[Babylon Bee] IRVINE, CA—Tragedy has struck once again. The entire men's U.S. water polo team has drowned after kneeling during the national anthem in an exhibition game today, sources confirmed moments ago.
As soon as the flag was unfurled and the national anthem started to play, all the polo players swam to the bottom of the pool and took a knee. The anthem lasted a long time, as the singer decided to add all those weird vocal fills to change things up. Unfortunately, it lasted so long that the entire team took in too much water and died.
"Yes, this is a tragedy -- but it's also a victory for the social justice movement," said the team's coach in a somber press conference. "They couldn't breathe and they took a knee -- what powerful reminders of the injustices in this country."
"MMMM!!!" said one polo player moments before his untimely demise. "MMM! MMM! MMMMMM!!!"
Analysts believe he was trying to scream "Black Lives Matter" before he succumbed to unconsciousness.
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[Zero] Yesterday we explained why with prices already soaring, global inflation was about to go into overdrive as the leading food price indicator that is the Bloomberg Agri spot index hit the highest level in six years.
In a nutshell, this is a problem since food is a large component of CPI baskets in Asia, and "this large inflationary impulse in the region that houses more than half the world’s population should result in higher wage costs in the factory base of the world. As CPI and PPI rise in Asia, it will feed through globally in the months ahead."
Today, DB's Jim Reid picked that chart as his "Chart of the day", repeating what readers already know, namely that Bloomberg’s agriculture spot index has risen by c.76% year-on-year, noting that "that’s the biggest annual rise in nearly a decade, and there are only a couple of other comparable episodes since the index begins back in 1991."
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What you want is the coveted stock in a smart grid start-up which will allow your e-vehicle to charge during the 'rolling blackout' electricity rationing because fire/freeze season, of course.
Perhaps Specialized Transport Systems, with a focus of transport from long distance landing strips to enclosed Dacha Districts: National Park Service protected eco sections with a careful eye between sustainable agriculture, human living conditions, and local scenery, of course.
I'm thinking robotics, meshes well with The Gates Umbrella buying up farmland and the proposed expansion of Federally Owned 'Parkland'.
Its basically there in the harvesters, with a pilot basically along for the ride, monitoring systems. Saw an ad for weeders - giant roombas zapping weeds with a laser. Liquid and Solid Fertilizer dispensers loaded with a map cross-referenced with soil samples to deliver an optimal amount in real time. Modified cargo packing software to optimize diesel and re-charge stations. Vehicle sensors are advanced enough for even Brie Larson to safely drive, so the only need for people would be the stuff automation couldn't take care of, like the unusual repair or picking the remains of a deer out of a header.
Sub that out to your regional reaction team company, who will know exactly what they need to take when dispatched, instead of getting there and head scratching, then back to town rinse repeat until done.
Operations would be conducted and monitored by one of those Farm Simulator savants, multiple operations, day/night, 24/7 as weather allows, auto run with alert cues.
Night harvest cuts in half harvest days, or at least saves from hauling around lights and generators. No mass of harvesters making the most of light means no more pissing and shitting on the lettuce, don't have to feed or water the workers. Electric tenders means less noise pollution and no combustion exhaust into the field.
After watching the dexterity video of the robo-dogs, it is easy to picture some Goro thing picking apples or a land octopus harvesting lettuce like a forestry Scorpion.
Then, suddenly, there is a large uneducated segment of the population who only bring to the table the skill of hard physical labor who are not longer needed. Then we have our Disciples of Thanos, even the least of which are thoroughly enjoying having stadiums and parks to themselves, constantly going on about overpopulation and pollution and food shortages.
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You know.
I think we are closer to Heinlin's Mobile Infantry Exoskeleton than we (general public) think. Scorpion Harvester would be a badass name for it.
[ENGLISH.AAWSAT] Since Ronald Regan’s presidency in the eighties, US presidents have been taking one step forward and then two steps back on recognizing the 1915 Armenian Genocide. All of this was done out of consideration for the relationship with The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... , "a NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... ally" on the "alliance’s southern front." Recently, we saw a reversal: US President Joe The Big Guy Biden
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...This may well end up being the right thing done for the wrong reasons, but stopped clock and all that. Somebody needed to call it what it was, and I'll give credit to the Biden Administration for it.
Mike
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[American Thinker] Kamala Harris hasn't been looking well lately. She gave a maskless interview to CNN's Dana Bash a week ago, and she looked much more jowly and wrinkly than she did just three months ago, when she took the oath of office. She has a bit more junk in the trunk now, and gone are the purple, maroon, and ivory suits; it's black or navy all the time now, the better to hide the extra jiggly bits. A lot of her sentences now begin with "Well, I mean," signaling the intellectual vacuity she's settled for, as though she's completely given up on trying to sound smart. Pelosi's Prestone Mimosas ?
Is the stress of not being able to do her job getting to her? Does she have Imposter Syndrome on steroids and the medication has stopped working? Or does she have some awful knowledge of a certain future event the rest of us don't know about and is coping with it the best way she can? On April 23, she gave a speech to the IBEW Local 490 in Concord, N.H., and she slurred and giggled her way through "I think it is important to look at folks like Haley and Kelly and also say we're gonna take note of the fact that during the pandemic 2 million people, 2 million women people (pause, nod, nod, giggle, giggle) became unemployed." (Is that funny? I don't get it.) Is she spending her days with Jose Cuervo now? Sipping Vodkawaiian Punch from the juice bottle? When her secretary accepts an engagement for her, does she whisper into the receiver, "Mrs. Harris would appreciate the offer of a teeny martooni upon arriving at the venue"? Perhaps whatever Joe has is contagious.
Remember those early days, when she was maquillaged to perfection and could toss her deliberately casual hairdo back and forth without it losing its place, wearing bossy power suits with the shoulder pads out to here, patinaed with the insecurity of a Chihuahua always ready to fight but hoping everyone watching would think she was a Presa Canario? Yeah, good times.
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Or does she have some awful knowledge of a certain future event the rest of us don't know about and is coping with it the best way she can?
Kamala and Nancy sat next to each other right behind Joe at that bizarre spectacle of an address to Congress last night. You'd think they'd be smiling a lot and looking ecstatic about the power they now wield. But I did not detect any hint of any smiles behind those masks they wore. It looked like fear in Nancy's eyes. Honestly, it looked like she had a lot more fun sitting in that same spot while Trump was speaking. Kamala was definitely uneasy about something. Are they worried that their little revolution might turn on them like it did for Kamenev and Zinoviev? Or like Robespierre? Maybe the BLM/Antifa/Red Guard types don't think they are ideologically pure enough or maybe Xi has expressed his impatience with their progress. It was weird.
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They're just playing with hundreds of millions of people. Sons and daughters of Belial, vipers and cockroaches.
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Missed it Abu, but I guess the transcript was released beforehand? I get some people would have some early access but I have never heard of a general release before the presentation.
And was that the State of the Union? Because nobody is calling it that. Was that already mailed in with no publicity? Has it not been done?
Bunch of community college drop-outs getting some cosplay photos was the most divisive event since The Civil War? What a load of bullshit. Not segregation, or desegregation, or Blamtifia Re-segregation, or the draft, or women's suffrage, or Federal Income Tax? How about prohibition, a subject so divisive a second amendment was passed to kill it. Not Vietnam, or The Bush Wars, but a staged photo op and semi-guided tour. Oh, other than that police officer who shot down an unarmed woman.
All it did was confirm that Joe Headroom is a muppet reading a script. Poorly.
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When Robespierre was sent to the guillotine I read that he was put face up on the block so he would see the blade coming down. Maybe the boobsie twins can see the falling blades ?
The Bigger question is.
The USA has better Healthcare, Medical facilities, citizen level Anti-Virus cleaning supplies, a abundance of claimed Protective masks/gloves and a standard of living roughly about 40x's higher than most of India.
So why is India's Covid-19 numbers so much LOWER than the USA?
INDIA vs USA
Coronavirus Cases: 18,376,524 vs 32,983,695
Deaths: 204,832 vs 588,337
Approx Population : 1.39B vs 342M
% of Population Infected: 1.32% vs. 9.64%
% of Deaths IF infected: 1.11% vs 1.78%
% of Deaths based on population: 0.014 of 1% vs
0.17 of 1%
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2 causes come quickly to mind, there are probably many more
(1) poor keeping of statistics in India compared to the USA
(2) huge difference in age demographics. In the USA the 18 and under age group is scarcely affected by COVID-19 for reasons yet to be determined. Total COVID-19 deaths in this entire demographic are in the 300 range for the USA. Can't quickly find figures for India, 28.6% of all Indians are <= 15 years old. 24% of USA is <= 18. The most highly vulnerable to COVID-19, >= 65 years old compose 5.3% of total Indians, but 13% of USA population.
Africa except for South Africa is also experiencing comparatively little morbidity & mortality from COVID-19.
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another possible cause is that on the Indian subcontinent, people are exposed to some nasty tropical diseases, e.g. cholora
if you survive that exposure, you may get immunity to all sorts of other stuff\
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you may get immunity to all sorts of other stuff That is part of it. The other part is, what kind of immunity does one have? A health immune response has many components, and all have to work together properly, in the correct order, and to the correct degree, to fight off infection. The <= 18 demographic is scarcely affected by COVID-19. They would tend to have the healthiest & most well balanced immune systems. Immune deficiencies of various sorts seem to accumulate as we get older. These deficiencies may actually be a key part of physical ailments characteristic of the aging process.
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I don't trust the statistics in the USA any more than India's. This whole pandemic is so politicized that I don't believe much of anything anymore.
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Quite frankly, there's just too many Indians and very little empathy lately to go round. Some even believe India will emerge richer with a few less Indians for the openly socialist government to distribute sops to. [There's always a few jolly optimistic f#ckers singing through the darkest nights here.]
Things were under control until the recent elections, followed by local body elections, and stupid festivities around water bodies. I found that the numbers reported are real enough, adjusting for inaccuracies that arise in data collection.
So why is India's Covid-19 numbers so much LOWER
The truth is not easily digestible to our western friends. For one, we have always had excellent prophylactics and immunity boosting stuff [scoffed at and probably unapproved by western big pharma] that has been used for several centuries to give Indians a sturdy constitution even in the face of poor nutrition, exposure to disease and toxins etc. But mainly, Indians are just not militantly averse to government curbs on individual liberty; to wearing masks and fumigating and social distancing and curfews. If the government suggests we stay indoors, for example, the majority will not insist Timmy doesn't have to miss his apple bobbing party, they'll just slap him into watching cartoons. Here, the only stupid bastitch you will find debating the State imposed mask rule or the lockdown, will be some yuppie returned from the US where everyone and his cousin is an expert.
Of course, if civs don't comply we always have this ↓. While this is a prank in the social interest, the real thing is harder to watch.
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So, Dron66046 - is India the COVID disaster as reported in the US media?
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^ The State has done its absolute best, Bobby.
Even our corporate pharma, hospitals, the entire healthcare industry forsook profits and got into population saving mode faster than any liberal socialist regime has. It's a calamity, like others we've braved. There's just too many people here to cushion the hit before herd immunity develops [however that works]. I'm no expert but what I see around me should be only mildly damaging [with a few silver linings too].
Most of the doom and gloom reportage about India will come from European media, even into the US MSM. They love to depict the Indian side of story with 'hand carts full of bodies, dear lord!' Maybe it's also because Europe couldn't prevent India from manufacturing and supplying much of the world's intermediate chems and the cheaper chloroquine. Also, they are mostly left leaning and approach only the Indian leftists for their 'insights'. These are assholes who'll paint an even bleaker picture so they can discredit the administration.
I believe, the panic factor in this day and age is mostly due to more democratization, liberalization of media and the consistent demand [not unjustified] of the modern voter from his State that it best preserve his/her life.
If anything, this thing will help reign in subversives, jihadis, commies and globalist mercs; maybe even tightening our domestic response routines to mobs and unruly sasquatches.
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I was just informed that more youth are being infected with the new strain now. In the past three days, there have been over twenty thousand cases where vaccinated individuals below the age of twenty five were infected. I've never seen so many frightened people.
The private corporations were doing good by us, the citizens were cooperating, even the epidemic was under control. State elections, people celebrating religion and delinquency alone is to blame for what is happening.
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The obvious: Gaming how many cycles to run the PCR tests relative to political considerations, thus inflating or deflating 'cases'; massive financial incentives to declare patients covid positive at all levels of patient (and even corpse!) care, which will also massively inflate covid 'cases'. A quick look at flu cases in the US is proof positive that the numbers are being inflated.
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Dron, seems like all these statistics should really be reported on a per-capita basis, then followed up with an age-distribution. My initial attempt to normalize comparisons that way does not seem to show any radical difference.
Median ages 44.27 years vs 44.38 years Age distribution
Population aged 0-14 15.9% vs. 16.71%
Population aged 15-24 11.18% vs. 11.22%
Population aged 15-59 53.89% vs. 51.06%
Population aged 60+ 30.21% vs. 32.24%
Quality of Health care system index 28th vs. 23rd
The only key item I quickly see is the 60+yr/old percentages.
India has 2.03% less over 60 years old, than the USA.
But let us add that India has roughly 4x's the population housed
in an area 3x's smaller than the USA.
So India has had LESS total Covid-19 infections/Deaths than the USA,
despite having 4x's more population housed in 3x's less space.
So much for the Shelter In Place /Social Distancing BS it seems.
BTW: the numbers
I provided are 2019 to date for India and the USA.
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[Babylon Bee] IRVINE, CA—Tragedy has struck once again. The entire men's U.S. water polo team has drowned after kneeling during the national anthem in an exhibition game today, sources confirmed moments ago.
[Zero] Yesterday we explained why with prices already soaring, global inflation was about to go into overdrive as the leading food price indicator that is the Bloomberg Agri spot index hit the highest level in six years.
/\ Yes, a 'food and gasoline' ration card with a COVID vaccination date stamp. I think we're on to something. 
[American Thinker] Kamala Harris hasn't been looking well lately. She gave a maskless interview to CNN's Dana Bash a week ago, and she looked much more jowly and wrinkly than she did just three months ago, when she took the oath of office. She has a bit more junk in the trunk now, and gone are the purple, maroon, and ivory suits; it's black or navy all the time now, the better to hide the extra jiggly bits. A lot of her sentences now begin with "Well, I mean," signaling the intellectual vacuity she's settled for, as though she's completely given up on trying to sound smart.
Anxious replacements are standing by. 
