[Albert]

BBCApril 4, 2018

YouTube shooting: Female suspect 'angry over video postings'

The suspect in a gun attack at YouTube's HQ in California had expressed anger over its treatment of her video postings, media reports say.

Police have named Nasim Aghdam, 39, as the suspect but say they are still investigating a motive.



US media say Aghdam was angry that YouTube was filtering her videos and reducing the money she could make.

Tuesday's attack left a man and two women injured with gunshot wounds. The attacker shot herself dead.

Police in San Bruno, California, say there is no evidence yet that the attacker knew the victims, a 36-year-old man said to be in a critical condition, and two women aged 32 and 27.

What do we know of the suspect?
Nasim Aghdam lived in San Diego in southern California.

Vegan bodybuilder with a vast online presence
Police have revealed few details about her but US media said she ran a number of channels and a website, posting videos on a variety of subjects including those highlighting animal cruelty. The channels have now been deleted.

Aghdam has been variously described as a vegan bodybuilder, artist and rapper.

In January 2017 she posted a video complaining that YouTube was filtering her content, leading to fewer views.

On her website she also ranted against YouTube, saying: "Videos of targeted users are filtered and merely relegated, so that people can hardly see their videos."

She also quotes Adolf Hitler, saying: "Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it."

She also wrote: "There is no equal growth opportunity on YouTube or any other video sharing site. Your channel will grow if they want [it] to!"

Aghdam's father, Ismail, told local US media she was angry because YouTube had stopped paying her for videos.

Video posters can receive money from linked advertisements but the company can "de-monetise" channels for various reasons, taking adverts off. It is unclear if this happened with Aghdam's material.

Her father said Aghdam had been reported missing on Monday after not answering calls for two days. Police later found her sleeping in her car in Mountain View, 25km (15 miles) south of the YouTube offices in San Bruno and reported this to her family, but they did not detain her.

Her father told police she might go to YouTube as she "hated the company", local media said.

YouTube terminated her account following the shooting. Her Instagram and Facebook accounts have also been removed.

However, many Twitter users posted her Facebook video rant against YouTube:

What happened in the attack?
The suspect is reported to have approached an outdoor patio and dining area at the offices in San Bruno, near San Francisco, at about lunchtime on Tuesday and opened fire with a handgun.

San Bruno Police Chief Ed Barberini said officers arrived at the offices at 12:48 (19:48 GMT) local time to find a "chaotic scene", with numerous people fleeing.


Images broadcast on local TV stations showed employees leaving with their hands raised. Other footage showed evacuees forming a queue before being individually frisked by police.

Police said officers had "encountered one victim with an apparent gunshot wound at the site and two additional gunshot victims that had fled to a neighbouring business".

Inside the complex, officers then found a woman dead from a gunshot wound that was believed to be self-inflicted.

An employee at a nearby fast food restaurant told Fox station KTVU he had treated a young woman who suffered a bullet wound to the leg.

He said he had fashioned a makeshift tourniquet from a bungee cord as they waited for first responders.

Several YouTube employees tweeted about the attack as it was taking place.

Product manager Todd Sherman said people fled the building in panic as the shooting unfolded.

Another employee, Vadim Lavrusik, tweeted he was barricaded in a room with other staff. He later said he had been evacuated.

The three wounded were taken to Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital. Officials said the 32-year-old woman's condition was serious and the 27-year-old's condition was fair.

A fourth person was also taken to hospital with an ankle injury sustained while trying to escape, Mr Barberini said.

Some 1,700 people work at the YouTube HQ. The company is owned by Google and is the area's biggest employer.

There had been earlier media reports that the man shot was Aghdam's boyfriend, but police later said; "At this time there is no evidence that the shooter knew the victims of this shooting or that individuals were specifically targeted."

Such "active shooter" incidents are overwhelmingly carried out by men - an FBI report found that out of 160 incidents between 2000-2013, only six of the people who opened fire were women.

What's the reaction been?
YouTube spokesman Chris Dale praised the police response to the incident.

"Today it feels like the entire community of YouTube and all of the employees were victims of this crime. Our hearts go out to those who suffered in this particular attack," he said.

Another online giant, Twitter, said it was horrified by the shooting and said it was monitoring instances of misinformation.

Jaclyn Corin, a student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High in Parkland - the site of a deadly shooting in February - tweeted that the attack demonstrated the US had a "gun problem".

A parent of one of the Parkland victims echoed that sentiment, writing that "the bottom line is, we need to deal with the issue of gun violence".

So another shooting in USA. Gun control will help but it seems to be more of underlining social issue.

[Zamuel]

So another shooting in USA. Gun control will help but it seems to be more of underlining social issue.

Yosimite Sam says : "I've had all I can stand, I can't stands no more!"



The amazing thing is that this hasn't happened sooner.

Zam

[Suntzu]

Iranian digbat.

[ThirdTerm]

The suspect is of Iranian descent and this is how the mythical Aryans may have looked like. A new genetic study by Narasimhan et al. (2018) revealed that ancient horse-riders in the Russian steppes were originally from northern Iran before they invaded northern India. One Iranian sample Hajji_Firuz_C has haplogroup R1b1a1a2a2, which is the predominant haplogroup among Afanasievo samples from southern Russia. Hajji_Firuz_C, which is dated 5,900-5,500 BCE, is around 3,000 years older than most Afanasievo samples with R1b1a1a2a2, as there was an ancient population movement from northern Iran to southern Siberia. The Afanasievo culture can be defined as Indo-Iranian along with the neighbouring Yamnaya culture.

The woman suspected in the shooting at YouTube headquarters Tuesday has been identified as Nasim Najafi Aghdam, a 39-year-old San Diego resident. She was of Iranian origin.
http://gulfnews.com/news/americas/usa/w ... -1.2199491

[Igor Antunov]

So many warning signs.

[One Degree]

Let’s play the game. Unhappy person shoots people. How many social issues can you attach to this event?
Because, obviously, society is at fault since individuals have no free will.

[Thomasmariel]

She was curiously attractive. Has the same sort of face as Noomi Rapace

[MistyTiger]

I think her family should have consoled her and encouraged her to host her own network. There are some great blog platforms and video sites, youtube is not the only show in town. I blame her family and friends for not really listening to her.

This generation seems to think that shooting others is the right thing to do. Why? I just don't understand it.

[skinster]

Perhaps it's because they're growing up in a really fucked up culture that glorifies violence and has easy access to guns.

[Verv]

The suspect is of Iranian descent and this is how the mythical Aryans may have looked like. A new genetic study by Narasimhan et al. (2018) revealed that ancient horse-riders in the Russian steppes were originally from northern Iran before they invaded northern India. One Iranian sample Hajji_Firuz_C has haplogroup R1b1a1a2a2, which is the predominant haplogroup among Afanasievo samples from southern Russia. Hajji_Firuz_C, which is dated 5,900-5,500 BCE, is around 3,000 years older than most Afanasievo samples with R1b1a1a2a2, as there was an ancient population movement from northern Iran to southern Siberia. The Afanasievo culture can be defined as Indo-Iranian along with the neighbouring Yamnaya culture.

The problem with this is actually that she is a Turkish speaking Iranian, and thus is most likely either half or full Azeri Turk. Her own website has links to her Turkish YouTube.

It is actually quite unlikely that she would speak Turkish just as a habit -- a huge amount of Iranians are ethnic Turks and speak it, but every one of them speaks Farsi so there is no real reason for anyone to learn Turkish, especially also consider that the Turkish that is spoken in Iran is Azeri.

I believe there was even some other part of her page or somewhere else where she referred to Azeri.

So... I do not think that the modern day Iranian that great of a reflection of what the Aryans used to look like.

They had done some DNA tests and the modern day German matches up something like 80% with Yamna culture buried peoples from so long ago.

As Iran is the crossroads of the world, the Persians there surely intermixed with others.

[ThirdTerm]

The following mtDNA and Y-DNA samples were tested by Allentoft et al. (2015).

Sample Y-DNA mtDNA Location Date
RISE00 - H5a1 Sope, Estonia ?
RISE1 R1b K1b1a1 Oblaczkovo, Poland 2700 BCE
RISE94 R1a1a1 (M417) K1a2a Viby, Sweden 2550 BCE
RISE431 R1a1a1 T2e Leki Male, Poland 2150 BCE
RISE434 R1a1a1 U4 Tiefbrunn, Germany 2750 BCE
RISE435 - J1b1a1 Tiefbrunn, Germany 2600 BCE
RISE436 R1a1a1 U5b1c2 Tiefbrunn, Germany 2750 BCE
RISE446 R1a1a1 (M417) U5b1c2 Bergrheinfeld, Germany 2650 BCE

The above is Y-DNA and mtDNA haplogroups from the Corded Ware culture in Germany, founded by Yamnaya people from southern Russia, and only one sample had Y-DNA haplogroup R1b with mtDNA haplogroup K1b1a1, which is a genetic signature of Anatolian farmer ancestry. According to the new study I cited, there is a complete lack of R1a in Afanasievo samples from the north of the Black Sea listed below. I think the R1b steppe herders originally from northern Iran (Aryans) mixed with the local R1a population in the Pontic-Caspian steppe or modern-day Ukraine and R1a is associated with fair skin and blue eyes. What is significant here is that the R1b lineage is a genetic signature of Indo-Iranian ancestry, which is an astounding discovery that will change the very nature of Indo-Europeans.

I6713 .. .. Afanasievo 3000-2000 BCE Russia
I6715 .. .. Afanasievo 3300-2500 BCE Russia
I3388 U5a1d2b .. Afanasievo 2900-2600 BCE [mate of I3950 at 2878-2636 calBCE (4160±25 BP, PSUAMS-1955)] Russia
I3950 U5b2a1a Q1a2 Afanasievo 2878-2636 calBCE (4160±25 BP, PSUAMS-1955) Russia
I3952 U5a1a1 R1b1a1a2a2 Afanasievo 2866-2579 calBCE (4120±30 BP, PSUAMS-1957) Russia
I3954 U4b3 .. Afanasievo 2872-2625 calBCE (4140±25 BP, PSUAMS-2293) Russia
I1829 J2a2a .. Afanasievo 3316-2915 calBCE [2915-2878 calBCE (4270±25 BP, PSUAMS-2109), 3316-2915 cal BCE (4409±34 BP, UBA-29307)] Russia
I6711 .. R1b1a1a2a Afanasievo 2950-2650 BCE [son of RISE511 with a date of 2909-2679 calBCE (4224±36 BP, OxA-31568)] Russia
I3387 J2a2a R1b1a1a2a2 Afanasievo 2950-2600 BCE [sibling of RISE511.SG who is directly dated] Russia
I6712 .. R1b1a1a2a2 Afanasievo 2950-2650 BCE [son of RISE509 with a date of 2887-2677 calBCE (4186±27 BP, OxA-31221)] Russia
I5269 T2a1a R1b1a1a2a2 Afanasievo 3016-2899 calBCE (4335±25 BP, PSUAMS-2350) Russia
I5270 T1a1 R1b1a1a2a2 Afanasievo 3322-2939 calBCE (4435±20 BP, PSUAMS-2405) Russia
I5271 T2a1a .. Afanasievo 3013-2901 calBCE (4335±20 BP, PSUAMS-2406) Russia
I5277 U4b3 R1b1a1a2a2 Afanasievo 3264-2929 calBCE [3083-2916 calBCE (4375±20 BP, PSUAMS-2353), 3264-2929 calBCE (4420±20 BP, PSUAMS-2368)] Russia
I5272 U5a1g .. Afanasievo 3003-2887 calBCE (4305±20 BP, PSUAMS-2351) Russia
I2069 K1b2a .. Afanasievo 3331-2922 calBCE (4430±40 BP, Poz-83425) Russia
I5273 T2a1a R1b1a1a2a2 Afanasievo 3011-2887 calBCE (4310±25 BP, PSUAMS-2352) Russia
I5278 U5a1a1 R1b1a1a2a2 Afanasievo 3084-2911 calBCE (4370±25 BP, PSUAMS-2354) Russia
I5279 U4d1 R1b1a1a2a2 Afanasievo 3012-2897 calBCE (4330±20 BP, PSUAMS-2355) Russia
I2071 H6a1b R1b1a1a2a2 Afanasievo 3331-2704 calBCE [2926-2704 calBCE (4260±35 BP, Poz-83510), 3322-2923 calBCE (4423±29 BP, OxA-31219), 3331-2935 calBCE (4442±29 BP, OxA-31220)] Russia
I3951 U5b2a1a .. Afanasievo_1d.rel.I3950 2879-2639 calBCE (4165±25 BP, PSUAMS-1956) Russia
I6714 .. Q1a2 Afanasievo_son.I3388_son.I3950_brother.I3949 2900-2600 BCE [son of I3950 at 2878-2636 calBCE (4160±25 BP, PSUAMS-1955)] Russia
I3949 U5a1d2b Q1a2 Afanasievo_son.I3388_son.I3950_brother.I6714 2837-2498 calBCE (4075±20 BP, PSUAMS-2292) Russia

The Genomic Formation of South and Central Asia (Narasimhan et al. 2018)

Abstract
The genetic formation of Central and South Asian populations has been unclear because of an absence of ancient DNA. To address this gap, we generated genome-wide data from 362 ancient individuals, including the first from eastern Iran, Turan (Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, and Tajikistan), Bronze Age Kazakhstan, and South Asia. Our data reveal a complex set of genetic sources that ultimately combined to form the ancestry of South Asians today. We document a southward spread of genetic ancestry from the Eurasian Steppe, correlating with the archaeologically known expansion of pastoralist sites from the Steppe to Turan in the Middle Bronze Age (2300-1500 BCE). These Steppe communities mixed genetically with peoples of the Bactria Margiana Archaeological Complex (BMAC) whom they encountered in Turan (primarily descendants of earlier agriculturalists of Iran), but there is no evidence that the main BMAC population contributed genetically to later South Asians. Instead, Steppe communities integrated farther south throughout the 2nd millennium BCE, and we show that they mixed with a more southern population that we document at multiple sites as outlier individuals exhibiting a distinctive mixture of ancestry related to Iranian agriculturalists and South Asian hunter-gathers. We call this group Indus Periphery because they were found at sites in cultural contact with the Indus Valley Civilization (IVC) and along its northern fringe, and also because they were genetically similar to post-IVC groups in the Swat Valley of Pakistan. By co-analyzing ancient DNA and genomic data from diverse present-day South Asians, we show that Indus Periphery-related people are the single most important source of ancestry in South Asia — consistent with the idea that the Indus Periphery individuals are providing us with the first direct look at the ancestry of peoples of the IVC — and we develop a model for the formation of present-day South Asians in terms of the temporally and geographically proximate sources of Indus Periphery-related, Steppe, and local South Asian hunter-gatherer-related ancestry. Our results show how ancestry from the Steppe genetically linked Europe and South Asia in the Bronze Age, and identifies the populations that almost certainly were responsible for spreading Indo-European languages across much of Eurasia.

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2018/03/31/292581

[Albert]

Update

[One Degree]

@ThirdTerm
I thought fair skin and blue eyes came from Neanderthal genes. The arguments seem to be based upon the period of history selected. Am I missing something, or is this selective reasoning?
I don’t understand how Aryans can lack ancient DNA but have the characteristics.

[noir]

She was curiously attractive. Has the same sort of face as Noomi Rapace

I thought about Freddy Mercury of Queen who had probably the same origin

[noir]

Wikipedia

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddie_Mercury

Mercury was born Farrokh Bulsara (Gujarati: ફારોખ બલસારા, Pharōkh Balsārā‌) in Stone Town in the British protectorate of the Sultanate of Zanzibar, East Africa (now part of Tanzania) on 5 September 1946.[8][9] His parents, Bomi (1908–2003) and Jer Bulsara (1922–2016),[a][10] were Parsis from the Gujarat region of the then-province of Bombay Presidency in British India.[b][11] As Parsis, Mercury and his family practised the Zoroastrian religion.[12] The Bulsara family had moved to Zanzibar so that his father could continue his job as a cashier at the British Colonial Office. He had a younger sister, Kashmira.[13]

[blackjack21]

So another shooting in USA. Gun control will help but it seems to be more of underlining social issue.

Well, all of the gun control nuts are silent on this one, because it doesn't fit the left wing narrative of "toxic masculinity," "Christians," "right wingers," "gun control" and so forth. Also, there aren't enough dead people to warrant their attention.

The amazing thing is that this hasn't happened sooner.

It happens all the time in the black community, but nobody cares.

The suspect is of Iranian descent and this is how the mythical Aryans may have looked like.

Well, that's a novel way to get the hilariously silent leftists on PoFo talking. We shouldn't overlook the value of the shooting though. We've finally found something that will shut them up.

[Zamuel]

It happens all the time in the black community, but nobody cares.

? Really ? Black individuals release their frustrations with armed attacks on corporate employees? I hadn't noticed.

Zam

[Albert]

Del.

[noir]

Well, that's a novel way to get the hilariously silent leftists on PoFo talking. We shouldn't overlook the value of the shooting though. We've finally found something that will shut them up.

But on Florida shooting thread, "leftists" post this

[4cal]

Making a comparison between 17 deaths of kids in a FLA high school and a deranged Iranian woman injuring a few people and killing herself at You Tube is pretty moronic. Then again, considering the source, it's par for the course.