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This post involves a circle alignment that I found beginning and ending on Amsterdam Island, a small island in the French Subantarctic Islands.

I am updating the original series from November of 2018 through January of 2019, and have added a considerable amount of new material to what I had in the original eleven-part series called “Circle Alignments on the Planet Amsterdam Island.”

I have removed “Planet” from the title and replaced it with “Earth” because I do believe as a result of what I have encountered in my research over the last five-years-plus, that we have been lied to about the shape of the realm, along with all the other things  we have been lied to about.

This series was one of my earliest efforts in tracking cities and places in alignment over a very long distance, and consistently seeing the same characteristics and hand of design across oceans and continents.

The process of doing the research along this alignment and other alignments has provided extensive evidence for a worldwide, advanced civilization, which has been deliberately suppressed, misattributed and removed from our collective awareness so that we wouldn’t know about its existence.

For comparison of similarity of appearance is the Temple of Khnum in Esna , Egypt, pictured on the left, and the Victoria-era “Temple Mill,” in Leeds, England, on the right.

This advanced civilization that developed on Earth originated in the far distant past in ancient Mu, also known as LeMuria; and that this was the same civilization known as “Atlantis,” which I believe existed up until relatively recent times and represents the missing positive timeline of Humanity.

While this map may not represent the actual extent of the Earth’s landmass at the time of the “Fall of Atlantis,” which I have come to believe took place relatively recently in time as opposed to many-thousands of years ago, it is the closest representation on a map that I could find to a depiction of the continental landmasses being much more connected than what we have been taught to believe in our historical narrative, which doesn’t even officially confirm the actual existence of LeMuria and Atlantis.

Mu and Atlantis are treated more like historical “maybes” – maybe they once-existed, and maybe they didn’t – and typically placed in the elusive “mythical” category by Academia.

From the extensive research I have done thus far, I have reason to believe this ancient global civilization was aligned on Earth and Heaven in a Flower of Life pattern, within which all sacred geometric shapes are contained, and built out on the surface of the Earth according to the principles of Sacred Geometry.

The start- and end-point of this next circle alignment. that I found and am about to share with you in this post, is a tiny dot in the South Indian Ocean.

The dot is Amsterdam Island, one of the French Subantarctic Islands, officially claimed by France in 1892, and known as the territory of the “French Southern and Antarctic Lands,” since 1955, along with “Adelie Land,” the French claim on the Antarctic continent which has been applied to the “Antarctic Treaty System” rules since 1961.

We are told that Amsterdam Island got its name in 1633 from a Dutch sea captain who named it after his ship, Nieuw Amsterdam, which was named after the Dutch settlement of Nieuw Amsterdam (which later became New York City).

This  tiny speck of real estate, for which the only settlement is a seasonal research station, even has its own flag.

The research station studies biology, meteorology, and geomagnetics. 

Here is a photograph of Lee Waves taken on Amsterdam Island.  Lee Waves are atmospheric stationary waves, and are a form of internal gravity waves.   Must be a reason as to why the geomagnetics of this island are studied.

Amsterdam Island is considered the northernmost volcano above the water-line on the Antarctic Plate.

Here is a map of the island circa 1901, showing the island looking rather like a tree stump, with the Cliffs of Entrecasteaux right below what is described as two volcanic calderas.

Here is a photo of the Cliffs of Entrecasteaux below the caldera on the west side of the island.

Chad Williams and and I had a recent conversation for his YouTube Channel “Deeper Conversations with Chad,” and it was called “Giant Trees, the Earth’s Grid, and the New World Order,” where we discussed, among many other things, the apparent volcanic nature of these giant trees and their integral relationship to the Earth’s Grid System, and how this might in turn connect to what might have taken place to render the giant trees as unrecognizable as such.

Our conversation started off with this intriguing illustration that Chad found in his research and had sent along to me at take a look at.

It seems to be showing trees on a grid exploding simultaneously, which would account for why we don’t recognize them as trees any more.

In the course of this same conversation with Chad, we also talked about the consistent pattern of western countries claiming these small islands and island groups in remote locations as their colonies or territories. and upon closer examination, it appears they were making a concerted effort to claim for their own purposes what was left of these giant trees.

Besides the four islands claimed by France in the “French Southern and Antarctic Lands,” of Amsterdam, St. Paul, Kerguelen, and Crozet in this region…

…we find the British in the same region claiming for its empire places like the British Antarctic Territory on the top left; South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands on the top middle, and Tristan da Cunha, the home of the world’s most isolated settlement, which takes 6-days, each-way, by boat to get to-and-from.

Leaving Amsterdam Island, the next place we come to on the alignment is Port Louis, the capital of Mauritius.

Mauritius is officially the Republic of Mauritius, and in addition to the main island, consists of the islands of Rodrigues, Agalega, and St. Brandon.  These islands are 1,200 miles (2,000 km) southeast of the African continent.

Mauritius was initially colonized by France in 1715, who in turn ceded it to the British in the 1814 Treaty of Paris.

It gained its independence from Britain in 1968, and became a Republic in 1992.

In a comparison of what seems to be the same style of architecture in very different places, this is the Port Louis Natural History Museum on the top left, said to have been constructed in 1880; on the top left is the Iolani Palace in Honolulu, Hawaii, said to have been built in 1879, and was the royal residence of the Kingdom of Hawaii until the monarchy was over thrown under Queen Lili’oukalani in 1893; and the Natural History Museum in Merida, Mexico, on the bottom right, said to have been built between 1909 and 1911.

And for further comparison for similarity of appearance, here are photos of the harbor at Port Louis on Mauritius in the Indian Ocean on the left; Freeport Harbor on Grand Bahama Island in the Atlantic Ocean in the middle; and Honolulu Harbor in Hawaii in the Pacific Ocean on the right.

These are just a few of countless examples of harbors from around the world with man-made shorelines and docks.

I first learned about Mauritius from an amazing French archaeologist named Antoine Gigal, and its massive walls, hydraulic systems and road systems that are all connected with the pyramid complexes there.

Much of her work is in Egypt, but she has ventured to other places in her quest for knowledge and understanding, and she has documented much evidence of the sophisticated technology of the ancient civilization. 

To learn more about her work on Mauritius, check out this link where she talks about the discovery of

http://gigalresearch.com/uk/complexe-ile-maurice.php

I first learned about the seven pyramids of Mauritius several years ago in a 2011 Megalithomania presentation by her.

They are terraced structures made of black volcanic stone. 

Interestingly, there are six terraced pyramids, also made of black volcanic stone, in Guimar on the island of Tenerife in the Canary Islands. 

In both places they are in perfect astrological alignment with the winter and summer solstice.

Besides the same-style of terraced pyramids, Mauritius and Tenerife in the Canary Islands also share a volcanic history as well.

First, Mauritius.

Mauritius itself is called a massive shield volcano, a broadly domed volcano with gently sloping sides formed from fluid, basaltic lava flows, and has a line of craters bisecting the main island as diagrammed here.

One of the craters, Trou aux Cerfs, which interestingly translates from the French to “Deer Hole,” is described as a dormant volcano with a well-defined cone and crater, on the outskirts of Curepipe, the second-largest city of Mauritius.

This is a view from Curepipe of what are called the “Trois Mamelles” and Mount Rempart.

“Trois Mamelles” translates from the French as “Three Breasts.”

Curepipe is the location of some interesting, what is called “colonial,” architecture, like the Saint Therese Church in the background, said to have been built in 1868…

…and the Town Hall which is nearby, said to have been built starting in 1902.

There is what is called a “Step Mountain” on the Le Morne Brabant, a peninsula on the extreme southwestern tip of Mauritius.

This location is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

The “Le Morne” in the peninula’s name could well-refer to the original people of this land.

The “Maroons”of the Indian Ocean, like the “Maroons” of the Americas, they were described as the descendents of Africans who escaped from slavery, and not as the Moorish original people of these lands which is nowhere to be found in our historical narrative.

Only in the place-names, like “Le Mor-ne” and “Maur-itius.”

The “Brabant” in the name of the peninsula “Le Morne Brabant” came from the Dutch East India ship “Brabant” that ran a-ground here at the end of December of 1783.

Interesting to note, there appears to be an underwater waterfall next to it, though it is described as an optical illusion and not actually a waterfall.

Though Mauritius is being researched possibly as the remnants of a lost continent, and for its strong gravitational pull.

Next, Tenerife.

Mount Teide is a volcano on the island of Tenerife in the Canary Islands, and is the highest point in the islands of the Atlantic Ocean, as well as in Spain.

Now an autonomous community of Spain, the Canary Islands, located off the coast of Western Africa in the vicinity of Morocco and Western Sahara, have been claimed completely by Spain since 1496, after European colonization efforts were said to have started there by France in 1402.

This conquest of the Canary Islands was considered the basic model of European attack on the New World: violent colonization that involved enslavement of the local population; genocide; and the mining of the land’s resources that radically changed the landscape.

The Canary Islands are also said to be of volcanic origin, and have been visited by researchers from the very beginning of the 19th-century, including Alexander von Humboldt in 1799, a Prussian naturalist, mining engineer and explorer, who was said to have climbed the Teide volcano, before heading off to study Venezuela, which has the 2nd-highest gold reserves in the world, as well as Cuba, the Andes, Mexico, and the United States.

Then, in 1815, the same year as the Congress of Vienna which reoragnized Europe after the Napoleonic Wars ended, the German geologist and paleontologist Leopold von Buch visited the Canary Islands, where he primarily studied the production and activities of volcanoes.

Von Buch studied with Alexander von Humboldt at the Freiburg University of Mining and Technology, and was considered a founder of modern geology.

The Freiburg University of Mining and Technology is the oldest school of mining and metallurgy in the world, having been established in 1765 by Francis Xavier of Saxony of the House of Wettin.

Its main purpose was the education of highly skilled miners and scientist in fields connected to mining and metallurgy.

It is interesting that the coat of arms of the German noble House of Wettin has a wyvern tail in the middle of it, and I found this coat of arms of Tenerife, showing a large tree in the center, and wyvern supporters on either side.

I do think these heraldic devices are telling us Truths that have been well-hidden from us.

Wyverns are two-legged, winged creatures that are similar to dragons, but unlike dragons, which can be good or evil, they are unambiguously malicious predators.

Wyverns in heraldry signify war, envy and pestilence.

Primarily through Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, first-cousins and members of the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha of the Ernestine branch of the House of Wettin, the original royal houses of Europe were completely replaced by this obscure German Ducal lineage.

Humboldt University in Berlin was named after Alexander von Humboldt and his brother Wilhelm.

It was first opened in 1810, and was regarded as one of the world’s pre-eminent universities in the study of Natural Sciences in the 1800s and 1900s.

Famous faculty and alumni included such luminaries in our current historical narrative as: theoretical physicist Albert Einstein; Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, c0-collaborators on “The Communist Manifesto; Otto von Bismarck, first Chancellor of the German Empire and the mover behind the 1884 Berlin Conference,which carved up the African Continent between the European powers; Georg Hegel, whose philosophy gave us the “Hegelian Dialectic” of Problem-Reaction-Solution; and the Brothers Grimm, best-known for their fairy tales which has such story-lines as eating people, as in “Little Red Riding Hood and “Hansel and Gretel.”

For one of many examples, the German Benedictines were said to have been quite active in establishing institutions for German immigrants to America during the 1840s and 1850s, like in Atchison, Kansas.

When I saw the view of Atchison, Kansas in the top left photo, I was immediately reminded of the view of the city of Santa Cruz de Tenerife on the island of Tenerife in the Canary islands, on the bottom left, with a shared building-style, directional orientation of the buildings, and placement of the windows in twos, threes, and fours.

Then on the right is a picture of the ancient city of Ouarzazate, Morocco, which I had encountered in my research, and its appearance reminded me exactly of Santa Cruz de Tenerife and Atchison.

And like with Mauritius in the Indian Ocean, it is important to note that the Canary Islands have long been rumored to be the remnants of a lost continent as well.

In the case of the Canary Islands , they have been rumored to the the lost continent of Atlantis.

I first heard that particular rumor many years ago.

Before I leave this part of the Indian Ocean in which we find Mauritius on the alignment, I want to bring to your attention to the nearby inhabited French island of Reunion, home to nearly 1,000,000.

It has been governed as a French region since 1946, and is the outermost region of the European Union.

This is what we are told about the history of Reunion Island.

Reunion Island was uninhabited until French settlers from the French East India Company arrived in the 17th-century, and subsequently established a plantation economy based on sugar and instituted a slavery system with slaves and indentured laborers brought in primarily from Africa and Asia.

St. Denis is the administrative capital of French Overseas Department and Region of Reunion, which the island has been known as since 1793, when it was changed from “Bourbon Island” to erase the name of the Bourbon Dynasty after the “Insurrection of 1792,” a defining event in the French Revolution that led to the abolishing of the French Monarchy and the establishment of the French Republic.

Who were the Bourbons?

I think the actual truth the French Royal House of Bourbon has also been obscured to hide the True History, but what we are told is that it originated in the Kingdom of France as a Royal House in 1272.

Like I mentioned earlier with the clues found in place-names, a clue to the cover-up of the True History is found in the name given to the French Monarchy, attributed from the Middle Ages to 1789, the year that marked the beginning of the French Revolution in our historical narrative.

It was called the “Ancien Regime,” which has been translated to mean the “Old Regime.”

The typical understanding of the meaning of the word “Ancien” or “Ancient” is shown here, belonging to a period of history that is “thousands’ of years in the past, not “hundreds” of years.

The word “old” just doesn’t have the same association with the far distant past that “ancient” does when referring to historical time periods.

The word “old” is even used to refer to yesterday!

At any rate, St. Denis was said to have been founded in 1669 by the first governor of the Island, Etienne Regnault, who named it after the ship of one of his friends which had landed the year prior.

St. Denis eventually became the only colonial capital in 1738, and all the architecture found in St. Denis, and on Reunion Island, has been attributed to the French colonial era.

There are two main volcanoes on Reunion Island.

Piton de la Fornaise, or Piton “of the Furnace,” is described as a very active shield volcano on the southeastern end of the island, one of the most active in the world, along with Kilauea in the Hawaiian Islands; Mount Etna in Sicily and Mount Stromboli on an island off the coast of Sicily; and Mount Erebus in Antarctica.

Piton des Neiges, or Snow Peak, on the northwestern end of Reunion Island is the highest point on the island, as well as considered to be the highest point in the Indian Ocean.

According to what we have been told, unlike its neighbor volcano on the island to the southeast of it, it has not been active for 20,000-years.

I have a long way yet to go on the alignment, but there’s a lot more to find out on Reunion Island just from a cursory look at its history.

I may revisit this location again in future research….Lots going on here for such a remote, out-0f-the-way location, and the French are still holding on tight to it to this day.

France never gave this place away to another country, unlike its neighbor Mauritius!

Next we come to Tromelin Island, located 310-miles north, or 500-kilometers, north of Reunion Island, and 280-miles, or 450-kilometers, east of Madagascar.

Tromelin Island is a small, low, flat island.

Besides being a seabird and sea tortoise sanctuary, the only structure here is a meteorological station used to gather data in order to forecast hurricanes and cyclones.

It is administered as part of the French Southern and Antarctic Lands as a French overseas territory, however, the island nation of Mauritius claims sovereignty over the island.

Next the alignment goes through the Republic of the Seychelles, an archipelago country consisting of 115 islands in the Indian Ocean.

It is almost 1,000-mles, or 1,609-kilometers, off the coast of East Africa, and is a member of the African Union.

Independence from the United Kingdom was established in 1976.

It’s Africa’s smallest country, and least populated sovereign country.

Like Reunion Island, we are told that they Seychelles were uninhabited prior to the arrival of Europeans, that there was no indigenous population to the islands when they arrived.

The British East India Company first landed here in 1609.

The French arrived here in 1770 and claimed the Seychelles as theirs and the British arrived to settle the Seychelles in 1794.

The British and the French had competing interests here until the Seychelles came under full British control in the 18th-century.

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The capital of the Seychelles, Victoria, is on the main island of Mahe.

What became known as Victoria in 1841 after Queen Victoria, was settled by the French in 1778.

The Victoria Clock Tower in the city-center is called the oldest historical landmark in Victoria, and is a replica of, in one reference, a clock that was erected in 1897 near Victoria Station in London, and in another reference it was a replica of Big Ben.

Whatever it was said to be a replica of, it was inaugurated in 1903 by the British administrator of the Seychelles.

The Immaculate Conception Cathedral in Victoria was said to have been built in 1874 in the French Colonial-style of architecture.

This is a beach-head on Mahe in the Seychelles on the top left, compared with Vaja Beach in Korcula, Croatia, on the top right; Myrtos Beach on the Greek island of Kefalonia, on the bottom left; and Grama Bay in Albania on the Bottom right.

These are just a few of countless examples of the same style of beach-head found around the world that I find interesting to note.

These islands are also known as the Granitic Seychelles. 

Here is an assemblage of photos of the interesting-looking rock formations on the coasts of these islands on the left, and on the right are photos of similar-looking rock formations on the Natuna Islands, part of Indonesia, and located in the South China Sea,  off the northwest coast of Borneo.  I found the Natuna Islands on a different alignment which is how I even knew about them.

Next on the alignment is Mogadishu, the capital and largest city of Somalia.  It is located on the coastal Banadir region on the Indian Ocean, and has been an important port city for thousands of years.

This is a historic photo of Mogadishu. 

It was the capital of Italian Somaliland from 1889 to 1936. 

When the Somali Republic became independent from Italy in 1960, it was known as the “White Pearl of the Indian Ocean.”

The Somali Civil War started in the early 1990s, after the ousting of  Siad Barre in 1991, who had been serving as President of the Somali Republic since 1969.

The Somali Civil War has been on-going for years.

The situation started to stabilize in 2011, and in 2012 a new government was formed with a passing of a constitution and election of a president, but it has never ended.

It is estimated that at least 500,000 people have been killed as a result of it.

The following photos will show you what happened to the historic buildings of Mogadishu as a result of years of conflict.

This is the Villa Somalia, the presidential residence, before the president was ousted and after as the result of civil warfare.

This is an historic picture of Mogadishu Cathedral on the left and Seville Cathedral on the right. 

Seville was the capital of Moorish Spain. 

In particular, note the same double-window design component of both of the cathedrals’ towers.

This is what remains of Mogadishu Cathedral today.

Gotta wonder if these Civil Wars were/are created to destroy the infrastructure of the original civilization.

Leaving Mogadishu, we head across the eastern region of Ethiopia known as Ogaden, part of the Somali region of Ethiopia.

The majority of its inhabitants are Somali clans.

It is described as a semi-arid to hot desert climate that is part of the “Somali Acacia-Commiphora Bushlands and Thickets Ecoregion” in the Horn of Africa.

It extends along the floor of the East African Rift, where the African Plate is splitting into two plates – the Somali Plate and the Nubian Plate.

The red triangles are showing the location of historically active volcanoes.

The Simien Mountains northwest of this region were said to have formed prior to the Great Rift Valley.

The Ogaden War took place between Ethiopia and Somalia between July of 1977 and March of 1978.

The administration of the British Protectorate of Somaliland had given Ethiopia this land in 1948 as the result of an 1897 Treaty.

The Soviet Union supported Ethiopia after Somalia invaded the region.

Ethiopia won the war with the support of Cuban armed forces, Soviet advisors, and over $1-billion worth of military supplies airlifted by the Soviet Union.

The origins of the Somali Civl War resulted from the demoralization in the Somali Armed Forces and the people of Somalia caused by the loss, eventually leading to the overthrow of President Siad Barre in 1991, who had been a Marxist-Leninist Military Dictator of Somalia since 1969 after the assassination of the President of the Somali Republic, the name given to the Newly independent state of Somalia after its independence from Great Britain.

It is important to note that the overthrow of the Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie took place three-years earlier on September 12th of 1974, in a coup also initiated by a Marxist-Leninist faction in the Ethiopian military, and marked the beginning of a 17-year-long Ethiopian Civil War, leaving 1.4 million dead.

The Ethiopian Civil War formally ended in 1991, the same year Siad Barre was overthrown and the Somali Civil War started.

The Solomonic dynasty, also known as the House of Solomon, was the former ruling dynasty of the Ethiopian Empire.

Its members were lineal descendants of King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba through their son Menelik I, the first Emperor of Ethiopia.

Haile Selassie was the last Emperor of Ethiopia from 1930 to 1974.

The full title traditionally of the Emperors of Ethiopia was: “Elect of God, Conquering Lion of the Tribe of Judah and King of Kings of Ethiopia.”

There seems to be a pattern emerging in this part of the world.

Either upon Independence from a European Colonial power, a Marxist-Leninist faction within the military seized power from the Republican form of government that replaced the colonial government; or a dynastic ruler was replaced by a Marxist-Leninist Faction in the military.

The result was the same: dividing countries and people; civil war; territorial war; and some form of Marxist government implemented.

We are heading to Berbera in the region of northern Somalia known as Somaliland today.

Somaliland declared independence from Somalia in 1991 following the ouster of Siad Barre, after a decade of state repression and civil war in the region.

It is a self-governing region, though not recognized as a sovereign state internationally.

As mentioned previously, this region had been a former British Protectorate, from the 1880s and 1960.

Berbera is located on the Gulf of Aden, and was the capital of British Somaliland Protectorate from 1884- 1941.  

It is still the capital of the Sahil Region of Somaliland.

Berbera is strategically on an oil route.

It has a deep harbor, and it it is situated near entrance to the Red Sea.

From antiquity, Somalia been an important commercial center, and likely the location of the ancient land of Punt.

Punt was a trading partner with Egypt, and was a wealthy country that was rich in resources and exotic goods.

There is still a region of Somalia today known as “Puntland,” adjacent to Somaliland.

Berbera was once a powerful and well-built city that has served as a major commercial center and port since antiquity, and has a glorious past in terms of importance to the region.

Berbera is looking quite rough these days. 

These photos are of crumbling historic buildings in Berbera’s Old Town.

I am going to end this post here and pick up the alignment in the Gulf of Aden on the way into Yemen in the next post.

I am going to give an overview of modern history in this video series, starting with the three major wartime conferences between the United States, United Kingdom, and Soviet Union – the Big Three of the Allied Powers during World War II – on up through the present-day, and see what comes to the surface that gives us more insight into the patterns that have led to the world we live in today.

I already have a feeling the patterns of what has taken place for Humanity since 1945 are not going to be nice.

The first Big Three wartime conference, the Tehran Conference was actually held in November of 1943, in which the Allies committed to open a second front against Nazi Germany, and two years after the Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran in August of 1941.

Reza Shah Pahlavi was deposed in September of 1941 as a result of the British and Soviet Invasion of Iran during World War II because he was seen as a German ally even though Iran had maintained neutrality in the conflict, and the invasion took place purportedly to secure Iran’s oil fields and ensure Allied supply lines along the Persian Corridor.

He was replaced as Shah by his young son at the time, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi…the last Shah, or Emperor, of Iran.

The next of the Big Three wartime conferences was the Yalta Conference, which was held between February 4th and 11th of 1945, near Yalta in Crimea, a peninsula on the northern coast of the Black Sea in what was the Soviet Union at the time.

Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin met to discuss the post-war reorganization of Germany and Europe.

Much was agreed to by the Big Three at the Yalta Conference, but what I want to highlight is the Declaration of Liberated Europe; the ratification of the agreement of the European Advisory Commission; and the groundwork for the United Nations.

The Declaration of Liberated Europe was created by the leaders of the three nations as a promise to allow the people to create democratic institutions of their own choice, and pledged the earliest possible establishment through elections governments responsive to the will of the people.

So this is what they all said…but what actually happened?  More on this soon.

The European Advisory Commission (EAC) allowed each occupying power full control over its occupying zone, and the subsequent Cold War was reflected in the partition of Germany as each occupying force could develop its zone on its own without influence from any overseeing body.

More on the Cold War shortly.

With regards to the formal establishment of the United Nations in San Francisco in June of 1945…

…all the parties at the Yalta Conference agreed to an American plan concerning voting procedures in the Security Council, which had expanded to five permanent members ~ which were, with the inclusion of France, China, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

It was only 6 months after the Japanese surrender that Winston Churchill proclaimed that “an iron curtain had descended across central Europe.”

On the east side of the curtain were the countries connected to or influenced by the Soviet Union, while on the west side were the countries that were NATO members or nominally neutral.

The third Big Three wartime conference was held in Potsdam, Germany between between July 17th and August 2nd in 1945.

They gathered to decide how to administer Germany after its unconditional surrender nine-weeks earlier on the May 8th of 1945.

Franklin Roosevelt’s death occurred on April 12th of 1945, and his Vice-President Harry S. Truman succeed him and represented the U. S. as President at the Potsdam Conference…

…and on July 28th, the new Prime Minister Clement Atlee replaced Winston Churchill as the representative for Great Britain at the Potsdam Conference.

A number of changes had occurred since the Yalta Conference that greatly Big Three relations in Potsdam.

By the time of the Potsdam Conference, the Soviet Union occupied central and eastern Europe – with the Red Army effectively controlling Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria and Romania – claiming this region was a legitimate sphere of Soviet influence as well as a defensive measure against future attacks.

Outcomes of the Potsdam Conference included, but was not limited to: the division of Germany and Austria into four occupation zones, with their capitals of Berlin and Vienna divided into four zones as well; the prevention of Nazi activity and preparation for the reconstruction of Germany into a democratic state; the decision to put Nazi war criminals on trial; war reparations to Allied countries; and the dismantling of Germany’s war industry.

It is important to note that during the same time period as the Potsdam Conference, the United States successfully tested the first atomic bomb on July 16th at Trinity site near Alamogordo, New Mexico.

The Potsdam Declaration was issued on July 26th, an ultimatum calling for the surrender of all Japanese forces or Japan would face prompt and utter destruction.

By August 5th of 1945, the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, destroying the city and killing over 70,000 people…

…and the second atomic bomb was dropped on the ship-building center of Nagasaki on August 9th, several days later, killing around the same number of people as Hiroshima.

Japan formally surrendered on August 15th of 1945, with the formal treaty signed on board the U.S.S. Missouri in Tokyo Bay on September 2nd of 1945.

The Potsdam Declaration was intended by the Big Three to be the legal basis for administering Japan after the war, and after Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Japan General Douglas MacArthur landed there in September, it served as the legal basis of the occupation’s reforms.

While the Emperor Hirohito was allowed to remain on the imperial throne, the Japanese constitution was completely overhauled, and the Emperor’s powers became strictly limited by law, and a parliamentary democracy was installed as the new form of government.

Also, after the August 15th surrender of Japan in 1945, the Korean peninsula was divided at the 38th-parallel into two zones of occupation, with the Soviets administering the northern half, and Americans the southern half.

In 1948, as a result of Cold War tensions, the occupation zones became two sovereign states – socialist North Korea and capitalist South Korea.

The governments of the two new Korean states both claimed to be the only legitimate Korean government, and neither accepted the border as permanent.

The beginnings of the Cold War are firmly rooted in the events of 1945.

Lasting from the formulation of the Truman Doctrine in 1947 until the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, it was called “cold” because there was no direct fighting between the United States and the Soviet Union, but engaged instead in proxy wars by supporting different sides of major regional conflicts.

Truman was much more suspicious of the Soviets than Roosevelt had been, and saw Soviet actions in central and eastern Europe as aggressive expansionism.

President Truman announced the Truman Doctrine to Congress on March 12th of 1947, where he asked for money to contain the communist uprisings in Greece and Turkey.

It was an American foreign policy which had the stated purpose of containing Soviet geopolitical expansion and generally considered the start of the Cold War.

It led to the formation of NATO in 1949, a military alliance between western nations that still exists today.

The Warsaw Pact was signed in 1955 as a counter-balance to NATO between the Soviet Union and seven other eastern-bloc social republics of Central and Eastern Europe, and created in reaction to the integration of West Germany into NATO.

Aside from nuclear arsenal development under the doctrine of Mutually Assured Destruction, said to have been intended to discourage a pre-emptive attack by either side, and conventional military deployment, the struggle for dominance between the United States and the Soviet Union was expressed by psychological warfare, propaganda campaigns, espionage, rivalry at sporting events, and the Space Race.

The Berlin Blockade, which took place between June 24th of 1948 and May 12th of 1949, was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War.

The Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies power, railway, road, and canal access to the sectors in Berlin under western control during the multi-national occupation of Berlin.

In response the western allies organized the Berlin Airlift, which lasted from June 26th of 1948 to September 30th of 1949, to carry supplies to the people of West Berlin, flying over 200,000 sorties in one year to provide the people of West Berlin food and fuel.

Let’s see what’s going on in other parts of the world in the mid-1940s.

In China, the Chinese Civil War was fought off-and-on between the Nationalist Republic of China and the Chinese Communist Party from 1927 to 1949.

Hostilities were being put on-hold between 1937 and 1945, when the two factions united in the face of the Japanese invasion of China and establishment of its puppet-state Manchukuo.

Generally referred to as the Chinese Communist Revolution, the Communists gained control of mainland China in 1949, forcing the leadership of the Nationalist Republic of China to retreat to the island of Taiwan.

The Partition of India in 1947 divided British India into the Hindu-majority Union of India and the Muslim-majority Dominion of Pakistan…

…displaced 10 – 12 million people in forced mass migrations to the newly-constituted dominions, and created overwhelming refugee crises, as well as large-scale violence, thereby establishing the conditions for suspicion and hostility between these two countries that has existed into the present-day.

This movement of people started after India’s official Independence Day from Great Britain on August 15th of 1947.

So much for the non-violent independence movement Mohandas Gandhi had led for 25-years prior, and Gandhi himself was assassinated on January 30th of 1948.

Now with regards to the creation of the State of Israel.

Great Britain had been granted a colonial mandate for Palestine and Transjordan by the League of Nations on April 25th of 1920, which lasted until the formation of Israel in May of 1948.

A League of Nations Mandate was a legal status for certain territories transferred from the control of one country to another after World War I, in this case territories that were conceded by the Ottoman Empire following the end of World War I in 1918.

Despite growing conflict between Palestinian Arabs and Palestinian Jews, Truman ultimately decided to recognize Israel.

David Ben-Gurion proclaimed the establishment of the modern State of Israel on May 14th of 1948, and President Truman recognized the new nation on the same day.

On the same day the new State of Israel was proclaimed, and the British Army withdrawn, gun-fire broke out between Jews and Arabs, and Egypt had launched an air assault that evening.

The Korean War started in 1950, when North Korea invaded South Korea on June 25th following clashes along the border and insurrections in the South.

North Korea was supported by China and the Soviet Union, and South Korea by the United Nations, principally from the United States.

The United Nations Security Council denounced the North Korean move as an invasion, authorizing the formation of the United Nations Command and forces to Korea, and the decisions to do this were made without the participation of Security Council members China and the Soviet Union.

One of the first major engagements of the war was the Battle of the Pusan Perimeter between the UN Command and North Korean forces, which took place between August 4th to September 18th of 1950, in which UN forces fought of North Korean forces for six-weeks, and ultimately were able to break free from the perimater, a 140-mile, or 230-kilometer, long defensive line around the southeastern tip of South Korea.

Shortly after a UN counter-offensive was launched from Incheon in September of 1950, the Chinese entered the war, triggering a retreat of UN forces, and by December, China was in South Korea.

The Korean War ended in 1953, during which time there was a back-and-forth going on – Seoul was captured numerous times, and communist forces were pushed back to the 38th-parallel numerous times, creating a stalemate in the ground-war.

From the air, North Korea was subject to a massive U. S. bombing campaign, and the Soviets flew in covert missions in defense of their Communist allies.

The Korean Armistice Agreement was signed on July 27th of 1953, ending the fighting; creating the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) to separate North and South Korea; and allowing for the return of prisoners.

No peace treaty was signed, however, and the two Koreas are still technically at war in a frozen conflict.

The Korean War was one of the most destructive conflicts of modern times, with around 3,000,000 deaths due to the war, and proportionally, a larger civilian death toll than either World War II or the Viet Nam War; caused the destruction of nearly all of Korea’s major cities; and there were thousands of massacres on both sides.

The Geneva Conference was convened in 1954 in Geneva, Switzerland, to settle unresolved issues from the Korean War and the First Indochina War in Viet Nam, and attended by representatives from the United States, France, the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, and the People’s Republic of China, as well as from Korea and Viet Nam.

The Geneva Conference was held in the Palace of Nations, the home of the United Nations Office in Geneva, said to have been built between 1929 and 1938 to serve as the headquarters of the League of Nations, the forerunner of the United Nations.

While no declarations or proposals were adopted with regards to Korean situation, the Geneva Accords that dealt with the dismantling of French Indochina would have major ramifications.

The French military forces in Viet Nam, formerly part of French Indochina, had been decisively defeated in May 7th of 1954 by the Communist Viet Minh forces under Ho Chi Minh at the Battle of Dien Bien Phu.

The very next day the discussions on French Indochina began at the Geneva Conference, and the western allies did not have a unified position on what the conference was to achieve in relation to French Indochina.

The Geneva Accords establish North and South Vietnam with the 17th parallel as the dividing line, and the French agreed to remove their troops from North Viet Nam.

The agreement also stipulates that elections are to be held within two years to unify Vietnam under a single democratic government.

These elections never happen.

The non-Communist puppet government set up by the French in South Viet Nam refused to sign.

The United States also refused to sign on, with the belief that national elections would result in an overwhelming victory for the communist Ho Chi Minh who had so decisively defeated the French colonialists.

Within a year, the United States helped establish a new, anti-Communist government in South Viet Nam, and began giving it financial and military assistance.

A mass migration took place after Viet Nam was divided.

Estimates of upwards of 3 million people left communist North Viet Nam for South Vietnam, going into refugee status in their own country, and many were assisted by the United States Navy during Operation Passage to Freedom.

An estimated 52,000 people moved from South to North Viet Nam, mostly Viet Minh members and their families.

The Chinese occupation of Tibet started in 1950, when China invaded Tibet and engaged in a military campaign at the Battle of Chamdo to take the Chamdo Region from an independent Tibetan state, one of three traditional provinces of Tibet along with Amdo and U-Tsang.

As a result, Chamdo was captured by the Chinese, and Tibet was eventually annexed when the State Council of the People’s Republic of China dissolved Tibet on March 28th of 1959, and it became known as the Tibetan Autonomous Region of China in 1965.

Since that time, over a million Tibetans have been killed, and monks, nuns, and lay-people who protest ending up as political prisoners who are tortured and held in sub-standard conditions.

China has a policy of resettlement of Chinese citizens to Tibet; Chinese is the official language; and Tibetans have become a minority in their own country.

Tibet’s spiritual and temporal leader, the 14th-Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso, and other Tibetan refugees escaped to Dharamsala in India during the 1959 Tibetan Uprising, where he established the Central Tibetan Administration, the Tibetan government in exile which is not recognized by China.

Joseph Stalin passed away in 1953.

The guy who was so chummy with the other leaders at the Big Three wartime conferences was a brutal dictator.

He rose to power in 1924 after Lenin’s death, and became a dictator, ruling by terror with a series of brutal policies which left countless millions of his own citizens dead.

Between 1928 and 1940, Stalin enforced the collectivation of the agricultural sector, by stripping people who owned land and livestock of their holdings, forcing people to join collective farms, and rounding up and executing higher-income farmers, and confiscating their land.

Instead of increasing the food supply, this policy caused food shortages, which in turn led to what was called the Great Famine between 1932 and 1933, with millions of people perishing from starvation.

The height of Stalin’s terror campaign was known as the Great Purge, taking place between 1936 and 1938, during which time an estimated 600,000 Soviet citizens were executed, and millions more were deported, or imprisoned in forced labor camps known as gulags.

Not a nice man.

Neither was Chairman Mao, who was doing much the same kinds of things to his people in China.

For one example, Mao and the Chinese Communist Party launched the Great Leap Forward in 1958 for the citizenry to industrialize China by the mass mobilization of the country’s population into agriculturally-based communes to increase grain supply.

It had the same effect as forced farming collectives had in the Soviet Union, resulting in the Great Chinese Famine, with an estimated number of deaths ranging between 15- and 55-million, the largest in history, not to mention that researchers give of up to 3-million people being tortured to death or executed for violating the policy.

The Cold War-era Nuclear Arms Race was a competition for supremacy in nuclear warfare between the United States, Soviet Union and their respective allies.

The first Soviet atomic bomb was detonated on August 29th of 1949.

A ring of spies in the Manhattan project led by German physicist Klaus Fuchs and American physicist Theodore Hall had kept Stalin well-informed on the American progress, including detailed designs.

Fuchs arrest in 1950 led to the arrest of other suspected Russian spies, including Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, who were convicted of espionage in 1951 and executed in 1953, the first American civilians to be executed for such charges and the first to suffer that penalty during peacetime.

Between 1946 and 1958, the United States conducted 67 nuclear tests in the Marshall Islands, vaporizing whole islands, carving craters into its shallow lagoons, and exiling hundreds of people from their homes.

Novaya Zemlya is a boomerang-shaped island off the northern coast of Russia, where there is a history of nuclear testing by the Russians, including over 224 nuclear detonations at Novaya Zemlya between 1955 and 1990. 

The most powerful nuclear weapon ever, the hydrogen bomb “Tsar Bomba,” was detonated at Novaya Zemlya in 1961.

The Chinese Nuclear Weapons Test Base had four nuclear testing zones at Lop Nur, a former salt lake in China’s Uighur Autonomous Region, starting in 1959 – with H-Bomb detonation in 1967 – until 1996, with 45 nuclear tests conducted.

France had its nuclear testing program in Reggane in Algeria between 1960 – 1961, before Algeria’s independence. They conducted four atmospheric nuclear tests, which contaminated the Sahara Desert with plutonium, negatively impacting those who live here to this day – not only Reggane, but far beyond.

Between 1960 and 1966, a total of 17 nuclear tests were conducted in the Reggane District of Algeria. It is called Africa’s Hiroshima.

The Space Race was a competition to achieve spaceflight firsts, with origins in the ballistic-missile-based nuclear arms race between the United States and the Soviet Union following World War II.

Quickly achieving spaceflight capabilities such as satellites, uncrewed space probes, and human spaceflight in low Earth orbit and to the moon was seen as necessary for national security.

The beginning of the Space Race was seen as the date of August 2nd of 1955, when the United States announced it was going to launch artificial satellites for the International Geophysical Year, and the Soviets responded by saying they were going to launch on in the near future, and they ended up having the first successful launch, with Sputnik I on October 4th of 1947.

The peak of the Space Race was considered to be the what we are told was the United States landing the first humans on the moon on July 20th of 1969 with the Apollo 11 mission.

Senator Joseph McCarthy became the public face of a period of time in which Cold War tensions propelled fears of widespread Communist subversion in the United States.

In 1950, one of the U. S. Senators from Wisconsin, McCarthy said he had the names of 205 Communists working at the State Department, which prompted the Senate to form a special committee to look into the allegations, the outcome of which was said to not find much supporting evidence.

When he became chair of the Senate Permanent Investigations subcommittee in 1952, McCarthy called more than 500 people before the committee for questioning – people in the federal government, universities, the film industry, and elsewhere.

He was ultimately censured by the Senate in 1945 for “conduct unbecoming a senator.”

The definition of McCarthyism is making baseless accusations of subversion or treason without any proper regard for evidence, especially when referring to Communism.

A lot of what we see playing out in our world right now makes me wonder if these claims about communist infiltrators was baseless…or actually based in fact….

The short-lived Hungarian Uprising took place from October 23rd of 1956 to November 10th of 1956 against Soviet control and policies, and was the first major threat to Soviet control since the Red Army drove Nazi Germany from its territory at the end of World War II.

The symbol of it was the Hungarian flag with the communist emblem cut-out.

Starting out as a student protest, the movement turned into a much larger revolt, and the government collapsed, and thousands organized themselves in militias battling the Hungarian army and Soviet troops.

The revolution was ultimately crushed when a large Soviet force invaded Hungary and by January of 1957, a new Soviet-installed government had suppressed all opposition.

The Suez Crisis of 1956 was an invasion of Egypt by Israel followed by the British and French to regain western control of the Suez Canal and remove Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser who had just nationalized the canal, which prior to that was owned primarily by Britain and France.

The invasion was quickly stopped upon political pressure from the United States, the Soviet Union, and the United Nations.

Britain and France were humiliated and Nassar was strengthened.

Fidel Castro came to power in 1959 after overthrowing Cuban President Fulgencio Batista via guerrilla warfare, and subsequently assuming military and political power as Cuba’s Prime Minister.

He was ideologically a Marxist-Leninist and Cuban Nationalist, and under his administration, Cuba became the first one-party Communist state in the western hemisphere.

The United States opposed Castro’s government, and Castro aligned himself with the Soviet Union.

More on Castro’s Cuba in the next part of this series.

The first CERN particle accelerator became operational in Geneva, Switzerland on February 5th of 1960, described as a unique tool for penetrating deeper into the knowledge of matter.

On March 6th of 1960, it was announced that 3,500 American soldiers were going to be sent to Viet Nam for the first time, after North Viet Nam escalated military operations against South Viet Nam.

As seen in this blog post, there are patterns that can be detected when looking at the historical narrative. These patterns seen in the period of time from 1945 to 1960 show how events and people were manipulated for particular outcomes benefiting the world powers at the expense of other countries and their people.   At the same time, they were deceiving us about what was really going on in order to gain our consent, like with the examples of partitioning one country into two, setting up two different political systems, and then instigating them to fight each other, and the inherent brutality against Humanity of communism, to name a few. 

We are conditioned to see all of this as normal, but it’s not! 

Someone or something is benefiting from it all, but not Humanity.