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Gold Coins

Hedging their bets: Anglo-American elites financed both sides in WW2 through Wall Street and London banks


History Channel
Wed, 31 Jul 2013 08:15 UTC
The recent 'news' that the UK's Central Bank helped the Nazis plunder Jewish gold overlooks the fact that the Nazi War Machine was bankrolled by Wall Street and City of London financiers from the beginning.

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Gold Bar

Bank of England helped Nazis sell plundered gold

Steve Hawkes
The Telegraph, UK
Wed, 31 Jul 2013 05:29 UTC
The Bank of England has admitted its role in one of the most controversial episodes in its history - helping the Nazis sell gold plundered from Czechoslovakia months before the outbreak of the Second World War.
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© PAThe UK central bank also sold gold in June 1939 on behalf of the Nazis - without waiting for approval from Westminster
An official history, written in 1950 but posted online for the first time on Tuesday, detailed how the "Old Lady" transfered gold held in its vaults to the Germans despite the UK Government of the day placing a freeze on all Czech assets held in London.

In the history, the Bank of England insists its role in the episode was "widely misunderstood", even though it "still rankled for some time".

The Nazis invaded Czechoslovakia in September 1938. In March the following year, the Bank of International Settlements (BIS) asked the Bank of England to switch £5.6m-worth of gold from an account for the Czech national bank to one belonging to the Reichsbank.

Much of the gold - nearly 2,000 gold bars - was then "disposed" of in Belgium, Holland and London. The BIS was chaired at the time by Bank of England director, German Otto Niemeyer.

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Wedding Rings

Murder linked to humans mating for life


Yahoo News
Tue, 30 Jul 2013 19:47 UTC
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© Press Association Scientists explored the evolutionary pathway that led to human monogamy by gathering data from 230 primate species
Murder is the main reason why humans and other primates mate for life, according to scientists.

Infanticide was the key driving force that caused us to evolve into a monogamous species, it is claimed.

Males of some animals, including lions and brown bears, kill the young of unrelated females to improve mating opportunities.
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Che Guevara

From Monterey Pop to Altamont: Operation Chaos, the CIA's War against the Sixties Counter-Culture

Mae Brussell
maebrussell.com
Tue, 30 Nov 1976 15:13 UTC
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Part I - Death, Drugs and Depression

American and British pop/rock music during the 60's created an art form that has been described as one of the most important cultural revolutions in history.

Within a few years, between 1968 and 1976, many of the most famous names associated with this early movement were dead. Mama Cass Elliott (earlier with the Mamas and Papas), Jimi Hendrix, Otis Redding, Brian Jones (helped form the Rolling Stones with Mick Jagger and Keith Richards), Janis Joplin were all at the Monterey Pop celebration, summer 1967.

Duane Allman Berry Oakley (helped form Allman group with Duane and Gregg Allman), Tim Buckley, Jim Croce, Richard Farina, Donald Rex Jackson (road manager for Grateful Dead) Michael Jeffery (Jimi Hendrix's personal manager), Brian Epstein (Beatles manager), Al Jackson (drummer for Wilson Pickett, back-up drummer for Otis Redding), Vinnie Taylor (Sha-Na-Na) Paul T. Williams (choreographer for the Temptations, and one of the original Temptations), Clarence White (Byrds), Robbie McIntosh (drummer Average White Band), Jim Morrison (Doors), Pamela Morrison (Jim's wife), Rod McKernan "Pig Pen" (Grateful Dead), Phil Ochs, Gram Parsons (Byrds, Flying Burritos, International Submarine Band, singing with Emmylou Harris), Sal Mineo, Meredith Hunter (victim of ritual killing at Altamont Festival), Steve Perron (lead singer of Children, wrote hit songs for ZZ TOP), and Jimmy Reed (influenced many groups, combined harmonica with guitar) were a few possible victims.

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Info

Archaeologists discover 6000-year-old 'halls of the dead' in UK


HeritageDaily
Mon, 29 Jul 2013 18:48 UTC
Burial Hall
© University of ManchesterArtists impression by Henry Rothwell.
The remains of two large 6000-year-old halls, each buried within a prehistoric burial mound, have been discovered by archaeologists from The University of Manchester and Herefordshire Council - in a UK first.

The sensational finds on Dorstone Hill, near Peterchurch in Herefordshire, were thought to be constructed between 4000 and 3600 BC.

Some of the burnt wood discovered at the site shows the character of the building's structure above ground level- in another UK first.

The buildings, probably used by entire communities, are of unknown size, but may have been of similar length to the Neolithic long barrows beneath which they were found - 70metres and 30m long.

They were, say the team, deliberately burnt down after they were constructed and their remains incorporated into the two burial mounds.

However- much detail has been preserved in the larger barrow: structural timbers in carbonized form, postholes showing the positions of uprights, and the burnt remains of stakes forming internal partitions.
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Info

Inca child sacrifice victims were drugged

Brian Handwerk
National Geographic
Mon, 29 Jul 2013 14:24 UTC
Inca Mummy
© Photograph courtesy Johan ReinhardTests performed on the hair of this well-preserved Inca mummy reveal the 13-year-old used drugs and alcohol in her last years of life.
Three Inca mummies found near the lofty summit of Volcán Llullaillaco in Argentina were so well preserved that they put a human face on the ancient ritual of capacocha - which ended with their sacrifice.

Now the bodies of 13-year-old Llullaillaco Maiden and her younger companions Llullaillaco Boy and Lightning Girl have revealed that mind-altering substances played a part in their deaths and during the year-long series of ceremonial processes that prepared them for their final hours.

Under biochemical analysis, the Maiden's hair yielded a record of what she ate and drank during the last two years of her life. This evidence seems to support historical accounts of a few selected children taking part in a year of sacred ceremonies - marked in their hair by changes in food, coca, and alcohol consumption - that would ultimately lead to their sacrifice.

In Inca religious ideology, the authors note, coca and alcohol could induce altered states associated with the sacred. But the substances likely played a more pragmatic role as well, disorienting and sedating the young victims on the high mountainside to make them more accepting of their own grim fates.
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Airplane

As Alaska glacier melts, secrets of lost military plane are revealed

Yereth Rosen
Reuters
Wed, 10 Jul 2013 13:44 UTC
alaska glacier
© Reuters/U.S. Navy Mass Communications Specialist 3rd Class Clifford Bailey/Department of DefenseMembers of a specialized investigative team from the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command wait as a UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter comes in for a landing to transport them back to base after a day of assessing a historic aircraft crash site at Colony Glacier, Alaska, in this June 24, 2013 handout photo released to Reuters on July 8, 2013.
An Alaska glacier is exposing remains from a military air tragedy six decades later.

Relics from an Air Force cargo plane that slammed into a mountain in November 1952, killing all 52 servicemen on board, first emerged last summer on Colony Glacier, about 50 miles east of Anchorage.

That discovery, by Alaska National Guard crews flying training missions out of Anchorage, put into motion a sophisticated recovery program carried out by the Hawaii-based Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command.

After last year's initial work - when nearly everything that rose to the glacier's surface was picked up - the JPAC team came back this summer to collect additional relics pushed out of the ice since then.

"As the glacier melts and the glacier moves, more material comes up to the surface," Dr. Gregory Berg, the forensic anthropologist who leads the team of specialists examining the crevasse-ridden ice field, told reporters at a news briefing last week.
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Hourglass

Archaeologists claim to have found king David's palace in Israel


CBS News
Sun, 21 Jul 2013 12:57 UTC
Khirbet Qeiyafa
© SkyView / HOEPThis undated aerial photo released by the Israel Antiquities Authority shows the archeological site in Khirbet Qeiyafa, west of Jerusalem.
A team of Israeli archaeologists believes it has discovered the ruins of a palace belonging to the biblical King David, but other Israeli experts dispute the claim.

Archaeologists from Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Israel's Antiquities Authority said their find, a large fortified complex west of Jerusalem at a site called Khirbet Qeiyafa , is the first palace of the biblical king ever to be discovered.

"Khirbet Qeiyafa is the best example exposed to date of a fortified city from the time of King David," said Yossi Garfinkel, a Hebrew University archaeologist, suggesting that David himself would have used the site. Garfinkel led the seven-year dig with Saar Ganor of Israel's Antiquities Authority.
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MIB

Flashback British intelligence re-established Nazi party after World War Two, management of NPD later taken over by German intelligence

John Hooper
The Guardian
Tue, 13 Aug 2002 11:42 UTC
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Adolf von Thadden
Germany's most notorious postwar neo-Nazi party was led by an intelligence agent working for the British, according to both published and unpublished German sources.

The alleged agent - the late Adolf von Thadden - came closer than anyone to giving the far-right real influence over postwar German politics.

Under his leadership, the National Democratic party (NPD) made a string of impressive showings in regional elections in the late 60s, and there were widespread fears that it would gain representation in the federal parliament.

Yet, according to a report earlier this year in the Cologne daily, the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger, the man dubbed "the New Führer" was working for British intelligence throughout the four years he led the NPD, from 1967 to 1971.

Comment: This certainly puts those reports of British-German collusion before and during World War 2 one giant leap closer to reality...

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Kim Philby, the Observer connection and the establishment world of spies

Robert McCrum
The Observer
Mon, 29 Jul 2013 08:45 UTC
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One of the darkest and most enthralling British espionage stories of the 20th century turns 50 this month, still resonant with sinister meaning. It was on 1 July 1963 that the British government finally admitted what it had known for some time: that Harold Adrian Russell Philby - "Kim" to friends and family - was not merely living in the Soviet Union as a defector and a Russian spy, but was actually the fabled "third man". Later this archetype of treachery would become known, in the words of his biographer, as "the spy who betrayed a generation".

Philby was perhaps the most lethal double agent in the annals of British espionage. As a member of the Cambridge Five spy ring and a secret servant of the Soviet intelligence services, Philby was responsible for the betrayal of countless national secrets as well as the brutal elimination of many British agents.

At the same time he was a member of the British establishment, with a distinguished literary father and friendships with prominent English literati, such as Graham Greene, as well as with high-flying US spooks such as James Angleton, later to become head of the CIA. If ever there was a member of the club - two, as it turned out - it was Kim Philby, OBE.
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