A cataclysmic comet impact 13,000 years ago may have sparked the rise of civilization, according to the authors of a new study. The event – which many scientists believe never happened – may even be documented at the world-famous site of Göbekli Tepe, forming part of a series of carvings that the researchers say represent the world’s oldest solar calendar.Located in southern Türkiye, Göbekli Tepe is a pre-pottery Neolithic complex that is estimated to be around 12,000 years old. Analyzing an intricately carved pillar at the site, the study authors propose that V-shaped symbols represent days of the year, with a total of 365 markings divided into 12 lunar months plus 11 additional – or epagomenal – days.The summer solstice, meanwhile, is depicted as a bird-like deity – possibly representing the constellation Virgo, where the sun would have been located at this time of year – with a V around its neck. According to the researchers, representations of figures with similar V-shaped necklaces at associated sites have been interpreted as “time-controlling or creator deities”.Because the carvings appear to track both the movement of the Sun and the phases of the Moon, the study authors suggest that the pillar represents the world’s earliest lunisolar calendar. Perhaps even more astonishingly, the ancient engravings seem to illustrate the changing positions of constellations in the sky, indicating an appreciation of the concept of precession 10,000 years before it was first documented by the Ancient Greek astronomer Hipparchus.Yet the study’s most striking find relates to a separate pillar, which appears to illustrate the Taurid meteor stream moving through the constellations Aquarius and Pisces over a period of several weeks. This barrage of bollides has been proposed as the source of a comet strike some time around 10,850 BCE, which may have triggered a mini Ice Age known as the Younger Dryas.It’s important to note the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis is strongly opposed by many researchers, who say there is no evidence that the event was caused by a collision. Nevertheless, the study authors propose that Göbekli Tepe itself may have been constructed as a memorial to this hypothetical strike.“It appears the inhabitants of Göbekli Tepe were keen observers of the sky, which is to be expected given their world had been devastated by a comet strike,” explained study author Dr Martin Sweatman in a statement. “This event might have triggered civilisation by initiating a new religion and by motivating developments in agriculture to cope with the cold climate,” he said.In their write-up, the researchers develop this idea by explaining that “religion might already have existed elsewhere… but the Younger Dryas impact might have triggered a novel, catastrophic form.” “Fear is a powerful organizing principle in human society and the Younger Dryas impact would undoubtedly have inspired great fear and awe. Thus, this event can provide the motivation for the grand construction projects of Göbekli Tepe and related sites,” they say.Such a fearful religion – which may have centered around a “skull cult” – might therefore have provided the spark for large-scale communal organization and the building of monumental structures, effectively “triggering the origin of civilization,” the researchers conclude. The study is published in the journal Time and Mind.

“Justice, justice you shall pursue…” (Deuteronomy 16:20) The racial Marxists running Harvard University tried… and FAILED to stop their Jewish students from attempting to sue them. U.S. district judge Richard Stearns denied the school’s plea, Tuesday, to dismiss a lawsuit accusing it of being a safe space for raging Jew haters. His 25-page decision claimed the six student plaintiffs make credible allegations that Harvard not only failed to respond to antisemitic harassment and physical violence by faculty and classmates, but the school “failed its Jewish students” entirely.  He also said he was “dubious” Harvard could argue the First Amendment protected the campus jihadists. Apparently, calling for the genocide of Jewish students does NOT “depend on the context”  - like their former DEI president Claudine Gay said in her disastrous testimony to the House Committee investigating antisemitism.  Harvard’s students initially filed the lawsuit against their school in January, only eighteen days after Gay resigned from her position in disgrace. The university quickly mustered a Jewish replacement to the dismay of campus Hamas fans, who waved banners depicting him as a devil with horns. But as Jewish as he was advertised, he still allegedly sat on his hands while the campus erupted further into what looked like a scene from 1930’s Germany… at least that’s how plaintiff and Harvard alum Shabbos Kestenbaum feels. The same Alan Garber who smiled and nodded during Claudine Gay’s “context-dependent” answer did nothing when Harvard Professors published an antisemitic cartoon, students began monitoring Jews during the encampments, and daily calls for an intifada greeted us on our way to class pic.twitter.com/CSpyXBohfG — Shabbos Kestenbaum (@ShabbosK) August 4, 2024 In May, Harvard’s student body joined the nationwide campaign to make campuses Judenrein by trashing their campus with a month-long hobo encampment. They upped the ante from earlier stunts featuring masked mobs cornering Jewish students and creeching the word, “shame” in their faces.  “Mobs of pro-Hamas students and faculty have marched by the hundreds through Harvard’s campus, shouting vile antisemitic slogans and calling for death to Jews and Israel,” describes the lawsuit. “Those mobs have occupied buildings, classrooms, libraries, student lounges, plazas, and study halls, often for days or weeks at a time, promoting violence against Jews.” If the lawsuit successfully finds that the university violated Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Harvard may stand to lose its federal funding.

Nearly 1,490 people have been collared on Jan. 6-related charges, with arrests in the first seven months of 2024 running at a significantly higher rate than in 2023 and 2022, the U.S. Department of Justice reported Aug. 6.Since Jan. 6, 2021, the FBI has arrested 1,488 people — including 223 so far in 2024, according to the DOJ’s 43-month Jan. 6 update.The year-to-date arrest total is up 43% from the first seven months of 2023 and 65% higher than in the first seven months of 2022, according to DOJ statistics.The most common charge overall is entering and remaining in a restricted federal building or grounds, lodged against 1,417 people, including 171 accused of doing so with a deadly or dangerous weapon. Weapons have ranged from knives, bats, and flagpoles to pepper spray and motorcycle gloves.Nearly 550 people were charged with assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers or employees, including 163 with a dangerous weapon or causing serious bodily injury, the report said.Of the 944 people who received sentences, 60% were given incarceration.Of the 894 people who pleaded guilty, 288 (32.2%) were for felonies and 606 (67.7%) were for misdemeanors.Of those pleading guilty to felonies, 146 pleaded guilty to assaulting law enforcement officers and 76 pleaded guilty to feloniously obstructing, impeding, or interfering with law enforcement during a civil disorder. Of these 222 defendants, 180 were sentenced to prison terms as long as 151 months.Of the 944 people who had their cases adjudicated and received sentences, 60% were given incarceration, 18% received home detention, and 3.3% received a combination of the two, the report said.Some 186 defendants were found guilty at contested trials, including three in District of Columbia Superior Court. Another 37 defendants were convicted based on an agreed-upon set of facts, the report said.For the second month, the DOJ report no longer included full detail on its novel use of a white-collar crime statute to prosecute protesters with a 20-year felony. That charge was lodged for allegedly obstructing an “official proceeding”: Congress' largely ceremonial meeting to count Electoral College ballots from the 2020 presidential election.In its ruling in the landmark case Fischer v. United States, the U.S. Supreme Court on June 28 set strict standards for use of the 2002 Enron-era law, saying prosecutors could use the statute only if a defendant “impaired the availability or integrity for use in an official proceeding of records, documents, objects, or … other things used in the proceeding, or attempted to do so.”Although 355 defendants have been charged with violations of 18 U.S. Code §1512(c)(2), the DOJ is reporting only on the 259 defendants who were still charged as of the date of the Supreme Court ruling.The DOJ said of those 259 defendants, 133 have been sentenced. Of those sentenced, 57% were convicted of §1512(c)(2) and other felonies.The 30% who were convicted of §1512(c)(2) and no other felonies received probation, completed their sentences, or have been released pending the outcome of the Fischer case, the DOJ said.District of Columbia federal courts have received a swarm of filings seeking to overturn convictions, shorten sentences, and release defendants from prison terms or probation since the Supreme Court's Fischer ruling.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

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