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Frank Taylor Report - the mysterious 9/11 document that launched US-NATO's ME 'War on Terrorism'

Professor Niels Harrit
Global Research
Wed, 21 Mar 2018 00:00 UTC
NYC 9/11
© Getty Images/KJN
We call them 'the 9/11 wars' - the seemingly unending destruction of the Middle East and North Africa which has been going on for the last seventeen years. As revealed by Gen. Wesley Clark, [1] these wars were already anticipated in September 2001.

The legal foundation for the invasion of Iraq in 2003 has been challenged in several countries. The best known is the Chilcot Inquiry in the UK, which began in 2009 and concluded in a report in 2016. The inquiry was not about the legality of military action, but the British government was strongly criticised for not having provided a legal basis for the attack.

Even though the invasion of Iraq was planned [2] prior to 9/11, most observers note that the attack on Afghanistan in 2001 was a required precursor. However, the legal basis for attacking Afghanistan has attracted almost no attention. One obstacle in addressing this has been the assumption that the key document was still classified. [3][4] But as demonstrated below, this document was apparently declassified in 2008.

On the morning of 12 September 2001, NATO's North Atlantic Council was summoned in Brussels. This was less than 24 hours after the events in USA. The council usually consists of the permanent ambassadors of the member states, but in an unprecedented move, the EU foreign ministers participated as well. [5]
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Volcanic eruptions, epics, pagan gods and the shift towards monotheism in Middle Ages Iceland

Laura Geggel
Live Science
Tue, 20 Mar 2018 09:06 UTC
The Codex Regius
© Werner Forman/Universal Images Group/GettyThe Codex Regius, an Icelandic collection of poems about pagan gods, contains a version of the Vǫluspá.
A series of Earth-shattering volcanic eruptions in Iceland during the Middle Ages may have spurred the people living there to turn away from their pagan gods and convert to Christianity, a new study finds.

The discovery came about thanks to precise dating of the volcanic eruptions, which spewed lava about two generations before the Icelandic people changed religions.

But why would volcanic eruptions turn people toward monotheism? The answer has to do with the "Vǫluspá," a prominent medieval poem that predicted a fiery eruption would help lead to the downfall of the pagan gods, the researchers said. [Cracking Codices: 10 of the Most Mysterious Ancient Manuscripts]

Comment: For an eye-opening and in-depth examination of religion and its relationship to earth changes see: Comets and the Horns of Moses

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Pharoah

The mummy returns: Ancient remains found in 'empty' coffin stored for 150 years at Australia's oldest university museum


RT
Mon, 26 Mar 2018 15:50 UTC
Mummy
© Nicholson Museum / Facebook
A 2,500-year-old mummy has finally been discovered in an Egyptian coffin stored at the University of Sydney for the last 150 years. It was previously believed the sarcophagus was empty.

Archaeologists at the Nicholson Museum - Australia's oldest university museum - made the startling discovery when they lifted the lid on the ancient coffin and uncovered human remains. The mummy was not fully intact and the remains were disturbed, reports ABC News.

While the hieroglyphics on the coffin indicate it was made for a priestess called Mer-Neith-it-es, archaeologists point out that sometimes mummies are discarded from their original coffin for later use. Egyptian antiquity sellers would sometimes put another mummy inside if a customer requested it.
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Archaeology

Medieval skeletons reveal children aren't starting puberty earlier - but there is more to the story

Mary Lewis
The Conversation
Mon, 12 Feb 2018 14:35 UTC
Medieval Children
Children are entering puberty younger than before, according to recent studies, raising concerns that childhood obesity and hormone-contaminated water supplies may be to blame. However, our archaeological research suggests that there's nothing to worry about. Children in medieval England entered puberty between ten and 12 years of age - the same as today.

Puberty is divided into five clinical stages, with pre-puberty at stage one and onset (or thelarche) at stage two. Menarche (a girls first period) occurs at stage three. The age at which a child enters puberty (stage one) varies. Today, puberty onset occurs between the ages of ten and 14 in girls and 12 to 16 in boys, with some ethnic groups starting around a year earlier. The end of puberty, or full maturation, is reached by 13-17 years for girls, and 15-18 years for boys.

Our understanding of the normal timing of puberty comes from historical sources and is measured using data for the age of menarche.

Comment: Clearly our understanding of the medieval era is greatly lacking and thus the study above cannot provide the whole picture; there were obviously periods of great hardship but it appears there was also a time of incredible growth and abundance too. Also, children today are living in a world which is far from providing the ideal conditions for maturation. See the articles below for more information:

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Genetic study confirms 4000 years ago Indians landed in Australia

Lulu Morris
National Geographic
Fri, 19 May 2017 12:00 UTC
India Australia
Genetic evidence suggests that just over 4 millennia ago a group of Indian travellers landed in Australia and stayed. The evidence emerged a few years ago after a group of Aboriginal men's Y chromosomes matched with Y chromosomes typically found in Indian men. Up until now, the exact details, though, have been unclear.

But Irina Pugach from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology may have recently solved the thousand-year-old case. 4,000 years before the First Fleet landed on our fair shores, Indian adventurers had already settled and were accepted into the Indigenous Australian culture.

By studying the single-nucleotide polymorphisms and their patterns, Dr Pugach revealed a diverse tapestry of ancestry, one different from the lineage of New Guineans or the Philippines. The study found a pattern of SNPs that is only found in Indian genetics, specifically the Dravidian speakers from South India. Dr Pugach's results were consistent with the Y-chromosome data found years earlier. Using both results she calculated exactly when India arrived in Australia.

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Strasbourg Cathedral's secreted stained glass astronomical clock illuminates each equinox


connexionfrance.com
Sat, 24 Mar 2018 20:14 UTC
Strasbourg green light equinox
The green light falls on the statue of Christ as it will appear tomorrow
The green light falls on the statue of Christ as it will appear tomorrow

Strasbourg Cathedral offers a great chance for visitors and, especially, photographers to catch sight of a twice-a-year phenomenon when, if the sun shines, a ray of green light will fall on the pulpit above the statue of Christ

Engineer Maurice Rosart first spotted the light, which marks the equinox and the start of spring.
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Legacy of the Iraq War, implications today

Matt Taibbi
Rolling Stone
Wed, 21 Mar 2018 00:00 UTC
Hussein statue soldier
© Goran Tomasevic/Reuters/KJN
Fifteen years ago this week, George W. Bush invaded Iraq. It was an awesome drama, made more thrilling by the seemingly obvious craziness of it all.

People were looking at each other out of the corners of their eyes, shrugging, and asking: Can we really do this without a reason? That was the dramatic subtext of the invasion.

In the press, no one could really make sense of the supposed justification for the invasion. That it was compelling, no one could deny. Hell, just look at the fonts. We all used the biggest ones we had! The New York Times said it all with its dramatic banner:

"BUSH ORDERS START OF WAR ON IRAQ; MISSILES APPARENTLY MISS HUSSEIN"

GOON BOMBS CITY ON HORSESHIT PRETEXT would have been more accurate, but editors were giving everyone the benefit of the doubt back then, and getting on board, for patriotic reasons. The Gray Lady [NYT], who was playing such a key role in what was going on, was certainly getting in the spirit, giving in to the adrenaline rush of Bush's evil gambit.
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Germany covered by glaciers 100,000 years earlier than previously thought - implications for arrival of the first people


Max Planck Institute
Fri, 23 Mar 2018 12:00 UTC
This boulder in the gravel pit Rehbach in Saxony, Germany, was transported from Scandinavia by glaciers 450,000 years ago.
© MPI f. Evolutionary AnthropologyThis boulder in the gravel pit Rehbach in Saxony, Germany, was transported from Scandinavia by glaciers 450,000 years ago.
New chronological data for the Middle Pleistocene glacial cycles push back the first glaciation and early human appearance in central Germany by about 100.000 years.

Using state-of-the-art dating techniques researchers of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, have obtained new chronological data for the timing of the Elsterian and Saalian glacial cycles in central Germany. They found that the first Quaternary glaciation, which covered huge parts of Europe in ice, occurred as early as 450,000 years ago and not - as previously thought - around 350,000 years ago. The researcher further showed that once these glaciers had retreated, the first people appeared in central Germany around 400,000 years ago.

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Archaeology

Tutankhamun 'fought in battle,' new research suggests


RT
Fri, 23 Mar 2018 16:20 UTC
golden bust of Tutankhamen
© Amr Dalsh / ReutersA golden bust of Tutankhamen on display in 2016
Tutankhamen, the ancient Egyptian pharaoh who ascended to the throne at the age of nine, could have once taken part in battle. That's according to the latest research into the boy king's leather armor.

Theories about the cause of the royal's death range from an infected leg fracture to sickle cell anemia and epilepsy. Over the years, these theories have created an image of a sickly boy who tragically succumbed to illness at an early age. However, a scientist from the University of Northampton in the UK has found evidence that King Tut may not have been as feeble as previously thought.

Lucy Skinner, the university's expert on ancient Egypt, developed the theory after helping production staff of a TV documentary to recreate Tutankhamen's leather armor. Using cutting-edge imaging techniques, the team's scans of the armor, known as a cuirass, revealed signs of wear, marks that suggest the boy had been in battle.
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115,000-year-old bone tools discovered in China

Martin LaSalle
University of Montreal
Wed, 14 Mar 2018 18:25 UTC
Ancient Bone Tools
© Univerity of MontrealRetoucher on a long bone fragment from a large mammal.
An analysis of 115,000-year-old bone tools discovered in China suggests that the toolmaking techniques mastered by prehistoric humans there were more sophisticated than previously thought.

Marks found on the excavated bone fragments show that humans living in China in the early Late Pleistocene were already familiar with the mechanical properties of bone and knew how to use them to make tools out of carved stone. These humans were neither Neanderthals nor sapiens.

This major find, in which Luc Doyon of UdeM's Department of Anthropology participated, has just been published in the scientific journal PLOS ONE.

"These artefacts represent the first instance of the use of bone as raw material to modify stone tools found at an East Asian early Late Pleistocene site,"said Doyon. "They've been found in the rest of Eurasia, Africa and the Levante, so their discovery in China is an opportunity for us to compare these artifacts on a global scale.

Until now, the oldest bone tools discovered in China dated back 35,000 years and consisted of assegai (spear) points. "Prior to this discovery, research into the technical behaviour of humans inhabiting China during this period was almost solely based on the study of tools carved from stone," said Doyon.
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