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Hunter-gatherers were violently wiped off the map by farmers, DNA reveals

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Contrary to what has long been believed, there was no peaceful transition of power from hunter-gather societies to farming communities in Europe, with new advanced DNA analysis revealing that the newcomers slaughtered the existing population, completely wiping them out within a few generations.

Researchers from Sweden’s Lund University analyzed skeletons and teeth found in what is now Denmark, and found that 5,900 years ago, the region underwent a swift and total population change. Prior to this, Danish Mesolithic people of the Maglemose, Kongemose and Ertebølle cultures – genetically related to other Western European hunter-gatherers – were prominent inhabitants. But when Neolithic farmers arrived, an abrupt shift can be seen in DNA records, with next to no genetic contribution from the local hunter-gatherers.

Tracing the DNA timeline, the researchers could see that the hunter-gatherers had been swiftly wiped out by the late Stone Age, in what they suspect was a very bloody and very thorough takeover.

“This transition has previously been presented as peaceful,” said Anne Birgitte Nielsen, geology researcher and head of the Radiocarbon Dating Laboratory at Lund University. “However, our study indicates the opposite. In addition to violent death, it is likely that new pathogens from livestock finished off many gatherers.”

However, it seems what goes around comes around. Some 1,000 years later, around 4,850 years ago, these farming communities suffered a similar fate, with the arrival of a ‘big-boned’ semi-nomadic group with origins tied to the livestock-herding Yamnaya of southern Russia. Again, DNA evidence suggests violent battles and the introduction of new pathogens caused another swift genetic shakeup.

The newest arrivals, who tamed animals, kept cattle and traversed the land via horse and cart, would prevail in the region; after this tumultuous period, the area was settled by a population tied to the Yamnaya and Eastern European Neolithic peoples. The genetic profile of these settlers remains dominant in Denmark today, with no trace of the first farmers, or the hunter-gatherers before them, at all.

With the rapid rate of distinctive DNA turnover and the a lack of mingling genetics, all signs point to overpowering conflicts that completely anihillated existing communities. Turning previous theories upside down, the researchers add that this new information also sheds light on migration and the movement of pathogens. Scientists have high hopes that advances in the sequencing of ancient DNA (aDNA) will soon lead to a better understanding and treatment of present-day disease.

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Paper: 100 ancient genomes show repeated population turnovers in Neolithic Denmark

Two subway systems compared — NYC vs Moscow

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New York subway

Moscow Subway

I conclude from this and many other signs that the cabal running Russia is better than the cabal running USA & the West. I am resigned to all societies having an elite or cabal and I am fine with that as long as they do a good job. As long as they don’t steal everything, don’t destroy the culture, follow the laws at least most of the time, love the people they govern. Our cabal either hates us (they do) or (to pretend I don’t know) acts like they hate us. They definitely are not doing a good job for anyone but themselves. All signs point to them waging a war of annihilation against us. ABN

Why Russia fought a long war in Ukraine

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Ever since mid-2022 the Russians have consciously pursued a “long war” strategy in Ukraine, seeking to grind down the AFU and exhaust NATO’s ability to fuel the war while building their own capabilities. It has largely succeeded.

But…

Why did the Russians think it would work?

It’s easy to see now, two years into the war, that Western war stocks were shallow and Western military industry was a rusted-out shadow of its former self and would be unable to gear up to supply the Ukrainian military regardless of the amount of money NATO was willing to push in.  Rather than translating into a mountain of steel on the battlefield, Western riches have only made each shell cost a mountain of cash.  But exactly none of this was obvious two years ago, even to NATO – in fact to this day there are bewildered NATO leaders still using the enormous disparity in GDP  as a talking point in their favor.

Despite this the Russians deliberately set out to fight an industrial war against the combined might of the West.  Now one could argue they simply weren’t able to win a short war and got lucky, but that isn’t a serious position.  The Russians had ample means to try for a quick win in 2022 and they chose not to use them, clearly seeing a long war as a surer bet.  Rather, luck in war is what happens when preparation meets opportunity, and that is exactly what happened here.

It’s something of an article of faith in the modern West that the Russian intelligence services are feeble, with little ability to penetrate Western governments or operate effectively in the public space – their frequent use as scapegoats for the failures of Western liberals notwithstanding!  Certainly the threat of Chinese infiltration is taken far more seriously in the US, at least in public.

And yet here the Russian government – in 2022 – clearly understood NATO’s military-industrial capabilities far better than NATO itself did, to such a high degree of confidence that someone as risk-averse as Vladimir Putin would stake war strategy and to a very real extent the survival of the Russian state on that analysis.

This strongly suggests that rather than being something to be dismissed, Russian intelligence-gathering and analytical capability is now in fact as good as it ever was during the Cold War.  The legendary KGB seems to be back in business – and perhaps their greatest coup of all has been to convince us otherwise.

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The Constantine Hoax and the Forgery of Western History — Laurent Guyénot

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Roman Catholicism, wrote Fyodor Dostoevsky “has proclaimed a new Christ, not like the former one, but one who has been seduced by the third temptation of the devil — the temptation of the kingdoms of the world: “All these things will I give thee if thou wilt fall down and worship me!”[1] This is the main reproach made by the Orthodox to the Roman Church. I find it entirely justified, and I would add that the Catholic false Christ is in fact Yahweh in disguise.

Unlike the Patriarch of Constantinople or later that of Moscow, who only claimed the “spiritual sword” (sacred authority), the medieval popes also claimed the “temporal sword” (secular power). Not only did they directly govern one of the richest principalities in Italy, but they claimed to rule over kings and emperors (read “The Failed Empire: the Medieval Origin of the European Disunion”).

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‘Obelisks’: Entirely New Class of Life Has Been Found in The Human Digestive System

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Peering into the jungle of microbes that live within us, researchers have stumbled across what seem to be an entire new class of virus-like objects.

“It’s insane,” says University of North Carolina cell biologist Mark Peifer, who was not involved in the study, told Elizabeth Pennisi at Science Magazine. “The more we look, the more crazy things we see.”

These mysterious bits of genetic material have no detectable sequences or even structural similarities known to any other biological agents.

So Stanford University biologist Ivan Zheludev and colleagues argue their strange discovery may not be viruses at all, but instead an entirely new group of entities that may help bridge the ancient gap between the simplest genetic molecules and more complex viruses.

“Obelisks comprise a class of diverse RNAs that have colonized, and gone unnoticed in, human, and global microbiomes,” the researchers write in a preprint paper.

Named after the highly-symmetrical, rod-like structures formed by its twisted lengths of RNA, the Obelisks’ genetic sequences are only around 1,000 characters (nucleotides) in size. In fact, this brevity is likely one of the reasons we’ve failed to notice them previously.

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