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A short history of Western plots to hijack Islam, from Nazi Germany to today


Sputnik
Tue, 10 Nov 2015 17:51 UTC
Islam
© UnknownThe celebration of hajj at Mecca, Saudi Arabia.
The New York Review of Books, a US-based magazine covering intellectual trends, has provided an interesting analysis, based on a review of two books on the Nazi relationship with Muslims, of why the strategy of mobilizing Islam in wartime and using it for geopolitical ends, mostly applied by the US, results in a "continual failure."

The magazine has provided a review of David Motadel's Islam and Nazi Germany's War and Stefan Ihrig's Atatürk in the Nazi Imagination.

Both books recount of Hitler's fascination with Islam and the attempts of the Nazis to use Muslims in their fight against their enemies, be it Britain or the Soviet Union.

Comment: Imperial strategists have long used religion as a tool to rally the masses, and to divide them. For them, faith is nothing but a means to an end, an end which is clouded by propaganda because of how repellent it truly is.

These days we witness psychopaths rallying to the flags of the Islamic State, al Qaeda, and Boko Haram. These psychopaths then become useful tools for both propaganda and geopolitical purposes. They can be used to topple governments. They can be used as justification for 'intervening' in a country which has not towed the imperial line. And the world is told, both explicitly and implicitly, that these groups represent Islam in a nutshell.

Believing this official lie, the world equates Islam with terrorism and extremism. It becomes a nucleus of division, and takes on a life of its own. The invasion and destruction of sovereign nations and the evaporation of the rights of the public become the 'new normal'. Soon everyone becomes an 'extremist' of some sort, and an 'extremism industry' develops to tell you who's who. Absorbed by these manufactured problems, real problems go unsolved, and real criminals go unpunished as they loot the country . And the ends, clouded by this insane propaganda, are the same. It's the absolute corruption, dehumanization, and ponerization of societies that were conned out of everything by thieves and liars.

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Amateur archaeologists discover Mesolithic rock paintings in Kadapa, India

P. Sujatha Varma
The Hundu
Tue, 10 Nov 2015 23:11 UTC
Kadapa rock painting
© n/aThe Peddakona and Gandikota rock paintings discovered in Kadapa district.
Amateur archaeologists Y. Ramakrishna Reddy and Lakshmi Kanta Reddy, have stumbled upon Mesolithic period rock paintings at Gandikota Fort in Kadapa district.

The duo is serving in government departments have shown interest in archaeology. Mr. Ramakrishna Reddy, working as conductor in the Proddutur bus depot of AP State Road Transport Corporation (APSRTC) and Mr. Lakshmi Kanta Reddy, a police constable in APSP battalion, Siddhavatam, were on a visit to the fort when they discovered the paintings.

They found the paintings on the rocky surface at Peddakona, also known as Dongalakona, located next to Farah Bagh area on the way from the Anantapadmanabha temple of the fort to the gorge of the river Penna.

The paintings representing geometrical designs are seen on a big boulder executed in red ochre. The lines painted in the shape of rectangles, triangles and circles denote abstract forms of some animals.

Based on the information given by Mr. Ramakrishna Reddy, archaeologist and CEO of The Cultural Centre of Vijayawada (CCV) E. Sivanagi Reddy inspected the site and confirmed that the rock paintings belong to the Mesolithic period datable to 10,000-8000 B.C.
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Scanning technologies reveal striking anomaly in the Great Pyramid

Rossella Lorenzi
Discovery News
Mon, 09 Nov 2015 15:19 UTC
Giza Pyramid
© Philippe Bourseiller/HIP.Institute/Faculty of Engineering Cairo/Ministry of Antiquities"This anomaly is really quite impressive and it's just in front of us, at the ground level," Mehdi Tayoubi, founder of the Paris-based Heritage Innovation Preservation Institute involved in the scanning, told Discovery News.
A striking anomaly has been detected on the eastern side of the Great Pyramid at Giza, Antiquities Minister Mamdouh el-Damaty said on Monday.

The announcement comes at the end of a two-week project to scan Egypt's main pyramids in order to identify the presence of unknown internal structures and cavities.

Called Scan Pyramids, the study is in its first stage and is carried out by a team from Cairo University's Faculty of Engineering and the Paris-based organization Heritage, Innovation and Preservation under the authority of the Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities.

The project uses a mix of technologies such as infrared thermography, muon radiography, and 3-D reconstruction to look inside four pyramids, which are more than 4,500 years old. They include Khufu, or Cheops, Khafre or Chephren at Giza, the Bent pyramid and the Red pyramid at Dahshur.

Several thermal anomalies were observed in all the monuments, but one remarkable anomaly was detected in the Great Pyramid, known as Khufu or Cheops.
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Italy's first Neanderthal dates back 250,000 years


The Local, Italy
Wed, 04 Nov 2015 14:45 UTC
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© Micheal Himbeaut/FlickrA new study has found that Neanderthal man was present in Italy 100,000 years earlier than previously thought.
Neanderthal man arrived on the Italian peninsular some 100,000 years earlier than previously thought, according to a study set to be published this month.

The discovery was made after researchers analyzed radioactive deposits that were found in sediments present inside two Neanderthal skulls unearthed in a gravel pit Saccopastore, Lazio, in the 1930s.

The site of the dig is now occupied by an eastern section of Rome's ring road.

"The results of our studies show that the Saccopastore remains are 100,000 years older than previously thought - and push back the arrival of Neanderthal man in Italy to 250,000 years ago," said Fabrizio Marra, a researcher who carried out the study with the Italian Institute for Geophysics and Vulcanology (INGV).
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New clues point to secret chamber in King Tut tomb

Rossella Lorenzi
Discovery News
Fri, 06 Nov 2015 18:28 UTC
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© Harry Burton/Wikimedia CommonsHoward Carter opens King Tut’s tomb.
The investigation of King Tut's tomb to find secret chambers ended today with promising results, according to a statement from Egypt's antiquity ministry.

A team from Cairo University's Faculty of Engineering and the Paris-based organization Heritage, Innovation and Preservation used infrared thermography to detect the temperature of the walls in the tomb. Preliminary analysis indicates the presence of an area different in its temperature than the other parts of the northern wall.

"The experiment lasted for 24 hours," Egypt's Antiquities minister Mamdouh Eldamaty said in a statement.

In order to certify the results, Eldamaty said, a number of experiments will be carried out to determine more accurately the area showing the difference in temperature.
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6-million-year-old untouched cave found in Sarawak

Desmond Davidson
The Malaysian Insider
Sat, 07 Nov 2015 15:06 UTC
Cave in Sarawak
© Photo courtesy of Ramli Ahmad, Sarawak Forestry Corporation, November 7, 2015A new cave, Conviction Cave, has been discovered in Sarawak’s Gunung Mulu national park in Baram.
A new cave, said to be six million years old and likely untouched by any human, has been discovered in Sarawak's famous Gunung Mulu national park in Baram.

The park, famous for its limestone karst formations, is known for its enormous caves within the mountain, such as the Sarawak Chamber, currently the second largest cave in the world, and vast subterranean networks such as the Deear Cave - one of the largest single cave passages in the world.

The new cave, named Conviction Cave, was discovered by British explorer Andy Eavis (pic below) and Sarawak authorities said it was an extremely significant find.

The cave was announced by Chief Minister Tan Sri Adenan Satem at the Sarawak Forestry Corporation's 12th anniversary dinner in Kuching yesterday.

Eavis, 68, who has been exploring the Mulu national park for caves since 1977, made the discovery on October 15 while on an expedition to in area named The Hidden Valley.

The entrance of the cave is about 15km from the park headquarters or a two-hour walk over rugged terrain.
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Selinunte: Lost Greek city with tragic history excavated in Sicily

David Keys
The Independent
Sun, 08 Nov 2015 03:53 UTC
Selinunte lost greek city
© Creative Commons Around 15% of the 250 acre city has, to this day, survived above ground
Like a Greek Pompeii, the city in Sicily remained at least partially intact despite the slaughter of its inhabitants

One of the ancient world's greatest tragedies, frozen in time for almost 2500 years, is at last yielding up its long-lost secrets. Archaeologists are gradually unearthing an ancient Greek city - Selinunte in Sicily - whose inhabitants were slaughtered or enslaved by North African invaders in the late 5th century BC.

Like an ancient Greek Pompeii, the whole city remained at least partially intact, despite the tragic loss of most of its inhabitants.
Selinunte lost greek city
© University of BonnExcavations are revealing the secrets of Selinunte
At Pompeii all the houses and other buildings were interred almost instantaneously under volcanic ash - but at Selinunte they were buried more gradually by hundreds of thousands of tons of earth and windblown sand.
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In the 50's and 60's over half of West Germany's Interior Ministry workers were ex-Nazis


Sputnik
Sun, 08 Nov 2015 19:55 UTC
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© Wikipedia/BundesarchivHans Josef Maria Globke, co-author of the official legal commentary of the Nuremberg Laws which revoked the citizenship of German Jews and Director of the West Germany Chancellor's Office from 1953 till 1963.
From 1949 until 1970, over half of the West German Ministry of the Interior's staffers were ex-Nazis, including former members of SA and SS, according to a team of researchers at the Center for Contemporary History (ZZF) in Potsdam who spent 11 months investigating the ministry's personnel files.

An interim report presented by the historians in Berlin on Wednesday stated that during that period, an average of 54 percent of the ministry's employees were former Nazis, though between 1956 and 1961 the percentage swelled to as high as 66 percent, according to Deutsche Welle.

According to the report, about 5-8 percent of the ministry's staff consisted of former SS members.
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The 1983 War Scare: Declassified report reveals how close the world was to nuclear holocaust


Sputnik
Sat, 07 Nov 2015 16:14 UTC
Nuclear bomb explosion
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A recently declassified report, known as '1983 War Scare,' has revealed yet another episode of how close the world came to the brink of a nuclear disaster: at the dusk of the Cold War the two major nuclear powers, US and USSR, were dangerously near to all-out war.

Once and again the world learns how it was saved from a nuclear apocalypse.

Soviet War Scare 1983
© NSARCHIVE.GWU.EDUThe recently declassified February 1990 report on the Soviet War Scare of 1983, published by the National Security Archive at George Washington University, describes how dangerously close the US and Soviet Union were to going to war.

Comment: This newly declassified report is certainly timely, considering NATO's openly hostile war games directed at Russia:
Fresh from its thunderous humiliation by the Taliban; its "liberation" of Libya for the benefit of militia hell; and while Russia was bombing the hell out of a Salafi-jihadi/"moderate rebel" constellation in Syria, NATO - in search for a "360-degree" response to Russia - resorted to invading... Spain.

And Portugal. And Italy. The whole "central Mediterranean" for that matter. Trident Juncture - the heroic denomination of NATO's war games - is supposed to last a very long five weeks, involving 36,000 troops, 230 military units, 140 fighter aircraft, more than 60 ships, and Humvees spectacularly bogged down on Portuguese beaches.

NATO invades the central Mediterranean
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66 million year old giant Dakotaraptor unearthed in South Dakota


RT
Sat, 07 Nov 2015 13:25 UTC
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© WikipediaDakotaraptor.
Archaeologists claim to have found the remains of one of the world's biggest raptors, which hunted for prey, armed with large claws and wings, some 66 million years ago. They've named the beast, discovered in South Dakota's Hell Creek Formation, Dakotaraptor steini.

"It could run very fast, it could jump incredibly well, it was agile and it had essentially grappling hooks on the front and rear limbs. These claws could grab on to anything and just slice them to bits. It was utterly lethal," Robert DePalma, head of the research team that discovered the fossils and curator of vertebrate paleontology at the Palm Beach Museum of Natural History, told The Guardian.

The new dinosaur was discovered in 2005. "It really was the Ferrari of competitors," DePalma noted.
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