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There was a previous child abuse (2025) conviction involving 2 of his children. Perhaps the maternal grandparents had had enough.

 (So that was the rest of the story.)

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 They KNEW This About Vitamin D (And Ignored It)

The Obamacare fraud crackdown is now reaching more than 1 million accounts

80 are foreign workers on H-1B or J-1 visas. Only 2 are Americans.

First they said Photo ID laws disenfranchise minority voters. Now they’re saying citizenship verification disenfranchises *checks notes* non-citizens from voting? The truth finally comes out.

Wage-Cuts Hit Hospital Workers In China As Financial Pressures Mount

Medical workers report lower pay and unpaid wages, while some hospitals struggle to stay financially afloat.

 (In China if you are not paid by your employer, you cannot quit and collect unemployment.)

 https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/wage-cuts-hit-hospital-workers-china-financial-pressures-mount

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This Is Dark…

“Do You Wanna Make That Trade-Off?” Hawley Challenges Privacy Argument

“Do You Wanna Make That Trade-Off?” Hawley Challenges Privacy Argument “Do you wanna make that trade-off?” Josh Hawley challenges a statement he attributes to Flock’s CEO about giving up traditional privacy in the internet age, following a witness’s account of facing life in prison after an alleged AI misidentification.

 Blur is wet. Brown is drought

The Worst El Nino of the 19th Century: 1877–1878

The strongest and deadliest El Niño of the 19th century — and arguably in all recorded history — peaked in 1877–78. Sea-surface warming in the eastern Pacific reached a Niño-3 anomaly of about 3.5°C, stronger than the famous 1982/83, 1997/98 and 2015/16 events, and it was amplified by the most extreme Indian Ocean Dipole ever measured, which compounded droughts over Australia and southern Africa

 Historians (notably Mike Davis in Late Victorian Holocausts) call the resulting catastrophe the "Great Famine" of 1876–78

What it did to people.

The event didn't hit one region — it knocked out monsoons and rains on three continents almost simultaneously

  Northern China The "Dingwu Qihuang" famine (1876–79): years of failed rain, dried-up rivers, then locust plagues and epidemics ~9.5–13 million  deaths

 British India Monsoon failure in the Deccan, Madras and Bombay Presidencies; the Great Southern India Famine and North-Western Provinces famine ~5–6.1 million  deaths

 Northeast Brazil The sertão turned to dust; mass migration of starving retirantes to coastal cities like Fortaleza and Recife ~500,000 deaths

  Korea, Finland, Mexico, Ethiopia/Somalia, southern Africa Crop failures, "Jagare" famine in Zimbabwe, typhoid and cholera wavesTens/hundreds of thousands each

Aggregate estimates run from roughly 30 million up to more than 50 million dead — around 3–4% of the entire world population at the time, since records were incomplete and disease deaths were rarely tallied separately 

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Why it was so letha Failure of the monsoon → grain prices exploded. Wages stayed flat while rice and millet costs tripled or quadrupled, so laboring families simply could not buy food even when grain was being exported.

Colonial policy amplified it. In India, British authorities continued exporting grain and clung to laissez-faire relief doctrine; Davis argues that without severe colonial exploitation the toll would have been far lower 5

 China was already shattered. The famine arrived in the aftermath of the Opium Wars and the Taiping Rebellion, with degraded infrastructure and no capacity for large-scale relief 5

 Disease finished what hunger started. Cholera, typhoid, smallpox and dysentery swept through weakened, displaced populations; in China, cannibalism and infanticide were documented in provincial reports.

Ecological feedback: drought stripped vegetation, so swarms of locusts devastated whatever survived, and flooding followed the dry spells in some areas, spreading waterborne illness.

 How does the current El Nino compare to that one in terms of ocean temperatures in the Pacific?

  Short answer:  the 2026 event is already in the same league — and may exceed it

  On raw Pacific warmth, today's event has effectively caught up. The 1877–78 event's reconstructed peak was about +3.5 °C in the Niño-3 region — stronger than 1982/83, 1997/98 and 2015/16 

 . Current weekly readings in Niño-3.4 are sitting right around +2.9 to +3.0 °C, and NOAA reported eastern-equatorial anomalies above +3.0 °C in its September 10 update 

. So we're within roughly half a degree of the 19th-century benchmark while the event is still strengthening, whereas 1877 was measured at its maximum.

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