Well, we did say we’d try to promote alternative viewpoints. I’m more than a little incredulous towards this one, but it did at least make me consider where my incredulity was coming from.

Anatoly Fomenko’s series of books History: Fiction or Science proposes that all pre-16th century history, as we’re taught it, is completely false. He argues that no methods of dating (such as carbon-14) are accurate enough to reliably date items in the timeframe of human history; instead he relies upon statistical and astronomical methods. His conclusions? That all human civilisation, all buildings and artefacts, date back only as far as 800 AD. Ancient history is a mixture of lies, fiction and misinterpretations of primary sources. Oh, and Jesus was a Byzantine emperor who lived in the eleventh century (his name was Andronikos).

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George Soros, for the uninitiated, is a Hungarian-American financial speculator worth approximately $9 billion. Why is he the topic of this post? Well, he’s been pouring his personal wealth (over $6 billion of it so far) into his ‘Open Society Institute‘ and its various branches.

As a result, he’s been subject to some pretty significant allegations about his role in international politics. In short, he’s supposed to have orchestrated the Rose Revolution in Georgia that took Mikhail Saakashvili to power. And he’s supposedly ‘the financial and political godfather’ of Barack Obama. (click read more…)

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