President Donald Trump says he doesn't plan to block the scheduled release of thousands of never publicly seen government documents related to President John F. Kennedy's assassination.

"Subject to the receipt of further information," he wrote in a Saturday morning tweet, "I will be allowing, as President, the long blocked and classified JFK FILES to be opened."

    Subject to the receipt of further information, I will be allowing, as President, the long blocked and classified JFK FILES to be opened.
      Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) 21 October 2017

The National Archives has until Thursday to disclose the remaining files related to Kennedy's 1963 assassination. The trove is expected to include more than 3,000 documents that have never been seen by the public and more than 30,000 that have been previously released but with redactions.

Congress mandated in 1992 that all assassination documents be released within 25 years, but Trump has the power to block them on the grounds that making them public would harm intelligence or military operations, law enforcement or foreign relations.

"Thank you. This is the correct decision. Please do not allow exceptions for any agency of government," tweeted Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics and author of a book about Kennedy, who has urged the president to release the files. "JFK files have been hidden too long."

    Thank you. This is the correct decision. Please do not allow exceptions for any agency of government. JFK files have been hidden too long. https://t.co/mqo7Q9XWt3
      Larry Sabato (@LarrySabato) 21 October 2017

The anticipated release has had scholars and armchair detectives buzzing. But it's unlikely the documents will contain any big revelations on a tragedy that has stirred conspiracy theories for decades, Judge John Tunheim told The Associated Press last month. Tunheim was chairman of the independent agency in the 1990s that made public many assassination records and decided how long others could remain secret.

Sabato and other JFK scholars believe the trove of files may, however, provide insight into assassin Lee Harvey Oswald's trip to Mexico City weeks before the killing, during which he visited the Soviet and Cuban embassies. Oswald's stated reason for going was to get visas that would allow him to enter Cuba and the Soviet Union, according to the Warren Commission, the investigative body established by President Lyndon B. Johnson, but much about the trip remains unknown.

Longtime Trump friend Roger Stone, who wrote a book alleging that Johnson was the driving force behind Kennedy's assassination, had personally urged the president to make the files public, he told far-right conspiracy theorist and radio show host Alex Jones this past week.

"Yesterday, I had the opportunity to make the case directly to the president of the United States by phone as to why I believe it is essential that he release the balance of the currently redacted and classified JFK assassination documents," Stone said, adding that "a very good White House source," but not the president, had told him the Central Intelligence Agency, "specifically CIA director Mike Pompeo, has been lobbying the president furiously not to release these documents."

"Why? Because I believe they show that Oswald was trained, nurtured and put in place by the Central Intelligence Agency. It sheds very bad light on the deep state," he said.

After the president announced his decision, Stone tweeted: "Yes ! victory !"

The files that were withheld in full were those the Assassination Records Review Board deemed "not believed relevant," Tunheim said. Its members sought to ensure they weren't hiding any information directly related to Kennedy's assassination, but there may be nuggets of information in the files that they didn't realize were important two decades ago, he said.

"There could be some jewels in there because in our level of knowledge in the 1990s is maybe different from today," Tunheim said.

The National Archives in July published online more than 440 never-before-seen assassination documents and thousands of others that had been released previously with redactions.

Among those documents was a 1975 internal CIA memo that questioned whether Oswald became motivated to kill Kennedy after reading an AP article in a newspaper that quoted Fidel Castro as saying "U.S. leaders would be in danger if they helped in any attempt to do away with leaders of Cuba."

Source: France24
http://www.france24.com/en/20171022-usa-donald-trump-allows-release-john-f-kennedy
-assassination-files

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Teeth found in sediments near a river in Eppelsheim, Germany, are believed to have come from a yet-to-be-identified ancient great ape. Due to intriguing qualities of the canine teeth, questions now arise whether or not the find has an impact on the human family tree.

Intriguing Discovery

On September 2016, two teeth believed to be those of an ancient primate's were recovered in a prehistoric site known for primate fossils since the 1820s. The teeth, an upper right first molar and an upper left canine, are caramel-colored and are amazingly preserved. Evidence suggests that the teeth are about 9.7 million years old.

While the characteristics of the molar line up with those of other fossil finds in the area, the canine evidently exhibits hominin characteristics, suggesting the possibility of its unidentified owner being a very distant ancestor of modern humans. Specifically, the tooth bears a resemblance to the teeth of extinct human relatives Australopithecus afarensis.

Though the discovery is quite intriguing, researchers are very cautious about their interpretation of the findings. That said, it took researchers quite a while before having their findings published. Lead author of the paper published in ResearchGate on Friday, Oct. 19, states that he and his colleagues were left dumbfounded for a year after the discovery.

According to researchers, the tooth is quite unlike any other find in Europe and in Asia, and to describe it in relation to hominin teeth is intriguing, as the current understanding is that hominins, our extinct human relatives, left Africa about 120,000 years ago. This tooth is significantly older than that.
Careful Interpretations

"That would mean that a group of primates was in Europe before they were in Africa," said Herbert Lutz of the Natural History Museum in Mainz, Germany, lead author of the paper.

Still, there is the possibility of this creature having developed the same tooth characteristics due to experiencing the same evolutionary pressures that the ones in Africa did at the same time. However, researchers are very careful about their interpretations.

"We want to hold back on speculation," said Lutz. "It's a complete mystery where this individual came from, and why nobody's ever found a tooth like this somewhere before."

Where Does The Creature Fit In The Family Tree?

The insinuation that the owner of these teeth is of hominin origins does not convince many experts. In fact, paleoanthropologist from University of Toronto Bence Viola isn't even convinced that this tooth is of hominin or hominoid origin, a branch comprising of hominins, chimpanzees, and other apes.

The closest that experts believe the owner of this controversial tooth could be is a species of extinct primate that inhabited Europe and Asia between 7 and 17 million years ago, something that Lutz and his team also point out.

As of now, the owner of the teeth remains branch-less in the family tree. That said, Lutz and his team are only just beginning their examination of the unusual find. Perhaps in a few more years, the speculations may become theories, and the mystery creature could find itself a place in the family tree.

Source: Tech Times
http://www.techtimes.com/articles/214641/20171021/9-7-million-year-old-teeth-
from-unidentified-ancient-primate-found-in-germany.htm

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Roughly three dozen US citizens say they think they could have been hit by a mysterious "sonic attack" while vacationing in Cuba, developing a set of bizarre symptoms similar to the ones a handful of US diplomats and intelligence agents have suffered after visiting the country, the Associated Press reports.

Word about the string of incidents broke back in August, when the AP reported a handful of US diplomats in Cuba had suffered acute hearing loss from what US officials believe to be a "covert sonic device" that emits a mysterious high-pitched sound. Government officials now say at least 22 embassy workers and their spouses have been hit. Some have gone permanently deaf, or suffered concussions; others experienced dizziness, nausea, severe headaches, and tinnitus. While not every victim reported hearing the terrifying sound, a number of those who did said the recording that AP recently obtained was spot on.

Chris Allen, an American tourist who visited Cuba in 2014, told the AP he came down with a weird set of symptoms years ago during a stay at Havana's Hotel Capri—the same place that housed US diplomats hit by the alleged attack. On two consecutive nights during the trip, he said all of his limbs went numb after he crawled into bed at his hotel. His symptoms reportedly persisted for half a year after he left Cuba, sending him to six different physicians who still can't figure out what happened to him.

There's no indication any of the US diplomats experienced that kind of numbness, but—just like Allen—their symptoms indicated some sort of neurological problem. Allen says he didn't hear a bizarre, high-pitched sound, but as the AP points out, many of the affected embassy workers didn't either. Still, some doctors are skeptical the attack would have affected tourists.

"I am sure that between April 2014 and October 2017 there must have been a very large number of people who were in Cuba and who were affected by various symptoms," NYU neuroscience professor Mario Svirsky told the AP. "But that's not unusual."

Eleven months after US diplomats first reported their symptoms, the State Department still doesn't know how to test whether someone's been attacked, can't identify the device wreaking all this havoc, and hasn't figured out who might be responsible. The US has since brought most of its diplomatic force home, and warned American tourists to stay away from the island.

As for any tourists who think they could have been affected by the sonic device? The State Department says to "consult a medical professional."

Source: Vice
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/pa3yb7/us-tourists-think-they-were-hit-by-
those-weird-sonic-attacks-in-cuba-vgtrn

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Forget China's astronauts. The country's most famous intergalactic traveler lives in the last house on his lane at the edge of a Siberian forest. Meng Zhaoguo's odyssey began at the Red Flag logging camp in the Manchurian province of Heilongjiang, when he saw a metallic glint thrown off nearby Mount Phoenix. Thinking a helicopter had crashed, he set out to scavenge for scrap. The 36-year-old lumberjack stood gazing at the wreck from across a valley when "Foom! Something hit me square in the forehead and knocked me out."

That collision four years ago, and what followed, has made Meng a celebrity even today among the growing number of Chinese gaga for little green men. In a country that bans "evil cults" and monitors faith in anything but the Communist Party, a belief in extraterrestrial life is one of the few fringe convictions that's been allowed to grow into an organized movement.

The government-approved China UFO Research Center boasted 50,000 members and held annual conferences before splintering into competing factions three years ago. A 20-year-old Chinese bimonthly magazine about UFOs enjoys a circulation of 200,000.

"We have so many visitation reports that if people don't have pictures, we won't bother investigating," says Zhang Jingping, director of the Beijing UFO Research Association.

Chinese fascination with interplanetary life isn't entirely new. Believers point to a 4th century text called the Collected Legacies, which describes a "moon boat" that floated above China every 12 years.

Today's focus is on the science of UFOs—something tolerable to a Chinese Communist Party that advocates "scientific socialism." It helps that heavy hitters such as the former president of Beijing Aerospace University have long advised UFO-research organizations.

The hard-science bent means it's acceptable to publish research on close-encounter stories. It's not O.K., however, to wonder if such stories result from people searching for higher meaning in the hurly-burly of a changing China by turning to God, Buddha or even E.T.

"Chinese may feel a spiritual impulse that leads some to believe they've been abducted by aliens," says Richard McNally, a psychologist at Harvard University who has researched Chinese alien-abduction claims.

Few have enjoyed as remarkable a journey as Meng. Several nights after his wallop on the head, Meng says he found himself floating above his bed. As his wife and daughter slept below, a 3-m-tall, six-fingered alien with braided fur on her legs straddled his waist. After 40 minutes of levitational copulation she departed through the wall, leaving Meng with a 5-cm mark on his thigh.

A month later, he says, he was transported through the wall into a spaceship. Meng asked to see the woman with the braided fur. Impossible, they said. But they gave him hope.

"In 60 years, on a distant planet," they said, "the son of a Chinese peasant will be born." Meng asked if he would ever see this child. He would. The aliens did not say where.

Source: Time Asia Magazine
http://www.time.com/time/asia/magazine/article/0,13673,501030929-488900,00.html