YOU DON’T NEED TO READ….The Handmaid’s Tale to understand this reality….enslaved Black girls….some as young as 10-years-old…were treated as breeding property until their bodies were no longer able to bear children…..yes, this was America….and those laws were not new….and such atrocities inflicted on Black girls and women….are rarely acknowledge as part of American history.
IN THE 1950’s….the CIA was terrified of Soviet Union brainwashing techniques…..so they started “Project MKUltra”…..they wanted to learn how to control the human mind….they illegally dosed thousands of people…..including prisoners, mental patients and even their own agents….with massive doses of LSD….often without their knowledge….they used electro-shock therapy and sensory deprivation to break people’s monds….one of their test subjects was a young Harvard student named Ted Kaczynski…..who would grow up to become the Unabomber.
ALBERT CAMUS….was the Nobel Prize-winning philosopher who wrote about how life is random and absurd….on January 4th, 1960 he planned to take a train to Paris….with his family and at the last second…..his published convinced him to drive instead….the car crashed into a tree, killing him instantly….when the police searched his pockets they found his unused train ticket….he had died because of a last-minute change of plans….proving his own philosophy right…..the universe is chaos.
FARMERS……eliminated nearly all pests without chemicals….their secret was an ancient partnership….raising ducks in rice paddies….they would devour insects and weeds….and this organic system reduced the pest population by up to 98%….while enriching the soil and boosting the harvest.
DNA ANALYSIS…..of 105-Samurai-era skeletons revealed that 35 of them…..were women….offering powerful evidence that female warriors actively fought on the battlefields of feudal Japan…..this discovery challenges the long-held belief that samurai combat was exclusively male….and confirms that women were not only present….but directly involved in warfare….and paid the ultimate price alongside their male counterparts.
IN THE MONGOLIAN GOBI…..when a mother camel rejects her newborn…..herders don’t force then to be together….instead, they perform the Khöös ritual…..a musician plays a horsehead fiddle (morin khuur)…..while a singer chants soothing melodies….the ritual reportedly softens the mother’s mood….until she weeps and accept the calf.
LONG BEFORE COLUMBUS….Vikings landed in North America….led by Leif Erikson around 1000 AD…..they built a settlement in Canada….now called LÁnse aux Meadows….the discovery of their timber-and-sod houses in 1960….proved Vikings were the first Europeans to reach the New World.
EVERY SUMMER…..paralytic polio scared families across the U.S in 1954…..parents agreed and 1.8 million “Polio Pioneers” took part in a nationwide test of Jonas Salk’s killer virus vaccine….on April 12, 1955….it proved safe and about 80-90% effective…..triggering mass shots and ending the spread of the virus.
TO PROVE THEIR CEREAL BEAT CREAM OF WHEAT—–MIT researchers fed radioactive oatmeal to 74 boys attending a Massachusetts state school…..parents were told it was a special “Science Club” for the children…..the breakfast bowls contained calcium-45 tracers to track digestion…..decades later, a lawsuit exposed the atomic-age violation of trust.
IN 1967…..California history teacher Ron Jones wanted to explain how the German population could have followed Hitler…..he started an experiment called “The Third Wave”…..he created a strict movement with a salute, a logo and secret police within the classroom….within days the experiment spiraled out of control…..200 students joined…..reported on each other and threatened non-members….the teacher had to end it on the fifth day…..by revealing they had all been manipulated like Nazis
ON JANUARY 5th 1968…..Alexander Dubcek took power in ‘Czechoslovakia and he was a Communist…..but he did something radical….he lifted censorship….he allowed freedom of speech, freedom of the press and freedom to travel….it was called the “Prague Spring”….a brief, beautiful season of liberty behind the Iron Curtain….the people loved it…..the Soviet Union hated it….seven months later, the Soviets sent 2,000 tanks to crush their dream….proving that dictatorships….don’t like happy citizens.