[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] "I got your woke activism right here" *grabs crotch*
Critics said the idea would impose ideology in history 'where it doesn't belong'
Trendy academics have labelled human remains 'non-binary' or 'gender neutral'
The ideas were put forward by the so-called Black Trowel Collective of American ‘anarchist archaeologists’
A professor warned, 'You have to fight back against this because if it is accepted then the whole academic enterprise turns into an empty pursuit of ideological objectives.' Too late.
The group’s manifesto on ‘trans liberation’ states: ‘It is clear from archaeological, historical, and ethnographic accounts that human gender is highly variable and that human beings have historically been comfortable with a range of genders beyond modern “masculine” and “feminine” binaries.’
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'You have to fight back against this because if it is accepted then the whole academic enterprise turns into an empty pursuit of ideological objectives.'
#3
This is how the Soviet Union fell. Political insanity insisting that facts kneel to its wishes. Nobody could get accurate information and the whole country was built on lies.
Of course, for the wokies, America falling is the entire idea.
#9
No gender with skeletons? But, but, but the forensic anthropologists tell us that skeletons do have distinguishing gender as well as racial characteristics that aid in their analysis of "Who got what done to them." Don't muddle up the science with "wokeness cow pucky.
#11
What the hell? Why can't we celebrate our small ethnic differences rather than freaking out over them? If you removed my skeleton, it would probably look like that of a Pict bog dweller. My neighbor down the road, if you removed his skeleton it would look like Zulu warrior's. So I'm not exactly feeling superior about it!
#13
Based on this new development, I will pass on the next Pirates of the Caribbean installment. Seeing multicultural animated skeletons will likely give me a bigger headache than the Sponge Bob Movie did.
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#14
No skeleton will show penis bones because there aren’t t any
Posted by: Lord Garth ||
07/25/2022 14:43 Comments ||
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Posted by: M. Murcek ||
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#16
And here with a penal rebuttal,
I give you the giant Oz cuttle:
"Aragonite bone!
Tis our source of reknown,
Though a few hundred meters
Implodes our poor peters,
So only through shallows we scuttle."
[winks, squirts ink]
Posted by: Pearl Spuling3206 ||
07/25/2022 15:28 Comments ||
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[Regnum] On July 24, in the waters of the Neva River in St. Petersburg and in the waters of the Great Kronstadt raid, a combined training session of the Main Naval Parade was held. The rehearsal was attended by surface ships and boats of various classes, submarines, as well as naval aviation of the Navy and foot units as part of parade boxes.
During the training, all components of the Main Naval Parade were successfully tested. Among the 11 ships that took part in the passage on the Great Kronstadt roadstead are the Dimitrovgrad missile boat, the Passat and Sovetsk small missile ships, the Urengoy and Kazanets small anti-submarine ships, the Stoikiy and Soobrazitelny corvettes. ”, the Yaroslav the Wise patrol ship, the Purga border patrol ship, the Perekop training ship, and the Magadan diesel-electric submarine.
A total of 17 warships and boats took part in the waters of the Neva. Among them are small missile ships "Odintsovo" and "Zeleniy Dol", mine defense ships "Alexander Obukhov" and "Pavel Khenov", anti-sabotage boats "Nakhimovets", "Yunarmeeets of Tatarstan", "P-471" and "P-468", patrol boats "Evgeny Kolesnikov" and "P-436".
In addition, the coherence of the actions of the parade group of naval aviation was checked. About 40 aircraft of the Naval Aviation of the Russian Navy took part in the rehearsal of the parade.
Recall that the Main Naval Parade will be held on July 31, 2022 on the fairways in the waters of the Neva River between the Blagoveshchensky and Troitsky bridges and on the fairways in the waters of the Great Kronstadt roadstead along the southern protective wall of the port. The parade will be attended by 36 surface ships and boats, 4 submarines, 7 sailing ships, 42 aircraft, and more than 3,500 military personnel. The dress rehearsal for the parade is scheduled for July 28.
#6
If they spent as much time practicing their TTP as they do for parade the Ukraine event would be over!
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#7
As I understand it, the Russian military is hopelessly corruption. Funds provided for Putin's armed force are skimmed to find their way into senior Russian officers' pockets.
#9
Like Bondarchuk's billion-buck baby,
But... backwards? Hey, look, a new navy!
Our Tsar catches cold,
Little Emperor grows bold,
And invading Ukraine goes great... maybe.
Posted by: Pearl Spuling3206 ||
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#10
Confucius say, "Oracle bones
Warn, 'Han in glass house, don't throw stones!'"
So Xi practice spiel,
Offer really good deal
To Volodya for half-billion clones.
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Questions in bold by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin. Replies by Russian military blogger Yuri Kotenok.
[ColonelCassad] Answers to questions on the course of the CBO for the channel of the military correspondent Yuri Kotenok.
- In the event that the operational pause ends and active hostilities resume, is the intensity of battles possible at the level of the beginning of the NMD?
- The continuation of intense hostilities is objectively inevitable, since it is absolutely not profitable to freeze the conflict in the current configuration of the front line of the Russian Federation. Therefore, serious efforts will be made in a number of areas for the further liberation of Ukrainian territories.
The regrouping of forces after the completion of the battle for Severodonetsk and Lisichansk is nearing completion. One can expect an increase in the activity of the offensive of the RF Armed Forces on the Seversk-Soledar line, in the Slavyansko-Barvenkovsky direction, near Artemovsk, etc.
It is unlikely that the RF Armed Forces will attack in all directions, since this requires a further increase in the size of the group. - Do the Istanbul agreements on the export of grain mean that until the winter the Russian Federation will not take active steps to liberate Odessa?
- As shown by yesterday's attacks on Odessa, "Istanbul-1" does not mean the cessation of hostilities in Odessa and the Odessa region.
The agreements concluded in Istanbul do not prevent such strikes against military targets. Accordingly, there are no obstacles to the development of offensive operations in the direction of Odessa, if the command of the RF Armed Forces decides to rely on this direction after the completion of the operation in Donbass. Of course, this is not so easy to do due to the resistance of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the terrain around Odessa, but with sufficient massing of troops in this direction, the RF Armed Forces are quite capable of taking both Nikolaev and Odessa.
- What is the morale of the Armed Forces of Ukraine? How do high losses affect morale in enemy units and subunits?
- At the current stage, the moral standing of the Armed Forces of Ukraine can be characterized as complex. Heavy losses in manpower, of course, hit the morale of those units that suffered them. Hence the complaints from the front, and the refusal to advance to the front line, and the demands to be taken to places of permanent deployment, because the front-line reality does not correspond to the propaganda pictures in the media. However, this does not apply to all parts.
Where there is a high percentage of shelled infantry, there are foreign mercenaries or gangs of motivated Nazis, there are no signs of a critical breakdown yet. This indicates the need to continue and intensify the daily grinding of enemy manpower at the front, which the RF Armed Forces are undertaking. We rely on a long fire offensive, on a barrage of fire, which are aimed specifically at grinding the enemy’s manpower, which leads to the manifestation of signs of a decline in morale in parts of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the Volkssturm.
- If we abstract from the statements of Arestovich, etc., what does the Kyiv regime count on in the Kherson direction?
- Active actions of the enemy in the direction of Kherson are very likely, but not from the side of Nikolaev, but in the Krivoy Rog and Nikopol directions. The Nikolaev grouping, due to daily strikes against it, is hardly capable of actively advancing on Kherson. Now the activity of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is manifested in the form of local attacks, mostly unsuccessful, but the enemy is obviously preparing for more serious actions.
But still, it should not be ruled out that chatter about the Kherson offensive may be trying to cover up attempts to camouflage preparations for an offensive in the Zaporozhye or Kharkov directions. Here, much depends on our intelligence, which must penetrate into the real plans of the enemy and reveal them in advance in order to stop them effectively.
- Aggressive statements are again heard from Chisinau. Is a new escalation around Transnistria possible? Did Kyiv abandon the idea of invading the PMR?
- The topic of the reopening of the conflict in Transnistria does not leave the agenda and is regularly pumped over both in Ukraine and in Moldova itself. This is done at the suggestion of the United States and NATO. At the current stage of the development of the conflict, the escalation is held back by the general weakness of Moldova itself and its Armed Forces.
The hasty attempts to strengthen the Moldovan army and the cleansing of the opposition in Chisinau are attempts to create conditions for a joint attack by Moldova and Ukraine on Transnistria with the indirect assistance of NATO. The best guarantee of suppressing these plans is the liberation of Odessa and the withdrawal of Russian troops to the borders of Moldova and Transnistria.
- Does the Armed Forces of Ukraine have at least a theoretical possibility to inflict damage on one of the 6 reactors of the Zaporizhzhya NPP, or are the attacks on the facility purely psychological in nature?
- The Armed Forces of Ukraine have the technical capabilities to strike at the ZNPP reactors - this can be done both with cannon or rocket artillery, and with drones. In the meantime, strikes on the Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant keep the possible topic of nuclear provocations and radiation contamination in good shape, which they use to intimidate the townsfolk. The task of not allowing the IAEA delegation to the facility, which should investigate the revealed facts of Ukraine's attempts to create a dirty nuclear bomb, is also being solved.
- How did Johnson's resignation affect London's plans to fight Moscow "to the last Ukrainian"?
- There are no significant signs of a change in British policy at the moment, especially since Johnson will act as prime minister for a few more weeks, and he is not going to change course. Johnson's likely successor Liz Truss is also committed to this course, so the role of Ukrainians as cannon fodder for the US and Britain will not change.
- Is it possible to carry out the death sentence against British mercenaries?
- From the point of view of the law, there are no obstacles for this. The case was investigated, the trial was held, the verdict was passed. From the point of view of the law, the only way to avoid an announced verdict is a pardon from the head of the DPR.
Of course, there is still a scenario with an exchange, but at the moment, Britain has not contacted the DPR about the exchange of its mercenaries. In view of this, the likelihood of several death sentences being carried out is quite high.
From my point of view, several such sentences should be carried out, regardless of whether there are subsequent exchanges of mercenaries or not. Perhaps the execution of a few mercenaries will increase the interest in exchanging others.
At the same time, it must be emphasized in every possible way that the British government left the mercenaries to their fate and did not save them from capital punishment.
Commentary by Russian blogger Donetsk
[DONRF] I have bad news for you - the Civil War is over. Seriously. Not only its participants died, but also their children, often their grandchildren. The Romanovs are no longer there, some fat gypsy is running around, saying that he is legitimate, but even stoned monarchists laugh at this. There are no Ulyanovs, there are no other heroes of the red side. The monuments remain. But not everywhere.
And this is where this story begins. A native of peasants, Komsomol member Alexander Khodakovsky, began to broadcast that it was impossible to return the names, and it was impossible to restore Soviet symbols. And just do it - you can't. All the youth believes in Christ, they will not fight with Lenin. You give decommunization, pans naked and forward - for braces, for Zhora Gypsy, for those functionaries of the Russian Orthodox Church who have not forgiven and not forgotten. Lenin mushroom in one word.
Do you know what the trouble is Ukrainians? They build the past according to the patterns of the 20s of the 20th century. With all its intolerance, Nazi social engineering, suppression of dissent and leaderism. Within this framework, there is no place for the period of the Russian Empire, the period of the USSR, and even the period of Ukraine.
Only 50,000 outcasts with Nazism in their heads, and the same outcasts after 2014. Such a society, like any other, with a monopoly on the idea, is doomed. Basically. Just like the USSR was doomed, exactly from the time when the only argument in the dispute was the denunciation.
We also have a lot of people who want to build Ukraine, including reds, whites, and even SBUs, like Scythian. And in vain. You can't wake up the demons of the past, you can't wake up ghosts, they want blood. Ukrainians have awakened Bandera. And now they are paying. Terrible price and not the fact that they will survive. And there is no need to repeat this valuable experience to us. Even if it is said by a media character for the purpose of self-promotion.
And the monuments in the city center need to be restored. If only because they were demolished illegally, and we are not bringing Bandera, not Vlasov, not Krasnov, but the law. Well, justice, and the destruction of monuments by galloping baboons was unfair. Another issue is ideology. It's difficult with her. More precisely, like ... We have it. In the form of hatred for each other of ideological people, calling in all voices of those same ghosts, and complete indifference of the townsfolk.
And you need ... The Civil War is over. The blood soaked into the ground. The bones crumbled to dust. We need to live. To build a state, taking the best from both the empire and the USSR, will finally reconcile and stop making faces, and think not only about the past, but also about the future. Otherwise, we will become scumbags. And why it is kindled at such a moment - I do not know. If I were a Khokhl, I would definitely kindle it.
Commentary by Russian military blogger Andrey Chervonets Mikhail Gorbachev believes that the special operation in Ukraine destroyed all his legacy.
Alexei Venediktov, ex-editor-in-chief of Echo of Moscow, spoke about this in an interview with the Russian edition of Forbes.
“I can tell you that he is disappointed and perfectly understands everything that is happening. It was his life's work. Freedom is Gorbachev's business," Venediktov said.
Is it Mishka and the company that they call freedom, the surrender of interests and, in fact, the sovereignty of the country to the enemy?
Freedom is called the fact that pans from America and England directly rule the Ukrainians? And is it also a legacy not to fix the obligation of the West not to expand NATO to the east on paper?
Everything that is happening now is on Gorbachev's conscience. There has never been a greater traitor to his country and people in history, Gorbachev cannot even be compared with Judas, since Judas, after what he had done, realized the gravity of his act and hanged himself.
It was thanks to the actions of Humpback that the Union collapsed, the nationalists raised their heads, and not only in Ukraine.
Tens of millions of people on the territory of the former USSR are forced to disentangle this "legacy". Bandera and national strife are also Gorbachev's legacy.
Russians began to survive from all the "national" republics. Although, it was the Russians who brought civilization to many of these "republics". They created industry, raised agriculture, built cities, dragged them from the Middle Ages to the present.
Interestingly, Mishka himself did not want to live in his "freedom", dumped him in Germany. Does he really not understand what he's done? Is he really sure that everything he has done is good for people? How is he still living with it?
#3
USA is a terrorist state
Since the end of the second World War, the United States bombed: 1. China (1945-1946) 2. Korea (1950-1953) 3. China (1950-1953) 4. Guatemala (1954) 5. Indonesia (1958) 6. Cuba (1959-1960) 7. Guatemala (1960) 8 Congo (1964) 9. Peru (1965) 10. Laos (1964) 11. Vietnam (1961-1973) 12. Cambodia (1969-1970) 13. Guatemala (1967-1969) 14 Granada (1983) 15. Lebanon (1984) 16. Libya (1986) 17. El Salvador (1980) 18. Nicaragua (1980s) 19. Panama (1989) 20. Iraq (1991-1999) 21. Sudan (1998) 22. Afghanistan (1998)
#5
Dankie mineer Boerboel. Painful as it may be, some geo-political introspection might not be a bad thing. An examination of the aerial bombardment of foreign peoples and lands might be a good place to begin.
#6
Since the end of the second World War, the United States bombed:
Goodness! But how many of those were absolutely justified pushback against Soviet or Maoist clients attempting conquest to expand the totalitarian Communist empire? And then later punishment for 9/11, etc?
#9
Don't forget Berlin 1948/49 when they bombed innocent children with candies.
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#10
Hard to believe Gorbie when he claims to be such a lover of freedom. IIRC, he was a dedicated communist who had the misfortune of being unable to hold the rickety old Soviet Union together. I suppose you could say he served a purpose but not on purpose.
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#11
His legacy is a chaotic, unsystematic economic liberalization that went by the name Perestroika (restructuring) and a somewhat more transparent governing system that went by the name Glasnost (openess).
Both were overtaken by events in Poland, Hungary, Romania, etc. Ukraine, the Baltics.
Not much of a legacy really.
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#12
I remember Rush calling the media's fawning adulation of him 'Gorbasms'.
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#13
If the Soviet Union was the patient, Gorbachev was the physician who couldn't save his patient. If Putin needs someone to blame for what he calls the "tragedy" of the Soviet Union's breakup, he should look at pretty much every Soviet leader from Khrushchev onwards. Not at NATO or the West. Hell, half the West was playing the role of ICU nurses at the end.
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#14
I think Yeltsin destroyed Gorbachev's life work. Putin is trying to rebuild the Soviet Union that Gorby tried to preserve.
Revisionist history nonsense.
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin:
[ColonelCassad] There have been reports that Iran has allegedly already supplied Russia with Shahed 129 strike and reconnaissance UAVs.
The drone itself is an illegitimate distant relative of the American MQ-1 Predator (it was created using technologies obtained by capturing American drones). Later modifications of the drone made this car quite original and very good in terms of price/quality, although the United States continues to insist that their Predator is better, although the experience of using the Shahed 129 in Iraq and Syria showed more than serious combat qualities of the Iranian vehicle.
On the presented videos you can see his appearance, camera capabilities and cutting strikes in Syria.
Russia and Iran have not officially confirmed such deliveries (and even if they are, they are unlikely to confirm them), so we are just waiting to see if drones from Iran appear at the front or not.
It cannot be ruled out that this is just a hoax so far in order to test the real level of progress on the issue of deliveries of Iranian UAVs to the Russian Federation.
Personally, you know my position - in the face of the need to increase the number of strike and reconnaissance drones in a vast theater of operations, the possible purchase of what is needed abroad is more than justified, coupled with an increase in our own production. Iran and China are the best options here, because if necessary, they know how to put the device on the US tantrums and bypass the sanctions regimes.
The ideal option is the purchase of a large batch at the start + the deployment of joint production on the territory of the Russian Federation.
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin:
[ColonelCassad] In Washington, after the voyage of congressmen to Kyiv, they said that the United States should supply only 25-30 HIMARS MLRS (and identical systems from other countries) to Ukraine. That is, to the declared 20, of which 16 were officially transferred (and of which, according to the statement of the RF Ministry of Defense, 4 + 1, which was allegedly sold, but which was never shown), should be added another 5-10 pieces.
It is important to understand that in addition to issues related to the desire to intensify strikes against warehouses and command posts of the RF Armed Forces, these deliveries also hide a rather banal goal - to replenish the general fleet of heavy MLRS, which the RF Armed Forces have fairly thinned out by destroying a significant number of Hurricanes, etc. . systems. In addition, due to intensive use, there is a known problem with the replenishment of ammunition for such systems. For Western heavy MLRS, there is no problem with BC, because deliveries, despite the known percentage of the RF Armed Forces destroyed by missile strikes, can go on for a long time.
Unlike Europe, in the United States, the stocks of missiles and shells are as voluminous as in the Russian Federation, which is why they are being pledged for a long war, because from a resource point of view they can afford it (unlike Europe). The main thing is that Ukrainian cannon fodder stably fertilizes the fields of the left bank and maintains the conflict at a level convenient for the United States without freezing and dumping it into a direct conflict between the United States and Russia. This, in fact, is the essence of the rather unsophisticated American strategy.
PS. At the front today without significant progress, so tomorrow evening there will be a summary for 2 days. Well, yes, in Ukraine today they crookedly admitted that they messed up with the "environment of Vysokopolye". Big losses + zero result.
[JP] Scientists at Tel Aviv University (TAU) warn that while the CRISPR genome-editing method is very effective, it is not always safe and that sometimes, rearranging pieces of DNA compromises genomic stability, possibly triggering cancer in the long run.
CRISPR – an acronym for “clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats” – allows genetic material to be added, removed or altered at particular locations in the genome. Several approaches to genome editing have been developed.
The best-known technology is called CRISPR-Cas9 gene scissors (CRISPR-associated protein 9), for which the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to the American scientist Jennifer A. Doudna and French scientist Emmanuelle Charpentier in recognition of their discovery. Developed about a decade ago, it has already proved impressively effective in treating a range of diseases – cancer, liver diseases, genetic syndromes and more.
#4
If I knew enough about genetics I would have used CRISPR, the fire fly mod pack and the MIT genetic logic pack to modify conifers to flash one month either side of the Winter Solstice .. just to avoid decorating outdoor trees.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
