Despite the fact that I have some critical views about Islam myself, I continue to hold that the Islamophobes of the world are insane. They make no sense at all. Another commenter noted recently that the Hindutvadis of India (really nearly all middle to upper class high caste Hindus) have a hatred of Islam that makes no sense whatsoever and is completely irrational. I would agree with that. The Hindutvadi commenters on this blog have a truly irrational hatred of Islam.
To some extent it is true that Islam is a menace, and it is a violent religion, but it’s mostly a problem in the various sandboxes that are ruled by Islam. In other words, Islam is mostly a problem for Muslims and not for the rest of us. To the extent that it is a problem for the rest of is is mostly due to the fact that we can’t seem to stop attacking and killing Muslims. As long as we do that, they will wage defense or revenge based Islam on us.
The truth is that that most Islamophobes are motivated by reaction. There are very few progressive Islam-haters (there are some in Afghanistan and Iran) because Islamophobia is not a progressive value.
Almost all Islamophobes in the West are motivated by political reaction. In other words, they are beasts themselves – they are the very beasts that they accuse the Muslims of being. In Europe, Islamophobes are associated with the most reactionary elements of Europe – European and even White nationalists. They are also associated with all of the fascist and quasi-fascist parties in Europe.
They are strongly aligned with Zionism, a vile imperialist and settler-colonial fascist project that occupies and conquers Arab lands and has expansionist aims on the rest of it.They are politically reactionary, and many of them have begun to rail against socialism and the welfare state and have started to rail for radical neoliberal economics. In the UK, they are responsible for Crusade-like invasions of Muslim lands in Libya, Iraq and Afghanistan.
In Russia it is much the same, except the Islam-haters are even worse – more racist, more fascist and much more violent. They are associated with a violent project to deny the majority-Muslim lands in the Caucasus their right to self-determination, which is their inherent right after all. Instead, like Crusaders of recent European colonizers, the Russians have made much of the Caucasus into colonies. In the meantime, they committed genocide against the Muslims of Chechnya.
In Israel, the Islamophobes are associated with the most fascist, backwards, conquering and expansionist elements of the Jews. I should note that these same elements hate Christians and non-Jews about as much as they hate Islam. These are the monsters of the Jewish people, as wicked as they accuse the Muslims of being. This group is also politically reactionary, and is responsible for imposing radical neoliberalism on Israel which has resulted in many social problems, including widespread homelessness.
In Lebanon, the Muslim haters are associated with the Maronite Christian Falangist movement, a true fascist movement that has the distinction of being the first movement to bring European style fascism (like the Nazis) to Lebanon. The founders of this movement worshiped Hitler. This is a true monstrosity, a blood and soil fascist movement that has deep roots in Maronite society. In addition, this group is politically reactionary, supporting the closest thing to radical neoliberalism anywhere in the Arab World.
In India, the Muslim haters are the most poisonous, backwards, fascistic and casteist elements of Indian society, strongly associated with the high caste Hindu elite. There is a lot of evidence that the hatred of Islam by Hindutvadis is because the Muslims humiliated the high castes and removed them from their position of privilege in Hindu society. This is an extremely fascist movement whose leaders also worshiped Hitler. They are responsible for a genocide against Muslims in Gujarat in which 2,500 Muslims were slaughtered with state support.
This movement is associated also with radical neoliberal economics and hatred for socialism and the poor and lower castes of India. It is an elite movement designed to deepen poverty in India, enrich the high castes and restore the high castes to their position of privilege which they felt was denied them in a movement since Independence. They represent the most primitive and barbaric elements of Hindu culture, which is backwards, cruel, amoral and parasitic anyway. These are the monsters of India and the monsters of the world, a danger to the SubCon and to the rest of us as they spread out like a plague around the globe. They are every bit as vicious and monstrous as the Muslims they hate so much.
The bottom line is that Islamophobes are simply bad people.
Everywhere it exists on Earth, it is associated with idiotic and barbaric religious fundamentalism, either Jewish, Christian or Hindu. It is generally associated with the most reactionary elements in every society, and it usually wishes to impose radical rightwing economics on society in the form of neoliberalism.
This is an elite project designed to enrich the top 20% of society while impoverishing when it is not starving or killing off the bottom 80%. It has been responsible for many millions of deaths in the last few decades, mostly via denial of medical care through mandated state kickbacks. In some societies like Israel, Europe and Russia, it is associated with racism in the form of ethnic nationalism – Jewish nationalism in Israel and White nationalism in Europe and Russia.
If Islamophobes were decent people themselves then we might have a movement to counterpoise the backwards and violent nature of Islam. Instead they are just as bad as the Muslims and in fact in many cases, they are probably even worse. They vastly exaggerate and lie about Muslims and Islam, and ridiculous overplay the dangers associated with this religion, which is mostly a danger to its own adherents anyway.
I think Roger Hill is onto something here. Robert mistakes capitalism for opportunism and sociopathic behaviour in general. As I’ve pointed out before, we’ve seen exploitation in non-capitalist societies during various periods of history. Feudalism and Caste immediately come to mind.
Lee Kwan Yew once said that in order to spread the wealth around, a society must first create it. Capitalism is a good engine for wealth creation. Historically, its egalitarian societies that have been expansionist. The Arabs and Mongols come to mind. They were expansionist because they failed to create any wealth for themselves. Once they acquired wealth through conquest, they divided it amongst themselves equally (more or less).
It’s obvious that the Rockerfellers/Fords etc. represent a ‘capitalism’ that is alien to Smith’s wealth of nations. Capitalism is merely privately owned factors of production. The elites mentioned above represent plutocratic sociopathic insanity at its highest degree.
Under capitalism, all manner and degrees of opportunism, corruption, lying, cheating, stealing and sociopathic behavior becomes positively epidemic.
That is because in pursuit of money, humans will do just about anything: lie, cheat, steal, become opportunists or corrupt, and behave sociopathically in every manner and degree possible. They will also commit tons of crime and will tend to abuse women in all sorts of ways.
We saw much less of this behavior in the socialist societies of the last century. When these socieites such as Eastern Europe, the USSR and China went to capitalism, the crime rate went through the roof, entire nations became corrupt to the core, and the abuse of women increased dramatically. In fact, some socieites were almost completely taken over by organized crime. Russia to this day is significantly controlled by Organized Crime. Organized crime elements run Russia and rule it via the state.
In the past century, the most egalitarian societies committed little aggression, started few wars and committed few acts of conquest in order to obtain more land and acquire new markets and resources. On the contrary, almost all aggression in the past century was committed by unequal capitalist (and imperialist) countries trying to conquer new lands and peoples for new markets and to steal their resources for the capitalists.
In fact a world regime of capitalism virtually guarantees almost continuous wars among capitalist countries over dividing markets and resources. Capitalist countries will always fight each other over markets and resources. This is almost guaranteed under capitalism, and there does not seem to be any way around it. A world of capitalism is a world of constant war with no way out.
Under more socialist systems, crime, corruption, abuse of women, wars of aggression, homelessness, hunger and preventive disease are dramatically reduced, as is all manner of egoistic sociopathic behavior.
As those societies transition to a capitalist model, crime, corruption, abuse of women, aggressive (imperialist) wars, homelessness, hunger and deaths due to preventive disease often skyrocket.
Morgan Matthews has no Bigfoot body. Morgan Matthews of Minnow Films has issued a statement saying that he personally and Minnow as a company is not in possession of any Bigfoot body. Thanks to Rick Dyer’s blog for breaking this info to us. The report was from a personal phone call to Matthews himself.
Photos of the Dyer Bigfoot (Hank) surface. At least three photos of Hank, dead, have surfaced. They were emailed to Musky Allen, who unfortunately forwarded them on Dyer, who got pretty upset as he received them on his radio show.
The first two photos show what looks like a crime scene with terrain similar to the shooting scene in San Antonio, Texas. There are a dozen or so men standing around, and Dyer is one of them. Hank is lying dead on the ground and the men are circled around him.
The third photo shows a group of men attempting to load Hank, who is on some sort of a platform, into the back of some sort of a truck. This photo was apparently taken as they were getting ready to transport Hank to Las Vegas. Another version says that the photo is of Hank in the back of the truck as it was being transported to the facility.
Rick took the photos after they were sent to him and acted pretty mad that they were released. Allen has apparently not released them to anyone else. It appears that DJ Bashers may have been the one who released the photos in a pique of anger. Bashers had just been demoted as Vice President of Rick’s company, and his anger over this may have caused him to leak the photos. DJ had indeed seen Hank as he was being loaded onto the truck in San Antonio.
Both Bashers and Musky have signed NDA’s with Dyer. Even if Bashers did release the photos, he might not admit it as it no doubt violates his NDA. NDA’s can be pretty intimidating documents. Bashers may be related to Rick, possibly a cousin.
Where do the pics come from? Apparently a number of pics of Hank were taken, and someone got their hands on a few of them when they were not supposed to.
There was a note attached to the pics telling Musky that he could use the pics to end some of the arguments over whether or not Dyer was hoaxing. Apparently the person forwarding the pics was concerned because Musky had taken some heat over his position on the Dyer matter, and the sender wanted Musky to use the pics to ameliorate his position in the debate. I do know that the pics came from the US, not the UK, and that they did not come to Musky’s Facebook account. Instead they went to his email. However, Musky’s email account is not well known, so this person has some inside information.
At present, we only know of three people who have seen the photos: Musky, the person who sent them to Musky, and Rick Dyer, who received them from Musky.
Unfortunately, the Dyer detractors are so intransigent that even the release of those three pics would hardly budge one single person over to Rick’s side. It is sad the way this thing has gotten politicized.
Shooting Bigfoot press kit says Matthews suffered “scars” during the shooting of the movie. The press kit for the movie does not have a lot of information, but it does say that Matthews suffered “physical and mental scars” in the shooting of the movie. That is very interesting. The physical scars may refer to Hank attacking Matthews after the initial shot, knocking Matthews down, or may refer to the fist fight that ensued afterwards.
The phrase may also refer to scars that Matthews got in a wild fistfight that occurred between Dyer and Matthews and possibly the rest of the crew after Hank was killed. The fight happened because Dyer had created a gigantic mess by killing an actual Bigfoot in the shooting of the movie. The crew may also have sympathized with the dead Hank. They may also have been mad at Dyer for endangering Matthews life by shooting Hank in the back, causing it to charge Matthews and Rick.
Blurb from Finding Bigfoot discusses scars incurred by Matthews in filming the movie.
Top Bigfoot Forums administrator now supports Dyer. A top BFF administrator now says that he has inside information about the Dyer shooting that “prevents him from declaring it not true.” This person had apparently been a strong supporter of the hoax theory for a long time.
Dallas Gilbert says, “Rick Dyer saved Morgan Matthews life.” Someone named “Dallas” called in to one of Dyer’s radio shows and made that statement. This refers to how Dyer shot Hank in the head as he was charging Matthews. The dying Hank then attacked Matthews, knocking him down on its way to trying to get to Rick.
Matthews was apparently injured when Hank attacked him. According to Dallas, if Rick would not have shot Hank, since he was coming at Matthews, he would have killed Matthews or at least hurt him badly as he was attacking Morgan at the time. Dallas can only refer to Dallas Gilbert, who is one of the people featured in Shooting Bigfoot. How did Gilbert learn this? Gilbert must have talked to Matthews, who confirmed the story about Matthews nearly being killed on the set of Shooting Bigfoot.
So Gilbert has apparently signed on to the shooting story. I suppose he is in on the hoax too, eh?
What will Shooting Bigfoot show? The movie will apparently show everything up to the shooting of Hank. After Hank is shot, the scene will then switch to Matthews on a plane flying back to the UK. He is filming himself, and the bruises on his face can be seen. Then the movie ends. You will walk out the theater wondering what you just saw.
Everything following the shooting, including the fight between Matthews and Dyer, the immediate aftermath of the shooting, the transportation of Hank’s body to Las Vegas and its autopsy, was also filmed and will be shown in a documentary filmed by Dyer and his investors. This documentary will be released by Rick and his team soon after Finding Bigfoot is released on April 30.
Mess surrounding immediate scene of Hank’s shooting cleared up. Rick first shot Hank in the back, and then Hank turned around and charged Rick. Hank knocked Matthews down on his way to Rick. Rick then circled around in back of Hank and shot him in the back of the head. Morgan was shooting film the whole time.
Presumably, not only was Morgan endangered by Hank attacking him, but Rick’s shot from the back also placed Morgan in the line of fire. So both shots at Hank definitely endangered Morgan too, but arguably Rick had to shoot when Hank started attacking Morgan.
Matthews’ reaction to the whole mess, the kill, being knocked to the ground, or both, was to physically assault Dyer in outrage. A fistfight between the two men then broke out which was soon broken up by the crew. Apparently no criminal charges were filed by either side due to the fight.
Chart makes the case that Dyer is not hoaxing. There are two sides to the Dyer mess. One says he is hoaxing, and the other says that he really did shoot a Bigfoot. The chart below lays out the arguments that Dyer is hoaxing and attempts to offer rejoinders to all of them, making the case that the story is true. The chart also mentions me and my friend Chris Noel as two of the most prominent Bigfoot writers who also happen to support Dyer, arguing that as evidence in favor of Dyer’s story.
Click to enlarge. Large file. Chart makes the case that the Dyer shooting is a true story. Chart was taken from the Bigfoot Warz website. The chart was done by David Durrett.
Politicization of the Rick Dyer mess. As noted above, the Dyer mess has been hopelessly politicized. Most people think it’s a hoax, and most of those hate Dyer. A smaller number think it is real, and most of them like Dyer. Now I take a medium position. I despise Rick Dyer, but I do think he has a body.
Not that I want to be friendly with the guy anyway, but the politicization of the hoax has somewhat prevented me from being friendlier to Dyer. After all, Steve Kulls still has email contact with Dyer, and Kulls is his worst enemy. Dyer won’t even have email contact with me. Not that I want it, but it might be nice to have some sort of contact, like the way opposing generals in a war have a phone line to each other.
The problem is that as soon as it comes out that I am “in with” Dyer, my name is mud, and I am “in on the hoax.” Then the smearing, digging up dirt on me and other skullduggery begins. So tragically, this means that the best situation is that Dyer and I remain at utter loggerheads.
Rumor in Sierra Kills story verified. I suggested a long time ago that in between the Sierra Kills and the body recovery mission a month later that Justin and a major Bigfoot researcher (I do not know who yet) went back to the scene of the Sierra Kills. Justin and everyone around him, including Derek Randles, have always denied that this is true. However, I have recently confirmed that Justin and this man did indeed make an attempt to go back there, but the story is that they were stopped by the huge amount of snow in the area and were not able to make it to scene. Therefore, the standard Sierra Kills story is not correct and may have to be amended.
More answers to Sierra Kills questions (rejoinders from the group around Justin answering all theories about the Kills). People around the scene continue to insist that the standard story is more or less correct. Let us look at some of the problems with the story:
Adrian Erickson stated to a source that he got a phone call from Melba Ketchum soon after the Sierra Kills. During that phone call, Ketchum stated that she had received two samples from the Kills with two different colors, one reportedly from the baby Bigfoot and one from the adult Bigfoot. The baby sample and all mention of it subsequently vanished off the face of the Earth. That was the last anyone has ever heard about it. Melba herself now says that she only received one sample, and that was from the adult.
Everyone around the story says this is not true.
One source said, “Well, Melba is a liar. She’s not to be trusted. She may have been lying about that.”
Erickson has not commented on the story, but he denies a lot of obvious truths that I report also. Actually he sends his person hit man, Randy Brisson, out to deny the truths that I report. I guess we can expect more of that shortly.
Justin and the driver have 16 pounds of Bigfoot. Justin told a friend of his that he and the driver had 16 pounds of Bigfoot stashed in freezers in a 25 mile radius around Sacramento. People around Justin all insist that he only has two pounds or so. In a phone call with me, Justin denied that he had ever told anyone he had 16 pounds.
Size of Bigfoot steak. According to Richard Stubstad, Ketchum described the steak as 4″ X 3″ X 2.5″, and Justin said that it was 1/8 of the sample. Stubstad calculated the weight of that size to 2 pounds. This lines up with 16 pounds. The size of the steak has now shrunken to 1″ X 1″ X 1″ as per Randles and Smeja, and they now say that the steak weighed 1/4 pound. Everyone around Justin continues to insist that only 1/4 pound was sent in and only 2 pounds were taken.
Recovery story makes no sense. A 600 pound Bigfoot simply does not get reduced down to two pounds of flesh in only one month in the woods, even after being scavenged. At the very least, all of the bones would have been present in addition to the flesh. It makes no sense that only a scrap of flesh was left along with no bones. Everyone around Justin continues to hold to the original version of the story, offering various unlikely scenarios for why the body had been reduced to such an implausible condition in such a short period of time.
Body of baby being stored near Palo Alto, California in a white locker owned by Wally Hersom. This is just a rumor, and the person won’t tell me how they know this. This person is a biggie in the Bigfoot scene but is widely regarded as “out there” and someone who pushes some pretty wild theories. Others say he is either hoaxing or simply imagining things. In other words, many think this person is a “flake.” This person has not yet produced any concrete evidence from their habituation site. At the moment, there is no evidence that the baby is being stored in a locker in Palo Alto.
Derek Randles and possibly members of his landscaping crew recovered the large body soon after the Kills. Supposedly, Randles and his crew and a few other researchers went down there soon after the Kills and recovered the body of the adult. The persons saying this are simply conjecturing because they say the body recovery story is not true they think Randles and Justin’s behavior is suspicious.
They tell me, “It must be true. It has to be true.”
However at the moment, there is absolutely no good hard evidence that Randles and a team went down soon afterwards and recovered the large body.
Bobo’s statements that they have the bodies. Bobo has made a couple of suspicious statements that indicate that he feels that bodies were recovered from the Sierra Kills. In a public meeting for a Finding Bigfoot show, someone talked to Bobo about the Sierra Kills story.
“They didn’t recover the bodies then? Why not?” the person asked Bobo.
“No! No! No! You don’t understand!” Bobo whispered in a frantic tone, his eyes wide. “They’ve got the bodies!”
“You mean they recovered the bodies?” the man asked.
“Yes!” Bobo hissed with an alarmed look on his face.
Bobo insists that he never made this statement and has cursed me out for reporting this.
He and people around him say that the person misheard Bobo, and Bobo actually said something like, “They don’t have the bodies!”
However, the person who spoke to Bobo continues to insist on his version of the story.
In another case, on the Joe Rogan Show, Rogan asked Bobo if bodies were recovered from the Sierra Kills site. Bobo stared at the mike for a second and paused as if starting to say something and then stopping.
Bobo then said in a hushed tone, “Can I speak to you after the show?”
Rogan said, “Sure.” Then Bobo launched into the standard body recovery story.
Persons around Justin say that this statement by Bobo means absolutely nothing whatsoever.
Statements that the Sierra Kills was from the leg of the adult Bigfoot. On the surface, this appears very suspicious. Melba Ketchum told Richard Stubstad that the piece was from the thigh of the large male Bigfoot. Bobo also stated on the Conan O’Brien Show that the piece was from the leg of the male. There is no way anyone could know if it was from the thigh or leg of the Bigfoot unless someone carved it off the thigh or the leg and told people that’s where they got the meat.
Persons around Justin say that Melba simply theorized with no evidence that the piece came from the leg, and then the story got legs, and everyone started repeating it.
Body or bodies are in possession of Wally Hersom. Once again, this is just conjecture. People say that if the bodies exist, they are with Wally Hersom.
“They have to be with Wally. They can’t be with anyone else,” they tell me.
However, there is absolutely no good hard evidence that Wally Hersom has any Sierra Kills bodies or even that any bodies were retained at all.
If bodies exist, they would be released by now. People around Justin all say that if bodies existed, they would have been released by now. However, I have evidence that these people have excellent evidence to hide any bodies that may or may not exist. The reason for hiding them would be to protect the identities of those who took, who see their careers as researchers ruined if it comes out that they were involved in hiding bodies.
Some theorize that the bodies were going to be released with a fake story to deny the Sierra Kills story because it seems so ugly. Instead, the Bigfoots would have been recovered in a more friendly manner.
Also people state that Justin and those around him are not worried at all about Justin going to jail if bodies are released. However, I have information that some of the people around Justin are incredibly worried about just that. In fact, Derek Randles was extremely worried about that for sometime after the Kills.
After it came out that Bigfoots were part human on MtDNA, Randles told a source, “Those things are coming back human MtDNA. That means that Justin is guilty of murder if they prove he shot those things!” He reiterated that point numerous points. Randles now states that he never worried at any time that Justin might go to jail.
Whether Justin is himself, I do not know. He says he is not. If bodies are being hidden, it is for two reasons: to keep Justin out of jail and to protect identities of those who may have hidden bodies. However, as I noted above, there is not yet any good evidence that any bodies were retained from the Kills.
Justin would not have left the baby there at the scene. People who know Justin say that he never would have left the body of the baby at the scene because he is a taxidermist, and taxidermists always recover their special kills.
“There is no way on Earth a taxidermist would have left that body lying there,” I was told. “One thing you need to learn about taxidermists. Taxidermists are hoarders. They don’t leave great kills at the scene. Never.”
However, Justin says he did just that because he and the driver were so freaked out by the whole mess. They put the baby under a bush and drove away frantically, worried about California Department of Fish and Game (DFG) officials coming to get them.
Justin was worried because they had been drinking and shooting and were supposedly poaching. The argument is that Justin and the driver were drinking and hunting (illegal) and were poaching. For this reason, they were afraid of the DFG and this explains some of their behavior. Bobo said both of them were “pretty loaded on beer” after drinking beer much of the afternoon. However, Justin says he only had 1-2 beers. The poaching story keeps coming up for some reason and won’t go away. However, Justin insists that he was not poaching.
There is no evidence that Justin had more than a couple of beers or that he was poaching that day. However, he did shoot the Bigfoot from the truck, which is illegal.
True story of the Sierra Kills, like the JFK shooting, may never be resolved. Whether the standard version of the story is true or whether the other theories which folks around Justin deny are true will probably never be proven. The standard story will no doubt become received truth, and this is how history will be written. The other theories will simply be described as wild conspiracy theories with no evidence to back them, which is true (at least the no evidence part).
The bodies, if they exist, will probably never show up at this point. Too much damage has been done and the risk to various folks’ public images has been too great. If the bodies exist, they will probably be burned in a pile somewhere or dumped into the ocean. However, as noted, there is no evidence yet that the standard story is not true or that bodies were recovered or even retained.
Like the JFK shooting, there will be a “standard historical view” of the Sierra Kills case, and all other theories will be relegated to the conspiracy pile, and the debate between the two sides will probably go on for a long time unresolved.
We will probably never solve the question of whether the standard view is true, and there will probably always be folks who insist that bodies were recovered and kept after the incident. At this point, there is not a whole lot more to write about this story as it seems the Standard View is set in stone for now, and hard evidence, if it exists, will probably never be forthcoming. We may as well bury it and move on.
Why is Justin’s Sierra Kills Bigfoot steak testing as “bear?” Indeed the Kills steak has tested as “bear” in a few different lab results. Dr. Melba Ketchum’s detractors all say that this shows she is hoaxing or at the very least is incompetent. The hoax theory means that she knows it is a piece of bear, but she is pretending it is a piece of Bigfoot in order to hoax her scientific study.
However, there is a way to reconcile the two stories. We can simply say that there is a possibility that the body of the large one was scavenged by bears before the recovery, and this is why it is testing as bear. This is what a source told me, and I think it is a good theory for the two completely different results.
Strange Alberta Sasquatch photo may be the real deal. The very odd photo below was supposedly taken by a trapper in Alberta. It is said to show the back of a Bigfoot sitting down on the ground. It is not known why only one photo exists, and we do not have much of a back story on the photo. No one quite knows what is in the photo, whether it is one Bigfoot or two, or whether it is a bear instead. However, a friend of mine who works at a museum said it was a real Bigfoot, due to the hair.
I said, “But it looks so weird!”
He replied, “Well, Sasquatches are pretty weird animals!”
However, many insist that this is a photo of a bear. Make up your own mind.
Very weird photo of a possible Bigfoot in Alberta, Canada, shot from the back. It is apparently sitting on the ground.
Strange photos of Bigfoots shot by humans. All of these photos are said to originate long ago, mostly from the 1800′s. Two have been proven to be a fakes, but no one knows what the other one is.
The photo below showing the man standing next to the upside down dead Bigfoot has been proven to be a Photoshopped fake. This one originally surfaced on the Cryptomundo site.
Click to enlarge. Photoshopped fake of an old photo showing a hunter with a dead Bigfoot.
The very strange photo below surfaced somehow a little while ago and made it onto Loren Coleman’s fine Cryptomundo site. The writing on the back of the photo says the creature was killed by trappers in a certain location in coastal British Colombia. The date is given as a date in 1892. This photo is very odd and does not appear to be a fake. On the other hand, some say this is a common animal like a bobcat or a mountain lion. It surely does not look like one to me. One of the most fascinating cryptozoology photos out there!
This very odd photo below, now been shown to be a fake, just recently surfaced. It is certainly an excellent fake.
A very well done fake photo of a Bigfoot supposedly shot in the 19th Century.
Microbiologist backs Ketchum’s Bigfoot DNA paper. A microbiologist, Dr. Tyler Kohnjohn, has backed Ketchum’s DNA paper, saying that while she did not prove that Bigfoots exist, she did prove that there is “something strange in the woods of North America.”
Kohnjohn notes Ketchum’s data on hair morphology (excellent evidence in my view) and the fact that she found unique strands of NuDNA across multiple samples in favor of his view. He also explains why the paper was rejected and why she had to self-publish. Her first target, a forensics journal, rejected her paper because it was “too genetic and biological.” The biologist believes that the data points to one of two origins for Bigfoot: it is either a hybrid or a mutant.
Three cheers to Melba for this great letter from a PhD showing support for her paper!
Ketchum threatening to sue Bart Cutino, Wally Hersom and Sally Ramey. Why she is threatening to sue all these folks, I have no idea. I would not take on Wally though. He is big money. This is the dark side of Melba – her psychopathology, moral blindness or ruthlessness, however you will have it. I have been reporting on the Machiavellian nature of this piece of work for a long time now and was shredded to pieces for what I said about the poor delicate woman. Now her latest moral failures have come to light, and just about everyone thinks she is shady and sleazy if not an out and out crook. So I am vindicated once again.
In Ketchum’s favor, I would say that she has the same personality traits as such human sharks as Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Larry Ellison, Steven Ballmer and Andy Grove. This clowns are now icons in US ubercapitalist culture which worships those who pile up grotesque mounds of wealth that they have no Earthly use for.
The dark side is that I know exactly what all of these quasi-sociopaths were and are like in their corporate personas, and to put it nicely, they were and are all monsters. How did they behave? Very much like Ms. Ketchum. So you can see the fair lady has some fine or at least finely tailored company.
Anyway, it’s almost a requirement to be a sociopath to rise to the heights of US turbo-capitalist society, so doubt Melba has the right idea. But look at all the bodies in churning in the frothy wake of this female great white Leviathan.
Russian Yeti video backed by Dr. Igor Burtsev. A new Russian Yeti video has been released and Burtsev says it shows a female Bigfoot and her baby. Here is the video.
I have my doubts about this video. First of all, it was filmed by boys of about junior high age or so. Boys age 12-14 are evil all over the world at all times and in all cultures. I should know, as I was a little devil myself. All videos by boys around this age so far have been shown to be hoaxes. I am pretty much ruling this video out automatically due to the 8th grade morons who shot it. Furthermore, I think there is something wrong with the footprints, and it looks like they may have been faked.
On the other hand, the footprints do go in the straight line pattern of a Yeti. Are these punks smart enough to figure out the straight line pattern of the Yeti and make these huge footprints? That seems dubious, but kids this age of both sexes, in addition to being Satanic, are also starting to get very smart. Remember the top level Piaget milestone of abstract thinking appears in year 12 (leaving aside those who remain concretists their whole lives).
I suppose I am in the fence on this one.
Ketchum now extracting DNA from ancient skeletons. Melba is now working on DNA from some very weird ancient Indian skeletons from the Americas. They are working on teeth and bones with a new technique that one of the co-authors of her paper mastered. Richard Stubstad stole a couple of bones from the Lovelock Indian samples in Nevada and gave them to her, but Ketchum declined to test them, saying she thought they were Indians.
Russian Yeti scares skiers video. A fine breakdown of the video from the great Michael Merchant. This is an older video, and I understand that Erickson has included it in his documentary. I have always thought this was a real Yeti. It was shot near Kemerovo in the Altai, and that is where a large number of Yeti sightings come from.
Basswood Bigfoot video. This idiotic hoaxed video has been around for a long time now. The whole scene from the setup to the dialogue to the kids in the back just screams hoax. Too bad there were no hunters around to shoot the guy in the monkey suit. I am really getting sick and tired of these hoaxing scumbags. It’s not funny, jerks!
Scott Carpenter HD Dogman video. New video from my friend Scott Carpenter showing HD video of what he says is a Dogman. Looks more like a blobsquatch to me. Scott says a number of folks thought his video was amazing. I am not so sure. I do think that Scott is in onto something as his samples have been proven to be positive for Dogmen by Ketchum and were apparently influential in her reported view that Dogmen are different from Bigfoots.
Russian Yeti stealing food from a snowy porch video. This video was shot in the very far north of Russia in the Murmansk region. This is a very odd video, and I think it might be a real Yeti. The thing’s mouth moves! Mouths don’t move on masks. The Yeti creeps up on the people and peeks over a porch at them, freaks them out, and then runs away. Superb breakdown by the excellent Michael Merchant.
Myakka State Park Bigfoot video. An excellent video recently shot at Myakka State Park in Florida. A man was driving along at dusk when he noticed several cars pulled off to the side of the road.
He pulled over too and saw a bipedal figure off in the distance along with several deer behaving very strangely. The deer would be lying down and would jump up, run a bit and then like down in the grass again. They did this over and over. There was a large bipedal figure in the background that appeared to be stalking them. Apparently this was a Bigfoot that was stalking the deer for suppertime. The terrified deer were acting this way to fool the Bigfoot.
The filmer and his son walked towards the field, and the Bigfoot and the deer both remained in view for a while. When the shooter got closer, the excellent video was shot. The Bigfoot’s size has been calculated at 8 feet tall.
The large number of curious witnesses pulled over, some with binoculars and some with video cameras, testifies to the truth behind the sighting. Later, the man reported the sighting to park rangers who told him that there was no such thing as Bigfoot. The man went back later, received several tickets on his car and was told by rangers that the park was closed. The park was not closed, and it was later determined that the tickets were all fake. The shooter said that these strange behaviors indicated some sort of a coverup by park officials.
To be honest, I had not expected anything reasonable on this subject from a group called the Union of Councils for Jews in the Former Soviet Union (UCSJ) but in this report, they really outdo themselves.
Groups like the disgusting ADL in the US spend most of their time engaged in worthless activities like promoting a fake anti-Semitism crisis in the US. Some examples?
An execrable attack on the sublime Walt/Mearshimer report. A shrill screech against some guy saying “Holocaust” and not referring to Jewish folks. A depressing and relentless push for scary hate crime laws. Stoking the fires with the Catholic Church after the Vatican buried the hatchet. Shamelessly shilling for the Israeli gangster state.
I could go on but why? Someone got their feelings hurt, wah wah. 1 million humans lie dead in a charnel house called Iraq and the ADL says some Jewish folks got their feelings hurt. I am supposed to really care about this? I don’t think so.
So I dubiously clicked the link on UCSJ page, at best hoping to find an obsession with the Jewish victims and short shift of the Gentile victims of Russian Nazis. To their credit, the UCSJ did a bang-up job, and I salute them.
This is the real deal, the stuff Jews ought to be really concerned about, instead of wasting time chasing phantoms, persecuting innocent people who “criminally” don’t genuflect enough in front of the Jews and shuddering over fake persecution crises.
The entire month of April 2006 was a great big party in all of Russia. It was Adolf Hitler’s birthday, and the skinheads were partying with guns, knives, fists, etc. When the shindig was over, seven innocent people were corpses, and over a dozen more were seriously wounded. The list itself is worth reading in its numbness and outrage.
Victims were Tajiks, Azerbaijanis, Armenians, Turks, Muslims in general, people from the Caucasus, Syrians, Mongolians, Tuvans, Chinese, North Koreans, Vietnamese, Malays, Indians, Gypsies, Jews (of course), anti-fascists like me, Senegalese, Zambians, ordinary Russians (??), and fans of rock music (they hate people who listen to “racially inferior” Black music like rap and reggae).
In one case, Tajiks in a market fought back, and a Nazi was killed. Good show!
That was last year. This year is 25% worse.
Sean’s Russian Blog has a good rundown on the crisis, suggesting that the Russian Far Right is becoming radicalized. He blames the socioeconomic structure of Putinism itself.
This stuff has been going on for a long time now. The gangs formed around 1993, but the attacks did not start until 1995. In 1994, police began beating immigrants from the Caucasus repeatedly in public, and there was no punishment for them. This seemed to set an example for the Nazis.
By 1998, they were using weapons in most attacks. Already in 1998, there were many attacks against Indians in Russia, mostly students. So many that the Indian Embassy lodged repeated complaints. That year, neo-Nazis pledged to kill “an Asian a day” and “a Black a day” during April when they celebrate Hitler’s birthday. April 1998 was a particularly bad year for attacks on Indians in Russia.
And in the month after April 20, 1998, an average of four Blacks a day were attacked in Russia. One died. Victims came from Nigeria, Benin, Sudan, South Africa and India. Two Pakistani women were badly beaten. In the following years, synagogues were bombed, police were attacked and bombs were planted in the streets.
There are now at least 70,000 skinheads in Russia and probably many more. That is 50% of the world’s skinhead population. 2/3 of the population agrees with nationalist slogans like “Russia for Russians” and blames all problems on foreigners.
1/2 of Russians want to restrict the rights of Russian national minorities. The Russian neo-Nazis probably have quite a bit of popular support, though it has been difficult to gauge the true level of it.
In the past couple of years, they have crossed a previous red line – no attacks on children. They now usually use screwdrivers, baseball bats and knives, and increasingly the attacks end in homicide. In 2004, they killed Nikolai Girenko, an anti-skinhead activist who had helped convict a number of skinheads in court. He had received many death threats and the entrance to his building was covered in Nazi slogans and symbols.
A good, but long, report on the subject is available here.
Habituator follies. The habituators are clearly some of the most humorous and ridiculous folks in Bigfootery, though some of them do or have apparently had Bigfoots in and around their property coming around for pancakes and whatever else was being served that day. Once again, from Bigfoot Forums, a disillusioned former believer turned skeptic:
At one time, I too spent countless hours on this forum reading, believing, just sure that the proof would come any day. I read about members who lived among them (saw them with cougar stoles on their neck) and could produce undeniable proof any time, but wouldn’t. I read about people sneaking into their nests to film from only a few feet away, but we never saw the film.
Hey, fascinating stuff! There’s actually humans living out in the woods, roughing it with the local Bigfoots, not shaving or bathing, learning how to zap folks and God knows what else. And the folks who live with their Bigfoot pals and BFF’s report that the Bigfoots actually make stoles, finer than those on 5th Avenue, out of cougar skins. Why? To be fashionable of course. So, why not take a picture and show us some of these Upper West Side tony Bigfoot society gals? Oh I forget! Bigfoot doesn’t like his picture taken. How silly of me.
And those intrepid souls who venture into the very nests of the Bigfoots to snuggle up against their hirsute neighbors? Now that takes balls of steel. Think next time you sneak into the Bigfoots’ lair to hang out, drink beer and smoke cigarettes or whatever, could you maybe get us a photograph? Just a teensy beensy one?
Oh how foolish of me! I need to stop making sense!
Mt. St. Helens Bigfoot video. This one has been around a long time now. Of course Mt. St. Helens is famous for Bigfoot sightings. This is where the famous Ape Canyon incident (a true story) took place in 1924. The Indians have long said there was a large Bigfoot population up there, and in general, the Indians did not go into the area, instead leaving it to the Bigfoots.
After the eruption of the mountain in 1980, there were reports of dead, burned Bigfoots being airlifted out in nets via government helicopter. Then there was a small pile of them at the site where they were burning the dead animals, guarded by National Guardsmen. They were loaded into a black van, and all of the soldiers were warned not to talk. The Guardsmen said the government wanted to study the dead Bigfoots.
There has been a lot of controversy about this video with some saying that it’s real while others are not sure. Would be great if Phil Poling could do a breakdown of it.
Justin Smeja interview on podcast. From November 29, 2012. I haven’t listened to this much yet, but I hear it’s good. You might want to give it a listen.
Ohio Bigfoot video. This is a very interesting video that had me completely fooled there for a bit. Phil Poling tracked down this worthless hoaxer dog and proved that this is a hoax. Not only that, but the dirtball stole it from someone else’s video two years back. Too bad there weren’t any trigger happy hunters in the area, then we would have one less hoaxer! Death to all hoaxers!
Damn fine costume though jerkoff. Hope you reminisce over it in Hell.
Stacy Brown footage. Stacy Brown, Sr. caught this video of a real Bigfoot on thermal between midnight and 1 AM on May 12, 2012. This is for sure a real Bigfoot all right, but you only see it for a bit, and it’s on thermal.
Best digitization ever of the famous Paul Freeman Bigfoot footage. Shot by forestry worker Paul Freeman in 1994 on cheap film, this movie is one of the greatest Bigfoot videos of all the time. That is a 100% real Bigfoot on that video. What follows is a great breakdown and explanation by the super guys at Facebook Find Bigfoot, Jack Barnes and the rest.
Great though dated Bigfoot documentary from the TV series Ancient Mysteries. Apparently from the 1990′s, maybe 1994 or so. Nevertheless, I really enjoyed this, and you might too.
Linda Newton-Perry on dead Bigfoot found near the California-Oregon border killed in late 1962. During a heavy storm, forestry workers in the Siskiyou National Forest came upon a dead female Bigfoot that had been killed by a fallen tree. She tested positive for Lyme disease, and precise measurements were taken. Many workers gathered round, and the forest ranger was called. He cleared the scene and warned everyone not to talk or else. But the workers took many photos of the dead Bigfoot that day, and these were said to be passed around the community for a long time afterwards and may even still exist.
A story was soon made up about an escaped gorilla owned by a local rich man who had a cabin in the forest, and everything about the incident disappeared from the record. The body then went to various places, including the Rocky Mountains, San Diego and back to the Interior Department in Washington DC where a crazy, utterly improbable report was issued calling it a Chinese Mountain Gorilla, which doesn’t even exist.
There are said to be Forest Service, Interior Department and Smithsonian Museum file numbers on the case, but some say the numbers don’t make sense. Newton-Perry and those around her have been trying to get ahold of documents about this case for a long time now. Newton-Perry said that the Smithsonian still has the body somewhere. This case has so many strange details that one wonders if Newton-Perry was even capable of making up this whole thing up out of her febrile imagination.
Newton-Perry suffers from the same problem that Rick Dyer does. She has been caught in hoax after hoax after hoax. Steve Kulls did an excellent job of exposing this fraud and all of her endless lies and tall tales. She writes children’s books about Bigfoot with her husband, who is probably as morally challenged as she is. Apparently all of this nonsense, from her Bigfoot Ballyhoo blog on down, is part of a scheme to sell silly children’s books. It’s not really known if she’s a pathological liar or if she’s instead simply the most gullible woman on Earth, but at any rate, no one believes a word she says.
But is there anything to this odd old dead Bigfoot story?
Ro Sahebi interview with Java Bob. Goes over the whole sordid saga of the early days of the Ketchum DNA study with Richard Stubstad, Java Bob, Tom Biscardi, Adrian Erickson and Melba Ketchum. Ketchum comes out smelling more like a skunk than a rose in this story, and everyone who got involved with her felt that she burned them. Well, that’s what she does. She uses you, and then she dumps you, burns you and leaves you holding the bag. Hey, that’s how she rides. One thing though, this lady plays for keeps! She plays hardball!
In the early days of the study, all involved were running around LA talking to lawyers and entertainment industry types, looking to get some kind of a TV show or movie deal going. Melba would walk into the room, sit down and announce that she was going to get 99-100% of everything, and everyone else was getting zero.
“Everything for me, and nothing for everybody else!” the Red Queen cried from her throne.
Everyone, from all of those listed to the entertainment industry guys to the lawyers, was absolutely appalled, and the Hollywood guys had probably seen some real ego cases before. You know egos grow like ivy in LA. Melba’s Prima Donna act was simply off the charts. Everyone was falling out of their seats and burying their faces in their hands.
Afterwards, a mysterious multimillionaire was talking to his brilliant friend. The subject was Melba.
“Good God, she’s a piece of work! My God!” the multimillionaire moaned. The engineer chuckled in his delightful way.
The rich man continued. “God-damn she’s a man-hating bitch!” The Berkeley engineering grad roared with laughter.
“And I’m stuck with her!” the hunter moaned. Both men looked down at the ground, sinking their heads.
The fix was in.
Strange Chuchunaa video out of Russia. Chuchunaas are one of the Yeti types said to be found in Russia. Specifically, they are larger than the Almastys and others, live in the Far North in Siberia and are much taller and larger. I really do not know what to make of this very strange video. Someone needs to do a breakdown on it. There is a recent version with an English translation, so we can figure out what they were saying. I know just enough Russian to pick out the word chuchunaa. Curiously, the creature has a piebald appearance, possibly hops around as if it is injured and does a lot of tree hiding. Who knows?
Murmansk Yeti video. This is a very weird video that has seen few plays around the community because it’s all in Russian, and Bigfoot bloggers don’t go through foreign language videos. A lot of people are saying this is a hoax, and part of it does indeed look phony. Murmansk is in the far north of northwestern Russia, and there are indeed reported to be Yetis present in that sparsely populated area. The first part of this video looks sort of phony, but what the Hell is that thing you see shaded in white at :27? That looks very much like a Yeti to me. We need Phil to do a breakdown on this one.
Loren Coleman on Ketchum Bigfoot DNA. Coleman is yet another narcissistic, full of himself douchebag with an ego the size of Maine that we have come to know so well in this business. Yet another Cluster B high conflict personality. He spends most of his time fighting with his various rivals, which is really everyone in Bigfootery.
He has written many books playing up all sorts of nonsensical, BS “monsters” and “Fortean” dubiousness, most of which is either demonstrably not true, beyond belief or simply too ridiculous to behold. The mysterious “Thunderbirds” of the Southwest US? No doubt a hoax from the 1800′s, but to Coleman they could well be real. So could Mothman. So could angels or dwarves or elves or unicorns or whatever. There’s no such thing as a monster story too outlandish for Coleman not to play it up for every sensationalistic, PT Barnum nickel he can milk out of it to sell it to 13 year olds of all ages all over this fine land.
One would think that a guy this interested in moooooonsterrrrrs and all the glory and $$$$$$$$$$$loot they can bring a huckster would know a thing or two about Bigfoot. But he doesn’t. He’s trashed the Erickson Project, the Ketchum DNA project, the Sierra Kills and now the Dyer Bigfoot shooting story from the very start. Why? Who knows? They’re rivals, he’s filled with envy, and he has to shoot them all down because they got the story first? Soon enough, Bigfoot will be proven, and Coleman will have been wrong about just about every major Bigfoot story of the last couple of years. Why? Ego got in the way of facts and blinded the poor man.
In this video, he basically takes the skeptic role on Ketchum’s DNA study as he has been doing for years now. He’s been pouring cold water on this story since it broke. Why? Who knows. I guess she beat him to it or something.
When all is said and done and Coleman is proved wrong over and over again, shall we see a hint of contrition cross his countenance?
Rick Dyer has another Bigfoot in a freezer! I know you are all probably LOLing at that one, but this time, it may be a real Bigfoot. I reported earlier that Minnow Films of the UK was filming a documentary on Bigfoot hunters with Dyer on September 6, 2012 when Dyer shot cellphone video lasting 1.2 seconds of a Bigfoot eating meat out of a bait trap in a tree. Dyer was in his tent. In the next tent was a BBC film crew with two cameramen with shoulder-mounted cameras. At the same time, the film crew captured a 3 minute video of the same Bigfoot eating from the bait trap. After Dyer recognized there was a Bigfoot at the bait trap, he ran out of the tent, clad only in his underwear, carrying a rifle.
At that time, Dyer raised up his rifle and shot the Bigfoot in the back of the head. At that point, all Hell broke loose as the crew wrestled the rifle away from Dyer.
Shades of the initial reports of Smeja Sierra Kills shootings where the JE was said to have taken the rifle away from Smeja after he shot the baby Bigfoot, stating, “If you shoot another one of those things, I will shoot you.” Subsequent reports cast doubt on that account. We have also heard other reports of hunters who had Bigfoots in their sights and were prevented from shooting by their fellow hunters.
At any rate, at that time, it was too late, as the shot to back of the head killed the male Bigfoot. The shooting was caught on film by the film crew. The Bigfoot’s measurements were 7’8 tall and 490 pounds, a bit on the small side for a male Bigfoot. Measurements and weighting were done postmortem.
Additional supportive proof, including a photo of what appears to be a dead Bigfoot from the scene, is available and has been examined by investigators. In addition, in the Camper Video, the videographer pans down to the floor of his tent at one point and one can see a rifle on the floor there.
A few days after the shooting, the film crew reportedly threw Dyer out of the movie for some unknown reason.
Minnow Films retained possession of the body, and they farmed out its storage to a third party. It is not known what arrangements were made between Minnow and Dyer regarding possession of the body. Apparently Minnow Films has some proprietary interest in this whole affair. At any rate, the plan is to release the body only after the documentary comes out at the Tribeca Film Festival in mid April of 2013.
Update on Sykes Study replicating Ketchum results. I reported earlier that the Dr. Brian Sykes Bigfoot DNA study out of Oxford had replicated the results from Dr. Melba Ketchum’s Bigfoot DNA out of Texas. A source close to the Ketchum study stated that Sykes agrees with Ketchum that there is a new hominid in North America, but disagrees on its origins.
That report was from comments in an article on Time.com by a woman with the handle “icicle,” a former fashion model and poster on Bigfoot Forums. Based on her postings, she appears to be deep in with the Ketchum team. She knows things about Ketchum and her project that even I was not aware of. If you want to know how she learned of this information, people should contact the poster “icicle” herself.
Later, Dr. Jeff Meldrum put in a call to Sykes to ask for confirmation about this rumor. Sykes stated that he has not even begun testing samples yet. However, in a post on Bigfoot Lunch Club, Rhettman Mullis said that based on preliminary testing, Sykes samples were testing “not human.” I don’t know what that is supposed to mean. It could mean many things I suppose.
Report on juvenile Bigfoot mindspeaking to Justin Smeja may be in error. I reported earlier that during the shootings of the Sierra Kills, Smeja reported that the juvenile Bigfoot mindspoke to him as it died in his arms. However, Smeja says that that is an old rumor taken out of context. The source I got it from said that Smeja has been going around telling people this, but they thought that he may have been saying it as a joke. At any rate, at the moment, there is no good evidence that the juvey Bigfoot mindspoke to Smeja after he shot it.
Confusion about the beginnings of the Ketchum study. Ketchum has reported that her study began with a sample from Josh Gates Yeti expedition. The sample was said to be Yeti hair from Bhutan. The sample gave an unusual result, and that unusual result is what set off the Ketchum DNA study. There has been a lot of confusion about what this report was.
The report was an initial, quick and dirty, DNA test looking at male-female peaks (not sure what that means). Humans have male-female peaks that look something like Male 108, Female 113, just to give an example. The Bigfoots test out close to humans, but a bit differently, say Male 106, Female 115 (rough example). The Yeti sample, when compared later to Bigfoot male-female peaks, looks similar to both the human and Bigfoot samples, but closer to the Bigfoot sample.
Though not confirmatory, this suggests that Yetis exist in the Himalayas and are related to Bigfoots. Further testing is needed to confirm these results. The Yeti sample was all used up by Melba during testing. Its results will not be included in the upcoming journal paper.
Ketchum interviewed on a radio show in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, Erickson rehabilitated for Ketchum Study, suggestion of proof of relict hominids in Russia. In an interesting 30 minute interview, Ketchum praised Adrian Erickson and Wally Hersom for kicking off the study. She is basically laying the success of the study at Hersom, Erickson and herself. That’s nice of her. It looks like Erickson is being brought back into the study and rehabilitated after all.
In addition, Ketchum said that the Igor Burtsev leak was for another paper that she is writing for a Russian journal. That paper apparently deals with Bigfoot type creatures in Russia known as Chuchunaa, Yetis or Almas. Ketchum stated that these hominids definitely exist in Russia, at least in Siberia and the Caucasus. This suggests that she has some sort of confirmatory evidence of their existence in the form of DNA tested biological evidence from Russia.
Linda Sedlak reports that Ketchum study is through peer review and is in line awaiting publication. I know that Linda is pretty tight with the Ketchum folks, so she may be onto something here. Ketchum’s statement, “Weeks not months,” referring to publication of her paper, adds supportive evidence here.
Ape theorists sticking to their guns. I really don’t know why they are doing this, but the huge number of Bigfooters who went along with the ape theory are sticking to their guns that Bigfoots are non-human apes as opposed to hominin or hominid apes. I really don’t know why they are being so sensitive about this, but Bigfooting is all about ego, ego and ego. Egotistical, extroverted folks simply never like to admit that they were wrong.
There really was a debate along these lines, and to some extent it continues. The Ape Crowd says that Bigfoots were apes along the lines of Gigantopithecus. When I first started blogging about Bigfoots about 1 1/2 years ago, I was an Ape Guy. You can still see the remains of this as all of my Bigfoot posts are under Mammals – Apes – Bigfoot. It took me some time to figure out that they are not apes at all but instead they are people like us.
The Ape Theory says that Bigfoot is a non-hominid ape or primate probably descended from Gigantopithecus. This theory has never made sense for so many reasons that are now becoming apparent, but all of the major researchers for some time back have been sidetracked onto this theoretical dead end.
First of all, the only apes that developed bipedalism at all were the hominins, the Homo line, which includes Australopithecines. None of the other lines, the chimps, the gorillas and certainly the orangutans which Giganto was related to, ever developed bipedalism. There’s no evidence that Giganto was a biped; in fact, evidence seems to be that he was a gigantic quadrupedal orangutan.
The Human Theory takes various forms, but generally they said that Bigfoots were in the Homo line and were not non-Homo apes. In its extreme form, this is found in the Forest People and David Paulides versions which seem to say that Bigfoots are simply weird versions of H.s.s. like us. That does not seem to be the case.
The Ape People, instead of admitting they were wrong as I am doing in this post, are obfuscating the whole debate by saying that H.s.s. are apes anyway. In other words, there never was an Ape versus Human debate. But there was, and to say there was not is a dodge and attempt to avoid admitting that they were wrong.
The problem all along has been the anthropomorphism, so to speak, to which we apply all of our Homo ancestors. We see this in reconstructions of our Homo ancestors in which at least most of them tend to look like slightly less metrosexual versions of Homo sapiens sapiens (H.s.s.) or us. There’s really no evidence that this is the case. There is even scant evidence that our Homo ancestors were hairless. Perhaps they were hairy.
There is a man named Vendramini in Italy who has produced a theory of Neandertals are vicious, hairy, ape like brutes who slaughtered humans and ate them. Go look up his videos on Youtube and look at them. Denisovans, Heidelbergensis and Erectus may well have been hairy instead of hairless. Homo floresiensis, if recent accounts of Ebu Gogos are to be believed, were covered in hair.
Indeed, H.s.s. may have been the first of the Homo line to be hairless. Who knows?
That the Bigfoots display a lot of apey characteristics may be easily explained by the fact that our Homo ancestors may well have been much more apey than we think they were. If Bigfoot is Heidelbergensis, perhaps Heidelbergensis were pretty apey fellows. I think we really need to get away from viewing our Homo ancestors are somewhat more rugged and individualistic versions of ourselves and instead see them as the apey types that they may well have been. This may be the solution to the puzzle.
This post will be updated today as more news comes in…
I often hear about the Rothschilds. How relevant are they? You say WWII took care of them, or did they benefit tremendously?
They are influential, mostly in the UK, but they don’t run the world or anything like that. They are one of the more sickening, disgusting and repulsive examples of super tribal Jews out there.
When Russian leader Putin went to imprison Russian Mafia kingpin Khodorovsky, he quickly ferreted most of his money out of Russia to the Rothschilds, who kept it for safekeeping.
See how this works?
Jews loot Russia. They take the money from Russian Gentiles and steal it via the Jews, for the Jews. When the Russian people (Putin) to try recover the stolen Russian Gentile money from the Jewish thieves, the Russian Jews ferret the money out of Russia into the hands of International Jewry. That way the money stolen from the Gentiles stays in the hands of the Jews.
The Jews work as a tribe.
If you want to know why so many people hate Jews so much, it’s due to behavior like this. People like Khodorovsky and Rothschild are like human anti-Semitism producing factories.
It’s commonly argues that the USSR failed. I would argue that it did not fail at all; instead, it was a spectacular success. For instance, in pre-revolutionary Russia there were famines and starvation deaths, often countless ones, every single year. There was never enough food to go around. Safe drinking water was rare outside the cities. Hardly anyone had electricity.
Soon after the USSR was established, everyone had safe drinking water. The whole country was wired up. And after the collectivization famines of the early 1930′s, full food security was achieved for the first time in Russian memory. And Soviet citizens at the end of the USSR’s reign ate just as well as West Europeans, as noted in a previous post.
It depends on your definition of success.
In fact, since the return of capitalism, agricultural production of fruits, vegetables and livestock collapsed. Production of all these things was much higher in the USSR.
This is what I would call a “market failure.” Apparently the reason for this market failure is that farming has been privatized, and the oligarchs with all the money in Russia now do not see agriculture as a profitable medium, hence they refuse to invest in it as there’s no money in it. And the banks don’t want to loan for farmers as they see it as a risky loan.
The majority of farm production is now occurring on small family farms, not large concerns.
I am proud to present a book review by a new guest author, Robert John. His biography is at the end of the piece. In this piece, he reviews a book by Peter Fritzsche, Germans into Nazis. This book takes on, in part, a thesis by a best-selling book by Daniel Goldhagen, Hitler’s Willing Executioners.
Goldhagen’s book was wildly controversial, to say the least. His thesis was that Nazism was a normal evolution of the virulent anti-Semitism inherent in German society for decades, if not centuries. An anti-Semitism spanning all of society, from top to bottom, urban to rural.
Goldhagen gives examples of how ordinary Germans knew full well the nature of the Nazi Holocaust against Jews, but either did nothing about it, or cheered it on. He cites postcards sent back by German soldiers to family at home, telling gleefully about how the soldiers were massacring Jews on the Front.
The reaction to Goldhagen’s book was ferocious, much of it coming from conservative Catholics, anti-Semites and German nationalists but also from serious scholars.
To this day, Goldhagen is a favorite whipping boy of anti-Semites and Holocaust revisionists and deniers, except that their own behavior seems to prove Goldhagen correct. So those who hate Jews take exception to Goldhagen saying that Germany was a nation of Jew-haters. One would think they would cheer this assertion on?
Regarding this review, here are some facts for those lacking background in this matter:
After World War 1, Germany was hobbled at the Treaty of Versailles with horrible reparations that were essentially unpayable and ruined the economy. John points out correctly that Versailles led logically to the rise of Nazism.
Immediately afterwards, in the wake of the Bolshevik Revolution, German Communists attempted to overthrow the state. They were defeated. German anti-Communists, including most of the middle class, noted that many of the leaders of the Communist revolutions in Russia and Germany were Jewish.
History is not kind to losers. For better or worse, German Jews were blamed for a few of them having led the failed German revolution.
In the 1920′s, Germany had a series of very unstable governments known as the Weimar Republic. At the same time, there was widespread political violence in the streets, often between Communists and socialists on one side and nationalists and proto-fascists on the other. The economy was devastated and it took a wheelbarrow full of worthless money to buy a loaf of bread.
At the same time, a wealthy and decadent class lived it up in the nightclubs of Berlin. Many of this decadent artist class were Jewish and many were also homosexuals and bisexuals. The movie, Cabaret, starring Liza Minnelli, about the life of gay author Christopher Isherwood, was set in Weimar Berlin.
Comedians and artists, many of whom were Jewish, ridiculed German nationalism and the things that patriotic Germans held dear to their hearts. This nationalism, along with traditional German culture, was held by these artists as having led to the war and the disastrous defeat. Enraged German nationalists saw only decadent urbanites, many of them Jewish, attacking German culture and values.
Further, the decadent lifestyle in Berlin enraged traditional elements in Germany. The wild life of the rich in the cities aroused rage amongst the immiserated poor, workers and middle classes.
While German Gentiles were being economically ruined, many German Jews had avoided economic destruction by stashing their money outside the country early in the crisis. No doubt this led to charges that the Jews were failing to invest in Germany.
In the late 1920′s and early 1930′s, as German property values plummeted, German Jews were able to return bring their money back and buy up much of the country for 10 cents on the dollar. By 1932, German Jews, 1% of the country, owned 32% of the wealth of Germany.
After quotas on Jews in government jobs, the professions and universities were lifted in the 1920′s, the ranks of attorneys, doctors, judges and law professors were quickly filled by high-IQ Jews. 1/2 of German law professors and Berlin attorneys were Jewish. 1/3 to 1/2 of Berlin doctors were Jewish. 20% of German judges were Jewish. Berlin gained a Jewish police chief, the first in the history of the city.
Many Germans were outraged at the overnight Jewish success and implied humiliation of German Gentiles and insisted that the Jews must have cheated to get these positions.
Just before they seized power, Nazi propagandists made much use of these figures. They also claimed that most politicians and civil servants were Jews, which was not true. Only a few high-ranking civil servants were Jewish. There were few Jewish politicians – during the entire Weimar Period, there were only 8 Jewish members of the Reichstag from Berlin. After 1922, there were almost no Jewish Cabinet ministers.
Similar claims that most pickpockets were Jewish and that German prisoners were filled with Jews were also false. Looking at figures from 1925, only 1.05% of Prussian prisoners were Jewish. Likewise with claims that the German Communist Party leadership was mostly Jewish. In 1932, there were 100 Communist deputies in the Reichstag and not a single one was Jewish.
As you can see, the Nazis were engaging in some scapegoating and out and out lying about German Jews.
The Weimar Regimes (republican democracy) seemed to be powerless to remedy any of these problems. Democracy came to be seen as symbolic with ineffectual government that fiddled while the nation burned, with decadent intellectuals and artists who attacked beloved German culture and values, with an outrageous gap between rich and poor, and with a disastrous economy.
So the Nazis ran on a platform of “the Hell with democracy”.
At the same time, similar fascist movements were spreading across Europe, especially Central and Eastern Europe, where most nations had fascist governments during this period. Even Finland and the Baltics had fascist governments.
Fritzsche’s book points out that the Nazis succeeded due to good old politics, Karl Rove style. They appealed to workers, women and liberals, though their program was secretly hostile to all three. They attacked social conservatism and the rich while hiding the fact that support for these elements was an essential nature of their project.
Even the name “National Socialists” was chosen along the same lines, to co-opt the rising Socialist and Communist movements in Germany.
By playing such dishonest political games, they gained support of socialists, Communists, liberals and even some Jews. While the socialists and Communists seemed boring or dangerous, the Nazis were all about getting Germans to feel good about themselves and have fun at the same time. Instead of Reagan’s “Morning in America”, it was “Morning in Germany”.
After they seized power, no German socialist or Communist was fooled by the Nazi lies about being a socialist party. In fact, at its core, Nazism was hostile first and foremost to liberals, union members, socialists and Communists. Communists, socialists and union members were the first to go the concentration camps, Dachau being the most famous. The Jews were number four on the list, after these three!
After they seized power, at the Night of the Long Knives, the Left Nazis were all killed or driven out of the party. Through the 1930′s, most of the German Left went to ground, fled the country or took up arms against the government. The German Communist Party declared war on the Nazi regime during this period.
The name “National Socialists” has confused many people, including rightwing ideologues. There is much more to the refutation of the disgusting rightwing lie, “Nazis were a leftwing, socialist movement” but I will save it for another post.
I realize that a quick, ignorant, emotional read of this piece could lead one to the conclusion that it is some defense of Nazism. If you read it closely, intelligently and soberly, you should notice that it is nothing of the kind.
I hope you enjoy John’s piece.
Those Abnormal Germans?
Understanding Goldhagen
Robert John*
Germans into Nazis
Peter Fritzsche
Harvard University Press, 1998
269 pages. ISBN 0-674-35091-X
The history of this century has been dominated by the horrors that came from the inferno of World War I. The rise of Nazism in Germany is only comprehensible by taking into account the national hardships and frustration provoked by defeat and the harsh and punitive treaty of Versailles, in which President Wilson played the leading role.
Peter Fritzsche, professor of history, University of Illinois, and the author of Reading Berlin 1900 (Harvard), gives an account of what gave the German National Socialists their electoral victories in 1932 and why.
Why were 37.4 percent of German votes cast for the Nazis in the July 1932 legislative elections, when for the first time they became the largest party; the SPD was second with 21.6 percent?
Half a century after their destruction, new accounts of German National Socialism, and its leader, still contend for space on bookstore shelves.
Many seek to explain German support for a leader portrayed as the most dangerous archfiend of recorded history, or to analyze the dynamics of that leader himself. Daniel Goldhagen, in his best-selling book Hitler’s Willing Executioners, suggested that Hitler was little more than a midwife in a German war against the Jews.
Goldhagen blamed successful appeal to widespread German anti-Jewish prejudice for the Nazi victories. He alleged that by the time Hitler came to power in 1933, racial anti-Semitism had already made Germany “pregnant with murder.”
Fritzsche gives an account of some of the confusion of patriotism and social turbulence from 1918 to 1933. He quotes the Berliner Tageblatt of 10 November 1918:
Yesterday morning . . .everything was still there – the Kaiser, the chancellor, the police chief – yesterday afternoon nothing of all that existed any longer.
The March 1917 Menshevik Revolution in Russia was being re-enacted in Germany, with Friedrich Ebert playing the role that Kerensky had played in Russia the year before. With knowledge of the red terror the Bolsheviks were waging in Russia, and some awareness that the majority of their leaders were Jewish, gave grounds for the development of a counterrevolution with anti-Semitic elements.
Like most other historians of the Allied Powers, Fritzsche omits significant reference to Allied failure to honor President Wilson’s Fourteen Points for peace which were announced by him on 8th January 1918.
It was on their basis, and Wilson’s declaration a month later: that there were to be no annexations, no contributions, and no punitive damages, that General Ludendorff had recommended to Field-Marshall Hindenburg that Germany ask for an Armistice.
Diplomatic exchanges followed until 23rd of October. On that day, Wilson informed the German government that, were he compelled to negotiate with the military rulers and monarchist autocrats, he would demand not peace negotiations but a general surrender. The Kaiser abdicated.
In his haste to present the circumstances and appeal of National Socialist policies to the German people at the beginning of the 1930’s, Fritzsche also skips reference to the continued Allied food blockade of Germany for nearly six months after the war had ended. Even the German Baltic fishing fleet, which had augmented German food supplies during the war, was prevented from putting to sea.
(See The Politics of Hunger: The Allied blockade of Germany, 1915-1919, Vincent, C. Paul, Ohio Univ. Press, 1985, and the Kathë Kollwitz lithograph Deutschlands Kinder hungern – Germany’s Children are Starving.)
In the spring of 1919, both the putting down of Communist insurrections in Berlin, Bremen, and Munich and breaking of general strikes in Halle, Magdeberg and Braunschweig by a Freikorps of nationalist volunteers, temporarily suspended the threat of a repetition of the Bolsheviks’ October revolution in Russia.
When the Freikorps finally disbanded, they left behind a loose confederacy of secret organizations, veterans’ groups, and rifle clubs.
Organization by both the Left and the Right seems to have satisfied a popular need for feelings of solidarity and renewal. By 1924 there were signs that this social activity was taking a more coherent political form.
New organizations were also distinctive for being more open to women, who established their own auxiliaries, and attended patriotic celebrations. Activities for women, common in international socialist organizations, were included in nationalist events in community life. Brass bands and choral societies joined in what looked more like a family celebration than a wartime field service.
The wife of an engineer described a new look in her city streets: groups of young people passing by, singing patriotic songs. In midsummer her daughter Irmgard, living in Nordheim, looked forward to Sunday’s flag consecration and dance.
Everywhere there is great excitement . . . all the regimental associations are coming, even the riflery clubs. (p. 134)
Fritzsche chooses such illustrations of entertainment and excitement, rather than negative appeals, that drew many of the young and others away from the blandness of the Social Democrats, and the preaching of international revolution, “Workers of the world: Unite,” of the Communists. ‘For good reasons or bad, Germans turned indifferent to the Weimar Republic, but they did not remain inactive or apathetic.
The real consequence of the revolution was not so much the parliamentary government it secured as the organization and activism of thousands of constituents it made possible. The new Germany can best be found in the humdrum mobilization of interest groups, veterans’ associations, and party branches and in the self-authorization of a hundred voices, libelous, illiberal, and chauvinistic as they may have been.
It is a sad but compelling paradox that the hostile defamations of the president of the republic were as indicative of democratization as the presidency of good-willed Fritz Ebert himself’ (p.136).
In the hard economic times of 1930,when the social welfare programs of the state were being cut back, the Nazis erected a “rudimentary shadow welfare state” for their supporters, responding to the crisis in a concrete way.
They never made the mistake of Hugenberg’s German Nationalists of holding political meetings in the best hotel in town. During a metalworkers strike, striking party members were fed three times daily in Nazi pubs.
Womens’ groups associated with the party were particularly active. National Socialist speeches and propaganda repudiated the narrow politics on the “reactionary” bourgeois parliamentarians and the proliferating interest groups and splinter parties.
In speech after speech at mass rallies, Hitler and his followers tended to address voters as citizens, rather than as blocs or constituents, and repeated again and again the need to solve local problems by liberating the entire nation from republican misrule. (In Britain a National Government was set up in 1931 with slogans of unification, patriotism, insulation, planning, etc.)
The National Socialist message brought to the people in town after town was not the class consciousness of Hindenberg’s upper class, nor its representation in the primacy of ‘the class struggle’ of the Communists and Socialists; instead, national solidarity was the answer to Germany’s vexing problems: social reform, economic productivity, the shameful peace.
There was a deliberate attempt to enroll Germans in a collective destiny and to present Hitler as a national savior rather than a solicitous politician (Fritzsche, p. 195).
Nazi propaganda very effectively portrayed political choices in Utopian terms: here was a party that opposed the present “system” and, once in power, would rebuild the nation. It was not just the modern methods of political campaigning that the Nazis used that brought them success; it was their message.
With Hitler as Chancellor, workers who had watched the Social Democrats fight long and hard and always unsuccessfully to persuade the Reichstag to recognize 1 May as an official holiday, looked or listened to the Leader’s May Day speech to a disciplined mass at Tempelhof in 1933. All day the radio played the songs of “miners, farmers, and soldiers.”
A “symphony of work” composed by Hans-Jurgen Nierentz and Herbert Windt, featured interviews with a dock worker from Hamburg, an agricultural laborer from East Prussia, a steel worker from the Saar, a miner from the Ruhr, and a vintner from the Mosel Valley. The crowd drank beer, ate sausages, and, in the evening, marveled at the fireworks.
Should one wonder why many former Communist and international Socialists who joined the Nazis, came to be called “underdone beef:” —brown on the outside, still red on the inside?
The Nazis distanced themselves from liberal state administrators, social conservatives, and traditional authoritarians. They were as dismissive of the Kaiserreich as they were of the Weimar Republic. ‘In short, the Nazis were ideological innovators.’
They met popular demands for political sovereignty and social recognition and insisted that these could only be achieved through national union, which would provide Germans with an embracing sense of collective identity and a strong role in international politics.
It was this far-reaching program of renovation that made the Nazis stand out and made them attractive to a plurality of voters.
If Hitler and his followers had simply recirculated the anti-Semitism of Anton Drexler’s German Workers’ Party or blustered on about the shameless Treaty of Versailles or devoted all their energies to combating the Social Democrats and other treasonous “November criminals,” the movement would have stalled completely.
This is exactly what happened to Wolfgang Kappa and the Freikorpsmen of 1919-1920 and also explains the demise of Alfred Hugenberg and the German Nationalists in 1924-1930. Instead, attacks on conservatives as well as Marxists, denunciations of local power arrangements as well as the national parliament, and an affirmative vision of a prosperous, technologically advanced nation gave the Nazis a sharp ideological edge.
At a time when so much civic strife is defined in terms of cultural affinities it is all the more important, if sometimes difficult, to recall the force of ideology.
Long-standing ethnic hatreds, religious fundamentalisms, and transnational “civilizations” dominate contemporary discussions about instability and unrest, which are frequently understood in terms of the friction between basically essential cultural qualities that have come into contact with one another.
However, the Nazi phenomenon was not a hyperventilated expression of German values, even as it pronounced the allegedly superior quality of the German people.
Nor was it the pathological result of economic hard times, instead National Socialism comprised a program of cultural and social regeneration premised on the superordination of the nation and the Volk and modeled very much on the public spirit and collective militancy of the nation at war.
Fritzsche concludes:
even as the Nazis upheld an integral, almost redemptive nationalism, they created new categories of outsiders, enemies, and victims. That system was neither accidental nor unanimous’ (p.235).
Some Jewish historians have noted almost marginally that National Socialist election material did not directly appeal to anti-Jewish sentiment (for example, Avraham Barkai’s From Boycott to Annihilation, Brandeis Univ. Press, 1987, 11, Saul Friedländer’s Nazi Germany and the Jews, Harper-Collins, 1997, 4), or Finkelstein and Birns’ A Nation On Trial: The Goldhagen Thesis, Henry Holt 1998).
So why is the Goldhagen account and conclusion so different from that of Fritzsche? The parsimonious explanation is the ‘Zoom syndrome.’ This is a tendency to magnify items supporting the prejudices of the observer. Goldhagen focuses on German critics of Jews or practices associated with them, and projects these as anti-Semitism leading to a program of Jewish extermination.
His premise is—unchecked criticism of Jews leads to a ‘Holocaust.’ With this ‘tunnel vision,’ he is deprived of depth and width of perspective. Leading Jewish academics are stressing the importance of incorporating the Jewish ‘experience of the Holocaust’ into the perspective of Jewish studies programs. This would help Jewish scholars to regain or maintain historical perspective.
In his review of A Nation On Trial in the New York Times Book Review, Max Frankel, a former executive editor of the paper, recorded his mother’s experience in wartime Berlin in 1940 as an enemy alien Polish Jew. A commissioner of police gave her the name and location of the Gestapo chief who would give the family an exit permit.
As she thanked him and turned to leave, the commissioner suddenly asked,
“Where did you say you want to go?”
“To America.”
“If you get there, will you tell them we’ re not all bad?”
To her last day, she did.
The facts cited by both Fritzsche and Goldhagen, and other previous writers, are explained as never before, using evolutionary and social identity theory, by Professor Kevin MacDonald’s analyses of anti-Semitism published in the Praeger Human Evolution, Behavior, and Intelligence series, in 1998 “Separation and Its Discontents: Towards an Evolutionary Theory of Anti-Semitism and The Culture of Critique, and in his previously published A People That Shall Dwell Alone: Judaism as a Group Strategy, 1994.
*Dr. John is a diplomatic historian, policy analyst, and a former professor of psychiatric education. He is the author of The Palestine Diary: British, American and United Nations Intervention 1914-1948, 3rd. ed. 2006, 2 volumes, with a foreword by Arnold Toynbee, and Behind the Balfour Declaration: The Hidden Origins of Today’s Mideast Crisis, 1988.
He has been a U.S. correspondent for the monthly Middle East International and adviser on international affairs to the Council on American Affairs. He was presented with the 1997 Freedom Award by the International Institute for Advanced Studies in Systems Analysis in Baden-Baden “for his outstanding work and contributions towards the fight for human rights, justice and liberty.”
There is something downright nasty about these guys, and I can’t even put my finger on it. National Bolshevism is some type of Third Positionism.
Third Positionism is one strange beast all right, and I can’t figure out what to make of it. Their Celtic cross symbol gives me the creeps; it reminds me of the Zodiac killer, and it looks fascistic.
It’s supposedly some species of fascism that combines unspecified elements of the Left and Right, in particular, Leftist and socialist economics. As they have never held power anywhere, no one really knows how this plays out IRL.
I’m not necessarily going to oppose anyone that gets lumped into some Third Positionist “fascist” grab bag by political scientists, but so far, I don’t like what I see.
The National Bolshevik Party is Russia is one strange beast. They support the Russian minorities in all of the former SSR’s, which is theoretically a valid cause, but in many cases probably reeks of national chauvinism. But there’s a lot of national chauvinist crap going on in those new states anyway, this time victimizing Russians.
Originally, their project was the usual fascist imperialist expansionist crap, envisioning a vast state encompassing all of the former USSR (which would have to be reconquered in some way) and all of Europe (I guess this would have to conquered too), to be ruled by Russians. That’s actually kind of humorous. Well, since then, they have dropped that.
They are also anti-Semites, accusing ultranationalist Zhirinovsky of being a Jew, as if that is a bad thing (he has a bit of Jewish heritage, but I don’t enough to go to Israel). They hate Putin and accuse him of being a fascist.
That’s strange, but if you study fascists for a while, you realize that one of their fascist games is that fascists are always going around calling others fascists as a term of abuse. It doesn’t make sense until you are around them a long time.
At the end of the day, I’m sorry, but I just can’t get behind these guys. Ultranationalism pretty much sucks just about everywhere, without many exceptions.
Update: R.M. Schultz of the Soviet Overseas Trading Company News blog, author of the principles above, stopped by the comments section and made some interesting points.
