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New Study Of The 3,000-year-old Uluburun Shipwreck Has Revealed A Complex Ancient Trading Network During The Late Bronze Age.The Uluburun shipwreck was discovered by a local sponge diver in 1982, close to the east shore of Uluburun (Grand Cape), Turkey.The distribution of the wreckage and scattered cargo, indicates that the ship was between 15 and 16 metres in length. It was constructed by the shell-first method, with mortise-and-tenon joints similar to those of the Graeco-Roman ships of later centuries.The study by researchers from the Washington University in St. Louis have compared tin from the wreck site with samples of tin...

Earlier today I wrote about an infant who overdosed on fentanyl while playing in a park. The child’s nanny had taken her to the park for a walk and among the detritus left by druggies was enough fentanyl to cause a near-fatal overdose. Luckily the EMTs arrived and saved her life.This is modern San Francisco, Nancy Pelosi’s shining city on a hill. The park is a few blocks from Pelosi’s scene of the crime home.I stumbled across this new investigative report an hour after I finished writing that post, and it helps explain why San Francisco is a literal crap-filled...

French President Emmanuel Macron met Twitter owner Elon Musk on Friday in New Orleans, and said they discussed environmental issues and freedom of speech in the context of content moderation on the global social media platform. I'll say it here, on Twitter, because it’s all about the blue bird. This afternoon I met with @elonmusk and we had a clear and honest discussion: — Emmanuel Macron (@EmmanuelMacron) December 2, 2022 "We will work with Twitter to improve online child protection," Macron tweeted. "Elon Musk confirmed it to me today. Let’s better protect our children online!" To which Musk tweeted, "Absolument,"...

The New York Times thinks that there is a case to be made for Herschel Walker. An article published by the paper states, “He could still win.” The same article makes a case for Raphael Warnock and states “the runoff is Warnock’s to lose.” At this point in the race, either point can be true. The run-off for the Georgia Senate seat is tight, tight, tight and no one knows how it will turn out on December 6. The key to the run-off is voter turn-out. That’s always the case for elections, of course. The winning candidate turns out the...

Carved into the scarab is the picture of an Egyptian [pharaoh], in a scene that represents the bestowal of legitimacy to a ruler.A 3,000-year-old scarab - an ancient amulet and impression seal - was discovered during a school field trip to Azor, about seven kilometers southeast of Tel Aviv...Carved into the scarab is the picture of an Egyptian pharaoh, in a scene that represents the bestowal of legitimacy to a ruler..."We were wandering around when I saw something that looked like a small toy on the ground," leading tour guide Gilad Stern of the IAA's Educational Center said. "An inner...

"I strong condemn Lapid's attempts to incite a revolt among army officers and mayors against the elected government under our leadership" Israel's Prime Minister-Designate Benjamin Netanyahu illustrating the tensions in Israel... WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange filing an appeal with the European Court of Human Rights... Speaking at Australia's elite think tank The Lowy Institute the Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin saying that Europe is dependent on the United States... The Chief of Staff of New York Attorney General Letitia James resigning... Politics in the US the Democratic National Committee acting to shake up the 2024 Presidential nominating process... Tonight on...

There must be something in the water. Back in 2018, New York’s Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman resigned after being accused of violence by at least four women. And then last year, Gov. Andrew Cuomo resigned after being accused of sexual harassment by a series of women.Today, Ibrahim Khan, the chief of staff to current Attorney General of New York, Letitia James, has resigned after allegations of sexual harassment:The longtime chief of staff to Letitia James, the New York attorney general, has resigned amid an investigation into misconduct, and three people with knowledge of the matter said it involved at...

TOWNHALL MEDIA Elon Musk has done it again. He’s managed to make all the right people mad, this time by releasing the internal files detailing Twitter’s censorship of the Hunter Biden laptop story.As RedState reported, though, things go even further than that, with the Biden administration directly colluding with Twitter to do its bidding for political purposes. That follows another recent revelation that the FBI was also working with social media companies to suppress the Hunter Biden bombshell.As expected, instead of reacting with horror at the corruption (and collusion) that existed on social media during the 2020 election, “journalists” are...

VoterGA released supporting evidence showing Herschel Walker did have 20,000 votes vanish from the amounts being reported by the media during the recent November election. We reported previously on suspect reporting in the 2022 Senate race in Georgia. At one point in the evening, a large chunk of ballots was reported for Democrat Raphael Warnock that put him into the lead. We also reported today that Warnock benefited more than any candidate in the US in the 2022 election from millions in donations from unemployed actors over the past year. This is criminal. Today, VoterGA announced that they found evidence...

The low-income apartment building owned by Sen. Raphael Warnock’s (D., Ga.) church on Wednesday dropped its effort to evict a Vietnam War veteran following a Washington Free Beacon report that he had paid his back rent. Columbia Residential, which manages the Columbia Tower at MLK Village on behalf of Ebenezer Baptist Church, voluntarily dismissed its eviction lawsuit against Phillip White. It is the first time the management company has reversed course on an eviction suit since the Free Beacon exposed Warnock’s connection to the evictions in early October. Warnock maintains that there have been no evictions from his church’s apartment...

We reported in October that musician and entrepreneur Kanye West (who now answers to “Ye”) was set to buy social media platform Parler. In the mix, as my colleague Kira Davis wrote then, was the recent re-upping of a ban on West’s Twitter account. Unless you’ve lived in a bunker for the past few months, you know he’s been mired in controversy over anti-Semetic remarks he’s made, on both social media and during interviews. You may have also heard about an unannounced visit to Mar-a-Lago for dinner.When we last checked in on the guy (Thursday), he was sharing some extraordinarily...

This twitter expose is nuts. I feel like no one , because its Musk , can make it go away. This is the most explicit evidence of conspiracy/fraud EVER! And its in everyones face.

Twitter owner Elon Musk released damning documents exposing the extent of the platform’s efforts to squash the Hunter Biden laptop scandal first reported by the New York Post. Journalist Matt Taibbi, who first reported on the documents Dec. 2, stated that they revealed how Twitter staff and executives over time found “more and more uses” for censorship tools. Specifically, per Taibbi, “Outsiders began petitioning the company to manipulate speech as well: first a little, then more often, then constantly.” In one snapshot dated Oct. 24, 2020, Taibbi stated that “[b]y 2020, requests from connected actors to delete tweets were routine....

The devastated father of murdered University of Idaho student Kaylee Goncalves revealed during a candlelight vigil Wednesday night that she died in the same bed as her longtime best friend, Madison Mogen.“These girls were absolutely beautiful. They’ve been friends since sixth grade … Every day they did homework together, they came to our house together, they shared everything,” Steve Goncalves told a crowd of about 1,000 people at the campus.“They went to high school together, then they started looking at colleges and they came here together, they eventually get into the same apartment together,” he said inside the school’s Kibbie...

An elderly Alabama woman was brought to tears after she was handcuffed, arrested and put in jail by two officers after she failed to pay a $77.80 trash bill - with her community labelling the act as 'shameful.' Martha Menefield, 82, was approached by the officers at her home on Sunday, the City of Valley police insisting that the elderly woman had been treated with respect.

The Democrats on Friday voted to remove Iowa as its first voting state and will replace it with South Carolina. Apparently Iowa is too white. This move was championed by Joe Biden to ‘reflect the party’s diverse electorate.’ AP reported: Democrats voted Friday to remove Iowa as the leadoff state on the presidential nominating calendar and replace it with South Carolina starting in 2024, a dramatic shakeup championed by President Joe Biden to better reflect the party’s deeply diverse electorate. The Democratic National Committee’s rule-making arm made the move to strip Iowa from the position it has held for five...

The Church in Belgium has reported a sharp rise in the number of people asking for their names to be removed from baptismal registers.The Catholic Church in Belgium reported on Wednesday a sharp rise in the number of people asking for their names to be removed from baptismal registers. The Church’s latest annual report, published on Nov. 30, said there were 5,237 such requests in 2021, compared to 1,261 in 2020 and 1,800 in 2019. The Catechism of the Catholic Church says that “baptism seals the Christian with the indelible spiritual mark of his belonging to Christ.” While a person...

One of the strictest gun control laws in the nation is facing a new National Rifle Association-backed legal challenge as a federal judge prepares to decide whether to delay the measure's implementation. Two former Oregon lawmakers, a sporting goods store, the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) and the Oregon State Shooting Association — the NRA's state affiliate — filed the lawsuit Thursday, arguing the voter-approved Measure 114 places "severe and unprecedented burdens" on those seeking to exercise their Second Amendment rights.

Nearly a quarter of countries around the world used physical force to stop religious gatherings in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new study. The study published Tuesday by the Pew Research Center also found religious groups in more than a third of those countries defied the lockdowns. Authorities used physical means, including arrests and prison sentences, to enforce COVID-related mitigation measures in 23% of 198 countries and territories in a study. In the U.S., police in New Jersey arrested 15 people at a rabbi’s funeral that violated the state’s ban on public gatherings, according to the report....

A petition calling for President Zelensky to support a new bill that would completely ban the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church will be taken under consideration by the head of state. Any petition registered on the official site of the President of Ukraine that receives at least 25,000 votes must then be officially considered by the President. As of 1:30 PM, November 29, the petition, authored by Deputy Oleksiy Goncharenko of the European Solidarity Party, has received 25,879 votes. The petition calls for the President to support draft law 8221, “which provides for a ban on the activities of institution subordinate...