Brit-Am Historical Reports (25 February, 2015, 6 Adar, 5775)
1. Jews were not responsible for the Russian Revolution! The Germans Were!
2. European colonialism conquered every country in the world but these five
3. Ugarit-Ras Shamra and Conventional vs Revised Chronology
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1. Jews were not responsible for the Russian Revolution! The Germans Were!
[forwarded by Mark Williams]
Extract from:
Are Jews White?
https://ethnicgenome.wordpress.com/
... if Jews dominated the Soviet Union, then why is it that the list of Jews in power always ends around 1937, during Stalinist purges?
Nor was it the Jews who sponsored the revolution, it was the Germans in hopes of winning World War I. Germany promoted Jewish rights for the same reason the US promotes Women's Rights around the world, so they helped put Jews in power in 1917. If this was a conspiracy, it was a German Conspiracy.
Jews dominated Russian politics in the 1920s because the former elites were driven out by German-sponsored Communists, and what was left were illiterates with drinking problems. Even prior to the Communist take-over, over 95% of Russians were illiterate and much of the intellectual elite fled when Lenin took over. Russia is also famous for its drinking problem: more vodka is consumed there than in the rest of the world combined.
The Jews were the only ones who were at least somewhat educated and who didn't spend their days drinking. So it is hardly surprising that they took positions of influence. Who else was supposed to run factories and government agencies?
As soon as a new generation of Russians got educated, Stalin killed all the Jews in power, and hundreds of thousands of others, and the Jews became the nation's whipping boys.
Anyone with even a cursory knowledge of Soviet politics should know that after 1937 Jews were the lowest caste in the country. It was Jews who organized anti-Soviet demonstrations and it was Jews who promoted capitalist reforms in the Soviet Union.
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2. European colonialism conquered every country in the world but these five
http://www.vox.com/2014/6/24/5835320/map-in-the-whole-world-only-these-five-countries-escaped-european
 by Max Fisher on February 24, 2015,
Extracts:
Only five countries, in orange, were spared:
As you can see, just about every corner of the globe was colonized outright or was dominated under various designations like "protectorate" or "mandate," all of which are indicated in green. This includes the entirety of the Americas ... and all of Africa save for little Liberia. More on Liberia later. The Middle East and Asia were divided up as well.
... almost every corner of the globe came under european control
Some countries instead fell under "spheres of influence," marked in yellow, in which a European power would declare that country or some part of it subject to their influence, which was a step removed from but in practice not all that distinct from conquering it outright. Iran, for example, was divided between British and Russian sphere of influence, which meant that the European powers owned exclusive rights to Iranian oil and gas in their areas, among other things.
Most of the areas under spheres of influence on this map were politically dominated by the British, who ruled through proxies: Afghanistan (which also endured Russian influence), Bhutan, and Nepal. Mongolia was effectively a proxy state of the Soviet Union for much of the Cold War.
Something similar happened in China, where European powers established parts of coastal cities or trade ports as "concessions," which they occupied and controlled. Some, such as Shanghai, were divided into multiple European concessions. Others, like British-controlled Hong Kong, were fully absorbed into the European empires. This is why China is labelled as partially dominated by Europe.
Modern-day Saudi Arabia came under partial domination; in the early 1900s, most of the Arabian peninsula transitioned from the Ottoman Empire to the British Empire, though the British left much of the peninsula's vast interior relatively untouched. Parts of modern-day Turkey itself were divided among World War One's European victors, though Turkish nationalists successfully expelled them almost immediately in a war for independence that established modern-day Turkey.
There are only four countries that escaped European colonialism completely. Japan and Korea successfully staved off European domination, in part due to their strength and diplomacy, their isolationist policies, and perhaps their distance. Thailand was spared when the British and French Empires decided to let it remained independent as a buffer between British-controlled Burma and French Indochina. Japan, however, colonized both Korea and Thailand itself during its early-20th-century imperial period.
Then there is Liberia, which European powers spared because the United States backed the Liberian state, which was established in the early 1800s by freed American slaves who had decided to move to Africa. The Liberian project was fraught, the Americans who moved there ruled as a privileged minority, and the US and European powers shipped former slaves there rather than actually account for their enslavement, Â but it escaped European domination.
There is also debate as to whether Ethiopia could be considered the sixth country never subjugated by European colonialism. Italy colonized neighboring countries, and Ethiopia ceded several territories to Italian colonization as part of an 1889 treaty. The treaty was also intended to force Ethiopia to cede its foreign affairs to Italy, a hallmark of colonial subjugation, but the Amharic version of the treaty excluded this fact due to a mistranslation, leading to a war that Italy lost. Later, Italy conquered Ethiopia in 1935 and annexed it the next year, but this lasted only until 1941. ..
The colonial period began its end after World War Two, when the devastated nations of Western Europe could no longer afford to exert such global influence and as global norms shifted against them. The turning point is sometimes considered the 1956 Suez Crisis, in which the US and Soviet Union pressured British and French troops to withdraw after invading Egypt to seize the Suez Canal with Israeli help. But it took a couple of decades for the European colonialism to fully collapse; France was fighting for Algeria until 1962 and Portugal did not abandon its African colonies until 1974.
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3. Ugarit-Ras Shamra and Conventional vs Revised Chronology
http://www.specialtyinterests.net/ugarit.html
A) The sepulchral chambers of Ugarit influenced the architecture of sepulchral chambers on Cyprus - but not until more than 600 years had elapsed.
Excavators found that the intact burial vaults of Ugarit with arched ceilings supposedly of the 15th-14th century BC looked just like those found near Enkomi on Cyprus belonging to the 8th and 7th century BC. "Those in Cyprus were considerably later and continue down to the 8th and 7th centuries..." according to the Swedish excavators. [700]
B) The naval catalogue of Ugarit reappeared in the epic creations of Homer after an interlude of several centuries.
C) Jewels identical with those of Ugarit were worn by the ladies in Jerusalem 600 or 700 years after the destruction of Ugarit by conventional dating. [900]
The Canaanites of Ugarit borrowed from Hebrew thought and writings and incorporated them into their own sacerdotal traditions just like Egyptians did. The Elephantine Papyri show that non-jewish marriage partners hung on to their own pagan traditions worshipping Asherah. In general it is a mistake to put Ugaritic texts or `jewelry art works' chronologically before Hebrew texts and make it appear that the Authors of the Hebrew scripture borrowed from written material outside the borders of Israel. As we have shown here the heydays of Ugarit/Ras Shamra are contemporaneous with the Israelite monarchy as is the Mycenaean Age contemporary with the Geometric Age of Greece, a subject we have not yet adequately presented here.
All these rivals of styles and meter, of religious myths and cult, of old customs, of weights and measures, medical science, apparel, and jewelry, emphasized and re-emphasized by modern scholars, would definitely point to the co-existence of Ugarit with the Jerusalem of the 9th or 8th century were it not for one obstacle. This obstacle was the fact that the Ugarit texts and objects were considered to be contemporaneous with the Egyptian and Mycenaean worlds of the 15th and 14th century BC. Another lesson this paper should teach us is that we have not yet begun to attribute to the right people or culture the term `Canaanites'. The inhabitants of Ugarit/Ras Shamra of the time of Nikomedes had nothing to do with the Canaanites of the 15th/14th centuries BC.Â