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Crushed leg bones, battered skulls and other mutilated human remains are likely all that's left of a Native American population destroyed by genocide that took place circa 800 A.D., suggests a new study.

The paper, accepted for publication in the Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, describes the single largest deposit to date of mutilated and processed human remains in the American Southwest.

The entire assemblage comprises 14,882 human skeletal fragments, as well as the mutilated remains of dogs and other animals killed at the massacre site — Sacred Ridge, southwest of Durango, Colo.

Based on the archaeological findings, which include two-headed axes that tested positive for human blood, co-authors Jason Chuipka and James Potter believe the genocide occurred as a result of conflict between different Anasazi Ancestral Puebloan ethnic groups.

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/39268873#.VDry61cXOXg

Switzerland bucks EU youth unemployment trend
Country's youth apprenticeship programme is credited with one of the lowest unemployment rates in Europe at 3.2%.

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2014/10/switzerland-bucks-eu-youth-unemployment-trend-201410791826348754.html

I think the only other version I have heard of this song, was by John Charles Thomas. They both do it well, but then songs are just poems put to music. Well, in most cases anyway. That is to say,
most beautiful music!

Scrap the Climate Change Act to keep the lights on, says Owen Paterson
The Climate Change Act 2008, which ties Britain into stringent environmental measures, should be suspended - and then scrapped - if other countries refuse to agree legally binding targets, says Owen Paterson MP

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/energy/11156113/Scrap-the-Climate-Change-Act-to-keep-the-lights-on-says-Owen-Paterson.html

Please release my first comment. I know I used a word (s*x)from a Telegraph.co.uk article about Hitler's personal life.

Slim Dusty (God keep his soul) is an Australian balladeer who traveled from town to town and city to city with his guitar, and made a lot of folks happy. (Think Stompin' Tom Connors.)

What could be more depressing than ''A Pub With No Beer!''

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkEhyl4472Q

Opps sorry--Slim Dusty ''was'' an Australian Balladeer! His real name was David Gordon Kirkpatrick.

Hell--while I'm here, you might as well enjoy another one! And a video tour of Australia.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_iwMnzpiww

"The Pentagon can make smart investments now to prepare for the future, . . . ."

No, it bloody well cannot.

The Pentagon can RECOMMEND smart investments to prepare for the future, but the purchasing decisions will be made by the Congress.

Example 1: M1A1 Abrams panzer. The Army specifically rejected the prototype because of its turbine engine. The Army preferred the competitor with the diesel engine they knew and loved. Congress voted them the turbine. -- h lynn keith

Example 2: PA-48 Enforcer [en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piper_PA-48_Enforcer]. Piper Aircraft came up with the idea to stick a turboprop engine in a Mustang fighter, load it with hardpoints, and make it a COIN aircraft. ... Piper lobbied Congress, and Congresscritters voted $4 million to explore the idea. The Air Force detailed no one for that nonsense and returned the money at the end of the fiscal year. The next year, Congresscritters voted $11.9 million for the Enforcer and ORDERED the Air Force to spend the money. The Air Force program manager began all his briefings with "Return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear . . . ." ... the A-1 SPAD (Skyraider) was several times better in the COIN mission, the OV-10 was at least as good, the A-37 was better, and the A-10 Warthog was several orders of magnitude better than all of them.
-- h lynn keith

Example 3: F-35 Lightning II (aka MacNamara’s Zombie Revenge). The Air Force-Navy-Marine Joint Strike Fighter is built in three versions — A, B, and C — ’cause the version that meets Air Force requirements does not meet Navy requirements and the version that meets Marine requirements does not meet Air Force requirements. About the only thing the three versions have in common is the canopy and the F-35 designator. The whole project is an excuse to transfer money from the public treasury to Lockheed-Martin. You think the Air Force, Navy, and Marines wanted this abomination? (The Marine version makes sense. The others? Pffft.)

The chances of the Pentagon making smart investments for the future is zero.

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Live long and prosper

h lynn keith

Spending cuts could be "discriminatory," claims Quebec "Human Rights" Commission

http://www.subwaytodamascus.com/2014/10/spending-cuts-could-be-discriminatory.html

Massachusetts Patient Who Traveled To Liberia Is Showing Possible Ebola Symptoms

http://weaselzippers.us/202325-breaking-massachusetts-patient-who-traveled-to-liberia-is-showing-possible-ebola-symptoms/

O'bola For $.

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"Who's in Charge of Ebola at Hospitals? 'Screaming That We're Not Prepared'"

"Obama Makes Cautious Return to Campaign Trail"

http://www.bloomberg.com/

O'narcissist's "*sole legacy": "massive" PTSD.

"**This loss of hope may be the most important and surprising legacy of the Obama years."

"This is his *sole legacy: a massive post-traumatic stress disorder."

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"**All he had to do was show everyone around the world that we Americans really are nice people – to charm them with his cosmopolitan wiles, soaring rhetoric and Nobel Peace Prize and they would go about their business and leave us alone. But now we have given up on the notion that even Obama can change things. This loss of hope may be the most important and surprising legacy of the Obama years."

"We live in a fallen world: Growing sense that no one can bring lasting peace to Middle East"

"Matt K. Lewis: We can try our best to manage wars, to be smart, to minimize them. But the notion of a world that is entirely peaceful seems increasingly utopian"

http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2014/10/12/matt-k-lewis-we-live-in-a-fallen-world-loss-of-hope-may-be-most-important-legacy-of-obama-years/

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"The “small people”, the “rank and file”, the “loyal soldiers” of the narcissist – his flock, his nation, his employees – they pay the price. The disillusionment and disenchantment are agonizing. The process of reconstruction, of rising from the ashes, of overcoming the trauma of having been deceived, exploited and manipulated – is drawn-out. It is difficult to trust again, to have faith, to love, to be led, to collaborate. Feelings of shame and guilt engulf the erstwhile followers of the narcissist. This is his sole legacy: a massive post-traumatic stress disorder."

http://lettingfreedomring.com/2012/01/28/barack-obama-narcissist-or-merely-narcissistic/

Very interesting. Luckily pipelines carry other things besides oil.

http://ca.reuters.com/article/businessNews/idCAKCN0I201Y20141013?sp=true

and

http://www.nationalnewswatch.com/2014/10/10/canada-weighs-impact-of-plunging-oil-prices/#.VDwKNRaKVr9

Besides, does Saudi Arabia doesn't have the same oil clout anymore. This is just the latest flinch in SA's attempt to battle North American production. I guess Steyer, Soros et al aren't getting the message through - oil sands dirty, Arabian oil nice. Anyway, we don't need them anymore. Slowing demand worldwide is also a big reason oil prices have dropped.

I think SA is a price taker now anyway. Any correction/buying opportunity will be welcome and Canada is in the sweet spot in the oil and gas game, benefiting from higher and lower prices (within reason of course) especially with fiscal policy paying off for the Harper government - while Europe and the US decline - and Canadians in general, unless Justin gets elected and like his daddy starts a debt snowball running downhill in a snowstorm:

http://ottawacitizen.com/news/national/bob-plamondon-canada-is-finally-back-to-where-it-was-in-1967

Are we in a buying opportunity phase for good quality Canadian oil & gas, banking and consumer businesses?

" Space-squeezed border agency pondered putting immigrants in federal prisons
" http://www.cfra.com/NationalCP/Article.aspx?id=438585

That is just wrong.

A double fenced barbed-wire compound would be much cheaper. Maybe put a few dozen dogs and hogs between the fences for extra security and save the CANADIAN taxpayer a bundle.