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Yeesh
I was hoping 2026 would be better than 2025, but, the first week of January 2026 makes it clear that at least with world-wide happenings, that was just wishful thinking. I'm not a Madero fan, but I'm also not a fan of kidnapping another country's leader. And the heightened threats against... Greenland? Good grief! Stay the hell away from Greenland. No invading, no seizing, no 'buying'. Stay away!

So, I'm presenting some interesting things that have to do with archaeology and not with world politics. At least, modern world politics.

Fire!
Evidence has been found in England that Neanderthals were making and using fires some 400,000 years ago. This is like 350,000 years older than the next oldest evidence of human fire making. Here's a very good BBC presentation/article about the finds.

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be well and have a good one all

Headline USA is a pro-Trump online news platform. But for some wierd reason, it links frequently to "Anti-war.com."

DOJ Walks Back Claim Maduro is the Leader of a Narco-Terrorist Cartel

Good morning everyone.
I've been surfing the intertubes for the great things the booty from capturing Venezuela will bring.
The heavy crude that is underneath it could bring down prices at the pump, refill our Strategic Petroleum Reserves, and make the oil companies very rich again.

Welcome to 2026

I'm not sure if we're in WWIII or just in wars all around the world. The US criminal enterprise has now kidnapped the president of another country in order to steal their resources. The fake cover story of drugs is more bogus than Iraq's WMD. Next up, Iran, where Trump has green lit an attack by Israel which he will back. I have no idea how western powers will cope with their loss in Ukraine, but my guess is badly. And then we have China, where we're sending weapons to one of their provinces (Taiwan) in order to provoke war there. Absolute insanity. This is a war on BRICS+ in order to thwart their rise. We remain ignorant to the fact that our actions have increased the influence of BRICS+ as the rest of the world tries to escape US bullying.