King Tutankhamun (or King Tut as he is known) spent the early years of his life with the name Tutankhaten and was born in the eleventh year of the reign of his father Pharaoh Amenhotep IV, who is better known as Akhenaten. While he was a child, Tutankhaten was engaged to Ankhesenpaaten, his half-sister, who is better known as Ankhsenamun. Then, in 1336 BCE Akhenaten died and at just the age of eight or nine, Tutankhaten became pharaoh of Egypt.
Tutankhamun died at the age of nineteen in January of 1327 BCE and his death was unexpected. His tomb consisted of four rooms, The Burial Chamber, Annex, Antechamber, and the Treasury, which were all packed with treasures, everything he could possibly need for his next life.
Tutankhamun would not be known today, if not for the discovery of his tomb one hundred years ago by Howard Carter and his team. The tomb was broken into in antiquity numerous times, but it became buried and forgotten. That is, until the British artist turned archaeologist Howard Carter and his sponsor Lord Carnarvon, discovered it in the Valley of the Kings. Tutankhamun has become something of a celebrity, and the misinterpretation of an inscription leading to the widespread belief in the Curse of Tutankhamun, or the Mummy’s Curse, has only amplified that, and propelled the pharaoh into pop culture since the 1920s.
For over a year, a powerful social movement has defended the last remaining forest in Atlanta against the city government’s plans to build a giant police training center and corporate film studio.
Yesterday, in a brutal raid involving pepper balls and tear gas, police destroyed the inspiring structures that people have built to protect the forest. Today, they are charging five arrestees with “domestic terrorism” for allegedly participating in forest defense.
This is standard government practice whenever ecological movements threaten business interests. But it is capitalist profiteering, not eco-activists, that is destroying the environment we all depend on and hastening climate change. It is police, not eco-activists, who are terrorizing communities.
Please stand in solidarity with those who are fighting to keep the earth habitable.🖤🏴
People who read the news definitely say the military loses money, because they can’t pass an audit and have repeatedly reported, themselves, that they have lost money. (Just before the September 11 attack one of the big headlines was that the military had lost $1 trillion, which of course got bumped out of the news, and they just said the other day that they now can’t account for another $2 trillion.) The money is pretty certainly being stolen in some way — deliberate overpayments, transactions without oversight which go unreported, illegal transactions which are deliberately left off the books, bribes which are considered necessary to the institutional goals of the military but which would never pass muster with the public, you name it.
Meanwhile, the USPS has always run very close to the break-even point (usually within a few percent of their revenue stream either way, and well within the ability of Congress to fix merely by boosting the price of service, particularly commercial mail — by law, the USPS does not set its own prices and has to ask Congress for adjustments), up until the 2005 law which required them to fund 75 years’ worth of benefits for all employees in advance, a requirement no other public or private institution has ever been forced to obey, which immediately created tens of billions in “debt”. This requirement was passed with overwhelming, almost unanimous, bipartisan support, but was dreamed up by the right wing specifically to make the USPS seem unviable in order to serve as a platform to attack the Postal Workers Union and benefit private delivery companies like UPS and FedEx. This requirement has only been repealed this year (March 2022) and the change will not show up in this year’s financial reporting.
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