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Learning from the past: Vladimir Putin's comments on the 'time-bomb' Lenin placed under Russia


New Cold War
Thu, 28 Jan 2016 00:00 UTC
Vladimir Putin
Vladimir Putin speaking to All-Russia People’s Front on Jan 25, 2016
The following is an excerpt of a speech by Russian President Vladimir Putin on the subject of the Russian Revolution of 1917 and its central leader, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, specifically on the nationalities policies of Lenin and the governments he led. The speech was delivered on January 25, 2016 to a plenary session of an interregional forum of the Russian Popular Front [All-Russia People's Front-Wikipedia] public movement. The excerpt (below) is from the full speech as published on the website of the President of Russia.

The comments by Putin on January 25 followed the controversy stirred by comments he made on January 22 to a meeting of the Presidential Council on Science. There, he cited a line from a poem about Lenin, saying the revolutionary leader and other leaders of the Russian Revolution had "planted an atomic bomb under the structure called Russia, and it then exploded".

The president was referring to the controversy and debate in the early Soviet Union over nationalities policy, specifically the divergences between Lenin (who died in January 1924 and was gravely ill for more than one year before that) and future Soviet leader Joseph Stalin over the right of nationalities in Russia to political self-determination, including full independence.[1] Here is how RT.com reports the controversy, on Jan 26, 2016:

Comment: There is no doubt that there has been a great deal of revision of Russia's history, especially as seen from the West. Putin mentions that "history should be carefully analyzed so as not to repeat the mistakes of the past". And indeed, his governments appear to have taken that to heart over the last 15 years.

Putin also brings up the Romanov family. The following revisits in pictures who they were:

In pictures: Russia's imperial Romanov family

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Forgotten history: 'Japanese Schindler' film premieres in US


RT
Sun, 31 Jan 2016 13:48 UTC
Chiune “Sempo” Sugihara
© Chiune Sugihara / Wikipedia
The actions Chiune "Sempo" Sugihara took to save 6,000 Jews fleeing Poland in 1939 have been largely forgotten by history, but now a new feature film recognizes the heroism of the man often called the "Japanese Schindler".

The film, "Persona Non Grata", makes its US premiere at the Atlanta Jewish Film Festival Sunday.

Shot largely in Poland, the multilingual film has already topped the box office in Japan, but it's the first time American audiences get to see it.
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Siberian researchers eager to identify 'mystery girl' in century-old pictures


RT
Sat, 30 Jan 2016 03:25 UTC
mystery girl old photos siberia
© Krasnoyarsk Regional Museum / The Siberian Times One striking image shows the girl posing on a rooftop in front of famous Krasnoyarsk Railway Bridge, opened in 1899, which carries the Trans Siberian railway over the Yenisei River
Museum workers in Krasnoyarsk were astonished when they digitalized local photos from the early 1900s only to find an identical figure in all of them - a solemn girl, dressed in all white, striking an identical pose.

So far, the mystery girl has been found in at least 20 photos and four glass negatives, which researchers at the Krasnoyarsk Regional Museum of Local Lore believe were taken between 1906 and 1908, judging from the state of the buildings in the photos.
mystery girl old photos siberia
© Krasnoyarsk Regional Museum / The Siberian Times
"It was only modern equipment that allowed us to notice the girl. When you look at the old pictures, you do not see her. She is rather small there. When we made high resolution scans and zoomed in, we saw her more closely, along with the details of her clothes and hairstyle," said Ilya Kuklinsky, senior researcher at the museum. "It is quite strange that no one noticed her before, though the pictures were widely used as illustrations."
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Nazi Holocaust mastermind Eichmann's last clemency letter release: 'I don't feel guilty'


RT
Fri, 29 Jan 2016 15:27 UTC
Adolf Eichmann
© AFPIsraeli police flank Adolf Eichmann, the Nazi S.S. colonel who headed the Gestapo's Jewish Section and was responsible for millions of Jews' deaths in Nazi concentration camps, as he stands trial inside a bulletproof booth in a Jerusalem court.
Nazi Holocaust organizer Adolf Eichmann who was executed by Israel back in 1962 for numerous war crimes, considered himself "a mere instrument in the hands of the [Nazi] leaders," a letter to the then-president asking for clemency reveals.

The information was released on Wednesday by the office of Israel's President Reuven Rivlin. The documents will be officially made public at a ceremony at Rivlin's official Jerusalem residence at International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

The request of one of the masterminds of the 'Final Solution', a German plan for the extermination of the Jews during World War II, was made to then president Yitzhak Ben-Zvi.
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Ancient Babylonian astronomers found Jupiter 1,400 years before Europeans did

Stuart Gary
ABC Science, Australia
Thu, 28 Jan 2016 23:24 UTC
Ancient Babylonian cuneiform tablet
© Trustees of the British Museum/Mathieu OssendrijverAncient Babylonian cuneiform tablet text A provided essential clues to understanding four other tablets numbered text B to text E.
The earliest known examples of mathematical and geometric astronomy have been identified in a series of ancient Babylonian cuneiform tablets.

An analysis of the tablets, reported in the journal Science, reveals ancient Babylonians were able to calculate the position of Jupiter using geometric techniques previously believed to have been first used some 1,400 years later in 14th century Europe.

"These texts are the earliest evidence we have from antiquity of mathematical astronomy," said the study's author Dr Mathieu Ossendrijver, a historian on Babylonian astronomy with the Humboldt University in Berlin.

"It describes Jupiter's velocity across the sky and how that changes with time."

The tablets, which are housed at the British Museum, are believed to have been unearthed from an archaeological dig in what is now modern day Iraq sometime in the 1800s.

The almost completely intact tablets are thought to have been written in Babylon between 350 and 50 BCE.

The tablets are part of a larger collection of 450 astronomy tablets from Babylon and Uruk containing celestial data arranged in rows and columns, together with instructions.

Dr Ossendrijver examined five tablets numbered as trapezoid text A to trapezoid text E, four of which deal with geometrical trapezoid shapes, but nobody understood what they were about.
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Giants of the Americas: Who were they and where did they come from?

Jim Vieira and Hugh Newman
Graham Hancock
Tue, 27 Oct 2015 18:09 UTC
giants in the news
Selection of news accounts featured in the book, Giants on Record.
"The Iroquois, the Osage, the Tuscaroras, the Hurons, the Omahas, and many other North American Indians all speak of giant men who once lived and roamed in the territories of their forefathers. All over what is now the U.S. are traditions of these ancient giants." 1
Did Giant humans roam Ancient America in the past? Did the Native American's have a royal class of giant rulers entombed in massive burial mounds?

The historical record certainly seems to support this reality. Over a two hundred year period, more than 1000 accounts of seven-foot and taller skeletons have been reported unearthed from ancient burial sites in North America. Newspaper accounts, town and county histories, letters, scientific journals, diaries, photos and Smithsonian ethnology reports have carefully documented this. These skeletons have been reported from coast to coast in burial chambers, stone crypts, caves, ancient battlefields and massive mounds. Strange anatomic anomalies such as double rows of teeth, jawbones so large as to be fit over the face of the finder, and elongated skulls, were documented in virtually every state. Smithsonian scientists identified at least 17 skeletons that stood at over seven feet in their annual reports, including one example that was 8 feet tall, and a skull with a 36-inch circumference (an average human skull has a circumference of about 20 inches). The Smithsonian Institution is mentioned dozens more times as the recipient of enormous skeletons from across the United States.

Comment: See also:

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1993 Belfast bombing blamed on IRA was actually carried out by British intelligence agent

Cahal Milmo, Mick Browne
The Independent, UK
Wed, 27 Jan 2016 13:58 UTC
shankhill road bombing
© PACEMAKER BELFAST The aftermath of the Frizell’s Fish shop bombing in Shankill Road in 1993, which killed nine in a Loyalist Belfast community... was carried out by the British government and used to justify reprisal attacks against the Nationalist community
Highly-sensitive documents suggest terrorist who plotted attack that killed nine civilians in 1993 was British agent

The police watchdog in Northern Ireland is probing claims that the senior IRA operative who planned the 1993 Shankill Road bombing was an informant who passed on details that could have allowed the security forces to prevent the atrocity.

Nine civilians, including two children, were murdered in the attack on a fish shop in Belfast's loyalist heartland 23 years ago which became one of the most notorious incidents of the Troubles and led to a wave of sectarian reprisal killings.

Highly-sensitive documents stolen by the IRA during a break-in at the fortified headquarters of the then Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) in 2002 have now been claimed to show that the terrorist who plotted the bombing was a British agent known as "AA".

Leaks from the stolen papers suggest AA had extensively briefed his MI5 or Special Branch handlers on the aim and likely timing of the attack, which was designed to inflame sectarian tensions by killing the leadership of the loyalist Ulster Defence Association (UDA) terror group as they met above Frizzell's fish shop on a busy Saturday in October 1993.

Comment: There is nothing 'extraordinary' about this incident. It's standard operating procedure for British and American false-flag terrorism.

Patsies Framed For Omagh Bombing Appeal, Evidence Suggests British Intelligence False Flag Operation

British Government's Agent Provocateurs Exposed

Behind the Headlines: British Terror in Ireland - Interview with Anne Cadwallader

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The caste system has left its mark on Indians' genomes

Annalee Newitz
arstechnica
Mon, 25 Jan 2016 00:00 UTC
Lord Parshuram
© DrshenoyLord Parshuram with Brahmin settlers commanding Lord Varuna to make the seas recede and allow Brahmins to make their homes in Kerala.
Over 1,500 years ago, the Gupta emperors ruled large parts of India. They helped consolidate the nation, but they also popularized India's caste system, making it socially unacceptable for people to marry outside their castes. Now, a new analysis of genetic variation among contemporary Indians has revealed that this social shift left a distinctive genetic signature behind.

A group of researchers in India conducted this analysis by comparing the genomes of hundreds of Indians from throughout the country. As they write in a paper published today in Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, samples came from "367 unrelated individuals drawn from 18 mainland and two island (Andaman and Nicobar Islands) populations selected to represent geographic, linguistic, and ethnic diversities." Previous studies had suggested that today's Indians came from two ancestral populations, but the new analysis revealed four distinct "haplotypes," or bundles of genetic elements that travel through generations in a package. People with the same haplotypes likely came from the same ancestral groups. The researchers also found a fifth haplotype among people of the Andaman archipelago.
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The world's oldest known monument - Göbekli Tepe

Karen Graham
Digital Journal
Mon, 25 Jan 2016 22:15 UTC
Göbekli Tepe
© Wikimedia CommonsGöbekli Tepe, showing sites A through D.
Located in the southeastern region of Anatolia in Turkey is an archaeological site known as Göbekli Tepe. Deemed "unremarkable" when the site was first discovered in the early 1960s, Klaus Schmidt thought otherwise, and we should be glad he did.

Were someone to ask you what is the oldest monument known to mankind, most people would say the Pyramids of Egypt or perhaps, Stonehenge. However, Gobekli Tepe predates Stonehenge by 7,000 years and Egypt's pyramids by 7,500 years.

The site was first excavated in 1963 by Istanbul University and the University of Chicago. American archaeologist Peter Benedict thought it might be Neolithic, and proposed the upper layers were topped by Byzantine and Islamic cemeteries.

And because the hill where the site was located had been under agricultural cultivation for generations, the site was dismissed because of the number of rocks that had been moved by the area's inhabitants.

When German archaeologist Klaus Schmidt began excavating the site in 1994, he really didn't know what he would eventually find. But until his death in 2014, he uncovered six temple-like structures built on top of each other, spanning a time period of 1,000 years.
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Bones from suspected African burial ground found under street in New York City


RT
Sun, 24 Jan 2016 15:31 UTC
bones ny
© Reuters
Archaeologists have found evidence of a burial ground beneath a bus depot in Harlem, New York. The remains, which were found on 126th Street, are believed to be of New Yorkers of African descent and are thought to date from between the 17th and 19th century.

More than 140 bones were found by archaeologists who were working for the New York City Economic Development Corporation, the New York Times reports. The researchers also came across a skull, which they believe is likely to have come from an adult woman of African descent.

The finds were made during the summer of 2015; however, they were only announced this week.

Comment: See more: Two centuries-old tombs unearthed beneath historic New York City park

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