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Andy Brockman
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Reporting from where politics and money meet archaeology and heritage at thepipeline.info/ YouTube Watching Brief Co-Author: The Buried Spitfires of Burma-A fake history Tips/Gossip/Commissions: PipeLineNews@protonmail
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With prison places in short supply in the UK, even for people convicted of serious offences, two years in jail for throwing soup, which did no damage, looks like an attempt to punish an opinion and risks bringing the law into disrepute. Discuss.

Just Stop Oil activists jailed for throwing soup over Van Gogh’s Sunflowers
Just Stop Oil activists jailed for throwing soup over Van Gogh’s Sunflowers

Phoebe Plummer, 23, receives two-year prison term while Anna Holland, 22, given 20-month sentence over incident

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Satirist Peter Cook recalled "those wonderful Berlin cabarets...which did so much to stop the rise of Hitler and prevent the outbreak of the Second World War." Words for Archaeologists to remember as they deal with Graham Hancock's grift & adjust expectations accordingly?

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"I thought the archaeologists said it wasn't real Graham." "Your mind makes it real. That and a skinfull of Ayahuasca."

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Casting an American A-lister, or celebrity to front or feature in popular factual is trend in TV, because celebs add to a programme's credibility, sorry, ratings. Keanu Reeves is following the footsteps of William Shatner, Lawrence Fishburne and er, Craig Charles.

‘Ancient Apocalypse’ Season 2 Confirmed By Netflix With Keanu Reeves Set To Feature
‘Ancient Apocalypse’ Season 2 Confirmed By Netflix With Keanu Reeves Set To Feature

Ancient Apocalypse Season 2 Netflix has been confirmed with Keanu Reeves & Graham Hancock

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#ConspiracyTheory#ConspiracyTheory#ConspiracyTheory#ConspiracyTheory promoting TV series Ancient Apocalypse. Fact Check: Requiring credible evidence is not a smear.

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Everybody makes money out of academic authors except the authors...News. Wiley is the latest academic publisher to reach a multi-million deal to allow access to its content to AI developers, with no opt out, let alone payment, for the authors who created that content.

Wiley set to earn $44m from AI rights deals, confirms “no opt-out" for authors
Wiley set to earn $44m from AI rights deals, confirms “no opt-out" for authors

The US publisher is the latest to capitalise on deals to give tech firms access to its authors’ content to train their Large Language Models (LLMs).

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They can turn over in a weekend as much as a small company makes annually and yet many have no more substance than an informal FaceBook group. Now a leading UK metal detecting rally organiser tells thePipeLine that rallies have become unsustainable and regulation could be coming.

METAL DETECTING RALLIES HAVE GROWN TOO BIG AND ARE UNSUSTAINABLE SAYS LEADING ORGANISER
METAL DETECTING RALLIES HAVE GROWN TOO BIG AND ARE UNSUSTAINABLE SAYS LEADING ORGANISER

They can turn over the annual income of an SME [Small and Medium sized Enterprise] in one weekend, but now one of the UK’s leading organisers of metal detecting rallies has told thePipeLine t…

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Tweaks to the plan for a tower as tall as the Shard at 1 Undershaft in the City of London. Historic England said the plans “seriously degrade the scale and character” of St Helen's Square, one of the few public open spaces left in the area.

Eric Parry’s revised 1 Undershaft plans to be submitted in coming ...
Eric Parry’s revised 1 Undershaft plans to be submitted in coming ...

Changes relate almost entirely to street level public realm after plans were criticised for "robbing" the City of open space

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One of two futures will materialize according to our choices in this election. Only one is a vote for reality and integrity. We urge you to vote for Kamala Harris." For only the second time in its history Scientific American endorses a Presidential candidate.

Vote for Kamala Harris to Support Science, Health and the Environment
Vote for Kamala Harris to Support Science, Health and the Environment

Kamala Harris has plans to improve health, boost the economy and mitigate climate change. Donald Trump has threats and a dangerous record

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Andy Brockman
@andybrockman.bsky.social
Reporting from where politics and money meet archaeology and heritage at thepipeline.info/ YouTube Watching Brief Co-Author: The Buried Spitfires of Burma-A fake history Tips/Gossip/Commissions: PipeLineNews@protonmail
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