Europe pyramid 25,000 years old (video)

NTD, Oct. 11, 2012; AP (ap.org); Pat Macpherson, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Naquatica: Bosnian Pyramid carbon dated 25 thousand years old

What can we really say we know about history? Not a lot it seems. What we think we know is constantly changing with every new discovery. Carbon-dating performed on a massive pyramid in Bosnia proves it is at least 25,000 years old.

Most scientists and historians, however, adhere to a different faith. They believe human civilization started only 5,000 years ago, with the Sumerians and Babylonians -- that is, until artifacts were discovered that predate that.

These discoveries suggest that there was an extended pre-known-history. There was one or more civilization around the world that must have been very highly advanced. How do we know?

Italian archeologists Dr. Ricarrdo Brett and Niccolo Bisconti found a piece of organic material on the Bosnian Pyramid.

They were able to carbon-date that material and with it the pyramid itself. This carbon-dating puts the pyramid 20,000 years older than Sumerian and Babylonian civilizations. When the Bosnian Pyramid was first discovered in 2005, researchers could only measure the age of the topsoil covering it, which was about 12,000 years old.

[Dr. Semir Osmanagich, Bosnian Pyramid researcher]: "The organic materials found on the Sun Pyramid and biological analysis are telling us that the pyramids are older than 12 thousand five hundred years. The oldest on the planet."

Many may be wondering how such a huge pyramid could have remained undiscovered in Europe for so many years.

"Until its discovery it was just known as Visoko Hill. That's right, they thought it was a hill, which is not surprising considering its size and the fact that it is covered with topsoil and vegetation. No entrance to the pyramid has been discovered so far, but an intricate network of tunnels underneath the pyramid are slowly being uncovered."

"Under the Valley of the Pyramids in Bosnia, there is the most extensive underground tunnel network. It runs for tens of miles. And in those tunnels the discovery of huge ceramic blocks reaching 18-thousand pounds in mass [has been made]."

There are still scientists and archeologists who oppose the idea of ancient civilizations before 5,000 years before now. However, this latest finding supports the theory that highly advanced civilizations existed long before the beginning of our current one.

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Greta Thunberg sails to Spain for COP25

AP.org via mail.com, Dec. 3, 2019; Crystal Q., Sheldon S. (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

The chair of the two-week COP25 climate summit attended by nearly 200 countries warned at its opening Monday Dec. 2, 2019 that those refusing to adjust to the planet's rising temperatures "will be on the wrong side of history."

I hate Trump and everyone like him! Rrrgh

MADRID, Spain — The United Nations Climate Talks in Madrid are on. Angry, autistic climate activist Greta Thunberg has arrived by catamaran in the port of Lisbon after a three-week voyage across the Atlantic Ocean from the United States.

You all are idiots robbing me of my future!

The pissed off Swedish teen arrived in the port of the Portuguese capital on Tuesday and was sailing toward the quay, before heading to neighboring Spain to attend the U.N. Climate Change Conference taking place in Madrid, Spain.

Thunberg was to be met in Lisbon by local dignitaries and other activists. She hitched a renewable-energy ride from the United States, joining an Australian family on their 48-foot (15-meter) yacht.

She wanted a low-carbon form of transport to get to the climate meeting, which was switched at short notice to Spain from Chile due to unrest there. More

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There are no gay Baptists; LGBT ban

Associated Press (ap.org); Ashley Wells, Seth Auberon, Wisdom Quarterly

Sara Isbell joins other delegates at the 2019 Special Session of the General Conference of The United Methodist Church in St. Louis, Mo., Feb. 26, 2019. America's second-largest Protestant denomination faces a likely fracture as delegates at the crucial meeting move to strengthen bans on same-sex marriage and ordination of LGBT clergy (AP).

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Emotions were high throughout the third and final day of the UMC (United Methodist Convention) meeting. Some supporters of greater LGBT (lesbian gay bi trans) inclusion were in tears, while others vented their anger when, midway through the session, delegates defeated a proposal that would have let regional and local church bodies decide for themselves on gay-friendly policies.

 

"Devastation," was how former Methodist pastor Rebecca Wilson of Detroit described her feelings. "As someone who left because I'm gay, I'm waiting for the church I love to stop bringing more hate."

After several more hours of debate, the conservatives' proposal, called the Traditional Plan, was approved by a vote of 438-384. Opponents unsuccessfully sought to weaken the plan with hostile amendments or to prolong the debate past a mandatory adjournment time set to accommodate a monster truck rally in the arena. One delegate even requested an investigation into the possibility that "vote buying" was taking place at the conference.

 

The Traditional Plan's success was due to an alliance of conservatives from the U.S. and overseas. About 43 percent of the delegates were from abroad, mostly from Africa, and overwhelmingly supported the LGBT bans.

If the bans were eased, "the church in Africa would cease to exist," said the Rev. Jerry Kulah of Liberia. "We can't do anything but to support the Traditional Plan — it is the biblical plan." More

Shutdown strains hundreds of Native tribes

Associated Press (ap.org); Xochitl, Crystal Q. (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

FLAGSTAFF, Arizona - Fallout from the federal government shutdown is hurting Native Americans as dwindling funds hamper access to health care and other services. The pain is especially deep in tribal communities with high rates of poverty and unemployment, where one person often supports an extended family.

The effects were being felt far and wide. In New Mexico, a lone police officer patrolled a Native American reservation larger in size than Houston on a shift that normally has three people, responding to multiple car wrecks during a snow storm, emergency calls, and requests for welfare checks.... Native American tribes rely heavily on funding guaranteed by treaties with the U.S., acts of Congress and other agreements for public safety, social services, education... More

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New Mayan Calendar? 60,000 structures found

Wikipedia.org; Xochitl, Dhr. Seven, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Mayan Calendar Similar to Ancient Chinese: Early Contact? (Epoch Times 2017)

Turkish-Mexican from Australia, Maya Jupiter

The Maya Biosphere Reserve is home to a large concentration of ancient Maya cities, many of which are under excavation.

Tikal (shown above) is the most famous of these, attracting about 120,000 to 180,000 visitors per year.

 

The Mirador Basin, in the northern part of the Reserve, contains numerous interconnected Maya cities.

The project is directed by Richard Hansen, an archaeologist at El Mirador, the largest of the sites, dating from the preclassic Maya period. Other cities in the region include El Tintal, Nakbe, and Wakna.

On February 1, 2018, Guatemalan, U.S., and European archaeologists announced the discovery via LIDAR of about 60,000 additional individual Mayan structures in the reserve ("Scientists find massive Mayan society under Guatemala jungle," AP, Feb. 4, 2018).

The structures, hidden under dense foliage, include four major Mayan ceremonial centers with plazas and pyramids (AP).

Other structures include elevated highways, complex irrigation and terracing systems, defensive walls, ramparts, and fortresses, although signs of looting were also found ("Exclusive: Laser Scans Reveal Maya "Megalopolis" Below Guatemalan Jungle," National Geographic, Feb. 4, 2018).

Maya enhanced their bodies at birth [to look more like space visitors?] (horizontimes.com)

Carved Mayan throne discovered at Piedras Negras Mayan site (wikipedia.org)

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LIDAR penetrates Reserve's thick jungle.

The LiDAR imagery also showed that the Mayans altered the landscape more significantly than previously thought; in some areas, 95% of available land was cultivated (AP).

This discovery has been described as a major breakthrough in Maya archaeology.

It suggests that Central America supported an advanced civilization that, at its peak, was comparable more to the advanced cultures of ancient Greece or China rather than to the disparate city states that ground-based research had long suggested (Nat Geo).

Over 800 square miles (2,100 km²) of the reserve were surveyed, producing the largest LIDAR data set ever made for archaeological research (Nat Geo). More

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New Mayan Calendar is Chinese?
Tara MacIsaac (Epoch Times, 9/7/17)

Real Mayan Calendar has moving cogs showing ages and aeons (VojtechVlk/Shutterstock)

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Ancient Mayan and Ancient Chinese calendar systems share so many similarities, it is unlikely they developed independently.

This is according to the late, Harvard-educated David H. Kelley, whose paper on the subject was published posthumously in August, 2016.
 
Kelley was a Harvard-educated archaeologist and epigrapher at the University of Calgary in Canada. He earned fame in the 1960s for major contributions toward deciphering the Mayan script.

His article, titled “Asian Components in the Invention of the Mayan Calendar,” was written 30 years ago, but was only recently unearthed and published for the first time in the journal Pre-Columbiana. More

CA forests being mismanaged on purpose?

• Sierra forests are dying. California must step in ...a report issued yesterday by the governmental watchdog Little Hoover Commission sounds the alarm on the state of the state's forests, noting something we have warned of before: The Sierra Nevada forests are being mismanaged in ways that affect every Californian. Our approach must change.
• Opinion: Sierra Nevada forests are being mismanaged 
• As forests decline, observers cite mismanagement (Ag Alert, July 6, 2016) The U.S. Forest Service said in June that its survey showed more than 66 million trees, mostly pine species, have died in the southern Sierra Nevada alone, and more are dying. Forestry experts say the scale of the die-off is beyond anything ever observed. They attribute the tree mortality to four years of ... 
• California wildfire practices blasted (KCRA.com, Feb. 6, 2018) The Little Hoover Commission is blasting California for "an unprecedented environmental catastrophe" due to "a century of mismanaging Sierra Nevada forests." 
• Rethinking forest management in Sierra Nevada (#242)
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• Ravaged woodlands - America's forests (The Economist) 
• Federal negligence leads to catastrophic wildfires across West

Anarchists in Berkeley: free speech debate

Associated Press (ap.org); Pfc. Sandoval, Ashley Wells, CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Joey Gibson (second from left) -- Japanese-American founder of Patriot Prayer and organizer of Bay Area alt-right, white supremacist, Neo-Nazi events -- is chased down by Antifa (AP).

Hispanic (Colombian) racist, white supremacist, skinhead, Trump-supporter Juan Cadavid (aka Johnny Benitez) is called out by peaceful counter-protester Aaron Connelly (AP/WQ).

"End white terror[ism]" reads sign at Bay Area hate counter-demonstration (MH).

Anarchist rampage in Berkeley renews free speech debate

Patriot Prayer founder Joey Gibson showed up in Berkeley and got maced (AP).

 

BERKELEY, California - Hundreds of masked, black-clad anarchists [members of Antifa] who overwhelmed a peaceful [Nazi] protest and assaulted at least five perceived political enemies have reignited the debate over ensuring free speech while protecting public safety in the city where the U.S. free speech movement was born in the 1960s.

 

Protesters in skirmish with Antifa member holding "No to hate" sign (AP).

(August 29, 2017) After planned weekend rallies were violently disrupted or canceled, supporters of President Donald Trump and other politically conservative activists complained their free speech rights were blocked by liberal politicians who they say incited left-wing extremists.

 

When [Japanese-American] Patriot Prayer founder Joey Gibson canceled his San Francisco rally Saturday, he blamed San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee and Democratic U.S. Rep. Nancy Pelosi for falsely labeling the organization as a hate group and inciting extremism to vow violent disruption.

"Berkeley stands united against hate." Berkeley's Latino Mayor Jesse Arreguin poses for photos during office interview on Aug. 28, 2017. An anti-hate rally on Sunday was disrupted when scores of masked Antifa anarchists wearing black stormed demonstration (AP).

  

Others said that the violence on Sunday in nearby Berkeley, known as the U.S. heart of the free speech movement, tarnished their peaceful opposition to Trump's policies. "It played into the false narrative that some conservatives have spun," about violent left-wing stifling of free speech, Berkeley Mayor Jesse Arreguin said Monday, a day after the anarchists assaulted the people they thought were right-wing extremists and pepper sprayed Gibson.

 

Gibson's supporters said the Berkeley police failed to protect the handful of right-wing supporters who showed up at the park Sunday afternoon by allowing the black-clad demonstrators to take over the city park without opposition. The right-wing group was outnumbered by thousands of opponents, but the rally was tense but peaceful until the anarchists arrived.

"Don't forget: This guy's awful, but he's only a SYMPTOM!" (miamiherald.com)

  

Several demonstrators tried to stop the violence and helped the assault victims escape while others screamed for the beating to stop. The attack on the conservatives at the Berkeley park "definitely sends the wrong message," said Ed Tisher, who came to oppose them but ended up helping a Trump supporter knocked to the ground and shielding him from more possible violence until police arrived.

 

Yvonne Felarca, a spokeswoman for the militant left-wing organization By Any Means Necessary, defended Sunday's violence. She called it self-defense... More

Million+ join Women's March on DC (photos)

Editors, Wisdom Quarterly; The Associated Press (Saturday, Jan. 22, 2017)

Million join the main Women's March in addition to L.A., Chicago, worldwide (AP).

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Over 1 million join anti-Trump marches

WASHINGTON, DC (AP) - In a global exclamation of [anti-Trump] defiance and solidarity, more than one million people rallied at women's marches in the nation's capital and cities around the world today to send President Don John Trump an emphatic message on his first full day in office that they will not let his agenda go unchallenged.

"Welcome to your first day; we will not go away!" marchers in Washington, DC chanted. Many of the women came wearing pink, pointy-eared "pussyhats" to mock the new president. Plenty of men joined in, too, contributing to surprising numbers everywhere from New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, and Los Angeles to Mexico City, Paris, Berlin, London, Prague, and Sydney. More

Cops say no arrests at Women's March on DC

Jewish Betsy Rosen of Charlotte, N.C., hugs Muslim girl of Moroccan descent Aya Laoufir, 17, of Arlington, Va., during rally at Women's March against Pres. Trump in Washington, Saturday, Jan. 21, 2017. In a global exclamation of defiance and solidarity, more than 1 million people rallied at women's marches in the nation's capital and cities around the world Saturday to send Trump an emphatic message on his first full day in office that they won't let his agenda go unchallenged (AP).

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The Latest on the Women's March on Washington and affiliated protests around the world. 6:10 pm EST: A day after more than 200 people were arrested in Washington while protesting the inauguration of Pres. Trump, the Women's March on Washington didn't yield a single arrest.

According to District of Columbia (DC) Homeland Security Director Christopher Geldart, no one was arrested at massive peaceful Women's March demonstration.

 

Anarchists send Trump a message (AP).

Friday's inaugural protests were led by self-described "anarchists," and federal prosecutors say most of those arrested will be charged with felony rioting.

 

Director Geldart says, "I think our Metropolitan Police Department performed not only admirably but outstandingly." He adds, "They knew when we had those who were trying to destroy things and those who were trying to peacefully protest." More