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Wednesday, July 14, 2021
Afghanistan is folding like a house of cards
Last week, the Taliban said they now control 85% of Afghanistan’s territory — a claim that is impossible to verify but that was considerably higher than previous Taliban statements that more than a third of the country’s 421 districts and district centers were in their control.
More.
As China expands illegal military operations in the Spratly Islands, the Biden administration is reiterating strongly its support for the Philippines
“The most significant change in military posture in 2021 is the
appearance of Chinese special mission aircraft and helicopters at Subi
and Mischief Reefs, indicating the PLA may have commenced routine air
operations from those airfields,” Mr. Dahm said in an interview. ...
Beijing officials on Monday denounced a statement by Secretary of State Antony Blinken hailing the fifth anniversary of an international tribunal ruling that ruled against China’s claim to own 90% of the sea under the “Nine-Dash Line” boundary.
Mr. Blinken reaffirmed Sunday a year-old policy shift announcing that any Chinese military attack on Philippine military or civilian vessels or aircraft in the South China Sea would trigger the U.S.-Philippines Mutual Defense Treaty.
More.
Tuesday, July 13, 2021
Monday, July 12, 2021
US hospitalizations for COVID-19 are up about 3,000 June 27-July 10, from 12.2k to 15.2k
Up 25% in 2 weeks, and 15% in less than a week.
Hospitalizations in the range of 12k lasted June 18-July 3, sixteen days, and soared over 2k just from July 4-9.
Preventing serious illness is supposed to be the benefit of the vaccines.
Yet here we are, with 55% of the population having received at least one vaccine dose.
Sunday, July 11, 2021
In 2020 global debt to global GDP soared to 356%
Global debt finished 4Q at $281 trillion: 3.56x = $281 trillion, so x = $78.93 trillion global GDP.
US GDP in 2020 was $20.9 trillion, TCMDO was $83.49 trillion (almost 400%).
What could go wrong, right? You are fully invested in stonks, amirite?!
Saturday, July 10, 2021
Friday, July 9, 2021
North Carolina forests are being clear cut to provide wood pellets for the European green energy sector
That doesn't make any sense!
From the story:
North Carolina has been “ground zero” for the wood pellet industry, said Danna Smith, co-founder and executive director of the environmental advocacy group Dogwood Alliance. One hundred and sixty-four acres of the state’s forests are cut down by the biomass industry every day, according to an analysis by Key-Log Economics.
LOL, it would seem that Mark Levin is now contesting just who it is who is inspired by Rush Limbaugh around here
American Crisis II: Mark Levin issues 1776-style ‘call for action’ :
Limbaugh did signal that Levin’s role was to rally the conservative base, as he does on his shows and through his books. “He signed something for me, which I'm really a little bashful to talk about, I haven’t said it to anybody,” said Levin. “It says, ‘To my dear friend Mark, the spirit of the movement. God bless you, Rush.’”
Thursday, July 8, 2021
UK COVID-19 hospitalizations at 2328 on July 5th are up 167% since bottoming May 27th at 870
Vaccination with at least one dose is now above 67%, yet serious illness is going up anyway.
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Wednesday, July 7, 2021
It is now common to blame the invention of the cotton gin, a labor-saving device, for the increase in the US slave population
Can anything good come out of Oregon?
This garbage from a Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Oregon State University, is anti-white anti-capitalism rearing its ugly head, not "historical scholarship". It's what Oswald Spengler warned us about in 1934.
In the U.S., Baptists formed a national organization, the Triennial
Convention, in 1814. Around the same time, attitudes of Baptists in the
South toward the enslavement of Africans began to harden
as the 1792 invention of the cotton gin, a machine that made it easier
to separate the cotton fibers from their seeds, made enslavement more
profitable. By the 1830s, abolitionism took firm hold among Northern
Baptists, and both they and Baptists in the South argued they were
upholding Scripture through their views on slavery.
Blaming the cotton gin for an increase of enslavement appears to be a new, and stupid, argument of the anti-white-anti-capitalist industry, advanced since about 2009, in tandem with the advent of the Obama era when hostility to capitalism began to become more widely racialized, along with everything else.
The claim, as per the Wikipedia article on the cotton gin, is that "The number of slaves rose in concert with the increase in cotton
production, increasing from around 700,000 in 1790 to around 3.2 million
in 1850".
But the cotton production figures cited don't match the population "production" facts:
"Cotton production expanded from 750,000 bales in 1830 to 2.85 million bales in 1850." You are led to believe with this sleight of hand that slave population was dramatically increased by 2.5 million (357%) to accomplish that 280% production increase in cotton.
That isn't the case.
From 1830 to 1850 slave population increased by 1.2 million, from 2 million to 3.2 million, or 60%, not 357% obviously. Automation meant fewer slaves were needed, not more. The increase in slave population over the period has nothing to do with the invention of the cotton gin.
Importation of slaves to the US had been halted from 1808 by act of Congress. By 1850 fewer than 305,000 had been brought to America. Slave population increased in the US naturally through reproduction over the period, by 60%, in contrast with the free population which increased in the US by about 84% (from 10.85 million to 19.99 million) through both reproduction and immigration between 1830-1850.
You can't even make the argument that slaves were bred to serve, however aspirational that might have been for a very small minority of white race schemers of the plantation enterprise. The data shows whatever the intentions were, they didn't succeed, and slave population increased at a rate lower than the free population.
You could make the argument that the invention of the cotton gin enabled slave owners to get by much longer with fewer slave laborers*, some of whom enjoyed better working conditions as a result, thus perpetuating the economics of slavery in a situation where increased supply of that labor had been cut off, but that's not the argument they are making. They aren't smart enough to make it.
*Cotton production per slave increased from 188 pounds in 1830 to 445 pounds in 1850.
Monday, July 5, 2021
LOL, on a lazy day after the holiday I tune in to the Clay and Buck Show for the first time and get a double dose of stupid in mere minutes
OK, maybe it was the second time, but still.
LOL, Clay Travis cites Martin Luther King Jr. maintaining that homosexuality is a mental disorder like that was a bad thing
The Clay and Buck Globohomo Show.
LOL, how does Clay Travis graduate from Vanderbilt Law and say "drug across the finish line" out loud in front of God and everybody?
Just now on the show which replaces Rush Limbaugh.
Joel Kotkin has come around, now calls it what it is: Global fascism
In 2018, Kotkin was still tip-toeing around the obvious, but not anymore:
Mussolini’s notion of fascism has become increasingly dominant in much of the world . . .
Mussolini, a one-time radical socialist, viewed himself as a “revolutionary” transforming society by turning the state into “the moving centre of economic life”. In Italy and, to a greater extent, Germany, fascism also brought with it, at least initially, an expanded highly populist welfare state much as we see today.
Mussolini’s idea of a an economy controlled from above, with generous benefits but dominated by large business interests, is gradually supplanting the old liberal capitalist model. ...
fascism — in its corporate sense — relies on concentrated economic power to achieve its essential and ideological goals. ...
China, in many aspects the model fascist state of our times, follows Il Duce’s model of cementing the corporate elite into the power structure. ...
But in the battle between the two emergent fascist systems, China possesses powerful advantages. Communist Party cadres at least offer more than a moralising agenda; they can point to the country’s massive reduction of extreme poverty and a huge growth in monthly wages, up almost five-fold since 2006. At a time when the middle class is shrinking in the West, China’s middle class increased enormously from 1980 to 2000, although its growth appears to have slowed in recent years.
Like Mussolini, who linked his regime to that of Ancient Rome, China’s rulers look to Han supremacy and the glories of China’s Imperial past. “The very purpose of the [Chinese Communist] Party in leading the people in revolution and development,” Xi Jinping told party cadres a decade ago, “is to make the people prosperous, the country strong, and [to] rejuvenate the Chinese nation.”
Kotkin recognizes at least that American right-wing libertarianism is part of the problem, not part of the solution:
the consolidation of oligarchic power is supported by massive lobbying operations and dispersals of cash, including to some Right-wing libertarians, who doggedly justify censorship and oligopoly on private property grounds.
Regrettably, however, Kotkin still does not connect this failure of the old liberal order in the West with the failure of the old moral order which gave it birth and on which it depended. This is because Kotkin still sees things in primarily materialistic terms.
Kotkin is oddly politically correct when he denounces possible recourse to nativism, which blinds him to the nativism which is at the heart of Chinese state capitalism and gives it much of its appeal and strength. He calls for "a re-awakening of the spirit of resistance to authority" in the West, not realizing that it was Protestantism which made that even possible in the first place.
The problem of the West is spiritual, and Catholicism will never be able to rise to the occasion of refounding it as long as globo-homo defines Rome. The whole idea is inimical to the notion of founding a nation "for our posterity".
Sunday, July 4, 2021
Friday, July 2, 2021
America continues in decline, undershooting its potential by 13 million full-time jobs
Full-time employment in June 2021 in the US, not seasonally adjusted, was 48.7% of civilian noninstitutional population. The average level had been 50.4% in 2019, historically anemic. That's a deficit of 4.6 million full-time jobs in June 2021 compared with the 2019 average.
If you can imagine full-time employment at 53.6% of civilian noninstitutional population as in the year 2000, you are talking about 140 million with full-time jobs today instead of the actual 127 million. America continues in decline undershooting its potential by 13 million full-time.
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Thursday, July 1, 2021
LOL, Florida ranks 44th for daily new cases of coronavirus: What happened? Is everyone on vacation for five days in a row, or was the counting office in the condo collapse?
You don't go from reporting 1,800 cases a day, day after day, and suddenly have zero for five days in a row.
Wednesday, June 30, 2021
Batshit crazy Australia goes into lockdown over a coronavirus trickle
By comparison the US is experiencing a flood, but we're cutting loose even though new cases per million in the US registers a rate 30x worse than in Australia.
Tuesday, June 29, 2021
Sunday, June 27, 2021
June 2021 to date is 2nd rainiest June ever in Grand Rapids, MI, and one of just 23 months since 1892 with 8 inches of rain or more, ranking 14th so far
June 2021 to date is the 14th rainiest month in Grand Rapids, MI, since 1892:
Jun 1892: 13.22
Sep 1986: 11.85
Apr 2013: 11.10
May 2001: 10.01
Oct 2017: 9.69
May 2000: 9.59
Sep 2008: 9.54
Sep 1981: 9.52
May 2004: 9.29
Sep 1961: 9.15
Jul 1992: 8.83
Aug 1987: 8.46
Jul 1950: 8.42
Jun 1-26, 2021: 8.40
Oct 1954: 8.32
Apr 1909: 8.29
May 1981: 8.29
Jun 1967: 8.21
Sep 1993: 8.20
Sep 1915: 8.11
Jul 1994: 8.07
Jun 2010: 8.04
Jun 1928: 8.03.
Among the 23 months with 8 inches of rain or more in Grand Rapids, MI, since 1892, June 24-26, 2021 stands out as one of just five 2-3 consecutive day rain events with 5.5 inches or more:
May 10-11, 1981: 6.51 inches of rain
Sep 9-11, 1986: 6.43
Jun 24-26, 2021: 6.17
May 14-16, 2001: 5.97
Jul 5-7, 1994: 5.54.
74% of the 23 months with 8 inches of rain or more in GR occurred after 1960, consistent with the higher rainfall trend generally in the graph below.
The June 2021 event caused a run on portable submersible pumps needed by homeowners to evacuate pooling water in low areas and basements due to saturated ground. Flood warnings remain in effect for the area through Monday.
Even so, Grand Rapids is still running over 2 inches behind on mean rainfall year-to-date.
June 26, 2021 ranks 7th for daily maximum rainfall on a single day in June since 1892 at 2.81 inches.
The most rain ever to fall on a single day in Grand Rapids is 4.22 inches, occurring on June 5, 1905 and again on August 19, 1939. Those extreme events are associated with the hotter, dryer pre-1960 half of the graph.
Mean annual daily maximum precipitation in GR is 2.27 inches, with June ranking the highest month at 1.29, followed by September at 1.26.
Saturday, June 26, 2021
Friday, June 25, 2021
COVID-19 trends in England in the last month are not encouraging despite being one of the top three or four countries in the world for vaccinations
Cases per million are up 560% since May 23.
Hospitalizations are up 64%. As a measure of severity of illness, this increase is damning for authorities everywhere who keep insisting that vaccinations will reduce severity.
Deaths per million, while still puny, are up 175%.
All this with 47% fully vaccinated, 64% with one dose.
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Wednesday, June 23, 2021
Tuesday, June 22, 2021
Reported STDs Reach All-time High for 6th Consecutive Year
More than 2.5 million cases of chlamydia, gonorrhea & syphilis reported in 2019
Climate Update for KGRR: May 2021
Max T 86, Mean 86
Min T 30, Mean 32
Av T 57.5, Mean 57.9
Rain 1.92, Mean 3.47
Snow 0, Mean 0.2
Heating Degree Days 281, Mean 253; HDD season to date 6144, Mean season to date 6648
Cooling Degree Days 59, Mean 39
The heating season has been about 7.6% milder than the mean. There have been well over 50 years in the record since 1902 which have been milder still.
Coronavirus deaths in Africa's "ivermectin" states are a fraction of what they are in their counterpart countries Brazil, Peru, and Spain
Brazil: 3.3m sq mi; population 213m
Nigeria: 357k sq mi; population 211m; deaths 0.42% of Brazil's
Peru: 496k sq mi; population 33m
Angola: 481k sq mi; population 32m; deaths 0.45% of Peru's
Spain: 195k sq mi; population 47m
Kenya: 224k sq mi; population 48m: deaths 4.3% of Spain's
Monday, June 21, 2021
Let's compare what happened to cases in India after vaccinating just 3.6% of its population against C19 with what happened in the US with just 3.6% vaccinated
TL;dr : The same thing.
India reached 3.6% fully vaccinated against C19 on about June 19th.
India's cases per million metric fell 83% from its May 8th peak to June 18th (from 283.5 to 48.07).
Vaccines had nothing to do with the drop.
The US reached 3.6% fully vaccinated against C19 way back on Feb 12th.
US peak cases per million occurred about a month before that, on about Jan 8th, at 758.56.
On Feb 12th cases per million had fallen to 293.61, or by 61%.
Vaccines had nothing to do with it.
Virus gonna virus.
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