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Bringing back languages from pieces of paper

Associate Professor Nick Thieberger
Pursuit
Sun, 03 Jun 2018 19:21 UTC
The controversial ethnographer Daisy Bates recorded many Aboriginal languages in the early 20th century, which would otherwise be lost today; now her papers have been digitised
Dreamtime Story mural
© Dreamtime Story (mural in Adelaide), Michael Coughlan/Flickr
In 1904 Daisy Bates, an Irish-Australian journalist and ethnographer, sent out a questionnaire to squatters, police, and other authorities across Western Australia asking them to record examples of the local Aboriginal language.

Mrs Bates (1859-1951) was something of an eccentric - wearing full Edwardian outfits even when living in small tents in Aboriginal camps - and she remains a controversial figure. But she was one of the few Europeans of the era who lived closely with Indigenous Australians and recorded their culture.

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How an anti-Semitic US law helped channel Jews towards the Middle East and bring about Israel's creation

Sheldon Richman
Mondoweiss
Fri, 01 Jun 2018 13:24 UTC
Calvin Coolidge
Shlomo Sand, a remarkable scholar who studies how "peoples," including the Jewish people, have been invented through myths propagated by court historians and politicians, makes a startingly yet obvious connection in his book The Invention of the Land of Israel (2014):
In fact, it was the United States' refusal, between the anti-immigration legislation of 1924 and the year 1948, to accept the victims of European Judeophobic persecution that enabled decision makers to channel somewhat more significant numbers of Jews toward the Middle East. Absent this stern anti-immigration policy, it is doubtful whether the State of Israel could have been established. [Emphasis added.]
In the same book, Sand writes:
It is fair to say that the [British] Balfourian legislation of 1905 regarding foreigners, along with a similar law enacted two decades later in the United States that further toughened the terms of immigration (the Immigration Act of 1924, also known as the Johnson-Reed Act), contributed to the establishment of the State of Israel no less than the Balfour Declaration of 1917, and perhaps even more. These two anti-immigrant laws - along with Balfour's letter to Rothschild regarding the United Kingdom's willingness to view favorably "the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people," ... - lay down the historical conditions under which Jews would be channeled to the Middle East. [Emphasis added.]

Comment: One wonders, what was the problem with Jewish people assimilating the cultures and national identities of their host countries in Europe, the Americas and elsewhere, as millions of people of several religions do, and many Jews still do today? What was the need for a 'nation for Jews only' in other people's land that would create the terrible conflict we see today in the Middle East - a conflict in which everyone loses?

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New genetic research points to a more complex theory for South American indigenous communities

Jeff Glorfeld
Cosmos Magazine
Fri, 01 Jun 2018 00:26 UTC
Ancient Artefacts
© mj0007/Getty ImagesPre-Columbian South American artefacts: the genetic history of their makers turns out to be more complex than thought.
A new study suggests a commonly held belief - that the majority of Native North, Central and South Americans derived from one ancestry - is "unrealistically simple".

Earlier research suggested the first people to enter the Americas split into two ancestral branches, the northern and southern, and that the "southern branch" gave rise to all populations in Central and South America.

However the latest work finds that most, if not all, of the indigenous peoples of the southern continent retain, deep in their genetic history, at least some DNA from the "northern branch" -- the direct ancestors of many native communities living today in the Canadian east.

The research was carried out by a team led by scientists from Britain's Cambridge University and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, in the US, and is published in the journal Science.

Genome evidence suggests that the two populations may have remained separate for millennia - long enough for distinct genetic ancestries to emerge - but they came back together before or during the expansion of people into South America.
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The oppressed become the oppressors: Post WWII Zionists used concentration camps in Palestine


Activist-news
Thu, 31 May 2018 20:02 UTC
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© Salman Abu Sitta, Palestine Land SocietyCivilians captured during the fall of Lydda and Ramle around the time of July 12, 1948 and taken to labour camps. In the July heat they were thirsty and were given a drop of water carried by a child under soldiers’ guard.
Declassified documents have revealed that post World War II Jewish Zionists used ethnic cleansing in Palestine in the late 1940's. Israeli soldiers imprisoned thousands of Palestinian civilians within at least 22 Zionist-run concentration and labour camps that existed from 1948 to 1955. The documents reveal some horrific information regarding the living conditions and health concerns of men, women and children who were forced into these concentration camps. This may not come as a surprise to many historians as the facts have been documented. However, historically many people who have attempted to bring these facts to light have been condemned as anti-Semitic conspiracy theorists. The release of these documents conclusively proves this (once taboo) portion of history has in fact been covered up. [1], [2], [3].

Almost 70 years ago Israel turned its forces on the all-Palestinian towns of Lydda and Ramleh. In July 1948 Israeli troops forcefully compelled the entire population of these two towns - of almost 60,000 Palestinian civilians, Including men, women, children and the elderly - to flee their homes in the middle of the hot Mediterranean summer. When many of the native inhabitants refused to leave or couldn't, Israeli Prime Minister (at the time) David Ben-Gurion gave orders to ethnically cleanse both towns. The edicts to seize both cities were signed by Yitzhak Rabin (who later became Israel's Prime Minister).
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The 'Real Butcher of the Balkans' was NATO

Max Parry
The Greanville Post
Mon, 08 Jan 2018 21:38 UTC
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Bondsteel: sinister footprint of the American empire. One of America’s biggest occupation bases in the strategically important Balkans. This in addition to hundreds of bases ringing the world, and turning Italy into a virtual aircraft carrier in the Mediterranean. When it comes to America’s thirst for global hegemony excess is never enough.
More than 20 years after the Srebrenica massacre, Bosnian Serb General Ratko Mladić was found guilty of war crimes by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia this past November.

Along with Mladić, the ICTY convicted the other so-called "Butcher of Bosnia", the Bosnian Serb and former Republika Sprska leader Radovan Karadžić in 2016. Meanwhile, it fully exonerated the Bosnian Muslim army commander Naser Orić of similar charges which outraged the people of Serbia. Yet, it was the same court that posthumously exonerated former Serbian President Slobodan Milošević in 2016. If you weren't aware of the latter, it's because it was not widely reported in Western media. Milošević is still generally viewed to be the central villain of the entire conflict even though the charges against him didn't hold up, but not until a decade after he died of heart failure while on trial in the Hague.

The ICTY in its ruling stated "there was no sufficient evidence presented in this case to find that Slobodan Milošević agreed with the common plan to create territories ethnically cleansed of non-Serbs." The ICTY, established in violation of the UN charter, is itself viewed to be an arm of NATO and biased against the Serbs but even it seems to have determined that any alleged war crimes and ethnic cleansing by the Bosnian Serbs was strictly a Karadžić-Mladić affair and not part of a chain of command leading to Milošević.
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Milosevic on trial. Dragged before a NATO-dominated court which the US itself has declared will not recognise if any American is ever indicted for war crimes. The very definition of unequal justice.

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Notes to the videos:
First video embedded following
"In fact, the entire foreign policy of the west toward Yugoslavia facilitated the very problems it used military intervention to 'solve.' is: Exclusive: U.S. Policy on Bosnia Arms Trafficking. This is a clip, or a selection of clips from Sarajevo Ricochet which is a one hour documentary originally in Norwegian. The original (with Norwegian comments) can be found in six clips on this channel, along with the other Norwegian production, which is the second video in the article, Srebrenica: A Town Betrayed, uploaded in seven parts. To understand the content in Norwegian, one can follow the auto-translation of the transcription.

Second video: Srebrenica: A Town Betrayed (Documentary) SOTT article with video link.

Third video: The full YouTube title of the documentary Stolen Kosovo is Serbia - Stolen Kosovo [Multisubs] Czech documentary by Václav Dvořák

Fourth video: See also the article on SOTT: Documentary: Зaшto? (Why?) - Revisiting NATO atrocities in Yugoslavia (Mar 2014)

Fifth video: Michael Parenti - To Kill A Nation

Sixth video: The Weight of Chains: US/NATO Destruction of Yugoslavia (Documentary) (2010 SOTT.net article). Note to the above, there is also The Weight of Chains 2 | Težina lanaca 2

Seventh video: Yugoslavia: The Avoidable War (documentary)

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Cherokee Nation and their 'Trail of Tears' (VIDEO)


Information Clearing House
Tue, 29 May 2018 00:00 UTC
Trail of Tears

The forced removal of the Cherokee Nation from the SE United States reveals one of the darkest chapters in American history.


Comment: See also: Cherokee Nation sues US government and multiple agencies over trust fund mismanagement

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The suppressed history and reality of giant humanoid skeletons

Richard Enos
Collective Evolution
Mon, 28 May 2018 00:00 UTC
giant skeleton
If you step back and look-truly look, with eyes open - at the way human history has been managed in recent times by the established order, you will see an unmistakable pattern.

A certain perception has been pushed, selectively constructed from Darwin's The Origin of Species - the notion that the human race evolved up through the apes, in an unbroken, linear pattern of growth and adaptation, predicated on random genetic mutations; additionally, that the human race as we know it is the only intelligent species to ever inhabit the planet, and has never been in direct contact with intelligent species of any other kinds.

Testimonials and evidence from the past that don't contradict that perception of our history are commonly accepted as fact. Nobody seems to be challenging, for example, the notion that mastodons or dinosaurs once roamed the Earth.

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Celestial creatures at the dawn of civilizations

Steven Keith
Ancient Origins
Sun, 27 May 2018 12:00 UTC
sacred animal cow horse cat
When I think of the Aryans of the ancient times, I think of Central Asia, the steppe, a horse culture that could enable their language, Sanskrit to spread, at a gallop, so to speak, westward and south, to form the basis of virtually every European and many subcontinental languages in the millennium before Christ.

Inescapable Equestrian Importance

The domestication of the horse on the steppe was perhaps the principle driving force behind Sanskrit's spread to the west. Today, both Europe and much of Asia have retained an equestrian culture and indeed, when the Spanish arrived in the Americas they brought with them the horses that would eventually form the backbone of the cultures of both the invaders and the invaded. However, that horse culture never arrived in the subcontinent, in spite of the fact that Sanskrit had, and the people whose language it was are most associated with it, specifically India, in the modern sense of the name's usage.

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The origins of ancient Near East names in Scotland

Steven Keith
Ancient Origins
Sat, 26 May 2018 23:04 UTC
scotland civilisation ancient carving
Thinking of Scotland, as I do from the somewhat similar mountains of northern India, which has been my home for nigh on twenty years, I do so from a rather Indian perspective; I think of families, clans, and tribes living on land that they consider to be their ancestral land. However, they have an understanding, kept alive in stories from both manuscript and memory, that those same ancestors had themselves migrated from their ancestral lands in a far off past.

What began as a fascination with the origins of the peoples of the Himalayan ranges led quite naturally to an interest in where we all come from, our origins. The Indians of course, as the most ancient of civilizations, had an understanding of the world, when and how it was made, and, more importantly for this piece, who populated it and where they settled.

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The Scythian bow was the AK-47 of the Ancient Near East

Cam Rea
Ancient Origins
Thu, 24 May 2018 22:59 UTC
Scythian
The Scythian bow was the AK-47 of the Ancient Near East and the weapon of choice to dominate the battlefield. Even though the bow was uniquely designed to deliver the utmost damage, the arrow itself was even nastier! Scythians created their arrowheads for maximum penetration of the opponent's armor. Beyond that, Scythian arrowheads were extremely poisonous.

But before we pick our poison, we must pick our point.

Comment: More on discoveries of the Scythian civilization, see:

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