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Red Flag

British intelligence operative's involvement in Ukraine crisis signals false flag attacks ahead

Kit Klarenberg
The Grayzone
Thu, 24 Mar 2022 00:00 UTC
Brettongordon
© GMBHamish de Bretton-Gordon
Shadowy UK intel figure Hamish de Bretton-Gordon was at the forefront of chemical weapons deceptions in Syria. Now in Ukraine, he's up to his old tricks again.

With Washington and its NATO allies forced to watch from the sidelines as Russia's military advances across Eastern Ukraine and encircles Kiev, US and British officials have resorted to a troubling tactic that could trigger a massive escalation. Following similar claims by his Secretary of State and ambassador the United Nations, US President Joseph Biden has declared that Russia will pay a "severe price" if it uses chemical weapons in Ukraine.

The warnings emanating from the Biden administration contain chilling echoes of those issued by the administration of President Barack Obama throughout the US-led dirty war on Syria.

Comment: Useful tools are rarely outed as long as gullibility is alive and well.

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Bomb

NATO bombing of Serbia: Tragedy in three acts

Scott Ritter
RT
Thu, 24 Mar 2022 09:37 UTC
The Radio Television of Serbia building destroyed by NATO bombings in 1999
© Pierre Crom / Getty ImagesThe Radio Television of Serbia building destroyed by NATO bombings in 1999 on October 20, 2020 in Belgrade, Serbia.
It is a travesty of international justice that the 1999 bombing remains unrecognized by the perpetrators and unpunished

Twenty-three years ago, NATO bombed Serbia. This act was the opening round of what was to become a 78-day illegal war of aggression, the repercussions of which haunt the world to this day.

Act One: The Encounter

It was a chance meeting - two men who had crossed paths in Iraq two years past, now running into each other on a stretch of highway connecting Kosovo to Macedonia. The date was March 20, 1999. Monitors assigned to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) Kosovo Verification Mission (KVM) were in the process of being withdrawn from their assigned areas of responsibility to the town of Ohrid, in Macedonia, due to the collapse of diplomatic talks with Serbia about the devolving situation in the Serbian autonomous province of Kosovo, where Albanian separatists were engaged in a quasi-civil war with the Serbian authorities.

The British contingent of the KVM was stopped at the border between Kosovo and Macedonia, awaiting final clearance to cross the border. Among the British observers was a former Royal Marine officer who had previously served with the United Nations Special Commission (UNSCOM) in Iraq, helping oversee the dismantling of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction programs. While he and his fellow observers waited, he watched as other vehicles driven by members of the US observer contingent drove in the opposite direction - into Kosovo. At the wheel of one of these vehicles was a familiar face - a man who was known as 'Kurtz'.


Comment: The story that Iraq had WMD was a total lie. It was just an excuse to invade and destroy the country.


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Better Earth

Ice-free corridor from Beringia to Great Plains existed 13,800 years ago, dating of boulders shows

Bob Yirka
Phys.org
Tue, 22 Mar 2022 12:00 UTC
Rocky Mountains Canada
© Anders CarlsonThe central Rocky Mountains in Alberta, Canada.
An international team of researchers has found evidence that suggests the Ice-Free Corridor (IFC) proposed to have existed between ice sheets along a route from Beringia to the Great Plains came to exist approximately 13,800 years ago. In their paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the group describes using cosmogenic nuclide surface exposure dating to date boulders left behind by the ice sheets that once covered the IFC, and their conclusion that early travelers likely came by boat.

Comment: Note that researchers are working on an assumption which could be skewing their results and conclusion: And check out SOTT radio's:


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Better Earth

12,000 year old Amazon rock art may depict extinct Ice Age animals, new study shows

Sarah Cascone
Art Net
Wed, 09 Mar 2022 12:00 UTC
Amazon prehistoric rock art
© José IriarteLas Dantas panel at Cerro Azul, La Lindosa (arrow points to proposed giant sloth painting).
A masterpiece of prehistoric rock art from the Amazon, hailed by some as "the Sistine Chapel of the ancients," may depict extinct Ice Age mammals, offering a fascinating snapshot of doomed species and their brief coexistence with humankind.

The eight-mile Cerro Azul rock art mural at Serranía de la Lindosa in Colombia's Guaviare region, on the banks of the Guayabero River, has been the subject of recent expeditions led by José Iriarte, an archaeologist at the University of Exeter. Now, the ocher paintings have become the subject of debate, as experts attempt to definitively date them and identify the animals.

It's possible that the stunning artworks are up to 12,000 years old, and show Ice Age megafauna, as argued by a study published this week in the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. (Archaeologists first began studying the paintings in 2016, after a peace treaty brought stability to the region after years of civil war, and published their initial findings in late 2020).

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Israel lobby group ADL rehabilitates Hitler's accomplices in Ukraine

Ali Abunimah
The Electronic Intifada
Thu, 17 Mar 2022 00:00 UTC
Bandera honor
© Pavlo Bagnut/UkrinformPriest speaks during torchlight procession honoring Nazi collaborator Stepan Bandera
Kiev, Ukraine • 1 January, 2022
Israel and its lobby depend on support from the United States. So when Washington goes to war, the lobby will often lend its propaganda services to the cause. The Anti-Defamation League, one of Israel's top US lobby groups, is doing so now by rehabilitating Ukrainian collaborators who helped Hitler exterminate Jews and Poles.

This Holocaust revisionism is motivated by the need to whitewash the present-day, far-right Ukrainian nationalists and neo-Nazis who are supported by the United States. The reason the US, NATO and the European Union say they are sending weapons and mercenaries to Ukraine is to help a fellow democracy defend its independence and sovereignty against an illegal invasion by an expansionist, megalomaniacal madman.

It is therefore very awkward from a Western perspective that the Ukrainian regime is underpinned by hard-right fascists and neo-Nazis.

Acknowledging this fact, Western war propagandists undoubtedly fear, would legitimize President Vladimir Putin's claim that the Russian invasion - which has been overwhelmingly condemned by the UN General Assembly - is justified by a need to "de-Nazify" and demilitarize Ukraine.
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Fires rage in Canada as professor attacks the Myth of Holodomor

Matthew Ehret
matthewehret.substack.com
Fri, 18 Mar 2022 00:00 UTC
Freeland
© Twitter/Sputnik News/Wyatt ReedFreeland’s ‘Nazi’ Banner Highlights Ukrainian Right Wing Party’s Role In Holocaust
University of Alberta Assistant Professor Dougal MacDonald raised hell on November 20, 2019 by writing in a personal Facebook post that the 1932-33 genocide of Ukrainians referred to as Holodomor was a "myth fabricated by Hitlerites".


Comment: Holodomor is a term derived from the Ukrainian words for hunger (holod) and extermination (mor).


If such remarks were made in most nations today, it wouldn't be such a big deal (as only 16 nations have chosen to recognize this event as an act of genocide rather than the tragic act of nature which MacDonald and countless eminent scholars maintain.)

Canada is not however "most nations", but has rather had the misfortune of hosting some of the most virulent groups of rabid ultra-right wing Ukrainian fascists who were transplanted into the Prairies and west coast by Anglo-American intelligence networks in the wake of WWII.

Today, many of these 2nd and 3rd generation Banderites control powerful institutions like the Ukrainian Congress of Canada (UCC) and have bred such confused and dangerous ideologues as Canada's own Deputy Prime Minister (and leading Rhodes Scholar) Chrystia Freeland who sees no shame in her grandfather's leading role as a Nazi collaborator in WW2 or in holding up right wing flags associated with the fascist Organization for Ukrainian Nationalists at a recent rally in Toronto.

Comment: The fact is, the famine was real, and not limited to Ukraine - though in Ukraine, it was ethnic Ukrainian communists who played the lead role in collectivization and grain confiscations.

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Eye 1

How the West was won: Counterinsurgency, PSYOPS and the military origins of the Internet, Part 1


The Cogent
Fri, 04 Mar 2022 00:00 UTC
Licklider
© HistoryofInformation.comJ.C.R. Licklider
Part 1: Look a Gift Horse in the Mouth

As the digital revolution was underway in the mid-nineties, research departments at the CIA and NSA were developing programs to predict the usefulness of the world wide web as a tool for capturing what they dubbed "birds of a feather" formations. That's when flocks of sparrows make sudden movements together in rhythmical patterns.

They were particularly interested in how these principles would influence the way that people would eventually move together on the burgeoning internet: Would groups and communities move together in the same way as 'birds of a feather, so that they could be tracked in an organised way? And if their movements could be indexed and recorded, could they be identified later by their digital fingerprints?

To answer these questions, the CIA and NSA established a series of initiatives called Massive Digital Data Systems (MDDS) to directly fund tech entrepreneurs through an inter-university disbursement program. Naming their first unclassified briefing for computer scientists 'birds of a feather,' which took place in San Jose in the spring of 1995.
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Network

How the West was won: Counterinsurgency, PSYOPS and the Military origins of the Internet, Part 2


The Cogent
Fri, 04 Mar 2022 00:00 UTC
DARPA
© Lifeboat Foundation
Continued from Part 1

Part 2: The War is Over, The Good Guys Lost

If insurgency is defined as an organised political struggle by a hostile minority, attempting to seize power through revolutionary means, then counterinsurgency is the military doctrine historically used against non-state actors, that sets out to infiltrate and eradicate those movements.

Unlike conventional soldiers, insurgents are considered dangerous, not because of their physical presence on the battlefield, but because of their ideology.

As David Galula, a French commander who was an expert in counterinsurgency warfare during the Algerian War, emphasised:
"In any situation, whatever the cause, there will be an active minority for the cause, a neutral majority, and an active minority against the cause. The technique of power consists in relying on the favourable minority in order to rally the neutral majority and to neutralise or eliminate the hostile minority."
Overtime, however, the intelligence state lost touch with reality, as the focus of its counterinsurgency programs shifted from foreign to domestic populations, from national security risks to ordinary citizens. Particularly in the wake of 9/11, when the NSA and its British counterpart, GCHQ, began mapping out the Internet.
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Colosseum

'Largest sacred pool in the Mediterranean' discovered to be aligned with the stars


Heritage Daily
Sat, 19 Mar 2022 12:15 UTC
sacred pool sicily
© AntiquityArchaeologists conducting a study on the Phoenician Island city of Motya, located off the coast of Sicily have identified that an artificial lake was a sacred pool aligned with the stars.
Motya, known today as San Pantaleo Island was a Phoenician port founded during the first Millenium BC in the Stagnone Lagoon between Drepanum (modern Trapani) and Lilybaeum (modern Marsala).

Archaeologists excavating a 2,500-year-old artificial basin, once identified as a military harbour called a Kothon during the 1920s is actually one of the largest sacred pools in the Mediterranean. The pool was added around 550 BC when the city was rebuilt after an attack by Carthage as a centrepiece of a massive religious sanctuary aligned with the stars.

Professor Nigro from Sapienza Università di Roma said: "For a century it was thought Motya's 'Kothon' was a harbour, but new excavations have drastically changed its interpretation: It was a sacred pool at the centre of a huge religious compound."

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The colored skeletons of Çatalhöyük reveal the burial practices of the 'oldest city in the world'

University of Bern
Science Direct
Sat, 19 Mar 2022 12:15 UTC
Çatalhöyük
© Marco MilellaSkeleton of a male individual aged between 35 and 50 years old with cinnabar painting on the cranium.
An international team with participation of the University of Bern provides new insights about how the inhabitants of the "oldest city in the world" in Çatalhöyük (Turkey) buried their dead. Their bones were partially painted, excavated several times and reburied. The findings provide insight into the burial rituals of a fascinating society that lived 9000 years ago.

Çatalhöyük (Central Anatolia, Turkey) is one of the most important archaeological sites in the Near East, with an occupation that dates back to 9000 years ago. This Neolithic settlement, known as the world's oldest city, covers an area of 13ha and features densely aggregated mudbrick buildings. The houses of Çatalhöyük present the archaeological traces of ritual activities including intramural burials with some skeletons bearing traces of colorants, and wall paintings.

Comment: Çatalhöyük was occupied for thousands of years and went through a number of incarnations and so it would be interesting to know whether these findings were consistent or whether it was limited to the period mentioned, and what inspired the shifts: Also check out SOTT radio's:


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