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-Lurid Crime Tales-
PICTURED: Maserati driver who 'shot mom who cut him off in Washington D.C. traffic while her kids were sat next to her in car'
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Washington D.C. police are offering $10,000 for any information about 42-year-old Maryland resident Kenneth Miles Davis' whereabouts

  • Police say Davis shot a woman in a road rage incident on May 19 while her two kids were in the car

  • The driver was struck in the shoulder and a 5-year-old was hit by the shattered glass while the 11-year-old was traumatized

  • Surveillance footage from the event shows Davis getting out of his car and approaching a gray sedan that he starts shooting

  • He then turns back and begins to shoot the car behind him, before getting into his Maserati and making a U-turn

  • Once apprehended, police say, Davis will be charged with assault with a dangerous weapon
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/03/2021 08:18 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I made a bet with myself before clicking the link.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/03/2021 10:13 Comments || Top||

#2  Such outbursts can result in life threatening consequences in Georgia.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/03/2021 10:23 Comments || Top||

#3  Hmmmm. Wonder what it could be?
I know. Dungeons and Dragons.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 06/03/2021 10:31 Comments || Top||

#4  Neatly but not narcissistically groomed, no visible tattoos or piercings, polo shirt and well-fitting jeans... only the beard is what I think of as a Muslim style — trimmed under the mouth with no mustache. But Maryland resident Kenneth Miles Davis, 42, looks more like a bureaucrat working from home than the kind of nefarious do-badder who shoots people instead of just giving them the finger. One wonders about the rest of the story, given that the Daily Mail has been known to get overexcited about things from time to time.
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/03/2021 12:32 Comments || Top||

#5  The Daily Mail has been known to get overexcited

Not just The Daily Mail.
SEE IT: Road raging Maserati driver shoots mom with kids in the car

Maserati Driver Caught on Video Emptying Magazine on Fellow Motorist Who Apparently Cut Him Off in D.C.
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/03/2021 13:41 Comments || Top||

#6  And all the others.
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/03/2021 13:42 Comments || Top||

#7  Neat, Farrakhan grooming, driving a Maserati. The good life.
Posted by: Sgt.D.T. || 06/03/2021 13:45 Comments || Top||

#8  Revenge and Reparations?
Posted by: Dron66046 || 06/03/2021 15:00 Comments || Top||

#9  Lot of crimes in this road rage case if anyone in D.C. is interested in prosecuting.
Posted by: JohnQC || 06/03/2021 15:10 Comments || Top||

#10  ^Come-on, JQC! It's just another case of a Black man defending himself against a racist attack.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/03/2021 15:22 Comments || Top||

#11  Does seem to be a lack of self-control is a growing problem.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 06/03/2021 17:54 Comments || Top||

#12  Oh look. A spray-shooting, by a Wakandan.
Again.
And again
And again
And again
And again
Posted by: Voldemort Jutle7311 || 06/03/2021 22:25 Comments || Top||


Arizona Audit Director Ken Bennett – ONLY 14 PALLETS ARE REMAINING – Out of 44 Pallets! ‐ And There's More! (VIDEO)
[Gateway] On Wednesday, Jordan Conradson spoke to Arizona Forensic Audit Director Ken Bennet regarding the pace and procedures of counting ballots in the historic Arizona Audit.

Here’s what Bennett had to say — THIS IS AN EXPLOSIVE UPDATE—

Jordan Conradson: Do have an updated total?

Ken Bennett: The best way for me to estimate the total is to count that we’re now down 14 pallets that haven’t been touched. When the county delivered the ballots on April 22nd, there were 46 pallets. Two of those were just test ballots and some others spoiled ballots and things like that, so pallets with ballots on them or about 44 and we’re now down to 14 so I think we’re quickly coming up on about 2/3 completed.

Conradson: How many boxes are on each pallet?

Bennett: Most pallets have 40 boxes on a pallet, some have 32, but most of them have 40 boxes and it varies but usually, a box has between 1200 and 1300 ballots in each box so a pallet usually has between 40 and 50,000 pallets or ballots on a pallet.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/03/2021 03:39 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

#1 

Interesting to note the AZ ballot count has NOT:
Been interrupted by a broken water lines,
No Doors have been left open,
No ballots were accidentally lost in transit,
No wall of poster boards to obscure Vote monitors and witnesses.
or other such Fulton Co. GA. issues and doings.


The Pointed Questions.

What IF the recounts of AZ, GA, and/or other elections prove the original counts were factually fraudulent or don't numerically match the Programmable on the fly Voting system counts....what then?

Do we re-hold the election in those states and since there is now no covid-19 panic. No already proven ABUSED Mail-in Ballot scheme?

How long would it take in this Manpower and resource strapped economy to reprint 10 to 30 million ballots and set up a redo, just to cover the states found fraudulent?

IF Trump was found the actual winner, how would the COUP Leaders be removed from office?

Would we have a Televised Public Investigation and Trial of the Coup members?

How will or who will address the riots sure to be planned by the Socialist-Democrats, in order to disrupt the recount, or the COUP being flushed?

How will ANTI-FArt, BLOM and other controlled NAZI-STYLE Storm Trooper groups and their leaders be handled?

Will the Media be investigated to see IF it played and active Political role in assisting the Coup?



Posted by: NN2N1 || 06/03/2021 6:24 Comments || Top||

#2  ^ Mark Brnovich
Posted by: Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589 || 06/03/2021 8:37 Comments || Top||

#3  Eagerly awaiting the results with anticipation and "bated "breath!" Depending on the results, it may be the start of an avalanche across the country.
Posted by: JohnQC || 06/03/2021 15:06 Comments || Top||


Denver School Board Director, a BLM Activist, Accused of Molesting 62 Children
[PJMedia] Denver school board director Tay Anderson, a BLM activist and possibly the youngest black elected official in Colorado, has been accused of sex crimes ranging from inappropriate touching to “violent acts of rape” by 62 youngsters, 61 of whom are here illegally and likely seemed like easy targets, and one of whom is as young as 14 years old.

Ian Miles Cheong was quick to jump on Anderson’s Twitter throat, with a copy of Anderson’s tweet where he calls for BLM riots and declares that antifa isn’t real.

The Washington Post referred to Anderson as the “face of Denver’s protests.” The Colorado Herald posted texts from Anderson to children, many with heart emojis saying, “Let’s be friends.” There is a petition on Change.org calling for Anderson’s arrest.

Anderson tweeted his innocence over the holiday weekend but stepped down from the school board because schools and pederasts don’t mix well when the cops are sniffing around.

Anderson was already under investigation after a rape accusation by a group called Black Lives Matter 5280 and called him out in this tweet.

This accusation brings the number of victims on the list to 63, which is enough to make Bill Cosby fidgety. The Colorado Herald said, “While DPS (Denver Public Schools) continues to dodge the issue and protect its prodigal son, the continued deflection of responsibility for protecting underage students by DPS is saddening and frightening.”

“When Anderson was elected, at his first board meeting,” the Herald continued, “he said he would remain seated during the pledge of allegiance. ‘We will not stand while our country separates families and keeps kids in cages,’ Anderson said at the event.” Anderson also drew criticism last March when he accused a white man of committing a mass shooting in Colorado and the shooter turned out to be a pro-ISIS Muslim male from Syria.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/03/2021 01:24 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM

#1  But of course. Being above the law is one thing. But you haven't really arrived until you've raped yourself some children.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 06/03/2021 1:49 Comments || Top||

#2  The wokerati have systematically broken through every sexual taboo that used to exist, to show they can. Sex with children is sort of the last frontier. Within five years we'll have a high-ranking government official who openly "dates" 12 year olds.
Posted by: Matt || 06/03/2021 9:17 Comments || Top||

#3  If you’re shocked, you haven’t been paying attention. There are an unusually high percentage of progressives who are pedos.
Posted by: anymouse || 06/03/2021 11:43 Comments || Top||

#4  I wouldn't mind being lectured by my betters if they were not all morons and perverts.
Posted by: SteveS || 06/03/2021 12:40 Comments || Top||

#5  Within five years we'll have a high-ranking government official who openly "dates" 12 year olds.

Well, we already have the son of a president chasing after his 14-year-old niece in between doing crack with hookers... so maybe it won't take five years.

Maybe next year?

Posted by: Fester Ulish2345 || 06/03/2021 22:27 Comments || Top||


Man attacks Asian woman with cane on NYC subway platform in possible hate crime
[NYPOST] A 23-year-old Asian woman was attacked with a cane on a Harlem subway platform in what is being probed as another possible bias attack, cops said Wednesday.

The incident unfolded around 6:45 a.m. May 12 after the woman got off the northbound 1 train at Broadway and West 116th Street in Morningside Heights, according to police.

As she walked across the platform, an unknown man started swinging his cane at her — hitting her in the head and hip — before he fled onto the northbound train, cops said.

Posted by: Fred || 06/03/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:


Florida boy, 10, shot after dad agreed to take him on paintball 'drive-by'
[NYPOST] A 10-year-old Miami boy was shot after his father took him on a faux drive-by shooting with a paintball gun — and a frightened homeowner returned fire with real bullets, according to authorities.

Michael Williams, 26, allegedly gave in to his son’s pleas late Sunday to take him on a paintball "drive-by shooting," where police said the boy fired off the unlethal rounds into a crowd gathered in the front yard of an Opa-locka home, the Miami Herald reported.

But the homeowner, identified as Gregory Barns, thought the gunfire was real and that "he and his family were under attack" — leading him to return fire with a real round, striking the boy, police said.

The youngster, who was not publicly identified, was then run over by his father’s van after being shot and losing his balance, police said.

The boy was hospitalized after the shooting, but was expected to recover as of Monday afternoon, WSVN reported.

Williams told the station that a group of neighborhood kids were running around and shooting paintballs at each other.

Another child said the group ended up in front of the home where Williams’ son was shot.

"I guess the man didn’t see what type of gun it was, he just shot him," the child told WSVN.

Neighbors, meanwhile, told WSVN that they saw the duo driving around with ski masks on.

"The guy riding around with kids in the car with their ski masks and hoodies on, and they were apparently shooting at people," resident Maurice Adams said.

"We never had this as kids, never. We played baseball with tennis balls in the street. We never had to worry about anything like this. This is crazy."

Williams has been charged with child neglect with great bodily harm for acting "recklessly by agreeing to conduct a drive-by paintball shooting," according to a police report obtained by the Miami Herald.

Posted by: Fred || 06/03/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  good shot
Posted by: Chris || 06/03/2021 0:23 Comments || Top||

#2  Whatever punishment "father" receives should include sterilization.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/03/2021 1:13 Comments || Top||

#3  was then run over by his father’s van after being shot

For comic relief.

And nice shooting. Good to know there are citizens who won't miss a target in defilade.

Posted by: Dron66046 || 06/03/2021 1:41 Comments || Top||

#4 
Father = Remand to Psychiatric care for 10 years
His Kid the same....

Remove all elements of projection ,,,guns, slingshots, rubber elastics...knives, cutlery of any kind, make the 'defenseless" as they are a danger to themselves and others in the community
Posted by: Woodrow Snore7583 || 06/03/2021 1:48 Comments || Top||

#5  Father of the Year was sixteen at the time.

But hey, you know what they say, the family which plays together, Tsarnaevs together.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 06/03/2021 10:51 Comments || Top||


Homeless man, 48, who sucker-punched an Asian woman has been arrested 41 TIMES since 1989 for armed robbery, assault and drugs - as Manhattan DA recommends a year in jail for his crimes
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Alexander Wright, 48, was caught on video sucker-punching an Asian woman in the face in New York City

  • Police records reviewed by DailyMail.com show Wright's first arrest was a robbery in September 1989

  • The homeless man has been arrested 41 times since his 17th birthday – including eight times in the past year alone, DailyMail.com has learned

  • At his arraignment Wednesday, prosecutors highlighted Wright's most recent arrests in recommending high bail to keep him behind bars

  • Manhattan assistant district attorney William Darling told the judge, 'Given the defendant's record, the People are currently recommending 364 days jail'

  • Judge Angela Badamo agreed with the prosecution's recommendation to set bail at $15,000 cash

  • He's been arrested for 15 felonies, 25 misdemeanors and one violation, and is a troubled man with a history of three suicide attempts
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/03/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Recommend a stint in the Police academy as a training dummy for future officers on 'what not to do' when dealing with a perp.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/03/2021 6:46 Comments || Top||

#2  Come-on, man - he's just starting to get his life together!
Posted by: Heriberto Choluling1632 || 06/03/2021 13:13 Comments || Top||

#3  Institutionalized for life to protect any future victims. This isnt hard, he’ needs to be kept away from the public.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 06/03/2021 18:45 Comments || Top||


-Great Cultural Revolution
High times: Amazon won't drug test for marijuana anymore because it supports federal legalization of weed
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/03/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Remember the old two day delivery...
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/03/2021 6:44 Comments || Top||

#2 

Will AMAZON support the Liberals National Weed Day ☺ and start shipping the best Jamaican Gold to customers?

Question: would the USPS consider Jamaican Gold a HazMat item requiring additional fees ☺.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 06/03/2021 6:49 Comments || Top||

#3  Say 'goodbye' to the secure cloud.
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/03/2021 7:59 Comments || Top||

#4  So, when the next traffic incident occurs and the delivery driver tests positive, do you have a case for culpability of the company?
Posted by: ed in texas || 06/03/2021 12:53 Comments || Top||

#5  Nah, going to leave being unsober on the job is a no-no in the SOPs, and you betchya comp insurance will be testing.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 06/03/2021 13:37 Comments || Top||

#6  Drive around town with your windows down these days and you'll get a whiff of something that reminds you of skunk. But it isn't skunk.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 06/03/2021 13:45 Comments || Top||

#7 

This is only for positions not regulated by the Department of Transportation
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/03/2021 13:48 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
On a roll! High school principal-owned New Jersey deli with $112M valuation despite making just $22k in revenue is revealed to be Wolf of Wall St-style shell company after baffling stock market for months
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • New York Magazine article reveals the mechanics behind deli's stunning rise

  • Your Hometown Deli in Paulsboro, New Jersey hit a $113 million market cap

  • Observers were baffled by valuation of the company with $13,976 in revenue

  • Deli was jointly owned by high school wrestling coach and math teacher

  • Now it is revealed Hong Kong hedge fund Maso Capital Partners took a stake

  • They plan to use the deli as a shell company to take a foreign company public

  • Trades between the parties to the deal drove up the closely-held stock

  • Fund manager David Einhorn said the case showed 'quasi-anarchy' in markets

Now a popular fad on major stock exchanges, reverse mergers with special purpose acquisition companies, or SPACs, allow a private company to go public without the intense scrutiny and disclosure requirements of a traditional initial public offering.
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/03/2021 08:19 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Fuggedda 'bout it!
Posted by: Warthog || 06/03/2021 11:29 Comments || Top||

#2  Reading the article, it sounds like this is on the edge of legal — having attracted the SEC’s attention from the beginning.

Skidmark, did you put this under Signs, Portents, and the Weather because the Hong Kong connection suggests the thin edge of the Communist Chinese wedge?
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/03/2021 13:00 Comments || Top||

#3  Yes, a portent of further market manipulation.
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/03/2021 13:35 Comments || Top||

#4  You make a rule. Someone finds a way around it. You plug that loophole. Someone finds another. You eventually wind up with so many rules nobody knows them all and they can be twisted like spaghetti by sharpers.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/03/2021 15:26 Comments || Top||

#5  ^ Until you make the prospect of getting caught itself a nightmare, all you get is a bloated system of checks and balances.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 06/03/2021 15:39 Comments || Top||

#6  You eventually wind up with so many rules nobody knows them all and they can be twisted like spaghetti by sharpers.

You ought to teach Organizational Behaviour classes somewhere. This is precisely why large corporations tend to stall out at some point.
Posted by: Raj || 06/03/2021 18:13 Comments || Top||

#7  SPACs are scams. Blank-check BS redux... all designed to skirt the laws re disclosures and Safe Harbor

The SEC's new chief and Congress are going to crack down on them soon, but millions of people been defrauded already. What a sick, sad, foreseeable spectacle.

Part of what the great Wall Street short seller Jim Chanos calls "the Golden Age of Fraud"
Posted by: Woozle Smiter of the Ostrogoths9972 || 06/03/2021 22:19 Comments || Top||


Tucker Carlson ROASTS Serial Liar Dr. Fauci ‐ Evidence Implicates Fauci in Dangerous Gain of Function Research – Should be Under Criminal Investigation (VIDEO)
[Gateway] Tucker Carlson UNLOADED on serial liar Dr. Anthony Fauci which shows his implication in the gain-of-function research that may have led to covid-19. Tucker Carlson reported on Dr. Fauci’s work with Ralph Baraic, PhD from the University of North Carolina.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/03/2021 03:07 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  A "criminal investigation" will not happen. 'Gain Of Function' (GOF) research and funding likely extends far deeper than Fauci or the CDC. Notice how the USAMRIID site mentions nothing about GOF? No 'Gain Of Function' hits on Site search engine either.

US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID)

Mission Statement - Provide leading edge medical capabilities to deter and defend against current and emerging biological threat agents.

Web link
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/03/2021 3:23 Comments || Top||

#2 


Using a 24 hour time frame search. I noted there sure are a lot of just recently available and updated GOF data URL's.

It seems the CCP/Media "Wuhan coverup" has been blown.


Posted by: NN2N1 || 06/03/2021 6:44 Comments || Top||


#4 
Posted by: Chereter Smith2995 || 06/03/2021 8:38 Comments || Top||

#5  Oh, and Trump was right again. China, China, China.

Fauci Email: Researcher Who Funded Wuhan Lab, Admitted To Manipulating Coronaviruses Thanked Fauci For Dismissing Lab Leak Theory
Posted by: Chereter Smith2995 || 06/03/2021 8:42 Comments || Top||

#6  IIRC, UNC was where the last legal GOF research work was done.
Posted by: Bobby || 06/03/2021 12:21 Comments || Top||

#7  Why is the Ministry of Truth allowing this wild alt-right conspiracy theory to persist?
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 06/03/2021 13:41 Comments || Top||

#8  Why?
Diversion.
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/03/2021 13:43 Comments || Top||

#9  GOF research should be investigated. However, I doubt that it will.
Posted by: JohnQC || 06/03/2021 14:57 Comments || Top||

#10  Senator Paul has indicated he would like to set up a conference of experts to discuss GOF research. He said he would likely do this away from Congress as he didn't think the Dems would support this effort.
Posted by: JohnQC || 06/03/2021 15:00 Comments || Top||

#11  Tucker ROASTS Fauci? Where was Dean Martin? Don Rickles? Nipsy Russell?
Posted by: Clem || 06/03/2021 19:29 Comments || Top||

#12 
Posted by: Clem || 06/03/2021 21:37 Comments || Top||


Britain
Army's new £5.5bn Ajax tank fleet makes crew sick, can't be driven over 20mph and vibrate so much they can't fire shells on the move, leaked report reveals
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/03/2021 08:34 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I didn't know Boeing was in the armored vehicle business.....
Posted by: Mercutio || 06/03/2021 8:53 Comments || Top||

#2  The US-designed tanks are being built in Merthyr Tydfil in south Wales, UK.
Posted by: Gerthudion Whomoper3485 || 06/03/2021 9:46 Comments || Top||

#3  If the MOD cancels production, the USN or FEMA may be interested in purchasing the remaining inventory.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/03/2021 10:29 Comments || Top||

#4  Just open the port holes.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 06/03/2021 10:41 Comments || Top||

#5  The Ajax is not a tank...it's an infantry fighting vehicle...tanks have a much bigger gun and much heavier armor.
Posted by: Heavy G || 06/03/2021 10:55 Comments || Top||

#6  BTW...here's a fun fact about Merthyr Tydfil: the Aberfan disaster of 1966 You forgot to attach your link to a bit of text, dear Heavy G, so I added that afterward.
— trailing wife at 1:10 p.m. ET
Posted by: Heavy G || 06/03/2021 10:57 Comments || Top||

#7  Let's try this again: BTW...here's a fun fact about Merthyr Tydfil: the Aberfan disaster of 1966
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aberfan_disaster
Posted by: Heavy G || 06/03/2021 11:25 Comments || Top||

#8  Why are we having a foreign company build these? Had the same problem with the Belgium made M-249 Squad Automatic Weapon (SAW). They were a complete piece of shit and I had to carry a baggie of feed tray springs with me as they would constantly pop out when shooting and jammed the thing.

Once Colt took over the production those problems became fewer, but the design is still iffy.
Posted by: DarthVader || 06/03/2021 11:52 Comments || Top||

#9  The crane variant to lift itself over obstacles is brilliant.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 06/03/2021 12:22 Comments || Top||

#10  'Can't be driven over 20 MPH and vibrates so much...'

Automobile review of the 1985 Hyundai Excel?
Posted by: Raj || 06/03/2021 14:22 Comments || Top||

#11  WOKE VIBRATING SEX TOYS!
Posted by: Sluse Grealet9429 || 06/03/2021 16:41 Comments || Top||

#12  Some cheeky snot should suggest this is the time to name a tank after a woman...
Posted by: swksvolFF || 06/03/2021 17:19 Comments || Top||

#13  ^--- The Elvira Battle Tank?

(yes I know its not a real battle tank but...)
Posted by: CrazyFool || 06/03/2021 17:46 Comments || Top||

#14  Its frumpy, loud, obnoxious, makes people sick, slow, and overpriced.

Lena Dunham.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 06/03/2021 19:18 Comments || Top||

#15  [ponders starting campaign to rename the Abbot to Abbott]
Posted by: Jumbo Grumble4050 || 06/03/2021 21:24 Comments || Top||

#16  Basically an Austrian-Spanish (w/ German running gear) ASCOD IFV w/ a 40mm Brit-French gun. ASCOD has been operational for 20 years and should not be experiencing these problems. Not a lot of American mechanical anything except ownership.

The Ajax, formerly known as the Scout SV (Specialist Vehicle), is a family of armoured fighting vehicles being developed by General Dynamics UK for the British Army.

The Ajax is a development of the ASCOD armoured fighting vehicle used by the Spanish and Austrian armed forces. The family was originally developed by Steyr-Daimler-Puch Spezialfahrzeug and Santa Bárbara Sistemas in the early 1990s. Both companies were purchased by General Dynamics in the early 2000s.
Posted by: Chereter Smith2995 || 06/03/2021 23:28 Comments || Top||


China-Japan-Koreas
China's Three-Child Policy Won't Reverse Population Decline
[ENGLISH.AAWSAT] David Fickling

If China hopes to avert a fall in its population by raising the maximum number of children per mother from two to three, it’s going to have its work cut out.

That’s because declining fertility, once started, tends to be an inexorable force that few nations have managed to arrest, let alone reverse. Of the 85 countries where fertility had fallen to less than 2.1 births per woman in 2009 — the so-called "replacement level," below which population decline tends to set in — only Tunisia had managed to just about creep back above replacement 10 years later.

Even that achievement could suggest a measurement problem more than genuine policy success. Women tend to have children later in life as education levels and employment prospects improve. That can sharply depress fertility in the early years of the demographic shift as women wait longer to have children, before leading to a modest rise in the birth rate later as they catch up in their 30s.

Apparent phenomena as diverse as declining fertility in northern Europa
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
and the supposed higher fertility rate of Hispanic women in the US are as likely to be the result of having children later rather than having fewer children. Birth rates in the European Union
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
, for instance, barely changed in a generation once the shift to later maternity was complete.

A three-child policy will certainly help on that front. Given replacement levels of 2.1 births per mother, it’s by definition impossible to stabilize your population when you can’t have more than two children. Still, there are reasons beyond population policy that China may struggle to spark a baby boom.

Consider what’s happening in other countries in the region. Japan and the four Asian "Tiger Economies" of Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan have so strikingly few babies that the term "ultra-low fertility" has been coined to describe them. The four tigers, along with Macau, take out the bottom five places globally in the Central Intelligence Agency’s latest ranking of countries by fertility rate, with Japan not far behind.

There’s evidence that this isn’t just about the delayed maternity that caused Europe’s fertility slowdown. The ongoing decline since 2000 in South Korea is being driven instead by women having fewer or no children, according to a 2018 study by Sam Hyun Yoo and Tomas Sobotka of the Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital.

What can be done to reverse this? Reducing the human and financial cost of rearing children will be vital, as my colleague Clara Ferreira Marques has written. That means not just funding for child care, schooling and parental leave, but a change in attitudes in the workforce, property law and the home so that women don’t shoulder all the burden of raising a family.

Measures to address this in China were announced alongside the three-child policy, though it’s unclear whether promised or even enacted changes will be enough. Japan has some of the world’s most generous paternal leave policies in an attempt to get fathers more involved in child care, but only about 3% of men take any time off at all.

Switching away from an economic model built on a constant cycle of real estate investment might also help. China’s major cities, where property is as expensive per square foot as in far richer global cities, aren’t particularly attractive places to raise large families.

The good news for China is that, given the right incentives, most people in the world seem to want to have the two or three children needed to balance populations for the long term. The only question is whether the two dozen 60-something men (and one woman) on the Politburo will have the insight needed to change nearly five decades of anti-natalist policy.
Posted by: Fred || 06/03/2021 00:59 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Commies


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Is JBS cyberattack a dry run?
[FoxBusinessNews] Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said last month that ransomware attacks cost victims a combined $350 million in 2020.

Ransomware attack cripples Martha's Vineyard ferry - as it's revealed China hacked NYC's MTA in April in failed bid to get control of its subway trains
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • New York City's transit system was hacked in April, it emerged on Wednesday

  • Hackers from China accessed the IT services via remote log-in systems

  • The MTA required 3,700 employees and contractors to change their passwords

  • Transit authority said that passengers were not at risk, and no data was stolen

  • It is the third time in recent years that foreign hackers have accessed the MTA

  • The report of the hack came a month after the Colonial Pipeline was taken out

  • On Tuesday US operations at the world's largest meat processer were stopped

  • On Wednesday the ferry between Massachusetts and islands was disrupted

  • Passengers traveling to Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket faced delays

Posted by: Skidmark || 06/03/2021 08:12 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under:

#1  My concerns are if our nuclear arsenals is disabled during a nuclear attack on the US and/or the satellite GPS system is disabled while thousands of driverless Tesla's are operating on the highways.
Posted by: Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589 || 06/03/2021 9:17 Comments || Top||

#2  Is JBS cyberattack a dry run?

Yes. Next question?

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 06/03/2021 9:20 Comments || Top||

#3  Biden wants to take management of the GPS System away from Trump's new Space Force and give it to a small company that just came out of bankruptcy called Ligado.

This is the Space Force's response:

(LINK)
Posted by: Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589 || 06/03/2021 10:14 Comments || Top||

#4  ebbomoger/boskone:
The military's opinion is irrelevent. What matters is that Hunter and 'the big guy' are secret shareholders in Ligado.
Posted by: Zorba Johnson4505 || 06/03/2021 10:43 Comments || Top||

#5  Planned Parenthood, "Green" Energy companies, etc. systems OK?

Asking for a friend.
Posted by: Heriberto Choluling1632 || 06/03/2021 13:11 Comments || Top||

#6  Biden's response yesterday when asked what his response will be to this new cyberattack, "We are looking in to it". Translation, "I have no idea".
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 06/03/2021 13:11 Comments || Top||

#7  FWIW, since 2009 the US has had a Joint Cyber Command with Uniformed Officers and civilians working initially as part of the NSA and since 2018 more independently (part of the Trump augment).

They take direction from the Sec of Def and the Joint Chiefs.

I am not sure how much freedom of operation they have. It would be nice if they were allowed to, for example, pay one Russian crime gang to wipe out another Russian crime gang (e.g., the one attacking JBS) but I have no idea what they are allowed to do and what their ROE is set up.
Posted by: Lord Garth || 06/03/2021 13:32 Comments || Top||

#8  Not dry runs, it seems to me — an industry both government (China, North Korea) and private (Russia, Romania, among others). Bleeding the West as well as indulging pique (North Korea against Sony’s film about Lil Kim some years ago) and making a good deal of money for very little effort.
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/03/2021 14:18 Comments || Top||

#9  Agree with tw - these are first-team reps at worst but given the number of recent attempts and their apparent success levels, they're playing for real.
Posted by: Raj || 06/03/2021 14:43 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
Bill Gates' next generation nuclear reactor to be built in Wyoming
[FoxNews] The country's first Natrium reactor project will be built on the site of a retiring coal plant
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/03/2021 00:57 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "This is our fastest and clearest course to becoming carbon negative," Wyoming Governor Mark Gordon said. "Nuclear power is clearly a part of my all-of-the-above strategy for energy" in Wyoming, the country's top coal-producing state.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/03/2021 4:59 Comments || Top||

#2  ^Gomenasai
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/03/2021 5:02 Comments || Top||

#3  ^^^ Repeated comment deleted. For some reason there was a lot of that overnight — the gamma rays must be straying in herds rather than the usual singletons.
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/03/2021 5:54 Comments || Top||

#4  There's an intermittent bug where comments and new posts are not acknowledged with a new screen, so posters will submit it multiple times.
Posted by: Chereter Smith2995 || 06/03/2021 9:49 Comments || Top||

#5  Now that "vaccine statesmanship" is behind him, it's on to the next cause. Let's hope he doesn't discredit nuclear energy. The human race needs it.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/03/2021 10:34 Comments || Top||

#6  I have but one question:
Does the control system rely on Windows?
Posted by: ed in texas || 06/03/2021 12:49 Comments || Top||


#8  Gates has been funding this initiative since 2008.

His is just one of the entries working on small nukes.
Posted by: Lord Garth || 06/03/2021 15:37 Comments || Top||



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