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Newly unearthed memo reveals CIA infiltration of the media

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Wed, 02 Aug 2017 08:23 UTC
cia william casey disinformation program quote
A new declassified CIA report unearthed by the FOIA investigative cooperative MuckRock contains some shocking commentary on how the intelligence community views and interacts with the media. The 1984 series of internal memos, part of the CIA's recent CREST release (CIA Records Search Tool) of over 900,000 newly declassified documents, were drafted in response to a study on unauthorized leaks and disclosures written by legendary CIA officer Eloise Page.

The CIA Inspector General [IG] was tasked by CIA Director Bill Casey to investigate and review CIA vulnerabilities to media scrutiny. One of Eloise Page's suggestions involved CIA and agency friendly individuals gaining influence at universities and journalism schools in order to change and shape curriculum. As MuckRock explains:
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Archaeology

Discovery of 2,500 year old honeycombs in northern Italy suggests Etruscans were expert beekeepers

Rossella Lorenzi
LiveScience
Fri, 28 Jul 2017 18:29 UTC
Etruscan honecomb
© Lorenzo CastellanoScientists discovered charred honeycombs, preserved honeybees (shown here) and honeybee products on the floor of a workshop at an Etruscan trade center in Milan, Italy.
The charred remains of 2,500-year-old honeycombs, as well as other beekeeping artifacts, have been discovered in an Etruscan workshop in northern Italy.

The findings included the remains of a unique grapevine honey produced by traveling beekeepers along rivers, according to a new study.

"The importance of beekeeping in the ancient world is well known through an abundance of iconographic, literary, archaeometric and ethnographic [or cultural] sources," Lorenzo Castellano, a graduate student at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University and first author of the new study, told Live Science. (In archaeometry, scientists use physical, chemical and mathematical analyses to study archaeological sites.)

Even so, since honeycombs are perishable, direct fossil evidence of them is "extremely rare," he added.
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Carbon 14 dating and settled science


Malaga Bay
Sat, 05 Aug 2017 20:41 UTC
Carbo 14 Norwegian Blues
© Malaga Bay
A depressing aspect of some published papers is that they assiduously avoid analysing the raw data.

Instead they plunge headlong into transmogrifying their raw data into Settled Science.

This is regrettable because a simple reality check can provide some valuable insights.
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USA

The Bush Family - Destroying America for over 30 years

Tony Heller
The Deplorable Climate Science Blog
Fri, 04 Aug 2017 03:00 UTC
The Bush Family
© Wikimedia Commons
In 1961, General Eisenhower warned America about the dangers of the Military Industrial Complex.

In 1988/1989/1990 I was dating Oscar Wyatt's legal secretary. Oscar Wyatt was CEO of the Coastal Corporation, and is the real life person whom J.R. Ewing was modeled after in the TV show Dallas. So I was privy to the daily inner workings of (the very dirty) Texas politics. There were four powerful groups in Texas : the Bushes, Oscar Wyatt, John Connally and Ross Perot. John Connally was a narrow survivor of the deep state coup which killed JFK in 1963 (in Texas and put a Texan in the White House.)
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Info

Humans had farms 30,000 years earlier than previously thought

Annalee Newitz
ars Technica
Thu, 03 Aug 2017 20:30 UTC
Ancient Remains in Cambodia
© ars TechnicaThese are the relatively recent remains of an ancient temple in the tropical forest of Cambodia.
It's an idea that could transform our understanding of how humans went from small bands of hunter-gatherers to farmers and urbanites. Until recently, anthropologists believed cities and farms emerged about 9,000 years ago in the Mediterranean and Middle East. But now a team of interdisciplinary researchers has gathered evidence showing how civilization as we know it may have emerged at the equator, in tropical forests. Not only that, but people started farming about 30,000 years earlier than we thought.

For centuries, archaeologists believed that ancient people couldn't live in tropical jungles. The environment was simply too harsh and challenging, they thought. As a result, scientists simply didn't look for clues of ancient civilizations in the tropics. Instead, they turned their attention to the Middle East, where we have ample evidence that hunter-gatherers settled down in farming villages 9,000 years ago during a period dubbed the "Neolithic revolution." Eventually, these farmers' offspring built the ziggurats of Mesopotamia and the great pyramids of Egypt. It seemed certain that city life came from these places and spread from there around the world.

But now that story seems increasingly uncertain. In an article published in Nature Plants, Max Planck Institute archaeologist Patrick Roberts and his colleagues explain that cities and farms are far older than we think. Using techniques ranging from genetic sampling of forest ecosystems, to soil analysis and lidar, the researchers have found ample evidence that people at the equator were actively changing the natural world to make it more human-centric.
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Meteor

Greeks' main genetic ancestry from the Minoans and Mycenaeans

Ann Gibbons
AAAS Science Magazine
Wed, 02 Aug 2017 02:04 UTC
Ever since the days of Homer, Greeks have long idealized their Mycenaean "ancestors" in epic poems and classic tragedies that glorify the exploits of Odysseus, King Agamemnon, and other heroes who went in and out of favor with the Greek gods. Although these Mycenaeans were fictitious, scholars have debated whether today's Greeks descend from the actual Mycenaeans, who created a famous civilization that dominated mainland Greece and the Aegean Sea from about 1600 B.C.E. to 1200 B.C.E., or whether the ancient Mycenaeans simply vanished from the region.

Mycenaean woman fresco
© Yann Forget/Wikimedia CommonsA Mycenaean woman depicted on a fresco at Mycenae on mainland Greece.

Comment: Original letter (behind paywall):
Genetic origins of the Minoans and Mycenaeans, Nature 2017

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Snakes in Suits

An old ruse: Psychopathic leaders have advocated false flag terrorism for over 2,000 years


Washington's Blog
Wed, 02 Aug 2017 00:00 UTC
Teaching false flags
© Anthony Freda
Kautilya (also called "Chanakya") was a royal advisor thousands of years ago in ancient India. His writing is considered an important precursor to much modern thought. Wikipedia notes:
He is considered the pioneer of the field of political science and economics in India, and his work is thought of as an important precursor to classical economics.
2,300 years ago - in the 4th century B.C. - Kautilya advocated the use of false flag attacks:
The brother of a seditious minister may put forward his claim for inheritance. While the claimant is lying at night at the door of the house of the seditious minister or elsewhere, a fiery spy ... may murder him and declare "Alas! the claimant for inheritance is thus murdered (by his brother)." Then taking the side of the injured party, the king may punish the other (the seditious minister).

Comment: The first question to ask after a terror attack: Was it a false flag?

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Archaeology

Hereditary trait or head-binding? Archeologist seeks answers on strange skull found at Scotland's Achavanich Beaker burial site

Alicia McDermott
Ancient Origins
Mon, 15 Feb 2016 00:00 UTC
Scottish Achavanich Beaker burial skull
© M. HooleSkull shown in-situ prior to excavation at the Achavanich Beaker burial site.
In 1987, the remains of an 18-22-year-old woman, now dubbed Ava, were discovered at Achavanich in Caithness in the north of Scotland. The site was excavated by the Highland Regional Council Archaeology Unit, and the burial was later dated to the Middle Bronze Age. Although the discovery is interesting, and one aspect of it has been hotly debated by researchers, it was soon forgotten by most people. Now, an archaeologist is working to change that.

Archaeologist Maya Hoole hopes to renew public interest in the burial from about 3,700 years ago. As she told the BBC, "Like many others, I'm sure, I find skeletal remains completely mesmerising."

On Hoole's website, the Achavanich Beaker Burial Project, she explains her goal further: "I had one objective when I started this project: to change our understanding of this site and, over the last year, have been trying to make this happen." Hoole believes that a renewed interest and modern technology could make this happen, revealing much more about the secrets of Ava's life and death.

Comment: More on other discoveries of deformed skulls:

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Rare conjoined bat twins discovered in Brazil

Sarah B. Puschmann
Live Science
Mon, 31 Jul 2017 16:02 UTC
Conjoined bat twins
© Dr. Nadja L. PinheroThese conjoined bat twins, found under a mango tree in southeastern Brazil in 2001, were either stillborn or died shortly after birth.
The corpses of rare conjoined bats found in Brazil have given scientists a closer look into a phenomenon that has only ever been recorded twice before.

When Marcelo Rodrigues Nogueira, a postdoctoral researcher in biology at the State University of Northern Rio de Janeiro first saw the bat twins, he was "completely astonished," he wrote in an email to Live Science. "I have handled many bats [in my career], some with very impressive morphological characters (and bats are very special in this respect!), but none [were as] surprising as these twins."

Only two other pairs of conjoined bat twins have been reported in the scientific literature, one in 1969 and another in 2015.
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Light Sabers

Princess Diana's former private secretary berates Royal Family for disrespectful treatment towards Diana

SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE
Daily Mail
Wed, 26 Jul 2017 16:51 UTC
princess diana
Princess Diana's former private secretary Patrick Jephson (left) has decided that the time is right to berate the Royal Family for a failure to treat her with the humanity and respect she deserved
As the 20th anniversary of the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, approaches, her former private secretary Patrick Jephson has decided that the time is right to berate the Royal Family for a failure to treat her with the humanity and respect she deserved.

In a new American edition of his book Shadows Of A Princess, published today, Jephson writes: 'Remembering Diana... can be summed up in one word - a word traditionally synonymous with the British Crown, exemplified by Elizabeth II's lifetime of service.

'The word is decency. Yet in some corners of the royal establishment, two decades of spin doctors and a naive fondness for the slippery arts of news management have put the word and the idea at risk...

'Diana alive was a decency test for the Windsors, which some of them failed.'
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