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Ancient Stone Bowl Unearthed in Jerusalem Perplexes Experts

Laura Geggel
Live Sience
Thu, 28 Dec 2017 21:04 UTC
stone bowl fragment
© Israel Antiquities AuthorityThe fragment of an ancient limestone bowl that has the name "Hyrcanus" in Hebrew engraved on it.
It's unclear whether a mysterious 2,100-year-old stone bowl fragment recently unearthed in Jerusalem belonged to royalty or a commoner, the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) announced late last week.

The fragment — made from chalk, a type of limestone — is small enough to fit in a person's hand. But it's large enough to contain a striking detail on its side: the name "Hyrcanus" engraved in Hebrew letters.

Hyrcanus was the name of two different kings who ruled during the Jewish Hasmonean dynasty, which lasted from about 140 B.C. to 37 B.C., when Herod the Great came into power. However, Hyrcanus was also a commonly used name during that time, the IAA said. Although the name itself is Greek, many Jews used it during the Hellenistic period, The Times of Israel reported.

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'Passengers on Titanic were victims of criminal negligence' - New documentary provides evidence corporate greed, not act of god, sunk Titanic


Sputnik News
Mon, 02 Jan 2017 01:57 UTC
Titanic
© Associated PressUndated file photo of the doomed liner the S.S. Titanic. Salvage operators hope to raise a large chunk of the British liner, which sunk on it's maiden voyage 84 years ago, when it struck an iceberg in the north Atlantic. More than 1500 people died in the icy waters of the Atlantic when Titanic sank.
It was fire, not ice: In a new documentary, an expert provides evidence that a fire weakened Titanic's hull before an iceberg dealt the fatal blow.

The standard tale holds that the massive, "unsinkable" luxury cruiser foundered when an iceberg ripped through its hull, leaving more than 1,500 of its passengers to die in freezing waters only days into its April 1912 maiden voyage.

That's almost right, says journalist Senan Molony. But instead of being a tale of hubris, Titanic and her passengers were victims of criminal negligence.

In fact, he contends, before the ship even left the Belfast shipyard where it was made, a massive fire weakened the great ship — exactly in the area the iceberg would puncture.

"The official Titanic inquiry branded [the sinking] as an act of God. This isn't a simple story of colliding with an iceberg and sinking. It's a perfect storm of extraordinary factors coming together: fire, ice and criminal negligence," Molony explains, according to the UK Telegraph.

Molony, who has been studying the Titanic for 30 years, examined rarely seen photographs taken by Titanic's chief electrical engineer before it left the shipyard to identify black marks left by the fire on the front right-hand side of the ship's hull.

The photos came to light in a recent private auction, The Sun reports. They show 30-foot long black streaks — just where the iceberg would later strike.

"We appear to have a weakness or damage to the hull in that specific place, before she even left Belfast," Molony said.

He notes that there is a "myth" of a 300-foot gash opened up by the iceberg in Titanic's side, "but when the wreckage was examined, people were perplexed because they couldn't find anything like it."

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CIA won't endorse new "Secret Ops of the CIA" calendar showing agents stealing secrets, killing enemies and being killed

Ian Shapira
Washington Post
Sun, 01 Jan 2017 18:41 UTC
Far Side cartoons, Ansel Adams landscapes, underwater dogs - so cliche. Why settle for a humdrum wall calendar in 2017 when you can track your days with CIA paintings showing agency operatives stealing secrets, killing off enemies or even getting killed themselves?

January features a painting of a CIA contractor firing an AK-47 out of an Air America chopper at a North Vietnamese biplane. Flip to April for "The First Sting," depicting a CIA-trained Afghan mujahideen fighter striking a Soviet helicopter with a Stinger missile. End 2017 on a high note: December features the famous Glomar Explorer in 1974 recovering a portion of a Soviet submarine teeming with secrets from the depths of the Pacific Ocean.
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© CIA Art GalleryThe cover of a new CIA calendar features the painting “An Air Combat First,” by Keith Woodcock, from the CIA Art Gallery , created in 2005.
The inaugural "Secret Ops of the CIA" calendar was produced by the nephew of an agency contractor killed in the line of duty and features reproductions of the actual paintings that have hung for years in the hallways of CIA headquarters in Northern Virginia. Yes, the CIA has an official art collection, although you can't just drive up to the agency to check it out.

But for as little as the cost of about a week's worth of coffee, you can adorn your kitchen wall with prints of genuine CIA artwork showing clandestine missions from World War II to Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan.

The calendars are on sale for $28 at the International Spy Museum and its online gift store; or for $23.95 on the website of its producer, Erik Kirzinger, a North Carolina man whose uncle, a CIA contractor, was killed during a 1952 mission in China depicted in one of the calendar paintings, "Ambush in Manchuria." The CIA gift shop has sold made-in-China coffee mugs with the CIA logo on it.
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Mystery of 24 alien black-boxes discovered near Egypt's Pyramids of Giza

Paul Baldwin
Sunday Express
Sun, 01 Jan 2017 18:03 UTC
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They weigh more than 100 tons, they are solid Aswan granite, and they are precision engineered to tolerances which would be deemed remarkable today.

So how did the ancient Egyptians build and put in place the 24 strange and sinister coffin shaped black boxes discovered buried in a hillside cave system, 12 miles south of The Great Pyramid of Giza?

And more importantly, why?

The skilfulness of the stone cutting, accurate to just a few microns, is so remarkable that some experts have concluded that they were not built for Egytian pharaohs but in fact left on earth by an alien race and simply appropriated by the kings.
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Boiler room fire ultimately responsible for the sinking of the Titanic, says new research


RT
Sun, 01 Jan 2017 17:04 UTC
the Titanic
© WikipediaRMS Titanic departing Southampton on April 10, 1912.
Fire had been raging in the Titanic's boiler room even before it left Southampton for New York, weakening the liner's hull and turning a collision with an iceberg into the infamous disaster, a new British documentary claims.

The official investigation, carried shortly after the Titanic sank on April 15, 1912, cited the crash with an iceberg as the ultimate reason for the loss of the world's largest vessel at the time.

But journalist Senan Molony has challenged the conclusions of the British Wreck Commissioner's inquiry in a new documentary, entitled "Titanic: The New Evidence," which aired on Saturday on the UK's Channel 4.

"The official Titanic inquiry branded it [the sinking] as an act of God. This isn't a simple story of colliding with an iceberg and sinking. It's a perfect storm of extraordinary factors coming together: fire, ice and criminal negligence," Molony told The Times.

He said that the temperatures of up to 1,000 degrees Celsius weakened the ship's hull and made it unable to withstand the collision with an iceberg that hit directly into the weak spot.

The journalist believes that the collision would not otherwise have led to such catastrophic results for Titanic, which was claimed to be "unsinkable."

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Vader

The Secret Government - 1987: The Reagan-Bush Years


Brasscheck TV
Sat, 11 Jan 2014 04:46 UTC
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When the US went off the tracks for real

Bill Moyers got it more right than he realized back in 1987.

That was nearly 30 years ago if you're counting.

A master of deceit and treachery, the son and grandson of traitors, George H. W. Bush, Sr. leveraged his CIA and drug business contacts into a complete subversion of the Constitution.

The last 30 years - Clinton, Bush Jr, Obama - have been all about keeping this criminal enterprise on track while simultaneously training the weapons of war on American citizens.


Comment: Even more relevant today.

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Black Magic

Kwanzaa: Concocted by a deranged felon in 1966?

Eric Owens
The Daily Caller
Sat, 24 Dec 2016 00:27 UTC
kwanzaa
It's Christmastime, America, and you know what that means: It's the season when public schools across the fruited plain are teeming with lessons about Kwanzaa and a handful of other holidays which aren't Christmas.

As a public service, then, The Daily Caller is here to tell you the true — and truly bizarre — history of the violent, deranged and radical black nationalist who concocted the completely artificial holiday of Kwanzaa in 1966.

The creator of Kwanzaa is Maulana Ndabezitha Karenga, a 75-year-old professor or Africana studies at California State University, Long Beach. His real name is Ronald Everett. He was born in rural Maryland, the fourteenth child of a sharecropping Baptist minister.

Karenga was convicted in 1971 for brutally torturing two naked women. The women were members of Karenga's ultra-radical, paramilitary, black nationalist cult called the US Organization, according to a May 1971 Los Angeles Times story dug up by Front Page Magazine.

Comment: Read more about Karenga and how the records of his deviant behavior has been erased from the media and court records:

Happy Kwanzaa - Front Page Magazine
A May 14, 1971, article in the Los Angeles Times described the testimony of one of them: "Deborah Jones, who once was given the Swahili title of an African queen, said she and Gail Davis were whipped with an electrical cord and beaten with a karate baton after being ordered to remove their clothes. She testified that a hot soldering iron was placed in Miss Davis' mouth and placed against Miss Davis' face and that one of her own big toes was tightened in a vise. Karenga, head of US, also put detergent and running hoses in their mouths, she said."

Back then, it was relatively easy to get information on the trial. Now it's almost impossible. It took me two days' work to find articles about it. The Los Angeles Times seems to have been the only major newspaper that reported it and the stories were buried deep in the paper, which now is available only on microfilm. And the microfilm index doesn't start until 1972, so it is almost impossible to find the three small articles that cover Karenga's trial and conviction on charges of torture. That is fortunate for Karenga. The trial showed him to be not just brutal, but deranged. He and three members of his cult had tortured the women in an attempt to find some nonexistent "crystals" of poison. Karenga thought his enemies were out to get him.

And in another lucky break for Karenga, the trial transcript no longer exists. I filed a request for it with the Superior Court of Los Angeles. After a search, the court clerk could find no record of the trial. So the exact words of the black woman who had a hot soldering iron pressed against her face by the man who founded Kwanzaa are now lost to history. The only document the court clerk did find was particularly revealing, however. It was a transcript of Karenga's sentencing hearing on Sept. 17, 1971.

A key issue was whether Karenga was sane. Judge Arthur L. Alarcon read from a psychiatrist's report: "Since his admission here he has been isolated and has been exhibiting bizarre behavior, such as staring at the wall, talking to imaginary persons, claiming that he was attacked by dive-bombers and that his attorney was in the next cell. ... During part of the interview he would look around as if reacting to hallucination and when the examiner walked away for a moment he began a conversation with a blanket located on his bed, stating that there was someone there and implying indirectly that the 'someone' was a woman imprisoned with him for some offense. This man now presents a picture which can be considered both paranoid and schizophrenic with hallucinations and elusions, inappropriate affect, disorganization, and impaired contact with the environment."


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Unearthed British documents reveal Thatcher government ordered sentries to shoot intruders after submarine defaced


RT
Fri, 30 Dec 2016 18:46 UTC
Clyde Naval Base
© Russell Cheyne / ReutersSubmarines at the Royal Navy's Clyde Naval Base
Newly-released British state documents have revealed that soldiers were ordered to shoot suspected intruders at a naval base after activists managed to break into the control room of a nuclear-powered submarine.

The so-called 'Faslane Five' anti-nuclear protesters snipped a boundary fence and managed to sneak their way all the way into the control room of a submarine at Clyde Naval Base in 1988, leaving then-Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher "utterly horrified."

Three of the activists reached the control room of a ballistic missile submarine, 'HMS Repulse'. Another one of the intruders, wearing only a swimsuit, swam 150 meters out to a floating dock which she spray painted with anti-nuclear slogans. The report concluded that the aim of the break in was to graffiti the floating dock and the men who boarded the 'Repulse' did it to act as a diversion for the swimmer.

"Examples of slackness in sensitive matters keep coming to light," Thatcher said in papers which are among records filed in 1989 and 1990 and released by the UK's National Archives on Friday.

"We got into the control room and we could see an official with his feet up on the console, smoking a fag, drinking a can of beer and reading his book. He spun around and looked at us and panicked," one of the protesters, Ian Robert Mills, told the Times.

Comment: The disproportionate reactions of today's authorities would surely make Thatcher proud.

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The caves of Goyet, Belgium prove Neanderthals were cannibals


Phys Org
Fri, 30 Dec 2016 17:48 UTC
Neanderthal
Reconstruction of Neanderthal man.
Deep in the caves of Goyet in Belgium researchers have found the grisly evidence that the Neanderthals did not just feast on horses or reindeer, but also on each other.

Human bones from a newborn, a child and four adults or teenagers who lived around 40,000 years ago show clear signs of cutting and of fractures to extract the marrow within, they say.

"It is irrefutable, cannibalism was practised here," says Belgian archaeologist Christian Casseyas as he looks inside a cave halfway up a valley in this site in the Ardennes forest.

The bones in Goyet date from when Neanderthals were nearing the end of their time on earth before being replaced by Homo sapiens, with whom they also interbred.

Once regarded as primitive cavemen driven to extinction by smarter modern humans, studies have found that Neanderthals were actually sophisticated beings who took care of the bodies of the deceased and held burial rituals.

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Killing its own people: Remembering the US Government's act of genocide against Native Americans at Wounded Knee

Lacey McLaughlin
US Uncut
Tue, 29 Dec 2015 19:30 UTC
Wounded Knee mass graves
Mass graves at Wounded Knee
December 29th marks the 125th anniversary of when U.S. soldiers surrounded a band of Indians at Wounded Knee creek, seized their weapons and slaughtered at least 150—many of them women and children.

The 1890 Wounded Knee Massacre isn't given much attention in history books, but it's an uglier part of our country's past that arguably contradicted the second amendment—giving citizens the rights to bear arms— violated human rights while designating 20 soldiers heroes by awarding them with the Army's Medal of Honor.

The massacre was the result of the U.S. government's desire to seize land and move indigenous people from their homelands. This bubbled to the surface in 1890 as Indians at the Lakota Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota took part in the Ghost Dance Spiritual Movement—a practice to reject the ways of the white man with the belief that God would create the world anew.

On Dec. 29 the U.S. Army's 7th Cavalry surrounded a band of ghost dancers near Wounded Knee Creek and Col. James W. Forsyth demanded they surrender their weapons and told them they'd be relocated to another camp.
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