Monday, February 26, 2018

"Human Sacrifice" with Graham Hancock (from Joe Rogan Experience #417) - Brutality of Aztecs, Mayas Corroborated - Mel Gibson Was Right



A quite exciting spectacle based on a racist version of indigenous history, one in which the genocidal conquistadors are the New World's liberators.
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How can we be inspired by the spirit of Jaguar Paw when the film's telling us that people stink and the great cultures of the Americas were the architects of their own demise?

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/apocalypto/

Brutality of Aztecs, Mayas Corroborated

January 23, 2005|Mark Stevenson | Associated Press Writer
MEXICO CITY — It has long been a matter of contention: Was the Aztec and Mayan practice of human sacrifice as widespread and horrifying as the history books say? Or did the Spanish conquerors overstate it to make the Indians look primitive?
In recent years archeologists have uncovered mounting physical evidence that corroborates the Spanish accounts in substance, if not number.
Using high-tech forensic tools, archeologists are proving that pre-Hispanic sacrifices often involved children and a broad array of intentionally brutal killing methods.
For decades, many researchers believed Spanish accounts from the 16th and 17th centuries were biased to denigrate Indian cultures. Others argued that sacrifices were largely confined to captured warriors. Still others conceded the Aztecs were bloody, but believed the Maya were less so.
"We now have the physical evidence to corroborate the written and pictorial record," said archeologist Leonardo Lopez Lujan. "Some 'pro-Indian' currents had always denied this had happened. They said the texts must be lying."
The Spaniards probably did exaggerate the number of victims to justify their war against idolatry, said David Carrasco, a Harvard Divinity School expert on Mesoamerican religion.
But there is less doubt about the nature of the killings. Indian pictorial texts known as "codices," as well as Spanish accounts of the time, quote Indians as describing multiple forms of brutal human sacrifice.
Victims had their hearts cut out or were decapitated, shot full of arrows, clawed, sliced, stoned, crushed, skinned, buried alive or tossed from the tops of temples.
Children were said to be frequent victims, in part because they were considered pure and unspoiled.
"Many people said, 'We can't trust these codices because the Spaniards were describing all these horrible things,' which in the long run we are confirming," said Carmen Pijoan, a forensic anthropologist who found some of the first direct evidence of cannibalism in a pre-Aztec culture more than a decade ago: bones with butcher-like cut marks.
In December, at an excavation in an Aztec-era community in Ecatepec, just north of Mexico City, archeologist Nadia Velez Saldana described finding evidence of human sacrifice associated with the god of death.
"The sacrifice involved burning or partially burning victims," Velez Saldana said. "We found a burial pit with the skeletal remains of four children who were partially burned, and the remains of four other children that were completely carbonized."
Although the remains don't show whether the victims were burned alive, there are depictions of people -- apparently alive -- being held down as they were burned.
The dig turned up other clues to support descriptions of sacrifices in the Magliabecchi codex, a pictorial account painted between 1600 and 1650 that includes human body parts stuffed into cooking dishes, and people sitting around eating, as the god of death looks on.
"We have found cooking dishes just like that," said archeologist Luis Manuel Gamboa. "And, next to some full skeletons, we found some incomplete, segmented human bones." Researchers don't know if those remains were cannibalized.
In 2002, government archeologist Juan Alberto Roman Berrelleza announced the results of forensic testing on the bones of 42 children, mostly boys around age 6, sacrificed at Mexico City's Templo Mayor, the Aztecs' main religious site, during a drought.
All shared one feature: serious cavities, abscesses or bone infections painful enough to make them cry.
"It was considered a good omen if they cried a lot at the time of sacrifice," which was probably done by slitting their throats, Roman Berrelleza said.
The Maya, whose culture peaked farther east about 400 years before the Aztecs founded Mexico City in 1325, had a similar taste for sacrifice, Harvard University anthropologist David Stuart wrote in a 2003 article.
In the late 19th and early 20th century, "The first researchers tried to make a distinction between the 'peaceful' Maya and the 'brutal' cultures of central Mexico," Stuart wrote. "They even tried to say human sacrifice was rare among the Maya."
But in carvings and mural paintings, he said, "we have now found more and greater similarities between the Aztecs and Mayas," including a Maya ceremony in which a costumed priest is shown pulling the entrails from a bound and apparently living sacrificial victim.
Some Spanish-era texts have yet to be corroborated with physical remains. They describe Aztec priests sacrificing children and adults by sealing them in caves or drowning them. But the assumption now is that the texts appear trustworthy, said Lopez Lujan, who also works at the Templo Mayor site.
For Lopez Lujan, confirmation has come in the form of advanced chemical tests on the stucco floors of Aztec temples, which were found to have been soaked with iron, albumen and genetic material consistent with human blood.
"It's now a question of quantity," said Lopez Lujan, who thinks the Spaniards -- and Indian picture-book scribes working under their control -- exaggerated the number of sacrifice victims, claiming in one case that 80,400 people were sacrificed at a temple inauguration in 1487.
"We're not finding anywhere near that ... even if we added some zeros," Lopez Lujan said.
Researchers have largely discarded the old theory that sacrifice and cannibalism were motivated by a protein shortage in the Aztec diet, although some still believe it may have been a method of population control.
Pre-Hispanic cultures believed the world would end if the sacrifices were not performed. Sacrificial victims, meanwhile, were often treated as gods before being killed.
"It is really very difficult for us to conceive," Pijoan said of the sacrifices. "It was almost an honor for them."

Ben Shapiro Gives OUTSTANDING Speech @ CPAC 2018, Gets a Standing Ovation



Ben Shapiro Gives OUTSTANDING Speech @ CPAC 2018, Gets a Standing Ovation

DEMOCRATIC FISA MEMO RELEASED. STEELE DOSSIER LACKS EVIDENCE OF TRUMP RUSSIA COLLUSION - 7 DECEPTIONS INSIDE DEMS’ REBUTTAL MEMO - DEVIN NUNES: DEM MEMO PROVES INTEL ABUSE OCCURRED



HA Goodman destroys the Democrat rebuttal memo the FISA memo and Russian Dossier scandal. Allegations are not proof/evidence. There's no evidence of any Trump-Russia connections while there is the continuing cover-up of Hillary Clinton's crimes.

The video below specifically addresses the Democrat memo that supposedly "rebuts" the claims that FISA memo process was corrupted via false information (Russian Dossier/Russian Hackers etc). There is no evidence of any Trump collusion or significant interference in the election:

DEM MEMO RELEASED BY ADAM SCHIFF. DEFENDS FBI STRZOK PAGE AND DOJ BRUCE OHR


[Posted at the SpookyWeather blog, February 26th, 2018.]

Related:

7 DECEPTIONS INSIDE DEMS’ REBUTTAL MEMO

Contains misleading claims, omits key details, proves FBI/DoJ used FISA memo to obtain warrant on Trump associate


NEW YORK — Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee on Saturday released a purported rebuttal to a four-page House Republican memo from earlier this month that alleges abuse of surveillance authority on the part of Obama-era federal agencies.
The Democratic rebuttal contains misleading claims, omits key details, and, perhaps unintentionally, actually proves the FBI and Department of Justice utilized the infamous, largely discredited 35-page anti-Trump dossier to obtain a FISA court warrant to monitor an individual formerly associated with Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign.
Here are seven key problems with the claims made inside the Democrats’ rebuttal memo.
1 – The House Democratic rebuttal opens with a seemingly deceptive statement that Steele’s dossier “did not inform” the FBI’s decision to start its investigation into Trump’s campaign in late July.

DEVIN NUNES: DEM MEMO PROVES INTEL ABUSE OCCURRED

Dems advocating it’s okay for FBI and DoJ to use political dirt paid for by one campaign to use against other campaign, he says


Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) said on Saturday that a Democratic rebuttal to a GOP memo released earlier this month alleging abuses by the FBI and Justice Department will not affect the substance of the document.
“What you’re not going to see is anything that actually rejects what was actually in our memo,” Nunes, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, said at the Conservative Political Action Conference.
The first memo, released by Republicans on the Intelligence Committee, accused FBI and Justice Department officials of abusing their authority to obtain a surveillance warrant against a former Trump campaign adviser.

PARKLAND DAD RIPS MSM FOR FOCUS ON GUN CONTROL INSTEAD OF SCHOOL SAFETY - MLB LEGEND UNDER FIRE FOR QUESTIONING PARKLAND SHOOTING NARRATIVE - DANA LOESCH BLASTS MSM: FOCUS ON COWARD OFFICERS, NOT 5 MILLION GUN OWNERS

‘You’re talking about gun control, which is going to just give you more ratings,’ he says


Andrew Pollack, the father of Meadow Pollack who was killed during the Parkland, Fla., high school shooting, ripped into the media for its fixation on gun control rather than discussing policies that specifically address school safety.
“It’s not going to be fixed because I just heard what you said, what you are focusing on, polarizing this event, the murder of these kids. You’re talking about gun control,” Pollack told Chris Wallace on “Fox News Sunday.”
“You’re just talking about gun control, which is going to just give you more ratings,” he continued.

May be denied entry into Hall of Fame over tweet


Former MLB pitcher Curt Schilling drew criticism Saturday when he suggested anti-gun activist and Marjory Stoneman Douglas student David Hogg was not a student of the school in a tweet.
“Anyone?” he tweeted with an attached picture of Hogg in a yearbook photo he alleged was the Redondo Shores High School Class of 2015, suggesting Hogg may be an actor and not a Stoneman Douglas student.
Although that particular graphic isn’t accurate, as the yearbook photo shows a student wearing a Stoneman Douglas Eagles shirt two rows above Hogg, there is still questionable circumstances surrounding the Parkland shooting and aftermath.
For example, consider Hogg’s strange interview with fellow students in a closet as the shooting is happening, or possibly 4 hours before!
Additionally, separate video also surfaced showing Hogg flubbing rehearsed lines during a news interview after the shooting, as well as video of a female student describing a second shooter.
Schilling himself is no stranger to controversy.
In 2016, ESPN booted the former pitcher from the network after he tweeted an anti-transgender meme on his Facebook page.
And in 2015, he was suspended for a month and ultimately removed from his spot on Sunday Night Baseball after posting on Twitter comparing radical Muslims to Nazis.
YouTube has already taken steps to delete several Infowars videos that question the shooting and Hogg, claiming they violate its terms and conditions because it claims the videos are “bullying.”
Given the mainstream media’s and YouTube’s sensitivity to the subject, it may not come as a shock that Schilling may be denied entry to the MLB Hall of Fame simply for expressing views that counter the official narrative.



Spars with George Stephanopoulos over Sheriff Israel and media’s anti-gun coverage


While Sheriff Israel was getting grilled by Jake Tapper this morning on CNN, Dana Loesch was being interviewed by George Stephanopoulos and HOLY MOLY, this woman is tough as nails.


NRA spokesperson @DLoesch on the missed signals for the Florida school shooter: “I wish that as much attention were given to the Broward County Sheriff and their abdication of duty as trying to blame five million innocent, law-abiding gun owners all across the country.”
You can tell watching this video that Dana has had enough of this bullsh*t, and this morning listening to Sheriff Israel babble about how he doesn’t really know what happened yet and that he’s some great leader … he even made some idiotic joke about OJ?
The jig is up, dude.



Related:

The Second Amendment Is Not a Conservative Issue - Addressing Gun Violence at Schools Is Not a Political Issue: It's a Common Sense One - MEDIA MOMENT BLOWN. GAME OVER. Antigun Alt-Left Deep State Shills Blow Up: Trump Pivots Brilliantly - Parkland Shooting Survivor: CNN Gave Me "Scripted Question" After Denying Question About Armed Guard - CNN TOWN HALL FAKE NEWS!:

http://trumpisright.blogspot.com/2018/02/the-second-amendment-is-not.html

DEMOCRATIC FISA MEMO RELEASED. STEELE DOSSIER LACKS EVIDENCE OF TRUMP RUSSIA COLLUSION



HA Goodman destroys the Democrat rebuttal memo the FISA memo and Russian Dossier scandal. Allegations are not proof/evidence. There's no evidence of any Trump-Russia connections while there is the continuing cover-up of Hillary Clinton's crimes.

The video below specifically addresses the Democrat memo that supposedly "rebuts" the claims that FISA memo process was corrupted via false information (Russian Dossier/Russian Hackers etc). There is no evidence of any Trump collusion or significant interference in the election:

DEM MEMO RELEASED BY ADAM SCHIFF. DEFENDS FBI STRZOK PAGE AND DOJ BRUCE OHR


[Posted at the SpookyWeather blog, February 26th, 2018.]

Related:

7 DECEPTIONS INSIDE DEMS’ REBUTTAL MEMO

Contains misleading claims, omits key details, proves FBI/DoJ used FISA memo to obtain warrant on Trump associate


NEW YORK — Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee on Saturday released a purported rebuttal to a four-page House Republican memo from earlier this month that alleges abuse of surveillance authority on the part of Obama-era federal agencies.
The Democratic rebuttal contains misleading claims, omits key details, and, perhaps unintentionally, actually proves the FBI and Department of Justice utilized the infamous, largely discredited 35-page anti-Trump dossier to obtain a FISA court warrant to monitor an individual formerly associated with Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign.
Here are seven key problems with the claims made inside the Democrats’ rebuttal memo.
1 – The House Democratic rebuttal opens with a seemingly deceptive statement that Steele’s dossier “did not inform” the FBI’s decision to start its investigation into Trump’s campaign in late July.

DEVIN NUNES: DEM MEMO PROVES INTEL ABUSE OCCURRED

Dems advocating it’s okay for FBI and DoJ to use political dirt paid for by one campaign to use against other campaign, he says


Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) said on Saturday that a Democratic rebuttal to a GOP memo released earlier this month alleging abuses by the FBI and Justice Department will not affect the substance of the document.
“What you’re not going to see is anything that actually rejects what was actually in our memo,” Nunes, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, said at the Conservative Political Action Conference.
The first memo, released by Republicans on the Intelligence Committee, accused FBI and Justice Department officials of abusing their authority to obtain a surveillance warrant against a former Trump campaign adviser.

Sunday, February 25, 2018

Debunking White Privilege

Debunking White Privilege: The Economic Reality



Jay Fayza presents the evidence that debunks the concept of white privilege. 


Debunking White Privilege (Political Reality)

Jay Fayza of TheRebel.media: "I hate racism as much as any black man. But everyone should have the right to hold pernicious beliefs."

Reality Check: FDA's Disinformation Campaign on Kratom

The opioid crisis is killing tens of thousands of Americans each year. 

So why would the FDA crack down on a substance that may be helping millions of addicts get off drugs like heroin and Oxycontin?



Reality Check: FDA's Disinformation Campaign on Kratom

[Posted at the SpookyWeather blog, February 25th, 2018.]

Related:

WATCH President Donald Trump's Commission Team on Combating Drug Addiction and Opioid Crisis 6/17/17:

http://trumpisright.blogspot.com/2017/06/watch-president-donald-trumps.html