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In thought I knew a lot about Easter Island. Never new of the carvings below ground.
https://youtu.be/c4U5Y7MSAJc

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Sat Jun 09, 2018 9:46 pm
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As an Air Defender I had no idea the number of planes we've had shot down by the enemy:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_c ... ietnam_War
I thought we were pretty much "bullet proof".

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Tue Jun 26, 2018 10:45 am
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Cleopatra's son was named Caesarion, also known as "Little Cesar".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesarion

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Thu Jun 28, 2018 5:22 pm
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Special Operations Executives:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_O ... _Executive
Been watching a "survivor" type BBC show recreating the recruiting process. Very interesting.

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Tue Jul 10, 2018 5:21 pm
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Shootout at OK Corral happened in October 1881.

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Tue Jul 10, 2018 5:34 pm
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https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/ ... 180963355/

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Tue Jul 10, 2018 5:56 pm
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1962... Alan Greenspan said this:

The abandonment of the gold standard made it possible...to use the banking system as a means to an unlimited expansion of credit. They have created paper reserves in the form of government bonds which — through a complex series of steps — the banks accept in place of tangible assets and treat as if they were an actual deposit....The holder of a government bond or of a bank deposit created by paper reserves believes that he has a valid claim on a real asset. But the fact is that there are now more claims outstanding than real assets.

"The law of supply and demand is not to be conned....In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value. If there were, the government would have to make its holding illegal, as was done in the case of gold....The financial policy of the welfare state requires that there be no way for the owners of wealth to protect themselves.

"This is the shabby secret of the welfare statists' tirades against gold. Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the ‘hidden' confiscation of wealth..."

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"The said Constitution shall never be construed to authorize Congress to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms." ~ Samuel Adams

“A return to First Principles in a Republic is sometimes caused by simple virtues of a single man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example. Before all else, be armed!” ~ Niccolo Machiavelli

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Wed Jul 11, 2018 7:31 am
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How we sank this monster is amazing. Watching Nat Geo "Drain the Oceans".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_ ... hip_Yamato

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Mon Jul 16, 2018 5:11 pm
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Patton was assassinated:
http://warfarehistorynetwork.com/daily/ ... onspiracy/

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Now a days you can make millions, and be in the Olympics. Back in the day if you where caught making $5 you lost your medal. Jim Thorpe is a classic example.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Thorpe

The Olympics should be about our best amatuer athletes, not high paid primadonas.

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George Soros helped loot and steal valuables from jewish homes in WW2. This is were he got his start up money.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8Id0-Lsyr0


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George Soros helped loot and steal valuables from jewish homes in WW2. This is were he got his start up money.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8Id0-Lsyr0


Yet he and his paid loonies have no problem calling other people "Nazi" - people who believe in the US Constitution. I guess he is just participating in the market.

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Brother XII in our backyard:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brother_XII
"Having taken the name Brother XII, he established the Aquarian Foundation in 1927.[3] The group's beliefs were based largely upon the teachings of the Theosophical Society.[4] He published two booklets, The Three Truths and Foundation Letters and Teachings, which explained his ideas and encouraged readers to donate money to his cause and to build homes in the colony, Cedar-by-the-Sea, which he was setting up near Nanaimo on Vancouver Island, British Columbia.[5] With the goal of creating a self-sufficient community independent of the outside world, the Foundation acquired additional property on nearby Valdes and De Courcy Islands, largely through the donations of a wealthy socialite named Mary Connally from Asheville, North Carolina. Other followers gave donations, large and small, to support Brother XII's work as a spiritual teacher, as well as his political activity in support of a Democratic Senator from Alabama, James Thomas Heflin, who ultimately supported Herbert Hoover but was for a while a third-party candidate in the 1928 presidential election in the United States.[2]"

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Sun Jul 22, 2018 8:48 am
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We are well aware of the anti-black/African American stuff, but I was just watching "War time Crime". In the early 40's they had the Zoot Suit riots. Targeting hispanics in LA.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoot_Suit_Riots

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Some Germanic peoples practiced skull elongation.

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