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Discovery of previously unknown rock scripts in Egypt reveals development of hieroglyphic writing


Sputnik
Mon, 26 Jun 2017 01:00 UTC
hieroglyphys el-khawy egypt
© Ministry of AntiquesThe panel was discovered in the village of El-Khawy, 37 miles south of Luxor.
An expedition from Yale University and the Royal Museum of Art and History unearthed some previously unknown rock scripts including huge hieroglyphs dating back to around 5,200 years.

"This newly discovered rock art site of El-Khawy preserves some of the earliest - and largest - signs from the formative stages of the hieroglyphic script and provides evidence for how the ancient Egyptians invented their unique writing system," Egyptologist John Darnell said, phys.org reported.

The scientists also discovered rock art depicting a herd of elephants that was carved between 4,000-3,500 B.C.
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Rosemary Kennedy's sad and dreadful life

Niall O'Dowd
Irish Central
Thu, 22 Jun 2017 21:48 UTC
Rosemary Kennedy
Rosemary Kennedy
In November 1941 Dr. James Watts carried out a frontal lobotomy on Rosemary Kennedy's brain at a facility in upstate New York.

A psychiatrist present at the lobotomy asked Rosemary to tell him stories and repeat the months of the year. The doctor kept scraping away brain tissue until Rosemary could no longer talk.

Only then did Dr. Watts stop.

Following the lobotomy Rosemary could barely walk and knew only a few words. She would spend most of her life hidden away from the world and even her own family.

Such was the price the young Kennedy girl paid because her parents feared her condition would puncture the perfect impression of the relentlessly ambitious Kennedy clan.
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Russian intel agent reveals how NATO planned to tear Russia apart


Sputnik
Sat, 24 Jun 2017 15:48 UTC
NATO soldiers
© AP Photo/ Mindaugas Kulbis
According to secret documents obtained by a Russian intelligence service, following the collapse of the Soviet Union, NATO planned to split Russia into several smaller parts, a former secret agent told Russia's Rossiya 1 broadcaster.

After the collapse of the USSR, NATO planned to divide Russia into small parts diminishing the state to the size of the medieval Moscow principality, a veteran of the Russian "illegal" intelligence service said during the Vesti v Subbotu ("News on Saturday") program of Russia's Rossiya 1 broadcaster.

The program was dedicated to the 95th anniversary of the Directorate S ("illegal" intelligence service) of the Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation (SVR).
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Documentary evidence confirms Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland's grandfather was a Nazi

John Helmer
Dances with Bears
Sun, 18 Jun 2017 00:00 UTC
Michael Chomiak, Chrystia Freeland, Justin Trudeau
© UnknownLeft: Michael Chomiak with German military administrators in Cracow, 1943. Right: Chrystia Freeland behind Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at Auschwitz in 2016.
German military records have been found in a Polish government archive in Warsaw revealing that Michael Chomiak (lead image, left), maternal grandfather of Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland (right), volunteered to serve in the German invasion of Poland long before the German Army attacked the Soviet Union and invaded Ukraine.

Chomiak's records show he was trained in Vienna for German espionage and propaganda operations, then promoted to run the German press machine for the Galician region of Ukraine and Poland during the 4-year occupation. So high-ranking and active in the Nazi cause was Chomiak that the Polish intelligence services were actively hunting for Chomiak until the 1980s - without knowing he had fled for safety to an Alberta farm in Canada.
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"The Hotel Tacloban": The depravity of war as told to Douglas Valentine by his father

Dr. T. P. Wilkinson
Global Research
Wed, 21 Jun 2017 00:00 UTC
The Hotel Tacloban
The Hotel Tacloban by Douglas Valentine
I'll never forget that day—it was the day of his mother's funeral. I'd heard the news of Kennedy's death on the TV and I'd gone into the living room, where the adults were consoling one another, to let everyone know. I was fourteen at the time and the first person I told was my grandfather, who didn't hear a word I said, and who, when I repeated myself, pulled away from me and said, 'I don't care.' Next I told my father the awful news, 'Dad' I said excitedly, 'The President's been shot and they got the guy who did it.' More kindly than bitterly, he replied, 'the guy they got didn't do it, Doug. You can count on that."

Unlike untold many of that generation, Douglas Valentine did not become obsessed with the question "who shot Kennedy?" At the age of 14, he could not imagine why his father had reacted in that way to news of the Dallas assassination. Yet he went on to publish his first book 24 years later in which he discovered the roots of his father's reaction that day.

The Hotel Tacloban recounts the story of a 16-year-old high school dropout who, like many of his generation, lied about his age to get into the Army and go fight the "Good War", for flag and country as an Eagle Scout should. He could have no idea that he would spend about one month in combat and the following three years in a Japanese POW camp.

Comment: Listen to the SOTT Radio interview: The Truth Perspective: Interview with Douglas Valentine: The CIA As Organized Crime

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Revisiting the 1941 murders triggered by meteor shower on Canada's Belcher Islands

Mike Doherty
Macleans
Thu, 05 Jan 2017 19:01 UTC
Eskimo Point, NWT
© Estate of Richard Harrington/Stephen Bulger GalleryEskimo Point, NWT, 1950.
In the wake of a meteor shower during the brutal winter of 1941 on the Belcher Islands in Hudson Bay, a 27-year-old Inuk named Charlie Ouyerack announced that he was Jesus, and that the community's best hunter, Peter Sala, was God. They gained acolytes and ordered that sled dogs be killed—because soon everyone would be able to fly—and unbelievers, too. One night, Sala's sister forced some of the islanders to take their clothes off outside in order to greet the end of the world. Six died of exposure. By the time the messianic cult had run its course, nine Inuit had perished.

American writer Lawrence Millman's new book, At the End of the World, tells the story of the murders. While the details mark them as some of the grisliest in Canadian history, the survivors he spoke with (who have all since passed away) poignantly open a window onto some of the indirect, insidious effects of colonization. The book paints a picture of the long reach of forced assimilation—even in an area that hadn't yet been infested by residential schools—which could warp people's relations with themselves and with the world around them in unforeseen and catastrophic ways.
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The World's Most Catastrophic Floods

Evan Andrews
History
Thu, 22 Jun 2017 06:05 UTC
Johnstown flood
© EE Murray & Co/Interim Archives/Getty ImagesStereoscopic view showing debris, collapsed houses, and the general disastrous condition of Main Street in Johnstown, Pennyslvania soon after the flood, 1889. After heavy rains, the South Fork Dam burst and the waters of Lake Conemaugh flooded the town.
Floods were considered a blessing by certain civilizations—the Egyptians relied on the Nile's yearly overflow for fertile soil—but they also stand as some of history's most devastating natural disasters. Whether due to heavy rains, storm surges or busted dams, deluges have often claimed thousands of lives and left whole cities in ruin. In some cases, they even permanently changed the planet's geography.

1) The Johnstown Flood was so massive it equaled the flow of the Mississippi River.


The disaster began shortly after 3 p.m on May 31, 1889, when a dam on Pennsylvania's Lake Conemaugh washed away following several days of drenching rain. The collapse unleashed some 16 million tons of water, which quickly turned into a 40-foot-high, half-mile-wide surge of mud and debris. An hour later, the wave struck Johnstown like a giant fist, crushing some 1,600 buildings and sweeping away everything in its path. When the waters finally receded, over 2,200 people were dead and many more were injured or homeless. The flood was later blamed on the poorly maintained dam, which was owned by a hunting and fishing club, but no one was ever held financially liable for the disaster.
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Mysterious Bronze Age 'sun altar' discovered in northwest China


RT
Thu, 22 Jun 2017 21:15 UTC
sun altar in China’s northwest Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region
© Chinatimes / YouTube
Archaeologists are raving about the "major" discovery of a huge sun altar in China's northwest Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.

The Bronze Age altar dedicated to sun worship, was first discovered in 1993, but excavations did not begin in earnest until late last year. The excavations have now revealed that the structure has striking similarities to the kind of temples previously only seen much farther west on the Eurasian plains, Sina.com reports.

Sun temples were built by the nomadic tribes that once roamed the vast Eurasian steppe, however, no such temple has previously been discovered this far east.
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Predynastic hieroglyphic inscriptions discovered in Egypt

Nevine El-Aref
Ahram Online
Thu, 22 Jun 2017 18:45 UTC
Ancient Inscriptions_2
© Ahram OnlineThe inscriptions uncovered engraved on a rock.
An archaeological mission from Yale University has discovered a new rock inscription site near the village of El-Khawy near Luxor, during their excavation work on the Elkab Desert Survey Project in collaboration with the Ministry of Antiquities.

The inscriptions range in date from the early Predynastic Period, which spanned approx. 4,000 to 3,500 BC, through to the Old Kingdom (approx. 2,686 BC to 2181 BC).

The village of El-Khawy is located approximately 7km north of the ancient city of Elkab and 60km south of Luxor.

Mahmoud Afifi, head of the Ancient Egyptian Antiquities Section at the ministry explained that the site is composed of several panels of rock art and inscriptions which include some of the earliest—and largest—signs from the formative stages of the hieroglyphic script, and provides evidence for how the ancient Egyptians invented their unique writing system.

Hani Abu ElAzem, head of the Central Department of Upper Egypt Antiquities, described the discovery as important because it helps in understanding the development of a system of graphic communication, which sets the stage for the appearance of true hieroglyphic writing in Upper Egypt in approx. 3,250 BC.
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Russian MoD declassifies documents on Soviet Union's preparedness for 1941 Nazi invasion


RT
Thu, 22 Jun 2017 12:05 UTC
German WWII planes
© Berliner Verlag / DPA Zentralbild / Global Look Press
The Russian Defense Ministry has declassified and published documents detailing how victorious USSR reflected on the disastrous early days of Nazi Germany's invasion. Military strategists wanted to know if the Soviet Union was unprepared for war.

The documents date back to the early 1950s and were penned by some of the most prominent generals in the Red Army at the time, including Marshal Ivan Bagramyan.

In 1952, the Soviet General Staff gathered a task force in its military science and history directorate, headed by Colonel-General Aleksandr Pokrovsky. Their task was to collect data, including eyewitness accounts, on the state of the Red Army shortly before and in the first part of the war with the Nazis.
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