and The McCollum Memo: The Smoking Gun of Pearl Harbor

- M. R.

Time makes ancient truth uncouth as they say and much of the myth of Ann Frank is starting to unravel. Portions of the original diary were written in ball point pen, an instrument not available in wartime Amsterdam. In 1980, as part of a lawsuit by Otto Frank, Ann's father (who has become rich from the diary) the German Federal Criminal Investigation Bureau (BKA) concluded that portions of the diary had been written after 1951, immediatly prior to publication. Consistent with that conclusion, a New York Jury ordered Otto Frank to pay writer Meyer Levin $50,000 for Levin's work on the diary. The judge later set the award aside, and the litigants settled out of court.

Given the embarrassments regarding "Misha", "Fragments", "Stolen Soul", etc. it may be that the Ann Frank Diary, rather than the "Painted Bird" deserves the title of the first Holocaust Literary Hoax - M. R.

So, Caveat Emptor and all that. - M. R.

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. - M. R.

A reader sent in this photo, taken at the Military Heritage & Aviation Museum in Punta Gorda, Florida. (In the photo at their website, the front page can be seen just below the sign reading "PEARL HARBOR")

Clearly, more was known about the impending attack than FDR indicated in his "Day of Infamy" speech. - M. R.

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 - M. R.

In contrast, most of the Jewish people living in Israel are Ashkenazi, who have no genetic link to the Biblical Hebrews at all. But they like to claim they do, as part of what Shlomo Zand correctly describes as the justification for the existance of Israel (on land stolen from the Palestinians, who actually ARE the genetic descendants of the Biblical Hebrews.

Israelis know this. They have actively suppressed scientific evidence that shows Palestinians and ARAB Jews are the descendants of Biblical Hebrews.

The irony here is how these converted Khazars, who are not actually descendants of the Semites, call me, an actual genetic descendant of the Biblical Hebrews, "Anti-Semitic"! :) - M. R.

But please don't let them stop you from reading about your tax dollars at work, folks.

This is what we have done in Viet Nam, and in Iraq, funded by every person who pays their taxes..

Please just imagine for one second that one of these kids was your kid.

People around the world do not "hate us because we are free"; they hate us for our military having created the situations, through chemical exposure,which leads to the birth of severely malformed infants.

And by the way; the deformities hitting kids in Iraq are also hitting the kids of US vets who have been exposed to depleted uranium.

This should be on our nightly news, because this is the result of the US's military campaigns, past and present.

But what do we get?

Steroids!

Brittany!

Fashion!

Sir Paul McCartney's divorce!

The truth of this tragedy, friends is what we should be seeing, but don't.

It won't sell ads or airtime.

So you'll never see it, except in the blogs. - M. R.

An exodus that is a myth

On the site of an ancient fortress, in northern Sinai, archaeologists of the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) has announced that it had found some pumice stones, evidence of the terrible disaster and the first known tsunami in history. The volcanic rocks projected in the Sinai during the eruption, 3500 years ago, the volcano Cycladic of Thera, confirm stories Pharaohs.

The cataclysm of Thera, the current Santorini in the Aegean Sea, has been presented through innumerable writings as having preceded or caused the ten plagues of Egypt explained, or a punishment reserved for Levites revolted against Moses. "This discovery is not provided proof of the exodus, archaeology does not confirm this, and it is a myth," said Zahi Hawas, secretary general of the CSA. That the explosion of the volcano occurred, resulting in the decline of the Minoan civilization, Crete. A massive tidal wave would have resulted in the death of 35000 people on the coast south of the Mediterranean and in ashes villages in Egypt, Palestine and the Arabian peninsula. For Zahi Hawas, "if the exodus has occurred, what we do not know, it can not be at this time, but two centuries later, under Ramses II. However, the presence of ash and volcanic rocks on the site of the ancient fortress of Tharo to Tell Hebwa, confirms, in his view, ancient inscriptions referring to the expulsion of the Hyksos, enemies of the Egyptians. Texts suggest, in fact , natural disasters occurred during the era of the Hyksos, a military caste came from the east, and their exodus before the start of the New Kingdom, carried out shortly by the eruption of the Thera volcano. For example, several stories relating to this war show up on a stele of the temple of Karnak Séti I do, in a description of the route of Horus in a text under Thoutmotsis III or on a papyrus on the war waged by King Ahmos.

The skeletons hyksos

The team also discovered in the Sinai desert the ruins of a fort with four rectangular towers, which date from the eighteenth pharaonic dynasty. This fortress is now considered the oldest structure on the military line of defense, also known as Route Horus. But there was not the slightest proof of the story of the Old Testament, the story of Moses and the Jews, and their exodus from Egypt and their wandering in the wilderness. Two female skeletons, pottery and jewelry were recovered. Those remains were members of the civilization hyksos, an enemy of the people of the ancient Egyptians.

The researchers argue that this discovery is particularly interesting because of the volcanic rocks found on the site of the excavations. They believe that these are traces left by the eruption of Santorini volcano, more than 15 centuries before Christ. Santorini is a small archipelago of volcanic islands in the Aegean Sea, south-east of mainland Greece. This volcano would then have killed more than 35000 people and wiped out the Minoan civilization on the island of Crete.

The intersection of war

Showing the foundations of the fort of the XVIIIth dynasty, the oldest ever found in this line of defense, known as the road of Horus, Mohamad Abdel-Maqsoud, the leader of excavations and the director of the central administration of Egyptian antiquities, said that it is testimony to the fierceness of the fighting. "It is here that was established the first large lock of the empire against the conquerors from the east, as the Hyksos," he says, whereas today the Suez Canal is only 5 km. But the basis for subsequent attacks in the Pharaonic empire in the direction of Palestine, with the establishment of a chain composed of a dozen strongholds until what is now known as the Gaza Strip.

This story may have inspired the biblical story of the exodus, according to some scholars. "They can say what they want, I detailed, did not hesitate to say Hawas. I am an archaeologist and my job is to tell the truth. If the truth disturbed, it's not my problem. " The story of the exodus is celebrated as a crucial moment in the creation of the Jewish people. According to the Old Testament, Moses was the son of a Jewish slave who had abandoned on the Nile in a wicker basket to protect the Pharaoh's persecution. Rescued from the waters by the Pharaoh's daughter and raised in the court, he will discover the secret of its origins and, with God's help, will free his people. But archaeologists working in the region have never managed to substantiate the biblical narrative, as to the presence of the Jews in Egypt, there is only one archaeological discovery may confirm it. Many books have been written on the subject, but the debate is for the most part remained quiet in order not to offend believers.

"Without historical evidence, we are forced to say that some things are never arrived: it is the job of an archaeologist," Hawas. The site is a two-hour drive from Cairo, after the bridge Mubarak, in the northern Sinai, in a region called East Qantara. For nearly a decade, archaeologists returning Egyptian soil with the help of surrounding towns daily to try to unearth remnants of the past. This desolate landscape, which is the monotony broken only by a few electrical towers, has generated enthusiasm because it confirms stories told in hieroglyphics or going back to antiquity. The archaeological remains dating in fact more or less at the time, according to the Bible, the Jews fled Egypt and then spent forty years wandering in the wilderness in search of the Promised Land. "The exodus is a myth," said Hawas front of a wall built during the period known as the New Kingdom. - M. R.

My, my, does THAT ring a bell! - M. R.

Genocides are a sad but constant facet of history. What happened in Germany in WW2 was not isolated, nor confined to just one people. Typhus knows no citizenship. There were genocides long before Hitler was born. There will no doubt be genocides in the future. There is a genocide taking place right now as you read these words, both obscured and justified by constant reference to just one out of a thousand genocides that took place in the middle of the last century.

In the gap between "The" Holocaust and Gaza, there were genocides in the Soviet Union (23 million) , China (~50 million), Guatamala (100,000), Uganda (300,000), Cambodia (1.7 million), North Korea (1.6 million), Ethiopia (1.5 million), Biafra (1 million), Afghanistan (1.3 million), Rwanda (.8 million), East Timor (.8 million), Kurdistan (600,000), Bangladesh (800,000, Angola (400,000), Uganda (300,000), Zaire (number unknown), Liberia (22,000), Sierra Leone (200,000), Yugoslavia (180,000), Burundi (150,000), Centrafrica (number unknown), Vietnam, Haita, Chad, Taiwan, Chile...

All these genocides that happened AFTER WW2, and next to which the total deaths caused by the Nazis and Typhus pales, are not taught in the public schools. No museums to honor those dead exist in the cities of the United States. They don't count, any more than the non-Jewish prisoners in the German labor camps count. Israel cannot extort money with the memory of those other dead, cannot justify its own crimes in Palestine by pointing to those other genocides, so they are simply not important, the dead beneath notice and undeserving of sympathy. We are taught to honor only those dead governments can exploit to justify more killing.

So, we are taught about "The" Holocaust, indoctrinated with it, urged to worship it, bow down before it, and threatened with prison and worse for failing to make proper obeiscence to it, while all these million other deaths, useless to the powers that be, are simply tossed into the waste can of history.

And when was the last time you saw any nation pass a law making it a crime to doubt or question any of these other genocides? - M. R.

"Yeah, about 20 bucks worth of junk jewelry."

"Oh, good, I would hate to think we cheated them!" - M. R.

But war is not glorious.

And how the US Government treats our soldiers after they are no longer useful is the real lesson of Veterans' Day.

Gaze on it and weep. - M. R.

I listen to this speech and I get chills at how the very same forces are at work trying to steer the US into a global war. - M. R.

The first thing that leaps out of this high resolution scan is that the figures of Jesus and the rest of the male apostles all show distinct brow ridges above the nose. The figure seated to Jesus' right does not. This not only biological reality (female skulls show much less of a brow ridge than male skulls) but was also the accepted artistic convention of the day, as was the demure folded hands, again only on the figure seated to the right of Jesus. A fashion convention of the time, easily verified in other contemporaneous paintings, is the ultra-thin eyebrows on women, again a feature seen only on the figure to Jesus' right.

No doubt the religiously enslaved are going to keep insisting that the figure to the right of Jesus is a male (albeit a very strange one), but I am convinced that this is a woman, and most likely Mary Magdalene. - M. R.