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Did ancient Siberians domesticate horses 50,000 years ago?


The Siberian Times
Sun, 04 Aug 2013 13:18 UTC
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© Media Centre of the Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of SciencesExperts aim to discover the horses's coat colour as well as how it related to early man.
The Denisova Cave in the Altai region has given up another riveting secret to modern science, this time equine, say researchers from Novosibirsk.

The mitochondrial genome of a 50,000-year-old horse has been deciphered in the prehistoric bolt-hole where scientists previously discovered the remains of a now-extinct subspecies of humans who coexisted with the Neanderthals.

Experts at the Novosibirsk-based Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, part of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Scientists, are uncertain so far whether the horses were hunted for game or represent 'an early attempt at equine domestication'.

If further research establishes it to be the latter, it would pre-date the earliest known domestication of horses, in Kazakhstan, by more than 44,000 years.

The cave is one of the world's most precious sites for research on early man - see our previous stories here. It was famously the site of the discovery of Woman X, whose remains showed her to belong to a subspecies that branched out from Neanderthals around 640,000 years ago.
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Bulgaria archaeologists find big votive relief of Zeus


FOCUS News Agency
Mon, 05 Aug 2013 02:46 UTC
Zeus Votive
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Hisarya - Archaeological team of Dr Ivan Hristov discovered a big votive relief of the ancient Father of Gods and men Zeus close to the archaeological excavations of Bulgaria's National Museum of History at the Kozi Gramadi peak in Severna Gora, close to the village of Starosel.

Director of the National Museum of History, Dr Bozhidar Dimitrov, announced the news for FOCUS News Agency.

"It is bigger than the votive slabs found so far and probably it is the central icon of the ancient temple," Dimitrov said.

A strange event took archaeologists by surprise while the votive relief was taken out. A big imperial eagle started flying over them. In antiquity Zeus was often portrayed as an imperial eagle and the younger women archaeologists started commenting that Zeus had come to see what they were doing in his temple.

The Kozi Gramadi stronghold, built in VI-V century before Christ, was a capital of a Thracian tribe, which used to live in this part of Bulgaria during the antiquity. The popular tombs close to Starosel are in fact the necropolis of the Thracian aristocrats living in the city.
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Snakes in Suits

Illusions of freedom: The Irish counter-revolution


RTE
Tue, 13 Jul 2010 05:52 UTC
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This unique 3-part series is a history of 20th Century Ireland presented and co-written by historian Diarmaid Ferriter.

The Limits of Liberty is the story of Irish Independence. How governments of the early decades of independence were preoccupied with one overriding issue, power. Power held by small elites in what would become one of the most centralised countries in Europe. This is the first television history of Ireland since the early 1980s and sets out to re-examine the received opinion of the foundation of the State.

Part 1 examines The War of Independence; The Civil War; The bombardment and destruction of the public record office; The breaking of the 1922 Postal Strike; lack of childcare in the early Free State and the subsequent consolidation of the relationship between Church and State; The Eucharistic Congress; The founding of the Pioneers and the enduring power of the works of Sean O'Casey.

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Snakes in Suits

Gerry Adams: Irish Republic was hijacked by conservative elite after 1921 partition

James O'Shea
IrishCentral.com
Fri, 02 Aug 2013 16:45 UTC
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Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams had told the McGill Summer School in Donegal that in Ireland, "Almost 100 years ago partition created two conservative states ruled in their narrow self-interests by two conservative elites."

He stated that in Northern Ireland, "The northern state was a one party state which reinforced the institutionalised use of discrimination, sectarianism and segregation."

But he also stated that:
"Partition also affects this part of the island. This state is the product of the counter-revolution that followed the Rising and of a dreadful civil war which tore out the heart at that time of what remained of the generosity of our national spirit."
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Best of the Web: 'As important as the scientific discoveries of Darwin and Galileo': Linguist Francesco Carotta proves real identity of 'Jesus Christ' to be Julius Caesar


PR Newswire
Mon, 08 Feb 2010 07:25 UTC
Carotta: 'Everything of the Story of Jesus can be Found in the Biography of Caesar.'
The Italian-German linguist and philosopher Francesco Carotta proves in his book Jesus was Caesar that the story of Jesus Christ has its origin in Roman sources. After more than fifteen years of investigation Carotta has found the traces which lead to the Julian origin of Christianity. He concludes that the story of Jesus is based on the narrative of the life of Julius Caesar.
Carotta: ''The Gospel proves to be the history of the Roman Civil war, a 'mis-telling' of the life of Caesar-from the Rubicon to his assassination-mutated into the narrative of Jesus, from the Jordan to his crucifixion. Jesus is a true historical figure, he lived as Gaius Julius Caesar, and ressurected as Divus Julius.''
The cult surrounding Jesus Christ, son of God and originator of Christianity appeared during the second century. Early historians, however, never mentioned Jesus and even to this day there has been no historical proof of his existence. Julius Caesar, 'son of Venus' and founder of the Roman Empire, was elevated to the status of Imperial God, Divus Julius, after his violent death. The cult that surrounded him dissolved as Christianity surfaced.
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The Gospel of Caesar: Documentary reveals true origins of the 'Passion of Christ'

Junius Brutus
YouTube
Wed, 31 Jul 2013 09:00 UTC
Documentary film about a linguist and a Catholic priest who search for and find the origins of Christianity and the real historical Jesus: Julius Caesar.


Comment: Having looked further into this, SOTT.net agrees that the mystery of the origins of Christianity has been solved...

'Jesus' was actually Julius Caesar!

Jesus Was Caesar: On the Julian Origin of Christianity: An Investigative Report

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Gold Coins

Hedging their bets: Anglo-American elites financed both sides in WW2 through Wall Street and London banks


History Channel
Wed, 31 Jul 2013 08:15 UTC
The recent 'news' that the UK's Central Bank helped the Nazis plunder Jewish gold overlooks the fact that the Nazi War Machine was bankrolled by Wall Street and City of London financiers from the beginning.

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Bank of England helped Nazis sell plundered gold

Steve Hawkes
The Telegraph, UK
Wed, 31 Jul 2013 05:29 UTC
The Bank of England has admitted its role in one of the most controversial episodes in its history - helping the Nazis sell gold plundered from Czechoslovakia months before the outbreak of the Second World War.
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© PAThe UK central bank also sold gold in June 1939 on behalf of the Nazis - without waiting for approval from Westminster
An official history, written in 1950 but posted online for the first time on Tuesday, detailed how the "Old Lady" transfered gold held in its vaults to the Germans despite the UK Government of the day placing a freeze on all Czech assets held in London.

In the history, the Bank of England insists its role in the episode was "widely misunderstood", even though it "still rankled for some time".

The Nazis invaded Czechoslovakia in September 1938. In March the following year, the Bank of International Settlements (BIS) asked the Bank of England to switch £5.6m-worth of gold from an account for the Czech national bank to one belonging to the Reichsbank.

Much of the gold - nearly 2,000 gold bars - was then "disposed" of in Belgium, Holland and London. The BIS was chaired at the time by Bank of England director, German Otto Niemeyer.

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Hedging their bets: Anglo-American elites financed both sides in WW2 through Wall Street and London banks

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Wedding Rings

Murder linked to humans mating for life


Yahoo News
Tue, 30 Jul 2013 19:47 UTC
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© Press Association Scientists explored the evolutionary pathway that led to human monogamy by gathering data from 230 primate species
Murder is the main reason why humans and other primates mate for life, according to scientists.

Infanticide was the key driving force that caused us to evolve into a monogamous species, it is claimed.

Males of some animals, including lions and brown bears, kill the young of unrelated females to improve mating opportunities.
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Che Guevara

From Monterey Pop to Altamont: Operation Chaos, the CIA's War against the Sixties Counter-Culture

Mae Brussell
maebrussell.com
Tue, 30 Nov 1976 15:13 UTC
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Part I - Death, Drugs and Depression

American and British pop/rock music during the 60's created an art form that has been described as one of the most important cultural revolutions in history.

Within a few years, between 1968 and 1976, many of the most famous names associated with this early movement were dead. Mama Cass Elliott (earlier with the Mamas and Papas), Jimi Hendrix, Otis Redding, Brian Jones (helped form the Rolling Stones with Mick Jagger and Keith Richards), Janis Joplin were all at the Monterey Pop celebration, summer 1967.

Duane Allman Berry Oakley (helped form Allman group with Duane and Gregg Allman), Tim Buckley, Jim Croce, Richard Farina, Donald Rex Jackson (road manager for Grateful Dead) Michael Jeffery (Jimi Hendrix's personal manager), Brian Epstein (Beatles manager), Al Jackson (drummer for Wilson Pickett, back-up drummer for Otis Redding), Vinnie Taylor (Sha-Na-Na) Paul T. Williams (choreographer for the Temptations, and one of the original Temptations), Clarence White (Byrds), Robbie McIntosh (drummer Average White Band), Jim Morrison (Doors), Pamela Morrison (Jim's wife), Rod McKernan "Pig Pen" (Grateful Dead), Phil Ochs, Gram Parsons (Byrds, Flying Burritos, International Submarine Band, singing with Emmylou Harris), Sal Mineo, Meredith Hunter (victim of ritual killing at Altamont Festival), Steve Perron (lead singer of Children, wrote hit songs for ZZ TOP), and Jimmy Reed (influenced many groups, combined harmonica with guitar) were a few possible victims.

Comment: Check out our latest SOTT Talk Radio show on the CIA's sick experiments with hard drugs and mind control since WW2:SOTT Talk Radio: Hank Albarelli Interview - CIA Mind Control, Frank Olson and JFK

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