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Declassified: MI6 support for Nazi 'Forest Brothers'

Kit Klarenberg
Global Delinquents
Sun, 12 Oct 2025 18:36 UTC
September 22nd marked "Resistance Fighting Day". It was on this date in 1944 anti-Communist guerrilla forces in Estonia declared war on the Soviet Union's 'occupation' of their state. Parallel paramilitary factions rapidly formed in neighbouring Latvia and Lithuania. For over a decade, these violent factions - popularly known as the Forest Brothers - waged a brutal, ill-fated insurgency against Soviet authorities. They remain venerated in the region and beyond today as courageous freedom fighters, immortalised by commemorative monuments, street names and statues throughout the Baltic states.

In reality, the vast majority of the tens of thousands of Forest Brothers were Holocaust perpetrators and Nazi collaborators. In many cases, militants joined the movement due to fear of prosecution and punishment for their activities during World War II. While waging their anti-Soviet crusade, the Brothers also murdered thousands of innocent civilians, including many children. However, critical scrutiny of the Forest Brothers' genocidal legacy is criminalised throughout the Baltics. Academics, journalists and lawyers have been jailed for exposing the truth.
Forest Brothers Monument
© Global DelinquentsLithuanian monument to Viktoras Vitkauskas-Saidokas, Nazi collaborator turned Forest Brother who beheaded a rabbi in June 1941.
The same legislation moreover prohibits any public discussion of how the Jewish populations of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania were slaughtered in their virtual totality, largely before the Wehrmacht arrived in June 1941 under Operation Barbarossa. Western powers are aggressively complicit in this historical coverup. In July 2017, NATO produced a slick propaganda film heroising the Forest Brothers. Meanwhile, mainstream pundits routinely whitewash Baltic Nazi collaboration, on the risible basis local populations simply sought to resist Communist rule.
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The Bush and Bin Laden secret financial ties

Thierry Meyssan
Voltairenet.org
Tue, 16 Oct 2001 00:00 UTC
Bush Bin Laden
© ar.inspiredpencil.comUS President George Bush and Osama Bin Laden
The perpetrators of the September 11, 2001 attacks and those informed of their intentions could anticipate certain economic repercussions of this attack. From then on, they could engage in speculative maneuvers on the airlines that owned the hijacked planes, on the companies headquartered in the twin towers of the World Trade Center, and on the insurance companies involved. They could also anticipate a probable general decline in all listed securities. To do this, they had to speculate on the decline by purchasing not shares, but "puts," that is, "sale options."

The identification of insiders is not only an issue in stock market fraud, but above all a means of establishing, directly or indirectly, the identity of the perpetrators of the attacks and their accomplices.

Insider trading

In the aftermath of the attacks, maneuvers characteristic of "insider trading" were observed in the six days preceding the attack [1] . The stock of United Airlines (the company that owned the planes that crashed into the South Tower of the WTC and in Pittsburgh) artificially fell by 42%. That of American Airlines (the company that owned the plane that crashed into the North Tower of the WTC, and the one that allegedly crashed into the Pentagon) fell by 39%. No other airline in the world had been subject to comparable maneuvers, with the exception of KLM Royal Dutch Airlines. So it can be deduced that a plane from the Dutch company had probably been chosen for a fifth hijacking.

Similar actions were observed on put options on the shares of Morgan Stanley Dean Witter & Co., which increased twelvefold in the week before the attacks. This company occupied twenty-two floors of the WTC. The same was true for put options on the shares of the world's leading stockbroker, Merrill Lynch & Co., whose headquarters are in a neighboring building threatened with collapse, which increased twenty-fivefold. And especially for put options on the shares of the insurers involved: Munich Re, Swiss Re, and Axa.
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New research finds defining childhood portrait of Marie Antoinette is really her sister


University of Oxford
Thu, 09 Oct 2025 17:33 UTC
Jean-Étienne Liotard
© University of OxfordJean-Étienne Liotard, L'Archiduchesse Marie-Antoinette d'Autriche, future Reine de France, à l'âge de 7 ans (1762).
The most famous portrait of Marie Antoinette as a child is really of her sister, according to new research. Catriona Seth, Marshal Foch Professor of French Literature and Fellow of All Souls College at the University of Oxford's Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages made the discovery while researching a book and working with the Musée d'Art et d'Histoire (MAH) in Geneva.

The distinctive drawing by the Swiss painter Jean Etienne Liotard in 1762 has helped to shape the way we think of the last Queen of France in her early years. She is depicted as a seven-year-old, holding a shuttle used for weaving and staring directly at the viewer with a determined look in her eyes. This has long been thought to demonstrate that the future Queen was destined for a life of significance.

But through close examination of Liotard's portraiture and archival research, Professor Seth has revealed the portrait is likely to be of her older sister Maria Carolina, who later became Queen of Naples. Professor Seth has identified another girl in the same collection of Liotard's portraits as Marie Antoinette - but this gives a very different impression, with the girl holding up a single rose and smiling demurely as she looks to the side.

Professor Seth said: 'I have always been fascinated by the picture said to be of Marie Antoinette as a child and even used it on the cover of a book I wrote 20 years ago. But while researching my latest book which centres on portraits of Marie Antoinette, something was niggling at me, so I went back to the MAH in Geneva to look more closely at Liotard's full collection of portraits of Marie Antoinette and 10 of her siblings.
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Archaeology

Leonardo da Vinci manuscript prompts discovery of secret tunnels under Milan's Sforza Castle

Taylor Nicioli
CNN
Sat, 01 Mar 2025 21:41 UTC
Sforza Castle
© De Agostini/Getty ImagesThe Sforza Castle in Milan, Italy, was built in the 15th century by Duke Ludovico Sforza. The nobleman commissioned Leonardo da Vinci for art pieces as well as defensive structures and weaponry designs.
Leonardo da Vinci excelled in the fields of art and science, but the Italian polymath was also a highly skilled expert in military structures and defensive systems, breaking new ground in the strategy of warfare during the Renaissance with his designs and inventions.

Now, scientists have uncovered a hidden feature underneath a medieval castle in Milan, Italy, that researchers once could only speculate about based on a sketch of Leonardo's from around 1495 and references in other historical sources — underground passageways that were likely intended for soldiers to use in the event that the castle's defenses had been breached.

The discovery, which the Politecnico di Milano announced in January, came about through a series of surveys that aimed to digitize the 15th century Sforza Castle's underground structures through nondestructive methods such as ground-penetrating radar and laser scanning.
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Moon

Going for broke

George Ford Smith
Mises Institute
Tue, 07 Oct 2025 00:00 UTC
mechanical astronaut
© NASA/AdobeStockFuture Astronaut?
Sometime in 2026 a NASA* project called Artemis II will send four astronauts to the moon and back. Unlike the Apollo missions of the past century, the Artemis crew will be diverse in gender and race. In Greek mythology Apollo had a twin sister, Artemis, who was "the goddess of forests, hills, wild animals, childbirth, virginity, and the moon." In case you thought governments lacked ingenuity, naming the Apollo sequel "Artemis" explodes that myth.

The original Apollo missions were suspect in some quarters because of alleged insurmountable obstacles of a manned moon mission, but the rebuttals are consistent with science. One of the problems was getting the astronauts through the Van Allen belt without killing them from intense radiation, an argument disposed of neatly with a single word, firewalking.

The Apollo program had its roots with the October 1957 Soviet launch of Sputnik, "the world's first artificial satellite and the first man-made object to be placed into the Earth's orbit." Fear of a Soviet ICBM nuclear attack frightened American authorities, who also felt a profound humiliation from being trounced by communists.

A year later President Eisenhower signed NASA into existence, and the space race was on.
From 1961 to 1964, NASA's budget was increased almost 500 percent, and the lunar landing program eventually involved some 34,000 NASA employees and 375,000 employees of industrial and university contractors.
The Soviets made four failed attempts to put astronauts on the moon between 1969 and 1972, and with the success of Apollo 11 on July 16, 1969 and subsequent lunar landings, the US could claim "victory" in the space race.

Comment: Assuming cost-ratios for space exploration will always top out beyond rationale and expectation, it may come down to necessity over choice - be it planetary or off-world. Space-racing aside, current impetus for lunar+ excursions must weigh any potential benefits with real 'down to Earth' costs.

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Scientists may have deciphered the ancient city's language


University of Copenhagen
Mon, 06 Oct 2025 18:37 UTC
Christophe Helmke and Magnus Pharao Hansen have taken the first steps toward solving a major archaeological mystery surrounding the ancient Mexican city of Teotihuacan. Until now, the language of Teotihuacan has been unknown.

The Mesoamerican city of Teotihuacan in central Mexico.
© Christophe Helmke, University of CopenhagenThe Mesoamerican city of Teotihuacan in central Mexico.
More than two millennia ago, Teotihuacan was a thriving metropolis in central Mexico with up to 125,000 inhabitants. The city had gigantic pyramids and was a cultural center in Mesoamerica at the time.

But the city, which today consists of ruins and is a popular destination for both archaeologists and tourists, holds a great mystery. Who were its inhabitants?

Researchers Magnus Pharao Hansen and Christopher Helmke from the University of Copenhagen have presented a possible solution to the mystery in the renowned journal Current Anthropology.

By analyzing the signs on Teotihuacan's colorful murals and many other artefacts, they have concluded that the signs constitute an actual writing system, and they believe that this writing records an early form of the Uto-Aztecan language, which a thousand years later developed into the languages Cora, Huichol, and Nahuatl, the language of the Aztecs.
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Best of the Web: Mossad 'in contact from very beginning' with killers of Italian PM, reporter reveals

Kit Klarenberg, Wyatt Reed
The Grayzone
Sat, 04 Oct 2025 00:00 UTC
Neti Meloni
© UnknownIsraeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu • Italian PM Giorgia Meloni
A roving reporter who covered Italy's top politicians explains to The Grayzone how his country was reduced to a joint US-Israeli "aircraft carrier," and raises troubling questions about an Israeli role in the killing of Prime Minister Aldo Moro.

For years, Israel's Mossad monitored and secretly influenced a violent communist faction that carried out the March 16, 1978 kidnapping and murder of Italian statesman Aldo Moro, veteran investigative journalist Eric Salerno has documented.

Having worked closely alongside multiple Italian heads of state during his 30-year career as a correspondent, Salerno published an expose of their secret relationship with Israeli intelligence in 2010 called Mossad Base Italy.

The reporter told The Grayzone that Moro, who was arguably Italy's most important leader, became a thorn in the side of powerful forces who sought to keep his country firmly lodged in the pro-Western bloc. Salerno believes Italy's long-term foreign policy would have developed differently if Moro had survived, adding, "that's what they were afraid of in the United States."
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Treasure Chest

After long search, divers discover trove of rare coins off Florida's Treasure Coast

Kelly Garino
The Daily Mail
Fri, 03 Oct 2025 22:04 UTC
treasure found spanish fleet 1715
© 1715 Fleet-Queens Jewels LLCThe discovery is estimated to be worth nearly $1 million, while historians believe the storm claimed at least $400 million in gold, silver (pictured) and jewels during the 1715 voyage to deliver 'the queen’s jewels'
A team of divers literally struck gold after uncovering more than a thousand 300-year-old coins on the seafloor off Florida's Treasure Coast - a discovery valued at nearly $1 million.

On Tuesday, 1715 Fleet - Queens Jewels LLC, the largest historic shipwreck salvage operation in Florida waters, announced the discovery of 1,051 silver coins and five gold coins recovered during their summer expeditions, according to their website.

The coins are believed to be from the infamous 1715 Fleet, a Spanish convoy wrecked by a hurricane while sailing from the New World to Spain, leaving over 700 dead.

All eleven ships lost in the disaster were carrying millions in Spanish gold and jewelry - known as 'the queen's jewels' - which were swallowed by the sea during the storm.
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7,000-year-old eneolithic settlement unearthed in Dagestan

Leman Altuntaş
Arkeonews Net
Fri, 03 Oct 2025 03:13 UTC
bull figurine
© Timur Gatsaev – Institute of Archaeology of the Russian Academy of SciencesClay bull figurine from the 7,000-year-old Eneolithic (Copper Age) settlement in Dagestan.
Archaeologists from the Institute of Archaeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) have announced one of the most significant discoveries of 2025: a 7,000-year-old settlement in southern Dagestan. The site, named Dagogninskoe-2, provides unique insight into the Eneolithic period — also known as the Copper Age — and sheds light on how early farming and herding communities spread across the Caucasus.

Discovery Near the Caspian Sea

The settlement was uncovered near the coastal town of Dagestanskiye Ogni, during rescue excavations ahead of the expansion of the R-217 "Caucasus" highway north of Derbent. Although the site was first identified in 2022, only recent large-scale excavations confirmed its extraordinary age and cultural significance.

Archaeologists found two distinct cultural layers. The upper stratum dates to the Bronze Age (3rd-2nd millennium BCE), while the lower stratum, lying about two meters deep, belongs to the Eneolithic period (5th millennium BCE). This transitional era bridges the Stone Age and the Bronze Age, when people learned to smelt copper but still relied heavily on stone, bone, and wooden tools.
Excavation in progress, view from the north.
© Timur Gatsaev – Institute of Archaeology of the Russian Academy of SciencesExcavation in progress, view from the north.
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5,000-year-old stone tomb discovered in Spain

Owen Jarus
Live Science
Wed, 24 Sep 2025 18:07 UTC
A large, 5,000-year-old dolmen has been discovered by archaeologists in southern Spain.
Dolmen Spain
© Thalassa (PAI HUM 1127The newfound dolmen in Spain was used to hold multiple burials and dates back around 5,000 years.
Archaeologists in Spain have discovered a 5,000-year-old stone monument that holds multiple burials and many grave goods, including weapons.

These prehistoric stone monuments, known as dolmens, are often found in European countries like Spain, France and the U.K., such as the 5,700-year-old Arthur's Stone in England, and they typically have stone walls and a large stone roof.

The newfound dolmen, unearthed in Spain's southern autonomous region of Andalusia, is "one of the most monumental and best-preserved funerary structures in Andalusia," researchers said in a translated statement.

The newly discovered dolmen is 43 feet (13 meters) long, and its walls are made of 6.6-foot-high (2 m) vertical stone slabs known as orthostats.

"The entire dolmen was also covered by horizontal large stone slabs, and on top of this covering, there was a tumulus [a human-made mound] of sand and small stones" Eduardo Vijande Vila, an associate professor of prehistory at the University of Cádiz and co-director of the excavations, told Live Science in an email.
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