Two suggestions for a "Truth About" episode...

[EdwardDeVereFan]

First, I thought an episode on the "Truth About William Shakespeare" might prove interesting. As you can assume by the name I chose, I am convinced by the evidence that the true author was Edward De Vere. There is extensive evidence for that if anyone would care to discuss it.

 

Second, I thought an episode on the "Truth About Nicolai Tesla" would also prove very interesting. Tesla, more than any other single individual, is responsible for the existence of modern society. The story of his lifelong battle with Edison is a fascinating story in itself. His AC current, and his induction electric motor, essentially make everything from your fridge to your coffee maker function. In spite of his genius, he died relatively poor in a mid-town Manhattan hotel room, impoverished for no other reason than his sense of decency. Had he been aware that Westinghouse was indebted to the Rothschilds and Warburgs, Tesla might have been far more sagacious in his choice of business partner.

 

Just a couple of suggestions.

 

Thanks.

[powder]

First, I thought an episode on the "Truth About William Shakespeare" might prove interesting. As you can assume by the name I chose, I am convinced by the evidence that the true author was Edward De Vere. There is extensive evidence for that if anyone would care to discuss it.

 

Second, I thought an episode on the "Truth About Nicolai Tesla" would also prove very interesting. Tesla, more than any other single individual, is responsible for the existence of modern society. The story of his lifelong battle with Edison is a fascinating story in itself. His AC current, and his induction electric motor, essentially make everything from your fridge to your coffee maker function. In spite of his genius, he died relatively poor in a mid-town Manhattan hotel room, impoverished for no other reason than his sense of decency. Had he been aware that Westinghouse was indebted to the Rothschilds and Warburgs, Tesla might have been far more sagacious in his choice of business partner.

 

Just a couple of suggestions.

 

Thanks.

those are interesting topics Edward.  I like the stuff on Telsa, and you should check out Joeseph Atwill's work on Shakspeare.  He claims that Shaky was actually as Jewish woman.  

 

I know I made this comment regarding the 'truth about Gaza' video but the problem I have with focusing on all this stuff, and I have spent many hours looking at lots of it, is that it is stories, not philosophy, and stories require information and information is always subject to interpretation, revision, missing or new evidence (Shakespeare example is a good one) - virtue, the NAP, evil, are all philosophically objective and much easier to prove.  The conspiracy, alternative news media is packed full of compelling stories that give us a different perspective on people and events.  Besides, there are some major hitters like Infowars, RT, David Icke, etc that already work that angle.  

 

As soon as you tackle the 'real' or 'hidden' stories behind events like Sandy Hook, 911, the Rothchilds, etc, you get people focused on accuracy rather than truth.  

 

I think it is best to stick to first principles and use stories to illustrate them, and no one does it better than Stef.  

[EdwardDeVereFan]

Thanks for the reply.

 

I've seen a couple of interviews by Atwill and his "evidence" is a joke thuroughly discredited. Even he describes himself as an "independent scholar" as opposed to a historian. Quite frankly, Atwill comes across as something of a non-fiction version of Dan Brown with the same choppy prose, and a thesis just weird enough to sell some books.

 

As far as Edward De Vere being the true author, the evidence is actually quite overwhelming.

 

Just a few high level points...

 

1. The true author knows at least 7 languages and is fluent in at least 5 of them. Records show that EDV had multiple foreign language tutors since early childhood. There is no evidence that WS had any instruction in anything past the 3rd grade. 

2. Has access to an extensive library. This is important because all but two of the plays (A The Tempest and A Winter's Tale) had some precedent for the underlying narrative be it historic (Coriolinus, the Henrys, etc) or a story common at that time (R&J, Hamlet, Macbeth, etc). At that time, and based on the real wage, a single book was worth roughly the same as a new car today. EDV was such a prolific purchaser of books that it all but bankrupted him. There is no evidence WS owned a single book. 

3. Intimately acquainted with all aspects of court especially and including the seedier underside. EDV was a ward of Elisabethan spymaster William Cecil from the age of 12 onwards, meaning that his dinner table conversations consisted of the intrigues of courts throughout europe. There is no evidence that WS either knew anyone familiar with court or that he attended a single day at court. 

4. Someone with such a prolific mastery of the english language doesn't simply fall out of the sky. Surely some harbinger of linguistic mastery in an intermediate state between novice and expert must exist. For WS, no such artifact exists. Nothing. Not even a personal letter with some small token of linguistic flourish. For EDV there are several really quite good sonnets and a play consistent with an artist coming into his potential as well as several letters with a kind of lyrical playfullness in addition to puns that only a polyglot could comprehend. Interestingly, after 1586, EDV never wrote another poem or play in his own name again. 

5. In 1586 Elizabeth granted EDV a lifetime annuity. This was odd for several reasons. First, where QE was famously tightfisted, in seeking parliament's approval, she would issue these long lists about what the person did for the state to warrant the annuity. She never said a single word about why she was granting this annuity to EDV. Second, after she died and the throne passed to King James, due to the kingdom's bankruptcy, he cancelled ALL of the annuities granted by QE EXCEPT for the one to EDV. That is striking because he too made no statement as to why EDV warranted the annuity. KJ continued to pay that annuity until EDVs death, then continued paying it to EDV's widow until her death, and then he still paid it to EDV's son. It seems interesting that someone just developing a profound skill in playwriting would cease all efforts in that arena in the same year that the crown just granted a substantial annuity. 

6. Several of the plot devices in the plays come straight out of EDV's biography. For example, "Much Ado About Nothing" is very close to auto-biographical for EDV. He had been away for 7 months, came back to find a daughter and accused his wife of infidelity. She was banished to the continent for 5 years and finally returned to show their daughter to EDV when the child had grown sufficiently to where her features were undeniably those consistent with EDV paternity. During that 5 year period EDV had an affair and impregnated a courtesan. This scandal errupted into a massive family feud in London resulting in the Queen imprisoning EDV in the Tower of London for several months, more in an effort to save his life than as an act of punishment (sound like R&J at all?). There is no evidence for sourcing of where WS would have come up with these plots. Another example, in his youth EDV traveled europe jousting in tournaments and was by all accounts a reasonably skilled horseman. There is no evidence that WS ever engaged in combat or had any knowledge of contemporary warfare what so ever. Clearly one could comprehend the gravity of bellowing out "once more unto the breach dear friends" while the other could not.

7. Whoever wrote plays with characters such as Lady Macbeth clearly doesn't have any issues with strong women. Someone with that character trait would probably devote sufficient resources to ensuring that his daughters were educated. All three of EDV's daughters were literate and several of their letters still exist today. None of WS' daughters were literate and in fact there is evidence that they all employed letter writers for correspondence at various points in their lives. (Letter writers at that time frequently kept logs of to and from for all contracted correspondence.)

 

8. The very earliest folio titled "The Complete Works of William Shakespeare," and published 19 years after EDV's death was dedicated to three men. Interestingly, those three men were all married to EDV's daughters. This publication also transpired 7 years after the death of the Stratford on Avon William Shakespeare.

 

9. If William Shakespeare wrote "The Complete works of William Shakespeare" then why didn't he ever make that claim prior to taking a dirt nap? It's true. The Stratford on Avon William Shakespeare never once laid claim to that authorship in his lifetime. Diaries from that era routinely note sightings of famous actors and other contemporary playwrites such as Christopher Marlow or Ben Jonson. However, nobody ever got home from the market and noted something in their diary akin to "today bought some chicken and ale in the market and saw William Shakespeare arguing with a fishmonger" which seems odd given that the Globe Theatre (interestingly where the acting troupe supported by EDV performed) gave regular performances and other playwrites were local celebrities. In fact, other than documentation relating to being a semi-successful merchant there isn't much of any record of William Shakespere from Stratford on Avon.

 

There's much more that I could go into but if you are interested in the topic, Thomas Looney and Marc Anderson detail the evidence in their books.

 

The main reason why I thought that this topic would resound in the "Truth About" series, is simply that the series focuses on deconstructing myths. The authorship of WS' plays by a merchant from Stratford on Avon is a myth ripe for deconstruction.

[MysterionMuffles]

OMG The Truth About Nikolai Tesla would be awesome! When I watched a documentary on him a few years ago, I was like Edison who?!

[Xbander]

William Shakespeare is extrmely hard to get the truth on though, nobody can be sure of it today.

I would enjoy seeing something extremely controversial like The Truth on Roy Rife. The man who was once heralded as having cured all disease, and was later shunned and exiled.

Follow the money trail....

[FireWarrior89]

The truth about Heath Ledger?

and or a Movie Review of Batman 'The Dark Knight'