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The biography provided by Barack Obama to his literary agent specified his birthplace as “Kenya” and, over the course of 17 years, despite multiple revisions by Obama, the Kenyan birthplace remained a fundamental part of the bio on the agent’s   website . I’ve used the Wayback   Archive   to explore the exact transformations of Obama’s biography on his agent’s site. (Copy and paste the URL due to the url being too long to   hyperlink ) On June 27, 1998, the   website   read ( http://web.archive.org/web/19980627122741/http://www.dystel.com/client.html#O ) : “BARACK OBAMA was the first black president of the Harvard Law Review. He was born in Kenya to an American anthropologist and a Kenyan finance minister, and was raised in Indonesia, Hawaii, and Chicago. His   first book   is DREAMS FROM MY FATHER: A STORY OF RACE AND INHERITANCE.” The Obama   entry   remained unmodified (e.g., June 6, 20...

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Lord Jacob Rothschild had admitted that his family were ‘crucial’ in the creation of Israel, in a  Times of Israel  interview.  The 80-year-old Rothschild said in a  recent interview  that his ancestors “ helped pave the way for the creation of Israel ,” forcing the British government to sign the Balfour Declaration in 1917. The Rothschilds are commonly believed to have  engineered WWI  and waited until 1917 when Britain showed signs of trouble. The Zionist family then promised the British Government that they could convince the US to enter the war and ensure Britain’s victory over Germany on the basis that the British government handed control of Palestine to the Zionists. Thus the Balfour Declaration was created, which is an official letter from the British Government Foreign Secretary James Balfour to Baron Rothschild. It states that: “His Majesty’s government view with favour the establishment in Palesti...

Observations Concerning the Increase of Mankind, 1751 Observations Concerning the Increase of Mankind Printed in [William Clarke],  Observations On the late and present Conduct of the French, with Regard to their Encroachments upon the British Colonies in North America. … To which is added, wrote by another Hand; Observations concerning the Increase of Mankind, Peopling of Countries,&c.  Boston: Printed and Sold by S. Kneeland in Queen-Street. 1755. (Yale University Library) The “immediate occasion” for writing this essay, according to Van Doren, 6  was the British Iron Act of 1750, which prohibited the erection of additional slitting and rolling mills, plating forges, and steel furnaces in the American colonies. 7  While English ironmasters rejoiced in the protection the law afforded them, a few farsighted Britons and most Americans appreciated that the act would curb colonial growth at just the moment when Britain and France were engaged ...

Elijah McCoy was born in Colchester, Ontario, Canada on May 2, 1844. His parents were George and Emillia McCoy, former slaves from Kentucky who escaped through the Underground Railroad. George joined the Canadian Army, fighting in the Rebel War and then raised his family as free Canadian citizens on a 160 acre homestead. At an early age, Elijah showed a mechanical interest, often taking items apart and putting them back together again. Recognizing his keen abilities, George and Emillia saved enough money to send Elijah to Edinburgh, Scotland, where he could study mechanical engineering. After finishing his studies as a “master mechanic and engineer” he returned to the United States which had just seen the end of the Civil War – and the emergence of the “Emancipation Proclamation.” Elijah moved to Ypsilanti, Michigan but was unable to find work as an engineer. He was thus forced to take on a position as a fireman\oilman on the Michigan Central Railroad. As a fireman, McCoy was resp...