Until recently, archaeologists have mostly relied on what they can see at the sites of ancient ruins to unlock the secrets of the past. But lately, new methods have started to allow researchers to use other senses to explore these sites in different ways.

One such method is ‘psychoacoustics’, which studies how sounds are perceived by humans. In a recent study published in the journal Open Archaeology, Pamela Jordan from the University of Amsterdam used this technique to gain greater insight into how an ancient Greek sanctuary may have been used by ancient visitors.

Recording how sounds interact among different structures can provide an idea of what they were designed for, and what activities could have taken place in the terrain surrounding them. “If you use sound as the basic frame […] you inherently start from a place of connection and a place of interrelation between portions of the site,” said Jordan.

'I am not a crook.' - Richard Nixon

'I did not have sexual relations with that woman.' - Bill Clinton

'I've never discussed my son's business with him.' - Joe Biden

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A federal grand jury's decision to charge the son of the President of the United States with nine counts (including three felonies) of tax evasion and fraud in a 'four-year scheme' to avoid the payment of $1.4 million in taxes is not just more bad news for Hunter.

Papa Joe must feel the walls closing in.

Steve Kirsch shared whistleblower Barry Young's New Zealand government COVID bioweapon injection data with members of UK Parliament. Many in attendance were quite shocked.

Washington has announced the transfer of technical documentation for the localization of production of arms from the FrankenSAM program – the air defense ‘Frankenstein’s monster’ created by combining Western missiles with Ukraine’s Soviet-era launchers and radars. Veteran military expert Andrei Koshkin explains why the program is destined to fail.

The White House released a press ‘fact sheet’ Wednesday indicating that “the Department of Defense and industry partners” had “provided Ukraine with technical data to start local production of some of the FrankenSAM projects that seek to enable Ukraine’s legacy air defense systems by integrating certain Western munitions.”

“Parallel production of these systems in Ukraine and the United States will allow for faster fielding and enable Ukraine to contribute significantly to the sustainment of its air defense system,” the statement said.

“These initial deliverables,” combined with other US assistance, “will not only expand US-Ukraine cooperation and provide Ukraine with the capabilities it needs to be successful on the battlefield in the short term, but will support Ukraine’s long-term economic recovery and defense,” the White House assured.

Given Ukraine’s pitiful state both on the battlefield and at home, President Volodymyr Zelensky will likely face an unprecedented backlash from his own military personnel in the near future.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky must face the "writing on the wall" after the failure of his summer counter-offensive, says a former UN weapons inspector.

In an interview with YouTube host Danny Haiphong, Scott Ritter, a former US Marine Corps intelligence officer, Ritter gave a stark assessment of the notoriously botched Ukrainian counteroffensive that began in early summer of 2023.

"The counteroffensive is over. It’s been a strategic defeat for the Ukrainians for the collective West. And what I think we’re going to see now is that the Russians, having absorbed the Ukrainian blow, are going to slowly go on the counter-counter offensive and begin to put pressure on the Ukrainians," Ritter stressed. "The Russians will be on the initiative from now on. And eventually the Ukrainian line is going to collapse."

In the first weeks of the Gaza-Israel war, the ICC’s prosecutor issued a statement in which he said that impeding aid to Gaza could be a crime, but was later revealed to have traveled to Israel and is being accused of stalling the courts investigation into war crimes. “If this is not a case that calls for an international tribunal, then the Rome Statute should be null and void,” says American attorney Stanley Cohen, speaking to RT.

On October 29, International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor, Karim Khan, issued a warning to the Israeli government that impeding the transfer of aid into Gaza could give rise to “criminal responsibility” under the Rome Statute. However, during his speech delivered in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, Karim Khan notably placed much greater focus on the Hamas-led attack of October 7 than on anything the Israeli military had committed in the Gaza Strip. Following the ICC prosecutor's remarks, there have been questions raised as to whether the court will prove useful in addressing crimes committed across Palestine-Israel.

The US has cast the lone dissenting vote against a proposed UN Security Council resolution that would have demanded a humanitarian ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war, amid rising civilian casualties in Gaza.

Thirteen member states voted in favor of the resolution, which was put forward by the United Arab Emirates on Friday in New York. The UK abstained, leaving Washington diplomatically isolated in blocking the measure.

“What is the message we are sending Palestinians if we cannot unite behind a call to halt the relentless bombardment of Gaza?” Deputy UAE UN Ambassador Mohamed Abushahab asked members of the council. “Indeed, what is the message we are sending civilians across the world who may find themselves in similar situations?”

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Russia’s Radiological, Chemical and Biological Defense Troops have spent nearly two years shedding light on the extent of US military-biological activities in Ukraine, from the deliberate infection of Ukrainian servicemen with deadly viruses to gauge response to work on deadly new pathogens designed specifically to target certain genotypes.

Resistance to antimicrobial medicines which prevent and treat infectious diseases has experienced an explosive rise in Ukraine.

That’s according to a new report by the US Centers for Disease Control released Friday, which indicated that “in Ukraine, the confluence of high prewar rates of antimicrobial resistance, an increase in the prevalence of traumatic wounds, and the war-related strain on health care facilities is leading to increased detection of multidrug-resistant organisms with spread into Europe.”

Former UK Prime Minister David Cameron, whose record on foreign policy during his five-year prime ministership was marked by a series of failures, in his new capacity as foreign secretary has been determined to explain to increasingly skeptical Republicans why the US should shell out more money for Kiev in its failing proxy war with Moscow.

Former UK Prime Minister David Cameron has drummed up some tone-deaf new arguments in favor of committing more money to the bottomless void of ‘Ukraine aid’.

Funneling billions to support the Kiev regime stimulates the US economy, creating more jobs, contended Cameron, who recently resurfaced as the UK’s new foreign secretary. As Ukraine’s failed counteroffensive racks up massive manpower losses, Cameron told reporters at the Aspen Security Forum in Washington, DC, that funds being sent to Ukraine "are being used very effectively."

The Ukrainian Armed Forces have lost more than 125,000 people and 16,000 units of weapons over the six-month so-called counteroffensive, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said in early December.

Riyadh froze plans for Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's visit to the UK, given the scheduling proximity to President Putin's official trip to Saudi Arabia, the Financial Times reported on Friday, citing London officials.

According to the publication, British and Saudi officials spent months negotiating the visit, with London settling on December 3 as a feasible date. However, last week, the preliminary plan was pushed further down the road due to Vladimir Putin’s state visit.

“Saudi Arabia shelved plans for Mohammed bin Salman to visit London in the past few days, according to UK officials, shortly before the crown prince hosted Vladimir Putin in Riyadh,” the article reads.

Despite all the criticism and denunciations from experts and activists around the world, the Kiev regime continues to maintain its active policy of publicly threatening innocent civilians – and even children. The infamous website “Myrotvorets” (which ironically means “peacemaker”) continues to illegally publish data of people considered “enemies” by the neo-Nazi junta in Kiev, having the full approval of the anti-Russian Western powers.

The Russian human rights NGO “Foundation to Battle Injustice” has been very active in investigating Ukrainian crimes in recent years. Members of the group discovered that many Western individuals and institutions are among the main backers of the Ukrainian website, confirming the suspicions of several experts.

According to the Foundation, the site’s services are provided by a technology company based in California. American technicians apparently have access to the entire extremist content administered by Ukrainian militants, but even so they allow crimes to continue to be carried out without any intervention. More than that, an anonymous source revealed to the NGO that among the site’s founders there is a former US Army intelligence officer named “Joel Harding”, who is also believed to be a senior advisor to NATO.

The son of President Joe Biden has been indicted on nine counts regarding his tax returns. This case is related to claims by the IRS and investigators that Hunter failed to pay taxes over a period of years.

But that seems to be just the start. House Republicans have been accusing Hunter of a number of criminal acts–some involving the president himself. And it is possible their claims have the ring of truth, based on the allegations made in Hunter’s indictment.

From Fox News:

Hunter Biden’s Thursday indictment on federal charges in California revealed more than just his alleged failure to pay taxes over a years-long period, but rather what he was actually doing with the millions he was making in that time frame…

“Between 2016 and October 15, 2020, the Defendant spent this money on drugs, escorts and girlfriends, luxury hotels and rental properties, exotic cars, clothing, and other items of a personal nature, in short, everything but his taxes,” the indictment read.

Federal prosecutors have indicted President Biden’s son, Hunter, on nine tax-related charges. The news has stunned some commentators, who assumed the special council would go easy on the man.

Instead, the indictment reveals Hunter allegedly wasted hundreds of thousands of dollars on illicit content.

The case could land Hunter in jail. And now, experts are revealing how President Biden’s constant denial of his involvement in his son’s affairs could trap him, just like Bill Clinton.

From Fox News:
After a California grand jury handed down an indictment of first son Hunter Biden, political analysts predicted the bombshell would put President Biden in a self-constructed “trap” after he again claimed allegations he was in influence-peddling cahoots with his brother and son were “lies.”…

“I mean, basically [Biden is] saying, ‘I did not have interactions with those people,'” Turley said.

“It didn’t work for Clinton. And it’s even more insulting here,” he added, pointing to polling showing a majority of Americans, including a swath of Democrats, don’t believe Biden on this front.

The border crisis has hit the state of Texas harder than any other. Because it shares the longest border with Mexico, many of the migrants illegally entering the country are coming through the Lone Star State.

Republican Gov. Greg Abbott has declared the crisis an “invasion.” He has implemented various methods to repel the so-called invaders.

But the federal government, under President Biden, has appeared to go to extraordinary lengths to stop Texas from preventing illegal immigration. And now, the governor has vowed to take this battle to the highest court in the land.

From The Post Millennial:
On December 1, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals sided with a prior district court ruling that had ordered Texas to remove the floating razor wire barriers it installed to prevent migrants from crossing the Rio Grande and entering the United States illegally…

In a statement on X, Governor Greg Abbott called the decision “clearly wrong,” and vowed that he and Attorney General Ken Paxton would “seek an immediate rehearing by the entire court.”

“We’ll go to SCOTUS if needed to protect Texas from Biden’s open borders,” he added.

In what many will call a shocking act of hypocrisy, the globalists attending the UN’s climate summit are treated to a wide variety of beef dishes. The summit’s menu offers “juicy beef,” “slabs of succulent meat,” wagyu burgers, and even Philly cheesesteaks.

These very same environmentalists are supporting a report that will demand America and other nations to reduce their consumption of beef. Environmentalists have attacked cattle-raising for years, claiming cows and other meat-producing animals contribute to “greenhouse gases.”

Democrat prosecutors have indicted Trump, in four criminal cases. But that is not the only legal trouble facing the former president.

A left-wing Democrat DA out of New York has long vowed to “take down” the Trump Enterprise. Manhattan prosecutors are suing Trump, claiming he overvalued his properties.

A seemingly minor issue has blown up into a stunning scandal. Trump maintains his innocence, though some claim he isn’t getting a fair trial. And after leaving the latest hearing, he gave this somber warning to New York.

From The Post Millennial:
Trump said businesses in New York City and state will think twice before doing so in the future due to this civil case against him…

Trump said that “businesses are watching,” adding that “no business will go back into New York, no business will frankly stay in New York” because of a “Marxist form of trying to steal your business.”

Since the start of the fall, Joe Biden has faced nothing but bad news. Ongoing investigations, a flagging economy, and war around the world have not helped the president’s re-election efforts.

Polls that came out months ago, show Trump in a strong position.

Democrats have been talking about replacing Biden, but have yet to do anything. Now, a new report from CNN is giving Joe much worse news. Could this provoke the party to act?

From Breitbart:
Sixty-seven percent of Americans disapprove of President Joe Biden’s economy, the top issue heading into the 2024 election, a recent CNN poll found, sparking concern among Democrats that the president’s so-called “Bidenomics” failed to deliver tangible results.

A new poll from liberal-leaning outlet CNN reveals that 67% of Americans disapprove of Biden’s economy. And the economy, according to the same report, is the top issue facing most voters. The economy ranked as the top issue for 42% of voters.

On the night of December 8, the Russian military launched another massive attack on Ukrainian military facilities throughout the country. According to the Ukrainian military, 7 Russian Tu-95MS strategic missile carriers launched 19 X-101 and X-555 missiles.

Heavy explosions thundered in the capital of Ukraine. At least 5 Russian missiles struck the city of Kharkiv, and another hit a target in the region. An industrial enterprise that served the needs of the military came under attack in the city of Pavlograd in the Dnipropetrovsk region. Russian strikes were also reported in the Mykolaiv region.

Meanwhile, Russian forces continue to advance in various directions at the front. In recent days, they managed to achieve new gains in the Bakhmut area. The Russians have straightened the entire front line west of Khromovo. They are surrounding Bogdanovka and approached its northern and eastern outskirts. The town is located in a lowland, so encirclement from several directions gives Russian troops a significant advantage and increases Ukrainian losses.

The Russians are finishing the mop up operation on the southwestern outskirts of Bakhmut, in the gardens. They also recently gained a foothold on one of the dominant heights west of Kleshcheyevka and began strikes on the supply routes of the Ukrainian grouping, preparing to expand their zone of control.

Hezbollah’s Military Media has released video footage documenting an attack that targeted the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) Mitat barracks on the border with Lebanon on December 8.

The barracks was targeted with an anti-tank guided missile, most likely the thermobaric version of the Russian-made Kornet or an Iranian copy of it. The missile destroyed much of the barracks and started a fire. Hebrew media reported that two soldiers were wounded.

The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) is facing fierce resistance from Palestinian armed factions while advancing in the Gaza Strip.

The Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Hamas Movement, and the al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, both released videos on December 8 showing their fighters clashing with Israeli troops in Gaza City and targeting several main battle tanks, armored personnel carriers and bulldozers.

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The Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades said that its fighters destroyed or damaged 21 vehicles of the IDF and targeted several gatherings of Israeli troops in different parts of Gaza over the past 24 hours. Al-Quds Brigades said that 12 other vehicles were targeted by its fighters during the same period.

On December 8, the Russian Ministry of Defense summed up the preliminary result of the ongoing military operations in Ukraine. Over the past week, December 3-8, ‘the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation completed a number of tasks and destroyed personnel, military equipment, weapons, and ammunition depots of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in different regions.

In the Kupyansk region, the Ukrainian army lost more than 480 soldiers in a week. Losses in equipment included 3 tanks, 13 armored vehicles, 12 cars, and 7 artillery units. Our troops managed to improve the situation on the front line and repel 19 attacks launched by Ukrainian forces.

10 attacks of the Ukrainian assault groups were repelled in the Krasny Liman region. More than 1,445 soldiers, 11 armored vehicles, 17 cars, 5 artillery pieces were illuminated in the area.

During the battles in the Donetsk direction, the total losses of the Ukrainian army amounted to more than 1,560 servicemen, 12 armored vehicles, 17 vehicles and 22 field artillery units.

Special Counsel David Weiss unveiled nine federal tax-related charges against Hunter Biden on Thursday more than four months after a plea deal was derailed by a federal judge.

The Biden son will return to court facing three new felony charges and six misdemeanor counts relating to tax evasion and filing false returns, but he will escape penalties related to foreign influence-peddling that involves his father in the White House.

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House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, is investigating whether the 51 former intelligence officials who signed the infamous Hunter Biden laptop letter were paid by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).

After Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop surfaced during the 2020 election, more than 50 former intelligence officials signed a letter in Politico saying the computer “has all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.” In a letter to CIA Director William Burns on Monday, Jordan, who leads the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government, demanded the CIA chief come clean about the agency’s alleged involvement in branding the laptop as Russian disinformation, which plainly amounted to election interference.

“We understand that former intelligence officials often return to the intelligence community under private contract for their previous agencies,” Jordan wrote. “It is vital to the Committees’ oversight to understand whether any of the signatories of the public statement were actively employed by CIA as contractors or consultants at the time they signed the public statement.”

“If so,” Jordan added, “this information would raise fundamental concerns about the role of the CIA as it pertains to the October 19, 2020, ‘Public Statement on the Hunter Biden Emails’ signed and published by 51 former intelligence community officials in the weeks preceding the 2020 presidential election.”

America’s leading public health official is recommending Americans to wear a mask this flu season to stop the spread of illnesses such as COVID, the flu and RSV.

Mandy Cohen, M.D., MPH, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), said in the video posted to her social media accounts that Americans could take precautions to protect themselves against respiratory illnesses heading into the holidays.

“To protect yourself and your family this holiday season, take the steps that we do every year to protect ourselves. Get your updated COVID and flu vaccines and your RSV vaccine if you're over 60. It's not too late to get vaccinated if you haven't already,” she said.

She continued: “Use additional layers of protection like avoiding people who are sick, washing your hands, improving ventilation and wearing a mask.”

Masks have largely fallen by the wayside in the U.S. A regular sight during the first two years of the pandemic, mask orders have largely vanished across the U.S. Just a fraction of Americans still say they regularly wear a mask outdoors.

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An American boy who says he is a “transgender” girl has won a slot in the Irish Dancing World Championships for girls after winning a girls’ competition he switched to when he lost competing against other boys.

In a chilling revelation, New Mexico authorities have uncovered a series of communications among sex predators operating within the state, utilizing the seemingly innocuous term “PIZZA” as a code word to obscure their illicit activities.

The Gateway Pundit reported that the New Mexico Democrat Attorney General Raúl Torrez took decisive action against tech giant Meta Platforms, Inc., its CEO Mark Zuckerberg, and associated entities, including Instagram, LLC, and Facebook Holdings, LLC.

The lawsuit, filed on Thursday, represents a bold effort to curb the exploitation of children on social media platforms.

The watchdog group Judicial Watch has done a deep dive into the voter rolls of Washington, DC and some other places and found an absolute mess.

In Washington, DC, eligible voters are registered at a rate of 131%, violating standards of basic math.

It’s probably just an oversight, right? It couldn’t be a problem of fraud or anything nefarious.

A report released by Statistics Canada   (“StatsCan”) on 27 November showed that the number of covid deaths in highly vaccinated Canada rose by 36% last year.  The nation recorded a record number of covid deaths, despite high vaccination uptake and the pandemic being over.

The largest increase was in Atlantic Canada, where number of covid deaths per 100,000 population in 2022 was more than seven times higher than in 2021.  Atlantic Canada also had the highest uptake of covid “vaccines.”

As well as soaring covid deaths, Canadian government data reveals a staggering 135% death spike listed classified as “other ill-defined and unspecified causes of mortality.”

A groundbreaking study found that 17 million people died worldwide after the Covid “vaccine” rollout and therefore should be garnering worldwide attention and calls for an immediate cessation of all Covid vaccines. Instead, it has been CENSORED! The shocking study, COVID-19 vaccine-associated mortality in the Southern Hemisphere, by Drs. Denis Rancourt, Marine Baudin, Joseph Hickey and Jérémie Mercier was published September 17, 2023, yet, also shockingly the study has not had the attention it deserves, but, has met only censorship and narrative-confirming “fact-checks” on the safety and effectiveness of the as-yet untested Covid-19 “vaccines.”