[Red State] Here’s a fun one for you. According to the latest U.S. Census, the Native American population in the United States grew by 86.5 percent between 2010 and 2020.
Yep, you read that right. Eighty-six percent!
But how could this be possible? In a piece for The Conversation, Circe Sturm, Professor of Anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin College of Liberal Arts wrote that this is a rate of growth that "demographers say is impossible to achieve without immigration."
Well, it’s not likely that more Native Americans are entering the U.S. right? So, there has to be another explanation.
But, according to Sturm, this increase is occurring because "individuals who previously identified as white are now claiming to be Native American."
She also explains that "[t]his growing movement has been captured by terms like ’pretendian’ and ’wannabe.’"
The author refers to this phenomenon by what she calls "racial shifting."
Insert Elizabeth Warren and Rachel Dolezal jokes here.
But what is interesting is that the author points out that those choosing to identify as Native American are trying to move further from "whiteness." The author says that in her 14 years of researching this issue and interviewing "dozens of race-shifters" for her book, "Becoming Indian," she "learned that while some of these people have strong evidence of Native American ancestry, others do not."
#8
Whenever I have to fill out a form for any bureaucracy that asks what my ethnicity is, I always check the Native American box. It's not a lie. I was born here. That makes me a native.
Some of these bureaucracies are getting wise though. They've changed it from Native American to American Indian. But, hey, if men can identify as women I can identify as any ethnicity I want.
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[MAIL] A political science professor who serves on a panel that advises the CIA on when countries might slide into civil war amid factors like undemocratic tendencies has identified the U.S. as farther down that potential path than many could imagine.
'We are closer to civil war than any of us would like to believe,' said Dr. Barbara Walter, who serves on the Political Instability Task Force, which guides intelligence analysts on countries overseas that might be on the brink of conflict.
The University of California San Diego academic, who has studied hotspots like Syria and helps run a blog on political violence, said the U.S. meets several of the telltale signs that are part of a road to insurgency.
'No one wants to believe that their beloved democracy is in decline, or headed toward war,' she writes in her forthcoming book, How Civil Wars Start.
'If you were an analyst in a foreign country looking at events in America — the same way you’d look at events in Ukraine or the Ivory Coast or Venezuela — you would go down a checklist, assessing each of the conditions that make civil war likely. And what you would find is that the United States, a democracy founded more than two centuries ago, has entered very dangerous territory,' she writes, according to the Washington Post.
#2
The fights over Supreme Court nominees should have been a signal that 9 people sitting for life, unaccountable to the people making decisions that have significant impact upon the nation and society, that this is not a form of democracy or republic.
#3
And Dr. Walters and her panel along with our friends at the CIA are concerned about a US 'civil war' for what reason ?
Have they been tasked with writing white papers and summaries that support particular desired outcomes ?
Are foreign intrigues and threats to the United States no longer of interest? Has their focus somehow been expanded, or have their interests always been rooted in political domestic control ?
#7
You see another brick in the structure being created out of whole cloth to cover the attempt to seize overtly the power of the Central Committee at the Kalorama Kompound. All the destabilizing efforts to transform our institutions and public confidence creating the backlash anger in the remaining parts of the population aware of what America looked like a mere decade ago. This pretext of lies about insurrection and criminal justice reform/racism sets the stage, along with the deepening infestations in our government and military, for direct actions in the coming elections of 22 and 24. They aren’t advancing so rapidly now as the ruse is widely being seen, ut they are deeply entrenched behind most of the key mechanisms of power. They do seem to be fracturing a bit.
#9
I haven't read her book, but I'm not sure her argument -- if this capsule summary is true -- is off the mark:
"[Walter] said the two best predictors of whether violence is likely to happen is whether a nation is an anocracy and “whether ethnic entrepreneurs have emerged in a country that are using racial, religious or ethnic divisions to try to gain political power.”
Well, it's without question true that the BLM grifters, "Ibram X." Kendi, the NYT "1619" fabulist and their merry crew of race-hustlers are "ethnic entrepreneurs": they have made and are busy adding to small fortunes out of ginning up hatred of an ethnic group.
In fact, the civil-war expert has done us all a great service by introducing this new term, ethnic entrepreneurs. That summarizes nicely much of the BLM and "BIPOC" Woke movement's m.o. and energy. If the definition of "ethnic" could be stretched a bit to include the Tranny Mafia, it would cover >90% of the Wokesters.
Thank you, professor!
You've just provided the rationale for a severe crackdown on BLM, Antifa, Kendi, the "1619" hustle and the rest of these civil war fomenters.
#11
As to "anocracy," the hybrid of democracy and authoritarianism, well, once again, UCSD Prof. Walter is on the mark.
Biden and his party, along with the DOJ, FBI and their compliant puppets in major media outlets, have without question done extraordinary damage to our democratic institutions.
In October 2020 they suppressed the biggest news story of the decade -- the factual, incontrovertible, directly sourced with forensic evidence story of how Joe Biden was lying when he claimed he had no knowledge of or involvement in his son's business dealings with CEFC, a known front organization by which the Chinese government bribes and gains influence over foreign politicians.
This cabal suppressed a factual story that easily would have swung the election to Trump.
And for the preceding four years, to spread a preposterous lie about that same opponent, these powerful elites perverted or undermined virtually every national political institution our democratic republic is based upon.
They trashed the Constitution, faked evidence, planted false stories with their media friends and then pretended that those fake tales themselves warranted wiretapping in their false submissions to the FISA Court, broke laws left right and center, lied to the public, forged documents to claim the exact OPPOSITE of verbatim CIA testimony, suborned perjury from witnesses, and then coaxed over $1 billion in "dark" and non-dark spending by all of five deci-billionaires to ensure the desired 2020 election outcome.
Thank you again, Professor Walter!
You've just given us the intellectual basis on which to conclude that our national elite are authoritarians who lack legitimacy.
#12
I explained this once years ago. Briefly, up until WWII all Americans were no more than 3 gen's from "Mother Culture" and shared varied commonality in culture, religion and livlihood across the US. The beginning of the cold war, and various other factors, coincided with an erosion of this "Mother Culture" connection. We identified by what we were not; communists, authoritarian, godless, opressors, etc. When the cold war ended we had to look in the mirror, 2.5 generations later, we were becoming a different America, with erosion in the glue a culture needs to be monolitihic, United We Stand, Divided we fall. Supreme Court nominees, infection of military. What is lacking is the understanding we now live an a country with a fractured and widening cultural divide. We essentially have different "kinds" of Americans and they all believe they are entitled to their version of the heritage that is America. Whether they hate it or love it. In our current environment, right now, there is no mechanism powerful enough to walk this back and nor is there a desire from 30%+ of the country, to do so. Sorry tried to be brief, but its a complex issue over 80 years.
[Howie Carr] Dementia Joe Biden could have gotten America’s attention a little more forcefully Tuesday if only he’d just led with the latest ominous omicron death toll:
"My fellow Americans, today I regret to inform you that as of this morning, about a month after it was first discovered, omicron has now killed as many Americans as ... Alec Baldwin’s gun. Or Ted Kennedy’s Oldsmobile."
He could have paused for effect to let that grim milestone sink in for all 330 million Americans. Then he could have begun again:
"By Christmas, only four days away, I am informed by the all-knowing Dr. Fauci that the U.S. death toll will likely equal that at O.J. Simpson’s home in Brentwood on that grim evening back in 1994."
When the news of the death in Houston broke Tuesday, it got the most play of any passing in Texas since Nov. 22, 1963. It was a two-fer — the guy had had the virus before, so the TV "experts" all got to shout in unison how antibodies didn’t save him and you better get a booster or two or three. The company line, in other words.
It was another bleak day — for Dementia Joe’s poll ratings. The panic porn-industrial complex is just not clicking on all cylinders anymore. They can’t keep their stories straight, and I’m not just talking about the trademark Biden incoherence.
there are several testing methods that can ID the Omicron, e.g. the antigen and the nucleic acid
however, I don't know much about how each city's supply of test kits stands; it is likely that the variant will spread much, much faster than it can be tested
by early Feb 2022 or so it should be almost ubiquitous in the USA
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[American Greatness] COVID-19 has ebbed and flowed. Originally, we were warned it could be a Black Death-style disaster; it turned out to be more like a very serious influenza season, with perhaps two or three times the mortality of a normal flu, mostly concentrated among the elderly—a nontrivial social cost, but still a manageable situation.
At various times, it also appeared that we were out of the woods. The grim experience of New York in early 2020 was not repeated in most of the rest of the country. Rather, the initial wave came and went far less dramatically, with the vast majority of people either not getting infected or not becoming seriously ill.
But COVID has a way of making a mockery of predictions. Because, after a brief reprieve, it resumed: first in the summer of 2020 in the South, and then, later, nationwide.
At the end of 2020, vaccines came online. These novel vaccines appeared to be working, as cases soon declined. Of course, the decline in cases could have also just been a coincidental event based on the natural rise and fall of cases in every pandemic. By early summer 2021, though, things had gone so well—whether because of vaccines, natural immunity, or a combination of both—that Joe Biden more or less declared victory over the coronavirus.
Then, in spite of widespread vaccine uptake, the Delta surge arrived. We were told vaccines prevented death and disease at high rates, but the totals of mortality with Delta exceeded those of earlier waves. Statistical tricks made this appear to be a "pandemic of the unvaccinated" but that was only because estimates included cases from earlier in 2021, when fewer people were vaccinated, and many were catching the earlier (and deadlier) Beta variant.
None of the data really squared with the claims of vaccine efficacy. One would expect at least some significant downturn in cases, and certainly in death and hospitalization, if the vaccine were truly 95 percent effective and something like 75 percent of adults had the vaccine. It turned out the vaccines lost efficacy quickly and barely put a dent in the spread of Delta. The vaccine promoters (and mandaters) overpromised and under delivered, and continue to do so.
#1
Actually, the first vaccine created was from a non-fatal variant of smallpox. The variant (called cowpox) was given to people and few adverse effects but did immunize them from smallpox.
#2
The ultra-vax should be asked if that cruise ship with 100% reporting vax status of passengers and crew should be used as a control group for a couple weeks; nobody on or off except medical emergency.
#3
Nice theory, but our immune systems have been compromised by the vaccines. Not only has that opened us up to more COVID, but to other diseases as well.
but that is a two edge sword; there are anti virus compounds in the atmosphere, sunlight, etc. so with every foot it travels the virus becomes effectively weaker
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[AP] The U.S. flu season has arrived on schedule after taking a year off, with flu hospitalizations rising and two child deaths reported.
Last year’s flu season was the lowest on record, likely because COVID-19 measures — school closures, distancing, masks and canceled travel — prevented the spread of influenza, or because the coronavirus somehow pushed aside other viruses.
"This is setting itself up to be more of a normal flu season," said Lynnette Brammer, who tracks flu-like illnesses for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The childhood deaths, Brammer said, are "unfortunately what we would expect when flu activity picks up. It’s a sad reminder of how severe flu can be."
During last year’s unusually light flu season, one child died. In contrast, 199 children died from flu two years ago, and 144 the year before that.
In the newest data, the most intense flu activity was in the nation’s capital, Washington, D.C., and the number of states with high flu activity rose from three to seven. In CDC figures released Monday, states with high flu activity are New Mexico, Kansas, Indiana, New Jersey, Tennessee, Georgia and North Dakota.
[BBC] "So now finally, we're on the map," says Philip Balhoa about Lüderitz, a town in southern Namibia, where harsh desert meets pale ocean.
The port town has previously benefited from diamonds and fishing booms, but now struggles with high rates of unemployment and aging infrastructure.
A proposed green hydrogen project is set to be "the third revolution of Lüderitz," says Mr Balhoa, a member of the town council.
He hopes that the project will train and employ local people, or "Buchters" as they affectionately call themselves - bringing down the town's 55% unemployment rate.
"For a town that's really been struggling economically over the past 10 or 15, maybe longer, years, this is something that people are really very excited about," he says.
The project will be based near the town in the Tsau //Khaeb National Park, and ultimately produce around 300,000 tonnes of green hydrogen per year.
In simple terms, the renewable energy from the sun and wind will be used to separate hydrogen molecules from desalinated water.
Those hydrogen molecules in their pure form or in derivative green ammonia can make up a variety of products, including sustainable fuels.
The preferred bidder, Hyphen Hydrogen Energy, is set to start production in 2026 and will have the rights to the project for 40 years, once the necessary feasibility processes are concluded.
The firm says the four years of construction are likely to create 15,000 direct jobs and 3,000 more during full operations - and that 90% of them will be filled by locals.
#1
I suspect this is still primarily Greenscam but this is the kind of thing we will depend on in the future - use excess solar power in one place (or nuclear at one time) to manufacture chemicals or liquid transportation fuels.
#2
Dateline 2030: A Namibian 'green' hydrogen plant was utterly destroyed in a gigantic explosion. Officials say the blast occurred when a 3rd shift maintenance worker opened a valve and sparked a flame to heat his lunch.
#6
Liquid state 600 lb thermos bottles currently in use. Same for liquid oxygen. Fear greatest problem as bad as with Covid nannies. This is the future electric big failure. Boiling point of Hydrogen is -252.9°C.Boiling point of Oxygen is -183°C. Boiling point for nitrogen -195.79°C.
#7
LNG at -163C already uses 10% of the natural gas energy content to liquefy it. As you get closer to absolute zero, the cooling process becomes less energy efficient. Liquid hydrogen currently requires about 1/3 of its energy content to liquefy it. Add in the turbo cooling plant, storage and transport and it becomes a money loser.
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[REGNUM] December 22 marked the 30th anniversary of the beginning of the fierce civil war in Georgia. This war subsequently found itself in some shadow of two other bloody armed conflicts on the territory of this Transcaucasian republic - the interethnic Georgian-Abkhaz and Georgian-Ossetian ones. However, it is difficult to underestimate what role the civil war played in the plunge of the prosperous and prosperous Georgian SSR into a state of complete chaos and blatant lawlessness.
The hostilities in the very center of Tbilisi on Rustaveli Avenue lasted 16 days, and the war itself, sometimes dying out, then swelling again, lasted two years in the western regions of Georgia, bringing innumerable troubles to the population. The consequences of the war affected Georgia throughout the entire 90s.
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[Organic Prepper] How is it possible to survive a nation with inflation rates of 20%/month and 1700%/year? The answer? The underground economy. This is the level of hyperinflation we have found ourselves with here in Venezuela, and considering the spread of inflation worldwide, it would be well worth the prepper’s time to glean what we can learn here.
Virtually everything you read dictates inflation on this scale necessitates civil war.
Yet Venezuela hasn’t seen this. Why not? Why are the streets not being taken by armed civilians?
While the main reason revolves around 20 years of disarmament and anti-self-defense teachings, I would argue that there is a second reason we haven’t delved into full on anarchy as well: our underground economy.
[Townhall] There's an accident in the Oval Office. Not the kind of accident left on the rug in front of the Resolute Desk on a regular basis by the untrained, rowdy dogs the Biden's sicced on the unwitting White House staff and Secret Service. I'm talking about the man who sits behind the resolute desk for his daily naps.
Joe Biden is the accidental president. He is the result of an accident of American politics.
His presidency will not be remembered with an asterisk, as my friend and fellow Townhall columnist Kurt Schlichter would say. No, it will be remembered... reviled... as the accident that it was, is and ever shall be.
He became the Democrats' nominee in 2020 by accident. He shouldn't have even run in the first place. Everyone knows that's true.
If he was such a great man and gifted leader and our nation couldn't do without him, why didn't he just run for Obama's third term in 2016 as the sitting vice president? This would've been the natural move for such a powerful, important, and wise leader to make.
But he didn't run in 2016. And did you notice that nobody seemed to notice? Nobody seemed to care. Even Obama sat by and let him languish as the Democrats openly joked about him and Hillary Clinton's henchmen bullied him into officially declaring himself a non-candidate.
There's nothing this decrepit perv has touched that he hasn't debased. Who benefits? The DeepState?
Not so sure of that -- do they really gain, long-term, from the anarchy and degradation of popular support?
Look at DoD. Popular support for the military has collapsed in the last 7 months. Sure, they have their loot, but for how much longer if they're now held in the same esteem as Pelosi and Congresscritters?
Or do they just believe the end of the American Experiment is nigh, and are just feeding off the federal corpse before the debt's called and the money's gone?
#4
Or do they just believe the end of the American Experiment is nigh, and are just feeding off the federal corpse before the debt's called and the money's gone?
Seems about right to me.
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#5
The Big Guy
PervOTUS
Plugs
CornPop
Neil Kinnock's Amanuensis
Ashley's Shower-Cabin Buddy
“I love those barrettes in your hair, man,” Biden said [to the elementary schoolgirl in front of her parents at Langley- “I tell you what, look at her, she looks like she’s 19 years old, sitting there like a little lady with her legs crossed.”
#9
Biden's also a serial defamer. He hops on the false outrage train and slanders innocent people in high profile cases -- casually, knowingly, repeatedly.
This serial slanderer defamed Kyle Rittenhouse, calling him a "white supremacist."
He slandered the Border Patrol agents, repeating the bogus take about "whipping" illegals and promising to punish the agents for this made-up, non-crime.
[Pirate's Cove] We all know that the Chinese coronavirus doesn’t attack people who are eating with masks off, right? Who knew that essential workers only have Bat Soup Virus for half the time as non-essential works? Why don’t we just declare all workers essential? That would fix this, right?
New York cuts essential worker quarantine times in half
New York’s essential workers now can return to work just five days after receiving a positive COVID-19 test, so long as they’re vaccinated and asymptomatic.
Why it matters: The revised rules cuts quarantine time in half from 10 days and come as New York has struggled to maintain staffing levels within a variety of industries, including health care, food services, and transportation.
Between the lines: Governor Kathy Hochul said in a Friday briefing that the move was based on early indications that infections from Omicron are less severe than from the original COVID-19 strain or the Delta variant.
So, if you’re a health care worker, work at the airport, grocery store, or a bar, or pick up the garbage (among all the stuff in the "revised rules"), you only need to quarantine 5 days, not 10. But, if, say, you are a doorman or sell guitars, 10 days. But, it’s hard to know, because the list is so darned expansive
State officials said that the new rules came after the CDC released new guidance reducing the quarantine time for health care workers from 10 to seven days.
See? Even the CDC thinks COVID only effects some people differently than others. We can all declare ourselves healthcare workers! Science!
#1 It's all just being made up as they go along now. Which do you think the use, @uija board, wheel of misfortune or chuck-a-luck cage?
Posted by: M. Murcek 2021-12-28 07:17
Dartboard.
Mike
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#4
New York essential workers
Police, Fire, Ambulance, Garbage, Union, half quit.
Half of those remaining work from home?
So 1/4 of the workforce are given a 1 week vacation?
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Red State] Here’s a fun one for you. According to the latest U.S. Census, the Native American population in the United States grew by 86.5 percent between 2010 and 2020.
[Pirate's Cove] We all know that the Chinese coronavirus doesn’t attack people who are eating with masks off, right? Who knew that essential workers only have Bat Soup Virus for half the time as non-essential works? Why don’t we just declare all workers essential? That would fix this, right?
