Egypt begins Restoration of Khufu’s Second Boat

The second boat in it's tomb

The restoration of the second Khufu boat began yesterday as planned with the collection of samples of wood from the boat. The boats were made from Lebanese cedar and Egyptian acacia trees. Mustafa Amin, head of Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities:

“The boat was found in a complete shape, intact and in place,” he said, adding that the focus now is on taking samples of the wood.
He said Egyptologists are studying “the different components and fungus in the wood in order to find the most sufficient and advanced way to work on the wood.”
Last year in June, a team of scientists lifted the first of 41 limestone slabs each weighing about 16 tons to uncover the pit in which the ancient ship was buried, said Sakuji Yoshimura, professor from Japan’s Waseda University.

Khufu’s Solar Boat: Then There Were Two

Khufu’s second solar boat will soon be displayed in it’s own museum beside the Great Pyramid with an announcement to be made Monday.

Khufu's 1st Solar boat in it's own museum built above it's grave

At an international press conference held on Egypt’s Giza Plateau next Monday, Egyptian Minister of State for Antiquities Mohamed Ibrahim is expected to announce the launch of the second phase of the Khufu solar boat restoration project, which is being carried out in collaboration with a Japanese archaeological team from Wasida University.
Ibrahim told Ahram Online that the team would collect samples of the boat’s wooden beams for analysis on Monday in order to draw up accurate plans for the boat’s restoration in a special museum located on the plateau.
The first phase of the project, carried out two years ago, assessed the area surrounding the second boat pit with the use of topographical radar surveys. A large hangar has since been built over the second pit, with a smaller hangar erected inside to cover the top of the boat itself. The hangars were especially designed to protect the wooden remains during the project’s analysis and treatment phases.

Occult Artifacts:The Gundestrup Cauldron

The Druidic Gundestrup Cauldron was preserved for 2000 years in a peat bog in Denmark. Intricately carved and made of solid silver, the cauldron looks like a classic piece of wizard's equipment. It seems to have been put in the bog as a form of sacrifice, after being used in ceremonies for many years. The carvings on the cauldron present a wild and hallucinatory panorama: there is a horned god; figures which are half human, half animal; and scenes of animal and perhaps human sacrifice.

Rituales de Sangre ~ The True Story Behind the Matamoros Cult Killings

Former Brownsville, TX, deputy sheriff George Gavito recounts the 23 grisly "palo mayombe" human-sacrifice torture-sex killings in Matamoros, Mexico which ended in April, 1989 and are basis for the Zev Berman feature film BORDERLAND. Gavito was one of the bilateral investigators who "broke" the case of missing rich kid Mark Kilroy ("Phil" in the feature and "John" in this short) sensationalized by Geraldo Rivera at the time. This brief documentary uses archival news, police photos and videotape to prove the truth of the crimes is even stranger than the fictionalized BORDERLAND feature film.

Brain-Dead Teen, Only Capable Of Rolling Eyes And Texting, To Be Euthanized

The parents of 13-year old Caitlin Teagart have decided to end her life, saying she can now do nothing but lay on the couch and whine about things being "gay."

Sarawak Land of The Occult?

Hornbill Corner By Sim Kwang Yang

BENEATH the veneer of the modern state, Sarawak is a land where the rich legacies of folk tales and localised beliefs still play a crucial part in the daily lives of her people.
In the lived experience of Sarawakians, the mysterious and inexplicable world of the occult lives very close to the hearts of the local residents.
Everybody in Sarawak can tell you a ghost story or two, about a close encounter of the spiritual kind.
We may live as if these stories do not exist, but in the mental landscape of Sarawakians, the rich store of folklore surrounding our daily lives has even greater reality than the physical world around us.
To give you a glimpse of the strange spiritual realities surrounding our humdrum daily routine, I quote you the presence of the Manang or the Dukun in our midst.
These individuals are hidden in every corner of Sarawak, and they perform the role of healers and interpreters of dreams, especially among the Dayak community.
I remember one such Manang near Kuching city. Naturally, his was an impoverished way of life. He still fishes and hunts for his upkeep.

Mysterious Places: 'Mel's Hole' shrouded in mystery

ELLENSBURG, Wash. -- From Bigfoot to the disappearance of D.B. Cooper, the Pacific Northwest is full of mysteries.
Another mystery burred deep in the hills of eastern Washington keeps resurfacing.

Ellensburg and its surrounding valleys and Manastash Ridge are beautiful in any season.

Some believe what lies beneath is a deep, dark hole with supernatural powers.

A man named Red Elk is one of the only people alive known to have ever seen the mysterious hole.

A Native American Shaman, or medicine man, Red Elk said his dad first showed him the hole in 1961.

"He said 'This is an endless hole,'" Red Elk said.

Occult Orders: Opus Dei -Neofascism Within the Catholic Church

What we are seeing today in the fight over birth control is a revival of a very old, and very dangerous kind of Catholicism. It is not one supported or practiced by most Rank and File Catholics.

Opus Dei is also becoming famous for it's either association, or membership (so far denied,) of political figure Rick Santorum.

It is a kind of Catholicism which has done irreparable harm. It is a kind of Catholicism unfit for existence in the modern world.

It was the underpinning of the regimes of Mussolini in Italy, The National Catholicism of Francisco Franco, in Spain; The Parti Rexiste in Belgium; The Irish Blueshirts; The Croatian Ustaše, the Nazi puppet government in Croatia, and ultimately, was the kind of Catholicism practiced by the Sainted Josemaría Escrivá, founder of the Catholic order Opus Dei.

That's where the story begins and ends: Opus Dei.

Spain, The Founding of Opus Dei
Josemaría Escrivá is the best place to start. He was a catholic priest during the Second Spanish Republic, who developed a kind of Catholicism in the late 1920's which Fascists found very attractive. He rose to prominence and political influence during Franco's spain. His book describing Opus Dei was first published with an introduction by a Pro-Franco bishop, which contained many statements in support of National Catholicism. Saint Escriva personally preached to Franco during a week-long prayer retreat at Franco's Palace.

Saint Escriva has been accused by catholic priests who knew him of Holocaust Denial, and many recall statements by Escriva defending Hitler. Saint Escriva has said that hitler couldn't have killed 6 million Jews, and that "Hitler against the Jews" really meant "Hitler against communism."
He famously wrote a letter to Franco in the 1950's saying

Although a stranger to any political activity, I cannot help but rejoice as a priest and Spaniard that the Chief of State’s authoritative voice should proclaim that, “The Spanish nation considers it a badge of honor to accept the law of God according to the one and true doctrine of the Holy Catholic Church, inseparable faith of the national conscience which will inspire its legislation.” It is in fidelity to our people’s Catholic tradition that the best guarantee of success in acts of government, the certainty of a just and lasting peace within the national community, as well as the divine blessing for those holding positions of authority, will always be found. I ask God our Lord to bestow upon your Excellency with every sort felicity and impart abundant grace to carry out the grave mission entrusted to you.