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How Bread Tabs Changed The World

CHUPPL β€’ 2024-05-09 β€’ 23:19 minutes β€’ YouTube

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The Hidden World of Bread Tabs: Plastic Curiosities, Conspiracies, and a Global Gold Mystery

Bread tabs β€” those tiny plastic clips that seal your loaf of bread β€” are objects we rarely give a second thought. Yet, behind these simple, everyday items lies a surprising story that stretches across decades, continents, and even political intrigue.

The Curious Obsession with Bread Tabs

It all began over 30 years ago in San Francisco when a man started questioning the humble bread tab: Why do they have teeth? What do the numbers mean? Why are some tall and others short? This curiosity sparked a passion for documenting every known type of bread tab, leading to a growing community of collectors worldwide.

Among the most dedicated is Shany, believed to hold the largest bread tab collection, boasting several million specimens. Collectors classify bread tabs as "uids," with some common types and others extremely rare β€” some so rare that their existence is known, but hardly any details about them are available. One mysterious example, called the "Odon," is a uniquely spiked and tubular bread tab reportedly from Japan that remains elusive, even to the most avid collectors.

Behind the Plastic: The Quicklock Empire

The bread tab story is more than a collector’s curiosity; it’s tied to the Quicklock company, the global leader in bread tab manufacturing. Founded by Floyd Paxton in 1952, Quicklock revolutionized bread sealing and made Paxton a wealthy man. However, Paxton’s life and legacy extend far beyond plastic clips.

The Intersection of Bread Tabs and Cold War Politics

Floyd Paxton was deeply involved in far-right politics during the Cold War era. He was an early and substantial supporter of the John Birch Society, an ultraconservative, anti-communist group notorious for promoting conspiracy theories. Paxton even ran for Congress multiple times but never won.

The John Birch Society’s influence has been profound, shaping conservative political thought and laying some groundwork for today’s far-right movements in America. They propagated ideas about global conspiracies and deep state cabals, themes that reverberate in modern political discourse.

The Mysterious Gold of the Philippines

One of the most sensational threads connected to Paxton and the John Birch Society involves a vast hoard of gold allegedly stolen by Imperial Japan during World War II and hidden in the Philippines. After Japan’s surrender in 1945, rumors circulated about trillions of dollars worth of gold buried in secret vaults across the islands.

In the 1980s, two Americans posing as arms dealers tricked Ferdinand Marcos, the former Filipino dictator, into revealing some of this treasure. A mining engineer named Robert Curtis was recruited to help launder the gold, a plan financed in part by Paxton and his son through offshore companies and complex banking maneuvers.

However, before the scheme could fully unfold, Paxton died of a heart attack, and Marcos reneged on his promises. The gold’s true fate remains one of the great unsolved mysteries, with whispers of CIA involvement and ongoing political ramifications in the Philippines β€” where Marcos’s son was elected president in 2022 amid controversy and allegations of disinformation.

From Plastic Clips to Political Power

The story of bread tabs, Quicklock, and the John Birch Society is a remarkable example of how seemingly trivial objects can be connected to major historical and political events. The John Birch Society’s conspiracy theories have influenced American politics for decades, feeding into the rise of the far right and shaping narratives that endure today.

Meanwhile, the quest to find rare bread tabs like the Odon continues, symbolizing a larger human fascination with uncovering hidden histories and secrets.

Final Thoughts

Who would have thought that something as mundane as a bread tab could open a window into global conspiracy, Cold War politics, and lost treasure? This unusual journey reminds us that even the smallest objects can carry stories worth telling β€” stories that reach far beyond their size.

If you’re intrigued by the strange and the overlooked, the world of bread tabs might just be the rabbit hole you never knew you needed to explore.


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If you have a peculiar question or a fascinating internet rabbit hole you want explored, feel free to reach out β€” there’s always a story waiting to be told.


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bread Tabs are one of those things that we never really think about we don't ask questions like why are these here or why aren't they there why are they tall what do the numbers mean why are their teeth or why aren't their teeth 30 years ago a man in San Francisco asked these questions what was once a simple piece of plastic grabbed its hooks into his mind and never let go for the past 30 years he's been documenting every type of bread tab known to man right here on his website but he's not the only collector anymore it's weapons grade Obsession this is Shany it's believed that she has the largest collection of bread tabs in the world my aim was to have the world's most comprehensive collection of bread tabs before they become extinct I've got several million I would say some bread Tabs are common While others are rare competition for rare and unusual specimens is fierce other bread tags are so rare that they know they exist but they don't know anything about them I decided to try to help find one of these missing bread tabs my search for a piece of plastic brought me to a much bigger Story one that reshaped social and political Norms not just here in the US but globally the CIA the rise of the alt-right and the fight against communis ISM that is the story of the bread tab I think I went a little too deep come on these bread tab researchers don't know it yet but they're sitting on one of the most famous Unsolved Mysteries of all time voices preaching doctrines wholly unrelated to reality a secretive far right group cleaning your teeth or poisoning your body and vast stock piles of [Music] gold on September 2nd 194 45 1 month after the United States detonated two atomic bombs over Japan something was happening over here in the Philippines the Philippines had been under Japanese Occupation for several years but on that day Japan surrendered due to the arrival of US forces they left in a hurry Imperial Japan had just spent the past 50 years stealing gold and treasures from other countries in Southeast Asia the gold was rumored to be worth several trillions of dollars enough to upset the Global Financial system we don't know where that gold ended up a Filipino Legend says that they left it that it's buried in vaults all around the Philippines its existence has been dismissed by many officials which I guess is a good thing because if someone did find all that gold they would instantly become the wealthiest person in the world the revelations about the gold are themselves so sensati as to almost defy belief in 198 7 two Americans pretending to be arms dealers tricked Ferdinand Marcos a former dictator of the Philippines who is now an exile in Hawaii Marcos thought that the phony arms dealers would help him overthrow the new government of the Philippines their conversations were recorded 4 billion and they don't know [Music] that I didn't say I didn't [Music] thank you to displate for sponsoring a portion of today's video displate is a website that 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PPL at checkout but this offer doesn't last forever thank you again to displate for sponsoring this portion of the video the pros don't call these bread tabs they call them uids I have had to personally go through [Β __Β ] Millions that's when you find the ray [Music] ones horg the Bible at the center of the occlupanid world lists a bread tab that I can't stop thinking about bearing a spiked Ma and interlocking tubes it's called the Odon it sits at the very edge of the family tree the literal board of what's considered an uid and what isn't and HG really doesn't know anything about it it is hoped that further knowledge of this striking akup penid will soon come to light this bread tab is in Japan and I live in the US I when I was starting to sort them out I started going that's a different shape to that one and that one's different to that one over time ocupen lists have started to notice a really strange Trend somebody else notice this and I think it's my best lead for finding this elusive Odon Behind these little pieces of plastic is an Empire one company that quietly rules the global market 2 and 1/2 hours outside of Seattle is a five Warehouse industrial compound quicklock has offices in the US Canada Australia Ireland and yeah Japan today Three Sisters run quick lock but it's always been family-owned their grandfather Floyd Paxton founded it Paxton invented the bread tab in [Music] 1952 he became very wealthy very quickly but what he did with that money is a different story hey everyone we are live from my backyard where I am smoking a brisket and some ribs I am I'm making Meats now one thing I've noticed is that when people come into big money over a short period of time they tend to start doing some weird stuff besides the obvious I wanted to know what else he was was up to the 1950s were a great time the second Red Scare was ending in part due to conspiracy theorist Joseph McCarthy just getting ripped in new one on broadcast television his proposition is very simple anyone who criticizes or opposes McCarthy's methods must be a communist and if that be true there are an awful lot of Communists in this country but one guy the creator of the these and these was getting pretty bummed that communist conspiracy theories weren't spreading like they used to so he started the John bur Society an anti-communist ultraconservative advocacy group known for its conspiracy theories he used his Junior mint money to travel to Seattle where he enlisted and received substantial financial support from Floyd Paxton being one of the group's earliest members Paxton was was way into this so he ran for congress in 1966 and lost so he tried again in 1970 and lost again why give up now he thought for some reason he lost again in 1972 and lost one last time in 1974 one newspaper referred to Floyd Paxton as a yaka industrialist who sees a communist behind every Sage Brush and a conspiracy in the eyes of virtually everyone one in government and out bread tab money baby down with the commies dude dude the John Burch Society got up to some really weird stuff like they promoted this new drug as the cure to cancer there was a ton of money in it the medical consensus was that it didn't actually cure cancer but instead it caused cyanide poisoning the Drug's name is a l trial and one report that I read said lay trial interests were locked on to Floyd Paxton because he flew an airplane that apparently lat trial interests hoped to use for Courier flights to and from Mexico an investigation revealed that John Burch Society members spearheaded the promotion and distribution of the illegal drug from Mexico another member of the John bur Society and a fellow horse appreciator bought onethird of the entire world's available supply of silver to hack the silver market the Jeweler Tiffany and cod took out an ad in the New York Times saying that it was their fault that prices were so high it gets crazier back to Paxton Floyd Paxton got a near $1 million investment from the King of Kuwait how did that happen like how these two guys meet after the United States helped stage aoup to overthrow the democratically elected President of Chile the new Chilean Government invited Paxton and his wife to be the guests of the Chilean government for the first celebration of the ouer of the former president that's crazy that's nuts bread tabs this guy invented bread tabs I'm imagining like War torn military dictator pet raising a glass to Floyd [Β __Β ] Paxton competition for rare and unusual specimens is fierce and intense it's weapons grade Obsession you may have started to connect the dots here these guys are no stranger to that Japanese gold enough to upset the Global Financial system but first I have a Japanese Treasure of my own that I need to find okay this isn't really the one I'm looking for but this one is only found in Japan so I'm going to buy it it's kind of cool look at this logo look at the logo and 2014 Japan's Morning Sun newspaper which is one of the five largest newspapers in the country posted this video the morning Sun's video shows a wall full of bread tabs that this company has made over the years it's very likely right behind that door but when you look at it nothing even looks remotely similar to The elusive Odon that we're looking for I wanted to ask for myself but quick loock Japan the people that are inside of these offices right now won't respond to my emails I don't speak Japanese so I asked my hotel's front desk to call on my behalf did you send email for them yes they they sold your email uhhuh they said they wouldn't give me a tour a Blog I found online says that there's only one company in all of Japan that manufactures bread tabs quick lock whatever right it's a Blog anyone can post anything that they want on the internet but when you translate the title from the morning Sun's video a reputable Source it says this so quicklock isn't making the Odon but it's also the only company making bread tabs in Japan where is this coming [Music] from According to mark maros he has stashed in various catches in the Philippines a th000 tons of gold worth something on the order of $4 billion around the time that Paxton was celebrating the military coup in Chile a mining engineer in Nevada received a strange phone call the caller says hey my buddy Ferdinand Marcos is doing all this dictator stuff over here like putting all his citizens under martial law you know dictator stuff but he's sitting on a lot of gold the problem is it's Japanese you know it's Japanese war loot so no one would buy it from him because it was stolen from other countries word on the street is you just came up with this new process to melt gold down and make its history undetectable the mining engineer was named robbert Curtis and he declined until a letter marked personal and confidential arrived for him there is buried treasure there are 34 sites of major importance and 138 locations of lesser importance the Leber group has retrieval plans for all 172 locations burn or shred this letter Curtis was getting an invitation to join the Leber group spelled Rebel backwards it's the group that's helping dictator Marcos purify and smuggle this gold Curtis was promised a share of the Leber group profit as a starting point5 billion US Curtis flew to the Philippines and in his journal he wrote about a room that Marcos showed him gold bars floor to ceiling each bar worth $500,000 many many hundreds of bars one problem stood between Curtis and his prize he didn't get any money up front for equipment so he needed a loan Robert Curtis the mining engineer from Nevada thought yeah I know some guys these details came from a lengthy investigation led by two American journalists they were given exclusive access to 60,000 documents and hundreds of hours of audio and video by Curtis himself I've linked their book down below Floyd Paxton had been invited to join the National Council of the John Burch Society with his friend SJ agnu Paxton had stepped down from quicklock and gave his son jir the company according to the investigation the John Burch Society moneymen who arranged for the loan to Curtis were Floyd Paxton and his son Jerry who ran the quicklock corporation they agreed to give Curtis three loans totaling 375,000 in Return 22.2% of his Leb share here's the plan quicklock opened an offshore company in the Bahamas Commonwealth packaging limited marcos's gold would be sold in NASA the dirty money would then be deposited into the Royal Bank of Canada in NASA then piece by piece sent to the Royal Banks Branch outside of quick loocks Canada office Curtis said that Paxton would be the one that took the money out of the Royal Banks Colona Branch where it would be kept in an account belonging to the Colona branch of quicklock then Floyd Paxon would personally smuggle the money across the Canadian border and into the us but before any of this could happen Paxton died of a heart attack Marcos went back on his word and didn't share any of the gold with Curtis besides what Marcos took we really don't know what happened to the remaining gold there is a mutiny military and civilian against President Marcos and his government the people of the Philippines through a revolution one of the crest most corrupt regimes of modern Asia tonight the Citadel fell and Marcos was exiled to Hawaii it's just been confirmed that Mr Marcos has indeed left Mr Marcos and his family had fled by helicopters under American guarantees there is understandable Jubilation tonight after Marcos went into Exile Major General John sing glob a founding member of the CIA went to the Philippines to search for the gold he said that he found it and that it's worth billions and billions of dollars but he said that he didn't keep any considering singl battled communism as a private citizen by funneling weapons and money to wrest insurgents around the world people do Wonder this story is fascinating to me but it's still alive today millions of Filipinos headed to the polls for their country's election with an infamous dictator's son set to win the presidency in a landslide son of the former Philippines dictator Ferdinand Marcos has secured an unassailable Landslide victory in the presidential election Ferdinand Marcos Jr widely known as bong bong will receive more than double the votes of his main rival nearly 2,000 malfunctioning counting machines many people questioning the Integrity of the vote believed much of his success stems from a massive disinformation campaign while trying to rerun his disgraced family's history marcos's son bong bong was elected as the President of the Philippines in 2022 he miss Marco Syndicate in any of his conversations with you if anyone knew the location of all of the gold he said he knew where some of it was and his son bang bang knew where some of it was that's correct was my son as of recording this right now he still is the president out of the seven people that Curtis accused of orchestrating the laundering scheme four of them were on the Birch society's National [Music] Council the remaining three orchestrators were all also part of the John bur Society including J Paxton Floyd Paxton's son who ran the quicklock corporation until his three daughters took over the John Burch Society strategy worked really well over time their ideals spread foundationally changing the beliefs of conservative politics a secretive far-right group started in the late 1950s called the John Burch Society magga has always been with us in American history in one iteration or another whether it's the John Burch Society it is one of the biggest influences that propelled the far right into mainstream American politics burchers how the John Bur Society radicalized the American right the ideals of the Birch Society have influenced today's Republican party and the rise of former president Donald Trump voices preaching doctrines wholly unrelated to reality most of the Republican party's craziest conspiracies started with the John bur Society the war in Christmas John bur Society shadowy cabal Running our government John bur Society orchestrated panic over school boards John bur Society this group started by wealthy industrialists who hated Communists loved conspiracy theories promoted this idea of a global deep State cabal they became a really powerful political force but they were still missing one thing a charismatic leader who one day would run for president it is hoped that further knowledge of this striking Aku panid will soon come to light [Music] I've been looking for something local do you know what this is have you seen this I have no idea you have no idea okay not a [Music] problem there is a world where we flew across the world to find a piece of plastic and we can't find it and that is a hard reality that I really do not want to accept [Music] oranges my God we only found this story because a few months ago one of you one of our viewers reached out to us Hannah they said hey have you seen this website h.com maybe you should check out the world of ooids we are trying to tell more stories from the internet parts that like most people don't go to very often so if you have a rabbit hole that you want to flag or a question that you've always wanted to know the answer to email us we want to know bread tab money baby I'm off to ship the Odon to Hannah right now thank you to displate for sponsoring a part of this video and thank you for watching