Research Sources from Brit-Am Now nos. 801-850
Contents:
1. Presidents Johnson and Reagan were Identification Believers!
2. Bronze Age Sicilians in ancient Salcombe [Southwest England]
3. Irish Sources (Phoenician Descent)
4. Feargus O'Connor and The Chronicles of Eri
5. Middle East and Irish Origin of the Bagpipes
7. More Old Arab sources on Britain and Ireland. Ibarniya is Ireland!
6. Edom and Israel together control much of world wealth
8. The British Empire. List of possessions
9. Niall Ferguson and The British Empire
10. Bob Davis: English Longbows and Ephraim
11. JERRY GARLEB; English Use of Long-Bow Not Really Characteristic of them?
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1. Presidents Johnson and Reagan were Identification Believers!
"Brit-Am Now"-801
http://www.britam.org/now/801Now.html
1. Presidents Johnson and Reagan were Identification Believers!
Tribesman Remnanter Report no.75
(Benjamon Paul; Blegen, POB 694, Black River Falls,,
WI 54615, USA)
Says that both Presidents Ronald Reagan and Lyndon Johnson were aware
of the Lost Israelite Identity of their nation.
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2. Bronze Age Sicilians in ancient Salcombe [Southwest England]
"Brit-Am Now"-802
http://www.britam.org/NowContents3.html
2. Bronze Age Sicilians in ancient Salcombe [Southwest England]
By Norman Hammond, Archaeology Correspondent
AN ANCIENT bronze found on the seabed off Devon may be the first clear evidence of long-distance maritime trade between the central Mediterranean and the Channel coast.
Mike Pitts, the editor of British Archaeology, says that the curious object, of a type found otherwise only in Sicily, is unique this far north, and raises the possibility, however remote, of a distant traveller reaching Britain from the Mediterranean.
The bronze is one of 28 potential Bronze Age objects found recently off Salcombe, not far from the earlier Moor Sand finds which included post- medieval Moroccan gold coins and other historic material; both would seem to be from shipwrecks, although no ship remains have been found. The bronzes include 11 complete or fragmentary swords, five axes, three spearheads, and two gold ornaments, all dating to between 1300BC and 1150BC.
Most unusual is the piece which Italian archaeologists call a strumento con immanicatura a cannone literally an implement with cannon-shaped handle, of uncertain function. The British Museum has several examples, and similar objects occur in some hoards in Sicily, where they date to about the 13th century BC.
The Sicilian object from Salcombe is therefore the first secure object of Mediterranean origin and Bronze Age date to be found in northwest Europe, Pitts notes. The presence of this material on Englands south coast would appear to be tangible evidence of cross-Channel connections. Such connections have frequently been deduced from land finds, but are rarely attested directly.
Interlocking maritime networks extended all along the Atlantic seaboard of Europe. There may not have been long-distance voyages spanning this whole chain, but this possibility will have to be reconsidered in the light of the Salcombe discovery, a rare chance to view objects in transit the nearest that archaeology can get to witnessing trade in action.
British Archaeology 91: 42-47.
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3. Irish Sources (Phoenician Descent)
"Brit-Am Now"-803
http://www.britam.org/now/803Now.html
5. Irish Sources (Phoenician Descent)
https://listhost.uchicago.edu/pipermail/ane/2004-November/015533.html
Rochelle Altman
Like the Maltese, the Irish have a tradition that they were founded by Phoenicians. Maltese claims the Phoenician name was "Malat."Â Look at the Latin name for Ireland... doesn't it look like the standard Roman way of Latinizing Phoenician place names? --.I Ivern > Iverna > Hibernia. I guess the closest translation would be the island across the way. Of course I
could be off the wall... but there just may be something to that Irish tradition after all.
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4. Feargus O'Connor and The Chronicles of Eri
"Brit-Am Now"-803
http://www.britam.org/now/803Now.html
http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1870/history-ireland/ch02.htm
<<One of the most naive products of that time is The Chronicles of Eri, being the History of the Gaal Sciot Iber, or the Irish People, translated from the original manuscripts in the Phoenician dialect of the Scythian language by O'Connor, London, 1822, 2 volumes. The Phoenician dialect of the Scythian language is naturally Celtic Irish, and the original manuscript is a verse chronicle chosen at will. The publisher is Arthur O'Connor, exile of 1798, uncle of Feargus O'Connor who was later leader of the English Chartists, an ostensible descendant of the ancient O'Connors, Kings of Connaught, and, after a fashion, the Irish Pretender to the throne. His portrait appears in front of the title, a man with a handsome, jovial Irish face, strikingly resembling his nephew Feargus, grasping a crown with his right hand. Underneath is the caption: O'Connor cear-rige, head of his race, and O'Connor, chief of the prostrate people of his nation: Soumis, pas vaincus (subdued, not conquered).
<< Arthur O'Connor was one of the few leaders of the United Irishmen society, which prepared the 1798 uprising, who managed to escape execution. After his release from gaol in 1803 O'Connor was banished to France, where he stayed to the end of his days.
Brit-Am Note:Â "The Chronicles of Eri" indeed look at first like an invention.
Closer examination however shows that there is much in them that corresponds
with archaeological findings and Brit-Am researches based on other sources.
O'Connor either used sources that were legitimate but are now unknown to us
or he was somehow inspired??
This had been discussed in our work, "Lost Israelite Identity. The Hebrew Origin
of Celtic Races".
The Chronicles of Eri
"Brit-Am Now"-815
http://www.britam.org/now/815Now.html]
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5. Middle East and Irish Origin of the Bagpipes
"Brit-Am Now"-803
http://www.britam.org/now/803Now.html
3. The Great Irish War Pipe traced to Middle East
Forwarded by Dr Richard Griffiths
http://www.doyle.com.au/great_irish_warpipe.htm
THE GREAT IRISH WARPIPE
Forgotten instrument of Ireland.
 Irish Piper Playing a Three-Droned "Brian Boru" Pipe
BY Garaidh Br ain
http://www.doyle.com.au/great_irish_warpipe.htm
This is an interesting article
Extract:
The skirl of the pipes: Either you love them or hate them, and few there be who are between. One needn't be of Celtic blood to enjoy the bagpipe (however, those who are Celtic do seem to have some genetic encoding that instills a love for the instrument); for the instrument has existed in every culture in one form or another throughout history.
Today the bagpipe is synonymous with Scotland, but the pipes really came from Ireland, where they are the forgotten instrument of the Emerald Isle.
In 1911, William Grattan Flood, a professor of music at National University of Ireland, researched and printed The Story of the Bagpipe. Professor Flood explored the instrument's early origin in the cradle of civilization, the Middle East, where he states the earliest date for the pipes is 4000 B.C., where a bagpipe is found in Chaldean sculptures. This evidence shows it is ancient, certainly as old as the harp and nearly as old as the drum. Greeks, Egyptians and Romans all marched to the skirl of the pipes to battle.
This antiquity includes the ancient Hebrews as well. Flood writes that the Bible passage of Genesis 4:21 has become mis-translated through various revisions over the centuries. The original German Bible of the 1500s used by the Lutheran Church at that time states that Jubal "was the father of fiddlers and pipers." The currant translation in the King James Bible reads, "such as handle the harp and organ." The Hebrew word that is mistranslated is "Ugab." The word refers to a wind instrument such as a "pipe" or "bagpipe," of which the German translation is "pfeife," Flood gives another example of mis-translation in Daniel 3:5, 10 & 15. The reference deals with Nebuchadnezzar's band, where the word "sumphonia" was translated to mean "dulcimer" instead of "bagpipe." Flood states that the word symphony actually referred to pipe music in the Middle Ages. The Hebrew word for dulcimer is "psandherin".
As for Ireland, a seventh-century account at the palace of Da Derg in Bohernabreena, County Dublin, lists people who came to pay homage to King Conaire the Great in 35 B.C., tells of nine pipers who came from the fairy hills of Bregia (County Meath), "the best pipe-players in the whole world," who are listed by name as Bind, Robind, Riarbind, Sihe, Dibe, Deicrind, Umal, Cumal & Ciallglind.
The bagpipe was even given place in the Brehan Laws of the 400s. Here it is called the cuisle, meaning "the pulse," being a reference to the blood pulsing through one's veins. It's also in reference to the hum that comes from the drones.
At the great Feis' (parliament or festival) held at Tara, the pipers occupied a prominent position. The pipes (called a cuisleannoch) were one of the favored instruments down to the last Feis that was presided over by King Dermot MacFergus in 560 A.D., there after Tara's Halls were silent.
After Christianity was embraced by the Irish, the bagpipe was used in church service to sustain the sacred chant or as a solo instrument. Depicted in one of the panels on the High Cross of Clonmacnois (dated about 910 a.d.) is a sculpture of a man playing a bagpipe standing on two cats.
It is clear that the bagpipe existed in Ireland long before Scotland. The bagpipe is believed to have made its way to Scotland with the Dalradians upon their exodus from County Antrim across the Irish Sea at about 470 A.D., when Prince Fergus MacErc lead his clan in the invasion of the lands of the Picts at present Argyle. The difference in the Scottish and Irish bagpipe is their name and the number of drones. The Scottish refer to their bagpipe as "the Great Highland Bagpipe," which today (an ancient bagpipe preserved from the battlefield of Culloden, 1746, has but a bass and a tenor drone) has three drones: one bass and two tenor. The Irish call theirs "the Great Irish Warpipe," which has two drones: one bass and one tenor. In Gaelic the bagpipe is called "Piob Mor."
An observation of the Irish pipers was made by the musician Vincenzo Galilei in a published work titled Dialogue on Ancient and Modern Music in 1581 in Florence. Galilei wrote, "The bagpipe is much used by the Irish. To its sound this unconquered, fierce, and warlike people, march their armies and encourage one another to feats of valour. With it also, they accompany their dead to the grave, making such a mournful sounds as to invite - nay, almost force - the bystander to weep!"
This use of the bagpipe at funerals is mentioned at the funeral of Donncladh, King of Ossory (father of Sadhbh or Isolde, Queen of Ireland in 975) in an ancient poem where nine keeners sung lamentations with an accompaniment of "cymbals and pipes harmoniously."
There were settlements made by many Irish bands in Wales who introduced the instrument. The Welsh readily accepted the strange insturment.
By the eleventh century the bagpipe slowly lost favor with the upper and middle class in favor of the harp. Yet in two deeds, one dated 1206 and the other in 1256, both near Dublin, mentioned Geoffrey the Piper and William the Piper.
 Even though the upper class shunned the skirl of the pipes, its music could still be heard among the working class, especially the military who employed its emotional effects upon the battlefield. Unique to the Irish kerne (soldiers) was that the pipers actually lead their commrades into battle playing the warpipes, which Flood illustrates well in his use of the account by Standish O'Grady, who wrote about the Battle of the Curlews in County Sligo. This battle was fought on August 15, 1599, in which many English officers fell. O'Grady wrote, "Brave men, these pipers. The modern military band retires as its regiment goes into action. But the piper went on before his men, and piped them into the thick of battle. He advanced, sounding his battle-pibroch (song), and stood in the ranks of war while men fell around him.... So here upon the brown bog Red Hugh's pipers stood out beyond their men sounding wild and high the battle-pibrochs of the North with hearts and hands brave as any in the wild work.... At last the whole of the Queen's host was reduced to chaos, streaming madly away, and the battle of the Curlew Mountains was fought and lost and won." Thus, many State papers concerning various battles read: "`Slew Art O'Connor and his piper.'" The entry shows that the loss of a piper was most tragic, second to that of an important officer.
After the occupation of the Normans in 1169 of Ireland, the Irish were forced to enlist its men into regiments to assist the English Kings in their wars. To France marched the Irish regiment in 1243 for King Henry III, and into battle they advanced to the sounds of their warpipes; as they did at Gascony in 1286-1289 under King Edward I, and into Flanders in 1297. In the following year, the Irish army was assigned to the English army at the Battle of Falkirk in Scotland against Sir William Wallace, where on July 22, the Irish marched into battle line to the skirl of the warpipes as their cousins, the Scots, watched in amazment on the other side of the battlefield. It was at Falkirk that the Scotsmen saw the martial effect of the bagpipes upon the Irish soldiers and thereafter began bringing bagpipes into battle and into the annals of history.1 The first mention of the Scots using their bagpipes in battle was at their victory at Bannockburn in 1314. The Irish army continued in Scotland, fighting their cousins from 1297-1334 under the command of the English.
Again as at Falkirk, Irish pipers marched 6,000 commrades into the Battle of Crecy in France, which was fought on August 26, 1346. This Irish army contributed heavily to the English victory over the French.
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6. Edom and Israel together control much of world wealth
"Brit-Am Now"-817
http://www.britam.org/now/817Now.html
2. Edom and Israel together control much of world wealth
From: rgriff9243@aol.com
Subject: World's richest 1% own 40% of all wealth, UN report discovers
 http://money.guardian.co.uk/print/0,,329654256-110144,00.html
World's richest 1% own 40% of all wealth, UN report discovers
-First ever study of global household assets
- 50% of world's adults own just 1% of the wealth
James Randerson, science correspondent
Wednesday December 6, 2006
Guardian
The richest 1% of adults in the world own 40% of the planet's wealth, according to the largest study yet of wealth distribution. The report also finds that those in financial services and the internet sectors predominate among the super rich.
Europe, the US and some Asia Pacific nations account for most of the extremely wealthy. More than a third live in the US. Japan accounts for 27% of the total, the UK for 6% and France for 5%.
The UK is also third in terms of per capita wealth. UK residents are found to have on average $127,000... each in assets, with Japanese and American citizens having, respectively, $181,000 and $144,000. All data relate to the year 2000.
The global study - from the World Institute for Development Economics Research of the United Nations - is the first to chart wealth distribution in every country as opposed to just income, for which more comprehensive date is available. It included all the most significant components of household wealth, including financial assets and debts, land, buildings and other tangible property. Together these total $125 trillion globally.
Anthony Shorrocks, director of the research institute at the United Nations University, in New York, led the study. He affirmed that the existence of a nest egg provided an insurance policy that helped people cope with unforeseen events such as ill health or a lost job. Capital allowed people to drag themselves out of poverty, he added. "In some ways, wealth is more important to people in poorer countries than in richer countries." It was more difficult in developing countries to set up a business because it was harder to borrow start-up funds, he said.
His team used detailed data from 38 countries, but had to rely on incomplete information from the rest.
The report found the richest 10% of adults accounted for 85% of the world total of global assets. Half the world's adult population, however, owned barely 1% of global wealth. Near the bottom of the list were India, with per capita wealth of $1,100, and Indonesia with assets per head of $1,400.
Many African nations as well as North Korea and the poorer Asia Pacific nations were places where the worst off lived.
"These levels of inequality are grotesque," said Duncan Green, head of research at Oxfam. "It is impossible to justify such vast wealth when 800 million people go to bed hungry every night. The good news is that redistribution would only have to be relatively small. Such are the vast assets of the rich that giving up a small part of their wealth could transform the lives of millions."
Madsen Pirie, director of the Adam Smith Institute, a free-market thinktank, disagreed that distribution of global wealth was unfair. He said: "The implicit assumption behind this is that there is a supply of wealth in the world and some people have too much of that supply. In fact wealth is a dynamic, it is constantly created. We should not be asking who in the past has created wealth and how can we get it off them." He said that instead the question should be how more and more people could create wealth.
Ruth Lea, director of the Centre for Policy Studies, a thinkthank set up by Margaret Thatcher, said that although she supported the goal of making poverty history she did not think increasing aid to poorer countries was the answer. "It's no use throwing lots of aid at countries that are basically dysfunctional," she said.
The UN report was issued as the Swiss magazine Bilan released a list of the richest Swiss residents. Ingvar Kamprad, the founder of Ikea, topped the list with an estimated fortune of $21bn.
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7. More Old Arab sources on Britain and Ireland. Ibarniya is Ireland!
"Brit-Am Now"-826
http://www.britam.org/now/826Now.html
More Old Arab sources on Britain and Ireland.
http://www.salaam.co.uk/knowledge/british_isles4.php
22. Having admitted the notices of Britain in the Persian Hudud al-
' allam ( 16), we may also include here "26" a notice from the Jami` at-tawarikh of the celebrated Persian historian Rashid ad-Din "27" especially since it qualifies for admission as having appeared in Arabic as well as Persian."28" The passage has been taken over practically as it stands by Banakati,"29" whose Raudat uli'L-albdb, usually simply Ta'rikh-i Banakati, appeared in 717/1317, i.e. a few years after the,Jami` at-tawarikh itself (completed by Rashid ad-Din in 7I0/1310-11). It runs as follows: `Opposite this land (Spain) in the midst of the Encircling Ocean are two islands, of which one is Ireland (Ibarniya).
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8. The British Empire. List of possessions
"Brit-Am Now"-834
http://www.britam.org/now/834Now.html
4. The British Empire. List of possessions
http://www.anglik.net/empire.htm
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9. Niall Ferguson and The British Empire
"Brit-Am Now"-834
http://www.britam.org/now/834Now.html
5. Niall Ferguson and The British Empire
http://www.channel4.com/history/microsites/H/history/e-h/empire.html
'How did Britain come to rule the world?' asks Niall Ferguson in Empire. What would today's world be like now if it hadn't? Could such an organisation run by, according to Winston Churchill, 'the greedy trader, the inopportune missionary, the ambitious soldier and the lying spectator' ever have been a force for good?
Niall Ferguson:
By contrast, for much (though certainly not all) of its history, the British empire acted as an agency for imposing free markets, the rule of law, investor protection and relatively incorrupt government on a roughly a quarter of the world. The empire also did a good deal to encourage those things in countries which were outside its formal imperial domain but under its economic influence through the 'imperialism of free trade'. Prima facie, there therefore seems a plausible case that empire enhanced global welfare was, in other words, a Good Thing.
Zealous
Many charges can, of course, be levelled against the British empire. I do not claim, as John Stuart Mill did, that British rule in India was 'not only the purest in intention but one of the most beneficent in act ever known to mankind'; nor, as Lord Curzon did, that 'the British Empire is under Providence the greatest instrument for good that the world has seen'; nor, as General Smuts claimed, that it was 'the widest system of organised human freedom which has ever existed in human history'.
For better or worse fair and foul the world we know today is in large measure a product of Britain's age of empire. The question is not whether British imperialism was without blemish. It was not. The question is whether there could have been a less bloody path to modernity. Perhaps in theory there could have been. But in practice?
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10. Bob Davis: English Longbows and Ephraim
"Brit-Am Now"-849
http://www.britam.org/now/849Now.html
3. Bob Davis: "Bows" Indicate Ephraim?
From: Bob Davis <bdavis@paxkom.net>
Subject: RE: Use of bows
Dear Yair
The use of English longbows to devastating and decisive effect in battles is
well known. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Longbow#History. The use
of them was encouraged by the Norman rulers of England. The bowmen were
recruited from ordinary villagers and farmers and therefore from the Saxons
and Visigoths etc living in England when the Normans invaded in 1066.
Curiously, longbows were never used anywhere else in Europe to such effect.
The Bible speaks about one tribe predominantly using bows or firing arrows
and that seems to be Ephraim.
Psalm 78:9
The men of Ephraim, though armed with bows, turned back on the day of
battle;
Zechariah 9:10
I will take away the chariots from Ephraim and the war-horses from
Jerusalem, and the battle bow will be broken. He will proclaim peace to the
nations. His rule will extend from sea to sea and from the River to the ends
of the earth. (Note: Ancient pictures of chariots often show them equipped
with bows
http://www.biblepicturegallery.com/Samples/la/World/armies/egyptian/Egyptian
%20war%20chariot%20soldier%20with%20bow%20soldier%20wit.gif )
Zechariah 9:13
I will bend Judah as I bend my bow and fill it with Ephraim. I will rouse
your sons, O Zion, against your sons, O Greece, and make you like a
warrior's sword. (Note: Ephraim has, or fires, the arrows)
I just wondered if anyone else had noticed this connection
Regards
Bob Davis
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11. JERRY GARLEB; English Use of Long-Bow Not Really Characteristic of them?
"Brit-Am Now"-850
http://www.britam.org/now/850Now.html
4. JERRY GARLEB: The Use of the Bow and Ephraim
From: Jerry Garleb <mcatak@verizon.net>
Subject: Re: "Brit-Am Now"-849
#3. Bob Davis: "Bows" Indicate Ephraim?
Yair,
With all due respect, I have to disagree slightly with Bob Davis' comments
in "Brit-Am Now" #849 that the Normans after 1066 recruited bowmen from
among the Saxons, etc., or at least put a different slant on what he said.
Actually, the Normans defeated the axe-wielding Saxons at Hastings with
such niceties as showers of arrows from among the Norman archers, the
Normans using archers in massed groups as opposed to the normal Saxon use
at the time of a few archers used as "snipers."Â Harold, the Saxon leader,
was killed by a Norman arrow to the eye according to most sources at
Hastings. The bow had wide spread use in Europe (for example among Magyar
and other raiders who ravaged Europe from their base in Hungary and further
east and used the old "scourge" of horse-mounted archers as did their
Mongol cousins to defeat more heavily armored and slower opponents, such as
the Germans, for example) and the Vikings were universally users of the bow
in battle as well as in hunting. That doesn't even begin to address the
prominence of the bow in military usage by the Turks who threatened much of
eastern Europe for centuries, right up to the gates of Vienna, and for many
years held distance records with their Turkish composite bows as opposed to
the more simple English longbow which cast an arrow a long distance, but
not as far as a Turkish bow would. The bow did not apparently hold much
prominence in English military thinking until generally around the 1200s
and was the introduction of not the Saxons but the Welsh and/or the Vikings
and their Norman cousins, most of whom may have descended from the various
migrating Hebrew tribes (not speaking here of the Turks and Magyars, but
the various Viking groups, Welsh, Saxons and so forth). Also, I don't
think the Normans would have encouraged wide-spread expertise with the bow
right after 1066 by the Saxons, not wanting to create a military presence
in England from among their recently defeated enemies (the Saxons, etc.)
and somewhat oppressing the Saxon population in England for some time after
the Battle of Hastings in 1066. A good overview of the use of the bow in
England and to some extent in Europe can be found at
http://www.regia.org/SaxonArchery.htm and of the Battle of Hastings at
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/1066malmesbury.html .
Basically, both of the groups represented at Hastings probably had some
earlier Hebrew connections, but to imply that the Saxons might have been
the Ephraimites because of the use of the bow seems to be a bit of a
stretch, given the Pictish-Celtic-Saxon-Angle-Jutish-Danish-Norwegian and
other sources involved in the make-up of the population of Britain and the
fact that the bow was used throughout Europe at the time in one way or
another, either for hunting or for war. As the first site, above, points
out, examples of European bows, even the English longbow, do not exist for
the most part, because they were wood and tended to disintegrate or be used
for other purposes when they weakened, whereas axe heads, swords, etc.,
being of iron, lasted in greater numbers to this day. The English adopted
the bow's use in combat from "bad experiences" with the Welsh, Norman and
Viking use of the same weapon, not because of any pronounced successes by
the Saxons with the same weapon. The typical picture of the Saxon "hordes"
is not one of a group of archers but of axe-wielders heavily plodding in
formation. The Normans, by contrast, relied upon massed archers and
flanking cavalry, among other "weapons systems" and the Saxons learned from
the Welsh the value of the bow when trying to invade Welsh territory. See
the above sites for discussion of same. I do not mean to be super-critical
of Bob's contention but I believe that the fact that the Saxons did
occasionally use the bow, but not in massed formations, is not a good
indicator that they were somehow connected to Ephraim...at least in my
humble opinion.
JERRY GARLEB
mcatak@verizon.net