Sunday, March 30, 2014

Zionism was a product of the era of European imperialism and colonization and has never outgrown colonialism, still believing that natives can be eradicated and a pure settler created. Idea of compromise, adaptation is something that Zionism doesn't understand from it's own part, it demands the region to adapt to Israel but refuses to entertain the thought of adaptation on it's own part.

The more critical the world becomes towards the Israel, the more fanatically it embraces the idea of a pure settler state. Thus it is doomed, no matter the number of "Western" politicians that still make the pilgrimage to kneel before Netanyahu. Those pilgrimages will soon come to an end.

Wednesday, March 12, 2014

Comment to http://dienekes.blogspot.fi/2014/03/dark-pigmentation-of-eneolithic-and.html:

Later steppe groups tended to be heterogenous to differing degrees, so I don't think that we should assume that Scythians were necessarily much different. Culture and political organization might well have been more important than shared genealogical background - which could always be invented, as is common with nomads and semi-nomads when the need arises to form larger groups and connections between groups.

When it comes to Greek claims, we have to remember that they were basically using stereotypes to separate different people (in the manner of Berbers have red hair and blue eyes) and would have taken the more extreme examples as the basis of that stereotype. So, we can assume that there would have been pretty light-skinned - to the eyes of the Greeks - Scythians, but we should not hastily assume that light-skin was  the norm. It would have just been more common than Greeks would have been used to.

Sunday, March 02, 2014

I'm surprised how calm and indifferent so many people are. The world has not been so close to a superpower conflict since 1962 and as this can really end only with either Putin or the "Western" bloc losing it's face, this is an extremely dangerous moment for entire humanity...
I wonder if most people were as calm and gave as little notice to the events during the Cuban missile crisis in 1962? Even the pessimists expect this to be just a little bigger version of the Georgia-Russia War, but what if Russia goes beyond Crimea, what if the so-called "West" doesn't stay in the sidelines as Putin seems to expect?