Since the People's Forums will be closed for a time, while it is being totally reviewed, which may take months, I leave this NOTE PAD open.

Prior entries should not expect to suffer deletions, unless material is found inappropriate, because primarily the review is to consolidate duplicate ideas by its author, and to take inventory.

This page may be used as a temporary NOTE PAD until they reopen again. All are welcome to use it, if you wish.

Ivan

PHOENICIANS IN AMERICA?

A note to myself: I think we should look for evidence of DNA of Pheonicians in Mezo-America. Though it will be extremely difficult to find, I would search in the decsendents of the Mayans and Aztecs for this. There are too many similiarities between the two: infant and blood sacrifice, writing of sorts, a calendar, and though the Phoenicians were not pyramid builders they knew about them. The Mezo-American legends of white gods coming from the East may be another clue of past visitors. If the Phoenicians were a great sea faring people, they conceivably could have made it to the New World a thousand years BC and left their mark there, though long forgotten. Did those who found themselves there ever make it back? Most probably not, so their progeny were left behind, or killed, but some DNA may have survived to the present in the Indians of Central America.

Ivan

TRUTH VS. COERCION

The election crisis in Ukraine is a clear example of the confrontation between truth and agreement versus lying and coercion, and it went to the streets. The fact that such great numbers were willing to brave cold winter conditions day and night, for days, to voice their common protest against rampant election fraud and intimidation is heartening, that human beings are ready to confront the planet's universal history of master slave dynamics. This will be where agreements can triumph over coercions in the modern world, not only in Ukraine but also in Afghanistan, and hopefully in Iraq. The persistence of using brutality to run our human affairs is difficult to unwind, but it starts here, in this kind of staggering turnout to make a better world. The confrontation is between truth and coercion.

Ukraine poll crisis