Report: U.S. Will Have Half a Million Fewer Births Next Year Due to Pandemic

The United States is expected to have up to 500,000 fewer births next year due to the Chinese coronavirus crisis and the economic recession that has ensued.

Research from the Brookings Insititute, published by Bloomberg Businessweek, finds that predictions that the nation’s stay-at-home orders from the crisis would spur a baby boom have failed miserably.

Instead, the U.S. is expecting significantly fewer births:

The Guttmacher Institute surveyed about 2,000 American women in late April and early May and found that 34% wanted to delay pregnancy or have fewer children as a result of the pandemic. That outweighed the 17% who said they wanted children sooner or more of them. [Emphasis added]

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In June the Brookings Institution released a study predicting the U.S. is headed for “a large, lasting baby bust.” Its researchers forecast there will be 300,000 to 500,000 fewer children born in the U.S. in 2021 than there would have been absent the crisis, which amounts to a decrease of roughly 10% from 2019. That means the number of babies never born is likely to greatly exceed the number of Americans who’ve died from coronavirus, which is approaching 150,000. The effect on population will be longer-lasting as well: Many of the babies who aren’t being born would have lived into the 22nd century. [Emphasis added]

Following the Great Recession from 2007 to 2009, demographers predicted that there would be a baby boom as had happened in the second half of the 20th Century following economic declines. But, the baby boom never came.

“Had prerecessionary fertility patterns been sustained through 2019, there would have been 6.6 million more births, and nearly 3 million more women would have had their first child over the last 11 years,” University of New Hampshire demographer Kenneth Johnson told Bloomberg Businessweek.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/07/30/report-u-s-will-have-half-a-million-fewer-births-next-year-due-to-pandemic/

Google, Facebook Must Pay News Media To Publish Content Under Australia's New Conduct Code

Social media giants Google and Facebook will be required in Australia to pay traditional news outlets to publish their content, according to a new code of conduct drafted by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC). The ACCC had been asked by the federal government to issue guidelines on commercial dealings between tech companies and media outlets.

Australian Treasurer Josh Frydenberg believes this new code of conduct would "create a level playing field" between the two.

"We want Google and Facebook to continue to provide these services to the Australian community, which are so much loved and used by Australians," Frydenberg said. “But we want it to be on our terms. We want it to be in accordance with our law and we want it to be fair.”

The ACCC will determine which news outlets are eligible to receive payments. Communications Minister Paul Fletcher said there would be “tough penalties” for social media outlets that don’t comply with the code.

"There are a range of different penalties, one of those possibilities is 10 per cent of the company's entire Australian turnover,” Fletcher said. "These are very high penalties … they're tough penalties."

In the U.S., big tech companies such as Google and Facebook have been accused of killing the news industry. These companies have been accused of profiting from the work of journalists, while taking away the ad revenue that keeps traditional news outlets afloat.

“They’re basically a country, they’re that powerful. Not only do they have the power to tip elections and control what kind of news they’re putting at the top of their feeds, but they’re also killing journalists, financially,” Laura Bassett, a freelance journalist formerly with the Huffington Post told the Senate Judiciary Committee in 2019. “So, it’s just creating a real problem when one or two companies has the power to cripple the free press as we know it.”

In May, Vice Media CEO Nancy Dubuc slammed big tech as a “great threat to journalism” in a memo announcing the layoffs of 155 employees.

“We grew our digital business faster than anyone at a time when we believed that as more pies were baked, we’d keep getting a slice,” she wrote. “But we aren’t seeing the return from the platforms benefiting and making money from our hard work. Now, after many years of this, the squeeze is becoming a chokehold. Platforms are not just taking a larger slice of the pie, but almost the whole pie… 36,000+ lost jobs in journalism is enough to take your breath away.”

https://www.ibtimes.com/google-facebook-must-pay-news-media-publish-content-under-australias-new-conduct-code-3019925

Ellen Show crew claim that she turned a blind eye to sexual harassment and bullying by top producers as she apologizes to staff amid probe into 'toxic culture' and hints she will fire people

Former staffers have accused Ellen DeGeneres of 'turning a blind eye' to rampant sexual misconduct by senior-level producers on her hit daytime TV talk show

Kevin Leman, the head writer and executive producer, is alleged to have solicited one ex-employee for oral sex and groped several others

Ed Glavin, an executive producer, was known for 'being handsy with women' by rubbing their shoulders and touching them on their lower waist, it is alleged

Glavin is about to be fired as a result of an internal investigation into complaints of a toxic work environment at the show, according to The Hollywood Reporter

Co-executive producer Jonathan Norrman allegedly 'groomed' an employee by showering him with gifts and then attempted to perform oral sex on him

DeGeneres herself penned an apology to her employees, saying that she 'takes responsibility' for complaints about a hostile work environment

Warner Bros., the studio that runs the show, has declined to comment on the allegations, citing an ongoing internal investigation

Former staffers who once worked on The Ellen DeGeneres Show believe the high-powered host knew of rampant sexual misconduct against junior-level employees that was alleged to have been committed by senior showrunners and producers.

Three dozen employees have alleged that senior executives who work behind the scenes at the show groped and kissed staffers, solicited one of them for oral sex, and were ‘handsy with women.'

‘For someone who’s so involved in the show and the creative aspect, and having been in those meetings with her, it’s very hard for me to wrap my head around the fact that she doesn’t hear the same whispers,’ one former employee who worked closely with DeGeneres said.

‘Unless she really is just in this bubble.’

Another former employee said: ‘She knows.’

‘She knows s*** goes on, but also she doesn’t want to hear it.’

The bombshell allegations published by BuzzFeed News late on Thursday come hours after it was revealed that DeGeneres, the $50million-a-year queen of daytime television, apologized to staff over allegations the show was a hostile work environment for employees.

A Warner Bros. spokesperson declined to comment on the latest sexual misconduct allegations.

BuzzFeed News reports that it interviewed 36 former employees of The Ellen DeGeneres Show.

One of the ex-staffers told the news site that Kevin Leman, the show’s head writer and executive producer, solicited him for oral sex.

The alleged incident took place at a company party in 2013.

Other former employees allege they saw Leman grope and kiss employees. At least one said they witnessed Leman grab a production assistant’s genitalia.

Another former employee said she witnessed Leman grope a production assistant in a car and kiss his neck.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8578269/Ellen-DeGeneres-APOLOGIZES-toxic-bullying-workplace-producer-set-fired.html

Ghislaine Maxwell Had Sex With Teenage Girls on Epstein’s Island, His Former ‘Sex Slave’ Claimed

The sealed deposition of Epstein’s alleged victim, Virginia Giuffre, has been released as US prosecutors are investigating sex crime-related charges against his long-time confidant, Ghislaine Maxwell.

Virginia Giuffre has accused Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged “madame” Ghislaine Maxwell of coercing underage girls as young as 15 into sex, according to newly-released court filings.

A May 2016 deposition by Giuffre, Epstein’s most prominent accuser, was made public on Thursday night as part of a trove of documents from her civil lawsuit against Maxwell.

Giuffre, who claimed that Maxwell had recruited her to work as a masseuse for Epstein, said in her deposition that the British socialite had sex with underage girls “virtually every day” when she was around her on Epstein’s private island in the Caribbean.

“There were blondes, there were brunettes, there were redheads,” she told a US district court in New York. “They were all beautiful girls. I would say the ages ranged between 15 and 21.”

Epstein’s alleged “sex slave” said she could only guess the age of the girls with whom Maxwell had sex but “some of them looked really young”.

She added: “Some of them, I wouldn’t say looks old or anything like that, but it’s hard to gauge another person's age without really asking them. But some of them looked younger than me and some of them looked older than me.”

Giuffre didn’t believe that any of the girls allegedly sexually abused by Maxwell were “truly willing participants”.

“I believe we were all there for one purpose, and that was to keep Jeffrey and Ghislaine happy and to do our jobs, which was giving them erotic massages and keeping them pleased sexually,” she said, adding that their wealthy masters issued “indirect threats” to make sure the girls complied.

The Giuffre v. Maxwell defamation suit was settled for an undisclosed sum in Giuffre’s favour in 2017. Maxwell’s attorneys have argued against the release of the documents from that suit because they contain “intrusive questions about her sex life” and are “extremely personal, confidential and subject to considerable abuse by the media”.

Maxwell, who was once linked to Epstein romantically, was arrested on 2 July on six counts related to enticement of minors, sex trafficking, and perjury. She has not been charged with sexual abuse.

The 58-year-old media heiress faces up to 35 years in prison if convicted. She has pleaded not guilty and is awaiting trial, which is scheduled for next July, in a federal jail in Brooklyn.

https://sputniknews.com/us/202007311080021351-ghislaine-maxwell-had-sex-with-teenage-girls-on-epsteins-island-his-former-sex-slave-claimed/

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Trump vows to deploy National Guard to quell Portland's ‘beehive of terrorists’ if feds fail to stop unrest by ‘tomorrow’

US President Donald Trump said he would send National Guard troops to quell chaotic protests in Portland, condemning activists there as a “beehive of terrorists,” as federal units deployed to the city prepare to withdraw.

Trump warned of a National Guard deployment during a Thursday press conference, one day after the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) struck a deal with Oregon Governor Kate Brown to phase out federal police stationed in Portland, where they’ve worked with local authorities to defend a federal courthouse and other government property. Though the withdrawal was set to begin on Thursday, the president said National Guard troops would effectively replace the federal agents should the unrest continue.

“Our people are staying there to see whether they can do it today and tomorrow, and if they don’t do it we will send in the National Guard, and we’ll take care of it,” Trump said, labeling the protesters “professional anarchists” and “people who hate our country.”

We’re telling them right now, that we’re coming in very soon, the National Guard… So [federal agencies are] working today and probably tomorrow to clean out this beehive of terrorists.

“These are people that hate our country.”Trump says if local law enforcement in Portland doesn’t disperse “this beehive of terrorists," he will send in the National Guard pic.twitter.com/DHjLiR019T

— Shakthi Vadakkepat (@v_shakthi) July 30, 2020

As part of the federal withdrawal deal, Portland law enforcement cleared out two large protester encampments set up in city parks on Thursday morning, as the spaces are located near federal properties that have been under siege by demonstrators for more than two months, including the courthouse. The protests have frequently become violent, seeing regular clashes between activists and police, with some demonstrators arming themselves with improvised weapons and smallexplosives. Police have also come under fire for heavy-handed tactics, with federal agents accused of wielding excessive force and “kidnapping” protesters off the street, using unmarked vehicles.

https://www.rt.com/usa/496707-trump-national-guard-portland/

Tech hub Obama, Biden and Clinton helped Russia build set off U.S. intelligence alarms

DOD, FBI warned of Skolkovo espionage operation by Russia before 2016 election, according to new book.

The following is an excerpt from the new book "Fallout: Nuclear Bribes, Russian Spies and the Washington Lies that Enriched the Clinton and Biden Dynasties."

Skolkovo was perhaps the Kremlin’s boldest maneuver yet. Envious of America’s technological success, the Russians sought to re-create the West Coast high-tech industrial hub in the suburbs of Moscow. But unlike the bottom-up innovation that defines Silicon Valley, where computer geniuses like Bill Gates and Steve Jobs pinched their pennies and built the first personal computers in their garages, Skolkovo was a top-down state-run project that sought to replicate decades of trial and error seemingly overnight.

It was also a ploy to steal American intellectual property and transfer technological secrets to the Kremlin.

Former federal prosecutor Andrew C. McCarthy described the Skolkovo scam best: “The project was like an espionage operation in broad daylight, openly enhancing Russia’s military and cyber capabilities.”

Indeed, multiple Defense Department (DOD) agencies and the FBI condemned Skolkovo as an espionage front that posed a clear and present danger to U.S. national security.

In 2012, the U.S. Army Foreign Military Studies Program at Fort Leavenworth examined the security implications of Skolkovo and concluded that Skolkovo was an apparent “vehicle for worldwide technology transfer to Russia in the areas of information technology, biomedicine, energy, satellite and space technology, and nuclear technology.”

The Kremlin and the Obama State Department praised the civilian endeavors of Skolkovo and its “clusters”—information, energy, biomedical, and even space technology (among other seemingly innocuous initiatives). The promoters of Skolkovo in Moscow and Washington conveniently neglected to mention the military applications.

According to the Army’s Fort Leavenworth report:

The Skolkovo Foundation has, in fact, been involved in defense-related activities since December 2011…the [Kremlin’s] operation of Skolkovo and investment positions in companies will likely provide [Russia’s] military awareness of and access to [American] technologies.

https://justthenews.com/accountability/russia-and-ukraine-scandals/tech-hub-obama-biden-and-clinton-helped-russia-build-set

Militant Antifa Group Urges Deadly Violence Against Feds

Over the weekend there were multiple shootings at “mostly peaceful” demonstrations across the US.

In Louisville, KY, three members of the Black Nationalist militia group, NFAC, were injured due to a negligent discharge from one of their own members.

In Aurora, CO, a “mostly peaceful” demonstrator who was blocking traffic opened fire on motorists who did not stop and wait to be assaulted by the mob.

In Austin, TX, an armed Black Lives Matter protester was killed after allegedly pointing his gun at a motorist, who then shot the protester in self defense.

These tragic shootings follow an ongoing campaign of agitation, targeted political violence, and organized insurgency.

And while DNC leaders like Congressman Nadler claim this violence is “just a myth“, it is unquestionably escalating in frequency, intensity, and organization.

The latest example of this escalation comes from the Columbia, SC based far-left militia group, Civil Defense Corps. According to their website, they are actively recruiting “former infantry” and will be using these armed “Reserve Units” to “investigate hate crimes and threats against minorities as well as the LGBTQ+ community”. The group claims to be a 501(c)3 and even has a somewhat formal application process. In addition to general employment information and professional references, there are four questions for the applicant. The first two are “Are you comfortable around firearms?” and “What is your opinion on MAGA?”.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/militant-antifa-group-urges-deadly-violence-against-feds

'The biggest fraud: Part 2 – The vaccine swindle’''

It was originally assumed that only those who had previously been infected by the virus and developed an antibody response had any immunity, hence the initial focus on testing for the presence of these antibodies as well as infection69,70. However, studies of antibodies in formerly infected patients demonstrated accuracy issues71 which subsequently could be explained instead by the antibodies’ rapid decay in recovering patients. 72 The often disappointingly low levels of antibodies in population samples is often used as evidence that herd immunity is not a realistic goal without a vaccine. This is not correct. 73

At the end of May there was a significant breakthrough in understanding of COVID antibodies which was not widely reported: a Swiss study from Zurich led by Professor Onur Boyman74 demonstrated that a large proportion of the population had a natural immunity through existing antibodies on the mucous membrane (IgA) or cellular immunity (T cells), likely to have been acquired through previous exposure to coronaviruses such as influenza or the common cold (the absence of exposure to previous coronavirus is now thought to explain the opposite effect in 191875).

The study found that that the presence of (IgG and IgM) antibodies generated on infection which tests had previously focused on, were NOT in fact required to defeat the virus and that existing (IgA and T cell) antibodies that gave a natural immunity. Moreover, the population with this natural immunity was demonstrated to be five times greater than those with the IgG and IgM antibodies on which tests had hitherto focused. If this could be substantiated, then the population already exposed to COVID would also be five times greater than previously assumed76. In other words, if a population sample showed 10% had IgG and IgM antibodies (which might be subject to decay) then it was likely that at least half of the population had already been exposed to COVID.

It followed that antibody studies that measured only IgG and IgM that were now predicting population-based mortality risk of 0.1% to 0.5%77 (lower than the 1% in the elderly population aboard the Diamond Princess) could be even further reduced by a factor of five to 0.02% to 0.1% and the level of symptomatic exposure from 20% to below 5% (consistent with the flu season ironically predicted by Fauci in March). Not only would this mean a further similar reduction in the estimated true mortality rate 78 but it meant that there were far fewer people in the population who had never had exposure to the virus, so a far lower number who could potentially catch the virus in the future79. In short, the infamous herd immunity was much closer than previously realised.80

This explained why, by July, the virus had all but disappeared in populations like Sweden, New York (Fig. 7) and Wuhan (which reportedly tested its entire population of 11 million and found only 300 cases, all of which were asymptomatic)81 which were significantly affected by a “first wave”: if the ratio of those with IgA and T cell antibodies to IgG and IgM antibodies across population was confirmed at a factor of five then if 20% of the population had traditional IgG and IgM antibodies (such as New York with 21% and London with 17%82) then the virus died out because there was simply no one left for it to infect. It followed that the virus could only survive in population samples where testing showed the presence of IgG and IgM antibodies was below 20% (and allowing for their decay probably well below).

Nobel Prize winning biological scientist Michael Levitt had already come to the same conclusion based on a different approach: he predicted that the virus would “burn out” when it had infected 15-20% of the population though based on a pattern predicted by the “Gompertz curve”83 which indicated that the number of deaths after the peak is roughly double those from before84 resulting in Levitt accurately predicting the number of Chinese85 and Swedish deaths86months in advance 87. Levitt has recently bravely predicted that US COVID will “be done in 4 weeks [25 Aug] with a total reported death below 170,000”88, compared to 149,000 today89.

Boyman’s theory on “IgA and T Cell immunity” explained the accuracy of Levitt’s “Gompertz curve” predictions and this was now being backed up by the empirical evidence which showed that the populations which were hit hardest with high initial rates of infection and mortality, were the ones where the virus had almost disappeared.

https://blog.argonautcapital.co.uk/articles/2020/07/27/the-biggest-fraud-part-2-the-vaccine-swindle/

UK politician's wife dumps him on Twitter minutes after guilty verdict for sexual assault

A woman has dumped her politician husband on Twitter just minutes after he was found guilty of sexual assault.

Former Tory MP Charlie Elphicke has been found guilty of three sex attacks on women, the first of which is alleged to have happened while his wife was away from their home in Belgravia, central London.

The court heard Elphicke invited the victim, aged in her early 30s, to his family townhouse in 2007 where he groped her breasts and chased her around his kitchen, saying: "I'm a naughty Tory."

The second and third attacks happened nine years later when Elphicke is alleged to have assaulted a young parliamentary worker who was aged in her early 20s.

The court heard he shoved his hand own her top, grabbed her breasts and then told her "not to blab".

At first she stood by her husband, arriving hand-in-hand with her husband on the first day of the trial. She told jurors she was supporting her husband as they attempted to repair their marriage.

His former wife, Natalie Elphicke, posted on Twitter: "Today's verdict is one that brings profound sorrow. It ends my 25-year marriage to the only man I have ever loved.

https://honey.nine.com.au/latest/mps-wife-dumps-him-on-twitter-moments-after-he-is-convicted-of-sexual-assault/834b4d37-5678-4e54-8130-ff872cf99995