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Dominoes

Today's Emergency Act, and Anti-Russian false flags echo the Gouzenko Hoax that unleashed the Cold War

Matthew Ehret
matthewehret.substack.com
Tue, 22 Feb 2022 00:00 UTC
five eyes
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Today, a new coordinated psychological operation has been sprung to convince every living patriot across the Five Eyes sphere of influence that the enemy of the free world who lurks behind every conspiracy to overthrow governments, and western values are Russia and China.

Over the past months, slanderous, and often conjectural stories of Chinese and Russian subversion has repeatedly been fed to a gullible western audience desperate for an enemy image to attach to their realization that an obvious long-term conspiracy has been unleashed to destroy their lives. While the left has been fed with propaganda designed to convince them that this enemy has taken the form of the Kremlin, the conservative consumers of media have been fed with the narrative that the enemy is China.

The reality is that both Russia and China together have a bond of principled survival upon which the entire multipolar order is based. It is this alliance which the actual controllers of today's empire wish to both destroy and ensure no western nation joins...especially not the USA.
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Archaeology

5,300-yo skull offers earliest known evidence of ear surgery

Jane Recker
Smithsonian Magazine
Thu, 24 Feb 2022 19:09 UTC
ancient ear surgery skull
© Scientific ReportsArchaeologists found a 5,300 year old skull, possibly from an elderly woman, that showed signs of early ear surgery.
Some 5,300 years ago, humans in what is now northern Spain cut into an elderly woman's skull, likely in an effort to relieve her ear pain. Now, reports Judith Sudilovsky for the Jerusalem Post, archaeologists say the woman's skull represents the earliest known evidence of ear surgery.

Published in the journal Scientific Reports, the study centers on a skull discovered in 2018 among the remains of around 100 people in a large, single-chamber tomb called the Dolmen of El Pendón. The tomb — made up of two upright stones supporting a flat, horizontal stone — is located in Reinoso, a town in the Spanish province of Burgos, and remained in use between roughly 3800 and 3000 B.C.E., notes Vishwam Sankaran for the Independent.
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Info

Archaeologists discover ritual hunt site in Jordan from 7,000 BCE

Mary Manley
Sputnik News
Thu, 24 Feb 2022 07:49 UTC
Ancient Artifacts
© REUTERS / MUATH FREIJTwo statues uncovered by archaeologists in the southeastern Jordanian desert are pictured during a news conference in Amman, Jordan February 22, 2022.
A team of French and Jordanian archaeologists made an exciting discovery on Tuesday when they unearthed a ritual hunting site that is roughly 9,000 years old. The team found over 250 artifacts that have led them to believe neolithic humans' hunting strategies were much more advanced than previously thought.

"This is a unique site where large quantities of gazelles were hunted in complex rituals. It has no rival in the world from the Stone Age," said Wael Abu-Azizeh, the co-director of the South Eastern Badia Archaeological Project (SEBAP). The crew has been working on the site since 2013.The archeologists found traps made for hunting gazelles, made up of long converging stone walls meant to trap the gazelles so that they could be killed more easily.

These structures are referred to as "desert kites", or mass traps, and though there are many found throughout deserts in the Middle East and southwest Asia. Archaeologists say these are the oldest, largest, and best preserved.

"The site is unique, first because of its preservation state," said Abu-Azizeh. "It's 9,000 years old and everything was almost intact."

Also found on the site were two carved standing stones both with images of human-like figures. One of which is accompanied by the neolithic hunters' interpretation of their desert kite, as well as an altar, hearth, and marine shells.
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Blue Planet

How early Africans lived, traveled and interacted revealed in ancient DNA

Rice University
Phys.org
Wed, 23 Feb 2022 12:00 UTC
Rockshelter
© Jacob Davis.Hora Rockshelter in Malawi, where recent excavations uncovered two of the individuals analyzed in a collaborative study of ancient DNA.
A new analysis of human remains that were buried in African archaeological sites has produced the earliest DNA from the continent, telling a fascinating tale of how early humans lived, traveled and even found their significant others.

An interdisciplinary team of 44 researchers outlined its findings in "Ancient DNA reveals deep population structure in sub-Saharan African foragers." The paper was published today in Nature and reports findings from ancient DNA from six individuals buried in Malawi, Tanzania and Zambia who lived between 18,000 and 5,000 years ago.

"This more than doubles the antiquity of reported ancient DNA data from sub-Saharan Africa," said David Reich, a professor at Harvard University and investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute whose lab generated the data in the paper. "The study is particularly exciting as a truly equal collaboration of archaeologists and geneticists."
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Document

Documents reveal US gov't spent $22M promoting anti-Russia narrative in Ukraine and abroad

Alan Macleod
MintPress News
Fri, 18 Feb 2022 00:00 UTC
Ukrainians
© Efrem Lukatsky/APUkrainians attend a rally in central Kiev, Ukraine, Feb. 12, 2022, during a protest against the potential escalation of the tension between Russia and Ukraine.
Amid soaring tensions with Russia, the United States is spending a fortune on foreign interference campaigns in Ukraine. Washington's regime-change arm, the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), has spent $22.4 million on operations inside the country since 2014, when democratically-elected President Viktor Yanukovych was overthrown and replaced by a successor government handpicked by the U.S. Those operations included propping up and training pro-Western political parties, funding pliant media organizations, and subsidizing massive privatization drives that benefit foreign multinational corporations, all in an effort to secure U.S. control over the country that NED President Carl Gershman called "the biggest prize" in Europe.

Demwashing the CIA

The National Endowment for Democracy was set up in 1983 by the Reagan administration after a series of public scandals had seriously undermined both the credibility and the public image of the CIA. That the organization was established and continues to function as a cutout group doing much of the agency's dirtiest work is not in question. "It would be terrible for democratic groups around the world to be seen as subsidized by the CIA," Gershman himself said, explaining its creation. "A lot of what we do today was done covertly 25 years ago by the CIA," NED cofounder Allen Weinstein told The Washington Post in 1991.
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Archaeology

Huge Roman mosaic unearthed in London in 'once-in-a-lifetime find'


The Independent
Tue, 22 Feb 2022 18:15 UTC
roman mosaic london
© MOLAArchaeologists said the discovery comes form ‘the heyday of Roman London’
The discovery is evidence of wealthy Romans 'living the good life', say archaeologists

Archaeologists working on a site in Southwark Street have uncovered the largest area of Roman mosaic to be discovered in London for half a century.

The precious tile work from "the heyday of Roman London" was discovered at a building site near the Shard in Southwark.

It once decorated the floor of a Roman dining room, experts believe.

Flowers and geometric patterns adorn the two embellished panels, which are thought to be almost 2,000 years old.
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Books

"The most fateful error": Why isn't America listening to the advice on NATO expansion of its foremost 20th century expert on Russia?


RT
Tue, 22 Feb 2022 22:47 UTC
George Kennan
"Expanding NATO would be the most fateful error of American policy in the entire post-Cold War era," George Kennan said
The US diplomat George Kennan, an astute observer of Soviet Russia under Stalin, offered his observations later in life on the question of NATO expansion. The tragedy of our times is that those views are being ignored.

Winston Churchill once famously quipped that the "Americans will always do the right thing, but only after all other possibilities are exhausted." That bit of dry British humor cuts to the heart of the current crisis in Ukraine, which is loaded with enough geopolitical dynamite to bring down a sizable chunk of the neighborhood. Yet, had the West taken the advice of one of its leading statesmen with regards to reckless military expansion toward Russia, the world would be a more peaceful and predictable place today.
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Pharoah

King Tut's ancient dagger was not from Egypt

Bob Yirka
Phys Org
Tue, 22 Feb 2022 17:32 UTC
King Tut's Dagger
© Wikimedia / Olaf Tausch, CC BY 3.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0)
A combined team of researchers from Japan and Egypt has found evidence that suggests a dagger found in King Tut's tomb had origins outside of Egypt. In their paper published in the journal Meteoritics & Planetary Science, the group describes their study of the dagger and also of the Amarna Letters tablets and what they learned by doing so.

When archaeologists opened King Tut's tomb in the early 1900s, they found among other things a dagger with an iron blade. The finding was interesting because the Iron Age had not yet started. Humans had not yet learned how to heat native iron to sufficient temperatures for smelting. Thus, it was assumed the dagger blade had been made by pounding metal from a meteorite found somewhere nearby. Humans were making many implements from iron from meteorites thousands of years before the beginning of the Iron Age, thus the finding in Tut's tomb was not that unusual.
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Colosseum

Why have so many English medieval works been lost whilst many Irish and Icelandic survived?

University of Oxford
Phys.org
Thu, 17 Feb 2022 15:27 UTC
suit armour
© Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain
New research released today finds that while the Knights of the Round Table have won global fame, most medieval English heroic or chivalric stories have been lost. Meanwhile, more than three quarters of medieval stories in Icelandic and Irish survive to the present, in an unusual pattern suggesting island "ecosystems" helped preserve culture.

The findings come from an international research team, including Oxford experts, which has applied statistical models used in ecology to estimate the loss and survival of precious artifacts and narratives from different parts of Europe. This ecological approach offers a new perspective on the loss of cultural heritage, complementing past research. Their findings are published in the journal Science, with Mike Kestemont (University of Antwerp) and Folgert Karsdorp (KNAW Meertens Institute) as the main authors.

Comment: Is it possible that some of these missing manuscripts - English or otherwise - were intentionally destroyed, and still more weren't lost, they simply never existed in the first place?

Laura Knight-Jadczyk in Dark Ages and Inquisitions, Ancient and Modern - Or Why Things are Such a Mess On Our Planet and Humanity is on the Verge of Extinction writes:
Regarding the idea that ancient manuscripts were created out of whole cloth to support the questions of the thinkers of the Renaissance, as Europe emerged from the Dark Ages, I agree that this is certainly possible - even probable. The question is: was there some sort of memory of that ancient time that infused these ideas with life? Lee McIntyre writes:
The Dark Ages are one of the most intriguing periods of human history. They mark a nearly 600-year blank spot in the progress of human civilization in which the knowledge of antiquity almost completely disappeared from the West. It was a time when few people received any sort of education whatsoever, and life was governed by the superstitions and fears fueled by ignorance. (McIntyre, 2006)
Do any of us really 'remember' anything from 500 years ago other than what we are taught in history classes? Is there some kind of 'folk memory' of the Renaissance itself, for example? No, probably not. Can we rely on the story we are told about this, that some ancient manuscripts survived here and there? Possibly. But scientific analyses of these documents makes their provenance very questionable. Form criticism and other techniques also raise troubling questions about them. It's probably safer to just think that the thinkers of the Renaissance came to these ideas themselves - brute force cogitation - and the alleged ancient sources that 'thought the same things, asked the same questions' were just cooked up to give traditional validity to ideas that were in contradiction to the views of reality promoted by the Roman Church.
See also: And check out SOTT radio's: Behind the Headlines: Who was Jesus? Examining the evidence that Christ may in fact have been Caesar!

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Arrow Up

UK commanders in Ukraine met neo-Nazi-linked national guard to 'deepen military cooperation'

Matt Kennard
Declassified UK
Tue, 15 Feb 2022 00:00 UTC
Brits in Kyiv
© NGUBritish commanders meet with senior officials from Ukraine’s National Guard in Kyiv
September 2021
Ukraine's National Guard says that in meeting last year the UK military agreed to start training its forces, which include a thousand-strong neo-Nazi unit. The UK Ministry of Defence disputes the claim.

Details and photos of the meeting in the capital, Kyiv, were posted in Ukrainian on the website of Ukraine's National Guard (NGU) last year.

Declassified understands the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) believed the September 2021 meeting to be private and should not have been publicised. There is no mention of the meeting in any UK records that are publicly available.

Three British commanders of Operation Orbital - the UK military's training mission in Ukraine - are pictured, alongside three NGU officers. They sit around a table taking notes. The MoD refused to give Declassified the names of the UK personnel who attended the meeting, citing operational and personnel security issues. However, the NGU report names Lt Col Andy Cox, deputy commander of Orbital, while two other British officers are pictured, one with his name tag prominently displayed.

Orbital, which was launched in 2015, has so far only trained Ukraine's regular armed forces. Expanding it to include the National Guard would be controversial due to sensitivities around the far-right sympathies of some of its units.
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