They had some high up intelligence official on the program to talk about how dangerous havana syndrome was with zero push back from the reporters.
man, fuck NPR.
They ran a segment probably every hour for a month straight on the Cuba “protests” in 2021. They are probably the biggest propaganda peddlers when it comes to anywhere our state department considers an enemy
I typically have NPR as the default station in my car, usually plugging my phone in for podcasts and music and only hearing it when I unplug my phone. Those Cuba reports motivated me to find some other station because even in 10 second increments it was just sending me down a doom spiral.
Haha this is me but I kinda live for the 30 minutes a day I’m in my car absolutely mad as shit because of whatever bullshit Nina Totenberg is saying
How does a family get the name “death mountain”?
If I had to guess family was jewish and poor in now germany. A lot of jews were ‘given’ a family name and if you didn’t pay off the right people they’d give you a shitty name.
Digging into some German Wikipedia reveals several places, usually forrests, called Totenberg with disputed naming origins. F.e. totus, latin for all,everything and related Germanic roots. references to deserted, “dead” places or towns, names like Dodo, Toto, Teito.
So “person from that one place named after Dodo” is at least equally likely in origin. Etymology is weird.
When you live on death mountain, you are death mountain
idk there’s a finding your roots with her though if you wanna watch and report back to the class: https://www.pbs.org/weta/finding-your-roots/about/meet-our-guests/nina-totenberg
