Série d'articles reliés à l'histoire
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Série d'articles reliés à l'histoire
Vous trouverez ici une longue liste d'articles et documents relatifs à l'histoire et différents aspects de celle-ci. Pour vous donner une idée, vous y trouverez des informations historiques à propos des attaques de Pearl Harbor qui n'était pas une pour les États-Unis; sur le fait que les États-Unis est un corporation et non plus un pays; de la déclaration de Balfour et ce qui se cache derrière; des attaques israéliennes sur le USS Liberty; le Lusitania qui fut un autre faux prétexte pour que les Américains entre dans la 2e Guerre mondiale et les bombardements criminels et génocidaires de Dresden en Allemagne par les forces alliées, l'holocauste de Heisenhower, les bombes nucléaires larguées sur le Japon; Stalin et les juifs, le mythe de l'exile et Khazaria; vous en apprendrez plus sur l'histoire de l'éducation publique en Amérique; de la présence d'humains en Amérique beaucoup plus vieille que ce que l'on pensait, et beaucoup plus!
Les amants de l'histoire seront heureux!
La preuve que le gouvernement américains savait que les Japonais étaient pour attaquer Pearl Harbor:
http://216.162.217.3/mpgs/080202rs.mp3
National Defense Authorization Act of 2001
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Division A
Title V
Subtitle D
Section 546 (a), page 119
(3) Numerous investigations following the attack on Pearl Harbor have documented that Admiral Kimmel and Lieutenant General Short were not provided necessary and critical intelligence that was available, that foretold of war with Japan, that warned of imminent attack, and that would have alerted them to prepare for attack…
(7) On June 15, 1944 an investigation conducted by Admiral T. C. Hart at the direction of the Secretary of the Navy produced evidence, subsequently confirmed, that essential intelligence concerning Japanese intentions and war plans was available in
(8) (B) detailed information and intelligence about Japanese intentions and war plans were available in “abundance” but were not shared with the Lieutenant General Short’s
(15) The Dorn Report found -
(A) that “Army and Navy officials in
(16) … the degree to which the commanders of the
EXPLOSIVE TRUTH ABOUT PEARL HARBOR: THE STORY THE REST OF THE MEDIA WON'T TELL
The next day, the third-term President gave one of his best-remembered addresses. In his lilting, sing-song cadence,
In fact, the treachery of our nation's leader rivaled that of the Japanese.
See PEARL HARBOR MOTHER OF ALL CONSPIRACIES
and The McCollum Memo: The Smoking Gun of Pearl Harbor
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aBpozPL5Og
posit that the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA CORPORATION, a private organization continuously with shareholders, officers and directors since inception, has illegally been, with the collusion of the Federal Reserve Bank (another corporation, public but operated until this last year as a private organization), in complete control of the financial life of this you know, the CORPORATION is now in bankruptcy.
As a private corporation, whatever debts they have incurred as THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, which by the way is virtually all the debt attributed to this nation, is actually theirs and not the Constitutional United States' and/or its Citizens/citizens. That can and will be proved in due time in a court of law, probably the US Supreme Court.
On the other hand, I believe the United States (Constitutional), its assets, its Citizens and their assets and can be proven to be not owned by THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, and therefore outside the bankruptcy. I believe the hyperinflation depression information (The writer's first email was posted as part of this article) sent you earlier today can be avoided if we act quickly and wisely. I can expand on that subject later.
Setting aside the rigmarole of Admiralty Law, it really comes down to a simple set of truths.
1. If President Bush lied to start the
2. Congress does not have the right to borrow money and assign the debt to taxpayers of subsequent administrations, many of whom were too young to vote when the debt was incurred.
3. In a nation with rampant vote fraud, it is unsupportable that We The People are in any way liable for the debts of the government.
USS Liberty -- New Revelations in Attack on American Spy Ship
Their anger has been stoked by the declassification of government documents and the recollections of former military personnel, including some quoted in this article for the first time, which strengthen doubts about the U.S. National Security Agency's position that it never intercepted the communications of the attacking Israeli pilots -- communications, according to those who remember seeing them, that showed the Israelis knew they were attacking an American naval vessel.
The documents also suggest that the
The word "communist" doesn't carry the same psychological impact it used to, so the war hawk smear squad has come up with a new one, "Anti-Semite." Like "Communist", "Anti-Semite" gets used to ruin the lives of people who have not actually done anything wrong other than to challenge the war profiteers. It is a new word for an old trick, and I am amazed that they are still playing the same old game, but I guess the FBI can always find some dumb-assed idiot to fall for it and do their dirty work of wrecking a career for them.
Spread this one around please.
The Hidden History of the Balfour Declaration
The Balfour Declaration took the form of a letter, dated Nov. 2, 1917, from Arthur Balfour, foreign secretary of the British government, to Lord Walter Rothschild, head of the organization of British Zionists. This letter promised that the British government would work to bring about “a national home for the Jewish people in
This World War II thriller isn't meant to amuse, of course. But what can the viewer do? Confronted by the piratical-looking Cruise, waxing faux-Teutonic, one is simply overcome by involuntary hysteria.
This "critic" trashes Valkyrie.
Now, I wasn't planning to see this film myself, as I am sick to death of Hitler and Nazis being shoved at me regular as clockwork by Hollywood, but in reading this "critique" it is obvious that the issue here is not the film and its merits, but rather a knee-jerk reaction to portraying any Nazi as a normal decent human being struggling with a bad government, something that modern-day Americans can certainly relate to. It is the same reaction we saw to the recent exhibition of photographs showing the Germans under Hitler enjoying Christmas. How DARE anyone show the Nazis as anything other than the monsters they have been declared to be. The world can never be allowed to see the Nazis as human beings, crammed into uniforms by an evil leader and sent off on a war of conquest with lies and deceptions. The world can never be allowed to seer that many Germans, including officers, did not agree with and support Hitler.
After all, if the German people of the 1930s and 1940s are just plain folk, and who did not like Hitler, then the legal case to make the Germans of today pay millions to the Israelis of today begins to unravel. And if we do not have the specter of perfect monsters haunting 20th century
Secret of the Lusitania: Arms find challenges Allied claims it was solely a passenger ship
Her sinking with the loss of almost 1,200 lives caused such outrage that it propelled the
But now divers have revealed a dark secret about the cargo carried by the
Munitions they found in the hold suggest that the Germans had been right all along in claiming the ship was carrying war materials and was a legitimate military target.
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The revelation that the
Therefore, there is no such thing as history which is beyond question, or history that does not need re-examination. Whether it is the arms that existed on
Nazi photos reveal devastation of WWII Allied bombing raids on Germany
A "spectacular" collection of 3,000 Nazi photos reveal the extent to which the Allied bombing campaign devastated
These were not military targets being hit, but civilian ones.
Your body will be picked up long after it is cold, and taken to a special tent where your clothing is stripped off. So that you will be quickly forgotten, and never again identified, your dog‑tag is snipped in half and your body along with those of your fellow soldiers are covered with chemicals for rapid decomposition and buried. You were not one of the exceptions, for more than one million seven hundred thousand German Prisoners of War died from a deliberate policy of extermination by starvation, exposure, and disease, under direct orders of General Dwight David Eisenhower.
New Photos Reveal Horror Of Hiroshima (Warning: graphic)
A reminder that for all the talk about Iraq and Iran's 'nookular' bombs, one and only one nation has ever used nuclear weapons of mass destruction on the civilians of another country.
The nation that did so is the
VIDEO - Zyklon-B test on humans
I posted this to make two observations. First, YouTube blocked all comments for this video, and second, the video sometimes stops part-way in, in the middle of a sentence.
If you have trouble playing it, what it shows is simple. Volunteers agree to be doused in Zyklon-B, manufactured and sold as an insecticide to kill typhus-bearing lice, but claimed to have been used as an extermination agent by the Nazis. Were the rest of this video available, it would show the volunteers emerging unscathed (but lice free) from their experiment.
As a side note, there are numerous reports, such as that of Moshe Peer, of being "gassed" by the Nazis, but surviving, not just once, but repeatedly.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=KQ36oGB3ww8
We cannot know with certainty the number of deaths Cheka was responsible for in its various manifestations, but the number is surely at least 20 million, including victims of the forced collectivization, the hunger, large purges, expulsions, banishments, executions, and mass death at Gulags.
Yet we hear very little of these 20 million in our push to focus only on the Nazi crimes. Maybe this article explains why that bias still exists.
How did the Cold War actually start?
With no war to supply or fight, both the military and their business counterparts faced bleak prospects of reduction in forces and shrinking business contracts with the Pentagon.
Then, in 1948, the U.S. Army hit on a plan that would turn around their loss of rank, privilege and business contracts.
Khazaria—The Myth of Anti-Semitism Exposed at Last!!
"This was written before the full extent of the holocaust was known, but that does not alter the fact that the large majority of surviving Jews in the world is of Eastern European - and thus perhaps mainly of Khazar - origin. If so, this would mean that their ancestors came not from the
'Myth of Exile': Justifying Slaughter in Gaza
Yet Zionist historians recognize that the story of
This has come out in a current extraordinary controversy over a new work of history that has come out in Hebrew and will shortly be appearing in English. It is When and How Was the Jewish People Invented? by Shlomo Sand. (Resling, 358 pages,
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We already know that Moses (Akhenaten) plagiarized much of the old testament from earlier sources, such as the Epic of Gilgamesh. (As a side note it must be remembered that what we consider theft of ideas today was considered perfectly acceptable literary behavior in that age. It was the labor-intensive book which was considered the thing of value, rather than the stories it contained.)
Based on recent archaeological evidence, it appears that the story of the Exodus from Egypt actually came from the history of the Hyksos, rather than the Hebrews. But it makes for a good tale and Moses copied it along with his other "research."
Religious documents are just that. They are documents about stories and beliefs; told around campfires by primitive people who really did not know how the world worked or the universe came into being and so they just made it all u0p as an entertainment. Where possible they fitted in other stories they heard from before, some true, some fictional, and blended it together into a hodgepodge of folklore.
But it is not history. And it is not science. And killing other people over it all is just plain stupid.
Israel website in 'Nazi pope' row
A photo montage which superimposed a Nazi swastika over Pope Benedict has appeared on a website run by supporters of
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In this case, the Israelis have a legimimate complaint.
Excerpt from "FROM THOSE WONDERFUL FOLKS WHO BROUGHT YOU THE INQUISITION!"
Papal Nuncio Eugenio Pacelli, having helped bring about the fall of the Weimar Republic, formed the Catholic German Party. On March 23, 1933, the German Reichstag met, and the Catholic Party, led by its Catholic leaders, former chancellor Brüning and prelate Mgr. Kaas, personal friend of Pacelli, voted for Catholic Hitler. In his acceptance speech, Hitler described Christianity as, "essential elements for safeguarding the soul of the German people." Hitler, knowing who helped him to power, then stated, "We hope to improve our friendly relations with the Holy See." Just four months later, Hitler's government signed a concordat with the Vatican, a treaty that gave preferential legal status to the Catholic church above other churches.
Adolph Hitler was also supported by the Protestant "German Christians Party", who despised the Weimar Republic for its refusal to teach the Christian religion in the public schools, and the Lutherans, who hated the Jews.
Pacelli to the German Catholics:
"...it is all the more necessary that the Catholics, deprived of diplomatic representation, should find in the diplomatic pacts between the Holy See and the National Socialist Government guarantees which can assure them ... the maintenance of their position in the life of the nation."
"The Party stands for positive Christianity." --
Article 24 of the Nazi Party Platform
...
Pius XII became Pope in 1939. Pius XII's real name was Pacelli. He was the Papal Nuncio who had helped bring Hitler to power. A staunch anti Democrat, Pius XII continued the policies of his predecessor. When Franco finally established his dictatorship in Spain, Church property and all medieval privileges of the Church were restored. No other religion was allowed. Protestants and non-Catholics were sent to concentration camps for refusing to attend Catholic services. Freethinkers, democrats, Socialists and Communists
were deprived of civil rights, imprisoned, or shot.
When the Spanish republic was finally defeated by Catholic troops under Franco, would-be dictator of Spain, the pope sent a special message to the victors:
"With great joy we address you, dearest sons of Catholic Spain, to express our paternal congratulations for the gift of peace and victory with which God has chosen to crown the Christian heroism of your faith ... We give you, our dear sons of Catholic Spain, our apostolic benediction."
Spain supported both Hitler and Mussolini during the World War 2. Under Pius XII, the bishops of Germany stayed loyal to the Nazis until the very end of the war.
Those People in Gaza: Where Do They Come From, And Why Are They So Mad?
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Look at the photos on this page, then consider the following quote.
"There was no such thing as Palestinians, they never existed." Golda Maier Israeli Prime Minister June 15, 1969
If civilization can survive the cynical path it's on, future historians will identify three great cons that were played out upon the world during this time; the fractional-reserve central-banking system, the war on terrorism and Israel. All three are equally dangerous to the future of mankind, are presented with equal deception, and emanate from the same source.
Much of the intentional confusion surrounding Israel is due to Israel presenting itself as a Jewish state - it's not Israel is a Zionist state. When people mention the word Jewish, they are usually mixing together three very distinct, different elements.
ONE HUNDRED TWENTY SECONDS FROM NUCLEAR HOLOCAUST
We had been on station for approximately 7 to 8 hours. Suddenly, at 2:00 all hell broke loose. We were being attacked by jet aircraft. On their first pass they took out our 4 fifty-caliber machine guns, all of our antennae and our moon dish. Everything we had to communicate with was destroyed. They continued their air assault for about 30 minutes using rockets, canons and napalm which they dropped on the bridge to try and burn us alive. Fifteen minutes into their vicious attack Terry Halbadier got an antenna to work and we began broadcasting "under attack, under attack by unknown jet aircraft." The jets were unmarked, hiding the identity of our attackers. The USS SARATOGA, commanded by Captain Tully, sent aircraft to our aid only to have them recalled by voice from Secretary of Defense Robert MacNamara. Again, Captain Tully ordered rescue aircraft to come to our aid. Then, President Lyndon Johnson got on the phone and ordered the recall himself, saying "I don't give a God damn if every man on board that ship dies, I will not embarrass our ally, Israel."
Here is the one question nobody can answer.
Israel claims they thought the USS Liberty was an Egyptian ship and therefore a legitimate target of war. If that were so, WHY DID ISRAEL ATTACK USING UNMARKED SHIPS AND PLANES?
Given Israel's history, the most likely explanation for the attack on the USS Liberty was that Israel intended to sink the ship, kill everyone aboard, and frame Egypt for the crime, in order to trick the US into (yet another) war on Israel's enemies.
Egypt had been the target of an Israeli frame-up years earlier during the The Lavon affair
QUOTE OF THE WEEK ~~ FROM HISTORY
" I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die."
saac Newton is, as most will agree, the greatest physicist of all time.
At the very least, he is the undisputed father of modern optics, or so we are told at school where our textbooks abound with his famous experiments with lenses and prisms, his study of the nature of light and its reflection, and the refraction and decomposition of light into the colours of the rainbow.
Yet, the truth is rather greyer; and I feel it important to point out that, certainly in the field of optics, Newton himself stood on the shoulders of a giant who lived 700 years earlier.
For, without doubt, another great physicist, who is worthy of ranking up alongside Newton, is a scientist born in AD
Most people in the West will never have even heard of him.
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Most people have never heard of Srinivasi Aiyangri Ramanujan either, who discovered much of number theory erroneously credited to much later mathematicians.
History has been written by the victors (until the age of the internet).
Evidence That the CIA Murdered RFK
A new BBC documentary supports the conclusion that the CIA planned and executed the assassination of Robert Kennedy. The new video and photographic evidence -- the result of a three year long investigation --"puts three senior CIA operatives" at the scene of the murder.
The test, now confirmed by the FBI's own admittance, has actually been used to connect people to crimes they never committed. The test was first initiated and used on July 8, 1964 by order of J Edgar Hoover for the Warren Commission to connect Lee Harvey Oswald to the assassination of former President John F. Kennedy.
Posthumous book claims Ford knew of CIA coverup in Kennedy assassination
According to the publisher of a new book, who appeared on Fox News Wednesday morning, the last living words of former President Gerald Ford fingered the CIA in the orchestration a cover-up of Kennedy's assassination.
Ford had been a member of the Warren Commission. And Ford was the commission member who changed the official location of JFK's back wound., moving it up onto the rear of the neck to make it line up with the "Magic Bullet" theory
This is WHY Ford was installed as Vice President when Nixon resigned.
Nixon resigned over an obstruction of justice charge (with some of the legal groundwork prepared by a young Hillary Rodham). Nixon resigned gracefully, the media declared the incident over and Gerald Ford declared that it was time to "put the whole affair behind us and move forward". This was done because the last thing anyone wanted in Washington D.C. was an impeachment trial. Even Nixon's worst enemies dared not allow it. The reasoning was simple. Sooner or later, someone would ask the following question.
"Why, when Nixon's re-election was a study in foregone conclusions, was it necessary to break into the DNC headquarters at the Watergate?"
The answer to that question, never asked by politician, never asked by a servile media, was THE dark secret that could not be revealed; the secret that would have brought down the entire government!
Years later, it did come out what had been the motive for the break-in. It was connected to what Nixon called "Hanky Panky" on the White House tapes.
The DNC had gotten copies of the photographs taken of the three tramps in Dealey Plaza, and identified two of them as long time Nixon henchmen E. Howard Hunt and Frank Sturgis. This put the DNC in a position to at least blackmail the President, if not expose him outright. This is why E. Howard Hunt lead the break-in; it was his own ass he was trying to save.
The photos resurfaced as part of a news story, and E. Howard Hunt sued the publisher, Liberty Lobby. He lost. Attorney Mark Lane provided witnesses that placed E. Howard Hunt in Dealey Plaza at the time that John F. Kennedy was killed.
Nixon had to make sure he left the White House to someone willing to keep the lid on the JFK assassination. That is why Spiro Agnew was kicked out and Gerald Ford was put in.
Son Of JFK Conspirator Drops New Bombshell Revelations
As the explosive revelation of E. Howard Hunt's deathbed confession, in which the former CIA agent and Watergate conspirator admits that he was part of a CIA conspiracy to assassinate JFK, continues to rage across the Internet, the establishment media remains almost mute on what is undoubtedly one of the biggest stories of the decade.
Of course the mainstream media will remain silent. They were part of the cover-up back in 1963, just as they are part of the now-exposed lies about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction.
More about JFK HERE
Black's Law Dictionary Revealed as Hoax
Henry Campbell Black had never intended - or even imagined - that his dictionary would become the authoritative source for legal terminology. "My great granddad had actually written the text for an upcoming firm skit night", Medhurst explains. "It was his way of showing how convoluted and, well, pompous the legal profession had become." The dictionary became an instant hit, however, and Henry Black's comedic intentions went unnoticed. When the money started to roll in, Black elected to pursue a highly lucrative career in legal publishing instead of becoming a marginally talented prop comic.
When asked why the family is revealing the fake after all this time, Medhurst stated that they had grown tired of living a lie, and were genuinely concerned that the universally accepted legal lexicon "is actually just a bunch of made-up gibberish."
British sailors captured by Iran were in disputed waters: report
Fifteen British troops who were held by Iran for two weeks last year were in disputed waters when they were captured, not in Iraqi waters as the government had publicly claimed, The Times reported Thursday.
Remember how ABCNNBBCBS kept insisting the British sailors were "kidnapped?"
British documentary alleges pope linked to "child abuse cover-up"
A British documentary claimed that Pope Benedict XVI was implicated in the systematic cover-up of child sex abuse allegations against Catholic priests.
Before becoming head of the church, the then cardinal Joseph Ratzinger enforced church doctrinal orthodoxy, including a "secret Vatican decree which seemed to shelter the perpetrators and silence the victims of abuse", the Panorama programme said.
This was the 1962 document Crimen Sollicitationis, which told top churchmen how to deal with priests who "solicit or provoke the penitent toward impure and obscene matters", according to a translation from Latin on the BBC website.
It imposed an oath of secrecy on victims, witnesses and those probing abuse claims and said that anyone breaking this would be excommunicated, the BBC said.
U.N. court finds Srebrenica deaths were genocide
THE SAUDI DYNASTY: Who are they?!
THE SAUDI DYNASTY: FROM WHERE IS IT? AND WHO IS THE REAL ANCESTOR OF THIS FAMILY?
RESEARCH AND PRESENTATION OF: MOHAMMAD SAKHER , who was ordered killed by the Saudi Regime for the following findings:
1. Are the Saudi Family members belonging to the Tribe of ANZA BEN WA'EL as they allege to be?
2. Is Islam their actual religion?
3. Are they of an ARAB ORIGIN at all?
Sarkozy is criticized for Holocaust memorial plan
Sarkozy wrapped his plan in the cloak of religion, blaming the wars and violence of the last century on an "absence of God" and calling the Nazi belief in a hierarchy of races "radically incompatible with Judeo-Christian monotheism."
Hitler was Catholic, and had sung in the choir at the monastery of Lambach as a child (where he first saw the Swastika as an architectural motif). Hitler was supported by the Vatican in his rise to power. Papal Nuncio Eugenio Pacelli was quite instrumental in helping create the Nazi empire, and was later rewarded by being elected, trading the Vatican's support for Hitler's promise to declare Catholicism Nazi Germany's state religion.
Sarkozy's comment about an "Absence of God" betrays a complete ignorance of actual history.
"The Party stands for positive Christianity." -- Article 24 of the Nazi Party Platform
Photo of Hitler on the cover of a German Christian magazine.
More HERE
THE ARCHITECTS OF WAR: WHERE ARE THEY NOW?
President Bush has not fired any of the architects of the Iraq war. In fact, a review of the key planners of the conflict reveals that they have been rewarded -- not blamed -- for their incompetence.
Lie by Lie: The Mother Jones Iraq War Timeline
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This is a VERY valuable resource to see the lies that led to war and the organizations/individuals behind it all.
RELATIVELY EXPENSIVE! EINSTEIN´S LETTER FROM 1954 SELLS FOR $404K
Conversion of Governments into Dictatorships (1946)
The technique of the policy is really absurdly simple; in essence it consists of mortgaging property, and foreclosing. The foreclosure is, in practice, the dictation of policy. Thus all governments are in debt, and all have to borrow. The conditions on which they can borrow are conditions dictated by the policy of International Finance, and put forward as principles of "sound finance". Now financial policy dictates economic policy, and economic policy, as things are, delimits politics so-called.
Blast Effects Study Does Not Support Single ANFO Bomb at OKC
See The Oklahoma City Bombing: PROOF there were additional explosive charges.
As historians ponder George W. Bush's disastrous presidency, they may wonder how Republicans perfected a propaganda system that could fool tens of millions of Americans, intimidate Democrats, and transform the vaunted Washington press corps from watchdogs to lapdogs.
To understand this extraordinary development, historians might want to look back at the 1980s and examine the Iran-Contra scandal's "lost chapter," a narrative describing how Ronald Reagan's administration brought CIA tactics to bear domestically to reshape the way Americans perceived the world.
The real descendants of the inhabitants of the Kingdom of Judah are the Palestinians
In this work, the author attempts to prove that the Jews now living in Israel and other places in the world are not at all descendants of the ancient people who inhabited the Kingdom of Judea during the First and Second Temple period. Their origins, according to him, are in varied peoples that converted to Judaism during the course of history, in different corners of the Mediterranean Basin and the adjacent regions. Not only are the North African Jews for the most part descendants of pagans who converted to Judaism, but so are the Jews of Yemen (remnants of the Himyar Kingdom in the Arab Peninsula, who converted to Judaism in the fourth century) and the Ashkenazi Jews of Eastern Europe (refugees from the Kingdom of the Khazars, who converted in the eighth century).
Unlike other "new historians" who have tried to undermine the assumptions of Zionist historiography, Sand does not content himself with going back to 1948 or to the beginnings of Zionism, but rather goes back thousands of years. He tries to prove that the Jewish people never existed as a "nation-race" with a common origin, but rather is a colorful mix of groups that at various stages in history adopted the Jewish religion.
Ancient Egyptian City Unearthed in Sinai
Archaeologists exploring an old military road in the Sinai have unearthed 3,000-year-old remains from an ancient fortified city, the largest yet found in Egypt, antiquities authorities announced Wednesday.
Like I said, you cannot hardly take a step in Egypt without stumbling over the remains of their ancient history. Quite a contrast to the Old Testament stories of ancient Israel, for which no artifacts exist.
15 Answers to Creationist Nonsense
Opponents of evolution want to make a place for creationism by tearing down real science, but their arguments don't hold up
Thoughts on the Bible by Michael Rivero
The last excuse for the Iraq war is founded on a myth
Baker's account, however, reminds us that the war was not fought for humanitarian or democratic ends. Britain fought Germany for the same reason it had always fought wars in Europe: to maintain the balance of power and prevent a single state dominating the continent. America fought Japan to stop the growth of a powerful rival in the Pacific.
The Great Sphinx of Giza reborn as a lion in the desert
The Great Sphinx's paws and head are out of proportion, suggesting there may have been an even larger, earlier statue which was adapted.
New evidence of earliest North Americans
New evidence shows humans lived in North America more than 14,000 years ago, 1,000 years earlier than had previously been known. Discovered in a cave in Oregon, fossil feces yielded DNA indicating these early residents were related to people living in Siberia and East Asia, according to a report in Thursday's online edition of the journal Science.
FLASH - Who has controlled the Middle East over the course of history?
Histoire de l’éducation en Amérique:
I developed my understanding of the problems and issues of the government school system by studying what the education historians, whistle blowers, and School Sakharovs have thoroughly and painstakingly documented over the years.
Perhaps it's time you began to questions where and how you developed your understanding of the legitimacy and desirability of government schooling.
Cognitive dissonance is a psychological phenomenon which refers to the discomfort felt at a discrepancy between what you already know or believe, and new information or interpretation. It therefore occurs when there is a need to accommodate new ideas, and it may be necessary for it to develop so that we become "open" to them. Neighbour (1992) makes the generation of appropriate dissonance into a major feature of tutorial (and other) teaching: he shows how to drive this kind of intellectual wedge between learners' current beliefs and reality.
Beyond this benign if uncomfortable aspect, however, dissonance can go "over the top", leading to two interesting side-effects for learning:
* if someone is called upon to learn something which contradicts what they already think they know — particularly if they are committed to that prior knowledge — they are likely to resist the new learning. Even Carl Rogers recognised this. Accommodation is more difficult than Assimilation, in Piaget's terms.
* and—counter-intuitively, perhaps—if learning something has been difficult, uncomfortable, or even humiliating enough, people are less likely to concede that the content of what has been learned is useless, pointless or valueless. To do so would be to admit that one has been "had", or "conned".
Cognitive dissonance was first investigated by Leon Festinger and associates, arising out of a participant observation study of a cult which believed that the earth was going to be destroyed by a flood, and what happened to its members — particularly the really committed ones who had given up their homes and jobs to work for the cult — when the flood did not happen. While fringe members were more inclined to recognise that they had made fools of themselves and to "put it down to experience", committed members were more likely to re-interpret the evidence to show that they were right all along (the earth was not destroyed because of the faithfulness of the cult members).
HSL's Thoughts and Analysis
The textbook definition of Cognitive Dissonance above came from a website focused on how people learn and how to teach to the various styles of learners. I am sure most educators would agree that it is harder to teach people anything if they come at an issue with pre-conceived (or pre-programmed) ideas about how the world works that are at odds with reality. So where could pre-conceived and/or pre-programmed ideas about the reasons for and goodness of compulsory government education come from? How about:
* The Government and Their School System - The government is happy to teach you all about the legitimacy and desirability of government schools.
* The MainStreamMedia - Controlled by a handful of corporations (5-6) ultimately controlled by the same families, monied interests, and corporations that control the government.
I developed my understanding of the problems and issues of the government school system by studying what the education historians, whistle blowers, and School Sakharovs have thoroughly and painstakingly documented over the years.
Perhaps it's time you began to questions where and how you developed your understanding of the legitimacy and desirability of government schooling.
Plato's Allegory of the Cave
"I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives."
--Leo Tolstoy
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