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Paul Barford retweeted
The Bible's date of 2348 BC [answersingenesis.org/bible-t…] comes here right at the end of the lo-o-ong Neolithic and towards the end of the Corded Ware (Single Grave), Bell Beaker and Corded Ware culturexs, all of which produce skeletons, as do periods before .
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Paul Barford retweeted
German town bans 'stumbling stone' memorials to Nazi victims bbc.in/46MmNXX
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A scene from "The War of the Worlds".
The people doing this to their neighbours live in a different world from the rest of us.
Perhaps scenes like we see today coming out of the Middle East suggest the world needs a new Jewish diaspora, but who would take such people?
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"A superpower is dying by suicide because the Republican congress is too cowardly to stand up to to the mad king. This is one of the wildest moments in all of geopolitics ever."
Heather Cox Richardson.
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Excellent points from Marc and Andy here "Graham Hancock: A Life NOT in Archaeology: Episode 9. Journalism is a Responsibility, NOT a Shield!" piped.video/zJXe19i9MqA?si=Jayd…
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Hey AI-generated lady at @noahsarkscans, plesse tell us about this socking big rock right in the middle of your site, how it relates to the 'ark remains' you claim to have found and how it seems not to be shown on any of your scans, that simply go under it....
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So why does it not appear to have affected this colourful (key not given) scan that simply passes through it without indicating any change? How come, is this a REAL image of yours?
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Hey AI-generated lady at @noahsarkscans, plesse tell us about this socking big rock right in the middle of your site, how it relates to the 'ark remains' you claim to have found and how it seems not to be shown on any of your scans, that simply go under it....
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Paul Barford retweeted
乌克兰最近把一架相对完好迫降的俄军最新型“天竺葵-4”（Geran-4）无人机，当场大卸八块。
拆完之后，桌上摆着的零件，呈现出一个既荒谬又无比现实的真相：
整架号称打得乌克兰防空防不胜防的喷气大杀器，除了最外面的机壳和总装螺丝是俄罗斯自己拧的，
里面所有的关键器官，几乎全是从外面运进来的。
先看动力。
过去老款天竺葵-2用的是活塞螺旋桨，飞起来像拖拉机一样嗡嗡响，时速不到两百公里，乌克兰机动防空队开着皮卡架挺机枪就能拦截。
但这次拆开天竺葵-4，机腹里塞的是一台微型涡喷发动机。
飞行高度直接从四千米拔到了八千米，是老款的两倍；
巡航时速干到了四百五十到五百公里，甚至还能更快。
这玩意儿已经能从克里米亚起飞，一口气狂奔七百多公里，直接扎进乌克兰西北部的卢茨克。
谁造的？
拆开一看，中国产的微型涡喷。有些虽然标着俄罗斯组装，核心组件也全是中国货。
再看眼睛。
头部装了一套光电转塔，白昼、夜视、红外三合一。
十倍光学变焦，加三十二倍数码变焦。
八千米的高空往下看，地面车辆的轮廓一清二楚。
它根本不需要前线侦察兵冒死指引。操纵员哪怕坐在几百公里外的布良斯克、奥廖尔或者克里米亚的后方工位上，只要链路连着，就能像玩模拟器一样实时遥控它扑向目标。
那实时信号怎么传？
专家从机身里抠出了两个普通的 GSM 模块，上面插着民用电话卡。
更离奇的是，现场技术人员在这些残骸里，不仅翻出了俄罗斯和白俄罗斯的 SIM 卡，甚至还找到了乌克兰本土运营商、以及欧盟国家的流量卡。
无人机只要一过境，直接蹭乌克兰本地民用基站的网络，把自己的实时位置往回传。
万一飞进没有手机信号的荒郊野岭呢？
它还有备手。
拆解人员从里面掏出了一块来自中国的自组网 Mesh 调制解调器，通信半径三百公里。
几架天竺葵在空中编队飞，彼此之间能自动互相当中继，你传给我、我传给后方，直接在天上搭出一套无中心的移动局域网，几百公里外的视频画面照样掐不断。
最后拆到最值钱的机载电脑飞控板。
刮开主板上的涂层，芯片上的丝印虽然被磨去了一半，但剩下的英文字母依然清晰可辨：
Texas Instruments——美国德州仪器。
现场专家给了一句很冷酷的总结：
“这架飞机上真正属于俄罗斯制造的，就只有复合材料的机身外壳，以及最后的总装车间。”
这些零件最后运到鞑靼斯坦的阿拉布加（Alabuga）特区，工人们把壳子一合、螺丝一拧，就成了前线每天夜里呼啸而过的精确打击武器。
而根据乌克兰军情局的评估，像阿拉布加这样的工厂，现在每个月能量产大概三千架天竺葵-4和天竺葵-5。
打了四年多，制裁令签了一叠又一叠，结果最前沿的致命武器内部，流淌的依然是全球供应链的血液：
动力与通信来自成熟民用货架，核心控制芯片来自美国转道走私，连定位回传都在蹭对手基站的 SIM 卡。
这才是现代战争里最棘手的现实：
威权体制根本不需要在温室里从头研发一套自给自足的军工帝国。
只要民用消费级工业品在全球随处可买，只要洗钱通道和转口贸易依然处处漏风，
他们就能用极低的成本，把全世界的民用技术拼装成工业级的杀人工厂。
如果外部世界的制裁只盯着军品清单打补丁，却堵不住庞大的双用途灰色管涌，
这种廉价而致命的涡喷蜂群，在流水线上就很难真正停下来。
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Paul Barford retweeted
Displaced Jews from WW2 were brought to Palestine in heavy numbers in between 1945 and 1948.
In 1948 Israel was born.
In 1948 Israel poisoned the water of the Palestinians in an attempt to kill them and conquer their land.
October 7 was not the beginning.
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Paul Barford retweeted
All this demagoguery about “Russia is not my enemy” will end very quickly when Russia turns your home into a pile of rubble, turns the places you love into graveyards, and Putin, with his idiotic smirk and chuckling, starts rambling about what an incredible threat your “fake country” posed and how he was “forced” to wage a war of annihilation against you to “correct the mistakes of history” inside his head.
They won’t ask whether you considered Russia an enemy or not. They won’t ask whether you wanted the war or not. They will call you a “Nazi” and commit the most insane war crimes with a profound sense of moral superiority and enjoyment.
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I ALWAYS THOUGHT IT WOULD TAKE SOM KIND OF EVIL GENIUS TO DESTROY AMERICA, TURNS OUT, ALL IT TOOK WAS AN 80 YEAR OLD CONMAN WITH THE IQ OF A JAR OF MAYONNAISE AND MILLIONS OF SUPPORTERS WITH EVEN LESS 🙄
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If they're not going to read proper academic BOOKS to check it out, US psychochristians fixated on a spurious Jewish 'origins' narrative, could watch Megan Kraege & Dr. Joel Baden (Yale): "Almost Nothing in the Hebrew Bible Is Original"(Misquoting Moses) piped.video/GgybtdUgzi4?si=upz4…
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The Noah's Ark Scans Scam guy.
Andrew Mark Jones seems to be the main pseudo-archaeologist behind this:
instagram.com/p/DdWjmg0NOt5/
Andrew Mark Jones' background: medium.com/@logosconversatio…
Interestingly, the LiDAR / 3D data appears to show erosion patterns somewhat similar to those seen along the Sphinx enclosure walls.
Here, though, gravity is the key clue. For water erosion to produce these features, the water needs a plausible downhill flow path, as we see with Roman aqueducts and similar ancient water systems.
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"The Israeli president has turned your past of persecution into a joke"- that past percution was the reason why Israel was created within its 1948 borders, going beyond the terms of that agreement and continuing that policy for 80 years into the PRESENT cancels that distant past.
To my Jewish friends who support bibi. Bibi is a genocidal cunt. He knew oct 7 was gonna happen but he allowed it anyway. So he would have the justification to do what he has done since then and implement the greater israeli project. The reason why you think anti semitism is rising is because bibi is personally turning up the temperature and ruthlessly killing children. And you are correct. Your ppl have been discriminated against for centuries. But the israeli president has turned your past of persecution into a joke. No one cares what you say as we watch what the idf does on a daily basis.
Sometimes you die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain.
Zionism is not judiasm. It is a nationalist movement. I think one of the saddest developments of modern time, is seeing so many Jewish ppl become the monsters that nearly annihilated them.
Like seriously.... fuck you. Youre not gods chosen ppl. God doesnt exist. And you fall so hard into your own religious beliefs that you are now justifying the deaths of tens of thousands of children.
Honestly, if I was a zionist. Idk how I would sleep at night.
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This is literally just a corral formation that Wyatt drew a wheel on top of. There is absolutely nothing that supports the identification of this formation as a chariot wheel. “It reminds me of a wheel!” isn’t evidence of anything but your ignorance & gullibility.
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