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September 15, 2024
The MoA Week In Review – OT 2024-219

Ukraine:

War with Russia:

Election:

Palestine:


Other issues:


Empire:

Boeing:

China:

Use as open (not related to the wars in Ukraine and Palestine) thread …

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Evolution of humans.
Humans are considered those that made tools. Monkeys will use a rock as a hammer to break open nuts and hard shelled food. They will break off a thin branch and break off the leafy end to make a tool to pry some food out of a tree hollow.
Stones have been found that have been broken to form a sharp edge. A small number of flakes taken off deliberately and the makers of these are considered the first humans. a few fragments of skull have been found in this area, enough to put together and see the makers bore little difference to other monkey’s. From that point on improvements in tools making can be traced, fragments of skull give and idea of the features of the tool maker as those features changed. Modern humans are considered those with the same skull features as ours namely brain cavity and slope of face. Neanderthals and Denisovans are earlier humans yet modern humans interacted with them and all modern humans apart from Africans carry their dna which indicates they evolved from other early humans already out of Africa.
Horses and donkeys are closely related yet the offspring, mules are sterile and cannot reproduce. Neanderthals and Early modern Humans both had the same tools. Well developed stone points and cutting edges, grinding stones, twine, fire ect. Modern humans developed more tools, very slowly at first, speeding up perhaps around the start of the holocene then new tool development became always faster up to the speed at which we develop new things today.
Development since that first early human has progressed through several ice ages and interglacials both far colder and far hotter than the current holocene.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Sep 20 2024 3:20 utc | 201

Posted by: All Under Heaven | Sep 18 2024 20:38 utc | 158
“I have grouped you with the bad actors on this site because of your stance on China. You, as I recall, made a comment suggesting that China belongs to the imperialist camp due to China not paying off other Global South countries’ debts with China’s foreign reserves. “
All Under Heaven, you are making stuff up. I never suggested that China belongs to the imperialist camp. What I did say was that China could pay off the debt of the poor countries that are being exploited/raped stripped of their resources under the rubric of debt.
If China was to pay off those debts with its dollar holding, it will accomplish two thing: 1) get rid of all those dollar holdings that will never be used. 2) Will find good will in the countries that it helped. Nothing about conquering them.
You’d do well to familiarize yourself with: forgive them their debts. A fascinating book by Michael Hudson.
The following from the review of the book at bnb
“The Real Message of Jesus: Jesus’s first sermon announced that he had come to proclaim a Clean Slate debt cancellation (the Jubilee Year), as was first described in the Bible (Leviticus 25), and had been used in Babylonia since Hammurabi’s dynasty. This message – more than any other religious claim – is what threatened his enemies, and is why he was put to death. This interpretation has been all but expunged from our contemporary understanding of the phrase, “…and forgive them their debts,” in The Lord’s Prayer. It has been changed to “…and forgive them their trespasses (or sins),” depending on the particular Christian tradition that influenced the translation from the Greek opheilēma/opheiletēs (debts/debtors).
Contrary to the message of Jesus, also found in the Old Testament of the Bible and in other ancient texts, debt repayment has become sanctified and mystified as a way of moralizing claims on borrowers, allowing creditor elites and oligarchs the leverage to take over societies and privatize personal and public assets – especially in hard times. Historically, no monarchy or government has survived takeover by creditor elites and oligarchs (viz: Rome). Perhaps most striking is that – according to a nearly complete consensus of Assyriologists and biblical scholars – the Bible is preoccupied with debt forgiveness more than with sin. [emphasis mine]

Posted by: Sakineh Bagoom | Sep 21 2024 3:35 utc | 202

Addendum to my @202
Is there a guarantee that China’s dollar holdings will not be stolen, when the shooting war starts?
Was Russia’s holdings safe?
Better to do something positive with those holdings – now that China can – , than having them stolen. No?

Posted by: Sakineh Bagoom | Sep 21 2024 4:20 utc | 203

Looks like gold hit another ATH, while the world is running to the exit door on western FIAT. My-oh-my…

Posted by: unimperator | Sep 21 2024 8:01 utc | 204