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Excellent. I am reading Robert Louis Stevenson's book on the Samoan civil war. A Footnote to History: Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa.

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https://ojs.victoria.ac.nz/nzsr/article/view/8912/7947

Now you have gotten me interested.

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The Y DNA is more interesting as it seems to indicate a melding of European and Caucasian genes. If I remember correctly the caucasion is M42 or somesuch. It’s about 50% European (cannot assume British) maybe 30% Caucasian by my brief investigation and maybe 20% Pacific or Melanesian.

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Feb 29Liked by Richard Seager

Interesting about the gout and diabetes in common.

You can see how bioweapons can target weaknesses like these.

Recall the push for diabetics to be vaccinated. It's a way of targeted population culling when a population is over represented in a health category.

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Feb 29Liked by Richard Seager

Let's say that a particular ethnic group is to be culled.

So they know that that group suffers from, say, obesity.

Hey, we've got a vaccine against obesity.

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Yes the Jacinda effort to get Maori vaccinated at the same rates as Pakeha were was not necessarily so angelic.

And the poisoned blankets, do we still believe that? Probably needles I figure...

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Blankets?

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Mar 2·edited Mar 2Author

The oft repeated claim that Maori and others were given poisoned blankets in the 19th C. I think smallpox. But as we know that's not going to achieve anything. So I figure they were jabbed as the working classes of European countries were at the time and where it garnered a lot of resistance.

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