tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35638116384118397842024-03-14T14:34:01.773+01:00LeherensugeMajuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12369840391933337204noreply@blogger.comBlogger1223125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563811638411839784.post-1136833368444688832011-10-27T01:01:00.002+02:002011-12-06T22:38:41.937+01:00Reminder: Leherensuge is dead, two new blogs took its place<div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
I see that still some people keep not just following <b style="color: #cc0000;"><i style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Leherensuge</i></b> but even joining it. Naturally I appreciate such attention but you are in the wrong place because <b style="color: #cc0000;"><i style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Leherensuge</i></b> came to an end a year ago (Oct 1st 2010) and was replaced by these two more specialized blogs:</div><br />
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<div style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="http://forwhattheywereweare.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: #b45f06;">For what they were... we are</span></a> </b></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>(prehistory, history, genetics, anthropology...)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br />
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</b></span></div><div style="color: #990000; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><a href="http://forwhatwearetheywillbe.blogspot.com/"><i><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>For what we are... they will be</b></span></i></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b> <span style="font-size: small;">(current affairs, politics, class war...)</span></b></span></div><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">Please, join them (if so you wish) because no more interesting posts will appear in <b style="color: #cc0000;"><i style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Leherensuge</i></b>, which is only kept as archive. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Thanks.</div>Majuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12369840391933337204noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563811638411839784.post-59071438766128000372011-03-09T14:04:00.001+01:002011-03-09T14:04:55.576+01:00Archive pages<div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
Better late than never. Now you can more easily browse through all that matters on Genetics and Prehistory (and similar) that was posted in <i style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>Leherensuge</b></i> in its three years of existence: I created two archive pages that are accessible from the top of the blog (tab bar). </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">These two archives were originally posted at the new blog <a href="http://forwhattheywereweare.blogspot.com/"><b style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>For what they were... we are</i></b></a> but their location had become hard to find even for myself. I believe this is a much better location. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Also, on occasion of the formal year change, I wrote <a href="http://forwhattheywereweare.blogspot.com/2010/12/2010-review.html">a yearly review of 2010</a> anthropology and prehistory stuff that mostly revisits <i style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>Leherensuge</b></i> posts. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Remember please (some seem not to have noticed yet) that Leherensuge was discontinued on October 1st 2010 and replaced by two more sectorial blogs:</div><ul style="text-align: justify;"><li><a href="http://forwhattheywereweare.blogspot.com/"><b style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>For what they were... we are</i></b></a> (anthropology, genetics, prehistory...)</li>
<li><a href="http://forwhatwearetheywillbe.blogspot.com/"><b style="color: #990000; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>For what we are... they will be</i></b></a> (the real thing: politics and such)</li>
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Hope that this change has been for the best. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div>Majuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12369840391933337204noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563811638411839784.post-14544590856020456672010-12-22T16:05:00.001+01:002010-12-27T15:05:29.555+01:00We apologize for the incovenience - new blogs reminder<div style="text-align: justify;">My blogs as well as my whole Google account was disabled on a weirdo error (spam?) this morning. I finally managed to get them back but for hours this blog and the others have been impossible to access. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">So I apologize for the inconvenience (even if it was not my fault).<br />
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<b>Reminder of the new blogs </b><br />
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I take this occasion to remind all followers of <b><i><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Leherensuge</span></i></b>, that the blog was discontinued on October 1st and replaced by two new blogs with more specific contents:<br />
<ul><li><a href="http://forwhattheywereweare.blogspot.com/">For what they were... we are</a></li>
<li><a href="http://forwhatwearetheywillbe.blogspot.com/">For what we are... they will be</a></li>
</ul>You may want to check them out.<br />
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Update (Dec 27): I forgot to put the links, corrected. <br />
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</div>Majuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12369840391933337204noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563811638411839784.post-19607531401704086652010-10-01T08:52:00.001+02:002010-10-01T09:53:09.289+02:00THE END IS A NEW BEGINNING: Leherensuge discontinued but continued in two new blogs<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Finally the day has come. The three-years story of <b style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i style="color: #cc0000;">Leherensuge</i></b> ends here. </div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">It is since now replaced by two more "sectorial" blogs:</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;"><a href="http://forwhattheywereweare.blogspot.com/"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>For what they were... we are</b></span></a></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">and </div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;"><a href="http://forwhatwearetheywillbe.blogspot.com/"><b><span style="font-size: large;">For what we are... they will be</span></b></a></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">The names taken from Pio Baroja's famous sentence, reflecting long-term continuity through our ephemeral lives, imply a more <i>past</i> and <i>present-future</i> orientation of each blog. They also reflect a more purely scientific-historical approach in <i>For what they were...</i> and a more socio-political one in <i>For what we are...</i></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Hopefully they will serve me and you as well or better than <b style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>Leherensuge</i></b> did. </div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Choose your favorite one or choose both, up to you. Join as follower and/or update your feeds and/or bookmarks. All what I blog from now on will be there. </div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">See you around.</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><b>Note:</b> <b style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>Leherensuge</i></b> will remain as archive. Also comments in <b style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>Leherensuge</i></b> remain open, at least for the time being.<br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"></div>Majuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12369840391933337204noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563811638411839784.post-11165212998052800022010-09-30T21:30:00.001+02:002010-10-01T09:52:48.242+02:00Budget cuts cause revolt in Ecuador too<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
<div style="color: red;"><b>Update: Oct. 1: all this is nonsense. I was mislead by intoxications and lack of information. I can be a fool too at times and should be much more cautious, specially in a situation as confuse as this one. See my correction <a href="http://forwhatwearetheywillbe.blogspot.com/">at my new blog For what we are... they will be</a>. The only truth in all this is that there was a coup attempt</b><b>, which failed, </b><b>but everything else is wrong. </b></div><div style="color: red;"><b><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">President Rafael Correa was hurt by tear gas shot by mutinied police. Not only the police is mutinying but his own party has blocked Correa's attempts to cut spending by reducing the public sector. While the Army has sided with the president, there are reports of riots in Quito and the airport has been shut. </div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Correa could technically rule up to two years without Parliament, assuming that this decision is approved by the Supreme Court, what is not likely. </div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Ecuador, like many European countries, has a budget problem (even after partial bankruptcy years ago) because it does not control the money it issues since the dollarization imposed by an unpopular right-wing government in the past. In order to take control of its own economy, it should be able to issue its own money, even if inflationarily. </div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Correa and the parliamentary majority (59/100 seats) belong to Alianza PAIS (<i>Patria AltIva y Soberana</i>), a moderate left-wing political party, that sympathizes with the Bolivarian system of Venezuela. However it is surrounded by US allies with right-wing governments: Colombia and Peru, being maybe the weakest piece of the Bolivarian bloc, organized in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALBA">ALBA</a> economic group. </div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Sadly it is likely that the USA and its local puppets will try to take advantage of the situation, if they have not already helped to trigger it. A better solution is maybe that Correa is impeached or abdicates, as it is obvious that his new IMF-style policies have no support and governing by decree is not a viable solution anyhow (Ecuadoreans have already thrown away more than one such pretentious president) </div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Source for the main news item: <a href="http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2010/09/2010930163710716908.html">Al Jazeera</a>.</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div>Majuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12369840391933337204noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563811638411839784.post-30736378943734111652010-09-30T20:59:00.001+02:002010-09-30T21:03:38.694+02:00Ireland to waste 30 billion euros in bailing out pointless bank<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">As a commenter explains under <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-11444593">the extremely brief BBC news note</a>, that is the cost of two years of public healthcare. All commenters agree: let it fall, use public money in public investment to generate much needed jobs instead. </div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/images/2010/0929/261814_1.jpg?ts=1285871793" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="236" src="http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/images/2010/0929/261814_1.jpg?ts=1285871793" width="400" /></a></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">You are probably familiar with this image already: in yesterday's class war pan-European protests a demonstrator crashed this truck, representing the burden of Anglo Irish Bank to the Republic of Ireland, against the Parliament's gates. The incident has become known as <a href="http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2010/0929/breaking19.html"><i>cementgate</i></a>, and is generating a number of silly jokes involving the words <i>concrete</i> and <i>gate</i>, as well as others such as <i>constructive protest,</i> <i>crash</i>, <i>foundations</i>, etc.</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">But the issue is much more serious: why should a state bail out a private bank? If anything it should nationalize it or, alternatively, just let it fall. Most business do not have the heavy state protection some banks do, nor see even a fraction of the absurdly high profits and disparate salaries for their managers. And most business, unlike banks, contribute to the real and not just the speculative economy. </div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Ireland is one of the European countries worst affected by the budget crisis, along Greece, Latvia and Hungary, all which are under IMF intervention (with the only result that their recession has aggravated many levels since then). I imagine that the least they can do is to waste 30 billion in a useless bank.</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Can anyone tell me what do banks contribute to the real economy? I can't find a single idea, specially since they do not even issue loans anymore. </div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Let them fall, all the banks except the public ones (which are the ones issuing money and which can lend directly to the public and even make a benefit from that). </div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div>Majuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12369840391933337204noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563811638411839784.post-286444223456155362010-09-30T19:34:00.002+02:002010-09-30T19:39:37.867+02:00Venneman's exposition of Vasconic substrate in Western Europe<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Found at <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/iruinaoka">Iruinaoka's page at YouTube</a>, which also includes many videos on Iruña-Veleia, most of them in Spanish language.</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">However linguist <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theo_Vennemann">Theo Venneman</a>'s exposition is in English, even if his German accent and poor sound quality make sometimes difficult to follow. Turn volume up, adjust balance and be patient... or look for a better quality video/book/paper. I apologize in advance for that poor quality, which is annoying, but I cannot do anything about it.</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Video 1: greeting in Basque, introduction on Basque known and speculated history (Upper Paleolithic) and vigesimal system in Basque, Western Romance, Gallic and Germanic:</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><object height="270" width="420"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/hOnFyf23Crk?fs=1&hl=en_US&color1=0x234900&color2=0x4e9e00&border=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/hOnFyf23Crk?fs=1&hl=en_US&color1=0x234900&color2=0x4e9e00&border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="420" height="270"></embed></object></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Video 2: Verbs: difference between to be at/in/on (<i>egon</i>) and to be something (<i>izan</i>). Accents.</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><object height="270" width="420"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/-thKOF_pHZo?fs=1&hl=en_US&color1=0x234900&color2=0x4e9e00&border=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/-thKOF_pHZo?fs=1&hl=en_US&color1=0x234900&color2=0x4e9e00&border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="420" height="270"></embed></object></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Video 3: Loanwords: kinfe (<i>< ganibet</i>), silver (<<i> zilar</i>), star (<<i> izar</i>), <i>andra</i> (lady, woman), grand (<i>< grandi</i> <<i> handi</i>)... </div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><object height="270" width="420"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/yVzIJxoXI-w?fs=1&hl=en_US&color1=0x234900&color2=0x4e9e00&border=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/yVzIJxoXI-w?fs=1&hl=en_US&color1=0x234900&color2=0x4e9e00&border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="420" height="270"></embed></object></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Video 4: More loanwords: cheese (<<i> Käse</i> <<i> gazta</i> <i>< gatz</i> = salt), bust and bush. Toponimy: Lech.</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><object height="270" width="420"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/sHFeoqjAZbE?fs=1&hl=en_US&color1=0x234900&color2=0x4e9e00&border=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/sHFeoqjAZbE?fs=1&hl=en_US&color1=0x234900&color2=0x4e9e00&border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="420" height="270"></embed></object></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Video 5: Toponimy: <i> </i></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><i>Is-</i> (Isar, Isère, IJzer, etc.), from <i>Iz-</i> found in compound words like <i>izurde</i> = dolphin ("water boar"), and <i>ur-</i> (from <i>ur</i> = water). <i> </i></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><i>Aran</i> (valley), from which: <i>Arn-</i> in Germany/Austria, <i>-earn</i> in Scotland. <i> </i></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><i>Ibaso</i> (ancestor river?) -> Ybbs, <i>Ibar</i> (river bank) -> Eber-, Iberus/Ebro...</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Suffix<i> -oz</i> (place?)</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><object height="270" width="420"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/qDqlqLHuer8?fs=1&hl=en_US&color1=0x234900&color2=0x4e9e00&border=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/qDqlqLHuer8?fs=1&hl=en_US&color1=0x234900&color2=0x4e9e00&border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="420" height="270"></embed></object></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Video 6:</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Toponimy: <i>-os.</i></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><i>Heint/haint </i>(German): today, from hi naht ('this night'), construction similar to Basque <i>gaur</i> (<i>gau</i>: night + <i>(hau)r</i>: this), also reported by Caesar in Gaulish.</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Coherence between linguistics and genetics.</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">See also:</div><ul style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><li><a href="http://www.lrz.de/%7Evennemann/">Theo Venneman's homepage</a>, </li>
<li>B. Oyharçabal's Power Point presentation (including many of the same graphs used by Venneman in his exposition): <a href="http://www.ohll.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr/pages/documents_Aussois_2005/pdf/Bernard_Oyharcabal.ppt">direct download</a>.</li>
<li>R. Mailhammer's The Prehistory of European languages (<a href="http://www.lrz.de/%7Emailhammer/htdocs/pdf/PrEu_rd.PDF">PDF</a>)</li>
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</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Notes:</b> I must say that I do not necessarily agree with every single etymology but I do with the bulk of them at least. </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">I must also say that I miss mention of some Vascoid roots I considered on my own, some very apparent, for instance:</span></div><ul style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><li><span style="font-size: x-small;">The obvious <i>bi-</i> Latin particle for two or double (as in bilateral, bipartite, etc.), which is not Indoeuropean and is terribly consistent with Basque <i>bi</i>: two. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: x-small;">Professional suffix <i>-er/-ero</i>, very similar to Basque <i>-ari</i>, which is used the same way but has a clear Basque etymology: <i>ari</i> (auxiliary verb of action, used in present/past continuous), <i>arin</i> (fast, quick), <i>aritu</i> (to hurry).</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: x-small;">English verbal infinitive particle <i>to</i> (as in to be, to do...), which sounds identical to the most common verbal infinitive suffix in Basque: <i>-tu</i></span> <span style="font-size: x-small;">(sometimes found as<i> -du</i> for cacophony avoidance). Other verbal endings are <i>-n</i> and <i>-i</i>. This one is a bit conjectural.</span> </li>
<li><span style="font-size: x-small;">English <i>ash</i>, Basque <i>auts</i> (ash, dust).</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: x-small;">English <i>kill</i> and <i>ill</i>, strikingly similar to Basque <i>il(-du)</i> (pronounced like <i>ill</i>), meaning 'to die' (intransitive) or 'to kill' (transitive).</span></li>
</ul><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> More conjectural: </span></div><ul style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">English <i>black</i>, compare with Basque <i>bel-(tz)</i> (black), which is at least coincident in the two main consonants. However there is a Germanic-IE etymology as well from <i>*blegh</i> (to burn, shine) but this is the same root as <i>blanco/blanche</i> (white) and <i>blank</i>. Conjectural.</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Arguros and argentum, silver in Greek and Latin respectively. Possibly from Basque argi (light, shiny/bright, to shine), would be a loanword from the Bronze Age possibly. The only Eastern IE word is Sanskrit arjúna (not silver but white) but may well be unrelated or a borrowing via Mycenaean Greek. Conjectural.</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Possibly mountain (V. Lat. montanea) and mound. While this is argued to be an IE word, Eastern alleged cognates appear without the intermediate -n- and mean different things (such as shore in Albanian mat). I conjecture it may be from Basque <i>mendi</i> (mountain) instead, in turn from <i>mende</i> (power, might), rel. <i>mendebalde</i> (West: 'part under power' or maybe 'under the mountain') and possibly from a very archaic West Eurasian root *man, as in manna, man, Lat. manus (hand), meaning power or potency. </span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Coincidences of declined to be: Basque zara (you are), English are, Spanish eres (you are). Also notice the similitude between IE *is (to be) and Basque izan (to be). Also coincidence in the second person but dancing between singular and plural: Basque zu (singular 'you' but distinct from <i>hi</i>: thou), English <i>thou, </i>German<i> du</i>, Latin <i>tu</i>. These and maybe others might point to a common very old origin of Basque and IE <b>or</b> to the affection of PIE by a Basque-related language such as NE Caucasic/Hurro-Urartean/Sumerian (conjecturally the language of Eastern Gravettian). Alternatively some may be influences of IE into Basque but most look as deep phylogenetically rooted in Basque.</span></li>
</ul>Majuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12369840391933337204noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563811638411839784.post-19993372273727602312010-09-30T05:08:00.001+02:002010-09-30T08:07:39.476+02:00European protests, Spain's general strike<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">In a general strike that has been delayed for all the summer by the duopolistic unions UGT and CC.OO., finally Spaniards had yesterday occasion to vent their anger and frustration and go on strike.</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">It was, it seems, a massive success, considering the appeals to demobilization and police violence by the entrenched institutional actors. Unions estimated the impact in 71.7%, with <a href="http://www.tercerainformacion.es/spip.php?article18761">some media reporting</a> a rounded up figure of 75%. Even the minister of labor <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-09-28/spain-girds-for-first-general-strike-in-8-years-to-protest-zapatero-cuts.html">had to admit</a> that the impact was of 100% in the automotive sector, with air carrier Ryanair also canceling all its flights and some key services such as trash collection generally paralyzed.</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><b>Southern Basque Country </b></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</tbody></table><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.lahaine.org/b2-img10/dscn1628.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a>In the Southern Basque Country the impact was smaller, as the major unions did not join the strike, disgruntled by passive and manipulative attitude of the Spanish union duopoly. However in Navarre, the impact was similar to that of Spain with 74% of workers joining <a href="http://www.gara.net/azkenak/09/223488/es/El-paro-tiene-mayor-seguimiento-Nafarroa">according to Gara</a> and the airport completely paralyzed. Reports from industrial areas in the Western Basque Country, talk of some key industries paralyzed and industrial areas nearly stopped, as well as a total blockade of the harbors of Bilbao and Pasaia. Non-industrial sectors however were only mildly impacted. </div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://29-s.net/">Reports from the Catalan Countries</a> tell of strong following in general and riots in Barcelona. With demonstrations in the thousands in many cities (<a href="http://www.lahaine.org/index.php?p=48306">Barcelona</a>, Sabadell, Tarragona, <a href="http://www.lahaine.org/index.php?p=48315">Valencia</a>, Lleida, etc.) and some arrests.</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Closing Mercavalencia at dawn</td></tr>
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</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.lahaine.org/index.php?p=14878">In Xixon</a> (Gijón) the walkout was generalized, with few incidents. The demo was called by Corriente Sindical de Izquierdas (CSI), SUATEA and CGT but was boycotted by institutionalist unions UGT, CC.OO. and USO, who were accused of making secret pacts with the patrons and government, trying to demobilize popular anger.</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.lahaine.org/index.php?p=14879">The reports</a> also talk of a general success, not just in Zaragoza but also in Teruel and other towns. They also talk very bad and of the attitude of UGT-CC.OO, who posed for the photo and then left in most pickets. Combative unions in this country were CGT, Sindicato Obero Aragones (SOA) and CATA.</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Closing <i>El Corte Inglés</i>, more images <a href="http://media.noblezabaturra.org/v/Laboral/Cobertura+Huelga+General+29S/">at NoblezaBaturra</a></td></tr>
</tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://media.noblezabaturra.org/d/5639-1/corte_ingles009.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">There are also reports of police charges and arrests.</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><b>Andalusia</b></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">I could only find reports so far <a href="http://www.lahaine.org/index.php?p=48324">on Málaga</a>, telling of irregular impact but stopping the key sectors. The demo was of several thousands.</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><b>Castile</b></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">The most important city by large is Madrid, which was strongly affected by the General Strike <a href="http://www.lahaine.org/index.php?p=48317">according to La Haine</a>.</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">While the "official" UGT-CC.OO. demo gathered some 500 people, the alternative one called by other unions (CGT, Solidaridad Obrera, etc.) was massive (<a href="http://www.lahaine.org/index.php?p=48342">photos</a>).</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Very symbolically, regional public TV Telemadrid cut its emission, reminding somewhat of the impacting cut of TVE in the quasi-mythical general strike of 1988, which was a massive success. </div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">While the unity and strength of genuine labor-unionism was an important element, the violence of police was another one. Police did not only charge against pickets, including the bycicle picket, but there are reports of seven live ammunition caskets being found after a specially violent charge in Airbus-EADS Getafe.</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.lahaine.org/b2-img10/hg12.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Another city where the strike had major impact was <a href="http://www.lahaine.org/index.php?p=48333">Valladolid</a>.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">There was a call for protests and demos to take place around Europe yesterday and I am aware of such protests in Ireland, Portugal, Italy and several Central European countries, however in the wealthy central bloc of the EU the impact of this call for mobilization seems to have been pretty low or nil, excepting the central demo at Brussels. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Combative labor unions clearly made gains both in charisma and unity yesterday in the State of Spain, while traditional subsidized unions seem to have tried to make a posse strike instead to save their face before a growingly angry working class, which massively joined the strike in spite of all.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Much remains to be done at European level, which, in my understanding, is a key level of organization if we want to stop and reverse the offensive of Big Capital.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><b>Some relevant links:</b> <a href="http://www.cgt.org.es/">CGT</a>, <a href="http://www.cnt.es/">CNT</a>, <a href="http://www.solidaridadobrera.org/">Solidaridad Obrera</a>, <a href="http://www.rojoynegro.info/2004/spip.php?">Rojo y Negro</a>, <a href="http://www.lahaine.org/index.php">La Haine</a>.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Update: according to <a href="http://cuestionatelotodo.blogspot.com/2010/09/primeros-datos-rotundo-exito-de-la.html">Cuestionatelotodo</a> ("questioneverything") the sectorial impact was: </div><ul><li>Metal 74%</li>
<li>Wood 59%</li>
<li>Construction 70%</li>
<li>Chemical 80%</li>
<li>Textile 77%</li>
<li>Mining 100%</li>
<li>Air transport 82%</li>
<li>Road transport 78%</li>
<li>Sea Transport 90%</li>
<li>Urban transport 85%</li>
<li>Markets 90%</li>
<li>Public education 60%</li>
<li>Private education 32%</li>
</ul>By autonomous communities:<br />
<ul><li> Andalusia 76.8%</li>
<li>Asturias 87%</li>
<li>Balearic Islands 72%</li>
<li>Canary Islands 70%</li>
<li>Cantabria 70%</li>
<li>Castile-Leon 72.3%</li>
<li>Castile-La Mancha 80.2%</li>
<li>Catalonia 80%</li>
<li>Valencian Country 78%</li>
<li>Extremadura 70%</li>
<li>Galicia 80%</li>
<li>Madrid 76%</li>
<li>Murcia 72%</li>
<li>Navarre 74 %</li>
<li>Western Basque Country 30%</li>
<li>La Rioja 71%</li>
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</div>Majuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12369840391933337204noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563811638411839784.post-21588460877471204532010-09-30T03:05:00.001+02:002010-09-30T03:05:54.275+02:00Maternal care modifies gene regulating key neurotransmitter<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Physorg reports <a href="http://www.physorg.com/news204913885.html">new research</a> that emphasizes again the crucial epigenetic effects of maternal care of lack of it. </div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Researchers bred two different clades of rats, ones affective with their offspring and the others extremely detached. The offspring of the latter experimented an epigenetic modification obstructing the expression of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GAD1">GAD1</a> gene, which regulates the key neurotransmitter <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GABA">GABA</a>. </div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">GABA helps to regulate emotions and people with schizophrenia may have GABA deficits. Similarly the rats raised by the detached mothers also had low GABA production. </div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Inversely, the rats raised by cuddly mothers showed high expression of GAD1. </div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Rodents <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euarchontoglires">are genetically very close to primates</a> and hence a very good model for our own biology even within the restricted spectrum of placental mammals. </div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">The research is attributed to Tie-Yuan Zhang to be published in September 29 in <a href="http://www.jneurosci.org/">The Journal of Neuroscience</a>.</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div>Majuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12369840391933337204noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563811638411839784.post-71670379956503913832010-09-30T03:03:00.000+02:002010-09-30T03:03:14.014+02:00Boy buried near Stonehenge was from the South<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">A teenager who died c. 1550 BCE and was buried near Stonehenge with an amber necklace was not raised in Britain but further south, near the Mediterranean, <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11421593">reports BBC</a>. </div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">The burial was discovered in 2005 5 km south of Stonehenge, in a mound at Boscombe Down, while doing roadworks for military housing. His age at death is estimated to have been 14-15 years old. </div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;"><a href="http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/49280000/jpg/_49280224_49280223.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="225" src="http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/49280000/jpg/_49280224_49280223.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">The burial shows the characteristic fetal position of Bell Beaker but not the usual grave goods of this subculture </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">The oxygen isotopes found in his enamel evidence that he grew in a warmer climate than Britain, near the Mediterranean. Date and context suggest to me Portugal, where <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vila_Nova_de_S%C3%A3o_Pedro">an important Megalithic civilization</a> was still active at that time. However other places of Megalithic culture in Iberia, Southern France or even North Africa or Italy cannot be discarded with the available information. </div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Other people buried near Stonehenge known to have arrived from afar are the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amesbury_Archer">Amesbury Archer</a>, a member of the Bell Beaker subculture, known to have grown at the Northern Alps, and the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boscombe_Bowmen">Boscombe Bowmen</a>, also with a Bell Beaker style burial, known to be from Wales or Brittany or maybe even farther away. However all these belong to a much earlier period, 750 years earlier than the boy of the amber necklace. This strongly suggests that Stonehenge and the religious/cultural (and maybe political) complex around it kept attracting people from the wider Megalithic and Bell Beaker area for almost a whole millennium, possibly more.</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Stonehenge, no doubt, was a Mecca of its time. Pity that we know so little about the beliefs and society that motivated such pilgrimages. </div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div>Majuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12369840391933337204noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563811638411839784.post-9006702549171841772010-09-30T03:02:00.000+02:002010-09-30T03:02:51.578+02:00European HR Court condemns Spain for not investigating tortures<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">It refers to the case of Basque citizen Mikel San Argimiro who was arrested, held incommunicado and (allegedly, most likely) tortured for five days by the Guardia Civil (militarized police corps) in 2002. The sentence condemns Spain to pay 23,000 euros for the fault of investigating the denounces of torture. The sentence is likely to establish a precedent in the matter because Spain almost systematically does not investigate torture while in detention.</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">The forensic report in San Argimiro's torture case established the first day that he had many lesions, which were dismissed as they could be "compatible with the development of the arrest and the maneuvers of immobilization". This same argument was held by the state attorney in the case of Igor Portu and Mattin Sarasola, which, in an exceptional development, resulted in the accusation of several policemen (Guardia Civil again) which will be judged in a month. </div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">In the second day of arrest the forensic physician reported new lesions without attributing them to any particular cause. Four days later, after being sent to prison, another physician found a broken rib. </div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">The European tribunal cannot judge the existence of not of torture, because there is no investigation but can judge that not investigating it is a serious fault, a breach of article 3 of the European Covenant on Human Rights forbidding torture. </div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">There is a long list of similar cases involving Basques as victims; next in line are the well known cases of Unai Romano, whose photos with the face totally deformed by the beatings caused a tremendous impact, and Martxelo Otamendi, director of Basque language newspaper Egunkaria, which is one of the most aggravating cases of persecution against freedom of speech and linguistic diversity. </div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;"><a href="http://haciaeuskalherrialibre.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/unai.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="214" src="http://haciaeuskalherrialibre.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/unai.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> Unai Romano before and after his arrest</span> </div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">In the past the European tribunal has only ruled against Spain in few occasions, one involving Catalan nationalists, tortured in the context of the Olympic Games of 1992, the other two affect Basque victims: nationalist MP Miguel Castells, who was deprived of parliamentary immunity, judged and sent to prison for a crime of opinion (denouncing that the death squads of the 1980s were not being investigated) and the other happened last year, when Strasbourg condemned Spain to pay 170,000 euros to Mikel Iribarren, who was almost killed by a rubber bullet shot at short distance against his face. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Hopefully this sentence will help to at least contain a bit the systematic impunity of police torture.</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Source: <a href="http://www.gara.net/paperezkoa/20100929/223383/es/Europa-sienta-precedente-contra-Estado-espanol-caso-tortura">Gara</a>.</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div>Majuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12369840391933337204noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563811638411839784.post-56213431941907153122010-09-29T19:04:00.002+02:002010-09-30T03:02:05.632+02:00Hyenas another european mammal extinct at the end of the last ice age<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/38/Spotted_Hyena,_Ngorongoro.jpg/220px-Spotted_Hyena,_Ngorongoro.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/38/Spotted_Hyena,_Ngorongoro.jpg/220px-Spotted_Hyena,_Ngorongoro.jpg" /></a>Spanish researchers have published a new paper on the extinction of spotted hyenas (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spotted_Hyena">Crocuta crocuta</a>, the same species dominant in Africa) in Europe and Asia. Apparently hyenas lived without much trouble in the Mediterranean areas of Eurasia until c. 10,000 years ago, when they became extinct. This is also the time of the end of the last Ice Age.</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Lead researcher Sara Varela says that <i>climate change in the past was not directly responsible for the extinction of the spotted hyena in southern Europe, but it was a factor in its disappearance</i>.</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Source: <a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/09/100923105759.htm">Science Daily</a>, illustration <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Spotted_Hyena,_Ngorongoro.jpg">from Wikipedia</a>.</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Ref. Sara Varela et al., <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2010.04.017"><i>Were the Late Pleistocene climatic changes responsible for the disappearance of the European spotted hyena populations? Hindcasting a species geographic distribution across time</i></a>. Quaternary Science Reviews 2010. Pay per view.</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div>Majuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12369840391933337204noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563811638411839784.post-42944797259317246312010-09-29T18:46:00.006+02:002010-09-30T03:01:23.532+02:00Physical anthropologist claims (again) that Homo floresiensis was cretin Homo sapiens<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">This hypothesis has been proposed before by the same team and then rejected. However I feel obliged to mention it as I'm sure that some readers will find it interesting and also because, if real, it would mean that <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_floresiensis">LB1</a> is not an Homo erectus (maybe a cretin H. erectus?) nor a new species but a marginal representative of our own expansion in Eurasia and beyond.</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">However I am skeptic, specially because Oxnard fails to compare with Homo erectus.</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cretinism">Cretinism</a> is a severe chronic medical condition caused by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iodine_deficiency">low iodine intake</a>. Iodine is mostly ingested with drinking water and also from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_salt">sea salt</a>, but not refined table salt (unless enriched).</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Judge yourself anyhow:</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><b><a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0013018">Charles Oxnard et al. <i>Post-Cranial Skeletons of Hypothyroid Cretins Show a Similar Anatomical Mosaic as Homo floresiensis</i></a>. PLoS ONE 2010. <span style="color: blue;">Open access</span>.</b></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div>Majuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12369840391933337204noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563811638411839784.post-87802495524384451882010-09-29T04:00:00.006+02:002010-09-29T09:37:12.269+02:00On strike<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.rebelion.org/imagenes/0_2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br />
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</div>Majuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12369840391933337204noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563811638411839784.post-2782516191697859602010-09-28T15:46:00.002+02:002010-09-28T15:51:57.275+02:00Several volcanoes may have severily damaged Neanderthals<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">This is the hypothesis proposed by Liuvob Golovanova in <a href="http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/ca/2010/51/S2">the latest issue of Current Anthropology</a>, <a href="http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/63734/title/Neandertals_blasted_out_of_existence%2C_archaeologists_propose">according to Science News</a>. </div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Golovanova's team has found two different volcanic ash layers in the Neanderthal site of Mezmaiskaya, in the North Caucasus, the first one is dated to c. 45 Ka ago and the second one to c. 40 Ka ago. This one seems to have sealed the fate of Neanderthals in the Caucasus. </div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Some time later, c. 38-37 Ka ago, items that are mostly associated with Homo sapiens, such as perforated shell ornaments, bone points and other items, appear at the site. </div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">A similar situation is found, as far as I know, in the not too distant site of Kostenki, in southern Russia. The 40 Ka eruption is also associated with the cold episode known as HE4 and has been related to the expansion of Aurignacian culture in SW Europe. </div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">However it must be noted that in the same issue, geologist Biagio Giacio, challenges Golovanova's account, mentioning the presence of artifacts under the ash layer in several Mediterranean locations. I presume that these are the same sites that Julien Riel-Salvatore has been digging in Southern Italy, of Uluzzian culture. </div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Riel-Salvatore <a href="http://averyremoteperiodindeed.blogspot.com/2010/09/independent-neanderthal-innovation-some.html">stands today at his blog</a> by his published claims of Uluzzian being a Neanderthal industry, mostly because of the existence of a Mousterian (probably Neanderthal) buffer in Central Italy arguably preventing Sapiens influences from arriving, but <a href="http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2009/06/30/0903446106.abstract">other researchers have already proposed</a> that it is of H. sapiens manufacture because of it srather unmistakable Upper Paleolithic style, including bone tools (unknown to have been ever made by Neanderthals), and specially the presence of perforated decorations. </div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">The debate continues. </div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Ref. L.V. Golovanova et al. <i>Significance of ecological factors in the Middle to Upper Paleolithic transition</i>. Current Anthropology. Vol. 51, October 2010, p. 655. doi:10.1086/656185.</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"></div>Majuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12369840391933337204noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563811638411839784.post-34731379239026056302010-09-28T13:10:00.000+02:002010-09-28T13:10:58.043+02:00General Strike tomorrow<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Labor unions have called a General Strike of 24 hrs. in the state of Spain tomorrow, September 29th. While I have my reservations, I will join it and therefore <b><i style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Leherensuge</span></i> will be idle tomorrow. I won't reply to comments either.</b> </div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">The most representative unions in the Basque Country, ELA and LAB, which organized a separate national strike in June, declared weeks ago that they will not back the strike, because it has been unprepared and the Spanish unions have not counted with them. Another reason is that they argued that tomorrow there would be a Europe-wide strike and there is nothing like that (they lied). Other state-wide unions have joined the strike also critically. </div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">However I am of the opinion that not one day but many of general strike are needed in order to put the State, Big Capital and EU against the ropes. So I am not renouncing to the opportunity to adhere to this strike, even if I am strongly critical of the subsidized Spanish union duopoly and I strongly suspect that the main motivation they have is to demobilize workers, rather than actually present battle against Big Capital and their administrators in Madrid and Brussels. </div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">On a separate note:</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><b><i style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Leherensuge</span></i> will be discontinued in October 1st. Two new blogs: will take its place that day:</b></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><b><br />
</b></div><ul style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><li><b><a href="http://forwhattheywereweare.blogspot.com/">For what they were... we are</a></b></li>
<li><b><a href="http://forwhatwearetheywillbe.blogspot.com/">For what we are... they will be</a></b></li>
</ul><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">This follows the plan I have already outlined in the past, with a slight delay. The strike is another reason to delay it a few days more (avoiding confusion), even if the new blogs are ready, I believe. </div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">A final post will formalize the change. <i style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>Leherensuge</b></i> will remain online as archive and, at least for some time comments will be allowed.</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Please make preparations for the replacement: bookmark, follow and/or update your feeds. Thanks. </div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> </div>Majuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12369840391933337204noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563811638411839784.post-41798327138553455142010-09-28T12:26:00.000+02:002010-09-28T12:26:20.248+02:00Spain arrests Basque internationalists<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Spanish police has arrested tonight seven members of the, so far legal, internationalist organization <a href="http://www.askapena.org/?q=en">Askapena</a>. It has done so ordered by the Neoinquisition's new boy, judge Juan Pablo Ruz, who is replacing B. Garzón, who is in trial for daring to investigate fascism or something).</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The seven arrested are <span class="sarrera">Gabi Basañez, Unai Vázquez, Itxaso Lekuona, Rubén Sánchez, David Soto, Aritz Ganboa and Walter Wendelin. Wendelin, who has German citizenship, <a href="http://leherensuge.blogspot.com/2010/03/venezuela-arrests-basque.html">was expelled from Venezuela</a> in March in a cowardly action by the Bolivarian government, upon pressure from Spain. In spite of all the manipulations he was free until yesterday. </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="sarrera">There is of course concern because of the recent reports of <a href="http://leherensuge.blogspot.com/2010/09/testimonies-of-tortured-by-spanish.html">tortures</a> against other people arrested arbitrarily by the Audiencia Nacional (Neoinquisition). </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="sarrera"></span>Source: <a href="http://www.gara.net/azkenak/09/223295/es/La-Policia-espanola-detiene-siete-miembros-Askapena">Gara</a>.</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Analysis</b></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">This is obviously another sabotage against any possible peace process and a provocation to the whole Basque Nationalist Left. There is no question about it. The only question may be who is directing the judges (and police, as tortures are not something that judges can order) into arbitrary arrests of political nature in this delicate time. I do not have an answer but it is clear that, if it is not the Spanish Government directly (it might be the right wing opposition), it casts a huge shadow on the real power wielded by Rodriguez Zapatero (PM) and Rubalcaba (Minister of the Interior) and therefore on whether something can be negotiated at all with the PSOE government. </div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Question remains is how much patience will ETA have with the blatant disinterest of Spain in reaching to any agreement or even respecting the most basic protocol towards any sort of negotiation. And how much patience will the Basque people have as well because what is obvious by now, and is likely to become more obvious in the near future, is that Spain does not want peace and democracy and Basque people does instead. </div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">By the way, there is some persistent helicopter noise out there. Not too unusual but sign that they are monitoring the streets from the air, whatever the exact reason. As there is no demonstration called for today, it should be related to the arrests. </div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div>Majuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12369840391933337204noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563811638411839784.post-37014386349745999502010-09-27T07:52:00.002+02:002010-09-28T18:35:49.891+02:00Jewish boat to attempt to breach the siege of Gaza<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">A small (10 m long) catamaran with pro-Palestinian activists of Jewish ethnicity has set sail from Cyprus in yet another attempt to breach the siege of the macro-camp for displaced persons in South Palestine. The boat, named Irene, carries fishing nets in a nonviolent act of defiance against Zionist apartheid, 8 crew members and two journalists.</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Reuven Moskovitz, an Holocaust survivor, 82, declared:</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><blockquote style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">It is a sacred duty for me, as a survivor, to protest against the persecution, the oppression and the imprisonment of so many people in Gaza, including more than 800,000 children.</blockquote><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">He also said: <i>we are two peoples but we have one future</i>. </div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.jewishboat2gaza.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/Group11.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="http://www.jewishboat2gaza.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/Group11.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">The crew of the <i>Irene</i></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">The <a href="http://jewishboattogaza.org/?page_id=204">crew members</a> are:</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"></div><ul style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><li>Reuven Moskowitz, Israeli citizen. Founder of unsegregated village Neve Shalom – Wahat al Salaam (Oasis of Peace). He is an Holocaust survivor.</li>
<li>Rami Elhanan, Israeli citizen. Lost his daughter Smadar in a suicide bombing in 1997 and is founding member of Bereaved Families Circle of Israelis and Palestinians (association of victims of the conflict).</li>
<li>Lilian Rosengarten, US citizen. Peace activist and psychotherapost. She is a refugee from Nazi persecution.</li>
<li>Yonatan Shapira, Israeli citizen. Former military pilot and member of Combatants for Peace. </li>
<li>Glyn Secker, British citizen. He is the boat captain and a member of Jews for Justice for Palestinians Executive Commitee.</li>
<li>Edith Lutz, German citizen. She is peace activist and a nurse. She was in the first boat to Gaza in 2008. </li>
<li> Itamar Shapira, Israeli citizen. Yonatan's brother. </li>
</ul><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">The two journalists are Eli Osherov, from Israeli Channel 10 News, and Vish Vishvanath, freelance photographer and reporter.</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">More information at <a href="http://jewishboattogaza.org/">Jewish Boat to Gaza</a> and also at the support organizations:</div><ul style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><li> <a href="http://www.ejjp.org/">European Jews for a Just Peace</a>.</li>
<li><a href="http://jfjfp.com/">Jews for Justice for Palestinians</a>.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.juedische-stimme.de/">Juedische Stimme fuer einen gerechten Frieden in Nahost</a>.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.ajjp.org/">American Jews for a Just Peace</a>. </li>
<li><a href="http://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/">Jewish Voice for Peace</a>.</li>
<li><a href="http://jao.org.au/">Jews Against the Occupation Sydney</a>.</li>
</ul><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">See also news items at <a href="http://english.aljazeera.net/news/europe/2010/09/2010926204723552186.html">Al Jazeera</a> and <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-11414973">BBC</a>.<br />
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<b>Update:</b> somewhat anecdotally, <a href="http://jewssansfrontieres.blogspot.com/2010/09/jewish-boat-to-gaza-supported-by.html">Jews sans frontieres mentions today</a> that Marion Kozak, mother of the two confronted Labor party leaders Ed and David Miliband, is among the 1600 signatories supporting the boat, whose names will be displayed in colorful banners by the crew, as member of Jews for Justice for Palestinians. She is a veteran left wing and Labor Party militant.</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
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<b>Update (Sep 28):</b> Israel has taken the boat today. Not yet known whether in international or Gaza waters, in another illegal action in any case. The boat flies British flag so this is technically an act of war against the United Kingdom.<br />
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Physicians for Human Rights has asked for access to the kidnapped crew, as at least one of them is known to have a chronic illness and needs medical care.<br />
</div>Majuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12369840391933337204noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563811638411839784.post-68893018632036839652010-09-27T05:51:00.001+02:002010-09-27T05:51:34.591+02:00Mapuches take UN see in Chile<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
<a href="http://www.gara.net/Repository/Imagenes/Pub_3/Issue_5014/p023_f01_140x105.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://www.gara.net/Repository/Imagenes/Pub_3/Issue_5014/p023_f01_140x105.jpg" /></a>This happens after two days ago <a href="http://www.gara.net/paperezkoa/20100925/222625/es/Allegados-mapuche-ocupan-sedes-latinoamericanas-Santiago">they briefly took</a> other UN offices in Santiago (International Work Organization and Economic Committee for Latin America and the Caribbean). </div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">As <a href="http://leherensuge.blogspot.com/2010/09/mapuche-prisoners-52-days-in-hunger.html">the hunger strike of Mapuche prisoners</a> goes beyond the 70 days and government and prisoners failed to reach an agreement last Friday, native organization Maulen Huanchu took yesterday the offices of the United Nations in Santiago de Chile with intent of remaining there indefinitely.</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Source: <a href="http://www.gara.net/azkenak/09/222935/es/Ocupan-sede-ONU-Chile-solidaridad-mapuche-huelga">Gara</a>.<br />
</div>Majuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12369840391933337204noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563811638411839784.post-23399148619371421302010-09-26T07:40:00.001+02:002010-09-26T08:08:06.390+02:00Pentagon burns all copies of revealing 9/11 book<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">From <a href="http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/2010/09/26/department-defense-turns-totally-nazi-buys-copy-book-destroys-evidence-911-cover-5646/comment-page-1/#comment-9720">Alexander Higgins Blog</a>, originally from <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/09/25/pentagon-destroys-copies-controversial-memoir-written-army-officer/">Fox News</a>. </div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">In a most incredible, yet real, move, the US Department of Defense has purchased and then burnt all copies from a book on 9/11, revealing uncomfortable facts such as the USA knowing about Mohammed Atta (the alleged leader of the attacks) and having him under surveillance as a security threat long before 9/11 (and yet allowing him to live freely in the USA). </div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">The Pentagon had first authorized the book by reserve Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer, titled <b><i>Operation Dark Heart</i></b>, but then realized they had committed and error, as, allegedly, it contains secret information that hurts "national security".</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><blockquote style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Specifically, the DIA wanted references to a meeting between Lt. Col. Tony Shaffer, the book's author, and the executive director of the 9/11 Commission, Philip Zelikow, removed. In that meeting, which took place in Afghanistan, Shaffer alleges the commission was told about "Able Danger" and the identification of Atta before the attacks. No mention of this was made in the final 9/11 report.</blockquote><blockquote style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Shaffer, who was undercover at the time, said there was "stunned silence" at the meeting after he told the executive director of the commission and others that Atta was identified as early as 2000 by "Able Danger."</blockquote><blockquote style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Dr. Philip Zelikow approached me in the corner of the room. 'What you said today is very important. I need you to get in touch with me as soon as you return from your deployment here in Afghanistan'," Shaffer said.</blockquote><blockquote style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Once back in the U.S., Shaffer says he contacted the commission. Without explanation, the commission was no longer interested. An inspector general report by the Department of Defense concluded there was no evidence to support the claims of Shaffer and others. But Fox News has obtained an unredacted copy of the IG report containing the names of witnesses, who backed up Shaffer's story when contacted for comment.</blockquote><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">As I commented at AHB: I’d say that impressively stupid because how do they think they can block info from flowing unless they close the Internet down (which in turn would only cause them to effective lose the little control they may have on the Internet, as other countries would soon push their own versions to fill in the void).</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">I think that this essentially shows that the whole mentality behind the 9/11 operation and all that is antiquated: it belongs, as its ringleaders (all them members of the Nixon-Ford administration), to the pre-Internet age and that’s why is doomed. Not that in the past information would not flow but was slower and less exuberant, allowing a lot greater control by the governments and media corporations.<br />
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<b>Related news: rumor of domestic military deployment of US troops, possibly, Tuesday.</b></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
Not sure what to make of this but it does sound quite alarming. According to a YouTube video by SmokinJoeTrainer, he has received several confidential reports from trusted friends in the army being called for domestic deployment by the end of the weekend. It's just an unconfirmed rumor so far but watch it out.<br />
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Source: <a href="http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/2010/09/25/u.s.-military-on-18-hour-alert-for-domestic-deployment-5642/">Alexander Higgins Blog</a>. <br />
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</div>Majuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12369840391933337204noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563811638411839784.post-86998343255623998552010-09-25T12:43:00.000+02:002010-09-25T12:43:51.087+02:00Online edition of the origina Siret study on Iberian Metal Ages<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Belgian archaeologist Louis Siret (also known as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_Siret">Luis Siret y Cels</a>) was a pioneer of archaeology in Spain and the discoverer of the Chalcolithic and Bronze Age civilizations of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Millares">Los Millares</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Argar">El Argar</a> in SE Iberia.</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">His original book Les premiers ages du metal dans le sud-est de l'Espagne (The early Metal Ages in the Southeast of Spain) has now been made available online, after restoration, by the Junta de Andalucía (Andalusian autonomous government). It can be accessed online <a href="http://www.archive.org/details/lespremiersagesd00sireuoft">at Archive.org</a> in several formats including <a href="http://www.archive.org/stream/lespremiersagesd00sireuoft">scanned facsimile</a>. It is only available in French though. </div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Thanks to <a href="http://cuevadelapileta.blogspot.com/2010/09/premiers-ages-du-metal-dans-le-sud-est.html">Pileta de Prehistoria</a>.</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div>Majuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12369840391933337204noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563811638411839784.post-31417688888773800722010-09-25T09:51:00.006+02:002010-09-28T17:51:25.246+02:00Judge accepts denounce against Julio Núñez and provincial government in the Iruña-Veleia archaeological destruction case<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
<a href="http://www.sos-irunaveleia.org/local--resized-images/excavacion-de-la-finca-98-2/Imagen0218.jpg/medium.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://www.sos-irunaveleia.org/local--resized-images/excavacion-de-la-finca-98-2/Imagen0218.jpg/medium.jpg" width="240" /></a>In a hopeful twist in the Iruña-Veleia scandal, Instruction Judge no. 1 of Vitoria-Gasteiz has accepted the denounce against the new site director Julio Núñez (left, "at work") and the provincial government of Araba for the alleged destruction of patrimony, as evidenced by <a href="http://leherensuge.blogspot.com/2010/07/and-more-archaelogical-vandalism-at.html">photos</a>, <a href="http://leherensuge.blogspot.com/2010/07/sad-re-inauguration-of-iruna-veleia.html">videos</a> and testimonies previously discussed <a href="http://leherensuge.blogspot.com/search/label/Iru%C3%B1a-Veleia">in this blog</a>.</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">In the denounce it is requested that the Director Plan for the Vasco-Roman site of Iruña-Veleia is paralyzed urgently on light of it not being even respected at all by chief archaeologist Núñez. It is also requested that judicial police and independent experts survey piles of disposed soil with embedded archaeologically remains.</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Source: <a href="http://www.noticiasdealava.com/2010/09/24/sociedad/euskadi/admitida-a-tramite-la-denuncia-interpuesta-por-sos-iruna-veleia-contra-la-diputacion-foral-de-alava">Noticias de Alava</a>[es]<br />
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Update: a comic <a href="http://zaldieroa.blogspot.com/">by Zaldieroa</a> (Crazy Horse). It's not really new (May) but it is funny anyhow:<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlmbMzk81hXnCOhuK3U6N_0Bv_kJ_lxO0i2pyxQucdDqgxG6yKv6WmDqxAR7qw6qWh-TCFO0p-PN9pKvaBh52tiYvkX-WAGVT2SeNNb1XVTx3Ehl9w1uebyROSVRRov6NS-V_lioT02E4/s1600/ergatiborikez.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="122" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlmbMzk81hXnCOhuK3U6N_0Bv_kJ_lxO0i2pyxQucdDqgxG6yKv6WmDqxAR7qw6qWh-TCFO0p-PN9pKvaBh52tiYvkX-WAGVT2SeNNb1XVTx3Ehl9w1uebyROSVRRov6NS-V_lioT02E4/s400/ergatiborikez.jpg" width="400" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">1st panel:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i>In the Ivory Tower of Irati </i>(a large forest in the Pyrenees)<i><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">2nd panel</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Goblin: <i>My Lord, here there are the latest reports on Veleia</i>.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Lord: <i>Still with that issue around?</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Goblin: <i>Yes, my Lord</i>.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">3rd panel</div>Lord: <i>But... tell me... has the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ergative-absolutive_language">ergative</a> been found in Veleia?</i><br />
Goblin: <i>Not, my Lord, there is no trace of any ergative.</i> <br />
Lord: <i>Then they are false, 'leñe'!! That is not genuine Basque!</i><br />
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Note: the Lord is described <a href="http://zaldieroa.blogspot.com/2008/08/kolorez.html">in previous cartoons</a>, as <i>Euskal Taliban Jatorra</i> (the purebred Basque Taliban), the goblin is called <i>Yoda</i>. The "Taliban" is depicted often as a linguistic purist of the worst kind.<br />
</div>Majuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12369840391933337204noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563811638411839784.post-34404043897993636252010-09-24T09:03:00.000+02:002010-09-24T09:03:15.358+02:00US court sentences kidnapped Pakistani woman<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">The kidnappers were US soldiers and FBI agents acting outside their jurisdiction: in Pakistan and Afghanistan. </div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Aafia Sidiqqi, who is a neuroscientist and hence a most unlikely "Taliban" (who are against any sort of education for women), was allegedly suspected by her captors to be an Al Qaeda sympathizer who claim that they found instructions for making bombs and New York maps in her apartment (what to me looks like the typical made-up evidence). </div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Sidiqqi however she denies the accusation's claims and says that she was kidnapped and held for five years in a secret prison in Afghan soil.</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">According to the accusation it was then when she managed to grab one of her captors' guns but she was the only one injured in the shooting that ensued. She also denies this accusation. </div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Lacking any objective evidence other than the statements from the parties should cause, in good justice, an acquittal but instead she has been sentenced to what is in practice a life sentence. </div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;"><a href="http://english.aljazeera.net/mritems/Images/2010/9/23/201092318810841621_20.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="263" src="http://english.aljazeera.net/mritems/Images/2010/9/23/201092318810841621_20.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">The case has caused an uproar in her native Pakistan, where people simply don't believe the accusations, specially as we all know that the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraordinary_rendition_by_the_United_States">"extraordinary rendition"</a> strategy of kidnapping suspects and holding them in secret prisons in foreign soil was and still is a most disturbing reality. </div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Sidiqqi declared in the trial that she is committed to World Peace:</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><blockquote style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I do not want any bloodshed. I do not want any misunderstanding. I really want to make peace and end the wars.</blockquote><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div>Majuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12369840391933337204noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563811638411839784.post-37129123835501130462010-09-24T06:35:00.001+02:002010-09-24T06:46:39.969+02:00Gulf of Mexico oil spill was many times the government figures<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
<a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/images/2010/09/100923142438-large.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" src="http://www.sciencedaily.com/images/2010/09/100923142438-large.jpg" width="200" /></a>Researchers from <a href="http://www.earth.columbia.edu/sections/view/9">Columbia University</a> (NY, USA) conclude that the amount of oil released daily by BP's Deepwater Horizon well until the first cap was placed on June 15 was <b>56-68,000 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrel_%28unit%29#Oil_barrel">barrels</a> per day</b>, maybe more. This is many times more than the official figures, which evolved from a ridiculous claim of of one thousand barrels to 19,000.</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">The total oil released to the environment is at least <b>4.4 million barrels</b>, most of which is still there even if it has been hidden by the use of massive amounts of highly toxic dispersants, in what is the most massive environmental and public health scandal in US history and globally only comparable to the Chernobyl nuclear disaster of 1986. </div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Possible variations in the flows from day to day lead to some uncertainty. Additionally, the analysis does not include other smaller plumes from several holes near the broken pipe, holes that are believed to have grown with time. </div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Lead author, Timothy Crone, developed his technique of optical plume velocimetry to study deep undersea thermal vents in the Pacific Ocean in 2006. </div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Source: <a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/09/100923142438.htm">Science Daily</a>.</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><b><br />
</b></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><b>Reference: <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1195840">Timothy Crone and Maya Tolstoy, <i>Magnitude of the 2010 Gulf of Mexico Oil Leak</i>. Science 2010</a>.<span style="color: red;"> Pay per view</span>.</b></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div>Majuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12369840391933337204noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563811638411839784.post-39555665074535658242010-09-23T04:41:00.001+02:002010-09-23T04:44:36.691+02:00UN: Zionist attack against Mavi Marmara broke International Law: summary executions and torture<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">What we all knew already but it is always good to see it ratified by an international institution such as the <a href="http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/hrcouncil/">UN Human Rights Council</a>.<br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/hrcouncil/docs/15session/A.HRC.15.21_en.pdf">The report</a> also said that there was clear evidence to prosecute Israeli criminals under article 174 of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geneva_Conventions">Geneva Convention</a> for the charges of: willful killing, torture or inhuman treatment and willfully causing great suffering or serious injury to body or health.</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><blockquote style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Mission considers that several violations and offences have been committed. It is not satisfied that, in the time available, it can say that it has been able to compile a comprehensive list of all offences. However, there is clear evidence to support prosecutions of the following crimes within the terms of article 147 of the Fourth Geneva Convention: </blockquote><blockquote style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><ul><li>wilful killing;</li>
<li>torture or inhuman treatment;</li>
<li>wilfully causing great suffering or serious injury to body or health.</li>
</ul>The Mission also considers that a series of violations of Israel’s obligations under international human rights law have taken place, including:</blockquote><blockquote style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><ul><li style="text-align: justify;">right to life (article 6, ICCPR);</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment (article 7, ICCPR; CAT);</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">right to liberty and security of the person and freedom from arbitrary arrest or detention (article 9, ICCPR)</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"> right of detainees to be treated with humanity and respect for the inherent dignity of the human person (article 10, ICCPR);</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">freedom of expression (article 19, ICCPR).</li>
</ul><div style="text-align: justify;">The right to an effective remedy should be guaranteed to all victims. The mission must not be understood to be saying that this is a comprehensive list by any means.</div></blockquote><blockquote style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;">266. The Mission notes that the retention by the Israeli authorities of unlawfully seized property remains a continuing offence and Israel is called upon to return such property forthwith. </div></blockquote><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">The report also <i>hopes</i> that Israel will cooperate in handing the perpetrators of these crimes and compensating the victims <i>adequately and promptly</i>. But they <i>regret</i> the lack of cooperation by Israel. </div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">They also state that:</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><blockquote style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">All the passengers on board the ships comprising the flotilla who appeared before the Mission impressed the members as persons genuinely committed to the spirit of humanitarianism and imbued with a deep and genuine concern for the welfare of the inhabitants of Gaza.</blockquote></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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