join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics school business i'm showbusiness i'll see you then. greetings and sell you taste. to tell a great story an equally great messenger auk watchers and according to a new investigation by the intercept in the rain and group in opposition to to ron has done just that created the perfect messenger in order to push for regime change in western media so perfect in fact even the white house used the messengers work as a source back in 2018 his name is has met

a lobby and he is according to his bio an arabian activist with a passion for equal rights but according to a sana iranian a high ranking defector from the movie had seen the colic or m e k he is not an activist nor is he even real live or a person irani exclaimed to the intercept as a lobby is a person run by a team of people from the political wing of the m e k they write whatever they are directed by their commanders and use this and use this name to place articles in the press this is not and has never bad on a real person. wow welcome to the next level of fake news my friends fake journalist what isn't fake however the list of prominent news outlets for the 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 a writer named has met a lobby so it's big news being reported by fake activists now influencing real life policy i think it's a good time to start checking the sources and watching the hawks. i. told you the 1st real that this would. be a part of a lot of. the like you got. the be. re-educated . world live on the watching lark so i am sorry robot

history and time to happen. so the emmy 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 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 different if you're specifically pushing this kind of threat that this kind of. 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 one and not an 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 worse 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 groups during the pale may come up and 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. big twitter following this guy always the same profile picture as well. between forbes as one of the biggest offenders in fact between april 2017 and april 2018 a lot of the. publish 61 articles for the forbes website bubs of a lot of articles coming from apparently was group of 3 writers of this person although it's pretty incredible yeah. i think there's a lot # to be said for just. there's all of these fact checking machines on all of these great things making sure that we're here at our data don't quote i've made our own 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 for it through

the federalist that how the diplomat i mean we're talking about a wide range of both right. i think for everyone 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 use it really is and that are chamber of think is the problem because it's like no one wants to fact check something if it's if it's if there's a right well you know there's a lot to agree with and that if it fits their narrative yes or narrative. well. since 911 the patriot act in the creation of homeland security u.s. citizens of it faced 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 u.s. today since 2001 air travelers have been poked prodded felt up and x. rayed every time they seek to fly the friendly skies watchers and peers 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 8 a 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 r t america's train travis has the story. there over a dozen airports here in the u.s. using facial recognition technology and more are expected to follow this a part of the government's effort to try to get the 20 largest airports here in the west using the tech. ology by 2021. your face 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 you know going to have to be

fumbling for documents over time that 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 crackdown on those who overstay their visas says i think it's a great idea it will save a lot of time and privacy i have no concerns at all many fear full 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 up getting 28 positives when they ran. in the pictures of members of congress now there's only about 435 members of congress and they had 28 false positives that's a poor percentage and not only that disproportionately the false positives occurred 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 the charges are taken. and i was going to break or gorgeous don't forget to let us know what the properties of the facebook twitter and you tube i'm sure poll shows that are dot com coming up we go to the historical monster the better understanding of those restored by adam seltzer author of the new book homes the truth history of the city dump a stay true to watch the whole. what

holds you should. put themselves on the line they did accept or reject. so when you're the least. i'm sure. someone wanted. to try to be close it's like that before 3 in the morning can't be good. i'm interested always in the waters of the. ship. so you say that brings this is the end of the series if we could just let josie marino walk away so we decided to treat a still owes to a very special farewell to him because.

we walk along an interesting path of the dream but this time to go back to the punchline and thanks for putting on such a good body. with. the only thing that i didn't enjoy was my own eyes in moscow my dancing. on ice. in. the. middle of the. well thankfully we nailed it literally that we can.

see. the legend goes in the shadows of the flickering electric like that glowed from the site of the $8093.00 world fair in chicago a monster looked herman webster much more famously known as dr henry howard. 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 896 for the murder of his friend and business associate benjamin pipes 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 continue 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 what is it about the story of holmes busy 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's 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's not 1 as many as 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 happens 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 would 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 major age homes 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 his 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 809 news 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 while they weren't ron i don't know. if. 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 and feed 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. the tab of the you'd mention that it wasn't really the murder castle that it's kind of being hyped out of that you know i see every documentary about this murder casserly built this thing to trap people 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 the person 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 found 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 the really it was just something to swindle insurers and investors who did not want that omega is one of the things inventor saying if 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 or an affront death 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 out of things to fire them have sometimes cern's not right i'm going to do is go out is we're not fooled 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 and 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 about 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 he 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 in late october of $888.00 so odds are i'd say he was or 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 is a new place else i mean i don't think something from the 890 s. should really reflect on our reputation today and 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 in 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 older 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 have or do see that kind of same mistake now being repeated over and over that 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 would 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 is that. well i you know i mean when you think about it like i think you know a little bit of time left but what do you think is the biggest thing we could learn from this as on the whole with the homes case moving forward what what what should people who you look back for the curiosity you have a but what should be a walk forward thing what would you recommend they move forward and look at homes as life and how we can better prevent them to. 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 to see if make sure we're going to be getting primaried stories one thing i felt that was really important in the research was finding the articles for 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 big

ones that is a big one continues to be a big one i don't think it is going to battle checking an investigative saying is important you know really fair i want to thank you so much for coming on today and obviously as a historian it's one of our favorite tales of midwestern lore is the story of. a.j. chums the true history of the white devil by adams out there thank you so much adam for joining us today thanks for having me. this skies of southern california were graced with the 1st successful test flight of the highest capacity electric aircraft on june 6th thrusting the aviation industry into a cleaner future the company behind it ampera says the combination combustion engine and electric motor will work together bringing not only more power to the plane but also reduce reducing greenhouse gas emissions and lowering operating costs and power plants to test the plane throughout the summer in preparation for

each pilot program using the planes for short haul flights will be based out of the hawaiian island of maui they're also working with a regional airline in puerto rico to start a pilot program there here's to the skies getting one test flight closer to clean that is incredible i am so looking forward to the idea of. you know electric planes in the sense you got the big ben you will never have to worry about a plane flying overhead like every neighborhood never has to worry about or point noise pollution up about going to sound that way and that's a lot across i mean one of the biggest cost inhibitors for short term travel the sort of rural areas that have short term play even things delivering packages all of that is the gas it cost so much to feel these planes but if they're hybrids if they're cheaper we could be doing the right things up the road level pollution down . good stuff all right that is our show for you today everyone remember when this

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