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Will Trump's 'Secret JFK Files' point the finger at Israel?

Kit Knightly
Off-Guardian
Fri, 22 Nov 2024 03:14 UTC
JFK Motorcade
© Off-Guardian
It's November 22nd, which means we're in the midst of the 24 hours per year the mainstream media talks about JFK.

Except we're not.

Every year for as long as I can remember the anniversary of the assassination means stories like this, or this, or this. But, for some reason, this year is quiet.

Except for the Trump rumours of course. He's absolutely going to publish the sealed JFK files this time. Just wait. Any day now.

That's the mainstream media covered.

In the "alternate media", JFK coverage is different and has been for a while now. All anyone wants to talk about is Israel pulling the trigger. That's what Candace Owens says. And Mintpress News.

Apparently it was because JFK wanted to stop Israel getting nukes. Something that may be true, but does that merit a complex public assassination risking total alienation of the most powerful country in the world? Couldn't they just lie about having nukes (as apparently they did) until Kennedy's term was over? That's only five years later at most.

So, is this a valuable new insight? Or a deliberate effort to narrow and change the focus of the JFK narrative? A new solution to a "mystery" long-since solved.

Because while we may not know exact names of the trigger men or who gave precisely which order, a considered reading of the available evidence offers only one sustainable conclusion:

JFK was killed by the Deep State.
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Lost Phrygian inscription on Arslan Kaya monument in Turkey deciphered

Oguz Buyukyildirim
Arkeonews Net
Sat, 23 Nov 2024 16:16 UTC
Turkish Monument
© Ingeborg Simon/CC BY-SA 3.0
Professor Mark Munn of Pennsylvania State University has deciphered part of the inscription on the legendary Arslan Kaya Monument (also known as "Lion Rock"), a heavily damaged inscription that has been difficult to decipher for centuries.

The Arslan Kaya monument is carved into a volcanic rock formation approximately 15 meters high in the Phrygian highlands in present-day western Türkiye, near Lake Emre Gölü. The 2,600-year-old monument, features figures of sphinxes, an image of the goddess flanked by lions, and a nearly erased inscription written in the Old Phrygian language.

Professor Mark Munn claims to have deciphered it, saying it spells out ' Materan,' referring to a Mother goddess of the Phyrgians, whose worship flourished between 1200 and 600 BC.

This goddess, known to the Phrygians simply as "Matar Kubilea or Mother" was later revered by the Greeks as the "Mother of the Gods" and by the Romans as "Magna Mater" or "Great Mother."

In April, Professor Mark Munn had a chance to photograph the previously indecipherable inscription on Arslan Kaya, in western Türkiye. After analyzing his imagery, Munn has published his conclusion that Arslan Kaya honors the Mother goddess Materan, the leader of the Phrygian pantheon.
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Putin speaks: Video archives 1999-2024


RT
Mon, 07 Oct 2024 12:34 UTC
Vladimir Putin
© Kremlin.ru
RT has converted key archive speeches delivered by the Russian leader into spoken English using the help of AI

For understandable reasons, Russian President Vladimir Putin delivers his most important messages in Russian, with speakers of other languages relying on translations to hear his thoughts. RT has used modern algorithmic technologies to have the statesman's messages delivered in English.

Comment: If this article had been written today, excerpts from the statement available as a transcript in this article, Putin outlines Moscow's response to Ukraine escalation (FULL SPEECH) would probably have been added.

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Oldest known alphabet unearthed in ancient Syrian city


Phys Org
Wed, 20 Nov 2024 16:50 UTC
Oldest Alphabet
© Glenn Schwartz, Johns Hopkins UniversityClay objects roughly the size of fingers were discovered during a dig at the ancient city of Umm el-Marra. The engraved symbols may be part of the earliest known alphabet.
What appears to be evidence of the oldest alphabetic writing in human history is etched onto finger-length, clay cylinders excavated from a tomb in Syria by a team of Johns Hopkins University researchers.

The writing, which is dated to around 2400 BCE, precedes other known alphabetic scripts by roughly 500 years, upending what archaeologists know about where alphabets came from, how they are shared across societies, and what that could mean for early urban civilizations.

"Alphabets revolutionized writing by making it accessible to people beyond royalty and the socially elite. Alphabetic writing changed the way people lived, how they thought, how they communicated," said Glenn Schwartz, a professor of archaeology at Johns Hopkins University who discovered the clay cylinders. "And this new discovery shows that people were experimenting with new communication technologies much earlier and in a different location than we had imagined before now."

Schwartz will share details of his discovery on Thursday, Nov. 21, at the American Society of Overseas Research's Annual Meeting.

A Near Eastern archaeologist, Schwartz studies how early urban areas developed throughout Syria and how smaller cities emerged in the region. With colleagues from the University of Amsterdam, he co-directed a 16-year-long archaeological dig at Tell Umm-el Marra, one of the first medium-sized urban centers that popped up in western Syria.
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Archaeologists have found the first evidence of familial embalming in Europe

Mark Milligan
Heritage Daily
Sun, 17 Nov 2024 18:37 UTC
Ancient Skull
© M. Bessou/CNRS UMR
Embalming practices, once considered exotic rituals mainly linked to ancient Egypt or South American cultures, have now been confirmed in Europe at recent discoveries at Château des Milandes in Castelnaud-la-Chapelle, Dordogne, France.

These findings indicate that such techniques were employed among European aristocracy during the 16th and 17th centuries.

The remains of seven adults and five children from the noble Caumont family were all found embalmed in a crypt, along with a separately buried woman.

According to archaeologists from the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW), the discovery will provide significant insights into the first historical embalming methods in Europe.

Caroline Partiot from ÖAW, said "Our examinations of a complete individual and the almost 2,000 fragments show a careful and highly standardised technical treatment of the deceased, which is similar for adults and children. This shows a know-how that has been passed down for over two centuries."
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New DNA evidence proves popular narratives about Pompeii victims are entirely false: study

Shane Galvin
New York Post
Thu, 07 Nov 2024 08:25 UTC
People walk through the husk of Pompeii, in 1979, 1,900 years after it was engulfed in ash and lava when Mount Vesuvius erupted.
© APPeople walk through the husk of Pompeii, in 1979, 1,900 years after it was engulfed in ash and lava when Mount Vesuvius erupted.
New DNA evidence from the ruins of the ancient city of Pompeii reveal that many of the presumptuous narratives about the charred victims are entirely false, according to a new study.

Researchers, including some from Harvard University, focused on fourteen of the castings of bodies that were created in the late 1880s to preserve the remains of the victims of the historic volcanic eruption, according to the study published in the journal Current Biology.

Comment: See also:

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Germany: Comatose and Without Sovereignty

Rene Zittlau
Voice from Russia
Tue, 12 Nov 2024 12:14 UTC
German flag
Introduction

If you look at the current situation with a cool eye, you can only wonder how a country that set cultural, scientific and industrial standards until 90 years ago could completely lose its compass.

First it was destroyed by Hitler - the Germans allowed this to happen. Then Germany became a vassal - the Germans allowed that to happen. Finally, they managed to drive the former industrial jewel of the world to the wall with the most incompetent leadership you could dream of. A new government with Merz as Chancellor will do nothing to change this, as he has already been bought and paid for by the hegemon.

This article is therefore not about the political kindergarten in Berlin, which can hardly be put into words, but attempts to describe the fundamental problem of this great country and provide food for thought.
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Sensational discovery: Egyptian priestess' burial chamber unearthed after 4,000 years

Brooke Steinberg
New York Post
Wed, 06 Nov 2024 03:56 UTC
box in chamber
© Antiquities/FacebookBurial chamber containing the remains of an ancient Egyptian priestess
A burial chamber containing the remains of an ancient Egyptian priestess has been unearthed after nearly 4,000 years.

Named Idy, her remains were found in a coffin within another coffin in a tomb in the city of Asyut, Egypt, just about 200 miles south of Cairo.

The excavations took place between Aug. 18 and Sept. 17.

Idy was the daughter of Djefai-Hapi I, a wealthy regional Egyptian governor who lived around 1880 BC. The Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities said in a Facebook post that he was "one of the most important rulers of the territories in ancient Egypt."

"Djefai-Hapi I was deified in ancient times and his tomb was an integral part of the cultural memory of ancient Egypt for more than 2000 years," Professor Jochem Kahl, an archeologist at Freie Universität Berlin who led the discovery, said, according to the Daily Mail.
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Gilbert Bigio: Israel's man in Haiti and the architect behind the US migrant crisis

Kit Klarenberg
MintPress News
Fri, 04 Oct 2024 00:00 UTC
GilBig
© UnknownGilbert Bigio
In December 2022, Canada imposed strict sanctions on Gilbert Bigio, frequently referred to as "Haiti's only billionaire" and the deeply impoverished country's "richest man." He, along with two other super-wealthy Haitian citizens, was accused by Ottowa of using his outsized influence and power in the country "to protect and enable the illegal activities of the armed criminal gangs" that have been tearing Port-au-Prince apart for years. Since then, Bigio has remained at liberty and unpunished - meanwhile, Haiti has slid ever further into catastrophe.

Markedly, no other Western country - notably the sanctions-happy U.S. - followed Canada's lead. While wave upon wave of UN-mandated peacekeepers from every corner of the world have been deployed to Haiti in recent years, they have been unable to quell - and often exacerbated - the violence that has left the country without a functioning state or civil society. Kenya, currently leading an international "anti-gang" initiative in Port-au-Prince, recently called for the effort to be transformed into a dedicated U.N. peacekeeping operation.

For his part, Latin American & Caribbean Studies Professor Danny Shaw has zero doubt that Bigio and others like him are fundamentally responsible for encouraging and facilitating Haiti's collapse.
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Experts to uncover secret of Urartian statue found at Garibin Tepe in Turkey

Leman Altuntaş
Arkeonews Net
Sat, 02 Nov 2024 08:40 UTC
basalt stone statue
© Anadolu Agency
In an area where rescue excavations were conducted last year, archaeologists discovered a basalt stone statue from the Urartian period that weighed approximately one tonne during the archaeological excavations in Van's Tuşba district.

In 2023, archaeologists found the first monumental statue of its kind in the region during rescue excavations at Garibin Tepe. This fascinating discovery, which is roughly 2 meters long and 1 meter wide, was discovered in a historical site only 3 kilometers from Ayanis Castle and 30 kilometers (18.6 miles) from the city center.

This year, the excavation was concentrated on the southern portion of the hill and was headed by Van Museum under the scientific direction of Professor Mehmet Işıklı from the Department of Archaeology at Atatürk University.

Professor Işıklı stated: "This is a monumental three-dimensional statue that we have never encountered before. We are very excited, and after preliminary studies, we hope to gain more detailed information."

The statue, believed to have a broken neck, is noted for its impressive size and craftsmanship. After detailed examinations by a team from Ankara, the mystery of the basalt statue is expected to be solved.

Professor Işıklı stated that the Urartian civilization is one of the least understood areas because it has very few known sculptural works.
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