BARS-50 Brit-Am Research Sources (8 December 2013, 2013, Tevet 5, 5774)
Contents:
1. Stephen Phillips: Irish Mythology, Easru, Late Arrival of the Picts.
2. Douglas Augustine: Nixon & the Yom Kippur War
3. Division of the USA into Eleven Nations! Up in Arms BY COLIN WOODARD
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1. Stephen Phillips: Irish Mythology, Easru, Late Arrival of the Picts.
Re: Scots are not Celts.
BHR-105. Brit-Am Historical Reports
http://hebrewnations.com/features/bhr/bhr105.html
I am not sure what sort of research Mr Haseler has done, but his arguments are totally unsound. It is accepted that the classical writers all used generic names when referring to the migrating peoples, nevertheless, it is a known fact that the Irish were descendants of Gadelas son of Easru. Gadelas, who the Irish say lived during the time of Moses, is a metathesis of Gilead which name can be written Gaul, Gelatae, Kelt etc. Under the names Kelti, Kelte, Kielte etc, they appear in the Tell El Amarna Letters as mercenaries, first assisting the king of Jerusalem and later assisting the king of Syria against Jerusalem. Easru is but a corruption of the name Israel. The Scots call themselves Celts and even the French referred to the Welsh as Gauls! He is therefore playing with semantics.
His argument that the language of the Picts was similar to Welsh is also unwarranted. St Columba needed an interpreter when conversing with them. (Early Irish History & Mythology p.355 , Thomas F. O'Rahilly.) No thanks to the Irish, a lot of people confuse the Picts with the Cruithnigh. The Cruithnigh are the Dal Raidi who came from Ireland and claim to be descended from Ollamh Fodhla's Gede Ollgotach who married Queen Tea. By contrast, the Picts are said to have arrived in Ireland but were told that there was no room for them in Ireland and had to move on and settle in Albion (i.e. Scotland). The one thing Mr Haseler did get right is that the Picts only arrived in Scotland around 276 CE.
Ammianus called the Picts, Verturiones. It has been noticed that Verturiones is a variant spelling of Fortrenn, - one of the seven ancestral provinces of the Picts; and the title "king of Fortrenn" occurs in the later regnal lists (Picts and Ancient Britons: An Exploration of Pictish Origins p.24, Paul Dunbavin, Third Millenium Publishing, Nottingham, England 1998 ) Fortrenn appears to be a variation on Fir (i.e. Aramaic bar = sons of) Turoni, the Turoni being a people who in Caesar's day were located in Western Gaul where they are mentioned alongside the Pictones. (C. Julius Caesar, Gallic Wars vii.4. See also Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, entry under Turones, William Smith, London 1854. ) Needless to say, the Pictones (i.e. Picts) and the Turones were both regarded as belonging to the Celtic race.
PS: Do not get too involved in the discussions re Mycerinus. The name Makare (variations Maatkare and Menkare) was a common Egyptian name. Rameses II also used this epithet!
Regards,
Steve
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2. Douglas Augustine: Nixon & the Yom Kippur War
Dear Mr. Davidiy:
For some reason, an old memory surfaced regarding President Nixon's role in the Yom Kippur War of 1973. I did a google search using "Nixon Yom Kippur" and found a brief and infomative article at the following link:
http://blog.nixonfoundation.org/2011/10/6-october-1973-the-yom-kippur-war-begins/
History, especially as it is being interpreted by American's dominant left wing, recalls Nixon solely in the context of the Watergate blunder. However, it is clear that he played an absolutely critical role in the preservation of the State of Israel. There is reason to believe this would not have been the case had somebody else been in the White House at the time.
For me, this now takes on new significance in the context of the Lost Tribes and the USA being Manassah. I also feel a strong respect and admiration for Nixon for using the power of his office to accomplish what he did in the face of opposition within the USA itself.
The article at the link mentions something else I suspect few people are aware of, namely, NIXON WAS STRANDED IN JERUSALEM IN 1967 DURING THE BRIEF SIX-DAY WAR AND WAS THERE WHEN JERUSALEM PASSED FROM GENTILE HANDS TO ISRAELITE HANDS. This was before his election as President in 1968. I actually felt a shiver run up my back when I read this.
I hope and pray (literally) that the USA will never be deceived into withdrawing its support for Israel. With all of the terrible problems the USA has right now together with the magnitude and frequency of its sins, if the time ever comes that it actually joins G-d's enemies in opposition to Israel, I fear the USA will not last much longer and may, indeed, be laid low as the "Babylon" described by Jerimiah.
Kind regards,
Douglas Augustine
Tokyo
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3. Division of the USA into Eleven Nations!
forwarded by Craig White
Up in Arms
THE BATTLE LINES OF TODAY'S DEBATES OVER GUN CONTROL, STAND-YOUR-GROUND LAWS, AND OTHER VIOLENCE-RELATED ISSUES WERE DRAWN CENTURIES AGO BY AMERICA'S EARLY SETTLERS
BY COLIN WOODARD, A91
ILLUSTRATION BY BRIAN STAUFFER -
See more at: http://www.tufts.edu/alumni/magazine/fall2013/features/up-in-arms.html#sthash.fiCOSXiu.dpuf
http://www.tufts.edu/alumni/magazine/fall2013/features/up-in-arms.html
Extracts:
YANKEEDOM. Founded on the shores of Massachusetts Bay by radical Calvinists as a new Zion, Yankeedom has, since the outset, put great emphasis on perfecting earthly civilization through social engineering, denial of self for the common good, and assimilation of outsiders. It has prized education, intellectual achievement, communal empowerment, and broad citizen participation in politics and government, the latter seen as the public's shield against the machinations of grasping aristocrats and other would-be tyrants. Since the early Puritans, it has been more comfortable with government regulation and public-sector social projects than many of the other nations, who regard the Yankee utopian streak with trepidation.
NEW NETHERLAND. Established by the Dutch at a time when the Netherlands was the most sophisticated society in the Western world, New Netherland has always been a global commercial culture - materialistic, with a profound tolerance for ethnic and religious diversity and an unflinching commitment to the freedom of inquiry and conscience. Like seventeenth-century Amsterdam, it emerged as a center of publishing, trade, and finance, a magnet for immigrants, and a refuge for those persecuted by other regional cultures... Unconcerned with great moral questions, it nonetheless has found itself in alliance with Yankeedom to defend public institutions and reject evangelical prescriptions for individual behavior.
THE MIDLANDS. America's great swing region was founded by English Quakers, who believed in humans' inherent goodness and welcomed people of many nations and creeds to their utopian colonies like Pennsylvania on the shores of Delaware Bay. Pluralistic and organized around the middle class, the Midlands spawned the culture of Middle America and the Heartland, where ethnic and ideological purity have never been a priority, government has been seen as an unwelcome intrusion, and political opinion has been moderate. An ethnic mosaic from the start, it had a German, rather than British, majority at the time of the Revolution - it shares the Yankee belief that society should be organized to benefit ordinary people, though it rejects top-down government intervention.
TIDEWATER. Built by the younger sons of southern English gentry in the Chesapeake country and neighboring sections of Delaware and North Carolina, Tidewater was meant to reproduce the semifeudal society of the countryside they'd left behind. ...
GREATER APPALACHIA. Founded in the early eighteenth century by wave upon wave of settlers from the war-ravaged borderlands of Northern Ireland, northern England, and the Scottish lowlands... characterized by a warrior ethic and a commitment to personal sovereignty and individual liberty...
DEEP SOUTH. Established by English slave lords from Barbados, Deep South was meant as a West Indies' style slave society. This nation offered a version of classical Republicanism modeled on the slave states of the ancient world, where democracy was the privilege of the few and enslavement the natural lot of the many. Its caste systems smashed by outside intervention, it continues to fight against expanded federal powers, taxes on capital and the wealthy, and environmental, labor, and consumer regulations.
THE LEFT COAST. A Chile-shaped nation wedged between the Pacific Ocean and the Cascade and Coast mountains, the Left Coast was originally colonized by two groups: New Englanders (merchants, missionaries, and woodsmen who arrived by sea and dominated the towns) and Appalachian midwesterners (farmers, prospectors, and fur traders who generally arrived by wagon and controlled the countryside). Yankee missionaries tried to make it a 'New England on the Pacific,' but were only partially successful. Left Coast culture is a hybrid of Yankee utopianism and Appalachian self-expression and exploration, traits recognizable in its cultural production, from the Summer of Love to the iPad. The staunchest ally of Yankeedom, it clashes with Far Western sections in the interior of its home states.
THE FAR WEST. The other 'second-generation' nation, the Far West occupies the one part of the continent shaped more by environmental factors than ethnographic ones. High, dry, and remote, the Far West stopped migrating easterners in their tracks, and most of it could be made habitable only with the deployment of vast industrial resources: railroads, heavy mining equipment, ore smelters, dams, and irrigation systems. As a result, settlement was largely directed by corporations headquartered in distant New York, Boston, Chicago, or San Francisco, or by the federal government, which controlled much of the land. The Far West's people are often resentful of their dependent status, feeling that they have been exploited as an internal colony for the benefit of the seaboard nations. Their senators led the fight against trusts in the mid-twentieth century. Of late, Far Westerners have focused their anger on the federal government, rather than their corporate masters.