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Wikipedia Article on Operation Mockingbird, Part 1

Posted by Luminosity , 17 October 2014 -

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mockingbird

Part I, as it is on October 16, 2014
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Operation Mockingbird
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Operation Mockingbird was a secret campaign by the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to influence media . Begun in the 1950s, it was initially organized by Cord Meyer and Allen W. Dulles , and was...

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Wikipedia Article on Operation Mockingbird, Part 2

Posted by Luminosity , 17 October 2014 -

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mockingbird

As it is on October 16, 2014:

After Richard M. Bissell, Jr. lost his post as Deputy Director for Plans in 1962, Tracy Barnes took over the running of Mockingbird. According to Evan Thomas in his book, The Very Best Men (1995), Barnes planted editorials about political candidates who were regarded as pro-CIA.
First exposure [ edit ]
In 1964...

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Possible Water on Mars

Posted by Luminosity , in Paranormal 10 October 2014 -

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mars anomaly, mars water

Our Turnbuckle spotted this NASA picture which he feels may depict an underground water leak. It does look like it could be a water leak to me. It would be a good idea to keep your own copy of this picture because sometimes anomalous pictures disappear off the NASA website. http://mars.jpl.nasa...561E01_DXXX.jpg Attached Thumbnails
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Mystery of the Salton Sea

Posted by Luminosity , in Paranormal 09 October 2014 -

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salton

I enjoyed a story about this written by Brent Swancer of Mysterious Universe . You may have heard of the Salton Sea, a lake created by accident in the California desert. Developments grew up around it until it became too salty to support life. Now, a few people eke out an existence in the remnants of its vacation towns. Apparently there may also be treasu...

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Comfort

Posted by Luminosity , in Poems & Quotations 08 October 2014 -

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dinah craik

Oh, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person: having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but to pour them out. Just as they are -- chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then with the breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

-- Dinah Craik

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Camelia

Posted by Luminosity , in Tea Blog, Poems & Quotations 08 October 2014 -

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tea

. . . there is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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sinensis

Posted by Luminosity , in Tea Blog, Poems & Quotations, Personal 08 October 2014 -

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tea

Just when you thought couldn't get any crankier, you find out, I drink tea.
-- Luminosity

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Experts

Posted by Luminosity , in Poems & Quotations 08 October 2014 -

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twain

Researchers have already cast much darkness on the subject,
and if they continue their investigations, we shall soon know nothing at all about it.

-- Mark Twain

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