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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.
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