Largest known child sacrifice site discovered in Peru

Researchers believe the 140 children were sacrificed 550 years ago by the Chimú civilisation as floods ravaged the coastline

Archaeologists in northern Peru say they have found evidence of what could be the world’s largest single case of child sacrifice.

The burial site, known as Las Llamas, contains the skeletons of 140 children who were aged between five and 14 when they were ritually sacrificed during a ceremony about 550 years ago, archaeologists said on Friday.

The site, located near the city of Trujillo, also contained the remains of 200 young llamas apparently sacrificed on the same day.

The burial site was apparently built by the Chimú empire. It is thought the children were sacrificed as floods caused by the ravaged the Peruvian coastline.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/apr/28/largest-known-child-sacrifice-site-discovered-in-peru

Life on Mars? Scientists close to solving mystery of the red planet

Mission to find source of methane detected in atmosphere may have an answer in months, researchers believe

Scientists have begun an experiment aimed at solving one of astronomy’s most intriguing puzzles: the great Martian methane mystery.

In the next few months they hope to determine whether tantalising whiffs of the gas that have been detected on the red planet in recent years are geological in origin – or are produced by living organisms.

On Earth, methane is produced mostly by microbes, although the gas can also be generated by relatively simple geological processes underground. The ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter, which has been manoeuvring itself above Mars for more than a year, has been designed to determine which of these sources is responsible for the planet’s methane. Last week sensors on the craft were deployed and began making their first measurements of the planet’s atmosphere.

“If we find traces of methane that are mixed with more complex organic molecules, it will be a strong sign that methane on Mars has a biological source and that it is being produced – or was once produced – by living organisms,” said Mark McCaughrean, senior adviser for science and exploration at the European Space Agency.

“However, if we find it is mixed with gases such as sulphur dioxide, that will suggest its source is geological, not biological. In addition, methane made biologically tends to contain lighter isotopes of the element carbon than methane that is made geologically.”

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/apr/28/proof-life-mars-months-away-gas-orbiter

This is going to be so cool...................

Trump calls for Senator Jon Tester to resign over Ronny Jackson claims

Montana senator released damaging allegations about VA nominee
Trump tweets: ‘His reputation has been shattered. Not fair, Tester!’

Donald Trump has called for the resignation of Jon Tester, the Democratic senator who released details of allegations against Ronny Jackson, the White House doctor who withdrew his nomination to be secretary of veterans affairs.

“Allegations made by Senator Jon Tester against Admiral/Doctor Ron Jackson are proving false,” the president tweeted. “The Secret Service is unable to confirm (in fact they deny) any of the phony Democrat charges which have absolutely devastated the wonderful Jackson family. Tester should resign.”

Before playing golf in Virginia on Saturday morning, Trump added a shot aimed at voters in Montana, where Tester will run for a third term in November against an as yet undecided Republican. The GOP primary, on 5 June, will feature one candidate who has hired an aide who lied about the assault of a Guardian reporter by congressman Greg Gianforte in 2017.

The Senate majority whip, John Cornyn, said on Thursday Tester had “poked the bear”, inviting Trump to intervene in a state he won by 20 points in 2016. On Saturday morning Trump duly growled, writing: “The great people of Montana will not stand for this kind of slander when talking of a great human being.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/apr/28/trump-senator-jon-tester-resign-ronny-jackson


Hey sexual fucking predator, if you think this character should be in the VA ..................its real simple , why don't you renominate him and let him go before the Senate and testify.................you will not because you are a spineless hypocrite, and a traitor, that what is called due process, because this dude would have to meet his accusers and those that saw him operate, and you don't want to get egg on your face................but you don't know about due process, he back ed out and you backed out, because his accusers are more than likely telling the truth..................and John Testers has bigger balls than you do...............and was doing his job--------------------vetting..................

The teachers' strikes prove it: the media is finally seeing America's new labor landscape

Auto workers, the Fight for $15 campaign and teachers’ activism are proving organized labor can still make a difference

Fifty thousand teachers dressed in red closed down Phoenix, Arizona, on Friday – the latest in a series of strikes by educators across America.

The media is abuzz with the strikes, finally waking up to the giant forces that seem to be reshaping the labor landscape in America.

Media attention was also unusually high when I covered the 110-mile March for Education by striking teachers across Oklahoma earlier this month. Local news helicopters buzzed overhead and CNN – fresh off covering the West Virginia teachers’ strike – covered the story in depth.

But where were they last year during the historic March on Mississippi against Nissan, led by Senator Bernie Sanders and Danny Glover?

Last March, as more than 5,000 union supporters marched down the highway singing, “We are ready, we are ready, Nissan”, a young civil rights lawyer from Memphis noticed my tattered yellow-and-white mesh “Washington-Baltimore Newspaper Guild” hat and asked if I was the only the only member of the national press there that day. I didn’t encounter any others.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/apr/28/us-teachers-strikes-workers-labor-unions

Imagine a democrat doing this on what Ryan did with a priest

Imagine a democrat doing this on what Ryan did with a priest

The US government should cede territory back to Native Americans

Historically, immigrants were given special rights to take Native land. If Trump says we are no longer a nation of immigrants, that has consequences

Does the federal government mean to cede the territory of the United States back to the Native Americans?

The US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has altered its mission statement, removing the characterization of America as a “nation of immigrants” in order to emphasize the new goal of “securing the homeland”. Some critics made the point that most citizens are immigrants or their descendants, while others noted that most Americans believed that immigration should remain stable or increase.

Yet the problem with the change in language lies deeper. According to our own legal tradition, Americans claim sovereignty over the territory of the US as immigrants, precisely because the territories in question were someone else’s homeland: the Native Americans’.

Since our country exists, we don’t ask ourselves how or why. The legal foundation of the federal claim to dominion over territory is something called the Doctrine of Discovery, a notion that goes back five centuries. As European explorers sought new maritime passages and found new lands, popes granted European powers the authority to “invade, search out, capture, vanquish and subdue” the people they found.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/apr/28/us-government-native-americans-timothy-snyder

Nicaragua's toppling 'trees' strike ominous note for Daniel Ortega's rule

The metal sculptures were meant to beautify cityscapes but for protesters they came to symbolise a revolutionary who lost touch

When protesters flooded the streets of Managua this week, their anger found an unusual target: a garish metal forest of 17-metre (56ft) sculptures known as the Árboles de la Vida.

The multimillion-dollar art project – inspired by the work of the Austrian painter Gustav Klimt – was reputedly inflicted upon Nicaragua’s capital and other cities by first lady Rosario Murillo in an attempt at civic beautification.

For critics, however, the multicoloured structures – more than 140 of which now adorn roundabouts, street corners and parks – have come to symbolize how Daniel Ortega’s Sandinista Front (FSLN) has lost touch with the people in whose name it once fought.

As deadly anti-government protests gripped Central America’s largest country this week – and the death toll reportedly rose to more than 60 – the trees came crashing down.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/apr/28/nicaragua-daniel-ortega-trees-of-life-protests

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Tens of thousands have joined student-led protests, which started as an outbreak of fury over social security reforms and morphed into a broader revolt against the authorities’ violent response – and Ortega’s 11-year rule. At least forty-two people have died in the unrest, .

“We came in memory of the university students who fell fighting a dictatorship,” said Cinthia Madrigal, 30, who joined a march in Managua. “We took to the streets peacefully … and Daniel ordered us to be killed.”

Humboldt survivor has breakthrough as support continues to pour in

In the midst of a charity hot stove event for his son’s Humboldt Broncos on Wednesday night, Tom Straschnitzki left the room to answer his phone.

It was Ryan calling from his bed in the Foothills Hospital’s spine unit with big news.

He moved his toes.

Hours earlier Ryan had been surrounded by a throng of journalists at his first press conference as the unofficial face of the Broncos, reiterating his goal of proving doctors who say he’ll never walk again wrong.

Later in the evening, during a quiet visit with a friend, the 19-year-old defenceman with no feeling below his chest willed toes on both his feet to move ever so slightly.

https://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/juniors/humboldt-survivor-breakthrough-support-continues-pour/

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The Black 14: Race, Politics, Religion and Wyoming Football

Published: November 8, 2014
During the second period of the season-opening football game against Arizona on Sept. 20, 1969, a packed house at the University of Wyoming's War Memorial Stadium watched as Cowboys' split end Ron Hill, a sophomore from Denver, caught a pass and took it 24 yards into the end zone. It was Wyoming's first touchdown in the 100th anniversary year of college football.

In the third quarter, Jay Berry—then called Jerry Berry—a sophomore safety from Tulsa, Okla., intercepted an Arizona pass on his own 12-yard line and returned it 88 yards for another touchdown.

But these football triumphs faded quickly from public memory when a controversy that fall linking sports, race, religion and protest politics swung the nation’s news spotlights to Laramie, Wyoming at a time when Americans were already deeply divided over civil rights and the Vietnam War. Controversy erupted over the expulsion of 14 African-American football players from the Cowboys’ varsity. They came to be known as the Black 14.

A Winning Team

The Cowboys opened the season by defeating Arizona, the Air Force Academy, Colorado State University and the University of Texas at El Paso, and were ranked 12th in the nation in the United Press International coaches poll as the players prepared for their next game against Brigham Young University. The UW team led the nation in rushing defense.

https://www.wyohistory.org/encyclopedia/black-14-race-politics-religion-and-wyoming-football