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-Great Cultural Revolution
The number of white people in America has declined for the first time since 1790
[Just The News] The number of white people in the United States has dropped for the first time since 1790, according to new data from the 2020 Census.

Data from the 2020 count of people living in America shows that the country has become substantially more ethnically diverse, particularly in the under-18 category. Additionally, the country's population grew 7.4% in the last ten years, a slower rate than any decade since the 1930s.

The numbers indicate that growth in the American population for the last decade has been driven by minority populations. While whites still make up a little less than 58% of the American population, that figure dropped below 60% for the first time since the census-taking began.

The share of the white population was 63.7% in 2010, and is now 57.8%, the lowest on record. The actual number of non-Hispanic whites fell as well, shrinking from 196 million in 2010 to 191 million in 2020.

The director of race, ethnicity and outreach — Nicholas Jones — at the Population Division of the Census Bureau said, "The U.S. population is much more multiracial and much more racially and ethnically diverse than we measured in the past."

In more than half of American counties, more people died than were born during the last decade. Small counties — with populations of fewer than 50,000 — on average, lost population. Counties with populations greater than 100,000 mostly added to their numbers.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/14/2021 03:26 || Comments || Link || [19 views] Top|| File under:

#1  So, basically, USA is like EUrope now - the only growth is through emigration?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/14/2021 5:14 Comments || Top||

#2  ...Mormons don't seem to have a problem with keeping their numbers up. I guess if you are so in love with European socialism, it figures your population will follow the trend.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/14/2021 6:20 Comments || Top||

#3  ^Neither do Muslims - I wonder what they've in common?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/14/2021 6:22 Comments || Top||

#4  Raising children requires a commitment many choose not to make.

Large government bureaucracies require large constituencies (payers), or else the ponzi schemes collapse.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/14/2021 7:02 Comments || Top||

#5  #3 animal husbandry?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/14/2021 8:51 Comments || Top||

#6  ^
Are we commenting about Rashida Elabed Tlaib marrying her brother again ?

Posted by: Crerert Sforza6350 || 08/14/2021 8:56 Comments || Top||

#7  That's Omar and I read they have provable a DNA match
Posted by: Frank G || 08/14/2021 10:44 Comments || Top||


#9  Not buying it. Where did 20m people go?
Posted by: Angstrom || 08/14/2021 11:07 Comments || Top||

#10  ^^^

Yeah man, you are right, Biden said all 350 Million of us are vaccinated, so what happened to the 20 million ?

Somebody call the US Space Command, I think they have been abducted by a UFO.
Posted by: Phasing Angaique4657 || 08/14/2021 11:14 Comments || Top||

#11  Just like Hindus in India...
Posted by: Wren || 08/14/2021 13:14 Comments || Top||

#12  More Caucasians are calling themselves multi-racial. More who are multi-racial are picking a non-white identity. So I have to wonder how much has really changed.

From the New York Times article on the subject (via Ann Althouse):

Nearly 1 in 4 Americans now identify themselves as either Hispanic or Asian. The Black population grew by 6 percent, an increase that represented about a tenth of the country’s growth. Americans who identified as non-Hispanic and more than one race rose the fastest, jumping to 13.5 million from 6 million.

And in what appears to be a big shift in how Hispanics think of their racial identity, one third of Hispanics reported being more than one race, up from just 6 percent in 2010. That means that Hispanics are now nearly twice is likely to identify as multiracial than as white.


The New York Times article ended as follows:

Correction: Aug. 12, 2021
An earlier version of this article incorrectly reported the rate of decline of the non-Hispanic white population since 2010. It was 2.6 percent, not 8.6 percent.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/14/2021 15:10 Comments || Top||

#13  It seems more likely there is an increase in the non-white population instead of a decrease in the white population
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 08/14/2021 15:51 Comments || Top||

#14  that would explain why everything is going to shit
Posted by: Chris || 08/14/2021 17:13 Comments || Top||

#15  Open Borders
what not to like
or
Fronteras abiertas qué no gustar

or

Maak grense oop Wat om nie van te hou nie

or

开放边界 不喜欢什么

or any of the other languages floating around the country... attached to migrants...
(happy face goes here)
Posted by: Enver Clolung1116 || 08/14/2021 19:11 Comments || Top||

#16  As 1/8 Cherokee, I used my heritage to obtain scholarships for my children. What’s not to like! They and I now classify as mixed or Native American.
Posted by: Grampaw Cooky || 08/14/2021 19:42 Comments || Top||

#17  The fastest way to end white supremacy would be for all so-called "white" people to identify as black. When 0% of Americans are white, utopia will come to pass.
Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 || 08/14/2021 21:10 Comments || Top||


Nebraska governor vows to continue fighting critical race theory as university rejects resolution
[FoxNews] Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts told Fox News on Friday that he would continue fighting critical race theory (CRT) despite the state university's decision to reject a resolution designed to combat the contentious ideology.

His comments came amid an ongoing controversy over the issue, which has prompted input from professors and students at the University of Nebraska. On Friday afternoon, the Board of Regents voted 5-3 to reject the anti-CRT measure, which opposed the "imposition" of the ideology in curriculum.

"While the board didn't pass the resolution, I'm committed to continuing the fight to keep [CRT] from being imposed upon Nebraska schools or institutions of higher education," Ricketts said.
Does not the state governor appoint the regents for the state universities? This seems an ideal time for Governor Ricketts to share the spoils with the more erudite among his supporters.
Jim Pillen, the regent and GOP gubernatorial candidate who introduced the resolution, similarly said he wouldn't stop fighting what he and others see as a divisive influence on education.

"I'm disappointed in today’s outcome, but this fight is not over," Pillen said in a statement provided to Fox News. "The issue isn't going away. I will continue to oppose Critical Race Theory being imposed on students in higher education, and it will be a priority to ban it from Nebraska’s K-12 schools as governor."

Opponents argued that the resolution would impede academic freedom and avoid teaching hard truths about race relations. But both sides expressed fear that faculty would be forced one way or another on the issue.

After the United College Athlete Advocates, the American Association of University Professors and the faculty senate criticized the measure, the university's president and chancellors released a statement expressing "concerns."

"As we have shared with Regent Pillen, we have significant concerns about the resolution and how it would be interpreted by the faculty, staff and students we hope to recruit and retain," the statement read. "We will continue to work together and with the Board to vigorously protect and defend academic freedom at the University of Nebraska."

Pillen's resolution read, in part: "Whereas we oppose discrimination in any form and Whereas Critical Race Theory does not promote inclusive and honest dialogue and education on campus and Whereas Critical Race Theory proponents seek to silence opposing views and disparage important American ideals. Be it resolved that the Regents of the University of Nebraska oppose any imposition of Critical Race Theory in curriculum."
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/14/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Last year, the plague demonstrated a lot of 'education' institutions don't need to remain open. Just saying.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/14/2021 7:37 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Man gets six kidney beans stuck in doinker while trying to 'express' himself
[NYPOST] He was struggling to "pea."
It gets worse.
A randy Michigan man redefined "c-block" after he got six kidney beans lodged in his pea pea urethra during a bizarro attempt at sexual gratification.
Kind of a "pee shooter."
The unnamed 30-year-old patient had reportedly wanted to "express the beans while whacking his pud during ejaculation," according to the wince-worthy report published in the journal Urology Case Funnies Reports.
"Heh heh! Hey Bob! You seen this one?"
So the sexual nut bag eccentric shoved six kidney beans down his dong in his urethra and attempted to shoot them off expel them via blowing his wad "natural emission." However,
facts are stubborn; statistics are more pliable...
his pea shooter jammed during the process, prompting him to try to remove them with tweezers.
"C'mere, y'little bean boogers! Ow!"
When that failed, he reported to the hospital, where he informed doctors that he was struggling to "pea."
"Ummm... Honey? Im going out for a couple hours!"
"Not again? Those were for dinner, dammit!"

The backed-up bean stalker also admitted it wasn’t his "first time participating in this practice, although he never attempted to utilize this many beans."
"You thought I wasn't gonna notice again, didn't you?"
A subsequent CT scan confirmed that the poor soul harbored six beans in his schlong urethra, which measured 15 mm by 7 mm each. Four were located between the urethral entrance and the urine pouch, while another had strayed all the way into the bladder.
"I SAID YOU'VE GOT A BEAN IN YER BLADDER!"
"YOU'LL HAVE TO SPEAK UP! I'VE GOT A BANANA IN MY EAR!"

After initially failing to extract the urethral infiltrators, medics managed to remove one legume by applying numbing cream to the area and then squeezing the penile passageway, the researchers reported.
"Feel pretty numb now?"
"I've felt number..."
"Does that hurt?"
"ARGH!"
"Hey! How about some warning next time?"
"Sorry, nurse. Here comes another one!"
"AAARRGGGHHH!"

They eradicated the rest of the beans the following day via a complex process that involved holding the man’s urinary entrance open and inserting a great honking tube through which they passed surgical implements.
"Pliers... hammer... chisel... suction... thermite... detonator..."
They then plucked out the taco toppers with a tweezer-like tool and placed them in a basket.
"Clear!... KERPOW!... whimper..."
Despite the highly invasive procedure, the frijole fetishist suffered "minimal" trauma to his urethra and was discharged the following day.
"I'm here to pick up..."
[whimper]
"... him."

*Wipes tears* I’m sure that if they read this, the rabbis would advise the following prayer: Blessed art thou, O Lord our God, Ruler of the universe, who hast made me [female and] not as creative as Mr. Bean.
Posted by: Fred || 08/14/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [17 views] Top|| File under:

#1 

☺ Should have used one of those Stainless Steel drinking straws. ☺

Humor people just sick sarcastic humor...
before we end up reading some idiot tried it
Posted by: NN2N1 || 08/14/2021 6:08 Comments || Top||

#2  And he left instructions on TikTok, for everyone to follow...and a link to His Theme song



Posted by: Choluter Claper9058 || 08/14/2021 9:41 Comments || Top||

#3  Like a National Geographic show:
"Just as salmon swim upstream to spawn, so do the young kidney beans try to go upstream to mama kidney..."
(I'm sorry... couldn't help it.)
Posted by: ed in texas || 08/14/2021 9:51 Comments || Top||

#4  ^^^
No, no keep going, the kids that read RB need a lesson in anatomy's workings
Posted by: Jimble Glineque4674 || 08/14/2021 9:55 Comments || Top||

#5  #3 LOL!
Posted by: Frank G || 08/14/2021 10:43 Comments || Top||

#6  Ed, could we please ask you to retire to your room ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/14/2021 10:45 Comments || Top||

#7  Even Ghost of Pappy would be laughing at that.
Posted by: SteveS || 08/14/2021 11:01 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Sydney is plunged into a TOUGHER lockdown with a swathe of new rules including a ban on ANYONE leaving the city without a permit - as it's revealed people will be PAID to get tested
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/14/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

#1  That's what happens when you take away the guns. Stupid f#cking Aussies. You get what you deserve.
Pull that in the Midwest and see if they try and enforce.
Posted by: The Walking Unvaxed || 08/14/2021 0:43 Comments || Top||

#2  Insanity in Australia. Hard to believe.
Posted by: Croque Fliting8030 || 08/14/2021 7:23 Comments || Top||

#3  Prohibited from leaving Atlanta, Chicago, or D.C. without a permit? Where is the downside to that ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/14/2021 7:27 Comments || Top||

#4 
Australian System of Government is Broken

Australia is a federation of six states which, together with two self-governing territories, have their own constitutions, parliaments, governments and laws. This info-sheet is about the national or central government, usually called the Federal Government, Commonwealth Government or Australian Government.

In my opinion, it needs to have a break-switch activated to stop this Authoritarian Psychotic Behavior, which is now their government.

If not, their economy will be in ruins for decades to come, and civil liberties will not recover anytime in this decade.

Australia Total Population 25,837,314 (Estimated)
Posted by: Ebbealet Fleamp8205 || 08/14/2021 8:21 Comments || Top||

#5  Judging from the chart presented, the lockdowns and masks are not doing anything.
Posted by: Chuckles Slusomp3825 || 08/14/2021 11:29 Comments || Top||

#6  Relatable.
Posted by: Wren || 08/14/2021 13:18 Comments || Top||

#7  British penal colony back in the day, right? They should be used to this.
Posted by: Raj || 08/14/2021 15:20 Comments || Top||


Africa Subsaharan
South Africa’s Descent into Chaos
[YouTube] After the imprisonment of the former South African President, Jacob Zuma, by his one-time ally and successor, widespread protests in his home state of KwaZulu-Natal turned deadly.

Over a week of riots and looting, the city of Durban was left in flames. VICE World News goes inside South Africa’s descent into chaos, witnessing the scale of the rage and destruction.



Posted by: Besoeker || 08/14/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  South Africa’s Descent into Chaos

Happened now, not 27 years ago?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/14/2021 5:10 Comments || Top||

#2  Durban In terms of race, over 51% of residents are Black African. Nearly one-quarter of the population is Indian or Asian, while 15.3% are White, and 8.6% are designated as Coloured. The largest ethnic group are the Zulus. Sixty-eight percent of the city's residents are under age 19..
Posted by: Bertie Crains2651 || 08/14/2021 8:28 Comments || Top||

#3  /\ A multicultural utopian sanctuary. Has been for decades. Ask anyone in SA where the trouble might begin. The answer would universally be Durban.

SA and Zim continue to provide the model. Can we not learn from contemporary models. Yes, rhetorical of course, sorry.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/14/2021 10:10 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Fair Russia party rules out merging with the Communist Party
Direct translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[REGNUM] In the foreseeable future, the unification of such parties as "Fair Russia - Patriots - For Truth" (SR) and the Communist Party of the Russian Federation is out of the question, said candidate for the State Duma from Fair Russia, Alexander Tarnavsky at a round table in Moscow.

Tarnavsky explained his position by the fact that such associations imply the absorption of a stronger party by a weaker one. Now, neither Fair Russia, nor the Communist Party of the Russian Federation are so weak as to be swallowed up by one another.

"I think that in the near future it is impossible. And for obvious reasons. Everyone wants to unite for themselves. I am friends with many representatives of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation. There are different teams. Ideologically, it is possible to expand, but in such a way that one swallows up the other, it is impossible that way. The Communist Party of the Russian Federation has its own ideology, respectfully speaking, we will not grow together. And this will not be possible in the near future," Tarnavsky said.

At the same time, according to the leader of A Just Russia - For the Truth, Sergei Mironov, the union of the SR and the Communist Party of the Russian Federation would help to defend the interests of citizens more successfully, but it is impossible under the current leadership of the Communist Party.

Earlier, Zakhar Prilepin, the co-chairman of A Just Russia - For Truth, made a proposal to integrate the left-wing forces.

The ballot paper for voting in the federal electoral district will include the LDPR, "Communists of Russia", "Fair Russia - Patriots - For Truth", the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, "Civic Platform", the Russian Party of Freedom and Justice (RPSS), "Rodina", "Greens" , Green Alternative, Party of Pensioners, Party of Growth, Yabloko, New People and United Russia.

Posted by: badanov || 08/14/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Published by Statista Research Department, Aug 2, 2021/ In July 2021, the rating of the ruling party in Russia, United Russia measured at 29 percent. In the corresponding period of the previous year, the share of respondents ready to vote for it if the State Duma elections took place the upcoming Sunday was slightly higher.
Posted by: Bertie Crains2651 || 08/14/2021 8:34 Comments || Top||

#2  Each group feels that the other is just too squishy.
Posted by: ed in texas || 08/14/2021 16:58 Comments || Top||


China-Japan-Koreas
Communist China ‘Indefinitely' Closes Critical Port over One Coronavirus Case
[Breitbart] Communist China partly shut down one of the world’s busiest ports “indefinitely” on Wednesday after one worker tested positive for Chinese coronavirus.

A 34-year-old employee at the Meishan Terminal of China’s Ningbo-Zhoushan Port reportedly tested positive for the Indian “delta” variant of the Chinese coronavirus and has an asymptomatic infection. The infected person supposedly contracted the virus after receiving two doses of the Sinovac vaccine, which is widely considered the least-effective Chinese coronavirus vaccine currently in global circulation. The Chinese-made vaccine tested at 50.38 percent efficacy when first introduced into the market, meeting the threshold traditionally considered necessary to be approved by less than a percentage point.

While the rest of the Ningbo port remains in operation, the closed terminal is considered “critical” in servicing North America and Europe, the South China Morning Post reported. Analysts said the closure could cause serious delays around the upcoming holidays and could further increase global inflation.
Oh noes! No plastic Christmas crap this year?
“While the congestion is rampant around major global ports, currently all attention is on China because its ports are so large in scale, and exports starting from there would impact the overall global supply chain,” said Akhil Nair, vice-president of global carrier management and ocean strategy at Seko Logistics.

“They will divert as many services as possible to other Ningbo terminals, but there is still the expectation that congestion will start to form,” he said. “The average wait time is expected to increase back to what we saw in Yantian, which was seven to nine days,” referring to the Shenzhen’s Yantian port shutdown in May and June over coronavirus.

Meishan handled 20 percent of the total container throughput at the port in 2020, according to official statistics reported by the Post. Last year, it was one of the busiest terminals, handling 5,440,400 TEUs of container throughput.

Josh Brazil, vice-president of marketing at Project44, told the Post the closure could cause global inflation to increase, in part because many traders are passing on costs of delays to customers.

“The fact that ships remain delayed, and now Covid variant outbreaks in major Chinese manufacturing hubs are on the rise, indicates that there may be far-reaching downstream consequences going into Black Friday and the holiday shopping seasons,” he said “We’re seeing a lot of variation in delay times between months, and routes such as US west coast versus east coast ports, making supply chains particularly challenging for shippers to manage.”

China’s communist government has used the asymptomatic case as a reason to quarantine nearly 800 people and shut down the area surrounding the port.

According to the Global Times, a state-run newspaper, the city of Ningbo in East China’s Zhejiang Province ordered religious places, internet cafes, entertainment venues, cinemas, and gyms to shut down. By Wednesday afternoon, officials also canceled all flights in Ningbo airport to and from Beijing. At least 33,000 people who live in three districts in the area are affected by the lockdown.

The communist-run Times blamed “contaminated cargo” for the port employee’s infection. The Post said the person was seen on video surveillance in close contact with “foreign crew members” at the port.

China’s communist government has a history of quickly clamping down when threatened with growing coronavirus cases. In the early months of the pandemic, the Communist Party worked tirelessly to undermine travel bans that might have prevented the coronavirus from spreading beyond China.

China pulled strings with international organizations to secure recommendations against blocking travel for infected Chinese. Even as the Chinese government was locking Wuhan’s Hubei province down and forbidding internal travel, it pushed international travel, the Economic Times reported.

Officials, however, did not hesitate to issue travel bans from the U.K., India, and other countries in 2020 after ardently opposing such bans in other countries.

Notably, the Post emphasized how China became the “main exporter of goods to other parts of the world still under lockdown” when the country “recovered well” after the first wave of Chinese coronavirus.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/14/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Maybe they know something about delta that the rest of us don't?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/14/2021 5:39 Comments || Top||

#2 
What if Washington DC applied Communist China Travel Controls here?

Communist China claims a world record for low C-19 Infections. As of today, China has a World Ranking of #107 out of 222 nations. With only total of 94,326 infections since the pandemic start back in 2019. I t claims only 1,385 cases in the last 14 days. While the rest of the world was and is still burning.

Is it because China in part uses Incoming International Travel bans and Incoming Border Crossing travel bans to stop the spread of Infections and new variants? Or plain BS communist propagranda?


But since DC US Socialcrats seem to believe the CCP infection data. Because they sure as hell aren't on CNN challenging them, now are they.

Then why hasn't DC followed suit and applied Incoming International Travel controls at ALL US borders?

Answer: It conflicts with the DC Socialcrats OPEN BORDERS agenda.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 08/14/2021 6:00 Comments || Top||

#3  What if Washington DC applied Communist China Travel Controls here?

It's unenforceable. It fact, it's unenforceable in China. Except, in China, people who bribed an official to make an exception for them - don't go on social networks to brag about it.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/14/2021 6:19 Comments || Top||

#4  Why would anyone believe China’s claimed Covid numbers? Or the efficacy that they claim for their vaccine?

If they shut down a busy port terminal, they’re hurting considerably more than they claim.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/14/2021 16:47 Comments || Top||


Europe
Belgrade expects KFOR to protect Serbian villages in Kosovo
Direct translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[REGNUM] Petar Petkovic , Director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija, Government of Serbia, expects the International Force for Kosovo (KFOR) to strengthen its presence in Serb areas, as there have been more anti-Serb incidents in the southern Serbian province since the beginning of the year than in the entire previous year. Petkovic announced this on his Twitter page on August 13.

Petkovic writes that on August 13, the day when Serbs mourn the Serbian children killed in 2003 in the village of Gorazdevac, graffiti appeared in the center of Serb-populated Gracanica, glorifying the Kosovo Liberation Army.

It should be reminded that on August 13, 2003, unknown persons fired at Serbian children from automatic weapons, who were swimming in the Bistrica river near the center of the village of Gorazdevac. Two young men were killed, four more were wounded of varying severity. The attackers were never punished.

EULEX (EU mission in Kosovo) closed its investigation into the incident 11 years ago.

Posted by: badanov || 08/14/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I recently read somewhere that the designation "caucasian, or white" is obsolete and must be rejected. So I guess I don't have to care about other ethnic groups either. I mean, fair is fair. As Fransisco D'Anconia said in Atlas Shrugged, "You asked for it, brother..."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/14/2021 8:38 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Who are Israel's COVID-19 anti-vaxxers? New survey
[JPost] - Are Israelis against vaccination or are there other reasons that some one million eligible individuals have not turned out to get the jab?

A new survey conducted by Prof. Michal Grinstein-Weiss attempts to answer this question.

The survey, which was taken on August 11 and 12, asked 925 individuals over age 18 whether they had been vaccinated or not. If not, the survey asked them why.

Some 11% of respondents said they had not been inoculated, 75% of which said they do not plan to do so.

When broken down by religion and level of religion, the majority of the unvaccinated are either haredi (ultra-Orthodox) or Arab. Some 24% of haredim and some 21% of Arabs are unvaccinated, versus 6% of secular people, 11% of traditional people and 8% of religious or Religious Zionist respondents.

...Some one-third of the people who said they did not vaccinate — 54% of haredim and 38% of Arabs — said it was because they already contracted the virus in a previous wave and therefore felt that they were protected.

"It is important to understand this when messaging about vaccination to these populations," Grinstein-Weiss said. "This one-third is not really anti-vaccination. So, it just needs to be explained to them why they need to vaccinate even if they have already been sick."
To wit: immunity to coronaviruses is short lasting (see comments)
...The number one reason that Israelis do not want to get vaccinated is because they still do not feel they know enough about the long-term impact of the vaccine (46%). Others said that they do not believe the vaccine is effective (40%) or that they do not think it is safe even in the short term (38%).
The breakdown of basic education in modern western societys is really depressing
Strikingly, despite multiple Israeli and international studies, there are still many women who are opting out of vaccination because they are afraid it will impact fertility (17%) or because they are pregnant or nursing and afraid it could harm their baby (11%).

...Israel began vaccinating pregnant women in January and stepped up its encouragement of these women getting inoculated during the third wave, when the British variant caused many women in their third trimesters to develop serious cases of the virus that required emergency delivery and treatment in the intensive care unit. Some pregnant women died from the virus then, too.
Stupidity is not a crime - but it is a capital offense.
Another factor that plays into whether or not people get vaccinated seems to be their friends and family networks. Some 61% of people whose friends and/or family members are not vaccinating have chosen not to vaccinate themselves.

"They tend to give into peer pressure," said Yaniv Shlomo, a senior research associate at SPI, who worked with Grinstein-Weiss on the survey. "They run in cliques."
An Israeli example of staunch individualism claimed by American anti-vaxxers.
...Finally, the report looked at the connection between immunization and marital status: The percentage of those not vaccinated is higher among those who are single or without children compared to those who are married or have kids — 16% unvaccinated versus 9%.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/14/2021 03:33 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Covid-19: Is Manaus the final nail in the coffin for natural herd immunity?

Many thought a second wave was impossible in Brazil’s Amazon because of the severity of the first.
A second crisis has stunned the city of Manaus

...Around 80 confirmed covid-19 deaths were reported each day in May 2020—Manaus was the first Brazilian city to dig mass graves. In the second wave in January 2021 that number exceeded 100. The new heights of despair in a city that suffered so much with the first wave came as a shock to residents and public health experts alike.

It has alarmed researchers across the world too. Many thought a second wave impossible because of the scale of the previous outbreak. “The academic
community thought they were close to herd
immunity,” says Diego Rosselli, an epidemiologist
at Bogotá’s La Javeriana University. “Once again, we had it wrong.”


Incidentally, Brazilians relied extensively on HCQ as a prophylactic against Covid
Hydroxychloroquine and other 'miracle cures' continue to fuel Brazil's outbreak
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/14/2021 4:16 Comments || Top||

#2  The 'true' unvaxxed, we salute you !
Posted by: Craviger Lumumba4387 || 08/14/2021 5:52 Comments || Top||

#3  Unvaccinated America, In 5 Charts
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/14/2021 6:25 Comments || Top||

#4  To wit: immunity to coronaviruses is short lasting (see comments)
Call me when you get tired of you semi annual (or more) c19 booster shots.

The breakdown of basic education in modern western societys is really depressing



You are correct, it's amazing what people will believe.

Stupidity is not a crime - but it is a capital offense.

The fact you believe and write it publicly indicates you are stupid.

An Israeli example of staunch individualism claimed by American anti-vaxxers.

Israel First?
Posted by: The Walking Unvaxed || 08/14/2021 11:29 Comments || Top||

#5  Hunters get your vac.
Posted by: Dale || 08/14/2021 13:38 Comments || Top||


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How Many Websites Are There? Or Of All The Gin Joints In All The Towns In All The World, She Walks Into Mine.
[Zero Hedge] As Statista's infographic above shows, there are 1.88 billion websites today and looking at Internet Live Stats' counter, this figure is currently increasing at a fast rate.
Posted by: Crerert Sforza6350 || 08/14/2021 09:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

#1 

So with the world population @ 7.9 Billion People
about 1 to 8 has their own website.

Get 4 more people and you, build a website, control your destiny, deep six FB, Google, Twitter.

Make a 'ring' of like minded people with complementary, goals and you too, could make a storm on the internet. - or a tempest in a tea pot
Posted by: Enver Clolung1116 || 08/14/2021 17:40 Comments || Top||

#2  I have lost track of how many people I have dealt with over the years who had a web site but the developer died or just quit taking their calls, they had no passwords and the URL wasn't even registered to them. Then the registration lapsed and a squatter sat on it hoping to make a fast buck. I wonder exactly how many of these web sites are "Under Construction, this URL can be yours," or just throw an Apache stack error of some sort. Or are subdomains being counted as stand alone "websites." More magic numbers...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/14/2021 17:55 Comments || Top||

#3  ^^^
So, there are a lot of "dead people voting" in these numbers... where have I heard that before...Hmmmm
Posted by: Enver Clolung1116 || 08/14/2021 17:59 Comments || Top||

#4  No doubt there are a bunch of "null" websites in the count. But the interesting part is the slope of curve which looks to be exponentially increasing.
Posted by: SteveS || 08/14/2021 18:50 Comments || Top||

#5  How many are simply squatters?
Posted by: CrazyFool || 08/14/2021 21:48 Comments || Top||


Coronavirus: 20% of Americans believe at least one COVID conspiracy
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/14/2021 04:54 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The 'true' unvaxxed, we salute you !
Posted by: Thumper Tojo9650 || 08/14/2021 5:49 Comments || Top||

#2  Isn't it more than 60% of Americans now don't trust corporate media?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/14/2021 7:32 Comments || Top||

#3  /\ Snake oil salesmen abound.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/14/2021 7:38 Comments || Top||

#4  With COVID conspiracy theories are just spoilers.

Remember when the lab leak theory was thoroughly debunked and social media would ban you for even bringing it up?
Posted by: Angstrom || 08/14/2021 11:08 Comments || Top||

#5  I imagine it's more than 20%.
Posted by: The Walking Unvaxed || 08/14/2021 11:18 Comments || Top||

#6  Much of the problem is due to US/EU/CCP constantly adjusting its own C-19 Facts and Figures. Thus opening a door for equally "developed" data.

Then there is the long history of the establishment and MSM frequently getting caught selling a false Narrative for political and social reasons.

So too many times what the public is told or is sold as a Conspiracy Theory today, has been proven Fact later when it was safer to do so.

A few examples of past CONSPIRACY THEORIES later proved factually accurate:

(1950's) Tobacco companies are hiding evidence that smoking is deadly and causes cancer.

(2000's) The U.S. government is watching your internet use.

(2019) The Coronavirus-19 is from a Communist Chinese Research Lab, not some Bat from a farmers market.

(2019-2020) Coronavirus-19 death rate has been overstated its not 4.3% of the population as predicted.

(2019-2021) The most popular used over the ear Paper and cloth masks do not filter out the Covid-19 virus. Because virus is much smaller than their filtering ability.

(2020) Covid-19 Tests are producing lots of false positives.

(2019) Dead people found voting in large numbers.

(2019-21 MSM - The Covid-19 is not man made.


Posted by: NN2N1 || 08/14/2021 14:11 Comments || Top||

#7  ^ That's the beauty (in some minds) of magic numbers. They don't have to be reliable or consistent or verifiable. Because they're magic!
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/14/2021 17:50 Comments || Top||


Handheld railgun that is as powerful as an air rifle and uses electromagnets to fire ammo at 200ft per second is set to go on sale in the US
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Arcflash Labs is accepting preorders for the GR-1 Anvil, available for $3,375

  • The weapon uses electricity, rather than gunpowder, to propel ammunition

  • It can fire 20 rounds per minute at full power, or 100 rounds at half power

  • Though billed as 'the most powerful handheld coilgun ever,' the Anvil's impact is less lethal than traditional firearms
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/14/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  *Snort* Lewis and Clark brought along a Girardoni Air Rifle[Forgotten Weapons video] on their expedition which is a probably superior weapon.
Posted by: magpie || 08/14/2021 0:21 Comments || Top||

#2  Now that 21st century we were promised!
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/14/2021 3:18 Comments || Top||

#3  ^^^^ You are an Israeli - so who is "WE" ?
Posted by: Daffy Sholutch9110 || 08/14/2021 5:55 Comments || Top||

#4  ^Humans (as distinct from featherless bipeds)
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/14/2021 6:16 Comments || Top||

#5  So, it's not classified as a 'firearm'?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/14/2021 6:23 Comments || Top||

#6 

For the DIY types.
Simple Rail Gun plans and parts on a website called Amazing1-DOT-com..
Also a lot of other GEEK toys.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 08/14/2021 6:25 Comments || Top||

#7  Get me my plasma rifle and PPC cannon and we'll be good.
Posted by: DarthVader || 08/14/2021 9:15 Comments || Top||

#8  Lotta weight and complications for what looks to be a squirrel gun.
Posted by: Mercutio || 08/14/2021 10:14 Comments || Top||

#9  What squirrel gun, that's a camera

Posted by: Menhadden Johnson1320 || 08/14/2021 10:30 Comments || Top||

#10  200 fps.

If I catch it, does it mean you are out?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 08/14/2021 11:33 Comments || Top||

#11  ^^^
Yes it does sonny, you are out...
try to catch one of these instead of that toy.

Posted by: Grampaw Thud9184 || 08/14/2021 11:48 Comments || Top||

#12  modern PCP Air rifles are considerably more powerful
Posted by: 746 || 08/14/2021 13:25 Comments || Top||

#13  #12 I have two air rifles that take a 4300 PSI fill regulated at 2900 PSI.
Posted by: crazyhorse || 08/14/2021 17:55 Comments || Top||



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