"Blessed is the Great Being known as the Galaxy SHe Lives, SHe Breathes, SHe Thinks, SHe Feels Pain, SHe Meditates!" Dr George King, Western Master of Yoga.



TURN ON COMPUTER // TUNE IN TO FUNLEASHED SPIRIT OF INTERNET // TAKE OVER!



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for those with 3rd ears to hear
think about this seriously.  it's something i've been advocating for yeeeears now.  wouldn't an out and out collapse of the entire economic system by which we are all increasingly run be the best thing that could happen for us and the planet?  indeed, isn't the present collapse caused by exactly what they call it: a loss of Confidence?  and aren't the reasons for THAT becoming more obvious and undeniable by the day?

sure, there will be Tragedy involved in such a development, but might it not be less than if we go on trusting that the competitive, amoral, short-term, selfish, corrupt and 'elite-managed' Albatross around our necks will change itself?  wouldn't such a collapse, in fact, be the very fundamental system change that's called for?  the regime change required? 

we're facing Great Turmoil, whatever we do, but, if the System collapses quickly, totally and cleanly, might
we not actually have a chance of surviving, by reaching the state which the Hippies prescribed:  a lowering of our consumption demands by 50% and a raising of our spiritual level to a respect, and indeed a worship of Mother Nature?

just consider it.  you don't have to DO anything.  (we used to organise friday meditations where we'd project negative vibes at the stock exchange) but you certainly might worry less, and celebrate more, as 5000 years of Karmic Shit increasingly hits the Fan :)

for it's blowing us closer to Megatripolis - the Future Perfect State that's calling us from just beyond the event horizon :) 
can you hear it???!!!
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>> shame on u girl. i never thought of the space part of spacegirl being just... 'empty' :)
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UP!'s BADDEST T-SHIRT OF THE WEEK
BONG
HITS 4
JESUS

(SENT IN by JM with the following news story)

Smoking Pot Akin To Drinking Booze, Says Justice

The US Supreme Court last week ruled against an Alaska student who displayed a "BONG HITS 4 JESUS" sign at an event outside his high school.  But, in his dissent on this free-speech case, Justice John Paul Stevens wades into the War On Drugs (the one they lost when they launched the War On Terror?) by comparing modern-day pot smokers with "otherwise law abiding patrons of bootleggers and speakeasies during the prohibition era".

Stevens, who turned 87 on April 20, described the war on drugs as "reminiscent of the opinion that supported the nationwide ban on alcohol consumption when I was a student."  He wrote the dissent for the 4 justices who believed the student's free speech rights should be protected:  "The actions of literally millions of otherwise law-abiding users of marijuana, and the majority of voters in each of the several states that tolerate medicinal uses of the product, lead me to wonder whether the fear of disapproval by those in the majority is silencing opponents of the war on drugs... No one seriously maintains that drug advocacy... can be prohibited because of its feared consequences.... While alcoholic beverages are now regarded as ordinary articles of commerce, their use was then condemned with the same moral fervour that now supports the war on drugs.".

Most debate over the efficacy of the war on drugs focuses on government crackdowns on users of medical martijuana for whom the drug eases chronic pain, he says.  But in comparing pot smoking to social drinking, he suggested that the drug could be legalised in all cases.

[send in examples pls :-]
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contents

[just click down screens to get there.  u r on screen 3 :]

screen 04  Dot Com Bubble 2.0 Coming Soon 
screen 06 Confessions of a Love & Cooperation Dissident - PART 3 of Hippy, The Last Stand Happening!

screen 12  2012 - What The Maya Left Behind

screen 14  Oscar, the Cat with the Purr of Death
screen 17  Beyond Mesopotamia - A Radical New View Of Human Civilisation

Dot Com Bubble 2.0
Coming Soon

IT' DEJA VU ALL OVER AGAIN!

by John C. Dvorak

Everyone working in the media today who experienced the dot-com bubble of 1999-2000 believes we're going through the exact same process now and can expect the exact same results — a bust.  And since this moment in time is only the beginning of the cycle, the best nuttiness has yet to emerge.  Nevertheless, a lot of nuttiness hasn't already happened.

If we look closely, the 1999 dot-com bubble was nothing new.  We saw all sorts of bubbles before that.  There was the CD-ROM bubble.  Remember all the CD-ROM companies?  Bill Gates's "Information at Your Fingertips" was the watchword.  Microsoft itself started a unique division called Microsoft Home.  The whole scene collapsed almost overnight.

Before the CD-ROM bubble, pad-based computing was all the rage.  Every company and a lot of start-ups were going to make this kind of computer.  It was a total bust.  Before that we had the software wars, when you could choose from dozens of word processors and spreadsheets.  And don't forget the IBM PC clone wars in there somewhere.  These all resulted in one sort of collapse or another.

Since each succeeding bubble has been worse than its predecessor, nobody is actually able to spot the cycle, since it just looks like a continuum.  I can assure you that after this next collapse, nobody will think of the dot-com bubble as anything other than a prelude.


Each of these bubbles had a distinctive theme.  For the dot-com bubble, it was e-commerce - it really should have been called the e-commerce bubble.  Everything was focused on how the Internet was going to destroy all existing brick-and-mortar operations.  We were told that you'd be buying sandwiches over the Internet and having them delivered the next day by FedEx.  Everything was about "eyeballs" and finding ways to attract customers, whether they bought anything or not.  Every article in every newspaper parroted the litany as to how you'd be out of business in a year or two if you were not present on the Web in a big way.  Hmm.

Bubble 2.0

The current bubble, already called Bubble 2.0 to mock the Web 2.0 moniker, is harder to pin down insofar as a primary destructive theme is concerned.  A number of unique initiatives, however, are in play here.  Let's look at a few of the top ideas floating the new bubble.

Neo-social networking.  Today everything from YouTube to the local church has a social-networking angle.  And this doesn't even consider the actual social-networking sites, from MySpace to LinkedIn to
Facebook to even Second Life.  This scene is totally out of control and will contribute to the collapse for sure.
>> that explains why it's never attracted me despite almost a hundred invites to be peoples' friends.

Video mania.  With dozens and dozens of YouTube clones cropping up to get on the "throw money away" bandwagon, you must sense that the eventual shakeout in this space will have a negative impact.

User-generated content. This idea has been around since Usenet and just keeps improving.  It will make no contribution to the overall collapse except for users reporting the collapse.

Mobile everything.
  Here is another concept that has been in play since the mid-1990s.  It cannot trigger a collapse since it will never fully get off the ground, although the iPhone mania may be a bad sign of something.

Ad-leveraged search.  Most search engines will fail as a matter of course.  This segment of the industry is mundane.  It would be affected by a crash but not trigger one.

Widgets and toolbars.  I cannot see the widget scene going crazy, and the jury is still out on toolbars.  But there is the potential for nuttiness, I think.  The problem here is that these things tend to be dependent on the stability of operating systems and browsers.  One bad operating-system patch and suddenly nothing works.

You can come up with your own theories about the next collapse.  All I can tell you is that it's a sure thing.

UP! Why do people point to their wrist when asking for the time, but don´t point to their crotch when they ask where the bathroom is? (Peter Kay)

>> speak for yourself.


Monsanto Goes GM-Free - in its Cafeteria

Staff at the UK headquarters of biotech giant Monsanto will no longer be served genetically modified products in the company cafeteria, including soy and corn.  Granada Food Services, which manages the canteen, is said to be concerned about health risks. 

However, just so you know, Monsanto's PR department contends the action was not the result of a boycott by their worried employees.
>> and they'll fire anyone who says different.
http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_6401.cfm
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Triangular sandwiches taste better than square ones. (Peter Kay)

Hippy

The Last Stand Happening!

an ambient address by Fraser Clark.


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you know, people today are always saying how nobody saw our present Disaster coming.  but anyone who's been reading this essay knows well that the Hippies have been warning against it for decades.  here's what I wrote a decade and a half ago in Zippy Times.


PART THREE

Confessions of a

Love & Cooperation Dissident

(Ibiza,  1993)



Communism was Capitalism's OVERGROUND alternative.
Now it's collapsed.  And we must re-consider Hippyism,
which was always its UNDERGROUND
alternative.
[underground = putting down roots nonviolently]

 With the Western Competitive Culture seemingly triumphant,
has COOPERATION now become a dirty word like SOCIALISM...
OR
 is it re-emerging as an evolutionary virus
which MUST dominate our global cultural body?

Indeed, with the rapid and global spread of Rave Culture,
is it already swarming in such abundance below the radar
as the Underground Alternative colonises the common mind as the new Religion?


a forever-growing & finally unstoppable minority

Ever since becoming an adult I've known in my bones, & softer places, that the Competitive Culture I'd been born into was on a dangerously deluded path which could only end in Disaster.

For everyone - the People, and the Privilegentsia!

And all my adult life that System's elders & authorities, first my mother, then teachers & churchmen, then every public or private executive I've encountered and, more recently as I've begun to raise my voice in public, the media, have retorted:

"You can't possibly believe that all the fully qualified professionals and experts, so obscenely well remunerated by our so wonderful, latest & greatest Super Power, can have been wrong all this time, while an isolated & not even"successful" individual such as yourself knew better all the time?!

"Such arrogance approaches insanity!"

Yet, mark well, the other "Super Power" turns out to have been in exactly such a state of affairs!  My Russian dissident counterparts of the last 25 years  were actually the only sane ones around!  And those tens of thousands of power-dressed, bedside-mannered bureaucrats and busynessmen really were purveyors and self-deluded victims of a sick consensus view of Reality.

Yes, it now appears very possible indeed for an entire Society to be led in a thoroughly unhealthy direction, and for a tiny but forevergrowing minority to be dissident and right.

mirror images of the beast

Despite the OVERGROUND alternative model having collapsed and everything having changed, we're like the jumping bugs which some scientists placed in a bath with a sheet of glass laid over the top.  After a day of continuously crashing back down, unconscious, the glass could be removed and virtually none of the bugs would jump out.

THE BARRIERS HAVE BEEN REMOVED, BUT THE MAJORITY HAVE NOT YET NOTICED THERE'S A WAY OUT!!

For, until now, the blindfold preventing us from perceiving the ghastly, divisive wastefulness of our competition-based system was that it was always compared to the OVERGROUND alternative.  Yet the brute fact is that the mere half century deep Soviet rebellion into Cooperation was merely the first mass uprising against our own Competitive culture.  It was the beginning of the Final Over-throw of the Competitive Party that's ruled for generations.

The "odd" bugs did jump out and escape.  And now, as the bath water approaches global boiling point, so many will start "jumping out" that soon they'll be taking over the Reality Studio itself. 

And, just as most Russian dissidents were not advocating Capitalism as the alternative, so the vast majority of Hippy Cooperation Dissidents in the West were never advocating State Communism (despite the government media's attempts to paint it so).

Indeed I joined the Hippies out of a deep, clear conviction that both Communism and Capitalism were user-unfriendly - for all their citizens.  I saw the "Hippy" then, as I do today, tweaked into a Zippy, as the true Alternative lifestyle and worldview to the present sick consensus reality.

More, as the '70s wore on and the Hippy Renaissance was turned back on most fronts, I became convinced we were already living in the material wilderness of psychopathic alienation to which such a competitive culture must lead - poisoned air, water, food, and private-public relationships.  Even then I sensed we'd look back on this period as The Culmination & Final Death Throes of the Dark Ages.

The '80s, of course, were a further, probably fatal acceleration towards this inevitable consequence.   Both systems turn out to have been mirror images of the Beast of whom the prophets warned.

One down, one well on its way, that's my attitude now!
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I was the kid next door´s imaginary friend. (Peter Kay)

An urgent call for anyone who attended the Human Be-In
at the polo fields in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, on

January 14th 1967!

A video documentary is presently being filmed that features interviews with people who attended the Human Be-In.

The aim of the film is to give a background to this exceptional event which heralded the 'Summer of Love' as it is now known.

Through the voices of people who were there on the day, I intend to reveal what became of some of this blossoming generation. Through individual stories we will get a picture of what impression these times had on the young of the time and what has become of them 40 years on...

You were a part of history then and a vital part of the being here now.

This documentary is being produced by myself, Neville Powis from England, a former international radio producer for Radio Netherlands as well as BBC, turned independent video documentary maker. I am presently based in northern Thailandand am working in conjunction with the Beat artist, Michael Bowen, who was mostly responsible for arranging the Human Be-In and will also feature in this historic documentary.

If you were there on that definitive day in history, I want to hear from you.

nevillepowis@rediffmail.com
+66-(0)894296620
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San Francisco

SUN Sept 2

Summer of Love 40th Anniversary Day

"Whereas, The Summer of Love in San Francisco is internationally recognised as the birthplace of the 60's revolution that ignited a spiritual awaking that swept the world..."

San Francisco Mayor, Gavin Newsom, has issued a proclamation declaring Sunday, September 2, 2007, Summer of Love 40th Anniversary Day in San Francisco.  On that day, the 40th Anniversary Summer of Love FREE Concert will take place in Golden Gate Park’s Speedway Meadows between 10am - 6pm.  The full proclamation including concert information can be found at
www.2b1records.com/summeroflove40th.

UP! Every bloke has, while taking a pee, flushed half way through and then raced against the flush. (Peter Kay)
>> naw naw u race WITH the flush!



America Leads Way Into
New Low In Human Behaviour

FIRST ARMED ROBOTS ON PATROL IN IRAQ

For the first time in the history of warfare, armed robots have been deployed.  3 "special weapons observation remote reconnaissance direct action system" (SWORDS - aren't those yanks good at this kinda shite?!) robots have deployed to Iraq, armed with M249 machine guns.
[Wired, August 2, 2007]
UP! At the end of every party there is always a girl crying.
(Peter Kay)

2012
What The Maya Left Behind

Over 2,000 years ago the early Maya formulated a profound galactic cosmology.  They saw that the sun, on the winter solstice, was slowly moving toward the heart of the galaxy.  Naturally enough, with their uncorrupted intelligence intact, they suspected that the world would go through a transformation when the solar and the galactic planes aligned.  They devised their Long Count calendar to target when the cosmic alignment would maximise, and that time is AD 2012.

We are lucky that the brilliant skywatchers who devised the 2012 calendar left carved monuments for us to decode, and that these have survived the decay of centuries, so that we can know exactly what they prophesied and believed about 2012.

Incredibly, at the early Maya site of Izapa in southern Mexico, the galactic cosmology and a profound spiritual teaching are preserved.  Izapa speaks to us of the Galactic Alignment in 2012 as a transformative nexus in time, a still-point turnabout, inviting us to reconnect with our cosmic heart and eternal source.  With the Divine Wisdom.  But how can that be achieved?  What is the original, undiluted, prophecy for 2012, divined by those ancient mystics and stargazers who invented the 2012 calendar?

Izapa's carved monuments provide the answers.
http://www.alignment2012.com/
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  Slim Chance of Tuning in to Alien TV

Marko Horvat, a computer scientist at the University of Zagreb, has calculated the odds of detecting alien civilisations of different lifespans from their radio signals.

If, for example, 10 civilisations, each with a lifespan of 250,000 years, live within radio reach of Earth, the probability that one of them will be detected is about 9%, assuming near-perfect radio telescopes scanning the sky constantly (not realistic).

If there are 10 alien civilisations with a much longer lifespan, the chances of detection drop to almost zero.  That's because they will probably have developed better means of communication.
www.arxiv.org/abs/0707.0011

[NewScientist.com]
>> which, of course, is another reason you shouldnt pay too much attention to bonehead scientists like dawkins :)

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UP! is keeping me connected with and working for the whole.

Liz , Chepstow, UK xx
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You know that look women get when they want sex?  No, me neither.   (Peter Kay)


Oscar, the Cat with the Purr of Death

Oscar makes his grand entrances just as life is about to leave.

A hop onto the bed, a fastidious lick of the paws, then a snuggle beside a nursing home patient with little time left.  Oscar's purr, when keeping close company with the dying, is so intense it is almost a low rumble.
"He's a cat with an uncanny instinct for death," said David Dosa, assistant professor at the Brown University School of Medicine and a geriatric specialist.  "He attends deaths.  He's pretty insistent on it."
In the 2 years since Oscar was adopted into the dementia unit of the Steere House Nursing and Rehabilitation Centre in Providence he has maintained close vigil over the deaths of more than 25 patients, nursing staff and doctors say.
Dr Dosa has had an essay on Oscar published yesterday in The New England Journal of Medicine.
Like any feline, Oscar gives a hefty portion of his day to sleep.  He likes to doze on stacks of patient reports.  Or on the desk at the nurses' station.  Or in the linen closet.
When awake, however, the mixed-breed cat shows a solemn dedication to duty, making regular "inspection" rounds of the unit, sauntering in and out of patient rooms - as if checking on the condition of the occupants.
When death is near, Oscar nearly always appears at the last hour or so.  Yet he shows no special interest in patients who are simply in poor shape, or even patients who may be dying but who still have a few days.  Authorities in animal behaviour theorise that he might detect some subtle change in metabolism - felines are as acutely sensitive to smells as dogs - but that would not explain his interest.
In any event, when Oscar settles on a patient's bed, caregivers take it as a sign that family members should be summoned immediately.
"We've come to recognise him hopping on the bed as one indicator the end is very near," said Mary Miranda, charge nurse on the surprisingly cheery floor that is home to 41 patients in the final stages of Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, strokes, and other mentally debilitating diseases.  "Oscar's been consistently right."
Keeping pets has been a trend in nursing home care for several years.  The Steere Centre, founded in 1874, has 120 residents, plus six cats, a slew of parakeets and a floppy-eared rabbit.  Oscar's sole domain, however, is the locked dementia ward.  He came to the unit as a kitten in July 2005, brought by a staff member to replace the floor's previous resident feline, Henry, who had died some months earlier.
"Medical people are skeptical at the start. But you wind up believing," Dr Teno said.  "Oscar is a normal cat with an extra-normal sense for death.  He is drawn to death."
Occasionally, families are spooked by a cat keeping death watch, and Oscar is shooed from the bed and locked from the room.  He does not like this.  "He kind of rubs aggressively against the door, paces back and forth, yowls in protest," Dr Teno said.
Other families are deeply appreciative of Oscar.
Jack McCullough lost his mother and his aunt at Steere.  His mother died in November 2005; his aunt in March this year.  In both cases, Oscar hopped onto the woman's bed near the final hour, cuddling close and purring.
"Oscar's presence gave a sense of completion and contentment," Mr McCullough said.  "Both women loved pets."
>> PETS?!  who wrote this article?!
He added: "Oscar brought a special serenity to the room.  What's more peaceful than a purring cat?  What sound more beautiful to fill one's ears when leaving this life?"
[The Boston Globe]
UP! Old ladies can eat more than you think.  (Peter Kay)

Woodstock's Famous Farm For Sale

BETHEL, N.Y. - The famous farm near the alfalfa field that drew 400,000 people to the Woodstock Festival is up for sale.

Asking price: $8 million.
Roy Howard, the current owner, is packing it in after years of tangling with local officials over permits for reunion gatherings to mark the 1969, 3-day music festival that helped ignite a generation.
Up for sale is the 2,000-square-foot house that belonged to dairy farmer Max Yasgur, along with a larger farmhouse, a barn and 103 bucolic acres about 80 miles north of New York City.
Yasgur lent out the alfalfa field for the concert after the promoters were rejected by officials in the nearby town of Woodstock.  400,000 people packed the field Aug. 15-17.  But the field itself isn't included in the sale.  It's owned by cable magnate Alan Gerry, who turned it into the 4,800-seat Bethel Woods Center last summer.
Yasgur and his farm were celebrated in Joni Mitchell's song "Woodstock," popularised by Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young with the line: "I'm going on down to Yasgur's farm / I'm going to join in a rock 'n' roll band."
UP! Who was the first person to look at a cow and say, ´I think I´ll squeeze these dangly things here and drink whatever comes out'?  (Peter Kay)

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Iraq: Over 1 Million Killed Since U.S. Invasion

The number is shocking and sobering.  It's at least 10 times greater than most estimates cited in the US media, yet it is based on the only scientifically valid study of violent Iraqi deaths caused by the U.S.-led invasion of March 2003.
http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/iraq/iraqdeaths.html

UP! Why, when someone tells you there are a billion stars in the universe, you believe them, but if they tell you there's wet paint, you have to touch it to make sure? (Peter Kay)


wot's going on behind the scenes

A couple of weeks ago I went to a talk entitled 'Creating Terror - a lateral look at 9/11, 7/7 and the War on Terror' given by Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed .   (a recording can be found here.)

Nafeez is an academic who has written a number of books on 9/11, 7/7 and the war of (sic) terror.  His full profile can be found here but, by way of quickly establishing his credentials...
 
John Pilger says:  "Nafeez Ahmed's understanding of the post 9/11 power game, its lies, illusions and dangers, is no less than brilliant."
 
Gore Vidal says:  "On the subject [of 9/11] the best, most balanced report, thus far, is by Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed."
 
Nafeez's talk though didn't focus on 9/11 or 7/7.   As we know, there is a real danger in getting bogged down in debating 9/11 and 7/7 details (as important as they are) and missing the wood for the trees.
 
So Nafeez didn't talk specifically about 9/11 or 7/7.   Rather he presented the historical context of what's happening so we would be able to understand what was "going on behind the scenes" so that we can see that "it really is a phenomenon of creating terrorism."
 
In the Q&A session I thanked Nafeez for his comprehensive, scholarly and insightful presentation and asked whether there was a summary that could be easily read at one sitting.
 
He recommended his magnum opus on the subject of international terrorism 'The War on Truth'  for a comprehensive analysis but pointed me to a more brief analysis in a 38-page pdf entitled 'Subverting Terrorism' .
 
I heartily recommend this paper to fellow UP!ers.
 
Thanks for the UP! fraser.
 
Peace,
Chris Vezey, London.

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I was bullied at school, called all kinds of different names. But one day I turned to my bullies and said "Sticks and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me". It worked! From there on it was sticks and stones all the way. (Peter Kay)

Beyond Mesopotamia
A Radical New View Of Human Civilisation

A radically expanded view of the origin of civilisation, extending far beyond Mesopotamia, is reported in the 3 August issue of Science.  A growing body of evidence suggests that, in addition to Mesopotamia, many civilised urban areas existed at the same time - about 5,000 years ago - in an arc that extended east for thousands of kilometers across to the areas of modern India and Pakistan.

Andrew Lawler, the writer, said: "While Mesopotamia is still the cradle of civilisation in the sense that urban evolution began there, we now know that the area between Mesopotamia and India spawned a host of cities and cultures between 3000 B.C.E. and 2000 B.C.E.",

Evidence of shared trade, iconography and other culture from digs in remote areas across this arc were presented last month at a meeting in Ravenna, Italy of the International Association for the Study of Early Civilizations in the Middle Asian Intercultural Space.  The meeting was the first time that many archaeologists from more than a dozen countries gathered to discuss the fresh finds that point to this new view of civilisation's start.

They shared findings from dozens of urban centers of approximately the same age that existed between Mesopotamia and the Indus River valley in modern day India and Pakistan.  The researchers are just starting to sketch out this new landscape, but it's becoming clear that these centres traded goods and could have shared technology and architecture.  Recovered artifacts such as beads, shells, vessels, seals and game boards show that a network linked these civilisations.

Researchers have also found hints, such as similar ceremonial platforms, that these cultures interacted and even learned from one another.  A new excavation near Jiroft in southeastern Iran, for example, has unearthed tablets with an unknown writing system.  This controversial find highlights the complexity of the cultures in an area long considered a backwater.

These urban centres are away from the river valleys that archaeologists have traditionally focused on.  Archaeologists now have access to more remote locations and are expanding their studies.
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Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
(Peter Kay)all g o o d t h i n g s c o m e t o a n e n d

which don't justify nuttin'

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