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March 31, 2022
Mesopotamia: Early Dynastic Period (2900-2300 BC)
Enlil: King of All the Gods
Episode 7: Early Dynastic Workers and Worshippers
Ancient Mesopotamia: Life in the Cradle of Civilization
Dr Amanda H Podany
Film Review
Podany devotes this lecture to daily life during Mesopotamia’s Early Dynastic Period (2900-2300 BC). Religion was very important – many gods had to be appeased to prevent droughts, floods and disease. In addition to city gods, there were universal gods that all Mesopotamians worshiped. According to the Mesopotamian creation myth, Enlil, the king of all the gods created human beings the other gods rebelled and refused to work for him. Then he tried to wipe humans out with a flood because they were too noisy. Enki, the Sumerian god of water, helped save a single family by telling Ziusudra to build a boat.
City gods lived in the inner sanctum of their temples, which were also industrial estates producing food, beer and textiles for the population at large. Because there was no money, temple workers were paid in rations of barley, oil (used for light and cooking) and wool. Each payment was recorded in cuneiform on a clay tablet.
Mesopotamian women were employed in brewing and weaving and as innkeepers or priestesses.
Farmers were conscripted (during the non-growing season) for frequent wars between city-states. The use of the tight phalanx military formation (later used by the Greeks) developed during this period.
It was typical for Mesopotamian kings and queens to be buried along with dozens of richly robed and adorned attendants, many with lyres and and harps. They latter either suicided or were killed to accompany the royal personage to the afterlife. Many died (with no evidence of struggle) of head injuries. China and Egypt also buried their kings and emperors with attendants during this period.
*The phalanx was a rectangular mass military formation, usually composed entirely of heavy infantry armed with speaks, pikes or similar pole weapons.
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March 30, 2022
Matt Gaetz Introduces Resolution to Strip Security Clearances From Dozens of Intelligence Officials Who Falsely Labeled Hunter’s ‘Laptop From Hell’ as “Russian Disinformation”
NWO Report
Source: Julian Conradson
On Tuesday, Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) introduced a new House Resolution that would strip security clearances from dozens of federal intelligence officials who signed on to a letter declaring the infamous Hunter Biden laptop as “Russian disinformation” shortly after it emerged in the months leading up to the rigged 2020 election.
In October of 2020 – just days before the presidential election – 51 former intelligence officials signed and published a letter that baselessly decried the contents of Hunter’s ‘laptop from hell’ had “all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.”
These clowns were profiled by the NY Post last week, fittingly labeled as “The Spies Who Lie.”
Gaetz’s new “Spook Who Cried Wolf Resolution” would target every single one of these former high-ranking officials, all of whom sold out their credibility in an effort to bury the contents of the laptop and prevent Biden from the fallout from his son’s illicit business dealings going public.
If the resolution passes, all 51 will all lose access to their current security clearance, in addition to becoming barred from holding one again.
From Gaetz’s proposal:
“The 51 signatories of the letter who publicly and falsely decried Hunter Biden’s laptop to be Russian disinformation should be barred from holding any level of security clearances indefinitely.”
As Gaetz points out, the actions by these supposedly ‘trusted’ national security ‘experts’ were particularly egregious, especially considering the complete absence of evidence indicating the laptop wasn’t legitimate and the timing of the letter, which was published just 15 days before the November election.
The letter itself even states that they had no evidence of Russian involvement whatsoever. Apparently, they were working off plain instinct.
From the October 2020 letter:
“We want to emphasize that we do not know if the emails, provided to the New York Post by President Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, are genuine or not and that we do not have evidence of Russian involvement – just that our experience makes us deeply suspicious that the Russian government played a significant role in this case,”
Some of these creeps have even doubled down on the letter and are still holding the line with the bogus ‘Russian misinformation’ narrative. These people are shameless.
From the “Spook Who Cried Wolf Resolution“:
“4 of the 51 signatories have issued sustained support of the letter, since the New York Times March 17th article, which passively verified the data discovered on Hunter Biden’s ‘Russian Disinformation’ laptop.
As it sits now, Gaetz’s resolution is a longshot to pass through Congress. However, there is already a large amount of GOP support, with fellow Reps. Thomas Massie (KY), Dan Bishop (NC), Andy Biggs (AZ), Paul Gosar (AZ), Louie Gohmert (TX), and Marjorie Taylor Greene (GA) all having co-sponsored the bill so far.
Getting the measure passed through will likely have to wait until after the 2022 Midterms.
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New Batch of Ex-ISIS Members Transferred from Syria to Ukraine: Report
Dozens of extremist fighters have made their way from Syria’s northern Idlib governorate to Ukraine to fight against Russian troops, according to a report by Sputnik Arabic.
At least 87 former members of ISIS were allegedly transferred to the Syrian-Turkish border on 26 March under the direct supervision of the leader of the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) armed group, Abu Mohammad al-Julani.
Russia Warns Washington Is Sending ISIS Fighters to UkraineThe report indicates that most of the fighters are Iraqi, Chechen, Tunisian, and French nationalities.
On 8 March, 450 HTS militants arrived in Ukraine to join the fight against the Russian army.
According to the family members of the militants, high-ranking HTS leaders have been coordinating with senior leaders of the Turkistan Islamic Party group, Ansar al-Tawhid, and Hurras al-Din groups, to facilitate the passage of the extremists from Idlib to Turkey and then on to Ukraine.
Since early March, the foreign intelligence service of Russia (SVR RF) has issued warnings that the US and NATO are providing ISIS fighters from Syria with special training at the US army’s Al-Tanf military base in Syria, and then sending them to Ukraine.
The SVR statement detailed the history of the secret operation they uncovered, saying:
“At the end of 2021, the US released from prison … several dozen Daesh terrorists, including citizens of Russia and CIS countries. These individuals were sent to the US-controlled Al-Tanf base, where they underwent special training in subversive and terrorist warfare methods with a focus on the Donbass region.”
Foreign mercenaries from around the globe have joined in on the side of Ukraine, as President Volodymyr Zelensky pleads for global assistance in the wake of the Kremlin’s special military operation.
Russia launched a special military operation in Ukraine on 24 February after responding to the call for assistance by the newly-recognized republics of Donetsk and Luhansk.
Despite recognition of their independence by Russia, Ukrainian armed forces continued to shell civilian targets and to breach the borders of the two republics, prompting the leaders of the republics to formally ask Russia for military assistance.
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Via https://www.globalresearch.ca/new-batch-ex-isis-members-transferred-syria-ukraine-report/5775875
FEC Fines DNC and Hillary Clinton For Lying About Funding of Debunked Russia Dossier
Blogging Hounds
The Federal Election Commission (FEC) fined the DNC and Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign for lying about funding the fake Russia dossier.
Recall, Hillary Clinton’s camp and the DNC were hit with two lawsuits back in 2017 and 2018.
An FEC complaint was filed in October 2017 against the Clinton campaign and the DNC for violating campaign finance law because they failed to disclose payments for the Russian Dossier.
In 2018, Hillary Clinton and the DNC were accused of using state chapters as strawmen to launder $84 million in an effort to evade campaign donation limits and the Federal Election Commission ignored complaints exposing this corruption.
The FEC fined Clinton and said her campaign violated the rules because they failed to disclose payments funneled to Fusion GPS through DNC law firm Perkins Coie.
The Washington Examiner reported:
The Federal Election Commission has fined the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign for lying about the funding of the infamous, and discredited, Russian “dossier” used in a smear attempt against Donald Trump weeks before he shocked the world with his 2016 presidential victory.
The election agency said that Clinton and the DNC violated strict rules on describing expenditures of payments funneled to the opposition research firm Fusion GPS through their law firm.
A combined $1,024,407.97 was paid by the treasurers of the DNC and Clinton campaign to law firm Perkins Coie for Fusion GPS’s information, and the party and campaign hid the reason, claiming it was for legal services, not opposition research.
Instead, the DNC’s $849,407.97 and the Clinton campaign’s $175,000 covered Fusion GPS’s opposition research on the dossier, a basis for the so-called “Russia hoax” that dogged Trump’s first term.
The memo said that the Clinton campaign and DNC argued that they were correct in describing their payment as for “legal advice and services” because it was Perkins Coie that hired Fusion GPS. But the agency said the law is clear and was violated.
It added that neither the campaign nor the party conceded to lying but won’t contest the finding. “Solely for the purpose of settling this matter expeditiously and to avoid further legal costs, respondent[s] does not concede, but will not further contest the commission’s finding of probable cause to proceed” with the probe, said the FEC.
The FEC, in a memo to the Coolidge Reagan Foundation, which filed its complaint over three years ago, said it fined Clinton’s treasurer $8,000 and the DNC’s treasurer $105,000.
The memo, shared with Secrets, is to be made public in a month.
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March 29, 2022
FDA Authorizes Fourth Pfizer and Moderna COVID Vaccine Doses for 50 and Older
Children’s Health Defense
The Food and Drug Administration has authorized fourth Pfizer and Moderna COVID vaccine doses for everyone age 50 and older, amid uncertainty over whether an even more contagious version of Omicron will cause another wave of infection in the U.S. as it has in Europe and China.
The FDA also said it authorized a second Pfizer booster shot for people age 12 and older who have compromised immune systems, and a second Moderna booster for adults ages 18 and older with compromised immune systems. The new boosters are administered at least fourth months after the last shot.
The FDA made the decision without a meeting of its vaccine advisory committee, a rare move the agency has made more frequently over the course of the pandemic to expand the uses of already-approved COVID vaccines.
Dr. Paul Offit, a committee member, criticized the drug regulator for moving forward without holding an open meeting where the American public can hear experts weigh the data and make a recommendation to the FDA about the best path forward. “It’s just sort of fait accompli,” Offit said of the FDA authorization. “So is this the way it works? We talk endlessly about how we follow the science — it doesn’t seem to work out that way.”
New Peer-Reviewed Research Finds Evidence of 2020 Voter Fraud
NWO Report
Source: John R. Lott Jr
By a margin of 52% to 40%, voters believe that “cheating affected the outcome of the 2020 U.S. presidential election.” That’s per a Rasmussen Reports survey from this month. This stands in stark contrast to the countless news stories editorializing about “no evidence of voter fraud” and “the myth of voter fraud.”
It isn’t just Republicans who believe this cheating occurred. Even 34% of Democrats believe it, as do 38% of those who “somewhat” support President Biden. A broad range of Americans think this: men, women, all age groups, whites, those who are neither white nor black, Republicans, those who are neither Republicans nor Democrats, all job categories, all income groups except those making over $200,000 per year, and all education groups except those who attended graduate school.
And with good reason. New research of mine is forthcoming in the peer-reviewed economics journal Public Choice, and it finds evidence of around 255,000 excess votes (possibly as many as 368,000) for Joe Biden in six swing states where Donald Trump lodged accusations of fraud. Biden only carried these states – Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin – by a total of 313,253 votes. Excluding Michigan, the gap was 159,065.
The point of this work isn’t to contest the 2020 election, but to point out that we have a real problem that needs to be dealt with. Americans must have confidence in future elections.
Some Trump allies, such as attorney Sidney Powell, who famously promised to “Release the Kraken” and then provided no evidence, have helped to discredit these concerns.
Courts have rejected challenges to the 2020 presidential vote, generally citing the lack of evidence that any alleged fraud would have altered the outcome in a particular state. The Republican plaintiffs argued that since their observers couldn’t watch the vote counts or were prevented from seeing other evidence, they couldn’t provide such proof without investigations backed by subpoena power. Still, while some judges have agreed that irregularities occurred in 2020, they weren’t willing to grant discovery in the absence of evidence that fraud could reverse the election results. Republicans thus faced a Catch-22 situation.
Recounts haven’t been useful in resolving fraud concerns, as they merely involve recounting the same potentially fraudulent ballots.
Signature verification is far from perfect, as election employees have as little as five seconds to check a signature. Amidst unprecedented numbers of mail-in ballots in the 2020 election, many states didn’t even try to verify signatures. If someone mailed in multiple ballots, there was virtually no way to catch them. And without tamper-resistant photo IDs, fraud is difficult to prove. Unless someone tries voting multiple times in the same precinct, there is no way to catch them.
My research provides three tests of vote fraud.
First, I compared precincts in a county with alleged fraud to adjacent, similar precincts in neighboring counties with no fraud allegations. Precincts tend to be small, homogeneous areas, and many consist of fewer than a thousand registered voters. When comparing President Trump’s absentee ballot vote shares among these adjacent precincts, I accounted for differences in Trump’s in-person vote share and in registered voters’ demographics in both precincts.
While precincts count in-person votes, central county offices are responsible for counting absentee or mail-in ballots. A county with systemic fraud may count absentee or mail-in ballots differently from a neighboring county. We can try to detect this fraud by comparing the results in bordering precincts that happen to fall on opposite sides of a county line. These precincts will tend to be virtually identical to each other – voters may simply be on the other side of the street from their precinct neighbors.
In 2016, there was no unexplained gap in absentee ballot counts. But 2020 was a different story. Just in Fulton County, Georgia, my test yielded an unexplained 17,000 votes – 32% more than Biden’s margin over Trump in the entire state.
With the focus on winning the state, there is no apparent reason why Democrats would get out the absentee ballot vote more in one precinct than in a neighboring precinct with similar political and demographic characteristics.
Next I applied the same method to provisional ballots in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. Contrary to state law, voters were allegedly allowed to correct defects in absentee ballots by submitting provisional ballots on Election Day. My analysis found that such permissions in Allegheny County alone contributed to a statistically significant 6,700 additional votes for Biden – in a state decided by fewer than 81,000 votes.
Finally, artificially large voter turnouts can also be a sign of vote fraud. This fraud could come in the form of filling out absentee ballots for people who didn’t vote, voting by ineligible people, or bribing people for their votes.
Republican-leaning swing state counties had higher turnouts relative to the 2016 election. Democratic-leaning counties had lower turnouts, except for the Democratic counties with alleged vote fraud, which had very high turnouts.
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Via https://nworeport.me/2022/03/29/new-peer-reviewed-research-finds-evidence-of-2020-voter-fraud/
Australia and New Zealand are targets of COVID psychological experimentation
Dr Eddy Betterman
Long before the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) was ushered in as a global plandemic, psychological terrorists from the United Kingdom were quietly and manipulating their respective governments into setting up “nudge teams” to influence public sentiment about things.
It was not until the plandemic came into full swing that people started to figure out that “covert psychological strategies” were being used to manipulate people’s thoughts. Part of the reason why it took so long to figure out is because the tactics used were “below their level of awareness.”
The same tactics were, of course, also being used in the United Kingdom where it all began.
“The British people have been subjected to an unevaluated psychological experiment without being told that is what’s happening,” a regular attendee of SAGE, the U.K. government body that coordinated the country’s Fauci Flu response, is quoted as saying.
“All of this is about trying to steer behavior in the direction an elite has decided, rather than deciding if it is the right thing or the ethical thing to do.”
Behavioral manipulation teams were brought into Australia and New Zealand from the U.K. to secretly increase compliance with COVID fascismFor two years and counting, totalitarian tactics of “deploying fear, shame and scapegoating” ran rampant. Civil servants and government scientists were used to spread frightening imagery and ideas, scaring people into compliance.
“Green technocrats have long relied on behavioral science to bypass democratic debate,” reported the Daily Exposé. “The environment was the first area where behavioral interventions were designed and adopted in Britain. So, what’s next. Will we be ‘nudged’ into Net Zero?”
Rather than question anything throughout the plandemic, the corporate-controlled media instead amplified the fear messaging coming from these nudge units. This also occurred Down Under, with the following people working on nudge units in Australia and New Zealand:
Dr. Alex Gyani, Director of Research and Methodology, APAC
Amy Yung, Financial Accountant
Bowen J. Fung, Research Advisor
Caitlin Court, Advisor,
Carina Lutke, Bookkeeper and Officer Manager (Sydney)
Dr. Elizabeth Convery, Senior Research Advisor
Emma Leith, Associate Advisor
Erin Howard, Project Manager
Dr. Erin Lawn, Associate Advisor
Karen Cronan, Operations Manager, Australia and Asia Pacific
Dr. Vera Newman, Research Advisor
Tash Woods, Advisor
Sheridan Hartley, Program Director
Saul Wodak, Associate Advisor
Dr. Rory Gallagher, Managing Director, Australia and Asia-Pacific
Ravi Dutta-Powell, Senior Advisor
Laura Moyce, Growth & Strategy Officer
Dr. Karen Tindall, Principal Advisor.
There sure are a whole lot of Karens in that bunch.
Two names in particular that deserve extra mention are Rory Gallagher and Alex Gyani. Gallagher led the creation of the New South Wales Department of Premier and Cabinet’s Behavioral Insights Unit, which was the first Australian agency dedicated to applying behavioral “insights” to public policy.
A couple examples of his work include a COVID “retesting” program that successfully persuaded 12 percent more people to get tested if they feel like they have symptoms. The other is COVID self-isolation, with Gallagher’s efforts resulting in 29 percent fewer people breaching stay-at-home orders.
Gyani similarly helped design strategies for the governments of Australia and New Zealand to convince more people to comply with COVID dictates.
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Mesopotamia’s First Kings
Episode 6: Uruk: Mesopotamia’s First Kings and Military
Ancient Mesopotamia: Life in the Cradle of Civilization
Dr Amanda H Podany
Film Review
The world’s first kings appeared in Mesopotamia and Egypt around 3000 BC. It’s possible the two civilizations influenced one another as they engaged in trade in the third and fourth millenium BC.
Prior to kings, priests ran early civilizations owing to their ability to intercede with the gods.
Lugal, the Sumerian word for king, means “big man.” This supports a common historical theory that people chose early kings for their ability to lead their city-states into battle.
The early Mesopotamian kings were usually illiterate. Their main duties involved planning military campaigns, levying taxes, appointing state officials, appeasing the gods, organizing building programs (irrigation schemes, monuments, statues), forging diplomatic alliances and treaties, choosing good marriage alliances for their daughters and preventing usurpers from overthrowing them.
Panody makes the generalization that kings were rarely overthrown, which contradicts the view of anthropologists David Graeber and David Wengrow in The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (see The Dawn of Everything: A New History of So-Called Civilization). They describe, in meticulous detail, how humanity has spent most of 40,000 years (prior to the last 500 years) dismantling hierarchical forms of government. Their book includes evidence from Japan, China, Egypt, Sumer, Assyria and medieval Europe.
Each Mesopotamian king ruled a single city, along with the villages and farmland surrounding it. Despite being divided into numerous city-states, populations across Mesopotamia shared the same culture (similar clothing, lifestyles, tools and spoken and written language). It was during this period new scribes began using written language to immortalize Mesopotamian kings, as well as keeping accounts.
Panody focuses on King Ur-Naske, who founded the dynasty that ruled Lagash in southern Mesoptomania (Sumer). The latter was located on the trade route to Susa in the East. Lash traded with Dilmun in Bahrain, which, in turn, trade with the Indus Valley civilization. King Ur-Naske fought and defeated the kings of Ur and Umma (over a longstanding boundary dispute). His dynasty, which controlled Lagash for 200 years drew up one of the earliest peace treaties (between Lagash and Uruk).
The science of diplomacy arose during this period, as evidenced by clay tablets recording treaties between rival cities. Most provided for 1) a regular exchange of messengers, letters and gifts of luxury goods 2) a commitment to abide by peace treaties 3) a commitment to solidify alliances via intermarriage.
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https://pukeariki.kanopy.com/video/mesopotamias-first-kings-and-military
March 28, 2022
CIA Officer Openly Confesses To Rigging 2020 Election For Joe Biden And Says They Would Do It Again
En-VolveA CIA officer has confessed that the ‘Deep State’ rigged the 2020 election in Joe Biden’s favor, and has boldly admitted that the agency would do it again.
Former CIA officer John Sipher claimed in a stunning Twitter thread that he took “particular joy” in discrediting the Hunter Biden “laptop from hell” narrative and enthusiastically admitted to “shifting” the election away from Trump.
Sipher was among the many “intelligence experts” who falsely claimed the Hunter Biden laptop story from the New York Post back in October of 2020 was part of a “Russian disinformation campaign.”
Redvoicemedia.com reports: A March 18th report from the New York Post mentioned how Sipher was among those “officials” who’d “signed a letter saying that the laptop ‘has the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.’”
Yet, these 51 purported intelligence experts didn’t have any evidence to back up their assertions at the time – they were merely operating off a convenient hunch that happened to behoove the Biden campaign right before the election.
This letter they’d all signed on to was published on October 19th of 2020, a mere five days after the New York Post dropped the bombshell story on the laptop that has since been validated by a myriad of outlets – to include the New York Times.
Clearly, the massive cover-up and attempts to discredit a valid report by clamoring about Russia during an election year had some consequences.
Come March 27th, Grenell shared a screenshot of Sipher’s Twitter account, writing, “lol. He signed the letter saying Hunter’s laptop was Russian disinformation.”
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