One Child Nation

No matter how cynical you get, it's impossible to keep up.--Lily Tomlin


Pretty quiet weekend.

Well, here's a terrible view from Kunstler: "In a nation afflicted by fads, crazes, manias, and rages, mass murder is the jackpot for nihilists - begging the question: why does this country produce so many of them? Answer: this is exactly what you get in a culture where anything goes and nothing matters. Extract all the meaning and purpose from being here on earth, and erase as many boundaries as you can from custom and behavior, and watch what happens, especially among young men trained on video slaughter games." He also said these two things: "I sense another change in the air: the retreat of Wokesterism to the intellectual carnival tent it crawled out of." And, "Odious as he (Trump) is to many, history will record one salutary effect of his term in office: the RussiaGate ploy alerted Americans that there truly is a Deep State with its own self-winding agenda."

There has been a spike in interest in Irish passports since the U.K. voted to exit the European Union three years ago. In 2015, there were approximately 46,000 applications from the U.K. There were more than twice as many (98,500) Irish passports applications from U.K. residents in 2018, two years after the country voted to exit the European Union. Holders of an Irish passport would have the freedom to work anywhere within the EU and have the right to “visa-free or visa-on-arrival” travel to 172 countries around the world.

Shrumpter wrote, “the economic life of a non-socialist society consists of millions of relations or flows between individual firms and households. We can establish certain theorems about them, but we can never observe all of them.” To this Hayek added,  "most of the phenomena in which we [as economists] are interested, such as competition, could not occur at all unless the number of distinct elements involved were fairly large, and that the overall pattern that will form itself is determined by the significantly different behaviour of the different individuals so that the obstacle of obtaining the relevant data cannot be overcome by treating them as members of a statistical collective.

For this reason economic theory is confined to describing kinds of patterns which will appear if certain general conditions are satisfied, but can rarely if ever derive from this knowledge any predictions of specific phenomena."

American colleges and universities are underwriting "girls only" college and pre-college programs in clear violation of Title IX. Perry asks, "Aside from the fact that it’s clearly illegal, under what moral code, and under what set of ethical principles of fairness, social justice, and equity, has it become so acceptable to promote, fund and sanction so much gender favoritism, gender bias, gender preferences, gender prejudice, gender apartheid and gender discrimination in higher education, most notably in the area of STEM-based programs? Especially when according to the most recent data available  from the National Science Foundation, women actually earned slightly more bachelor’s degrees in “Science and Engineering” (3,111,529) between 2006 and 2016 than men (3,091,614)."

According to WorldAtlas, the murder capital of the globe is Honduras — where there are 90.4 homicides per 100,000 people. Baltimore, with 56 homicides per 100,000 people, edges out the number two spot ahead of Venezuela, where there are 53.7 homicides per 100,000 people.

Pesticides are used to preserve foods but are also used for aesthetics. We consumers place an incredible burden on farmers as to how a product looks; so in many cases farmers will treat crops solely to preserve their appearance.


Coolest January-August in U.S.:

On the morning of September 1, 2004 a group of Chechan terrorists surrounded students, teachers and parents on the playground of School No. 1 in Beslan as they held a celebration in honor of the first day of the school year.  Over 300 people died, many of them children, while hundreds more were injured. Hard bitten, experienced men shooting terrified children.

                   One Child Nation

One Child Nation was the winner of the Grand Jury Prize at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, and premiering in select theaters on August 9 courtesy of Amazon, directors Nanfu Wang and Jialing Zhang’s heartrending documentary examines their native China’s one-child policy.

From 1979 to 2015, China’s policy placed strict guidelines on reproduction in order to curb population growth, which Wang’s mother proclaims (parroting the Communist Party line) might otherwise have led to famine and potential cannibalism. Urban citizens were limited to a single child, while rural inhabitants were, in the mid-1980s, granted the opportunity to have a second

The law outlined strict punishment for non-compliance: the destruction of homes, forfeiture of property and valuables, and steep fines. Those who suffered those penalties, however, got off easy, since local Family Planning Officials—empowered by the Nationalist Party—also had the authority to abduct women, tie them up, and force them to undergo sterilizations and abortions as late as 8-9 months into their pregnancies.

In the early 1990s, the country began allowing foreigners to adopt “orphans,” thereby creating a booming market for Chinese girls. What Wang and Zhang reveal is that overseas adoption quickly became a despicable trafficking racket in which Family Planning officials tore second children away from their homes and gave them to orphanages (for a fee), which then sold them to American and European families who ostensibly had no clue that they were perpetuating a kidnapping-for-profit paradigm.


This, above, is from a review in The Daily Beast which opened with this astonishing line: "One Child Nation is a stark reminder that America isn’t the only country where a woman’s right to control her body has been under siege." Think about that a second.
These people are comparing the organized Chinese homicidal and child selling social program with the United States!