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Mark Pitcavage

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Mar 24

Full disclosure: I'm quoted in this piece.

vice.com/en/article/v7d…

"What Is the ‘New World Order’ Conspiracy?"

The etymology of this term (and the related term "New Order") is interesting. It essentially originates in idealistic internationalist/liberal arguments for a more integrated and disarmed global society that emerged after WW1 and again after WW2. These were people who saw the

carnage of WW1 (and, later WW2) and wanted to prevent those horrors from happening again. These unsuccessful arguments often called for a "New Order" or "New World Oder," or referred to the chance for a new world order after one of those conflicts had occurred.

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Mark Pitcavage

@egavactip

Mar 22

I got a query recently asking about a tombstone with a cross & the letters K, K, K. They were wondering if it was Ku Klux Klan-related.

It was. Most Klan tombstones date from the 1920s, when the 2nd Ku Klux Klan was at the height of its popularity. There were even Klan funerals.

Here's one example of a Klan-related tombstone. Around the cross are the letters K, I, G, Y, which stands for "Klansman I greet you." Inside are A,I,K,A, which was probably supposed to be A, K, I, A, for "A Klansman I am."

Here's another one, for a Florida Klan member who died in 1931.

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Mark Pitcavage

@egavactip

Mar 19

It’s Saturday, so let’s enjoy it with a profile of another American extremist. Up this week? Colonel Eugene Nelson Sanctuary.

Never heard of him? Not surprised. But white supremacists and other antisemites today are still influenced by his poison-in-print.

One journalist described him as “one of the suspicious, psychoneurotic old men.” Another called him the “Grand Old Man of Anti-Semitism.” Yet another as “an old fundamentalist with a long, grey lifeless face.” A fourth wrote of his “long face, austere, froze in its gray pallor.”

Who is this man?

Eugene Nelson Sanctuary, aka E. N. Sanctuary, was born in Vermont in 1870. He went to the Univ of Vermont, where he was quite the baseball star, and became a civil engineer. He had several engineering jobs before joining the Army Corps of Engineers, where he

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Mark Pitcavage

@egavactip

Mar 18

https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1504668964198174728

I'm curious if the Russians are doing this because they don't have anything else that seems feasible right now, or if there's a strategy behind it. If they think that by doing this they might cause Ukrainian morale to collapse and sue for peace on disadvantageous terms, history

https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1504668964198174728

suggests that civilian bombing campaigns (and let's throw artillery and missiles in there) don't often have that effect. British morale did not suffer because of the blitz, nor did the British "de-housing" night bombings of Germany cause German morale to plummet. During the

VIetnam War, the U.S. bombed the heck out of North Vietnam--without significantly affecting North Vietnamese resolve. I'm leaving out some historical exceptions and caveats, but given Ukraine's morale so far, it doesn't seem likely to succeed (again, if that is the intention).

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Mark Pitcavage

@egavactip

Mar 16

Today I've been doing research, for my book, on so-called "warehouse banks" used by tax protesters, sovereign citizens & other ne'er-do-wells for nearly 40 years as a way of hiding income from the IRS and other prying eyes.

I thought you might be interested in this phenomenon.

I suspect non-ideological warehouse banks of one sort or another may have been in existence longer, but "patriot"-style warehouse banks began to emerge in the 1980s. The most prominent of them was the National Commodity and Barter Association (NCBA), operated by John Grandbouche

and, after JG's death, John Voss. It also had affiliates and spin-offs in other states, like the Mid-States Exchange and the Northwest Community Exchange. The idea behind the NCBA was that it was a "bullion" bank. You would send money to the NCBA and it would convert your $$$

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Mark Pitcavage

@egavactip

Mar 16

Today I came across someone I had completely forgotten about--the last member of The Order (aka Silent Brotherhood) to be arrested. The Order was a white supremacist terrorist group that operated roughly from 1983-1985, engaging in armored car robberies, bombings, and murders.

The feds eventually took them down, killing their leader in a shootout and arresting a large number of other members on various charges. Many spent/will spend the rest of their lives in prison. The group was defunct by 1985.

One of those arrested was James Arthur Wallington. He

had been hiding out at the Arkansas compound of the white supremacist group called The Covenant, the Sword and the Arm of the Lord (CSA). Unfortunately for him, in April 1985 the feds surrounded that compound, because of illegal deeds being done there, and after a week-long

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