the list of prominent news outlets that have featured a lot of these work as a writer he or if the intercept is correct it has been featured in a range of right leaning publications and as i mentioned earlier us president donald trump white house the other subs mortaza hussein reports that last year one trump was looking to justify tearing apart the iran nuclear deal the white house claim that the nuclear deal had allowed iran to increase its military budget when pressed for a source to back up that claim the white house passed along an article published in forbes by writer named as mad a lobby so it's big news being reported by fake activists now influencing real life policy. of the goods a good time to start chucking resources and watch your. soldiers during the 1st real that this would seem. as if you were to pull out of. the like you got. the fleet. with. the.

world with all the watching the orcs i am sorry robots for and time to happen. so the enemy k. . is this organization and for those just joining us it's a has been listed as a foreign terrorist organization by the u.s. state department from 1970 all that 2012. though now most of what its activities said is considered nonviolent obviously it's writing articles most of the consider political activism lobbying towards the overthrow of the reigning government so hence what you're seeing in these large amounts of writing the mayor and it may not be so the group currently is said to operate out of albania. and

a lot of these articles one of the things that i thought was interesting as is this the reason you have to look at it in that it being propaganda is that they always are on the side of denouncing around the government. and also specifically pointed out which is odd to me that people didn't really look into this when they're reading this author's work is saying that it should be replace the whole government sure replaced by by the m. e. k. and m. rajavi their their leaders so that should tell you something that this wasn't just i'm in a radio and i want my people to be free that there's a differ. if you're specifically pushing this kind of a threat that this kind of a organizational change within the government you have to look at who's saying it yeah and then that's the thing that really blew my mind with. this story this morning is assuming you're looking at a time like this is insane that this many publications and all over and over one

and not unknown organizations a big organization like you said is on the terror why do you think like you because you and i have both been sniffing around the media for many a time now do you think this kind of manipulation we're going to see more of this kind of. relation by governments and organizations they can influence public opinion because clearly that's what this guy was meant to do these articles were meant to do or you see more of it we see it all the time i mean we've seen it for. anything that you say well what are say the united states has voice of america we've talked about on this show you there's a number of books well documented how they went and then had famous writers that you know and love writing anti-communist anti-socialism propaganda for the paris review i mean you had artists writing propaganda for the u.s. government not even 50 years ago the idea that oh we didn't. even have to grips

with the pain make them up i think the us i think anybody in government of any country using a forum article as your source for government information is already failing to fail i mean look at look a new list of the list of the media organizations that featured this guy's work. the hill the diplomat or daily caller america page magazine a bunch of others would like references tweet. you know. big twitter following you know this guy always the same profile picture as well. between forbes as one of the bigger. blenders and back with you april 2017 april 2018 a lot of the public 61 articles with the forbes website that's a lot of articles coming from apparently this this group of 3 writers and this person it's pretty incredible. i think there's a lot # to be said for just. there's all of these fact checking machines and all of

these great things making sure that we here at our day don't put out an ad on propaganda or lies or anything got to make sure and even if we do correctly report something it's going to freak people out and this got through forbes through the federalist though the diplomat i mean we're talking about a wide range of both right. so i think for everyone on the on the wild right and of the spectrum you're going to find another one on the left and this is what happens when you have an echo chamber it really is it really is and that echo chamber of think of the problem because it's like no one wants to fact check something if it's if it's if they agree with it. and they want to agree with and if it fits their narrative yes or not it. well. since 911 the patriot act and the creation of homeland security u.s. citizens of this face an ever increasing invasion of privacy in the name of

security a great example of this invasion takes place at major airports all across the us of a since 2000 when air travelers have been poked prodded self out and x. rays every time they seek to fly the friendly skies watchers in paris soon the days of the pat down will be coming to an end but before we all jump with joy and dash over to terminal a to catch that evening flight to nova scotia there's a catch and this catch comes in the name of biometric boarding programs and facial recognition t.-mac a strange office has the story. there are over a dozen airports here in the u.s. using facial recognition technology and more are expected to follow this. part of the government's effort to try to get the 20 largest airports here in the u.s. using the technology by 2021. here based may be your next boarding pass this after president trump issued an executive order in 2017 expediting the deployment of biometric verification of the identities of all travelers crossing u.s.

borders including u.s. citizens in the top 20 u.s. airports by 2021 now the department of homeland security rushing to get those systems up and running at airports across the country even though the technology is unproven and largely unregulated i think it's a great idea because it's going to save time and it's that you're not going to have to be fumbling for documents over time they view the text last year scanning faces before passengers fly jet blue also followed suit and many more airlines are expected to sign up meanwhile the date is used to verify boarding passes before travelers get to their gate but it's also passed on to customs and border protection to check passengers against their watch lists and also to crack down on those who overstay their visas says i think it's a great idea it'll save a lot of time and privacy i have no concerns at all many fearful of the privacy and legal concerns and since it's not customs and border protection collecting your facial recognition data directly it's the airlines and they can pass it on to the government what's going on with the information that's being collected by these

private companies that are working with this technology you know there was an issue in china where the records of 2500000 chinese citizens were compromised from a database that was storing this type of facial recognition software there have also been questions of the accuracy of the technology according to a homeland security watchdog the facial recognition systems used at airports only worked 85 percent of the time in some cases the a.c.l.u. the american civil liberties union noted did actually facial recognition software wound. getting $28.00 also positives when they ran the pictures of members of congress now there's only about $435.00 members of congress and they had $28.00 false positives that's a poor percentage and not only that disproportionately the false positives occur with people of color although airlines say that they do not store passengers data

it shared with federal agencies that are able to store it a spokesperson for the u.s. customs and border protection said it retains biographic and set records for u.s. citizens for 15 years and non-citizens for 75 years photos are only kept for 12 hours the agency told r.t. in a statement a c.b.p. is committed to protecting the privacy of all travelers and has issued several privacy impact assessments related to entry exit employed strong technical security safeguards and has limited the amount of personally identifiable information used in the transaction now if you are traveling internationally you do have the option to opt out of using the facial recognition program however you may be asked to stand in a line that's a little bit slower and your documents will be scanned manually reporting in new york turn of each of us are taking. and i was going to record watches don't forget to let us know what is the proper couple to facebook twitter and you tube i'm sure 4 shows that are dot com coming up we go to the store monster to better understand

through the years gone by adam seltzer author of the new book h.r.h. homes the true history of the city stay true to watch the whole. you know to go 2017 the german newspaper different published an article claiming that the european union have lost 30000000000 euros. as a result of its very anti russian sanctions. particularly affected eastern europe many polish farmers went broke and committed suicide.

on the zip for them to have to. get going to dolls and on to other kind of unknown police don't give us a name let's see in the. song the smith. on the dance with all the folks in the us was an. officer. he had to get up off the ground or begin to. herd them freeze on the sounds of. a grown man in the christening essentially. through his. wish to go away from the officers. of his group.

they obviously did a kind of lunge for the web in one's midst and then when it happened on she swung and i didn't hit him i never saw any contact with. any kind went back to where they were so the officers back here there try again 15 feet apart at this point and that's when the officer pulled his gun and he did turn 3. the legend goes in the shadows of the flickering electric like that glowed from the site of the $893.00 world's fair in chicago a monster looked herman webster mudgett more famously known as dr henry howard holmes is widely regarded as america's 1st serial killer who personally claimed to have murdered over 20 people though many claimed he took over 200 lives during the months of the world's fair holmes was executed on may 7th 8 $196.00 for the murder

of his friend and business associate benjamin pipe however that wasn't the end of the tale of h.h. holmes it was just the beginning for the better part of the last 125 years tales of his hotel of horrors nicknamed the murder castle have persisted despite the fact that it was never really a hotel there's no evidence to support that hundreds of people were murdered by holmes in the hotel this is because many of the tales of h.h. holmes are just that tales devoid of fact and often based on mere gossip exacerbated by decades of retelling the tales of ha tomes continued to induce nightmares intrigue psychologists and surprise historians as the true story of herman webster mudgett is actually a lot stranger and more interesting than the fiction so what is true here to help us better understand the world of victorian chicago that were allegedly the 1st killing fields of america's 1st serial killer agent holmes is noted a.j.

holmes historian tour guide speaker and the author of the book h.h. holmes the true history of the white city devil welcome so my welcome from the windy city of chicago adam selzer thank you so much for joining us adam thanks for having me. you've been featured on a number of documentaries including the history channel's investigation into the 3 that h.h. holmes was also jack the ripper you'll want what is it about the story of holmes that captivates was so much over a century after the man's death. but really the legend is very intriguing here is this guy who supposedly had a building full of hidden rooms and torture chambers how do you not get interested in something like that but even at the time there was something about the guy that just captured people's imaginations so that the just encourage people to let their imaginations run off screaming no he wrote and published a convex confession of sorts some of which is often misquoted because it was reprinted so many times. in one that i actually had to say it one of the things

that i read through i noticed it seems that he almost killed the reader for questioning if the police found all his victims and crimes he says to those inclined to think of us meaning there is all these other bodies that he had and said i will say that the the detectives have gone over my entire life hardly a day or an act has escaped their closest scrutiny and to judge that i am guilty of more than these cases which they have traced out is to cast discredit upon their work which do you think is more likely that he was a prolific serial killer at the cops just didn't catch everything or that he was a prolific a liar but a little bit of both he did kill a number of people yet it is mitty is even he claims to have a conversion he claimed to have killed 27 people quoted number of them were still alive at the time right. so what is it about chicago at that time that made that kind of because there is there is you know there's a story that he found

a pharmacy and killed them both and took over but the 2 people who are alive kids also a little bit about how much of that mess reporting has happened over the years. quite a lot of what happened is i think the newspapers in chicago did a very good job of tracing the whole story at the time and they got as caught up in the rumors as everybody else but they were fairly good at backtracking like when a guy showed up saying hey i used to buy dead bodies from this guy that cern into skeletons to sell to medical schools of course they reported on it what it turned out that this was a guy who would say whatever the police told him to if they poured enough whiskey down his throat they reported that too but a lot out of town papers didn't really publish the follow ups you know it's interesting because the when you look at the story of a judge holmes and i think you know historically it really is a story of chicago it happened right you know in that era when chicago became the boom town you had the world's fair all those before as crimes became known there was a lot of fear mongering about crime in the city of chicago itself what was unique

about chicago in the 890 s. that you know truly made the tale of a cherry jones not only plausible but totally believable to the average person and why do you think he became this kind of great bogeyman of chicago. but part of it is no city had ever grown quite as quickly as chicago was growing in those days 50 years before we had a few 1000 people living here now all of a sudden we had over a 1000000 it was growing faster than anybody could keep track of or that anybody could regulate also we did happen to have a mayor at the time who was known for of just kind of letting things happen in fact the very 1st day that the tribune wrote about holmes that all one of the other papers said if mayor carter arison is reelected every criminal murderer and thief in the world will converge on chicago well they weren't wrong. we can also point out just the way the police worked at the time you know the guy who was in charge of investigating the holmes castle building at 3 months before had been a flower infeed dealer he had no experience as

a cop no legal training nothing in forensics or criminology the new mayor just like the cut of his job you know it's interesting too because i think of your book you also talk about that building as well as as you know at the time of the you mention that it wasn't really the murder castle but it's kind of being hyped out of them you know i see every documentary about archer jones as murder castle he built this thing to trap people in all that water what are some of the control conflicting theories about what exactly this place was actually used for. well there's all kinds of stories about it being built specifically to murder people with everything you could possibly need to kill a person but that kind of came out of a tie with the police we're going through there and saying oh we found a rule people have been hanging people we felt a bench maybe this was a dissection table really imagine if you walked or rode anybody's house you could find a lot of ways to kill people just with the things you find in a hole but he did have a couple of rooms that were all papered over so he could hide stolen furniture in there a couple of hidden staircases so there was a lot to excite people's imaginations in this place but really it had been retail of the 1st floor apartments on the 2nd floor that he had of the 3rd story that was

supposed to be a hotel but really it was just something to swindle insurers and investors who did not want that omega is one of the things inventor thing out there is the supposedly best hotel and the hotel is really maybe long term rentals hartman's but it's not really are it is a hotel there isn't a front desk no you know there was a he was he did say that he was going to add a 3rd floor that was going to be an actual hotel space during the fair but it was never finished or open for business he used it as an excuse to buy up all sorts of supplies like furniture bedding flooring anything that people would give him on credit that he could sell for cash and then of course he took out 5 or 6 inserts policies on it and strangely enough it caught fire and that's i can imagine that you know how did things hit by around sometimes cern's and i mean that jews go as we're not full for one second somewhere i mean he seemed to be a prolific insurance fraud you know and sure enough he was a swindler 1st and foremost a from what i was able to fire and there were at least 60 lawsuits against him

going in chicago wow that takes some real skill that's what i could fight to as he was usually putting somebody else's name on top of the paperwork so i had to look under like his mother in law's name it is friends names and his lawyers names in his company names of his various aliases there's probably plenty more in the legal archives that i just didn't find. so obviously one of the things that's come up recently is the idea that a town was. jack the ripper. what do you say that what did you find about some of because there is a lot of there is no hard evidence proving me as however there is some interesting evidence that says he could have. how do you feel about. stabbing random people wasn't really old style to begin with the seems to have favored ploys and in for killing people it was always people that he knew got plenty of paperwork that suggests that he was almost certainly in chicago during the time of the ripper murders he registered to vote while he was in chicago his father said that he

visited new hampshire and late october of $888.00 so odds are i'd say he was around the united states anyway i want to ask too is that you know in chicago is do you still feel the legacy of holmes and and that world fair on the importance about a period of time in chicago today like what is now you have people come and make a documentary about this guy and all that how does chicago feel about a church home today. what we are is fascinated by it was a new place else i mean i don't think something from the 890 s. should really reflect on our reputation today certainly you can see a lot more evidence of the world's fair itself you see it in the architecture all over the place you see it in the way that cities were designed and really in the same way as other cities are that fair was sort of like a preview of what the 20th century was going to be like for people. so what's next in the research of sort of the lives and deaths of ev a.j. townsend and and what can we find out now because you've seen so many things that have you know cases that have been long lost thought that they would never be

solved are missing people never be identified and we're seeing every day new cases solved with d.n.a. with that how does the holmes case or these cases like this how can they help us sort of understand the crimes of today and better better catch the bad guys before they become yes. it's hard to tell most of the evidence from the holmes case disappeared decades and decades ago we don't have any bones that were supposed to be from his victims that are still in circulation today though you never know what might turn up you never know what else we might find there are legal archives and probably st louis and texas that i didn't get a chance to look through that might have some more clues for us but really it's just kind of a matter of like looking at the way the story grew over time it's not so much an indictment of the media as how we react to the media and how what parts of the story we remember to colored our understanding of the case for years how often do we see that today average you see that kind of same mistake now being repeated over and over but it's what we remember not what was actually reported oh imagine that

happens all the time. it's incredible to me that we still keep making the same mistake over and over going to specially with these fascinating monsters i mean is there you know what i want to ask you you know what. what can we expect next in your work that you're doing were guarding homes or of your you put this one to bed now you're moving on but still to research occasionally what i feel like i've been reasonably thorough with holmes as it is just going to cover. new things as they come up right now work out of the projects i'm working on a big who's who book for graceland cemetary who was founded by a guy who happened to be holes as big as swindling victims so he turns up everywhere. in a while. so what do you what do you think it is that. well you know when you think about it like i think you know a little bit of time left what do you think is the biggest thing we could learn from this as on the whole with the holmes case and moving forward what what what should people who look back for the curiosity of a but what should they walk forward saying what would you recommend they move forward and looking at homes and

life and how we can better prevent them today. but one thing is going back to what you were talking about earlier in the program is check your sources see where these stories are coming from the see it's make sure we're actually getting primary stories one thing i found that was really important in the research was a finding the articles from reporters who were actually on the ground working on the story not the ways the ones that had spread around so check your sources that's one of the ones that is a big one continues to be a big one i don't think the fact checking it investigated. i want to thank you so much for coming on today and obviously as a story and it's one of our favorite tales of midwestern lore is the story of a child's age 8 times the true history of the white city devil by adams out there thank you so much for joining us today thanks for having me. this guys of southern california were graced with the 1st successful test flight of the high capacity electric aircraft on june 6th thrusting the aviation industry into

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