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Blue Planet

Complex brain surgery found in "spectacular" high status ProtoByzantine grave site

Adelphi University
Eureka Alert
Tue, 07 Apr 2020 12:00 UTC
trephination
© Anagnostis P. Agelarakis/Adelphi UniversityEctocranial view of palaeopathological specimen: a) red arrow points to orifice on the mastoid process, and b) surgical preparation dimensions peripheral to trephination.
New research from Adelphi University has revealed the first forensically-assessed archeological discovery of remains of a group of domineering mounted archer-lancers and their kin of the Eastern Roman Empire from the turbulent ProtoByzantine period, which spanned the fourth to seventh centuries.

Ten skeletal remains -- four women and six men likely of high social standing -- were discovered in the Paliokastro site on Thasos island in Greece. Their bones illuminated their physical activities, traumas, and even a complex form of brain surgery.

"The burial place and architecture of the funerary monumental church and the construction of the graves is spectacular," said lead researcher and anthropologist Anagnostis Agelarakis, PhD, who added that it indicates the high social standing of the individuals buried there.

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Blackbox

'Serpent Mound' in Peru?


Sputnik News
Thu, 09 Apr 2020 19:29 UTC
Snake Mount Peru
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Southern Peru is famous for UNESCO-designated World Heritage Site the Nazca Lines, which represent a group of giant and ancient geoglyphs. However, something even more mysterious and unexplainable have now been spotted close to the site by one curious Google Earth user.

Some cryptic shapes and patterns were spotted by Google Earth enthusiast 30-40 kilometres North East from the famous Nazca Lines in Peru. The user published a video of his mysterious discovery on YouTube, and the image immediately attracted thousands of views in just several days, with observers rushing to express their astonishment with the finding.

The patterns spotted by the Google Earth admirer included strange "football pitch"-sized circles in a deserted mountain ridge nearby Uchumarca, as well as a cryptic snake-like structure, which he described as a "serpent". He also noted in the video that it was difficult to understand whether the pattern was occurring naturally or was a human-designed structure.
"The 'serpent' just really jumped right out at me", the Google Earth user wrote on YouTube after his video was published. "It's either a very large natural formation or a manmade artificial site like the serpent mound in Ohio. Other than that - I got nothin'. Very interesting".
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Comet 2

The Younger Dryas Impact - Armageddon at 10,000 BCE

Javier Barbuzano
EOS Org
Mon, 30 Mar 2020 18:37 UTC
Fragments of a comet likely hit Earth 12,800 years ago, and a little Paleolithic village in Syria might have suffered the impact.
The Paleolithic settlement of Abu Hureyra
© Jennifer Rice, CometResearchGroup OrgThe Paleolithic settlement of Abu Hureyra, in what is now Syria, may have been destroyed by the airburst of an impacting comet about 12,800 years ago.
Abu Hureyra is an important archaeological site in Syria, known for artifacts documenting early adoption of agriculture in the region. It may also be recognized as the only known human settlement to have been hit by a fragment of a comet.

The site, now under the waters of Lake Assad, was quickly excavated between 1972 and 1973 before construction of the Tabqa Dam flooded the area. During the excavation, archaeologists realized that there were really two sites, one on top of the other. The first was a Paleolithic settlement of hunter-gatherers, and the second was a farming town, with new buildings of a different style.

A new analysis of samples of soil and artifacts salvaged from the original excavation has revealed a surprising finding: The Paleolithic village at Abu Hureyra was indirectly hit and destroyed by fragments of a comet that slammed into Earth about 12,800 years ago.

The researchers think that upon entering Earth's atmosphere, the already-fractured comet likely broke up into several more pieces, many of which didn't reach the ground. Instead, they produced a string of explosions in the atmosphere known as airbursts. Each airburst was as powerful as a nuclear blast, instantaneously vaporizing the soil and vegetation underneath and producing powerful shock waves that destroyed everything for tens of kilometers around. The village at Abu Hureyra was hit by one of these shock waves.
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Black Magic

Yale professor admits he planted stories so that NATO could bomb Serbia in 1999

Tanjug
britic
Sun, 05 Apr 2020 12:00 UTC
Samuel Moyn
One of the most influential contemporary historians and professor at Yale University, Samuel Moyn, says that during the bombing of Yugoslavia, he worked at the White House as an intern and “planted” stories that were published in the Washington Post.
"It was about selling the war and explaining its virtues. My moment of clarity came a little later", says Moyn.

He said he wanted internationalism to coincide with the awakening of progressive policies, but that it was only after the Iraq war that he realised that his actions in his twenties would have dire consequences.

"My writing on human rights is also a way of self-reflection on all these events," says Moyn, who has written four books on human rights.

He states that, at the time of the bombing of the FRY, he had the task of "public diplomacy" - to serve up some facts to the media about the war.

Comment: See also: The Weight of Chains: US/NATO Destruction of Yugoslavia (Documentary)

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Archaeology

Mexican archaeologists discover Mayan treasures and giant sloth fossils in vast underwater cave system


Archaeology World
Wed, 01 Apr 2020 20:35 UTC
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© Gran Acuifero MayaThis undated photo released by Mexico's National Anthropology and History Institute shows divers from the Great Mayan Aquifer project (L) exploring the Sac Actun underwater cave system, where Mayan and Pleistocene bones and cultural artefacts have been found submerged, near Tulum, Mexico.
Following 10 months of intensive exploration, Mexican scientists discovered the largest flooded cave system - and it's truly an underwater wonderland.

This sprawling, sunken labyrinth, stretching an astounding 347 km (216 miles) of subterranean caverns, is not only a stunning marvel but also a significant archaeological find that can uncover the forgotten mysteries of the ancient Mayan civilization.

"This enormous cave is the world's leading archaeological submerged site," said Guillermo de Anda, an underwater archaeologist at the National Institute of Anthropology and History of Mexico.
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Attention

Ten presidents or politicians who said a 'secret government' controls the world and what they revealed

Arjun Walia
Collective Evolution
Tue, 15 Sep 2015 00:00 UTC
puppeteer
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"The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of."
- Edward Bernays ("the father of public relations"), Propaganda, 1928 (note that Bernays' book, Propaganda, begins with the above quote).
If you told somebody 10 years ago that there existed some sort of secret group or "secret government" pulling the strings behind the scenes of government policy, international law, various global rules/regulations, and more, they would have called you a "conspiracy theorist." Today things have changed, largely as a result of information leaked by Edward Snowden, Julian Assange, and various other whistleblowers and activists in recent years. Their bravery has shed light on the world of secrecy that's been blinding the masses since its inception.

I've mentioned this before, and I'll mention it again, did you know that the U.S. Government classifies more than 500 million pages of documents each year? Did you know that the United States has a history of government agencies existing in secret? For example, the National Security Agency (NSA) was founded in 1952, but its existence was hidden until the mid 1960's. Even more secretive is the National Reconnaissance Office, it was founded in 1960 but remained completely secret for 30 years. Then we have the entire black budget world*, a world dominated by secrecy that was officially revealed by Edward Snowden a couple of years ago. This deals with what are known as "Special Access Programs."

It's not just statements that these "high-level" people are making. It's all of the proof and evidence that goes along with it.
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Sherlock

The NSA paradox exposed - Why does such a smart intel agency keep getting outsmarted by the Russians?

John Helmer
johnhelmer.net
Mon, 06 Apr 2020 17:05 UTC
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Now for a psycho-shocker of a spy story in which the National Security Agency's (NSA) chief of the Research Directorate goes head to head with Russians whom his research proves tried "to change the outcome of our presidential election", and then tried to kill Sergei Skripal to "serve as a warning to Russia's adversaries".

The psycho-shock has already happened to the NSA chief and storyteller, Eric Haseltine (lead images), so he is paralysed by a Russian weapon that's about to psycho-shock the reader. That's you.

After you read this, you will never again be able to type on a keyboard without anticipating that the "diabolically clever" Russians are reading every word. But maybe you are suspicious the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) might be doing the same thing? "Naw", says Michael Arneson, Haseltine's hero and NSA engineer from a dirt poor Minnesota family with no more than a high school diploma, and whose favourite drink is Mr Pibb. "The CIA is way too incompetent to create something this good." In this tale, American heroes fit to fight the Russians and save you from your keyboards, talk like that.

Haseltine, 68, has made a lifetime career out of inventing electronic warfare devices to fight someone. He has grown rich at it, too.

He began at the Hughes Aircraft Company which produces cruise missiles, satellites, radars, air surveillance and control systems. He then worked for Walt Disney Imagineering, the research branch of the entertainment group, which developed fiber-optics, audio and other special effects for mass deception. Electronically engineered by inventors like Haseltine, he holds dozens of patents himself for devices still too secret to explain. In 2002 he was recruited to become the head of the NSA's research directorate.
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Bug

How generals fueled 1918 flu pandemic to win their World War

Gareth Porter
The American Conservative
Sat, 04 Apr 2020 12:01 UTC
An emergency hospital at Camp Funston, Kansas, 1918.
© National ArchivesAn emergency hospital at Camp Funston, Kansas, 1918.
Just like today, brass and bureaucrats ignored warnings, and sent troops overseas despite the consequences.

The U.S. military has been forced by the coronavirus pandemic to make some serious changes in their operations. But the Pentagon, and especially the Navy, have also displayed a revealing resistance to moves to stand down that were clearly needed to protect troops from the raging virus from the start.


Comment: Perhaps they they're doing this because they also know that the virus has been vastly overblown in terms of the danger it presents.


The Army and Marine Corps have shifted from in-person to virtual recruitment meetings. But the Pentagon has reversed an initial Army decision to postpone further training and exercises for at least 30 days, and it has decided to continue sending new recruits from all the services to basic training camps, where they would no doubt be unable to sustain social distancing.

On Thursday, the captain of the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt, on which the virus was reportedly spreading, was relieved of command. He was blamed by his superiors for the leak of a letter he wrote warning the Navy that failure to act rapidly threatened the health of his 5,000 sailors.

Secretary of Defense Mark Esper justified his decision to continue many military activities as usual by declaring these activities are "critical to national security." But does anyone truly believe there is a military threat on the horizon that the Pentagon must prepare for right now? It is widely understood outside the Pentagon that the only real threat to that security is the coronavirus itself.

Comment: Then again, the brave men and women in the US military were always treated rather badly by those calling the shots.

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Cookie

How and why Stone Age humans unlocked the glucose in plants

Alex Whiting
Horizon Magazine
Fri, 27 Mar 2020 12:00 UTC
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© José-Manuel Benito Álvarez/Wikimedia commons, licenced under CC BY-SA 2.5Ground stones were a 'major evolutionary success' as they allowed people to unlock the energy in plants by making flour.
Early cave paintings of hunting scenes may give the impression our Stone Age ancestors lived mainly on chunks of meat, but plants - and the ability to unlock the glucose inside - were just as key to their survival.

Plants rich in starch helped early humans to thrive even at the height of the last Ice Age, researchers say.

While the evidence around meat eating is clear, the role of plant foods is less understood. Animal bones can last millions of years and still show cuts made by human butchering tools, whereas almost all plant remains disintegrate.

But new studies into the remains of plants that do exist are uncovering why and how our ancestors ate them.

Comment: Most of the research suggests that the primary source of nutrition for the majority of humanity throughout history has preferably been from animals, however it seems that a number of factors converged to force an increased consumption of vegetables which, as noted above, led to a deterioration in health:

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Blue Planet

5,000 year old cultic area for warrior-god uncovered in Iraq

Owen Jarus
Live Science
Tue, 31 Mar 2020 12:00 UTC
Girsu
© S. Rey/Tello/Girsu ProjectThe sacred plaza, seen here, was at the heart of Girsu. A cultic area that had over 300 broken ceremonial objects was recently uncovered near its entrance.
Archaeologists recently unearthed a 5,000-year-old cultic area that held fiery feasts, animal sacrifices and ritual processions dedicated to Ningirsu, a Mesopotamian warrior-god, at the site of Girsu (also known as Tello) in Iraq.

In an area of Girsu known as the Uruku (a name which means "the sacred city"), archaeologists excavated more than 300 broken ceremonial ceramic cups, bowls, jars and spouted vessels along with a large number of animal bones. The items were within or near a "favissa" (ritual pit) that was 8.2 feet (2.5 meters) deep, said Sebastien Rey, director of the British Museum's Tello/Ancient Girsu Project, and Tina Greenfield, a zooarchaeologist at the University of Saskatchewan who works on the project. Greenfield presented the team's findings at the American Schools of Oriental Research annual meeting held in San Diego in November 2019.

One of the most striking objects the archaeologists found was a bronze figurine shaped like a duck, with eyes made out of shell. The object may have been dedicated to Nanshe, a goddess associated with water, marshlands and aquatic birds, Rey and Greenfield told Live Science in an email. The researchers also uncovered a fragment of a vase that has an inscription dedicated to Ningirsu.

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