The Disgust Reflex

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The Disgust Reflex

Disgust is a primal human emotion that can reflexively trigger when facing real and imagined dangers that according to studies requires less than a second based on the circumstances of an encounter. Regarding humans, the disgust mechanism uses facial expressions and social circumstances to make snap judgments in situations based on often highly superficial traits to rapidly process social and physical cues. Disgust reactions are based upon a variety of circumstances which emerge from social encounters with other humans that extend to variances as minute as regional eating habits. Food plays a central role in several gatherings and social environments in which human interact and some disgust related behaviors are tied to the consumption and abstention of specific foods based on preference, religion, and socially developed aversion…

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A Brief History of North American Slavery III

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A Brief History of North American Slavery III

Centuries of Native American tribal bondage and imperial European slavery had been ongoing within North America when further nations of Europe beyond the earliest undertook large scale trade of human beings. No matter how reprehensible any practice might be, the act of profiting at the cost of other people has seemingly forever lurked within humanity’s instinctual depths. Its practice according to some reports predates the existence of written language and slavery has been like a poison coursing through the veins of humanity for millennia. Eventually there was another slave trade competitor beyond the Portuguese, Spanish, and English in the North American colonial period that sought greater power by any means necessary, imperial France…

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Fact, Film, and Historical Fiction Triple Feature

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You are invited to a three shows featuring discussions about sinister history as several inspect the evidence, artistic value, and the many contradictions of a famous leader. Three recent shows each with evidence and analysis for your review.

For those with a taste for debunking official and public myths: JFK Myths 16
For those who favor a discussion of film: Shining Lights Different Democrat
For those who choose disturbing history: Jefferson’s History Current Mysteries

Human Oppression Across the Ages

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Join your host Chuck Ochelli and C.A.A. Savastano to discuss some periods of human slavery that extend thousands of years back to Ancient Sumer and have journey across time and nearly every nation to still plague humanity in present forms.

A Brief History of North American Slavery II

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A Brief History of North American Slavery II

The first article of this series offered substantial evidence that slavery was not begun in lands which became the United States during 1619 and that it was established not by England or later American colonists but existed before Europeans arrived only to be perniciously adapted by varying imperial powers over a century earlier. Among the overlooked facts is that slavery was ongoing for centuries prior to the usual four hundred years that some claim. North America represents a minor portion in the greater history of using illegal captive human labor and slavery was not “unique to the United States, it is a part of almost every nation’s history, from Greek and Roman civilizations to contemporary forms of human trafficking.”i A largely misunderstood issue by some who discuss the matter of slavery is how common the practice quickly became due to its use by nearly every culture in North America. Its tribal roots shifted into a feudal and subsequently imperial system that empowered those using people’s fear and disgust of others against them only to render financial value at the cost of human freedom. Past tribal bondage was transformed into the legalized Portuguese enslavement of Native Americans and Africans while the Spanish crown expanded these practices with help from ongoing religious and public support.

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Paging Dr. Jolly West

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Paging Dr. Jolly West

Doctors are supposed to be healers and those who can ease human suffering, but what might occur if a doctor abandoned ethics and sought to unlock the fear and pain of damaged people by enhancing their suffering? C.A.A. Savastano and Chuck Ochelli delve into the life of Dr. Louis Joylan West and his commitment to understanding human pain and discomfort by using inhuman methods to do so often at the behest of government officials.

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The Corporate Morality Mask

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The Corporate Morality Mask

Several corporations have been moralizing to customers and using corporate power to censor information and influence politics in the name of better practices for quite some time. These corporations have altered their business practices to use social issues for influencing potential customers, limiting worker behavior and thought, and shaping legal policies in a psychological attempt to make customers believe a corporation has moral ethics or is worthy of emulation. This ridiculous proposition can be unmasked with every corporate spending report, do they spend most of their earnings on genuine attempts to better society for all people or do they plan events and reward loyal advocates for paying lip service to their mask of morality? Are they prone to extravagant displays of “benevolence” with media coverage and every possible manipulation of the event to advantage or do they just invest within communities without all the desired but unnecessary back patting and victory laps?

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A Historical Discussion of North American Slavery

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A Historical Discussion of North American Slavery

Join historian Mike Swanson and author C.A.A. Savastano to have a direct and revealing conversation about the historical record of North American slavery compared to a popular modern narrative regarding the period. They discuss the greater timeline of slavery and bondage in North America that extends at least 600 hundred years.

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A Brief History of North American Slavery

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A Brief History of North American Slavery

In the modern debate about United States history some have attempted to rewrite history and seemingly refocus it upon a culture of selective grievance study. Instead of a neutral assessment with context and substantial evidence these advocates have opted to employ ideology by promoting the censorship of opposing facts and scholars. There are huge periods of history absent from many supposedly insightful texts and reports in the media likely because they do not serve the narrative some want portrayed. Often such personalities mixing social justice with academics will assume they are eminent moral authorities but fail to make factually verifiable arguments that do not rely partially on ideology. We must now ask what have they left out of their historical narrative and is what they claim a full account of how the injustice of slavery began in America?

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Reclaiming Vince Bugliosi's Full History

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Reclaiming Vince Bugliosi's Full History

C.A.A. Savastano joins the Ochelli effect for another biographic assessment of a person whose endorsement has become to some more important than evidence. Storied advocate Vincent Torquato Bugliosi, the prosecutor of Charles Manson, has a past that many do not completely understand.

The historical evidentiary inspection continues with Chuck Ochelli and Carmine Savastano in part two of a biographic look at the less known actions of Vince Bugliosi.

A final episode concludes the review of the largely unknown and disturbing past actions of man called able prosecutor by some and villain by others, yet both ideas have evidence to support them.

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Balancing Safety and Reason

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Historian Mike Swanson and Author C.A.A. Savastano discuss the ongoing conflicts between public safety and civil rights as fifty state governments take a varying approach to reopening. As pandemic statistics decline or stabilize in many areas reasonable questions emerge about the future. Among the topics are the corporate wealth extraction authored by all members of the US Congress, capitalism vs corporatism, policies that appear designed to surveil the public in the name of safety, and why America presently needs Trustbusters and economic New Dealers.

The Ghost of Speculations Future

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The Ghost of Speculations Future

Enduring historical matters generate significant attention which often inspires certain people to declare improbable stories that cast them as pivotal to history. Claims of royal lineage, tales of secret magical knowledge, and supposed insider knowledge repeatedly are the basis for hucksters to manipulate the public. The assassination of President John F. Kennedy offers no shortage of dishonest official actors but these former leaders are not the only challenge to ascertaining facts. There are opportunists in the public with a great appetite for perceived authority, financial gain, and similar to prior mentioned leaders they assert nearly anything without facts because they also claim to possess some truth or insight unavailable to those who require evidence. Yet how can anyone expect most in the public to believe them without any demonstrable basis to do so?

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Anxiety and Fear of the Unknown

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Anxiety and Fear of the Unknown

C.A.A. Savastano joins Mike Swanson on the Wall Street Window Podcast to address some of the many scientific, economic, and political unknowns that exist among ongoing health crisis. They further address disinformation and myths being spread by some who seek to benefit from the resulting public anxiety.

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