Childfree people—people who do not have children and do not want to have children in the future—represent and large and growing percentage of the population in wealthy countries. However, less is known about childfree people in developing countries. To facilitate this research, we developed software to identify childfree people in data from the Demographic and Health Surveys. Using this software, we estimated the prevalence of childfree people in 51 developing countries. Among single women ages 15–29, we found substantial cross-national and within-region variation in childfree prevalence, ranging from 0.3% in Liberia to 15.6% in Papua New Guinea. We also estimated the association between being childfree and country-level indicators of human development, gender equality, and political freedom. Results suggest that the prevalence of childfree people in a country is associated with the country’s level of human development, and to a lesser extent their gender equality and political freedom. These results suggest that some developing countries have large populations of childfree people, and thus that being childfree is not a choice restricted to those living in the West or in wealthy countries. As developing countries evolve in terms of their human development, gender equality, and political freedom, it will be important to continue studying their childfree populations, both to understand demographic transitions in this part of the world, and to support its members’ reproductive health and other needs.
Winston Churchill. Blind drunk. March 1940. A US envoy walks in, reports it to Roosevelt, and the embarrassing details are later wiped from the official record. The archives still show what really happened… and it isn’t the Churchill myth you were sold.
The U.S. State Department has cleared a $330 million Foreign Military Sales package of non-standard spare parts and support services for the Republic of China Air Force (RoCAF), specifically for its F-16C/D, C-130 and Indigenous Defence Fighter fleets.
The order should help the Air Force with “maintaining the operational readiness of the… fleet of F-16, C-130” and other planes, the U.S. Department of War announced.
The RoCAF has operated F-16A/B fighters since the late 1990s, when an order for 140 of the aircraft was placed alongside a similar number of indigenous F-CK fighters, and 60 French Mirage 2000 fighters.
The service is set to become the largest foreign operator of the F-16, as both Israel and Turkey retire the aircraft, while 66 modernized F-16C/D Block 70 aircraft are brought into service from the late 2020s.
Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins on Thursday said the Trump administration is planning to have all Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP) beneficiaries reapply for the program due to alleged fraud.
The secretary said after receiving data on SNAP recipients from 29 red states that “186,000 deceased men and women and children in this country are receiving a check.”
“Can you imagine when we get our hands on the blue state data what we’re going to find?” she asked during a Thursday appearance on Newsmax’s “Rob Schmitt Tonight.”
“It’s going to give us a platform and a trajectory to fundamentally rebuild this program, have everyone reapply for their benefit, make sure that everyone that’s taking a taxpayer-funded benefit through SNAP or food stamps, that they literally are vulnerable, and they can’t survive without it,” she added.
Researchers have demonstrated that a compound made in the gut, produced by consuming foods like pomegranate and walnuts, can rejuvenate the immune system in middle age, shielding us from cell damage, inflammation and chronic diseases, including cancer.
Researchers at Germany’s Georg-Speyer-Haus, Institute for Tumor Biology and Experimental Therapy, have spent years investigating the metabolite urolithin A (UA), a natural compound that’s produced by gut bacteria in response to ingested ellagitannins from foods such as pomegranates, almonds, walnuts and some berries.
The new study follows on from a breakthrough in 2022, when the team found that UA induced a biological pathway that rejuvenates the cellular power plants – mitochondria – in T cells, equipping these immune cells with more cancer-fighting might. But it goes far beyond cancer.
“Three years ago, we discovered that urolithin A could powerfully expand a special population of long-lived, anti-tumor T cells in our laboratory models,” said principal investigator Dr Dominic Denk, a physician-scientist at University Medicine Frankfurt. “Our goal was always to translate our findings from the lab into the clinic.”
Immigration and Customs Enforcement has launched an initiative with state and local law enforcement partners to find roughly 450,000 “unaccompanied alien children” who were illegally smuggled into the U.S. during the Biden administration and placed with unvetted sponsors.
The new UAC Safety Verification Initiative is focused on protecting children from sexual abuse and exploitation through a broader collaboration among so-called 287(g) partners.
“The primary focus of this initiative is to conduct welfare checks on these children to ensure that they are safe and not being exploited,” the Department of Homeland Security said.
Florida on Monday became the first state in the nation to implement the initiative.
Under the Biden administration, ORR placed UACs with unvetted sponsors, background checks weren’t performed, UACs were released to alleged gang members, human traffickers, non-family members and sent to non-residential addresses, federal inspector general audits and a Florida grand jury found.
•Merrick Garland’s DOJ had already raided, arrested, and charged more than 650 Trump supporters — the most expansive political dragnet in modern U.S. history.
•They had pressured over 100 defendants into guilty pleas through aggressive stacking of charges, pretrial detention, and threat-driven tactics — and more than two dozen people were already sentenced.
•Democrats were nearly five months into their January 6th Select Committee, having subpoenaed thousands of documents and interviewed or deposed well over a hundred people, building a massive, one-sided investigative machine.
By contrast, the Bondi DOJ has led to no meaningful arrests, no answers, and with statutes of limitations expiring in a matter of weeks- no hope for justice for supporters of President Trump’s whose lives were destroyed.
This was the prediction for her. I doubt Trump wanted this. The Deep State always protects itself. Patel appears to be no better. Together they reveal the limits of political power. The previous admin had a field day with many bogus arrests and convictions, which is equally revealing of the DC power structure. ABN
Anti-government protesters rally in cities and towns nationwide for weekly rallies, with activists calling for a state commission of inquiry into the October 7, 2023, massacre.
Protesters are marching from Begin Gate, outside the Defense Ministry headquarters, for the main rally in Tel Aviv’s Habima Square.
Demonstrators are also rallying in Haifa, at the northern Karkour Junction, and other areas across the country.
Despite polls consistently showing a substantial majority of Israelis want a state commission of inquiry to be established, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his coalition have rejected attempts to establish one. They say a commission should only be set up after the war is concluded, and reject a state commission appointed by the Supreme Court chief, claiming it would be biased against them.
10/7 was almost certainly a LIHOP if not a MIHOP operation to provide cover for obliterating Gaza. It will continue to be known about but no ‘state probe’ will ever admit the truth. At best 10/7 will slowly grow and awaken many as the JFK assassination has. ABN
I was actually not aware that Trump was being exclusively targeted this badly in these new Epstein files.
Okay so my thoughts on this.
I think the TPS [Transnational Private Sector] views Trump as;
unpredictable to their regulatory interests (antitrust, tariffs, tech control) despite operating according to what has been asked of him.
They view him willing to impose disorder on alliances (NATO funding, Ukraine hesitations, trade hostility).
And they see a major trigger for domestic volatility (Jan 6 legacy, institutional distrust, judiciary confrontations).
I don’t think the TPS wants Trump to be destroyed, just weakened enough that policy continuity is preserved in a predictable manner.
Leaking Epstein material obviously chips at the moral legitimacy of Trumps values-driven voter base.
It does not require courts or congress.
It exploits pre-existing distrust within conservative blocs around corruption, elitism, and moral hypocrisy.
This is a standard approach when the TPS prefers reputational attrition over direct confrontation.
Its creating maximum late-cycle damage when Trump cannot rebuild trust while it frames the conversation into “character integrity”, which hits his evangelical + traditionalist segments the hardest.
See I think Trump’s true “fortress” is not policy.
It’s identity.
His base tolerates corruption, aggression, chaos.
What they do not tolerate, is child-abuse associations.
Hence its highly politically radioactive.
Morality fractures this demographic without interrupting the economics.
It makes sense to me.
With these leaks, you shave off 3–5% of hesitant or values-based conservative voters.
You reduce enthusiasm while increasing abstention rates, and shift swing-state margins enough to control the outcome.
Polarization and the lack of debate about whether it might be wise to explore some middle ground between the ‘black’ or ‘white’ options will leave both sides totally divided, each thinking they’re the smart ones. This can only lead to more mandatory vaccination or a revolution against any kind of prophylactic immune intervention and public health altogether. MAHA won’t be able to sort it out politically. As I previously stated, people who haven’t worked in the vaccine industry or public health institutions simply don’t realize the kind of lobby they’re up against. Lawsuits won’t do the job. There needs to be a transition phase to make things work out differently. That phase can -IMHO- only consist of diplomatic scientific debate between David and Goliath. I don’t see anything like this happening right now.
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So far, I see RFK doing something like this. Vanden Bossche has the experience to offer this conclusion. I can see it from his angle and from the angle of what the public can handle psychologically. ABN
Imagine infiltrating someone else’s religion to convince them they must worship you.
Huge sums of money and decades of clandestine skullduggery within Christian circles has led to precisely that outcome.
Jewish Supremists, by definition, hate everyone that is not them. They cannot be appeased or compromised with because they are psychopathic narcissists.
We saw it with the Jewish Supremist Bolsheviks in Russia and Eastern Europe, and we are seeing it again in Gaza today.
JS is also behind the destruction of the West and the Ukraine War, but that is less obvious for many. ABN
I have a tag on this site for ‘supremacy’ but may change it to Jewish Supremacy (JS) since it never comes up with any other group.
Chinese are ethnocentric to the max and want to be Number One in the world, but having known many Chinese I can confidently say they are not supremists; a bit loony about Chineseness sometimes but not supremists.
You can say the same for many other groups, maybe every other group.
White Supremacy today is a mind-control meme promoted by Jews, who invariably accuse others of their own behavior.
It’s a KOBK world at the top, where it pays to be psychopathic and hold absurd beliefs about yourself.
Since Gaza, when all can see the outcome of JS, I believe this is a good time to expose it as much as possible.
Expose it, mock it, analyze it, shit all over it.
It’s a terrible false belief system which has given rise to more evil in the past 125 years than anything else. ABN
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