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On the eve of Victory Day, the Russian Ministry of Defense published two unique WWII videos on its official website. The videos were released as part of the multimedia project named "Capturing Our Victory."
The videos titled "Heroes of the Rear" and "The Frontline Routine" present a selection of unique photos made during the war. They reveal the difficulties Soviet citizens faced in the rear as well as the great contribution made by women and children to the victory over fascism.
© AFPImage dating from the 30's showing German giant airship Hindenburg flying over Manhattan, New York.
Research into the iconic hydrogen airship's demise has yielded many theories. The prevailing one, backed by the US Department of Commerce, is that a hydrogen gas leak was ignited by static electricity in the air - but decades later, the prospect that the luxury airship could have been sabotaged continues to garner intrigue.
The idea was raised once again at a memorial for the 36 victims of the tragedy Saturday.
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The documents, published on the Ministry's website this week, feature a report by Lieutenant-General Mikhail Rudkov, the head of the political department of the Third Ukrainian Front, dated April 3, 1944. The report lays out in detail the Nazi occupation forces' cruelty, including their torture and execution of tens of thousands of civilians, the looting, plundering and destruction of city property, and their attempts to impose a new political and ideological order in the occupied territory.
The document is accompanied by a forensic medical examination report, conducted after the exhumation of the bodies from mass graves seven kilometers outside the city.
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As a corporation that has affected the lives of almost everyone around us in the Western world, with most people receiving their vaccinations that are known to do damage, we should know their history.
In this article, we will examine Merck's connection to biological warfare, and the implications of that connection.
Merck & Co. is not to be confused with the German "Merck KGaA," but they both originate from the original German Merck.
Merck was founded in 1668, in Germany.
By 1887, a US division of Merck called Merck & Co. was set up in New York by George Merck. George Merck moved to NY in 1891.
In April 1917, as the US entered the Great War (WWI), the government announced the seizure of corporations affiliated with Germany.
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Researchers from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) have confirmed that a total of 24 metal ax heads have now been found at a site known as Hegra Stjordal, following a second dig at the location last month.
"There have never been so many axes in a single deposit before in Norway, and they're rare in the Scandinavian context,"said NTNU archaeologist Merete Moe Henriksen.
Notably, the landmark publication of the files last month was given scant Western media coverage. Surprisingly, perhaps, because the story that can be gleaned from the documents tells of a hidden history of the Second World War, namely the systematic collusion between the American and British governments and the Nazi Third Reich.
As a report in Deutsche Welle remarked on the released archives: "The files make clear that [Western] Allied forces knew more about the Nazi concentration camp system before the end of the war than has generally been thought".
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© Chase Stone/Imperial College LondonA herd of Vouivria damparisensis dinosaurs roaming the coastline of ancient Europe.
The newly identified dinosaur was immense: It weighed about 33,000 lbs. (15,000 kilograms), about equivalent to the weight of a garbage truck, and measured more than 50 feet (15 meters) long, or longer than a standard yellow school bus, the researchers said.
They named the newfound beast Vouivria damparisensis after the Old French word "vouivre," which is based on the Latin word for viper. The name is also tied to folk history: "La vouivre" is a legendary winged reptile in the region of French-Comte, where the fossils were found. The species name honors the village Damparis, where researchers found the specimen in the 1930s.
© UnknownVietnam, 1967: Daniel Ellsberg, right, shown with Associated Press photographer Horst Faas
Starting on March 9th, the Pentagon Papers story will be broadcast as a made-for-TV movie on the popular F/X network. Based partially on Ellsberg's autobiography, the movie will star quirky James Spader as Ellsberg, and will feature Hayley Lochner as "the wife," Jonas Chernick as CIA connected New York Times reporter Neil Sheehan, and Paul Giamatti as Anthony Russo, the man who went to prison on Ellsberg's behalf.
The Stay-Behind networks were first a solution that emerged from the lessons learnt by the European Chiefs of Staff during the conflict. Accordingly, a French-British model appeared in North Western Europe, aimed at intelligence work and the infiltration/exfiltration of agents, rather than any attempts at sabotage or guerrilla warfare. It was quite different from the networks developed by the Americans in Germany and Italy that were more action-oriented. An attempt to combine the two concepts was made by the Clandestine Planning Committee, a structure that brought together the intelligence services of NATO but it did not succeed; this failure invalidates somewhat the idea of "NATO's secret armies". Indeed, the states concerned found themselves in very different geographical situations and were confronted with specific national political contingencies.
Comment: An example of Gladio "national political contingencies" by the Italian, Vincenzo Vinciguerra:
"You were supposed to attack civilians, women, children, innocent people outside the political arena, for one simple reason - to force the Italian public to turn to the state, turn to the regime and ask for greater security. . . . This is the political logic behind all the bombings. They remain unpunished because the State cannot condemn itself."
Comment: The following is an interesting short interview with Douglas Valentine a year after 9/11 about what George Bush "has up his sleeve." He discusses how the Phoenix Program is "coming home to roost", including the anthrax attacks (see Graeme MacQueen and SOTT's Truth Perspective interview: The 2001 Anthrax Deception) and terror cells being set up and co-opted by the new 2.0 police state:
Also see:Hugo Turner's Theodore Shackley: A Life in the CIA and Valentine's The CIA, Organized Crime, the Media and Elections and The CIA As Organized Crime: NGOs, Media Shills, and the Subversion of Foreign Nations Like Ukraine, featured on SOTT.net.