shoebat--2020-07-18--Christian Anti-Pornography Activists, While Well-Meaning, Are (Not Surprisingly) Setting Themselves

Christian Anti-Pornography Activists, While Well-Meaning, Are (Not Surprisingly) Setting Themselves Up To Feel Good About Stopping Nothing

According to the Christian Post , there is a growing movement of Christian anti-pornography activists who want to see the pornography website PornHub shut down .
Terry Crews , the Christian actor and host of primetime programs including “ America ’ s Got Talent ” and “ Who wants to be a Millionaire ?
” has denounced the website Pornhub .
A grassroots effort has been launched to shut down the global pornography website Pornhub amid allegations that its profiting off the trafficking of underage girls who are forced to perform sex acts in videos .
a short message posted @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Crews stated his opposition to the widely visited porn website , parodying the radical call to “ defund the police.
” “ DEFUND PORNHUB , ” tweeted Crews , getting as of Thursday morning over 68,000 likes and more than 14,000 retweets and comments .
Crews also tagged the group Fight the New Drug in his tweet .
The organization describes itself as a “ Non-religious , non-legislative , research-based nonprofit raising awareness on the harmful effects of porn & exploitation.
” The National Center on Sexual Exploitation , another anti-pornography group , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ support for the movement to shut down Pornhub .
“ It takes courage to publicly state that there are major problems with the largest pornography website ’ s existence , and we commend Terry Crews for using his influence to call on Pornhub to be defunded , ” said NCOSE Executive Director Dawn Hawkins in a statement on Wednesday .
“ Pornhub — which requires no legitimate forms of age-verification from users who are uploading content — ultimately is fueling demand for sexual abuse material and putting lives at great risk .
It @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” In 2016 , Crews posted a video to Facebook acknowledging a past addiction to pornography and explained that it resulted in the end of his marriage to Rebecca King Crews .
“ It changes the way you think about people .
People become objects , ” Crews said in the 2016 video .
“ It affected everything .
I didn ’ t tell my wife … didn ’ t tell my friends .
Nobody knew , but the internet allowed that little secret to just stay and grow .
It was something @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ‘ I don ’ t know you anymore .
I ’ m out of here.
’ ” Crews ’ tweet comes as an online petition launched by Laila Mickelwait of Exodus Cry that ’ s calling for Pornhub to be shut down has garnered more than 1.5 million signatories .
“ Pornhub , the world ’ s largest and most popular porn site , has been repeatedly caught enabling , hosting , and profiting from videos of child rape , sex trafficking , and other forms of non-consensual content exploiting women and minors @ @ @ @ @ @ @ We ’ re calling for Pornhub to be shut down and its executives held accountable for these crimes.
” The petition cites multiple examples of Pornhub allegedly being connected to sex trafficking , including the posting of videos of an abducted minor being sexually assaulted .
“ A 15-year-old girl who had been missing for a year was finally found after her mother was tipped off that her daughter was being featured in videos on the site — 58 such videos of her rape and sexual abuse were discovered on Pornhub , ” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , who was seen in the videos raping the child , was identified using surveillance footage of him at a 7-Eleven where he was spotted with his victim .
He is now facing a felony charge.
” ( source ) This is a noble cause done with good intentions , and if it is able to be followed through on , it will bring some good results .
But honestly , I am tired of hearing about “ stopping PornHub ” because , from my experience in researching trends involving society- especially the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the heart of the main complaint raised by Christian groups -it is an easy target but how effective one would be in tacking this particular one is very questionable , in particular when one considers time and resources invested into such a cause .
I have covered the history of PornHub before in my discussions about the funding of 4Chan .
I recommend you read the full article here so to understand the back history of the website .
But to summarize , it was created by a German man named Fabian Thylmann @ @ @ @ @ @ @ it to a group of five Canadians who have owned it ever since .
Contrary to what is stated in the article , and what PornHub ’ s claims may be , it is not the largest adult website in the world .
In fact , according to Alexa.com ( safe link ) , it does not even make the top fifty adult websites , with those places being held by Xvideos and Xnxx , and Youporn at the first , second , and fourth places .
The third and fifth places are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Chaturbate and LiveJasmin , at the third and fifth places .
This is not to say the site is small .
PornHub is big in the US , popular , advertises a lot , it may be very showy in how it advertises its ill-gotten wares , but it ’ s NOT the largest of such websites- this is simply a factually incorrect statement -and by a long shot .
Thus to attack PornHub is to attack a sliver of the problem while not even touching on the larger parts of the current @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of such an approach as dealing with a minor symptom of a larger issue- treating symptoms is important , but it is better to prefer dealing with the disease itself , or something as close to it as one can get .
If one was serious about dealing with the problem , one would want- one would think -to go after one of the three big players mentioned above if one wants to be most effective , or at least one of the sites on the top fifty .
Now almost all of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in that people upload their personal videos onto them .
Think about it- if these websites allow free upload of content , and underage pornographic material has been uploaded onto PornHub , do you really think that these other porn sites are “ cleaner ” ?
Absolutely not , and in fact they are far , far worse , for PornHub was thankfully caught , but other sites actively aggregate not only the same kinds of material , but they also have even darker secrets .
Take for example , XVideos .
Under @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the USA under the Child Protection and Obscenity Enforcement Act ( also known as 2257 notice ) , it reveals that the website is based in Czechia , a country that is mostly atheist and historically is a crossing ground between east and west in Europe , Slavic by language and ethnicity but Germanic by history and culture .
It is not just Xvideos , but many , many pornographic websites set up business in Czechia because ( a ) the government does not enforce any laws against porn and more importantly , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ State Department recognized hub of sex trafficking of women from all parts of Europe , usually “ sourcing ” them by force , deception , or imprisoning prostitutes against their consent and forcing them to work in the sex industry , filming the acts , before sending them on to do more forced work in the brothels of Germany and the Netherlands .
On July 17th , 2020 , Czech police raided a well-known porn producer , Czech Castings , and jailed six people on charges of human trafficking after they were found @ @ @ @ @ @ @ from all over Eastern Europe with promises of a job in modeling when instead they were intimidated , pressured , or directly forced to participate in pornography .
Detectives from the National Center against Organized Crime have uncovered a group of people who have been attracting women to professional modeling photography since 2013 , but in reality it was pornography .
They then put it on the internet under the name Czech casting .
They accused nine people of human trafficking , sexual coercion and rape , a spokesman for the unit , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Six of them are in custody .
“ From 2013 , job offers presented as professional modeling photography for women over the age of 18 with a promise of earnings ranging from one to five thousand crowns were to be advertised .
However , according to our conclusions , this should have been just a fictional pretext and a cover for the production and distribution of pornographic images , ” Ibehej informed on the website .
It was a group led and financed by the owner of the company .
According to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ suitability of the candidates for inclusion in “ their project ” .
“ After his positive opinion , the other members had to follow a predetermined procedure on how to manipulate girls in order to shoot a pornographic work .
The financial profit of the members of the group of people should have depended on what erotic scenes the girls managed to get or force , “ Ibehej described .
The group was well organized , everyone had a role to play .
“ These included transporting women to the casting site , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ artistic performance , verifying the age of majority of applicants , conducting personal interviews , removing possible barriers , persuading , persuading and forcing women to engage in various sexual practices , often involving themselves.
” spokesman .
The videos , as Czech casting , were published by the group in abbreviated form on the Internet , which , according to the police , harmed a number of women .
They were exposed to problems at work and personal level .
“ Many have experienced mental and health problems with the need to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ period of treatment , ” Ibehej said , adding that several hundred women had taken part in the casting .
According to the Seznam Zprávy server , this is the company Netlook , which is the largest producer of pornography in the Czech Republic and is based in Prague ’ s Vokovice .
The owner of the company , Martin Stiborek , is to be blamed .
The main defendant ’ s lawyer , David Bascheri , denies that anyone is manipulating women .
“ They did everything voluntarily , ” he said @ @ @ @ @ @ @ they would look like in front of their surroundings .
“ So they changed their minds and turned to the police.
” Forensic scientists detained ten people as part of an event called LENS and performed a total of 14 searches of houses and other premises and land .
They mainly provided computers and other equipment , documents and other materials .
The National Center against Organized Crime then charged nine people .
On July 15 , 2020 , the District Court for Prague 10 sent six of them into custody , ( @ @ @ @ @ @ @ be said about women who make bad decisions and then regret them later and try to use the law as a way to cover for their shame , or make accusations when it was their own fault .
An infamous example of this was when the married Scottie Nell Hughes of then Fox News had a consensual affair with Charles Payne , a black and married man , and tried to then say that he sexually assaulted her , and Payne was eventually exonerated .
However true or not true this example may @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Castings , the fact is that something very suspicious was going on that needs to be investigated , and given the history of Czechia with human trafficking , one would think that people serious about “ stopping porn ” would demand more action against foreign websites- as that is what both Xvideos and Czech Castings are -to either be stopped or be blocked in the US .
However , instead , people are passing their time focusing on a website that does not even make the top fifty largest adult sites on the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ But this is just the beginning , for the problem of child sexual abuse and trafficking goes even deeper , but can be found in the third item on that list- Chaturbate -which is a whole another ball of controversy that makes PornHub look like a walk in the park .
Chaturbate has an option that exists if one signs up where one can see “ age unverified models ” if one chooses to .
Basically , they are women who claim to be at least 18 , but nobody knows if they @ @ @ @ @ @ @ been confirmed .
Most of these women are foreign , but some are also from the US .
Anybody who spends time on 4Chan on either Politically Incorrect ( /pol/ ) , Random ( /b/ ) , or Fitness ( /fit/ ) , knows this because one will inevitably see at some point a series of spammed messages ( that are usually reported and deleted by moderators quickly ) which say this exact same thing , and they say that doing such is the best way to see- you guessed it -underage women @ @ @ @ @ @ @ activity .
I can not say the same about LiveJasmin , although rumors exist on messageboards from various reports that human trafficking or forced camming takes places on that platform as well .
This makes sense , for while there are many people on both websites who use them for their legal purposes ( I am not saying that any of this is morally right ) , there is a very shady side that exists and needs to be investigated .
I want to be very clear that do NOT support PornHub at @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as a cancer on the souls , minds , and bodies of the whole world , but “ defunding PornHub ” is largely a waste of time meant to make people feel good about something while having no real effect , as it is investing a lot of effort into taking down one entity that if taken down in questionable not only how effective it would be in actually stopping child sexual abuse , but does not deal with other websites with larger amounts of nefarious material that are much more popular , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and resources .
Now some will ask , “ what should then be proposed to stop this ?
” I don ’ t say that PornHub should not be out of business .
Rather , that one wants to invest one ’ s resources in the most effective way possible for the best likely outcome .
Do you want to seriously stop pornography ?
Aside from the obvious ( stop watching , which deprives the producers of the attention , advertisement revenue , and prevents the psychological manipulation inherent to the consumption of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ engineered breakdown of the family , society , and relations between men and women that historically provide meaning and purpose and allow men to channel their energies to a real person rather than try to manage them under unnatural conditions and instead be forced into a sort of grinding self-cannibalism of the soul that manifests in viewing pornography as a coping mechanism ( which is an entire discussion into itself ) is the first issue because it is the combination of these toxic behaviors that helped create the current situation .
From an @ @ @ @ @ @ @ something more aligned to the current activism against PornHub that people are participating in -then there is serious legal work that needs to be done , specifically by overturning all of the damage done by Samuel Roth and the infamous case of Roth vs. USA ( 1957 ) , which I profiled on Shoebat.com which is the Supreme Court case that created the modern pornography industry .
I have yet to hear any serious discussion of doing this .
Likewise , there also needs to be serious work in confronting and pushing for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Free Speech Coalition ” , which is a lobbying group for the pornography industry that has been working for years to abolish age of consent laws and legalize child pornography .
Indeed , in the past two decades , they have made two major victories- , which are the allowing for cartoon depictions of child pornography in Ashcroft vs. FSC ( 2002 ) , and a second case for which the FSC is currently in court attempting to say that it is unconstitutional for pornography producers to have to keep records verifying that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the age of 18 , a step that was intentionally added decades ago in order to prevent sex trafficking of minors .
Tell me , where are all of the Christian anti-pornography advocates talking about the Roth case or the FSC ?
They are far more dangerous than PornHub , because while it is bad that some children were indeed abused and their videos placed on PornHub , it has been the FSC who has actually pushed the society towards legalization of child sexual abuse .
It does not bother me that people @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to be shut down .
However , it can not be just PornHub .
Rather , it needs to be a complete block- a-la a Roskomnadzor style block -on pornographic websites , and a forcible shut down of the American pornography industry that has been responsible for creating so many societal ills for so many people .
Some say that one can not censor adult content because “ free speech ” , and while that is an issue that needs to be confronted ( part of the whole issue of undoing the effects @ @ @ @ @ @ @ lobby ) , if one goes on YouTube , there are many videos that one can not view because they are labeled “ Blocked In Your Country ” .
These are not adult videos , but often normal news broadcasts or shows from any number of countries .
If YouTube can block a video or category of videos , then it is not difficult for the US to block the flow of most adult content ( assuming there is always some that will seep through ) into the US with a few changes @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are banned , hence why I referred to Roskomnadzor .
If the Chinese and Russians can stop or limit certain content from coming into their countries , the US has far more powerful tools to effect the same ends .
The question is not one of ability , but of financial gain and more importantly , the psychological control over the masses , which adult content ( as I have noted before ) is used as a tool against the common man .
It is for this reason that the focus on PornHub @ @ @ @ @ @ @ any serious change to the current status quo .
Rather , it bears not to the same extent , but the typical American type hysteria of hyperfocusing on one thing while ignoring the larger principle or the consequences of one ’ s actions .
This has been seen many times throughout American history , such as with the demands of the various “ progressives ” of the late 19th and early 20th centuries , and how while they had well-meaning ideas many times , the effects of those ideas was not always either @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of PornHub , it will be to shut down one evil and give people a sense of accomplishment while letting other evils run amok .
I will leave you with the example of Craigslist personals , which was accused of sex trafficking , and indeed it did happen .
The same was true with BackPage .
Now the personals section for both are gone , but what really happened ?
Other websites- many others -simply replicated the same format for the US and set up on servers overseas .
The US government refuses @ @ @ @ @ @ @ can engage in the same things in the US but now through the protection of a foreign web server .
Nothing actually improved , but it just changed the location of where the main computer people were talking through was .
The same is what will happen with PornHub if if is shut down , because people will just migrate to the other websites , which will still be permitted , and the only thing that will change is an increase in advertising revenue to the new influx of traffic from people seeking @ @ @ @ @ @ @ be another website that is targeted , but unless it is one of the “ big ones ” , and that it involves not merely shutting down a website but using the shutdown of a site to set a precedent for a larger principle of what is acceptable and what is not , then one is giving people a sense of accomplishment without accomplishing much .
It is similar to a dog chasing its tail- an act that a dog invests a lot of energy it , but once he achieve his objective @ @ @ @ @ @ @ accomplished anything of value , when instead the time could have been spent chasing a ball or frisbee .
Ultimately , the problem is a spiritual one , and for what temporal means can be applied , the obsession with PornHub to the detriment of the larger and more serious issues or principles that need to be pursued actively by dedicated people on principle is not helpful to anyone and only hurts the efforts of well-meaning people trying to do something good but are having their energies exhausted focusing on slivers of a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Donate now to help support the work of this site .
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According to the Christian Post, there is a growing movement of Christian anti-pornography activists who want to see the pornography website PornHub shut down.
Terry Crews, the Christian actor and host of primetime programs including “America’s Got Talent” and “Who wants to be a Millionaire?” has denounced the website Pornhub. A grassroots effort has been launched to shut down the global pornography website Pornhub amid allegations that its profiting off the trafficking of underage girls who are forced to perform sex acts in videos. a short message posted to his Twitter account on Tuesday, Crews stated his opposition to the widely visited porn website, parodying the radical call to “defund the police.” “DEFUND PORNHUB,” tweeted Crews, getting as of Thursday morning over 68,000 likes and more than 14,000 retweets and comments. Crews also tagged the group Fight the New Drug in his tweet. The organization describes itself as a “Non-religious, non-legislative, research-based nonprofit raising awareness on the harmful effects of porn & exploitation.” The National Center on Sexual Exploitation, another anti-pornography group, commended Crews for his open statement of support for the movement to shut down Pornhub. “It takes courage to publicly state that there are major problems with the largest pornography website’s existence, and we commend Terry Crews for using his influence to call on Pornhub to be defunded,” said NCOSE Executive Director Dawn Hawkins in a statement on Wednesday. “Pornhub — which requires no legitimate forms of age-verification from users who are uploading content — ultimately is fueling demand for sexual abuse material and putting lives at great risk. It is past time to shut down Pornhub.” In 2016, Crews posted a video to Facebook acknowledging a past addiction to pornography and explained that it resulted in the end of his marriage to Rebecca King Crews. “It changes the way you think about people. People become objects,” Crews said in the 2016 video. “It affected everything. I didn’t tell my wife … didn’t tell my friends. Nobody knew, but the internet allowed that little secret to just stay and grow. It was something that my wife was literally like, ‘I don’t know you anymore. I’m out of here.’” Crews’ tweet comes as an online petition launched by Laila Mickelwait of Exodus Cry that’s calling for Pornhub to be shut down has garnered more than 1.5 million signatories. “Pornhub, the world’s largest and most popular porn site, has been repeatedly caught enabling, hosting, and profiting from videos of child rape, sex trafficking, and other forms of non-consensual content exploiting women and minors,” the petition states. “We’re calling for Pornhub to be shut down and its executives held accountable for these crimes.” The petition cites multiple examples of Pornhub allegedly being connected to sex trafficking, including the posting of videos of an abducted minor being sexually assaulted. “A 15-year-old girl who had been missing for a year was finally found after her mother was tipped off that her daughter was being featured in videos on the site — 58 such videos of her rape and sexual abuse were discovered on Pornhub,” continued the petition. “Her trafficker, who was seen in the videos raping the child, was identified using surveillance footage of him at a 7-Eleven where he was spotted with his victim. He is now facing a felony charge.” (source)
This is a noble cause done with good intentions, and if it is able to be followed through on, it will bring some good results. But honestly, I am tired of hearing about “stopping PornHub” because, from my experience in researching trends involving society- especially the human trafficking issue, which is at the heart of the main complaint raised by Christian groups -it is an easy target but how effective one would be in tacking this particular one is very questionable, in particular when one considers time and resources invested into such a cause.
I have covered the history of PornHub before in my discussions about the funding of 4Chan. I recommend you read the full article here so to understand the back history of the website. But to summarize, it was created by a German man named Fabian Thylmann, who after making his money sold it to a group of five Canadians who have owned it ever since.
Contrary to what is stated in the article, and what PornHub’s claims may be, it is not the largest adult website in the world. In fact, according to Alexa.com (safe link), it does not even make the top fifty adult websites, with those places being held by Xvideos and Xnxx, and Youporn at the first, second, and fourth places. The third and fifth places are held by the “cam” websites Chaturbate and LiveJasmin, at the third and fifth places.
This is not to say the site is small. PornHub is big in the US, popular, advertises a lot, it may be very showy in how it advertises its ill-gotten wares, but it’s NOT the largest of such websites- this is simply a factually incorrect statement -and by a long shot. Thus to attack PornHub is to attack a sliver of the problem while not even touching on the larger parts of the current Internet porn problem. One might think of such an approach as dealing with a minor symptom of a larger issue- treating symptoms is important, but it is better to prefer dealing with the disease itself, or something as close to it as one can get. If one was serious about dealing with the problem, one would want- one would think -to go after one of the three big players mentioned above if one wants to be most effective, or at least one of the sites on the top fifty.
Now almost all of these websites are “user run” in that people upload their personal videos onto them. Think about it- if these websites allow free upload of content, and underage pornographic material has been uploaded onto PornHub, do you really think that these other porn sites are “cleaner”? Absolutely not, and in fact they are far, far worse, for PornHub was thankfully caught, but other sites actively aggregate not only the same kinds of material, but they also have even darker secrets.
Take for example, XVideos. Under the legal reporting requirements to operate in the USA under the Child Protection and Obscenity Enforcement Act (also known as 2257 notice), it reveals that the website is based in Czechia, a country that is mostly atheist and historically is a crossing ground between east and west in Europe, Slavic by language and ethnicity but Germanic by history and culture. It is not just Xvideos, but many, many pornographic websites set up business in Czechia because (a) the government does not enforce any laws against porn and more importantly, (b) Czechia is a US State Department recognized hub of sex trafficking of women from all parts of Europe, usually “sourcing” them by force, deception, or imprisoning prostitutes against their consent and forcing them to work in the sex industry, filming the acts, before sending them on to do more forced work in the brothels of Germany and the Netherlands.
On July 17th, 2020, Czech police raided a well-known porn producer, Czech Castings, and jailed six people on charges of human trafficking after they were found to have lured arguably hundreds of women from all over Eastern Europe with promises of a job in modeling when instead they were intimidated, pressured, or directly forced to participate in pornography.
Detectives from the National Center against Organized Crime have uncovered a group of people who have been attracting women to professional modeling photography since 2013, but in reality it was pornography. They then put it on the internet under the name Czech casting. They accused nine people of human trafficking, sexual coercion and rape, a spokesman for the unit, Jaroslav Ibehej, told police on Friday. Six of them are in custody. “From 2013, job offers presented as professional modeling photography for women over the age of 18 with a promise of earnings ranging from one to five thousand crowns were to be advertised. However, according to our conclusions, this should have been just a fictional pretext and a cover for the production and distribution of pornographic images, ” Ibehej informed on the website . It was a group led and financed by the owner of the company. According to the police, he decided on the suitability of the candidates for inclusion in “their project”. “After his positive opinion, the other members had to follow a predetermined procedure on how to manipulate girls in order to shoot a pornographic work. The financial profit of the members of the group of people should have depended on what erotic scenes the girls managed to get or force, “Ibehej described. The group was well organized, everyone had a role to play. “These included transporting women to the casting site, concluding written contracts for the performance of artistic performance, verifying the age of majority of applicants, conducting personal interviews, removing possible barriers, persuading, persuading and forcing women to engage in various sexual practices, often involving themselves.” spokesman. The videos, as Czech casting, were published by the group in abbreviated form on the Internet, which, according to the police, harmed a number of women. They were exposed to problems at work and personal level. “Many have experienced mental and health problems with the need to seek medical help, including a longer period of treatment,” Ibehej said, adding that several hundred women had taken part in the casting. According to the Seznam Zprávy server , this is the company Netlook, which is the largest producer of pornography in the Czech Republic and is based in Prague’s Vokovice. The owner of the company, Martin Stiborek, is to be blamed. The main defendant’s lawyer, David Bascheri, denies that anyone is manipulating women. “They did everything voluntarily,” he said, noting that they later realized what they would look like in front of their surroundings. “So they changed their minds and turned to the police.” Forensic scientists detained ten people as part of an event called LENS and performed a total of 14 searches of houses and other premises and land. They mainly provided computers and other equipment, documents and other materials. The National Center against Organized Crime then charged nine people. On July 15, 2020, the District Court for Prague 10 sent six of them into custody, (source)
Now there is something to be said about women who make bad decisions and then regret them later and try to use the law as a way to cover for their shame, or make accusations when it was their own fault. An infamous example of this was when the married Scottie Nell Hughes of then Fox News had a consensual affair with Charles Payne, a black and married man, and tried to then say that he sexually assaulted her, and Payne was eventually exonerated. However true or not true this example may apply in this particular case with Czech Castings, the fact is that something very suspicious was going on that needs to be investigated, and given the history of Czechia with human trafficking, one would think that people serious about “stopping porn” would demand more action against foreign websites- as that is what both Xvideos and Czech Castings are -to either be stopped or be blocked in the US. However, instead, people are passing their time focusing on a website that does not even make the top fifty largest adult sites on the Internet because of popularity from ads.
But this is just the beginning, for the problem of child sexual abuse and trafficking goes even deeper, but can be found in the third item on that list- Chaturbate -which is a whole another ball of controversy that makes PornHub look like a walk in the park.
Chaturbate has an option that exists if one signs up where one can see “age unverified models” if one chooses to. Basically, they are women who claim to be at least 18, but nobody knows if they really are because their age has not been confirmed. Most of these women are foreign, but some are also from the US. Anybody who spends time on 4Chan on either Politically Incorrect (/pol/), Random (/b/), or Fitness (/fit/), knows this because one will inevitably see at some point a series of spammed messages (that are usually reported and deleted by moderators quickly) which say this exact same thing, and they say that doing such is the best way to see- you guessed it -underage women on live camera engaging in pay-per-action sexual activity.
I cannot say the same about LiveJasmin, although rumors exist on messageboards from various reports that human trafficking or forced camming takes places on that platform as well. This makes sense, for while there are many people on both websites who use them for their legal purposes (I am not saying that any of this is morally right), there is a very shady side that exists and needs to be investigated.
I want to be very clear that do NOT support PornHub at all. The site is accurately described as a cancer on the souls, minds, and bodies of the whole world, but “defunding PornHub” is largely a waste of time meant to make people feel good about something while having no real effect, as it is investing a lot of effort into taking down one entity that if taken down in questionable not only how effective it would be in actually stopping child sexual abuse, but does not deal with other websites with larger amounts of nefarious material that are much more popular, and is an imbalanced investment of time and resources.
Now some will ask, “what should then be proposed to stop this?”
I don’t say that PornHub should not be out of business. Rather, that one wants to invest one’s resources in the most effective way possible for the best likely outcome.
Do you want to seriously stop pornography? Aside from the obvious (stop watching, which deprives the producers of the attention, advertisement revenue, and prevents the psychological manipulation inherent to the consumption of such filth), dealing with the engineered breakdown of the family, society, and relations between men and women that historically provide meaning and purpose and allow men to channel their energies to a real person rather than try to manage them under unnatural conditions and instead be forced into a sort of grinding self-cannibalism of the soul that manifests in viewing pornography as a coping mechanism (which is an entire discussion into itself) is the first issue because it is the combination of these toxic behaviors that helped create the current situation.
From an equally important but legal and activism framework- something more aligned to the current activism against PornHub that people are participating in -then there is serious legal work that needs to be done, specifically by overturning all of the damage done by Samuel Roth and the infamous case of Roth vs. USA (1957), which I profiled on Shoebat.com which is the Supreme Court case that created the modern pornography industry. I have yet to hear any serious discussion of doing this.
Likewise, there also needs to be serious work in confronting and pushing for a full-scale federal investigation into the “Free Speech Coalition”, which is a lobbying group for the pornography industry that has been working for years to abolish age of consent laws and legalize child pornography. Indeed, in the past two decades, they have made two major victories-, which are the allowing for cartoon depictions of child pornography in Ashcroft vs. FSC (2002), and a second case for which the FSC is currently in court attempting to say that it is unconstitutional for pornography producers to have to keep records verifying that porn “performers” are indeed over the age of 18, a step that was intentionally added decades ago in order to prevent sex trafficking of minors.
Tell me, where are all of the Christian anti-pornography advocates talking about the Roth case or the FSC? They are far more dangerous than PornHub, because while it is bad that some children were indeed abused and their videos placed on PornHub, it has been the FSC who has actually pushed the society towards legalization of child sexual abuse.
It does not bother me that people want PornHub shut down. It needs to be shut down. However, it cannot be just PornHub. Rather, it needs to be a complete block- a-la a Roskomnadzor style block -on pornographic websites, and a forcible shut down of the American pornography industry that has been responsible for creating so many societal ills for so many people.
Some say that one cannot censor adult content because “free speech”, and while that is an issue that needs to be confronted (part of the whole issue of undoing the effects of the Roth case and the FSC lobby), if one goes on YouTube, there are many videos that one cannot view because they are labeled “Blocked In Your Country”. These are not adult videos, but often normal news broadcasts or shows from any number of countries. If YouTube can block a video or category of videos, then it is not difficult for the US to block the flow of most adult content (assuming there is always some that will seep through) into the US with a few changes to what sites are permitted and what are banned, hence why I referred to Roskomnadzor. If the Chinese and Russians can stop or limit certain content from coming into their countries, the US has far more powerful tools to effect the same ends. The question is not one of ability, but of financial gain and more importantly, the psychological control over the masses, which adult content (as I have noted before) is used as a tool against the common man.
It is for this reason that the focus on PornHub is not going to do anything with any serious change to the current status quo. Rather, it bears not to the same extent, but the typical American type hysteria of hyperfocusing on one thing while ignoring the larger principle or the consequences of one’s actions. This has been seen many times throughout American history, such as with the demands of the various “progressives” of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and how while they had well-meaning ideas many times, the effects of those ideas was not always either effective or good. In the case of PornHub, it will be to shut down one evil and give people a sense of accomplishment while letting other evils run amok.
I will leave you with the example of Craigslist personals, which was accused of sex trafficking, and indeed it did happen. The same was true with BackPage. Now the personals section for both are gone, but what really happened? Other websites- many others -simply replicated the same format for the US and set up on servers overseas. The US government refuses to block the websites, and people can engage in the same things in the US but now through the protection of a foreign web server. Nothing actually improved, but it just changed the location of where the main computer people were talking through was.
The same is what will happen with PornHub if if is shut down, because people will just migrate to the other websites, which will still be permitted, and the only thing that will change is an increase in advertising revenue to the new influx of traffic from people seeking a pornography drug fix. There may be another website that is targeted, but unless it is one of the “big ones”, and that it involves not merely shutting down a website but using the shutdown of a site to set a precedent for a larger principle of what is acceptable and what is not, then one is giving people a sense of accomplishment without accomplishing much. It is similar to a dog chasing its tail- an act that a dog invests a lot of energy it, but once he achieve his objective, he realizes that he has not accomplished anything of value, when instead the time could have been spent chasing a ball or frisbee.
Ultimately, the problem is a spiritual one, and for what temporal means can be applied, the obsession with PornHub to the detriment of the larger and more serious issues or principles that need to be pursued actively by dedicated people on principle is not helpful to anyone and only hurts the efforts of well-meaning people trying to do something good but are having their energies exhausted focusing on slivers of a pie instead of the whole pie.
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shoebat--2020-07-19--COVID-19 Strangles Chinese “Belt-And-Road” Initiative, Investment Drops By 80%

Shoebat.com has discussed the Chinese “ belt-and-road ” initiative , which we have done in the context of what seems to be part of a major global project to connect Europe and Asia by rail as part of a new Silk Road and , not surprisingly , making use of many of the old Silk Road travel routes .
There are many reasons for this , for doing so is not only part of a major power shift moving east , but it also is a direct competition with Russia for her power base , which revolves around control over @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , since there are only two ways to the Far East from Europe- either across Eastern Europe and then all the way through Siberia into northern China , or south through Turkey and eventually across a series of diverse and sometimes highly populated lands with many different cultures , landscapes , and geographies until one either passes first into India and then Western China before traveling around the Taklamakian Desert and towards the east or across India into southeast Asia before reaching the coast .
As I have noted , there seems to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and American groups working with Turkey against Russia and China for this reason .
Now as I have noted , China and Russia are “ frenemies ” , especially on the Russian side , as Russia does not trust her because- with very legitimate concern -she fears that China will use her heavy population and large industries to push into Siberia in the name of economics , and Russia will not be able to stop her simply because of numbers , for 142 million , no matter how adept one may be , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 1.3 billion moving in .
It is of interest then , that according to AsiaNews , COVID-19 has significantly impacted the Belt-and-Road initiative , causing an 80 % decrease in Chinese investment in less than a year , but also to related Chinese projects around the world .
In the first six months of 2020 , Chinese investments in the Belt and Road Initiative ( BRI ) fell to just over US $ 25 billion , the China Global Investment Tracker reported .
Last year , overall Chinese investment in the programme aimed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ world trade had reached US $ 105 .
However , the pandemic worsened a slowdown that was already evident .
In fact , in 2018 Chinese investments in the new silk roads stood at US $ 126 billion .
For analysts , the BRI decline is due to slower Chinese economic growth , the growing geopolitical conflict between China and the United States , and the serious debt situation of many of BRI partner countries .
Beijing ’ s conditions for investments is also a major factor .
China ’ s main financial @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and the China Exim Bank , only grant loans to BRI projects if Chinese companies participate and if a certain percentage of materials and components come from the China .
This discriminates against companies from “ beneficiary ” countries .
The lower figures were released yesterday .
They show that China added a total of US $ 8.1 billion of non-financial outbound direct investment ( ODI ) into countries participating in the Belt and Road Initiative , up 19.4 per cent year on year .
This does not include acquisitions of foreign companies @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , the China Global Investment Tracker noted .
More recently , many BRI projects in Africa and Asia have stalled or slowed down sharply as a result of the coronavirus pandemic , which seriously affected about 20 per cent of BRI projects ; another 40 per cent were adversely affected , with the remaining 30-40 per cent “ somewhat affected ” , this according to Wang Xiaolong , director general of the Foreign Ministry ’ s International Economic Affairs Department .
( source ) A lot of people are worrying about masks and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ but for China , they have a lot more to sorry about , for the effects of the virus are stripping the Chinese government of their ability to work on major projects crucial to building up their military economy in preparation for a war .
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Shoebat.com has discussed the Chinese “belt-and-road” initiative, which we have done in the context of what seems to be part of a major global project to connect Europe and Asia by rail as part of a new Silk Road and, not surprisingly, making use of many of the old Silk Road travel routes. There are many reasons for this, for doing so is not only part of a major power shift moving east, but it also is a direct competition with Russia for her power base, which revolves around control over Siberia and her influence in Central Asia, since there are only two ways to the Far East from Europe- either across Eastern Europe and then all the way through Siberia into northern China, or south through Turkey and eventually across a series of diverse and sometimes highly populated lands with many different cultures, landscapes, and geographies until one either passes first into India and then Western China before traveling around the Taklamakian Desert and towards the east or across India into southeast Asia before reaching the coast. As I have noted, there seems to be a lot of competition between European and American groups working with Turkey against Russia and China for this reason.
Now as I have noted, China and Russia are “frenemies”, especially on the Russian side, as Russia does not trust her because- with very legitimate concern -she fears that China will use her heavy population and large industries to push into Siberia in the name of economics, and Russia will not be able to stop her simply because of numbers, for 142 million, no matter how adept one may be, will have a very difficult time versus 1.3 billion moving in.
It is of interest then, that according to AsiaNews, COVID-19 has significantly impacted the Belt-and-Road initiative, causing an 80% decrease in Chinese investment in less than a year, but also to related Chinese projects around the world.
In the first six months of 2020, Chinese investments in the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) fell to just over US$ 25 billion, the China Global Investment Tracker reported. Last year, overall Chinese investment in the programme aimed at turning China into the centre of world trade had reached US$ 105. However, the pandemic worsened a slowdown that was already evident. In fact, in 2018 Chinese investments in the new silk roads stood at US$ 126 billion. For analysts, the BRI decline is due to slower Chinese economic growth, the growing geopolitical conflict between China and the United States, and the serious debt situation of many of BRI partner countries. Beijing’s conditions for investments is also a major factor. China’s main financial institutions, like the China Development Bank and the China Exim Bank, only grant loans to BRI projects if Chinese companies participate and if a certain percentage of materials and components come from the China. This discriminates against companies from “beneficiary” countries. The lower figures were released yesterday. They show that China added a total of US$ 8.1 billion of non-financial outbound direct investment (ODI) into countries participating in the Belt and Road Initiative, up 19.4 per cent year on year. This does not include acquisitions of foreign companies or company shares, which dropped significantly, the China Global Investment Tracker noted. More recently, many BRI projects in Africa and Asia have stalled or slowed down sharply as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, which seriously affected about 20 per cent of BRI projects; another 40 per cent were adversely affected, with the remaining 30-40 per cent “somewhat affected”, this according to Wang Xiaolong, director general of the Foreign Ministry’s International Economic Affairs Department. (source)
A lot of people are worrying about masks and whether or not to wear one, but for China, they have a lot more to sorry about, for the effects of the virus are stripping the Chinese government of their ability to work on major projects crucial to building up their military economy in preparation for a war.
The COVID-19 coronavirus is truly a “gift” that keeps on giving, for the effects of it and their impact continue to be felt and are only increasing.
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shoebat--2020-07-19--After The Trump Administration Gave 40% Of Last Years GDP In One Check, Now Trump Wants To Cut $35 B

After The Trump Administration Gave 40% Of Last Years GDP In One Check, Now Trump Wants To Cut $35 Billion From COVID-19 Testing

Earlier this year , President Trump signed the Families First Coronavirus Response Act that among its many consequences , gave away 40 % of the US 2019 GDP in one cash payout to American citizens in the range of several thousand dollars .
This is arguably the largest ever bailout and direct payout ever done in American history , with potentially major economic and political consequencse for the future .
However , no according to the Washington Post , the Trump administration is squabbling about $ 25 billion in funds for COVID-19 testing for states .
The Trump administration is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ states to conduct testing and contact tracing in the upcoming coronavirus relief bill , people involved in the talks said Saturday .
The administration is also trying to block billions of dollars that GOP senators want to allocate for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention , and billions more for the Pentagon and State Department to address the pandemic at home and abroad , the people said .
The administration ’ s posture has angered some GOP senators , the officials said , and some lawmakers are trying to push back and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ bill .
The officials , who spoke on condition of anonymity to reveal confidential deliberations , cautioned that the talks were fluid and the numbers were in flux .
The negotiations center around a bill Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell ( R-Ky. ) is preparing to unveil this coming week as part of negotiations with Democrats on what will likely be the last major coronavirus relief bill before the November election .
Negotiations are expected to kick off with increased urgency because of the rapid growth of cases — and steady uptick in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ The number of cases began falling in April but accelerated sharply after Memorial Day , shattering records in the past two weeks .
In late May , there were fewer than 20,000 new cases of coronavirus reported each day .
On Friday , there were more than 76,000 new cases reported .
The two political parties are far apart on a number of contentious issues , such as unemployment insurance , but the conflict between Trump administration officials and Senate Republicans on money for testing and other priorities is creating a major complication @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Some lawmakers are trying to reach a deal quickly , as enhanced unemployment benefits for millions of Americans are set to expire in less than two weeks .
One person involved in the talks said Senate Republicans were seeking to allocate $ 25 billion for states to conduct testing and contact tracing , but that certain administration officials want to zero out the testing and tracing money entirely .
Some White House officials believe they have already approved billions of dollars in assistance for testing and that some of that money remains @ @ @ @ @

Earlier this year, President Trump signed the Families First Coronavirus Response Act that among its many consequences, gave away 40% of the US 2019 GDP in one cash payout to American citizens in the range of several thousand dollars. This is arguably the largest ever bailout and direct payout ever done in American history, with potentially major economic and political consequencse for the future. However, no according to the Washington Post, the Trump administration is squabbling about $25 billion in funds for COVID-19 testing for states.
The Trump administration is trying to block billions of dollars for states to conduct testing and contact tracing in the upcoming coronavirus relief bill, people involved in the talks said Saturday.
The administration is also trying to block billions of dollars that GOP senators want to allocate for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and billions more for the Pentagon and State Department to address the pandemic at home and abroad, the people said.
The administration’s posture has angered some GOP senators, the officials said, and some lawmakers are trying to push back and ensure that the money stays in the bill. The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity to reveal confidential deliberations, cautioned that the talks were fluid and the numbers were in flux.
The negotiations center around a bill Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is preparing to unveil this coming week as part of negotiations with Democrats on what will likely be the last major coronavirus relief bill before the November election.
Negotiations are expected to kick off with increased urgency because of the rapid growth of cases — and steady uptick in deaths — in the United States. The number of cases began falling in April but accelerated sharply after Memorial Day, shattering records in the past two weeks.
In late May, there were fewer than 20,000 new cases of coronavirus reported each day. On Friday, there were more than 76,000 new cases reported.
The two political parties are far apart on a number of contentious issues, such as unemployment insurance, but the conflict between Trump administration officials and Senate Republicans on money for testing and other priorities is creating a major complication even before bipartisan negotiations get under way. Some lawmakers are trying to reach a deal quickly, as enhanced unemployment benefits for millions of Americans are set to expire in less than two weeks.
One person involved in the talks said Senate Republicans were seeking to allocate $25 billion for states to conduct testing and contact tracing, but that certain administration officials want to zero out the testing and tracing money entirely. Some White House officials believe they have already approved billions of dollars in assistance for testing and that some of that money remains unspent. (source)


shoebat--2020-07-20--Dutch Police Arrest Six After Finding Torture Chamber Hidden Inside Shipping Container

Beneath the world of “ normal life ” there are often a lot of very questionable , or just plain evil things that happen but are usually the real explanations as to why certain things are “ the way they are ” .
For example , one may hear about “ government overspending ” and “ pork barrel bills ” where arguably hundreds of dollars are listed as having been spent on a single hammer , but the reality is that while everybody knows this would never be accepted from a common citizen , the government does it because it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of black bag and other illegal operations overseas and within the US .
This is just one example , for there is the entire criminal underworld of any country that operates .
Who the owner of this particular site is has not been identified , but it seems to be part of a larger operation and most likely not from a poor person as six men were arrested after being connected a well-designed torture chamber was discovered inside of a shipping container by police in the Netherlands .
Authorities in the Netherlands have @ @ @ @ @ @ @ shipping containers , which were lined with sound-proofing material and filled with assumed torture devices , the country ’ s National Prosecutor ’ s Office has said .
Officers raided the site at Wouwse Plantage on the Dutch-Belgian border on June 22 , arresting six men suspected of kidnapping and hostage taking .
They found six shipping containers which had been converted to what are believed to be “ prison cells , ” as well as a stash of weaponry including pruning shears and loppers .
“ In each of the cells , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ floor , in order to be able to chain someone standing up with their arms raised , ” the statement said .
“ The rooms were finished with noise isolating panels and heat-insulating foil.
” One of the units also contained a dental chair , with straps for feet and arms .
“ The sea container with the dental chair contained bags with objects that were presumably intended to torture or at least put pressure on victims , ” the statement added .
“ The police found , among other things , pruning @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , scalpels , pliers , extra handcuffs , fingercuffs , tape , balaclavas , and black cotton bags that can be pulled over the head .
During a search at a home in Rotterdam , 24 kilos of MDMA was also found.
” The containers were also fitted with cameras for remote monitoring .
Officers also found three stolen delivery vans , two BMWs , seven handguns and a Chinese variant of the AK-47 .
“ In total , 25 weapons were found with the suspects , ” the National Prosecutor ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ began in April , during which officers were able to access an encrypted chat network — EncroChat — to track the group ’ s movements and plans .
“ From this it could be deduced who the intended victims were , ” the statement said .
“ They were warned by the police and went into hiding elsewhere .
As a result , and thanks to permanent CCTV surveillance in and near the warehouse , planned kidnappings , hostage-taking and other serious violent crimes were prevented.
” EncroChat , which offered a secure @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a “ criminal marketplace ” used by 60,000 people worldwide for coordinating the distribution of illicit goods , money laundering and plotting to kill rivals , according to the UK ’ s National Crime Agency ( NCA ) .
The discovery of the containers followed a series of successful raids by UK and European police based on information from the network , which saw hundreds arrested and more than 27 tons of drugs seized in the UK and Netherlands .
The six men who were arrested in relation to the apparent torture site @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Amsterdam court on Monday ordered their detention for 90 days .
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Beneath the world of “normal life” there are often a lot of very questionable, or just plain evil things that happen but are usually the real explanations as to why certain things are “the way they are”. For example, one may hear about “government overspending” and “pork barrel bills” where arguably hundreds of dollars are listed as having been spent on a single hammer, but the reality is that while everybody knows this would never be accepted from a common citizen, the government does it because it is a way to hide her funding of black bag and other illegal operations overseas and within the US. This is just one example, for there is the entire criminal underworld of any country that operates.
Who the owner of this particular site is has not been identified, but it seems to be part of a larger operation and most likely not from a poor person as six men were arrested after being connected a well-designed torture chamber was discovered inside of a shipping container by police in the Netherlands.
Authorities in the Netherlands have discovered an apparent torture site hidden inside shipping containers, which were lined with sound-proofing material and filled with assumed torture devices, the country’s National Prosecutor’s Office has said. Officers raided the site at Wouwse Plantage on the Dutch-Belgian border on June 22, arresting six men suspected of kidnapping and hostage taking. They found six shipping containers which had been converted to what are believed to be “prison cells,” as well as a stash of weaponry including pruning shears and loppers. “In each of the cells, handcuffs were attached to the ceiling and floor, in order to be able to chain someone standing up with their arms raised,” the statement said. “The rooms were finished with noise isolating panels and heat-insulating foil.” One of the units also contained a dental chair, with straps for feet and arms. “The sea container with the dental chair contained bags with objects that were presumably intended to torture or at least put pressure on victims,” the statement added. “The police found, among other things, pruning shears, loppers, a branch saw, scalpels, pliers, extra handcuffs, fingercuffs, tape, balaclavas, and black cotton bags that can be pulled over the head. During a search at a home in Rotterdam, 24 kilos of MDMA was also found.” The containers were also fitted with cameras for remote monitoring. Officers also found three stolen delivery vans, two BMWs, seven handguns and a Chinese variant of the AK-47. “In total, 25 weapons were found with the suspects,” the National Prosecutor’s Office said. Authorities say the investigation began in April, during which officers were able to access an encrypted chat network — EncroChat — to track the group’s movements and plans. “From this it could be deduced who the intended victims were,” the statement said. “They were warned by the police and went into hiding elsewhere. As a result, and thanks to permanent CCTV surveillance in and near the warehouse, planned kidnappings, hostage-taking and other serious violent crimes were prevented.” EncroChat, which offered a secure mobile phone instant messaging service, was a “criminal marketplace” used by 60,000 people worldwide for coordinating the distribution of illicit goods, money laundering and plotting to kill rivals, according to the UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA). The discovery of the containers followed a series of successful raids by UK and European police based on information from the network, which saw hundreds arrested and more than 27 tons of drugs seized in the UK and Netherlands. The six men who were arrested in relation to the apparent torture site are all from The Netherlands. An Amsterdam court on Monday ordered their detention for 90 days. (source)
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shoebat--2020-07-20--Once You Understand Strategy Of Tension, You Understand All Politics

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shoebat--2020-07-20--American Trucking Industry Crashes As Truck Orders Significantly Decline

When people talk about “ American heroes ” , the first people that should be thought of are truckers because it is truckers who run the country , quite in the literal sense .
If the wheels on the trucks driven by often overworked , underpaid , mistreated drivers stopped , the country would shut down in about seventy-two hours .
It is they who keep the flywheel of American economic machine turning so that the other economic parts can function and with that , the political ambitions that follow .
But right now as Zero Hedge reports , there @ @ @ @ @ @ @ truck orders , known as Class 8 trucks , which is a historical indicator of economic slowdown , for in spite of the population having grown by at least 60 million since 1996 , orders have crashed to far below and are barely at 1996 levels even with the continued growth of consumerism as the basis of the US economy .
Class 8 trucking orders – often seen as a gauge of how the U.S. production economy is faring , have been brutalized for almost all of 2020 so far due to the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ data appears to suggest a slight respite in orders , despite crashing retail sales , even though we ’ re not quite certain that it ’ s going to carry into the second half of the year .
Regardless , June is traditionally a tough month for Class 8 orders and the industry ( and its analysts ) are optimistic .
Final Class 8 truck data for June has been released and retail sales were down 41 % YoY to 17,055 units .
Orders were up 23.2 % for the month , marking @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
This comes after two incredible poor months that we highlighted ( ZH Class 8 report April , ZH Class 8 report May ) where orders hit their lowest level in 25 years .
In May , new orders “ recovered ” slightly to a dismal 6,687 number before taking off this June .
Regardless , Class 8 orders remain down 24.7 % YTD , mostly as a result of a continued lagging economy and pressured supply chain due to the coronavirus pandemic .
In the first half of 2020 , 65,814 trucks @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the first half of 2019 .
Retail sales are also lagging YTD , still down 39 % , according to data from JP Morgan .
Builds have appears to make somewhat of a V-shape recovery , but were down 39 % YoY in June and have fallen 70 % in Q2 .
Builds remain down 52 % year to date .
But that hasn ’ t stopped the industry ’ s perpetually bullish analysts , who weigh in on the numbers every month and – somehow – can find the positive in almost @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Ake , FTR ’ s vice president of Commercial Vehicles said : “ The Class 8 market is on the slow , steady recovery that matches our forecast .
It is also encouraging that fleets are showing enough confidence in the economy to begin placing some viable orders .
The trend should continue , but a significant increase is not expected until October when the big fleets begin placing orders for 2021 delivery.
” ( source ) This is more proof that the US economy is completely done- fried , dead , put @ @ @ @ @ @ @ there is no more consumption in a serious way happening .
What is taking place is the famous “ dead cat bounce ” , where there are “ spikes ” of activity as the entire system comes to a stop just as a chicken convulses with energy even after its head has been cut off .
The economy can not be sustained any more because there is nothing left to sustain it .
The jobs are gone , and the ability for work to come to the US is nearly impossible any more @ @ @ @ @ @ @ regulations , heavy and complicated taxes , no regulation where there needs to be regulation , and prices so high for materials cost it is impossible to sustain a business in .
This does not mean that people are not productive , but that the system is based on a complicated form of theft that an honest worker can not expect to compete with because it will cheat him out of his work .
In such a case , only a fool would try to play because the gains are not worth the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to this , and they do exist , but with difficulty .
The retail industry is going to continue to collapse .
As this happens , there will be more waves- at least one more , but I fear there may be several more -waves of permanent job losses as a result of the economic changes .
People simply can not afford to live any more , and while there are reports of people “ fleeing the cities for the countryside ” , this is most likely going to be a temporary phenomena @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to be able to do this , nor will they be able to sustain a long-term purchase that they make because of the income declines .
If you do have money , now is the time to spend- on provisions that you need or will be useful to your family in the future .
I look at the 2020s , as painful as the current year is , as what the ant did for summer in the story of the ant and grasshopper .
It is a time to work , to labor @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as things get bad , because we know for sure that a major economic and political winter is coming .
Some correctly argue it is upon us now , but I do not believe this is fully so , for I believe there is more to come and that now with the signs of change been made manifest , now is the time to work and work hard because the public has been given a warning .
It is painful but also a great blessing , for being able to see what may @ @ @ @ @ @ @ man predict what moves he needs to make to be most effective for the future .
There is no recovery coming for trucks or the trucking industry , and neither is there for the economy .
This is a taste of the future .
Prepare for it , or ignore it at one ’ s own peril .
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When people talk about “American heroes”, the first people that should be thought of are truckers because it is truckers who run the country, quite in the literal sense. If the wheels on the trucks driven by often overworked, underpaid, mistreated drivers stopped, the country would shut down in about seventy-two hours. It is they who keep the flywheel of American economic machine turning so that the other economic parts can function and with that, the political ambitions that follow.
But right now as Zero Hedge reports, there is a major collapse happening in heavy truck orders, known as Class 8 trucks, which is a historical indicator of economic slowdown, for in spite of the population having grown by at least 60 million since 1996, orders have crashed to far below and are barely at 1996 levels even with the continued growth of consumerism as the basis of the US economy.
Class 8 trucking orders – often seen as a gauge of how the U.S. production economy is faring, have been brutalized for almost all of 2020 so far due to the ongoing pandemic. But June’s data appears to suggest a slight respite in orders, despite crashing retail sales, even though we’re not quite certain that it’s going to carry into the second half of the year. Regardless, June is traditionally a tough month for Class 8 orders and the industry (and its analysts) are optimistic. Final Class 8 truck data for June has been released and retail sales were down 41% YoY to 17,055 units. Orders were up 23.2% for the month, marking a small bounce back for the industry. This comes after two incredible poor months that we highlighted (ZH Class 8 report April, ZH Class 8 report May) where orders hit their lowest level in 25 years. In May, new orders “recovered” slightly to a dismal 6,687 number before taking off this June. Regardless, Class 8 orders remain down 24.7% YTD, mostly as a result of a continued lagging economy and pressured supply chain due to the coronavirus pandemic. In the first half of 2020, 65,814 trucks were ordered, compared with 87,466 in the first half of 2019. Retail sales are also lagging YTD, still down 39%, according to data from JP Morgan. Builds have appears to make somewhat of a V-shape recovery, but were down 39% YoY in June and have fallen 70% in Q2. Builds remain down 52% year to date. But that hasn’t stopped the industry’s perpetually bullish analysts, who weigh in on the numbers every month and – somehow – can find the positive in almost the most dismal of reports. Don Ake, FTR’s vice president of Commercial Vehicles said: “The Class 8 market is on the slow, steady recovery that matches our forecast. It is also encouraging that fleets are showing enough confidence in the economy to begin placing some viable orders. The trend should continue, but a significant increase is not expected until October when the big fleets begin placing orders for 2021 delivery.” (source)
This is more proof that the US economy is completely done- fried, dead, put into the grave -just done, because there is no more consumption in a serious way happening. What is taking place is the famous “dead cat bounce”, where there are “spikes” of activity as the entire system comes to a stop just as a chicken convulses with energy even after its head has been cut off.
The economy cannot be sustained any more because there is nothing left to sustain it. The jobs are gone, and the ability for work to come to the US is nearly impossible any more due to a morass of unbalanced legal regulations, heavy and complicated taxes, no regulation where there needs to be regulation, and prices so high for materials cost it is impossible to sustain a business in. This does not mean that people are not productive, but that the system is based on a complicated form of theft that an honest worker cannot expect to compete with because it will cheat him out of his work. In such a case, only a fool would try to play because the gains are not worth the returns unless one can find an exception to this, and they do exist, but with difficulty.
The retail industry is going to continue to collapse. As this happens, there will be more waves- at least one more, but I fear there may be several more -waves of permanent job losses as a result of the economic changes. People simply cannot afford to live any more, and while there are reports of people “fleeing the cities for the countryside”, this is most likely going to be a temporary phenomena because most do not have the money to be able to do this, nor will they be able to sustain a long-term purchase that they make because of the income declines.
If you do have money, now is the time to spend- on provisions that you need or will be useful to your family in the future.
I look at the 2020s, as painful as the current year is, as what the ant did for summer in the story of the ant and grasshopper. It is a time to work, to labor, to suffer, and to prepare as things get bad, because we know for sure that a major economic and political winter is coming. Some correctly argue it is upon us now, but I do not believe this is fully so, for I believe there is more to come and that now with the signs of change been made manifest, now is the time to work and work hard because the public has been given a warning. It is painful but also a great blessing, for being able to see what may come in the future can help a man predict what moves he needs to make to be most effective for the future.
There is no recovery coming for trucks or the trucking industry, and neither is there for the economy.
This is a taste of the future. Prepare for it, or ignore it at one’s own peril.
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shoebat--2020-07-20--US Senator Who Promoted Fear Of Islamic Terrorists Crossing The US Border From Mexico Now Stands Aga

US Senator Who Promoted Fear Of Islamic Terrorists Crossing The US Border From Mexico Now Stands Against Muslim Persecution In China

Shoebat.com has never supported Islam , but at the same time , we do not support genocide or the abuse of people , regardless of their ethnicity or religion , since it is the imperative of being a Christian to desire the good-will and salvation of all men .
As a part of this , we have noted that the Uyghur ( Uigur ) Moslems of China have been gravely abused by the Chinese government just as many Christians have been mistreated .
Now there are horrible reports and video of Chinese soldiers forcing Uyghurs , chained , blindfolded , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ train cars just like what happened in Europe during the Second World War .
S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn has warned that China ’ s efforts to clamp down on its Uighur population is a grim “ preview ” of its intent worldwide as a fellow lawmaker announced legislation Monday specifically calling out Beijing for forced labor .
“ The Chinese Government is putting blind folded Uyghurs with shaven heads onto trains going to detention camps .
All because Uyghurs are Muslim .
This is eerily familiar , ” she said on Twitter , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ The Chinese surveillance state being used to send Muslim Uyghurs to concentration camps is a preview of the electronic tyranny they one day seek to impose on the entire world , ” the Republican from Tennessee added .
Her comments came after video surfaced of prisoners shackled in chains being forced onto trains in the autonomous Xinjiang region in northwestern China , home to the Uighur minority , in what looked like a prisoner transfer .
The detainees had their heads completely shaven and were sitting in rows wearing blue-and-yellow uniforms before @ @ @ @ @ @ @ rights groups and Western governments have been vocal in condemning China ’ s widespread abuses against the Uighurs .
The condemnations have focused on what China calls re-education camps , as well as allegations of mass , systemic forced sterilization .
The camps , in particular , have been sharply criticized over allegations that they are fronts for forced labor and political indoctrination .
Sen. Josh Hawley , a Republican from Missouri , announced Monday that he is introducing legislation that mandates corporations audit their supply chains to ensure they are free of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the camps , saying at least 80 international firms “ have been tied to forced Uighur labor in China.
” Those include Nike , Adidas , Puma , Lenovo and Samsung , he said .
“ If corporate America wants to be the face of social change today , they should have to certify they are completely slave-free , ” said Hawley .
“ If they refuse to do so , they should pay the price .
That ’ s social responsibility.
” The Xinjiang region is home to around 10 million Uighurs @ @ @ @ @ @ @ makes up around 45 % of Xinjiang ’ s population , has long accused China ’ s authorities of cultural , religious and economic discrimination .
Up to 1 million people , or about 7 % of the Muslim population in Xinjiang , have been incarcerated in an expanding network of “ political re-education ” camps , according to U.S. officials and United Nations experts .
( source ) Now it is terrible this is happening .
However , note that the person first referenced in the article is US Senator Marsha Blackburn @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 2019 , when as a part of her campaign against Phil Bredesen and during the time of the “ migrant caravan ” heading towards the US , she said that Phil Bredesen was wrong to say it was not a threat because the people coming were “ invaders ” , and that it might also include “ gang members ” , “ drug dealers ” , and most ironically , “ people from the Middle East- possibly even terrorists ” .
Now it is true that Marsha Blackburn does not say “ Muslims @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the American right on Islam , the US military presence in the Middle East , the talk of Islamic terrorism , and how so many people are indeed Moslems , what else could she be referring to ?
It certainly is not a fear of Israelis- and that is understood -because those “ people from the Middle East , possibly even terrorists ” are Moslems .
I am not saying that Islamic terrorism is not real , or that it should be denied .
Rather , it needs to be discussed , exposed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
What I am pointing out is how Marsha Blackburn will , saying-without-saying-it , say that ‘ Muslims are bad ’ , but then when China is persecuting Muslims and the US is going against China for geopolitical reasons , suddenly Marsha Blackburn makes herself a practical defender of persecuted Muslims .
Shoebat.com does not oppose the abuse of Uyghurs because they are Moslems , but because they are human beings , and if one loves his neighbor- even those who persecute us -one seeks the objective good will of another , and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ on the circumstances , part of seeking one ’ s good will is to stand against the willful murder of the innocent , such as many of these people who are being persecuted by the Chinese government are suffering and dying in horrible ways .
Indeed , standing against the abuse of the Uyghurs is the same reason why the Catholic Church will also criticize Judaism but then helped Jews to escape the abuse from the German Reich , because while she can not except moral evils , she also must seek the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is not about being “ for ” or “ against ” any group , but rather following the teachings of Christ as given to His apostles and regardless if it is politically popular or unpopular .
But Marsha Blackburn ?
This is an example of American political manipulation at its finest , to speak against one group at one time and then to immediately change when it is politically expedient on the basis of no principle other than the expansion of power and the realization of one ’ s goals over another at @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that all should remember , especially Christians when a politician says something nice to them .
Talk is cheap , and given the history of American politics , including many “ Christians ” , none should be trusted in what they say but only by what they do , lest one again support a monster that presents himself as a savior who people genuinely believe will help them .
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Shoebat.com has never supported Islam, but at the same time, we do not support genocide or the abuse of people, regardless of their ethnicity or religion, since it is the imperative of being a Christian to desire the good-will and salvation of all men. As a part of this, we have noted that the Uyghur (Uigur) Moslems of China have been gravely abused by the Chinese government just as many Christians have been mistreated. Now there are horrible reports and video of Chinese soldiers forcing Uyghurs, chained, blindfolded, and with their heads shaved, into train cars just like what happened in Europe during the Second World War.
S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn has warned that China’s efforts to clamp down on its Uighur population is a grim “preview” of its intent worldwide as a fellow lawmaker announced legislation Monday specifically calling out Beijing for forced labor. “The Chinese Government is putting blind folded Uyghurs with shaven heads onto trains going to detention camps. All because Uyghurs are Muslim. This is eerily familiar,” she said on Twitter, using an alternative spelling for Uighur. “The Chinese surveillance state being used to send Muslim Uyghurs to concentration camps is a preview of the electronic tyranny they one day seek to impose on the entire world,” the Republican from Tennessee added. Her comments came after video surfaced of prisoners shackled in chains being forced onto trains in the autonomous Xinjiang region in northwestern China, home to the Uighur minority, in what looked like a prisoner transfer. The detainees had their heads completely shaven and were sitting in rows wearing blue-and-yellow uniforms before being taken away by police. Human rights groups and Western governments have been vocal in condemning China’s widespread abuses against the Uighurs. The condemnations have focused on what China calls re-education camps, as well as allegations of mass, systemic forced sterilization. The camps, in particular, have been sharply criticized over allegations that they are fronts for forced labor and political indoctrination. Sen. Josh Hawley, a Republican from Missouri, announced Monday that he is introducing legislation that mandates corporations audit their supply chains to ensure they are free of slave labor. He pointed specifically to the camps, saying at least 80 international firms “have been tied to forced Uighur labor in China.” Those include Nike, Adidas, Puma, Lenovo and Samsung, he said. “If corporate America wants to be the face of social change today, they should have to certify they are completely slave-free,” said Hawley. “If they refuse to do so, they should pay the price. That’s social responsibility.” The Xinjiang region is home to around 10 million Uighurs. The Turkic Muslim group, which makes up around 45% of Xinjiang’s population, has long accused China’s authorities of cultural, religious and economic discrimination. Up to 1 million people, or about 7% of the Muslim population in Xinjiang, have been incarcerated in an expanding network of “political re-education” camps, according to U.S. officials and United Nations experts. (source)
Now it is terrible this is happening. However, note that the person first referenced in the article is US Senator Marsha Blackburn.
Shoebat.com profiled her before in March 2019, when as a part of her campaign against Phil Bredesen and during the time of the “migrant caravan” heading towards the US, she said that Phil Bredesen was wrong to say it was not a threat because the people coming were “invaders”, and that it might also include “gang members”, “drug dealers”, and most ironically, “people from the Middle East- possibly even terrorists”.
Now it is true that Marsha Blackburn does not say “Muslims”, but given the focus among the American right on Islam, the US military presence in the Middle East, the talk of Islamic terrorism, and how so many people are indeed Moslems, what else could she be referring to? It certainly is not a fear of Israelis- and that is understood -because those “people from the Middle East, possibly even terrorists” are Moslems.
I am not saying that Islamic terrorism is not real, or that it should be denied. Rather, it needs to be discussed, exposed, and we have done so repeatedly. What I am pointing out is how Marsha Blackburn will, saying-without-saying-it, say that ‘Muslims are bad’, but then when China is persecuting Muslims and the US is going against China for geopolitical reasons, suddenly Marsha Blackburn makes herself a practical defender of persecuted Muslims.
Shoebat.com does not oppose the abuse of Uyghurs because they are Moslems, but because they are human beings, and if one loves his neighbor- even those who persecute us -one seeks the objective good will of another, and while that takes many different shapes based on the circumstances, part of seeking one’s good will is to stand against the willful murder of the innocent, such as many of these people who are being persecuted by the Chinese government are suffering and dying in horrible ways. Indeed, standing against the abuse of the Uyghurs is the same reason why the Catholic Church will also criticize Judaism but then helped Jews to escape the abuse from the German Reich, because while she cannot except moral evils, she also must seek the good will of all people. It is not about being “for” or “against” any group, but rather following the teachings of Christ as given to His apostles and regardless if it is politically popular or unpopular.
But Marsha Blackburn? This is an example of American political manipulation at its finest, to speak against one group at one time and then to immediately change when it is politically expedient on the basis of no principle other than the expansion of power and the realization of one’s goals over another at all costs.
This is a lesson that all should remember, especially Christians when a politician says something nice to them. Talk is cheap, and given the history of American politics, including many “Christians”, none should be trusted in what they say but only by what they do, lest one again support a monster that presents himself as a savior who people genuinely believe will help them.
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shoebat--2020-07-20--National Institute Of Health Reports That Melatonin Can Help With COVID-19

Part of the ongoing coverage of COVID-19 is not just to sort through the morass of articles arguing needlessly over whether the disease is a threat or not , but instead to actually deal with the nature of the disease and how it can be treated or prevented .
This is the realm of scientists and people who are better trained in such research , but it does not stop the common man from going through the reports that have been released and using the available information to help oneself , for indeed , listening to sound medical reports based @ @ @ @ @ @ @ proven ( or disproven ) independently is better than the opinion of another about what one thinks what one should or should not do .
To this , I was going through the National Institute of Health website , and while the report dates from May-June 2020 , it is wort reprinting , in that new research indicates that melatonin , an easily available over-the-counter medication , can greatly help with the virus .
…the use of supplemental melatonin as a treatment to overcome a COVID-19 infection is justified .
Exogenously administered melatonin @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and mTOR thereby disinhibiting PDC activity and allowing acetyl-coenzyme A synthesis which also ensures locally-produced melatonin production [ 13 ] .
The functionally re-instated mitochondria-generated melatonin in combination with the parenteral melatonin provides a formidable weapon to reduce the cytokine storm as well as its damaging consequences thereby relieving the signs of a COVID-19 infection .
The anti-inflammatory and antioxidant actions of melatonin in protecting the lungs from damage in many experimental models that involve inflammation or oxidative stress ( or both ) is well documented [ 14 ] .
Moreover , melatonin @ @ @ @ @ @ @ COVID-19 [ 15,16 ] .
The collective data , in addition to its very high safety profile , indicate that melatonin would be effective as a treatment for COVID-19 and support the recommendation of the published reports that encourage its use for this purpose [ [ 3 ] , [ 4 ] , [ 5 ] , [ 6 ] , [ 7 ] ] .
Melatonin is inexpensive , non-toxic over a very wide dose range , has a long shelf-life and can be self-administered which is a major advantage when large @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , the use of melatonin to mitigate the COVID-19 pandemic would be feasible and a socially-responsible measure to attempt .
( source ) So in conjunction with the other main point we have mentioned- that sunlight exposure seems to be linked to lowering levels of COVID-19 transmission -one might want to try to get some melatonin to have on hand , for hopefully one will not need it because of COVID-19 , but since life is an unpredicatable thing , with the unexpected as the only expected rule , it is always better @ @ @ @ @ @ @ empty handed .
I do not intend to say this “ will cure it ” , but rather , that there seems to be scientific evidence it helps , and that given the current pandemic conditions , it would be foolish not to at least be aware of and potentially prepared with some , remembering that sometimes simple things have the biggest impact .
Donate now to help support the work of this site .
When you donate , you are not donating to just any commentary group , but one that is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the lines and separating hysteria and perception from reality .
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Part of the ongoing coverage of COVID-19 is not just to sort through the morass of articles arguing needlessly over whether the disease is a threat or not, but instead to actually deal with the nature of the disease and how it can be treated or prevented. This is the realm of scientists and people who are better trained in such research, but it does not stop the common man from going through the reports that have been released and using the available information to help oneself, for indeed, listening to sound medical reports based on evidence that can be traced and proven (or disproven) independently is better than the opinion of another about what one thinks what one should or should not do. To this, I was going through the National Institute of Health website, and while the report dates from May-June 2020, it is wort reprinting, in that new research indicates that melatonin, an easily available over-the-counter medication, can greatly help with the virus.
…the use of supplemental melatonin as a treatment to overcome a COVID-19 infection is justified. Exogenously administered melatonin reverses aerobic glycolysis by repressing both HIF-1α and mTOR thereby disinhibiting PDC activity and allowing acetyl-coenzyme A synthesis which also ensures locally-produced melatonin production [13]. The functionally re-instated mitochondria-generated melatonin in combination with the parenteral melatonin provides a formidable weapon to reduce the cytokine storm as well as its damaging consequences thereby relieving the signs of a COVID-19 infection. The anti-inflammatory and antioxidant actions of melatonin in protecting the lungs from damage in many experimental models that involve inflammation or oxidative stress (or both) is well documented [14]. Moreover, melatonin has anti-viral actions against viruses other than COVID-19 [15,16]. The collective data, in addition to its very high safety profile, indicate that melatonin would be effective as a treatment for COVID-19 and support the recommendation of the published reports that encourage its use for this purpose [[3], [4], [5], [6], [7]]. Melatonin is inexpensive, non-toxic over a very wide dose range, has a long shelf-life and can be self-administered which is a major advantage when large numbers of individuals are involved. Thus, the use of melatonin to mitigate the COVID-19 pandemic would be feasible and a socially-responsible measure to attempt. (source)
So in conjunction with the other main point we have mentioned- that sunlight exposure seems to be linked to lowering levels of COVID-19 transmission -one might want to try to get some melatonin to have on hand, for hopefully one will not need it because of COVID-19, but since life is an unpredicatable thing, with the unexpected as the only expected rule, it is always better to be prepared instead of getting caught empty handed. I do not intend to say this “will cure it”, but rather, that there seems to be scientific evidence it helps, and that given the current pandemic conditions, it would be foolish not to at least be aware of and potentially prepared with some, remembering that sometimes simple things have the biggest impact.
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shoebat--2020-07-20--Bahamas Close Due To COVID-19 Spread

Bahamas Close Due To COVID-19 Spread

The Bahamas are considered by many to be a Caribbean tropical paradise , but COVID-19 has also found her way there and is affecting people the same as it is in other countries .
As the number of cases of infected continues to increase , the country has declared a ban on most international flights , saying that the traveling to and from the islands have been linked to the spread of the disease as NBC News reports .
The prime minister of the Bahamas announced a series of coronavirus-related restrictions Sunday , including a ban on most international flights @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Caribbean nation surges .
“ Our current situation demands decisive action if we are to avoid being overrun and defeated by this virus , ” Prime Minister Hubert Minnis said in a national address .
“ We can not allow our hospitals to be overrun.
” Minnis said the number of cases had almost tripled since the Bahamas began reopening its borders July 1 .
The total number of cases had risen to 153 , he said , with most of the new cases appearing on one of the country ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the new cases were traced to residents returning to the Bahamas , he said .
( source )

The Bahamas are considered by many to be a Caribbean tropical paradise, but COVID-19 has also found her way there and is affecting people the same as it is in other countries. As the number of cases of infected continues to increase, the country has declared a ban on most international flights, saying that the traveling to and from the islands have been linked to the spread of the disease as NBC News reports.
The prime minister of the Bahamas announced a series of coronavirus-related restrictions Sunday, including a ban on most international flights, as the number of cases in the Caribbean nation surges.
“Our current situation demands decisive action if we are to avoid being overrun and defeated by this virus,” Prime Minister Hubert Minnis said in a national address. “We cannot allow our hospitals to be overrun.”
Minnis said the number of cases had almost tripled since the Bahamas began reopening its borders July 1. The total number of cases had risen to 153, he said, with most of the new cases appearing on one of the country’s largest islands, Grand Bahama.
Many of the new cases were traced to residents returning to the Bahamas, he said. (source)


shoebat--2020-07-21--The 1990s, Nerd Activities, Larping And The Rise Of Nazism And Socialism

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shoebat--2020-07-21--The Future Armenian Genocide

The Future Armenian Genocide

My thoughts on the prospect of a future Armenian Genocide :