For five minutes anyway.
Wednesday, May 25, 2022
The sex abusers among the new priestly class: Michigan State University dethroned in University of California sex abuse settlement
The number one way to get chicks in the old days used to be to become a rock star.
Those who couldn't sing or play became professors, who have ready access to fresh hordes of impressionable young women each and every year. Just think of the settlements awaiting thousands upon thousands of women across the decades compared with this list of a relative handful of campus doctors involving hundreds upon hundreds.
AP Obama reports here:
The University of California system announced Tuesday it will pay nearly $375 million to more than 300 women who said they were sexually abused by a UCLA gynecologist, bringing a record amount in total payouts by a public university in a wave of sexual misconduct scandals by campus doctors. ...
The university has agreed to pay nearly $700 million to Heap’s patients, dwarfing a $500 million settlement by Michigan State University in 2018 that was considered the largest by a public university. The University of Southern California, a private institution, has agreed to pay more than $1 billion to settle thousands of cases against the school’s longtime gynecologist. ...
The university previously reached settlements with other patients of Heaps for $316 million. The most recent settlement with 312 women resolves the vast majority of claims against Heaps, the university said. ...
Sex abuse by doctors on college campuses has led to massive settlements at Ohio State University, Johns Hopkins University and Columbia University. ...
Michigan State paid $500 million to 300 women and girls who said they were assaulted by Larry Nassar, who was a campus sports doctor and a doctor for USA Gymnastics. Nassar, who also sexually abused Olympic gold medal gymnasts, is serving prison sentences likely to keep him behind bars for the rest of his life.
The University of Michigan reached a $490 million settlement with more than 1,000 people who said they were sexually assaulted by the late Dr. Robert Anderson, during his nearly four-decade career as a sports doctor at the school.
Tuesday, May 24, 2022
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard gives the microphone on Ukraine to the weak sisters and has-beens Henry Kissinger and Eric Cantor
Dr Kissinger said the war must not be allowed to drag on for much longer, and came close to calling on the West to bully Ukraine into accepting negotiations on terms that fall very far short of its current war aims. “Negotiations need to begin in the next two months before it creates upheavals and tensions that will not be easily overcome. Ideally, the dividing line should be a return to the status quo ante. Pursuing the war beyond that point would not be about the freedom of Ukraine, but a new war against Russia itself,” he said. ... Mr Cantor said the US was in danger of overplaying its hand. “We have got to have multilateral support. We are already being accused of weaponising the world’s reserve currency. Even allies and friends are starting to ask, if you are using it in this way, we too could one day be subject to these sanctions,” he said.
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A return to the status quo ante would mean pretending Russia's war crimes against Ukrainian civilians never happened. Kissinger only vainly imagines that that clock can be turned back now. Putin must go, and Russia must pay. Anything less means the West stands for nothing important.
As for Eric Cantor, the clock ticks on but only money continues to matter to him. He was never serious about repealing Obamacare and stopping illegal immigration or amnesty for illegals while he was in office. He was wisely toppled while at the height of his powers in the US House by his fellow Republicans in a primary (VA-7), for crying out loud.
It's characteristic of Ambrose Evans-Pritchard to showcase Cantor's hand-wringing. He's done a lot of that in his own writing over the years. He ends this one worried about a European oil shock later this year.
Things like that happen when the false promise of libertarian cooperation with despots for energy comes a cropper. Europe has only itself to blame.
Monday, May 23, 2022
CDC sounds Monkeypox alarm in gay community, but why?
They never say the "p" word.
Gay men spread diseases like crazy because they are promiscuous to a degree heterosexuals are not, otherwise this alarm wouldn't be sounded for "gay and bisexual men". It would be for everybody.
CNBC totally leaves out the epicenter of the Monkeypox outbreak at the Gran Canaria Pride Festival in its story about gay men transmitting the disease
All CNBC says is:
The most recent surge in cases appears to have been spread among men who have sex with other men.
News about the Monkeypox outbreak linked to this Pride Festival has to be suppressed in the same way that the Provincetown, MA, COVID-19 outbreak from July 4, 2021 had to be suppressed because it was also in gay men. 85% of the victims were fully vaccinated men who were there to party.
The Canaria Pride festival, held in the town of Maspalomas between May 5 and 15, has become a hotspot for the monkeypox outbreak, reports El País.
The massive party was attended by over 80,000 people, including three Italian men who later tested positive for the virus.
A health source told the newspaper: "Among the 30 or so diagnosed in Madrid, there are several who attended the event, although it is not yet possible to know if one of them is patient zero of this outbreak or if they all got infected there."
Bill Maher observes that the parents have become the groomers
If you attend a small dinner party of typically very liberal, upper-income Angelinos, it is not uncommon to hear parents who each have a trans kid having a conversation about that. What are the odds of that happening in Youngstown, Ohio?
-- Bill Maher, here
Where a child finds his own parents his perverters, he cannot be so properly born, as damned into the world.
-- Robert South (1634 - 1716)
President Biden finally removes the ambiguity and commits the USA to the defense of Taiwan in the face of increasing Chicom military threats against the island
When asked at a joint press conference with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida whether the U.S. would be prepared to defend Taiwan if attacked, Biden replied: “Yes.”
“That’s the commitment we made,” Biden said. “We agree with the ‘one China’ policy. We signed on to it. All the attendant agreements [were] made from there. But the idea that that can be taken by force, just taken by force. It’s just not it’s just not appropriate.”
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A fuller account here adds this from the president:
“We support the ‘one China policy,’ we support all that we’ve done in the past. But that does not mean, that does not mean that China has the ability, has the – excuse me, the jurisdiction – to go in and use force to take over Taiwan.”
Sunday, May 22, 2022
Australians lose their minds, news stories can't make up theirs about meaning of election
CNN: It was a stop global warming election.
The UK Express: It was a republican election to throw off the monarchy and give Australia's 2% indigenous population representation in parliament.
AP Obama: There was no clear majority as votes for "fringe parties and independents ... increases the likelihood of a hung parliament and a minority government." Counting may take another two weeks.
The Sydney Morning Herald: Labor is 4 seats short of a majority with 14 seats still to call, only 71% counted.
Saturday, May 21, 2022
Friday, May 20, 2022
That would be 113th Mr. Drudge, sir, you ignoramus
World's oldest man to throw 113rd birthday party!
And look what that links to:
https://www.the-sun.com/news/5384415/elon-musk-gulfstream-g650er-private-jet-flight-attendant/
Friday night at The Drugged Report.
US COVID-19 deaths cross the 1 million mark in the New York Times data Thursday, May 19, 2022
2020 (306 days): 1131
2021: 1310
2022 (thru 5/19): 1264
First 19 days in May: 421
Apr 2022: 426
Mar 2022: 980
Feb 2022: 2247
Jan 2022: 1987
Deaths per year in this data to date:
2020: 346,050
2021: 478,286
2022 thru 5/19: 175,675
Thursday, May 19, 2022
Bloomberg economic model forecasts 25% tariffs between democratic and autocratic countries would roll back globalization to 1990s levels and leave the world 3.5% poorer
Arguably that would be a good thing for American workers, but Bloomberg doesn't care about that.
For three decades, a defining feature of the world economy has been its ability to churn out ever more goods at ever lower prices. The entry of more than a billion workers from China and the former Soviet bloc into the global labor market, coupled with falling trade barriers and hyper-efficient logistics, produced an age of abundance for many.But the last four years have brought an escalating series of disruptions. Tariffs multiplied during the US-China trade war. The pandemic brought lockdowns. And now, sanctions and export controls are upending the supply of commodities and goods.All of this risks leaving advanced economies facing a problem they thought they’d vanquished long ago: that of scarcity. Emerging nations could see more acute threats to energy and food security, like the ones already causing turmoil in countries from Sri Lanka to Peru. And everyone will have to grapple with higher prices.
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The story never mentions how those newly introduced extra billion plus workers reduced economic outcomes for the already established middle classes around the world, especially in America where the full time job of the 1990s became a thing of the past.
If I'm repeating myself, I don't care.
Husband: "Chicken wings $34"; Wife LOL: "How many do you get?"
The answer: about 15.
Menu says: "Market price".
But many food costs measured in the PPI have been accelerating faster than the CPI rate. In April, average wholesale food prices in the index jumped 18% from a year earlier, according to government data released May 12. It was the largest 12-month increase in nearly five decades. Eggs surged 220%, butter jumped 51%, fats and oils were up 41%, and flour 40%, the National Restaurant Association said.
Wednesday, May 18, 2022
How low could the S&P 500 possibly fall from the Monday, Jan 3, 2022 closing high of 4,796.56?
Some are calling this a dot-com-like bubble "burst".
Jeremy Grantham thinks a 40% decline is in the offing.
That burst happened gradually, actually, from August 2000 to February 2003, more like an old balloon slowly deflating in the corner of the room under a table months after the party had ended.
On an average basis, the S&P 500 fell from 2471.50 in August 2000 to 1314.31 in February 2003, in March 2022 dollars. That 1157.19 point drop amounted to a drop of 46.82%.
Before climbing to the spectacular heights we know today, the S&P 500 had another appointment with more bad news, unfortunately, in March 2009, achieving an even lower level than February 2003.
In March 2022 dollars, the S&P 500 bottomed in March 2009, again on an average basis, at 1023.36. That was 1448.14 points from 2471.50 in August 2000, a drop of 58.59%.
That was quite a long process, a very
bad, no good, rotten almost a decade for stocks. Real per annum return August
2000 through March 2009 averaged -8.14%.
Many children watched their parents lose everything, including the house.
Those February 2003 and March 2009 type of events must be recognized as within the realm of real possibility even today.
4796.56 minus 46.82% would put the S&P 500 at 2551.
Minus 58.59% . . . 1986.
Not saying it will happen. Not saying it's even probable. Just possible, because it has happened before.
Smart investors are ready for the possible.
The index is down 18.19% from the all-time-high tonight.
This headline was not approved by the global warming police
The incompetents at The Ministry of Truth have been notified.
Tuesday, May 17, 2022
The next war's cannon fodder: Students at Wyoming commencement boo Senator Lummis for saying there are only two sexes
They will be blown to smithereens in the next war by America's future conqueror, or publicly tortured to death by the victors in a gruesome spectacle of mockery.
During the commencement address on Sunday, Lummis said constitutional rights were under attack in the U.S. and “even fundamental scientific truths such as the existence of two sexes, male and female, are subject to challenge these days.”
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The ruin of a state is generally preceded by an universal degeneracy of manners, and contempt of religion, which is entirely our case at present.
-- Jonathan Swift
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