COVID Led to the Biggest Drop in Births in 50 Years
April 18th, 2023Via: USA Today:
The COVID-19 pandemic led to the biggest one-year drop in U.S. births in nearly 50 years. But a new study shows not every state was equally affected.
Researchers found some states experienced steep decreases in fertility while other saw little change, according to the report published last week in the peer-reviewed journal Human Reproductions.
They discovered fluctuating fertility rates in some states were more strongly linked to demographic, economic and political factors rather than COVID-19 cases, suggesting family planning could have been partly stunted by consequences of the pandemic rather than the disease itself.
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Study authors analyzed states’ political leaning and social distancing unit, which tracked changes in people’s mobility using cellphone data. They found states with stronger social distancing responses that leaned politically liberal saw steeper fertility rate declines after the first wave of the pandemic.
For example, politically liberal places like New York and Washington, D.C., had the highest social distancing indexes and the lowest fertility rates, while conservative states like Idaho and Montana had the lowest social distancing indexes and the highest fertility rates.
U.S. Government Borrowing $6 Billion Per Day
April 18th, 2023Via: The Center Square:
The U.S. Congressional Budget Office said Monday the federal government has accumulated more than a trillion dollars in debt only six months into the fiscal year.
The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget released a report pointing out that those figures amount to an average of $6 billion per day so far in fiscal year 2023.
“Our fiscal challenges will only become more difficult the longer we wait to do anything,” said Maya MacGuineas, president of the CRFB. “In just five years, the national debt will surpass its record as a share of the economy – set just after World War II, when we had no choice but to borrow to win the war. However, we’re in no such emergency now. It’s long past time that policymakers figure out a way to sustainably finance their priorities, not just add the costs to the national credit card.”
Ukraine Strikes Power Stations Inside Russia
April 17th, 2023Via: Daily Mail:
Two key electricity supply stations in Russia have been destroyed amid a suspected Ukrainian drone attack behind enemy lines.
Stunning footage taken overnight showed how the bombing of the power stations had created a huge inferno which spiraled high into the night sky.
The destruction of the sites in Igumenka and Dragunskoe – a pair of villages a few miles from Belgorod city – left thousands without power across the Belgorod region of Russia which borders eastern Ukraine, according to Baza media outlet which has close links to law enforcement.
Elon Musk Says US Government Had Access to Private Twitter DMs
April 17th, 2023Shocking, if you have amnesia, or never heard of the Utah Data Center in the first place.
Via: Summit News:
During an upcoming appearance on Tucker Carlson’s show, Elon Musk reveals that the US government had full access to people’s private Twitter DMs.
Musk told Carlson during a segment which is set to air tonight that he was shocked as to the level of penetration the feds had with Twitter.
“The degree to which government agencies effectively had full access to everything that was going on on Twitter blew my mind, I was not aware of that,” said Musk.
“Would that include people’s DMs?” asked Carlson.
“Yes,” responded Musk.
Utah: Most Snowfall Since State Records Began in 1930s
April 17th, 2023A three story cabin is buried up to the roof. One guy says it’s 30 feet of snow, another says 20 feet.
In any event, this is pretty nuts.
Via: HeavyDSparks:
Related: Utah’s Snowpack Highest Amount Ever Documented
Hundreds of Teenagers Flood Into Downtown Chicago, Smashing Car Windows, Two People Shot
April 17th, 2023Via: Fox32:
Hundreds of teenagers flooded into Downtown Chicago on Saturday night, smashing car windows, trying to get into Millennium Park, and prompting a major police response. At least one person in a car was attacked.
Shots were fired near the corner of Madison and Michigan, and FOX 32 Chicago decided that it was unsafe to keep our news crew on the scene.
Two teens were wounded by gunfire in the crowds in the first block of East Washington Street. A 16 and 17-year-old boy were taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital in fair condition with gunshot wounds.
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Budweiser Tries Patriotic Ad Campaign After Dylan Mulvaney Disaster
April 17th, 2023haha Woops.
“Let’s go with Merica again and maybe people will forget about our insane woke fail.”
Via: Fox:
Budweiser’s new pro-America ad set Twitter ablaze over the weekend as critics derided the company for a misguided attempt at quelling the backlash over Bud Light’s endorsement partnership with transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney.
Budweiser’s latest advertisement, which was released on social media Friday, features one of the brand’s famous Clydesdale horses traversing the country from New York City to the Grand Canyon, passing by scenes in the American heartland as a narrator delivers a patriotic message.
“This is a story bigger than beer,” the ad’s narrator says in the ad. “This is the story of the American spirit.”
Live Feed: Starship Flight Test [Scrubbed]
April 17th, 2023Update: Scrubbed
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Via: SpaceX:
OpenAssistant Released
April 16th, 2023That didn’t take long. I thought it would take at least several months for them to attain something GPT3.5-like.
Nope.
Via: Yannic Kilcher:
IMF Unveils New Global Currency Known As The “Universal Monetary Unit”
April 15th, 2023Via: The Economic Collapse Blog:
The “Universal Monetary Unit”, also known as “Unicoin”, is an “international central bank digital currency” that has been designed to work in conjunction with all existing national currencies. This should set off alarm bells for all of us, because the widespread adoption of a new “global currency” would be a giant step forward for the globalist agenda.
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Today, at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Spring Meetings 2023, the Digital Currency Monetary Authority (DCMA) announced their official launch of an international central bank digital currency (CBDC) that strengthens the monetary sovereignty of participating central banks and complies with the recent crypto assets policy recommendations proposed by the IMF.
Universal Monetary Unit (UMU), symbolized as ANSI Character, Ü, is legally a money commodity, can transact in any legal tender settlement currency, and functions like a CBDC to enforce banking regulations and to protect the financial integrity of the international banking system.
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So who in the world is the Digital Currency Monetary Authority?
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The press release says that the organization consists of “sovereign states, central banks, commercial and retail banks, and other financial institutions”…
The DCMA is a world leader in the advocacy of digital currency and monetary policy innovations for governments and central banks. Membership within the DCMA consists of sovereign states, central banks, commercial and retail banks, and other financial institutions.
Basically, it sounds like a secretive cabal of international banks and national governments is conspiring to push this new currency down our throats.
