A Vancouver couple have been arrested but will not be charged after posting an Internet ad on Craigslist, offering their seven-day-old baby for $10,000, police said Tuesday.
Vancouver police Const. Tim Fanning said he had never heard of such a thing in his 27 years as a police officer.
Ten police officers worked on the case, he said, tracking the Craigslist posting to a west-end apartment.
"Police knocked at the door and asked if there was a baby in the apartment," Const. Fanning told reporters at a news conference.
He said the 23-year-old mother was found nursing a seven-day-old baby.
Among the four adults in the apartment was the baby's father, also in his 20s.
The couple were initially arrested for questioning about the ad.
"They said it was just a hoax," Const. Fanning explained.
The father, who placed the ad using a computer found in the apartment, was taken to jail.
Police sent a report to Crown recommending a charge of public mischief, but the Crown didn't feel there was enough evidence to support the charge, he added.
The baby was taken from the couple by a social worker and placed in care, Const. Fanning said. Taking a nursing baby away from a mother in this case doesn't make me too happy. I hope they have something worked out.
Last week, authorities in Germany said they were investigating a couple after they offered their eight-month-old son for sale on the Internet auction website EBay.
A number of people had contacted police when they say the posting online offering a baby for a sale because it cried too much. The opening bid was 1 euro ($1.57).
There were no bidders in the auction in the two hours it was posted online. The 23-year-old German woman told police that it was a joke.
Craigslist is an online classified advertising service.
Motor bike Taxi drivers from Gwagwalada, a small locality close to Abuja in the middle of Nigeria, have gathered to protest against a client they accuse of using pigeons to steal penises.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the suspects last victim is a 35 year old Motor Bike Taxi driver named Musa Abubakar. The suspect denies all accusations.
Abubakar claims Mohammed Maaji had stolen his family jewels with the help of a white spiritual pigeon hidden in his bag. This spiritual pigeon was wearing a small black tie around its neck. I drove this man to three different places. On our way back to our point of departure, he squeezed his legs tightly around me which made feel sick and weak immediately. I therefore stopped riding to have a look in my trousers and it was gone!
Says Mohammed Maaji: I already have one, what do you want me to do with his?..It is likely that Abubakar lost his penis yesterday evening with a woman.
The local transport union of motoclyclists have threatened to take the case to court if the pigeon does not give back the missing penis to its owner. Image of a pigeon with top hat, black tie and tails.
The percentage of American children who are overweight or obese appears to have leveled off after a 25-year increase, according to new figures that offer a glimmer of hope in an otherwise dismal battle.
"That is a first encouraging finding in what has been unremittingly bad news," said Dr. David Ludwig, director of an obesity clinic at Children's Hospital Boston, Massachusetts. "But it's too soon to know if this really means we're beginning to make meaningful inroads into this epidemic. It may simply be a statistical fluke."
Overall, roughly 32 percent of children were overweight but not obese, 16 percent were obese and 11 percent were extremely obese, in a study based on in-person measurements of height and weight in 2005 and 2006.
Those levels were roughly the same as in 2003-04 after a steady rise since 1980, according to the federal Centers of Disease Control and Prevention, which conducted the study.
"Maybe there is some reason for a little bit of optimism," said CDC researcher Cynthia Ogden, the study's lead author.
Some experts said that if the leveling-off is real, it could be because more schools and parents are emphasizing better eating habits and more exercise. Even so, they and Ogden stressed that it would be premature to celebrate.
"Without a substantial decline in prevalence, the full impact of the childhood epidemic will continue to mount in coming years," Ludwig said. That is because it can take many years for obesity-related complications to translate into life-threatening events, including heart attacks and kidney failure.
He co-wrote an editorial accompanying the study in Wednesday's Journal of the American Medical Association. He had no role in the research.
The results are based on 8,165 children ages 2 to 19 who participated in nationally representative government health surveys in 2003-04 and 2005-06.
The surveys are considered the most accurate reflection of obesity levels because they are based on in-person measurements rather than relying on people's own reports.
CDC data reported last year showed obesity rates for men also held steady from 2003-04 to 2005-06 at about 33 percent after two decades of increases. The rate for women, 35 percent, remained at a plateau reached in 2003-04.
The CDC's analysis of data for 2007-08, due next year, may be the best evidence for determining what direction children's rates are really heading, Ludwig said.
Dr. Reginald Washington, a children's heart specialist in Denver, Colorado, and member of an American Academy of Pediatrics obesity committee, said "the country should be congratulated" if the rates have in fact peaked.
"There are a lot of people trying to do good things to try to stem the tide," Washington said. Some schools are providing better meals and increasing physical education, and Americans in general "are more aware of the importance of fruits and vegetables," he said.
On the other hand, he noted that he recently treated an obese young patient "who in three days did not have a single piece of fresh fruit.
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From the same people who've brought you the Human Induced Global Warming Crisis we get the same old junk science masquerading as real science. Just as you've seen the usual suspects try to shift from 'Human Induced' to 'Climate Change', you are witnessing another shift in the use of language to describe the situation in the over played obesity crisis when real numbers and real science starts to catch up with the usual suspects.
Would this by chance be a collagen-rich powder, like the one described by that guy who said he used one made from the lining of a pig's bladder to regrow a good portion of the end of his finger? Seems to me that story started a couple of years ago IIRC.
Does it work for bone as well, or just soft tissue?
Last week in an operating room in Texas, a wounded American soldier underwent a history-making procedure that could help him regrow the finger that was lost to a bomb attack in Baghdad, Iraq, last year.
Army Sgt. Shiloh Harris' doctors applied specially formulated powder to what's left of the finger in an effort to do for wounded soldiers what salamanders can do naturally: replace missing body parts.
If it sounds like science fiction, the lead surgeon agreed. Sounds more like the work of some yahoo guy who wasn't a doctor. :-)
"It is. But science fiction eventually becomes true, doesn't it?" asked Dr. Steven Wolf of Brooke Army Medical Center.
Harris' surgery is part of a major medical study of "regenerative medicine" being pursued by the Pentagon and several of the nation's top medical facilities, including the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and the Cleveland Clinic. Nearly $250 million has been dedicated to the research.
Air Force Tech. Sgt. Israel Del Toro is one of the wounded vets who might one day benefit from this research. He was injured by a bomb in Afghanistan. Both his hands were badly burned. On his left hand, what was left of his fingers fused together.
"You know, in the beginning, when I first got hurt, I told them, just cut it off. So I can get some function," Del Toro said. His doctors did not cut off his injured left arm. And since that injury, advancements in burn and amputation treatment mean he may one day be able to use his fingers again.
A key to the research dedicated to regrowing fingers and other body parts is a powder, nicknamed "pixie dust" by some of the people at Brooke. It's made from tissue extracted from pigs.
The pixie dust powder itself doesn't regrow the missing tissue; it tricks the patient's body into doing that itself.
All bodies have stem cells. As we are developing in our mothers' wombs, those stem cells grow our fingers, toes, organs -- essentially, our whole body. The stem cells stop doing that around birth, but they don't go away. The researchers believe that the "pixie dust" can put those stem cells back to work growing new body parts.
The powder forms a microscopic "scaffold" that attracts stem cells and convinces them to grow into the tissue that used to be there.
"If it is next to the skin, it will start making skin. If it's next to a tendon, it will start making a tendon, and so that's the hope, at least in this particular project, that we can grow a finger," Wolf said.
It has worked in earlier experiments. "They have taken a uterus out of a dog, made one in the lab, put it back in and had puppies," Wolf said. Researchers have also regrown a human bladder and implanted it in a person, and it is working as nature intended.
Although the technique has incredible promise, doctors will be watching for unexpected side effects as they follow Harris' recovery. "It could grow a cancer," Wolf said. "We will be closely monitoring for that to make sure that doesn't happen."
If the military's most badly wounded start benefiting, so will civilians. "If we can pull this off in missing parts the next step is, OK, can we grow a pancreas? Can we grow and replace that in a diabetic? And can we do the same thing with a kidney and can we do the same thing with a heart?"
One day, he hopes, people with heart trouble will be told, "That's OK. We will just grow you another one."
The international space station's lone toilet is broken, leaving the crew with almost nowhere to go. So NASA may order an in-orbit plumbing service call when space shuttle Discovery visits next week.
Until then, the three-man crew will have to make do with an old Electrolux vacuum a jury-rigged system when they need to urinate.
While one of the crew was using the Russian-made toilet last week, the toilet motor fan stopped working, according to NASA. Since then, the liquid waste gathering part of the toilet has been working on-and-off.
Fortunately, the solid waste collecting part is functioning normally.
Russian officials don't know the cause of the problem, and the crew has been unable to fix it.
The crew has used the toilet on the Soyuz return capsule, but it has a limited capacity. They now are using a backup bag-like collection system that can be connected to the broken toilet, according to NASA public affairs officials.
"Like any home anywhere, the importance of having a working bathroom is obvious," NASA spokesman Allard Beutel said. Well, it may be a little bit more important in space, actually.
The 7-year-old toilet has broken once before but not for as long a time, said Johnson Space Center spokeswoman Nicole Cloutier in Houston. Are we learning yet?
Discovery is already set for launch Saturday, with a planned docking with the space station Monday.
Cloutier said NASA officials are considering having some parts flown to Cape Canaveral, Florida, and placed in the shuttle during its countdown, an unusual and delicate situation. Because the shuttle's payload weight is limited and balance carefully calculated, it will be tricky to try to figure out where the parts can go, said Kennedy Space Center spokesman Bill Johnson Oh, Bullshi+. Just stick them in the middle somewhere.
Discovery's main payload, a 32,000-pound Japanese laboratory addition, is so big that the shuttle's boom sensor system had to be removed to make room for the lab.
Seriously, this is why you don't have Russian equipment with you and you don't have a station designed by committee. And why the hell is there only one toilet?
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DV has a point. Why is there only one toilet? Seems 'mission critical' to me and there should be a redundant back up. Perhaps the ISS requires a lavatory module, rather than incorporating ONE toilet into already cramped space.
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As an amusing side note, an American female astronaut is also a trained plummer and will try to fix it next time the Space Shuttle docks.
Any thoughts on the cost per hour?
Al
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how much could a new toilet for space mass?
Just put one in the passenger baggage area of the shuttle.
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Sorry, no gravity in space to pull the plumber's pants down. Does that mean she'd have to have rubber bands attached to pull them down while she's working?
The gang who beat teenager Amar Aslam to death in a park bragged about having 'jumped a boy' and recorded his last moments on their mobile phones, it was claimed today.
James Taylor, 13, told how he performed emergency first aid on 17-year-old Amar in the walled garden of the park in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, before paramedics arrived. In a BBC interview, James said: "A friend came up to me and said people ran up to him bragging about jumping a boy, stamping on his head and have left him in the flower garden dead. Go and have a look but keep it on the low."
Police today continued to question six schoolchildren and a 20-year-old man about the savage murder in Crow Nest Park in the town on Sunday. Officers have refused to comment on reports Amar's killers may have recorded the brutal last moments of the 17-year-old's life and later swapped the footage on their phones.
Asked about whether there were gangs operating in the area, James said: "It's a problem. There are gangs and it's just over turf and over drugs and girls and stuff like that." He said he was "just scared to walk the streets alone - it's not safe".
Police have been told the 'sustained and brutal' attack was captured on mobile phone and are now trying to find the crucial evidence.
Amar's body was found at 7.10pm on Sunday by two passers-by in a walled garden in Crow Nest Park in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire. A postmortem examination has revealed he died of serious head injuries.
The lone teenager is thought to have been killed by a gang looking for cash and drugs. When his attackers found he only had about £10 in his pockets they kicked, punched and stamped on him and struck him up to 18 times with the piece of wood.
The victim's sister Samreen spoke last night of how his family had been 'shattered' by the murder. She said: 'Nothing can replace our brother and we still believe he will come through the door.
'It won't be the same without him. There will always be a gap when there is a part missing.'
Locals said the park was a favourite haunt of gangs of youths, but friends said Amar was a 'quiet lad' who usually went out alone and never became involved in a gang culture. A neighbour said: 'He didn't like confrontation, he was so shy he would cross the road to avoid speaking to you.
'Whoever has done this is such a coward. Amar was slimly built, he had some illnesses in the past and even looked frail.
One gang of Asian youths in the area is known as the Ravey Terror Squad, but it is not known whether the suspects were members of this group of 'petty young crooks'.
Amar was the youngest of four children of Mohammed and Rehana Aslam. Mr Aslam, in his late 60s, is returning from Pakistan where he was visiting relatives with his other son.
There was shock last night locally that children could be suspects in such a brutal murder. Karam Hussain, Mayor of Kirklees and friend of the Aslams, said: 'The family is devastated and so is the community. Parents have got to keep an eye on their children, especially after school and in the school holidays.
'This sort of thing is just not acceptable and parents have to take responsibility.'
Dewsbury MP Shahid Malik said: 'We have to get the message across that violence is not acceptable.
'At the moment I do not think the law is being applied as it might; I do not think harsh enough sentences are being imposed.
'Parents need to be more alert and take a far greater responsibility for their children. And the community has a responsibility to work more closely with the police.
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As the old joke goes, the acute Angles went North. The obtuse Angles went South.
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Whether it was muzzie gang or not does not make much difference, does it?
Not to the dead guy but as an indicator of the direction of the population's reactions to the slow invasion I believe it does. Or as another example of the heinousness of the enemy for the public to see.
Czech President Vaclav Klaus said Tuesday he is ready to debate Al Gore about global warming, as he presented the English version of his latest book that argues environmentalism poses a threat to basic human freedoms. "I many times tried to talk to have a public exchange of views with him, and he's not too much willing to make such a conversation," Klaus said. "So I'm ready to do it." Sorry, Vaclav. He prefers preaching to the choir. He'll only get into a battle of wits with you if he thinks you're unarmed.
Klaus was speaking a the National Press Building in Washington to present his new book, Blue Planet in Green Shackles - What Is Endangered: Climate or Freedom?, before meeting with Vice President Dick Cheney Wednesday.
"My answer is it is our freedom and, I might add, and our prosperity," he said.
Gore a former US vice president who has become a leading international voice in the cause against global warming, was co-winner of this year's Nobel Peace Prize. Gore's effort was highlighted by his Oscar winning documentary film An Inconvienent Truth.
Klaus, an economist, said he opposed the "climate alarmism" perpetuated by environmentalism trying to impose their ideals, comparing it to the decades of communist rule he experienced growing up in Soviet-dominated Czechoslovakia.
"Like their (communist) predecessors, they will be certain that they have the right to sacrifice man and his freedom to make their idea reality," he said.
"In the past, it was in the name of the Marxists or of the proletariat - this time, in the name of the planet," he added.
Klaus said a free market should be used to address environmental concerns and said he oppposed as unrealistic regulations or greenhouse gas capping systems designed to reduce the impact of climate change.
"It could be even true that we are now at a stage where mere facts, reason and truths are powerless in the face of the global warming propaganda," he said. Well, powerless in the face of the idiot who have some strange compulsion to swallow that very same propaganda hook, line, and sinker anyway. We call them self-haters. You will recognize them by the hair shirts they are so fond of wearing to assuage the guilt they like to carry around with them because it makes them feel so good in some perverted way.
Klaus alleged that the global warming was being championed by scientists and other environmentalists whose careers and funding requires selling the public on global warming. And I thought I was the only one who noticed that. Bad scientists. Bad. Maybe research topics ought to be passed around on some kind of a random in-one's-field basis.
"It is in the hands of climatologists and other related scientists who are highly motivated to look in one direction only," Klaus said. Ya think? Just do some kind of study along these lines and present it. The results ought to be interesting.
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Sounds like president Klaus is intimately familiar with the watermelons (green outside, red inside, mushy center)that make up much of the global warming crowd.
#2
The Goreacle has spoken: Global warming is fact. It is caused by the CO2 created by humans. There is no debate. All debate is settled.
So shut up and give him money.
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Two additional aftershocks struck quake-ravaged China on Tuesday, injuring at least 63 people and causing the collapse of more than 420,000 homes, according to the state-run news agency Xinhua.
The agency said the aftershocks struck the southwest town of Qingchuan in Sichuan Province, and neighboring Ningqiang in Shaanxi Province. A total of 63 people were injured in Qingchuan alone by the new aftershocks, with six in critical condition, Xinhua said.
In total, authorities reported four aftershocks in the area Tuesday, all of them above magnitude 4.5, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
Xinhua reported the two recent aftershocks at 5.4 and 5.7 magnitudes, citing the China National Seismological Network. The USGS said they measured 4.5 and 5.0 magnitude.
The earlier aftershocks registered at magnitude 5.2 and 5.5, the USGS said.
The aftershocks rattled the area as authorities were evacuating thousands of people in Sichuan province Tuesday so they could blast a potentially dangerous lake created by landslides from this month's earthquake.
About 158,000 people were expected to flee their homes downstream by midnight, China's Xinhua news agency reported. The evacuations took place in nearly 170 communities.
The number of evacuees could increase to more than a million if authorities fear the entire dam at Tangjiashan -- caused by the debris -- is about to give way.
"It's better for them to complain about the trouble that the evacuation would bring than to shed tears after the possible danger," said Liu Ning of the Ministry of Water Resources.
Tangjiashan lake was formed when landslides from the May 12 earthquake blocked a section of the Jianhe River. It is holding back 130 million cubic meters (170 million cubic yards) of water, according to Liu.
Engineers are working to create a spillway to relieve pressure, but they do not have a lot of time to work with, Xinhua reported.
The river has been rising at a rate of about two meters (six feet) a day and is within 26 meters (85 feet) of the top.
Thirty-five of these so-called quake lakes were created by this month's 7.9-magnitude earthquake and 28 of them are "at risk," according to the Ministry of Water Resources.
More than a thousand engineers and soldiers were working at the dam site in Beichuan County.
The Chinese military flew in about 80 pieces of heavy equipment, because there are no roads into the area. Engineers have 10 tons of dynamite on hand to clear rock and soil for the spillway, which was expected to be several hundred yards long.
The official death toll from the quake rose to 67,183 on Tuesday, an increase of more than 2,000, with about 21,000 missing. The government estimates that 45 million people, mostly in Sichuan province, were affected by the earthquake and that 5 million were left homeless.
The total number of dead has been increasing on a daily basis, in part due to the havoc wrought by the aftershocks.
A strong aftershock on Sunday killed at least eight people, injured about 1,000 others and destroyed more than 70,000 homes in Sichuan, Gansu and Shaanxi provinces.
The worst damage occurred in Sichuan, which has experienced thousands of aftershocks over the past two weeks, but Sunday's -- which the U.S. Geological Survey measured at a magnitude-6.0 -- was the strongest since a magnitude-5.8 tremor shook the region a day after the initial quake.
Shaanxi experienced the highest death toll as a result of the aftershock, with four people losing their lives. One each died in Sichuan and Gansu.
The aftershock damaged more than 200,000 other homes, according to state media. It also damaged another dam, cutting off several more roads in the region.
Meanwhile, Chinese officials on Monday emphasized the country's one-child policy allows families with a child killed, severely injured or disabled to have another baby. OK, I think they've had enough now.
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it's karma, for being not-nice to the Dalai Lama, who is a good friend of actress and deep-thinker Ms Sharon Stone
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I s'pose we should be grateful it's late spring, and the days, at least, are warm. Or so I can hope in my ignorance of the local climate. Hopefully China will get the new lakes drained in time.
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No surprise here as I'm still seeing EM sparks-bursts in the skies o'er Guam + offshore WESTPAC, besides also Earth/Ground movements.
GUAM HAD A SHAKER OF ITS OWN IN THE DARK AM TODAY - whats interesting for me is that I'd also visibly observed a very large, but semi- dispersed or semi-organz EM burst over my head, NOT AS FORMED, INTEGRATED OR LUMINIOUS AS THOSE OCCURRING FARTHER AWAY "OVER WATER"!?
IT APPEARS TO ME THAT THE STRENGTH OR MAGN OF AN ASIA-PACIFIC = LOCAL? QUAKE IS SEEMINGLY LINKED TO THE SIZE AND MAGN, ETC. OF AIRBORNE EM SPARKS-BURSTS???
Lest we fergit, 1990's GUAM-WESTPAC TYPHOONS > included so-called GREATEST/BIGGEST STORMS OF THE CENTURY, AWESOME IN SIZE BUT OVERALL WEAK IN DESTRUCTIVE POTENCY + DURATION.
In 1930 an elderly heiress presuaded a taxi driver to take her from Melbourne to Darwin an astounding 7,000-mile odyssey through the untamed Outback. Now, his descendants are retracing the journey across Australia
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I like canadian accent, though I understand that for americans, it sounds like belgian french for us frenchies - not that I'm comparing Canada to Belgium... by the way, québecquois or canadian french too is a great accent, very cute if I may say so (it actually sounds a lot like old french IIUC), and I've worked often with Quebec guys and found them generally with a good work ethics and often wayy better than their dreadlocked or pothead french counterparts.
Regarding Wolverine's canuck accent, see that flashvid (use "related submissions" to check the whole lot), very fun, that's what he should sound like in th emovies, if they were coherent... /OT mode off
SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL OWG MAD/FRANKEN-SCIENTIST, D *** YOU > WHATS THE USE OF BUILDING TERMITE- AND TREE-MOUND LOOKING "CITIES-IN-THE-SKY" FOR GEORGE JETSON WITHOUT A GIANT BEAST TO PECK, PICK, AND WIPE IT ALL OUT IN RIGHTEOUS -ZILLA INDIGNATION - TOHO JAPAN DEMANDS TO KNOW!
RODAN also needs a hug from some friendly lady -Zilla.
.. In our inferred scenario, Pima are the first North American population in the ordering and receive ancestry from the first South American population, the Colombians. The Pima have two additional donor populations, the Oroquen and Mongolians, both of whom reside in Mongolia and neither of which are donors to Colombians. This result is intriguing because it suggests independent sources for North and South Americans and hence multiple waves of migration into the continent, contradicting the current consensus based on available data [23]
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The conventional wisdom of North American migrations has been eroding for years now. Too much evidence, DNA or otherwise, suggests that multiple waves of immigration, not only from Siberia through what is now Alaska, but also from European and Polynesian stock, explain the immediate pre-Columbian population of American Indians, rather than isolated moves during the end of the last ice age.
Indian groups (and some academicians who've made a career out of the CW), however, are terrified of the new evidence. It could undermine the victim status of the Indians, and potentially threaten subsidies and special treatment - as well as the funding and grants of those academicians who are steeped in the CW on this subject.
The resistance of Northwest Indian tribes to study of Kenniwick man is the best example, but there are others, notably attempts to bury evidence of European stock in parts of South America.
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I doubt they had any clue that Kennewick man might have led to any conclusions other than what was accepted at the time, but they sure do seem to be against any kind of scientific investigation.
I don't know if that's entirely because of deeply held cultural beliefs or if they are just being pig-headed because they are still pi$$ed off that they got overrun by European Americans. My uninformed guess is that it's probably something in between.
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Problem with Kennewick Man, generally, is that he was part of a population which disappeared. To change from being the First People to being the First Genociders would sure cut into the sympathy account.
I have seen a documentary showing phenotypical evidence of Australoid immigration in southern South America. Except for a few skull shapes, they're not here any longer, either.
And the Solutrean connection, if true, has gotten some folks upset about racism, presuming that the presumption behind talking about Solutreans in eastern North America means the locals couldn't manage whatever it was by themselves.
There's a lot more here than science.
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Dig not below the Layer of Clovis. It is Taboo.
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no mo uro, you can see the same politics played in Kiwiland. The pre-Maori culture that is apparently somewhat related to archaic Kelts gets buried (in some cases literally) and the academic establishment plays along.
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.
The gang who beat teenager Amar Aslam to death in a park bragged about having 'jumped a boy' and recorded his last moments on their mobile phones, it was claimed today.
