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Merck's president led secret biowarfare program - influencing experiments on Americans

Cassius Methyl
The Mind Unleashed
Wed, 03 May 2017 18:35 UTC
George Merck
© Era of Wisdom,
Merck & Co. is the world's largest vaccine manufacturing corporation, and is one of the largest pharma companies in the world. They created such things as the MMR vaccine, and the HPV vaccine Gardasil.

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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Archaeology

3,000yo hoard of Bronze Age axe heads uncovered in Norwegian field - find considered 'spectacular'


RT
Fri, 05 May 2017 14:27 UTC
bronze age ax head norway
© Kristin Eriksen, NTNU Vitenskapsmuseet
An archaeological treasure trove of ancient ax heads uncovered in Norway is being hailed as one of the single biggest Bronze Age discoveries of its kind in the Nordic nation.

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.
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Eye 2

The deep history of US and Britain's never-ending Cold War on Russia

Finian Cunningham
Strategic Culture Foundation
Fri, 05 May 2017 14:22 UTC
railroad station in UK
After decades of delaying, the United Nations finally released archives from the Second World War-era war crimes commission investigating the Nazi Holocaust. The source of those archives on Nazi war crimes were Western governments, including those in exile at the time of the war, such as the Belgian, Polish and Czechoslovakian. The time period covered is 1943-1949. Washington and London had long sought to halt the release. Why?

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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Eye 1

Arnon Milchan: The movie producer involved in an Israeli nuclear smuggling ring


Spy Culture
Fri, 05 May 2017 11:48 UTC
Arnon Milchan
Arnon Milchan
Arnon Milchan is the Hollywood mogul behind films as diverse as JFK, Pretty Woman, Brazil, Fight Club, LA Confidential and Alvin and the Chipmunks. He was also an Israeli spy involved in smuggling equipment for the development of nuclear weapons. Milchan has spoken publicly about his role in this scandal, defying a request from Benjamin Netanyahu, though somewhat predictably this has involved telling a few porkies. What else would you expect from a spy and a Hollywood bigshot?
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Document

Newly identified dinosaur is earliest titanosaur on record

Laura Geggel
Live Science
Wed, 03 May 2017 08:10 UTC
Vouivria damparisensis
© Chase Stone/Imperial College LondonA herd of Vouivria damparisensis dinosaurs roaming the coastline of ancient Europe.
About 160 million years ago, a gigantic, long-necked dinosaur — the earliest known titanosaur on record — swooped its lengthy neck to and fro as it foraged for a leafy meal in Jurassic-era France, a new study finds.

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.
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Magnify

Pentagon Papers: Will the real Daniel Ellsberg please stand up!

Douglas Valentine
Counter Punch
Sat, 08 Mar 2003 00:00 UTC
Daniel Ellsberg
© UnknownVietnam, 1967: Daniel Ellsberg, right, shown with Associated Press photographer Horst Faas
Political activist Daniel Ellsberg became an icon in 1971 after he leaked The Pentagon Papers. This "act of conscience" helped turn public opinion against the Vietnam War, and contributed to the demise of President Richard Nixon, whose felonious minions, the infamous Plumbers, sent CIA officer E. Howard Hunt, and former FBI agent (and self-professed rat-eater) G. Gordon Liddy, to burglarize confidential files from Ellsberg's psychiatrist's office. Hunt and Liddy thought they could trump the anti-War movement by showing that Ellsberg was a mentally deranged LSD-abuser, but their slap-happy plan backfired, and instead opened up the Pandora's box of the CIA inspired dirty tricks the Republican Party relied upon (and still uses today) to wage political warfare.

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.

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.

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Bad Guys

The Stay Behinds: The truth regarding NATO's "secret armies"

Gerald Arboit
Global Research
Mon, 24 Apr 2017 00:00 UTC
Gladio
For the first time, research shall focus on NATO'S so-called "secret armies", and explain the notion of the Stay-Behind networks by shedding light on the architecture of cooperation that supported those networks. The study highlights the ongoing "criminalization" of the Stay-Behind networks since the 1990s, in part a result of the extreme confusion in public opinion about these structures established at the end of World War II, and the lack of knowledge of how NATO operates as well as its intelligence capabilities.

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."



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Archaeology

Ancient temple to mysterious Roman deity unearthed in Turkey


Sputnik
Wed, 03 May 2017 14:07 UTC
god Mithras painting
An ancient temple dedicated to god Mithras was unearthed by archaeologists in the vicinity of the Turkish city of Diyarbakir.

The underground 4th century temple was discovered by archaeologists working at Zerzevan Castle located in Diyarbakir province, and apparently served as a gathering place for Roman nobles who participated in the cult of Mithras.

"The followers of this religion are from a closed community because their religious ceremonies are completely secret and no information was leaked to outsiders. Mithras represents both the sun god and also 'consensus.' Their temples are usually built underground. There are three niches on the eastern part of the temple. A very thoroughly constructed one is in the water basin. There is also a pool. We believe water was very widely used in Mithras ceremonies and about 40 people attended ceremonies held here," Aytac Coskun, assistant professor at the Department of Archaeology at Dicle University and head of the excavation, told the Turkish newspaper Daily Sabah.
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Archaeology

Ice Age animal bones discovered during Los Angeles subway excavation

Laura Geggel
Live Science
Mon, 01 May 2017 11:06 UTC
leg bone of either a mammoth
© Cogstone Resource Management Inc.Jasmyn Nolasco (left) and Janis Basuga (right) put the leg bone of either a mammoth or mastodon (it's unclear which) into a protective plaster cast.
The discovery of ice age mammal bones — one belonging to an extinct camel and the other to either a mastodon or a mammoth (it's hard to say which) — temporarily stopped construction of Los Angeles' subway line extension last month.

Paleontologists found the fossils just down the street from the La Brea Tar Pits in L.A.'s Miracle Mile district, where a future subway station will be built. On April 12, scientists discovered the camel bone, and on April 13, they uncovered the bone of the proboscidean (the ancient elephant relative).

"It's one thing to read in a history book that these animals used to live all over North America, but it makes it more real when they're found in your city," said Ashley Leger, the paleontological field director for Cogstone Resource Management Inc., a company that surveys sites for paleontological and archaeological remains before construction projects begin. "[For] the people of Los Angeles, this is their history. This is what lived there thousands of years before they were ever there."
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Star of David

What Zionists really mean when they say "there was no Palestine" - and why they're "not even wrong"

Tom Suarez
Mondoweiss
Sun, 30 Apr 2017 19:06 UTC
Palestine map
© Jo Ann and Richard Casten Ltd. Central area of the woodblock mappamundi from the Rudimentum Novitiorum, Lubeck, 1475. Note Palestine, Judea, Samaria, Galilee, Syria, and Carmel.
Palestine never existed — or so, I have often been told, is a stock Zionist claim.

But what is meant by Palestine having, or having not, 'existed'? Humans have lived and died in the region we call Palestine for about as long as our species has walked the earth, regardless of who had the biggest club, the grandest throne, or the most F16s. What does it mean for the land to have been, or not to have been, 'Palestine'? And how does it alter the present-day political, legal, or ethical landscape?

I have occasionally argued with people who claim that Zionists deny the existence of the geographic term 'Palestine' before the post-1948 resistance. Well, maybe there are such individuals, but it is not the claim made by any savvy Zionist. The misunderstanding leaves individuals supporting Palestinian justice open to being proven 'wrong' on a straw issue.
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