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9 May 2011, 5 Iyar 5771.
Contents:
1. Present -Day Decline of the USA?
2. Book Shows Ancient Links Between Ancient Anatolia (Turkey) and Scandinavia?
3. Scandinavia and the Ancient Middle East.
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1. Present -Day Decline of the USA?
http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/
is-america-in-decline-24-statistics
-about-the-united-states-economy-that
-are-almost-too-embarrassing-to-admit
Extracts:
#1 Ten years ago [ca. 2001], the United States was ranked number one in average wealth per adult. In 2010, the United States has fallen to seventh.
#2 The United States once had the highest proportion of young adults with post-secondary degrees in the world. Today, the U.S. has fallen to 12th.
#3 In the 2009 "prosperity index" published by the Legatum Institute, the United States was ranked as just the ninth most prosperous country in the world. That was down five places from 2008.
#4 In 2001, the United States ranked fourth in the world in per capita broadband Internet use. Today it ranks 15th.
#5 The economy of India is projected to become larger than the U.S. economy by the year 2050.
#6 One prominent economist now says that the Chinese economy will be three times larger than the U.S. economy by the year 2040.
#9 The United States has lost a staggering 32 percent of its manufacturing jobs since the year 2000.
#10 Manufacturing employment in the U.S. computer industry is actually lower in 2010 than it was in 1975.
#11 In 1959, manufacturing represented 28 percent of all U.S. economic output. In 2008, it represented only 11.5 percent.
#14 Back in 1980, the United States imported approximately 37 percent of the oil that we use. Now we import nearly 60 percent of the oil that we use.
#17 Today, the United States spends approximately $3.90 on Chinese goods for every $1 that China spends on goods from the United States.
#18 According to a new study conducted by the Economic Policy Institute, if the U.S. trade deficit with China continues to increase at its current rate, the U.S. economy will lose over half a million jobs this year alone.
#19 American 15-year-olds do not even rank in the top half of all advanced nations when it comes to math or science literacy.
2. Book Shows Ancient Links Between Ancient Anatolia (Turkey) and Scandinavia?
The Nordic Scimitar: External relations and the creation of elite ideology.
http://www.oxbowbooks.com/
bookinfo.cfm/ID/34975
Based on the author's thesis, this short study looks at social stratification, `elitization' and ideology in the Scandinavian Bronze Age. Engedal's study focuses on a particular artefact type, a curved bronze sword known as the scimitar that is thought to have originated in Anatolia. Engedal explores the diffusion of knowledge and ideas from Anatolia to Scandinavia, and discusses what the scimitar represents in terms of elite ideology and the possible relationships that existed between the two regions in the 17th century BC. 86p, 35 b/w figs.
3. Scandinavia and the Ancient Middle East.
(a) Arguments for a Middle Eastern origin for Scandinavian cultures:
http://www.well.com/~mareev/portal/
prehistory/Scandinavian_origins_
in_MiddleEast.html
Extracts:
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Scandinavian Ancestry Tracing Roots to Azerbaijan by Thor Heyerdahl -
http://www.azer.com/aiweb/categories/
magazine/82_folder/82_articles/
82_heyerdahl.html
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Orjan Svensson:
Viking-Phoenician Links - http://britam.org/now/now257.html
Hebrew-Phoenicians in Scandinavia - http://britam.org/now/595Now.html
A Similarity between Scandinavian Languages and Aramaic - http://britam.org/now/907Now.html
This feature of enclitic definite articles also is present in Romanian and in ARAMAIC
Orjan has conducted original research proving that Ancient "Runic Inscriptions in Sweden were written in the Hebrew and Aramaic languages or in dialects similar to them.
http://www.britam.org/Questions/QuesOrjan.html
[See also http://home.earthlink.net/~ekerilaz/princess.html - suggests that runic script originated with the Scythian Sacae = Sakai.]
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Sumerian and Finn-Ugor god names compared to Sumerian - http://users.cwnet.com/
millenia/FUgods.htm
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Similarity of boats in rock art in Egypt and Scandinavia:
http://www.egyptorigins.org/rockboats.htm
http://www.egyptorigins.org/rockboats2.htm
The following two sources (b) and (c) do not really say much but may be useful.
(b) A HISTORY OF THE SWEDISH PEOPLE
Where did the Swedes come from?
http://www.osterholm.info/swedes.html
(c) Nordic Mythology
http://www.timothystephany.com/nordic.html
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