Category: Herodotus

There is increasingly convincing evidence that the Vikings set foot in America as early as the tenth century.

There is increasingly convincing evidence that the Vikings set foot in America as early as the tenth century. There is no question that the Amerindians were there much before that. And yet, the glory of “discovering” America goes to Columbus.

Thus, the point is not being the first to discover something, but the last.

—Alvaro de Rújula

Hollerithcaust.

Hollerithcaust.

When you need to racially profile, identify, sort, assign, arrest and transport millions people to their imprisonment and deaths, you have an information technology problem.

You need the services of information experts.

Fascism is capitalism. Don’t let any ignoramus ever try to convince you that it is anything other than capitalism in its purest form.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust

And to think that Henry Kissinger continues to live.

And to think that Henry Kissinger continues to live.

Today 45 years ago.

My friends,

Surely this will be the last opportunity for me to address you. The Air Force has bombed the towers of Radio Portales and Radio Corporación.

My words do not have bitterness but disappointment. May they be a moral punishment for those who have betrayed their oath: soldiers of Chile, titular commanders in chief, Admiral Merino, who has designated himself Commander of the Navy, and Mr. Mendoza, the despicable general who only yesterday pledged his fidelity and loyalty to the Government, and who also has appointed himself Chief of the Carabineros [national police].

Given these facts, the only thing left for me is to say to workers: I am not going to resign!

Placed in a historic transition, I will pay for loyalty to the people with my life. And I say to them that I am certain that the seed which we have planted in the good conscience of thousands and thousands of Chileans will not be shriveled forever.

They have strength and will be able to dominate us, but social processes can be arrested neither by crime nor force. History is ours, and people make history.

Workers of my country: I want to thank you for the loyalty that you always had, the confidence that you deposited in a man who was only an interpreter of great yearnings for justice, who gave his word that he would respect the Constitution and the law and did just that. At this definitive moment, the last moment when I can address you, I wish you to take advantage of the lesson: foreign capital, imperialism, together with the reaction, created the climate in which the Armed Forces broke their tradition, the tradition taught by General Schneider and reaffirmed by Commander Araya, victims of the same social sector which will today be in their homes hoping, with foreign assistance, to retake power to continue defending their profits and their privileges.

I address, above all, the modest woman of our land, the campesina who believed in us, the worker who labored more, the mother who knew our concern for children. I address professionals of Chile, patriotic professionals, those who days ago continued working against the sedition sponsored by professional associations, class-based associations that also defended the advantages which a capitalist society grants to a few.

I address the youth, those who sang and gave us their joy and their spirit of struggle. I address the man of Chile, the worker, the farmer, the intellectual, those who will be persecuted, because in our country fascism has been already present for many hours — in terrorist attacks, blowing up the bridges, cutting the railroad tracks, destroying the oil and gas pipelines, in the face of the silence of those who had the obligation to protect them. They were committed. History will judge them.

Surely Radio Magallanes will be silenced, and the calm metal instrument of my voice will no longer reach you. It does not matter. You will continue hearing it. I will always be next to you. At least my memory will be that of a man of dignity who was loyal to [inaudible] the workers.

The people must defend themselves, but they must not sacrifice themselves. The people must not let themselves be destroyed or riddled with bullets, but they cannot be humiliated either.

Workers of my country, I have faith in Chile and its destiny. Other men will overcome this dark and bitter moment when treason seeks to prevail. Go forward knowing that, sooner rather than later, the great avenues will open again where free men will walk to build a better society.

Long live Chile! Long live the people! Long live the workers!

These are my last words, and I am certain that my sacrifice will not be in vain, I am certain that, at the very least, it will be a moral lesson that will punish felony, cowardice, and treason.

Santiago de Chile, 11 September 1973

At around 12,000 years old, #GöbekliTepe in south-east #Turkey has been billed as the world’s oldest temple.

Originally shared by Ancient History Encyclopedia

At around 12,000 years old, #GöbekliTepe in south-east #Turkey has been billed as the world’s oldest temple. It is many millennia older than Stonehenge or #Egypt’s great pyramids, built in the pre-pottery #Neolithic period before writing or the wheel. But should Göbekli Tepe, which became a #Unesco World Heritage Site in July, also be regarded as the world’s oldest piece of architecture? https://buff.ly/2OLlz5T

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Using observations spanning a period of four years, a team of researchers from Italy found evidence of a large lake…

Using observations spanning a period of four years, a team of researchers from Italy found evidence of a large lake of salty water, buried 1.5 kilometres beneath Mars’ southern polar cap. That lake is at least 20 kilometres across, and seems to be a permanent feature.

https://theconversation.com/discovered-a-huge-liquid-water-lake-beneath-the-southern-pole-of-mars-100523

Australian Aborigines were not farmers and yet they laboriously made bread from grass seeds which they baked under…

Australian Aborigines were not farmers and yet they laboriously made bread from grass seeds which they baked under the coals of a camp fire.

The grains that grow naturally in the Middle East (wheat, barley, lentils etc) are much more nutritious and easier to gather than the Australian varieties. It should perhaps have been more surprising if pre-Neolithic people hadn’t made their own bread with them.

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/worlds-oldest-bread