Oh Dear

It's getting harder and harder for "the creator put us here" crowd to stand their ground. Not only that, but they're related to the evil Whiteman:

Surprise’ DNA profile linking 24,000-year-old Siberian skeleton to modern Native Americans could rewrite First Nations’ story, experts say

"The surprise discovery of traces of European ancestry in the 24,000-year-old bones of a boy unearthed in the heart of Siberia has caught the attention of Canadian experts, who say the find could rewrite the story of the people who first populated ancient Canada and the rest of the Americas."

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"The ancient boy’s DNA profile may help explain why a “European” strain of genetic material can be found among today’s New World indigenous communities, a mystery that many scientists had assumed was the result of contact in recent centuries with successive waves of colonizers from Europe."

Inneresting!

Did Ancient Drifters 'Discover' British Columbia? That would be 'drifters' of the Chinese variety. The Indian Industry isn't gonna like this.

Hmmmmm

Are French voters getting a little tired of car-be-ques?

Nicolas Sarkozy: there are too many foreigners in France

"Nicolas Sarkozy said: 'Our system of integration is working increasingly badly, because we have too many foreigners on our territory and we can no longer manage to find them accommodation, a job, a school.'

Nicolas Sarkozy has declared there are too many foreigners in France, deliberately using the rhetoric of the extreme right to regain ground in his difficult re-election battle.

The French president made a three-hour appearance on a TV politics debate show on Monday night, vowing to cut immigration by half and limit state benefits for legal migrants. "Our system of integration is working increasingly badly, because we have too many foreigners on our territory and we can no longer manage to find them accommodation, a job, a school," he said.

Sarkozy, who continues to lag behind the Socialist frontrunner, François Hollande, is more than ever positioning his campaign to the hard right, to court voters from Marine Le Pen's extreme-right Front National. But the tactic appeared to have backfired this week as he was attacked by religious leaders and some within his own party for stoking anti-Muslim sentiment by forcing the marginal topic of halal meat into the centre of his election campaign."

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"Sarkozy, who continues to lag behind the Socialist frontrunner, François Hollande, is more than ever positioning his campaign to the hard right, to court voters from Marine Le Pen's extreme-right Front National. But the tactic appeared to have backfired this week as he was attacked by religious leaders and some within his own party for stoking anti-Muslim sentiment by forcing the marginal topic of halal meat into the centre of his election campaign.

In what some newspaper columnists called "sick-making" and "grotesque" electioneering, Sarkozy pushed fears of a supposed secret Islamisation of French people's dinner plates. He reopened a row, begun last month by Le Pen, over whether meat ritually slaughtered according to Muslim religious standards was being sold on the wider market to unsuspecting non-Muslim consumers."

Or maybe not.

"Sarkozy is hoping that a rush of media appearances and a major campaign rally in a north-eastern suburb of Paris this weekend will draw a line under a difficult 10 days in which he has failed to overtake Hollande in the polls and was pelted with eggs by protesters on a campaign trip to the Basque country.

The latest poll for CSA put Hollande on 30%, Sarkozy on 28% and Le Pen on 15% for the first round vote on April 22. The poll found Hollande would beat Sarkozy in the 6 May second round run-off by 56% to 44%."

It must be hard for the son of a Hungarian immigrant to say there are too many immigrants. Perhaps if he was more specific, but then there's already a party occupying that spot on the spectrum.

In any case, these are interesting times. But it's kind of sad seeing Europe go down the shit hole.

Oetzi's Life After Death

Oetzi is still making news. I remember there was a feud between Italy and Austria about which country could claim him as their own, since his remains were found essentially on the border between the two countries. Seems maybe France can get a piece of him, too.

"New clues have emerged in what could be described as the world's oldest murder case: that of Oetzi the "Iceman", whose 5,300-year-old body was discovered frozen in the Italian Alps in 1991.

Oetzi's full genome has now been reported in Nature Communications.

It reveals that he had brown eyes, "O" blood type, was lactose intolerant, and was predisposed to heart disease.

They also show him to be the first documented case of infection by a Lyme disease bacterium.

Analysis of series of anomalies in the Iceman's DNA also revealed him to be more closely related to modern inhabitants of Corsica and Sardinia than to populations in the Alps, where he was unearthed."

Too bad, Austria.

I must say, though, I've seen some Saskatchewan farmers that bear a striking resemblance to him.

Seems he died of a wound sustained in a fight.

Poor old goat:

"Oetzi was about 159cm tall (5ft 2.5in), 46 years old, arthritic, and infested with whipworm."

That'd be enough to get him run outta town, I would think.

Seems it was the Italians who did him in, too.

His last supper was quite sumptuous. No pizza, though, or lasagne.

And it's amazing what they can figure out using modern science.

Yuk!!

I'm sure most of us have heard about "invasive species" and what the consequences are. There's a whole body of publications about what Europeans brought with them to the Americas and what the consequences were, ranging from deadly communicable diseases to plants and animals, like the horse. There was an exchange flowing in the other direction, too, things like tobacco, supposedly syphilis, and all sorts of foodstuffs like corn and potatoes.

But did you know that invasions are still happening?  There's the Asian carp that is overtaking our streams and lakes, for example, but did you know we are being taken over by "rock snot"? Creeeeeepy!

Inneresting..

...A genetic disorder traced to an long-ago Frenchman who came to New France

"Ouellette's family roots trace back to Quebec where, in some areas, the rate of FH is more than six times higher than the worldwide average, says Quebec City physician Patrick Couture."

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"Researchers like Couture believe FH, which is caused by a genetic mutation, was introduced to Quebec hundreds of years ago by an early settler from France.

Couture believes the disorder was common in isolated corners of the province because, historically, people had big families and travelled infrequently.

"You didn't find the girl that you married on the other side of the world, often you married the girl from the place next door," he said, adding the chances the gene was passed down were relatively high.

He noted that high rates of the disease are found in other pockets of the world, including northern Finland and parts of Tunisia and Lebanon, particularly among the Christian population."

I can't pronounce it, but here's how you spell it: "familial hypercholesterolemia"

Politically Incorrect Science

Cognitive Dissonance

Here's a story that begs a few questions:

Ancient settlement may have been discovered on B.C. coast

"Oral traditions of the Heiltsuk people tell of the ancient village of Luxvbalis, abandoned after a small pox epidemic in the late 1800s and lost because so few were left to tell the tale.

The village may just have been discovered on a site on Calvert Island, in Hakai Luxvbalis Conservancy, located off British Columbia's central coast and its history could date back to as much as 10,000 years.

"People lost information about the exact location after they were decimated during the epidemics in the 1800s."

What else was lost during epidemics? And what's so special about 10,000 years? That's well within the usual estimates of the arrival of humans in North America.

We're always treated to tall tales about how traditional knowledge and tribal histories have been passed down for eons, "proving" that "the creator" "put us here" and blah, blah, blah, while at the same time there's smallpox epidemics introduced by Europeans via blankets to exaggerate, whine and complain about - genocide, biological warfare, etc., etc., etc., blah, blah, blah.

But you don't often hear - nah - you never hear that smallpox epidemics or other diseases might have wiped out oral histories "because so few were left to tell the tale". That'll never do. Contradictory narratives, although very abundant, must remain unnoticed.

Ever wonder why seemingly every square inch of this country is a sacred burial ground? But only sometimes.

And another thing. Using 33 years as the definition of a "generation", a thousand years is about thirty, maybe 35 generations. Each generation, one would suppose, has new stories and knowledge of contemporary events to pass on to up and coming generations.

How can knowledge be passed along from generation to generation for 10,000 years? It would be hard enough to keep things going for 10,000 years if only the first generation's stories were passed down. Three hundred generations worth of oral history would take a long,long time to commit to memory, let alone pass on to the younguns, never mind adding the current generation's knowledge to the storehouse of tribal lore.

And then there are those who reject the 10,000 year theory and believe, instead, that the American continents were peopled perhaps 60,000 years ago, not to mention the fundamentalist's notion that the Aboriginal peoples of the Americas were "created" here.

I don't buy it. The only way this Indian Industry meme hangs together is via the mechanism of intimidation and political correctness. Cognitive dissonance be damned.

'Kudos to Science' Morning

Seriously. These are some mighty interesting stories from the last two or three days.

First: Rare dinosaur found in Canada's oilsands

"The Canadian oil sands, a vast expanse of tar and sand being mined for crude oil, yielded treasure of another kind this week when an oil company worker unearthed a 110-million-year-old dinosaur fossil that wasn't supposed to be there.

The fossil is an ankylosaur, a plant-eating dinosaur with powerful limbs, armor plating and a club-like tail. Finding it in this region of northern Alberta was a surprise because millions of years ago the area was covered by water.

"We've never found a dinosaur in this location," Donald Henderson, a curator at Alberta's Royal Tyrrell Museum, which is devoted to dinosaurs, said on Friday. "Because the area was once a sea, most finds are invertebrates such as clams and ammonites."

Hmmmm. A dinosaur out of place. Puts me in mind of a certain political party and it's leader, or, should that be two political parties and their leaders.

Jurassic Jewel is a good name, though, especially for Mr. Laytoon, because I do like the guy. I just disagree with almost everything he and his party say and believe and can confidently say I will never vote for him/it. The Liberals, maybe, but they'll have to completely remake themselves, and that will take some doing and an appropriate amount of time spent wandering in the wilderness. Forty years should do it, which most likely means I won't be voting for them ever again 'cause I expect to be gone by then.

This dino wasn't the only one in the news this week. How 'bout this babe from Brazil! I'm kinda glad they died out before humans arrived, aren't you?  And speaking of humans arriving......

Second: Arrowheads Found in Texas Dial Back Arrival of Humans in America

"The new findings establish that the last major human migration, into the Americas, began earlier than once thought. And the discovery could change thinking about how people got here (by coastal migrations along shores and in boats) and how they adapted to the new environment in part by making improvements in toolmaking that led eventually to the technology associated with the Clovis culture.

Archaeologists and other scientists report in Friday’s issue of the journal Science that excavations show hunter-gatherers were living at the Buttermilk Creek site and making projectile points, blades, choppers and other tools from local chert for a long time, possibly as early as 15,500 years ago. More than 50 well-formed artifacts as well as hundreds of flakes and fragments of chipping debris were embedded in thick clay sediments immediately beneath typical Clovis material.

“This is the oldest credible archaeological site in North America,” Michael R. Waters, leader of the discovery team, said at a news teleconference."

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"If the migrations began at earlier, pre-Clovis times, moreover, extensive glaciers probably closed off ice-free interior corridors for travel to the warmer south. Archaeologists said this lent credence to a fairly new idea in the speculative mix: perhaps the people came to the then really new New World by a coastal route, trooping along the shore and sometimes hugging land in small boats. This might account for the relatively swift movement of the migrants all the way to Peru and Chile."

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"No one knows exactly who these migrating people were, scientists said. Genetic studies of ancient bones and later American Indians indicate their ancestors came from northeast Asia, possibly across the Bering land bridge at a time of low sea levels during the last ice age. But it has puzzled scientists that nothing like the Clovis technology has ever been found in Siberia."

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"The new findings, the Waters group reported, “suggest that although the ultimate ancestors of Clovis originated from northeast Asia, important technological developments, including the invention of the Clovis fluted points, took place south of the North American continental ice sheets before 13,100 years ago from an ancestral pre-Clovis tool assemblage.”

Among other implications of the discoveries, the Texas archaeologists said, a pre-Clovis occupation of North America provided more time for people to settle in North America, colonize South America by more than 14,000 years ago, “develop the Clovis tool kit and create a base population through which Clovis technology could spread.”

The Texas archaeologists said the new dig site has produced the largest number of artifacts dating to the pre-Clovis period. The dates for the sediments bearing the stone tools were determined to range from 13,200 to 15,500 years ago."

There's more here about the death of the "Clovis first" theory and this new discovery.

Nobody is claiming, of course, that this in any way supports the notion that migration from the old world, as the source of human occupation of the Americas, is now defunct. It's simply that the "ice free corridor" theory is just about done for. Migration from Asia likely took place a bit earlier than the previous consensus would have it, but by only 2,500 years or so, and more likely via the coast line, which would now be inundated with water, since oceans have risen while the ice sheets, through which the "ice free corridor" supposedly ran, have melted and receded.

This will not be good news for the Indian Industry, especially those who like to claim that oral history is as good as evidence as archaeology is, or as the written record is, for that matter.  After all, 2,500 years adds another 100 generations through which origin stories will have had to have been passed along, all the while with each succeeding generation contributing new stories, new events, etc., that must be fitted into the narrative, somehow.   

Gee, you think origins stories can survive intact and accurate for 620 generations? That's 28 "great-great-greats" to add to the front of the word grandfather or grandmother. Can you imagine what a task it would be to keep that many generations of stories in your head with precision and accuracy? But I digress.

Oh, This Story Conjurs Up...

...some raaaaaacist thoughts. But it's just jokes. Sheesh, you people!

"A cache of stone tools found on the east coast of the Arabian peninsula has reopened the critical question of when and how modern humans escaped from their ancestral homeland in eastern Africa."

Let me see now. Mecca is on the east coast, isn't it.

Oh, Yes!!

What is your initial gut reaction to this video?



And I could add some names.

So, what was my initial gut reaction to this video? Total sympathy to the actor's position.

h/t Gates of Vienna, which you MUST read, as the Baron provides some analysis of the meme, specifically, about who imposed this on the "working class" Brit, and particularly, how the film backfires on the elites who imposed it. But who are these elites?

"Make no mistake about it: this was an MSM production, and its target audience — politically correct middle- and upper middle-class British viewers — received it as intended, as a put-down of those benighted, atavistic, racist, nationalistic proles. The use of Enoch Powell as an iconic inspiration is proof of this fact — I remember quite clearly how Mr. Powell was reviled and ostracized for his “Rivers of Blood” speech. My cohort, the generation whose apparatchiks now control the levers of state, media, and social power, regard Enoch Powell as an emblem of racist fascism, a worthy heir to Sir Oswald Mosley.

But, as with so many MSM efforts, the real message gets through, despite the producers’ intentions. The writers, producers, actors, and target audience are deaf to the underlying significance behind what they portray, yet an ordinary Englishman experiences a thrill of recognition, and is heartened by it. The self-appointed guardians of multiculture may not realize it, but Enoch Powell is admired and respected by the EDL and other modern English nationalists. His presence in the TV program sends a totally different signal from what was intended."

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"The truth of what the EDL is doing is all but impossible to convey via the MSM. The media will hide the vile behavior of Muslims, and will choose its sound bites from the EDL (or its UAF infiltrators, who provide the best material) in such a way that the “racist” and “fascist” meme will come through loud and clear to the intended audience.

If the EDL’s message is to be successfully spread, it must do so despite what the media oligarchs intend. It can sneak in through vehicles such as the “I am an Englishman” clip, or be conveyed via entirely different means, such as internet forums and social networking sites."

It's funny, or maybe not funny, but I get the same feeling every time I visit a CBC website where comments are allowed. The vast majority of commenters are uber-liberal elites who look down their noses at those who hold contrary views, yet the vilest comments, those that come the closest to visceral hatred and bigotry, are invariably from the uber-liberals and they never fail to reveal complete and utter ignorance of the positions of those whom they oppose. Same goes for the two clowns at Jay Currie's place.

But to continue, from G of V:

"When the actor tells the audience that “we were never asked”, who were “they” who never did the asking?

The social context of the clip — the accent, the Bermondsey background, the use of Enoch Powell — convey the clear message that this is a conflict between the classes. “They” were the upper and upper middle classes, and they foisted upon “us”, the lower classes, the immigration which has destroyed us.

But this is not true. The meme is false.

Much of the destruction of modern Britain was carried out by the post-war Labour Party, many of whose leaders were thoroughly working class. It was a bolshie operation, and immigration was an integral part of the plan, because it helped destroy the “bourgeois” culture which they so detested.

The Marxist strategy has always been to destroy those things that the English nation — or any nation — holds dear. Tradition, custom, culture, religion, history, a distinctive language and dialect — all of these had to be deconstructed in order that the New Socialist Man could be constructed and usher in the Utopia."

And now we know why Murray Dobbin and so many of the MSM groupies, CBC's especially, are so dead against the new Sun TV. THEY WILL NOT BE ABLE TO CONTROL THE OFFICIAL MEME ANY MORE!!!! Funny that this should happen so soon after the 10:10 video fiasco. Even when they try, it will flop.

Question: Will there be a civil war in Britain? When this all ends, will there be anything left of the leftist/Marxist/elitist meme spewing poseurs at work in any Western society? Will there be any Western society?

PS: If you are curious about Enoch Powell and the frenzy that his speech whipped up, go here.

Human Genome Project (Older Post Previously Unpublished)

A collection of links to my favourite subject:

Atlas of the Human Journey

Global Gene Project to Trace Humanity's Migration

Early Humans May Have Crossed Sea to Leave Africa

Early Australians to Blame for Mass Extinctions, Study Finds

British Have Changed Little Since Ice Age, Gene Study Says

Humans Settled Globe Gradually

Massive Genetic Study Supports "Out of Africa" Theory

51 Headless Vikings Found in English Execution Pit?

Another Barn-Burner From Gates of Vienna

First Dibs

Be sure to read the comments. Some mighty frank and honest truths to be found there.

Speaking of Refuge...

Israel, like the US is to the world, is still a beacon of light in the Middle East. People still die trying to reach her borders.

"The egyptian authorities opened fire at a group of african refugees who were trying to cross the border to Israel."

Even Iraqi children get to feel the light.

And while we're on the topic of Iraq, Chemical Ali Set to Swing Anytime.

Next....

Sure would like to get this guy, Izzat Ibrahim al-Duri, the King of Spades.

Faster, please!!

And holy, smolely. Talk about a big fish. Yemeni al Qaeda leader Jamal Badawi surrenders.

"Badawi was the leader of the al Qaeda cell that [was] responsible for the December 2000 bombing of the USS Cole in the port of Aden, Yemen."