Monday, March 31, 2014
BBC News - The Lyndon Johnson tapes: Richard Nixon's 'treason'
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-21768668
He got the idea from his predecessor Lyndon Johnson, who felt there was an obligation to allow historians to eventually eavesdrop on his presidency.
"They will provide history with the bark off," Johnson told his wife, Lady Bird.
The final batch of tapes released by the LBJ library covers 1968, and allows us to hear Johnson's private conversations as his Democratic Party tore itself apart over the question of Vietnam.
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-21768668
Declassified tapes of
President Lyndon Johnson's telephone calls provide a fresh insight into
his world. Among the revelations - he planned a dramatic entry into the
1968 Democratic Convention to re-join the presidential race. And he
caught Richard Nixon sabotaging the Vietnam peace talks... but said
nothing.
After the Watergate scandal taught Richard Nixon the
consequences of recording White House conversations none of his
successors has dared to do it. But Nixon wasn't the first.He got the idea from his predecessor Lyndon Johnson, who felt there was an obligation to allow historians to eventually eavesdrop on his presidency.
"They will provide history with the bark off," Johnson told his wife, Lady Bird.
The final batch of tapes released by the LBJ library covers 1968, and allows us to hear Johnson's private conversations as his Democratic Party tore itself apart over the question of Vietnam.
Monday, March 17, 2014
Sex With Aliens
Hey I know it sounds crazy but this is on Wikipedia now so it must be true.
Mystery humans spiced up ancients’ sex lives
Genome analysis suggests there was interbreeding between modern
humans, Neanderthals, Denisovans and an unknown archaic population. Ewen Callaway
The ancient genomes, one from a Neanderthal and one from a member of an archaic human group called the Denisovans, were presented on 18 November at a meeting on ancient DNA at the Royal Society in London. The results suggest that interbreeding went on between the members of several ancient human-like groups in Europe and Asia more than 30,000 years ago, including an as-yet-unknown human ancestor from Asia.
“What it begins to suggest is that we’re looking at a Lord of the Rings-type world — that there were many hominid populations,” says Mark Thomas, an evolutionary geneticist at University College London who was at the meeting but was not involved in the work.
The first published Neanderthal1 and Denisovan2 genome sequences revolutionized the study of ancient human history, not least because they showed that these groups bred with anatomically modern humans, contributing to the genetic diversity of many people alive today.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denisovan
The ancient genomes, one from a Neanderthal and one from a member of an archaic human group called the Denisovans, were presented on 18 November at a meeting on ancient DNA at the Royal Society in London. The results suggest that interbreeding went on between the members of several ancient human-like groups in Europe and Asia more than 30,000 years ago, including an as-yet-unknown human ancestor from Asia.
“What it begins to suggest is that we’re looking at a Lord of the Rings-type world — that there were many hominid populations,” says Mark Thomas, an evolutionary geneticist at University College London who was at the meeting but was not involved in the work.
The first published Neanderthal1 and Denisovan2 genome sequences revolutionized the study of ancient human history, not least because they showed that these groups bred with anatomically modern humans, contributing to the genetic diversity of many people alive today.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denisovan
Friday, March 14, 2014
Thursday, March 13, 2014
Missing Plane Mystery
There are a lot of questions right now, and for some reason this story seems so familiar.
Russian, NORAD air forces cooperate in exercise tracking hijacked plane over Alaska, Russia
The truth is stranger than we think.
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