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The dubious paternity of Ukraine's modern borders

David Stockman
Contra Corner blog
Thu, 17 Feb 2022 17:05 UTC
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We do think, however, that the entire Ukrainian crisis is a Washington-confected con job. And we came to that conclusion without relying on a single scrap of information peddled by Russki propagandists appearing on Strategic Culture Foundation or Zero Hedge.


Comment: Neither of the sites he refers to are 'Russki propagandists'. But it's telling that even analysts who buy parts of the mainstream narrative see clearly through US lies.


Actually, we thought it up all by our lonesome! Well, we'll grant we did have a fair amount of help from Google, which insofar as we know works for the CIA, not the Russian SVR (foreign intelligence service).

In any event, at the very center of the crisis is the Washington claim that the rule of law and the sanctity of sovereign borders are on the line in Ukraine and that, therefore, Russia must not be allowed to encroach a single inch into sacrosanct Ukrainian territory.

Comment: For further insight into Ukraine and its recent history, see: The Saker interviews Dmitry Orlov

See also: What Poland Has to Hide About The Origins of World War II

Also check out SOTT radio's: NewsReal: Ukraine Gambit - US Attempting to Destroy Russia



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Better Earth

Incredible 5,000-year-old stone 'drum' found in prehistoric grave of 'cuddling' children

Chris Jewers
Daily Mail
Fri, 11 Feb 2022 02:03 UTC
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The 5,000-year-old grave for three children, buried in an embrace with the eldest child holding the two youngest - whose hands were also touching - was unearthed in 2015 along with a carved stone drum, a chalk ball and a polished bone pin (pictured)
The discovery of an ancient burial ground where children were placed with sentimental objects by their parents has been hailed by the British Museum as the 'most important' discovery of pre-historic art in Britain in over a century.

The 5,000-year-old grave holding three children, buried in an embrace with the eldest child holding the two youngest — whose hands were also touching — was unearthed in 2015 in Burton Agnes, in East Yorkshire.

Archaeologists also discovered a carved stone drum, a chalk ball and a polished bone pin, with the 'talismanic' drum in particular being celebrated for its significance.

Seemingly created as a sculpture or talisman rather than a functional musical instrument, the object is one of only four known examples from a time when Stonehenge was only just starting to be built.


Comment: There's good reason to believe that Stonehenge is actually thousands of years older.


Comment: See also: And check out SOTT radio's:


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This ancient Roman ceramic pot was probably a portable toilet, study finds

Jennifer Ouellette
Ars Technica
Sat, 12 Feb 2022 11:19 UTC
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Rim fragments of a chamber pot being excavated at a Roman villa site in Sicily.
Ancient Roman archaeological sites are littered with ceramic pots, and it can be challenging to definitively determine the purpose of any given pot — for instance, if it was used for storage or as a portable toilet (chamber pot). Researchers from the University of Cambridge and the University of British Columbia have now analyzed the residue on one such ceramic pot and identified the eggs of intestinal parasitic worms commonly found in feces, according to a new paper published in the journal Archaeological Science Reports. That's strong evidence that the 1,500-year-old pot in question was most likely used as a chamber pot.

"Conical pots of this type have been recognized quite widely in the Roman Empire, and in the absence of other evidence, they have often been called storage jars," said co-author Roger Wilson of the University of British Columbia. "The discovery of many in or near public latrines had led to a suggestion that they might have been used as chamber pots, but until now, proof has been lacking."


Comment: This discovery just demonstrates how patchy our understanding of life in the past really is.


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Preventing third WW: Corporate driving forces behind the crisis in Ukraine are the same ones for World Wars I, II

Paul Anthony Taylot
Dr. Rath Health Foundation
Fri, 11 Feb 2022 00:00 UTC
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© UnknownUS President Biden • Ukrainian President Zelensky • French President Macron
Poland Andrzej Duda • German Chancellor Olaf Scholz • Polish leader Andrzej Duda
It is no coincidence that the escalation of the crisis in Ukraine comes at a time when, just as the world begins to transition away from polluting fossil fuels, soaring energy prices are forcing millions of people to choose between putting food on the table and heating their homes. Neither is it coincidental that the escalation towards war coincides with experimental mRNA- and DNA-based COVID-19 vaccines directing skyrocketing profits into the bulging pockets of the pharmaceutical industry.

It is already clear that a global transition away from fossil fuels will decimate the current business models of oil and gas producers. But what is less well understood is that the profits of the pharmaceutical industry are now equally at threat. Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, drug company business models were on the brink of terminal decline. By 2018, researchers examining the industry were predicting that decreasing success rates in new drug development, rising clinical trial costs, and increasing competition from cheaper generic manufacturers could soon combine to result in pharmaceutical production no longer being a profitable business.

Couple this with a growing awareness of the potential risks and proven dangers of today's experimental COVID-19 vaccines, and the fact that effective, safe, non-patentable approaches to controlling infectious diseases, cardiovascular diseases, and cancer with vitamins and other natural substances now exist, and it becomes crystal clear that a viable transition away from pharmaceutical-based medicine lies ahead. Just like their counterparts in the oil and gas industries, however, the business models of drug companies would be decimated by such a development.

This possibility makes the crisis in Ukraine all the more dangerous, as history shows us that oil and drug companies have in the past had close links to the perpetration of global wars.
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Solar tsunami hit Earth 9,200 years ago

Thomas A. Dobbins
Sky & Telescope
Fri, 11 Feb 2022 18:33 UTC
Scientists examining ancient ice cores have found radioactive evidence of an extreme solar storm that took place in 7,176 BCE.
Solar Flare

An international team of researchers announced the discovery of fallout from an extreme solar storm entombed in ancient ice. The fact that the outburst occurred during a time when the Sun ought to have been quiet may be even more alarming than the storm's magnitude.

Ice cores are long cylinders drilled from ice sheets and glaciers, frozen time capsules that allow scientists to reconstruct events in the distant past. The accumulating weight of each year's snowfall compresses previous layers of snow, forming dense glacial ice that contains trapped gases, aerosols, and particles. The thick ice sheets in Antarctica and Greenland provide exceptionally well-preserved and detailed records of a variety of events that occurred up to 800,000 years ago — including variations in the level of solar activity.

When energetic charged particles strike atoms in the upper atmosphere, they produce three radioactive isotopes: carbon-14 (half-life 5,700 years), beryllium-10 (half-life 1.4 million years), and chlorine-36 (half-life 300,000 years). The production rate of these cosmogenic isotopes depends on the intensity of cosmic radiation, though the strength of Earth's magnetic field, which can deflect many charged particles, also plays a role.
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Arrow Up

Black Death mortality not as widespread as long thought


Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
Thu, 10 Feb 2022 18:12 UTC
Pollen data from 19 modern European countries reveals that parts of Europe experienced negligible or no impact at all.
Europe during Black Death

A new study uses pollen data to evaluate the mortality caused by the medieval plague at a regional scale across Europe. Results show that the impacts of the Black Death varied substantially from region to region and demonstrate the importance of cross-disciplinary approaches for understanding past - and present - pandemics.

The Black Death, which plagued Europe, West Asia and North Africa from 1347-1352, is the most infamous pandemic in history. Historians have estimated that up to 50 percent of Europe's population died during the pandemic and credit the Black Death with transforming religious and political structures, even precipitating major cultural and economic transformations such as the Renaissance. Although ancient DNA research has identified Yersinia pestis as the Black Death's causative agent and even traced its evolution across millennia, data on the plague's demographic impacts is still underexplored and little understood.

Now, a new study demonstrates that the Black Death's mortality in Europe was not as universal or as widespread as long thought. An international team of researchers, led by the Palaeo-Science and History group at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, analyzed pollen samples from 261 sites in 19 modern-day European countries to determine how landscapes and agricultural activity changed between 1250 and 1450 CE - roughly 100 years before to 100 years after the pandemic. Their analysis supports the devastation experienced by some European regions, but also shows that the Black Death did not impact all regions equally.
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Bizarro Earth

'They used axes to spare the ammo': How modern Ukraine's Nazi heroes massacred civilians during WWII


RT
Thu, 10 Feb 2022 09:55 UTC
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© archiwa.gov.plTens of thousands innocent Poles were massacred in Volyn. To this day, the torturers are still not condemned
The Second World War is usually seen as a confrontation between giant military alliances. However, in reality, many smaller separate conflicts unfolded within this epic war, and the struggle between peoples and countries was often conducted without compromise or mercy. One of the darkest and least-known pages of the Second World War is the Volyn massacre - an ethnic cleansing carried out by pro-Nazi Ukrainian nationalist groups in the Volyn region, which is now almost entirely part of Ukraine.

Volhynia has historically been a border zone. These swampy forests were part of Russia in the Middle Ages and later became part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth - the Polish state in its heyday. The partitioning of Poland brought Volhynia into the Russian Empire. After the First World War, the Bolshevik Revolution, and the Russian Civil War, Volhynia was once again part of an independent Poland. In short, this region, although a bit of a backwater, has changed hands often.

Comment: Notably similarly insidious elements are still present and hold great sway in modern day Ukraine: West turns a blind eye to march honoring Nazis in Kiev: Ukraine may not be a fascist state, but it has a fascism problem

See also: And check out SOTT radio's: MindMatters: Mr. Jones and the 'Holodomor' Red Pill - What Happened During Stalin's Famine?



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Evidence of Europe's first homo sapiens found in French cave

Ewen Callaway
Nature
Wed, 09 Feb 2022 19:22 UTC
Stone artefacts and tooth pre-date the earliest known evidence of the species in Europe by more than 10,000 years.
Excavations at the Grotte Mandrin
© Ludovic SlimakExcavations at the Grotte Mandrin rock shelter uncovered stone tools, animal bones and hominin teeth.
Archaeologists have found evidence that Europe's first Homo sapiens lived briefly in a rock shelter in southern France — before mysteriously vanishing.

A study published on 9 February in Science Advances1 argues that distinctive stone tools and a lone child's tooth were left by Homo sapiens during a short stay, some 54,000 years ago — and not by Neanderthals, who lived in the rock shelter for thousands of years before and after that time.

The Homo sapiens occupation, which researchers estimate lasted for just a few decades, pre-dates the previous earliest known evidence of the species in Europe by around 10,000 years.

But some researchers are not so sure that the stone tools or tooth were left by Homo sapiens. "I find the evidence less than convincing," says William Banks, a palaeolithic archaeologist at the French national research agency CNRS and the University of Bordeaux.
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Bad Guys

Northern Ireland police were involved in 'collusive behaviours' in 11 loyalist murders during the Troubles, Ombudsman finds

James Gant
Daily Mail
Tue, 08 Feb 2022 00:02 UTC
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Family of those killed during the Troubles by loyalist paramilitaries in south Belfast pose together
Northern Ireland police were involved in 'collusive behaviours' over loyalist paramilitary murders during the Troubles, an investigation has found.

Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland Marie Anderson said she was 'deeply concerned' by the scale and scope of the failings she had uncovered in her probe.

She was looking into murders and attempted murders carried out by the Ulster Defence Association in south Belfast in the 1990s.

Eight loyalist attacks attributed to the UDA or its Ulster Freedom Fighters cover name were examined in the 344-page report published today.

Eleven people were murdered in the attacks, including five who lost their lives in the Sean Graham bookmakers atrocity on the Ormeau Road in February 1992.

Comment: See also: And check out SOTT radio's:

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Mass graves mystery shows the danger of the politics of hysteria

Frank Furedi
RT
Mon, 07 Feb 2022 15:08 UTC
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© AFP/Cole BurstonKamloops Indian Residential School
When the anthropologist Sarah Beaulieu reported that she had found 215 unmarked graves near Kamloops Indian Residential School in British Columbia last year, the story caused a sensation. A wave of hysteria engulfed the Canadian media and political landscape. But eight months later, mystery surrounds the case, as not a single body has been found - and it is unclear if there are any plans for excavation.

What Beaulieu's ground-penetrating radar scan found were 215 areas that showed soil disturbances such as tree roots, metal and stones - but not bodies. One bone and a tooth were discovered, but she acknowledged at the time that without conducting a proper forensic investigation no "definitive" conclusions could be drawn. Nevertheless, the media and the political class were quick to characterise what had been found as mass graves.

Soon it was claimed that Kamloops Indian Residential School was implicated in an act of genocide against First Nation People. Some moral crusaders presented the discovery as integral to the colonisation of Canada by Europeans. From their perspective, the history of Canada is a story of systematic genocide against the native population. The Catholic Church, which ran Kamloops and other residential schools for First Nation children, became the target of media hostility.
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