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Kamis, 24 Februari 2011

Ancient Britons Were Cannibals

Watch out Caribs. Your reputation could be under threat. This group of tribal people found in the West Indies when explorers first arrived were given the "badge" of real cannibals. It now seems cannibalism was practised elsewhere, in Britain as a matter of fact. Yes, in jolly old blighty.

Ancient Britons sat around the fire enjoying bloody drinks from skulls. They reached out to grab pieces of human flesh from the spit. Human remains from a dig at Glough's Cave show dismemberment of some bodies. There is evidence of butchering with bone marrow being removed. This is the most nutritious substance that can be obtained from a body. The edges of skulls were also smoothed to make them more comfortable to drink from.

While using skulls as drinking vessels is not evidence in itself that ancient Britons drank human blood from craniums - some non-meat eating people in Asia used them - prying damage of the skeletons clearly points to cannibalism occurring.

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Selasa, 02 Maret 2010

European Skull Found In New Zealand Dating before British Arrival

Captain Cook discovered Australia for Britain in 1770. If you believe this you are living in dreamland. The Portuguese took Malacca, a small Malaysian state, in 1511. Spain controlled part of the Philippines from 1521. Indonesia welcomed the Netherlands from 1596 and the Southeast Asian country was later ruled by the Dutch from 1825. France sent emissaries to Siam in 1600.

The question is did any of the sailors from these countries land in Australia before the British arrived in Singapore in 1819: note Britain had been around in India since 1612. It is obvious that Dutch sailors landed on the north coast of Australia because Indonesia is just next door. Why didn't they claim it? Why didn't Portugal claim it? The Portuguese colonized East Timor from 1613 and that is even closer. The truth is they didn't want it because they couldn't find any advanced societies there. No trade was on offer. In those days trade was everything. There was no welfare state in those days. You had to earn or starve. Seeing a few Aboriginals along the beaches and cliffs, they took on water and left.

What is surprising it that no real evidence of Europeans being in the Antipodes has been found - until now. The skull of a European woman has been found in Wellington, New Zealand. Carbon dating shows she was alive there in 1742. Dating is now very accurate. This settles the dispute about Aboriginals having genes for red hair. The gene definitely came from Europeans who landed in Australia, before the red-haired Aboriginals were discovered.

So Europeans had visited New Zealand before Captain Cook "discovered" it in 1769. It was claimed for Britain in 1839, first being ruled from New South Wales. Then the whole country was claimed by Britain in 1840.

Getting back to the skull. When first found police thought they had a murder on their hands when they saw puncture wounds. The woman must have arrived there by "independent' means, probably by a European ship sailing at the captain's whim. Abel Tasman saw the shore of New Zealand in 1642 but had no women aboard his ship. Why did it take Europeans another century to search for the great southern land again?

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Jumat, 29 Januari 2010

Australians Are the Most Sinful on Earth - According to the Brits

Trust the Brits to judge the world - they invented the hoity-toity foppish English accent that meant people who spoke that way were superior to the rest of us. Acting "posh" doesn't mean you are better! A BBC magazine says that Australians are the most sinful on earth. Yea, we have heard it all before every since the day we first won a cricket match against them. According to them we envy everybody else. What rubbish! We couldn't give a damn about anyone else. Live life to the full that is our moto. If you don't like it live somewhere else.

They have lampooned other countries as well though. Americans are gluttonous and greedy. South Africans are angry with everyone. Japanese and Koreans lust after everything.

The magazine attached values to things we do, for example, plastic surgery (pride), violent crime (wrath), theft (envy), holidays (sloth), food (gluttony), salary (greed) and porn (lust).

Australians are busy little creatures. Apparently we do all of these. Think what everyone else is missing out on! We always thought the Brits were envious of us. Now we know why. Start a barbecue, open the beer, and Aussies will be there. Of course we like to indulge. That is what life is about.

You see the real problem in the world is actually, well, the Brits. They stick their noses into other people's business - without being asked.

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Senin, 25 Januari 2010

Calls to Change the Australian Flag

Celebrities like Ray Martin want to change the Australian flag, but it is the national anthem that needs changing. I do not believe there is enough support for changing the flag. After all we do not yet have a republic so there is no call to remove the Union Jack from the corner. Moreover, the Southern Cross is a star constellation that truly represents the country and is the natural view of the heavens from here.

Ray Martin is about twenty percent Aboriginal so he calls himself a native Australian. Just why he believes that he has more right than anyone else to decide on what happens to this country is beyond me. There is one thing that will push Australians to choose to become a republic. That is Prince Charles becoming king. If Prince William is the next King of England many Australians could want to keep him as head of state.

Getting back to the Australian flag. Ray Martin would obviously want the Aboriginal flag in the corner. But I personally do not want this. Aboriginals have been here for perhaps 60,000 years, yet they did not at any time form a nation. If the British flag is irrelevant to new Australians then certainly the Aboriginal flag will be as well. It is unlikely that the Aboriginal flag will ever be incorporated into a new national flag. Tasmanian Aboriginals own rights to the Aboriginal flag, or so they say. And they have put a caveat on its use demanding land, a treaty and more rights than white Australians.

A possible alternative could be the Eureka flag. It denotes rebellion, a fight against a tax on gold mining. Not enough Australians would agree on anything else. So prospects are not strong on changing to a new flag.

When people from other countries think of Australia they can hum a tune about the country and that tune is not Australia Fair. That song is Waltzing Matilda. And everyone knows that Matilda does not refer to a woman. The reason why this is not the Australian National Anthem, the tune at least, it due to a copyright problem. Apparently, the melody is owned by an American company. Though this ownership is contentious. After all these years if the company is not forthcoming in an agreement for Australia to use the tune this nation should go ahead and use it anyway. A little international "tango" would liven up debate.

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