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5,500-year-old human remains found in Mayo, Ireland


The Journal.ie
Fri, 19 Jan 2018 00:00 UTC
Ben Gorm Mountain
© T Kahlert via Department of CultureBen Gorm Mountain, Mayo, Ireland
The Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht has revealed that ancient human remains, which were discovered by a local hillwalker on a Mayo mountainside in 2016, date back as early as 3,600 BC.

The research found that the natural boulder chamber in which the remains were found was used for human burial practice through the Neolithic period.

A least 10 individuals - adults, teenagers and children - were placed in the chamber over a period of up to 1,200 years, according to the research. One of the adult bones dated to 3,600 BC, while a bone of a child skeleton dated to 2,400 BC.
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Fossilized scales found from 200m-year-old butterflies

Helen Briggs
BBC News
Thu, 11 Jan 2018 21:31 UTC
200 million year old butterfly wing scale
© Bas van de SchootbruggeOne of the scales under the microscope
Newly discovered fossils show that moths and butterflies have been on the planet for at least 200 million years.

Scientists found fossilised butterfly scales the size of a speck of dust inside ancient rock from Germany. The find pushes back the date for the origins of the Lepidoptera, one of the most prized and studied insect groups.

Researchers say they can learn more about the conservation of butterflies and moths by studying their early evolution.

They used acid to dissolve ancient rocks, leaving behind small fragments, including "perfectly preserved" scales that covered the wings of early moths and butterflies.
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Archaeology

Archeologists unearth evidence of 'unusually sophisticated' technology beneath ancient 'pyramid' on Greek island of Keros


RT
Fri, 19 Jan 2018 09:06 UTC
Cambridge Keros Project
© Cambridge Keros ProjectArchaeologists were not aware that the ancient civilization that occupied the site was capable of such feats of engineering, and are continuing their research to find out more about who lived there.
Archaeologists excavating an ancient pyramid-like structure on the Greek island of Keros have found evidence that its creators were far more sophisticated than previously thought.

The builders of the settlement of Dhaskalio carved the headland into stepped terraces, and added approximately 1,000 tons of white stone to make it look like a giant, gleaming, stepped pyramid. The stone was transported from 10 kilometers away.

New research on the 4,000-year-old site has revealed a range of impressive features, including a complex series of drainage tunnels, and metalwork that was "unusually sophisticated" for the time.

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Che Guevara

Martin Luther King, Jr.'s 1967 speech: 'A genuine revolution of values'

Michael Krieger
Liberty Blitzkrieg
Mon, 15 Jan 2018 13:33 UTC
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Earlier today, I read Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s 1967 speech on Vietnam at Riverside Church. It was both uplifting and depressing.

Uplifting in the sense that he so eloquently expresses the timeless spirit necessary for humans to take the next evolutionary step forward into a more conscious paradigm. Depressing in the sense it's crystal clear the American public quite spectacularly rejected his plea, further descending quite enthusiastically into a culture defined by depravity, violence and selfishness over the past 50 years.

While the entire speech is illuminating, the following paragraphs really connected with me on a deep level, as they reflect many of the themes I've been exploring over the past year or so.
A genuine revolution of values means in the final analysis that our loyalties must become ecumenical rather than sectional. Every nation must now develop an overriding loyalty to mankind as a whole in order to preserve the best in their individual societies.
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Star of David

Book Review: Norman Finkelstein's 'Gaza' is an exhaustive act of witness

Marilyn Garson
Mondoweiss
Wed, 17 Jan 2018 12:59 UTC
Norman Finkelstein book Gaza

GAZA

An Inquest Into Its Martyrdom
Norman Finkelstein
440 pp. University of California Press. $34.95.

After the 2012 war, I told my Gazan team that we needed a new word. 'War' was a goal-oriented pursuit, tempered by mortal and strategic risk. Israel's conflict maintenance was neither.

After the 2014 war, while we still wore those 1000-yard stares, I set out to assign proportionate responsibility. I read books on military accountability, the arc from force projection to force protection, law of war handbooks, and every report I could find. I could not unpick their crazy-making inconsistencies. From their conclusions, I could not recognize what I had seen. I told my team that we needed a new kind of scholarship.

Gaza: An Inquest Into Its Martyrdom, enables a different scholarship. Norman Finkelstein has set out to deconstruct the false narrative of war in Gaza, by refuting its component parts. One by one. Finkelstein is an author, activist and scholar with decades of archives and outrage to bring.

Gaza is one exhaustive act of witness. I differ with some of its choices, and I note that in order to emphasize that agreement is not required. I found Gaza hugely valuable as an argument, a demand for accountability, and as a response to the question my team repeated, "What do they think we are?"
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Snakes in Suits

Col. Jacques Hogard: The Hague has been biased & anti-Serbian for 25 years


Fort Russ
Fri, 19 Jan 2018 13:19 UTC
Jacques Hogard
The head of the French special forces in Kosovo in 1999 for the Serbian newspaper "Novosti":
For 25 years, The Hague tribunal has been ruling in a biased and anti-Serbian way. Kosovo is not a Serbian and Albanian problem, but a problem of the entire international community

I was only called once from Brussels, not from The Hague, and they asked me if I wanted to testify about what I saw in Kosovo. When I told the clerk that I was entirely at their disposal and that I could testify about KLA crimes against the Serbs, no one contacted me later. It was over. And I had a lot to say.
This is what Jacques Hogard said exclusively for "Novosti", the head of the French special forces who was the first to arrive in Kosovo and Metohija during the transition period that lasted between the signing of the Kumanovo agreement up to the arrival of the international peacekeeping forces in 1999.

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Russian Flag

Scapegoating Jews, whitewashing Anglo-Saxons. Idea of Western supremacy over Russia is not a Jewish invention

Marko Marjanović
Russia Insider
Thu, 18 Jan 2018 19:27 UTC
russian invasion france
Propaganda depiction of a barbaric Russian invasion of Europe. Early 19th century, France.
In 1788 John Ledyard, an American explorer who had sailed with James Cook and kept up a correspondence with Thomas Jefferson, returned to Germany from an extensive voyage spanning Siberia, European Russia and Poland. Upon crossing the border, he wrote down:
I have within the space of 3 English miles leapt the great barrier of Asiatic & European manners; from Servility, Indolence, Filth, Vanity, Dishonesty, Suspicion, Jealousy, Cowardice, Knavery, Reserve, Ignorance, Basses d'Esprit & I know not what, to everything opposite to it; busy Industry, Frankness, Neatness, well-loaded tables, plain good manners, an obliging attention, Firmness, Intelligence, &, thank God, Cheerfulness & above all Honesty, which I solemnly swear I have not looked full in the Face since I first passed to the eastward & northward of the Baltics. Once more welcome Europe to my warmest embraces.
In the late 18th century, when the US and Russia were perfect strangers to each other with no interest to unite or divide one another, an American could visit what was then only begun to be imagined as 'Eastern Europe' and decide its Russians, Poles, Jews and Tartars were filthy Asiatics, inferior in every way to Western Europeans and Americans.

Yet today, when a massive American trillion-dollar military-industrial complex desperately seeks out enemies to justify its existence in a world where Russia is still the only other nuclear and mil-tech superpower, American contempt for Russia might supposedly be explained by the influence of Jews?
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Vader

Churchill: Hero, racist, and imperialist

John Wight
RT
Wed, 17 Jan 2018 17:28 UTC
Churchill, ‘Darkest Hour,
© AFP
"The truth is rarely pure and never simple." So said Oscar Wilde and so describes the life and legacy of Britain's most famous and revered leader, Winston Churchill, a political giant who wore his racism and imperialism proudly.

New Churchill movie: history or hagiography?

In the wake of the release of the Hollywood biopic on Churchill, 'Darkest Hour,' which is attracting rave reviews and features Gary Oldman as Churchill and Kristin Scott Thomas as his long-suffering wife Clementine, a raft of articles on the man and his legacy has been produced, confirming that his place in history remains the subject of dispute and conjecture over half a century after his death in 1965.

'Darkest Hour' focuses on the period of Churchill's life for which he is most famous, when as prime minister he led Britain during the darkest period in its history after the military disaster of Dunkirk in May 1940.
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Yoda

The radical legacy of Martin Luther King - 'The Most Dangerous Negro'

Manmeet Sahni
teleSUR
Thu, 18 Jan 2018 17:20 UTC
martin Luther King
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr
Today marks the 89th birth anniversary of legendary Black leader, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, a charismatic orator who played an instrumental role in the U.S. civil rights movement.

But in the years following his assassination in 1968, conservatives have tried to tarnish King's image by co-opting his philosophy and by convoluting his messages and using them to promote their narrow agenda through the prism of theology.

King was a theologian and promoted non-violence but not in the way commonly portrayed by conservatives. On the contrary, his radical, anti-imperialist, anti-capitalist stance on a litany of issues, such as being against war, pro-choice, for LGBT rights, access to health care, immigration reform, speaks of his revolutionary acumen.

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Russian Flag

Debunking Russia Insider editor Charles Bausman's view of Jewish origins of Russian history's ills

Dimitry Babich
Russia Feed
Wed, 17 Jan 2018 14:19 UTC
Charles Bausman
Charles Bausman


Russia Insider's editor-in-chief railed against the supposed Jewish origin of the world's ills, but totally fails to understand Russia's history or its people

Going After Jews Instead of Neo-Liberals

Charles Bausman, the editor-in-chief of Russia Insider, has chosen a path well-trodden: he decided to woo his audience by discovering the "Jewish origin" of today's wars and tensions.

Nothing could be a greater service to the globalist neoliberals and neoconservatives, who try to present the alternative voices (and in the first place the alternative voices from Russia) as a chorus of anti-Semites, conspiracy theorists and Putin's pals.

The detractors of RT and Sputnik in the United States and the EU may quickly forget that RT's Paula Slier made award-winning documentaries on the horrors of Holocaust, which did not prevent Paula from reporting on the horrors of Israel's bombardment of Palestinian areas. But the detractors of RT and Sputnik will remember Mr. Bausman's recent opus headlined "It's Time to Drop the Jew Taboo."

They will remember it and cite it as an example of "Putin's man going fascist," quickly spreading its ill fame to all the media outlets which Mr. Bausman happened to visit. Such reactions from the representatives of the Western mainstream media are already coming. Judging from the text of his article, Mr. Bausman was fully aware of this kind of reaction before starting to pen out his feelings about Jews, but nevertheless proceeded with its publication.
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