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The Origins of the Deep State in North America Part II

Matthew Ehret
The Duran
Fri, 10 May 2019 16:09 UTC
Chrystia Freeland
Part two: Milner's Perversion Takes over Canada.

"As between the three possibilities of the future: 1. Closer Imperial Union, 2. Union with the U.S. and 3. Independence, I believe definitely that No. 2 is the real danger. I do not think the Canadians themselves are aware of it... they are wonderfully immature in political reflection on the big issues, and hardly realize how powerful the influences are... On the other hand, I see little danger to ultimate imperial unity in Canadian 'nationalism'. On the contrary I think the very same sentiment makes a great many especially of the younger Canadians vigorously, and even bumptuously , assertive of their independence, proud and boastful of the greatness and future of their country, and so forth, would lend themselves, tactfully handled, to an enthusiastic acceptance of Imperial unity on the basis of 'partner-states'. This tendency is, therefore, in my opinion rather to be encouraged, not only as safeguard against 'Americanization', but as actually making, in the long run, for a Union of 'all the Britains'." [1]

-Lord Alfred Milner, 1909


Comment: Part I: The Origins of the Deep State in North America

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Rare manuscript found reveals massive archive of 16th century books that are now lost

Stefan Andrews
The Vintage News
Fri, 19 Apr 2019 15:52 UTC
old books and manuscripts
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Hernando Colón (anglicized to Ferdinand Columbus) was born in 1488 to explorer Christopher Columbus, or Cristóbal Colón in Spanish, and his mistress Beatriz Enriquez de Arana. Although an out-of-wedlock child, Colón was recognized by his father. Like father like son, Colón also had a project which was larger than life.

While Columbus was exploring the oceans and pursuing a quest to find the New World, his son was avidly trying to read every book he could lay hands on. In fact, he aimed "to create a universal library 'containing all books, in all languages and on all subjects, that can be found both within Christendom and without'," according to the Guardian.

For his zealous effort, Colón even hired a fleet of scholars to go through the books he owned, asking them to produce quick summaries for what would be a ground-breaking 16-volume manuscript with cross-references to other items in the library collection. He would personally proofread and edit each of those summaries before submitting them to the manuscript.
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Mystery surrounds circa-1200s Spanish coins found in Utah desert

Luke Andrews
The Daily Mail
Thu, 09 May 2019 18:49 UTC
ancient spanish coin
© Pen NewsThe oldest coin found, which has been tentatively dated to the 1200s
Spanish treasure that predates the arrival of Columbus by 200 years has been found in a US national park.

The two coins, one minted in Madrid in 1660 and the other made around the 1200s, were found lying on the floor at Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, Utah. Their presence in the desert remains unexplained and no information has been released about whether they were found with other artifacts.

Spanish explorers arrived in Mexico in the 1500s and began exploring north, although there is no record of them being in America at the time the coins were made.
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Treasure Chest

Prittlewell: Stunning artefacts discovered in Anglo-Saxon nobleman's burial chamber in Southend-on-Sea, England

Mark Brown
Guardian
Thu, 09 May 2019 00:01 UTC
Prittlewell burial
© Joe Giddens/PAConservator Claire Reed inspects the remains of a wooden drinking vessel with a decorated gold neck found in the Prittlewell burial chamber. Photograph:
An Anglo-Saxon burial chamber found on a grassy verge next to a busy road and not far from an Aldi is being hailed as Britain's equivalent of Tutankhamun's tomb.

Archaeologists on Thursday will reveal the results of years of research into the burial site of a rich, powerful Anglo-Saxon man found at Prittlewell in Southend-on-Sea, Essex.

When it was first discovered in 2003, jaws dropped at how intact the chamber was. But it is only now, after years of painstaking investigation by more than 40 specialists, that a fuller picture of the extraordinary nature of the find is emerging.

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Until that point in time, the Britons had held control of post-Roman Britain, keeping the Anglo-Saxons isolated and suppressed. After the Romans were gone, the Britons maintained the status quo, living in towns, with elected officials, and carrying on trade with the empire. After AD 536, the year reported as the "death of Arthur", the Britons, the ancient Cymric empire that at one time had stretched from Cornwall in the south to Strathclyde in the north, all but disappeared, and were replaced by Anglo-Saxons. There is much debate among scholars as to whether the Anglo-Saxons killed all of the Britons, or assimilated them. Here we must consider that they were victims of possibly many overhead cometary explosions which wiped out most of the population of Europe, plunging it into the Dark Ages which were, apparently, really DARK, atmospherically speaking.
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Archaeologists unearth largest Mayan figurine factory to date

Lizzie Wade
ScienceMag.com
Thu, 18 Apr 2019 11:05 UTC
mayan figurine factory
© Brent Woodfill
Archaeologists working in Guatemala have discovered the largest known figurine workshop in the Mayan world, they announced at the Society for American Archaeology meeting here last week. The workshop, buried for more than 1000 years, made intricate, mass-produced figurines that likely figured heavily in Mayan political customs.

Finding the workshop was a stroke of luck: Brent Woodfill, an archaeologist at Winthrop University in Rock Hill, South Carolina, learned about it from friends in Cobán, Guatemala, who were doing construction on their property. A few months later, Woodfill and colleagues excavated the site, called Aragón, and surveyed it with a drone. Although the workshop was destroyed by the construction, archaeologists were able to recover more than 400 fragments of figurines and the molds for making them (above), as well as thousands of ceramic pieces-more than at any other known Mayan workshop.

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Better Earth

Abrupt climate change 8,000 years ago led to dramatic population decline in South American

University College London
Phys.org
Thu, 09 May 2019 10:34 UTC
south america
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Abrupt climate change some 8,000 years ago led to a dramatic decline in early South American populations, suggests new UCL research.

The study, published in Scientific Reports, is the first to demonstrate how widespread the decline was and the scale at which population decline took place 8,000 to 6,000 years ago.

"Archaeologists working in South America have broadly known that some 8,200 years ago, inhabited sites in various places across the continent were suddenly abandoned. In our study we wanted to connect the dots between disparate records that span the Northern Andes, through the Amazon, to the southern tip of Patagonia and all areas in between," said lead author, Dr. Philip Riris (UCL Institute of Archaeology).

"Unpredictable levels of rainfall, particularly in the tropics, appear to have had a negative impact on pre-Columbian populations until 6,000 years ago, after which recovery is evident. This recovery appears to correlate with cultural practices surrounding tropical plant management and early crop cultivation, possibly acting as buffers when wild resources were less predictable," added Dr. Riris.

Comment: It's quite clear that dramatic fluctuations in climate have occurred frequently, even in our recent past, and, along with it, the rise and fall of civilisations: Also check out SOTT radio's: Behind the Headlines: Earth changes in an electric universe: Is climate change really man-made?

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Why did orienting maps to the north become standard?

Nick Danforth
Al Jazeera
Tue, 07 May 2019 17:16 UTC
upside down world map
© FlickrMcArthur’s Universal Corrective Map of the World.
Why do maps always show the north as up? For those who don't just take it for granted, the common answer is that Europeans made the maps and they wanted to be on top. But there's really no good reason for the north to claim top-notch cartographic real estate over any other bearing, as an examination of old maps from different places and periods can confirm.

The profound arbitrariness of our current cartographic conventions was made evident by McArthur's Universal Corrective Map of the World, an iconic "upside down" view of the world that recently celebrated its 35th anniversary. Launched by Australian Stuart McArthur on Jan. 26, 1979 (Australia Day, naturally), this map is supposed to challenge our casual acceptance of European perspectives as global norms. But seen today with the title "Australia: No Longer Down Under," it's hard not to wonder why the upside-down map, for all its subversiveness, wasn't called "Botswana: Back Where It Belongs" or perhaps "Paraguay Paramount!"
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Mass grave reveals ancestry, kinship, and violence in Neolithic Poland

National Academy of Sciences
Popular Archeology
Mon, 06 May 2019 12:00 UTC
mass neoilithic grave poland
© Piotr WodarczakThe Late Neolithic mass grave at Koszyce, Poland.
Researchers present evidence of Neolithic kinship and violence based on remains from a mass grave in Poland. The Bronze Age began in the third millennium BCE.

The Globular Amphora culture existed during this time in Europe, but little is known about their relations with the neighboring Corded Ware culture.

Hannes Schroeder, Niels N. Johannsen, Morten E. Allentoft, and colleagues sequenced the genomes of 15 individuals found in a mass grave excavated in Koszyce, Poland, that dates to approximately 2880-2776 BCE.

Analyses revealed that the individuals were part of an extended family, with most of the remains belonging to mothers and children.

The authors found that mothers were placed next to their children, and siblings were placed next to each other within the grave. Older males and fathers appeared to be missing from the grave. All bodies exhibited injuries and cranial fractures that likely occurred around the time of death, suggesting death by blows to the head.

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Plague and climate change devastated fading Byzantine empire

Mindy Weisberger
Live Science
Mon, 25 Mar 2019 15:59 UTC
byzantine mosiac
© ShutterstockClimate change trashed the Byzantine Empire, ancient garbage mounds revealed.
About a century before the fall of the Byzantine Empire - the eastern portion of the vast Roman Empire - signs of its impending doom were written in garbage.

Archaeologists recently investigated accumulated refuse in trash mounds at a Byzantine settlement called Elusa in Israel's Negev Desert. They found that the age of the trash introduced an intriguing new timeline for the Byzantine decline, scientists reported in a new study. [The Holy Land: 7 Amazing Archaeological Finds]

The researchers discovered that trash disposal - once a well-organized and reliable service in outpost cities like Elusa - ceased around the middle of the sixth century, about 100 years prior to the empire's collapse. At that time, a climate event known as the Late Antique Little Ice Age was taking hold in the Northern Hemisphere, and an epidemic known as the Justinian plague raged through the Roman Empire, eventually killing over 100 million people.

Comment: For more on the events surrounding the 6th Century: And for fascinating insight into Justinian's rule, see: Truth or Lies Part 8 Procopius: Secret History

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Bolivia shaman's bag contained various psychotropic drugs, including coke

Michelle Starr
Science Alert
Mon, 06 May 2019 22:56 UTC
Shaman's Bag
© Miller et al., PNAS, 2019The leather bag and its contents.
Native American shamans living in South America 1,000 years ago had quite the pharmacopoeia in their toolkits. A shaman's bag found in Bolivia contained a special pouch with traces of multiple psychotropic plants inside, as well as a pretty impressive assembly of paraphernalia.

In addition to the pouch, stitched together from three fox snouts, the leather bag contained two wooden tablets for grinding psychotropic plants into snuff, two bone spatulas, a woven headband, and a tube with two human hair braids attached, for smoking hallucinogenic plants.

"We already knew that psychotropics were important in the spiritual and religious activities of the societies of the south-central Andes, but we did not know that these people were using so many different compounds and possibly combining them together," said anthropologist Jose Capriles of Penn State.

"This is the largest number of psychoactive substances ever found in a single archaeological assemblage from South America."

Throughout history, humans around the world have used plant-based substances to alter perception, often in religious or ritual contexts. Discerning what these plants were, and how they were used, can tell us a lot about what ancient humans knew about plants, and which plants were culturally important.
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