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Celebrating the hidden holocaust of Thanksgiving

Nafeez Ahmed
Medium
Wed, 22 Nov 2017 18:20 UTC
homeland security
Imagine if the Nazis won the Second World War. Yes, yes, I know there's a TV show about that - but stay with me.

So imagine: the Nazis won, and then every year, on the day when we currently hold Holocaust Remembrance Day, they celebrate with a national holiday called "Eternal Gratefulness for the Fruits of Industry."

In the Nazi national holiday, citizens bizarrely demonstrate no recollection whatsoever of the systematic, bureaucratic state-sponsored persecution and murder of approximately six million Jews.

Instead, they share with each other strange stories of how the German nation overcame all obstacles through generosity and love, manifested in amazing industrial advancements attributed to the wonderous exceptionalism of the German nation. Stories that have literally no resemblance to real Nazi history.

Guess what.
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Remembering Fidel Castro: A Latin American legend


telesur
Fri, 24 Nov 2017 00:00 UTC
Fidel Castro
The Cuban revolutionary remained influential in Latin America and across the world for half a century.

Fidel was born in 1926 during a period when then-President Gerardo Machado was cutting off the traditional elite from its long-held power and defending the island's sovereignty from the United States.

As a child, Fidel was sent to live in Santiago de Cuba, where he excelled more in sports than academia.

His youth was marked by turbulent politics: Fulgencio Batista became president in 1940 and ruled the country until 1944 before returning to power through a coup in 1952. With the blessing and material support of the United States, he ruled Cuba with an iron fist until 1959 in what even John F. Kennedy once referred to as "one of the most bloody and repressive dictatorships in the long history of Latin American repression."

While studying law at the University of Havana, Fidel became increasingly involved in anti-imperialist activism. After traveling to the Dominican Republic and Colombia, Fidel sharpened his leftist politics and led protests against right-wing governments in both countries.

Comment: More on Fidel Castro's remarkable legacy:

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First FBI interview with Howard Zinn


howardzinn.org
Wed, 02 Mar 2016 16:29 UTC
howard zinn
In July 2010, the FBI declassified their 243-page file on Howard Zinn, dating back to 1949 (read summaries of files). The first recorded contact with Zinn is this report filed four years later on November 25, 1953. Two FBI agents questioned Zinn about matters based on information provided by informants. FBI files on individuals and groups are notoriously unreliable. They are shared here simply as relevant primary documents. The transcript follows.
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Deranged Dating - Dendrochronology is scientific, or so it's claimed


Malaga Bay
Fri, 24 Nov 2017 20:43 UTC
Deranged Dating
© Malaga Bay
One of the quaint aspects of academia is it's claim that Dendrochronology is "scientific".
Dendrochronology (or tree-ring dating) is the scientific method of dating tree rings (also called growth rings) to the exact year they were formed in order to analyze atmospheric conditions during different periods in history.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dendrochronology
The peculiarities of the "scientific method" deployed by Dendrochronology is perhaps best understood by examining how this academic discipline handles Roman Times.

Early in the 1980s Dendrochronology adopted German chronologies for Roman Times.
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The war for tax dollars and the Violence Against Women Act

CRC
Capital Research Center
Fri, 24 Nov 2017 15:50 UTC
VAWA
The Violence Against Women Act and the War for Tax Dollars
Incentives for false accusations of violence are dangerous
By Michael Volpe, Organization Trends, April 2016 (PDF here)

Summary: Violence against women is terrible, but the laws and federal programs related to it can be seriously flawed, too. Significant government funds now influence groups that work with women in strained and breaking marriages. This can lead to false accusations of domestic abuse and dishonesty over abuse statistics as well.

A popular paraphrase from the great thinker Eric Hoffer's work is that, "Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket." This is the case with the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), a cause so holy to the activist Left that nary a voice is ever raised in criticism of the politically correct pork-barrel program that spawned an industry. The damage that groups funded under VAWA do to men falsely accused of domestic abuse is hard to estimate.

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The incompetence of the Warren Commission

Tony Heller
The Deplorable Climate Science Blog
Fri, 24 Nov 2017 02:38 UTC
"Jerry Ford can't fart and chew gum at the same time" - Lyndon Baines Johnson
I've been looking at news reports from 1963 and 1964 and found a smoking gun that the Warren report is garbage.
Dealey Plaza
© Gene Thorp
The grassy knoll is located on the north side of the motorcade, to the right of the motorcade. The White House reported immediately after the shooting that JFK was shot in the right temple. Just before police officers "raced up the grassy knoll."
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Flea market photo of Billy the Kid and man who shot him


BBC News
Wed, 22 Nov 2017 00:00 UTC
BillytheKidphoto
© Frank AbramsHistorians believe the photo shows Billy the Kid (second from left) and Pat Garrett (far right).
A photo discovered by a US lawyer at a flea market may be a rare image of Wild West outlaw Billy the Kid and could be worth millions, experts have said.

Frank Abrams bought the tintype photo in North Carolina for $10 (£7) and put it up in the guest room of his home. He consulted experts after watching a TV programme about the discovery of another photo of Billy the Kid. Historians told Mr Abrams his photo may show the outlaw with his future killer.

Mr Abrams, a criminal defence lawyer, bought the tintype photo - which is an image produced on a thin sheet of metal - at a flea market near the city of Asheville in 2011.
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The VAWA, The Duluth Model, Feminism and the politicization of domestic violence

Iron Ladies
Medium
Thu, 23 Nov 2017 16:49 UTC
A look at the evolution of the Violence Against Women Act of 1994

domestic violence
The politicization of domestic violence by feminists began in the 1960s and '70s, with a small network of shelters for women escaping domestic violence. As was borne out by the experience of Erin Pizzey, who established the first shelter for domestic violence victims in the UK in 1971, the goal of the women's shelters was not actually to address the multifaceted issue of interpersonal violence, and seek solutions for couples affected. Rather, it was to establish the concept of the now well-known "patriarchy" as a conspiracy with frightening motives.

Women's liberation was about encouraging women to not only question their marriages, but to expand the characterization of the in fact, rare occurrence of what was then called, "wife battering" to include almost all women as victims.

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70 years of broken promises: The untold story of the UN's partition plan for the benefit of the Zionists

Ramzy Baroud
teleSUR
Thu, 23 Nov 2017 14:38 UTC
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© ReutersYoung girls hold up the Palestinian flag in Jerusalem.
Thousands of Palestinians were killed in the rebellion as they continued to reject the prejudicial partition.

In a recent talk before Chatham House think-tank in London, Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, approached the issue of a Palestinian state from an intellectual perspective.

Before we think of establishing a Palestinian state, he mused, "it is time we reassessed whether the modern model we have of sovereignty and unfettered sovereignty, is applicable everywhere in the world."

It is not the first time that Netanyahu discredits the idea of a Palestinian state. Despite clear Israeli intentions of jeopardizing any chances for the creation of such a state, the US Administration of Donald Trump is, reportedly, finalizing plans for an 'ultimate peace deal'. The New York Times suggests that "the anticipated plan will have to be built around the so-called two-state solution."

But why the wasted effort, while all parties, People in the United States included, know that Israel has no intention of allowing a Palestinian state and the U.S. has no political capital, or desire, to enforce one?

The answer may not lie in the present, but in the past.
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Ancient castle discovered underwater in Lake Van, Turkey


IFL Science
Thu, 23 Nov 2017 01:50 UTC
Underwater Castle Turkey
© National Geographic/YouTube
A team of researchers, divers, and underwater photographers recently uncovered a mysterious castle at the bottom of a huge lake. Diving in Lake Van in Turkey's eastern Van Province, they discovered a 3,000-year-old fortress that has been hidden beneath the water for decades.

Project leader Tahsin Ceylan, from Van Yüzüncü Yıl University, was at first searching the lake for another legend - the frightening Lake Van monster. Although he hasn't found the monster, discovering an ancient castle is still pretty exciting.

"There was a rumour that there might be something under the water but most archaeologists and museum officials told us that we won't find anything," Ceylan told the Daily Sabah. But the rumor rang true. After about a decade of searching, the team's efforts were finally rewarded.

The castle is about 1 kilometer (0.6 miles) in length, with walls reaching 3 to 4 meters (10-13 feet) high. Luckily, the alkaline conditions of the lake have kept it in fairly good condition.
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