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40,000-year-old bracelet made by extinct human species found

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In what is quite an amazing discovery, scientists have confirmed that a bracelet found in Siberia is 40,000 years old. This makes it the oldest piece of jewelry ever discovered, and archeologists have been taken aback by the level of its sophistication.
The bracelet was discovered in a site called the Denisova Cave in Siberia, close to Russia’s border with China and Mongolia. It was found next to the bones of extinct animals, such as the wooly mammoth, and other artifacts dating back 125,000 years.
The cave is named after the Denisovan people — a mysterious species of hominins from the Homo genus, who are genetically different from both Homo sapiens and Neanderthals.
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We know that the Denisovans migrated out of Africa sometime after the first wave of Homo erectus, and well before us, Homo sapiens.
The Denisovans were unique in many ways, having branched away from other humanoid ancestors some 1 million years ago. Indeed, the recent discovery of a female Denisovan finger bone and various teeth shows that they had no morphological similarities to either Neanderthals or modern humans.
However, tens of thousands of years later, and prior to becoming extinct, they did coexist with us and the Neanderthals for a period, and skeletal remains of hybrids, and genetic studies confirm that they also mated with our forebears and the Neanderthals.
Strangely, however, DNA evidence also suggests that, at some point, the Denisovans must have interbred with an as yet unknown and undiscovered species of humans beings.
Skeletal remains show that the Denisovans were probably far more robust and powerful than modern humans, and were, until now, assumed to be a more primitive, archaic type of humans than us.
But, the discovery of the bracelet suggests this was far from true. Amazingly, the skill involved in making this adornment shows a level of technique at least 30,000 years ahead of its time.
Until now, scientists had believed that such skills had only evolved among humans in the Neolithic period, which began at about 10,000 BC. Indeed, originally, they believed that the bracelet had somehow become mixed up with materials dating from a later period.
However, experiments have now definitely ruled that out, and they confirm that it could not have been made by homo sapiens or Neanderthals. After 7 years of analysis, the scientists are confident that the piece was made 30,000 years before the beginning of the Stone Age.
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The <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3072094/40-000-year-old-bracelet-believed-oldest-suggests-ancient-humans-used-drills.html" target="_blank">Daily Mail</a> quotes the head of the Museum of History and Culture of the Peoples’ of Siberia and the Far East in the city of Novosibirsk, Dr Anatoly Derevyanko, who said:
“The skills of its creator were perfect. Initially we thought that it was made by Neanderthals or modern humans, but it turned out that the master was Denisovan.”
Mikhail Shunkov, deputy director of the the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography in Novosibirsk, part of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, suggested that the find indicates that the Denisovans were more advanced than Homo sapiens and Neanderthals.
What is incredible is that the craftsman who made the adornment, seems to have used something similar to a modern drill.
The <a href="http://siberiantimes.com/science/casestudy/features/f0100-stone-bracelet-is-oldest-ever-found-in-the-world/" target="_blank">Siberian Times</a> quotes Dr Derevyanko, who wrote in the Russian magazine, Science First Hand, that when they studied the diameters of the bracelet, they found that the rotational speed of the drill must have been quite high, and with minimal fluctuations.
“The ancient master” he said, “was skilled in techniques previously considered not characteristic for the Palaeolithic era, such as easel speed drilling, boring tool type rasp, grinding and polishing with a leather and skins of varying degrees of tanning.”
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Held in place by what they believe was a leather strap, the bracelet itself was made from a type of stone called chlorite, which could only have been imported from some 200km (125 miles) away.
The bracelet was very delicate and was probably worn at special occasions by some important person, such as a Denisovan princess.
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“All jewellery had a magical meaning for ancient people. Bracelets and neck adornments were to protect people from evil spirits, for instance.”
“But this item, given the complicated technology and “imported” material, obviously belonged to some high ranking person of that society.”
Commenting on its beauty, Anatoly Derevyanko added;
“The bracelet is stunning. In bright sunlight it reflects the sun rays, at night by the fire it casts a deep shade of green.”
The archeologists are reported to have also found a ring made of marble, but they have not yet disclosed any findings about it.
Read more: <a href="http://www.archaeologyhub.info/">www.archaeologyhub.info</a>
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Down The Rabbit Hole Series Part I: The Crusade At Fatima

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Note: This is part of a long series of essays about how the Church’s situation today is connected to events of the past.
Last week I posted an interview <a href="http://shoebat.com/2016/02/12/fr-malachi-martin-your-homework-for-the-weekend-and-lent/">between the late Fr. Malachi Martin and radio personality Art Bell from 1998</a>. It was Fr. Martin’s last interview before he was found dead under suspicious circumstances the next year. I promised this would be the beginning of a series about a certain topics in the Catholic Church of grave concern to us today.
Fr. Martin’s interview was, in a sense, a foretaste of the “end” of this series- it is ultimately where I will go. What I am going to do now is to go back to the beginning- way beginning- so to understand how the increasing horrors of the 20th century not only are connected to the events of the past, but also how they will culminate in this 21st century in a way that will not only shock and disturb billions, but will be the advent of a struggle between the powers of Heaven and the underworld on a level of Biblical proportions.
Now ultimately, we know how this story ends. Indeed, the first end was fulfilled at the crucifixion when Christ broke the chains of sin and death. The second end will come when Christ returns as promised. The details as to how all this plays out, however, are not as clear. We have evidence from Sacred Scripture and Sacred tradition, as we have discussed extensively on Shoebat.com, as to what will happen. However, there is also the human aspect- how God’s plan of salvation works into the matrix of history, for it was Christ who stepped into and worked within time for our salvation.
This story begins in the middle of the twelfth century during the height of the second crusade.
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The second crusade was proposed by Bl. Pope Eugene III and was preached to the Europeans by his close friend and founder of the Cistercian order, St. Bernard of Clairvaux. It came about in response to the rise of (in what is today northern Iraq) Kurdish Muslim warlord Nur Ad-Din’s attacks against the Crusader states, and in particular his conquest of the province of Edessa:
But now, our sins and those of the people themselves requiring it, a thing which we can not relate without great grief and wailing, the city of Edessa which in our tongue is called Rohais,-which also, as is said, once when the whole land in the east was held by the pagans, alone by herself served God under the power of the Christians-has been taken and many, of the castles of the Christians occupied by them (the pagans). The archbishop, moreover, of this same city, together with his clergy and many other Christians, have there been slain, and the relics of the saints have been given over to the trampling under foot of the infidels, and dispersed.
The second crusade was meant to confront and destroy Nur Ad-Din’s armies. However, what happened during this crusade- and would happen later that century that would precipitate the third crusade- was that various European “leaders” of the crusader states (a) acted on impulse before thinking and (b) acted out of a lust for the acquisition of money and power.
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The Second Crusade
Nur Ad-Din at that time was attempting to conquer Syria. He was besieging Damascus heavily and had offered to forge an alliance in exchange for a truce with the Seljuk Turkish ruler of Damascus, Mu’in Ad-Din Unur Al-Atabegi. He initially refused to accept because he already had an alliance with the Crusader States. However, Nur Ad-Din forced a marriage between himself and Mu’in’s daughter. Nevertheless, they did not attack direct Crusader holdings. It was when Crusader allies in the area were attacked that prompted the Second Crusade. Nevertheless, it was the rash decision making of the Crusader state leaders who elected to attack the well-fortified city of Damascus.
While there were other victories, the crucial and central 1148 siege of Damascus was an abject failure, as it not only defeated the crusaders but weakened their armies, the states, and left them vulnerable to subsequent Muslim attacking, which would increase in number and intensity and would finally culminate at the massacre of Hattin in 1187. St. Bernard was gravely embarrassed, and he wrote a severe criticism of the crusaders’ actions, saying that it was because of their sins in the matter that they were defeated:
When Moses was going to lead the people out of the land of Egypt, he promised them a better land. Otherwise, would that people, who knew only earthly things, ever have followed him? He led them away-but he did not lead them into the land which he had promised them. The sad and unexpected outcome, however, cannot be laid to the rashness of the leader, for he did everything at the Lord’s command, with “the Lord aiding them and attesting his word by the miracles that went with them.” But, you may say, they were a stiff-necked race ’20 forever contending against the Lord and Moses his servant. Very well, they were rebellious and unbelieving; but what about these other people? Ask them. Why should it be my task to speak of what they have done? One thing I shall say: How could they make progress when they were always looking backward as they walked? Was there a time in the whole journey when they were not in their hearts returning to Egypt? But if the Jews were vanquished and “perished because their iniquity,” is it any wonder that those who did likewise suffered a similar fate? Would anyone say that the fate of the former was contrary to God’s promise?
 
That was the situation in the Christian east. The situation in the Christian West, however, was a different story.
Since European knights responded to the Pope and St. Bernard’s call from across Europe, they naturally had to travel a long distance to reach the Holy Land. Most traveled a combination of land and sea routes across Central Europe the Balkans, and the eastern Mediterranean. However, some knights in northern and western Europe- Belgium, the British Isles, Denmark, Holland, Norway, and northwestern France- decided to take an all-water route to the crusader states by sailing- or at least attempting to sail- around the Iberian Peninsula, through the Straight of Gibraltar, and across the Mediterranean. Most of these knights stopped on the western Iberian coastline, and most of them never left.
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Alfonso I of Portugal
Why did they never leave? Because while they were resting and replenishing their wares before continuing on, there was another crusade taking place in the Iberian Peninsula. A minor count named Alfonso was leading a crusade against the Muslim occupiers on the western Iberian coastline. He was already having great success against them, and he was beloved and respected by his men. Naturally, many of these knights decided to continue no further than here, since there was already a crusade going on that they could assist with. In 1148, the same year that the Crusaders in the east betrayed their Damascene ally and failed in their quest to conquer the city, in the west these other Crusaders attacked and conquered the city of Al-Ushbuna. Count Alfonso became King Alfonso, and he latinized the city’s name to “Lisbon,” and he renamed his kingdom after the ancient Roman name of the area- Portus Gallus– or in his words, Portugal. As such, King Alfonso I became the first king of Portugal and fixed his capitol at Lisbon. There were several miracle which took place during the conquest, which the chroniclers have recounted:
Thereafter a miracle worthy of great admiration was reported: for fifteen days before the capture of the city, the enemy’s food supplies bad become inedible because of an intolerable stench. Afterward we tasted them and found them pleasing and acceptable, both to us and to the enemy. When the city was despoiled, there was found in the cellars some eight thousand seams” of wheat and barley and some twelve thousand pints9 of oil. . . . There was discovered in their temple, which rises on seven ranks of columns with arches atop them, nearly two hundred corpses as well as more than eight hundred other people who were sick and remained there in all their squalor and filth.
King Alfonso continued his reign of territorial expansion, driving out the Muslims wherever he encounter them and also making many converts to the faith. His warriors were known for their ferocity and valor in battle, and as the Quran says, the struck terror into the hearts of the Muslim infidels. This could not have come at a better time, since Muslim armies from Morocco under Ibn Tumart had formed a new army and, like ISIS today, boldly proclaimed the oneness of Allah– tawhid in Arabic- as their motto for conquest, and began a reign of terror in Iberia that nearly overthrew Spain completely, and for the Spanish who survived, they were driven deep back into Spain’s northernmost regions in retreat. This Muslim armies, calling itself the ones who proclaim the oneness of Allah- Al-Muhwahhidun- latinized ad Almohads– may have conquered Spain were it not for King Alfonso, as he kept them occupied so the Muslim could not fully concentrate their efforts on the purgation of the Catholic Faith from Spain.
Ten years after the conquest of Lisbon, with King Alfonso’s army still strong and filled with vigor, there was a young soldier who enlisted to fight for the King. His name was Goncalo Hermigues. He was as strong and bold as he was violent in battle. The Muslims were terrified of him because none who crossed his path ever survived. This was where he got his nickname, “Tragamouro,” which colloquially translated means “Bring it on, Muslim!” His bloodthirstiness was so great that even King Alfonso was concerned about him. Nevertheless, he remained one of Portugal’s great warriors.
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Alcacer do Sal
Since Goncalo was dedicated to freeing Portugal and purging it from Muslim reign, he would spend his time thinking up stratagems for how he might further this aim. One day he thought of a clever plan, which he brought to the attention and received the approbation of King Alfonso for it. The plan was very simple. There was a local castle, Alcacer do Sal, which was ruled by a powerful Muslim prince who had a beautiful daughter. Goncalo’s plan was to storm the castle in secret, kidnap his daughter, and hold her as a hostage until they could negotiate terms of surrender.
With the approval of the king and the support of the army and his own band of soldier friends, Goncalo stormed Alcacer do Sal on June 24h, 1158- the feast day of the beheading of St. John the Baptist. He kidnapped the princess and stole away with her to the Serra do Aire mountains in central Portugal. However, this plan did not go as anticipated because Count Hermigues and the princess fell in love with each other.
Now in a situation like this, there has been unfortunately many a Christian who has left the Faith and become a Muslim on account of a woman. However, this situation is particularly notable because not only did Goncalo persist in the Faith, but the princess, whose name was Fatima, left Islam and embraced the true Faith. She took the name of Oureana for her Christian name, married Goncalo, and the two lived a very happy life together. Some sources debate this, but it seem that the Portugese province of “Ourem” and its very significant village, “Fatima,” were named after Goncalo’s wife. When she died he was crestfallen, and it is said that he spend his final years as a Cistercian monk.
Portugal continued to see victories against Islam up through the completion of the Reconquista in Ourem and specifically, the village of Fatima continued to see victories against Islam up through 1249, which is considered the “end” of the Portuguese Reconquista in that the last Muslim strongholds in Portugal were finally reintegrated into Christendom and the Muslims were no longer able to gain a foothold in Portuguese lands. The village of Fatima never became a prosperous area, and remained a relatively poor little town even as Lisbon, which is 76 miles south and Porto, which is 116 miles north, grew into great cities.
Fatima’s story remained in relative obscurity for many centuries. It was not until the year 1602 that the Cistercian monk Fr. Joao de Brito recorded the account in his monumental Cronica da Ordem de Cister (Cistercian Chronicles), which attempted to give a complete history of not only the order’s history, but many of the local histories in Portugal which existed up to that point.
Fatima would remain in relative obscurity until 1916 with the visions of the three Fatima children of Mary, of the Mother of God.
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“It’s Too Cold, Too Dark, And They Don’t Give Us Enough Free Stuff” Muslims Refugees in Finland Complain About The Free ...

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This is a new video surfacing from Finland. We have posted these before, but it is a reminder that these Muslim “refugees” are here for only one reason- to kill, steal, and destroy. As Syrian President Asad said, these people need to return to their home countries and focus on improving conditions there rather than running away.
These people do not deserve the “kindness” they are being afforded in the least.
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No More Schnitzel- Germany Getting Rid Of Pork From School Menus To Appease Muslims

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So when will Merkel put on her Hijab? From <a href="http://www.derwesten.de/panorama/gesundheit-und-glaube-kitas-nehmen-schwein-vom-speiseplan-id11565450.html">Der Westen</a>:
Goodbye pork schnitzel? In German nurseries and schools pork is disappearing from the menus: some cities have banned it completely – in others the demand is falling rapidly. “In the next few years pork will disappear ever more from menus in nurseries and schools,” said the vice president of the German Nutrition Society, Ulrike Arens-Azevêdo, to our editorial team. The reason: religious prohibitions and modern nutrition standards. 
“The share of pork has fallen ever further in recent years,” confirms Rolf Hoppe, chairman on the Berlin Schools Caterers Association. “The number of Muslim pupils has increased and the quality of conventional pork is questionable.” Hoppe’s own catering company Luna actually offers no meals with pork – and sees that as a market advantage: “Muslim pupils can rely on our production being absolutely free of pork.” It is not the only one: “Caterers now often offer a range completely free of pork,” said Hamburg nutrition expert Arens-Azevêdo.
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Massive Movement Of US Military Equipment For Exercises Against Russia

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A massive US Military convoy was spotted driving through eastern Germany, presumably with the intention of conducting massive military activities with Germany against Russia.
As I noted last week, <a href="http://shoebat.com/2016/02/13/the-genie-is-out-of-the-bottle-how-the-west-sold-its-soul-to-islam/">there is something strange going on with how the west- and Germany in particular</a>– is literally allowing itself to be invaded by Muslim hordes, while at the same time they are turning against Russia. What exactly are our leaders thinking – or to be more specific – what are their exact thought processes that drives them to think that there is some benefit by allowing their nations to be invaded by third-world barbarians and turning against the only nation in Europe that might be able to in terms of manpower and firepower?
This manufactured refugee “crisis”- the US invasion of Ukraine- the rise of Turkey- they are all connected. Prophetically as well as socially, because this is leading one way- to war.
Watch and be ready.
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“Thank You For Raping Me” German Socialist Woman Thanks Muslim “Refugees” In Facebook Post For Gang Raping Her

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Because of the unbelievable nature of this post, I have no words to say other than that some reports are saying she may have been a German-born woman of Turkish descent. Either way, it has been confirmed that she is a member of the Young Socialists. We profiled last month how the <a href="http://shoebat.com/2016/01/28/better-rapists-than-racists-disgusting-photo-deleted-from-young-german-socialist-party-facebook-account-shows-real-face-of-refugee-supporters/">same German socialist youth were saying that it was better to have Muslim rapists than German racists</a>:
From the <a href="http://www.presseportal.de/blaulicht/pm/14915/3237795">Deutsche PressePortal</a> and <a href="https://www.unzensuriert.at/content/0020023-Vergewaltigte-Sozialistin-bedankt-sich-bei-Fluechtlingen">Unzensuriet Oesterreich</a>:
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Translation:
Dear male refugees, perhaps of my age. Perhaps a few years younger. A bit older.
I am so sorry!
Almost a year ago I saw the hell from which you have fled. I was not directly in the heart of it, but I visited the people in the refugee camp in southern Kurdistan. I saw old grandmothers who had to take care of too many children without parents. I saw the eyes of these children. Some had not lost their light. But I also saw children whose gaze was empty and traumatising. I showed Arabic characters to around 20 Yazidi children in their maths class and still remember how a small girl started crying only because a chair fell.
I have had a taste of the hell from which you fled. I didn’t see what happened there and didn’t experience the challenging journey you had to make.
I am glad and happy that you managed to get here. That you were able to leave IS and its war behind and did not drown in the Mediterranean.
But I am afraid you are not safe here.
Burning asylum homes, daily attacks on refugees and a brown [tn: used in German as a synonym for Nazi] mob running through the streets. I have always fought against the fact that that’s how it is here.
I wanted an open, friendly Europe. One in which I’d be happy to live and where we would both be safe. Sorry.
I am so unbelievably sorry for both of us.
You, you are not safe, because we live in a racist society. I, I am not safe because we live in a sexist society.
But what I am most sorry about is that the circumstances of the sexist and excessive actions that were done to me will only contribute to the increasing and ever more aggressive racism to which you are exposed.
I promise you I will scream. I will not allow it to go on happening. I will not look on and do nothing and let it happen when racists and concerned citizens say you are the problem.
You are not the problem. You are actually not any problem. You are mostly wonderful people, who have earned the right as much as anyone else to be safe and free. That you for being who you are – and it’s great that you are here.
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