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Peace Revolution episode 043: The Ultimate History Lesson with John Taylor Gatto / Hour 3 + Commentary

Peace Revolution episode 043: The Ultimate History Lesson with John Taylor Gatto / Hour 3 + Commentary

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October 29, 20113h 18m

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Notes, References, and Links for further study: 



  1. Use the donation buttons at the bottom of these notes, or on the sidebar of this site, or the sidebar of Tragedy and Hope dot com,  for “The Ultimate History Lesson: A Weekend with John Taylor Gatto” multi-DVD interview project, currently in post-production. With over 5 hours of interview footage, this is a collection of education which is invaluable.

    1. If you donate $50 or more towards the completion of this project, you will receive the entire DVD set; as our way of saying Thanks!


  2. Your invitation to the Tragedy and Hope online critical thinking community

  3. Peace Revolution Podcast’s primary hosting site (2009-2011)

  4. Peace Revolution Podcast’s backup hosting site (2006-2011, also includes the 9/11 Synchronicity Podcast episodes, starting at the bottom of the page)

  5. Tragedy and Hope dot com (all of our media productions, free to the public)

    1. On the top menu, there is a “Trivium” selection, which includes the Brain model discussed in Peace Revolution episodes.


  6. A Peaceful Solution” by Willie Nelson w/thanks to the Willie Nelson Peace Research Institute

  7. T&H Partner Podcasts: Media Monarchy, Corbett Report, Gnostic Media, & Remedy Radio

    1. Useful Tools:


  8. www.StartPage.com (It uses Google’s search algorithm, but doesn’t collect your private info and search history)

    1. StartPage search engine Firefox add-on


  9. The Brain (mind mapping software to organize your research) download for FREE

    1. The free version works for all functions except web publication


  10. Ultimate History Lesson Hour 3, minutes 1 -15 (approx.):

  11. Reece Committee (or: U.S. House Select Committee to Investigate Tax-Exempt Foundations and Comparable Organizations)

  12. Norman Dodd (on Wikipedia)

  13. (Book) “Foundations: Their Power and Influence” by Rene Wormser (1958)

  14. (Book) “The Leipzig Connection: Basics in Education” by Paolo Lioni (1993)

  15. The Metaphysical Club (on Wikipedia)

  16. William James (on Wikipedia)

  17. John Dewey (on Wikipedia)

  18. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (on Wikipedia) 

  19. Charles S. Peirce (Peirce Society)

  20. Pragmatic Philosophy (on Wikipedia) 

  21. Immanuel Kant (on Wikipedia) 

  22. Kant’s “Critique of Pure Reason” (on Wikipedia)

  23. (Book) “The Impact of Science on Society” by Bertrand Russell (1952): (Fichte quote & page)

  24. (Book) “Cybernetics: Or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine” by Norbert Wiener (1948):

  25. (Book) “The Human Use of Human Beings” by Norbert Wiener

    1. http://books.google.com/books/about/The_human_use_of_human_beings.html?id=l9l6zquHvZIC


  26. Norbert Wiener (on Wikipedia)

  27. Hour 3 Roundtable Discussion of minutes 1-15:

  28. Tax Exempt Foundations

  29. Walsh Committee (Wikipedia)

  30. Carroll Reece (Wikipedia)

  31. Reece Committee

  32. Norman Dodd (On Tax Exempt Foundations)

  33. Federal Reserve

  34. Income Tax

  35. General Education Board (Wikipedia)

  36. Rockefeller Foundation

  37. Ford Foundation

  38. Carnegie Endowment

  39. Charles Sanders Pierce (Wikipedia)

  40. Immanuel Kant

  41. Edgar Rice Burroughs / John Carter and the Princess of Mars

  42. Thomas Paine (Wikipedia)

  43. Printing Press

  44. DIY / Do It Yourself (Wikipedia)

  45. Human Resources: Social Engineering in the 20th Century by Scott Noble

  46. PsyWar by Scott Noble

  47. Leo Tolstoy (Printing press ignorance)

  48. “Literacy is a form of slavery, until a method of critical thinking is exercised by the reader.” – R.G.

  49. Utilitarianism (Wikipedia)

  50. Jeremy Bentham (Wikipedia)

  51. Panopticon (Wikipedia)

  52. Adam Weishaupt (Wikipedia)

  53. William James “truth as collective name” quote

  54. Dewey “knowledge is belief authorized by enquiry

  55. Metaphysical Club

  56. Philosophic Corruption of Physics by David Harriman 1, 2 (Gnostic Media Interviews)

  57. Nihilism

  58. Existentialism

  59. National Socialism (Wikipedia)

  60. Classical Trivium (Wikipedia)

  61. Metaphysics

  62. Epistemology (Wikipedia)

  63. Ethics

  64. Aesthetics (Wikipedia)

  65. Allusions

  66. Abstraction

  67. Metaphor

  68. Rhetoric & The Active Literacies

  69. Albion Seed by David Hackett Fischer (Chapter 1 Social Statuses)

  70. Bete Noire (a person or thing strongly detested)

  71. Bavarian Illuminati

  72. American Historical Association (on Wikipedia)

  73. Andrew Dickson White (Wikipedia)

  74. Timothy Dwight (Wikipedia)

  75. Daniel Coit Gilman (Wikipedia)

    1. Skull and Bones Trust


  76. William Huntington Russell (Wikipedia)

  77. Johns Hopkins University

  78. The Yale Troika

  79. Skull and Bones (Wikipedia)

  80. America’s Secret Establishment: An Introduction to The Order of Skull and Bones by Antony C. Sutton

    1. How the Order controls Education (Chapter 8)


  81. The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America by Charlotte Iserbyt

  82. Pestalozzi (Wikipedia)

  83. Lavater

  84. Fichte

  85. (Book) A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs (1917)

  86. The Philosophic Corruption of Physics & The Logical Leap” (Gnostic Media podcast #111 & 112/ David Harriman interviews)

  87. (Book) “Perfectibilists: The 18th Century Bavarian Order of the Illuminati” by Terry Melanson (2009) 

  88. (Book) “The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America” by Louis Menand (2001)       

  89. Norman Dodd/Katherine Casey/Hidden Agenda Interview (transcript)

  90. American Historical Association History & Archives

  91. Guggenheim Foundation (on Wikipedia)

  92. Walsh (Commission on Industrial Relations) 1915 (on Wikipedia)

  93. Charles Sanders Peirce: “Pragmatism As a Principle and Method of Right Thinking: The 1903 Harvard Lectures on Pragmatism” 

  94. Bertrand Russell

  95. Hour 3, minutes 15 -30 (approx.)

  96. Academic Genealogy Chart

  97.  (Book) “The New Atlantis” by Sir Francis Bacon (1624):

  98. Sir Francis Bacon (on Wikipedia) 

  99. “Principles of Psychology” by William James (1890):

  100. “The Last of the Mohicans” by James Fenimore Cooper (1826):

  101. James Fenimore Cooper (Wikipedia)

  102. “Common Sense” by Thomas Paine (1776):

    1. http://www.ushistory.org/paine/commonsense/


  103. Bill Clinton (mentor, Quigley, speech reference): 1992 Democratic National Convention:

  104. Unitarian /Harvard (on Wikipedia) 

  105. Herbert Spencer + Eugenics:

  106. “Atlas Shrugged” by Ayn Rand (1957) (pages 1000 -1070, John Galt’s Speech):

  107. Fabian Society (on Wikipedia) 

  108. London School of Economics (on Wikipedia) 

  109. Society for Psychical Research (on Wikipedia) 

  110. Arthur Balfour (on Wikipedia) 

  111. Beatrice Webb (on Wikipedia) 

  112. William T. Stead (on Wikipedia)

  113.  “The Last Will and Testament of Cecil John Rhodes” (1902) with elucidatory notes by William T. Stead

  114. “The Avengers” (1960’s British television series, featuring a character “John Steed”)

  115. Martin Luther (on Wikipedia) 

  116. Ninety-Five Theses by Martin Luther (1517) (on Wikipedia) 

  117. Senator Oscar Callaway (on Wikipedia)

  118. Congressional Record (February 9, 1917)

  119. U.S. Senate Speech (1942) Truman + Standard Oil Treason of Rockefellers

  120. (Book) “Wall Street and The Rise of Hitler” by Antony C. Sutton (1976) (Krupp reference)

  121. Hour 3 Roundtable Discussion of minutes 15-30:

  122. History of the U.S. Census (Wikipedia)

  123. Self-Reliance (Wikipedia)

  124. Concept of Property

  125. John Locke (Wikipedia)

  126. Concept of Informed Consent

  127. Death and Taxes

  128. Von Clausewitz (Wikipedia)

  129. Absolute War (Wikipedia)

  130. Hegelian Dialectic (Wikipedia)

  131. Stimulus Response (Wikipedia)

  132. The High Cabal with Col. L. Fletcher Prouty

  133. Peace Revolution episode 038: The High Cabal

  134. British East India Company (Wikipedia)

  135. British East India Company Flag

  136. Elihu Yale (Wikipedia)

  137. Cotton Mather (Wikipedia)

  138. Yale University

  139. Root Hog, or Die! (Wikipedia)

  140. Herbert Spencer (Wikipedia)

  141. W.G. Sumner (Wikipedia)

  142. Social Darwinism

  143. Society for Psychical Research (Wikipedia)

  144. Edward Pease (Wikipedia)

  145. Fabian Society (Wikipedia)

  146. Thomas Davidson (Wikipedia)

  147. Frank Podmore (Wikipedia

  148. Sophism (Wikipedia)

  149. Solipsism (Wikipedia)

  150. Intellectual Self-Defense

  151. Carroll Quigley

  152. The Anglo American Establishment (.pdf)

  153. New England and the Bavarian Illuminati (.pdf)

  154. Boston Brahmins (Wikpedia)

  155. University of Chicago

  156. Obama Transcript via Associated Press

  157. Fabian Socialism (Wikipedia)

  158. Fabius Maximus (Wikipedia)

  159. War of Attrition (Wikipedia)

  160. Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing (Logo of Fabian Socialism)

  161. Rhodes Round Table Group (Wikipedia)

  162. Rhodes Scholars (Wikipedia)

  163. William T. Stead (Wikipedia)

  164. The Republic by Plato

  165. Kybernetes

  166. B.F. Trentowski (Wikipedia)

  167. Cybernetics (Stanford)

  168. Norbert Weiner (Wikipedia)

  169. Bertrand Russell (Wikipedia)

  170. Corporate Personhood (Wikipedia)

  171. Prophylactic (Dictionary)

  172. Harry Truman Rockefeller Quote WWII (Time Magazine)

  173. "Standard Oil of New Jersey was putting forth every effort of which it was capable to protect the control of the German government..." – Harry Truman
    (see also: Pittsburg Press Article; March 27th, 1942)

  174. The Old Boys: The American Elite and the Origins of the CIA by Burton Hersh (Amazon)

  175. Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution by Antony C. Sutton (.pdf)

  176. Wall Street and the rise of Hitler by Antony C. Sutton (.pdf)

  177. Wall Street and FDR by Antony C. Sutton (.pdf)

  178. Senator Oscar Callaway’s 1917 quote”

  179. "In March, 1915, the J.P. Morgan interests, the steel, shipbuilding, and powder interest, and their subsidiary organizations, got together 12 men high up in the newspaper world and employed them to select the most influential newspapers in the United States and sufficient number of them to control generally the policy of the daily press. … They found it was only necessary to purchase the control of 25 of the greatest papers. An agreement was reached; the policy of the papers was bought, to be paid for by the month; an editor was furnished for each paper to properly supervise and edit information regarding the questions of preparedness, militarism, financial policies, and other things of national and international nature considered vital to the interests of the purchasers."

  180. Henry P. Davison / Time Life (Wikipedia)

  181. Henry Luce (Wikipedia)

  182. C.D. Jackson (Wikipedia)

  183. Zapruder Film (Wikipedia)

  184. George DeMohrenschild (Wikipedia)

  185. R. Gordon Wasson (Wikipedia)

  186. MK ULTRA (Wikipedia)

  187. Buchenwald

  188. Sykewar (Amazon)

  189. Life Magazine “The Discovery of Mushrooms That Cause Strange Visions” by R. Gordon
    Wasson; May 13, 1957

  190. J.P. Morgan and the Hull Carbine Affair

  191. Bilderberg Group (Wikipedia)

  192. Hedley Bull (Wikipedia)

  193. Herbert Butterfield (Wikipedia)

  194. British Committee for the Theory of International Politics (Wikipedia)

  195. Liberal Realism (Wikipedia)

  196. Rothschild Banking Empire (Wikipedia)

  197. Economist (Wikipedia)

  198. Roll Call (Wikipedia)

  199. Congressional Quarterly (Wikipedia)

  200. Reuters (Wikipedia)

  201. Psychological Warfare (Wikipedia)

  202. William Paley (Wikipedia)  

  203. War of the Worlds (Wikipedia)

  204. H.G. Wells (Wikipedia)

  205. The New World Order by H.G. Wells

  206. The New Machivellis by H.G. Wells (Project Gutenberg)

  207. Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Forces (Wikipedia)

  208. Office of Special Services (O.S.S.)

    1. Globalizing Ideal Beauty: How Female Copywriters of the J. Walter Thompson Advertising     Agency Redefined Beauty for the twentieth Century

    2. Rhodes Scholars (Page 137)

    3. Oxbridge = Oxford + Cambridge (Wikipedia)


  209. James Walter Thompson Company (Wikipedia)

  210. John B. Watson (Wikipedia)

  211. De Beers Diamond Cartel (Wikipedia)

  212. Cecil Rhodes (Wikipedia)

  213. Oppenheimer (“The Diamond Empire – Oppenheimer Family’s Cartel, Artificial Scarcity”)

  214. All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace by Adam Curtis / BBC (Archive.org)

  215. “White, King, Red Rubber, Black Death” (YouTube)

  216. Basil Nicholson (Globalizing Ideal Beauty) (Co-Founder of the London Daily Mirror)

  217. “Cultural New Deal Urge to Bring Order” /article published in The Science News-Letter  Vol. 37,   No. 1 (Jan. 6, 1940), pp. 6-7 by Lawrence K. Frank

  218. Macy Conferences (Wikipedia)

  219. Film: “The Net: The Unabomber, LSD and the Internet” by Lutz Dammbeck

  220. Lawrence K Frank / Josiah Macy Junior Foundation  

  221. Human Use of Human Beings by Norbert Wiener (Amazon)

  222. William T. Stead (Wikipedia)

  223. The Last Will and Testament of Cecil John Rhodes edited by William T. Stead (archive.org)

  224. Council on Foreign Relations (Wikipedia)

  225. Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time by Carroll Quigley (1966) (Book)

  226. The Evolution of Civilizations by Carroll Quigley (Book)

  227. The Anglo American Establishment by Carroll Quigley

  228. The Balfour Declaration (Wikipedia)

  229. Lord Rothschild (Wikipedia)

  230. Paris 1919 by Margaret MacMillan (Amazon)

  231. Alfred Milner (Wikipedia)

  232. The Rise and Fall of Diamonds by Edward J. Epstein (Amazon)

  233. Peace Revolution episode … Diamonds: The Jewel of Denial (Peacerevolution.org

  234. Carl Von Clausewitz “Absolute War” (on Wikipedia) 

  235. “On War” by Carl Von Clausewitz (1832)  (Scribd)

  236. Hegelian Dialectic (on Wikipedia) 

  237. “Root Hog, or die” (on Wikipedia) 

  238.  Peace Revolution episode #38 The High Cabal / Lessons in Foreign and Domestic Policy
    (Fletcher Prouty, Elijah Yale, British East India Company)

  239.  Beatrice Webb (on Wikipedia) 

  240. Edward R. Pease (on Wikipedia) 

  241. Fabian Society (on Wikipedia) 

  242. Obama / University of Chicago

  243. University of Chicago / Rockefeller Foundation  

  244. “How Corporate Law Inhibits Social Responsibility” by Robert Hinkley (February 2002 article)      

  245. Congressional Record (February 9, 1917):

  246. TIME magazine (on Wikipedia) 

  247. LIFE magazine (on Wikipedia) 

  248.  Zapruder Film (on Wikipedia)

  249. Bruce Campbell Adamson (JFK assassination research & books) 

  250.  R. Gordon Wasson (on Wikipedia) 

  251.  (Book) “Soma: Divine Mushroom of Immortality” by R. Gordon Wasson

  252.  “When The Elite Loved LSD” by John Cloud (Time magazine article; April 23, 2007 article)

  253.  “Great Adventures in the Discovery of Mushrooms that Cause Strange Visions” by R. Gordon Wasson  (LIFE magazine article; May 13, 1957)

  254. William Paley CBS (New York Times Obituary October 27, 1990)

  255.  “The CIA and the Media” by Carl Bernstein (Rolling Stone article; October 20, 1977)

  256.  (Book) “The Mighty Wurlitzer: How the CIA Played America” by Hugh Wilford (2008; reference chapter 10 -“Things Fall Apart: Journalists”)

  257.  (Book) “Psychological Warfare” by Paul M. A. Linebarger (1948)

  258.  (Book) “The Hall Carbine Affair: A Study in Contemporary Folklore” by R. Gordon Wasson (1948)   

  259.  Charles Douglas Jackson / Bilderberg to America reference    

  260. Hedley Bull (on Wikipedia) 

  261. Herbert Butterfield (on Wikipedia)

  262. Liberal Realism (on Wikipedia) 

  263. London School of Economics (on Wikipedia)

  264. Council on Foreign Relations History (CFR)

  265. Sir Evelyn de Rothschild / The Economist (“Evelyn’s dauphin” February 13, 2003 article) 

  266. The Economist / Congressional Quarterly / Roll Call magazines

  267. Orson Wells (on Wikipedia)

  268. (Book) “The War of the Worlds” by H.G. Wells (1898)

  269. The War of The Worlds (on Wikipedia)

  270.  (Book) “The New World Order” by H.G. Wells (1940)

  271. H.G. Wells (on Wikipedia)

  272. Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force (on Wikipedia)

  273. (Book) “Globalizing Ideal Beauty” by Denise H. Sutton (2009)

  274. James Walter Thompson (on Wikipedia)

  275. J. Walter Thompson Company (on Wikipedia)

  276. John B Watson / Behaviorism (on Wikipedia) 

  277. (Book) “The Rise & Fall of Diamonds: The Shattering of a Brilliant Illusion” by Edward Jay Epstein (1982) (Cecil Rhodes/ Rothschild Bank reference chapter 7; Oppenheimer reference chapter 12; DeBeers / J. Walter Thompson reference chapter 13)

  278. “The Diamond Empire” Transcript (PBS Frontline; February 1, 1994)

  279. Josiah Macy Junior Foundation (on Wikipedia)

  280. Macy Conferences (on Wikipedia) 

  281. William T. Stead (on Wikipedia)

  282. (Book) “The Last Will and Testament of Cecil John Rhodes” with elucidatory notes by W.T. Stead (1902)

  283.  (Book) “Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time” by Carroll Quigley (1966)

  284.  http://www.carrollquigley.net/books.htm

  285.  Carroll Quigley (www.carrollquigley.net)

  286. (Book) “The Evolution of Civilizations: An Introduction to Historical Analysis”  by Carroll Quigley   (1979)

  287.  (Book) “The Anglo-American Establishment” by Carroll Quigley (1981):

  288. Margaret MacMillan (on Wikipedia)

  289. (Book) “Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed The World” by Margaret MacMillan (reprint 2003)

  290. Hour 3, minutes 30 -45 (approx.):

  291. (Book) Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time by Carroll Quigley (1966)

  292. http://www.carrollquigley.net/books.htm

  293. Carroll Quigley (on Wikipedia) 

  294. Council on Foreign Relations (on Wikipedia)

  295. “The Anglo-American Establishment” by Carroll Quigley (1981):

  296. Hour 3 Roundtable Discussion of minutes 30-45:

  297. Interview with Carroll Quigley (1976) (YouTube)

  298. Peace Revolution episode 018: A History of the World in Our Time / Origins of Tragedy and Hope

  299. False Flag Attacks (Wikipedia)

  300. Emad Salem (Wikipedia)

  301. World Trade Center 1993 Bombing by FBI (CBS)

  302. The Descent of Man by Charles Darwin (Archive.org)

  303. On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin (Wikipedia)

  304. William Jefferson Clinton (Wikipedia)

  305. Georgetown Edmund Walsh School of Foreign Service

  306. Jesuits (Wikipedia)

  307. Dr. Frank Adeyloette (Wikipedia)

  308. The History of the Rhodes Trust by Sir Anthony Kenny (Amazon)

  309. Sir Anthony Kenny (Wikipedia)

  310. “This radical Right fairy tale, which is now an accepted folk myth in many groups in America, pictured the recent history of the United States, in regard to domestic reform and in foreign affairs, as a well-organized plot by extreme Left-wing elements.... This myth, like all fables, does in fact have a modicum of truth. There does exist, and has existed for a generation, an international Anglophile network which operates, to some extent, in the way the Radical right believes the Communists act. In fact, this network, which we may identify as the Round Table Groups, has no aversion to cooperating with the Communists, or any other group, and frequently does so. I know of the operation of this network because I have studied it for twenty years and was permitted for two years, in the early 1960’s, to examine its papers and secret records. I have no aversion to it or to most of its aims and have, for much of my life, been close to it and to many of its instruments. I have objected, both in the past and recently, to a few of its policies... but in general my chief difference of opinion is that it wishes to remain unknown, and I believe its role in history is significant enough to be known.” (“Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time” by Prof. Carroll Quigley, Page 949-950)

  311. John von Neumann (Wikipedia)

  312. Martin Luther (Wikipedia)

  313. The Early American Reception of German Idealism by James Good (Amazon)

  314. Wilhelm Wundt (Wikipedia)

  315. Thorsten Veblen (Wikipedia)

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