Egyptologist and former Minister of Antiquities Zahi Hawass asserted that Afrocentric claims about the “Black origins” of ancient Egyptian civilization are “false and misleading”, according to a statement published on Thursday, 20 June.
Hawass made these comments in response to a Facebook post by Afrocentric advocate Professor Kaba Kamene that stirred controversy among Egyptians.
In the post, which has now been deleted, Kamene shared a photo of himself with a group of Afrocentrists at Cairo’s Egyptian Museum in Tahrir Square, asserting in the caption: “I am teaching the Kenet Travel Group about our history.”
Hawass highlighted that although the Black Kingdom of Kush briefly ruled Egypt around 500 B.C., marking the end of the Pharaonic era, it left no lasting impact on Egyptian civilization.
The Kingdom of Kush, also referred to as the Kushite Empire or simply Kush, was an ancient kingdom situated in Nubia, spanning the Nile Valley in present-day northern Sudan and southern Egypt.
He emphasized that the facial features of Egyptian kings depicted in these artworks are distinct and do not suggest they were Black.
Hawass clarified that the issue is not about opposition to Black people, but rather against a group that spread unsubstantiated ideas after visiting the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir Square.
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IDF knew of Hamas’s plan to kidnap 250 before October 7 attack — report
A newly surfaced document has revealed that the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) and intelligence systems had detailed knowledge of Hamas’s plan to raid Israel and kidnap 250 people weeks before the October 7 massacre.
The document, which was compiled in the Gaza Division, outlined Hamas’s intentions and was known to top intelligence officials, according to a report by Kan News.
The document, titled “Detailed End-to-End Raid Training,” was distributed on September 19, 2023, and described in detail the series of exercises conducted by Hamas’s elite units.
These exercises included raiding military posts and kibbutzim (collective communities in Israel), kidnapping soldiers and civilians, and maintaining the hostages once they were in the Gaza Strip.
The report by Kan News stated, “Security sources told Kan News that the document was known to the intelligence leadership, at the very least in the Gaza Division.”
IDF knew and so did USA. Beyond obvious it was a MIHOP attack to justify what we are seeing today in Gaza. 10/7 was a bold, violent act that forces people to take sides. I want to say it’s Bronze Age mentality, which it is, but the Silicon Age has been no better. Allowing your own people to be attacked and killed is a KOBK strategy which forces a decisive outcome. KOBK ultimately lies at the heart of human instinct. ABN
Is the Old Monarchy Dying?
This is very good and well worth watching. In many ways what is described parallels what has been happening in USA with the tearing down of statues and the debasement of all of our institutions, mores, and laws. Conquerors always destroy the major symbols of the conquered and rewrite their histories. Everybody knows that Biden is not in control of USA and everybody also says they have no idea who is in control of USA. If that is not proof positive that we have been conquered, what more proof do you need? ABN
An example of what provokes moral outrage and my thoughts on that — ABN
The adult stole $8 from the boy. In the comments where I found this video, people are outraged. One example of their ire: What a pathetic piece of fucking shit. Fuck that asshole and hope he rots in a cell. You have to be just absolute fucking scum to steal from a kid. Who can argue with this judgement? I want you to feel it because what I am going to say now is something much worse than that petty theft has been happening in the West for many decades.
We have been suffering a secret war against children; a war that disables our most promising children to keep them from gaining the leadership roles they would have gained had they not been disabled.
The disabling happens by poison, psychosurgery, sensory damage, maiming. Softer versions are educational misdirection, psychological abuse, stalking, reputation destruction and so on. There is no action too low for the parasites who did this and are still doing it today.
This form of warfare is almost invisible to most people because the victims, mostly boys and young men, are attacked secretly and their wounds typically do not show. For example, a mildly intelligent goon can be trained to drug a victim and give them a lobotomy in very short time frame.
Damage to the ears, energy weapons to the brain, poison to the nervous system–pay close attention to anyone who goes off the deep end. What looks like a mental breakdown or drug abuse may have had its roots in a very real physical attack that has caused serious harm, an attack that may have happened to an eight year old, a teenager, a young adult.
This is how our civilization has been taken over. It’s not been the only tactic, but it is the most important enemy tactic that is usually left out of analyses of the downfall of the West.
Please spend some serious time thinking about what I have said. Consider the rewards of conquering the West — the vast wealth and power, leading ultimately to world domination.
No one would be able to conquer the West through conventional warfare. But a clever group who could train and direct a small army of assassins and deploy them over several generations could conquer the West.
Indeed, they already have. Who does not wonder who is actually in control of the Biden administration? ANSWER: Our conquerors are in control of the Biden administration. The faces we see are their generals, their public fighters, and our toadies. The real power is held by the cryptocrats who control them.
Please give this some real thought. Once you see it, it will be obvious what has happened. Our only hope of surviving as a civilization is for a large number of us to understand our real plight. We will not be saved by a return to Christian values or renewed respect for the American Constitution. We have already been all but defeated by a multigenerational war of infiltration and clandestine interpersonal violence as described.
All the other stuff you already know about how our institutions, economies, and governments have been taken over is true. But so is the violence. It was and is real. By smiting our children they defeated the West. ABN
Origin of the modern horse traced to lineage that emerged 4,200 years ago
WASHINGTON (AP) — The horse transformed human history – and now scientists have a clearer idea of when humans began to transform the horse.
Around 4,200 years ago, one particular lineage of horse quickly became dominant across Eurasia, suggesting that’s when humans started to spread domesticated horses around the world, according to research published Thursday in the journal Nature.
There was something special about this horse: It had a genetic mutation that changed the shape of its back, likely making it easier to ride.
“In the past, you had many different lineages of horses,” said Pablo Librado, an evolutionary biologist at the Spanish National Research Council in Barcelona and co-author of the new study. That genetic diversity was evident in ancient DNA samples the researchers analyzed from archaeological sites across Eurasia dating back to 50,000 years ago.
This is the same time chariots were invented. ABN
A picture of early Buddhism based on what we can be reasonably sure of today
As ascetics,31 the Śramaṇas (Buddhists) owned little more than a simple robe and a few other necessities. Thus did Gautama Śākamuni, ‘sage of the Scythians’, wander, meditating and searching for answers, before his “awakening”. He may well have met others doing the same thing, and studied with some of them, but we have no remotely credible evidence that he knew anything about Jains, Ājīvikas, or other non-Brahmanist sects. The traditional view, which actually accepts this problematic notion as dogma, has not been seriously questioned for a long time. Yet these sects are unattested in any dated or datable Pre-Normative Buddhist sources. It is because their teachings needed to be refuted and rejected by much later Buddhists that they eventually appeared in the written Buddhist tradition, but in works that are patently late doctrinally, full of magic and other forms of fantasy, and unreliable in every other way. Chronological incongruities reveal that the putatively “early” forms of what eventually became identifiably Jain, Ājīvika, and so on, did not yet exist as such anywhere near the time of the Buddha, but took on recognizable forms only much later due to heavy influence from Normative Buddhism, therefore no earlier than the Saka-Kushan period.
~Beckwith, Christopher I.. Greek Buddha: Pyrrho’s Encounter with Early Buddhism in Central Asia (pp. 70-71). Princeton University Press
Legendary riddle of China’s lost prince could finally be solved after 2,000 years thanks to ‘mindblowing’ discovery: Coffin found close to Terracotta Army tomb could contain first emperor’s son
An ancient story etched in Chinese folklore since the beginning of civilisation as we know it may finally be decoded following a ‘mindblowing’ discovery in the historic city of Xi’an.
For nearly 2,000 years, the myth of Prince Gao – son to the brutal first emperor of China, Qin Shi Huang – has been carried down the generations, carved into legend in the surviving epic saga of historian Sima Qian, himself writing around 85 BCE.
Now, the discovery of a 16-tonne coffin in an expansive burial chamber near the mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang and his terracotta warriors could bring the myth to life.
Experts believe the tomb may belong to the forgotten prince, and the treasures inside could help piece together fragments of an ancient story of how one of the world’s first states rose and fell.
Fifty years since the discovery of the famed terracotta warriors, built in their hundreds to protect the Qin strongman in the afterlife, British-Chinese filmmakers have received unprecedented access to explore the ongoing work to excavate the chamber.
An Essay towards solving a Problem in the Doctrine of Chances, 1763 — Reverend Thomas Bayes
Greek Buddha: Pyrrho’s Encounter with Early Buddhism in Central Asia
Pyrrho of Elis went with Alexander the Great to Central Asia and India during the Greek invasion and conquest of the Persian Empire in 334–324 BC. There he met with early Buddhist masters. Greek Buddha shows how their Early Buddhism shaped the philosophy of Pyrrho, the famous founder of Pyrrhonian scepticism in ancient Greece.
Christopher I. Beckwith traces the origins of a major tradition in Western philosophy to Gandhara, a country in Central Asia and northwestern India. He systematically examines the teachings and practices of Pyrrho and of Early Buddhism, including those preserved in testimonies by and about Pyrrho, in the report on Indian philosophy two decades later by the Seleucid ambassador Megasthenes, in the first-person edicts by the Indian king Devanampriya Priyadarsi referring to a popular variety of the Dharma in the early third century BC, and in Taoist echoes of Gautama’s Dharma in Warring States China. Beckwith demonstrates how the teachings of Pyrrho agree closely with those of the Buddha Sakyamuni, “the Scythian Sage.” In the process, he identifies eight distinct philosophical schools in ancient northwestern India and Central Asia, including Early Zoroastrianism, Early Brahmanism, and several forms of Early Buddhism. He then shows the influence that Pyrrho’s brand of scepticism had on the evolution of Western thought, first in Antiquity, and later, during the Enlightenment, on the great philosopher and self-proclaimed Pyrrhonian, David Hume.
Greek Buddha demonstrates that through Pyrrho, Early Buddhist thought had a major impact on Western philosophy.
Recommended reading for The Ethical Skeptic, and others of course. I am just finishing Beckwith’s Empires of the Silk Road, which will transform your understanding of world history if you are not already familiar with his work. Looking forward to reading Greek Buddha next. ABN
John Chapman, Air Force Combat Controller
American Pravda: The True Origin of the Jews as Khazars, Israelites, or Canaanites
Over the last half-dozen years I’ve regularly cited the work of John Beaty, a respected academic who spent his entire teaching career at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas.
During World War II, Prof. Beaty served in Military Intelligence and his responsibilities included producing the daily intelligence briefing reports distributed to the White House and the rest of our top political and military leadership. That position provided him with a unique perspective on the entire course of the conflict.
After the end of the war, he resumed his academic career and in 1951 he published The Iron Curtain Over America, a book harshly critical of our government policies and the overwhelming Jewish influence that he had believed was responsible. He argued that Jewish domination over the publishing industry and the media had grown so powerful that most ordinary Americans never learned many important facts, with their dangerous ignorance maintained by the “Iron Curtain” of Jewish media control described in his title.
This article provides an excellent overview of the origins of the Jews and the main theories on that. ABN
Exothermic Core-Mantle Decoupling – Dzhanibekov Oscillation (ECDO) Hypothesis
The fact that all four of these shafts initially run at odd angles to the celestial north pole, thereafter reattaining the altitude and azimuth discipline in each case, indicates just how important this alignment was to the function of these shafts. They were not air shafts (despite our employment of that name at times herein). The copper fittings in the sealing stone were not for dropping the stone into place, as every stone in the pyramid had to be dropped into place, yet none of them used such labor intensive through-stone-fittings. Nor are the fittings placed at the right center of gravity to afford such a function. These were copper cables, for which we previously had no theory regarding their purpose—that is until now.
This form of evidence is indeed inductive, nor do I believe that the builders constructed two of the shafts while underwater during the counter-alignment. That issue is tactical, non-critical-path, and is resolvable by a number of plausible means. Dismissing the observation as defacto irrelevant—when in fact, the stone depiction is salient—perpetuates the linear induction or Nelsonian Ignorance Trap approach to science that we criticized at the outset of this article. Science is stuck in that trap regarding the Khafre and Khufu pyramids, in desperate need of disruption and paradigm shift. We are introducing a hypothesis, not another ‘perfect answer’ for a new doctrinal set of beliefs. If a priori perfect answers were the standard, the current consensus would have never survived to be considered in the first place.
The star map exists, the stone exists, the shafts exist, the shafts point at celestial north, Khafre is clearly differentially-damaged by ocean water inundation, the Tura casing stones are completely gone from both Khufu and Khafre except for above the water level, the carbonic-acid-dissolved residue of those stones was found at their bases. An official narrative must definitively explain (not simply inductively dismiss or ignore) these critical path elements, or that Narrative is pseudo theory, no matter how many experts revere it.
However, setting aside the debate over the possible date range for the stone star depiction, one fact remains unmistakably clear:
The shaft that was aligned by means of this celestial north star map
today points toward Giza’s southern sky.
Above in an excerpt from an essay by The Ethical Skeptic which claims that two of the pyramids in Egypt were constructed ‘around 9200 to 9600 BCE‘ and were intended to be a warning to future generations that the earth’s angle of rotation has changed abruptly in the past and will do so again, leading to massive flooding across the globe. The essay is well-worth reading. ABN
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