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Day 24 June, 2008

Story of Cain and Abel still taking place today?

Speak­ing of Sur­vival Inter­na­tional, they’ve pos­ted a video on their web­site of gun­men hired by farm­ers to attack a Mak­uxi Indian vil­lage in Brazil, part of a bru­tal attempt at an Indian land grab.

The cor­rel­a­tion between this and Daniel Quinn’s altern­at­ive the­ory of the story of Cain and Abel is quite stark.

Peter Beaumont’s lost tribe ‘controversy’ that wasn’t

If you read The Observer over the week­end you might have had the mis­for­tune to come across this grubby tabloid-like excuse for journ­al­ism by Peter Beau­mont, for­eign affairs editor for The Observer.

Beau­mont — clearly hav­ing a slow news day — focused his atten­tion on the uncon­tac­ted tribe pho­tos I com­men­ted on the other day, crudely attempt­ing to drum up con­tro­versy where there is none.