The Illuminati, Freemasons, Skull and Bones, The Knights Templar are just a few of past and present secret societies.
some early societies are the inca and the aztec.
The Aztecs had conquered their territories and forced them to pay tributes.
Some are and some are not.
People know things about the past because or either is written in some kind of text or it have evidence of the time period.
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Some secret societies have been thought to have practiced ritual abuse. Secret societies may compete for members with other established organizations. They therefore may offer something different, like wealth, power, fame, sex, drugs, security, the promise of salvation or eternal life. Secret societies within exist established secret societies
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Beacon has written: 'Some strange cults' -- subject- s -: Secret societies
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"The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings." -JFK
Modern day factions are everywhere in the present. Factions and their ideals run today's society, especially secret societies, powerful factions that can manipulate everything in world affairs. These secret societies are the mostly known as the Freemasons, the Trialateral Commision, and the most notoriuos, Bilderburg. Now back to the main subject: the following are some of major modern factions currently existing. (The UN, the WTO, the NSA, DOD, CIA, al-Queda, Hezzbolah, etc.)
No, this is a very old question and a very old myth. There is no "secret past" about Barack Obama, nor was there ever a Fox News special that allegedly told about some secret past.
some early societies are the inca and the aztec.
Some influential societies include, senior secret societies such as: Skull and Bones (Yale), Scroll and Key (Yale), Sacred Order of Skull and Crescent (Purdue); there are also final clubs such as Porcellian Club (Harvard) and Pugilist Club (Purdue); there are also eating clubs that are influential auch as Ivy Club (Princeton), to name a few.
All Building Societies are owned by their members and have 'mutual' status. If you invest money with them you automatically become a member no matter how small your investment. If they 'de-mutualize', they are then no longer building societies and become banks. Some building societies that have done this in the past have then been taken over by other banks. What was originally Halifax Building Society is probably the best known example of this. It de-mutualized and became a bank. It was then taken over by the Bank of Scotland which in turn was taken over by the Lloyds Banking Group.
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