Amerika

• A world in crisis even without the pandemic: Five looming problems

  Leftists have ruled the world since 1945 through Cultural Marxism, or a Gramscian march through the institutions. Our assumptions, language, and political system are now Left-leaning. Leftists also got everything they wanted — socialist benefits, demographic replacement, globalism/internationalism, state-enforced equality — just like in the Soviet Union, but in a lighter version that depends on markets (much like China or National Socialism). Now this order is failing across the board and people are freaking out. The biggies not mentioned here: wild food depletion, pollution, lack of fresh water, brewing third world versus first world war, and widespread misery from careers, sexual promiscuity, and the pointlessness of modern existence.

• No slacking allowed: Companies keep careful eye on work-from-home productivity during COVID-19

  As usual, they think about how to make the system work, instead of how to cut back to what is necessary and discard the rest. Everyone must seem important, so we are inventing work all over the place, most of which serves no actual purpose.

• Spanish antibody study points to 5% of population affected by coronavirus
  

  The testing should help the government gauge the true extent of the epidemic, taking into account also those who may be immune or resistant to the infection.

  And just like that, we are back to talking about genetics. Funny how it seems to be the root of all things.

• Microplastics are everywhere, study finds
  

  The researchers have conducted a so-called meta-analysis. This means they have reviewed 46 existing scientific articles on the subject while looking for trends and patterns.

  They conclude, among other things, that of the three sources of microplastic intake, the primary one is air; especially indoor air.

  “When we inhale microplastics, the tiny particles can reach the lungs and digestive system. Nobody knows what this means for the human organism and our health, but as we are talking about a lifelong exposure, it’s a cause for concern,” says Genbo Xu.

  File under “pollution.” Wonder why so many people are dying of weird cancers. Use old things, live surrounded by wood and stone instead of gadgets, and life is healthier.

• US-China tensions didn’t begin with the coronavirus. They’ve been building for years

  You mean like the two proxy wars we fought against them in Vietnam and Korea? And yet Clinton still gave the country away to them in exchange for cash donations. It is clearly time to declare Leftism a failed experiment and move on.

• White Supremacists Built a Website to Doxx Interracial Couples — and It’s Going to Be Hard to Take Down

  Mainly because online databases outing nationalists have been around for twenty-five years. Turnabout is fair play, snowflakes.

• Remains of Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest and his wife will be removed from a Memphis park

  Who rules America? Leftists, supported by the lower classes and minorities. Without that constituency, we would not see so many affluent people supporting Leftism.

• Global funds invest more in China as coronavirus spreads to the rest of the world
• Tech Workers Consider Escaping Silicon Valley’s Sky-High Rents
  

  But when the social networking company announced that most employees would be working from home until the end of the year, their calculation changed. “It makes no sense paying Bay Area rent if we can earn our salary living elsewhere,” says Dhar, 25, who already works remotely for a New York advertising startup. They’re considering moving to Hawaii—or, to really save money, somewhere in the rural U

• Coronavirus NZ podcast: Winston Peters says China didn’t want NZ to go into lockdown

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• Ark. Woman Befriended Mom’s Killer Out of ‘Spiritual Obligation’ — and then He Murdered Her
• (Hispanic) Paralegal with U.S. Attorney’s Office arrested, accused of tipping off Mexican drug cartel
• ‘Wake-up call’: China threatens Australia’s iron exports after COVID-19 inquiry

  B-52s over Beijing when?

• Industrial animal farming has caused most new infectious diseases and risks more pandemics, experts warn
• China warns France not to sell weapons to Taiwan
• South Africans baffled by bizarre lockdown clothing rules
• Vitamin D levels appear to play role in COVID-19 mortality rates
• Low levels of vitamin D in UK ‘extremely concerning’, warns the British Nutrition Foundation
• Trump gets ally as ex-Navy pilot wins California House seat
  

  His Hispanic surname was likely a benefit in a district with a significant Latino population. His military service would play well in a district known as popular with veterans and Los Angeles police officers.

  The son of a Mexican immigrant father, Garcia will go to Congress as a fresh face who campaigned as a supporter of President Donald Trump and railed against “socialist-style” policies coming from the Sacramento statehouse.

  We finally did it! We found El Republican Obama!

• France to force web giants to delete some content within the hour
  

  Twitter France public affairs chief Audrey Herblin-Stoop said the company would continue to work closely with the government to build a safer Internet and fight against illegal hate speech, while protecting an open internet, freedom of expression and fair competition.

  She said it was a top priority to ensure public debate was civil, adding Twitter’s investments in technologies that signal hate speech will reduce the burden on users of having to call out illicit content.

  How to get the rationalization hamsters to accept censorship: present it as a choice of which type of censorship they want. In reality, the internet requires censorship or it drowns in spam, bad behavior, and stupidity. You can censor one of two ways: qualitative, where you remove moronic content no matter what topic it addresses, or quantitative, where you remove certain topics entirely because you are afraid that people will speak about them in bad ways.

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• Current and ex-employees allege Google drastically rolled back diversity and inclusion programs
  

  Since 2018, internal diversity and inclusion training programs have been scaled back or cut entirely, four Google employees and two people who recently left the company told NBC News in interviews. In addition, they said, the team responsible for those programs has been reduced in size, and positions previously held by full-time employees have been outsourced or not refilled after members of the diversity teams left the company.

  One well-liked diversity training program at Google called Sojourn, a comprehensive racial justice program created for employees to learn about implicit bias and how to navigate conversations about race and inequality, was cut entirely, according to seven former and current employees. Sojourn offered its last training to Google workers in 2018, four current employees said, and by 2019 it was cut completely.

  Seven current and former employees from across a range of teams and roles at the company said separately that they all believed the reason behind cutting Sojourn and taking employees off diversity projects to move them elsewhere at Google was to shield the company from backlash from conservatives.

  More likely, someone finally noticed that they were packing the company with blue-haired SJW neurotics who never really learned to code.

• Raid on German soldier turns up arms stash, explosives
  

  Agency head Christof Gramm in MAD’s report said it had identified 14 “red category extremists, including eight classed on the far right-wing, two “Reichsbürger” and four Islamists within the entire Bundeswehr.

• Aiming to thwart China, U.S. senator pushes rare earths funding bill

  El Republican Obama 0.9b is correct on this one. He may be my favorite Mexican, next to Nick Fuentes.

• Space junk from Chinese rocket was about 15 minutes from hitting NYC

  Missed opportunity, more like. NYC is an end-days-of-Rome style sithole.

• Over 100 Mexicans die of tainted alcohol as beer supply dries up: reports
• Rare blue dragons are washing up on the Padre Island National Seashore
• Researchers Find Another Virus in Bats That’s Closely Related to SARS-CoV-2

  If you think your 2020 is bad, just think of the bats. They have it worse.

• Slowly but steadily, China strives to make widespread virus testing the new normal

  Another creepy modern obedience test.

• Lower income people, new immigrants at higher COVID-19 risk in Toronto, data suggests

  The two groups the Left always uses to justify taking money from the productive. How about we recognize natural selection and let it happen?

• Cold War Nuclear Bomb Tests Altered Rainfall Patterns Thousands of Miles Away
  

  Their findings showed increased rainfall coincided with increased radioactivity. On days there were high levels of charge from radioactivity, the clouds were thicker and there was around 24 percent more rain.

  This, the team say, provides evidence that electric charge affects rainfall—a finding that could prove useful for geoengineering research in the future.

  Oh good, we have a modern rain-dance now.

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