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Bergman book: Israel planned to shoot down passenger jet in Arafat assassination plot


RT
Thu, 25 Jan 2018 17:15 UTC
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Israeli plans, to assassinate Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, included a plot to blow up passenger planes and football stadiums, according to an explosive new book by Israeli investigative journalist Ronen Bergman.

The extensive revelations are published in, Rise and Kill First: The secret history of Israel's targeted killings. The New York Times published an extract from the book on Tuesday.

According to Bergmen, when former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was defense minister, he ordered the Israeli army to shoot down a passenger plane Arafat was thought to be on. Arafat was chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization at the time. Although the plan was eventually called off, it was allegedly one of a list of plans to to assassinate the Palestinian leader.

Bergman spoke to hundreds of intelligence and defense officials and studied classified documents which have revealed a "hidden history, surprising even in the context of Israel's already fierce reputation."

I found that since World War II, Israel has used assassination and targeted-killing more than any other country in the West, in many cases endangering the lives of civilians," Bermen wrote in the NYT, pointing to the history of debate that takes place over these issues.

Comment: The activities that are reported and shared with the public are but a glimpse in comparison to the planned, ongoing or completed machinations of dynamics-changers such as the infamous Mossad and its secret history.

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Putin's message at annual Leningrad siege World War 2 memorial: Never again

Nick Ivanov
Russia Feed
Fri, 26 Jan 2018 15:37 UTC
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Putin spoke on the 75th anniversary of breaking the Leningrad Siege which claimed his brother's life

He who does not learn from history is doomed to repeat it; Russians understand this fact better than any when they call to mind the storms of the WW2 and the bloody Seige of Leningrad. Russia can not afford to forget, more than 20 million Russians perished in the 'Great Patriotic War', which is more than the population of several modern countries including Romania, The Netherlands, Greece, and many more. Take a moment and imagine an entire country obliterated, that is how great the death toll was for Russia.

But those millions of Russians, Ukrainians, Belarusians, Poles, other Slavs, and Soviet Citizens were not obliterated from existence. Their eternal memory and resolve gave the living strength, and with it, they endured as they always have, and they captured Berlin, ending the largest holocaust in human history.

By far one of the bloodiest battles in human history was the Siege of Leningrad (also called Petrograd and Saint Petersburg today). Casualties were around one million people...one million, for one city. The real number is possibly much higher, as many people were missing.

When the Russian President speaks the words you are about to hear, bare one thing in mind, remember it and never forget it...His brother was among the dead. President Putin's own brother died of disease as a child during the terrible siege.
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Blue Planet

1.7-billion-year-old sedimentary rocks from North America found in Australia

Doyle Rice
USA Today
Wed, 24 Jan 2018 21:54 UTC
Australia
© NASA image by Robert Simmon and Reto StöckliResearchers say that part of what's now Australia was part of present-day North America.
Eons ago, the land Down Under wasn't so far away after all.

Rocks recently discovered in Australia bear striking similarities to those found in North America, a study finds. The sandstone sedimentary rocks the scientists uncovered are not "native" to present-day Australia, but instead are common in eastern Canada.

The rocks were found in Georgetown, Queensland, Australia, which is roughly 250 miles west of Cairns in the northeastern part of the continent.

Scientists believe that one region of modern-day Australia was once attached to North America, but broke away 1.7 billion years ago. After drifting around for some 100 million years, the chunk eventually crashed into what's now Australia, forming the "supercontinent" Nuna.

Comment: See also: A map that fills in a 500-million year gap in Earth's history

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Two narratives, one reality: J.M.N. Jeffries' long-lost account of how the Zionists stole Palestine

Joseph Levine
Mondoweiss
Wed, 24 Jan 2018 22:19 UTC
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I just finished reading Palestine The Reality: The Inside Story of the Balfour Declaration 1917-1938, by J.M.N. Jeffries, a British journalist for The Daily Mail at the time of the events discussed. Who would think that a 748-page book on the diplomatic history of the Balfour Declaration and its aftermath could be a page-turner, but this book definitely is. It's a truly remarkable achievement and a fascinating read in many ways. First a bit of back story.

The book was published originally in Great Britain in 1940. It appears it was largely ignored, with very few reviews. But then what really sent it to oblivion was the German blitz, in which the warehouse holding almost all the copies of the book was destroyed. Recently Michel Moushabeck, a Palestinian man who runs Interlink Publishing (and a neighbor of mine, a musician, and fellow activist, here in Western Massachusetts), was told about a copy of the book held by the British Museum and, after reading it there, decided it needed to be reissued. It came out in time for the 100th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration, and the world of Palestine scholarship and activism owes a great debt of gratitude to Interlink Publishing for bringing this extraordinary work to light.
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Setting the record straight: 'The Post' is presenting fairy tales about the release of the Pentagon Papers

James DiEugenio
Consortium News
Mon, 22 Jan 2018 17:09 UTC
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Tom Hanks in "The Post."
The new movie The Post tells the story of the Pentagon Papers from a curious perspective that ignores much of the drama of the real history.

Imagine a film about a backer of an American war in the Third World who, as a State Department official, decides to visit and observe that war firsthand. After many months he learns that most of what our leaders have been telling the public about the war was wrong. In reality, our side was not winning, and most of the claims made for the effort were false. For example, patrols reported to protect certain areas did not even exist. The written reports describing these patrols were simply made up. Therefore both American troops, and the foreign natives we were allied with, were dying by the thousands for fraudulent reasons.

When he returns from his tour abroad, the official learns about a secret Defense Department study. It exposes much of what he had observed. The study is being supervised by his old boss, who gives him access to it. He then meets with a politician who is against the war and they begin to share certain ideas about opposing it. That politician decides to run for president in order to end the war. But he is assassinated while on the verge of winning his party's nomination. As a result, a new president takes office, yet he is not that interested in ending what has now become a continuing disaster. In fact, the new president actually expands combat operations into two neighboring countries.
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Dead Sea Scrolls: New discoveries and what they might mean

Alexis Moran
ABC
Tue, 23 Jan 2018 15:40 UTC
A fragment of a Dead Sea scroll, 2010
© Alex LevacA fragment of a Dead Sea scroll, 2010.
A decades-old mystery has been deciphered in one of the last remaining parts of the 900 Dead Sea Scrolls that date back to at least the 4th century BC.

Researchers of the Department of Bible Studies at the University of Haifa in Israel spent more than a year carefully reassembling more than 60 tiny sections written in secret code.

They decrypted the ancient code through annotations in the margins written by a second scribe correcting the errors made by the author.

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Snakes in Suits

US experimented on hundreds of pregnant women with radiation during the Cold War

John Vibes
The Free Thought Project
Tue, 23 Jan 2018 13:56 UTC
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Nearly 1,000 pregnant women were given radioactive iron by their doctors without their knowledge, as part of a series of experiments for the US military during the Cold War.

Between the years of 1945 and 1947, researchers at Vanderbilt University conducted a twisted experiment in which hundreds of pregnant women were exposed to radiation intentionally for the purpose of testing how it affected both the child and mother.

The study was funded by the U.S. Public Health Service and overseen by the Tennessee State Department of Health. All of these women were poor and had no knowledge of the experiment, and were never informed that they were a part of a study.

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Pi

Two Brothers: DNA solves the mystery of how these mummies were related

Bruce Bower
Science News
Tue, 16 Jan 2018 00:00 UTC
The duo had the same mother, but different dads
MAMMA’S BOYS - Egyptian mummies
© Manchester Museum, University of ManchesterMAMMA’S BOYS Ancient Egyptian mummies known as the Two Brothers, found in these coffins, had the same mother but different fathers, DNA evidence indicates.
A pair of ancient Egyptian mummies, known for more than a century as the Two Brothers, were actually half brothers, a new study of their DNA finds.

These two, high-ranking men shared a mother, but had different fathers, say archaeogeneticist Konstantina Drosou of the University of Manchester in England and her colleagues. That muted family tie came to light thanks to the successful retrieval of two types of DNA from the mummies' teeth, the scientists report in the February Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports. The finding highlights the importance ancient Egyptians placed on maternal lines of descent, Drosou's group contends.

Questions have swirled about the biological backgrounds of the mummified men ever since they were found together in a tomb near the village of Rifeh in 1907. The tomb dates to ancient Egypt's 12th Dynasty, between 1985 B.C. and 1773 B.C. Coffin inscriptions mention a female, Khnum-Aa, as the mother of both men. And both mummies are described as sons of an unnamed local governor. It has always been unclear if those inscriptions refer to the same man, but discoverers decided the mummies were full brothers, because the two were buried next to each other and had the same mother.
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Newly declassified files reveal strong British government support for Uganda dictator Idi Amin


Sputnik
Mon, 22 Jan 2018 01:49 UTC
UK Foreign Office
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Idi Amin has gone down as one of the most brutal dictators in history. His eight-year stranglehold in Uganda saw parliament dissolved, elections ended, vicious secret police agencies created, and courts and media alike made totally subservient to his will. In the process, perhaps 500,000 were killed, and hundreds of thousands more displaced.

Idi Amin's story is fairly well known - he seized power through a military coup, overthrowing elected President Milton Obote, in 1971. Less well known is the UK's strong financial, political and military support for Amin and his government, during the earliest years of his rule.

Nonetheless, newly published British government files shine fresh light on this ignored and suppressed period in modern UK political history.
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Historian compiles online database of declassified documents exposing 'the true history of British foreign policy since 1945'

Rachel Lang
RT
Mon, 22 Jan 2018 17:23 UTC
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A historian determined to blow the lid on the UK government's shady international dealings is releasing hundreds of declassified documents on an online database. "The British public has little idea what has been done," he told RT.

Mark Curtis has recently created his own online database, aptly named 'Declassified' - a veritable A-Z of all secret dealings between Britain and virtually every country in the world. The comprehensive list of documents, sourced mostly from the UK's National Archives, aims to provide a "snapshot only of the true history of British foreign policy since 1945" - think everything from Nazis to nuclear warfare.

In an interview with RT, Curtis said he decided to compile the documents online as the "British public has little idea what has been done, and is being done, in their names."
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