Florence Lawrence and the Truth Behind “We Nail a Lie” (Famous Ads, 1910)
https://brightlightsfilm.com/florence-lawrence-truth-behind-we-nail-a-lie-famous-ads-1910/#.XzggcJNKhE4
2 сентября 1945 года - японская делегация прибыла на борт американского линкора "Миссури" для подписания Акта о капитуляции
Remember this guy?
See the collar insignia?
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In 1950 General MacArthur wanted to expand the war against China, which had entered the Korean fighting in late 1950. MacArthur complained that the president was tying his hands by forbidding the bombing of China, thereby sacrificing American lives and endangering American freedom.
President Truman fired him!
But years later, President JFK seemed to like him and sought his advice on Vietnam.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/macarthurs-last-stand-against-a-winless-war/
The Congress, he added, was pressuring him to deploy U.S. troops in response. MacArthur disagreed vehemently: “Anyone wanting to commit ground troops to Asia should have his head examined,” he said. That same day, Kennedy memorialized what MacArthur told him: “MacArthur believes it would be a mistake to fight in Laos,” he wrote in a memorandum of the meeting, adding, “He thinks our line should be Japan, Formosa, and the Philippines.” MacArthur’s warning about fighting in Asia impressed Kennedy, who repeated it in the months ahead and especially whenever military leaders urged him to take action. “Well now,” the young president would say in his lilting New England twang, “you gentlemen, you go back and convince General MacArthur, then I’ll be convinced.” So it is that MacArthur’s warning (which has come down to us as “never get involved in a land war in Asia”), entered American lore as a kind of Nicene Creed of military wisdom—unquestioned, repeated, fundamental.
So… we know what happened. JFK was murdered, Macarthur died under odd circumstances that we now associate with CIA terminations, and Johnson ordered US troops into the Heroin Triangle of southeast Asia.
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So tell me, who are all these Fuggers with all the gold, sitting in Europe and pulling strings?
Meet the Fuggers - Germany's great trading family
https://www.thelocal.de/20140425/medieval-german-business-empire-the-fuggers-expat-dispatches
It all started with Hans Fugger, a master weaver, leaving the sleepy hamlet of Graben to seek his fortune in the big smoke of Augsburg, in the year 1367.
A cunning sort, he managed to enter the town's elite patrician class by marrying the daughter of a prestigious guild master. After she died, he would make another wise marital choice in marrying Elizabeth Glatterman, who herself was a canny operator.
Their offspring, three sons, would go on to learn the family trade and grow the business into a local trading powerhouse.
Over the next century, the family and the large retinue of people in their employ made some spectacularly wise investments.
First lending money to landowners, then buying up mines in the Tyrol injected a great amount of cash into the family's coffers. A gig providing outfits for the Holy Roman Emperor and his entourage landed them some prime connections.
The Fuggers started making so much money that they could afford to lend it out at a rate of interest - probably their best idea yet.
One of their best investments, however, was in the soul trade. In order to finance the rebuilding of St Paul's into the baroque masterpiece we see today, Jacob Fugger (one of many over the years) was given the job, by the Pope, of managing the sale of indulgences.
These were effectively 'Get Out Of Hell Free' cards, sold by the church across Europe.