Speech made by President Fidel Castro Ruz, at the ceremony for the 51st anniversary of the attack on the Moncada and Carlos Manuel de Cespedes fortresses. Santa Clara, July 26, 2004. Dear fellow Cubans; Distinguished guests: On this 51st anniversary of the attack on the Moncada fortress on July 26, 1953 I shall address a sinister character that keeps threatening, insulting and slandering us. This is not a whim or an agreeable option; it is a necessity and a duty. On June 2...
THE ARYAN MYTH To even suggest a division between Western and non-Western civilizations is chauvinistic. Essentially, the notion of a continuous stream of history, extending from Greece, through Rome, to Europe, is a contrivance that resulted from specific trends in scholarship, that sought to isolate Greece, among the ancient civilizations, as the ancestor of modern Europe. Effectively, it was Europe’s military successes against the Ottoman Turks, and the beginnings of colonialist expan...
Dave Ramsden June 17, 2004 Most of us are aware of the extreme inflation that paper money experienced in the German Weimar republic in the 1920's. Many of us have also heard of the paper money collapse in Eighteenth century France under John Law. We are also aware of rampant inflation and fiscal crises in various third world countries from time to time. You have probably also heard that the Chinese were the first to use paper currency . What was not clear to me was whether the Chine...
By Russell M. Drake Said by some to be more dangerous than Osama bin-Laden, he has been condemned as a "war maniac," called a "moron" by the Canadian prime minister’s chief spokeswoman, ridiculed as "The English Patient" for his struggles with language, and likened to Adolf Hitler. Of all the labels hung on George W. Bush, the hardest to shake may be the comparison with Hitler. Perhaps the clearest likeness between the two men lies in their use of emotionally induced hypnosis to plan...
Here is the transcript of Lyndon LaRouche's interview with Jeff Rense, on July 12, 2004. [unproofed] RENSE: And, welcome back.... We are almost in the middle of July already, the year 2004. It is a Presidential campaign year. The campaign is in full swing, and it is a great honor to have back with us, for this first hour tonight, one of - in my humble estimation - one of the finest American politicians, and I mean that in the {human} sense. This man is a true American. And when he talks, ...
The "Quiet War" Against Humanity By Henry Makow Ph.D. July 17, 2004 The truth is at once simpler and more incredible than anyone could conceive. A satanic cult headquartered in the City of London holds mankind in bondage. They worship Lucifer and are determined to redefine reality and rule the planet. If you owned an unseemly proportion of the world's wealth, would you share it with the ignorant masses? Wouldn't you teach that God is dead, and Truth and Justice are purely subj...
THRACIAN - PELASGIAN & MACEDONIAN THRACE - region, 3,310 sq mi, SE Europe, occupying the southeastern tip of the Balkan Peninsula and comprising NE Greece, S Bulgaria, and European Turkey. It is bordered by the Black Sea in the northeast and the Sea of Marmara and Aegean Sea in the south. Tens of thousands of years ago the Balkans, as in much of the rest of Europe, held sparse populations of small, close-knit clans of nomadic hunters and gatherers near fresh water sources. Several prehi...
The Central-Asian steppe has been the home of nomad tribes for centuries. Being nomads, they roamed across the plains, incidentally attacking the urbanized countries to the south, east and west. The first to describe the life style of these tribes was a Greek researcher, Herodotus, who lived in the fifth century BCE. Although he concentrates on the tribes living in modern Ukraine, which he calls Scythians, we may extrapolate his description to people in Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekista...
The Ainu People "Ainu" means "human." The Ainu people regard things useful to them or beyond their control as "kamuy"(gods). In daily life, they prayed to and performed various ceremonies for the gods. These gods include : "nature" gods, such as of fire, water, wind and thunder ; "animal" gods, such as of bears, foxes, spotted owls and gram-puses ; "plant" gods, such as of aconite, mush-room and mugwort ; "object" gods, such as of boats and pots ; and gods which protect houses, gods of mo...
When broke the dawn of that civilization in Egypt whose wondrous perfection is suggested by the fragments supplied to us by the archaeologists? Alas! the lips of Memnon are silent, and no longer utter oracles; the Sphinx has become a greater riddle in her speechlessness than was the enigma propounded to the king of Thebes; the Pyramids still keep their secrets unbroken through the lapse of centuries. It is these vast and timeless monuments which make Egypt to us "the land of mystery." How ca...
Sumerians The earliest known people of the Fertile Crescent were the Sumerians. About 4000 B.C. they lived in southern Mesopotamia in a number of independent city-states. Each consisted of a small city and its surrounding area. The rulers of these city-states constantly warred with one another. A. Cities Sumerian cities were often rectangular in shape, surrounded by high, wide walls. Inside the city gates were broad avenues used for religious processions or victory parades. The la...
The story of European civilization really begins on the island of Crete with a civilization that probably thought of itself as Asian (in fact, Crete is closer to Asia than it is to Europe). Around 1700 BC, a highly sophisticated culture grew up around palace centers on Crete: the Minoans. What they thought, what stories they told, how they narrated their history, are all lost to us. All we have left are their palaces, their incredibly developed visual culture, and their records. Mountains of...
The many meanings of the word "globalization" have accumulated very rapidly, and recently, and the verb, "globalize" is first attested by the Merriam Webster Dictionary in 1944. In considering the history of globalization, some authors focus on events since 1492, but most scholars and theorists concentrate on the much more recent past. But long before 1492, people began to link together disparate locations on the globe into extensive systems of communication, migration, and interconnectio...
The Influence of Luciferic and Ahrimanic Beings on Historical Development. The clear Perception of the Sensory World and Free Imaginations as the Task of Our Time. Genghis Khan and the Discovery of America Rudolf Steiner Dornach, September 17, 1916 Yesterday , we tried to characterize the forces that permeated Greece and Rome in order to obtain an idea of the influences that have been carried over from the fourth into the fifth post-Atlantean age, and we gave some indication of w...
Rudolf Steiner saw the end of the 20th century as a culmination for anthroposophy and as a crucial testing time for mankind. The year 1998, he said, is especially important because it is the third repetition in the Christian era of the number 666, the Number of the Beast in the Apocalypse. 3 beasts are mentioned in Apocalypse: a great red dragon in heaven with 7 heads, 10 horns, and 7 crowns; a beast from the sea with 7 heads, 10 horns, and 10 crowns - this beast was like a leopard with be...