truth. So hard to get the average, indoctrinated, unquestioning, happy to be ignorant person to question what they have been taught. Thank you for compiling this history in a concise and readable way.
Not much has changed, has it? Toxins everywhere, food systems destroyed, stress/overwork just to make ends meet, and resulting ill health (helped along by the medical industrial complex). They’ve just figured out how to make it all profitable.
and then industry comes, the land is killed and all people flood to the cities, where there is no food and no clean water, and then they all get sick and become enslaved to big pharma.
Seems to be a pattern doesn't it!
Shining a light on all the lies. Thank you.
I would like to see this author take on the Irish potato famine myth next. My more recent understanding of the famine is that it was not mostly due to natural blight but more likely due to intentional British policies and practices that led to loss of land by the locals and eventual emigration.
The author has written about the Irish Potato Famine - just last year, I think. If you look in the archives on their page, I believe you'll find it.
Oh! Thank-you.
I think they have done one on that.
Thanks, Lesa.
Think of the starvation of the people of India after the British colonized.
Indeed. And I think several tens of millions in China in the 1960s.
I understand the British debt or the interest on it from the Napoleonic war was paid in large part by exports of food from an Ireland left to starve. I can dig up the refs if anyone asks from The Lost Science Of Money ~ The Mythology Of Money : The Story Of Power by Stephen A. Zarlenga
Fascinating. I never knew that but it sounds likely. Happy Saint Patrick’s Day. There was an amazing man. From slave to Saint.
Thankyou. I've yet to meet St Patrick - but it's wise to not allow demoralisation by focusing on the sins of others. I add a clip because context is wise before assuming to know anything.
The context of the war is the usurp of lawful or just money, then as now.
Clip/
THE BANK OF ENGLAND AND THE IRISH POTATO FAMINE
The Irish famine arose out of the taxation needed to pay the interest to the Bank of England for the millions of new "pounds" it created out of thin air and then "lent" to the government for a century of warfare. From a total population of 8 million, 1,029,000 Irish children, women and men starved to death during a period when landlords exported more than enough food for all. Those who starved were Catholic; most of the landlords were not. "It is interesting to notice the exact statistics of the food that was exported from Ireland during 1845. They are 779,000 quarters of wheat and wheat flour, 93,000 quarters of barley, and 2,353,000 quarters of oats that is to say, enough to feed for twelve months every person in Ireland who died of starvation, nearly four times over," Hollis wrote, citing Mulhall's Dictionary of Statistics. "These exports of food... went out to some extent, to pay the rents to absentee landlords, but, mainly, to pay the interest on the mortgages in English bank- manufactured money, which the Irish landlords, like the English landlords, had raised in order to pay the taxation required to meet the interest on the Napoleonic War Debt. "...(In Ireland) the capital wealth was in the hands of people, whose cultural and political sympathies were with their creditors rather than with the country in which they lived. "Lord George Bentinct suggested the putting of purchasing power into the pockets of the Irish by a scheme of railway building, but...Lord John Russell's Whig Government did not permit it. There were more profitable investments elsewhere.
The Lost Science Of Money ~ The Mythology Of Money: The Story Of Power by Stephen A. Zarlenga
It was both.
🎯 Another enlightening and brilliantly articulated essay! I've read so many accounts of this particular cultural/intellectual artifact - all of which have referenced the transmission of disease as the culprit - while completely ignoring the far more compelling contributing factors that you've listed here. And until now, I've always failed to reconcile my scepticism around these claims. Thank you!
As so often, we have to reconsider who were the civilized people and who the barbarians. Thank you for this eye-opener.
Years ago I already read several reports from Indeginous people, that their ancestors were not what is usually portrayed. The 'pioneers' did not come to a jungle but to a high civilisation, and destroyed it.
Although this is the first time I read about the intentional genocide, I knew intuitively that some form of genocide occurred long ago. I just didn't know what. This begs the question of is everything a lie? Was the Civil War really about slavery or as Southerners who had relatives fight in that war claim that it was about trade embargoes, like in 1941 to the Japanese? It seems that in both cases, the alleged party responsible for the war starting the war was goaded into it.
I am not suggesting that slavery wasn't an issue; it wasn't a major one as only about 1% of the population could afford a slave. While Southerners may have not fully accepted blacks, they also knew it wasn't worth fighting for. They fought for the right to live the lifestyle they cherished, and for most Southerners that did not include having slaves, nor fighting for the right of the rich to have them.
The so called elites have always waged war against those who lived off the land, whether they be the indigenous populations in all 'civilized' countries or rural Southerners, 99% of whom didn't own slaves nor have the resources to acquire one even if they wanted one. It is happening now, and it is the root of populism in all Western countries, whether they are a die hard Trump supporter or a farmer dumping dung in front of French government building, with his tractor.
One may ask why? Well, here the article mentions controlling access to resources, such as gold and exploiting the land for their uses. While it is true that land exploitation by Europeans was the result, what if even back then, the issue was and still is control over a population? You can't control a population that didn't use money (they bartered instead), that knew how to grow food and if they weren't vegetarians, how to hunt and preserve food without technology, using salt.
Something to think about: where did these conquerors come from? Europe surely had indigenous people, just like non-European lands did. Where did they get their superior weapons? Could we have been lied to about our history so much that the conquerors had to modify the Bible and other holy books, including the Quran to perpetuate this lie? As this article illustrated, see how easy it is to create an illusion and to keep us in the dark, they dumb us down.
Slave owners may not have been the conquerors, but they did participate in a system that exploits human beings deemed 'inferior'. Perhaps the conquerors thought they were superior because of their size or better technology. Reread the Bible with a new lens of conquerors enslaving a planet and keeping them stupid by getting rid of those who have tamed the land and make us dependent upon them.
Superb!
Check this out, in continuity to the present: https://youtu.be/nXOHNgalVvQ?si=P1YDYjZ4ep1wh-3X
This is a powerful piece and worth reading.
Whether one agrees with every argument or not, the central point is hard to ignore: the historical record clearly shows widespread violence, forced labor, starvation, land theft, and the destruction of indigenous food systems across the Americas. Those factors alone were more than capable of causing catastrophic population collapse.
The germ theory explanation may explain part of the story, but it can also function as a convenient simplification — one that risks shifting attention away from the documented human actions that occurred.
At the very least, essays like this remind us that history is rarely as tidy as the versions we were taught in school.
It’s messy. It’s uncomfortable. And sometimes it forces us to re-examine assumptions we didn’t even realize we were carrying.
Worth considering.
— Lone Wolf
I never have felt the history that we've been taught was true. And the church teaching history from another perspective that doesn't even make it into the school curriculum creates another chasm. We have been so tossed by those in power for so long.
"History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there."
Check out Anatoly Fomenko's work. I don't necessarily agree with everything he says, as his work covers an enormous amount of ground, and I've only read a relatively small amount.
However, there is no question that conventional world history is extremely suspect. Let's put it this way. What if the "Renaissance" wasn't what they told you it was? What if it were JaGR? Just another Great Reset. This is what Fomenko is essentially getting at, even though I don't think he would necessarily call it that.
Thank you.
Thanks for the article. Yesterday I asked for the explanation and today it's here. You're the best.
Wow. What a lucid eye opener. 🌹 Thanks for writing this. It came by way of Frontnieuws.com in the Netherlands: https://www.frontnieuws.com/wat-heeft-de-inheemse-amerikanen-werkelijk-gedood/
I was pleasantly surprised by the TV series by Kevin Costner, The West, that details the cruelties perpetrated by the looting invaders on the indigenous Indian populations, who were herded together and exploited and robbed of their natural traditional lifestyle. Worth watching.
(The thing about the bedbugs threw me for a loop too, but I suppose bedbugs are symptomatic of bad hygiene and poverty as disease causing conditions.)
Great piece! We covered this exact issue in great depth in the phenomenal Episode Four of The Viral Delusion. We interviewed Dawn and David, as well as Tom Cowan and others. I know you saw it, but others should check it out!
https://theviraldelusion.substack.com/p/the-viral-delusion-episode-four-the?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
This makes such "good" meaning logical sense of immoral activity covered by a convenient lie.
So often we have been utilizing tunnel vision when it comes to illnesses, no thanks to pharmaceuticals. This article sheds more light on it and explains what’s been left out (purposely or not) by historical records