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Book 2

Prolonging The Agony: Macgregor and Docherty Publish Volume Two of Hidden History of WW1

Jim Macgregor & Gerry Docherty
First World War Hidden History
Tue, 27 Feb 2018 20:58 UTC

Comment: We don't normally publish material about books unless they're reviews and we've read them ourselves. However, we're making an exception in this case. Having read the ground-breaking first volume of this Hidden History of WW1 by Scottish authors Jim Macgregor and Gerry Docherty, we're sure readers will be glad to learn that - after a couple of years of posting updates of their research - they have now concluded volume two, and it has been published.


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We are lied to. We know that more than ever today, but the lies and misrepresentations about the first World War have been accepted as truth. Arm yourself with the awful facts.

At last, having spent ten years working together on the origins and management of the First World War, our second book, Prolonging the Agony, How the Anglo-American Establishment Deliberately Extended WW1 by Three-and-a Half Years, has been published, and is available to our readers from TrineDay in the U.S. and Amazon and other book sellers across the world.

It had never been our intention to divide the history into two parts, but our original publisher, Mainstream of Edinburgh, convinced us that it was the best way forward. Mainstream was sold to Random House shortly after Hidden History, The Secret Origins of the First World War was published, and this proved problematic for us. Random House declined to either promote the book or take up the option for our second book. However sales remained strong and Hidden History was translated and published in both German and French. A Swedish edition is also currently being considered. To our delight TrineDay in Oregon offered to publish Prolonging the Agony and we are indebted to Kris Milligan and his team for encouraging and supporting us. It is heartening that within weeks of the book's release, both the German and French publishers have indicated that they will also be publishing it.
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Archaeology

Face of Pictish male, violently murdered 1400 years ago, reconstructed in detail

Theodoros Karasavvas
Ancient Origins
Mon, 19 Feb 2018 22:57 UTC
Pictish male
© University of DundeeReconstructed face of the Pictish man.
A team of Archaeologists excavating a cave in the Highlands of Scotland, were amazed to discover a superbly preserved skeleton of a Pictish man at the entrance. With the help of technology, scientists managed to successfully reconstruct the face of the man, who was violently murdered in around 600 AD.

Skeleton was in Remarkable State of Preservation

A group of archaeologists excavating a cave in the Black Isle, Ross-shire in Scotland, couldn't believe their eyes when they discovered the ancient skeleton buried in a recess of the cave. A bone sample sent for radiocarbon dating showed that the man died between 430 and 630 AD during the Pictish period. His body had been positioned in an uncommon cross-legged position, with large stones holding down his legs and arms. Archaeologists from the Rosemarkie Caves Project found the skeleton while researching whether the cave might have been occupied.
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SOTT Focus: The Hired "Jumping Jacks" of the Press and Their Corporate and Deep State Overlords

Tim Keating
Sott.net
Tue, 23 Jan 2018 17:06 UTC
There are laws to protect the freedom of the press's speech, but none that are worth anything to protect the people from the press. ~ Mark Twain
Today's news cycle is such that we are bombarded with information, much of it fake news and most of it echo and spin. There are excellent journalists, bloggers and academics out there, but too often they go unheard in the electronic haze of hysteria that passes for 'news'. The mainstream media has few journalists worthy of the name on the payroll, but plenty of those willing to compromise themselves for 'the inside scoop'. The CIA's Operation Mockingbird exposed collusion between government and media decades ago. And today, when some journalists routinely submit their drafts to powerful interests before publication, getting 'the right people' who will 'stick to the script' into media is a relatively easy job.

Publicare et Propagare

Acta Diurna
The Acta Diurna Populi Romani: The "Daily Acts of the People of Rome"
Journalism is as old as civilization. Ptah-hotep, vizier to Egyptian pharaoh Djedkare Isesi, wrote sometime around 2,200 BCE of the need for "communicating truthfully, addressing audience interests, and acting in a manner consistent with what is being said."

Julius Caesar launched the Acta Diurna, a daily gazette "posted in prominent places in Rome and in the provinces with the intention of feeding the populace official information."

The Acta Diurna introduced the expression 'publicare et propagare', which means "make public and propagate," and was typically written as a footnote to texts published in the Diurna. The practice of recording Senate deliberations was kept up after Caesar, though his successor refused to publish them, and thereafter they were often only published in censored form.
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No Entry

How the Brits sent Russian POWs and exiles to death and the gulag after WWII

Nikolai Tolstoy
Russia Insider
Sat, 13 Jan 2018 21:14 UTC
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Note from RI Editor Charles Bausman: We recently stumbled across this remarkable article from 1988! in the journal Imprimis, and when we read it, we could scarcely believe our eyes. When we started asking people about it, we heard different things - one person said this has been disproven, others said it was true and that they knew eye-witnesses who were deported.

Apparently the British government sued Tolstoy when he made these charges in an attempt to shut him up. We don't know if the charges are true or not, but it makes for extraordinary reading, and I appeal to people who know something about this to please help us fill out our knowledge in the comments section below. It is situations like this where our commentors are simply invaluable.
Imprimis Editor's Preview: At the end of World War II, two million Russians - including White Russians, Cossacks, Slovenians, Croats and Serbs who were POWs or simply living in exile - were forcibly repatriated to the Soviet Union.
"Betrayal of Cossacks at Lienz, Austria June 1945" Painting by S.G. Korolkoff
Men, women and children were turned over to the Russian secret police at gunpoint. Non-Soviet citizens were supposedly exempt, but historian Count Nikolai Tolstoy charges that they were secretly betrayed by a few key military officials, a future British prime minister among them.

This tragedy, although nearly a half-century old, ought not be forgotten. What happened in 1944-47 was more than a sinister episode. Even in this era of "glasnost," the Soviet Union still denies freedom of emigration, one of the most fundamental human rights, to its people.

Our thanks to the U.S. Business and Industrial Council who co-sponsored this Shavano Institute for National Leadership lecture on the Hillsdale campus in the fall of 1987.
The last world war was a long time ago, and for many of us, even those with first-hand experience, it does indeed seem to have become a distant memory. Yet some images remain vivid. Only a child at the time, I remember the London bombing raids as if they happened yesterday.
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Book 2

Tibet: An 18th Century anatomical dictionary offers evidence of the legendary Yeti

Micah Hanks
Mysterious Universe
Fri, 16 Feb 2018 00:00 UTC
Himalaya Mts Yeti
© FREEYORK/Tibetan Anatomica Dictionary
It is well known that among Native Americans, long legendary traditions exist which document the existence of the creature known today as Sasquatch. Although many different names have been attributed to the creature, mostly throughout parts of the Pacific Northwest, similarities remain present throughout the various cultural traditions pertaining to the creature.

The indigenous peoples of the American Northwest aren't the only representation of cultural beliefs pertaining to large, mysterious hominids that have existed for centuries. In fact, an unusual discovery made in 1959 provides a glimpse at similar traditions that have long existed elsewhere in the world, in relation to the alleged existence of large, manlike beasts; more specifically, the famous Yeti of Tibet and Nepal.

The discovery in question was made in 1959 by Emanuel Vlcek, a Czech paleoanthropologist, and professor at the Anatomical Institute of the First Medical Faculty of Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic. Vlcek had been part of an anthropological expedition sent by what was then still the Czechoslovakian Academy of Sciences to Mongolia to study the memorial of Prince Kulteghine, and in a more general sense, to "establish conditions for anthropological research in Mongolia."
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Archaeology

Stone Age calendar knowledge revealed on mammoth bone bracelet?

Ingvar nord
Ancient Origins
Fri, 16 Feb 2018 16:26 UTC
mammoth bone bracelet
© Encyclopedia of UkraineBracelet from Mizyn
In Sivershchina, close to the village of Mizyn in Ukraine is one of the oldest and most unique settlements of humans - and it was discovered in a parking lot. The now well-known archaeological site, known plainly as the Mizyn parking lot, dates back 18-20 thousand years. In this spot two intricately carved bracelets made from mammoth bone were found, which led to the unraveling of a fantastic Stone Age discovery.

Investigating the settlement

The beginning of the research at this site dates back to the early twentieth century, in the summer of 1908, in the neighboring village of Psarivka (today about Desniansk). Archaeologist Fedir Vovk with his disciple Sergii Rudenko hired a farmstead for a summer holiday. In the nearby forest he found a small flint of obviously deliberate splitting. It prompted the scientist to investigate the situation on the spot and he was able to identify the find as from "the Paleolithic station of the late Paleolithic of the Madeline era".

Vovk presented a report of the findings during the congress of archaeologists later that year. In addition, as part of the exhibit he displayed 72 animal bones and several small showcases of flint tools. With these clues pointing towards ancient activity in the area, the excavations that he had begun in 1908 were continued under the direction of Vovk, and in 1909, his students P. Efimenko and V. Sakharov.
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Archaeology

2,000yo mummies discovered at major Egyptian tombs is "just the beginning" (VIDEO)


RT
Sun, 25 Feb 2018 11:28 UTC
2,000yo mummies discovered at major Egyptian tombs is
© Mohamed Abd El Ghany / Reuters
Ancient tombs filled with coffins, mummies, and artifacts have been discovered in Egypt. Archaeologists say this is just the beginning of the discovery, as the site is expected to take five years to excavate.

The large necropolis (or cemetery) was uncovered south of Cairo, near the Tuna al-Gabal archaeological site that's home to a range of tombs. It's believed to be from the late Pharaonic to the early Ptolemaic period.

"It's only the beginning of new discovery," Egyptian Antiquities Minister Khaled al-Anani said on Saturday. "I think we will need at least five years to work on the necropolis."

Archaeologists began excavating the area last year. They have since found tombs of the priests of Thoth, the god of moon and wisdom.

Comment: Comment: Reuters reports:
Minya, Egypt - Egyptian archaeologists have discovered an ancient necropolis containing 40 stone sarcophagi, about 1,000 small statues and a necklace charm bearing the hieroglyphic inscription "happy new year".

Mostafa Waziri, secretary-general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, said the scarab charm with the new year greeting had been unearthed last New Year's Eve in a "wonderful coincidence". "This is a message sent to us from the afterlife," he said.
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John Dee painting originally had circle of human skulls x-ray imaging reveals

Mark Brown
The Guardian
Sun, 17 Jan 2016 16:52 UTC
Dr. Dee Queen Elizapeth
© Henry Gillard Glindoni (1852-1913)“John Dee Performing an Experiment before Elizabeth I”
Hidden beneath a painting of the enigmatic Tudor polymath John Dee performing an experiment for Elizabeth I is a dark and slightly terrifying secret, research has discovered.

X-ray imaging of the stately Victorian artwork has revealed that Dee was originally surrounded by human skulls before the ghoulish image was painted over, probably because it was too odd for the buyer. But curators of an exhibition opening on Monday believe it sums up the conundrum of Dee: should we remember him as brilliant pioneering scientist, or as an occultist who thought he could talk to angels?


Comment: If he merits them, why not both?


The question arises at the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) headquarters in London, where remarkable books from Dee's personal collection go on public display for the first time.

Comment: Interestingly this isn't the first painting where the original image has been substituted for something altogether different, and Elisabeth I is again featured: Painting of Queen Elizabeth I unveils Royals' Reptilian Secret?

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Archaeology

Sweden's 8,000yo skulls were brutally smashed and mounted on stakes says study


RT
Tue, 13 Feb 2018 23:20 UTC
Sweden's 8,000yo skulls were brutally smashed and mounted on stakes - study
© FILE PHOTO Henry Romero / Reuters
Archaeologists digging at the bottom of a former lake in Sweden have discovered an ancient burial site containing 8,000-year-old human skulls mounted on wooden stakes.

The gruesome find at the Kanaljorden site in the town of Motala in the central Sweden has left researchers baffled as, according to a study published in the journal Antiquity, it the challenges modern "understanding of the handling of the dead during the European Mesolithicera."

The skulls showed signs of blunt force trauma that was "probably the result of interpersonal violence," the study read. However, some injuries show signs of healing, meaning that blunt force trauma is not necessarily what killed them.

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Research suggests deadly form of salmonella caused 16th century epidemic that killed over 80% of Mexican population

Alicia McDermott
Ancient Origins
Sun, 18 Feb 2018 00:00 UTC
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© MexicolorePreparation of a corpse. Florentine Codex Book 3.
A pair of recently published studies point the finger at a deadly form of salmonella as the cause of millions of deaths in a 16th century Mexican epidemic outbreak. This cocoliztli (pestilence in Nahuatl) occurred from 1545-1576 and took the lives of between 7 and 18 million people - leading some researchers to draw parallels with the Black Death that struck Eurasia in the 14th century.

The journal Nature reports that the native population of Mexico was around 25 million when Hernando Cortés arrived in 1519, but just a century later there were only 1 million people remaining. The primary cause for this dramatic decrease in population was apparently two major outbreaks of cocoliztli, one in 1545 and the other in 1576. As Dr. Acuna-Soto, a professor of epidemiology on the Faculty of Medicine at the National Autonomous University (UNAM) of Mexico wrote "In absolute and relative terms the 1545 epidemic was one of the worst demographic catastrophes in human history, approaching even the Black Death of bubonic plague."

Comment: Interesting that both the Cocoliztli epidemics of 1545 and 1576 coincide with cometary observations. Such cometary bombardments have been associated with numerous plagues and civilization collapses:
New Light on the Black Death: The Viral and Cosmic Connection

Rhawn Joseph, Ph.D., co-authoring researcher with Wickramasinghe in the book Biology Cosmology, Astrobiology, and the Origins and Evolution of Life [3], tells us:
Ancient Chinese astronomers chronicled numerous episodes where comets preceded plague and disaster. Meticulous observations were compiled in 300 B.C. in a textbook known as the "Mawangdui Silk." It details 29 different cometary forms and the various disasters associated with them, dating as far back as 1500 B.C
Joseph points out that medieval Europe and colonial America are areas where comets were observed to coincide with plagues and disease, adding that Comet Encke, the likely origin of the Tunguska impactor and the 1918 Flu epidemic, also coincide. He writes:
... in 2005, scientists from the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology in Washington, D.C., resurrected the 1918 virus from bodies that had been preserved in the permanently frozen soil of Alaska. They soon discovered that a completely new virus had combined with an old virus, exchanging and recombining genes, creating a hybrid that transformed mild strains of the flu virus into forms far more deadly and pathogenic. They also confirmed that the 1918 Spanish flu virus originated in the sky, first infecting birds and then spreading and proliferating in humans.
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