Ian Sample, Science Editor - The Guardian (U.K.)
Stephan: Yet another door into the past opens and rewrites what we thought we knew about our beginnings as a species. As this report states, quoting a senior scientist on the project: “This gives us a completely different picture of the evolution of our species. It goes much further back in time, but also the very process of evolution is different to what we thought."
Of course for America's "christian cultists" none of this is possible since God created the world about 6,000 years ago.
Two views of a composite reconstruction of the earliest known Homo sapiens fossils from Jebel Irhoud The braincase (blue) indicates that brain shape, and possibly brain function, evolved within the Homo sapiens lineage.
Credit: Philipp Gunz, MPI EVA Leipzig
Fossils recovered from an old mine on a desolate mountain in Morocco have rocked one of the most enduring foundations of the human story: that Homo sapiens arose in a cradle of humankind in East Africa 200,000 years ago.
Archaeologists unearthed the bones of at least five people at Jebel Irhoud, a former barite mine 100km west of Marrakesh, in excavations that lasted years. They knew the remains were old, but were stunned when dating tests revealed that a tooth and stone tools found with the bones were about 300,000 years old.
“My reaction was a big ‘wow’,” said Jean-Jacques Hublin, a senior scientist on the team at the Max Planck […]
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Wednesday, June 7th, 2017
Dan Alexander , Staff Writer - Forbes
Stephan: This article, which I found in Forbes Magazine, the beating heart of establishment financial journalism is... what can I say. I'll let it speak for itself.
Eric and Donald Trump
LIKE AUTUMN LEAVES, sponsored Cadillacs, Ferraris and Maseratis descend on the Trump National Golf Club in Westchester County, New York, in September for the Eric Trump Foundation golf invitational. Year after year, the formula is consistent: 18 holes of perfectly trimmed fairways with a dose of Trumpian tackiness, including Hooters waitresses and cigar spreads, followed by a clubhouse dinner, dates encouraged. The crowd leans toward real estate insiders, family friends and C-list celebrities, such as former baseball slugger Darryl Strawberry and reality housewife (and bankruptcy-fraud felon) Teresa Giudice.
The real star of the day is Eric Trump, the president’s second son and now the co-head of the Trump Organization, who has hosted this event for ten years on behalf of the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis. He’s done a ton of good: To date, he’s directed more than $11 million there, the vast majority of it via this annual golf event. He has also helped raise another $5 million through events with other organizations.
The best part about all this, according […]
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Wednesday, June 7th, 2017
Staff Writers, - Der Spiegel (Germany)
Stephan: I am beginning to get editorials and stories sent in by writers all over the world. This one from Germany presents the general tone of all of them. America has been severely diminished in the eyes of the world.
President Donald Trump addresses U.S. military troops and their families at the Sigonella Naval Air Station, in Sigonella, Italy, Saturday, May 27, 2017. Credit: AP Photo/Luca Bruno
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and other G-7 leaders did all they could to convince Trump to remain part of the Paris Agreement. But he didn’t listen. Instead, he evoked deep-seated nationalism and plunged the West into a conflict deeper than any since World War II. By SPIEGEL Staff
Until the very end, they tried behind closed doors to get him to change his mind. For the umpteenth time, they presented all the arguments — the humanitarian ones, the geopolitical ones and, of course, the economic ones. They listed the advantages for the economy and for American companies. They explained how limited the hardships would be.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel was the last one to speak, according to the secret minutes taken last Friday afternoon in the luxurious conference hotel in the Sicilian town of Taormina — meeting notes that DER SPIEGEL has been given access […]
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Jessica Meyers, - Los Angeles Times
Stephan: I have repeatedly predicted that because of the poor judgment of Donald Trump and his rejection of the trend to eliminate carbon energy systems in favor of non-carbon energy systems that the main beneficiary would be China.
California is the 6th largest economy in the world, and its Democratic governor Jerry Brown is arguably the best governmental executive in the country, and a passionate believer in climate change and the transition out of the carbon era. Where did he turn when his own federal government dropped the ball? China. Here is the story.
Democratic Governor of California Jerry Brown in China standing next to high speed rail
NANJING, CHINA — The “Star Wars” theme song blared as participants entered Nanjing’s environmental conference on Monday, a fitting lead-in to Gov. Jerry Brown’s fervent speech about climate change and the new frontiers he pledged to conquer.
The Democratic governor gave his usual rally cry in this coastal Chinese city, imploring the packed ballroom to help reinforce a global commitment to climate change. But a more specific theme also emerged, an undercurrent in his five-night trip that he’s echoed in several meetings with officials: Brown is looking to China for the future of California’s electric vehicles.
The state aims to put 4 million to 5 million electric cars on roads by 2030, he said at the event, “and we aren’t going to get there until Chinese business people, Chinese government leaders make it a priority to develop batteries and electric cars. And we will too.”
Brown emphasized a partnership again when signing a clean-tech agreement with the Communist […]
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Stephan: Part of the problem we face as a country is the kind of people we vote into office. I picked this example, but could have chosen a dozen others. He's a Republican of course.
In this June 2, 2016, photo, Clay Higgins, a former Captain for the St. Landry Parish Sheriff’s office, and candidate for Congress, poses for a photograph in Lafayette, La. His wristband is printed with the word “redemption.” The man dubbed the “Cajun John Wayne” has set his sights on a congressional seat. Higgins, a Republican, is one of seven candidates vying for the seat in Louisiana’s southwestern district, which is being vacated by Republican Rep. Charles Boustany, who is running for Senate.
Credit: AP Photo/Kevin McGill
A Republican congressman, Rep. Clay Higgins of Louisiana, took to Facebook to talk about how his response to the London terrorist attack is very simple: Kill them all.
“The free world… all of Christendom… is at war with Islamic horror,” the congressman, who signed his missive as “Captain Clay Higgins,” wrote over the weekend. Higgins is a veteran of the Military Police Corps for both the Army and the National Guard.
“Not one penny of American treasure should be granted to any nation who harbors these heathen animals. Not […]
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