Tell you something that this wasnt just im in a radio and i want my people to be free that theres a different if youre specifically pushing this kind of a threat that this kind of a organizational change within the government you have to look at whos saying it yeah and thats the thing that really blew my mind. Story this morning is assuming youre looking at a time like this is insane this many publications and all over. The. Organizations a Big Organization on the terror what. Do you think this kind of manipulation were going to see more of this kind of manipulation by governments and organizations the public because clearly thats what this guy was meant to do these articles are meant to do or you see more of it we see it all the time i mean we. Seen it for as little for anything. But our say the United States has a voice of america and weve talked about on this show you theres a number of books well documented how they went in and had famous writers that you know and love writing anticommunist antisocialism propaganda for the paris review i mean you had already writing propaganda for the u. S. Government not even 50 years ago the idea that oh we didnt. Even have to grips with the pain may come up but i think the us i think anybody in government of any country using a Forum Article as your source for government information is already failing to fail i mean look at look a new list of the list of the media organizations. Diplomat or daily caller america page magazine a bunch of others would like references tweet. Big twitter following this guy always the same profile picture as well. Between forbes as one of the biggest offenders in fact between april 2017 and april 2018 a lot of the public 61 articles for the forbes website thats a lot of articles coming from apparently this group of 3 writers another person thats pretty incredible. I think theres a lot to be said for just. Theres all of these Fact Checking machines and all of these great things making sure that we here at our day dont put out an ad on propaganda or lies or anything to make sure and even if we do correctly report something its going to freak people out and. Through the federalists that the diplomat i mean were talking about a wide range of both. I think for everyone on the. On the wild right and of the spectrum youre going to find another one on the left and this is what happens when you have an echo chamber it really really is and the other go trimmer of the group the problem because its like no one wants to park took something to reproduce. Well you know theres some very want to agree with it if it fits their narrative yes or narrative. Well. Since 911 the patriot act and the creation of Homeland Security u. S. Citizens of the face an ever increasing invasion of privacy in the name of security a great example of this invasion takes place at major airports all across the u. S. Today since 2000 when air travelers have been poked prodded felt up and x. Rayed every time they seek to fly the friendly skies watchers and peers soon the days of the pat down will be coming to an end but before we all jump with joy and dash over to terminal a to catch that evening flight to nova scotia theres a catch and this catch comes in the name of biometric boarding programs and facial recognition r t americas train travis has the story. There are over a dozen airports here in the u. S. Using facial Recognition Technology and more are expected to follow this a part of the governments effort to try to get the 20 largest airports here in the u. S. Using the technology by 2021. Here basically be your next boarding pass this after President Trump issued an executive order in 2017 expediting the deployment of biometric verification of the identities of all travelers crossing u. S. Borders including u. S. Citizens in the top 20 u. S. Airports by 2021 now the department of Homeland Security rushing to get those systems up and running at airports across the country even though the technology is unproven and largely unregulated i think its a great idea because its going to save time and its not going to have to be fumbling for documents to save you the tech last year scamming faces before passengers fly jet blue all. So followed suit and many more airlines are expected to sign up meanwhile the date is used to verify boarding passes before travelers get to their gate but its also passed on to customs and Border Protection to check passengers against their watch lists and also to crack down on those who overstay their visas says i think its a great idea itll save a lot of time and privacy i have no concerns at all many fearful of the privacy and legal concerns and since its not customs and Border Protection collecting your facial recognition data directly its the airlines and they can pass it on to the government whats going on with the information thats being collected by these private companies that are working with this technology you know there was an issue in china where the records of 2500000 chinese citizens were compromised from a database that was storing this type of facial Recognition Software there have also been questions of the accuracy of the technology according to a Homeland Security watchdog the facial Recognition Systems used at airports only worked 85 percent of the time in some cases the a. C. L. U. The American Civil Liberties union noted did actually facial Recognition Software wound up getting 28 positives when they ran the pictures of members of congress now theres only about 435 members of congress and they had 28 false positives thats a poor percentage and not only that disproportionately the false positives occurred with people of color although airlines say that they do not store passengers data it shared with federal agencies that are able to store it a spokesperson for the u. S. Customs and Border Protection said it retains biographic and set records for u. S. Citizens for 15 years and noncitizens for 75 years photos are only kept for 12 hours the agency told r. T. In a statement a c. B. P. Is committed to protecting the privacy of all travelers and has issued several privacy impact assessments related to entry exit and. Strong technical security safeguards and has limited the amount of personally identifiable information used in the transaction now if you are traveling internationally you do have the option to opt out of using the facial Recognition Program however you may be asked to stand in a line thats a little bit slower and your documents will be scanned manually reporting in new york turn of the job as our take. And as we dont forget to let us know what you think of the Properties Facebook twitter and you tube im sure our poll shows that our dot com coming up we go to the historical monster to better understand the monster youre joined by adam seltzer author of the new book homes the true history of the white city stay true to watch the whole. What is it call in decline is magic and the new type of Digital Currency decentralized digital scarcity chancellor. 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The legend goes in the shadows of the flickering electric like the glowed from the site of the 8093. 00 worlds fair in chicago a monster looked Herman Webster mudgett more famously known as dr henry howard is widely regarded as americas 1st serial killer who personally claimed to have murdered over 20 people them. He claimed he took over 200. 00 lives during the months of the worlds fair holmes was executed on may 7th 896. 00 for the murder of his friend and business associate benjamin pipes however that wasnt the end of the tale of h. H. Holmes it was just the beginning for the better part of the last 125 years tales of his hotel of horrors nicknamed the murder castle have persisted despite the fact that it was never really a hotel theres no evidence to support that hundreds of people were murdered by holmes in the hotel this is because many of the tales of h. H. Holmes are just that tales devoid of fact and often based on mere gossip exacerbated by decades of retelling the tales of ha tomes continue to induce nightmares intrigue psychologists and surprise historians as the true story of Herman Webster mudgett is actually a lot stranger and more interesting than the fiction so what is true here to help us better understand the world of victorian chicago that were allegedly the 1st killing fields of americas 1st serial killer agent holmes is noted a. J. Holmes a story and tour guide speaker and the author of the book h. H. Holmes the true history of the white city devil welcome so my welcome from the windy city of chicago adam selzer thank you so much for joining us adam thanks for having me. Youve been featured on a number of documentaries including the history channels investigation into the 3 that h. H. Holmes was also jack the ripper what is it about the story of holmes that captivates was so much over a century after the mans death. But really the legend is very intriguing here is this guy who supposedly had a Building Full of hidden rooms and torture chambers how do you not get interested in Something Like that but even at the time there was something about the guy that just captured peoples imaginations so that the just encourage people to let their imaginations run off screaming no he wrote and published a convex confession of sorts some of which is often misquoted because it was reprinted so many times. In one that i actually had to say it one of the things that i read through i noticed it seems that he almost killed the reader for questioning if the police found all his victims and crimes he says to those inclined to think of us meaning theres all these other bodies that he had and said i will say that the the detectives have gone over my entire life hardly a day or an act has escaped their closest scrutiny and to judge that i am guilty of more than these cases which they have traced out is to cast discredit upon their work which do you think is more likely that he was a prolific serial killer of the cops just didnt catch everything or that he was a prolific a liar but a little bit of both he did kill a number of people yet its not 1 as many as even he claims to have and that conversion he claimed to have killed 27 people one of the of them were still alive at the time right. So what is it about chicago at that time that made that kind of because there is there is you know theres a story that he found a little bit about how much of that mess reporting as happened over the years. Quite a lot of what happens i think the newspapers in chicago did a very good job of tracing the whole story at the time and they got as caught up in the rumors as everybody else but they were fairly good at backtracking like when a guy showed up saying hey i used to buy dead bodies from this guy that cern into skeletons to sell to medical schools of course they reported on it would it turned out that this was a guy who would say whatever the police told him to if they poured enough whiskey down his throat they reported that too but a lot out of town papers didnt really publish the follow ups you know its interesting because the when you look at the story of major age homes and i think you know historically it really is a story of chicago it happened right you know in that era when chicago became the boom town you had the worlds fair all those before as crimes became known there was a lot of fear mongering about crime in the city of chicago itself what was unique about chicago in the 809. 00 news that you know truly made the tale of a cherry jones not only plausible but totally believable to the average person and why do you think he became this kind of great bogeyman of chicago. But part of it is no city had ever grown quite as quickly as chicago was growing in those days 50 years before we had a few 1000 People Living here now all of a sudden we had over a 1000000 it was growing faster than anybody could keep track of or that anybody could regulate also we did happen to have a mayor at the time who was known for of just kind of letting things happen in fact the very 1st day that the tribune wrote about age old that all one of the other papers said if mayor Carter Arison is reelected every criminal murderer and thief in the world will converge on chicago well they werent wrong. We can also point out just the way the Police Worked at the time you know the guy who was in charge of investigating the Holmes Castle building at 3 months before had been a flower infeed dealer he had no experience as a cop no Legal Training nothing in forensics or criminology the new mayor just like the cut of his job you know its interesting too because i think of your book you also talk about that building as well as as you noted. Tabitha you mention that it wasnt really the murder castle but its kind of being hyped out of them and when i see every documentary about archer jones with murder castle we built this thing to trap people about what are what are some of the control conflicting theories about what exactly this place was actually used for. Both theres all kinds of stories about it being built specifically to murder people with everything you could possibly need to kill the person that kind of came out of a tight with the police were going through there and saying oh we found a rule people have been hanging people we found a bench maybe this was a dissection table really imagine if you walked or rode anybodys house you could find a lot of ways to kill people just with the things you find in a hole but he did have a couple of rooms that were all papered over so he could hide stolen furniture in there a couple of hidden staircases so there was a lot to excite peoples imaginations in this place but really it had been retail in the 1st floor apartments of the 2nd floor that he had of the 3rd story that was supposed to be a hotel but really it was just something to swindle insurers and investors who did not want that omega is one of the things inventor thing is there is the supposedly best hotel and the hotel is really maybe long term rentals hartmans but its not really are it is a hotel or an affront death no you know there was a he was he did say that he was going to add a 3rd floor that was going to be an actual hotel space during the fair but it was never finished or open for business he used it as an excuse to buy up all sorts of supplies like furniture bedding flooring anything that people would give him on credit that he could sell for cash and then of course he took out 5 or 6 inserts policies on it and strangely enough it caught fire and thats i can imagine that you know how did things hit by around sometimes cerns and i mean that jews go out is were not full for one second somewhere i mean he seemed to be a prolific Insurance Fraud you know and certainly it was a swindler 1st and foremost a from what i was able to fire and there were at least 60 lawsuits against him going in chicago wow that takes some real skill thats what i could fight to as he was usually putting somebody elses name on top of the paperwork so i had to look at. Like his mother in laws name it is a friends names and his lawyers names in his Company Names of his various aliases theres probably plenty more in the legal archives that i just didnt find. So obviously one of the things thats come up recently is the idea that h. H. How this was all jack the ripper. What do you say about what did you find about some of because there is a lot of there is no hard evidence proving me as however there is some interesting evidence that says he could ever. How do you feel about. Stabbing random people wasnt really old style to begin with he seems to have favored ploys and in for killing people it was always people that he knew got plenty of paperwork that suggests that he was almost certainly in chicago during the time of the ripper murders he registered to vote while he was in chicago his father said that he visited New Hampshire in late october of 888. 00 so odds are id say he was around the United States anyway i want to ask who is it you know in chicago is do you still feel the legacy of holmes and that world fair on the importance about a period of time in chicago today like what is now you have people come and make a documentary about this guy and all that how does chicago feel about a church home today. What we are is fascinated by it was a new place else i mean i dont think something from the 890 s. Would really reflect on our reputation today certainly you can see a lot more evidence of the worlds fair itself you see it in the architecture all over the place you see it in the way that cities were designed and really in the same way as other cities of the fair was sort of like a preview of what the 20th century was going to be like for people. So whats next in the research of sort of the lives and deaths of towns and and and what can we find out now because youve seen so many things that have you know cases that have been long lost thought that they would never be solved are missing people never be identified and were seeing every day new cases solved with d. N. A. With that how does the holmes case or these cases like this how can they help us sort of understand the crimes of today and better better catch the bad guys before they become yes. Its hard to tell most of the evidence from the holmes case disappeared decades and decades ago we dont have any bones that were supposed to be from his victims that are still in circulation today though you never know what might turn up you never know what else we might find there are legal archives and probably st louis and texas that i didnt get a chance to look through that might have some more clues for us but really its just kind of a matter of like looking at the way the story grew older time its not so much an indictment of the media as how we react to the media and how what parts of the story we remember to colored our understanding of the case for years how often do we see that today average you see that kind of same mistake now being repeated over and over but its what we remember not what was actually reported oh imagine that happens all the time. Its incredible to me that we still keep making the same mistake over and over going to specially with these fascinating monsters i mean is there you know what i want to ask you you know what. What can we expect next in your work that youre doing were guarding the homes or of your you put this one to bed now youre moving on but still to research occasionally what i feel like ive been reasonably thorough with boldness as that is going to come. New things as they come up right now work out of the projects im working on a big whos who book for graceland cemetary who was founded by a guy who happened to be holes as big as swindling victims so he turns up everywhere. In a while. So what do you what do you think it is that. Well i you know i mean when you think about it like i think you know a little bit of time left but what do you think is the biggest thing we could learn from this as on the whole with the homes case moving forward what what what should people who you look back for the curiosity you have a but what should be a more forward thing what would you recommend they move forward and look at homes as life and how we can better prevent them to better. But one thing is going back to what you were talking about earlier in the program is check your sources see where these stories are coming from to see if to make sure were going to be getting primary stories one thing i felt that was really important in the research was finding the articles for reporters who were actually on the ground working on the story not the ways the ones that had spread around so check your sources thats one of the big ones that is a big one continues to be a big one and i dont think that is going to battle checking an investigative saying is important you know really fair i want to thank you so much for coming on today and obviously as a historian its one of our favorite tales of midwestern lauras the story of age a. J. Chums the true history of the white devil by adams out there thank you so much adam for joining us today oh thanks for having me. This skies of Southern California were graced with the 1st successful test flight of the highest capacity electric aircraft on june 6th resting the Aviation Industry into a cleaner future the Company Behind it ampera says the combination Combustion Engine and electric motor will Work Together bringing not only more power to the plane but also reducing Greenhouse Gas emissions and lowering operating costs and power plants to test the plane throughout the summer in preparation for each Pilot Program using the planes for short haul flights will be based out of the Hawaiian Island of maui theyre also working with a Regional Airline in puerto rico to start a Pilot Program there heres to the skies getting one test flight closer to clean that is a. I am so looking forward to the idea of. You know electric planes in the sense that i think then you wont ever have to worry about a plane flying overhead like every neighborhood never has to worry about airplane Noise Pollution up about going to sound that well and thats a lot of cross i mean one of the biggest cost inhibitors for short term travel the sort of rural areas that have short term flight even things of delivering packages all of that is the gas it costs so much to feel these planes but if theyre hybrids if theyre cheaper we could be doing the right things up the road level pollution down. Good stuff all right that is our show for you today everyone remember in this world we are told we are loved wall i love you are with downtown keep on watching all those hawks out there another great day and. You know to the 2017 the german newspaper defense published an article claiming that the European Union have lost 30000000000 euros as a result of its a very anti russian sanctions. Particularly affected eastern. 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The obvious or did they kind of lunge for the web in one smiths and then when it happened on trieste one and i didnt i never saw any contact with. Any kind of went back to where they were so the answer is back here theyre trying again 15 feet apart at this point and thats when the officer pulled his gun and even turned 3. Thank you. I. Live thank. You. For. All charges against the russian investigative journalists who are dropped with authority saying those responsible for his case will be suspended. Also this hour leaks messages suggest a Corruption Case against brazils former president of the silva wasnt designed to destroy his reelection. And we look at the controversial figure whose death in syria is being mourned by parts of the Mainstream Media outlets are dubbing the man to condone jihad against president assad and praised the 911. 00 attacks and the rebel