Annie Besant person
also: Annie Wood, Annie, Miss Annie Besant, annie wood
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Claims (10)
Annie Besant member_of
Fabian Society host_asserted
“She would join the Fabians in 1885 after she met George Bernard Shaw, who was one of our four horsemen. Later on, she would kind of grow into more of a Marxist than a Fabianist. And then she'd start traveling. As the colonel mentioned, she …”
▶ The Shadow State 72 Fabian Socialists Pt. 5 @ 11:41
Annie Besant member_of
Theosophical Society host_asserted
“all right let's why is annie important oops where'd you go annie who's up there she's okay now my notes um oh she's born annie wood and married a guy by name passant who wasn't all that interesting to me she's a socialist of course really w…”
▶ The Shadow State 72 Fabian Socialists Pt. 5 @ 4:04
Annie Besant founded
Central Hindu College host_asserted
“Got to stick up for the poor thing, which is not necessarily rooted in evil, but doesn't always turn out the way they're intended. And you'll see later on, you know, they don't care that the ends justify the means. So, oh, I feel that this …”
▶ The Shadow State 72 Fabian Socialists Pt. 5 @ 12:12
Annie Besant founded
World Teacher Project host_asserted
“And from that, there's a special student there, a guy by the name of Jiddu Krishnamurti, who basically she deemed the world teacher and started the World Teacher Project. This is going to be the guru of our theosophical religion. Well, Jidd…”
▶ The Shadow State 72 Fabian Socialists Pt. 5 @ 12:45
Annie Besant member_of
Freemasons host_asserted
“Exactly what I was going to say. It's a contradiction in terms. Yes. She also became very active opening up lodges as a co-freemason. The co-freemasons allow women, and they're huge. They were very much open to people of other races and, of…”
▶ The Shadow State 72 Fabian Socialists Pt. 5 @ 6:33
Annie Besant member_of
National Secular Society host_asserted
“She's built on Irish home rule, because that was a big discussion at this point in time, with a guy by the name of Charles Bradlaw. She was in the National Secular Society, the NSC, and the two of her and Bradlaw would form a publishing fir…”
▶ The Shadow State 72 Fabian Socialists Pt. 5 @ 7:39
Annie Besant carried_out_attack
Bloody Sunday (1887) host_asserted
“And her and her partner got prosecuted in 1877 for publishing a book about birth control by a birth control campaigner named Charles Knowlton. This is eugenics, people. And she gets in trouble by the authorities for publishing the book. She…”
▶ The Shadow State 72 Fabian Socialists Pt. 5 @ 10:40
Annie Besant carried_out_attack
Match Girl Strike host_asserted
“Over the Irish Coercion Acts, there was like 400 arrests and 75 badly injured. Nobody dead. I don't know how they got the name Bloody Sunday, but it was not quite as bloody as the name makes it seem. But it was a real big turning point in t…”
▶ The Shadow State 72 Fabian Socialists Pt. 5 @ 11:12
Annie Besant founded
Occult Chemistry host_asserted
“she would end up co-authoring a book called Occult Chemistry. So these, just like the secret societies, the Fabians definitely have a foot in the door of occultism. And that matters because the occult and intelligence goes all the way back …”
▶ The Shadow State 72 Fabian Socialists Pt. 5 @ 5:06
George Bernard Shaw recruited
Annie Besant host_asserted
“Michael Moore is considered a polemist. These are all very effective speakers because it's a very structured way of forming an argument. This is a little Irishman, and he was basically the best publicity for the Fabian Society from day one.…”
▶ The Shadow State 72 Fabian Socialists Pt. 5 @ 50:13
Mentions (15)
▶ 2:50
I'm pleased with where my tech guys got us so fast. Cool. So let's jump into some Fabians. Okay. We are going to start with a woman who is not one of the four horsemen, but she's still worth talking about. This is Miss Annie Besant. Got her…
▶ 4:04
all right let's why is annie important oops where'd you go annie who's up there she's okay now my notes um oh she's born annie wood and married a guy by name passant who wasn't all that interesting to me she's a socialist of course really w…
▶ 5:33
And it was also very much tied into espionage and intrigue. So I wanted to make that connection that from day one, the Fabians were into the occult. And what's interesting about that is when you see her name in some of this literature, it i…
▶ 6:33
Exactly what I was going to say. It's a contradiction in terms. Yes. She also became very active opening up lodges as a co-freemason. The co-freemasons allow women, and they're huge. They were very much open to people of other races and, of…
▶ 7:04
Secret Society stuff, there's a huge Scottish rights influence in the co-freemasons. Fair enough? Yes. She's a women's rights activist, an educationalist, an Indian nationalist. She fought really hard for Indian dots, not feathers. Give the…
▶ 7:39
She's built on Irish home rule, because that was a big discussion at this point in time, with a guy by the name of Charles Bradlaw. She was in the National Secular Society, the NSC, and the two of her and Bradlaw would form a publishing fir…
▶ 8:11
She's one of those women who would get down and get up on stage and just screech at you nonstop. But she was very, very impactful. We needed to talk about it because she links Fabianism to the spiritualist, esoteric and the anti-colonial ne…
▶ 8:43
Also, she was on the London school board in London. And again, this is very disturbing. And the initial phases of their integration of this philosophy into the education system. And just as a side note, at the beginning of Fabian,…
▶ 10:11
You have to be very, very careful when you read their literature to actually understand. And this Fabian Freeway does a really good job of saying, yeah, they're using this word, but it's not really that word. And we see that they still do t…
▶ 10:40
And her and her partner got prosecuted in 1877 for publishing a book about birth control by a birth control campaigner named Charles Knowlton. This is eugenics, people. And she gets in trouble by the authorities for publishing the book. She…
▶ 11:12
Over the Irish Coercion Acts, there was like 400 arrests and 75 badly injured. Nobody dead. I don't know how they got the name Bloody Sunday, but it was not quite as bloody as the name makes it seem. But it was a real big turning point in t…
▶ 11:41
She would join the Fabians in 1885 after she met George Bernard Shaw, who was one of our four horsemen. Later on, she would kind of grow into more of a Marxist than a Fabianist. And then she'd start traveling. As the colonel mentioned, she …
▶ 12:12
Got to stick up for the poor thing, which is not necessarily rooted in evil, but doesn't always turn out the way they're intended. And you'll see later on, you know, they don't care that the ends justify the means. So, oh, I feel that this …
▶ 12:45
And from that, there's a special student there, a guy by the name of Jiddu Krishnamurti, who basically she deemed the world teacher and started the World Teacher Project. This is going to be the guru of our theosophical religion. Well, Jidd…
▶ 50:13
Michael Moore is considered a polemist. These are all very effective speakers because it's a very structured way of forming an argument. This is a little Irishman, and he was basically the best publicity for the Fabian Society from day one.…