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Review of "Buried: Knights Templar and the Holy Grail" (Complete Season)

2/10/2018

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​In October of last year, A+E Networks filed a trademark application asking for priority consideration for their use of the clunky name Buried: Knights Templar and the Holy Grail for a new television series. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office moved with exceptional speed to grant A+E the use of the name, which they slapped on a program that began airing last week on the History channel as part of the network’s massive push to spread Templar-themed content across its television properties. This included the Knightfall drama series about the Templars, and a refocusing of Curse of Oak Island on fictitious Templar mysteries. All of this is part of what the channel’s head of programming described last year as an intentional push for Templar programming because of audience demand for it
​Buried is a clunky, unfinished series that relies heavily on the audience’s presumed familiarity with the Templars. Its four-hour runtime contains about an hour of content, if I am being generous. The series opens in media res with two familiar faces taking the typical History channel role of rugged, iconoclastic investigator. Mikey Kay, a Welsh former soldier and frequent television personality on ABC, CNN, and the Travel Channel, and Garth Baldwin, an archaeologist formerly of the Hidden Bible series are the adventurers du jour. They make quite plain that television is its own form of inertia, and once you’ve been on one show, you will inevitably be awarded another, unless acted upon by an outside force. The two men are bland, and the choice to use an outside narrator means that they have little personality to show. After four hours, I didn’t feel I knew anything about them other than that they were standard issue manly white guys. Presumably their grizzled appearance, Indiana Jones attire, and full beards makes them a stand-in for how their audience imagines themselves.
 
In the first episode, which aired on January 31 along with the second episode, our heroes visit caves where they believe the Knights Templar hid out after the suppression of their order. However, the program, like most History shows, is not interested in actually teaching you anything about the Templars, so bits of the backstory are scattered at random in an ineffective way that never quite builds to a narrative. Instead, the fractured presentation allows the series to get away with creating the impression that there is a mystery where none actually exists. Specifically, our heroes are investigating whether the Templars continued on after the dissolution of their order by reforming as secret societies across Europe. The fate of most of the Templars is quite well known from medieval records, so it is only by breaking the narrative into a postmodern mishmash of material that they can build enough confusion to make space for their “investigation.”
 
In episode 1, “Holy City, Holy Grail,” the investigators look at potential ways that the Templars might have secreted the Ark of the Covenant out of Jerusalem by using a series of underground caves. This supposedly happened in 1187, but our heroes happily let the structure of the show elide the fact that this was 120 years before the Templar order fell prey to royal French and papal ambitions. If you enjoy watching middle aged men drive around dusty roads and wander through caves, then you likely had a great time watching Kay and Baldwin propose possible ways that the Templars could have moved the Ark, if they actually found the Ark. But they neglected to provide any compelling evidence that the Templars ever did—and with good reason. The story was made up in the 1990s, as I discovered in 2016, by combining Freemason conspiracy theories about the Ark with Templar conspiracies from the twentieth century revolving around secret “documents” and a good dose of Indiana Jones. At the end of the first episode, the hosts allow 1187 to slide into 1307 as though it was only a few days, not more than a century.
 
“The Knights Templar allegedly vanished off the face of the Earth in 1307,” the narrator says at the opening of the second episode. This is a total lie. When the French king and the pope suppressed the order, they dissolved its governing body and prosecuted its leadership, but they did not cause the men to vanish. Legal records remain detailing what became of them. Some were thrown in jail, some executed, but the vast majority were either discharged from their office or allowed to join another order of knighthood. The Knights of St. John absorbed some of the former Knights Templar, for example, and legal documents allowing it still exist. But the show needs a mystery, and having failed to establish that the Ark of the Covenant was ever in the Knights’ possession, the second episode simply proceeds on the assumption that it did and imagines how the Templars might have hidden the relic in their castle at Acre from 1187 to 1291. “I’m bringing that fucking thing here,” Kay announces triumphantly and vulgarly (it isn’t his only vulgarity of the series), having invented a fictional narrative and matched it to extant ruins.
 
The Templars, and all the other Crusaders, were pushed out of Acre in 1291, when the Mamluks recaptured the city. A writer known as the Templar of Tyre (section 3 of the Gestes des Chiprois) recorded that the Templars followed their tunnels to escape by ship, but he said nothing about the Ark of the Covenant, which you’d think religious types might have been interested in. From this silence, our heroes speculate that the Templars might have thrown the Ark overboard to lighten their load—as though they would risk God’s wrath by destroying God’s earthly embodiment. So they go swimming, and we watch them searching the waters off Acre, which—and this should come as no surprise—results in absolutely nothing, so the men move on to Cyprus, where the Acre Templars decamped in 1291.
 
I’ll just pause here to say that this show was so boring that I actually started to notice the narrator’s bad grammar, at one point saying “have began” instead of “have begun.”
 
Anyway, none of this has anything to do with the supposed thesis of the four-part series, that the Templars survived their dissolution in 1307. Instead, after two episodes, we have followed real events—the evacuation from Acre—for a fictitious purpose that the show didn’t even bother to try to prove, instead relying on its audience to come with the belief that Templars had the Ark.
 
Finally, in the third episode, which aired this Wednesday, Kay and Baldwin begin to spin a fantasy about how the Templars survived their 1307 dissolution—using “military survival tactics.” What? Did you forget that these are manly men doing man-things on a man-channel? Anyway, the third episode reviews the history of the final days of the Templars and the royal effort arrest the knights. The men believe that the Templars had been tipped off a month beforehand and secured their treasure. The trouble here is that they are silently eliding the Templars’ monetary wealth with Christian holy relics, as though there were evidence of the Ark. The narrator says that the Templars might have evolved into the Illuminati or the Freemasons. “So could they have done it?” the narrator asks. Viewers are not expected to recognize that the narration is setting up the rest of the episode to be a counterfactual what-if. See, I half expect the producers to say, we never actually said this happened!
 
Since the show is named Buried, a big chunk of the run time is devoted to looking for cellars, tunnels, caves, and other underground places that Templars on the run might have hidden themselves or their treasures. This involves some examination of actual French archaeological sites where Templars had medieval commanderies, but everything is framed in a speculative fantasy about hauling the Ark across France to hide it from the king and pope, rendering what might have been a legitimately interesting look at the real operations of the Templars into pointlessness, running off into strange digressions into what the Templars “could” have done, but never actually using the historical record to say what they did do.
 
Proceeding from this, the show then moves the action from France to Spain and suggests that the Templars hid their treasure where “X marks the spot.” They point to a series of Templar sites which can be joined together by straight lines in the form of two overlapping X’s, which the show compares to the Templar’s eight-pointed cross. The narrator says that the alignment is “so precise and intricate it would take a computer to draw today.” Funny, though, that their graphic omits one of the sites on the map from the alignment, and two points of the figure lack any sites. It’s hard to see from the graphic, but that map is the whole of Spain and Portugal. 
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Templar site alignment in Iberia, as depicted on "Buried"
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Actual number of Templar sites in Iberia and western France.
​The Templars had many more sites in Castile, Leon, and Portugal than those on the map depicted in the show. It is unclear why only a few were selected to create this “alignment.” The Spanish fringe writer who came up with the idea doesn’t say, but he believes that the Templars learned from the Muslims of the Holy Land the lost scientific secrets of the Egyptian pyramids (yes, it’s the Arab-Islamic pyramid myth again!) and used antediluvian wisdom to lay out their map and build their churches and castles. Personally, it seems like a piss poor way to use the forbidden secrets of the Nephilim, but that’s just me. Anyway, the center of the alignment is a monastery where they feel that treasure might be buried. It isn’t, but the Spanish conspiracy theorist tells them that window tracings in the shape of hearts and pentagrams imply that the Holy Grail (the heart) and magic powers (pentagram) are contained within. They are not.
 
The narrator compares the monastery with its hearts and pentagrams to Bohemian Grove, home to “known Freemasons.” Without any factual support, the narrator speculates that Templar elites—you know, the ones who were arrested and on trial—met at the monastery in October 1307 to plot how to become Freemasons and, as Hay says, “regenerate the order.”
 
There is no evidence, I will repeat again, that anyone ever traveled to or met at the monastery in 1307 for that purpose, let alone conspired there before getting arrested back home.
 
Also: Why would you decorate your secret headquarters with what amounted to big billboards announcing TEMPLAR SECRET HEADQUARTERS! NO GIRLS ALLOWED!?
 
The season (and, I hope, series) finale fourth episode is scheduled to air on February 21, but, you lucky people, History has already made it available for viewing. Sadly, it required me sitting through about 30 commercials for inflammatory bowel syndrome medicine, but I guess it was worth it?
PictureSeal of Afonso Henriques
​Picking up from the previous episode, the fourth speculates about where the Templars went after being disbanded. They dismiss Scotland and Switzerland, two popular choices, and focus in on Portugal, where the Templars had a deep establishment going back to the first king of Portugal, Afonso Henrique. His monogram featured an anagram that appears to spell Portugal, but following a fringe claim proposed by Freddy Silva in 2014, we are apparently supposed to use the center column of letters both vertically and horizontally to reveal a hidden message: “Por tu, O Gral,” or “For you, O Grail.” This is cute, I guess, but based on no logical rules, especially since Afonso lived from 1109 to 1185, and the Templars did not become associated with the Holy Grail until Wolfram von Eschenbach included a fictitious version of them in his Parzival in the early 1200s. The Grail didn’t really exist at all before Chrétien de Troyes published his Perceval, without Templars, in 1190 and offered the first literary account of the Grail. Oh, and it was spelled graal, the Old French word for bowl, back then. It came from gradalis, a medieval Latin word, and, long story short, while I don’t know Old Portuguese, the Portuguese form was almost certainly not gral. It isn’t in any medieval form of the related languages I do have a passing familiarity with such as Spanish, Catalan, and Provencal.
 
Anyway, the show correctly notes that the Order of Christ in Portugal included many former members of the Knights Templar in Portugal at its founding by King Denis I. This is neither controversial nor secret. It was common knowledge in Victorian encyclopedias and books, so it surprises me that the show sets it up like a major discovery. As a technical matter, however, the Order of Christ was not a continuation of the Templars, as the show implies, nor was it 100% staffed with Templars. It was a new order made up of many former Templars and some others, much as the Hospitallers had taken in other Templars. The Order of Christ preserved the most of the old Templar order, but it was not “a possible alias for the Templars 2.0,” as the narrator said.
 
Here, the show begins to build speculation upon speculation. Visiting the same church where Scott Wolter looked for Templar secrets in Tomar, Portugal, the show asks if the Order of Christ contained a secret inner brotherhood, unknown to its rank and file members, who were the “missing link” to the Freemasons. The narration never bothers to support or explain this leading question, but asking the question is meant to serve as proof in and of itself. Just as Wolter did in Pirate Treasure of the Knights Templar, Buried asks us to accept—without evidence—that the Templars passed to the Order of Christ plans to explore and colonize the entire world in the name of the Holy Grail and ancient wisdom. Seriously, they didn’t even bother to offer superficial evidence in support of this hypothesis. Instead, they use implications and innuendo, implying that Portugal could never have sailed the seven seas without ancient secrets to guide them. The watchword here is the repeated phrase that “many believe” that the Templars had found ancient maps and scrolls of Egyptian provenance hidden under the Temple Mount. Again, this is a modern invention, a myth derived from Masonic pretentions to Templar heritage—claims that date back no further than the late 1700s.
 
The show spins into full fringe territory, asserting that Columbus stole a Templar map to find America, for example, but always prefacing such evidence-free claims with “some say” or “many believe”—code for “some idiot made this up and we ripped it off for cash.” They even repeat the old canard--a fringe history lie from some of our usual authors—that the Templars flew the Jolly Roger. But as the show nears its end, it can’t help but start to embrace the ugly religious message hiding under many fringe ideas. In this case, the buried message is anti-Catholic, and Baldwin happily tells the camera that the Templars were not heretics as charged, nor did they adopt Muslim practices, as many scholars have concluded; instead, he tells us that they are the true Christians, who had rediscovered the original teachings of Christianity from lost gospels and therefore represented the real legacy of Christ against what is implicitly a corrupt and evil Catholic Church, the enemy of our heroes and therefore the sub rosa enemy of the show’s viewers. Indeed, the narrator says that the Templars had “a direct line to the divine through rituals,” and that the Catholic clergy had “betrayed” the Templars. He adds, apparently in seriousness, though in the form of a rhetorical question, that the Templars could view the past and the future through channeling the power of God in hidden grottos.
 
The show finished by suggesting that the Order of Christ “secretly infiltrated” world governments and secret societies like the Masons and Skull and Bones. The show chose not to explain how Portuguese knights infiltrated these groups without anyone noticing that they were Portuguese. Without any evidence, the program asserts that the Knights helped found the Masons and therefore the United States, founded by a group of Masons, is really a Templar country. Now, keep in mind that the show previously declared the Templars to be the only true Christians and directly connected to God and God’s magic powers. I think you can see the conclusion that the producers want you to draw, but which the show itself chose not to spell out.
 
I was disturbed by the attempt to claim America as God’s chosen receptacle for the real and most pure Christian faith. This is a blatant attempt to flatter the network’s Christian, conservative, and nationalist base, but it is also a disturbing bit of propaganda, subtly twisting even fake history to give America a new origin story for the Trump era, where heresy is now purity, where rich men making decisions in secret is now God’s glorious will done on Earth, and where lies are now the only acceptable truth.
 
This show wasn’t just a shitty documentary. It was also more than a little evil.


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Joe Scales
2/10/2018 11:04:31 am

Oh, another Trump hit piece.
Yawn...

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Americanegro
2/10/2018 01:55:35 pm

I see your point. Without arguing against it, let me note that Wolter et al. provided the exact same origin story in the Obama Era. Actually I guess I'm arguing in favor of your point. But this new development of "rich men making decisions in secret" troubles me.

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Jason Colavito link
2/10/2018 02:01:05 pm

Wolter's version, though, was semi-pagan and based on Dan Brown-style Jesus Holy Bloodline nonsense. This show is different because it explicitly identifies the Templars' faith as the "true" Christianity sanctified by God, not a nebulous New Age spiritualism.

Americanegro
2/10/2018 02:58:00 pm

"he tells us that they are the true Christians, who had rediscovered the original teachings of Christianity from lost gospels and therefore represented the real legacy of Christ against what is implicitly a corrupt and evil Catholic Church"

That fits perfectly with Wolter's presentation of "the Templars' faith as the "true" Christianity sanctified by God". Wolter doesn't assert that his is "a nebulous New Age spiritualism", you do. Let's not put words in our Scott's mouth.

Jason Colavito link
2/10/2018 04:12:14 pm

Since you didn't watch the show, I will explain: Wolter doesn't accept that Jesus was the Son of God. Instead, he sees the Holy Bloodline as the continuation of Egyptian Gnostic "dualist" pagan ideas centered on matriarchy. This show postulates that not only was Christianity literally true, but that the Templars had special instructions from God for ways to perform resurrections themselves by channeling Jesus' divine power from Heaven to sustain their patriarchal hierarchy. These are very different interpretations of faith.

Americanegro
2/10/2018 04:38:20 pm

I did not see the show as you say. That IS very different. So now we indeed have "fake history...giv[ing] America a new origin story for the Trump era" which abrogates the fake history derived new origin story of nebulous New Age spiritualism for the Obama era.

An Anonymous Nerd
2/20/2018 06:16:18 pm

"If you saw any of my points as limiting you to two options, that's on you Nerd." I demonstrated where you did exactly that.

"Probably based upon your false assumption that I am a 'Trump fan'"

You revealed yourself as such when you characterized Jason's article as a "hit piece" on your favorite reality television star, when Jason mentioned him only once in the article that I could see, and specifically in the context of the political era he has initiated or ridden the wave of. Here is the quote from Jason:

"This is a blatant attempt to flatter the network’s Christian, conservative, and nationalist base, but it is also a disturbing bit of propaganda, subtly twisting even fake history to give America a new origin story for the Trump era, where heresy is now purity, where rich men making decisions in secret is now God’s glorious will done on Earth, and where lies are now the only acceptable truth."

It was near the end. Based on this you deemed the piece a "hit piece" on your favorite reality television star.

"When I get to the point where the only rational response to an online ankle-nipper is to call them an imbecile, well... that's where it ends."

The notion that an insult is a "rational" response is creative, and is a characteristic both of the fringe and, even in its non-fringey form, the Conservative political faith you espouse. (Note the best-selling books "Liberalism is a Mental Disease" and "Arguing with Idiots," both by prominent Conservatives; note also much of the work of William Buckley, which used bigger words but maintained the emphasis on the insult as a method of argument. Closest thing I can find on the non-fringe Left are the humor writings of the now-discredited and disgraced Al Franken. And those were intended as humor, whereas the Conservative equivalents are intended as serious political commentary.)

In your case, you started in with the insults in the third post, when you told me I was a "reactionary" puppet. I, by contrast, have remained civil and reality-based.

I'm not saying I've never ever resorted to insults in my life (I've been an angry adult and I once was a child too), but when I have, I haven't considered it to be "rational." You, however, do.

This is not surprising.

-An Anonymous Nerd

An Anonymous Nerd
2/13/2018 07:23:43 pm

All things fringe (history, conspiracy theory, etc.) are pretty important to the Trump administration and to Trump's fan base, so let's face it: Anything that debunks fringe things sooner or later is going to be anti-Trump, whether it explicitly mentions Trump or not.

-An Anonymous Nerd

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Americanegro
2/14/2018 01:14:39 am

Wow. Did you go to one of those on-line "Learn to be a douche on your own schedule" universities? Seriously dude, we tolerate whatever from Jason because "at the end of the day" it's his site, and people call him out from time to time but I'm pretty sure no one wants to hear or read your nonsense. Perhaps a followup post from you explaining what the eff you're talking about might be in order because your post is unintelligible as written.

I think I'm defending someone or something but I can't tell because your writing is incomprehensible.

Joe Scales
2/14/2018 10:43:19 am

Nerd,
It's perfectly human to want to associate two things you hate; in this case Trump and the Fringe. And when and if Trump espouses specific fringe beliefs, it's certainly fair game. But nebulous stretches formed by political wants, instead displays sloppiness, and often enough, ignorance. All fine for political theatre, but don't confuse it with truth. Truth and politics rarely intersect.

An Anonymous Nerd
2/14/2018 07:16:45 pm

At this point basically everything Donald Trump says is fringe or is based on the fringe, or is only possible because of the confused intellectual environment created by the mainstreaming of the fringe. His fan base, of course, loves him for it, but that can't be helped.

Jason rightly has pointed that out and I hope he keeps doing so. In this instance he's also pointed out a more-direct connection between President Trump and this particular fringe thing. I'm glad he did.

-The Anonymous Nerd

Joe Scales
2/15/2018 11:03:27 am

Well, there you go Nerd. Reactionary politics it is then, for you. Don't trip over those strings now...

An Anonymous Nerd
2/15/2018 08:05:21 pm

Ah yes. The false dichotomy. Either I am a puppet reactionary or I am a Trump fan.

It's a classic fringe tactic, actually. For example, as a talking head on Ancient Aliens once said, either you think Pumapunku was built by God, or by aliens. There is, of course a third option that's much more likely. I've heard fringe say similar things about the Egyptian Pyramids. Either you think it was built according to the Biblical account or you think it was built by Atlantis/Giants/Etc. There are of course other options that are much more likely.

So yeah. That was easy.

-An Anonymous Nerd

Joe Scales
2/15/2018 09:36:31 pm

"Ah yes. The false dichotomy"

Ah no... the missing the point completely.

Berkos
2/16/2018 04:44:19 am

I don't recall seeing too much automated association with any and all fringe topics to being labelled as conservative racists who pal around with neo nazi-ism much before 2008. Sure, there was the goat farmer seeing UFO stereotype, but this seems relatively new; or at least the current application of it compared to pre 2008.

I'm sure Jason knows the history better than I would as he has a much closer keener eye on these things and their sources than I do, just observing what I see bubbling up from the mainstreams and even first 4 years of Youtube and old message boards and all. Like the whole flat earth/mandela effect garbage that cropped up like a weed that spread when it went to seed thanks to all those impressionable critters.

I drifted here, but it's an effective tactic. No ones going to want to touch the more respectable crackpot theories (like some of the stuff Snowden revealed before all that) if only racists and Trump supporters are associated with it.

Joe Scales
2/16/2018 11:21:51 am

"I drifted here, but it's an effective tactic. No ones going to want to touch the more respectable crackpot theories (like some of the stuff Snowden revealed before all that) if only racists and Trump supporters are associated with it. "

Yup. It's all about the political smear; and those doing so often enough don't even realize it as they're proceeding with the blinders of believing themselves to be correct. Ultimately, truth matters little, as it's simply posturing.

I mean, just look above. Where was any choice given for a false dilemma? In no uncertain terms, and based purely on what Nerd wrote, I inferred that he was on a path for making politically inspired, nebulous connections, rife with sloppiness and ignorance. He then went on to confirm same with a poor grasp of informal fallacies, ironically fallaciously associating me with the "fringe". Yet he still managed to pat his own back in doing so.

But I digress. Political smears are no way to seek truth, and when they become your point of points, your work will suffer for it.

An Anonymous Nerd
2/18/2018 06:30:01 pm

For a fuller explication of the historical connections between the fringe and the Right, I refer you to Richard Hofstadter's "The Paranoid Style in American Politics" and "Anti-Intellectualism in American Life." I forget just how focused both works were on the Right (been a long time since I read them), they may have bent over backwards to be fair (which is not necessarily a bad thing, to be sure).

More-recently, well let's see. The list is partial.

The rightist politics of the ancient aliens folks, the denial of Evolution, the denial of Global Warming, the perpetuation of conspiracy theories about Bill Clinton, the perpetuation of conspiracy theories about Hilary Clinton, the Alex Jones empire and the fringe foundation it's built on, the current President's obsession with taking things back and making stuff 'great' again (referencing certain concepts in fringe history, as Jason has demonstrated a few times here), the current President's wondering why the Civil War had to happen and why no one is asking that question (lots of stuff written about the causes of the Civil War actually), the current President's equation of the Founding Fathers and the leaders of the Confederacy (I refer to the statue controversy), Glenn Beck's embrace of the theory that the American Indians were descended from the Lost Tribes of Israel and wrote in Hebrew, Glenn Beck's embrace of various conspiracy theories involving the founder of the Federal Reserve, Bill O'Reilly's attempt to whitewash (ho ho!, see what I did there) the horrors of slavery (reference is to the "slaves who built the White House" comment).

As noted the list is partial.

Once upon a time there was a mainstream, non-fringe Conservatism that I didn't like but could recognize as not being connected directly to the fringe. One that could be debated on distinctly rational and distinctly American terms.

But that was long ago and far away.

At any rate.....There it is. I know those involved in this will deny what I'm saying but....There it is.

-An Anonymous Nerd

Americanegro
2/18/2018 07:47:15 pm

Not to deny anything you said, but to clarify: Glenn Beck, a drunkard and cocaine abuser, went shopping for a religion with his wife and SELECTED Mormonism. That's how you know he's insane.

Regrettably, the Civil War showed that Lincoln was a dictator.

Joe Scales
2/18/2018 11:04:42 pm

Nerd,
Embracing fantasy, magical thinking, fringe, what have you... isn't confined to the far right. By pointing out the instances of those that do, is a political smear of the whole.

An Anonymous Nerd
2/19/2018 12:09:59 pm

*sighs*

Once again we have a false dichotomy, a classic fringe tactic: I've never said fringe things were confined to the right, merely that there was a special relationship there. (First I was a Trump fan or I was a "reactionary." It was presented as one or the other. Now if I point out a special relationship between the Right and the fringe, I'm claiming an exclusive relationship, which wasn't what I said, or implied. But, it was presented as one or the other.)

In my experience, Lefty fringe things are called out for being what they are, whereas Righty fringe things are well-funded and considered mainstream. (Example one: Hillary Clinton's "vast right wing conspiracy" comment is held up for ridicule to this very day, whereas the History Channel and Alex Jones make millions off of way, way worse things. Example two: Hillary Clinton's consultation with a psychic, and I'm being generous to the right in characterizing it this way [this is the Eleanor Roosevelt thing], was ridiculed way, way more than the Reagans's consultation with Astrologers.)

The same examples I cited above, to show a special relationship between the fringe and the Right, also serve as adequate examples here, because they are all well-funded and out there in the mainstream. I didn't have to dig very deep to find any of them. The mainstream doesn't ridicule them. Indeed these days they ARE the mainstream.

*shrugs* Oh well.

-An Anonymous Nerd

Joe Scales
2/19/2018 04:27:54 pm

"Once again we have a false dichotomy..."

I would love to discuss informal fallacies, but not with someone who has absolutely no understanding of their use and identification. Not surprising as you have missed every point I have attempted to make, and can't see what you are doing is basically a political smear disguised as some sort of pseudo-intellectual undertaking for the greater good. So yeah... <sigh> away, from your either/or Cartesian Box. Complete with partisan gift wrap, seeing what you want rather than what is; in word and in deed.

An Anonymous Nerd
2/19/2018 07:29:26 pm

Since it seems you're claiming unfamiliarity with the terminology to describe your intellectual techniques, I'll do my best to explain.

The term "false dichotomy" means that you set up two options and attempt to force a given concept into one of the two. It's similar to and related to the "false equivalence" that other fringe folks like to do. (Pretending two positions are intellectually equivalent when one of them is far inferior to the other, and reporting a controversy when no real controversy exists.) Often they're accompanied by a nice dash of "strawman," which, paraphrasing Chris White, is when you take an obviously weak argument and set it up as your opponent's view (when it's not).

One example of these concepts is what you did earlier in this discussion: Either I was a fan of Trump, like you, or I was a "reactionary." There is of course a third option. It's not just one or the other. Further, the term reactionary, according to Merriam-Webster, means: "relating to, marked by, or favoring reaction; especially : ultraconservative in politics."

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/reactionary

I've said nothing that warranted that characterization, yet you used it anyway. Hence, strawman, as well as the false dichotomy (see above).

-An Anonymous Nerd

Joe Scales
2/20/2018 10:15:39 am

If you saw any of my points as limiting you to two options, that's on you Nerd. Probably based upon your false assumption that I am a "Trump fan"; so this false dilemma ("false dichotomy" to you) is of your own creation. Perhaps maybe an education in Philosophy could be of some use to you in this regard, rather than parroting words of art you must have picked up from perhaps another pseudo-intellectual you've come across on your travels that do more to enhance your ignorance than showcase your self-presumed intellectual prowess.

Trump is fair game, by his own words and deeds. Relentlessly bashing him however, is too easy and in my view, rather trite. This is especially so when one stretches to make associations which deep down are truly political smears. Hence my admonishment to our host of which you took issue. I am an independent politically, and always have been. Partisans always assume otherwise when their world view is questioned, so your error is understandable.

As 'Cuz pointed out from the get go Nerd, your comprehension and ability to express ideas is highly suspect given your own written words. So I should have left his response stand against you rather than attempt to explain myself to you. When I get to the point where the only rational response to an online ankle-nipper is to call them an imbecile, well... that's where it ends.

Nevermore Nerd. Nevermore.

Gary Murzin
1/15/2020 09:00:02 am

Why does President Trump get a hit if you don't think much of a tv program?

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Julius
2/10/2018 11:33:02 am

Thank you for this review. I always enjoy your insights and presentation of factual material. I was twitching and vibrating while I watched these programs! I have omitted the word "literally".

Stay tuned for the release of my new Templar-themed cereal Unlucky Charms. Toasted oat rings mixed with marshmallow hearts, stars and pentagrams. You'll never decode my Unlucky Charms!

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Clete
2/10/2018 12:15:57 pm

I only made it through the first episode of the show. I got tired of watching two manly men crawl through dusty caves, speculating all the while about how the Templars were the "special forces" of their age. Then followed by four hundred and sixty-six commercials either selling cars, insurance or legal services. The "History" channel executives should hide their faces in shame presenting this drivel as anything associated with history.

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Americanegro
2/10/2018 06:11:04 pm

That "special forces" thing has become a common meme especially among the bearded jock-sniffing set. I thought I first saw it in Holy Blood Holy Grail, but I must have read it elsewhere in the '80s or '90s.

A searchable version of HBHG: http://www.billcooperforum.com/uploads/2/8/0/1/28018637/holybloodholygrail.pdf

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Pacal
2/10/2018 11:11:37 pm

I can guarantee that the authors of this TV abomination avoided like the plague real experts on the Knights Templar. For example Malcolm Barber who wrote two scholarly and informative books about the Templars; The New Knighthood and The Trial of the Templars. He of course had and has no patience for this degree of idiocy.

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Machala
2/11/2018 01:19:02 pm

History Channel's sub-personalities, like Kay & Baldwin, and xenocretins like Wolter run the other way when confronted by factual, scholarly works like Dr. Barber's. Not only do his precise histories of the Templars stand head and shoulders above the fantasies of the fringe fanatics, but Malcolm Barber is recognized as one of the world's foremost authorities on the medieval history and on the Knights Templar.
But History Channel's motto is "Why let the truth get in the way of a good story ? " Particularly, since there are so many wack jobs, rubes, and rednecks ready to swallow tall tale broadcast over, and over, and over, ad nausea by HC and the Discovery Network.

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Jim
2/11/2018 01:53:56 pm

Wolter does more hiding than running, he refuses to converse unless it's on his own blog where he can control and censure the responses. In his latest blog entry, he challenges Henrik Williams to respond knowing full well Williams would never be dumb enough to converse in a blog that Wolter controls and censures.

Joe Scales
2/12/2018 01:04:38 pm

His minion Patrick has taken it upon himself to counter the assertions of one of the world's foremost experts in Swedish runes. All this of course without Wolter allowing a link to the article in question.

This is how history is rewritten.
By imbeciles.

Jim
2/12/2018 02:46:50 pm

Joe, speaking of imbeciles, did you check out Wolters latest blog entry ? Even though he has been studying the KRS for nearly 20 years, and even though he had the KRS rune to alphabet translation right in front of him, He still managed to mis-identify two of the three runes in question ! That's a really special kind of incompetence Wolter displays.

Jim
2/12/2018 03:09:02 pm

Just for posterity, I'm going to quote Wolter so that when he doesn't read this on Jasons blog he can't whitewash it.

" The three runes are well carved and easily read as a bilateral "a" (Meaning the angled bar in the center appears equally on both sides of the vertical line called a "stave."), an open looped "r" (Meaning the lower line of the upper loop angling back to the middle does not touch the vertical stave), and a so-called "thorn" rune."

"Putting all the runes together, the inscription appears to spell "Arth."

Haha try erd Scott !!!

Americanegro
2/13/2018 02:08:55 am

I have wanted to post this on our Scott's blog, but will post it here instead. In his newest blog entry our Scott says "I know enough about runes to be dangerous, but I want to make it clear I am not a qualified expert."

Let's look at that, shall we? Scott, every member of every known species agrees that you are not an expert.

"I know enough about runes to be dangerous" REALLY means "I know enough to get stuff wrong and refuse to be corrected." Seriously, our Scott, you studied runes for five years by your own account. Yet you don't speak a lick of Swedish according to one of your Swedish collaborators. Truly this fellow is a football player/geology major/not the world's best dive buddy.

To sum up,

Scott Wolter is an idiot.

Jsgirald
2/11/2018 06:38:33 am

I saw this iberian Templar sites aligment nonsense in a book by an already deceased Spanish fringe historian back in the eighties. It came full Grail stuff too.
Also, von Daniken has something about the Ethiopian link of the Ark, but in his version aliensdidit, of course.

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GEET
2/11/2018 11:36:05 am

Interested. Thank you Jason

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giantflea
2/11/2018 12:27:57 pm

Reading your review i.e. the warning label marked “inject this resistance free, origin-myth viral snippet designed to trigger a permanent amygdala spiral at your peril” rather than suffer through 400 smooth surfaced catheter commercials by Exaclibur Catheters makes my Sunday.

Bravo Jason. Light in a Darkness of ignorance and tribalism chaply

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Henry Barth
2/11/2018 12:43:49 pm

I once heard a tale that the Templar horde was taken to their chapel in Sligo, Ireland and there buried.The ruins are there today.

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Stickler
2/11/2018 01:30:23 pm

How many Templars were buried there? Any word on what happened to the Templar Treasure?

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justanotherskeptic
2/11/2018 01:52:26 pm

I watched part one last night between Olympics coverage. I found the show to be laughable at times and just awful other times. Doubtful I'll watch 2, 3, 4.

One observation was our two heroes in the cave when at times they got smart and put on the miner's hats. Other times when they got dumb and took them off, perhaps for the camera's sake.

Where's the history on the "History" Channel?

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Brad
2/11/2018 02:03:14 pm

I double checked the geographic claims and this turned out to be a fairly tale based on something someone made up. Even the background for it does not provide any real connections between these places. So like the rest of the show it is a load of speculation based on bogus info. There are some prime meridians that were established in the past that led to legends like what they are representing here with regard to this array of architecture and important places. In addition why are they using a Knights of St. John Cross when they are showing "Templar" relationships?

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Hanslune
2/11/2018 02:48:58 pm

Jason thanks for watching that dribble (dribble is x 2 worse than drivel) so I can avoid it.

My favorite phrase:

The show spins into full fringe territory, asserting that Columbus stole a Templar map to find America, for example, but always prefacing such evidence-free claims with “some say” or “many believe”—code for “some idiot made this up and we ripped it off for cash.”

Well said.

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Americanegro
2/12/2018 01:04:17 pm

Which raises the question of how did Wolter's (there's that name again, like fringe herpes) Jesuits chase the Templar/Cistercians across North American a hundred years before Columbus.

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Bob Jase
2/12/2018 12:15:45 pm

Please stay tuned for my proposed new show on THC - Secret Recipes of the Templars in which I disclose (or do I) what really made their chili so good.

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Hanslune
2/12/2018 12:51:17 pm

Yes recipes of the Templar and the companion piece to that great series would be:

The outhouses and lavatories of the Templars

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Jim
2/12/2018 02:28:23 pm

It's a well known fact that the Templar chili was so good due to the importation of the chili peppers from secret Templar colonies in America.

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Hanslune
2/12/2018 03:13:29 pm

That is what THEY want you to believe. Chilies really come from the mole people who live in the inner flat world. The Templar's use to have vast underground orgies with these elder souls and produced in time [redacted] a
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Americanegro
2/13/2018 02:47:14 pm

I just realized I was misreading "THC" as part of the title so was maybe thinking along different lines than you intended.

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Shane Sullivan
2/13/2018 02:54:03 pm

And just like that, Viceland has a new show.

javy lopez
2/14/2018 06:46:34 pm

Wow. Just Wow. Nice review; I watched the show, and it was even worse then you have described. Just....Wow. There should be a law against producing crap like that. I mean, Wow.
Seriously though; one point that never gets mentioned; Yes, the Templars were "fabulously wealthy", by the standard of 12th and 13th century economies, but their "wealth" needs to be seen in relation to their obligations, which required, at their peak, the fortification, constant reconstructuring, manning, supplying, and maintaining something like 18 major fortresses in the Holy Land, something far beyond the ability of the King of Jerusalem, and in fact, beyond the ability of most Kings in Europe proper.
Years ago, in reading about Edward the 1sts (? or maybe the 3rd?) fortresses in Wales; he nearly bankrupted the kingdom by their construction, and he only built 6.
So, "wealth" the Templars raised went to defend the Holy Land, and it was never enough. I doubt they ever amassed anything that could come close to a "fabulous treasure".

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Americanegro
2/14/2018 09:49:15 pm

First, I want to congratulate you on coining the word "reconstructuring". Not making fun, I really like new words.

What the Templars had was productive land and ships and freedom from taxes. And an army so they could go to the land of the brown and take take take.

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javy lopez
2/15/2018 04:04:29 pm

Oh well. Typos happen.
Your take on the Templars is a bit revisionist. What's the "land of the Brown" anyway? You do know that the Holy Land was christianized for 600 years before the Muslims conquered it, right? That Jerusalem was the seat of one of the four great patriarchates of the Eastern Christian Church, along with Antioch, Constantinople, and Alexandria? And that many different Christian communities lived there at the time of the Crusades?
Also, the Templars (and the Hospitallers, and the Teutonic Knights) formed after the Kingdom of Jerusalem had been created? So, in their minds, they weren't "taking" anything; they were assisting the King of Jerusalem in his "Holy" task of retaking and holding the birthplace of Christianity.
The Muslim point of view may differ; which is why there were wars; but even then, almost all the Muslim kingdoms were ruled by Turks, who were also "conquerors", and certainly not "native" to the middle east.

Americanegro
2/16/2018 07:33:43 pm

Yeah, definitely my bad.

"The Crusaders were heeding the call of Pope Urban II, who in 1095 urged Western Christians to assist the Byzantine Empire in recovering territory long ruled by Muslims, including Jerusalem. When the European invaders arrived four years later, they put tens of thousands of the city’s inhabitants, Muslims and Jews alike, to the sword and rushed to the Holy Sepulcher, the shrine to the death and resurrection of Jesus. The victorious knights immediately ejected the Greek Orthodox clergy, whom they suspected of both heresy and complicity with Islamic rulers (the eastern and western churches had split in 1054). They then seized control of the city’s other sites sacred to Jews and Muslims as well as Christians, forbidding those of other faiths from entering Jerusalem.

The Roman Emperor Constantine, who legalized Christianity, approved construction of the Holy Sepulcher in 326 A.D.
...
By the time the Crusaders entered the once-sumptuous complex more than 700 years later, it had already been battered by neglect and earthquakes, and largely destroyed once during a Persian conquest and later at the order of a mad Egyptian king. The newcomers rebuilt the church in the grand Romanesque and early Gothic style, uniting all three areas into one structure that survives to this day. Western European control of Jerusalem lasted only until 1187, when a Muslim army under Saladin reconquered the city. Though Crusader knights gained brief access to Jerusalem in the following century, the invaders were finally driven from the Holy Land in 1291. They left behind enormous castles and a bevy of churches, but their brutal tactics engendered resentment among the region’s Jews, Muslims, and eastern Christians that lingers even now."

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/crusader-era-high-altar-resurfaces-jerusalems-holy-sepulcher-180968192

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2/21/2018 08:33:53 am

And that has What to Do with "invading the land of the brown" to "take take take? No one said the crusaders were "enlightened" rulers; they fought amongst themselves, and with the Byzantines, and the Christian Armenians, and the eastern Christian natives; all of whom also fought amongst themselves, as did the muslim rulers of Damascus and Egypt, and the Sunnis and Shiites, and the Turks against Arabs, and Persians, et al , et al, not to mention the khwarizmian Turks, displaced by the Mongols, and then later, the Mongols themselves.
Point being; the crusades were a phase in a long standing, and continuing, war between many different peoples and faiths, the Templars were a small piece in that huge puzzle, that have been given far more attention than they deserve.

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2/21/2018 11:48:23 am

Just because everyone invaded the land of the brown to take take take that doesn't make it okay. Is it okay to go to Chicago to shoot a black child?

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The Curse of Oak Island went full onboard Templar this week, with a clip show peppered with guest spots from the Prometheus Rogues Gallery. The Lagina brothers are now indisputably complicit in perpetuating fraud upon the public who may not see the error in tuning in to a History Channel for actual history. The outright lies and misinformation displayed in this Templar fest might actually have viewers turn against the folksy duo. Once they see them stoop to such a level to cross-promote Templar shows, perhaps they'll dig deeper into the real story of Oak Island. The treasure that never was.

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2/15/2018 04:11:23 pm

They keep using the word "fact" in their crazy narration, when so far I haven't seen a single "fact" presented. Keep looking for that Money Pit guys; I'm sure it's there somewhere.....

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2/16/2018 11:39:45 am

The opening of each and every show begins with the narrator reciting lie after lie of the given history, intermingling meaningless finds of the current seekers to build upon the hoax. Each and every bit of information is viewed through the fantasy that a "treasure" exists, when there is absolutely no factual nor historical basis for said assumption. That's the cruel joke here, and would have made a better, though necessarily shorter television series exposing the hoax.

Looking to dig up the "money pit" became the theme this season, as they were sure to come up with bits and pieces of past expeditions where they could tease and draw their false conclusions from finding simple things like scraps of parchment or a metal hinge. Neither would signify evidence of treasure, yet with the assumption set forth above, everything is viewed in that light. Cue the narrator... "A hinge? A hinge from a TREASURE CHEST???!!!"

Truth is, the Laginas have to know that Robert Dunfield dug up that entire area... like a huge hole with a diameter of 100 feet. He also dug up the box drains and found they didn't go past the beach (likely remains of an old salt works), and further ruled out "flood tunnels", as geology had done a hundred years earlier. Yet, they still go with the assumption that these flood tunnels exist, and therefore they must have been dug to protect a TREASURE!

Lies upon lies upon lies.
And now with Templars!

Jim
2/16/2018 07:58:47 pm

Broken pottery from a tea set ?? Could it be, that the tradition of taking tea originated with the Templars long before it became popular with the British in the 17th century ? Were the Templars taking tea breaks 160 feet below the surface of Oak island ?

Joe Scales
2/17/2018 09:57:36 am

Suddenly I'm reminded of Scott Wolter's imbecilic assertion that Templars practiced "extreme cleanliness", and thus left no archeological evidence of their New World travels. They must have perfected that on Oak Island. You know, doing all the digging, layering and treasure depositing, and then erasing all traces of their incursion. But for that little lead cross, that is. Oops...

Americanegro
2/17/2018 01:48:34 pm

The Smithsonian has Templar Royal Doulton with hand-painted periwinkle in one of their secret vaults.

Clarence Martin
2/19/2018 09:55:34 am

Since you care so much for accuracy, I am surprised that you missed that the graphic youvshowvthatvthey used with the eight pointed cross, IS NOT THE TEMPLAR CROSS. It is the cross of the Hospitallers also known as the Knights of St John. The eight points refer to the beatitudes.

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Stickler
2/19/2018 11:01:22 am

Leaving aside the fact that Brad pointed this out over a week ago, the Hospitaller Cross is white.

And there are nine Beatitudes.

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Machala
2/19/2018 12:10:07 pm

There are ???

Last I checked ( about a minute ago ) there were only eight. What's the ninth one ? Blessed are the gullible and arrogant, for they shall become commentators ?

THE EIGHT BEATITUDES OF JESUS - jesus christ our savior
http://www.jesuschristsavior.net/Beatitudes.html

Beatitudes - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatitudes

CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: The Eight Beatitudes - New Advent
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02371a.htm

8 beatitudes (blessings) - Bridge to the Bible
http://www.bridgetothebible.com/Bible%20Lists/8%20beatitudes.htm

Stickler
2/19/2018 01:39:52 pm

We can throw non-working and working links at each other all day long, e.g. http://www.jesuschristsavior.net/Beatitudes.html which lists the Nine (like the Nazgul!) but I simply look at what the Bible says.


From your second source (I have inserted numbers for your ready reference):

"The Beatitudes are nine blessings recounted by Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount in the Gospel of Matthew.
...
1.Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of Heaven. (Matthew 5:3)
2.Blessed are those who mourn: for they will be comforted. (5:4)
3.Blessed are the meek: for they will inherit the earth. (5:5)
4.Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness: for they will be filled. (5:6)
5.Blessed are the merciful: for they will be shown mercy. (5:7)
6.Blessed are the pure in heart: for they will see God. (5:8)
7.Blessed are the peacemakers: for they will be called children of God. (5:9)
8.Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. (5:10)
9.Blessed are you when others revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account. Rejoice and be glad, for your reward in heaven is great, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you. .5:11-12"

Stickler
2/19/2018 01:50:49 pm

Sorry, pasted the wrong link.

http://www.vatican.va/archive/ccc_css/archive/catechism/p3s1c1a2.htm

At least they Vatican got it right.

Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.
Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied.
Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.
Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.
Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God.
Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness' sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Blessed are you when men revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account.
Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven

Machala
2/19/2018 02:21:24 pm

I stand corrected. If i'd taken the time to look a little further, ( or just looked it up, myself, in a bible ) I would have seen that you're absolutely right - there are 9 Blessings in Matthew. ( Luke only lists 4 ).

Unlike some people we both know, if I'm proved wrong, which is quite frequently ( just ask my wife ) I'll be the first to admit it.

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Stickler
2/19/2018 11:28:29 pm

Blessed are you. You might as a matter of curiosity read J.G. Bennett's essay on the Beatitudes and the Enneagram.

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Machala
2/20/2018 11:08:24 am

Joe Scales:
"....Trump is fair game, by his own words and deeds. Relentlessly bashing him however, is too easy and in my view, rather trite...."

Joe,
Donald Trump is the comedic gift that keeps on giving !

One of the vocations I have applied myself to, during my almost 73 years, is writing political satire. In all my years of skewering politicians of all stripe, and lampooning the governments and bureaucracies of several countries, in Spanish and English language publications, I have never found an easier mark.

One doesn't have to make things up about Trump. He wittingly, and unwittingly manages to do it all on his own. While I agree that sometimes the truth would be hysterical if it were a fiction but the reality of Trump & Co. is pretty pathetic and downright scary, at times.

The one good thing about attempting to expose the Naked Emperor for the fraud that he is, and hold a mirror up his minions, is that, so far, they haven't tried to kill me or throw me in jail for what I write, and I'm still welcome ( so far as I know ) in the States. Not so with other countries and their demagogues - political and religious - that I've crossed pens with.

Thankfully, we are still free to express our opinions, on anything, or anyone.It's one of the reasons I read this blog.

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Joe Scales
2/20/2018 11:47:53 am

"One of the vocations I have applied myself to, during my almost 73 years, is writing political satire. In all my years of skewering politicians of all stripe, and lampooning the governments and bureaucracies of several countries, in Spanish and English language publications, I have never found an easier mark."

Then you know much of what was forewarned in regard to Trump, was very similar to what was said about Reagan to prevent his election back in the day. But Trump is certainly a unique character, I admit. I also have no problem with making fun of him, but when political sanctimony is presented as humor, it's not much fun at all. Hopefully yours avoids such pitfalls.

My main gripe with partisanship is the inability of one side to accept anything positive from the other; and often enough, to the detriment of the country. They will go to great intellectually dishonest lengths to further their party, and thus discourse is corrupted. As the fictional Irish poet Joe Devlin said to Columbo, "Politics makes liars of us all, lieutenant."

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2/20/2018 12:35:05 pm

Aye, yer right there, Captain.

I am a political agnostic, myself. I subscribe to no political party, nor do I embrace any specific ideology. I have found, over the years, that the political right seem to take themselves way too seriously, and as a result, lend themselves to the lampoon more readily. The Right - particularly the Far-Right - don't seem to have much of a sense of humor, though. They find it difficult to laugh at their own pretentiousness.

That's not to say that some of the leaders of the Left are any better. I found that a couple, or hundred of them, couldn't take a joke, either. I am currently in the bad graces of two current and one past president of that stripe in South America for what they perceived as insults to their integrity. Oh well, as the Irish would say: " More's the pity ! "

While I've taken the odd jab at 'crystal crunchers' and ancient alien aficionados in the past, this relatively recent movement on the part of the alt-right and others to incorporate and utilize the fringe beliefs for their own political agendas has caught my interest and is somewhat alarming. They cannot be simply ignored, anymore, or written off as harmless kooks. They need exposure and debunking. People have to see them for the insidious and potentially menacing individuals that they are.

Frankly, it's easier to poke fun at, and expose, a Trump or a Maduro than at an L.A. Marzulli but in all cases, I remain the little boy who shouts: " Look ! The Emperor has no clothes ! "

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2/20/2018 01:08:22 pm

"While I've taken the odd jab at 'crystal crunchers' and ancient alien aficionados in the past, this relatively recent movement on the part of the alt-right and others to incorporate and utilize the fringe beliefs for their own political agendas has caught my interest and is somewhat alarming."

All well and good, but you can pick and choose any sort of undesirable supporting any political party, whatever their minority in numbers might truly be, in order to castigate that party of which you oppose as a whole. Much of the publicity given to these undesirables these days is overinflated simply to use as a political smear against the current executive branch, done by means of association fallacy. You need to ask yourself who is actually promoting them, and for what true reason.

It's too easy to assume the worst in those we disagree with.

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Americanegro
2/20/2018 02:43:13 pm

I think, and life would be so much easier if everyone would just accept that Trump is the source, cause, and driving force behind everything that's wrong with the world. With every breath he rapes the Baby Jesus in a constantly occurring evil cosmic Punch and Judy show.. That Twilight Zone episode "The Howling Man"? Trump. The Slender Man? Trump. Salad Fingers? Trump.

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2/20/2018 03:13:58 pm

And the mantle of reactionary politics reclaimed, by those who never imagined it. Nor will ever admit it.

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3/4/2018 12:36:23 pm

So from reading this blog and most of the comments I take it most are overweight jealous individuals with a serious case of beard envy. You talk down on the mean old manly white men while sitting in your basements. You couldn't fit in the tunnels they explored much less climb the hills on your pudgy little legs. Keep hating those who are successful and doing something adventurous in life. Don't worry when you finish typing your respone to me your World of Warcraft avatar will still be waiting patiently for you to resume your grand life of fantasy. While many things hypothesized in the shows are kooky they bring interest in the subject to the general public causing further research. If they laid it all out like a history lecture most wouldn't watch it except for the people already knowledgeable. This way it brings a whole new generation on board and raises questions that will cause deeper learning of the truth. We don't need sissies on soap boxes turning it political because their feelings are hurt by big bad Trump.

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3/4/2018 05:47:45 pm

I wasn't going to respond to your bloviate bullshit and was going to ignore your troll post but then --- I thought you might want to reconsider tarring all your babies with the same brush.<

I don't know ( to the best of my knowledge ) any of the commentators on this blog, personally. I have, however, had personal interactions with and first hand knowledge of, several of the "psuedo-scientists" whose writings and antics are discussed here. Believe me, there is no envy ( and damn little respect ) on my part towards them.

I can't speak for the rest of the contributors but for myself, I can state that I was working my ass off "in the field" probably long before you became your father's biggest mistake.
My hair & beard may be white now, and I can no longer dive as deep, run as fast, nor jump from airplanes with the same alacrity as I once did, but... I know that I can still keep up with y'all in the jungles, mountains, deserts, and in or on the water. That's no boast. That's reality because, although I am somewhat retired, it's what I still do and what I did, as a living, for many, many years, working for film and television production companies, all over the world.

Don't judge everyone one else by your own inadequacies. I doubt you'd be able to cope a month in my city, let alone a couple of weeks, at my casa de campo, in country.

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3/4/2018 08:17:12 pm

Well speaking of inadequacy you sure must have a lot. If you read my post I said MOST of the comments and most must be overweight. The fact you felt the need to take as a personal attack makes it obvious that you see yourself in that way or else you wouldn't have felt the need to defend it. You speak of using a broad brush yet I clearly said MOST not ALL to which you felt the statement applied to you. I'm sorry you suffer from Dickiedo disease but I wasn't even registering your comments when I typed it. I love how you are on your high horse trying to insult me yet the only thing you have added to this post is incorrect information which you were proved wrong on and a bloated sense of self worth that you feel the need to justify. I like that two of your posts read like some type of resume trying to prove to others how qualified you are yet the only on topic statement you made contained false info. You were even condescending in your response until proven wrong.

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Once again, Colavito presents his sophomoric viewpoints as something that's supposed to be 'well researched cynicism', LOL. This makes sense from Colavito, as Colavito has long maintained a sophomoric mindset. Says Colavito to his fanboyz, "Don't confuse me with the facts, my mind's made up!", and his fanboyz eat it up, feigning 'intellectual superiority'.

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I am a member of the illuminati brotherhood, i want to give thanks to the Lord Lucifer, for what he has done for me, he changed my life, he bring joy and happiness to my life, i am living a good life today is because of the illuminati brotherhood, i have being try all my life to join the illuminati brotherhood, i was scammed some many times but i still do not give up, because when you give up in life, life will also give up in you, if you have been scammed so many times, my advise for you is not to give up, because the illuminati brotherhood is real, i joined the real illuminati with out paying any money, anyone that ask for money to join is scam do not pay any money to join the illuminati, i want you all to know today, to join the illuminati brotherhood is free, you do not pay money to join, my advice for you all is to make up your mind and join the illuminati brotherhood, when my initiation process was completed the benefits amount which was given to me is $20,000,000.00 to start a new life, this is the reason why i can not stop hailing the illuminati brotherhood, if you are in any kind of problems or you in support in life, my advice to you is to join the illuminati brotherhood so that all your problems can be solve in life, to join the illuminati brotherhood you can contact email: initiationcenterofdevilchurch@gmail.com you can call or text +15088192672 Those in other countries outside the USA can contact the international agent on call Or WhatsApp +2347056024545 to join, join the illuminati brotherhood and see changes in your life, you have to know this again it is free to join the illuminati brotherhood that is order from the lord Lucifer.

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paul joyice
7/6/2018 05:46:29 pm

FOR RICH, WEALTH, FAME, LOVE, POWER,and LUCK.

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7/19/2018 06:37:37 am

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Hanslune
7/19/2018 11:48:44 am

I wonder why all the Illuminati scammer and japers are pilling into this one part of the blog?

I wonder if it is a plot!

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andrew ronald
7/26/2018 06:53:51 am

CONTACT Mr Justin Scott call (+2347031524375 or WhatsApp him through this number +2347031524375 or email: illuminatiworldofsociety1@gmail.com Hello everyone am giving a testimony on how I joined the illuminati brotherhood, I was trying to join this organization for so many years now,I was scammed by fake agent in south Africa and Nigeria,I was down,I could not feed my self and my family anymore and I tried to make money by all miss but all invail, I was afraid to contact any illuminati agent because they have eat my money,One day I across a post of someone giving a testimony, thanking a man called Justin Scott of being helping him to join the illuminati brotherhood, then I look at the man email and the phone number that was written there, it was a nigeria number I was afraid to contact him because a nigerian agent eat my 200,000 and go away with the money then I was very tired, confused and I decided to contact the person that was given the testimony and i called him and I communicated with him on phone calls before he started telling me his own story about when he wanted to join, he told me everything to do, then I made up my mind and called the agent called Justin Scott and he told me everything to do, and I was initiated, surprisely I was given my benefit of being a new member of the great illuminati brotherhood I was so happy,For those of you trying to join this organization this is your opportunity for you to join CONTACT MR Justin Scott call ( +2347031524375 or WhatsApp him +2347031524375 or email: illuminatiworldofsociety1@gmail.com

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3/11/2019 06:38:18 am

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was deeply strangled up by poverty and i had no body to help me, and also i search for help from different corners but to no avail… i see

people around me getting rich but to me i was so ashamed of my self so i met a man on my way he was very rich and he was a doctor so he

told me something and i think over it though out the day so the next day i looked up and i keep repeating what he said to me. ” if you want

to get rich quick and be famous” you need to cross your heart and do what is in your mind so i tried all i could in other for me to do as he

said so later on i told my fellow friend about this same thing then my friend was interested in my suggestions so i decided to look in the

internet and i found their number so we decided to contact them and unfortunately we did as they instruct us to do and later they told us to

get some requirements and all the rest… so this initiation took us just a week and later on the great fraternity gave us $1,200,000 to start up

our lives…. and now am testifying that if in any case you want to join any great fraternity all you need to do is for you to contact them

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4/11/2019 12:19:14 am

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Elsa
12/30/2019 05:28:23 pm

I'm Portuguese and i know way more about my history than you. The Order of Christ WAS THE TEMPLARS!!!! You don't know how our King DINIS made the Order of Christ but I can give you a little bit of history.
When the Templars were being arrested our King was the only who didn't do anything against the Templars, actually he protected them and he with his son in law the King of Castile and brother in law the King of Aragon were able to prove their innocence and thanks to our King all the assets of Templars went to crown. But the order was done, so our king told the templars to go to the Algarve and stay there until everything calm down. so in 1319 he with the excuse to protect our borders from the moors he came up with the idea of "created" a new order. and that's how the Order of Christ born. once he got the approval from the Pope he called the Templars and told them that from now on they were name Order of Christ and not Templars and yes our first King was a Templar. So what they said in the show was right.
By the way let me give you another story:
King João II when the tordesilhas treaty came up, the first one had a line just outside cape verde that was portuguese territory, our king didn't agree and ask for more 370 nautical miles west. It was accepted and when the new treaty came up the new line guess where the 370 nautical miles hit: BRASIL. How the hell our king knew the exactly number to put Brasil in our territory? because he already knew there was land on west. How? because his soldiers were the order of christ aka the templars. so yeah, my advice don't talk about something that you don't know.

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smith benson
1/20/2020 01:24:01 pm

Hello everyone I am Mr Smith Benson from USA, I am giving a testimony on how I joined the illuminati brotherhood, I was trying to join this organization for so many years now,I was scammed by fake agent in south Africa and Nigeria, I was down,I could not feed my self and my family anymore and I tried to make money by all miss but all avail, I was afraid to contact any Illuminati agent because they have eat my money. One day I across a post of someone giving a testimony, thanking a man called Paul mark of being helping him to join the illuminati brotherhood, then I look at the man email and the phone number that was written there, it was a Nigeria number I was afraid to contact him because a Nigeria agent eat my $5,000 and go away with the money then I was very tired, confused and I decided to contact the person that was given the testimony and i called him and I communicated with him on phone calls before he started telling me his own story about when he wanted to join, he told me everything to do, then I made up my mind and called the agent called Paul mark and he told me everything to do, and I was initiated, surprisingly I was given my benefit of being a new member of the great illuminati brotherhood I was so happy,For those of you trying to join this organization this is your opportunity for you to join CONTACT MR PAUL MARK call (+2348163028633 or WhatsApp him +2348163028633 or email: illuminatiworldoffamous@gmail.com .....

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alex edward
2/28/2020 09:50:32 am

HOW I JON THE ILLUMINATI AND BECOME THE ILLUMINATI AGENT WITH MEMBERSHIP ID 6661633
I am alex edward by name. as the going says, money is powerful in human beings life and money rules the world.I'm from a poor family in which I found it hard to feed my family
During the end of 2009 and the early part of 2012, I was suffering from a terrible depression that led me to start thinking about suicide.All Around that time I was talking to some people on a few forums about my problems. One of those people helped me learn a little bit about iluminati I suffered before I became a millionaire via the help of iluminati.I knew here in US promised to help me give email which I emailed told them I want become a member and be protected.They accept my application and I was initiated after my initiation. I was given first money of $2,000.000.00 US Dollars and on monthly basis am now paid $20,000.00 USDollars for working for the hood. Please if you are tired of poverty and you want to change your status or you are already weathy and you need protection of life,wealth,properties and family member please come and join the help iluminati now and get what you need. Please note that joining is free of charge you don't pay any dine to become member and to contact us here is
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