Whale graveyard in Peru confounds evolutionary theory when radiometric dating destroys normal methods for dating geological stratification and provides evidence of supporting Noah's Flood.
This video is the presentation by one of the scientists leading the investigations. Amazing evidence!!
However, first, here is how the media reports the find and distorts the truth to fit the agenda of those who do not want you to know what the find really means:
Now here is what the scientist working on the project actually found and what it means:
What is the most convincing, the trick of Dawkins, who uses a model and not anything scientifically valid, or the science used to demonstrate that the object high up in the mountains of Ararat is a man-made and fits the dimensions of Noah's Ark?
Have you ever seen a dinosaur created in a museum from a single bone. Or the many difference species of men who were the supposed transitions from monkey to modern day man based on a bone, and this is heralded as breakthrough evidence and proof of evolution.
Evidence to prove the existence of the legendary Noah's Ark, or is this not a big enough bone?
Richard Dawkins' celebrated Blind Watchmaker where he claims he proved universe was created by chance (and by inference that the Creator God does not exist) by using a computer. Dawkins cannot prove evolution using zoology, so he has to use sleight of hand and create an illusion that he has proven his theory of evolution by creating a computer program to demonstrate that the universe was not CREATED, but evolved by chance out of nothing.
What is amazing is how many people want to believe that this trick is proof that no living thing is created but everything evolves out of nothing. It is like the magician Dynamo being suspended in mid air and getting people to believe that he has the power to levitate, when there is a helicopter above with an invisible crane and wires hoisting him up. Or walking on water, when he has a hidden platform to walk on, and so on...
It may surprise you that many people, who claim that they are rational and scientific in their thinking and approach to life, say that the evidence provided to prove the existence of the man-made object up in the Ararat mountains is inconclusive, yet Dawkins' illusion is real proof.
This is a powerful historical document that is verified with current day evidence that most people do not want to admit exists because of what this means.
The truth about the Israelite Exodus and more. Enjoy!!!!! See the Land Bridge. Artifacts of chariots.
Egyptologist's Pharaoh died in a whirlpool fighting a god.
"New historical light on the ancient Egyptian dynasties leads to a massive reconstruction of Egyptian history."
Who Was the Real Pharaoh of the Exodus?
by William F. Dankenbring
Egyptian history has been totally confused by Egyptologists, and as a result the true account of the Exodus of Israel under Moses has been denied, misunderstood, and rejected by world historians and scholars.
But new historical light on the ancient Egyptian dynasties leads to a massive reconstruction of Egyptian history, which fits perfectly with the Biblical account of the Exodus. Read, here, of the Egyptian eye- witness to the divine plagues which struck Egypt, the collapse of the greatest Dynasty of Egypt up to that time, and the amazing proven identity of the Pharaoh of that epochal upheaval in Egypt whose life was cut short as he perished in the maelstrom of the Red Sea.
The Pharaoh of the Exodus Period
The last Pharaoh of the Twelfth Dynasty was Amenemhet IV. He reigned only nine years, the
shortest reign of all Pharaohs of the Tweflth Dynasty. Declares Ted Stewart of this Pharaoh:
“He suddenly and mysteriously disappeared from the pages of history. Neither his
pyramid nor his tomb have ever been found. Neither his firstborn son, nor any other
of his sons, succeeded him to the throne. Instead, his wife/sister became ruler of
Egypt in his place.
“When Amenemhet IV’s wife died three and one half years later, the twelfth dynasty,
the most powerful and glorious Egyptian dynasty up to that time of history, mysteriously
fell. The rulership of Egypt was immediately divided into two dynasties, one of them
controlled by the Libyans” (ibid., p.240).
Amenemhet IV is this short-reigned Pharaoh who was cut off in the prime of life, and died
mysteriously after having reigned only nine years. How did he die?
The Awesome Death of Pharaoh
The black granitic monolithic shrine of el-Arish tells of events in a very early time, to King Thom
and his successor. The name of King Thom is written in a royal cartouche, pointing to the historical
character of the text.
The text speaks of the days of darkness which came over the land, and the great affliction which
fell over the earth. It speaks of the tempest that roared, so that no man could see the face of his neighbor.
During this savage time of affliction, and upheaval of nature, the text says that "his majesty of
Shou" assembled his forces and ordered them to follow him to regions where they would again see light.
We read, ". . . his majesty of Shou went to battle against the companions of Apopi." Apopi was the fierce god of darkness. The king and his army never returned.
Says the shrine:
Now when the majesty of Ra-Harmachis fought with the evil-doers in this pool, the Place of the Whirlpool, the evil-doers prevailed not over his majesty. His majesty leaped into the so-called Place of the Whirlpool.
Where was this strange-sounding event? What was this "Whirlpool" and to what does this strange
story allude? The shrine says:
His Majesty (here the words are missing) finds on this place called Pi-Kharoti. 14 14
A few lines later it says the king was thrown by a great force. He was thrown by the whirlpool
high into the air. He departed to heaven. He departed this life.
Where is this "Pi- Kharoti"?
The book of Exodus gives us the answer!
EXODUS 14:9 But the Egyptians pursued after them, all the horses and chariots of Pharaoh . . . and overtook them encamping by the sea, beside Pi-ha-hiroth (Khiroth).
Pi-Kharoti is the Pi-Khiroth of the Hebrew text! This is the very place where Pharaoh and all his
hosts came upon the fleeing Israelites as they were camped. This is the same place where Pharaoh met
his fate in the maelstrom of the Red Sea -- the place of the "Whirlpool." The Egyptian story says he went to "heaven," a euphemism for the fact that he perished and never returned!
The shrine's inscription continues, saying the son of the Pharaoh, "his majesty Geb," set out to
find his missing father. "He asks information." People who witnessed the passage of his father "give him the information about all that happened to Rain Yat Nebes, the combats of the king Thoum." Those with the prince Geb on his journey perish by a terrible blast, and the prince himself sustains terrible burnsbefore he gives up his expedition.
Meanwhile, the shrine continues, invaders approaching by way of Yat Nebes came into Egypt
and overpowered the country, and conquered only to destroy. "These rebels, they came from the
mountains of the Orient by all the ways of Yat Nebes." These invaders, of course, were the Amalekites --
the cruel and barbarous Hyksos.
The prince retreated before the invaders and did not return to Heliopolis. In helplessness, he
retreated to a provincial residence away from the carnage being wreaked in his homeland by the hordes
of "Apopi."
The inscription at el-Arish says the name of the Pharaoh who perished in the Whirlpool was
Thom or Toum. Pi-Thom means "the abode of Thom." Pithom was one of the names of the two cities
built by the Israelite slaves for the Pharaoh of the Oppression.
The Egyptian historian Manetho calls the name of the Pharaoh who ruled Egypt just before the
invasion of the Hyksos "Tutimaeus or Timaios."
Josephus, the Jewish historian of the first century, quotes Manetho in Against Apion, as follows:
I will quote his (Manetho's) own words, just as if I had produced the man himself in the witness
box:
"Tutimaeus. In his reign, I know not why, a blast of God's displeasure broke upon us.
"A people of ignoble origin from the east, whose coming was unforeseen, had the
audacity to invade the country, which they mastered by main force without any difficulty
or even a battle." 15 15
This "blast of God's displeasure" was the mighty judgments that the Almighty God poured upon
the Egyptians for their cruelty and refusal to allow the children of Israel to leave the country in peace! It
was a divine blast of wind, that caused the towering walls of the Red Sea to crash down upon Pharaoh
and his whole army. As Psalm 136 says, God “swept Pharaoh and his army into the Red Sea” (verse 15, NIV).
Thom, Thoum, or Titimaeus – was the Pharaoh who was known as Amenemhet IV. He was,
therefore, the historical Pharaoh of the Exodus! He was the last Pharaoh of the Middle Kingdom, before
the Hyksos or Amalekites ruled Egypt for 400 years, until the time of king Saul of Israel.
The Jewish historian Josephus also notes that this Pharaoh only had a short reign, before he was
drowned in the Red Sea. In Antiquities of the Jews, he writes:
“[Moses] . . . came to the king, who had indeed but lately received the government,
and told him how much he had done for the good of the Egyptians . . .” (II,13, 2).
Since this Pharaoh had only recently – a few years previously – come to the throne, and died in
the Exodus, it follows that his reign was cut short. This fact itself proves that the usual candidates or listof suspects proposed for the Pharaoh of the Exodus are all wrong. Thutmose II reigned 54 years;
Amenhotep II reigned 5 years; and Ramses II reigned 67 years!
Josephus writes of the ignominious death of this Pharaoh, Amenemhet IV, and his host:
“As soon, therefore, as ever the whole Egyptian army was in it [the Red Sea], the sea flowed to its own place, and came down by a torrent raised by storms of wind, and encompassed the Egyptians. Showers of rain also came down from the sky, and dreadful thunders and lightning, with flashes of fire.
Thunderbolts also were darted upon them; nor was there anything which used to be sent by God upon men as indications of his wrath which did not happen at this time, for a dark and dismal night oppressed them. And thus did all these men perish, so that there was not one man left to be a messenger
of this calamity to the rest of the Egyptians” (Ant. 2, 16, 3).
This awesome deliverance inspired the Hebrews, Josephus relates, as no such overwhelming
deliverance had ever before occurred for any people in all history, to spend the following day and night
singing songs of joy and deliverance, praise and glory to God, rejoicing and laughing and celebrating
with all their hearts.
Following this Exodus, Egypt was left prostrate, virtually defenceless against foreign intruders
and enemies. Soon after this, the Hyksos – Asiatics known as the Amalekites in the Bible, descended
from Esau – invaded Egypt, and ruled the land for about 400 years. They were a fierce and barbarous
people. Moses and Israel encountered them, and fought with them, about a month after they crossed the
Red Sea into Arabia (Exo.17:8-16).
During the centuries of the Hyksos domination of Egypt, there was no literary activity in the land.
During that time, Israel and Palestine were free from Egyptian domination or influence. Therefore,
during the 400 years of the period of the Judges, we find no mention or evidence of any Egyptian
excursions into Palestine. All the battles of Israel were with her Palestinian neighbors and enemies. But
Egypt is strangely silent and absent. But of course! Egypt was having her own problems with the
domination of the Hyksos, or Amalekites! 16 16
The whole picture fits together like a perfect jigsaw puzzle. All the pieces fit beautifully.
But what, then about the famous Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt, which threw off the yoke of the
Hyksos? How does Thutmose III and Amenhotep II fit into the picture? When did they live?
The Blossoming of Israel
By the time of king Solomon of Israel, the kingdom of Israel had become a mighty world power.
Solomon reigned over all the land from the Euphrates to the borders of Egypt. He was the lord of a
mighty kingdom with fleets that sailed around the globe with the fleets of Hiram, king of Tyre. During
this time of relative world peace, Egypt also flourished after throwing off the yoke of the Hyksos. Egypt's
greatest dynasty arose -- the Eighteenth, of the New Kingdom.
During the days of Solomon, he had a famous visitor -- the Queen of Sheba. At this time, the
great and celebrated ruler of Egypt and Ethiopia was Hatshepsut, a powerful and wise Queen. Egyptian
records show that during her reign Hatshepsut visited a land well known to the Egyptians, called "Punt,"
where she gave magnificent gifts, and received fabulous gifts in return. Upon her return to Egypt, she
built a magnificent temple, in the Valley of the Nile, against the cliffs -- a temple unlike any previous
Egyptian temple. It was simple in its architecture, and inscribed with paintings of the tremendous
treasure she brought back from "Punt."
During this same time Solomon was receiving tremendous treasures from around the world,
brought to him by the fleets he sent out. Gold from Ophir, apes, peacocks, algum trees, and spices --
there was no end to his wealth and treasure. Who was this "Queen of Sheba" who visited Solomon in his magnificence?
The word "Punt" comes from the name of Pontus, the ancestor of the Phoenicians. Thus "Punt"
was another name for Phoenicia or Palestine! Hatshepsut was none other than the Queen of Sheba (she
ruled Ethiopia and Egypt). The emperors of Ethiopia have always traced their lineage back to Solomon
and the Queen of Sheba -- and they are right!
Josephus clearly identifies the Queen of Sheba with the "woman who at that time ruled as queen
of Egypt and Ethiopia" (Antiquities 8, 6, 5).
Punt was also called "Divine Land," or "God's Land." It was located toward the sunrise. It was a
land affiliated with Egypt, not a foreign country. The inhabitants of this happy land were white men of a
north-Semitic or Caucasian race.
On the walls of her temple in the Valley of the Nile, "The Most Splendid of Splendors," copied
after the Temple in Jerusalem, are bas-reliefs depicting the life and trip of Hatshepsut to "Punt" or "the
Holy Land." A comparison of these bas-reliefs with the beautiful situation of God's Temple in Jerusalem, and the marvels the Queen saw in "Punt," clearly shows Hatshepsut was the Queen who visited Solomon in all his glory, and marveled at his wisdom and prosperity.
You can read the entire comparison in Immanuel Velikovsky's Ages in Chaos, in which he
straightens out much of the historical record of that period. 17 17
Since Hatshepsut corresponds to the time of Solomon, then her son, Thutmose III, the "Napoleon
of ancient Egypt," would correspond to a mighty Egyptian ruler who ruled contemporary with Solomon's son, Rehoboam.
Does this identification fit?
Thutmose was a mighty conqueror. The records of his military successes adorn the walls of the
great Amon Temple in Karnak. A list of 119 cities in Palestine is engraved three times on the walls of theTemple. Since Thutmose's victorious march through Palestine occurred after the reign of his mother,
Hatshepsut, who reigned contemporary with Solomon, Thutmose reigned contemporary with Rehoboam,Solomon' son. Surely the chronicles of ancient Judah and Israel could not have overlooked this victoriousEgyptian campaign!
Indeed, they do not.
Thutmose III led his army into Palestine, and defeated the enemy arraigned against him at
Megiddo. After Megiddo fell, the king conquered 118 other cities. The most important, and first on his
list, was a city called simply "Kadesh." Where was this city? Who was its king?
Investigators have been puzzled why so many cities were listed in Palestine, yet the name of
Jerusalem was not mentioned in the text. But this Kadesh could not be the Kadesh on the Orontes in
northern Syria. The list of cities is of Palestinian cities, not Syrian cities. Secondly, Kadesh is listed first,even before Megiddo, where the king fought his greatest battle. Obviously, Kadesh was considered evenmore important!
The word "kadesh" in Hebrew means "holy." This was a "holy city." Is Jerusalem ever called "the
holy city"?
In many places in the Scriptures, Jerusalem is referred to as “my mount kadesh,” “my mountain
kadesh,” “thy city kadesh” (Psalm 2:6, Joel 2:1, Isa. 66:20). Daniel refers to Jerusalem as “thy city
kadesh” (Dan. 9:24). The “Holy Land” and “Holy City” were names given to Palestine and Jerusalem
from early times. Therefore, it is no strange thing for the Pharaoh Thutmose III to refer to Jerusalem by
this common name used for it at that time! Kadesh, “Holy,” referred directly to Jerusalem, regarded as
the “Holy City.”
During this time, when the Temple of Solomon stood, it was especially so regarded by the
envious peoples of the surrounding nations!
Do the Scriptures also speak of this time of invasion and humiliation for the Jews and Rehoboam,
when Jerusalem was attacked and conquered?
We read, "And it came to pass, in the fifth year of king Rehoboam. Shishak king of Egypt came
up against Jerusalem . . . . With twelve hundred chariots, and threescore thousand horsemen: and the
people were without number that came with him out of Egypt; the Lubim (Libyans), the Sukkiim, and the
Ethiopians. And he took the fenced cities which pertained to Judah, and came to Jerusalem" (II Chron.
12:2-4).
Jerusalem opened its gates to Thutmose III without offering any further resistance. Thutmose, or 18 18
Shishak) "took away the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the treasures of the king's house; he took
all; he carried away also the shields of gold which Solomon had made" (II Chron. 12:9).
These treasures are reproduced upon a wall of the Karnak temple. The bas-reliefs display in ten
rows the legendary wealth of Solomon, including vessels and utensils of the Temple, of the palace, the
golden altar, the brazen altar, the shewbread (gold and silver), and the candlesticks. If all Thutmose III's booty had been painted on the Temple wall, it would have been a mile long! But instead numerical signs were marked beneath each picture to illustrate the quantity!
If Thutmose III lived 600 years before Solomon, how could he have possibly captured such a
treasure trove which didn't yet even exist?
The Temple pillaged by this king was an extremely rich and significant Temple, with tremendous
wealth. It could be none other than the Temple pillaged by Shishak, in the time of Rehoboam, son of
Solomon! No wonder Thutmose III was looked upon as such a mighty conqueror!
Amenhotep II
Now what about the son of Thutmose III, Amenhotep II? Can we identify him in the Scriptures?
Amenhotep II marched against Palestine and Syria after the death of his father, to suppress
rebellion. In the ninth year of his reign, he repeated his expedition, this time going against some
unimportant villages. On his next visit he did battle only one day after leaving the border of Egypt, and
then retreated. This battle had to have been in southern Palestine.
How victorious was Amenhotep II at this battle? His booty consisted of the following: 2 horses, 1
chariot, a coat of mail, 2 bows, and one quiver of arrows, a corselet, and one other object which cannot
be deciphered! Truly this was an amazing victory! Afterwards, instead of marching forward into enemy
territory to capture more booty, the king retreated into Egypt! Is this battle also mentioned in the Bible?
Zerah the Ethiopian
The grandson of Rehoboam was Asa, who built fortified cities throughout Judah. Asa had an
army of 580,000 men from Judah and Benjamin (II Chron. 14:8).
During his reign, "there came out against them Zerah the Ethiopian with a host of 1,000,000, and
300 chariots; and came unto Mareshah" (II Chron. 14:9-10).
During this battle, Asa prayed for God's divine help, and he received it. "So the Lord smote the
Ethiopians before Asa, and before Judah; and the Ethiopians fled" (v.12). Asa achieved a magnificent
victory, and the Egyptians and Ethiopians fled the scene of battle! Amenhotep II was none other than
Zerah the Ethiopian. Moreshah, where this battle took place, is in southern Palestine, where Amenhotep
conquered "horses 2, chariots 1," etc.!
Clearly, as we have seen, the Exodus of Israel did not occur during the 18th Dynasty in Egypt at
all! It occurred at the end of the Middle Kingdom, at the end of the 12th Dynasty, during the reign of
Amenemhet IV, the last Pharaoh of the glorious Middle Kingdom. Egyptian history, rightly interpreted,
Here's one for your "Forbidden Archaeology" file.Scientists are remaining stubbornly silent about a lost race of giants found in burial mounds near Lake Delavan, Wisconsin, in May 1912. The dig site at Lake Delavan was overseen by Beloit College and it included more than 200 effigy mounds that proved to be classic examples of 8th century Woodland Culture. But the enormous size of the skeletons and elongated skulls found in May 1912 did not fit very neatly into anyone's concept of a textbook standard. They were enormous. These were not average human beings.
Their heights ranged between 7.6ft and 10 feet and their skulls "presumably those of men, are much larger than the heads of any race which inhabit America to-day." They tend to have a double row of teeth, 6 fingers, 6 toes and like humans came in differant races. The teeth in the front of the jaw are regular molars. Heads usually found are elongated believed due to longer than normal life span.
" One must wonder how much can they lift if twice the size of a average human today? Are these the Giants the Bible & many other civilizations have in their history and painted on their walls. The Bible in Genisis 6:4 " There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old men of renown. " Now this is faulty logic to any scientist out there because I am using religous/cultural history to fill a hole in science.
Over 200 Giant digs have been found in recent years. Giant skeleton finds have not made the local/national news since the 1950's for the most part. It seems in most peoples opinion do to the fear that people would question evolution . If anything a de-evolution.
In 2002, National Geographic reported a dozen Cyclops skeletons found in Greece that stood 12-15 1/2 Ft tall. That is 3 humans tall. One eye socket. Giants in history are typically cannibalistic in nature. The reason why I am bringing up giants will all tie into politics, and word happenings. Look at a basketball hoop and add 5 feet. That tall. Greek Mythology talks about war with cyclops learning they had to bring down by taking out their legs rendering them slow and helpless. American Giants (Red Hair Giants) where found with egyptian writing on their tombs have been found in multiple locations.
Was this some sort of prank, a hoax played by local farm boys or a demented taxidermist for fun and the attention of the press? The answer is no.
The Lake Delavan find of May 1912 was only one of dozens and dozens of similar findsthat were reported in local newspapers from 1851 forward to the present day. It was not even the first set of giant skeletons found in Wisconsin.
On 10 August 1891, the New York Times reported that scientists from the SmithsonianInstitution had discovered several large "pyramidal monuments" on Lake Mills, near Madison, Wisconsin. "Madison was in ancient days the centre of a teeming population numbering not less than 200,000," the Times said. The excavators found an elaborate system of defensive works which they named Fort Aztalan.
"The celebrated mounds of Ohio and Indiana can bear no comparison, either in size, design or the skill displayed in their construction with these gigantic and mysterious monuments of earth -- erected we know not by whom, and for what purpose we can only conjecture," said the Times.
"In it was found the skeleton of a man of gigantic size. The bones measured from head to foot over nine feet and were in a fair state of preservation. The skull was as large as a half bushel measure. Some finely tempered rods of copper and other relics were lying near the bones."
Giant skulls and skeletons of a race of "Goliaths" have been found on a very regular basis throughout the Midwestern states for more than 100 years. Giants have been found in Minnesota, Iowa, Illinois, Ohio, Kentucky and New York, and their burial sites are similar to the well-known mounds of the Mound Builder people.
The spectrum of Mound builder history spans a period of more than 5,000 years (from 3400 BCE to the 16th CE), a period greater than the history of Ancient Egypt and all of its dynasties.
There is a "prevailing scholarly consensus" that we have an adequate historical understanding of the peoples who lived in North America during this period. However, the long record of anomalous finds like those at Lake Delavan suggests otherwise.
The Great Smithsonian Cover-Up
Has there been a giant cover-up? Why aren't there public displays of gigantic Native American skeletons at natural history museums?
The skeletons of some Mound Builders are certainly on display. There is a wonderful exhibit, for example, at the Aztalan State Park where one may see the skeleton of a "Princess of Aztalan" in the museum.
But the skeletons placed on display are normal-sized, and according to some sources, the skeletons of giants have been covered up.
Specifically, the Smithsonian Institution has been accused of making a deliberate effort to hide the "telling of the bones" and to keep the giant skeletons locked away.
In the words of Vine Deloria, a Native American author and professor of law:
"Modern day archaeology and anthropology have nearly sealed the door on our imaginations, broadly interpreting the North American past as devoid of anything unusual in the way of great cultures characterized by a people of unusual demeanor. The great interloper of ancient burial grounds, the nineteenth century Smithsonian Institution, created a one-way portal, through which uncounted bones have been spirited. This door and the contents of its vault are virtually sealed off to anyone, but government officials. Among these bones may lay answers not even sought by these officials concerning the deep past."
Two Giant Skeletons Near Potosi, WI
The January 13th, 1870 edition of the Wisconsin Decatur Republican reported that two giant, well-preserved skeletons of an unknown race were discovered near Potosi, WI by workers digging the foundation of a saw mill near the bank of the Mississippi river. One skeleton measured seven-and-a-half feet, the other eight feet. The skulls of each had prominent cheek bones and double rows of teeth. A large collection of arrowheads and "strange toys" were found buried with the remains.
On December 20th, 1897 the New York Times reported that three large burial mounds had been discovered near Maple Creek, WI. Upon excavation, a skeleton measuring over nine feet from head to toe was discovered with finely tempered copper rods and other relics.
Giant Skeleton in West Bend, WI
A giant skeleton was unearthed outside of West Bend near Lizard Mound County Park and assembled by local farmers to a height of eight feet. More about this can be found inWashington County Paranormal: A Wisconsin Legend Trip by local author and investigator J. Nathan Couch.
While a normal-sized skeleton of a supposed mound builder (the "Princess of Aztalan") is on display at the site of several large pyramidal monuments near Madison called Aztalan State Park, the goliath remains of Wisconsin's giants have vanished along with the hundreds of others discovered throughout the midwest.
Many have accused the Smithsonian Institution of covering up these discoveries, locking the giant skeletons away and depriving the public of their findings.
Or more to the point: This Discovery Makes Bee Die-Off Problem That Much Worse
Heather Callaghan
Activist Post
Many arrows point to the bee decline. A Harvard professor recently warned that Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) is only the beginning for us. The ripple effect from new classes of pesticides is just getting started.
But there's more...
The problems they face can be compared to a kaleidoscope, where the shapes are layered, interconnected, many and morphing.
It's not only pesticides that lead to pollinator death - it's more. It's other things, the combination of things, thought to be harmless to bees and to humans.
Quartz reported last year:
Scientists had struggled to find the trigger for so-called Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) that has wiped out an estimated 10 million beehives, worth $2 billion, over the past six years. Suspects have included pesticides, disease-bearing parasites and poor nutrition. But in a first-of-its-kind study published today in the journal PLOS ONE, scientists at the University of Maryland and the US Department of Agriculture have identified a witch’s brew of pesticides and fungicides contaminating pollen that bees collect to feed their hives. The findings break new ground on why large numbers of bees are dying though they do not identify the specific cause of CCD, where an entire beehive dies at once.
Researchers fed pollen to bees from hives on the East Coast finding that the study bees were more likely to succumb to a parasite that can help lead to Colony Collapse Disorder. In the pollen it was discovered that there was a chemical cocktail of nine different pesticides and fungicides. One sample showed 21 chemicals and the bees exposed to fungicidal food were three times as likely to catch the parasite. (source)
In short, fungicides, thought to be safe to those that aren't fungi, are an oft-overlooked bee killer - especially when combined with others, where the effects are not seen immediately.
"Inert" ingredients are often worse than the main ingredients of chemical pesticides (Marla Spivak, below) - the combo of ingredients creates a multiplying effect. Neonicotinoids synergize with some fungicides heavily introduced in the mid-2000s when we saw a sharp bee drop-off. That makes fungicides more toxic to them and kills the immune response needed to withstand gut pathogens. This PAN writer explains the train wreck very well.
It's the cocktail mixture that does them in... Furthermore, there are spraying practices to consider, according to the researchers. Although they pull their focus away from neonicotinoids, it should not be forgotten that neonics are often treated on the seed, sometimes on the ground - they permeate the whole plant and do not wash off. They are indeed indicative of CCD. Sadly, the pollen samples tested on the bees were from wild weeds and flowers, not crop plantation, signifying that chemical residues do not stay with ag fields.
Picture someone with severe chemical sensitivity and all the health problems that come with it like new allergies and digestive disorders. At one point, the cumulative effect of toxins reached a tipping point. Even catching a whiff of just one more chemical sends them into sickness.
It's not just one problem that pollinators face...
Marla Spivak in the talk above pointed out the same parallel that a Harvard professor recently did regarding the loss of our bees - that with all the burdens they are trying to survive, they are holding up a large mirror for us. Is the human race to follow the path of pollinators, on its way to collapse?
Heather Callaghan is a natural health blogger and food freedom activist. You can see her work at NaturalBlaze.com
Many atheists claim that they were once Christians, but they were not. Even if they masqueraded as a Christian for some time in their lives, this does not mean they were ever a Christian. A Christian has to be genuine.
C.S. Lewis was an atheist, but then he genuinely thought he had buried God in the grave once and for all. Only because he was genuine and not just a bag of wind, C.S. Lewis had an encounter with the resurrected Jesus Christ.
An argument that often surfaces is that if God were real He would not ask Abraham to sacrifice his son Isaac.
The reason Abraham was willing to sacrifice his son Isaac is because he believed God could raise the dead.
Isaac was born of a woman who was childless and had ceased menstruating for at least ten years.
Believing that God can raise the dead is one of the criteria of becoming a Christian.
Another claim of atheists is Science evaluates and makes judgments as to the worth of a thing, whether it is true or false. This gives the impression that Science is the name of a person who has the power to do this.
Death is a better judge than science if we are talking figuratively. This is because death reigns.
The truth is death is not a person, therefore it cannot judge. To make a judgment implies a sense of morality, which is the ability to discern right from wrong, good from evil, truth from deceit.
Nevertheless, as far as people are concerned, this is the truth: death reigns!! And here is another truth: not one person asked to be born.
We all know the truth is not one person asks to be born just to die. This is futile. This spells out a meaningless existence for us all. We all expect more.
An atheist will babble on and make many comments and noises about what they imagine is meaningful about futility and even refuse to acknowledge futility exists in the fact that we are born just to die. This is because such people are not honest with themselves. Such people like to think that they are brilliant. Such people may as well stand in front of the mirror and blow kisses at the image of themselves. This way they can imagine how it must feel to be kissed.
Atheists are all mouth with little substance, like the wind. Blowhards without any answer that can be proven as far as God is concerned.
Whether an atheist ever becomes a Christian or not is not my responsibility, nor concern. Each person is responsible for his or her own decisions and actions and is held accountable at death by the One who judges all humankind as to whether they sought the truth or preferred to believe lies.
You have to admit, it is baffling why an atheist would feel it incumbent upon himself (or herself) to prove to other people the non-existence of the Infinite God who encompasses the finite universe in which we live.
Surely, since they believe we are nothing but animals, they would be content to do what all the other animals do: eat, drink, sleep, age, procreate and die....unless there is some other internalized pang that gnaws the inner sanctum of their ignorance, which says: GOD EXISTS and you need to get to know HIM before you die, otherwise your life will be judged as meaningless.
The Following is what the Guardian took down off its website:
girigirihanasu 27 Aug 2014 11:49 The Guardian and the PC establishment is complicit in creating the climate of PC fear which, it seems, was the reason these monsters weren't stopped earlier.
I used to live in High Wycombe. I bought a house on the edge of large Pakistani area, 100 yards from a mosque. The house was on a street that was almost 100% non-Pakistani. Regularly on a Sunday night, gangs of Pakistani children would run down our street throwing eggs at windows and daubing graffiti (mostly obscene, sometimes along the lines of 'kuffars') on doors. My neighbours and I grew fed up with this, so we went to see the local Imam. He apologised profusely and the 'raids' ceased immediately. All well and good... except when I related the story to some of my Guardian-wielding accusers they accused me of being a racist. "How do you know they were Pakistani? What does it matter?" etc etc. I was made to feel like some sort of Nazi thug, even though I had happily bought a house in a Muslim area whereas my Guardian reading friends lived in leafy, all-white suburbs. And not only that, I had made the local Imam a personal friend. It made me very sensitive to the PC though police and how it was controlling our society. After that it was very easy to spot PC thought police at work.
The 'Asian sex grooming' gangs story broke a few years ago, but of course it was only papers such as the Daily Mail that gave it any sort of realistic coverage. The word amongst the leafy suburb-dwelling PC brigade was that it was along the lines of "of course the DM would print that sort of rubbish" and anyone who thought the story was true, or that it pointed to an underlying problem of greater proportions, was accused of being an islamophobe or a nasty waycist.
This is the climate under which the Rotherham social services probably worked. Decent staff in fear of their jobs, and PC staff protecting their PC credentials. Nothing, absolutely nothing, is more precious to the politically correct than their PC credentials. They will turn a blind eye to abuse, rape even... it took a murder for them to reluctantly stir themselves into some sort of action.
By showering all and sundry with ridiculous accusations of racism, bigotry and (ludicrously) 'islamophobia' , the 'elite' (=comfortable leafy suburb-dwelling condescending self-righteous pompous pillocks) have created a climate in which it was easy for these thugs to commit their crimes.
About 1,400 children were sexually exploited in a northern England town, a report concluded in a damning account of failures by authorities to prevent victims as young as 11 from being beaten, raped and trafficked...
Q: When is the sexual abuse of children culturally, socially and politically acceptable?
A: When it's committed with industrial efficiency by organised gangs of mainly Pakistani men in English Northern towns like Burnley, Oldham and Rotherham, of course.
But obviously you're not allowed to admit this or you might sound racist. That's why, for example, in today's BBC report into the fact that at least 1400 children were subjected to "appalling" sexual abuse in Rotherham between 1997 and 2013, you have to wade 20 paragraphs in before finally you discover the ethnic identity of the perpetrators.
And even then, the embarrassing fact slips out only with the most blushing mealy-mouthedness:
By far the majority of perpetrators of abuse were described as "Asian" by victims.
Well hang on, a second. What this phrase seems to be hinting at is the possibility that the men involved weren't "Asian" (note to US readers: Asian is UK PC-speak for Indians, Pakistanis, Bangladeshis, not orientals) but that the victims mistakenly took them to be so. Is that actually the case or not?
Let's have a look at the names of the Rotherham men found guilty by Sheffield Crown Court in 2010 of raping or sexually abusing girls as young as 12 shall we. Maybe that'll help.
Zafran Ramzan
Razwan Razaq
Umar Razaq
Adil Hussain
Mohsin Khan
Nope. Absolutely no clues there, then...
Still, let's suppose for a moment that the names of the gang members had been, say, John Smith, Barry Thorpe, Arthur Ramsbotham and Quentin Fforbes-Smythe. Are we seriously to believe that they would have been permitted to spend over a decade grooming, trafficking, drugging and raping young girls without arousing the concern of Rotherham Council's extensive social services department or the attentions of the local police?
I doubt it, somehow. It's not as if we're talking here about sporadic instances of carefully concealed abuse which anyone could be forgiven for not having noticed. We're talking about flagrant sexual abuse on an epic scale. Here is what today's independent Inquiry has to say:
In just over a third of cases, children affected by sexual exploitation were previously known to services because of child protection and neglect. It is hard to describe the appalling nature of the abuse that child victims suffered. They were raped by multiple perpetrators, trafficked to other towns and cities in the north of England, abducted, beaten, and intimidated. There were examples of children who had been doused in petrol and threatened with being set alight, threatened with guns, made to witness brutally violent rapes and threatened they would be next if they told anyone. Girls as young as 11 were raped by large numbers of male perpetrators.
This abuse is not confined to the past but continues to this day. In May 2014, the caseload of the specialist child sexual exploitation team was 51. More CSE cases were held by other children's social care teams. There were 16 looked after children who were identified by children’s social care as being at serious risk of sexual exploitation or having been sexually exploited. In 2013, the Police received 157 reports concerning child sexual exploitation in the Borough.
Over the first twelve years covered by this Inquiry, the collective failures of political and officer leadership were blatant. From the beginning, there was growing evidence that child sexual exploitation was a serious problem in Rotherham. This came from those working in residential care and from youth workers who knew the young people well.
Within social care, the scale and seriousness of the problem was underplayed by senior managers. At an operational level, the Police gave no priority to CSE, regarding many child victims with contempt and failing to act on their abuse as a crime. Further stark evidence came in 2002, 2003 and 2006 with three reports known to the Police and the Council, which could not have been clearer in their description of the situation in Rotherham. The first of these reports was effectively suppressed because some senior officers disbelieved the data it contained. This had led to suggestions of cover- up. The other two reports set out the links between child sexual exploitation and drugs, guns and criminality in the Borough. These reports were ignored and no action was taken to deal with the issues that were identified in them.
The local authorities, in other words, knew exactly what was going on. Yet still they did nothing. Why?
Well we've already answered that, pretty much. It's because the kind of politically correct, left-leaning and basically rather thick people that local authorities like Rotherham Council tend to have working for them are so paralysed by modish concerns about cultural sensitivity that they have made an obscene judgement call: better to allow at least 1400 kids to be hideously abused than to be thought guilty of the far greater crimes of being thought a bit racist or accidentally offending someone.
(And this isn't an incident confined to Rotherham by the way. The same thing happened recently in Oxford, again involving men with decidedly un-Anglo-Saxon names, again over a long period of time because all the relevant authorities were scared of sounding the alarm in case they came across as racist)
Yep, these people really are that thick and warped. They've had it drilled into them - probably on courses like this one, organised by Common Purpose - that they must celebrate "diversity" at every opportunity. And if that means letting a few Pakistani men rape kids, douse them with petrol and threaten them with guns, well who are we to judge? Quite possibly it's one of those vital cultural differences that we'll be trained better to understand when we attend our next Common Purpose course with some title like Embracing The Other: Leadership Strategies For Multicultural Community Development. Till then, let's not be quick to cast the first stone, eh? After all, there may be aspects of ourculture that they find equally alien and troubling. The rule of law say; respect for women; children's rights; trendy Western liberal crap like that...
