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Alt origins of Proto-Indo-Europeans

Columbus was genocidal Spanish Jew

An Inglorious Columbus (Vining)

The 500-year-old mystery surrounding the final resting place of Christopher Columbus [slavedriver, rapist, genocidal imperialist Cristobal Colon] has been solved by scientists using DNA analysis.

After two decades of research, the team was able to "absolutely confirm" that the human remains found in the Cathedral of Seville, Spain, are those of the famed explorer who died in 1506.

Today, traveling to the same Caribbean islands can be tricky, as anyone caught with contraband can face serious repercussions.

I was taught Colon was a heroic Italian

The researchers have been comparing the DNA samples with those of relatives and descendants for the past 20 years.
A search for Columbus' remains was initiated after his body was moved multiple times following his death, with some experts believing he was buried in the Dominican Republic.

"Today it has been possible to verify it with new technologies, so that the previous partial theory that the remains of Seville belong to Christopher Columbus has been definitively confirmed," said Miguel Lorente, a forensic scientist who led the investigation, on Thursday.

While many experts have long believed that Columbus' remains were inside the cathedral's tomb, it wasn't until 2003 that Lorente and historian Marcial Castro were granted permission to open it and discover the previously unidentified bones within.

DNA technology could not accurately provide results by "reading" a tiny bit of genetic material at the time. The remains of Christopher Columbus's brother Diego and son Hernando, who are also buried at Seville Cathedral, were used by researchers for comparison.

Columbus DNA: The genuine origin program will reveal the researchers' findings © Getty

Columbus's nationality has long been debated in the scientific community, with some suggesting he was Italian.

However, advances in DNA research may finally provide a definitive answer. While some theories propose that Columbus was born in Poland or Spain, others firmly believe he hailed from Genoa.

Some theories suggest that the famed explorer could have been Scottish, Catalan, or Jewish.

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The findings of this research will be revealed in the "Columbus DNA: The Genuine Origin'" program, set to air on Saturday, Saturday, on Spain's national broadcaster, TVE.

While not revealing the results, Lorente confirmed to reporters that the research supports previous theories that the remains in Seville indeed belong to Christopher Columbus.

According to some experts, Columbus was buried in the Dominican Republic. © Getty

The tomb of Christopher Columbus at the Cathedral of Seville © Getty

Despite numerous challenges, particularly the sheer volume of data, Lorente expressed confidence in the research, stating that "the outcome is almost absolutely reliable."

Setting sail from the Spanish port of Palos ["Sticks"] on August 3, 1492, Columbus and his crew of approximately 100 men embarked on a journey in search of the fabled wealth of Asia.

With three ships -- the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria ["the Girl, "the Pint," and "the St. Mary"] -- they ventured far from their intended destination to the other side of the world.

On October 12, 1492, they made landfall [not on mainland America but] in what is now known as the Bahamas. Later that month, Columbus stumbled upon Cuba, erroneously believing it to be mainland China.

Was Columbus Jewish? And does it matter?

(Religion News Service, RNS) — Just in time for Columbus Day, reports emerged on Monday (Oct. 14, 2024) that DNA analysis has revealed that Columbus was a Sephardic Jew.

• Sephardic Jews (Hebrew יְהוּדֵי סְפָרַד‎, Romanized Yehudei Sfarad, translation "Jews of Spain"), where Sephard is "Spain." These are the Sephardim and Iberian Peninsular Jews, the Jewish diaspora in the Iberian Peninsula (Spain and Portugal). The term, which is derived from the Hebrew Sepharad (lit. "Spain"), can also refer to the Jews of the Middle East and North Africa, who were also heavily influenced by Sephardic law and customs. Many Iberian Jews sought refuge in communities, resulting in ethnic and cultural integration over the centuries, now living in Israel (Wiki).

Rumors of this have been floating around the Jewish world for a long time — long enough for all to wonder: Is it true? The definitive essay on the subject comes from Jonathan Sarna of Brandeis University, the preeminent scholar of American Jewish history.

It appeared in Commentary magazine in 1992, marking the 500th anniversary of Columbus’ “discovery” of America.

How did Jewish “Columbus-mania” start?

In 1892, to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Columbus’ voyage, the American Jewish merchant Lazarus Straus and his diplomat son, Oscar Solomon Straus of the elite German-Jewish “Our Crowd,” commissioned Rabbi Meyer (Moritz) Kayserling to research the topic of Columbus’ alleged Jewish identity.

The resultant book was Christopher Columbus and the Participation of the Jews in the Spanish and Portuguese Discoveries.

Was Columbus Jewish? And does it matter?

Was Columbus Jewish? [Yes, researchers say they now have definitive DNA evidence.] And does it matter? [Well, inserting a race religion ethnic group loose cultural identity into the mythical story of America is important to control that country and use it to take over a chunk of the geopolitical Middle East.]

Let us put this effort into its proper historical context. Like many of their Jewish contemporaries, the Strauses wanted Jews to assimilate into American life.

What better way to do so than to show the supposedly unbreakable bond between Jews and the very origins of the American experience?

• VIDEO: Local fraternal organization celebrates Columbus Day (Harrisburg)

Not only that. Oscar Straus believed that if it could be historically proved that Jews had taken an active part in the discovery of America, “this fact would be an answer for all time to come to anti-Semitic tendencies in this country,” Kayserling wrote.

The research behind the claim turned out to be interesting. Kayserling documented that Columbus had significant connections with Jews or recent forced converts from Judaism (conversos), who had supplied him with [expensive] maps, astronomical tables, and nautical instruments.

Some championed his cause before the Spanish crown. Some, such as the convert Luis de Santangel, even supported Columbus’ journey financially.

Four men “of Jewish stock” were found to have accompanied Columbus to the New World (actually, only one of them — interpreter Luis de Torres, who had converted [out of Judaism and in] to Christianity not long before — was of certain Jewish descent).

But was Columbus himself Jewish? [The evidence used to be] circumstantial]. His birth name, Colon, was a common Sephardic Jewish name, but there were [also] non-Jews with the same name.

Columbus also had a mysterious triangular signature, which some have dubiously called a key to his Jewish identity.

The family was in the weaving business, which was frequently associated with Jews, and like many Spanish conversos, Columbus and his family were highly secretive, taking great pains to conceal their background, suggesting that they had something to hide.

But these claims are inconclusive, as are the facts that Columbus associated with Jews and even left a small legacy to a Jew, knew Jewish mystical sources, and occasionally linked his experiences to events in ancient Jewish history.

There was one big Jewish link in Columbus’ life. He had an illicit relationship with Beatrice Enriquez, the mother of his son Ferdinand and, in his biographer Salvador de Madariaga’s view, herself a secret Jew.

As for the DNA testing: In my humble opinion, meh. [So what if he's a Jew? What does that matter? Who cares if he committed genocide and raped Indians? He could have done that as a European or a swarthy Spaniard, not because he was a Jew.]

It proves some Jewish genetic [descent and] presence, but that would not be unusual. [And so what if he was?] There is Jewish DNA all over the place.

[We get around; we're very lusty sometimes, especially as sailors in olden times, not today, except for Epstein, and Weinstein, and others in Hollywood and the financial industry, but that's a total coincidence not because we feel entitled.] More than that: If Columbus was indeed a Jew, it would be a substantial lack of Jewish mazal for this to suddenly see the light of day — again.

Because Columbus has not been a hero for quite some time. More than 30 years ago, Sarna wrote: In Was the Discoverer of America Jewish?, a writer in Moment magazine reminds his readers that Columbus’s discovery was “disastrous” for the Native American population, leading to millions of deaths, and that, in addition, the explorer introduced into the New World the scourge of slavery.

“Do we really want to claim Columbus?,” Moment’s editors ask. And Judith Laikin Elkin, writing in Hadassah, has made a similar point:

The search for Jewish ancestry for Columbus is particularly untimely now, when Native Americans are drawing our attention to the genocide that paved the way for the creation of our New World. So we might ask: Why now? Why the sudden resurgence of Jewish Columbus-mania? [Is it because science made a breakthrough or because of our current genocide in Palestine, Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Egypt, and soon in Iran and Saudi Arabia?]

When it comes to historical figures, Columbus is not the only would-be-maybe Jew. There had been some speculation that Abraham Lincoln had Jewish ancestry [and he was against slavery, unlike Columbus who was all for slavery and raping the slaves and killing them to keep them in line].

In my mind, it goes back to the phenomenon that I call “Jew-collecting.” It is the habit of seeing someone famous and seeking to confirm that person’s Jewish identity: “Hey, did you know that X is Jewish?”

It is also the need to see those people publicly affirming that identity (e.g., Jerry Seinfeld’s activism for Israel after Oct. 7), especially when we see so many Jewish celebrities remaining silent.

• How to make Jerry Seinfeld cry (religionnews.com)

But there is something deeper going on. This is not about the alleged [science be damned] Jewish identity of Christopher Columbus. This is about the real identity of American Jews. Let us go back to the original impetus and inspiration for the “Jewish Columbus” thing.

...[We're] victims of social antisemitism. The new Jewish “Columbus mania,” the feverish enthusiasm at identifying the great explorer as an M.O.T. (Member Of the Tribe) is a vestige of Jewish ethnic fervor.

It will resonate much more with Jews over 60 than with Jews under 40, who are likely to yawn at the idea of a Jewish Columbus. (They will have never known the old Yiddish epithet, uttered by immigrants who were disappointed at their lack of success in their new land: “A klug tsu Columbus” —  “a curse on Columbus.”

That disappointment with what America had taken from the Jews, 65 years ago, became transformed into Philip Roth’s classic novella, Goodbye Columbus.) But let us understand the timing of this new announcement regarding Columbus.

Yes, [it's] in time for Columbus Day. And yes, [it's] Yom Kippur. And, most certainly, in the week after the one-year anniversary of Oct. 7 [and the start of our genocide on Palestinians], and its accompanying tsunami of antisemitism. More

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Top Cop Canadian Kamala harms Blacks

Why are they in public service other than to selflessly serve the people [word salads]?

Her Marxist father rejects her.

(The Jimmy Dore Show) July 24, 2024: Don Lemon: “Kamala [may be Jamaican but she] is NOT African-American!” with Nick Cruse. She may be Black (half Jamaican by her absent father) but she was raised in Canada by East Indians, is rejected by her father whom she hates and therefore took it out on Black men as a prosecutor. If it weren't for prostituting herself to Willie Brown as a young political hopeful, she'd have no connection to Blacks at all, other than prosecuting them, enslaving them (by keeping them imprisoned beyond their sentences until she was twice sued to stop it, which is when her office explained that the county they prosecuted people for needed their labor), and seizing their assets through destructive asset forfeiture statutes that were overzealously used on them.

Back when he was still on CNN, Don Lemon took issue with then-California [raised in Canada like Jewish rapper Aubrey "Drake" Graham] Senator Kamala Harris describing herself as “African-American.”

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Van Jones lies for Kamala

No way to Camel Joe

Attorney General and self-proclaimed "Top Cop" Harris is legitimately Black, Lemon argued, but she is descended from Jamaican [slave dealers] and not American Blacks, who themselves experienced chattel slavery [that made them "property"] and Jim Crow abuses in the US.

Jimmy Dore and Revolutionary Blackout Network Host Nick Cruse discuss Kamala Harris’ crimes against the Black community, Black men (whom she imprisoned and illegally kept in prison beyond their sentences).

Her complicated ethnicity is easy to explain. It is astonishingly at odds from how she has portrayed herself, depending on circumstances and political exigencies.

Kamala: What is Juneteenth? It's June and teen.

She bragged about being the first Indian-American person elected to the Senate, not the first Black American.

#Traitor #Hypocrite #FriendofNetanyahu #AIPACsupporter #WifeAndMotherofJewishFamily #TheJimmyDoreShow

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Genocide Joe Biden DROPS OUT of race

Joe's out, and I'm in, B*tch! Blacks and all y'all better start getting with this Jamaican-Indian.

• Here are 8 choices better than Kamala Harris to replace Biden as 2024 Democratic nominee (The Washington Post)

Joe Biden drops out of 2024 race, with his exist coming amid growing pressure from top Democrats

I'm Top Cop: I'm a prosecutor and a conservative

Congressional Democrats weigh in on Joe Biden's status prior to closed-door meeting

WASHINGTON − President Joe Biden said he is ending his bid for reelection amid intense pressure from Democratic leaders sounding the alarm that his path to beat Ex-Pres. Donald Trump in November has vanished.

Yeah, get out of here, Old Man. Make way!

The president's historic withdrawal throws the 2024 race − already roiled by a shocking attempt on Trump's life − into uncertain territory, with VP Kamala Harris seen as the Democrat best placed to take Biden's place atop the party's ticket.

LIVE: Right wing Megyn Kelly mocks Biden and rips Kamala a new one

Kackling Kamala Kan't win

Biden did not immediately endorse a successor. Biden made the announcement Sunday from his home in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, where he's self-isolated since testing positive for COVID-19 Thursday night.

It marks an extraordinary turn for Biden, who for three weeks remained defiant in the face of growing calls from Democratic lawmakers that he withdraw after a disastrous June 27 debate with Trump raised scrutiny over the president's mental fitness.

Biden's exit came after he received bleak warnings from Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Democratic House Leader Hakeem Jeffries that his candidacy could lead to massive losses for Democrats in the Senate and House.

Does anyone dare to challenge Pres. Harris?

Kamala's not even Black but says she is (rense.com).

More than 30 congressional Democrats called for Biden to bow out, and former Pres. Barack Obama reportedly relayed similar fears to Democratic allies about Biden's prospects of beating Trump.

Democratic donors from Hollywood to Wall Street also came out against Biden continuing his reelection bid. The decision upends the 2024 election less than 110 days before Election Day, with Democratic National Committee members now tasked with choosing an alternative nominee to take on Trump, whose polling lead has swelled while Democrats have fought internally.

VP Harris is now the frontrunner to replace Biden as the Democratic nominee, but the party's bench of Democratic governors could also be in the mix including Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan, Jewish Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania, and [robotic liar and transparent phony] Gavin Newsom of California.

• Kamala Harris is Asian and Black [enough]. That shouldn't be confusing in 2020 — but it is to some (nbcnews.com)
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• Kamala Harris: I'm Black, The VP (whitehouse.gov)
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Kamala Harris banged Willie Brown (Branco)

Biden becomes the first incumbent president not to seek reelection since Lyndon B. Johnson who, in 1968 amid national unrest and turmoil within the Democratic Party over the Vietnam War, stunned the nation with his decision not to seek a second full term.

Genocide Joe, 81, has battled Americans’ concerns over his age since he took office, but it turned into panic for Democrats after last month's first debate with Trump, the Republican nominee.

So many body-doubles, all of them stupid

Biden's voice sounded faint, he struggled to complete sentences and finish thoughts, and he failed to rebut many of Trump's claims on the debate stage.

Biden's campaign was in a free fall over the past few weeks with his future in doubt. Instead of focusing solely on Trump, Democrats spent as much time and energy debating whether Biden could even defeat his predecessor.

Joe Biden always suffered from foot in mouth disease, now with senility

Fundraising for the Biden campaign took a dramatic hit. And Biden not only fell behind in key battleground states that will decide the election, but his growing unpopularity seemed to put recent Democratic strongholds like Virginia in play for Trump.

Biden's departure will soon mean the end of a five-decade career in Washington that began in 1972 with an upset victory for U.S. Senate in Delaware.

He served as a senator for 36 years, then as B.S. Obama's vice president from 2009 to 2017. Biden returned to public life to run against Trump in the 2020 presidential election, beating Trump 51%-47% in the popular vote.

This is a breaking story. Check back for updates. This MSN article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Joe Biden drops out of 2024 race, exit comes amid growing pressure from top Dems

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The super train that can save Mexico (video)

Top Luxury, 2/17/24; Crystal Quintero, CC Liu, Pfc. Sandoval (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Cuba's grown to be larger than Florida (Mandela Effect or geopolitical map making?)

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Mexico’s $4.5 billion Panama Canal rival

Can commerce remake economy?

(Top Luxury) The Panama Canal has powered global trade for over 100 years. There's no better way to transport goods from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific — but maybe, that's about to change.

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Mexico is about to open a new project: the Interoceanic Corridor of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. But what is this thing? And will it replace the Panama Canal?

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Look at the size of North America, up from Mexico to Canada, Alaska, and the Bering Straits.

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Photos from Epstein's Island (video)

A trip to Yucatan, Mexico, right next to US

World Wild Hearts, Aug. 12, 2021; Eds., Wisdom Quarterly

Best of the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico | Top 10 Destinations

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• 6:39 Akumal
• 8:00 Chichen Itza
• 9:14 Tulum
• 10:40 Valladolid
• 12:34 Isla Holbox
• 13:47 Outro

WWH spent about two months visiting in the spring of 2021 and explored all the region has to offer. This video is about ten different destinations located in the states of Quintana Roo and Yucatan.

These destinations offer a good mix of culture, beaches, and adventure. The best 10 destinations are ranked in terms of being personal favorites. It will help in planning a trip. #bestofyucatan #mexico #bestplacestovisit

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The underground wonders of craters

Mexico has moved up and is now part of North America -- as we approach NAMU (the North American Monetary Union when the US blends with Mexico and Canada under the Amero to compete with the EU -- which is not the way it has always been.

Elitists, being somewhat racist, knew it wasn't South America and not quite Central America, but could not possibly be white North America, so they invented the intermediary name "Mesoamerica."

Before Mexico, there was Fusang

It's a wonder San Diego and Los Angeles made it into El Norte, North America. When Central Americans head to Mexico, they say they are going to El Norte, "The North," just as we in the U.S. say we're heading north when traveling to Canada or the Arctic Circle.

• Pale Ink: Two Ancient Records of Chinese Exploration in America (Henriette Mertz)
• Who is bigger, the US or EU (America or Europe)?

What does Buddhism have to do with Mexico?

How the Swans Came to Lake

A modern classic unparalleled in scope, this sweeping history of the Americas unfolds the story of Buddhism’s spread to the West.

How the Swans Came to the Lake opens with the story of Asian Buddhism, including the life of the historical Buddha and the spread of his Teachings (the Dharma) from proto-India to Southeast Asia, China, Korea, Japan, Tibet, and elsewhere.

Coming to the modern era, the book tracks how Western colonialism in Asia served as the catalyst for the first large-scale interactions between Buddhists and Westerners.

Buddhists discovered America?

American author Rick Fields discusses the development of Buddhism in the West through key moments such as Transcendentalist fascination with Eastern religions; immigration of Chinese and Japanese people to the United States; the writings of D. T. Suzuki, British Californian Alan Watts, and members of the Beat movement; the publication of Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind by Shunryu Suzuki; the arrival of Tibetan lamas in America and Europe; and the influence of Western feminist and social justice movements on Buddhist practice.

This 40th anniversary edition features both new and enhanced photographs as well as a new introduction by Fields’s nephew, Buddhist Studies scholar Benjamin Bogin, who reflects on the impact of this book since its initial publication and addresses the significant changes in Western Buddhist practice in recent decades.

In 1885 American historian Edward Payson Vining laid out all the evidence.

What is this tourist treasure?

Wisdom Quarterly Wiki edit

It's closer to California than sunny Florida

The Yucatán (\you-kuh-tan\) is a large peninsula in southeast Mexico and adjacent portions of Belize and Guatemala. It extends towards the northeast, separating the Gulf of Mexico to the north and west of the peninsula from the Caribbean Sea to the east.

The Yucatán Channel, between the northeastern corner of the peninsula and Cuba, connects the two bodies of water. The peninsula is approximately 70,000 square miles (181,000 km2) in area.

Hidden wonders from Mexico to Missouri

It has low relief and is almost entirely composed of porous limestone [5, 6].  The peninsula lies east of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, the narrowest point in Mexico separating the Atlantic Ocean, including the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea, from the Pacific Ocean.

Some consider the isthmus to be the geographic boundary between Central America and the rest of North America, placing the peninsula in Central America [5].

Politically, however, ALL of Mexico, including the Yucatán, is considered part of North America, while Guatemala and Belize are considered part of Central America.