Dracula Castle to Be Returned to Owner (The Hapsburgs)
posted 05/23/2006, 8:25 PM (AP)
[Category: History]
 BUCHAREST, Romania — More than 60 years after it was seized by communists, the Romanian government is to hand back one of the country's most popular tourist sites, the fabled Dracula Castle, to its former owner, the culture minister said Tuesday.
The hand-over ceremony will take place Friday noon in the 14th century castle's museum deep within the fortress in Transylvania, said minister Adrian Iorgulescu at a news conference.
The castle, worth an estimated US$25 mil... (more) "The Hapsburgs ruled Romania for a period starting in the late 17th century". Actually, they ruled over half the world for centuries. |
Skeleton in the Bush family cupboard
posted 05/09/2006, 4:01 PM (The Telegraph)
[Category: History]
 One of America's great historical controversies intensifed yesterday with the publication of fresh evidence that members of an elite secret society may have dug up the remains of the Indian leader Geronimo and displayed his skull in their headquarters.
Rumours that half a dozen members of the Skull & Bones society at Yale University - including President George W Bush's grandfather, Prescott Bush - dug up the grave of the legendary Apache leader during the First World War have exe... (more) |
Apartheid army's secrets made public
posted 05/05/2006, 1:12 PM (Aljazeera)
[Category: History]
A report detailing white South Africa's deadly military involvement during apartheid's dying days has been made public for the first time.
The Steyn report, compiled by a top apartheid general for FW De Klerk, South Africa's last white president, details how the army helped destabilise the country during the turbulent early 1990s.
"The report contains a list of military and other suspects, which, now that it is in the public arena, puts pressure on the authorities ... (more) |
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Thursday April 20th, 2006
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Esoteric secrets, Scottish Freemasonry and the building of the American dream
posted 04/20/2006, 3:17 PM (The Scotsman)
[Category: History]
 Pictured: The minutes from Aitchison's Haven - which could be the oldest recorded stonemason lodge in the world.
DAN BROWN'S next book The Solomon Key is said to speculate on the role and influence of Freemasonry. In much the same way that The Da Vinci Code has its climax in Rosslyn Chapel, it may well be that the best-selling author's latest work will also find its roots in Scotland.
For if Brown's new novel is looking at alleged Masonic conspiracy in the US... (more) |
The Truth Behind the Knights Templar: Some Say the Knights Found the Holy Grail
posted 04/20/2006, 3:17 PM (ABC News)
[Category: History]
20, 2006 — The mystery of the Knights Templar has been in the public conscious lately because of their portrayal as the guardians of the Holy Grail in Dan Brown's "The Da Vinci Code" and other contemporary works.
Intrigue and controversy, though, have followed them since medieval times.
"I think every generation hopes that there is a secret, there is one secret and if only we could get the key to that secret we would understand so much and we all look for it in past... (more) |
Revealed: victims of UK's cold war torture camp
posted 04/03/2006, 1:50 PM (London Guardian)
[Category: History]
 Photographs of victims of a secret torture programme operated by British authorities during the early days of the cold war are published for the first time today after being concealed for almost 60 years.
The pictures show men who had suffered months of starvation, sleep deprivation, beatings and extreme cold at one of a number of interrogation centres run by the War Office in postwar Germany.
A few were starved or beaten to death, while British soldiers are alleged... (more) |
No 10 horrified by gung-ho US in Cuban nuclear missile crisis
posted 04/03/2006, 1:49 PM (London Telegraph)
[Category: History]
Downing Street was shocked to learn in 1962 that its American allies had been poised to start World War III over the Cuban missile crisis without consulting Britain, new papers reveal.
So important did the prime minister, Harold Macmillan, consider a report from his intelligence chief in the days after President John F Kennedy faced down a Soviet nuclear threat in his backyard that he immediately sent a copy to the Queen.
The warning from Maj Gen Sir Kenneth Strong,... (more) |
How Lots of Little Nazis Turned Germany Into the Third Reich
posted 04/03/2006, 1:49 PM (Bloomberg)
[Category: History]
April 3 (Bloomberg) -- Look at the little schoolgirls on the side of the road, crowding off the curb, waiting for the parade. See how happy they are. They are waiting for someone, who is probably riding in a big, open car.
Perhaps it is Dr. Goebbels. Maybe it is the Fuhrer himself. The little schoolgirls are waving swastika pennants.
It's hard to imagine a more perfect cover for ``The Third Reich in Power'' (Penguin, 941 pages, $37.95), the second volume of a planne... (more) |
What Really Happed to the Shah of Iran
posted 03/13/2006, 4:12 PM (Payvand)
[Category: History]
My name is Ernst Schroeder, and since I have some Iranian friends from school and review your online magazine occasionally, I thought I'd pass on the following three page quote from a book I read a few months ago entitled, "A Century Of War : Anglo-American Oil Politics and the New World Order", which was written by William Engdahl, a German historianm . This is a book about how oil and politics have been intertwined for the past 100 years.
I submit the below passage for direct p... (more) |
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Wednesday March 8th, 2006
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Jewish plot to kill Bevin in London
posted 03/05/2006, 4:27 PM (The Sunday Times)
[Category: History]
JEWISH terrorists plotted to assassinate Ernest Bevin, the foreign secretary, in 1946, as part of their campaign to establish the state of Israel, newly declassified intelligence files have shown. The plan was devised by Irgun, the insurgent group led by Menachem Begin, who went on to become a Nobel peace prize winner and prime minister of Israel.
Begin, whom MI6 believed was backed by the Soviet Union, planned to send five terrorist cells to Britain to carry out bombings and assa... (more) |
Soviets 'ordered Pope shooting'
posted 03/02/2006, 3:11 PM (BBC)
[Category: History]
 An Italian parliamentary commission has concluded that the former Soviet Union was behind the 1981 assassination attempt on the late Pope John Paul II.
The head of the commission, Paolo Guzzanti, said it was sure beyond "reasonable doubt" that Soviet leaders ordered the shooting.
Turkish national Mehmet Ali Agca, now 48, shot the Pope in St Peter's Square on 13 May 1981, hitting him four times.
Agca never gave a motive, and mystery has continued to su... (more) |
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Saturday February 25th, 2006
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Don't mention the war: BBC plan for surviving nuclear armageddon
posted 02/25/2006, 2:55 PM (London Independent)
[Category: History]
In the event of all-out nuclear war, the BBC was to distract the nation by broadcasting a mix of music and light entertainment shows, secret papers released by the Home Office reveal.
Hundreds of security-vetted BBC staff and a select band of unnamed radio artistes were to be clandestinely dispatched to transmission sites across the country at the first signs of international tension.
Just before the first missiles had reached Britain, the BBC was to use regional ce... (more) |
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Monday February 20th, 2006
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Dresdner Bank And The Third Reich: Hitler's Willing Bankers
posted 02/20/2006, 12:15 PM (Spiegel Online)
[Category: History]
Like many German firms, Dresdner Bank hoped after World War II its unsavory activities during the Third Reich would be forgotten. But an unparalleled company-sponsored research effort shows Germany's second largest bank supported the Nazi regime much more actively than had been previously thought.
Being known as the bank of choice for Heinrich Himmler's SS would be a PR nightmare for any company. So the long postwar reluctance of top Dresdner Bank executives to expose the bank's s... (more) |
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Friday February 17th, 2006
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The Amadeus code
posted 02/17/2006, 2:24 PM (The Australian)
[Category: History]
 DAN Brown's breathless quest for the secrets of the Holy Grail in The Da Vinci Code cleverly patched together gossip and curiosities from the visual arts. Had the story taken another turn, it could easily have followed a path of mystery and mysticism in classical music. The music world is no less a fertile place for cryptograms, hidden messages, secret societies and weird religion. And so many of the great composers could have a role to play: J.S. Bach, Edward Elgar, Alban Berg and, of course, ... (more) |
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Thursday February 16th, 2006
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Uncovering a not-so-secret Hopkins past
posted 02/16/2006, 3:28 PM (The John Hopkins News-Letter)
[Category: History]
 The three mysterious numbers under the insignia of the famous Skull and Bones are 322. Some say these numbers denote the establishment of a New World Order in 322 B.C. Others claim that the Skull and Bones is Chapter 322 of a German secret society. Some even believe that the skull-and-crossbones crest on pirate flags originated from the secret society Skull and Bones.
From the well-known Skull and Bones to their arch rival, the Scroll and Key Society at Yale, secret societies have... (more) |
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Wednesday February 15th, 2006
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Friday February 10th, 2006
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Papyrus Reveals Ancient Stories
posted 02/10/2006, 4:21 PM (Discovery News)
[Category: History]
Feb. 8, 2006— Italian researchers have recovered part of a lost ancient Greek treatise, the earliest cartography of the Greek-Roman era, and a sketchbook for ancient painters — all by piecing together 50 fragments of a first- century B.C. parchment used in a mummy's wrapping.... (more) |
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Tuesday February 7th, 2006
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Ancient Russian Manuscript Describes 19th Century UFO Sightings
posted 02/07/2006, 1:51 PM (MosNews)
[Category: History]
 Nowadays reports of UFO sightings appear in the media so frequently that they hardly catch anyone’s eye. More often than not the alleged UFOs turn out to be signal rockets, meteorological probes, airplanes or their traces. But this certainly does not apply to sightings registered centuries ago — when no rockets or airplanes existed at all. Moscow daily Komsomolskaya Pravda publishes a document from a personal archive that tells of a UFO spotted over Kremlin back in 1808.
“I found ... (more) |
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Monday February 6th, 2006
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UK's murky role in Cyprus crisis
posted 02/06/2006, 2:22 PM (BBC)
[Category: History]
 Evidence has emerged that British undercover forces were involved in fomenting the conflict between Greek and Turkish Cypriots ten years before the 1974 partition of Cyprus.
The new evidence found by BBC Radio 4's programme Document centres on the mystery of Ted Macey, a British army major who was abducted, presumed killed by Greek Cypriot paramilitaries.
I had no strong expectation that we would find the Turkish Cypriot village. We had a 40-year-old British army ma... (more) |
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Sunday February 5th, 2006
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Report Details Weapons Dump Off Hawaii
posted 02/05/2006, 3:24 PM (AP)
[Category: History]
HONOLULU, Feb. 4 (AP) — The military dumped large quantities of mustard gas and other chemical weapons in the ocean off Hawaii from 1944 to 1946, according to an Army analysis of military archives released this week.
The analysis also found more than 2,000 conventional munitions on the seabed about a half mile off Waianae, Oahu, in an area known as Ordnance Reef.
Hawaii's representatives in Washington asked for the accounting after learning of a 2001 Army report say... (more) |
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Sunday January 22nd, 2006
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Hitler 'told Speer to recreate the Eternal City in Berlin'
posted 01/22/2006, 3:26 PM (London Telegraph)
[Category: History]
 Adolf Hitler intended to recreate the Vatican's St Peter's Square in the centre of Berlin to honour his ally Benito Mussolini, newly discovered documents have revealed.
Albert Speer, the fuhrer's chief architect, was commissioned to draw up the plans, which have been discovered by historians examining his papers.
They had been stored in a secret room inside Moscow's Museum of Architecture after being taken to Russia at the end of the Second World War.
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Wednesday January 18th, 2006
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H-BOMB LOST IN SPAIN: January 17, 1966
posted 01/18/2006, 9:07 AM (Historychannel)
[Category: History]
On this day, a B-52 bomber collides with KC-135 jet tanker over Spain's Mediterranean coast, dropping three 70-kiloton hydrogen bombs near the town of Palomares and one in the sea. It was not the first or last accident involving American nuclear bombs.
As a means of maintaining first-strike capability during the Cold War, U.S. bombers laden with nuclear weapons circled the earth ceaselessly for decades. In a military operation of this magnitude, it was inevitable that accidents wo... (more) |
The Discovery of America
posted 01/18/2006, 8:51 AM (Per Bylund)
[Category: History]
 In history classes all around the world we learn how Christopher Columbus gained the blessing of Spanish monarchs King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella, and eventually went on a quest to find a way to India over the ocean westward. In 1492 he set out with three ships, the Santa Maria, Niña and Pinta, and sighted what he believed to be the Indian coast in early October.
We all know that story, and future generations will probably also learn that story in school even though it seems he ... (more) |
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Saturday January 14th, 2006
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Map of the world may prove the Chinese beat Columbus to America
posted 01/14/2006, 11:41 AM (The Independent)
[Category: History]
 Could it be that America was discovered, not by Columbus, but by a Chinese admiral who was not only a eunuch and a Muslim but also a confidant of the Emperor during the Ming dynasty?
A map will go on display on Monday in Beijing which is already revolutionising thinking about 15th-century world history. The map is a copy made in 1763 of a chart dated 1418 which appears to prove claims that it was Admiral He, whose fleet sailed the oceans between 1405 and 1435, and not Christopher ... (more) |
The whitewashing of Ariel Sharon
posted 01/09/2006, 8:16 PM (LA Times)
[Category: History]
The 'man of courage and peace' story ignores his bloody and ruthless past.
AS ARIEL SHARON'S career comes to an end, the whitewashing is already underway. Literally overnight he was being hailed as "a man of courage and peace" who had generated "hopes for a far-reaching accord" with an electoral campaign promising "to end conflict with the Palestinians."
But even if end-of-career assessments often stretch the truth, and even if far too many people fall for the old s... (more) |
Churchill wanted to electrocute Hitler
posted 01/01/2006, 4:31 PM (The Scotsman)
[Category: History]
WINSTON Churchill was determined to send Adolf Hitler to the electric chair if he was ever captured and believed that senior Nazis should be summarily executed without the benefit of a trial, according to papers released today.
The British Prime Minister's brutal attitude towards his enemies is revealed in newly published records from meetings of the War Cabinet.
The notes, taken by Deputy Cabinet Secretary Sir Norman Brook in his own style of shorthand, provide th... (more) |
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Sunday December 25th, 2005
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Shakespeare's smoke and mirrors tricks solved
posted 12/25/2005, 5:32 PM (Physorg.com)
[Category: History]
 The longstanding mystery of a floating dagger in Shakespeare's Macbeth may now have been solved thanks to the detective work of an ANU researcher.
Professor Iain Wright, from the ANU Faculty of Arts, has uncovered a potential source of inspiration for the famous scene. The source is a description contained in a book edited by one of the fathers of modern science, John Dee, who was fascinated with how the eye could be deceived by tricks of the light.
“Macbeth is a gr... (more) |
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Tuesday December 20th, 2005
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Stalin's half-man, half-ape super-warriors
posted 12/20/2005, 6:55 PM (The Scotsman)
[Category: History]
 THE Soviet dictator Josef Stalin ordered the creation of Planet of the Apes-style warriors by crossing humans with apes, according to recently uncovered secret documents.
Moscow archives show that in the mid-1920s Russia's top animal breeding scientist, Ilya Ivanov, was ordered to turn his skills from horse and animal work to the quest for a super-warrior.
According to Moscow newspapers, Stalin told the scientist: "I want a new invincible human being, insensitive t... (more) |
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Sunday December 18th, 2005
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Britain ran torture camp after WWII: report
posted 12/18/2005, 4:39 PM (Reuters)
[Category: History]
Britain ran a secret prison in Germany for two years after the end of World War II where inmates including Nazi party members were tortured and starved to death, the Guardian says.
Citing Foreign Office files that were opened after a request under the Freedom of Information Act, the newspaper says Britain had held men and woman at a prison in Bad Nenndorf until July 1947.
Locals at the time said you could hear prisoners scream at night.
The Foreign Of... (more) |
The interrogation camp that turned prisoners into living skeletons: German spa became a forbidden village where Gestapo-like techniques were used
posted 12/18/2005, 4:33 PM (The Guardian)
[Category: History]
Despite the six years of bitter fighting which lay behind him, James Morgan-Jones, a major in the Royal Artillery, could not have been more specific about the spectacle in front of him. "It was," he reported, "one of the most disgusting sights of my life."
Curled up on a bed in a hospital in Rotenburg, near Bremen, was a cadaverous shadow of a human being. "The man literally had no flesh on him, his state of emaciation was incredible," wrote Morgan-Jones. This man had weighed a li... (more) |
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Saturday December 17th, 2005
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Britain ran WWII 'torture camp'
posted 12/17/2005, 7:08 PM (The Australiian)
[Category: History]
BRITAIN ran a secret prison in Germany for two years after the end of World War II where inmates including Nazi party members were tortured and starved to death, the Guardian said today.
Citing Foreign Office files which were opened after a request under the Freedom of Information act, the newspaper said Britain had held men and woman at a prison in Bad Nenndorf until July 1947.
Locals at the time said you could hear prisoners scream at night.
The For... (more) |
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Wednesday December 14th, 2005
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Mafia wanted me to kill Calvi, says jailed gangster
posted 12/14/2005, 10:14 AM (The Telegraph)
[Category: History]
The former head of the Mafia's British operations has claimed that he was approached to arrange the killing of Roberto Calvi, whose body was found hanging beneath Blackfriars Bridge in London 23 years ago.
Francesco Di Carlo, 61, a gangster-turned-supergrass, told a court in Italy that just days before the death of the man known as God's banker because of his ties to the Vatican, he heard that the mob was looking for him.
However, by the time he made contact Calvi's... (more) |
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Tuesday November 29th, 2005
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Tuesday November 22nd, 2005
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Margaret Thatcher Threatened to Use Nukes During Falkland Islands War
posted 11/22/2005, 12:28 PM (NewsMax)
[Category: History]
French President Francois Mitterrand made a stunning claim to his psychoanalyst during Britain’s Falkland Islands war with Argentina in the early 1980s:
Margaret Thatcher threatened to use nuclear weapons unless Mitterrand gave the British the "deactivate" codes used by anti-ship missiles that France had sold to Argentina!
That never-before-revealed scenario is disclosed in the new book "Rendez-vous: The Psychoanalysis of Francois Mitterrand,” written by Ali Magoudi... (more) |
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Tuesday November 8th, 2005
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For Sale: Island with Mysterious Money Pit
posted 11/08/2005, 8:12 AM (Live Science)
[Category: History]
 It may look like a fixer-upper at first glance, but what is buried beneath scrubby little Oak Island might just make its estimated $7 million price tag worth the investment.
Oak Island, in Nova Scotia, is famous for its Money Pit, a mystery that has endured two centuries, claimed six lives and swallowed up millions in life savings.
The Pit was discovered in 1795 by a local boy named Daniel McGinnis who, spotting an unusual clearing in the earth under one of the isla... (more) |
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Friday October 14th, 2005
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Former Naval Physicist: Government Can Control Hurricanes
posted 10/14/2005, 1:46 PM (Prison Planet)
[Category: History]
 Former Vet 'Made it Rain' During Vietnam War
Steve Watson & Paul Joseph Watson | 14 Oct 2005
Alex Jones was joined on air yesterday by weather modification expert Ben Livingston.
Livingston discussed in detail proven evidence of hurricane control and his research and experiences with cloud seeding and weather weapons used in the Vietnam war.
Many scoff at the possibility of weather control and simply refuse to believe it exists. Attempt... (more) |
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Monday October 10th, 2005
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Unmasked: the 'real Shakespeare'
posted 10/10/2005, 9:31 AM (TheAge)
[Category: History]
EXTRAORDINARY historical evidence suggests Shakespeare's plays were not written by the bard, but by a Tudor politician descended from King Edward III.
British Shakespeare scholar and former university lecturer Brenda James and university historian William Rubinstein propose that the real Shakespeare was Sir Henry Neville, an English courtier and diplomat.
Their research is described as "pioneering" by the chairman of the Shakespearean Authorship Trust, Mark Rylance,... (more) |
Why was 'God's banker' killed?
posted 10/09/2005, 10:35 AM (Toronto Star)
[Category: History]
Even the Pope couldn't help "God's banker."
Roberto Calvi, an Italian financier with ties both to the Vatican — hence his nickname — and the Mafia, in 1982 begged John Paul II to step in and save his bank from collapse, The Times of London reports. But money was the least of Calvi's problems.
Two weeks later, on June 19, he was found hanging by an orange rope tied in a lover's knot from scaffolding under one of the nine arches of Blackfriars Bridge in central London... (more) |
I saw Nazis test A-bomb, says author, rewriting history
posted 10/02/2005, 8:51 AM (The Guardian)
[Category: History]
 A book published in Italy is set to reignite a smouldering controversy over how close the Nazis came to manufacturing a nuclear device in the closing stages of World War II.
The author, Luigi Romersa, 88, is the last known witness to what he and some historians believe was the experimental detonation of a rudimentary weapon on an island in the Baltic in 1944.
Hitler's nuclear program has become a subject of intense dispute in recent months, particularly in Germany. ... (more) |
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Wednesday September 14th, 2005
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The Soviet Story
posted 04/02/2009, 9:45 PM (SovietStory.com)
[Category: History]
Please note this film is rather graphic
“The Soviet Story” is a story of an Allied power, which helped the Nazis to fight Jews and which slaughtered its own people on an industrial scale. Assisted by the West, this power triumphed on May 9th, 1945. Its crimes were made taboo, and the complete story of Europe’s most murderous regime has never been told. Until now…
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Thursday December 20th, 2007
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Ring of Power
posted 12/20/2007, 3:12 AM (AmenStop Productions)
[Category: History]
Episode I: 9/11 THE UNTOLD STORY (38 min.) Half the world believes Muslims were responsible for 9/11. The other half believes Israeli Zionists were responsible. Who’s right?
Episode II: HIDDEN EMPIRE (22 min.) The world’s most ... (more) |
The New American Century
posted 03/03/2009, 3:59 PM (Massimo Mazzucco)
[Category: History]
 This film is astonishing, it goes in detail through the untold history of The Project for the New American Century with tons of archival footage and connects it right into the present.
This film exposes how every major war in US history was based on a complete fraud with video of insiders themselves admitting it.
This film shows how the first film theaters in the US were used over a hundred years ago to broadcast propaganda to rile the American people into the S... (more) |
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