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The U.S. has recovered four distinct species of extraterrestrial life a former CIA-funded government researcher claimed ...
05/23/2026

The U.S. has recovered four distinct species of extraterrestrial life a former CIA-funded government researcher claimed last week…

Dr. Hal Puthoff, former Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program advisor and CIA-funded researcher, made the claim alongside “Age of Disclosure” director Dan Farrah on Steve Bartlett’s “The Diary of a CEO” podcast on Thursday…

The Stanford-trained quantum physicist did not detail the supposed alien species — but his longtime collaborator and former AAWSAP colleague Dr. Eric Davis claimed last year that Grays, Nordics, Insectoids (Mantids?) and Reptilians are the names of the biological lifeforms pulled from the wreckage of downed or crashed UFOs…

Each alien species has two arms and legs and a humanoid appearance, Davis claimed, citing intelligence reports…

Lam is an entity associated with the occult writings and practices of Aleister Crowley Crowley created a drawing of Lam in 1919 during what he described as a ritual working involving “contact” with non-human intelligences…

The image shows a humanoid figure with a large, elongated head and simplified facial features. Crowley did not clearly define Lam as a demon, god, or alien—he referred to it more vaguely as a kind of intelligence encountered through magical practice…

The drawing of Lam came about 29 years before Roswell…

Authentic evidence of so called extraterrestrial visitation would be among the most sensitive and closely guarded secrets kept by intelligence agencies around the world…

Without an official disclosure process, the only way for the general public to tap into such knowledge is through whistle-blowers and occasional leaks…

We might be dealing with such a leak here…

This video was uploaded to a YouTube channel named ivan0135 in 2011. The channel was created the same day the first video was uploaded, on the 13th of April…

According to the channel description, the creator is from Russia and was born in 1969…

“And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels, And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven. And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.” — Rev 12:7-9

Just as Michael had his angels, the devil also had his angels. The term angel simply means “messenger,” but more specifically, a demon can be understood as a messenger of the devil.

“The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of man and they bore children to them. These were the mighty men who were of old, the men of renown.” — Gen 6:4

The transliteration of Nephilim is nāp̄îl, which is derived from the root nāp̄al, meaning “to fall” or “to be cast down.”

From this perspective, the Nephilim can be interpreted as those who have fallen—understood by some as the angels associated with the devil, or demons, who were cast down.

“For all the gods of the nations are demons, but the Lord made the heavens” — Psa 96:5

“What do I imply then? That food offered to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything? No, I imply that what pagans sacrifice they offer to demons and not to God. I do not want you to be participants with demons. You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You cannot partake of the table of the Lord and the table of demons.” — 1 Co 10:19-21

What people call ‘aliens’ today are not extraterrestrial, but rather interdimensional beings, which according to Scripture, are understood as demons…

04/24/2026

The Colonies and plantations had been for some time back the dumping ground for undesirables of all kinds—convicts, State criminals whether political or religious, rebels, suspects, malcontents, fanatics, and deserters…

“There was an Edinburgh writer, George Hume, age 30, marked as a ‘Black man’ whose colour would, no doubt, suit the West Indies”

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(J. Macbeth Forbes, “Jacobite Gleanings From State Manuscripts: Short Sketches of Jacobites; The Transportations in 1745; 1928)

Disorderly individuals and convicts were routinely deported to America as part of a broader system of penal transportation…

This practice involved relocating convicted criminals and other deemed “undesirable” persons—often to distant colonies—for a specified term…

Over time, dedicated penal colonies became the primary destinations for such exiles…

The “Black Irish” was not a metaphor for dark hair…

The historical record—from penal transportation lists to ethnological writings—shows that “black” meant complexion, swarthiness, and ancestry, marking a people who were once recognized as physically distinct within the Isles…

The later reinterpretation into “dark hair” is a modern sanitization, imposed to erase the uncomfortable reality that Ireland, Scotland, and Britain retained traces of an older, darker population long remembered in both folklore and official documents…

“And although the “black heathen” were expelled from these islands many centuries ago, and although, as a distinct race, they have almost vanished from Europe”

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(David MacRitchie, "Ancient & Modern Britons Vol. 1"; 1884)

During the 17th century, especially following the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland (1649-1653), many Irish men, women, and children were “transported” to various English colonies in the Caribbean as indentured servants…

They had contracts binding them for a number of years (commonly 4-7), in return for passage, food, lodging, etc…

These servants were not chattel slaves according to most historians: they retained certain legal rights, their servitude was for a fixed term, and it did not automatically pass to their children…

Irish indentured servants were sent to many British Caribbean islands: Barbados, Jamaica, Montserrat, Antigua, St. Kitts, Nevis, etc…

Montserrat is often mentioned as having a substantial Irish presence, especially among indentured servants and also among free settlers over time…

By the late 1600s, Montserrat had become home to the highest concentration of people of Irish descent of any English colony—both in the first and second British empires…

In fact, so-called “Black Irish” accounted for nearly 70% of the island’s population at that time…

Today, White people comprise only 2.7% of Montserrat’s population and a mere 0.4% of Jamaica’s overall population…

Given these figures, it is clear that those who were deported en masse to the Caribbean were not so called white people, but rather a displaced and subjugated Irish population—many of whom assimilated into the broader Afro-Caribbean demographic over generations…

Some Irish people were transported as political prisoners, or as part of conquest and suppression. E.g. soldiers captured, “undesirables,” Catholic priests, etc…

“Redemptioners” or people tricked / coerced into indenture also occurred…

Tens of thousands of Irish people—including prisoners, rebels, and the poor—were forcibly transported to the Caribbean, Virginia, and New England under Cromwell’s rule…

Barbados, Montserrat, and Jamaica became major destinations for Irish laborers…

Historians estimate that between 50,000 and 100,000 Irish were forcibly transported during the 1600s…

The Irish presence in the Caribbean is far more extensive than commonly acknowledged, dating back to the 17th century…

In Shakespeare’s time, audiences at the Globe understood the word ‘Moor’ to mean ‘a black man,’ and either then or later...
04/17/2026

In Shakespeare’s time, audiences at the Globe understood the word ‘Moor’ to mean ‘a black man,’ and either then or later, it was tautologically extended to ‘blackamoor’

The presence of Moors in heraldry cannot be fully explained by the theory that families bearing Moors’ heads as crests earned their status by aiding the Spaniards in expelling the Moors…

This symbolism is far too widespread in ancient coats of arms to be solely attributed to such an explanation…

Moors’ heads appear in the heraldry of families in places that had no connection to the Reconquista (like Scotland, Germany, Switzerland, etc.)

Now, there was probably some difference between a "Moor" and a "Saracen," although in heraldry there does not seem to be much distinction…

The opinion which has been most generally supported, and prevails at the present time, is that the word was originally Sharkeyn, an Arabian word signifying "eastern people," and used in contradistinction to Maghribé, or "western people," the Moors of Morocco…

While, therefore, all Saracens were Moors, all Moors were not necessarily Saracens…

But, at any rate, the term "Saracen" has been applied to the piratical invaders of the British Isles from a very early period…

These invaders may not have been actual Arabs — but were stereotyped as “Saracens” because they were foreign and Muslim…

So when the Scots, or Gypsies, of the Borders were distinguished by the Saracenic symbols of crescents and stars, such symbols were quite in accordance with their supposed descent from such Saracens and Moors as the Scots and Picts of Galloway…

In the matter of dress, Mr. Crofton infers that "Gipsies formerly had a distinctive costume, consisting of a turban-like headdress of many colours, together with a large cloak, worn after the fashion of a toga, over a long loose under-skirt…

It’s been said that those black pagans “[were] armed with scimetars, and dressed in caftans”

A scimitar is a type of curved, single-edged sword historically associated with the Middle East and Africa…

A caftan is a long, flowing garment with wide sleeves, traditionally worn in the Middle East, North and West Africa…

It is often made from luxurious fabrics like silk and is sometimes ornately decorated…

The Gipsies, then, whom we have already seen described as "Moors," were also known as "Saracens," the terms being indifferently used in heraldry and in the old romances…

Nothing is known of the date of their landing" in England, while "a tradition represents them as making depredations in Scotland prior to 1460”

The piratical races who are known to history under various names, and who "made depredations" throughout the British Islands at various dates "prior to 1460," were also, as Scott remarks, styled “Saracens," and it has been noticed that a "Hungarian" and a "Danish" invasion of Scotland took place, according to tradition, at the same time…

The gipsies, then—not to go further into details—when accepted as numerous, warlike, and distinctly black people, living an individual existence in various districts of the British Islands during the past few centuries, but gradually becoming mingled with the white races, announce themselves very clearly as the progenitors, on one side, of all the melanochroi of Britain…

It is true that, in the thirteenth century, we see them regarded as intruders by the Christian chivalry of the West, to whom they were "Saracens," "Moors," “devils," "heathen" and "pagans;" and, as such, warred against with unceasing vigour until, in Prussia, they were almost totally exterminated…

And again, the Moors of heraldry, with their black skins, thick lips, and "pearls pendant," are virtually the same as the ear-ringed black and hideous “Egyptians” who trooped into Bologna about five centuries ago…

Those "Egyptians" were in all probability a branch of "the pagans of Prussia" who are said to have besieged Dantzic, under Udislaus Ingello, in the year 1389…

In Highland tradition, there are many "sea-tinkers"—such as “the black smith of Drontheim" and in this Galloway district, specially, the legendary Blackamoor, Black Murray, or Black Douglas, is remembered in one account as a sea-rover, and in another as one of a company of sea-faring “Moors or Saracens."

When in short, they were savage, sea faring, “black heathen” known under various historical names; sacking churches and monasteries, killing and ravishing; and, at one time, actually conquering the greater portion of the British Islands…

The Great Sphinx of Giza is generally dated to around c. 2500 BCE…Most Egyptologists place its construction during the r...
01/01/2026

The Great Sphinx of Giza is generally dated to around c. 2500 BCE…

Most Egyptologists place its construction during the reign of Khafre (Dynasty 4), meaning the Sphinx is approximately 4,500 years old…

This FamilyTreeDNA Globetrekker map dated to c. 2500 BCE places haplogroup E1b1a firmly within Egypt and the Nile–Sudan corridor at precisely the same historical moment the Great Sphinx of Giza is generally accepted to have been constructed, during Dynasty 4…

The map does not depict a new migration into Egypt at this time; rather, it shows haplogroup E1b1a as part of the existing demographic framework of Northeast Africa, already established in Egypt by the mid-third millennium BCE…

In other words, haplogroup E1b1a represents part of the indigenous population substrate present when the Sphinx and the pyramids were built…

The presence of haplogroup E1b1a in Egypt at 2500 BCE indicates that the communities supplying labor, expertise, and continuity during the Old Kingdom were drawn from a long-standing African population network extending from the Upper Nile into North and West Africa…

While genetics does not identify individual builders or architects, it does establish the biological continuity of the population responsible for Old Kingdom Egypt’s achievements…

Seen this way, the alignment is chronological and contextual rather than speculative:—the Sphinx was carved within a society whose paternal lineages included haplogroup E1b1a, already rooted in Egypt and Northeast Africa for millennia…

According to FamilyTreeDNA Globetrekker, Y-DNA haplogroup E-M4732 and its descendant lineages (E-L485 and E-U175) formed...
01/01/2026

According to FamilyTreeDNA Globetrekker, Y-DNA haplogroup E-M4732 and its descendant lineages (E-L485 and E-U175) formed approximately 10,000–8,000 years ago in the Green Sahara, centered in the Tadrart Acacus (southwestern Libya) and Tassili n’Ajjer (southeastern Algeria) regions…

Following the desertification of the Central Sahara, these E1b1a lineages began dispersing outward…

By 4000 BCE, the Sahara was rapidly desertifying, forcing these E1b1a populations out of the Central Green Sahara…

According to the FamilyTreeDNA Globetrekker maps, E1b1a lineages—including E-M4732 and its descendants—are already present in Egypt and the Levant by around 4000 BCE, suggesting an early northward and northeastward movement along Saharan and Nile-adjacent corridors…

This places these lineages firmly in Predynastic Egypt, centuries before dynastic unification and long before pharaonic Egypt took shape…

These E1b1a lineages were present during the very formation of dynastic Egypt…

That means they could have been part of Late Predynastic Upper Egyptian communities, Early royal-era populations and Nile-based agropastoral and administrative groups…

Notably, the same maps show limited or no presence in Sudan until later, with clear expansion into Nubia and Sudan appearing closer to 2000 BCE…

When E1b1a lineages reached Nubia and Sudan around 2500–2000 BCE, the dominant cultural horizon was the early Kerma culture, following the decline of the A-Group…

By the dynastic period of Egypt (3100 BCE onward), populations carrying these E1b1a lineages had already been moving across North Africa for millennia and were likely incorporated into hunter-gatherer, pastoralist, and early farming communities in both Upper and Lower Egypt, gradually integrating into dynastic populations through admixture with local groups…

Many core terms in the Asante and Fante dialects of the Akan language appear to retain clear semantic parallels with wor...
12/30/2025

Many core terms in the Asante and Fante dialects of the Akan language appear to retain clear semantic parallels with words in the Mdw Netjer suggesting a linguistic heritage shaped by long migration and cultural continuity…

aba (Akan) — stick for beating, rod, wand
aba (Mdw Nṯr) — scepter, staff, stick

aboa (Akan) — animal, beast, creature
abau (Mdw Nṯr) — small animals

ani (Akan) — eyes, look, gaze
an (Mdw Nṯr) — to look towards something, glance

san (Akan) — to return, turn back
san (Mdw Nṯr) — to turn back

man (Akan) — to turn
mann (Mdw Nṯr) — to turn, twist, wind around, entwine

kasakasa (Akan) — to speak much and noisily, to chatter
keskes (Mdw Nṯr) — to chatter foolishly

merew (Akan) — weak; weakness
merua (Mdw Nṯr) — weak

ma (Akan) — to give, grant
ma (Mdw Nṯr) — give, grant, permit

Accordingly, the survival of shared semantic structures between Akan and Mdw Nṯr aligns with the migration models traced in FamilyTreeDNA’s phylogenetic trees, where haplogroup E marks long-term population continuity from the Nile–Levant corridor into West Africa…

In the Bible, the name ‘Akan’ is associated with the tribe of Judah…

Akan / Achan is tied to Judah because the Bible explicitly identifies him as a Judahite…

“But the children of Israel committed a trespass in the accursed thing: for Achan, [Akan] the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took of the accursed thing: and the anger of the LORD was kindled against the children of Israel” — Joshua 7:1

“Did not Achan [Akan] the son of Zerah commit a trespass in the accursed thing, and wrath fell on all the congregation of Israel? and that man perished not alone in his iniquity” — Joshua 22:20

Akan / Achan (אָכָן)
• Pronunciation: aw-kawn
• Language: Biblical Hebrew
• Etymology: Derived from a root meaning to trouble or troublesome

Khen (Ḫn / Khn)
• Language: Mḏw Nṯr
• Semantic range: Conveys the idea of stirring up trouble

Benjamin of Tudela was a 12th-century Jewish traveler and chronicler from Spain who journeyed across Europe, North Afric...
12/28/2025

Benjamin of Tudela was a 12th-century Jewish traveler and chronicler from Spain who journeyed across Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East….

He is best known for The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela, a travel account that documents Jewish communities, trade routes, and political conditions of the medieval world…

During the lifetime of Benjamin of Tudela (c. 1130–1173 CE), the term “Ghana” referred to the medieval Ghana Empire, not the present-day country of Ghana…

“It is twelve days from Aswan to Haluan, where there are some 300 Jews. From there they go in caravans fifty days' journey through the great desert which is called Sahārā, to the town of Zavila, known as Havilah in the Scriptures, in the land of Ghana.”

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(The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela)

“Ancient Ghana was created by Jewish settlers about 300 A.D. in the area west of Timbuktu in modern Mali…”

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(The New Encyclopædia Britannica: Micropædia; 1993)

The initial empire of Ghana was founded by Judean refugees or migrants from Cyrene (Libya) circa 200 CE….

After suffering defeat in the Kitos War 117 CE and the Bar Kokhba Revolt 135 CE, large groups of Judeans began leaving Mediterranean North Africa and settled around the Niger River area…

Phylogeography refers to the study of how genetic lineages are distributed across geographic space and time, and what th...
12/27/2025

Phylogeography refers to the study of how genetic lineages are distributed across geographic space and time, and what that distribution reveals about ancient population history…

Phylogeny = genetic family trees (lineage relationships)

Geography = where those lineages are found (past & present)

So Phylogeography means using genetic lineages to reconstruct where populations came from, where they moved, and when they diverged…

Phylogeographic patterns in FamilyTreeDNA’s datasets suggest that by the mid-to-late Holocene, populations carrying ancestral E-M2 lineages had expanded eastward into the Nile Valley and Israel and while later demographic expansions led to their widespread dominance in West Africa—eventually settling in the regions of Guinea, Mali and Nigeria…

“King John II in 1492, expelled all the Jews to the island of St. Thomas, and to other Portuguese settlements on the con...
12/27/2025

“King John II in 1492, expelled all the Jews to the island of St. Thomas, and to other Portuguese settlements on the continent of Africa; and from these banished Jews, the black Portuguese, as they are called, and the Jews in Loango, who are despised even by the very Negroes, are descended.”

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(The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature; Volumes 57-58; 1783)

“A remarkable fact in the history of Loango is that the country contains—according to a statement which was fully credited by Oldendorp, himself a writer of most correct judgment and of unimpeachable veracity, many Jews settled in the country, who retain their religious rites, and the distinct habits which keep them isolated from other nations”

“Though thus separate from the African population, they are black, and resemble the other Negroes in every respect as to physical characters”

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(James Cowles Prichard, Researches Into the Physical History of Mankind: Ethnography of the African races; 1837)

To put it another way, the black Portuguese Jews who settled in Loango appeared physically identical to the indigenous black Africans…

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