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stone used to build the temples in the ancient Greek city Selinunte
March 20th, 2024 
Awake Goy Cave di Cusa was an ancient stone quarry in Sicily, that was the source of stone used to build the temples in the ancient Greek city Selinunte.
This site was quarried beginning in the 6th century BC until it was abandoned in 409 BC when the city was captured by the Carthaginians.
Look at the precise laser cuts.
Geneticist Traces Mysterious Origins of Native Americans to Ancient Greece
March 19th, 2024 Awake Goy Geneticist Traces Mysterious Origins of Native Americans to Ancient Greece
The idea that Native Americans are descended from ancient Jews, Egyptians, or Greeks has been a controversial one for hundreds of years. Here’s a look at accounts from the 18th century through to today that suggest this may be the case.
8/1/2014
Updated:
5/4/2016
The idea that Native Americans are descended from ancient Jews, Egyptians, or Greeks has been a controversial one for hundreds of years. James Adair, an 18th century settler who traded with Native Americans for 40 years, wrote that their language, customs, and social structures were similar to those of the Israelites.
He wrote in his book “The History of the American Indians”: “It is a very difficult thing to divest ourselves, not to say, other persons, of prejudices and favourite opinions, and I expect to be censured by some for opposing commonly received sentiments, or for meddling with a dispute agitated among the learned ever since the first discovery of America.”
In more recent years, similar observations by Dr. Donald Panther-Yates have even met with what Yates described as “hate mail” from indigenous studies professors.
It is commonly held that Native Americans descended from Mongolians. In 2013, a study published in the journal Nature acknowledged that some ancient European ancestry is possible. The DNA from a 24,000-year-old corpse in Siberia was analyzed. It showed no resemblance to Asian populations, only to European, yet it showed a clear connection to Native Americans. But the mainstream scientific community is far from embracing the theory that Native Americans descended from ancient Middle-Eastern or Greek peoples as Yates and some others have proposed.
Yates is of Cherokee descent, he has a Ph.D. in classical studies, and he founded the genetics research institution DNA Consultants. These three credentials have given him a unique perspective on Native American history as it relates to these ancient cultures, and how DNA testing can support the theoretical link.
Genetic Similarities
Native Americans are generally thought to fit into five genetic groups, known as haplotypes, each named by a letter of the alphabet: A,B,C,D, and X.
Yates demonstrated in a paper titled “Anomalous Mitochondrial DNA Lineages in the Cherokee,” what he calls the fallacy behind many genetic analyses: “[The geneticists say] ‘Lineage A, B, C, D, and X are American Indian. Therefore, all American Indians are lineage A, B, C, D, and X.’ The fallacy in such reasoning is apparent. It could be restated as: ‘All men are two-legged creatures; therefore since the skeleton we dug up has two legs, it is human.’ It might be a kangaroo.”
Any divergence from the expected haplotypes is usually attributed to an intermingling of races after European colonization, not to the genes that came with Native Americans from their origin.
After analyzing Cherokee DNA, Yates concluded, “No such mix could have resulted from post-1492 European gene flow into the Cherokee Nation.”
“So where do our non-European, non-Indian-appearing elements come from?” he asked. “The level of haplogroup T in the Cherokee (26.9 percent) approximates the percentage for Egypt (25 percent), one of the only lands where T attains a major position among the various mitochondrial lineages.”
Yates focused on haplotype X for “its relative absence in Mongolia and Siberia and a recently proven center of diffusion in Lebanon and Israel.”
In 2009, Liran I. Shlush at the Israel Institute of Technology published a paper in the journal PLOS ONE stating that the X haplotype spread through the world from the Hills of Galilee in northern Israel and Lebanon. Yates wrote: “The only other place on earth where X is found at an elevated level apart from other American Indian groups like the Ojibwe is among the Druze in the Hills of Galilee in northern Israel and Lebanon.”
Cultural, Linguistic Similarities
Though much of the Cherokee culture has been lost, noted Yates in his book “Cherokee Clans,” what can still be discovered about the legends hints at ancestors who came across the sea and whose language was similar to ancient Greek. Some linguistic parallels have also been drawn between the Native American languages and Egyptian and Hebrew.
The Cherokee’s white demigod Maui may have his roots in a Libyan leader of a fleet dispatched by the pharaoh Ptolemy III before 230 B.C., Yates explained. “Maui” is similar to the Egyptian words for “guide” or “navigator.” Maui was said to have brought all civilized arts and crafts. He gave the Cherokee their title for principal chief, Amatoyhi or Moytoy, said Yates, which translates as “mariner” or “admiral.”
He recounted a Cherokee Twister Clan legend that named Maui’s father as Tanoa. Yates said Tanoa may refer to a Greek. “Tanoa was the father of all fair-haired children and came from a land called Atia,” he wrote.
Atia may refer to Attica, a historical region encompassing the Greek capital, Athens. Atia was said to be a place “full of high alabaster temples,” one of which “was very spacious, and was built as a meeting-place for gods and men.” At this place, one found sporting competitions, games, feasts to the gods, meetings of great chiefs, and the origin of wars that caused people to spread over the Pacific.
“One could hardly invent a more fitting folk memory of Greek culture,” Yates wrote. “The Hawaiian word that epitomized this lost world is karioi, ‘leisure, ease,’ literally the same word in Greek for ‘amusements.’” Yates notes numerous other linguistic similarities.
“According to the Keetoowah Society elders, the Cherokee once spoke a non-Indian language akin to Hopi, but gave it up and adopted Mohawk to continue to live with the Iroquois. The ‘old tongue’ seems to have many elements of Greek, the language of Ptolemaic Egypt and ancient Judeans,” he said.
Adair noted linguistic similarities between Native American languages and Hebrew.
As in Hebrew, Native American nouns have neither cases nor declensions, wrote Adair. Another similarity is the lack of comparative or superlative degrees. “There is not, perhaps, any one language or speech, except the Hebrew and the Indian American, which has not a great many prepositions. The Indians, like the Hebrews, have none in separate and express words. They are forced to join certain characters to words, in order to supply that great deficit,” he wrote.
A Perspective From the Past
Adair offers a perspective on the culture Yates cannot. Adair interacted extensively with the Native Americans hundreds of years ago, while their traditions were still thriving. Of course, the extent to which he may have misunderstood that culture as an outsider must be taken into account.
“From the most exact observations I could make in the long time I traded among the Indian Americans, I was forced to believe them lineally descended from the Israelites, either while they were a maritime power, or soon after the general captivity, the latter however is the most probable,” Adair wrote.
They had a similar tribe organization, he said. Their manner of delimiting time was similar, as was their custom of having a most holy place, and their designation of prophets and high-priests.
He gave an example of a similar custom: “Correspondent to the Mosaic law of women’s purification after travel, the Indian women absent themselves from their husbands and all public company, for a considerable time.”
The Ancient Name for Scotland has a Greek Connection
March 19th, 2024 Awake Goy Caledonia: The Ancient Name for Scotland has a Greek Connection
Caledon (ΚΑΛΥΔΩΝ in Greek) is the name of an ancient city-state in the region of Aetolia in Western Greece. The oldest reference to Caledon comes from Homer. Homer mentions Caledon as one of the Aetolian cities that participated in the Trojan war. Homer also states that Caledon was protected by walls. The Trojan war probably took place during the Mycenaean period 1600 to 1100 BC. Also excavations in Caledon show that a city existed during the same period. Some researchers have reached the conclusion that the city was found in the 3rd millennium BC. From all the above, we can deduce that the Caledonian Greeks had a long history and had reached a level of technology that allowed them to travel long distances.
According to Hughes (1) a wave of Greek migrations took place around 1250BC. One of these groups were the Caledonians Greek migrated to other areas. Some Caledonians went to the British isles and became the British Caledonians while others moved to East Anatolia where they found the kingdom of Uratu and became known as the Chaldians. There is plenty of evidence (such as the Rillaton Cup) and accounts suggesting that ancient Greek tribes travelled to Britain.
Mainstream history supports that Caledon was just a name given to a large part of Scotland by the Romans. But where did the Romans get the name from? Romans used the Greek location names in most cases but naturally changed it into Latin. It is likely that the name Caledonia was used by the Romans because it was the name already established by the Greeks.
Ancient Greek Pyramid predates Egypt.
March 19th, 2024 Awake Goy Ancient Greek Pyramid predates Egypt.
Greek connections of Norway
March 19th, 2024 Awake Goy Greek connections of Norway
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Did Crete have prehistoric connections with Norway in the Bronze Age?
A Minoan message on a granite slab in Norway.
Johan Jarnaes, a citizen of the small Norwegian town of Kongsberg, is the one making this assertion. Kongsberg is situated 80 km to the west of the Norwegian capital of Oslo. Johan Jarnaes holds university degrees in history, archaeology and languages. On a late evening in autumn 1987 Johan was out for a walk in the outlying fields surrounding the small town of Kongsberg. Due to the low sunlight he discovered some strange, unknown, signs on a flat granite slab. The slab was part of a farmyard belonging to a friend of his. Johan had been on the spot many times, but neither he nor his friend, the owner, had seen these signs before. The signs were revealed only because Johan happened to pass there just at the moment the sun was setting, thus throwing a beam of light onto the slab.
PICTURE 1. Johan Jarnæs and the author on the granite slab.
After the slab had been cleaned, some engraved characters became visible.
PICTURE 2 and 3. The 5 characters.
Jarnaes found the characters sensational since they reminded him at first sight of characters from the classical Greek alphabet. Furthermore he discovered 12 circular cup shaped marks with a diameter of 4 to 8 cm as well as a drawing that apparently was an illustration of a boat! There were also other engravings on the granite slab. The engraving techniques indicated that they had originated in various different eras. In addition to the previously mentioned characters, signs and drawings, Johan discovered an even more peculiar one which had no resemblance to any of the others. The lower part Johan later recognised as a “bag for water or wine”. The strangest was, however, that on the outside of the “bag” a horizontal parallel wavelike drawing was visible. Jarnaes came to the conclusion that the wavelike drawing was apparently meant to describe water! On the top of the bag there was an even stranger sign that reminded him of the letter V in the Latin alphabet. The most mysterious in this whole figure was that the three parallel wavelike lines were identical with the ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic sign for water!
PICTURE 5,”The Wine Bag”
Picture 7. The boat.
The boat was, for Jarnaes, a familiar drawing on many granite slabs in south-western Norway as well as in the Swedish county of “Bohuslan”. The carving technique was very similar to the above mentioned engravings from Kongsberg. Consequently Jarnaes could determine the time period to be the bronze age, 1500 – 2000 BC.
The enigma.
Jarnaes was most surprised. What could these inscriptions possibly mean? They reminded him of characters in the ancient Greek alphabet, but there were also clear indications that the characters were almost a 1000 years older. The origin of the Greek alphabet can be determined with great accuracy to 750 BC.
What happened at Kongsberg before 1623?
The town was founded in 1623 because a shepherd found a large lump of silver. The silver mining led to the rapid growth of Kongsberg which soon became a town of 10,000 inhabitants. By 1958 the silver load had been exhausted and mining was discontinued. In accordance with “the official opinion”, the town of Kongsberg had had no history before 1623. This opinion was, however, not shared by Jarnaes and hisfriends in the “Kongsberg Archaeological Society”. For more than 30 years the society has carried out its own research in order to establish the fact that the town did have a history before 1623. Amongst Jarnaes’ friends were experts in many fields, such as languages, history, archaeology, geology, and astronomy. Jarnaes has summarised the results of this research in a book.
“Before Kongsberg was founded”
This book is very interesting to read. A lot of findings were made, not only from the Bronze Age, but also from earlier periods. The most sensational were the numerous discoveries that showed clear indications of prehistoric mining! It is likely that the silver mines of Kongsberg were amongst the richest inEurope! In addition to that, the silver from Kongsberg is almost 100% pure! The common way to produce silver in the Bronze Age, as it is today, is by smelting ores containing lead and silver, a most costly procedure. The silver produced in this manner will contain a certain amount of lead that gives it a grey colour in contrast to the Kongsberg silver that is bright and shining. Another sensational finding was stone settings carefully positioned in accordance with an astronomical or mathematical pattern! In one case the settings constituted a solar calendar. It is absolutely clear that the population of Norwayat that time was rather primitive and could not possibly have had such skills. This knowledge is characteristic of an advanced culture! From where could the knowledge have come?
Linear A characters of the writing system belonging to the Minoan civilisation of Crete!
Jarnaes’ idea that the characters could belong to the classical Greek alphabet could not be correct because they were all consonants, whilst the Greek language was particularly rich in vowels. The findings on the granite slab at the farm
“Langkjern” were made in 1987. The enigma remained unsolved until the Norwegian linguist; Kjell Aartun came to Kongsberg in 1994. He is internationally well known in scientific linguistic circles. Amongst others, Kjell Aartun has received a prize from “The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters” for his research on ancient languages of the Mediterranean and theMiddle East. Aartun determined that the characters belonged to the Minoan writing system Linear A, fromCrete.
The first words ever written in Norway, in Artun’s interpretation, were “The pure and the soft”. Concerning the other strange images, Aartun determined that the two were of the same hieroglyphic signs that were found on the Phaistos Disc; “The Wine Bag” and “Coral”. Those who have bought the disc as a souvenir will easily be able to recognize them. In accordance with Aartun’s deciphering, the two signs mean: “The place for visitors” that is, a ritual place to be used by visitors. For Jarnaes one more enigma needed to be solved: The wave-shaped lines on the bag, resembling the Egyptian hieroglyphs. The Minoans had very close trade connection with Egyptand it is most likely that they knew the Egyptian language and writing. The hieroglyphs read: WATER and, in the southern countries of the Mediterranean, water was regarded as the most precious gift. Even if the Minoans did not habitually make petroglyphs, stone carvings, such as the Scandinavians used on their numerous cult sites, were not unknown to them. It is believed that the Scandinavian “Helleristninger” petroglyphs were made in order to call on the favour of the gods.
“The pure and the soft”
Who could have written these words on a granite slab at Kongsberg 2000 years before the Norwegians knew the art of writing? The Minoans? If so, what were they doing in Norway, and what did the words mean. In Jarnaes’ opinion both of Aartun’s translations could have a clear meaning. In the Bronze Age, the Minoans were the most skilled tradesmen in the Mediterranean area. They were trading with all countries including the ones in the Middle East. One of their specialties was trading in metals; bronze, gold, silver, lead etc. We have information from Egyptian hieroglyphs that the Egyptians, who possessed gold in great quantities, were willing to pay twice the weight of gold for one unit weight
of silver. It is not likely that our ancestors, primitive as they were at that time, knew the real trade value of pure silver. The metal was soft and not very useful for practical purposes; what they needed was bronze. That could have made the long journeys extremely profitable for the Minoans. This made it worthwhile to carve the words “The pure and the soft” on that granite slab near Kongsberg! The “pure and soft” was silver of course! The Minoans would have wanted to thank the gods for the costly goods in the same way as their Norwegian “trade counterparts” – “When in Rome do as the Romans do”!
PICTURE 5 / Bryce‘s list.
The five characters compared with the catalogue of Minoan Linear A made by William Bryce.
How were the Minoans able to travel to Norway, and how did they know they could find silver there?
For those of our ancestors who lived alongside the DrammenRiver, around 3.700 years ago, it must have been an impressive sight to see the large Minoan Vessels sailing up the river! The boats were at least 35 meters long and the large sails, of the same type as we know from the Viking ships, were 20 meters high. In comparison, the largest Viking Ship, Gogstadskipet, was only 26 meters. Arriving up the river, at the place today named Hokksund, the sails were lowered and the crew started to use the oars. They rowed up the side river to Vestfossen. The land was much lower in the Bronze Age; consequently the waterway was navigable all the way up to Fiskum, only 5 km from where Kongsberg is situated today. From Fiskum there is a small valley and gorge leading directly to the target.
PICTURE 6 Map of the area depicting the route.
On the map you will be able to follow the possible navigable route, The Drammen Fjord, the DrammenRiver up to Hokksund, Vestfossen and on to Fiskum. We know that the Minoans were highly skilled sailors who were constantly navigating the entire Mediterranean. Their ships were already, in the Bronze Age, of a most sophisticated design. They were equipped with a keel so they could sail against the wind. We never did succeed in finding a wreck or even any remains of a Minoan ship. Not until quite recently have we been able to collect sufficient information that enables us to reconstruct a ship with a high degree of probability. In particular, the present excavations at Santorini have given us such information. Large wall-paintings, that were preserved by being buried in lava in some houses there, depict Minoan ships leaving the harbour. This is the largest and most famous of them.
PICTURE 8: The Flotilla , Wall painting from Santorini,
This wall painting was sealed by the lava in the house where it was found; consequently it is much better preserved than any painting from the Minoan palaces.By analysing the perspectives in all these paintings, the Greek archaeologists have been able to determine the sizes of the ships and to make reconstructions. The paintings can be seen in a museum at Santorini that was built specially for this purpose. A good aid in these reconstructions was the many images of ships found on fragments of pottery as well as on seal stones. If we compare the design of the Minoan ships with the ships of the other seagoing nations of the Mediterranean in the same era, in particular the Phoenicians and the Egyptians,
these were unable to match the ships of the Minoans in seaworthiness and manoeuverability. History has underestimated the ships of the Minoans because the secrets behind their design had been lost. After the fall of the Minoan civilization, many years would pass until ships of an equally sophisticated design could be made, actually 1500 – 2000 years, until the era of the Vikings. It is therefore not unlikely that the Minoans might have left some of their know-how during their stay in Norway. We are almost sure their ships were technically not inferior to Viking ships made 2000 years later. With these the Vikings cruised all the oceans; they often visited the Mediterranean, and they discovered America 500 years before Columbus!
PICTURE 10. Norwegian Viking Ship.
Thanks to the superiority of their ships, the Minoans had complete domination of the sea in this era. They could even defend the long coastline of Crete without coastal fortifications. The Minoans were tradesmen, not warriors; therefore there was no war in this era that lasted for 1500 years! Their superiority came to an end with the great tsunami caused by the volcanic explosion and eruption at Thera (Santorini). This was the beginning of the end for the Minoan civilisation.
The heirs of the Minoans as seafaring nations, who took over the trade in the area, were the Phoenicians and the Egyptians. The Phoenicians were also tradesmen. Even if they had less sophisticated ships than the Minoans, we have evidence that they were in Cornwall, England, where they, amongst others, became involved in mining. It is likely that the Minoans, also like the Vikings,used a solar compass to navigate their way on the oceans. We know the Vikings was in America 500 years before Columbus, why not also the Minoans? I am almost sure that future research will come to that conclusion!
Were the Minoans in America 3000 years before Columbus?
How else could one be able to explain the following:
We have evidence that traces of cocaine have been found in Egyptian mummies. We know for sure that the plant from which cocaine is extracted only existed in South America until a few hundred years ago! Who could possibly have brought it there other than the Minoans! They were the only ones who possessed ships with the ability for such an ocean crossing! Do we have evidence for the following? :
1. That the Minoans really came to Kongsberg in the Bronze Age,
2. That prehistoric mining did take place at Kongsberg in the Bronze Age,
3. That the signs on the granite slab really were characters of Linear A,
4. That Aartun’s deciphering is correct.
Nine years have passed since I got involved in what later for me became “The battle of Kongsberg”, the reason I got involved was an article in “Aftenposten”, Norway’s leading newspaper. Since my schooldays I was very interested in the
“Minoan Enigma”. I was lucky enough to have a teacher who was a great enthusiast of Minoan history. The rise of this civilisation is one of history’s greatest enigmas! The fall of the Minoans happened after the eruption at Thera (Santorini), not as a direct result of the tsunami itself but after most of their fleet was lost; they became an easy victim for the Greek warriors from the mainland, the Mycenaeans, who destroyed their palaces and most other traces of a civilisation that was thousands of years ahead of its time. The Greek history is one of war; the Minoan’s was one of peace! Until quite recently we had no indication of from where the Minoans had come. The civilisation was suddenly just there, indicating that the Minoans must have originated from somewhere in the Mediterranean region, but from where? When I read the article I found it quite natural to involve myself further in the mystery, not necessarily in order to
solve it but to try to understand more.
We have determined that the Minoan ships may have been of a construction sophisticated enough to sail the great oceans but unfortunately this is not enough evidence to establish that they actually were in Kongsberg in the Bronze Age. The characters are there, on the granite slab, but we have no evidence of how they got there. Having involved myself in the mystery for some years I suddenly got unexpected help from our neighbours in the east.
It appeared that the Swedish archaeologist, Oscar Montelius, put this theory forward more than a hundred years ago! What gave him the idea was the narrow time span between the Stone Age and the Bronze Age that really was there “from one day to the next!” Some sudden influence must have been involved. His theory was not immediately accepted, but his idea has occupied the Swedish archaeological class ever since.
In the spring of 2005 a book was issued from Oxford University Press:
“The Rise of Bronze Age Society” ISBN: 0-521-60466-4
Authors: Kristian Kristiansen, Professor of archaeology at theUniversity ofGothenburg, and Thomas B. Larsson, professor of archaeology at theUniversity ofUmeå.
Both professors had occupied themselves with the subject until they got the chance to start a more comprehensive research project that lasted for 6 years. During the research period the two professors had examined thousands of texts and objects, in particular the stone carvings, (petroglyphs) that are to be found on both sides of the Norwegian/Swedish border in the Norwegian county of Oestfold and the Swedish county of Bohuslan. Kristiansen and Larsson had good support from all the universities in Sweden as well as from the Swedish radio that for a decade been broadcasting a program called “Stenristarne” “The stone carvers”. This program aimed at educating and motivating the people to be aware of and to report the discovery of objects that could be classified as “archaeological findings”
Résumé of the researches:
In the Bronze Age an advanced culture had suddenly arisen in the southern Scandinavian countries with clear influence from the countries of the Aegean; first the Minoans, later also the Mycenaeans and the classical Greeks. The researchers concluded that it was most likely not only that the areas were visited by people from the south, but also that the population had visited the southern countries over a period that lasted about 1000 years! According to Kristiansen, inscriptions in both Minoan and Mycenaean Linear A and B have been found. Whilst the result did not cause any great surprise in Swedish and Danish archaeological circles, the Norwegians were thoroughly shocked! Therefore this revolutionary thesis has passed unheeded in Norway, even if the truth is that we shall have to rewrite history! The same survey explains and supports Jarnaes’ many findings at Kongsberg, in areas where indications of
old silver mines, astronomical and mathematical stone settings, are strong indications of the presence of an advanced culture.
PICTURE 9, Stone carving from Oestfold, Norway.
In their book, the two professors claim that the stone carvings, the petroglyphs of Scandinavia, depict ships from theMediterranean.
Se also: http://www.catshaman.com/15Sailors/05sailors12.htm
Prehistoric mining at Kongsberg.
I have myself, together with Jarnaes, visited the areas around Kongsberg and made photographs of what Jarnaes claims were residues of prehistoric mining. From several other European countries, we have also found evidence and detailed information of prehistoric mining. The pictures I took are all very similar to findings in Spain and in Serbia. I even had contact by e-mail with archaeologists in Serbia who supported my theories. What is rather special, with the Kongsberg silver, is that it could be found in a pure condition directly on the surface. Who could possibly believe that such findings could remain unnoticed right up to 1623? As soon as the source was depleted, the stone material, that had
been picked out together with the silver, was filled back into the ”mines”.
What surprised me most was that Jarnaes’ finding should cause such a stir in the established archaeological circles that they succeeded in sabotaging further research for many years. To start with, Jarnaes reported the findings to the historical institute of Oslo University. They immediately sent a young archaeologist to Kongsberg in order to examine the site. The young man became very enthusiastic with what he saw. He could establish that the incised mark indicated that the carving was most likely from the Bronze Age. The local newspaper reporter, who was there at the same time, printed the news in the next day’s newspaper, referring to the young man by name. The very next day an extremely angry professor from Oslo arrived on the spot; he was the senior person in the Archaeological and Historical Institute. He demanded that the newspaper reverse all they had written the day before. He determined, there and then, that there were no such things as Bronze Age discoveries or prehistoric mining at Kongsberg. Everything that was printed in the newspaper “was caused by the inexperience of his young assistant!” The Minoan signs were letters of the Latin alphabet and what Jarnaes claimed were prehistoric mines had nothing to do with mining whatsoever!
Death sentence to Norwegian Archaeology and Science
It took me some considerable time to get to the bottom of the motivation and the strange attitude of the established Norwegian archaeological scientists for the categorical rebuttal of Jarnaes’ findings. I will deal with this, in detail, later.
”The Battle of Kongsberg”
Here is a brief summary:
In connection with the “official silver mining of 1623” , a special ”museum of silver mining” was established at Kongsberg. The chief of this museum had spent his life writing “The history of silver mining in Kongsberg”. If Jarnaes’ claim could be proven, his “life’s work” would totally disintegrate. If, in addition to this, evidence could be found that the Minoans came to Kongsberg for silver, and that the characters on the granite slab were Linear A, the catastrophe would be
complete and the old chap would have made a complete fool of himself! The resistance was so severe that it lasted right up to 2007, until the case came under further scrutiny. Jarnaes never gave up; he continued to send e-mails with pictures and even videos to experts in other countries. In 2007 one of these experts became involved and started further research. Costs were covered from foreign sources! One of the tests that the Norwegians had neglected to undertake, in all this time, was the obvious Radiocarbon 14 dating! The very first test blew “the 1623 limit” miles away!
I am not able to tell anything more at this time, because the research is ongoing. However I have sufficient information to be convinced that Jarnaes will come out of the battle with flying colours! The loser is the Norwegian archaological establishment. They have sabotaged progress on one of the most interesting archaeological sites in the history of Norwegian Archaological science for more than 20 years, for no other motive than to protect a colleague! This case will, in due time, force them to rewrite history!
The five Linear A characters.
It is more than 100 years since Arthur Evans came up with the first clay tablets with Linear characters from Knossos. The name “Minoan” is Evans “invention”. The Egyptians, from whom we have a lot of information about the Minoans, called them:
“The civilisation of the Keftiu”.
The younger Linear B version was deciphered in the early 50ties by Michael Ventris. The older Linear A was more problematic.
During the 20th Century, a lot of work was done by Jean Pierre Olivier and Louis Goddard as well as William Bryce. They made complete catalogues of every known character, around 120. Each character has in some cases several variations
Linear A characters were meant to be written on papyrus or soft clay, not to be cut into stone! Taking that into consideration there is no more inaccuracy to be found in comparing the Kongsberg carvings with the characters in the catalogues, than you find if you compare the main character with the different variations of the same in the Bryce List.
Genetic evidence.
Archaeology has recently acquired new tools, some of them inherited from Medicine, such as radar and laser scanning of archaeological sites and reading molecular DNA of up to 5,000yr old bones. In February 2007, the prestigious
Stanford Research Institute issued a report on behalf of the Archaeological society of the USA. The survey used the new technique of molecular DNA analysis on bones collected from excavations in various countries in the Mediterranean. The DNA patterns were then compared with bones from Minoan tombs. The result concludes that the origin of the Minoan civilisation is most likely to be the countries east of Turkey, somewhere between Iran and Iraq. Enough Minoan genetic material was also found in Southern Scandinavia to support the theories of the book, “Rise of Bronze Age society”.
The leading Athens Newspaper Kathimerini;
DNA sheds light on The Minoans
Crete’s fabled Minoan civilization was built by people from Anatolia, according to a new study, by Greek and foreign scientists, that refutes an earlier theory that said the Minoans’ forefathers had come from Africa. The new study – a collaboration by experts in Greece, the USA, Canada, Russia and Turkey – drew its conclusions from the DNA analysis of 193 men from Crete and another 171 from former Neolithic colonies in central and northern Greece. The results show that the country’s Neolithic population came to Greece by sea from Anatolia – modern-day Iran, Iraq and Syria – and not from Africa, as maintained by US scholar Martin Bernal. The DNA analysis indicates that the arrival of Neolithic man in Greece from Anatolia coincided with the social and cultural upsurge that led to the birth of the Minoan civilization, Constantinos Triantafyllidis of Thessaloniki’s Aristotle University told Kathimerini. “Until now we only had the archaeological evidence – now we have genetic data too and we can date theDNA,” he said.
Is it possible to decipher Linear A?
There have been many attempts to decipher Linear A. The problem, to start with, is that we do not know even what class of language it could possibly be. After almost 100 years of research there seems to be an agreement that 90 % of the characters of Linear B also occur in Linear A. It is also most likely that most of the sound values are identical. The one and only thing the linguists are in agreement about is that the language is not Greek. Some scientists suggest that it is Indo-European, similar to the languages from Anatolia; Huerrian, Uertian, Luvian, Hiti and Indo-Iranian. The second group (Aartun and Cyrus Gordon) is of the opinion that Linear A is a Semitic language.
Having been engaged with the enigma for all these years, I must admit that I have changed my opinion and updated the article several times since it first appeared in the local Cretan newspaper “Anatoli” in 2002.
The reason is first and foremost the new information, the book by the Swedish professors and the DNA report from Stanford.
In addition to that I have spent more time studying the various aspects of the case on my own. Thanks to the Internet, everybody who is interested in the subjects can take part and add information to the discussion.
This website is open to everybody.
http://people.ku.edu/~jyounger/LinearA/
Having followed the discussion for some years, I am not very optimistic that we shall be able to decipher Linear A for some time. I believe the situation will not improve until we discover more material.
In Jarnaes own blog,
You will find more information. Jarnaes and I have different views on Aartun’s deciphering.
Kongsberg 2012, 10 years after my first visit.
10 years ago I wrote my first article about the findings at Kongsberg. The article was published in the Cretan newspaper Anatoli in June 2002.
A lot of things have happened in the 10 years that calls for an update. I found the best way for an update is a visit to the place. Together with Johan Jarnæs I have looked through most of the same archaeological sites that has engaged me most for the last 10 years. Afterwards we had a thorough discursion. By such an occasion it is natural that the both of us made a summing up.
Johan Jarnæs and Sven Buchholz on the granite slab July 2012. The Linear A inscription is whitened up with chalk; Note the small size of the characters!
The Linear A inscriptions as they are today.
Jarnæs cleaned some dirt away and moistened with water to make the signs more easy to see. Thanks to the very solid rock material the inscription has not deteriorated.The cutting mark alone is sufficient to indicate that the inscription was engraved with a stone in the Bronze Age. The Linear A characters were designed to be written with a pen on papyrus. Cutting with stone is bound to result in some inaccuracies.
For photographic sessions a little cleaning and make up is needed.
“The wine sack with coral”
On this picture it is easy to see that the figure is cut into the rock with a hammer and a ponted instrument.
About this inscription “The wine sack with coral” Jarnæs and I are not in agreement. One can easily observe that the cutting marks are totally different from the stone cut Linear A inscription. It can only have been made with a pointed instrument, probably iron. (se the first picture to make this impression more visible) Look at the pointed cutting marks! Then it may differ as much as 1000 years in time!
Joh. Jarnæs spent a lot of his childhood in Kongsberg. As a boy he loved to play around in the woods and he had since boyhood a highly developed ability to observe. What he discovered as a boy brought him to think further as a mature man.
When Jarnæs came up with the statement that what we se here is a prehistoric mine, he brought the entire scientific – historic camp in Kongsberg to scream. In 2007 Jarnæs got foreign experts on prehistoric mining to look at the site. Further investigations, including ,were carried out with foreign recourses. These tests blew the 1623 time line tousansands of years away ! Jarnæs and a friend had already at his own expenses carried out a C 14 Radio Carbon testing on a piece of charcoal much erlier. This test already mooved the time barrier back to 300 BC!
The mines are totally overgrown, after they have been excavated.
There is a long shaft underneath that comes up to the surface some 20 behind. In accordance with prehistoric mining habits, the stones were put back in the shaft after the metal had been extracted.
Jarnæs shows me that the visible part of the granite slab is only a fracture of what is grass cowered.
Only a very little part of the slab has been examined till now. The grass layer is not very thick, so it would not have been a big deal to clean it all. The owner is very interested and would give all permissions needed to dig out the entire area. Now, when it is established that it is more then likely that the Minoans travelled to Scandinavia, I would be surprised if there not were more Linear A inscriptions to be found underneath! My hope for the future is that the new generation of archaeologists will have a more open mind and that more and more of them will be finding their way to this unique site so that the entire area will be professionally and thoroughly examined.
Piece of pure silver as it came out of a Kongsberg mine.
There could be lumps of 40 – 100 kg! Unfortunately, Norway was “owned” by Denmark at the time, all recourses were robed from us and went directly to the Danish King who used most of it to finance wars! Norway also had rich copper mines like in Røros and other places. The Danes robbed Norway for lots of money during those years! When I hear Norwegians complain about the 5 years we were under Hitler I always ask: What about the “500 year night” we were under Denmark! If we send the bill to Copenhagen one day, I wonder how much it would be!
Evidence?
Where do we stand to day in comparison with in 2002?
Are we closer to being able to prove that Kongsberg had a history before 1623?
Since foreign expertise came to Kongsberg and carried out examinations, a radiocarbon dating alone blew the 1623 mark sky-high.
Did prehistoric mining really take place in Kongsberg?
Examinations are still going on, reports are being written, and therefore excluded from telling more at the time, but one thing is sure: We have sufficient evidence to claim: Prehistoric mining did take place at Kongsberg!
Is it possible that the Minoans could have travelled to Kongsberg?
Archaeology obtained recently 2 new tools that put the entire science miles ahead. SCANNING and DNA. The DNA evidence proves that this is more than likely! Sufficient DNA evidence has also been found in Sweden, north westGermany and in the British isles to prove the book: The Rise of Bronze Age Society is based on scientific facts. This also speaks for the Swedish archaeologist Oscar Montelius
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Montelius
who brought the idea up more than 100 years ago! The Minoans were even greater travellers than we have known. The newest discovery is from North West Germany, “Fricia” near the border to Denmark where remaining of a Minoan settlements was found. One of the objects was a seal ring with characters in Linear A! The DNA testing is still going on; new reports are being published all the time. Personally I would not be surprised if we one day will learned that the Minoans travelled even to America, 3000 years before Columbus! (Reference: Kokain in the Egyptian mummies, se abowe.)
Can we prove that the inscriptions on the slate are Minoan Linear A?
With all this new evidence and so much more information than we had only 10 years ago I would say that this is more than likely. (se picture abowe with comparison Brice List) What about the inaccuracies? I put the question forward to Jarnæs who showed me a fax from professor Cyrus Gordon, which he had received in 1995 where he writes that the first sign is we in Linear A, and the last sign is ti in Linear A. Gordon was not able to identify the other three signs, as he did not recognize the two rare signs which are rendered in the supplementary list of William Brice´s list of the Linear A, namely, the yu-sign and the pi-sign. The pi-sign in the inscription has clearly the interior form of a cup, which identifies it as the syllable pi. (At that time, Cyrus Gordon had not studied the Linear A syllabary since the sixties.) The tu-sign in the inscription is the most difficult sign to peck into the hard gneiss. As the four signs match Linear A-syllables, the fifth sign must also be a Linear A sign, and then it can be no other sign than the tu-syllable. As a matter of fact, there is some likeness, and since the first and last sign are Linear A, what could the signs in the middle possibly be? The signs are pecked into the rock with a blunt instrument, apparently e stone, and the same peck marks are to be found spread out over the surface of the rock, as is common on rock carvings sites in Norway from the Bronze Age. The state of erosion of the signs also accounts for their antiquity. They are impossible to discover without sidelight.
Are we closer to the enigma, the decoding of Linear A?
On this point Jarnæs and I are of different opinions. I do no longer believe in Aartun’s deciphering. I have been reading Aartun’s books over a long period of time. The more I read of them the less I believed it could be correct! I totally disagree with his methods. In addition to that there are more and more suggestions coming up that the Phaistos disk is a fake! When that is proven Aartun will b in real trouble.
See: https://araenil.wordpress.com/2011/06/19/is-the-phaistos-disc-genuine/
There have been many attempts to decipher Linear A. The problem is to start with, is that we do not know even what class of language it could possibly be. After almost 100 years of research there seems to be an agreement that 90 % of the characters of Linear B also occur in Linear A. It is also most likely that most of the sound values are identical. The one and only thing the linguists are in agreement about is that the language is not Greek. Some scientists suggest that it is Indo-European, similar to the languages from Anatolia; Huerrian, Uertian, Luvian, Hiti and Indo-Iranian. The second group (Aartun and Cyrus Gordon) is of the opinion that Linear A is a Semitic language. We have less than 100 inscriptions that are big enough to convey any meaningful message. Chadvick and Ventris were able to decipher Linear B, they had hundreds of clay tablets with inscriptions in Linear B. In addition to that they had got a certain clue that the language had to be Greek.
We simply have not nearly enough material to make a deciphering under the mentioned circumstances.
Champolion who deciphered the Egyptian hieroglyphs had the Rosetta stone with the same inscription in 3 languages, 2 of them were known! However, Champolion said that he probably would not have succeeded if he had not got a clue to a language related to the ancient Egyptian, Coptic! My only hope is that we find more written material, I have hopes for the Akrotiri excavations on Santorini and in Palaikastro where Sandy Mc Gillivray of the BritishSchool in Athens, by scanning has found evidence of yet another MinoanPalace!
The author with a copy of the 5 signs.
The authors residence in Agios Nikolaos Crete, Villa Ariadne.
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THE IRISH CONNECTION TO THE GREEK TRIBE OF DAN
March 19th, 2024 Awake Goy “It is certainly no coincidence that the Irish Gaelic word Dun or Dunn means “Judge,” just as Dan does in Hebrew!” –
Raymond McNair
The ancient connections between the Irish Tuatha Dé Dannan and the Greek Tribe of Dan have been documented all throughout history. The “History of Ireland,” in the Peabody Institute, states that the residents, prior to the Tuatha De Dananns, were descendants of 5,000 people from Greece called Foibalges. The next to appear, about 717 B.C., under a king called Nuad, were the “Tuatha De Danann,” said in Irish to be “the tribe of Dan.
This makes sense since the old people of Ireland were once named after their tribe as the Dan-onians, and the most famous Irish ballad is forever immortalized after this tribe in the song “Danny Boy.”
The true Irish saga of the tribe of Dan, “a serpent by the way,” is a fascinating “trail” of waymarks along the path of this tribe’s journey. These waymarks are the signs and symbols that the Tribe of Dan had left in all the places they had travelled and conquered such as Ireland. They gave their name to many places that were known biblically as Mahaneh Dan (“Camps of Dan”). In Ptolemy’s map of Ireland we find Dan’s- Lough, Dan-Sowar, Dan-Sobairse, Dan’s resting place, and Dan’s habitation, and Dan-gan Castle (the birth-place of the Duke of Wellington).
Many great scholars and authors on ancient Irish History almost all agree that the Irish Tuatha Danaan were the descendants of the Greek Danaoi, or Danaans who colonized ancient Ireland and were the first High Kings of the emerald isle. The Irish Tuatha Dé Dannan were the Western Descendants of the Phoenician/Greek “Danaans” who were also known as the “Tribe of Dan (Danaë).”
In the “Annals of Ireland” it is written: “The Dan-ans were a highly civilized people, well skilled in architecture and other arts, from long residence in Greece and their intercourse with the 130 12 Phoenicians. Their first appearance in Ireland was 1200 B.C., [Jud. 5,. ver. 17].” Jeremiah writes: “For a voice declareth from Dan, and publish the affliction from mount Ephraim . . . publish against Jerusalem, that watchers come from a far country, and give out their voice against the cities of Judah ” (4, ver. 15, 16), as if Dan dwelt in a “far country.”
In the Scripture, the Tribe of Dan was originally on of the Tribes of Israel who was the second biggest behind the Tribe of Judah who were named after and who had the territory of Mount Ida on Crete. According to the Book of Genesis, Dan (Hebrew: דָּן, Standard Dan Tiberian Dān; “judgment” or “he judged”) was the fifth son of Jacob with Bilhah. He was Bilhah’s first son. He was the founder of the Israelite Tribe of Dan. Their symbol is the serpent, and the name Dan means Judge.
The 4th century B.C. Greek historian Hecateus of Abdera (quoted by Diodorus Siculus) had written that the Egyptians, formerly being troubled by calamities [the Ten Plagues at the time of the Exodus] in order that the divine wrath might be averted, expelled all the [Israelite] aliens gathered together in Egypt. The worship of the Gods having been neglected on account of the foreigners in Egypt, the Egyptians were warned by a pestilence to drive away the pollution. Of these, some, under their leaders Danuss and Cadmus, migrated into Greece; others into other regions, the greater part into Syria [Canaan]. Their leader is said to have been Moses, a man renowned for wisdom and courage, founder and legislator of the state who led them into Judea. Herodotus had said that the Curetes had come to Crete with the Phoenician Prince Cadmus.
The Danaoi, or Danaans, which had at onetime possessed colonies in the Black Sea region around the mouths of the rivers Danube, Don, and Dnieper. The chiefs/kings of the Danaoi, or Danaans, who had claimed descent from the ancient Greco-Egyptian Pharaoh Danaus (Tanaus or Dan I), and also Pharaoh Horemheb (Horemhab or Haremhab – meaning Horus is in Jubilation). Before he became pharaoh, Horemheb was the commander and chief of the army under the reigns of Tutankamun and Ay. The 3.6 m large naophorous statue of Horemheb (Harmais) Cairo CG 1230 was found at Naukratis, the only Greek city in Egypt before Alexander.
Pharaoh Dan I was the last Pharaoh of the 18th Dynasty from either 1319 BC to late 1292 BC, or 1306 to late 1292 BC (if he ruled for 14 years). The English Dan was known by the Egyptian name of Horemheb are Αρμαις (H/Arma-is or Harmais) and Αρμαιος (H/Armai-os or Hormose). I have found that the names of Harmais or Hormose to be very similar to Moses and it was Moses who led his peoples in the exodus from Egypt that is well attested for in the bible.
Herodotus stated that certain people of the ancient Greeks had actually came from Egypt. He claimed that DaNae, the daughter of Acrisus, was the ancestor of the Dorian princes in southern Greece (Herodotus, VI, 1, iii). Diodorus said the following: “They say also that those who set forth with Danaus, likewise from Egypt, settled what is practically the oldest city of Greece, Argos, and that the nations of the Colchi in Pontus and that of the Jews, which lies between Arabia and Syria, were founded as colonies by certain emigrants from their country . . .” (Diodorus, Bk. I, xxviii, 1-5).
In the mythical story passed down by ancient Greek historians; Pharaoh Sesostris (and Egyptian name of Horemheb), having during his own war-expeditions to foreign lands placed his brother Harmais (Danaus) as regent, or viceroy in Egypt. While Sesostris was on expedition, his brother Horemheb or Harmais (Danaus) had conspired to destroy Sesostris and all his family in order to take the throne. Upon Sesostris learning of the plot and on his return to Egypt, he then expelled his brother Harmais (Danaus) from Egyptian lands. Harmais (Danaus) then led an exodus out of Egypt to Argos and founded there the Danaid Dynasty or more commonly known as the Tribe of Dan, which succeeded that of Inachos.
The Tribe of Dan was said to have conquered the Mediterranean islands of Crete and Cyprus like many other empire after them where they brought the waymark of the serpent. The mythical name of Argos meaning shining and white was just another of the many names for Crete that an island of white sand, white limestone mountains and a shining long history. In Homer’s Iliad the “Danaans” and “Tribe of Danaë,” are referred to as the grandchildren of Belus (Phoenician ‘Baal’) who gave their name to the “Argives.”
Their territory was very close to or exactly in the same place to that of the ancient Phoenicians of Tyre and Sidon in Crete. It is said in the Scripture that they also intermarried with these Phoenicians (2 Chronicles 2:14) which was eventually outlawed in Israel (Deuteronomy 7:3, Leviticus 21:14).The Danaans were the only Tribe of Israel who were known as sailors and a seafaring race which was unusual for the Israelite tribes. This is key in understanding how they not only ended up in Ireland under the name of the Tuatha Dé Dannan, but also in many other countries such as Denmark (Dan-Mark) where they brought the ways of the serpent waymark to these lands.
Irish Historian, Thomas Moore had written that the Tuatha de Danaan (Tribe of Dana), “after sojourning for some time in Greece… proceeded from thence to Denmark and Norway”. Author Geoffrey Keating (ca.1570 1646)had said that the Danaans were a people of great learning and wealth; they left Greece after a battle with the Assyrians, and went to Ireland; and also to Danmark, and called it “DAN-mares”, “Dan’s country.” According to The Essential Teachings of Herbert W. Armstrong, the Tribe of Dan left their serpent waymarks at “Danslaugh,” “Dansower,” “Dundalke,” “Dundrum,” “Donegal Bay,” “Donegel City,” “Dunglow,” “Londonderry,” and ” Dingle,”
The book entitled Hellenosemitica: An Ethinic and Cultural Study in West Semitic Impact on Mycenaean Greece by Michael C. Astour clearly shows that the Greek “Hellenes” and the Israelite “Semites” were closely related. Astour mentions two branches of the Danites (“Danunians” and “Danaans”), and shows that these people once occupied the island of Cyprus. It also mentions the Cyprian “tradition of the Danaan migration from the eastern Mediterranean” (pp. 14, 79).
The Greek myths of the Kings of the Danaoi, or Danaans who had all claimed descent from King Danus; who also had led a migration from Egypt (Israel) to Greece. The beginning of Greek history is often dated to this “exile” from Egypt of the Danaoi, who appear in classical writings as the “Danaans.” You will also find them under other spellings such as the Danaoi (Danaoi used 138 times in the Iliad), Danaus, Danae,Danaans, Danoi, Danaids,or Dananites.
“The Danites ruled about two centuries until the arrival of the Milesians, which took place, 1000 years before the Christian era.’ Thus the date of the arrival of the FIRST COLONY OF DANAANS WOULD BE 1200 B.C., or 85 years after Deborah and Barak’s victory, when we are told Dan had ships…The early connection with Greece, Phoenician and Egypt is constantly alluded throughout the Chronicles [of Ireland] and records of the Irish Dannans” (Dan Pioneer of Israel, pp.30-31, emphasis added). This first batch of Danites that went to Ireland were called the “Tuatha de Danaan.” The word tuath simply means “tribe”—“Tuath… Irish history… A‘TRIBE’ or ‘people’ in Ireland” (New English Dictionary on Historical Principles, vol. 10, pt. 1, p. 441).
In the ancient Annals of Clonmacnoise we read of the Tuatha de Danaan: “Upon them [the Firbolgs] came in the people called Twathy De Danaan out of Greece too. Being a Branch of the same stock that Firbolgs were of and were kinsmen. During the time of Firbolg, which was 37 years, there reigned in Assyria 3 monarchs. . . . Twathy De Danaan after they had spent much time abroad in learning necromancy, magic, and other diabolical arts wherein they were exceedingly well skilled, and in those days accounted the chiefest in the world in that profession.
Landed in the west part of Connaught. Forbolgs hearing of their coming made towards them, and meeting them in a great plain called Moytoyrey in Connaught, fought with them, where Firbolg was overthrown and one hundred thousand of them slaine with their said King Eochy McEirche, which was the greatest slaughter that was hard of in Ireland in one meeting” (Annals of Clonmacnoise From the Creation to A.D. 1408, 1627 edition, quoted by Raymond McNair, in an unpublished manuscript on “The Lost Ten Tribes of Israel,” p. 149).
We can find some of these Ancient Irish Tuatha Dé Dannan kings of Ireland such as Tech- baoithin, Baithen, Baithin, Baithan, Baetin, Baitan Mor (“Baithen the Great”), Boythan, Bothan, Bathan, Baeda, and Baedan. He was also called Mogue or Modoc (Mo-Aedh-og), “the beloved Aidan’” who was Áed mac Ainmuirech high-king of the Northern Uí Néill.
Saint Columba had written on King Baedan;
“To every cow belongs its calf,” Colum Cille said:
0 God, wilt thou not drive off the fog, which envelopes our number,
The host which has deprived us of our livelihood,
The host which proceeds around the cams’!
He is a son of storm who betrays us.
My Druid,—he will not refuse me,—is the Son of God, and may he side with me;
How grandly he bears his course, the steed of Baedan” before the host;
Power by Baedan of the yellow hair will be borne from Ireland on him [the steed].
The Tuatha de Danaan Conclusion
The Jewish Encyclopedia describes how the Tribe of Dan was placed in the North and that the biblical Antichrist will come from this tribe, but will be among the 144,000 saved ones of the twelve tribes:
“Irenaeus (’Heresies’ Vol. 302), Hippolytus (’De Christo et Antichristo’, pp. 14,15), and other Church fathers have a tradition which can not but be of Jewish origin, that the Antichrist comes from the tribe of Dan, and base it upon Jer. VIII.16: ’The snorting of his (the enemies) his horses was heard from Dan’. . . Irenaeus remarks that Dan is, in view of this tradition, not in the Apocalypse (Rev.vii.5-7) among the 144,000 saved ones of the twelve tribes.
Nor is the omission of Dan in I Chron. iv. et seq. unintentional. . . Dan became the very type of evildoing. He was placed in the north (Num.ii.25), this being the region of darkness and evil (Jer. i.14) because of his idolatry which wrapped the world in darkness (Num.ii.).” [Singer, The Jewish Encyclopedia, (“Dan”), p. 423]
We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of health, and behold trouble! The snorting of his horses was heard from Dan: the whole land trembled at the sound of the neighing of his strong ones; for they are come, and have devoured the land, and all that is in it; the city, and those that dwell therein. For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which will not be charmed, and they shall bite you, saith the LORD. – Jeremiah 8:15-17
PYTHEAS – THE GREEK EXPLORER WHO DISCOVERED BRITAIN
March 19th, 2024 Awake Goy PYTHEAS – THE GREEK EXPLORER WHO DISCOVERED BRITAIN
Pytheas of Massalia (350-285 BCE) was a renowned navigator and explorer who lived in Greek colony which is now known as ‘Marseille’ and forms part of Southern France. The Greeks had many colonies outside of Greece and formed a presence all over the Mediterranean, and including such places as Italy, France, Spain, Turkey, Russia and North Africa. Greeks spread-out due to over-crowding, lack of resources, warfare and sometimes banishment, and took their sophisticated culture with them. No matter where a Greek was born, he or she was considered a ‘Greek’ first and foremost. As the Greek culture involved the use of logical thought applied to the divine and worldly realm, the exploration (and mapping) of the world was an important element of the development of Greek knowledge. This exploration by land and sea often involved navigation by the stars, and the understanding of the behaviour of the earth and the sun, etc, as well as predicting weather, climate and the rhythms of the sea. The Greek cultural influence throughout the world they occupied not only formed the basis for the Latin alphabet (together with Etruscan influence) and contributed (through Roman culture) to the development of European culture.
In around 304 BCE Pytheas set sail from Massalia with the intention of exploring the seas west of the European landmass. In so doing Pytheas became the first Greek to visit and sail around Britain. He discovered that Ireland lay further west of Britain, and that Norway was to the north of Britain. Not only this, but Pytheas is said to have landed in Cornwall and witnessed their tin-mining industry, and travelled all around the island nation. He said that the British were friendly and hospitable and although there were many different kings and leaders, peace reigned throughout the land. Pytheas stated: ‘The people of Britannia are simple in their habits and far removed from the cunning knavishness of modern man… they do not drink wine, but a fermented liquor made from barley, which they call curmi.’ His circumnavigation of Britain took six years to complete which included time taken landing ad investigating various places. The books of Pytheas entitled ‘The Ocean’ and ‘A Description of the Ocean’ are now lost – but much of his work has been preserved in the writings of others. Oddly, Pytheas spent much of his life trying to convince his incredulous contemporaries that he had indeed really discovered Britannia – as many were of the opinion that nothing existed west of the European mainland. It can be said today that Pytheas was the man who discovered Britain!
The oldest written text discovered in Greece 9000 years ago
March 17th, 2024 Awake Goy The oldest written text discovered in Greece 9000 years ago
The sign of Dispilios. The oldest written text discovered in Greece and specifically in Kastoria (Macedonia) 9000 years ago !!!!
The plate of Dispilio is a wooden plate bearing inscribed symbols dating back to 7260 BC. X. and 5250 p. X. The plaque was discovered in the settlement of Lake Dispiliou in Macedonia (Kastoria) by the professor of prehistoric archeology George Chourmouziadis
The Dispilio plate may be an early form of written speech, as similar symbols etched in clay have been found in the Vinca culture in settlements of the southern Balkans. The clear symbols on the wooden sign, which some believe resemble those of the ancient Greek alphabet in its early form, are undoubtedly a form of communication.
In addition, the engraved inscription was potentially a Linear B script used by the Mycenaeans, as they describe activities of the Neolithic man and his culture.
The disciple sign was an early form of communication
Professor Chourmouziadis suggested that such writings, which have not yet been decrypted, could prove to be any of a variety of forms of communication, including symbols representing the count of goods. Unfortunately, we do not yet have a Rosetta Stone to decipher the pre-existing Line B writing.
Similar engraved symbols to those on the wooden plate have been found on small ceramic plates that have also not yet been deciphered.
The sign suffered partial damage when it was exposed to the oxygen-rich environment outside of the mud and water it was submerged in for a long time.
It is currently under scientific maintenance. From 2021, the full academic study on the Tablet Discipline awaits completion of maintenance work.
The coastal prehistoric settlement seems to have been inhabited for a long time since the final stages of the Middle Neolithic Era (5,600-5,000 BC). X. ) up to the Final Neolithic Era (3,000 b. X. ).
Conventional history states that such neolithic discoveries are merely evidence of the protography—conveying limited information rather than proof of an entire language. However, if additional items appear comparable to the Dispilio tablet, they could completely change the history of writing.
Dispilio: Greece’s coastal prehistoric settlement
The Paralimnios Prehistoric settlement of Dispiliou is one of the most fascinating archaeological sites in northwestern Greece located next to the city of Kastoria.
Near the modern village of Dispilio, a community near Kastoria that shares Lake Orestiada, lies the settlement that offers a lot of information about prehistoric life in the area.
It is located on the Island, on the southern shore of Lake Orestiada, where archaeologists have discovered thousands of objects from the Neolithic Era.
Dispilio plate earlier written Reimagination of family life as lived in the neolithic era in Dispilio, southwestern Greece.
The settlement was discovered in the dry winter of 1932, during which the water level was lower than usual. Remains of wooden puzzle revealed traces of settlement at the point separating a small island from the lake shore.
In 1935 the archaeologist Antonios Keramopoulos conducted a preliminary survey of the area. However, the excavation was not completed as World War II approached.
A systematic excavation work began decades later in 1992 under Georgios Chourmouziadis, professor of prehistoric archeology at Aristotleian University of Thessaloniki. Archaeologists then finally uncovered the ruins of an extensive lake settlement from the Late Neolithic Era, which turned out to be one of the most important and oldest of its kind in Europe.
Thousands of items were found in these excavations, including stone tools, bones and firewood along with animal bones, a discovery that shows the residents were farming, hunting and fishing.
Dispilio sign oldest written Prehistoric settlement in Dispilio. Credit: Greek Reporter
The site found materials used to build the sheds, such as piles of wood in shapes indicating construction work, large clay storage pins and woven baskets.
Ceramic, wooden structures, seeds, bones, idols and personal ornaments were also found by archaeologists. In addition, several cookware — many boat-shaped — along with bone and stone jewelry were found. The most important find of all, however, was a bone flute, which turned out to be one of the oldest musical instruments ever found in Europe.
Jews admit – It Was Greek Culture That Taught Us to Be Jews
March 2nd, 2024 Awake Goy It Was Greek Culture That Taught Us to Be Jews
Greeks didn’t teach them to be “jews”.
The Ashkenazi stole parts of the Greek Culture.
Such as Hebrew, which is a Greek dialect, was never “jewish”.
The Ashkenazi stole the menorah as well.
“Jews” actually did not exist until 700AD.
Oldest coins were Greek
February 22nd, 2024 Awake Goy Oldest coins were Greek.
Just like the oldest language was also Greek.
Just like the oldest Bible scripts came from the Greeks.
In ancient Greece, bees were used on some of the earliest coins made in Europe.
A silver Greek obol coin minted in Macedon between 412 BCE and 350 BCE, now housed in the British Museum, shows a bee on one side of the coin.
Bees also feature on coins minted elsewhere in the ancient Greek world, such as a bronze coin minted in Ephesus dated between 202 BCE and 133 BCE.
The use of bees on ancient coins extended for many centuries including widely circulated bronze coins, and new varieties continue to be discovered.
The True Holocaust. Remembering the Armenian, Assyrian and Greek Genocides.
February 13th, 2024 Awake Goy The True Holocaust. Remembering the Armenian, Assyrian and Greek Genocides by the Turks / Jews (Synagogue of Satan)
On 7 February 2024 the NSW Legislative Council considered a motion on genocide prevention.
Introduced by Liberal Party opposition Whip, the Hon Chris Rath, the motion called for the Upper House to acknowledge that 9 December 2023 marked the seventy-fifth anniversary of the adoption of the UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide and to honour the primary initiator of the convention, Dr Raphael Lemkin, who had been influenced by his studies of the Armenian Genocide and Jewish Holocaust.
The motion, according to Mr Rath, also called for the expansion of Holocaust genocide education, with the mandatory inclusion of the Armenian, Assyrian and Greek genocides in the curriculum, and the establishment of a genocide museum to create awareness about these genocides.
Approximately 1.5 million Armenians, 300,000 Assyrians, and 350,000 to 500,000 Greeks (including Pontic Greeks) were killed during the genocides committed by the Ottoman and Republican Turkish authorities in the early 20th Century.
A number of parliamentarians rose to speak to this important motion which received cross-party support.
The State Treasurer, the Hon Daniel Mookhey, confirmed that the NSW Government supports the motion and reminded the House that the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide which was passed by the United Nations on 9 December 1948, was the first human rights treaty in the history of the UN.
Mr Mookhey recalled that the genocide convention was created as a way in which to hold the Nazis accountable for their actions and equally to establish the principle that those who commit the crime of genocide will be held to account by the international community.
The Treasurer informed the House that the NSW Education Standards Authority is currently consulting about the new history syllabuses, including updated context for the Holocaust and acknowledging other forms of genocide. He also noted that First Nations people are campaigning for an updated version of the teaching curriculum to properly reflect the history and experiences of First Nations people following the arrival of the British.
Mr Mookhey concluded:
“Lots of people in the community are the victims of genocide or the descendants of victims of genocide … It is so important that we make sure we do not forget that history and that, again, we commemorate how great an achievement it was to establish the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.”
Dr Amanda Cohn of the NSW Greens reminded the House that according to the Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention, a United States‑based NGO named in honour of Raphael Lemkin:
“Genocide is a crime in international law and is a permanent moral wound on the body of humanity. There is never a justification for perpetration of this crime.”
As the granddaughter of Holocaust refugees, Dr Cohn stated that the recognition of the Armenian genocide is important for not just Armenians, but “all of us”. The Greens MP declared that this issue is not only one of principle but one that is personal for her and her family because formal recognition and remembrance of genocide, as well as education, are critical for healing and to ensure that genocide never happens again.
Dr Cohn also instanced the cases of other genocides, including the Rwandan and Tamil genocides, in the context of truth-telling today and pointed out that genocide is not just historical since everyone should be making an active effort to prevent it.
Finally, the Greens parliamentarian observed that the Lemkin Institute issues active genocide alerts when developments occur that it believes show clear signs of genocide in process and cited recent alerts issued regarding the Amhara and Tigray regions of Ethiopia, Sudan, Artsakh (the expulsion of the indigenous Armenian population by Azerbaijan forces) and, most recently, Palestine.
In relation to the current conflict in the Middle East, Dr Cohn also referred to the recent decision of the International Court of Justice (ICJ]) which ruled that some acts committed by Israel in Gaza appear to be capable of falling within the provisions of the genocide convention.
Dr Cohn reminded the House that the ICJ has ordered Israel to refrain from any acts that could fall under the genocide convention, ensure its troops commit no genocidal acts in Gaza, prevent and punish any incitement to commit genocide against Palestinians in Gaza, preserve evidence related to any allegations of genocide, and improve the humanitarian situation for Palestinian civilians, as well as calling on Hamas and other armed groups to immediately release hostages without conditions.
In conclusion, Dr Cohn stated that in the context of the UN Convention on genocide, Australia has responsibilities to prevent genocide in Gaza. “Never again” means never again for anyone.
The Hon. Susan Carter, the Shadow Assistant Minister for Attorney General in the Liberal Party, noted that “Genocide” is a word which should be said slowly to give the mind a chance to catch up and understand the enormity of this concept. She added that one cannot visit the Holocaust memorial at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem or the genocide memorial at Swallow’s Fortress in Yerevan without being overwhelmed at the sad and senseless loss of life, at the evil which drove this, and at the indifference of others who looked the other way or allowed it to occur.
Ms Carter ended:
“We need to speak of this annihilation, because if we do not name evil, acknowledge that evil has occurred, and teach our children to eschew evil, history teaches us we will repeat it.”
The Hon. Mark Buttigieg, Parliamentary Secretary for Industrial Relations, Work Health and Safety, and Multiculturalism, informed the House that UN Convention on Genocide was passed just prior to the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and noted that the Chifley Labor Government, and Foreign Minister H. V. Evatt specifically, were hugely significant in the passage of both the Universal Declaration and the Genocide Convention.
“I note that the Government recognises the enduring impact genocides continue to have today on people in our communities and the need for students to recognise the horrific nature of genocides … These are scars that are left on populations for generations and generations. It is very important that we recognise these genocides when they occur. “
Mr Buttigieg concluded by urging that we should recognise that genocide can occur in any nation and across any peoples, and should be called out for what it is and condemned, but recognised officially as an international war crime.
The Hon. Jacqui Munro (Liberal) noted that the definition of genocide in the convention means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:
(a)Killing members of the group;
(b)Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
(c)Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
(d)Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
(e)Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
The Liberal MP also noted that there are other acts which are punishable, including direct and public incitement to commit genocide, as part of the UN’s mandate and the demands of our international rules-based order.
Ms Munro stressed the importance of remembrance through institutions such as the Sydney Jewish Museum in Sydney – the Holocaust Museum – and that the same thing should be done with other genocides, including the Armenian, Assyrian and Greek genocides.
The NSW Parliamentary Secretary for Emergency Services, the Hon Anthony D’Adam, rose to inform the House that the timing of the motion was appropriate because of the events in Gaza but also to remind his parliamentary colleagues of the Rwandan genocide, the Bosnian genocide, the Tamil genocide and the Khmer genocide.
According to Mr D’Adam, the genocide convention is a landmark in the evolution of international law and a step to prevent the horrors that occurred during the Second World War, the Holocaust of the European Jewish community, from ever happening again. Unfortunately, the world has not heeded the cry of “never again”, as evidenced by the genocidal atrocities in Rwanda, Srebrenica in Bosnia and the Sri Lankan Tamil genocide.
The Parliamentary Secretary also reminded the House that there have been 28,000 deaths in Gaza and, noting the ICJ’s decision that found that Israel is at risk of perpetrating a genocide, stated that according to the Genocide Convention in order to liberate human kind from this scourge, international cooperation is required. According to Mr D’Adam, that means that when genocide is occurring countries like Australia and the rest of the world must take action to prevent it.
The final speaker to the motion, the Hon. Stephen Lawrence (Labor), who as a barrister once worked in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, declared that it is so important that we teach our children in our schools about the crime of genocide, not only as an expression of human solidarity but also in light of Australia’s own history. Mr Lawrence recalled that in 1938 the Australian Government’s chief delegate to a conference dealing with refugees from Nazi Germany incredulously told the conference that Australia was not desirous of importing a race problem by encouraging any scheme for large-scale foreign migration.
Mr Lawrence concluded saying that in the context of the motion for genocide recognition it is also important to reflect on contemporary events. He specifically referred to what he described as the “profoundly moving” judgment of the ICJ and noted that even the ad hoc judge appointed by the Israeli Government concurred with the court’s majority on the issue of provisional measures dealing with incitement to genocide. Whilst noting that the ICJ judgement was concerned with questions of prima facie evidence Mr Lawrence concluded that there is no real question that incitement to genocide has been occurring in Israel by persons of high authority, not to mention the broader question as to whether the mass civilian death in Gaza is, on allegation, a grave breach of international humanitarian law or genocide.
Those contemporary events speak to our common humanity.
In reply, Chris Rath thanked all members who contributed to this important debate, stating that it is incredibly important to acknowledge the Armenian, Assyrian and Greek genocides and to enshrine those genocides in curriculums.
The catalyst for the motion, the Joint Justice Initiative, is a coalition of Armenian, Assyrian and Greek community groups in Australia that lobby for the recognition of these genocides. For a genocide denied is a genocide repeated.
During the Joint Justice Advocacy Week in Parliament House in Canberra in early 2023, Associate Professor Dr Melanie O’Brien, president of the International Association of Genocide Scholars, and a leading genocide scholar, declared:
“It is crucial that Australia recognise the genocide of the indigenous Armenian, Assyrian and Hellenic populations of the Ottoman Empire by the Ottoman and Republican governments. It is important to acknowledge the reality of the crimes committed against the victims, survivors and their descendants – some of whom are Australian citizens – and to contribute to the prevention of future genocides.”
As the Lemkin Institute also reminds us, Raphael Lemkin’s broad vision of genocide prevention is a never-ending process of building peace through the rule of law, the historical recognition of victims, and scholarship and practice that is guided by an ethics of the human universal and involves de-escalating identity-based conflicts, working to dislodge deeply rooted conflicts, and building peaceful, inclusive, and just societies.
The NSW Legislative Council is to be congratulated for its forthright debate and unanimous support of the motion for genocide recognition. It is also a timely reminder of the need to recognise and educate about the unspeakable evils of all genocides and crimes against humanity, from the first genocides of the 20th century to the Holocaust and sadly continuing to the present day.
George Vardas is the Arts and Culture Editor of Greek City Times and is a member of the Multicultural NSW Advisory Board. He is also a member of the Joint Justice Initiative. The views expressed in this article are solely those of the author.
Palestine is Greek not Arabic or Jewish
February 13th, 2024 Awake Goy Originally, the name “Palestine” finds its roots in the historical context of the Philistines, an ancient people, possibly related to the Greeks, known as the “Sea Peoples.”
The word Palestine derives from Philistia, the name given by Greek writers to the land of the Philistines, who in the 12th century BCE occupied a small pocket of land on the southern coast..
It’s not Arabic nor Jewish!
https://www.britannica.com/place/Palestine
The Palestinians are a people with multiple composite ancestry, which does include Canaanite.
It is believe that amongst their ancestors are the Peleset, Palashtu, Phoenician, and Philistine peoples, some of which are believed to have originated in Mycenaean Greece.
Modern archaeologists agree that the Philistines were different from their neighbours: Their arrival on the eastern shores of the Mediterranean in the early 12th century B.C. is marked by pottery with close parallels to the ancient Greek world, the use of an Aegean—instead of a Semitic—script
Now, a study published today in the journal Science Advances, prompted by the unprecedented 2016 discovery of a cemetery at the ancient Philistine city of Ashkelon on the southern coast of Israel, provides an intriguing look into the genetic origins and legacy of the Philistines. The research appears to support their foreign origin but reveals that the reviled outsiders were soon marrying into the local populations.
The study analyzed DNA from ten sets of human remains recovered from Ashkelon across three different time periods: a Middle/Late Bronze Age burial ground (about 1650-1200 B.C.), which pre-dates the Philistine presence in the area; infant burials from the late 1100s B.C., following the arrival of the Philistines in the early Iron Age; and individuals buried in the Philistine cemetery in the later Iron Age (10th and ninth centuries B.C.)
The four early Iron Age DNA samples, all from infants buried beneath the floors of Philistine houses, include proportionally more “additional European ancestry” in their genetic signatures (roughly 14%) than in the pre-Philistine Bronze Age samples (2% to 9%), according to the researchers. While the origins of this additional “European ancestry” are not conclusive, the most plausible models point to Greece, Crete, Sardinia, and the Iberian peninsula.
They inhabited the area now known as Gaza and established one of their main cities there. However, like many ancient civilizations, the Philistines eventually faded into history, their distinct identity disappearing around 2,500 years ago.
Approximately six centuries later, the Romans resurrected the name “Palestine” as they suppressed the Jewish Bar Kokhbar revolt between 132 and 136 BC. In the aftermath, they renamed the region that had previously been known as Judea to “Syria Palaestina.” This new province was bordered by Syria to the north and Arabia Petraea to the east and south. Historical inscriptions indicate that during this time, Arabia Petraea was the primary Arabic-speaking region, encompassing Sinai, the Arabah (including Petra), the Transjordan (the region east of the Jordan River), and northern parts of the Hijaz (now in Saudi Arabia).
By the late fourth century, Syria Palaestina was divided into two smaller provinces: Palaestina Prima and Palaestina Seconda, with the latter also incorporating the Transjordan region. The area that had once been part of Arabia Petraea, including Sinai, Negev, and the Arabah, was now referred to as Palestina Salutoris (or Palaestina Tertia). By the time of the Islamic conquests in the 7th century, these three Palestinian provinces were home to a diverse range of ethnic groups, including Greeks, Aramaic speakers, Jews, settled Arabs, and Bedouin Arabs.
The Islamic conquest and subsequent occupation of the Levant in the 7th century by Muslim Arabs led to a process of Arabization, replacing Greek and Aramaic languages with Arabic.
Over the centuries, Palestine has seen waves of migration and settlement from various regions. This includes Arabs, Turks, and in the 19th century, Circassian and Chechen refugees. Additionally, as the local economy began to develop in the early 20th century, driven in part by a growing Jewish population, Palestine attracted economic migrants from different backgrounds.
The Bible’s oldest text teachings came from the Greeks, not from Hebrews
February 12th, 2024 Awake Goy A Jew explains:- The Bible’s oldest text teachings came from the Greeks, not from Hebrews.
The Jewish Bible psyop has finally been debunked!
What he failed to mention is that Hebrew is also a Greek dialect
Cherokees Spoke Greek and Came from East Mediterranean
October 29th, 2020 Awake Goy Cherokees Spoke Greek and Came from East Mediterranean
Possum Creek Stone and Anomalous Cherokee DNA Point to Eastern Mediterranean Origins
In memoriam Gloria Farley
Donald N. Yates
DNA Consultants
Keynote address for Ancient American History and Archeology Conference, Sandy, Utah, April 2, 2010
SUMMARY Three examples of North American rock art are discussed and placed in the context of ancient Greek and Hebrew civilization. The Red Bird Petroglyphs are compared with Greek and Hebrew coins and the Bat Creek Stone. The Possum Creek Stone discovered by Gloria Farley is identified as a Greek athlete’s victory pedestal. The Thruston Stone is interpreted as a record of the blending of Greek, Cherokee, Native American, Egyptian and Hebrew civilization. Keetoowah Society traditions, as captured in The Vision of Eloh’, are adduced to confirm a general outline of the origins of the Cherokee people in a Ptolemaic Greek trans-Pacific expedition joining pre-arriving Greeks, Jews and Phoenicians in the Ohio Valley around 100 c.e. Recent DNA investigations showing Egyptian, Jewish and Phoenician female lineages and the Y chromosome of Old Testament Priests among the Cherokee are also touched upon. Greek words and customs in the Cherokee are reviewed as time permits. Slide projector requested.
A cave entrance overlooking the Redbird River, a tributary of the South Fork of the Kentucky River in Clay County, Kentucky in the Daniel Boone National Forest, has inscriptions which according to Kenneth B. Tankersley of the University of Cincinnati display a nineteenth-century example of writing in the Cherokee syllabary. A local resident (Burchell) recognizes Greek writing in one inscription (called Christian Monogram #2) but his reading is unsatisfactory for a number of reasons. Evaluation by experts in Greek and Semitic epigraphy identifies two distinct inscriptions, one in Greek and one in Hebrew. They appear to be contemporaneous with the Bat Creek Stone unearthed in the 1889 excavation of a tomb in East Tennessee by Cyrus Thomas of the Smithsonian Institution.
Another record of Greek-speaking people in ancient America is the Possum Creek Stone, discovered by Gloria Farley in Oklahoma in the 1970s. It is discussed by her in Volume 2 of In Plain Sight as proof that the man history knows as Sequoyah did not invent the Cherokee syllabary. The inscription can be read as Greek, HO-NI-KA-SA or ‘o nikasa, i.e. “This is the one who takes the prize of victory,” a common inscription for the pedestal upon which victors were crowned at athletic games. The use is Homeric, and the spelling Doric.
A third piece of evidence helps fill in the background of the arrival of Greeks and their intermarriage with Asiatic and other Indians in North America. In 1870, an engraved 19 x 15 inch limestone tablet was uncovered in a mound excavation on Rocky Creek near Castalian Springs in Sumner County, Tennessee (see Ancient American, vol. 12, no. 77). Dating to an earlier time than its Mississipian Period context, it commemorates a peace treaty between the Cherokee and Shawnee. The Cherokee chief wears a horse-hair crested helmet and carries the spear and shield of a Greek hoplite. His Shawnee adversary clasps hands in a wedding ceremony with a Cherokee woman who bears wampum belts as a pledge of peace, has her hair in a maidenly bun, wears a Middle Eastern-style plaid kilt, and displays a large star of David. In the Red Record or Walam Olum, we learn that before crossing the Mississippi, somewhere along the south bank of the Missouri, the Algonquians or Lenni Lenape (Delaware Indians), who are later allied with the Cherokee, encounter a foreign tribe they call the Stonys. Cherokee legends about Stone-coat demonstrate that the original Cherokee had metal armor and weapons. DNA studies confirm a mixture of “anomalous” East Mediterranean mitochondrial lineages such as Egyptian T, Greek U and Phoenician X with “standard” American Indian haplogroups A, B, C and D in the Cherokee and certain other Eastern Woodlands Indians.
To sum up, the Red Bird Petroglyph is a Greek inscription from the 2nd to 3rd century c.e., not a crude Cherokee scratching of around 1800 as announced recently by the Archeological Institute of America and the New York Times. It occurs above what is, in all likelihood, an inscription in Maccabean-era Hebrew. The Sequoyan syllabary for which these Greek and Hebrew inscriptions were mistaken originated in the Greek world of the Bronze Age along with other syllabaries like Linear A, Linear B and Cypro-Minoan. The Cherokee language, which today is Iroquoian, is the result of a relexification process in the distant past. It contains many relics of words of Greek origin, especially in the area of government, military terminology, mythology, athletics and ritual. Cherokee music also reflects Greek origins. The Cherokee Indians are, quite literally, the Greeks of Native America.
Possum Creek Stone and Anomalous Cherokee DNA Point to East Mediterranean Origins (PPT)
Greek Words and Customs in Cherokee
Greek |
Meaning |
Cherokee |
Meaning |
alomenoidakosdasistynchanaetheloikeoi*gennadashuios Diosillo, illas*kakotechneokanonkaranoskateis*keruxmona*neika*Ogygesouktennaoulountataskiastixtanawa*(hoi en) teleitheatas*theatronThraxtypho |
wanderers (in a hopeless sense)noxious, devouring beast, whalehairy, shaggy like a beastthings that befallvolunteer settlersnobleSon of Zeus (title of Herakles)wrap, twist; ropebase arts, perjury, fraudstraight-edge used by athletesa chiefassemblyheraldstopping place, way-stationcontesttitan of Greek mythologyone not killeddeclared healthyghost, shadeabominableastronomical instrumentthose in authorityspectator in a playtheater, assemblyThracianraise a smoke, make sacrifice |
eloh’; elohidakwadachitikanoeshelokeekanat(i)Su-too JeekilohikaktuntakanugaKoranu**cahtiyisskarirosken**monaanetchaOotschayeUktenaoolungtsataatchinaStichiTchlanuatilihitetchatatetchanuntchaskiri**Tathtowe,Tistoe |
migrants, wanderers; earthmythic great fishhairy water monsterhistoryCherokee; original peopledoctor, huntermythic strong mantwisted hair clan (cf. Hawaiianhilo)taboo regulationscraper used by ballplayerswar chief titleassembly housespeaker, heraldland where the Elohi tarriedballplayrival of Sutoo Jee (Herakles)name of a dragon or serpentdivining crystal for healthghost; cedarname of dangerous serpentGreat Hawkbrave, warriorPlayful Cherokee fairyceremonial enclosuresorcerer, Stonecladceremonial title; firecracker (s |
700,000 years old Skull discovered in Greek cave
August 2nd, 2020 Awake Goy 
700,000 years old Skull discovered in Greek cave, completely shatters the Out of Africa theory
A skull that has the potential to challenge what we know about human evolution has been discovered in Greece in the 60s but unfortunately we only found out about it now, so we would rather report about it now than never.
We have now received an update directly from the head researcher, Dr Aris Poulianos, who has been working against all obstacles to get the information out about this controversial skull.
In 1959, Dr Poulianos worked under the Greek Government on the discovery of a cave in Petralona, Chalkidiki, where numerous ancient fossils were found, including the important discovery of a human skull that Dr Poulianos dated at 700,000 years old.
The consensus among paleoanthropologists today is that the cranium belongs to an archaic hominid distinguished from Homo erectus, and from both the classic Neanderthals and anatomically modern humans, but showing characteristics of all species and presenting strong European traits.
According to Dr Poulianos, the age of the skull challenges the Out of Africa hypothesis and suggests the independent evolution of Homo sapiens in Europe.
According to Dr Poulianos’ latest update, the Greek government has been making systematic efforts to hide, diminish and discredit his work, as well as blocking him from further research and excavations in the cave of Petralona. They have also requested him not to discuss the finding made in the cave.
Multiple false accusations have been made by the government to try to spoil his name and his 50 years of research on the cave, yet the European Anthropological Association supports him and has submitted complaints to the Greek Government for this unacceptable situation.
Dr Poulianos has claimed that the government destroys more than 90% of the anthropological evidence found in Greece, and that people who do not hold paleoanthropology qualifications are put in positions of responsibility over important archaeological excavations.
Recently, Dr Poulianos gave a talk at a high school in Athens, and immediately faced an attack from the authorities, which was directed at both him and the high school that allowed him to talk. The Director of the school has since spoken of the “unacceptable and defiant attitude of the authorities” and wrote: “It is really depressing that a government scientific department writes so many inaccuracies, misrepresentations, lies and threats to a head master”.
It is very sad to see the consistent efforts of the Greek government to hide the truth from the public and destroy the life of people that devoted their lives to investigating and researching for the truth.
You can read the official letter in Greek and in English sent by Dr Poulianos to the Greek Government a few days ago.
Ancient Greeks Discovered America Thousands of Years Ago
August 2nd, 2020 Awake Goy 
Ancient Greeks Discovered America Thousands of Years Ago
A new book by Italian physicist and philologist Lucio Russo presents the controversial claim that the ancient Greeks discovered America long before Christopher Columbus set foot on American soil in 1492.
Russo, who currently teaches probability at Tor Vergata University of Rome, says the main reason why researchers think America wasn’t known to ancient Greeks is not due to lack of proof, but to scientific dogma. Once a perspective has been accepted virtually world-wide and written with certainty into the history books it is very hard to convince the ‘establishment’ to accept an alternative perspective.
The book presents a wealth of evidence pointing to the ancient Greeks as the first discoverers. The Greeks were, among other things, the only civilization that was able to understand that the Earth was round—an understanding that was later lost.
But if it was the Greeks that discovered America, how did people come to forget this continent? The error, according to the author, is mainly due to Ptolemy, who developed a world map finding a midpoint between the claims made by various ancient sources.
The key problem is the identification of the Fortunate Islands, which the ancient Greeks sometimes referred to, as the Canary Islands (near the West coast of Africa). But the Greeks were actually referring to the Antilles, according to Russo. The misunderstanding was due to the Romans and other post-Greek people’s disbelief and incapability of navigating the oceans. Ptolemy missed the latitude of Canary Islands by 15 degrees latitude, making them to appear on the point of the map were the Antilles would expected to be.
Scientists and philologists have, according to Russo, welcomed the new perspective with enthusiasm, while geographers and historians have had a harder time digesting the possibility that Columbus’s epic journey had all been done before.
The Legendary Hyperborea and the Ancient Greeks: Who Really Discovered America?
In his story of Atlantis, written at around 360 BC, Plato mentioned a grand island or continent across the Atlantic, one larger than Libya and Asia combined. This continent was so enormous, he said, “it encompassed (wrapped around) that veritable ocean”. Is it possible that Plato was talking about the American continent and not that of Atlantis, as many automatically assume when they read that story for the first time?
Let’s not ignore that many scholars and researchers also show that proper translation of Plato’s text places Atlantis in the Mediterranean and not in the Atlantic, or some other exotic location. Aside from those claims though, is it conceivable to accept that the ancient Greeks, around the 4th century BC, knew of the American continent across the Atlantic? Interestingly, several clues suggest that this may not be such an outlandish assumption after all.
Roughly twenty years ago, in 1996, Mark McMenamin, a professor of geology at Mount Holyoke College in the United States, discovered and interpreted a series of enigmatic markings on the reverse side of a Carthaginian gold coin, minted circa 350 BC, as an ancient map of the world. In the center of this world map there is a clear depiction of the Mediterranean basin. An image to the right of it is interpreted to represent Asia, while the image to the left is interpreted to represent the American continent. Professor McMenamin also found that all known specimens of this type of coin formed the same type of “world” map. This was an interesting discovery, no doubt; however, what is most interesting about this find, is that this particular Carthaginian coin was minted within the same decade when Plato unveiled the story of Atlantis and revealed that there was a large continent across from the Pillars of Hercules.
Carthaginian coins from circa 310–290 BC. Representational image only. (Classical Numismatic Group, Inc. http://www.cngcoins.com / CC BY-SA 2.5 )
The Piri Reis Map
The Piri Reis world map, named after its maker, a Turkish admiral and renowned cartographer (1465-1553), drawn in 1513, merely two decades after the ‘discovery’ of America by Christopher Columbus, depicts the west coast of Africa, Europe, as well as the entire American continent on the Atlantic side. According to Piri Reis, however, his controversial map was based on several other charts, many dating as early as the 4th century BC!
Map of the world by Ottoman admiral Piri Reis, drawn in 1513. ( Public Domain )
While by any means the famous map does not come close to a satellite image, it still properly depicts the continents on both sides of the Atlantic, although with one major flaw. It shows the horn of South America turning sharply eastwards, almost at a 90-degree angle, as if South America “wraps around” the Atlantic at the bottom of the map. Of course, some go on to speculate that the horizontal body of that land could be that of Antarctica, thus the controversy, since Antarctica was not discovered until 300 years later.
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Although the controversy in Piri Reis’ map significantly diminishes without Antarctica in it, the existence of this map still helps reinforce a couple of assumptions made earlier. If truly Piri Reis borrowed from other ancient maps dating back to the 4th century BC, then unquestionably this reinforces the suggestion that Plato, at 360 BC, could have been aware of the American continent in order to include it in his story.
Moreover, is it possible that the apparent flaw on Piri Reis’ map, which most likely also appeared on the much older originals, explains why Plato was under the false impression that the immense continent across from the Pillars of Hercules “encompassed” (wrapped around) the Atlantic Ocean. Just as in the northern hemisphere, where North America, along with Greenland, Iceland and few other islands seem to encompass the North Atlantic.
Map by Abraham Ortelius, Amsterdam 1572: at the top left Oceanvs Hyperborevs separates Iceland from Greenland. ( Public Domain )
Legendary Hyperborea
Additional clues, though, not only suggest that the ancient Greeks knew of North America across the Atlantic, but as it appears, they were also familiar with the region around the Arctic Circle—in essence the broken bridge that connects northern Europe to North America. They called this land Hyperborea (a Greek word that means “Extremely North”.)
Arctic continent on the Gerardus Mercator map of 1595. ( Public Domain )
Is this possible? While undoubtedly skeptics would dismiss this suggestion, interestingly, the Greeks believed that Hyperborea was an unspoiled territory so far north from Greece, the sun there never sets. Of course, the only place due north where the sun continuously shines, at least six months out of a year, is the region above the Arctic circle, a territory obviously not easily accessible, especially during the winter months. ‘Coincidentally’, the poet Pindar (522 BC – 443 BC) wrote that “neither by ship nor on foot would you find the marvelous road to the assembly of the Hyperboreans,” a statement that further corroborates the inaccessibility of this region.
So, when bearing in mind this place’s location (somewhere “extremely north”,) the fact that is somewhere where the sun never sets, and this is a region inaccessible by foot or boat (most likely due to a frozen Arctic Ocean), where else can a place like this be? Can Hyperborea have been the figment of vivid imagination, or is it possible that there was some truth to this story, as in the case of other stories brought to us from ancient Greece, which involved real places wrapped in mythical elements? Such, among others, was the Palace of Knossos, which it was associated with the Minotaur (a mythical beast of half man and half bull,) the city of Troy which was connected with an epic war fought by demigods, and Mount Olympus, which was thought to be occupied by gods. What about Hyperborea though? Is it possible that the Greeks managed to navigate so far north, or was that knowledge passed down to them from others, such as the Minoans perhaps?
The road to Hyperborea and North America
If, according to historians, the Bronze Age Minoans 4,000 years ago were often traveling as far as Scotland and the Orkney Islands to trade goods, is it inconceivable to assume that over time (going back and forth for a thousand years) they may have eventually reached Greenland (the edge of Hyperborea,) only a couple of short island stops away? And, if those ancient navigators managed to reach Greenland via island hopping, is it possible then to assume that they could have gone a bit further and ultimately reached North America, which in essence, is just around the corner?
Clues Buried Around the World
If not, where did thousands of tons of copper from the region around the Great Lakes disappear to during the Bronze Age? Most importantly, how did spices, plants and insects indigenous only to America find themselves in Santorini (a Minoan island) around the period of 1600 BC?
An excavation in the ancient city of Akrotiri, on the island of Santorini, revealed that a tobacco beetle (Lasioderma serricorne), an insect indigenous to America at the time, was found buried under the volcanic ash of the 1600 BC eruption. If tobacco was not introduced to Europeans until around 1518 AD, as history claims (nearly 3,000 years later), how else did this pest of stored tobacco got there.
Furthermore, how were the Egyptians able to obtain tobacco and other plants indigenous to America, like coca leaves, which were often used during mummification? Indeed, in 1992, German studies revealed that one third of all mummies tested, carried traces of nicotine on their hair, skin, and bones. Also, the same tobacco beetle found in Santorini was found inside the mummy of King Ramses II (1213 BC), as well as inside King Tutankhamen’s tomb (1323 BC).
Following the Genetic Trail
If our early Mediterranean ancestors did not know of North America 10,000 to 12,000 years ago, how then did Haplogroup X, a Mediterranean gene, find itself in North America around that timeframe and as Plato claimed?
For those not familiar with genetics, each race around the planet is categorized by scientists according to their particular DNA haplogroup. For example, all American Indians contain haplogroups A, B, C, and D. As haplogroups A, C, and D are also found primarily in Asia, and B mainly in China and Japan, it is highly speculated by anthropologists that these four haplogroups traveled to North America during a glacier period when continents were once connected by ice.
- More Evidence that Ancient Romans May Have Made It to Oak Island, Canada
- Years Before Columbus: Leif Erikson, His Life and His Voyage of Adventure to the New World
- The precious remains of Akrotiri, an ancient city obliterated in the great eruption of Thera
A more recent study, though, on certain Native American tribes, especially those around the Great Lakes, revealed that in addition to the above haplogroups they were also found to carry haplogroup X. If Middle Easterners somehow made it to America 10,000 years ago, why do only tribes around the Great Lakes carry this particular gene? And, most importantly, how did Mediterranean people travel to North America?
If this was some random transfer, as some scientists maintain (see Solutrean Hypothesis), why then did no other haplogroup from at least a dozen in Europe at the time not follow X, as the four Asian haplogroups on the opposite side of the map ultimately followed each other via the Bering Strait? Is it possible that haplogroup X navigated to North America in a contained environment as Plato claimed? Or, is it possible, as the majority of anthropologists suggest, 10,000 years ago Mediterranean people walked to America while ice still connected the Asian and American continents at the Bering Strait?
A huge problem with the scientific claim, though, is that en route from the Middle East to America, the furthest region east of the Mediterranean to carry small traces of haplogroup X is that of the Altai Republic in southern Russia. No traces of haplogroup X (a variation of X, or another European haplogroup) exist further east of that region. We must also not ignore that mtDNA maps show that the highest concentrations of haplogroup X exist on the Atlantic side, around the Great Lakes, and not in Alaska or alongside the west coast, where, according to anthropologists, haplogroup X infiltrated America.
And last but not least, we must not ignore that high traces of haplogroup X strangely exist in Scotland, Orkney Islands, Faroe Islands and Iceland, essentially all the island stops from Europe to North America.
mtDNA Map of Haplogroup X
Christos A. Djonis is author of the book “ Uchronia? Atlantis Revealed ”.
Featured image: Is it possible the ancient Greeks knew of the New World thousands of years ago? Courtesy Christos A. Djonis
Unless otherwise noted, images are the Copyrighted Material of Christos A. Djonis and have been used with permission.
Biden Rape Victim Tells Tucker Carlson DOJ Is Planning To Imprison Her for Speaking Out
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May 9th, 2024 Awake Goy President Putin: “I Will Stop the New World Order From Sparking World War 3′
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Citizen Journalists Catch Top Hollywood Producer Attempting To Rape Teen – Media Blackout
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Harry and Meghan’s ‘Heart of Darkness’
May 9th, 2024 Awake Goy 
With their public feuding and over-the-top allegations of pervasive British racism, Harry and Meghan are self-centeredly and unwittingly helping advance Russia and China’s anti-democratic agenda in sub-Saharan Africa. Source
THE MACABRE CURSE OF THE ZOGSTERS
May 9th, 2024 Awake Goy Khazarian-installed crazymakers in Congress creating the craziest legislative clusterf*ck in
U.S. history.
Submitted by The Armchair Political Analyst
SOTN Exclusive
Only AIPAC possesses the raw political power and overwhelming pervasive influence to bribe and blackmail most of the U.S. Congress to push legislation as insane as this: College anti-Israel agitators could be sent to Gaza under new House GOP bill.
Is there anything else to say about the traitors to the American Republic who comprise the ZOG now operating in Washington, D.C.?!
ZOG = Zionist Ocuppied Government
That the Christian and Jewish Zionist members of Congress would even attempt to outlaw, in this outrageously punishing manner, the protest of the most egregious genocide of women and children, elderly and infirm of the Third Millennium is so diabolical and malicious and vengeful and wrong and…..
One thing is for sure: the apartheid Zionist State of Israel is now so desperate and brazen and reckless in their determination to completely cover up their ongoing Palestinian Holocaust that there is nothing the Khazarian crazymakers in Tel Aviv will not do.
BOTTOM LINE: This Kafkaesque perversion of lawmaking and utterly despicable injustice will only stop until all of the ZOGsters responsible are apprehended, tried, convicted and sentenced for treason and other high crimes perpetrated against the American people.
The Armchair Political Analyst
State of the Nation
May 8, 2024
Republicans Ready Sanctions On World Court If It Issues Arrest Warrants For Israelis
May 9th, 2024 Awake Goy Republicans Ready Sanctions On World Court If It Issues Arrest Warrants For Israelis
Republican members of the US House of Representatives are preparing a sanctions package targeting International Criminal Court (ICC) officials as a “precaution” against potential arrest warrants of Israeli officials for war crimes committed in Gaza, according to Axios.
“We want to emphasize to [ICC prosecutor Karim Khan] that going down this road of arrest warrants is a really bad idea, and it’s going to blow up the relationship,” House Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Michael McCaul told the US news outlet.
“We’re not sure if the arrest warrants are imminent, but it’s sort of a precaution to let them know that, if they do, we have this legislation ready to go. It won’t be put on the floor unless we have to,” he added.
McCaul emphasized the new package would come as a “companion” to legislation introduced last February in the Senate that seeks to sanction ICC officials “involved in probes of US allies who are not ICC members, such as Israel.”
The report by Axios comes on the heels of a harshly worded letter sent by a group of Republican senators to Khan, warning him against prosecuting Israeli officials for alleged genocide in Gaza.
“Target Israel and we will target you,” the senators tell Khan, adding that they will “sanction your employees and associates, and bar you and your families from the United States.”
The letter, a copy of which was obtained by the Zeteo website, concludes: “You have been warned.” It contains the signatures of 12 Republican senators, including Tom Cotton, Marco Rubio, and Ted Cruz.
Neither Washington nor Tel Aviv are among the 124 states that remain signatories of the ICC Rome Statute of 1998. Nevertheless, the occupied Palestinian territories were admitted to the court with the status of a member state in April 2015.
US officials have been scrambling to protect Israeli authorities from war crimes prosecution ever since reports revealed the ICC was looking into the atrocities committed in Gaza.
Last week, a bipartisan group of US lawmakers threatened the ICC with “retaliation” following a virtual meeting in which they expressed their “concerns” to court officials. In response, Khan condemned the “threats of retaliation” from the US.
“That independence and impartiality are undermined, however, when individuals threaten to retaliate… should the office, in fulfillment of its mandate, make decisions about investigations or cases falling within its jurisdiction,” he added. Khan, a British citizen, demanded that “all attempts to impede, intimidate or improperly influence its officials cease immediately.”
ICC prosecutors recently interviewed the staff of Gaza’s two largest hospitals, Al-Shifa Hospital in the north and Al-Nasser Hospital in the south – both of which were decimated by the Israeli army, reportedly leaving behind hundreds of corpses buried in mass graves.
Statement of the #ICC Office of the Prosecutor pic.twitter.com/Cw331pMcDm
— Int’l Criminal Court (@IntlCrimCourt) May 3, 2024
In 2002, two years after Washington withdrew from the Rome Statute, then-president George W Bush signed into law the “American Servicemembers Protection Act of 2002,” which authorizes the use of military force in the Netherlands to “liberate” any US citizen or citizen of a US-allied country held by the ICC.
“The office seeks to engage constructively with all stakeholders whenever such dialogue is consistent with its mandate under the Rome Statute to act independently and impartially,” the ICC prosecutor said in a statement.
Tyler Durden
Thu, 05/09/2024 – 06:55 Source
Why, pray tell, won’t the U.S. Congress go after Israel’s HUGE organ harvesting and trafficking international operation?
May 9th, 2024 Awake Goy COWARDS! “Bibi the Butcher” Continues Gaza Genocide While The Whole World Watches And Witnesses The Massive Slaughter Of Innocents & Does Nothing
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This Is What Happened After Several Schools Banned Cellphones
May 9th, 2024 Awake Goy This Is What Happened After Several Schools Banned Cellphones
Authored by Marina Zhang via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),
Banning cellphones in schools improved academics, reduced bullying, and reduced students’ need for counseling, a 73-page Norwegian paper found.
Girls benefited the most from the policies.
“Banning smartphones significantly decreases the health care take-up for psychological symptoms and diseases among girls,” Sara Sofie Abrahamsson, a postdoctoral researcher and the paper’s sole author, wrote in the abstract. Post-ban bullying among both genders decreases.”
The paper followed data from recent decades, mainly focusing on 2010 to 2020.
The researcher observed no negative impact from introducing such a policy.
“The phones are an absolute distraction. Even if a kid has the phone in their pocket during class, if the phone is on vibrate every time it vibrates, which is constantly, their mind automatically shifts away from what the teacher is teaching to the phone,” Tom Kersting, a psychotherapist who was a school counselor for 25 years, told The Epoch Times in agreement with the report’s findings.
As a proponent of banning phones in schools, Mr. Kersting suspected that Norway would see improvements in students’ academics, mental health, and social and emotional skills.
Major Findings
There are no national guidelines on smartphone use in Norway. Instead, schools make their own decisions on whether to allow smartphones.
Therefore, Ms. Abrahamsson used a survey to collect data from Norwegian middle schools on smartphone use and whether and when they had introduced any smartphone regulations.
These data were then matched to a school’s data, including student grades set by teachers and external exams, student GPAs, student visits to psychologists and general practitioners, and measurements for bullying.
Ms. Abrahamsson’s four major findings were as follows:
- The number of psychological consultations was reduced by 60 percent in female students.
- The incidence of bullying for both girls and boys lowered.
- Girls made gains in GPA and externally graded mathematics tests.
- Girls were more likely to attend an academic high school track.
The author found that the stricter the smartphone policy, the greater the improvement among female students. Stricter schools forbade students from bringing phones to school or required students to hand in their phones before the start of class.
Girls from low socioeconomic backgrounds showed the most improvement.
However, smartphone bans did not affect boys’ mental health and GPA.
Smartphone Bans in the United States
A 2024 survey by America’s National Parents Union found that only 32 percent of parents support schools banning students from using their phones, though 43 percent reported that their child’s school had such a policy.
According to the National Center for Education Statistics, during the 2019–2020 school year, over 76 percent of schools prohibited nonacademic use of cellphones or smartphones during school hours.
Several school districts have introduced more stringent phone policies that have received growing support from teachers, students, and parents alike.
Bill Wilson, the superintendent of Brush School District in Colorado, who has a doctorate in education, introduced a change to the district’s cellphone policy in 2021.
While the district always had a policy prohibiting cellphone use during school hours, there were no consequences for violating this policy. So in 2021, a policy was implemented: Unexempted students caught using phones would have to get their parents to come to the school to remove the phone.
Mr. Wilson told The Epoch Times that when a phone-banning policy was first suggested, many parents came to hearings with the fear that schools wanted “to control their kid and take away their kid’s ability to contact them if something happened in the school day,“ implying that ”the schools are doing something inappropriate by not giving their kids their rights.”
The school policy was later amended so students could have their phones, but they had to be in their backpacks. Furthermore, students with medical conditions or certain obligations that required smartphone monitoring could check their phones in the school office.
Gradually, parents warmed up to such a policy.
“The more conversations we have, even with those who are vehemently opposed initially, the more they begin to realize that we’re on the same team,“ he said. ”We’re trying to help navigate what has become a very challenging situation successfully in the best interest of kids and the learning environment.”
Mr. Wilson said teachers and students were among the first groups to appreciate such a policy.
“[Students] were thankful to not have that distraction, and that pressure and that worry about whether somebody was going to make a comment about their clothes or take a picture of them or multiple pictures of them while they’re talking, and wait until they get a silly one and make a meme out of it,” Mr. Wilson said.
In schools that have implemented cellphone restrictions, teachers have also begun reporting that their students are more engaged in and out of class. Students have become more social and interact with each other, and disciplinary actions have been reduced.
Mr. Wilson sees smartphone bans at schools across the United States gradually becoming the norm.
In 2023, Florida became the first state to enact a statewide ban on phones and social media during class time.
The state’s Orange County also enacted a phone ban during school hours, with some teachers reporting a remarkable change in student behavior and classroom engagement.
Ohio, Oklahoma, Vermont, and Kansas have since passed bills to control phone use in schools. Several school districts, including those in Maryland, California, Virginia, and Connecticut, have also implemented phone bans.
“It’s happening more, and I think it’s becoming more restrictive. From no use during the school day, and then everybody has their own slice on whether students can have them,” Mr. Wilson said.
Tyler Durden
Thu, 05/09/2024 – 06:30 Source
The ‘Wild Olive Branch’ Of Romans 11 – Who Can Be Grafted Into Israel And Who Cannot
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Russia Bombs Ukraine Back Into The Stone Age After So Many Acts Of Deadly and Destructive Terrorism Carried Out On Russian Soil
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May 9th, 2024 Awake Goy 
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May 9th, 2024 Awake Goy 
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How Gender Ideology Breeds Toxic Law
May 9th, 2024 Awake Goy 
In Robert Bolt’s play A Man for All Seasons, which was a textbook back in my high school in India, the following exchange occurs between Sir Thomas More and his future son-in-law William Roper. When More says he would grant the protection of the law even to the devil, Roper counters that he’d ‘cut down every law’ in order ‘to get after the Devil.’ More responds:
Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned ’round on you, where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country is planted thick with laws, from coast to coast, Man’s laws, not God’s! And if you cut them down, and you’re just the man to do it, do you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I’d give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety’s sake!
I grew up in India being taught and believing that the United States was a nation of laws. The inaptly-named ‘progressive’ pursuit of social justice (think putting convicted rapists into women’s prisons) has been white-anting Western societies, including the US, for some years now. The rise of identity politics, in particular around the faddish notions of critical race theory and gender ideology, has occurred alongside the erosion of social cohesion and political stability.
These were preceded by increasingly radicalised and unhinged attacks on toxic masculinity – attacks on male privilege came long before attacks on white privilege. This culminated in the #MeToo moment when women had to be believed and men vilified, defenestrated, and perhaps even incarcerated, no matter how thin the evidence and how absurd the alleged victimisation and grievance narrative (including a date who did not meet expectations by failing to read ‘non-verbal’ cues about the woman’s preferences between red and white wine!).
In the process longstanding pillars of Western jurisprudence and criminal justice systems have come under sustained assault to the point of breaking down entirely. Thus in Canada courts have begun to use minority racial identity as a mitigating factor to be taken into account when sentencing people who have been convicted of crimes. And we are unlikely ever to know the number of male victims of miscarriages of justice in sexual assault cases – victims of illiberal liberalism – with the weakened commitment to the key principles of equal protection of the law, due process, and innocent until proven guilty.
This is at its most dangerous at the confluence, in the name of social justice, identity-based victimhood narratives, and bitterly partisan politics when allegations of misdeeds are weaponised in efforts to destroy political opponents in order to gain or hold on to power. This happened in the United States during Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court confirmation hearings. It remains an unfinished story in Australia in the case of Brittany Higgins.
On 15 April, Justice Michael Lee brought down the curtain on Bruce Lehrmann’s suit against Network Ten and its star reporter Lisa Wilkinson. His statement explaining the salient points of the judgment was a masterclass of judicial reasoning and judicious conclusions, sifting evidence-based facts from allegations and suppositions, drawing logical inferences, and not holding back on calling out falsehoods and mendacity. Nevertheless, there are four troubling aspects of the verdict. But first, a caveat. Lee likely applied the law as enacted by parliament regardless of his individual views on these matters and his knowledge of the law is obviously superior to my nonexistent legal qualifications.
Background
In 2021, Higgins was a junior staffer to Liberal Party cabinet minister Michaelia Cash. On 15 February, in two interviews with Samantha Maiden of news.com.au, published that morning, and Ten’s show The Project with Wilkinson, broadcast that evening. Higgins alleged she’d been raped in the early hours of Saturday 23 March 2019 in the ministerial suite of defence minister Linda Reynolds, for whom she worked at the time. On 7 August 2021, Lehrmann, also a Reynolds staffer, was publicly named as the alleged attacker.
The two had gone out with other aides on Friday to celebrate the end of the working week by partying in clubs. Over the course of the evening, Higgins consumed more than a dozen alcoholic drinks (paragraph 395 of Lee’s judgment), some supplied or handed to her by Lehrmann after she had already had six drinks. When she was ready to call a taxi, he suggested he could drop her off in his Uber ride, but first, he needed to detour to Parliament House to pick up some work for the weekend.
Their entrance into parliament was recorded on camera at the security barrier at 1.40 am. Lehrmann was recorded leaving, alone, 40 minutes later. Hours later, Higgins was discovered in a state of undress on a couch in the suite. She claimed she had woken up to find Lehrmann on top of her and said no multiple times, but he proceeded to engage in sexual intercourse anyway. Her departure from the building was recorded at around 10 am.
On 26 March, Reynolds’ chief of staff Fiona Brown was informed by parliamentary services of a security breach and she summoned and interviewed both characters. Lerhmann’s employment was terminated on 5 April and Higgins met with the police on 8 April.
On 27 January 2021, Higgins and her partner David Sharaz met with Wilkinson and her producer. Higgins resigned on the 29th, recorded an interview with Wilkinson on 2 February, and reopened her police complaint on the 4th. As well as accusing Lehrmann of rape, she alleged that Brown and Reynolds had prioritised Reynolds’ and the party’s political interests above her safety. The Project in particular ran with the political coverup as its main narrative arc.
On 17 August, Lehrmann was charged with sexual intercourse without consent. He pleaded not guilty on 16 September and flatly rejected that any sex had occurred. The criminal trial began in Canberra on 4 October 2022 with ACT Chief Justice Lucy McCallum presiding. The jury began deliberating on 19 October and was still deadlocked on the 27th when a juror was discovered to have brought into the jury room an academic paper discussing the frequency of cases of false allegations of sexual assault. The case was aborted. On 2 December the prosecution decided against a second trial out of concerns for Higgins’s mental health.
As a footnote, the ACT prosecutor lost his job because of evident bias against Lehrmann and serious allegations of police coverup and political interference that he failed to substantiate and was forced to retract in court.
On 7 February 2023, Lehrmann initiated defamation proceedings against Ten and news.com.au in a federal court. The trial began in Sydney before Justice Lee on 22 November. Ten and Wilkinson, the latter with her own separate counsel because she did not want her interests subordinated to the network’s corporate interests, entered a defence of qualified privilege based on the public interest, and truth based on a civil standard of proof. In the interests of open justice, Lee opened the trial to be broadcast on the court’s YouTube channel.
On 15 April, Lee found that ‘Mr Lehrmann raped Ms Higgins in Parliament House.’ He therefore accepted the truth defence and dismissed Lehrmann’s defamation action.
Ten had argued that because Lehrmann denied there was any sexual intercourse, the defence of consensual sex was not available to him. If sex occurred, it could only be rape (563). Lee offered a taxonomy of recklessness: ‘possibility recklessness’ (being aware that the complainant might not be consenting), ‘inadvertent recklessness’ (failing to consider whether she is consenting), and ‘indifference recklessness’ (being indifferent as to whether or not she had consented) (595). Lee found Lehrmann guilty of rape (620) on the last count:
he was so intent upon gratification to be indifferent to Ms Higgins’ consent, and hence went ahead with sexual intercourse without caring whether she consented’ (600);
In his pursuit of gratification, he did not care one way or another whether Ms Higgins understood or agreed to what was going on (601).
The next installment in the saga will be defamation proceedings brought by Reynolds against Higgins and Sharaz.
The opposition parties and some independent analysts are also demanding that the national anti-corruption commission investigate the actions of Senators Katy Gallagher (finance minister) and Penny Wong (foreign minister), who used the Project’s imputations to allege political coverup of a criminal rape inside parliament. The Labor Party won the federal election in May 2022. In December 2022, Higgins was reported to be considering compensation claims against the federal government. On 13 December, she was awarded AUD 2.445 million (216). Reynolds, Cash, and Brown were ordered by the Attorney-General not to appear at the hearing to provide their versions of the story and the proceedings were concluded in a matter of hours in one day.
With regard to the $2.445 million payout from the federal government, Higgins gave an express warranty of truthfulness (216). But Lee found that ‘several things being alleged were untrue’ (240).
The photograph of the bruise on her leg was sworn to be ‘of an injury suffered during the rape,’ but during the trial, she walked back that assertion and accepted the bruise could have resulted from another cause like a fall. Lee found her inconsistencies on this point ‘both important and vexing’ (242-44).
Degrees of Culpability of Many, Guilty Verdict for One
Among the four most powerful words in the English language are ‘But that’s not fair!’ Behind them lies our innate, learned, and internalised sense of justice. It is what drives people to stand up and be counted, sometimes at great loss, sometimes at personal risk, even to the point of death. Without a sense of justice, we regress to the law of the jungle. With a shared sense of justice, we have society.
On odd occasions, the law produces unjust outcomes. We usually accept these in the larger public interest of maintaining a society based on the rule of law. But if it happens frequently, then the laws must be changed or else people will rebel against the legal order, as with apartheid.
When laws habitually diverge from justice, the system of laws becomes illegitimate. On rare occasions the law results in such an egregious injustice that the law itself is derided as an ass, but without calling into question the whole system.
For law and justice to coincide and for justice to be seen to be done, the correct procedures must also be followed. This includes the possibility of acquittal. A society in which the mere fact of charges being laid carries the presumption of guilt and certainty of conviction is neither democratic, nor one in which I would care to live.
Lee described the Higgins-Lehrmann saga as an ‘omnishambles’ (2). Most of the main players come out with badly soiled reputations. However former minister Reynolds emerges with her reputation restored and her chief of staff Brown is the one true hero of the sordid tale for her integrity and compassion-tinged decision-making. All others engaged in falsehoods, half-truths, evasiveness, convenient lapses of memory, electronic records inadvertently scrubbed, etc.
This makes it less than satisfactory that the main weight of the verdict falls solely on Lehrmann. How can justice be seen to have been done? Rather, it’s more of a social justice outcome.
Inequitable Application of ‘Balance of Probabilities’ Civil Standard
Second, the civil standard used to convict Lehrmann of rape was that of the ‘balance of probabilities.’ Lee explained his reasoning cogently yet succinctly. Lehrmann was clearly interested in sex with Higgins and plied her with drinks as a time-tested technique of loosening inhibitions, as recognised by Lee (120). With no previous evidence of being a workaholic, and a girlfriend awaiting him at home, he took her to the minister’s suite in parliament with the intention of consummating his passion. Hence his refusal to answer calls from his girlfriend and hurry to get back to her after completing his business without first ensuring Higgins’ safety and welfare.
So far, so good.
The problem is: why is the same ‘balance of probabilities’ standard not applicable to Higgins’s conduct? She was an adult in a responsible position. There’s no suggestion of a date rape drug. Rather, she imbibed generously but not wisely and engaged enthusiastically in amorous foreplay (passionate kissing and sexualised touching) of her own will. She did not demur at going back to the minister’s suite. Perhaps she had a sudden drink-fuelled urge to admire the paintings in the room? His intentions were so clearly telegraphed that she could have chosen to wait in the Uber while he collected whatever papers he needed. Instead, she can be seen on CCTV footage skipping willingly behind him.
If we put all this together, along with the still persisting social expectation for the male to take the lead in such courtship rituals, is it unreasonable to infer consent on the balance of probabilities?
The judge explained away her many inconsistencies, omissions, and memory lapses in reporting the rape with reference to the trauma of the event (117). But this is an acceptable explanation only if it is first assumed that she was raped. The conclusion follows from the assumption: it is circular, not deductive reasoning. There is a fine line between the examples of untruths being consistent with post-rape trauma, on the one hand, and being treated as evidence of rape, on the other.
Even if sexual intercourse did take place, in light of the consensual elements until the moment they entered the office, is the trauma – on the balance of probabilities – likely to have been severe enough to explain the omissions and inconsistencies? The alternative explanation, that she became desperate to salvage her public reputation and career, seems just as likely.
A Hostile Culture for Men, Especially if White
Third, looking at the totality of the evidence, Lehrmann’s actions reveal, at best, a dubious and sleazy character. One, moreover, who is not quite the brightest bulb in the intellectual firmament. One of the most quotable sentences from the judgment is that having escaped from the lion’s den in the criminal trial, in launching his defamation suit under the lower civil standard of proof he chose to return for the hat.
Granting that and putting it aside because stupidity in itself is not a crime, under contemporary norms the social stigma and legal consequences of being charged with and convicted of rape are at least as bad as, if not worse than, being the victim of rape. No stigma should attach in the latter case at all, even though in some minds it might. Consequently, there should be an equally stringent bar for conviction.
In this particular case there was no physical evidence of sexual intercourse, none at all. From the reasonable conclusion that Lehrmann wanted sex (as did Higgins, perhaps?), the more questionable inference is drawn that her state of undress and foetal position when discovered by a cleaner demonstrate that sex did take place. With respect, that seems too thin a reed on which to hang a man.
There’s a double standard at play, where the woman is effectively infantilised and denied responsible agency. Being too intoxicated is an acceptable excuse to transfer the burden of proof and responsibility entirely to the male defendant for whom being drunk is no excuse. He must bear the responsibility both for his own choices even if intoxicated and for her choices even if too inebriated to make active choices. Heads she wins and tails he loses, when the objective evidence indicates two young and immature people, both seemingly keen on each other and returning to a site where they could consummate their fantasies.
The problem is that under contemporary norms in the West, to say anything judgmental, or to be seen to be judgmental, about a woman’s sexual behaviour and the choices she makes is to invite a social media pile-on demanding public censure and dismissal.
Yet it is permissible to characterise Lehrmann’s conduct in judgmental language. Judge Lee writes: ‘Mr Lehrmann was still behaving dishonourably by having sexual intercourse with Ms Higgins while in a relationship, and his girlfriend was trying to contact him;’ and that, having ‘satisfied himself,’ calling an Uber and exiting the building, leaving Higgins behind in the minister’s office in a state of undress, was ‘the action of a cad’ (573). But no female equivalent descriptor is applied to Higgins, even though she left the party with someone other than he ‘that brung her to the dance.’
Related to this, the law simply dismisses the reality that some women too can act unwisely, succumb to temptation in the heat of the moment, and change their stories subsequently either because they regret their ethical lapse, or because they fear the consequences for their marriage/relationship (Chinese actor Gao Yunxiang was acquitted of rape by a Sydney jury in 2020); and some are outright malicious (Google the Tom Molomby and Elanor Williams cases last year), manipulative (see the case of boxer Harry Garside last year) and use sex consciously as a weapon.
The standard narrative holds to the view that the rate of false allegations of rape is an extremely low 2.5-5.0 percent, not enough to be worried about it. Yet a literature review by two Australians, Tom Nankivell and John Papadimitriou, concluded the actual rate is likely 10-15 percent.
Sri Lankan cricket star Danushka Gunathilaka was accused of assaulting a Sydney woman at her home after a Tinder date in November 2022. The multiple initial charges of rape had been reduced to a single charge of stealthing (removing a condom without consent) by the time of the trial. He was acquitted and permitted to leave Australia ten months later in September 2023 after a four-day trial in a NSW district court. The complainant, whose identity cannot be revealed, said she had consented only to protected sex. His lawyer argued that she had changed her story several times since her first set of accusations. By contrast, Judge Sarah Huggett found Gunathilaka had answered every question asked by the police, ‘doing his best to be truthful,’ while the complainant had given different accounts.
Andrew Malkinson is a 57-year-old security guard who spent 17 years in a UK prison after being convicted of a rape in Manchester on 19 July 2003 that he did not commit. Appeal court judges overturned his conviction in July last year after DNA evidence using new technology implicated another man. Originally sentenced to a minimum term of seven years, he was perversely kept incarcerated for another decade because he insisted he was innocent of the crime. Or take the case of MLB star Trevor Bauer and Lindsey Hill in the US.
#MeToo put women beyond and above the law, privileging social media over institutional routes like police and courts to ensure accountability and justice. In the last two years, several judges – Penelope Wass in R v DS and R v SGH, Gordon Lerve in R v Cowled, Robert Newlinds in R v Martinez, Peter Whitford in R v Smith (in Australia, R stands for ‘Regina’ meaning the Crown) – have issued scathing remarks from the bench decrying the recent propensity of prosecutors bringing ‘lazy and perhaps politically expedient’ but unserious and unmeritorious sexual assault cases that have little prospect of a conviction, where defendants are acquitted by juries with ‘befitting alacrity,’ but only after having spent a considerable period of time in jail awaiting trial.
As Judge Newlinds noted in December last year:
The prosecutor failed to perform the important role of filtering hopeless cases out of the system and has thus been the primary cause of this applicant spending eight months in jail for a crime he did not commit.
The cases also impose burdens on the criminal justice system and sometimes end up with humiliation for the complainants themselves. This indicates that prosecutors have failed in their duty of ‘professional examination of…the public interest in pursuing the prosecution’ (Judge Whitford). The likely blame for this can be traced to the febrile atmosphere created by the #MeToo movement. Janet Albrechtsen, the lawyer-columnist for the Australian, commented that: ‘The legal response to the #MeToo movement must not be a lower standard for charging to satisfy a drive to bring an unpopular group of defendants into court more easily.’
In a long, thoughtful, and painfully honest recent essay in Quillette, Larissa Phillips recalls her violent rape in Florence in 2001 and recovery from the trauma. She writes that women too can make reckless decisions regarding their personal safety. Responsible decisions by rape victims would include reporting the crime to the police and requesting a medical examination. Higgins wiped her phone record of text messages and photos (248–49) and created a media storm before filing a police complaint. We are trapped in an age where those who demand the scales be tilted even more towards women complainants are valorised but anyone who dares to urge a more equitable balance of responsibilities is vilified.
Other Examples of Anti-Male Bias
The toxicity of masculinity has given way to a crisis of masculinity. The intellectually lazy phrase ‘toxic masculinity’ contributes to the generalised demonisation of all men. In Free Women, Free Men (2018), Camille Paglia attacks feminist theory’s failure ‘to acknowledge the enormous care that most men have provided to women and children’ (p. 133). Bettina Arndt notes that Australian women live four years longer than men, yet in 2022 the National Health and Medical Research Council allocated over six times more funding to research on women’s health compared to men’s.
Schools routinely admonish boys for toxic masculinity as they face a ‘negative narrative and indifference’ in classrooms, the UK parliament heard in March. Conservative MP Steve Double warned of the dangers of constantly putting boys down in the effort to improve female equality. In the same month Kirk Wood, a lecturer at Halesowen College near Birmingham was awarded compensation by a tribunal for having been wrongfully dismissed following fabricated ‘career-ending’ allegations made by a 19-year-old female pupil against him. She was avenging safeguarding concerns about her communicated to the college by him.
A report in the Telegraph (UK) on 31 March bluntly noted: ‘Britain has a boy problem. If you are born male today, you are increasingly likely to struggle in school, in the workplace and at home.’ According to the Institute for Fiscal Studies, ‘a significant gender gap in both cognitive and socio-emotional development’ has already emerged by age three.
Specialists note that female suicides are predominantly linked to mental health problems. For men it is more likely to be related to life crisis situations like the breakdown of marriage or relationship, financial stress, and work problems (including joblessness).
According to a report from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) in December 2023, suicide was the 15th leading cause of Australian deaths in 2022. When the average age of different causes of death is factored in, measured by years of potential life lost (the ABS equivalent of quality-adjusted life years), with a median age of 46.0 years, suicide jumps to become the number 1 leading cause of death in Australia at almost 110,000 lost years, with heart diseases being the second leading cause at under 80,000 lost years (p. 32).
The gender difference in suicide rates is stark but rarely discussed. The ABS report documented a total of 2,455 male and 794 female cases of suicide in Australia (p. 64). Thus men accounted for 75.6 percent of the 3,249 suicides. It’s the 11th leading cause of death for males against 26th for females. For Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander males and females, suicides are the second and tenth leading cause of death, respectively (p. 53). The Australian statistics are mirrored in the UK, where suicide is also the biggest cause of death of men under 50 and males account for 75 percent of all suicides.
Maybe it’s time for a dedicated Minister for Men, in Australia as well as in the UK?
Get-Out-of-Jail-Free Card for Media Recklessness
Fourth, Judge Lee adjudged Lehrmann to be guilty of rape ‘simply by being recklessly indifferent to whether or not there was consent’ (624). The Wilkinson episode was broadcast by Ten before the rape trial had even begun. Neither she nor Network Ten was in any position to judge the merits of the allegation prior to its being tested in court. They could not have known the truth at the time of the broadcast.
Therefore the broadcast was entirely reckless in its imputation that rape had occurred and that Lehrmann was the clearly identifiable perpetrator. The legal, social, and mental health damage of this charge was bound to be enormous for the young man concerned. How exactly does a subsequent finding of truth retrospectively validate the decisions and actions of Wilkinson and Ten? Or, to put it in the same language used to condemn Lehrmann for eternity, why should Wilkinson and Ten escape a matching judgment of indifferent recklessness?
Lessons from India
India remains a terrible country for women, ranked the worst in the G20 in 2012 and again in 2018. In early March a Brazilian-Spanish tourist on a motorbike tour with her partner was gang-raped in the state of Jharkhand, provoking mass outrage in the country. The most politically powerful are among the most shockingly predatory, as can be seen in this case, involving the grandson of a former prime minister no less, that is currently roiling Indian politics in the middle of its general election.
In the words of Sri Lanka’s Radhika Commaraswamy, the former UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative on Children and Armed Conflict, in South Asia:
Even before birth women suffer from sex selective abortion, at infancy they may face female infanticide, as young children they will have to put up with incest and son preference, as adolescents they may be sexually abused or trafficked, as young women they may suffer rape, sexual harassment, acid attacks; as wives they may experience domestic violence, dowry related violence, marital rape or honour killings, and as widows they may be required to self immolate or be deprived of property or dignity. The vulnerability to violence at every stage of their life-cycle makes VAW [violence against women] a terrible south Asian legacy that requires concerted regional, national and local level action (p. 4730).
The problem is real and undeniable. In December 2012, India was rocked by the brutal gang rape-cum-murder of a young woman in Delhi. Responding to the revulsion that swept the land, the government created special courts to fast-track sexual assault cases, toughened punishment for sex crimes, and lifted due process safeguards for alleged offenders.
At the same time, however, India also provides a salutary example of the dangers of the woke slogan, ‘We believe her,’ and the backlash it spawned because it is open to wide abuse. Laws that promote gender equality are contradicted by others that infantilise women in sexual relationships as passive victims without agency. Official statistics show that in 26 percent of the 38,947 rape cases in 2016, rape was alleged because of the false promise of marriage. The women had consensual sex in the belief that marriage would follow.
On 10 May 2019, a court in Rohtak, Haryana ordered the police to file a case against a woman who was a serial extortionist, demanding money under threat of filing rape cases. Other courts, many involving women judges, have concluded that the law is often abused to pursue a vendetta when a relationship ruptures without a happily-ever-after fairytale ending. Also, India remains a deeply patriarchal society in which women can be coerced by male family members to launch false claims of attempted rape as a means of settling scores or property disputes.
In September 2022, Indian media reported about the strange case of a 27-year-old woman from Jabalpur in the state of Madhya Pradesh. Over a six-year period, she had filed six separate criminal complaints against four men – three of them former boyfriends and one purportedly her ‘husband’ – alleging rape and criminal intimidation. The first three faced charges of rape on the ‘pretext of marriage,’ forced unnatural sex, taking videos and photographs without consent, and threatening to post these online. Then a fifth man approached the Jabalpur district court with a complaint against the woman, accusing her of threatening to implicate him in a rape case and demanding money. At that stage, the police opened an investigation against her of attempted extortion and criminal intimidation. In February 2024, Sonia Keswani was arrested and indicted on blackmail and extortion charges.
The case of actor Karan Oberoi is a good example of the systemic pathology. A former lover complained of rape and extortion. He was arrested before any investigation and named, she was not. He said she had obsessed about and stalked him, and electronic evidence would back his version. On 7 June 2019, a female Justice of the Bombay High Court queried why the police waited a month before seizing the complainant’s phone to evaluate her communications with Oberoi. He was refused bail during that period. On 17 June, she was arrested and charged with filing a false complaint and orchestrating an attack on herself on 25 May to keep him in custody.
In May 2019, protestors in Delhi demanded equal treatment for men and women in sexual assault cases, for example by ensuring anonymity of all parties until a case is concluded. Another protest demanded justice for victims of false accusations of rape.
The lesson is to privilege fact-finding and evidence over gender, put faith in a due process-centred rule of law over mob rule, reaffirm presumption of innocence until proven guilty, and promote even-handed equality through gender-neutral (and race-, religion-, and caste-neutral) laws and procedures. In other words, justice for all before social justice for favoured protected groups.
SourceCovid ‘vaccine’ withdrawn – AstraZeneca
May 9th, 2024 Awake Goy 
The AstraZeneca drug is erroneously or rather deliberately falsely advertised as a vaccine, which it is not, as it does not confer immunity.
So, now this drug can no longer be used in the European Union.
Will the colony called Australia follow?
See article:
In any event the authorities have lied about the death rates from the jab, and are much more than officially claimed.
‘Big Pharma’ knew that their product was dangerous to humans, but governments and corporations still pushed it on the serf population.
The best place to read about the internal documents that prove that these corporations knew about the dangers is through whistleblowers and data leaks.
Actions by governments and corporations in this matter, i.e. ‘forcing’ the drug on people, are criminal in nature.
Vaccine-Injured Chris Cuomo Refuses To Apologize For Demonizing the Unvaccinated as ‘America’s Biggest Enemy’
May 9th, 2024 Awake Goy Former CNN host Chris Cuomo, who this week revealed the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine destroyed his health, has refused to apologize for his past comments demonizing the unvaccinated as “America’s biggest enemy.” Confronted with examples of […]
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Sanders says Biden’s warning to Netanyahu is ‘a good step forward’ but calls for ‘even more’
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