Barbarians have left: Treasures/artifacts return!!

So far, 5,000 items stolen since US 2003 Shocking Awing Invasion have been recovered. 15,000 pieces still missing from the Iraqi National Museum.

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Iraq displays hundreds of recovered artifacts

Iraqi officials displayed hundreds of recovered artifacts Tuesday that were among the country's looted heritage and span the ages from a 4,400-year-old statue of a Sumerian king to a chrome-plated AK-47 bearing the image of Saddam Hussein. The 542 pieces are among the most recent artifacts recovered from a heartbreaking frenzy of looting at Iraqi museums and archaeological sites after the 2003 U.S.-led invasion and in earlier years of war and upheaval. The thefts swept a stunning array of priceless antiquities into the hands of collectors abroad. So far, 5,000 items stolen since 2003 have been recovered, and culture officials hoped Tuesday's display would encourage more nations to cooperate in the search for 15,000 pieces still missing from the Iraqi National Museum, one of the sites worst-hit by looters after the fall of Baghdad seven years ago.... Read more at hnn.us

 

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Franklin Expedition Secrets may be Exposed!

A box that was hidden for over 80 years in the Arctic contains documents linked to the doomed Franklin Expedition

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Purported Franklin Expedition records found

The Canadian Conservation Institute will carefully examine the box said to contain documents linked to the Franklin Expedition. (CBC)

An Inuit family says a box that was hidden for over 80 years in the Arctic contains documents linked to the doomed Franklin Expedition.

"We knew we were looking for a wooden box, not a particularly large box. We worked our way down and sure enough, about two feet down, we got to the top of some wood," said Doug Stenton, director of culture and heritage for Nunavut.

The exact contents of the unopened, sand-filled box will not be known until the Canadian Conservation Institute carefully examines it, which should take about three weeks.

"When I get it back to Ottawa, I will be photographing it, X-raying it to see what's in the box before we start to dig the sand out," said Tara Grant of the Canadian Conservation Institute.

The box was buried years ago by George Washington Porter Jr. below a large stone cairn. Inside, he carefully placed some documents believed to be connected to the British Franklin Expedition — Sir John Franklin's attempt to navigate the Northwest Passage in the 1840s. Read more at www.cbc.ca

 

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German 'State' is but a Manager with no power?!

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The Federal Republic of Germany is a manager with no powers, since 1990, a financial manager GmbH

1st Germany since the end of the Second World War, not a sovereign state, but a militarily occupied territory of the Allied forces.

With effect from 12.09.1944, it was confiscated by the U.S. Hauptsiegermacht (SHAEF Law No. 52, Article I, § 1)

2nd The Federal Republic of Germany is and was never a state, neither de jure nor de facto recognition in international law at any time.

The Federal Republic of Germany is a manager with no powers, since 1990, a financial manager GmbH on behalf of the victorious allied powers. ...

In addition, contrary to the Federal Republic of Germany as a private financial manager GmbH with applicable regulations and the ALLIED FORCES Rights of 1947, which are still valid and does so for fraudulent agents.

No one may be in the Federal Republic of Germany without the approval of the military government operates as judge, prosecutor, notary or a lawyer!

Source and complete: Allied valid Gesetze.pdf Read more at brd-schwindel.com

 

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RAF pilots ordered to down unarmed German rescue planes!!!

RAF chiefs ordered their fighters to shoot down the German rescue seaplane that were unarmed and painted in white with a large Red Cross. Downed RAF pilots were abandoned by the British with little hope of rescue, relying on German search and rescue services to maybe save them from drowning.

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British pilots relied on German sea rescue service during Battle of Britain

RAF pilots shot down over the Channel during the Battle of Britain had to rely on German search and rescue services to save them from drowning, new research has unveiled.

An estimated 80 per cent of downed pilots died over the sea whereas the rate dropped to 50 per cent over land Photo: PA

The German service, that had been set up in 1935, became so effective that RAF chiefs ordered fighters to shoot down the Luftwaffe Dornier 24 seaplane that were unarmed and painted in white with a large red cross. However, it is thought that the Germans might have been using the aircraft for illicit reconnaissance missions.

“This was one of the most shameful and disgraceful episodes of the entire war,” said Dr North, author of ‘The Many’ to be published next year.

“For an RAF airman to be shot down over the sea was an almost certain death sentence if the German rescue services were not close at hand.

“Many a good fighter pilot was lost who would have been invaluable in the days that followed.”

Frustrated at the poor rescue effort a New Zealand pilot, Flt Lt RF Aitken, “scrounged” a Walrus flying boat from the Fleet Air Arm and saved 35 British and German airmen over the summer.

But by August 19, Air Vice Marshal Sir Keith Park, who commanded the fighter group in the south east, ordered his flight controllers not to vector pilots over the sea because “too many were getting drowned”. Read more at www.telegraph.co.uk

 

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Rwanda threatens UN over 'genocide' report on army

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Africa

28 August 2010

Rwanda threatens UN over DR Congo 'genocide' report

Rwanda has threatened to withdraw co-operation with the UN if a draft report criticising its army is published.

Kigali said it would reconsider its contributions to UN peacekeeping missions, dismissing claims in the UN report as "insane".

The document accuses Rwanda's Tutsi-led army of killing Hutus in the Democratic Republic of Congo in the 1990s - acts it says may amount to genocide.

Extremist Hutus killed an estimated 800,000 Tutsis in Rwanda during 1994.

But the UN draft report, which was leaked on Friday, says in the years following the genocide, the Tutsi-dominated Rwandan army went into neighbouring Zaire (now DR Congo) and killed tens of thousands of ethnic Hutus - including women, children and the elderly.

Rwanda contributes thousands of peacekeepers to the joint UN-African Union mission in the Sudanese region of Darfur, and the commander of the force is a Rwandan.

Analysts say the possible withdrawal of these troops would be a massive blow, especially as it comes at a time of increased violence in Darfur. Read more at www.bbc.co.uk

 

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Antibiotics were used nearly 2,000 years ago!!!

"Imagine if you're unwrapping a mummy, and all of a sudden, you see a pair of Ray Ban sunglasses on it," Armelagos said. "Initially, we thought it was a product of modern technology."

The modern age of antibiotics began in 1928 with the discovery of penicillin,

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Ancient Nubians Drank Antibiotic-Laced Beer A group of people who lived nearly 2,000 years ago in Sudanese Nubia took doses of tetracycline -- through their beer.

People have been using antibiotics for nearly 2,000 years, suggests a new study, which found large doses of tetracycline embedded in the bones of ancient African mummies.

What's more, they probably got it through beer, and just about everyone appears to have drank it consistently throughout their lifetimes, beginning early in childhood.

While the modern age of antibiotics began in 1928 with the discovery of penicillin, the new findings suggest that people knew how to fight infections much earlier than that -- even if they didn't actually know what bacteria were.

Some of the first people to use antibiotics, according to the research, may have lived along the shores of the Nile in Sudanese Nubia, which spans the border of modern Egypt and Sudan.

"Given the amount of tetracycline there, they had to know what they were doing," said co-author George Armelagos, a biological anthropologist at Emory University in Atlanta. "They may not have known what tetracycline was, but they certainly knew something was making them feel better."

Armelagos was part of a group of anthropologists that excavated the mummies in 1963. His original goal was to study osteoporosis in the Nubians, who lived between about 350 and 550 A.D. But while looking through a microscope at samples of the ancient bone under ultraviolet light, he saw what looked like tetracycline -- an antibiotic that was not officially patented in modern times until 1950.

"Imagine if you're unwrapping a mummy, and all of a sudden, you see a pair of Ray Ban sunglasses on it," Armelagos said. "Initially, we thought it was a product of modern technology." Read more at news.discovery.com

 

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Thomas Ashe: Murder by FOOD!

A local school teacher's funeral.

He taught in Corduff, Lusk National School and lead by grand uncle in the one successful engagement at Ashbourne during the 1916 Rising.

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The Funeral of Thomas Ashe

Thomas Ashe was an Irish Republican who died on Hunger Strike in 1917. His death was caused due to force feeding by prison authorities in the Mater Hospital, Dublin. At the inquest into his death, the jury condemned the staff at the prison for the "inhuman and dangerous operation performed on the prisoner, and other acts of unfeeling and barbaric conduct" Ashe was a commander during the 1916 Easter Rising. He was one of the leading pipers at the funeral of O'Donovan Rossa in 1915. His body lay in state in the hospital, dressed in his Volunteer Republican uniform, and 30,000 mourners filed past his coffin. He is buried in Glasnevin Cemetery in Dublin. The music is from the movie Hunger about the death of Bobby Sands who died on hungerstrike in 1981 Read more at www.youtube.com

 

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