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Olympic Rule 23, which states the Games have two official languages: French and English. Since 2004, the Francophonie organization has appointed a person known as le Grand Témoin — the Great Witness — whose job is keep track of and promote French usage at the Games nytimes.com/2016/08/10/sp…
The Jehovah's Witness Organization Has a Secret Registry of 23,720 Paedophiles news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/progr…
To promote a double header baseball game, the Chicago White Sox organization created the "Disco Demolition Night" where a disc jokey would blow up disco records between the two games. 90,000 people showed up to witness the explosion, a near riot ensued, and the next game was canceled. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dis…
An Australian Royal Commission found that Jehovah's Witnesses harbored 1,006 known pedophiles who they did not report to the authorities. The commission also found their policies to be outdated and that they provided inadequate support to victims. childabuseroyalcommission…
Qubilah Shabazz, daughter of Malcolm X, witnessed the assassination of her father by the Nation of Islam. She was arrested in '95 for conspiring to assassinate the leader of the organization, Louis Farrakhan. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qub…
In 1877, the religious organization Jehovah's Witnesses predicted that Christ's kingdom would hold full sway over the earth in 1914; the Jews, as a people, would be restored to God's favor; the "saints" would be carried to heaven en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cri…
-In '98, ODB once witnessed a car accident and organized a group to lift a vehicle involved in order to save a 4 year old girl. He frequently visited her in the hospital under a false name until the media caught wind of it. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/O…
COINTELPRO (COunter INTELligence PROgram) was a series of covert, and at times illegal, projects conducted by the FBI aimed at surveilling, infiltrating, discrediting, and disrupting domestic political organizations. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COI…
Jehovah’s Witnesses were the only group allowed to leave Nazi concentration camps by signing a renunciation of their faith and a pledge of loyalty to the fatherland. An estimated 1200 died in the camp, including 250 who were executed who refused to sign the document. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Per…
Tony Soprano, from The Sopranos, is loosely based on a real life organized crime boss named Vincent Palermo who later became a government witness en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ton…
Australian Jehovah’s Witnesses protected over a thousand members accused of child abuse revealnews.org/blog/austr…
Bruce Lee had to flee Hong Kong for the US after he got into a street fight with the son of an organized crime leader. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bru…
Jehovah's Witnesses in Nazi Concentration Camps we're so unshakable in their beliefs that the Commander of Auschwitz wished his SS soldiers to have the same faith in Hitler. ushmm.org/learn/students/…
Several Hells Angels members plotted to murder Mick Jagger after he called them out for fatally stabbing a black man at their free concert in Altamont, California in 1969. They took a boat to his location on Long Island, but had to swim for their lives when a major storm brewed up. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mic…
The entire concept of the Alien movie franchise is about interspecies rape.

Thanks to Cracked, I learned that the screenwriter of Alien (Daniel O'Bannon) wanted to create a movie that would be full of subliminal context that would make people think of rape. Not just any rape though. He didn't want to make women afraid, he wanted to "make the men in the audience cross their legs". How? "Homosexual oral rape, birth. The thing lays its eggs down your throat, the whole number".

If you're a hardcore Alien fan, you know the creature was created by Swiss artist H.R. Giger. Giger's artistry was a mix of biology, mechanics, and sex. His dark imagery was inspiring to Daniel O'Bannon who suggested the artist to Ridley Scott, the director. Scott approved and asked Giger to come up with the visuals for the movie.

Giger made the landscape, architecture, and just about every visual reference make you subliminally think of penises and vaginae. The crew goes into the alien ship, symbolizing sperm entering a vagina. John Hurt's character, Kane, goes into the "womb" of the shi

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