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Remembering JFK: Photos from the Kennedy Presidency


National Journal
Fri, 29 May 2015 09:57 UTC
Friday would have been President John F. Kennedy's 98th birthday.

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© John F. Kennedy Presidential LibraryJohn F. Kennedy with dog, Bobby, in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, 1925.
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© John F. Kennedy Presidential LibraryThe Kennedy children in Hyannis Port, 1928. From left: Jean, Bobby, Patricia, Eunice, Kathleen, Rosemary, Jack, Joe Jr.
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© John F. Kennedy Presidential LibraryJohn F. Kennedy poses with "Dunker" the dachshund at The Hague, Netherlands, 1937.
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© John F. Kennedy Presidential LibraryJohn F. Kennedy graduates from Harvard University, Massachusetts, 1940.
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© John F. Kennedy Presidential LibraryLt. John F. Kennedy in the South Pacific, 1943.

Comment: For more information on this remarkable human being, read these articles written by Laura Knight-Jadczyk:

The JFK Series

November 22, 1963: The Day America Died

JFK: The Debris of History

The Gladiator: John Fitzgerald Kennedy

JFK: The Bushes and The Lost King

Sim City and John F. Kennedy

John F. Kennedy and All Those "isms"

John F. Kennedy, J. Edgar Hoover, Organized Crime and the Global Village

John F. Kennedy and the Psychopathology of Politics

John F. Kennedy and the Pigs of War

John F. Kennedy and the Titans

John F. Kennedy, Oil, and the War on Terror

John F. Kennedy, The Secret Service and Rich, Fascist Texans

John F. Kennedy and the Monolithic and Ruthless Conspiracy

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Best of the Web: Allen Dulles' 'Indonesian strategy' and the assassination of John F. Kennedy

Edward Curtin
Global Reaearch
Sun, 12 Jun 2016 22:17 UTC
President John F. Kennedy with CIA Director Allen Dulles and Director-designate John McCone
© Robert Knudsen. White House Photographs. John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, BostonPresident John F. Kennedy with CIA Director Allen Dulles and Director-designate John McCone on September 27, 1961.
Review of Greg Poulgrain's book "The Incubus of Intervention: Conflicting Indonesian Strategies of John F. Kennedy and Allen Dulles".

Would Allen Dulles have resorted to assassinating the President of the United States to ensure the achievement of his 'Indonesian strategy'?

This is the central question addressed by Greg Poulgrain in his extraordinarily important book, The Incubus of Intervention: Conflicting Indonesian Strategies of John F. Kennedy and Allen Dulles.

Two days before President John Kennedy's assassination on November 22, 1963, he had accepted an invitation from Indonesian President Sukarno to visit that country the following spring. The aim of the visit was to end the conflict (Konfrontasi) between Indonesia and Malaysia and to continue Kennedy's efforts to support post-colonial Indonesia with economic and developmental aid, not military. It was part of his larger strategy of ending conflict throughout Southeast Asia and assisting the growth of democracy in newly liberated post-colonial countries worldwide.

He had forecast his position in a dramatic speech in 1957 when, as a Massachusetts Senator, he told the Senate that he supported the Algerian liberation movement and opposed colonial imperialism worldwide. The speech caused an international uproar and Kennedy was harshly attacked by Eisenhower, Nixon, John Foster Dulles, and even liberals such as Adlai Stevenson. But he was praised throughout the third world.
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The falsification of history: "Ukraine" is not an independent country

Nicholas Nicholaides
Katehon
Thu, 17 Nov 2016 22:15 UTC
Ukraine
© KatehonUkraine
Ukraine has degenerated from a Russian/Soviet region into an American colony.

The territory currently called Ukraine has never been a state or a country, nor will it ever be. It was always a part of another, real country or, even more frequently, divided between other real states such as Poland, Austria, Hungary, Turkey, and most importantly Russia. Of course, according to the Kiev Nazi junta the Trojan War was fought between "Ukrainian tribes", Alexander the Great was secretly "proto-Ukrainian" and the Byzantine Empire was a "Ukrainian colony," but for the rest of the world the fact remains that there is not one single historical document or reference that refers to "Ukraine" as a state or an independent country. As much as "Ukrop" nationalists would like, they cannot change "old" history as they try to do with modern history, as they do, for example, in whitewashing the war criminal, Nazi collaborator, and mass-murderer Bandera. The Kiev Nazi junta tries to falsify even "old" history, but ancient and medieval authors and sources are too well known and too well documented to be falsified so easily.

Comment: See also: Will President Trump ditch the bad investment otherwise known as Ukraine?

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Century of War: Sean Stone documentary looks at reasons US middle class is 'in despair'


RT
Mon, 21 Nov 2016 16:44 UTC
A four-part documentary, A Century of War seeks to find answers of what led to the collapse of America's industrial and manufacturing sector and economy, and what steps could be taken to revive it in a post-industrial society. The series was created by Sean Stone, co-host of RT America's Watching the Hawks show.




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Flashback Invasion of America: Interactive map show how US took more than 1.5 billion acres from Native Americans

Rebecca Onion and Claudio Saunt
Slate
Tue, 17 Jun 2014 11:38 UTC
Map of Native American land
© University of Georgia
This interactive map, produced by University of Georgia historian Claudio Saunt to accompany his new book West of the Revolution: An Uncommon History of 1776, offers a time-lapse vision of the transfer of Indian land between 1776 and 1887. As blue "Indian homelands" disappear, small red areas appear, indicating the establishment of reservations. (Above is a GIF of the map's time-lapse display; visit the map's page to play with its features.)

The project's source data is a set of maps produced in 1899 by the Bureau of American Ethnology. The B.A.E. was a research unit of the Smithsonian that published and collected anthropological, archaeological, and linguistic research on the culture of North American Indians, as the nineteenth century drew to a close.

While the time-lapse function is the most visually impressive aspect of this interactive, the "source map" option (available on the map's site) offers a deep level of detail. By selecting a source map, and then zooming in to the state you've selected, you can see details of the map used to generate that section of the interactive. A pop-up box tells you which Native nation was resident on the land, and the date of the treaty or executive order that transferred the area to the government, as well as offering external links to descriptions of the treaty and of the tract of land.

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1994 Rwanda genocide: Catholic bishops apologize for 'all forms of wrong' the church committed during the massacres


aljazeera.com
Sun, 20 Nov 2016 13:43 UTC
Rwanda geneocide
© Finbarr O'Reilly/ReutersMany of the victims died at the hands of priests, clergymen and nuns.
Catholic Church in Rwanda says it regrets actions of "all Christians for all forms of wrongs" during massacres in 1994.

The Catholic Church in Rwanda has apologized for its role in the 1994 genocide, saying it regrets the actions of those who participated in the massacres.

A church statement acknowledged on Sunday that its members planned, aided and executed the genocide, in which more than 800,000 ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus were killed by Hutu hardliners.

"We apologise for all the wrongs the church committed. We apologize on behalf of all Christians for all forms of wrongs we committed. We regret that church members violated [their] oath of allegiance to God's commandments," said the statement by the Conference of Catholic Bishops, which was read out in parishes across the country.
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European epidemics left their mark on Canadian First Nations' DNA, population forced to adapt to pathogens

Brigitte Osterath
Nature
Tue, 15 Nov 2016 00:00 UTC
Tsimshian people
© Robert W. Redford collection, Library and Archives CanadaThe Tsimshian people of northwestern Canada (pictured in 1890) suffered a population crash in the nineteenth century.
Change to immune-system genes in indigenous Canadians linked to epidemic introduced by Europeans.

Epidemics from Europe that killed thousands of indigenous Canadians in the nineteenth century have left their signatures in the genomes of the people living there today, researchers say.

The Tsimshian people, who live in coastal British Columbia and Alaska and are among Canada's First Nations, suffered a severe population crash around the nineteenth century, as European colonizers brought diseases including smallpox to communities that had not acquired resistance.

The population decline is documented in reports from the time and in oral histories. But it may also show up in changes in immune-system genes, say geneticists who sequenced the genomes of 25 Tsimshian people and compared them with the DNA of 25 people who lived in the same region between 6,000 and 1,000 years ago. The ancient DNA was obtained — with permission from Tsimshian communities — from corpses stored in the Canadian Museum of History in Gatineau.
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Last Russian tsar, Nicholas II portrait survives for almost 100 years on back of Lenin painting


RT
Fri, 18 Nov 2016 17:23 UTC
Tsar Nicholas Lenin portrait painting
© RuptlyTsar Nicholas and Lenin share a canvas
While they might have been enemies in real life, in a twist of fate, Tsar Nicholas II and the Bolshevik leader of 1917 October revolution, Vladimir Lenin, have been sharing one canvas for almost a century.

The secret double nature of the painting was discovered by pure chance during restoration works at the St. Petersburg's Stieglitz Art and Industry Academy.

The full-length Lenin portrait was commissioned in 1924, the year Lenin died, to the Soviet artist Vladislav Izmailovich, who is believed to have been ordered to cover politically inappropriate image with Lenin. However, the artist apparently decided there's a room for both revolutionary hero and monarch on the canvas, painting the Lenin portrait on the reverse side while at the same time masking the image of Nicholas II from inquisitive eye beneath layers of washable paint.

"The artist [Vladislav Izmailovich] who painted Lenin was a very good artist. Even then he understood that times were changing and so he used washable paints and painted several layers and in so doing saved a beautiful portrait of Nicholas II. He clearly understood that he was risking his life for it, because in those times if somebody, spotted him whilst he was doing it and didn't trust him he would be shot," Vasily Kichedzhi, Rector at Stieglitz Art and Industry Academy, told RT's Ruptly video agency.
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Built by the Huns? Ancient stone monuments discovered along Caspian Sea

Owen Jarus
Live Science:
Mon, 14 Nov 2016 10:15 UTC
ancient stone structure
© Photo courtesy Evgeniï BogdanovA massive stone structure, dating back 1,500 years, has been discovered along the Caspian Sea.
A massive, 1,500-year-old stone complex that may have been built by nomad tribes has been discovered near the eastern shore of the Caspian Sea in Kazakhstan.

The complex contains numerous stone structures sprawled over about 300 acres (120 hectares) of land, or more than 200 American football fields, archaeologists reported recently in the journal Ancient Civilizations from Scythia to Siberia.

"When the area was examined in detail, several types of stone structures were identified," archaeologists Andrey Astafiev, of the Mangistaus State Historical and Cultural Reserve; and Evgeniï Bogdanov, of the Russian Academy of Sciences Siberian Department's Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, wrote in the journal article. The smallest stone structures are only 13 feet by 13 feet (4 by 4 meters), and the biggest are 112 feet by 79 feet (34 by 24 m).
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Got milk? People living 9,000 years ago did, ceramic pots show

Laura Geggel
Live Science
Thu, 17 Nov 2016 11:06 UTC
cows in field
© siete_vidas | Shutterstock.comCows on the island of St. Ahileos at Lake Prespa, Greece.
Humankind has gulped down mouthfuls of milk and other dairy products from animals, such as sheep, goats and cows, for at least 9,000 years, a new study suggests.

Researchers made the discovery after analyzing and dating more than 500 prehistoric pottery vessels discovered in the northern Mediterranean region, which includes the modern-day countries of Spain France, Italy, Greece and Turkey. During each examination, they looked for remnants of milk, which indicated that people had used animal dairy products.

The scientists also examined the ceramic pots for residue from animal fat and other evidence, such as skeletal remains, that would suggest Neolithic people slaughtered domesticated animals for meat; they examined these bony remains from 82 sites around the Mediterranean dating from the seventh to fifth millennia B.C.

Comment: See also: You have to ask the question as to why the article headline states that people drank milk 9000 years ago, yet the article itself states "However, more research is needed to verify that Neolithic people consumed milk products." Just another example of sensationalist headlines lying about the research results.

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