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 Prehistoric Burial Ground Found On Skye Author: Jonny Muir Source: Press and Journal (UK) Title: PREHISTORIC BURIAL GROUND FOUND ON SKYE A prehistoric burial ground has been discovered on Skye. Six slab-lined graves and six cremation pits have been unearthed on the excavation site close to Armadale pier on the Sleat peninsula. Experts say it is one of the most significant archaeological finds yet made in the Highlands. Flint tools and urns were found inside the graves, although skeletal remains had been damaged due to the tide. The contents of the burial site are being removed by a team of archaeologists from Inverness and Skye. They could be reconstructed and relocated to a new site at Armadale. | |
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House Panel Passes Bill Restricting Patriot Act Author: The Associated Press Source: First Amendment Center Title: HOUSE PANEL PASSES BILL RESTRICTING PATRIOT ACT Defying the Obama administration, the House Judiciary Committee voted yesterday to remove from the USA Patriot Act a tool for tracking non-U.S. citizens in anti-terrorism investigations. The committee, dominated by Democratic liberals, also voted to amend the anti-terrorism law to curb the government's surveillance and records-seizure powers. The bill went to the full House on a 16-10 vote along party lines, with Republicans casting all the votes in opposition. GOP lawmakers said the legislation would hinder law enforcement and intelligence agencies in fighting terrorism. The legislation would allow the Patriot Act's never-used "lone wolf" section to expire at the end of the year. The provision permits the government to spy on non-Americans even when they're not linked to a recognized terrorist group. | |
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Psychic Spies, Acid Guinea Pigs, New Age Soldiers: The True Men Who Stare At Goats Author: David Hambling Source: Wired Title: THE TRUE MEN WHO STARE AT GOATS “More of this is true than you would believe,” we’re told, just a few minutes into the movie version of The Men Who Stare At Goats, which opens today. But how many of the film’s outlandish military research projects really happened? Turns out there’s plenty of material in the movie which sticks quite close to the truth — though reality is a bit more complicated. (Warning: minor spoilers ahead.) Psychic spies? True. The non-fiction book which serves as the movie’s basis features Colonel John B. Alexander. He served as a Special Forces commander in Vietnam and spent decades promoting the use of psychics and “remote viewers” for national security. (That is, when he wasn’t pursuing his interests in -linguistic programming, UFOs, or non-lethal weapons.) In 2007, our own Sharon Weinberger interviewed Col. Alexander in some depth on the military use of witches. “They were doing palmistry, crystal ball kinds of stuff,” he said. | |
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Halloween Starts A New Year For One Clintonville Shop Author: Kathleen L. Radcliff Source: Columbus Local News Title: HALLOWEEN STARTS A NEW YEAR FOR ONE CLINTONVILLE SHOP While many think of Halloween as a day mainly for kids dressing up as ghosts, goblins and witches, for practitioners of witchcraft, Oct. 31 also is a special time of year. "It is kind of considered the witches' new year," Psyche North Torok said from her Clintonville magical resource store, Fly-By-Night. "It is a time when it is considered that the worlds between the living and the dead are the thinnest, and it is the easiest to communicate." | |
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Obama Pledges New Relationship With Native Americans Author: CNN Source: CNN Title: OBAMA PLEDGES NEW RELATIONSHIP WITH NATIVE AMERICANS   President Obama said Thursday that the federal government was guilty of mistreating Native Americans in the past and promised to forge a new relationship between the federal government and tribal leaders."You deserve to have a voice," Obama told representatives of 386 tribes at a White House Tribal Nations Conference. "You will not be forgotten as long as I'm in this White House." Obama signed a memorandum directing federal agencies to submit recommendations within 90 days on how best to improve tribal participation in key government policy decisions. Leaders of all 564 federally recognized tribes were invited to the daylong meeting. | |
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Army Says 12 Dead, 31 Injured At Fort Hood Author: NBC News and msnbc.com Source: MSNBC Title: ARMY SAYS 12 DEAD, 31 INJURED AT FORT HOOD At least one U.S. soldier opened fire Thursday at Fort Hood, Texas, killing 12 people and wounding 31 others, military officials said. One gunman was shot to death, and two other soldiers were in custody, Lt. Gen. Bob Cone told reporters. It was not immediately known whether the victims were all soldiers or civilians, but Cone said at least one of those killed was a civilian police officer and NBC affiliate KCEN-TV of Waco reported that at least four SWAT officers were among those wounded. Fort Hood, one of the largest military complexes in the world, was on lockdown, as were schools in the area. Cone gave no further details on the dead gunman. A senior administration official told NBC News analyst Roger Cressey that one of the suspects who was in custody was an Army major. | |
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Hallowe'en: Trick, Treat And A Total Travesty? Author: Christopher Howse Source: The Telegraph (UK) Title: HALLOWE'EN: TRICK, TREAT AND A TOTAL TRAVESTY? Hallowe'en, as we know it now, is a fake. It was imported from America in the 1980s, which is when British children found out from the film ET (1982) how to go about trick-or-treat. It may not be long ago, but it is long enough to seem immemorial to anyone under 30. To them, Tesco's Hallowe'en Frankenstein cake or Asda's "Bride of Chuckie's very own recipe for Creepy Cupcakes" seem just like the commercialisation of Christmas. The difference is that there's really nothing behind them. "Most of the supernatural aura that supposedly surrounded the day in earlier times," says Steve Roud, a respected folklorist, "is an invention from the modern period that has now become entrenched in a way that is depressingly familiar." But does Hallowe'en not represent the timeless pagan feast of Samhain? Not a bit of it. In Ireland, Samhain, November 1, was the beginning of winter, "an important day of gathering and feasting but not, it seems, of much religious or supernatural significance" Mr Roud insists. | |
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