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Flashback Muhammad Ali under FBI microscope, new documents show


Sputnik
Fri, 16 Dec 2016 22:18 UTC
Muhammad Ali
© Express, via Getty ImagesClay was introduced to the Nation of Islam while training in Miami in the early 1960s and later converted to orthodox Islam.
Newly-released documents reveal that the FBI conducted surveillance on late boxing champion and activist-icon Muhammad Ali. The agency monitored Ali's speeches and even considered using his ex-wife as a "lead" as part of a larger investigation into the Nation of Islam.

The 140 documents, some of which contain classified information, were released as a result of a lawsuit brought by Judicial Watch, a conservative watchdog organization. Stubbornly referring to Ali by his birth name, Cassius Clay, the law-enforcement agency also monitored Ali's first wife, Sonja Roi Clay, after their 1966 divorce. One memo read, "The Miami (FBI) office is requested to follow the divorce action between Cassius and Sonja Clay with particular emphasis being placed on any NOI (Nation of Islam) implication being brought into this matter."

FBI interest in Ali stemmed from his refusal to enter the US military draft during the Vietnam War, declaring that he had no obligation to fight for a country that discriminated against African-Americans. The precedent for his actions was set by NOI leader Elijah Muhammad, who instructed followers to not participate in US wars, and was himself arrested for draft evasion in 1942. As a result of his protest, Ali was stripped of his world heavyweight title.

Ali joined the NOI in the early 1960s, a controversial move, as the organization called white people "devils" and advocated for a separate nation for blacks so as to escape endemic racism in the US. NOI also claimed that the US was doomed to be destroyed by God for its discriminatory treatment of African-Americans.

The FBI investigated and infiltrated the NOI, as it did most other activist groups, including those allied with the Civil Rights Movement and the Black Panther Party. The agency claimed it had an interest in Ali "from an intelligence standpoint."

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Flashback Letter details Kennedy's offer to USSR


Sweetness and Light
Sun, 09 Aug 2009 20:57 UTC
Edward Kennedy
[A repost of a S&L article from December 2006.]

This letter which details Senator Edward Kennedy's offer to help the Soviet Union defeat Reagan's efforts to build up the nuclear deterrent in Europe was unearthed by a Times of London reporter in the 1990s after the KGB files were opened.

It got little or no attention, however, until the publication of Paul Kengor's book "The Crusader - Ronald Reagan and the Fall of Communism."

But even then the actual text of the letter (which is in the book's appendix pp 317-320) has gotten short shrift:
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Polygamous footprints? Ancient impressions suggest early man had multiple female partners

Colin Barras
New Scientist
Wed, 14 Dec 2016 19:44 UTC
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© Raffaello Pellizzon
Three has become five. Laetoli in northern Tanzania is the site of iconic ancient footprints, capturing the moment - 3.66 million years ago - when three members of Lucy's species (Australopithecus afarensis) strode out across the landscape.

Now something quite unexpected has come to light: the footprints of two other individuals.

"Our discovery left us without words," says Marco Cherin at the University of Perugia, Italy.

The find looks set to transform our understanding of the Laetoli site and the social dynamics of australopiths, as well as their style of walking.

The original Laetoli footprints were discovered in 1976. Nothing quite like them had ever been found before. They remain by far the oldest hominin footprints we know, fortuitously preserved because a group of australopiths walked across damp volcanic ash during the brief window of time before it turned from soft powder into hard rock.

"Geologists say this hardening process must have occurred in just a few hours," says Cherin.
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1,800yo stone tablet discovered off coast of Israel features Greek inscriptions with second recorded use of Judea in region

Ryan O'Hare
Daily Mail
Wed, 14 Dec 2016 15:57 UTC
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The inscription enormous tablet, which weighs more than 600 kg, is now on display at the University of Haifa's library
A stone tablet recovered from the seafloor off the coast of Israel has revealed new insight into one of the bloodiest periods of ancient Jewish history.

Researchers have revealed for the first time that its inscriptions give the name of the Roman governor who ruled over the biblical state of Judea in the lead up to a failed revolt by the Jews.

Archaeologists say that in addition to revealing the governor's name - Gargilius Antiquus - the tablet features only the second recorded Roman inscription to use 'Judea' for the region.

The slab was first found on the seafloor about 18 miles (30km) off the coast of the city of Haifa and is believed to date back to the 2nd century CE.
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Unknown ancient city in Greece discovered by archaeologists


Sci-News
Tue, 13 Dec 2016 19:32 UTC
An international team of archaeologists from Sweden, Greece and the United Kingdom is exploring the ruins of a previously unknown ancient city at the village of Vlochos, municipality of Palamas, central Greece.
Ancient Greek City
© Swedish Institute at Athens / Ephorate of Antiquities of Karditsa/Hellenic Ministry of Culture and SportsThe city’s acropolis is barely visible during a cloudy day on the Thessalian plains.
"What used to be considered remains of some irrelevant settlement on a hill can now be upgraded to remains of a city of higher significance than previously thought," said team member Robin Rönnlund, leader of the fieldwork and a doctoral student at the University of Gothenburg.

The archaeological remains can be dated to several historical periods and are scattered on and around Strongilovoúni, an isolated hill towering 705 feet (215 m) above the vast plains of Western Thessaly.

"Most striking of the visible remains at the site are the well-preserved fortifications, at points still 8 feet (2.5 m) high, but the lower slopes below the hill show clear indications of being the location of an extensive urban settlement, now covered by silt and sediment from the nearby river Enipeas," the archaeologists said.
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Theodore Shackley: A Life in the CIA

Hugo Turner
Sott.net
Sun, 04 Dec 2016 23:09 UTC
CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia
© Dennis Brack/EPA/CorbisCIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia.
With special thanks to Douglas Valentine (buy his new book, The CIA as Organized Crime)

Theodore Shackley is one of the most infamous figures in the history of the CIA. His career in the CIA involved him in many of their most notorious operations. He recruited Nazis and traitors to spy on the Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc. He managed the covert war on Cuba from the Miami CIA station after the failed Bay of Pigs invasion. There he formed links with many suspected of being involved with the JFK assassination both in organized crime and the CIA. He was chief of Station in Laos during a massive expansion of the dirty war there. Laos was also at the center of the international heroin trade which was used to finance the war. Next he became Chief of Station in Vietnam where he oversaw death squads, fixed elections, manipulated the media, and distorted intelligence to please the Nixon Administration. His next assignment was the Western Hemisphere division where he managed the destabilization of Chile and tried to stop Phillip Agee from revealing the Agency's many dirty dealings in Latin America. Next he was in charge of the Far Eastern Division while America finally lost its decades-long war in Asia with the fall of Saigon.
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SOTT Focus: The Truth Perspective: Interview with Russell Gmirkin: What Does Plato Have To Do With the Bible?


Sott.net
Sun, 11 Dec 2016 17:00 UTC
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Just how old is the Old Testament? If Moses didn't write the Pentateuch, who did? For millennia, people have thought the Hebrew Bible was as old as many of the events it depicts. In recent generations, scholars have thought it was created over a long period of time, with various authors and editors. But the writings in the Hebrew Bible may not be as ancient as we've been led to believe.

On this episode of the Truth Perspective, we'll be interviewing Russell Gmirkin, independent researcher, scholar, and author of two of the most revolutionary books in biblical studies: Russell's work radically challenges our understanding of the history of the Hebrew Bible. He demonstrates that there is simply no evidence that the Bible existed prior to the time of Alexander the Great (ca. 325 BC). All the evidence indicates that the collection of books we know of as the Hebrew Bible was written around the year 270 BC. And not only that: they relied heavily on Greek literature, particularly Plato's final work: Laws.

Listen in as we discuss how, when, and why the Bible was created.

You can visit Russell's website here: russellgmirkin.com

Running Time: 01:56:09

Download: MP3


Here's the transcript of the show:
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Power to the people: The legacy of John Lennon lives on

John Whitehead
opednews.com
Tue, 06 Dec 2016 00:24 UTC
john lennon
"You gotta remember, establishment, it's just a name for evil. The monster doesn't care whether it kills all the students or whether there's a revolution. It's not thinking logically, it's out of control." - John Lennon (1969)
Militant nonviolent resistance works.

Peaceful, prolonged protests work.

Mass movements with huge numbers of participants work.

Yes, America, it is possible to use occupations and civil disobedience to oppose government policies, counter injustice and bring about change outside the confines of the ballot box.

It has been done before. It is being done now. It can be done again.

For example, in May of 1932, more than 43,000 people, dubbed the Bonus Army - World War I veterans and their families - marched on Washington, set up tent cities in the nation's capital, and refused to leave until the government agreed to pay the bonuses they had been promised as a reward for their services. Eventually their efforts not only succeeded in securing payment of the bonuses but contributed to the passage of the G.I. Bill of Rights.

Similarly, the Civil Rights Movement mobilized hundreds of thousands of people to strike at the core of an unjust and discriminatory society. Likewise, while the 1960s anti-war movement began with a few thousand perceived radicals, it ended with hundreds of thousands of protesters, spanning all walks of life, demanding the end of American military aggression abroad.
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Time to Admit the Deception: 75th Anniversary of the Pearl Harbor False Flag Attack Paved Way for US Involvement in WWII

Makia Freeman
Waking Times
Mon, 05 Dec 2016 00:00 UTC
Pearl Harbor attack
The Pearl Harbor false flag operation of December 7th, 1941 which provided the excuse for the US to enter World War 2 is about to be celebrated once again. This Wednesday (December 7th, 2016) will be the Pearl Harbor 75th Anniversary event. The horrific event was yet another in a long long line of false flag operations that have been carried out by unscrupulous criminals (our misleaders) over the years. Just as with the 9/11 false flag attack, around 3000 American lives were sacrificed so that the US Government had the pretext they needed to go to war. As the 75th anniversary approaches, it is appropriate to cast our gaze back in time and set the record straight on the Pearl Harbor false flag op in the hope that this information will spread far and wide, and prevent future leaders from using this hackneyed tactic to trick people into submission and achieve their dark political and geopolitical goals.

The Pearl Harbor False Flag Motive: Providing a "Legitimate" Cover Story for the Long-Planned Entry of the US into WW2

To begin with, the Pearl Harbor attack is not a false flag op in the sense that the US attacked in its own ships and planes. It is a false flag in the sense that at the very least Roosevelt let it happen, and as the evidence will show, he made it happen. Most of the US Pacific fleet of planes and ships were intentionally left there as sitting ducks with no air protection, an easy target for the Japanese torpedo planes. The Japanese managed to destroy nearly 20 American naval vessels, including 8 massive battleships and over 300 airplanes.
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Amber-preserved 99 million-year-old feathered dinosaur tail discovered in Myanmar - '1st of its kind'


RT
Fri, 09 Dec 2016 15:35 UTC
Feathered dinosaur tail
© Elsevier Ltd. / cell.comFeathered dinosaur tail
The tail of a 99-million-year-old dinosaur has been discovered in Myanmar, complete with feathers, bones, and soft tissue, according to a new report. The finding is the very first of its kind, much to the delight of scientists across the globe.

The remarkable discovery has roots in 2015, when Lida Xing, a researcher from the China University of Geosciences, was wandering through an amber market in Myanmar, when he came across something that caught his eye.

For sale at a stall was a piece of amber that had been dug out of a mine. Inside, he could see some ancient ants, and a fuzzy brown tuft. While the salesman believed the brown object to be some sort of plant, Xing suspected it was much more significant than that - part of a feathered dinosaur.

He persuaded the Dexu Institute of Palaeontology to buy the artifact, and began studying it alongside colleagues from China, the UK, and Canada. They soon discovered that Xing was right - the object preserved in amber indeed belonged to a dinosaur.

"I have studied paleontology for more than 10 years and have been interested in dinosaurs for more than 30 years. But I never expected we could find a dinosaur in amber. This may be the coolest find in my life," Xing told NPR. "The feathers on the tail are so dense and regular, this is really wonderful."

Xing's colleague Ryan McKellar, a palaeontologist at the Royal Saskatchewan Museum in Canada who was involved in the study, said he's "blown away" by the finding, which is the "first of its kind," Reuters reported.

Their excitement is understandable. After all, it's the first time that feathers together with skeletal material from a dinosaur have been found in amber.
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