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Archeologists using laser scans discover ancient 'lost' city built by the Purépecha in western Mexico

Nicola Davis
The Guardian
Thu, 15 Feb 2018 11:15 UTC

Groundbreaking lidar scanning reveals the true scale of Angamuco, built by the Purépecha from about 900AD

Archaeology might evoke thoughts of intrepid explorers and painstaking digging, but in fact researchers say it is a high-tech laser mapping technique that is rewriting the textbooks at an unprecedented rate.

The approach, known as light detection and ranging scanning (lidar) involves directing a rapid succession of laser pulses at the ground from an aircraft.

The time and wavelength of the pulses reflected by the surface are combined with GPS and other data to produce a precise, three-dimensional map of the landscape. Crucially, the technique probes beneath foliage - useful for areas where vegetation is dense.

Earlier this month researchers revealed it had been used to discover an ancient Mayan city within the dense jungles of Guatemala, while it has also helped archaeologists to map the city of Caracol - another Mayan metropolis.

Now, researchers have used the technique to reveal the full extent of an ancient city in western Mexico, about a half an hour's drive from Morelia, built by rivals to the Aztecs.

Crimean bridge builders unearth spectacular archaeological find

Ed Peters
Russia Insider
Fri, 16 Feb 2018 04:39 UTC

"it's the largest archaeological dig in the history of Russia."

While in the process of building the Crimean Bridge, construction workers discovered a previously unknown Greek settlement.

Archeological finds show that Slavs have been living in Crimea for five milennia.

The site has turned out to be a treasure trove of artifacts. The following clip taken from a Russian news agency with transcript below shows some of these amazing finds.

Sorry, not everyone felt that way: Racism, rationalization and the potential of white allyship

Tim Wise
Medium
Sun, 11 Feb 2018 00:01 UTC

I remember when I was a kid how my maternal grandmother would defend Richard Nixon for the crimes of Watergate. As she put it, "He didn't do anything that every other president didn't also do."

It's an easily manifested suspicion I suppose - not altogether incorrect - given the commonality of misconduct in high places. And surely it's the kind of thing we'll be hearing a lot more of in years to come, after the presidency of the human cynicism factory known as Donald Trump comes to an end.

Still, and however prevalent personal duplicity may be, even at six I understood that the "everyone does it" defense wasn't exactly compelling. Not because I was a particularly developed moral philosopher, but because it never seemed to work when I would try it on my mom, in those instances where a friend and I would be playing ball and break something on the porch of a neighbor's apartment.

Whenever I tried the old "but Billy was playing too" defense, it would be met with the same reply. As I recall it involved something about a bridge, followed by a query as to whether, were young William to leap from it, I would follow him in the manner of a damned fool.

This tendency to excuse one's own misdeeds - or the misdeeds of others you admire - by way of the "everyone does it" defense is nowhere more maddening than when applied to our nation's founders, or early American presidents and prominent citizens.

Comment: History can be a teacher and a touchstone, should it be properly and accurately acknowledged. Instead we write and rewrite it to serve a bias, then remember it as validation.

Fascinating discoveries suggest Isle of May was a healing centre for hundreds of years (PHOTOS)

Jody Harrison
Herald Scotland
Thu, 15 Feb 2018 19:32 UTC

It lies on the edge of the Firth of Forth like a lump of the Hebrides tossed over Scotland to land in the waters off the east coast.

And today the Isle of May is chiefly home to sea birds, seals and the odd intrepid visitor attracted by its rugged beauty and isolation.

But now new evidence has emerged casting the island as a centre of medicine and healing for the people of early medieval Scotland, who were drawn to its shores seeking wisdom from the monks who called it home and also the hope of divine intervention - either in this life or the next.

Comment: The finds are fascinating and, while the interpretations of the archaeologists may or may not be completely accurate, it does seem to be quite a significant place, and It demonstrates how little we really know about life in the past:

Israeli newspaper: We mustn't forget that some of the greatest murderers in modern times were Jewish, particularly those in Stalin's Russia

Sever Plocker
Ynet News
Thu, 28 Dec 2006 12:00 UTC

Genrikh Yagoda

In 1934, according to published statistics, 38.5 percent of those holding the most senior posts in the Soviet security apparatuses were of Jewish origin. They too, of course, were gradually eliminated in the next purges. In a fascinating lecture at a Tel Aviv University convention this week, Dr. Halfin described the waves of soviet terror as a "carnival of mass murder," "fantasy of purges", and "essianism of evil." Turns out that Jews too, when they become captivated by messianic ideology, can become great murderers, among the greatest known by modern history.

Here's a particularly forlorn historical date: Almost 90 years ago, between the 19th and 20th of December 1917, in the midst of the Bolshevik revolution and civil war, Lenin signed a decree calling for the establishment of The All-Russian Extraordinary Commission for Combating Counter-Revolution and Sabotage, also known as Cheka.

Within a short period of time, Cheka became the largest and cruelest state security organization. Its organizational structure was changed every few years, as were its names: From Cheka to GPU, later to NKVD, and later to KGB.

We cannot know with certainty the number of deaths Cheka was responsible for in its various manifestations, but the number is surely at least 20 million, including victims of the forced collectivization, the hunger, large purges, expulsions, banishments, executions, and mass death at Gulags.

Former Red Guard member recounts the horrors of China's Cultural Revolution

Tom Phillips
The Guardian
Sat, 07 May 2016 19:04 UTC

In the face of silence from the Communist party, a former Red Guard has written a blog about the bloody summer of '66

Thousands of teenage hands rocketed skywards as the Great Helmsman stepped down from the rostrum in Tiananmen Square to greet the shock troops of his revolution. It was the summer of 1966 and Mao's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution - a catastrophic political convulsion that would catapult China into a decade of heartbreak, humiliation and deadly violence - was under way.

"When we saw Mao Zedong wave his hand, we all went berserk," recalled Yu Xiangzhen, then a 13-year-old schoolgirl whose bright red armband marked her out as one of millions of loyal Red Guards. "We shouted and screamed until we had no voices left."

Fifty years after the start of the Cultural Revolution, in May 1966, Yu, who is now 64, has been blogging her memories of the period in a bid to prevent history repeating itself.

China's communist rulers have remained silent over the anniversary of the devastating political mobilisation, which scholars estimate claimed somewhere between one and two million lives.

But since the start of this year, Yu has been trying to use her blog to tear down the wall of official silence surrounding the events of that bloody summer.

Comment: "If our descendants do not know the truth they will make the same mistakes again..."

History in a nutshell.

Her cautionary words were timely because a similar leftist ideology is now giving rise to mass hysteria which bodes ill for Western civilization.

New light on the Phaistos Disc: The goddess of love who glows and grows dim

Archaelogy and Arts Wiki
Fri, 09 Feb 2018 11:02 UTC

Phaistos disc

"Side Α of the disk speaks of the pregnant goddess who glows and side B contains a sentence in two lines in Minoan alliteration which refers to the goddess who grows dim; The fading of Astarte/Aphrodite/Aphaia. With your help, I should like us one day in the future to translate these lines on the goddess of love and learn more".

With these words, linguist Dr Gareth Owens, a specialist in Minoan script, concluded his interesting talk entitled "The Voice of the Phaistos Disk" given on Wednesday at the National Hellenic Research Foundation (NHRF), in collaboration with the Technological Educational Institute (TEI) of Crete.

Comment: It seems all the secrets of the Phaistos disc have still yet to be revealed. The Minoan's were just one of the civilisations that suddenly disappeared during the collapse of the Bronze age, could this disc be related to the happenings at the time? Or perhaps it's a tablet devoted to a ritual practise?

For more on the deciphering of the disc: Mysterious 4,000 year-old Phaistos Disk finally decoded after a century

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The destructive radical feminist legacy of Kate Millett

Mark Tapson
Frontpag Magazine
Tue, 13 Feb 2018 11:42 UTC

A conversation with the feminist icon's sister.

Feminist icon Kate Millett passed away recently in Paris at the age of 82. Her 1970 book Sexual Politics, called "the Bible of Women's Liberation" by the New York Times, had a seismic effect on feminist thought and launched Millett as what the Times called "a defining architect of second-wave feminism." In a cover story that same year, TIME magazine crowned her "the Mao Tse-tung of Women's Liberation." Fellow feminist Andrea Dworkin said that Millett woke up a sleeping world.

Kate's sister Mallory, a CFO for several corporations, resides in New York City with her husband of over twenty years. In a riveting article from a few years back bluntly titled, "Marxist Feminism's Ruined Lives," Mallory revealed what she saw of the subversive undercurrent of her sister's passionate radicalism.

Asked for her thoughts on Kate's legacy, Mallory shared her very personal responses, which follow.

Comment:

How radical feminism ruined lives

Mallory Millett
Frontpage Magazine
Mon, 12 Feb 2018 13:29 UTC

The horror I witnessed inside the women's "liberation" movement.

"When women go wrong men go right after them."
-- Mae West

"Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy; its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery." Winston Churchill wrote this over a century ago.

During my junior year in high school, the nuns asked about our plans for after we graduated. When I said I was going to attend State University, I noticed their disappointment. I asked my favorite nun, "Why?" She answered, "That means you'll leave four years later a communist and an atheist!"

Comment: Why feminism wants to break up the family

Hidden Egyptian paintings depict never seen before animals and unexplained drownings

Brett Tingley
Mysterious Universe
Wed, 24 Jan 2018 12:00 UTC

New analysis of a tomb painting has revealed an image of two men carrying a pig.

Thanks to modern imaging equipment, archaeologists now have a wide range of new tools to help them uncover the secrets of the past. New undiscovered empty areas have been uncovered in the Pyramids of Giza thanks to devices which can 'see' the cosmic rays bouncing off of the insides of the pyramids, while unmanned aerial vehicles have led to the discovery of dozens of new unexplored and unknown ancient structures. Just this week, new research into image enhancement software has led to a breakthrough in ancient Egyptology. Researchers using a radical new imaging software called DStretch have discovered depictions of both bats and pigs in art found at an ancient Egyptian cemetery, some of the only known examples of these animals in all of ancient Egyptian archaeology.

Comment: Considering the amount of imagery the Egyptian's created, it is curious that particular scenes have never been found, until now. See Also:

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Secret History

Archeologists using laser scans discover ancient 'lost' city built by the Purépecha in western Mexico

Crimean bridge builders unearth spectacular archaeological find

Sorry, not everyone felt that way: Racism, rationalization and the potential of white allyship

Fascinating discoveries suggest Isle of May was a healing centre for hundreds of years (PHOTOS)

Israeli newspaper: We mustn't forget that some of the greatest murderers in modern times were Jewish, particularly those in Stalin's Russia

Former Red Guard member recounts the horrors of China's Cultural Revolution

New light on the Phaistos Disc: The goddess of love who glows and grows dim

The destructive radical feminist legacy of Kate Millett

How radical feminism ruined lives

Hidden Egyptian paintings depict never seen before animals and unexplained drownings

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