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Another CIA horror show: Biological warfare expert Frank Olson's fatal trip

Jeffrey St. Clair - Alexander Cockburn
Counterpunch
Fri, 10 Nov 2017 00:00 UTC
Frank Olson CIA
By the early 1950s the CIA's relationship with drugs stretched from alliances with criminal smugglers of heroin to research in, and application of, lethal or mind-altering chemical agents. On November 18, 1953, a group of seven men gathered for a meeting at the Deer Creek Lodge, in the mountains of western Maryland. Three were from the US Army's biological weapons center at Fort Detrick; the other four were CIA officers from the Agency's Technical Services Division. This encounter was one in a regular series of working sessions on Project MK-NAOMI, with MK being the prefix for work by Technical Services and NAOMI referring to a project to develop poisons for operational use by the CIA and its clients. The men at Fort Detrick had, at the CIA's request, already stockpiled a lethal arsenal of shellfish toxins, botulinum, anthrax and equine encephalitis.

A day later, during the evening of November 19, the scientists shared an after-dinner glass of Cointreau. Unknown to those round the convivial table, the CIA's Dr. Sidney Gottlieb had decided to spike the Cointreau with a heavy dose of LSD. Gottlieb didn't tell the officers they had been drugged and indeed had violated CIA rules by failing to get prior approval for the experiment. About thirty minutes after they had tossed back their liqueurs, Gottlieb asked if anyone had noticed anything unusual. The doctor found that most of men round the table experienced a little buzz, but nothing significant. Then Gottlieb fessed up and disclosed the covert LSD dosage.

Comment: For more on leading CIA psychopath Dr. Sidney Gottlieb:

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CIA documents reveal fascist Ukrainian icon Stepan Bandera was a German spy - and a CIA accomplice

translated by Inessa Sinchougova
Fort Russ News
Wed, 08 Nov 2017 21:02 UTC
Stepan Bandera
Stepan Bandera, worshipped in Ukiestan
The electronic library of the Central Intelligence Agency published a four-page document dated 1951, stating that the icon of Ukrainian nationalism, Stepan Bandera, was a German spy.

The documents appeared in their online form 10 years ago, but they have become available to the general public only recently.

Realizing that randomnesses in this department is extremely rare, it can be assumed that a new stage of the special operation in Ukraine is being prepared. Ukrainian radical nationalists should think twice about their future destiny, and whether or not they are being preparing for disposal.

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Why didn't British King George V save deposed Russian cousin after the revolution?


RT
Mon, 06 Nov 2017 13:56 UTC
NickII GeorgeV
© WikipediaRussia's Tsar Nicholas II and King George V of Britain
Pictured arm in arm wearing yachting uniforms, the two future kings could be mistaken for twins. But while cousins Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and Britain's King George V were described as close friends, their relationship ended in ruthless circumstances.

As head of an empire that was waning, where many citizens experienced extreme poverty and autocratic rule, Nicholas II found himself caught between a world war and the discontent of his own people. The explosive mix would hasten his fall from monarch to executed prisoner in just over a year.

The killing of Nicholas II, tsar from 1894 until his forced abdication in 1917, saw the collapse of Russia's royal family. His grisly death in 1918 and the murder of the Romanov family by a Bolshevik firing squad at a house in Ekaterinburg also placed George V's reputation under scrutiny.

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History of art rewritten as archaeologists unearth 3,500-year-old carving of ancient Greek battle

Sarah Knapton
The Telegraph, UK
Tue, 07 Nov 2017 12:20 UTC
Pylos combat agate pre greek art
© University of CincinnatiThe ‘Pylos Combat Agate’ has been hailed as one of the finest works of prehistoric Greek art ever discovered
The history of art has been rewritten after archeologists unearthed an astonishing 3,500 year old carving of an ancient Greek battle, depicting human bodies in anatomical detail which was thought way beyond the skill of Bronze Age artisans.

In 2015, the tomb of the so-called 'Griffin Warrior' was discovered near the ancient city of Pylos, southwest Greece, containing the remains of a powerful Myceneaen warrior and a treasure trove of burial riches.

Dating from around 1,500BC the grave also held a intricately carved gem, or sealstone, which was covered in limestone.
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Archaeologists uncover rare 2,000-year-old Roman sundial during theater excavation in Italy


My Science
Wed, 08 Nov 2017 20:02 UTC
2,000 year old sundial
© Faculty of Classics, Cambridge UniversityThe Latin inscription on Tubula's sundial.
A 2,000-year-old intact and inscribed sundial - one of only a handful known to have survived - has been recovered during the excavation of a roofed theatre in the Roman town of Interamna Lirenas, near Monte Cassino, in Italy.

Not only has the sundial survived largely undamaged for more than two millennia, but the presence of two Latin texts means researchers from the University of Cambridge have been able to glean precise information about the man who commissioned it.

The sundial was found lying face down by students of the Faculty of Classics as they were excavating the front of one of the theatre's entrances along a secondary street. It was probably left behind at a time when the theatre and town was being scavenged for building materials during the Medieval to post-Medieval period. In all likelihood it did not belong to the theatre, but was removed from a prominent spot, possibly on top of a pillar in the nearby forum.
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Best of the Web: Meet the real Lenin: Traitor, parasite, lunatic

Anatoly Karlin
The Unz Review
Tue, 07 Nov 2017 13:45 UTC
vladimir lenin
Lenin: psycho
There is a general consensus that Stalin was a sadistic tyrant. But the ghost of his predecessor remains "handshakeworthy" on the left hand side of the political spectrum. The SWPLy bobos of Seattle, who would not have been long for the Communist world, erected a statue to him in the city center. The New York Times "celebrated" the centenary of the Russian Revolution with odes to the Bolsheviks' progressivism on the environment, sex, and race (not that Terell J. Starr with his strange ideas of how the USSR "centered the Russian slav" would appreciate it).

Westerners, at least, have a good excuse for subscribing to the self-serving Trotskyite belief that Stalin "betrayed" Lenin's revolution - after all, the bacillus that Germany unleashed upon Russia during its moment of weakness and disarray did more than anyone else to derail De Tocqueville's prophesy and ensure that the 20th century would be an exclusively American one.

Comment: You understand now why Vladimir Putin was in no mood for 'celebrating' the Bolshevik revolution.

Russian Communist Party upset that Kremlin isn't celebrating centenary of 1917 revolution

'The Russian Revolution in Colour' - How the Bolsheviks subverted the 1917 Russian revolution (Documentary)

Over 90 percent of citizens say new revolution in Russia is unthinkable

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Tokyo has been destroyed and rebuilt on average, from 1608 to 1945, once every five years"

Susie Neilson
Nautilus
Wed, 30 Aug 2017 12:00 UTC
“Nichiren Calming the Storm,” a 19th century painting by Utagawa Kuniyoshi / Hulton Fine Art Collection /
© Getty ImagesThe effects of centuries of natural disaster may be most obvious in Japanese culture.

“Nichiren Calming the Storm,” a 19th century painting by Utagawa Kuniyoshi
Ayumi Endo remembers the 2011 earthquake and tsunami with exquisite detail. She ran downstairs to screaming coworkers. The phones in Tokyo had stopped working, and the trains outside stopped running. To kill time, she went to a pub, and saw a tsunami chase a car on TV. The drama was seared into Ayumi's memory. "We all knew how terrible this was," she said. "It was like a movie scene."


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Years later, 3/11, as it is informally known, has left deep grooves in Japan's collective psyche. The disaster caused an increase in suicides, PTSD, and stress-related physical ailments like cardiovascular disease. In Fukushima, the number of stress-related deaths-1,656-has topped deaths directly caused by the earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdown combined.

As bad as they were, the 2011 earthquake and tsunami were just the latest chapter in a long, tragic narrative. The Japanese archipelago sits at the nexus of four tectonic plates, subjecting the region to more than 1,500 seismic events each year, including at least two 5.0 magnitude or higher earthquakes. As a result, Tokyo has been destroyed and rebuilt on average, from 1608 to 1945, once every five years.
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The CIA dismisses America

Dan L. Hardway
Who What Why
Tue, 07 Nov 2017 01:36 UTC
Open Letter from JFK Assassination Expert Dan Hardway

CIA graphic
© Adapted by WhoWhatWhy from sarang / Wikimedia and CIA / Wikimedia.
The following is an article about an open letter Dan Hardway sent to his senator. Hardway worked as an investigator on the House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) in the late 1970s, and is a noted expert on the JFK assassination. He calls on all people interested in transparency to reject an all-encompassing government secrecy that threatens our very liberty and democracy. - WhoWhatWhy Staff

A 1964 CIA memo spells out clearly how James Jesus Angleton, the agency's famous counterintelligence chief, wanted to deal with inquiries from the Warren Commission:

Jim would prefer to wait out the Commission.1

History seems to be repeating itself. The events of the past two weeks have shown that the CIA is still running a disinformation campaign against anyone who questions the "lone-nut" theory that, according to historian David Robarge, constitutes the agency's "best truth."

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Best of the Web: How British Zionism created both the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and Israel

Nu'man Abd al-Wahid
Mondoweiss
Fri, 08 Jan 2016 21:26 UTC
Abdel Aziz Ibn Saud with Sir Percy Cox
Abdel Aziz Ibn Saud with Sir Percy Cox.
The covert alliance between the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the Zionist entity of Israel should be no surprise to any student of British imperialism. The problem is the study of British imperialism has very few students. Indeed, one can peruse any undergraduate or post-graduate British university prospectus and rarely find a module in a Politics degree on the British Empire let alone a dedicated degree or Masters degree. Of course if the European-led imperialist carnage in the four years between 1914 - 1918 tickles your cerebral cells then it's not too difficult to find an appropriate institution to teach this subject, but if you would like to delve into how and why the British Empire waged war on mankind for almost four hundred years you're practically on your own in this endeavor. One must admit, that from the British establishment's perspective, this is a formidable and remarkable achievement.

Comment: It's diabolical, isn't it? In placing the worst kind of 'Islamic' regime in charge of Islam's holiest sites right next door to the worst kind of 'Jewish' one, it's as if the (then-British) Empire went out of its way to pit Jews against Muslims.

In this light, Israel is the modern Crusader state, which, together with Saudi Arabia, have for the last 100 years been wholly Western creatures, if not outright colonies.

The end of WW I didn't end 'the war to end all wars' - it began a century of endless war and terror; the 'anglo-American century', a Western quest for global hegemony.

Now we can understand why these two regimes support ISIS, why they have full backing from 'on high' in London and Washington, and why they're cooperating against the rival alliance of Iran, Syria, the Houthis and Hezbollah:

Leaked Israeli diplomatic cable reveals Saudi-Israeli plans to provoke war with Iran and demonize Hezbollah

Radical Islam is an invention of European intelligence agencies

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Archaeology

China: Archeologists discover cave-dweller agrarian society


China Daily
Tue, 07 Nov 2017 09:33 UTC
cave dwelling
© XinhuaNanshan ruins
Chinese archaeologists have found a large amount of carbonized rice grains in caves dating from the New Stone Age, challenging the conventional view that cave dwellers were solely hunter gathers and did not cultivate land for food.

More than 10,000 grains were discovered at the No 4 cave in the Nanshan ruins in East China's Fujian province, which dates back 5,300 to 4,300 years.

At an ongoing international conference on prehistoric archaeology being held in Fujian, the archaeological team announced that this is the first cave-dwelling agrarian society ever found in China.

The finding is also rare worldwide, said Zhao Zhijun, a member of the team and also from the Institute of Archaeology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.

The grains are believed to have been grown by the Nanshan cave dwellers, rather than being obtained by other means, because many farmland weeds were also found along with the grains, according to Zhao.
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