Various Items of Interest

VP candidate Mike Pence says Dick Cheney is his role model. 

Is Trump a speed junkie? That would explain a lot of things-- lack of sleep, erratic behavior, paranoia.

Trump again makes deranged threat about Clinton not having secret service protection and asking what might happen to her.

33 of the Day: America’s Largest Police Union Endorses Donald Trump. The 330,000-member union joins border patrol agents and the New England Police Benevolent Association in supporting the candidate.

Also noteworthy, on Bill Maher's Real Time show on Friday night, Trump's campaign manager Kelly Ann Conway was interviewed and brought up two different sets of 33 numbers 

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The Untold Story of 9/11: Bailing Out Alan Greenspan’s Legacy... how convenient....
(also posted at The AIG Scam)

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More 33 in the news -- NYTimes story on two trans lovers, who get opposite sex change operations, says they are both 33 years old. (what a coincidence)

Was the famous religious Fatima incident from almost 100 years ago really a UFO visitation?  It would seem so. 


Archeology: Gobekli Tepi

Göbekli Tepe is regarded as an archaeological discovery of the greatest importance since it could profoundly change the understanding of a crucial stage in the development of human society. Ian Hodder of Stanford University said, "Göbekli Tepe changes everything". 

It shows that the erection of monumental complexes was within the capacities of hunter-gatherers and not only of sedentary farming communities as had been previously assumed. ... 

 Not only its large dimensions, but the side-by-side existence of multiple pillar shrines makes the location unique. There are no comparable monumental complexes from its time. ... 

 At present Göbekli Tepe raises more questions for archaeology and prehistory than it answers. It remains unknown how a force large enough to construct, augment, and maintain such a substantial complex was mobilized and compensated or fed in the conditions of pre-sedentary society. 

Scholars cannot interpret the pictograms, and do not know for certain what meaning the animal reliefs had for visitors to the site; the variety of fauna depicted, from lions and boars to birds and insects, makes any single explanation problematic. As there is little or no evidence of habitation, and the animals pictured are mainly predators, the stones may have been intended to stave off evils through some form of magic representation. Alternatively, they could have served as totems. 

The assumption that the site was strictly cultic in purpose and not inhabited has also been challenged by the suggestion that the structures served as large communal houses, "similar in some ways to the large plank houses of the Northwest Coast of North America with their impressive house posts and totem poles." 

It is not known why every few decades the existing pillars were buried to be replaced by new stones as part of a smaller, concentric ring inside the older one. Human burial may or may not have occurred at the site. 

The reason the complex was carefully backfilled remains unexplained. Until more evidence is gathered, it is difficult to deduce anything certain about the originating culture or the site's significance.