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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
Chinese cultural revolution
© Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty ImagesChinese red guards during the Cultural Revolution.
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.

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Archaeology

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
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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Fire

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.
Sexual Politics
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.

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2 + 2 = 4

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.
feminist march
"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

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Archaeology

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.
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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Sun

Maurice Pappworth: The doctor who exposed the UK's horrible and useless medical experiments on patients

Fred Pearce
New Scientist
Wed, 07 Feb 2018 00:00 UTC
hospitals of the 1950s and 60s
© Heritage Images/GettyIn hospitals of the 1950s and 60s, doctors had enormous power. Maurice Pappworth wanted to stop them abusing it
In the 1960s, British medics took sometimes fatal liberties with unsuspecting patients in the name of science. Maurice Pappworth wasn't having any of it

Maurice Pappworth was a "pestilential nuisance", according to his obituary. It was meant as a compliment. A whistle-blower before the modern meaning of the term was invented, he exposed how many of his fellow doctors in the 1960s, often at British teaching hospitals, were treating their patients with as much respect as lab rats, and sometimes killing them in the process.

In his explosive 1967 book, Human Guinea Pigs, he revealed how unsuspecting patients were being "subject to mental and physical distress which is in no way necessitated by, and has no connection with, the treatment of their disease". They were being sacrificed to science by "wolves in white coats", said one reviewer of his book. And not just in hospitals: in prisons, orphanages and psychiatric centres, too.

The book created headlines around the world, and Pappworth pulled no punches, likening the situation to the foul work of doctors in Nazi concentration camps. With the war so recent, this comparison inevitably whipped up outrage among his peers.

Comment: The scope of Nazi-style experiments documented from places around the world, and even in the most 'democratic' of nations, is shocking:

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Evil Rays

Historian: A 'red scare' is launched by the elites every 20 to 30 years


Washington's Blog
Mon, 03 Dec 2018 00:00 UTC
red menace
Edward Herman was a professor of finance at the Wharton School of Business. He was also a well-known writer and historian, who co-wrote a number of books with "the World's top public intellectual", Noam Chomsky.

Herman says that fatcats launch a Red Scare every 20 to 30 years in order to roll back any gains in wealth and rights gained by the public, and to browbeat everyone into allowing policies which redistribute power back to the fatcats:
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Dig

Discovery: Thousands of dead bodies buried under the University of Mississippi Medical Center

Kelsey Weekman
AOL
Tue, 09 May 2017 10:44 UTC
Unearthing coffins
© BBCResearchers unearthing coffins
As many as 7,000 dead bodies were found buried under a portion of the University of Mississippi Medical Center campus, the Clarion-Ledger reports. The remains likely belong to the patients of the Mississippi State Lunatic Asylum, the state's first mental institution that opened in 1855.

During construction in 2012, 66 bodies were uncovered.

"In size, they are fairly uniform," the school wrote about the coffins that were uncovered. "About six feet long but alarmingly narrow, as if each held a pair of stilts instead of a human skeleton."

In 2014, the newspaper reported that they found 1,000 more bodies when the school did radar testing in preparation for construction of a new parking garage for the dental school.

At this point, the school has uncovered more than double that figure, and an estimated 7,000 will likely be found total.

Paying an outside company to handle exhumations and reburials would cost $3,000 each, or up to $21 million, according to Newser.

Now the university is trying to figure out if it will invest in an 8-year effort that would cost closer to $3 million. They will likely create a memorial, and possibly a lab that would allow researchers to study the remains and gain insight into asylum living.

The asylum closed in 1935 -- 20 years before the school opened.
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Archaeology

Archaeologists discover human remains buried in mysterious sand mounds in Australia


RT
Thu, 08 Feb 2018 23:45 UTC
sand mounds
© Virtus Heritage
The origins of a series of mysterious sand mounds in a remote part of Queensland, Australia, may have finally been solved after human remains were discovered lying within.

The human remains interred in burial mounds in Mapoon, western Cape York, could be up to 6,000 years old - making them older than the Egyptian pyramids, according to archaeologists.

While the indigenous Tjungundji people long believed the mounds held the remains of their ancestors, others suggested they were natural formations or created by birdlife.

"The origins, ages and functions of these mounds have been debated by researchers for decades and the age of these features is uncertain," lead archaeologist Dr Mary Jean Sutton said in a statement to RT.com.

Comment: It's incredibly interesting that burial mounds have been used by societies around the globe that have no apparent connection to each other. Just as the ancient Australians used burial mounds, so did other groups around the world:

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Fireball

The Big Burn - Global fire 13k years ago

Julie Cohen
UC Santa Barbara
Wed, 07 Feb 2018 17:30 UTC
YDB Event
© UC Santa Barbara
Black dots represent locations of 129 lake cores exhibiting charcoal records and purple dots represent marine sites with charcoal and/or soot spanning the Younger Dryas onset.
Some 13,000 years ago, a cataclysmic event occurred on Earth that was likely responsible for the collapse of the Clovis people and the extinction of megafauna such as mammoths and mastodons.

That juncture in the planet's geologic history - marked by a distinct layer called the Younger Dryas Boundary - features many anomalies that support the theory of a cometary cloud impacting Earth. The collision triggered a massive biomass burning event, and the resulting soot, ash and dust in the global atmosphere blocked out the sun, which prevented photosynthesis - a phenomenon called impact winter.

For more than a decade, UC Santa Barbara professor emeritus James Kennett has studied elements found at the Younger Dryas Boundary (YDB). He has collaborated with scientists around the globe, providing evidence at the YDB for a platinum peak as well as for spherules, melt glass, nanodiamonds and other exotic materials that can be explained only by cosmic impact.

Kennett and his colleagues have now published new research in the Journal of Geology. In two papers, they analyze existing published scientific data from ice, glacier, lake, marine and terrestrial sediment cores, finding evidence for an extensive biomass burning episode at the YDB layer representing one of the most extreme events - if not the most extreme - ever experienced by our own species, anatomically modern humans. Recent extreme climate and burn events like those in California pale by comparison, Kennett said.

Comment: 12,800 years ago: Cosmic impact produced global fires larger than dinosaur killer event - Research

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