Brit-Am Historical Reports (22 May, 2013, Sivan 13, 5773)
Contents:
1. FDR Used the IRS Against Jewish Activists during WW2!!
2. Wild Wolfland in Ireland
3. Ancient Slavs in Germany and England
4. Europe's Hypocritical History of Cannibalism by Sarah Everts
5. John F. Pazera: Did Assyrians Settle in Germany?
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1. FDR Used the IRS Against Jewish Activists during WW2!!
http://www.algemeiner.com/2013/05/20/fdr-used-the-irs-against-jewish-activists/
Extract:
During the Holocaust era, the object of U.S. government wrath was the Bergson Group, a political action committee led by Peter Bergson (Hillel Kook), a Zionist emissary from Palestine. The group used newspaper ads, rallies, and lobbying to press the Franklin Delano Roosevelt administration for the rescue of Jews from the Nazis.
The president was not happy about those protests. One senior White House aide reported that FDR was 'much displeased' when the Bergson Group brought 400 rabbis to Washington to plead for rescue. First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt told Bergson himself that the president was 'very upset' about one of the group's ads, which FDR felt was 'hitting below the belt' because it accused him of turning a blind eye to the Nazi massacres.
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2. Wild Wolfland in Ireland
http://www.rte.ie/tv/programmes/wolfland.html
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WOLFLAND - a New RTE/BBC Irish language two part documentary that explores our fascination and fear of the Wolf.
There was a time, when over 20,000 wolves roamed Ireland. As super predators they are a natural part of the landscape and ecosystem and are deeply embedded in many of our famous myths and legends.
In this documentary series, Dr. Eamonn O' Ciardha looks at our complex relationship with the Wolf, taking us on a hair raising journey into Ireland's past, exploring the background to what many of us experience as an instinctive fear of the Wolf or Mac Tire - son of the land. A land that was in increasing turmoil at the turn of the 16th century as plantation settlers began to arrive. For them, the wolf became a fearsome symbol of this wild and dangerous land.
Large-scale farming and deforestation saw the wolf rapidly losing its hunting and breeding grounds. But war, rebellion and fighting between settlers and a growing number of Irish rebels provided rich pickings for wolves - preying on livestock and scavenging on the fallen. The terrified settlers called their new home "Wolfland"
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3. Ancient Slavs in Germany and England
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The impact of the wends, obotrites, polabians,.. on the saxons is indeed something worth to investigate more. Polabian was still spoken in the 18th century in a part of east lower-saxony (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendland), quite far away from Poland. It is considered to be the western-most slavic-speaking land. In Wendtland there aren't any obvious slavic hints, except the many village and town names of course. The people there as well as to the east look very commonly north-german too. Historically it is recorded which parts were saxon lands and which ones were conquered slavic lands. What is new from this book is that not only "original" west saxons came to britain, but also those from former slavic lands and that some slavs made it to Utrecht in Holland. ...There is not much R1a in England at least, which is also surprising given that there is 30% R1a in scandinavia and north-germany.
The genetic evidence of assimilated slavs in north-germany is still weak (one publication estimates 25% of the male lineages based on surnames and YDNA), which might be either due to natural genetic similarity between germanics and slavs (R1a), or due to slavicised east-germanic tribes.
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4. Europe's Hypocritical History of Cannibalism by Sarah Everts
From prehistory to the present with many episodes in between, the region has a surprisingly meaty history of humans eating humans
 http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/Europes-Hypocritical-History-of-Cannibalism-204752351.html#ixzz2SU3tay9s
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....an engraving by Theodor de Bry depicts hungry Spaniards cutting down the bodies of thieves hanged by Pedro de Mendoza in order to eat them.
.... References to acts of cannibalism are sprinkled throughout many religious and historical documents, such as the reports that cooked human flesh was being sold in 11th-century English markets during times of famine, says Jay Rubenstein, a historian at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
However, the world's first cannibal incident reported by multiple, independent, first-hand accounts took place during the Crusades by European soldiers, Rubenstein says.
These first-hand stories agree that in 1098, after a successful siege and capture of the Syrian city Ma'arra, Christian soldiers ate the flesh of local Muslims. Thereafter the facts get murky, Rubenstein says. Some chroniclers report that the bodies were secretly consumed in 'wicked banquets' borne out of famine and without the authorization of military leaders, Rubenstein says. Other reports suggest the cannibalism was done with tacit approval of military superiors who wished to use stories of the barbaric act as a psychological fear tactic in future Crusade battles.
By the 16th century, cannibalism was not just part of the mental furniture of Europeans; it was a common part of everyday medicine from Spain to England.
Initially, little bits of pulverized mummies imported from Egypt were used in prescriptions against disease, but the practice soon expanded to include the flesh, skin, bone, blood, fat and urine of local cadavers, such as recently executed criminals and bodies dug up illegally from graveyards, says University of Durham's Richard Sugg, who published a book in 2011 called Mummies, Cannibals and Vampires: The History of Corpse Medicine from the Renaissance to the Victorians.
Medicinal cannibalism reached a feverish pitch around 1680, Sugg says. But the practice can be traced back to the Greek doctor Galen, who recommended human blood as part of some remedies in the 2nd century A.D., and it continued all the way into the 20th century. In 1910, a German pharmaceutical catalog was still selling mummy, says Louise Noble, who also wrote a book on the topic called Medicinal Cannibalism in Early Modern English Literature and Culture.
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5. John F. Pazera: Did Assyrians Settle in Germany?
Who are the Assyrians today?
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I was in the old Worldwide Church of God and was taught they are modern
Germany. There is evidence that the city of Trier was founded by the Assyrians.
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According to the legendarium recorded in the 12th-century Gesta Treverorum, the city was founded by an eponymous otherwise unrecorded Trebeta, an Assyrian prince, placing the city's founding legend centuries before and independently of ancient Rome: a medieval inscription on the facade of the Red House in Trier market,
ANTE ROMAM TREVIRIS STETIT ANNIS MILLE TRECENTIS.
PERSTET ET AETERNA PACE FRVATVR. AMEN.
"Thirteen hundred years before Rome, Trier stood / may it stand on and enjoy eternal peace, amen," reflects the proud city tradition. Further embroidery in the monkish Gesta made of Trebeta the son of Ninus, a "King of Assyria" imagined by the ancient Greeks, by a wife prior to his marriage to the equally non-historical Queen Semiramis. His stepmother, Semiramis, despised him and when she took over the kingdom after the death of his father, Ninus, Trebeta left Assyria and went to Europe. After wandering for a time, he led a group of colonizers to the site of Trier.[citation needed] Upon his death, his body was cremated on Petrisberg by the people of Trier. The image of "Trebeta" became an icon of the city during the Middle Ages.