(Part 2) Best hoaxes & deceptions books according to redditors
We found 108 Reddit comments discussing the best hoaxes & deceptions books. We ranked the 35 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the products ranked 21-40. You can also go back to the previous section.
30. Shadows in the Vineyard: The True Story of the Plot to Poison the World's Greatest Wine
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The Dellschau Dilemma
Charles Dellschau was born in Prussia in 1830 and died on April 20th, 1923. Dellschau's relation to the airship mystery is perhaps the strangest of them all.
I recommend the following for an in depth description of this enigmatic figure: The Secrets of Dellschau: The Sonora Aero Club and the Airships of the 1800s, A True Story.
Dellschau “filled at least 13 notebooks with drawings, watercolor paintings and collages depicting fantastical airships.” A single page of one of his notebooks sells for thousands of dollars. Continued from Wikipedia:
>His work was in large part a record of the activities of the Sonora Aero Club, of which he was a purported member. Dellschau's writings describe the club as a secret group of flight enthusiasts who met at Sonora, California in the mid-19th century. One of the members had discovered the formula for an anti-gravity fuel he called "NB Gas." Their mission was to design and build the first navigable aircraft using the NB Gas for lift and propulsion. Dellschau called these flying machines Aeros. Dellschau does not claim to be a pilot of any of the airships; he identifies himself only as a draftsman for the Sonora Aero Club.
Although Wikipedia continues by saying that “it is speculated” that the Sonora Aero Club is a “fiction by Dellschau,” taken in context with the evidence overviewed so far, it seems premature to dismiss Dellschau outright.
According to UFO researcher Pete Navarro, who owns several Dellschau originals and co-wrote The Secrets of Dellschau: “The story of the Sonora Aero Club and their achievements had been cleverly hidden by Dellschau in his drawings using several codes and unconnected sentences hidden throughout the work. Thus, one would have to see all of the Dellschaus to understand the narrative.”
>Dellschau's artistic subjects were invariably of airships, zeppelin-like airships that were seen over Germany during the 1850s, and later during the 1880s and 1890s, principally in California, Texas and the Midwest.
During the 1850's mysterious "airships" regularly crossed the skies of Germany and just before that, probably in the year 1848, Dellschau immigrated to the US.
>Dellschau also made it clear that the Sonora Aero Club was but one such “secret society” attempting to build and fly “aeros” or airships, others being located on the east coast of the US. Furthermore, the activities of these various aerial secret societies were coordinated by a parent body in Germany bearing only the cryptic designation “NYMZA.”
The Wikipedia article also mentions that some of Dellschau's work ended up in the possession of the “DeMenil Museum.” John deMenil is remembered as a patron of the arts, but in conspiracy circles DeMenil is known for his possible connection to the JFK assassination, as alleged by the Torbitt document.
For more information on this subject I recommend NASA, Nazis & JFK: The Torbitt Document & the Kennedy Assassination.
In the interest of brevity (oops, too late!), I'll summarize by quoting Farrell:
>DeMenil was in the circle of Eastern European exiles in texas that clustered around Dallas and Houston (obvious center of America's space program), and indeed, according to Torbitt was a leader of that community and close political supporter of Lyndon Johnson.
>DeMenil, if the Torbitt document is to be believed, was a leader of the Eastern European exile community in Texas, and thus, this would have placed him in a position to know George DeMohrenschildt (Oswald's “handler” in Dallas).
>Since this community was a large component of Nazi General Reinhard Gehlen's Fremde Heer Ost, this placed DeMenil firmly within the orbit of the postwar Fascist organization, which, as the Torbitt document notes, was intimately connected to Permindex (an alleged CIA front organization linked to the JFK assassination).
For more information on these topics, I highly recommend LBJ and the Conspiracy to Kill Kennedy.
There's another contextual connection to Nazis, NASA and JFK:
>One of the reasons many advance for the murder of president Kennedy was his plan for a joint US-Soviet mission to the Moon, and his willingness to share whatever may have been found there. Kennedy also made direct inquiries to the CIA concerning the subject matter of UFOs, and hence, into the actual state of knowledge of the US concerning advanced science and technology.
>Many assassination researchers believe that this inquiry, plus his willingness to share information with the Soviets, was sufficient reason to get him killed, simply for the fact that with the heavy Nazi presence and influence within American black projects at that time, they would have balked at sharing their secrets with their hated Communist enemy.
As for the German Dellschau, Farrell continues by noting the uncanny resemblance between some of Dellschau's illustrated “technologies” and E.O. Lawrence's beta calutrons that wouldn't be invented for decades.
>Dellschau is depicting machinery, some of which bears too uncanny a resemblance to machines not yet officially invented, machines that, in turn, are dependent upon developments in physics that have not yet occurred.
He also referred to technical details that resembled aspects of the technology reported for the Nazi Bell, which is worth mentioning as Dellschau claimed to represent a secret society based in Germany called NYMZA, which supposedly was coordinating the secret development of airships.
>Some of Dellschau's paintings-books were purchased by DeMenil, who has connections to Lyndon Johnson, the Texas East European Exile community, and therefore deeply connected to Nazi General Reinhard Gehlen's postwar military intelligence.
>It is when these points are considered together that one must entertain the possibility that Dellschau did indeed represent some unknown group in Europe developing hidden aerial technologies, and that indeed there may be yet another, little-considered, connection to hidden technologies, groups, and the JFK assassination.
Final thoughts
It's often speculated that some of the more “fanciful” realities depicted by the entertainment industry are often based on some kernel of truth. Keeping that in mind, when I was first exposed to the 19th century airship mystery, I couldn't help but think of Bioshock Infinite, the entire premise of which is based on exotic technology powering airships in the second half of the 19th century.
I'll conclude by quoting Farrell's final thoughts:
>The propulsion methods and lift generating technologies of the airships do not appear to be conventional by any means, since both electrical systems and compressible gasses are mentioned.
>Significantly, within the same time frame, Tesla will conduct his revolutionary Colorado Springs experiments that will lead, within a decade, to his proposal for wireless transmission of electrical power, one purpose of which he envisions to be flight. This technology is suppressed by his financial backers, and similarly, the airship technology, which promised a revolution in transportation, is never publicly revealed.
>While the historical impetus for the creation of a vast system of hidden finance and alliances between private, government, Axis, and criminal components began after World War Two, this pattern of secret organizations, private finance, and government interface began on a smaller scale sometime in the 19th century, as did the perception of the possibilities of psychological operations in conjunction with it.
Perhaps it was more than just a coincidence that one of the greatest psychological operations of the 20th century occurred almost exactly fifty years after the alleged events in Aurora. For more information on this fascinating subject, I can't recommend the following enough: Roswell and the Reich: The Nazi Connection.
>What began in the 19th century as a secret airship program quickly morphed in the postwar era into a secret space program, one impelled not only by the need to reconnoiter, contain, rollback, and defeat the Soviet Union, but also by the need to discover what strange thing and entities may have been behind clearly hostile actions that were potentially threatening to the vast thermonuclear arsenals of the two superpowers.
And that, my friends, is a story for another time.
That's not the case, especially for this debt which made it way downstream.
http://www.amazon.com/Bad-Paper-Chasing-Street-Underworld/dp/1629238813
Give it a read.
Sometimes the companies are unscrupulous. Sometimes the individual employees make copies of the data and sell it without the companies knowing.
To feel more comfortable moving to a foreign country (I am from the UK and have lived in China and currently live in Sweden) I can recommend doing research. Lots of research.
Here’s a huge plus side to living abroad: locals are often more forgiving of your aspie eccentricities as they will chalk it up to “culture”. You can get away with more social mistakes!
I can recommend the “Xenophobe’s Guide to the Kiwis” book for learning about the culture.
https://www.amazon.com/Xenophobes-Guide-Kiwis-Christine-Catley/dp/1906042411
I have these for just about every culture I interact with, and I’ve checked with good friends from those cultures and the content is pretty accurate.
It sucks that your parent prefers New Zealand to Japan, but hey, New Zealand might be easier in terms of language. Plenty of time for you to go to Japan when you are older. I always wanted to go to Japan, finally made it at 26 and loved it. It’s worth the wait! Hang on in there.
Also I mentioned this in another thread but I wanted to say it here too- I just finished the book Bunk by Kevin Young and holy shit. The topics are really interesting, but more importantly the author is incredible. His way with words blew my mind, I hadn’t heard of him before but now I’m interested in all his stuff.
Look into:
> Note Michael Flynn's involvement
They are all involved in a PSYOP known as the Port of Charleston dirty bomb hoax (minus Robyn from what I know, but she may be involved). These same people were promoting the same disinfo as Q in basically it's alpha form, and then many of their guest began promoting Q and they did too.
George can be seen posting early on in Reddit flooding trying to get people to follow him. He previously worked at IBM and other tech companies. He has a book on Amazon.
I live not far from where this took place, in Oshkosh. Here is a link to the book: https://www.amazon.com/Staggered-Paths-Strange-Deaths-Badger/dp/0692910131. I will say the author is a former police investigator and in the Kappell case, he got many facts wrong. I think he tried to make details seem more exciting. Many of the questions he asked were able to be answered by reading the autopsy reports which it appears he had access to.
Consider the following books, which she may not have, but which any wine enthusiast or expert would enjoy:
Shadows in the Vineyard: The True Story of the Plot to Poison the World's Greatest Wine
http://www.amazon.com/Shadows-Vineyard-Poison-Worlds-Greatest/dp/1455516104/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1427386992&sr=8-1&keywords=shadows+in+the+vineyard
Adventures on the Wine Route: A Wine Buyer's Tour of France
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0374522669/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Back Lane Wineries of Napa, Second Edition
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1607745909/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Barolo and Barbaresco: The King and Queen of Italian Wine
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0520273265/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1
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I love true crime. I have to say, though, it's a bit difficult to find good true crime books.
I recently read "The Nanny Murder Trial" by Don Davis, and while the first three chapters or so were very good, the rest of the book was a step-by-step retelling of trial procedure, which I found very bland.
On the other hand, I'm reading "I'm No Monster", which goes into detail about Josef Fritzl's upbringing and childhood, and it's really fascinating.
http://www.amazon.com/Billionaires-Vinegar-Mystery-Worlds-Expensive-ebook/dp/B0013TRRSA/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&sr=&qid=
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if he fishes:
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Ive read a bit on this case, there is a book on this that you can read, it goes into many more details: https://www.amazon.ca/Cold-Long-Time-Alpine-Mystery/dp/1467975915/ref=asc_df_1467975915/?tag=googleshopc0c-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=292996689753&hvpos=1o3&hvnetw=g&hvrand=2420196903267263341&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9001575&hvtargid=pla-491873647653&psc=1
A few thoughts having read the book:
1- The snowboard was reported returned but the paperwork had been thrown away. To me it shows someone knew something and wanted it hidden.
2- His car sat in the car park for a period of time, even though the police state that all ski resorts would immediately notify them of cars standing multiple days to to the risk of a missing skier type situation, yet his car was never reported.
3- He had left his clothing in the instructors office and never came back to get it, this did not raIse their suspicions , and they had said he returned the board, very fishy.
4- He was snowboarding with the incorrect type of boots. This is strange that he would have had the incorrect equipment if he had rented equipment and especially if he had an instructor. It is the instructors duty to ensure the student has the correct equipment and that it is being used in the correct manner to avoid potential injuries. I find this a really big red flag. Some reports noted he borrowed equipment from the instructor whilst other note he rented, if he had rented the incorrect matching equipment there could be fault on the resort, on the other hand if he had borrowed equipment from the instructor, he could have been at fault, of if he had bee injured whilst using the incorrect equipment there could have been a lawsuit for the resort. Put all this ontop of the fact that the equipment was not returned and the paperwork disappeared, he did not come back to get his clothing and his car was left for a period of time in the car park, seems someone knew something was wrong but didnt say anything.
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Another very interesting tidbid i found out on this, is that this person i refer to as the instructor, seems at least someone responsible for how this situation has turned out, however his career has appeared to grow from success to success since this incident. His name was Walter something and he eventually went on to become the head coach of the Austrian Womans Olympic Snowboard team for two olympics, I think 98 and 02.
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So a instructor who's student went missing on the mountain, didn't ensure the student had the correct equipment, didn't ensure his student made it off the mountain, then went on to become one of the top snowboard instructors in Austria? Something like this could have ruined some people careers....
> 42. ^ Farr, Julia (11 April 1935). Letter from Julia Farr to Lloyd Fisher. New Jersey State Police Museum and Learning Center Archives.
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I recommend this book: One for the Road (Amazon.com)
> Yeah, because white people are so disadvantaged.
Straw man fallacy. I did not say they were. You are trying to twist my argument into something that I did not say
> It's not like they are by far the majority of all powerful people in this country.
They probably are. But so are Indians from India, fucking Taiwanese, Fillipino, Serbians (did not they live through 2 wars recently?), Jews, Asians ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ethnic_groups_in_the_United_States_by_household_income#By_ancestry
> That's not institutional racism at all.
There exist other credible explanations, not just racism. Correlation does not equal causation and the burden of proof is on you.
> You're just wrong, sir.
About what?
> I won't deny the existence of "black on white" racism, it clearly exists,
Ok, good, we are getting somewhere ...
> but it is not nearly the massive problem that you make it out to be.
Well, let's find out, shall we? Let's go.
> How many black people have to go through their lives living in fear from the cops,
How many black people have to go through their lives living in fear from black thugs?
Let's use some basic FBI statistics.
> or have to deal with being called a nigger
By other black people?Just about any time they listen to a rap song or talk to each other.
> or threatened with lynching?
Oh boy, lynching. Do you have hard numbers on this? Not online trolling by 12 yo boys but actual threats of lynching. Would not The Young Turks be all over it?
> This happens daily.
What does, lynching?
Black self-oppression, calling each other the n word?
> Me, and most of the other white people I know, which is a vast majority of my friends, have NEVER experienced any kind of racism from a minority group.
Well, assuming that the odds are 50 in a million then it would be unlikely that you would EVER experience it.
> That may be anecdotal evidence to you,
Yes it is. Colin Flaherty has plenty of anecdotes of black on white racism and violence on his youtube channel.
http://www.colinflaherty.com/ His books on Amazon (Thomas Sowell, a black economist endorsed one of them). A lot of people who left comments have personally experienced black on white racism and violence.
'Don't Make the Black Kids Angry': The hoax of black victimization and those who enable it. Paperback – February 23, 2015 => 313 customer reviews; average review = 4.4 starts out of 5.
'White Girl Bleed A Lot': The Return of Racial Violence to America and How the Media Ignore It 1st Edition
200 customer reviews; average rating = 4.5 stars out of 5.
Knockout Game a Lie? Aww, Hell No!: The most complete collections of links and videos on the Knockout Game. Paperback – October 25, 2014
25 customer reviews. 4.4 of 5 stars average.
but here's some statistics:
> https://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/2015-hate-crime-statistics-released
> "Of the 5,493 known offenders, 48.4 percent were white, 24.3 percent were black or African-American, and race was unknown for 16.2 percent of the offenders. The rest were of various other races."
Ok. So let's see ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demography_of_the_United_States#Race_and_ethnicity
12.2% of America is black and 63.7% of America is White. Per numbers above, you have 5493 * 0.243 = 1335 black offenders and 2657 white offenders. Does that look like a 1:5 ratio? Nope! Per capita blacks are more racist toward whites than the other way around.
> Additionally: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/06/18/5-charts-show-the-stubborn-persistence-of-american-hate-crime/
> "FBI hate crime data show that more than 50 out of every 1 million black citizens was the victim of a racially motivated hate crime in 2012, the highest among any racial group."
So, let me get this straight: 50 out of one million black people experience a hate crime, and you call this an institutionalized racism?
Fucking LOL
> You don't have a leg to stand on.
Fucking LOL
Institutional racism, LOL. You are talking about a couple thousand victims for the entire country. What constitutes a hate crime? I am pretty sure that words do.
For comparison, there were around 13.5 thousand rapes in the US in 2013.