Amerika

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• Citizen Militias in the U.S. Are Moving toward More Violent Extremism

  When you censor people and tell them that wanting a normal life means they are unperson, expect them to get violent. This means that the Left wants violence to occur while the Left is in control of the military and police. The Right is not giving it to them; they are taking over local areas instead, knowing that the Left cannot police them all and will look weak as soon as even one escapes brutal retribution.

• White people in NY are told not to attempt to get monoclonal antibody treatment from doctors because Gov. Hochul has prioritized it for non-whites

  Diversity is a form of equality, and equality always means taking from the strong to give to the weak, erasing the strong over time so that the weak can have their Utopia. That’s a summary of history since The Enlightenment,™ when Europeans took the Mongol idea — tolerance/liberalization in exchange for obedience to centralized authority and its bureaucracy — as their own. Now the diversity and weak pretend whites have come together to admit that they want Whites dead.

• Black women will get no-strings-attached monthly checks in this new guaranteed income experiment

  More payola for the diversity so that we can keep pretending that diversity is working, itself a symbol that allows us to keep believing that equality is working, because if it fails we have to admit that social hierarchy, the kings, and ethno-nationalism did better than equality, democracy, and market socialism.

• A Digital Manhunt: How Chinese Police Track Critics on Twitter and Facebook

  Capitalists will sell you the rope used to hang them. Democracy will always bend to whoever are its fellow travelers in Leftism. Combining the two makes a Leftist state which can sort of keep itself going long enough to destroy most everything while the incompetents (the weak who want their schwachenreich) pursue their Utopia.

• NYC will consider race when distributing life-saving COVID treatments

  Soon coming to other areas as well. Like Christ on the cross, we will die for equality, all while considering ourselves enlightened, compassionate, altruistic, and empathetic.

• Your attention didn’t collapse. It was stolen

  The jihad against technology conceals a real problem behind a desire to scapegoat technology for the fact that diversity has made being out in public ugly and dangerous. Yes, people are wasting their lives with these gadgets; no, they are not doing it solely and wholly because the gadgets are addictive, but because they have to live virtually since diversity and equality have made society a dystopian wasteland. Bonus: Professor Nigg.

• 1 in 3 Americans say violence against government can be justified, citing fears of political schism, pandemic

  If you are serious about achieving your goals, you will believe in “by any means necessary” ends-over-means morality; however, this means you choose the easiest methods first while reserving the threat of more extreme methods in order to bully people into going along with you.

• Whistleblower warns baffling illness affects growing number of young adults in Canadian province
  

  Determining who becomes part of the cluster is subjective, largely because the brain is notoriously difficult to study.

  Probably many things coming together, mainly self-destruction through misery in modernity, but also now being used to cover up vaccine injuries from the mystery mRNA clot shot.

• Can you think yourself young?
  

  People who see the ageing process as a potential for personal growth tend to enjoy much better health into their 70s, 80s and 90s than people who associate ageing with helplessness and decline, differences that are reflected in their cells’ biological ageing and their overall life span.

  No kidding, having a positive outlook minimizes your connection to negative outcomes. This does not mean “thinking yourself young” like the gormless dramatic neurotic who wrote the piece implies, but thinking yourself into health appropriate to your age group. People used to age functionally and then drop dead when their bodies wore out, instead of ending up in sleep units and nursing homes as ga-ga zombies tended to by legions of underpaid third world drones.

• Almost one in 10 moms isn’t sure who fathered their baby

  This has probably been consistent for some time. Some people are born to be hoes, and some to be functional. If we were to exile these women and their babies, there would be fewer hoes in the next generation. Do it for thirty generations and we might be a functional society.

• Marjorie Taylor Greene is backed by ex-Trump aide Jason Miller as he blasts ‘big tech’ after she’s banned from Twitter

  Big Tech appeals to zomboids with do-nothing desk jobs who make up most of the Left, aided by affirmative action and regulations that make jobs into specialized but interchangeable functions. These companies are protecting their most fanatical audience, but in doing so have made themselves into echo chambers which will now go the way of MySpace and AOL.

• Jon Stewart breaks Hollywood’s silence on antisemitism in Harry Potter

  In J.K. Rowling’s soyniverse, the banks are run by goblins with big noses and slanted Asiatic eyes. I dunno if this is deliberate anti-Semitism since the same description for people obsessed with money seems to show up in multiple mythologies, even when refering to obviously non-Jewish people, but so what if it is? We think it is funny to riff on different European ethnotypes:

  You know the old euro joke about heaven and hell. Heaven is where the British do the policing, the Italians are the lovers, the French are the cooks and the Germans do the engineering. Hell is where the British are the cooks, the Germans are the lovers, the French are the engineers and the Italians run the place.

  I guess everyone figured that after six million Jews began Star Trek fans and ignored the obviously ethnic stereotype of Space Jews in the Ferengi, passed over the Jewish magicians in The Princess Bridge, and overlooked Kyle in South Park, so this would not bother them much either. Everyone gets made fun of, guys. Welcome to the club.

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• ‘The seat of South African democracy is on fire’ — Shock over parliament blaze

  Diversity means constant instability and that the institutions you depend to take care of this stuff become incompetent because now they are simply jobs programs and sinecures, not an attempt to address the actual problem:

  Western Cape secretary of the National Education, Health and Allied Workers’ Union (Nehawu), Baxolise Mali, said parliament had implemented a cost-cutting measure last month which resulted in security guards being instructed not to work on weekends.

  Even better, the diversity fire departments seem to be doing a poor job of extinguishing the blaze:

  A fire that ripped through parliament in Cape Town on Sunday has again erupted.

  “[The] fire has just re-emerged and it’s now engulfing the entire roof of the National Assembly. It’s inexplicable, as we thought it’s been put out completely,” said parliament spokesperson Moloto Mothapo on Monday afternoon.

  No wonder when societies die they just drop out of history. They probably literally burn down, including all of their artifacts, in the hands of lesser men who are too busy being dramatic, neurotic, and self-important to preserve important things.

• How to find the COVID-19 facts in a misinformation pandemic
  

  “Science is a process in which science is always calling itself into question, which leads to it always correcting itself,” said Ulrich Dirnagl, who does research on strokes at Charite Hospital. He and his colleagues are in charge of quality management for biomedical research at the Berlin Institute of Health (BIH) — doing research on research, so to speak.

  Funny how they admit this and then say, “Trust TheScience™!”

• Why prices will keep soaring in 2022

  Demand-based systems always cause inflation because valuing money by demand increases demand, at which point the value goes down because more money is readily available. This benefits corporate growth and the wealthy because their investments gain value, which is why Wall Street loves Biden. For everyone on a paycheck, this is a dead and bloody loss, compounded in the Biden administration by raising taxes and therefore passing along even higher costs, effectively nullifying all of those wage increases that occurred in the last civil rights tantrum.

• The impact of pandemic-related worry on cognitive functioning and risk-taking
  

  Leveraging a repeated-measures cross-sectional design, we examined the performance of 1517 participants, collected during the early phase of the pandemic in the US (April–June 2020), finding that self-reported pandemic-related worry predicted deficits in information processing speed and maintenance of goal-related contextual information. In a classic economic risk-taking task, we observed that worried individuals’ choices were more sensitive to the described outcome probabilities of risky actions.

  People in the grip of fear are thinking so much about bad outcomes that they cannot process information or make decisions. Perhaps that is the point: scare everyone bad enough, and suddenly Leftism looks like a good option.

• Indiana life insurance CEO says deaths are up 40% among people ages 18-64
  

  The head of Indianapolis-based insurance company OneAmerica said the death rate is up a stunning 40% from pre-pandemic levels among working-age people.

  “We are seeing, right now, the highest death rates we have seen in the history of this business – not just at OneAmerica,” the company’s CEO Scott Davison said during an online news conference this week. “The data is consistent across every player in that business.”

  Davison said the increase in deaths represents “huge, huge numbers,” and that’s it’s not elderly people who are dying, but “primarily working-age people 18 to 64” who are the employees of companies that have group life insurance plans through OneAmerica.

  Surely not the vaccines, since COVID-19 has not killed this many people.

• Severity of SARS-CoV-2 Reinfections as Compared with Primary Infections
  

  Reinfections had 90% lower odds of resulting in hospitalization or death than primary infections. Four reinfections were severe enough to lead to acute care hospitalization. None led to hospitalization in an ICU, and none ended in death. Reinfections were rare and were generally mild, perhaps because of the primed immune system after primary infection.

  Cease panic now.

• The Road to Lockdown: How Unions Drove Covid Policy
  

  The first lockdown happened in March 2020 after the NEU threatened the Government with unilateral schools closures. The masks on public transport mandate in the summer of 2020 happened after the RMT, the rail workers union, threatened to strike. The masks in shops mandate in the summer of 2020 happened after USDAW, the retail workers union, lobbied the Government and allegedly threatened industrial unrest. The second lockdown happened in November 2020 after the NEU called for a ‘circuit breaker’. Christmas 2020 was heavily restricted after the British Medical Association (BMA) furiously lobbied the Government to tighten the Covid rules. The third lockdown happened on January 4th 2021 after the NEU orchestrated a massive teaching mutiny to stop the Government from reopening schools; the Government panicked and locked the whole country down later that evening, to cover up the mutiny. The first and the third lockdowns lasted as long as they did because the teaching unions refused to go back to work as normal. The masks in schools mandates, as well as other deranged measures in schools, including testing, bubbles, isolating, and more, were all driven by teaching unions, with the NEU centrally involved. And Covid vaccines were rolled out in schools, against the advice of the JCVI, because teaching unions demanded the measure.

  Conservatives rarely recognize that unions are collectives.

• Anthropologists study the energetics of uniquely human subsistence strategies
  

  However, humans do benefit from earning a lot more food energy per hour. While other great apes don’t cook their food and they spend exorbitant amounts of time chewing and digesting, humans’ high-intensity subsistence activities yield many calories quickly.

  “This is like saying that despite the intensity of the work, humans earn a much higher energetic ‘salary’ than do other apes,” said Kraft. “This ability to attain a higher return rate is what makes hunter-gatherers so successful.”

  Leftists seek to reduce this higher return rate by adding overhead to every action, much like corruption, parasitic disease, and risk do.

• Texas Republican Just Found a Fool-Proof Way to Beat The Censors at Their Own Game

  One way to beat the censors: enter the information in the Congressional Record. At that point, even Big Tech has to acknowledge it as legitimate.

• Individuals with obesity and COVID-19: A global perspective on the epidemiology and biological relationships
  

  Pooled analysis show individuals with obesity were more at risk for COVID-19 positive, >46.0% higher; for hospitalization, 113% higher; for ICU admission, 74% higher; and for mortality, 48% increase in deaths.

  We have a pandemic of people eating too much cheap carbofood and not able to exercise because no one walks in diversity dystopia.

• Houston judges are denying up to 100% of asylum cases in immigration courts
  

  Chinese immigrants, who won 81 percent of their asylum cases in 2021, are far more likely to live and pursue a case in New York rather than in Houston. Meanwhile, Hondurans win just 22 percent of cases and more frequently live in Houston, according to Syracuse University data.

  Sometimes, normal people recognize what a wrecking ball immigration is and do their best to hold back the tide. People from poorer areas will always move to richer ones in a hope of getting some of that wealth for free. This selects for the worst of these populations and drains the founding population as it hands out free stuff to support the newcomers.

• US could be under rightwing dictator by 2030, Canadian professor warns

  Individualists are incapable of thinking beyond their own aims, and this serves as a “tell” which reveals them. In other words, the individualist cries out as he slaps you, or at least, while he plans to. The Left is seizing power because they have changed our system to be more Leftist and now, as is the norm for Leftism, it is failing hard. Consequently they want an excuse to move into tyranny — power for the sake of itself, not the nation — preemptively.

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• More than 400 churches close in a decade sparking fears for future of parishes

  People are fleeing the churches. Symbolic religions do not work well in technological times, nor do foreign religions ultimately retain loyalty, just like universalist and written religions tend toward Leftism and an internal culture of neurotic discussion. Consequently, almost all of the intelligent people have bailed on the churches and everyone else is following. Christianity is dying because it no longer serves a protective and nurturing role in our lives.

• Biden Administration Unveils $1 Billion Plan To Address Inflation In Meat and Poultry Industry
  

  The administration blamed the supply chain bottlenecks on an oligopoly of four meatpacking companies which control 85% of the packaged beef market, 70% of the pork market, and 54% of the poultry market. Those processors buy from farmers and sell to retailers, making them “a key bottleneck in the food supply chain,” the statement said.

  Raising taxes, adding regulations, imposing affirmative action, providing legal protection for unions, and allowing reckless lawsuits all raise the costs to be in the market, which means that only big companies can survive these cost raises. Consequently, we get a situation where in every industry, a few big companies control much of everything. The Biden solution will break up these companies, which will then reform under less efficient leadership, driving up prices to accommodate new taxes and affirmative action requirements.

• Why are so many vaccinated people getting COVID-19 lately?

  The vaccines do not work, and since they instruct the body to make spike proteins, may actually be responsible for what are sampled and assessed as COVID-19 cases. The same thing happens with other vaccines.

• China’s plot to ‘take over’ Latin America: Beijing inks new deal to share nuclear tech, build 5G networks, develop space programmes, and pump cheap loans into America’s back yard in ‘growing threat’ to US

  The Soviets did the same thing. Communism is still trying to take over the world, aided by a new generation of useful idiot luvvies in the West who in a desire to be contrarian and hip, have embraced the philosophy that killed tens of millions last century. The voters have made themselves obsolete with their consistently terrible choices.

• Inverted order: The direction of your DNA may be as important as which parent it came from
  

  The methylation status and direction of certain DNA sequences can affect genes found at the locus in different manners, and the effects also vary based on which parent the allele was inherited from.

  In other words, you inherit differently from your parents, so they need to have separate roles and abilities in order for you to get the best gene mix you can.

• EU labels red meat a cancer risk and pushes towards plant-based diet

  They want a sustainable diet that keeps everyone weak and pacified so that the bureaucrats can continue their reign in the name of civil rights, climate change, and COVAIDS-19.

• George Floyd’s 4-year-old niece shot after someone fired several shots into Houston apartment, family says

  It took police four hours to arrive. No one wants to touch these cases that destroy careers via trial-by-media.

• Best Death Metal of 2021
  

  As the socialized world of love and trust winds down in revealing its own incompetence and corruption, we turn toward the dead genres of underground metal, hailing the few who carry on a message no one understands for the sake of speaking clarity into the howling void of sense that is human activity.

  Art can be important.

• Critical Race Truth 21St First Century Afrikan Proverbs, Parables, Philosophy, and Opinion

  Longstanding and influential Black Nationalist Osiris Akkebala has a new book out.

• China Is Running Out of Water and That’s Scary for Asia
  

  Natural resources have always been critical to economic and global power. In the 19th century, a small country — the U.K. — raced ahead of the pack because its abundant coal reserves allowed it to drive the Industrial Revolution. Britain was eventually surpassed by the U.S., which exploited its huge tracts of arable land, massive oil reserves and other resources to become an economic titan.

  China’s water situation is particularly grim. As Gopal Reddy notes, China possesses 20% of the world’s population but only 7% of its fresh water. Entire regions, especially in the north, suffer from water scarcity worse than that found in a parched Middle East.

  Where were you when the Water Wars began? As this story illustrates, they have already begun. For China to survive, it must find more water, and will probably do so by conquering nearby lands.

• Immune response to seasonal coronaviruses may offer protection against COVID-19
  

  Researchers have found that individuals with a certain HLA type may be able to mount a killer T cell response to COVID-19, thanks to the T cells responding to a portion of the virus’s spike protein that is also present in seasonal coronaviruses that cause the common cold.

  Getting exposed to the normal coronaviruses makes it easier to fight off COVAIDS-19.

• Cancer deaths rose to 10 million worldwide in 2019
  

  While the global trend for age-standardized mortality and incidence rates is encouraging, the reduction in rates appears to be driven by higher SDI locations.

  Having polluted its planet, humanity finds out that everyone is getting cancers, but those from wealthy nations are more likely to survive them.

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• Toxoplasma parasites manipulate brain cells to survive
  

  “We know that Toxoplasma parasites make their own molecules and proteins that it exports into the host cell to protect itself from detection by the immune system. While this is well-understood in the acute, initial stage of infection, how Toxoplasma hijacks its host cells in its dormant form was unknown,” Ms Ruparel said.

  In nature, many outcomes are determined by the ability to remove parasites.

• New York governor declares racism ‘public health emergency’ amid new anti-discrimination legislation
  

  “For far too long, communities of color in New York have been held back by systemic racism and inequitable treatment,” Hochul said in a statement last week. “I am proud to sign legislation that addresses this crisis head-on, addressing racism, expanding equity, and improving access for all.”

  Politicians grandstand for votes, and when your community becomes more than 20% diverse, the diversity is the swing vote and therefore they pander to it since one side or the other will vote for them based on alignment anyway. In reality, the “systemic racism” is average IQ differentials and the emotional crisis brought on by diversity.

• Business is booming at Beverly Hills’ only gun store
  

  Owner Russell Stuart told LA Magazine in an interview published Wednesday that his clients range from business owners and real estate moguls to famous actors and film executives. Most are first-time gun buyers, who were additionally spurred to purchase weapons following news of several smash-and-grab attacks and violent home invasions.

  As diversity increases, law and order decreases. The bourgeois middle classes assumed that they would be able to enjoy the America they were born into, and misjudged the magnitude of the effect that their voting choices had. Now that they have eagerly signaled their obedience to egalitarianism for decades, they are seeing their ability to have both wealth and safety go away, much as is the case across the third world.

• Thatching: Suffolk teenager looks to future-proof an art form

  As modernity crashes down, people are looking to stop doing the stupid stuff that has failed during the modern era, which leaves us only with the traditional.

• The Trump Economic Record Looks Better Every Day
  

  No one has vindicated Trump’s “Make America Great Again” policies more persuasively than Biden. High gas prices, the highest inflation rate in four decades, a plan to double the national debt in 12 years and falling paychecks for workers are waking Americans up to the real broad-based prosperity under Trump.

  Trump’s strategy was to reduce taxes, slash regulation, massively increase domestic energy production and overhaul trade deals to get tough with China.

  Trump realized that the free-stuff-from-government chain was raising the overhead on all business and personal decisions in America, effectively paralyzing people as those endorsing it intended. They want to keep anyone else from rising up to their level of wealth, influence, and power; this is how abusers think, and it shows that they care about having power only to keep it, not to use it for some benevolent goal as they claim.

• France officials close mosque after sermons ‘targeting Christians, homosexuals and Jews’

  What do you do when the diversity hate each other? You follow the Christian and liberal model which is to remove rules, but force the bad to behave as if they are good by limiting the methods they can use (such as, say, violence). As a result, you get a decaying “order” where the bad are protected as well as the good, which requires a great deal of overhead which causes power to flow from the good to the bad, at which point the bad take over. When you do this with diversity, you remove the “bad” diversity with clashes which others, gradually driving the conflict underground until it explodes.

• Ghislaine Maxwell guilty of helping Jeffrey Epstein abuse girls

  Epstein/Maxwell are the sacrifice. They basically ran an escort service for teenage girls who made a bunch of money, but not enough for the damage that it did to them, as they found out after they grew older and no longer could garner the same wages for being cute. The real pedophiles are elsewhere, and the real abuses of your leaders are far more horrifying and destructive than even pedophilia. But throw this sop to the crowd, and all of them get warm fuzzy feelings of revenge and immediately forget about everything else. How easy they are to control.

• A Perfect Storm of Incentives
  

  In the early days, the number of Covid tests was limited, so physicians only tested those who were sick enough to show up at hospitals. This skewed the early data toward showing Covid as being deadlier than it actually was. With no randomized testing, the actual lethality was impossible to know.

  This bias interacted with the media and politicians’ incentives to create a perfect storm of incentives. The media had an incentive to repeat the worst fatality projections and to play down the bias behind the projections because bad news attracts viewers, and viewers attract advertising dollars.

  In other words, we spoofed ourselves into a panic with statistics after people freaked out following those scary images of people dropping dead in the streets in China.

• Top Canadian museum to be imminently gutted in the name of ‘decolonization’
  

  Starting on Jan. 2, crews will start taking crowbars to life-sized dioramas of a Peace River homestead, a salmon cannery, a Vancouver Island coal mine and HMS Discovery, the flagship of British explorer George Vancouver.

  Most notable of all, crews will be ripping out Old Town, the museum’s walk-through recreation of a B.C. community at the Turn of the Century. Lining a model street paved with authentic wooden cobblestones are a Grand Hotel, a blacksmith shop, a movie theatre screening Charlie Chaplin’s The Gold Rush and a railway station where special effects are used to simulate the arrival of trains.

  No matter how much you sacrifice to pacify the diversity, it will not be enough, and you will lose everything about your society that you enjoyed. Diversity is a deathtrap. One drop, and then you are on the path to more, and soon you become yet another ruined third-world wasteland where a prosperous society once stood. Diversity, like equality, is how civilizations commit suicide.

• Why Wokeism Will Rule the World
  

  One question raised by the woke movement, though hardly ever asked, is whether the U.S. will be able to deploy this new intellectual tool for exporting American cultural influence. Put another way: If there is going to be an international progressive class, why not Americanize it?

  In other words, why not follow the WW1/2 model of exporting our latest additions to democracy to the world? Wokeism is a trend, and right now it is being used as a political and marketing tool, but at the same time, it is destroying us and all who adopt it.

• Oil and gas discoveries are at the lowest level since 1946

  Looks like the resource wars are kicking off sooner rather than later.

• CDC chief says omicron mostly mild so far

  This was the official end of the panicdemic, but Democrats and China want to keep it going until the midterm elections in November.

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• Facebook Employees Pushed Company To Exclude Criticism Of White People, Men From Hate Speech Rules
  

  The effort came following a document from April 2020 which showed that around 90% of hate speech algorithms were detecting and removing content directed towards white people and men.

  In other words, most hate speech comes from minorities and women. Diversity is failing hard. You have three options: endorse diversity, oppose diversity, or refuse to support it or oppose it, but mostly, refuse to support it. Most of White America has just landed on the third option, meaning that they are not trying to remove it, but they have removed their support from having more of it or spending more money on it. If they abolish the 14A and affirmative action, diversity will quickly vanish by market forces.

• Pictured on his tranquil Arizona ranch and wedding venue, the ex-Marine accused of being an ‘FBI plant sent to help incite January 6 Capitol riot’

  Another FBI op designed to entrap people, the Jan 6 “riot” consisted of federal police opening the gates to an unruly crowd so that the Left could pretend it had been injured and demand crackdowns on Right-wingers. FBI ops of this nature aim to gain promotions, since if you induce a bunch of morons to do something technically illegal and then gain a bunch of convictions, you have made your quota for career advancement.

• Hospital Death Camps Exposed
  

  “COVID patients in America’s hospitals today are actually being treated worse than prisoners in American jails,” Dr. Elizabeth Lee Vliet said. They are being held hostage and segregated from loved ones. And the reason is money.

  “They (the hospitals) are paid by the government to do a PCR test on every patient who walks in the door… Then they are paid extra for a COVID admission to the hospital, they are paid an extra 20% bonus on the entire hospital bill, if the hospital ONLY uses Remdesivir to treat the patient.

  “And then if the patient goes on a ventilator, which is a consequence of some of the toxicity of Remdesivir and the restriction of fluids and nutrients that they are also doing, and once the patient is on a ventilator there is ANOTHER incentive bonus to the hospitals. If the patient dies in the hospital, there is another incentive payment,” Vliet said.

  More perverse incentives. Having government and insurance in control of healthcare was a bad and stupid idea, almost as stupid as socialized medicine like in the UK. Doctors and nurses, whether in the employ of the state, insurance agencies, corporate plans, or themselves, have an incentive to get you into the system and keep you sick because then they can keep delivering “care” and bill for it.

• ‘Not fitting their narrative’: Waukesha feels abandoned after tragic parade attack
  

  “Because this was a black guy who did it, the media doesn’t want to cover it. They were all over the Rittenhouse case because that kid was white.”

  We must cover up all evidence of the System failing. If we do not, people will stop believing, and then they will defect. This is the state of pre-collapse Soviet Union in which Late Stage Democracy finds itself. Censorship, repression, stolen elections, endless propaganda, and the co-opting of industry all factor in to the need of the system to keep us from noticing that it is not working well at all.

• How TikTok Inundates Teens With Eating-Disorder Videos

  Algorithms show you what other people have liked that is similar to what you have liked. Crowds hone in on the extreme because it provokes strong emotion — rage, fear, sadness, envy, lust — and therefore social media serves as an incubation chamber for extremity, including but not limited to extremism.

• The rise and fall of rationality in language
  

  After the year 1850, the use of sentiment-laden words in Google Books declined systematically, while the use of words associated with fact-based argumentation rose steadily. This pattern reversed in the 1980s, and this change accelerated around 2007, when across languages, the frequency of fact-related words dropped while emotion-laden language surged, a trend paralleled by a shift from collectivistic to individualistic language.

  While we had something in common and social hierarchy that promoted higher IQ people, we could have meaningful discussions. As idiocy proliferated and became a lucrative market, we got away from thinking about the world and focused more on feelings, judgments, and desires. This provides a great measurement for how much our society has decayed through dumbing itself down, which makes sense as an event because egalitarianism takes from the strong and gives to the weak, effectively reducing the strong so that the weak can rule in a final Equality Utopia.

• Are Men Who Pay for Sex Sexist? Masculinity and Client Attitudes Toward Gender Role Equality in Different Prostitution Markets
  

  Using an online survey of 519 clients of sexual services, we examine whether male client attitudes toward gender role equality are related to the main methods customers used to access prostitution services (i.e., through print or online media vs. in-person contact). We found no differences among men in these markets in attitudes toward gender role equality in the workplace and home. This is in a context where all clients had more egalitarian attitudes toward women’s roles than the U.S. male population in the General Social Survey (GSS).

  Being pro-feminist does not limit the selfishness of the human individualist.

• The Origins of American Vote Fraud
  

  During the War between the States Lincoln was known to instruct his military commanders to furlough registered Republicans while keeping Democrats (and any others) in the field, where they could not vote. In border states like Maryland, where there was powerful opposition to the war, federal soldiers flooded the cities on election days and were instructed to vote, even though they were not residents of those states.

  Federal soldiers also intimidated voters into voting Republican by menacing them at the polls. As Lincoln biographer David Donald has written, “Under the protection of Federal bayonets, New York went Republican by seven thousand votes” in 1864.

  The Republican Congress even created three new states—Kansas, West Virginia, and Nevada—to help rig the 1864 election in favor of Lincoln, so concerned were they over pervasive antiwar sentiment and massive desertions from the federal army.

  If we can get our courts to pay attention to this problem, it might allow us to repeal a century and a half of bad American law.

• Does Fluoride Affect Serum Testosterone and Androgen Binding Protein with Age-Specificity?
  

  Male farmers aged 18–55 years old who lived in these villages were recruited by cluster sampling and divided into a higher fluoride exposure group (HFG) and a lower fluoride exposure group (LFG) according to the level of urinary fluoride. Levels of T and ABP in serum were measured using chemiluminescence immunoassay (CLIA) and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) respectively. Markedly lower T levels were observed in male farmers from the HFG than in those from the LFG (t = 2.496, P < 0.05). Furthermore, younger farmers, 18–29 and 30–39 years old, may be the most likely to have lower T levels when exposed to fluoride (P < 0.05).

  Another modern easy answer turns out to have negative side effects.

• NFL chief medical officer: Symptomatic players driving COVID-19 spread; no indications of asymptomatic spread
  

  “I think all of our concern about [asymptomatic spread] has been going down based on what we’ve been seeing throughout the past several months,” Sills told ESPN. “We’ve got our hands full with symptomatic people. Can I tell you tonight that there has never been a case when someone without symptoms passed it on to someone else? No, of course I can’t say that. But what I can say to you is that I think it’s a very, very tiny fraction of the overall problem, if it exists at all.”

  More narrative collapse. It turns out that the usual rules for the flu apply to CHOAXVID-19 as well.

• Flu making a comeback after an unusual year off

  When you count all coronavirus cases as being the one you need to steal elections, ordinary flus just vanish from the statistics.

• Controlled burning of natural environments could help offset our carbon emissions
  

  “Ecosystems can store huge amounts of carbon when the frequency and intensity of fires is just right. It’s all about the balance of carbon going into soils from dead plant biomass, and carbon going out of soils from decomposition, erosion, and leaching,” said Pellegrini.

  Carbon is another panic like the coronavirus or civil rights. The herd loves fear. In reality, we have a crisis of over-concretization driven by worldwide urbanization. Fix that, and your pollution problems mostly go away.

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• ‘Landmines all the way down’: the guilt and frustration of breakthrough Covid
  

  “Getting through a pandemic requires coming together and taking coordinated action,” says Dr Julia Raifman, an assistant professor at the Boston University School of Public Health. “Everybody’s actions affect other people. In this context, that’s what government is for: to lead us in coordinating our actions to do what’s most important to contain spread.”

  The Left first signaled that all good-thinking people should enforce the coronavirus narrative. Now, they have moved on to their real goal: total government control so that the side in power now remains in power forever.

• Killings by Police Declined after Black Lives Matter Protests

  Fewer killings by police results in an unprecedented wave of murder, especially where BLM was most active. What did we learn here? Police need to enforce the law; criminals tend to resist and get killed as a result. The problem can only be solved with changing the behavior of criminals (as well as ending many of our insane democracy laws).

• More than 2,700 flights canceled since Christmas Eve
  

  There have been more than 2,000 flight cancellations since Christmas Eve as the recent COVID-19 surge has resulted in crew shortages and disrupted several airlines.

  It was not the surge, but the firing of the unvaccinated, since higher competence people like to avoid untested vaccines.

• Richard Marcinko, first commanding officer of SEAL Team Six, dies

  Many a happy hour was spent reading his books.

• Conservatives and Liberals Are Wrong About Each Other
  

  The gap that we identified between what partisans really think and what their opponents think they think shows up again and again—but only on a particular kind of issue. People have a more accurate view of the other side’s position on many standard policy issues, such as taxes or health care. But specifically on culture-war issues, partisans are likely to believe a caricatured version of the opposing side’s attitudes. These misconceptions have hardened into enduring stereotypes: liberal snowflakes and free-speech police, conservative racists and “deplorables.”

  More “explaining away” from the Left: they want us to believe that the Right is misunderstanding the people who have no problem with Communism, which has done every bit of the bad stuff that these people are suspected of endorsing. Leftists will refuse to admit in public how much they want total control. That, too, is strategy for deception.

• 55-foot-long Triassic sea monster discovered in Nevada
  

  “We have discovered that ichthyosaurs evolved gigantism much faster than whales, in a time where the world was recovering from devastating extinction [at the end of the Permian period],” study senior researcher Lars Schmitz, an associate professor of biology at Scripps College in Claremont, California, told Live Science in an email. “It is a nice glimmer of hope and a sign of the resilience of life — if environmental conditions are right, evolution can happen very fast, and life can bounce back.”

  Conditions like a huge vegetation boom ready for consumption by new life might fit the bill. Nature is getting ready to replace humanity as it fails.

• Congress’ debt-limit hike ignores our dangerous addiction to spending

  Democracy follows this pattern every time: the politicians find something that no one will criticize and spend all their money on it, receiving kickbacks and benefits in varied ways from it. They get back a tiny sliver of all that is spent, but all they seem to care about is staying in power and accumulating wealth, even as they move into retirement age. Do they enjoy nothing except power? Democracy picks losers and makes them into winners, then the voters complain about the politicians.

• I Have Been Through This Before
  

  My son was 28 years old when he died. An autopsy was performed but no official cause of death was found. Traditional methods of suicide were ruled out. Yet he’d told me at our last dinner that there was no happiness for him in this world—seeming clearer of mind than he had in years. He’d wiped his phone and computer and erased his music from Spotify.

  The arrogance of humanity demands that we dominate nature through science. It turns out that we are often wrong, and innocents are caught up and destroyed in the battle for power.

• Inger Stoejberg: Jail for Danish ex-minister for asylum separations
  

  Judges ruled Inger Stoejberg’s decision in 2016 to separate couples was unlawful and jailed her for 60 days.

  Ms Stoejberg said she was very surprised by the verdict as the policy was designed to combat child marriage.

  Signaling wins out over reducing harm yet again.

• When it comes to trans youth, we’re in danger of losing our way
  

  We are learning some worrisome things about this massive, unplanned social experiment. Even the tech giants have conceded in their own research that there is a new kind of addiction/attraction to certain content and a kind of contagion among select groups, especially adolescent girls. Increased rates of depression and suicide, declines in dating and sexual activity, more reported loneliness and feelings of being left out, lower rates of involvement in extracurricular activities and surprisingly less sleep all characterize the current generation of adolescents.

  There is little question that reliance on screens and devices has isolated adolescents who may be most vulnerable and susceptible to peer and other influences, intensifying their usage of and reliance on whatever messages and images they see. I am concerned that our computer-mediated, always online environment is creating isolated echo chambers that can work on adolescents in an insidious way.

  In some cases, well-meaning psychological and medical providers are allowing themselves to be “triangulated,” pitting a child’s wishes against parents who are reluctant to see their child quickly put on hormone blockers and/or cross-sex hormones.

  “Social contagion” is the new mental virus. Now maybe we can admit that Leftism is a variety of this, too.

• Rhode Island Defends Using COVID-Positive Staff Over Unvaccinated Health Care Workers

  Clown world backs itself into a corner. They want you to take the vaccine because then they have dominated you and, humbled, you will do what they say in the future because they have taken over your self-esteem. You only feel good about yourself now when they say you can; this is how abusers act and work. Consequently, they demand everyone take the vaccine, especially when this is insane and destructive.

• US science teacher arrested for vaccinating 17-year-old student
  

  Ms Russo, 54, who teaches biology, was held on New Year’s Eve and could face four years in prison if convicted.

  The 17-year-old boy had reportedly wanted the vaccine.

  This seems dumb. If the kid wanted the vaccine, sure he should have gotten his parents’ permission, but he was going to achieve it somehow. This is another Leftist stunt and they arrested her just to make a point, namely to pretend that this system is in any way Right-leaning. They are making strawmen as usual.

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• New research shows gene exchange between viruses and hosts drives evolution
  

  “We were interested to find that certain groups of viruses, especially those that infect single-celled eukaryotes, acquire a lot of genes from their hosts,” said the study’s senior author, Dr. Patrick Keeling, a professor in the Department of Botany at UBC. “By studying the function of these genes we were able to make predictions about how these viruses affect their hosts during infection.”

  “Many of these viral-derived genes appear to have repeatedly affected the structure and form of different organisms, from the cell walls of algae to the tissues of animals,” said Dr. Irwin. “This suggests that host-virus interactions may have played an important role in driving the diversity of life we see today.”

  Every day, we get closer to that Lamarck-Darwin fusionism. It will likely be more complex than the “epigenetics” that Leftists adore. Another take on horizontal gene transfer via viruses.

• Two major real estate search engines nix crime data in racial equity push

  Anything to signal obedience to the current regime. Go to City-Data instead.

• UFOs, the Channel Islands and the Navy’s ‘drone swarm’ mystery
  

  Either a foreign adversary is spying on Navy ships around the Channel Islands (which lie just west of Los Angeles and San Diego), or devices of truly unknown origin are operating with impunity around U.S. (and allied) vessels.

  Aliens are investigating what a failing egalitarian society looks like.

• Almost 80% of US workers live from paycheck to paycheck

  Leftists revived this trope recently, so I cite this three-year-old article:

  This means workers are spending more on such goods and services than they would were these markets more competitive. It’s exactly as if their paychecks were cut.

  They do not mention that:

  1. Companies become monopolies in order to afford the high costs of taxes, affirmative action, legal protection for unions, regulations, and lawsuits, and then pass those on to customers.
  2. Cutting all of the above — and property taxes! — would make daily life affordable for normal people again. We want people to be able to work as janitors, restaurant workers, construction laborers, and other ordinary jobs and still afford houses and decent lives.

  What keeps wages down? Try the constant immigration and increasing costs of pro-diversity/anti-poverty programs.

  Wages stagnated after the last round of great liberal reforms.

  Leftists want to raise costs to make everyone slaves to their jobs so that they do not rock the boat out of fear of being fired.

• The US Copyright Office is floating the idea of mandating a content upload filter on the internet
  

  If approved, the rule would find its way into a policy known as “Stay Down” – designed to force a service that has received a takedown notice on copyright grounds to take additional steps, making sure the same content doesn’t resurface in the future.

  The communication filter element would come into play as one way of ensuring this and would encompass all communication of the accused infringer.

  This would provide one-stop censorship of Right-wingers; just file a DMCA complaint. It does not even need to be real, since the burden will be imposed on companies at that point to filter anything that user posts, and all of them will take the only safe option, which is to shadowban the user.

  That would enable viewpoint discrimination by the same army of Leftists filing all the complaints about accounts today.

• We’ll all be dead before FDA releases full COVID vaccine record, plaintiffs say
  

  Except a group of scientists and doctors who’ve sued the agency under the Freedom of Information Act is seeking an estimated 400,000-plus additional pages of information about the vaccine’s approval. Under the FDA’s proposed schedule – the agency pledges to release “a minimum” of 500 pages a month after the initial dump – the full trove might not be made public until the year 2097.

  This makes it obvious how much has been hidden in the mad rush to invent a crisis that would force the perpetuation of Leftist government forevemore. It is worth noting that just twenty years ago, the experts were saying the opposite of what our government has endorsed during this panicdemic.

• Billie Eilish says exposure to X-Rated material ‘destroyed’ her brain and ruined her first sexual experiences
  

  ‘The first few times I, you know, had sex, I was not saying no to things that were not good. It was because I thought that’s what I was supposed to be attracted to’
  Rumored romance: The singer-songwriter is reportedly dating actor and podcaster Matthew Tyler Vorce, though she has not publicly confirmed the relationship

  The Los Angeles native told Stern, ‘I’m so angry that porn is so loved, and I’m so angry at myself for thinking that it was okay.’

  She has a point. Porn aims to reward a fantasy by making people passive participants in a sexual experience, and that loses novelty fast, so porn must get increasingly violent, degrading, and lurid to keep their attention. Like any product designed for mass tastes, it degrades the audience by lowering its expectations of them to the lowest common denominator, which really is the only common denominator in large groups of humans.

• The epidemiological relevance of the COVID-19-vaccinated population is increasing
  

  Recent data, however, indicate that the epidemiological relevance of COVID-19 vaccinated individuals is increasing. In the UK it was described that secondary attack rates among household contacts exposed to fully vaccinated index cases was similar to household contacts exposed to unvaccinated index cases (25% for vaccinated vs 23% for unvaccinated). 12 of 31 infections in fully vaccinated household contacts (39%) arose from fully vaccinated epidemiologically linked index cases. Peak viral load did not differ by vaccination status or variant type.

  In other words, the vaccines do not work. They made a lot of people very rich and have allowed Leftist government to concentrate its power however.

  Even more, the vaccines may be getting measured as new cases:

  In fact, the trend line suggests a marginally positive association such that countries with higher percentage of population fully vaccinated have higher COVID-19 cases per 1 million people. Notably, Israel with over 60% of their population fully vaccinated had the highest COVID-19 cases per 1 million people in the last 7 days. The lack of a meaningful association between percentage population fully vaccinated and new COVID-19 cases is further exemplified, for instance, by comparison of Iceland and Portugal. Both countries have over 75% of their population fully vaccinated and have more COVID-19 cases per 1 million people than countries such as Vietnam and South Africa that have around 10% of their population fully vaccinated.

  Conventional wisdom held that developing a vaccine for the common cold was not just improbable, but a stupid idea, since our immune systems train on it. It turns out that getting infected by mundane coronaviruses provides the best immunity.

• As DA Alvin Bragg scraps prosecutions, brace for a lot more crime in Manhattan
  

  Under the rules, for example, Bragg’s office will never ask for life without parole, and even for the most heinous crimes will generally limit sentencing requests to a minimum of just 20 years.

  And his office won’t ask for any prison time for any crimes, other than in a few of the most violent or horrific cases — murder, domestic violence, public corruption or “major economic crimes.”

  Under third world style Asiatic tyranny, the only crimes that matter are those against the state or those too big to ignore, as was the case under the Soviet Union. The Leftists last tried this approach in the 1960s with “rehabilitation” of prisoners, which meant letting out rapists early so they could refine their technique of raping and then killing in order to hide the evidence. Much of the serial killer boom of the 1980s came from these “rehabilitated” prisoners.

• With just $36.6 million in ticket sales, ‘West Side Story’ is officially a box-office bomb

  It turns out that this Greatest Generation era story of racial reconciliation fell flat not only with White audiences but with minorities. We are past the point of “White racists bad, accept the Other” to the point where every group wants to dominate all others. Diversity is suicide.

• Biodiversity loss in plants worldwide
  

  When alien plants integrate into an existing ecosystem and successfully spread there, in rare cases this can contribute to the increased uniqueness of the regional flora. However, much more often this process — known as “naturalization” — leads to a homogenization of regional floras and thus to a net loss of global floristic uniqueness.

  It turns out that diversity handily destroys the native population by forcing them to be more similar to one another as their spaces are conquered by invaders. The higher the overhead, the less variation.

• Wuhan lab leak ‘now the most likely origin of Covid’, MPs told
  

  Dr Chan said: “I think the lab origin is more likely than not. Right now it’s not safe for people who know about the origin of the pandemic to come forward. But we live in an era where there is so much information being stored that it will eventually come out.

  “We have heard from many top virologists that a genetically engineered origin is reasonable and that includes virologists who made modifications to the first Sars virus.

  “We know this virus has a unique feature, called the furin cleavage site, and without this feature there is no way this would be causing this pandemic.
  “A proposal was leaked showing that EcoHealth and the Wuhan Institute of Virology were developing a pipeline for inserting novel furin cleavage sites. So, you find these scientists who said in early 2018 ‘I’m going to put horns on horses’ and at the end of 2019 a unicorn turns up in Wuhan city.”

  All they had to do was make a flu that spread fast enough to engender mass panic, then release photos of people dead in the streets and overloaded hospital wards, and the herd panicked. The Left loves to panic the herd because this is how it seizes power, through false crises: civil rights, climate change, poverty, and now, the Wu-flu.

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• Omicron SARS-CoV-2 can infect faster and better than Delta in human bronchus but with less severe infection in lung
  

  Their study also showed that the Omicron infection in the lung is significantly lower than the original SARS-CoV-2, which may be an indicator of lower disease severity.

  As predicted: virus mutate and the ones that spread fastest survive, which means that they are less lethal and more transmissible, sort of like… the common cold. The WHO confirms this.

• Federal Debt Equals About $287,859 Per Income-Tax-Paying Household

  Imagine buying a house and never getting to enjoy it. That is what awaits you or your children or grandchildren. They spent all the money, and now the intrastructure is rotted, so you should double that figure at least. Hope you have the money because the diversity, soy, boxwine, and pajama crowd will not.

• The Hague nears ban on purchasing low-cost homes as rental properties

  The one thing that might help — ending immigration and letting the population fall — seems never to occur to them, almost as if they were held hostage by a need to uphold the dogma of egalitarianism.

• How the Computer Got Its Revenge on the Soviet Union
  

  The centrally planned Soviet economy was poorly prepared for computerization. Its cumbersome bureaucracy was too slow to implement rapid changes in production and distribution, and it was ruled by industrial ministries which, like separate fiefdoms, did not want to share their information or decision-making power. Each ministry therefore created its own information management system, disconnected from and incompatible with the others. Instead of transforming the top-down economy into a self-regulating system, bureaucrats used their new cybernetic models and computers to protect their power. Expensive and largely useless information management systems were strewn across the country.

  Asiatic-style tyrannies always have this problem. While their people starved, they focused on maintaining power, just like your average third world warlord.

• Climate change: Small army of volunteers keeping deniers off Wikipedia

  When the System is failing, those who defend the system turn toward removing criticism as a form of virtue.

• ‘Feminist’ foreign policy — what does that mean?

  No one knows, but we know what it will mean:

  She had just been appointed foreign minister, and fairly soon began placing more women into government positions and approving funds earmarked for feminist projects abroad.

  In other words, more Leftism, but using “for women” as its justification instead of anti-poverty, anti-racism, pro-transsexualism, etc.

• ‘City of Angels, City of Death’: Inside the hunt for Los Angeles’ string of serial killers

  It is funny how the ethnic nature of crime comes out in this series:

  • Kenneth Bianchi: Italian, looks Irish, very dark
  • Angelo Buono: Italian, looks Arab
  • Rodney Acala: Mexican/Spanish, looks Arab
  • William Bonin: French/Italian, looks Arab-Irish

  If we can talk honestly about how racial diversity is suicide, we need to be able to talk about how ethnic diversity is suicide, too.

• Abstract 10712: Observational Findings of PULS Cardiac Test Findings for Inflammatory Markers in Patients Receiving mRNA Vaccines
  

  In conclusion, the mRNA vacs numerically increase (but not statistically tested) the markers IL-16, Fas, and HGF, all markers previously described by others for denoting inflammation on the endothelium and T cell infiltration of cardiac muscle, in a consecutive series of a single clinic patient population receiving mRNA vaccines without a control group.

  There is a reason they call it the “clot shot.”

• How far will global population rise? Researchers can’t agree
  

  Across the world, to secure a stable financial future, governments are desperate to keep national population numbers in a Goldilocks zone: not too many, not too few. And many of these policies are based on computer simulations of how future population numbers will rise and fall.

  Old computer science had a saying, GIGO, for “garbage in, (and you get) garbage (coming) out.” Computer models are GIGO if they do not model all factors. The theory used to be that as people became more educated and prosperous, they bred less. It turns out that this only applies to those who can become more educated and prosperous, and what happens instead is that this top echelon of each society dies out and is replaced by the endless subsistence living people, who breed more as they get a chance to take over via class warfare. Any anti-poverty programs or spreading of the wealth leads to this outcome. Leftism is suicide.

• Discovering new drugs with help from Darwinian principles
  

  They have created a new methodology that rapidly generates millions of combinations of small molecules through programmed assembly using DNA-pairing processes, finding the best possible combination to counter a target protein within two weeks.

  Humanity loves the first part — having lots of options — but forgets that it is paired with the second, which is killing off most of them.

• The Media Stonewalls on the Steele Dossier
  

  Having had media companies as clients, I’ve found that when they’re under fire, they behave no differently from chemical or drug companies. Why? Because they don’t see coming clean as being in their self-interest.

  Media is an industry like any other, and it makes its money from selling illusions to the people trapped in entry-level jobs with no prospects who want to believe in Communism as the new Christ.

• Rare gene variant, which appears more frequently in Amish community – with 12 percent of Pennsylvania Amish carrying the mutation – may hold key to preventing heart disease
  

  The study found that those that have this particular gene, known as B4GALT1, appear to have lower levels of heart-damaging cholesterol, as well as a blood-clotting protein called fibrinogen.

  Less than one in 10,000 people have this gene, yet amazingly 12 percent of the Pennsylvania Amish community in Lancaster County carry the gene variant.

  Past studies on the gene revealed that certain mutations can change one’s cholesterol levels, too much of which can cause clogged arteries and cardiovascular diseases, which remains the leading cause of death worldwide.

  People who interact with nature test themselves more, and consequently, reveal genetic problems early and snip them before they can make the group weak.

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