veteranstoday--2020-04-30--Biggest Discoveries in Human Evolution

Biggest Discoveries in Human Evolution

These are the Decade ’ s Biggest Discoveries in Human Evolution Human evolution is one of the most vibrant areas of scientific investigation .
In the past decade we ’ ve seen many discoveries that add to our understanding of our origins .
To mark the 10th anniversary of the Smithsonian ’ s “ David H. Koch Hall of Human Origins , ” here are some of the biggest discoveries in human evolution from the last 10 years .
DNA tells us a lot about who we are now .
But we also look to ancient DNA to learn about @ @ @ @ @ @ @ started , scientists recovered ancient genetic material from a fossilized finger bone found in the Denisova Cave in Siberia .
They tested that material and discovered that the DNA didn ’ t match that of modern humans or Neanderthals .
Instead , it belonged to a previously undiscovered species of early humans now called Denisovans .
It was the first time a new species has been identified using ancient DNA .
What does this tell us ?
The human genome is a wondrous archive of our relationships with ancient species no longer around @ @ @ @ @ @ @ welcomed four new species to our family tree , including the mysterious Homo naledi .
In 2015 , scientists announced the discovery of fossils of at least 15 individuals of this species in ….read more :

These are the Decade’s Biggest Discoveries in Human Evolution
by Briana Probiner and Rick Potts/Smithsonianmag.com
Human evolution is one of the most vibrant areas of scientific investigation. In the past decade we’ve seen many discoveries that add to our understanding of our origins. To mark the 10th anniversary of the Smithsonian’s “David H. Koch Hall of Human Origins,” here are some of the biggest discoveries in human evolution from the last 10 years.
DNA tells us a lot about who we are now. But we also look to ancient DNA to learn about our origins.
When the decade first started, scientists recovered ancient genetic material from a fossilized finger bone found in the Denisova Cave in Siberia. They tested that material and discovered that the DNA didn’t match that of modern humans or Neanderthals. Instead, it belonged to a previously undiscovered species of early humans now called Denisovans. It was the first time a new species has been identified using ancient DNA.
What does this tell us? The human genome is a wondrous archive of our relationships with ancient species no longer around.
Over the past decade, we welcomed four new species to our family tree, including the mysterious Homo naledi.
In 2015, scientists announced the discovery of fossils of at least 15 individuals of this species in ….read more:


veteranstoday--2020-05-01--Al Qaeda’s Jihadists Treated in Italian Military Hospital in Libya. LNA Blames

There is news we never want to read .
And even less having to write .
But the perversions of the Italian geopolitical system managed more by NATO and the CIA than by puppet governments of the Democratic Party ( in command since 2012 with a small one-year break between 2018 and 2019 ) has given rise to disconcerting aberrations that deserve to be told even if they have still official confirmations and they hurt my heart as an Italian patriot .
« 6 Syrian terrorist mercenaries for Hayat Tahrir AlSham ( AlNusra = AlQeada ) are now being treated @ @ @ @ @ @ @ after being injured in Tripoli » .
More than a twitter it ’ s the detonator of a bomb of controversy because he calls into question the field hospital managed by Bersaglieri ( riflemen ) of Italian Army .
The black-berets soldiers of the 7th Regiment of Altamura ( Puglia ) are there with their contingent of doctors and equipment from the “ Role 2 ” hospital , a health facility already used in Afghanistan and Iraq , designed for high-capacity surgery on war wounds , and are supported by a C-27J tactical @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of Pisa for an eventual emergency evacuation .
It is equipped with operating rooms , analysis laboratory , plaster and radiology room , all connected to each other with inflatable tents .
They have been operating a few kilometers from the capital and the airport since September 2016 , since Rome decided to support , with a humanitarian and non-offensive operation , the Tripoli National Agreement Government ( GNA ) of President Fayez Al Serray , never elected but recognized by the UN and the European Union to administer Tripolitania .
This one @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with General Khalifa Haftar , commander of the Libyan National Army ( LNA ) who controls Cyrenaica and its capital Benghazi with the support of the parallel government of Tobruk .
The presence of militants of radical Islam among the tents of the Italian military garrison was reported on Twitter by the same LNA and therefore the conditional is a must because its interest in discrediting GNA and its allies is evident .
But so far the counterespionage of Marshal Haftar , in exile for many years in Virginia a few kilometers from @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in Langley , has been very efficient and precise .
A few days ago , Ahmed Mismari , general and spokesman of the Libyan National Army , in a video released by newspaper Corriere della Sera , had openly called into question the 7th Bersaglieri Regiment present with 300 soldiers .
« Italy needs to withdraw its military hospital from Misrata as soon as possible .
We have evidence that that structure no longer has anything humanitarian about it , but it is a valuable aid for the Misrata militias fighting against our @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s the Tweet with the face of two jihadists who would have been treated in the health facility .
This really embarrassing news for Italy did not find attention in the world media focused on the gunfights that rage despite Ramadan and on the changing political scenario in which the general of Benghazi , after the fierce advance of the enemies , declared the interruption of every diplomatic dialogue and has proclaimed himself head of the whole country , in the reproach of the UN and Rome but also of his own @ @ @ @ @ @ @ military leader of Cyrenaica is preparing his own government , which should be called the Libyan Sovereignty Council , having gained control of over 90 % of the Libyan territories , however only 60 % of the population for the high density of the area of Tripoli in the hands of GNA who also regained the strategic cities of Sorman and Sabratha ( close to the strategic oil platforms of Mellitah ) .
That ’ s happened with the help of Turkish mercenaries as part of the “ Storm of Peace ” mission @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with which Turkish President Recep Tayyp Erdogan invaded Syrian Rojava sowing blood and destruction even among Kurdish , Christian and Shiite civilians .
« For the advance towards Sabratha , the Syrian Islamist militias , formed by those Turkish-backed fighters taken in recent months from the Syrian province of Idlib and transferred to Tripoli , would have played a decisive role » writes InsideOver , the NATO-backed geopolitical appendix of italian newspaper Il Giornale , deliberately ignoring the danger of the jihadists .
In recent weeks , in fact , LNA has identified @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to the UN list but sent from Ankara to Libya in support of Al Serray ’ s army besieged in the offensive launched by opponents of Cyrenaica last April .
The Kurdish media Hawar News reported , particularly attentive to news regarding Turkish military operations .
Since on that list there are ex ISIS fighters as well as Al Qaeda and also the use of mercenaries in conflicts is prohibited by international conventions ( although everyone uses them ) the UN has launched an investigation , aimed at investigating also alleged illegal supplies @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Ostend Belgian airport as revealed in preview by Gospa News ) to arrive at Misrata airport , despite the embargo on Libya imposed for the civil war .
Since the start of the offensive , nearly 1,700 people have died , around 17,000 have been injured , while over 200,000 have been forced to flee their homes to become internally displaced people .
HTS is the faction of Sunni jihadists who control the last rebel stronghold in Idlib province in northern Syria .
It was financed , armed and protected by Turkey also @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the MIT of Ankara , known for having managed the movements of Foreign Fighters ISIS between Europe and Syria and vice versa , and only recently is it in crisis of relations with the troops of Erdogan because he signed the truce for Idlib with Russian President Vladimir Putin ( and Iran ) on 5 March .
The Hayat Tahir Al Sham group has incorporated the formation of the Al Nusra Front , Syrian rib of Al Qaeda , also to use that “ camouflage ” tactic that allows Islamic extremists to hide @ @ @ @ @ @ @ on the UN list of organizations terrorists and therefore to be able to obtain financial support from foreign powers for a certain period without violating international laws .
But even HTS was later declared an outlaw for terrorism with the United Nations code QDe.137 a few months after his seizure of power in Idlib in 2018 .
That is why it is useless to look for official confirmations of the reception of Hayat militants in the Bersaglieri hospital .
of Misrata .
But if we believe that the news is reliable , it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that have consolidated between Italy and Turkey , even following Erdogan ’ s decision to send the fierce and dangerous jihadist mercenaries to Libya , a country gravitating in the orbit of Rome for the platform of Eni hydrocarbon extraction which in 2018 started production of 10 new offshore wells in Bahr Essalam .
From these plants the gas is sent through the Sabratha platform to the Mellitah ground treatment plant where it is collected , compressed for the Libyan network .
From there also starts the Green Stream gas pipeline ( built @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Muhammar Gaddafi ) which sinks into the Mediterranean Sea and reaches up to Gela , in Sicily .
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by Fabio Giuseppe Carlo Carisio for VT Mediterranean
There is news we never want to read. And even less having to write. But the perversions of the Italian geopolitical system managed more by NATO and the CIA than by puppet governments of the Democratic Party (in command since 2012 with a small one-year break between 2018 and 2019) has given rise to disconcerting aberrations that deserve to be told even if they have still official confirmations and they hurt my heart as an Italian patriot.
«6 Syrian terrorist mercenaries for Hayat Tahrir AlSham (AlNusra = AlQeada) are now being treated in the Italian military base in Misrata after being injured in Tripoli». More than a twitter it’s the detonator of a bomb of controversy because he calls into question the field hospital managed by Bersaglieri (riflemen) of Italian Army.
BERSAGLIERI’S MISRATA HOSPITAL
The black-berets soldiers of the 7th Regiment of Altamura (Puglia) are there with their contingent of doctors and equipment from the “Role 2” hospital, a health facility already used in Afghanistan and Iraq, designed for high-capacity surgery on war wounds, and are supported by a C-27J tactical transport aircraft of the 46th Air Force of Pisa for an eventual emergency evacuation. It is equipped with operating rooms, analysis laboratory, plaster and radiology room, all connected to each other with inflatable tents.
They have been operating a few kilometers from the capital and the airport since September 2016, since Rome decided to support, with a humanitarian and non-offensive operation, the Tripoli National Agreement Government (GNA) of President Fayez Al Serray, never elected but recognized by the UN and the European Union to administer Tripolitania. This one has to seek an increasingly difficult compromise with General Khalifa Haftar, commander of the Libyan National Army (LNA) who controls Cyrenaica and its capital Benghazi with the support of the parallel government of Tobruk.
The presence of militants of radical Islam among the tents of the Italian military garrison was reported on Twitter by the same LNA and therefore the conditional is a must because its interest in discrediting GNA and its allies is evident. But so far the counterespionage of Marshal Haftar, in exile for many years in Virginia a few kilometers from the headquarters of the Central Intelligence Agency in Langley, has been very efficient and precise.
A few days ago, Ahmed Mismari, general and spokesman of the Libyan National Army, in a video released by newspaper Corriere della Sera, had openly called into question the 7th Bersaglieri Regiment present with 300 soldiers.
«Italy needs to withdraw its military hospital from Misrata as soon as possible. We have evidence that that structure no longer has anything humanitarian about it, but it is a valuable aid for the Misrata militias fighting against our army» he said. Now here’s the Tweet with the face of two jihadists who would have been treated in the health facility.
This really embarrassing news for Italy did not find attention in the world media focused on the gunfights that rage despite Ramadan and on the changing political scenario in which the general of Benghazi, after the fierce advance of the enemies, declared the interruption of every diplomatic dialogue and has proclaimed himself head of the whole country, in the reproach of the UN and Rome but also of his own allies of Russia and Egypt.
The military leader of Cyrenaica is preparing his own government, which should be called the Libyan Sovereignty Council, having gained control of over 90% of the Libyan territories, however only 60% of the population for the high density of the area of Tripoli in the hands of GNA who also regained the strategic cities of Sorman and Sabratha (close to the strategic oil platforms of Mellitah).
That’s happened with the help of Turkish mercenaries as part of the “Storm of Peace” mission that mimicked that “Peace Spring” with which Turkish President Recep Tayyp Erdogan invaded Syrian Rojava sowing blood and destruction even among Kurdish, Christian and Shiite civilians.
«For the advance towards Sabratha, the Syrian Islamist militias, formed by those Turkish-backed fighters taken in recent months from the Syrian province of Idlib and transferred to Tripoli, would have played a decisive role» writes InsideOver, the NATO-backed geopolitical appendix of italian newspaper Il Giornale, deliberately ignoring the danger of the jihadists.
Fabio is Director and Editor of Gospa News; a Christian Information Journal. Fabio Giuseppe Carlo Carisio, born on 24/2/1967 in Borgosesia, started working as a reporter when he was only 19 years old in the alpine area of Valsesia, Piedmont, his birth region in Italy. After studying literature and history at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan, he became director of the local newspaper Notizia Oggi Vercelli and specialized in judicial reporting. For about 15 years he is a correspondent from Northern Italy for the Italian newspapers Libero and Il Giornale, also writing important revelations on the Ustica massacre, a report on Freemasonry and organized crime. With independent investigations, he collaborates with Carabinieri and Guardia di Finanza in important investigations that conclude with the arrest of Camorra entrepreneurs or corrupt politicians. In July 2018 he found the counter-information web media Gospa News focused on geopolitics, terrorism, Middle East, and military intelligence. His articles were published on many international media and website as SouthFront, Reseau International, Sputnik Italia, United Nation Association Westminster, Global Research, Kolozeg and more… His investigations was quoted also by The Gateway Pundit, Tasnim and others He worked for many years for the magazine Art & Wine as an art critic and curator. www.gospanews.net/


veteranstoday--2020-05-01--Pentagon: Russia more dangerous than ISIS—again!

Yes , you just have to say that it ’ s a plot to make the world die laughing again !
Get this : the Pentagon is still pushing the crazy mantra that the Russians are more dangerous than Isis !
It ’ s just simply dumb .
In a paraphrased statement by Abraham Mahshie , it is stated that Russia is again a problem because they pose more threat to the United States than ISIS .
[ 1 ] Nothing could be further from the truth .
Keep in mind that this “ Russia is bigger than ISIS ” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ [ 2 ] The late John McCain capitulated to this by saying that Vladimir Putin “ is the premier and most important threat , more so than Isis.
” According to McCain , “ can do terrible things and I worry a lot about what is happening with the Muslim faith … but it ’ s the Russians who tried to destroy the fundamental of democracy and that is to change the outcome of an American election.
” [ 3 ] McCain , as we all know , was a war puppeteer , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ethnic cleanser .
But McCain was far from alone in risibly declaring that Russia was more dangerous than Isis .
Polish foreign minister Witold Waszczykowski posited around the same time that “ By all evidence , Russia ’ s activity is a sort of existential threat because this activity can destroy countries.
” Isis “ is not an existential threat for Europe , ” but Russia is .
[ 4 ] US Congresswoman Maxime Waters agreed .
She said then : “ The country is in danger , it ’ s in danger @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Russia .
Russia doesn ’ t care anything about us , they have nuclear capabilities pointed right at the United States .
They have the nerve to meet with Kim Jong Un over in North Korea and he ’ s crazy .
He hates us !
” [ 5 ] These people obviously prefer to live on a different world , where irrational things magically become rational .
It seems that these people have been reading Alice ’ s Adventures in Wonderland .
If Russia doesn ’ t care about the United States @ @ @ @ @ @ @ dialogue with US officials ?
And shouldn ’ t countries in the West make every effort to meet with perceived enemies in order to flesh out peaceful resolutions and avoid bloody wars ?
Didn ’ t the United States ally with arguably the most criminal state in the world during World War II ( the Soviet Union ) ?
No one has been able to explain these issues in a coherent fashion because New World Order agents do not want to act according to the dictates of practical reason .
If you think @ @ @ @ @ @ @ this .
Maxime went on to say that Putin is “ playing around ” and “ spreading his power ” in order to attack the United States .
Maxime once declared that Vladimir Putin invaded Korea !
[ 6 ] If that is not an infallible sign of a pathological liar or a political psychopath , then we have lost common sense in the culture .
People like Maxime are mad , sad , and want to be bad because they have lost a major battle in Syria .
The Assad government would @ @ @ @ @ @ @ history long ago had it not been for the Russians .
Whatever you may want to say about Russia or Vladimir Putin , the simple fact is that the New World Order wanted to balance their political equations without Assad , and Russia responded by saying no .
• [ 1 ] Abraham Mahshie , “ Russia ’ s presence in Libya is more dangerous than ISIS , US Africa Command says , ” Business Insider , April 30 , 2020 .
• [ 2 ] Mary Dejevsky , “ Which is the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , ” Guardian , May 30 , 2017 .
• [ 3 ] Vladimir Putin is a bigger threat than Isis , John McCain says , ” Guardian , May 29 , 2017 .
• [ 5 ] “ ‘ They ’ re coming after us ’ : Maxine Waters says Russia , China & N. Korea ganging up on US , ” Russia Today , February 2 , 2018 .

Yes, you just have to say that it’s a plot to make the world die laughing again! Get this: the Pentagon is still pushing the crazy mantra that the Russians are more dangerous than Isis! It’s just simply dumb. In a paraphrased statement by Abraham Mahshie, it is stated that Russia is again a problem because they pose more threat to the United States than ISIS.[1] Nothing could be further from the truth.
Keep in mind that this “Russia is bigger than ISIS” mantra has been perpetuated for years.[2] The late John McCain capitulated to this by saying that Vladimir Putin “is the premier and most important threat, more so than Isis.” According to McCain, “can do terrible things and I worry a lot about what is happening with the Muslim faith … but it’s the Russians who tried to destroy the fundamental of democracy and that is to change the outcome of an American election.”[3]
McCain, as we all know, was a war puppeteer, a Deep State agent, and an ethnic cleanser. But McCain was far from alone in risibly declaring that Russia was more dangerous than Isis. Polish foreign minister Witold Waszczykowski posited around the same time that “By all evidence, Russia’s activity is a sort of existential threat because this activity can destroy countries.” Isis “is not an existential threat for Europe,” but Russia is.[4] US Congresswoman Maxime Waters agreed. She said then: “The country is in danger, it’s in danger, I mean this strutting around with Russia. Russia doesn’t care anything about us, they have nuclear capabilities pointed right at the United States. They have the nerve to meet with Kim Jong Un over in North Korea and he’s crazy. He hates us!”[5]
These people obviously prefer to live on a different world, where irrational things magically become rational. It seems that these people have been reading Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. If Russia doesn’t care about the United States, why do they constantly want to dialogue with US officials? And shouldn’t countries in the West make every effort to meet with perceived enemies in order to flesh out peaceful resolutions and avoid bloody wars? Didn’t the United States ally with arguably the most criminal state in the world during World War II (the Soviet Union)? No one has been able to explain these issues in a coherent fashion because New World Order agents do not want to act according to the dictates of practical reason. If you think this is farfetched, then listen to this. Maxime went on to say that Putin is “playing around” and “spreading his power” in order to attack the United States. Maxime once declared that Vladimir Putin invaded Korea![6] If that is not an infallible sign of a pathological liar or a political psychopath, then we have lost common sense in the culture. People like Maxime are mad, sad, and want to be bad because they have lost a major battle in Syria. The Assad government would have been dumped in the trashcan of history long ago had it not been for the Russians. Whatever you may want to say about Russia or Vladimir Putin, the simple fact is that the New World Order wanted to balance their political equations without Assad, and Russia responded by saying no. [1] Abraham Mahshie, “Russia’s presence in Libya is more dangerous than ISIS, US Africa Command says,” Business Insider, April 30, 2020.
[2] Mary Dejevsky, “Which is the bigger threat, Russia or Isis?,” Guardian, May 30, 2017.
[3] Vladimir Putin is a bigger threat than Isis, John McCain says,” Guardian, May 29, 2017.
[4] Ibid.
[5] “‘They’re coming after us’: Maxine Waters says Russia, China & N. Korea ganging up on US,” Russia Today, February 2, 2018.
[6] Ibid.


veteranstoday--2020-05-02--Why Are Bats the Only Flying Mammals?

Why Are Bats the Only Flying Mammals?

Why Bats Are One of Evolution ’ s Greatest Puzzles Listen carefully on a quiet summer night and you might hear them .
Even if you don ’ t see a bat ’ s frantically fluttering form , you might catch its high-pitched chirp as it searches the night for dinner .
You ’ re probably hearing a little brown bat , a common insect-eater found throughout North America , but it is just one of more than a thousand species of bat ranging from the one-inch-long Kitti ’ s hog-nosed bat to the enormous , three-pound giant golden-crowned flying @ @ @ @ @ @ @ suffer a reputation problem .
Aside from being associated with vampires , they ’ re often called “ flying rats ” and blamed for the spread of zoonotic diseases into humans ( including COVID-19 , though whether that blame is founded is as of yet unclear . )
This fear often overshadows the fascinating fact that bats are the only mammals to have evolved powered flight , and they ’ ve been flapping around for tens of millions of years .
Where , then , did these flying oddities come from ?
Bats @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 50 million years ago during a time known as the Eocene .
Paleontologists have recovered remains ranging from teeth and bits of jaw to stunning full skeletons in places as far-flung as Wyoming , Paris , Australia and India ’ s Vastan Mine .
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Why Bats Are One of Evolution’s Greatest Puzzles
by Riley Black/Smithsonian.com
Listen carefully on a quiet summer night and you might hear them. Even if you don’t see a bat’s frantically fluttering form, you might catch its high-pitched chirp as it searches the night for dinner. You’re probably hearing a little brown bat, a common insect-eater found throughout North America, but it is just one of more than a thousand species of bat ranging from the one-inch-long Kitti’s hog-nosed bat to the enormous, three-pound giant golden-crowned flying fox.
Large or small, bats suffer a reputation problem. Aside from being associated with vampires, they’re often called “flying rats” and blamed for the spread of zoonotic diseases into humans (including COVID-19, though whether that blame is founded is as of yet unclear.) This fear often overshadows the fascinating fact that bats are the only mammals to have evolved powered flight, and they’ve been flapping around for tens of millions of years. Where, then, did these flying oddities come from?
Bats pop up in the fossil record around 50 million years ago during a time known as the Eocene. Paleontologists have recovered remains ranging from teeth and bits of jaw to stunning full skeletons in places as far-flung as Wyoming, Paris, Australia and India’s Vastan Mine.
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veteranstoday--2020-05-01--VT 2010: Why America must have an Anti-War uprising

Is the silence of the American people complicity in War Crimes ?
[ Editors Note from 2014 : With all the new events and material coming in to write about , taking time to cruise through our archives to pull out some golden oldies often falls victim to the procrastination monster .
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Click to donate > > The Story Remains the Same I am not against war .
I am a combat veteran .
I sit on my tail , watch TV , go to restaurants and have fond @ @ @ @ @ @ @ bedroom closet , I have a trash bag .
It is never opened , it has been there for years .
It has , along with other “ military mementos , ” a small green “ government issued ” address book .
Marines , long ago , scrawled their names in it .
Half of them never came back from Vietnam , never had children , grandchildren , got to finish college or even high school .
Many , maybe most , had never had sex , owned a car or traveled more @ @ @ @ @ @ @ lives were stolen , stolen then and we are doing it every day , maybe not the numbers , not on such a grand scale , but the lessons of Vietnam have more than been forgotten .
The brightest time in American history , another “ greatest generation ” may well have been the one that stopped an evil and corrupt war .
That generation saw the cost .
Only the young and the parents of those the war destroyed knew Vietnam .
America simply turned away , a nation of , do @ @ @ @ @ @ @ us , cowards ?
Is there another term ?
Of the two to three million that survived , a hundred thousand were seriously physically disabled and a million more suffered lifelong Post Traumatic Stress Disorder .
Not long after coming home , another 50,000 would die , some of mysterious illnesses , many by suicide .
50,000 or more went to prison , some for a few years , some are still there .
One of my closest friends , LCpl .
Daniel K. Staggs , winner of the Silver Star , would @ @ @ @ @ @ @ STAGGS , DANIEL ALBERT Citation : The President of the United States takes pleasure in presenting the Silver Star Medal to Daniel Albert Staggs ( 2371706 ) , Private First Class , U.S. Marine Corps , for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action while serving as a Scout with Company E , Second Battalion , Twenty-Sixth Marines , THIRD Marine Division , in connection with operations against the enemy in the Republic of Vietnam .
On 6 June 1968 , while conducting a patrol southeast of Con Thien , a platoon from Company @ @ @ @ @ @ @ weapons and hand grenade attack from a well entrenched North Vietnamese Army force and sustained numerous casualties .
Observing that the wounded men lay in positions dangerously exposed to hostile fire , Private First Class Staggs volunteered to assist in moving them to a covered area .
After aiding a companion in carrying a mortally wounded Marine into a bomb crater , he quickly realized that the intense fire from an enemy sniper prevented the other casualties from being evacuated .
Seizing a machine gun , he unhesitatingly left his concealed position , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ across the fire-swept area and returned with an injured man .
When his companion was mortally wounded , Private First Class Staggs immediately retrieved the radio carried by the man and established communications with an aerial observer .
Although inexperienced in medical evacuation procedures , he quickly organized a helicopter landing zone and supervised the movement of wounded Marines into a central location for medial evacuation .
Continuing his determined efforts , he then skillfully guided helicopters into the zone , thereby providing lifesaving evacuation for numerous casualties .
By his courage , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ at great personal risk , Private First Class Staggs inspired all who observed him and upheld the highest traditions of the Marine Corps and the United States Naval Service .
By 1972 , only a few troops were in Vietnam , fighting a “ rear guard ” holding action while America pretended it had won “ peace with honor ” at the bargaining table in Paris .
A monster named Henry Kissinger won a Nobel Prize for that farce .
Have we no shame ?
The vast majority of Americans didn ’ t @ @ @ @ @ @ @ news about the war , not a minute a month to think about it , much less do something , take a stand for what was right .
These are the people that love to hear about hippies and airport spitters .
These people love Ollie North and John McCain , cartoon heroes for a nation too dead inside to care .
Scary terrorists and endless wars are bread and butter for the “ drug store Marine ” and “ Hanoi John.
” You don ’ t know them by the these names @ @ @ @ @ @ @ by their fellow officers after Vietnam ?
Carefully hear what they say , that pair of bloated peddlers of death .
Are they continually undermining America through the fear and mistrust their every word sews while they rake in millions ?
Why are men like this whose pasts reek of the worst abuses imaginable , allowed to dishonor our dead while strutting around playing hero ?
Why has their real history been buried though the stench remains ?
When more documents are declassified and the lying slows down , I am absolutely certain @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to turn out to be a scam also .
It is out there , the reason Saddam invaded Kuwait , and when it comes out , the Americans responsible for misleading us into war after war after war will will die of old age , honored and respected with their offshore bank accounts brimming with blood money .
The countless dead were forgotten long ago being the “ un-newsworthy ” lot they were .
We already know , we and our gutless British cousins , that Bush and Blair and their cronies sent @ @ @ @ @ @ @ based on , not only lies , but a plot to undermine the democratic freedoms of both governments and prestage the western world in their own image , totalitarian , interventionist and totally owned and operated by an international cabal of financial criminals .
Take a look at politics .
The same criminal empire controls , not only each party but they “ throw the bums out ” gang as well .
Billionaire Bush crony David Koch , a shadowy Israeli-American is underwriting the “ grass roots ” movement to restore our constitution @ @ @ @ @ @ @ who funded those who tore it apart .
Those who think they are electing “ Tea Party ” candidates will have a rude awakening .
When the bill comes due , they will be dancing to the same tune .
Recent as it was , few Americans realize what the Gulf War really brought us .
We got that “ New World Order ” that “ Pappy ” Bush promised us in his “ points of light ” speech .
“ How do you like it so far ?
” What we got @ @ @ @ @ @ @ know it , a government taking orders from Tel Aviv and a “ New World Order ” economy now openly looting the world , eating away even America ’ s standard of living and flushing it down the toilet , turning the United States into a debt-ridden third world hell hole .
The Romans gave away bread and amused the public with blood drenched spectacles in the arena .
Our “ bread and circuses ” game is Islamophobia , phony “ self induced ” terrorism and exploitation of sub-human racial hatreds thinly veiled @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” Anyone who isn ’ t suspicious of 9/11 , the TV spectacular whose original cast of “ 19 ” now includes thousands , as years of credible research and investigation has proven , will gladly send others to die in their name around the world .
Ignorance is complicity .
Anyone who doesn ’ t realize that the Bush cover story , now being resold under the “ Ground Zero Mosque ” label , is the most outlandish “ conspiracy theory ” in history is capable of cheerleading for any sociopathic political @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
We have to end our war because America can no longer trust itself .
With all of Americas media outlets owned by defense firms , lets call them “ war profiteers ” and be honest about it or citizens of the State of Israel , a “ huckster ” nation , smaller than Vermont that is the third largest weapons exporter in the world , no American can be certain about anything , what is true or false , what is fact , what is myth .
Every day every America is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ trust your government .
Don ’ t trust your press .
Both things are correct .
The problem , of course , is that those that control the message control both the government and the press .
The “ new ” government they continually offer is always the “ old government ” and the new lies are always the old lies , enemies , new plots , new fears .
If what you believe is based on what you hear and see , whether it is an airplane crashing into a building or @ @ @ @ @ @ @ corrupt tax abatements for billionaires is going to end the world , something is always being kept from you .
That something is what is true , what is real .
“ But I saw it !
” Yes , you saw something then someone explained it all .
What you want to do is ask yourself , who made money from this ?
Who can control the news ?
Where do the real conspirators live , caves in Afghanistan or inside the Beltway in Washington or the coffee shops of Tel Aviv @ @ @ @ @ @ @ few months ago , we learned that 824,000 Americans have top secret security clearances .
How much do you think those nearly one million people know that would shock or sicken you ?
Are only 10,000 involved in illegal conspiracies ?
What if every Israeli spy flushed at the same time , would the Great Lakes suddenly disappear ?
I hope this isn ’ t news to you , but most of history ’ s wars were started with a “ false flag ” attack .
A government attacks its own people to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , tells itself is going to be best for everyone in the long run .
The fact that billions , even trillions is made , not made , really stolen , is never spoken of .
Nobody attacks a nation with 70 % of the world ’ s military might .
It would only attack itself , “ with a little help from its friends.
” How is America dealing with Afghanistan ?
Though a few lunatics are still running around talking about poor dead Osama bin Laden and imaginary Al Qaeda , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , waiters and dishwashers , most Americans have forgotten Afghanistan .
Wasn ’ t there a Brad Pitt movie about Al Qaeda ?
Think about the terrorist masterminds we manage to catch .
Doesn ’ t this remind you of something ?
Didn ’ t we see this in the movie Fight Club ?
What is the first rule of Fight Club ?
I am not allowed to tell you .
Whenever Al Qaeda , the mythical “ Fight Club ” clone steps onto the scene , after the phony press reads their @ @ @ @ @ @ @ collapsed even though nothing hit it…..no wait a minute….oh…Building 7 is going to mysteriously collapse in two hours they are telling me now… .
( parody of BBC 9/11 “ error ” ) Many years ago , there was a popular TV series called Dallas .
The underlying story was about competition between two brothers one evil but fun and one good but boring as hell .
After a couple of seasons , one brother , Bobby Ewing , the boring one , tragically died .
The actor playing the part , Patrick @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , thus his character was killed off .
What do you say of a generation of Americans who can ’ t say Palestinian without adding “ terrorist ” but watch cluster bombs being dropped on playgrounds in Gaza and are willing to accept it as “ poor frightened Israel ” protecting herself .
This is the kind of ignorance that begged 9/11 and was amply rewarded .
This is the kind of ignorance that will burn an American city to the ground with a “ terrorist nuke ” simply to remove Iran from @ @ @ @ @ @ @ business .
Oh , newspapers don ’ t report such things , not on the sports pages anyway .
Millions of Americans are in a rage about an Islamic center being built in lower Manhattan because of sabre rattling by an Israeli run news organization commonly known as Fox .
Hundreds of hours have been spent railing at terrorists funding the project .
This week , a competing network , on a very popular news program , the genuinely humorous Daily Show with Jon Stewart , pointed out that the primary funding for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ mosque ” is one of the primary owners of Fox News .
I keep seeing Bobby Ewing in the shower and the lame BBC reporter telling about the building withering to the ground , as CBS News anchor , Dan Rather described it , “ as though someone had planted dynamite.
” Over 40 years ago , Americans of conscience went to the streets to end a war .
They saved more than just the lives of American soldiers and Vietnamese civilians , they restored Americas honor .
Control of American education and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ wing fanatics , thieving banksters or a coalition of “ evildoers ” combining all three , has attempted to rewrite history .
We are told mobs in airports attacked returning soldiers .
We are told thousands of Americans died because of protests , not because of Kissinger ’ s lies .
Those who know better are still alive , some still awake and too many silent .
A generation of soldiers , now men and women , return from war , maimed , crushed and thrown away .
21st century America sees nothing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , the lies , the evil in what has gone on so long in the name of the people of the United States .
What is war ?
All war is class struggle .
If we still had more communists around , they would remind us .
Rich people start wars , poor people die and resources are stolen , banks emptied and all of it hidden behind flag waving and childish scare tactics .
War is part of the grander plan .
Is war politics or is it economics ?
At one @ @ @ @ @ @ @ it was estimated there there were as few as 12 “ potential Al Qaeda suspects ” in Afghanistan .

Is the silence of the American people complicity in War Crimes?
…by Gordon Duff, Senior Editor
[ Editors Note from 2014: With all the new events and material coming in to write about, taking time to cruise through our archives to pull out some golden oldies often falls victim to the procrastination monster.
But we are going to make an effort this year to repost some of the gems so our newer readers get at least a peek at what we were dealing with a few years ago.
By dealing with all of these stories, VT has become a story itself…its evolution in the turbulent times we live in and having to make decisions about what we need to be doing to continue riding the tiger that we often feel we are on. Part of that process is to review the changes we have made in the past that really helped push us along in this ever changing Internet publication work. It is still a work in progress, as are we. Gordon wrote a lot of passionate commentary back then. No source cites are needed when writing from the heart. Often he would be telling me these stories over a one hour phone call, and I would say, “You know, you should write the up as it would make a good article”. He would just grab his keyboard and the words would just pour out. So enjoy a DufFster classic with a bit of updated layout …but the story remains the same… Jim W. Dean ] JD Note: 2020 – JS in the comments below was stimulated to dig some out himself, which got me to add a comment to his and I dug up this 1970 Emerson, Lake, and Palmer classic, “Take a pebble”. It brought back more memories, a turbulent time for me, no Vietnam but a near fatal car wreck which nixed my budding chemical engineering career which I had invested so much into. But life just comes at you and you just have to deal with it. If a fortune teller would have predicted what I would be doing today, I would have asked for a refund as I could not have imagined writing and publishing. But we work with what we have and do the best we can to be able to find sweet spot in life before the grim reaper pays a visit. And as Gordon often says, our generation saw a music era that probably will never be repeated, starting with Elvis, the Beach Boys, Momas and the Pappas, and then on to the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, The Who, ELP, and so many others. It was wonderful, except for Keith Emerson putting a bullet in his head. At least he left something valuable behind, including a son named Aaron, after Aaron Copeland the composer, and still playing the music live with orchestras. Enjoy. Jim's Editor’s Notes are solely crowdfunded via PayPal
Jim's work includes research, field trips, Heritage TV Legacy archiving & more. Thanks for helping. Click to donate >> The Story Remains the Same I am not against war. I am a combat veteran. I sit on my tail, watch TV, go to restaurants and have fond delusional memories about Vietnam.
In my bedroom closet, I have a trash bag. It is never opened, it has been there for years. It has, along with other “military mementos,” a small green “government issued” address book. Marines, long ago, scrawled their names in it.
Half of them never came back from Vietnam, never had children, grandchildren, got to finish college or even high school. Many, maybe most, had never had sex, owned a car or traveled more than 50 miles from home.
Their lives were stolen, stolen then and we are doing it every day, maybe not the numbers, not on such a grand scale, but the lessons of Vietnam have more than been forgotten. The brightest time in American history, another “greatest generation” may well have been the one that stopped an evil and corrupt war.
That generation saw the cost. Only the young and the parents of those the war destroyed knew Vietnam. America simply turned away, a nation of, do we call them, do we call us, cowards? Is there another term?
Of the two to three million that survived, a hundred thousand were seriously physically disabled and a million more suffered lifelong Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Not long after coming home, another 50,000 would die, some of mysterious illnesses, many by suicide. 50,000 or more went to prison, some for a few years, some are still there.
One of my closest friends, LCpl. Daniel K. Staggs, winner of the Silver Star, would die in prison. A stabbing. STAGGS, DANIEL ALBERT
Citation:
The President of the United States takes pleasure in presenting the Silver Star Medal to Daniel Albert Staggs (2371706), Private First Class, U.S. Marine Corps, for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action while serving as a Scout with Company E, Second Battalion, Twenty-Sixth Marines, THIRD Marine Division, in connection with operations against the enemy in the Republic of Vietnam. On 6 June 1968, while conducting a patrol southeast of Con Thien, a platoon from Company E suddenly came under an intense automatic weapons and hand grenade attack from a well entrenched North Vietnamese Army force and sustained numerous casualties.
Observing that the wounded men lay in positions dangerously exposed to hostile fire, Private First Class Staggs volunteered to assist in moving them to a covered area. After aiding a companion in carrying a mortally wounded Marine into a bomb crater, he quickly realized that the intense fire from an enemy sniper prevented the other casualties from being evacuated. Seizing a machine gun, he unhesitatingly left his concealed position, and accompanied by another Marine, rushed across the fire-swept area and returned with an injured man. When his companion was mortally wounded, Private First Class Staggs immediately retrieved the radio carried by the man and established communications with an aerial observer. Although inexperienced in medical evacuation procedures, he quickly organized a helicopter landing zone and supervised the movement of wounded Marines into a central location for medial evacuation. Continuing his determined efforts, he then skillfully guided helicopters into the zone, thereby providing lifesaving evacuation for numerous casualties.
By his courage, bold initiative and unswerving devotion to duty at great personal risk, Private First Class Staggs inspired all who observed him and upheld the highest traditions of the Marine Corps and the United States Naval Service. _________________________________ By 1972, only a few troops were in Vietnam, fighting a “rear guard” holding action while America pretended it had won “peace with honor” at the bargaining table in Paris. A monster named Henry Kissinger won a Nobel Prize for that farce. Have we no shame? The vast majority of Americans didn’t have 30 seconds a day to watch news about the war, not a minute a month to think about it, much less do something, take a stand for what was right.
These are the people that love to hear about hippies and airport spitters. These people love Ollie North and John McCain, cartoon heroes for a nation too dead inside to care.
Scary terrorists and endless wars are bread and butter for the “drug store Marine” and “Hanoi John.” You don’t know them by the these names, the monikers they were tagged with by their fellow officers after Vietnam?
Carefully hear what they say, that pair of bloated peddlers of death. Are they continually undermining America through the fear and mistrust their every word sews while they rake in millions? Why are men like this whose pasts reek of the worst abuses imaginable, allowed to dishonor our dead while strutting around playing hero? Why has their real history been buried though the stench remains?
Vietnam had real heroes. They aren’t flying in private jets, eating at the finest restaurants, 58,000 of them came home dead, many in pieces, some burned to cinders. It wasn’t just the 58,000 dead or the 50,000 soon to die or the maimed or damaged, the imprisoned or the endless thousands poisoned with Agent Orange. Oh, did we tell you that Agent Orange may have killed more Vietnam veterans than total combat deaths in World War II? According to Israeli officials, there are more holocaust survivors than living Vietnam veterans. This isn’t news, no more than dozens dying each day from Gulf War Illness,no more than the Iraq/Afghanistan vet than commits suicide every 36 hours. Vietnam was a scam. The South Vietnamese government was brutal and corrupt, hated by all. North Vietnam was never part of a communist conspiracy to infiltrate America and force the evils of communism on our children.
When more documents are declassified and the lying slows down, I am absolutely certain that the first Gulf War is going to turn out to be a scam also.
It is out there, the reason Saddam invaded Kuwait, and when it comes out, the Americans responsible for misleading us into war after war after war will will die of old age, honored and respected with their offshore bank accounts brimming with blood money.
The countless dead were forgotten long ago being the “un-newsworthy” lot they were.
We already know, we and our gutless British cousins, that Bush and Blair and their cronies sent hundreds of thousands to war in 2003 based on, not only lies, but a plot to undermine the democratic freedoms of both governments and prestage the western world in their own image, totalitarian, interventionist and totally owned and operated by an international cabal of financial criminals. Take a look at politics. The same criminal empire controls, not only each party but they “throw the bums out” gang as well. Billionaire Bush crony David Koch, a shadowy Israeli-American is underwriting the “grass roots” movement to restore our constitution. He is also the same person who funded those who tore it apart. Those who think they are electing “Tea Party” candidates will have a rude awakening. When the bill comes due, they will be dancing to the same tune. Recent as it was, few Americans realize what the Gulf War really brought us. We got that “New World Order” that “Pappy” Bush promised us in his “points of light” speech. “How do you like it so far?” What we got was an end to America as we know it, a government taking orders from Tel Aviv and a “New World Order” economy now openly looting the world, eating away even America’s standard of living and flushing it down the toilet, turning the United States into a debt-ridden third world hell hole. The Romans gave away bread and amused the public with blood drenched spectacles in the arena. Our “bread and circuses” game is Islamophobia, phony “self induced” terrorism and exploitation of sub-human racial hatreds thinly veiled under the childish misnomer of “conservatism.”
Anyone who isn’t suspicious of 9/11, the TV spectacular whose original cast of “19” now includes thousands, as years of credible research and investigation has proven, will gladly send others to die in their name around the world. Ignorance is complicity.
Anyone who doesn’t realize that the Bush cover story, now being resold under the “Ground Zero Mosque” label, is the most outlandish “conspiracy theory” in history is capable of cheerleading for any sociopathic political clown from Caligula to Hitler to Cheney.
We have to end our war because America can no longer trust itself. With all of Americas media outlets owned by defense firms, lets call them “war profiteers” and be honest about it or citizens of the State of Israel, a “huckster” nation, smaller than Vermont that is the third largest weapons exporter in the world, no American can be certain about anything, what is true or false, what is fact, what is myth.
Every day every America is told two things. Don’t trust your government. Don’t trust your press. Both things are correct.
The problem, of course, is that those that control the message control both the government and the press. The “new” government they continually offer is always the “old government” and the new lies are always the old lies, enemies, new plots, new fears. If what you believe is based on what you hear and see, whether it is an airplane crashing into a building or someone telling you that ending years of corrupt tax abatements for billionaires is going to end the world, something is always being kept from you. That something is what is true, what is real. “But I saw it!” Yes, you saw something then someone explained it all. What you want to do is ask yourself, who made money from this? Who can control the news? Where do the real conspirators live, caves in Afghanistan or inside the Beltway in Washington or the coffee shops of Tel Aviv. Did I forget London? A few months ago, we learned that 824,000 Americans have top secret security clearances. How much do you think those nearly one million people know that would shock or sicken you? Are only 10,000 involved in illegal conspiracies? What if every Israeli spy flushed at the same time, would the Great Lakes suddenly disappear? I hope this isn’t news to you, but most of history’s wars were started with a “false flag” attack. A government attacks its own people to justify what it, out of delusion, tells itself is going to be best for everyone in the long run. The fact that billions, even trillions is made, not made, really stolen, is never spoken of. Nobody attacks a nation with 70% of the world’s military might. It would only attack itself, “with a little help from its friends.” How is America dealing with Afghanistan? Though a few lunatics are still running around talking about poor dead Osama bin Laden and imaginary Al Qaeda, the mysterious worldwide conspiracy of cab drivers, waiters and dishwashers, most Americans have forgotten Afghanistan. Wasn’t there a Brad Pitt movie about Al Qaeda? Think about the terrorist masterminds we manage to catch. Doesn’t this remind you of something? Didn’t we see this in the movie Fight Club? What is the first rule of Fight Club? I am not allowed to tell you. Whenever Al Qaeda, the mythical “Fight Club” clone steps onto the scene, after the phony press reads their scripts, “Building 7 has just collapsed even though nothing hit it…..no wait a minute….oh…Building 7 is going to mysteriously collapse in two hours they are telling me now….(parody of BBC 9/11 “error”) Many years ago, there was a popular TV series called Dallas. The underlying story was about competition between two brothers one evil but fun and one good but boring as hell.
After a couple of seasons, one brother, Bobby Ewing, the boring one, tragically died. The actor playing the part, Patrick Duffy, wanted to leave the show, thus his character was killed off.
The next season, Duffy reconsidered his decision. The network simply raised him from the dead, begining an episode where he is suddenly alive again, taking a shower. The BBC coverage of Building 7 at the World Trade Center is another “Bobby Ewing returns from the dead” thing. Two episodes later, viewers will forget. More Americans remember the shock of seeing Bobby Ewing alive in the shower than “accidentally” hearing the report of a major disaster than hadn’t happened yet.
What do you say of a generation of Americans who can’t say Palestinian without adding “terrorist” but watch cluster bombs being dropped on playgrounds in Gaza and are willing to accept it as “poor frightened Israel” protecting herself.
This is the kind of ignorance that begged 9/11 and was amply rewarded. This is the kind of ignorance that will burn an American city to the ground with a “terrorist nuke” simply to remove Iran from competition in the oil and gas pipeline business.
Oh, newspapers don’t report such things, not on the sports pages anyway. Millions of Americans are in a rage about an Islamic center being built in lower Manhattan because of sabre rattling by an Israeli run news organization commonly known as Fox. Hundreds of hours have been spent railing at terrorists funding the project.
This week, a competing network, on a very popular news program, the genuinely humorous Daily Show with Jon Stewart, pointed out that the primary funding for what Fox News calls “the terrorist mosque” is one of the primary owners of Fox News. I keep seeing Bobby Ewing in the shower and the lame BBC reporter telling about the building withering to the ground, as CBS News anchor, Dan Rather described it, “as though someone had planted dynamite.” Over 40 years ago, Americans of conscience went to the streets to end a war. They saved more than just the lives of American soldiers and Vietnamese civilians, they restored Americas honor. Control of American education and media, whether by Zionists, right wing fanatics, thieving banksters or a coalition of “evildoers” combining all three, has attempted to rewrite history. We are told mobs in airports attacked returning soldiers. We are told thousands of Americans died because of protests, not because of Kissinger’s lies. Those who know better are still alive, some still awake and too many silent. A generation of soldiers, now men and women, return from war, maimed, crushed and thrown away. 21st century America sees nothing, not the corruption, the narcotics, the lies, the evil in what has gone on so long in the name of the people of the United States.
What is war? All war is class struggle. If we still had more communists around, they would remind us. Rich people start wars, poor people die and resources are stolen, banks emptied and all of it hidden behind flag waving and childish scare tactics. War is part of the grander plan. Is war politics or is it economics?
At one point in the last 2 years, it was estimated there there were as few as 12 “potential Al Qaeda suspects” in Afghanistan.


veteranstoday--2020-05-01--Virtual Tour of the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Humboldt Exhibition

This Mastodon is a Centerpiece of an Art Exhibition .
Why ?
It ’ s not what you ’ d expect from an art show .
At the end of a long corridor , beyond a pulled-back heavy burgundy brocade curtain , a full-scale mastodon skeleton fills much of the rotunda-like space of the gallery .
The fossil is the centerpiece of “ Alexander von Humboldt and the United States : Art , Nature , and Culture , ” an exhibition at the Smithsonian Museum of American Art .
The show was poised to open with much fanfare earlier this @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the museum .
Today the stately mastodon sits waiting for crowds to return .
In the meantime , viewers can go on a virtual tour of the show through a new video put together by the museum ’ s senior curator , Eleanor Jones Harvey .
For Harvey , the 11-foot tall , 20-foot long elephant ancestor is the uber statement on what polymath Alexander von Humboldt ( 1769-1859 ) meant to the American politicians , scientists , artists and writers who fawned over him during his brief six-week visit to the United @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a part of his global network of admirers for a huge chunk of the late 18th and early 19th centuries .
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Carol graduated from Riverside White Cross School of Nursing in Columbus, Ohio and received her diploma as a registered nurse. She attended Bowling Green State University where she received a Bachelor of Arts Degree in History and Literature. She attended the University of Toledo, College of Nursing, and received a Master’s of Nursing Science Degree as an Educator.
She has traveled extensively, is a photographer, and writes on medical issues. Carol has three children RJ, Katherine, and Stephen – one daughter-in-law; Katie – two granddaughters; Isabella Marianna and Zoe Olivia – and one grandson, Alexander Paul. She also shares her life with her husband Gordon Duff, many cats, and two rescues.


veteranstoday--2020-05-01--‘Crazy Beast’ Finds Taxonomical Home

‘Crazy Beast’ Finds Taxonomical Home

In 1999 , researchers uncovered a 66-million-year-old fossil of a bizarre mammal in Madagascar .
The creature was about the size of an opossum and may have looked more like a badger or a beaver—but it ’ s the ancestor of none of them .
The animal ’ s anatomy was so confounding , researchers named it Adalatherium hui , using a Malagasy word for “ crazy ” and the Greek word for “ beast.
” New research , published on April 29 in the journal Nature , takes a closer look at the crazy beast ’ s skull and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ closest relatives , the gondwanatherians .
“ It is so strange compared to any other mammal , living or extinct , ” Denver Museum of Nature and Science paleontologist David Krause tells Science News ’ Maria Temming .
To the BBC , Krause adds that the creature “ bends and even breaks lots of rules.
” Adalatherium ’ s teeth are the strangest part of the fossil .
Its front teeth are long and curved like a rodent ’ s , but otherwise its teeth are unlike any modern animal ’ s , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Rougier specializes in using teeth to classify mammals , so the strange fossil presented a challenge .
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66-Million-Year-Old ‘Crazy Beast’ Finds a Taxonomical Home
by Theresa Machemer/Smithsonianmag.com
In 1999, researchers uncovered a 66-million-year-old fossil of a bizarre mammal in Madagascar. The creature was about the size of an opossum and may have looked more like a badger or a beaver—but it’s the ancestor of none of them. The animal’s anatomy was so confounding, researchers named it Adalatherium hui, using a Malagasy word for “crazy” and the Greek word for “beast.”
New research, published on April 29 in the journal Nature, takes a closer look at the crazy beast’s skull and teeth to finally group it among its closest relatives, the gondwanatherians.
“It is so strange compared to any other mammal, living or extinct,” Denver Museum of Nature and Science paleontologist David Krause tells Science News’ Maria Temming. To the BBC, Krause adds that the creature “bends and even breaks lots of rules.”
Adalatherium’s teeth are the strangest part of the fossil. Its front teeth are long and curved like a rodent’s, but otherwise its teeth are unlike any modern animal’s, paleontologist Guillermo Rougier says in a statement. Rougier specializes in using teeth to classify mammals, so the strange fossil presented a challenge.
The key to classifying Adalatherium came when the researchers compared its skull to a known gondwanatherian…read more: