CIA wants to run Venezuela's drug trade

(The Kim Iversen Show)

Gen Z uprising goes worldwide?

Gen Z protests: this is just the beginning

How One Piece Is Shaping A Generation of Protests

(DemocracyNow.org) U.S. and World Headlines, Oct. 9, 2025

5 days in Israel's desert prison: Jewish flotilla activist David Adler on ordeal

(Middle East Eye) Prof. Grande on Israel losing Generation Z

Germans=Vikings=Iranians='Aryans'?

How did Vikings cause the Crusades and get to Persia?

The northern European wasteland (Lapland) of Scandinavia, the least desirable piece of Europe, was originally populated by Germans (a.k.a. the native Samis), who as Vikings ("Pirates") did what they could with it until they reached maximum success by domesticating cows and killing fish? So they left to trade, raid, and invade others to prosper. Hearing their sagas say they were originally from Kerman, Iran, they traveled the Volga River, visited, and found an advanced Persian/Arabian culture they wanted to imitate? These were the "Aryans" (Iranians) the Germans thought they should be or were meant to be or originally were? So they returned and made Scandinavia and the best place to live and nearby Germany (Kermany) the Aryan (Iranian) capital (because the Nazis found this story appealing)?

• VIDEO: Melting Norwegian ice uncovers a treasure trove of Viking artifacts
• Who are the Iranian peoples, a bunch of Indo-Europeans?
• People who dislike Nazis are just being anti-Hamitic??

George Carlin rationalizes stuff. No one invades?

Bad Spanish: It would be Una gente en Dios not in

German history

The City of Kerman (which gives us the word "German") was founded as a defensive outpost, with the name Veh-Ardashir, by Ardashir I, founder of the Sasanian Empire, in the 3rd century AD [8].

After the Battle of Nahāvand in 642, the city came under Muslim rule. At first, the city's relative isolation allowed Kharijites and Zoroastrians to thrive there, but the Kharijites were wiped out in 698, and the population was mostly Muslim by 725.

Already in the eighth century the city was famous for its manufacture of cashmere wool shawls and other textiles. The Abbasid Caliphate's authority over the region was weak, and power passed in the tenth century to the Buyid emirs.

We've come to kill and rape this this culture, but don't

call us "invaders" because no one is "native" anywhere

The region and city fell to Mahmud of Ghazni in the late tenth century. The name Kerman was adopted at some point in the tenth century [9].

Under the rule of the Seljuk Turks in the 11th and 12th centuries, Kerman remained virtually independent, conquering Oman and Fars [10].

When Marco Polo visited Kerman in 1271, it had become a major trade emporium linking the Persian Gulf with Khorasan and Central Asia [11].

Subsequently, however, the city was sacked many times by various invaders. Kerman expanded rapidly during the Safavid dynasty. Carpets and rugs were exported to England and Germany [Anglo-Saxons loved rugs?] during this period [12]. More

•  See also: Timeline of Kerman

Black American Ohioan is better than Aryans?

• History professors spins a narrative; Eds. react, Wisdom Quarterly

Vikings had welfare and other odd history

MSN.com, Oct. 28, 2023; Pat Macpherson, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom  Quarterly

1. Vikings had a welfare program taking care of one another, unlike Republicans or the Ayn Rand Society would do for them but quite like DINOs or actual Democrats or Greens or Socialists or even Communists would do for them.
2. Persian Empire had air conditioning
3. Ancient Rome wasn't "white"
4. Ancient Greece wasn't all about reason
5. Neanderthals used plant medicines
6. Native Americans figured out the Enlightenment before it was cool
7. Christians weren't thrown to the lions in the Colosseum
8. Eskimos (Innuits) had sunglasses
9. Ancient Greeks had alarm clocks
10. The past isn't what is used to be:

• 10 ways the ancient world was different than we imagine

They 'll say you guys fought all the time, but will they know how we loved one another?

White US slaves in 1788? (Christopher Hitchins)

Pfc. Sandoval, Sheldon S., CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly OPINION

Yeah, I like what West Point teaches.

When George H. Bush was attending West Point Military Academy, he claims he learned an alternate US history we are not taught in school, namely, that it was the U.S. running most of the pirate operations in and around the Caribbean. That is how a nation starts. We were doing it against British/English ships and corporations (like maybe the Dutch East India Company or its equivalents working on the Colonies, possessions and protectorates of the British Empire). We (North Americans it what came to be the USA) were the grand criminals. Bush with this knowledge went on to become CIA director then president of the U.S. So either it's true what West Point teaches its students, and we are being lied to in the rest of the country, or West Point teaches disinformation (purposeful lies) to its students to carry on our plunder, exploitation, and imperialism throughout the world, saying it's nothing different than what we've always done. One and a half million white European and American slaves taken by the Ottoman Empire in the century beginning 1788, Hitchens? That would be a fantastic revelation if it's not a self-serving fantasy to justify our exploitation of others and serve as a pretext told to West Point students and soldiers for our warring with and bullying of Muslim nations (Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine, Yemen, Iran, Libya, Syria, Saudi Arabia, the Middle East in general, Northern Africa as a whole which includes Israel but that is hidden on maps and in discussions, etc.) Oh, if only Hitchins were alive to ask him about it. Perhaps other historians specializing in American history, covert and overt, would opine.

Atheist Hitchens lays into secular Jews

The Isle of Man in Irish Sea is not Europe

Discover Isle of Man: Europe’s most notorious island? | 37 Fascinating Facts

(All About Europe) May 11, 2023. Discover Isle of Man: Europe’s most notorious smuggling island and 37 more fascinating facts about this island. Join in to uncover the Isle of Man and immerse in its rich culture, traditions, Manx Gaelic language, captivating history, breathtaking nature, hidden gems, way of life, rare wildlife, interesting cuisine habits, dangerous TT races, The Bee Gees (not Australians), crazy laws, the island’s stunning scenery, geography, and so much more.

This video is a passport to an unforgettable journey on the amazing Isle of Man, located in the Irish Sea between Great Britain and Ireland.

Vikings weren’t all Scandinavians: DNA

Sci.News, 9/20; GP, 5/22; Amber Larson, Pat Macpherson, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

The Northman missing diversity: Could colored Vikings ("pirates") have existed?

(Geo Perspective) Ever wondered if there were many non-white people in Viking Scandinavia? The question has been solved. There were.

Vikings weren’t all Scandinavian, ancient DNA study shows

In the popular imagination, Vikings were fearsome blonde-haired warriors from Scandinavia who used longboats to carry out raids across Europe in a brief but bloody reign of terror.

• Earliest people in Ireland were Black says science: Historian makes fascinating discovery that challenges everything we thought we knew about early humans (msn.com)

But the reality is much more complex, according to an analysis of the genomes of 442 ancient humans from archeological sites in Scandinavia, the UK, Ireland, Iceland, Greenland, Estonia, Ukraine, Poland, and other Eastern European countries.

• IMAGE: The maritime expansion of Scandinavian populations during the Viking Age was a far-flung transformation in world history. Margaryan et al sequenced the genomes of 442 humans from archaeological sites across Europe and Greenland to understand the global influence of this expansion (Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall).

The word Viking comes from the Scandinavian term vikingr meaning "pirate."

The Viking Age generally refers to the period from 800 CE, a few years after the earliest recorded raid, until the 1050s, a few years before the Norman Conquest of England in 1066.

The Vikings changed the political and genetic course of Europe and beyond:

Cnut the Great became the King of England, Leif Eriksson is believed to have been the first European to reach North America — 500 years before Christopher Columbus — and Olaf Tryggvason is credited with taking Christianity to Norway.

Many expeditions involved raiding [Christian] monasteries and cities along the coastal settlements of Europe, but the goal of trading goods like [slaughtered] fur, tusks, and seal fat were often the more pragmatic aim.

“We didn’t know genetically what they actually looked like until now,” said lead author Prof. Eske Willerslev, a researcher at the University of Cambridge and director of the University of Copenhagen’s Lundbeck Foundation GeoGenetics Centre.

“We found genetic differences between different Viking populations within Scandinavia, which shows Viking groups in the region were far more isolated than previously believed.”

“Our research even debunks the modern image of Vikings with blonde hair as many had brown hair and were influenced by genetic influx from the outside of Scandinavia.”

Prof. Willerslev and colleagues sequenced the whole genomes of 442 mostly Viking Age men, women, children, and babies.

The researchers analyzed DNA from the remains from a boat burial in Estonia and discovered four Viking brothers died the same day.

They also revealed that male skeletons from a Viking burial site in Orkney, Scotland, were not actually genetically Vikings despite being buried with swords and other Viking memorabilia.

There wasn’t a word for Scandinavia during the Viking Age — that came later. But the study shows that the Vikings from what is now Norway traveled to Ireland, Scotland, Iceland, and Greenland.

The Vikings from what is now Denmark traveled to England. And Vikings from what is now Sweden went to the Baltic countries on their all male "raiding parties."

“We carried out the largest ever DNA analysis of Viking remains to explore how they fit into the genetic picture of ancient Europeans before the Viking Age,” said first author Dr. Ashot Margaryan, a researcher in the Section for Evolutionary Genomics in the Globe Institute at the University of Copenhagen.

“The results were startling and some answer long-standing historical questions and confirm previous assumptions that lacked evidence.”

“We determined that a Viking raiding party expedition included close family members as we discovered four brothers in one boat burial in Estonia who died the same day. The rest of the occupants of the boat were genetically similar suggesting that they all likely came from a small town or village somewhere in Sweden.”

The scientists also found genetically Pictish people "became" Vikings without genetically mixing with Scandinavians.

The Picts were Celtic-speaking people who lived in what is today eastern and northern Scotland during the Late British Iron Age and Early Medieval periods.

“Scandinavian diasporas established trade and settlement stretching from the American continent to the Asian steppe,” said Prof. Søren Sindbæk, an archeologist at Moesgaard Museum.

“They exported ideas, technologies, language, beliefs, and practices and developed new socio-political structures.”

“Importantly our results show that ‘Viking’ identity was not limited to people with Scandinavian genetic ancestry.”

The genetic legacy of the Viking Age lives on today with 6% of people of the UK population predicted to have Viking DNA in their genes compared to 10% in Sweden.

“The results change the perception of who a Viking actually was. The history books will need to be updated,” Prof. Willerslev concluded.

The findings were published in the journal Nature. Source

• A. Margaryan et al. 2020. Population genomics of the Viking world. Nature 585, 390-396; doi: 10.1038/s41586-020-2688-8

Billie Eilish new music: Cloud Forest (video)

Finneas and Billie Eilish; Sheldon S., Crystal Q., CC Liu, Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Who's this hot has-been impostor trying to look like Billie with makeup and lips? (Paris Hilton)

Billie Eilish (live from Cloud Forest, Singapore)

(Billie Eilish) Sept. 21, 2022. Listen to Guitar Songs, the new album by Billie "Pirate" Eilish and producer-brother Finneas, out now (BillieEilish.lnk.to/GuitarSongs). Here are "The 30th" and "TV," both of which were released today.

Sex sells, but who's buying? Wonder why the world loves Billie. Great lungs or is it Finneas?

Don't judge me on my looks. I have body image issues. Karma's a bitch...and a blessing, too.

Pirates! It's time to learn to RAP, kids (video)

Epic Rap Battles of History, 10/13; Disney, 7/17; Crystal Q., CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

(ERB) Epic Rap Battles of History presents "Blackbeard vs. Al Capone," 10/21/13: Who won? You decide.

"It's Goin' Down," Descendants 2 (Disney)

(DisneyMusicVEVO) Disney+ is the only place to stream favorites from corporate monopolies like Disney, Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars, National Geographic, and more.

Corporate pirates raid parents' wallets.

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Anyone can do it? Ken Jeong vs. Shaq

(ERB) It's not as easy as it looks. Sometimes it's embarrassingly bad.

Like when Jack Sparrow tried to go up against Captain Hook

Craigslist Killer: "A Reallyl Nice Guy"

UPDATE: Underwear, gun found in suspect's apartment

• Craigslist CEO: People who use site for crimes will be caught

Boston University medical student Philip Markoff stands during his arraignment in Boston Municipal Court, today [4/21/09]. Markoff has been ordered held without bail on charges he fatally shot a masseuse he lured to his hotel through Craigslist (AP/Mark Garfinkel, Pool).

• Neighbor: Suspected Craigslist killer a "really nice guy"

BOSTON – Philip Markoff seemed to have a good life: The handsome, clean-cut, 23-year-old medical student was planning a lavish beachfront wedding this summer to a beautiful woman.

Slideshow: Craigslist Killing
Video: No Bail (FOX News)
Video: Suspected Craigslist killer faces judge (CBS 2 NY)

But authorities say his computer and surveillance video paint a picture of a suspected serial criminal who targeted women offering erotic services through Craigslist. Now he's accused of killing one and suspected of robbing and tying up another.

And police have said there could be more victims.

"This was a brutal, vicious crime — savage, and it shows Philip Markoff is a man who is willing to take advantage of women, to hurt them, to beat them, to rob them," District Attorney Daniel Conley said today. "He probably thought he was going to get away with it. He thought he was too smart for us." More>>

Somali child "pirate": suspect charged today