Ebola

Nah, he's not white enough. As Louis Farrakhan points out:White people genetically engineered Ebola to be able to specifically target the black race in particular.

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Means and methods of depopulation

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What is the method that they are going to use to depopulate?

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Another method is disease infection through bio-weapons such as Ebola and AIDS, which are race targeting weapons. There is a weapon that can be put in a room where there are Black and White people, and it will kill only the Black and spare the White, because it is a genotype weapon that is designed for your genes, for your race, for your kind.

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On a lighter note, here's my take on the Ebola scare: But Percy does raise and interesting question in the OP, and I haven't begun to investigate it yet.

Its called hunger. When it gets really bad, people get irrational. They are not to blame.

This is pretty fucking disgusting, Jon.Have you ever been so hungry that you considered eating some dead animal off of the ground?Since you haven't, how can you blame someone's culture for being in such a predicament?Some cultures literally find themselves in a lifeless wasteland. People will do whatever they can to survive. There's no blame to be had for trying to save your life by finding anything to eat.What's next? Scurvy - failures of the sailing culture!

There's no reason to lie about me.What is disgusting is your nonchalant dismissal of staving people trying to keep themselves alive by eating whatever they can find as being a bunch of dumbasses eating meat that they know is tainted.You characterization is what is disgusting. And there is no realness to it. They live in a region of the globe where you can't produce enough food to feed all the people that live there.They literally do not have enough food to eat.But fuck 'em, right? They're just stupid for eating whatever they can find rather than starving to death. Stupid africans... can't they get anything right?Amirite guys! Yeah!

Nope, that was exactly the correct amount of reaction.But I suppose I can't expect you to stand by your vile attitude and face the reactions it deserves.Now run away and pretend like this didn't happen.

I see you've added to your two-word reply by edit, I'll just reply with another post rather than add to my other one. How much of a problem is it? And how many people has it kept from starving to death? What, in Africa?I don't oppose or support anything at all. I have exactly zero impact on African countries' legislation.And as it pertains to Ebola?I don't think bushmeat should even be on the radar. It certainly shouldn't be the focus of any legislation.What would the legislation actually do? And how could the legislation be enforced?If there's some starving guy in Africa that is about to die and he finds a dead animal, are you really going to be the one to tell him that he has to starve to death instead of eating that meat because that's what the law says?Do you think he's going to give even the slightest fuck what the law says?Or do you think a starving person would opt for the immediate saving of his own life at the expense of some rich american on the other side of the globe who has concerns about a virus?

You showed the effect of banning the importing of particular species of animals.That doesn't have anything to do with locals hunting native species. Regulation is always possible, but its pointless if it doesn't do anything. As one of your links says:

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In spite of the current ban in the hunting of all species of animals due to their reproduction period, traders in bush meat do not seem bothered by the fact that they are into a forbidden trade.

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Now that doesn't mean you shouldn't try, but as you've seen:

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Tens of millions of Africans rely on bushmeat and wild fish for up to 80 percent of their protein, and recent calls to end the trade in the food because of links to Ebola virus outbreaks could never be enforced, said Robert Nasi, Deputy Director General of the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR).

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He said that people living in Africa’s Congo Basin annually eat about 5 million tons of bushmeat from caterpillars to elephants.

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That’s about the equivalent of the cattle production of Brazil or the European Union. Bushmeat is the cheapest protein available beside caterpillars.

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Nasi who has been studying the bushmeat trade for 10 years said producing the same amount of meat by cattle ranching would require converting up to 25 million hectares of forest into farmland roughly the size of Great Britain. Bushmeat hunting is largely illegal in many countries in Africa, but weak law enforcement undermines any efforts to actually stop the trade. In Cameroon alone, there are believed to be 460,000 hunters.

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Banning bushmeat isn't going to stop bushmeat, too many people depend on it for protein for survival.Too, the alternative to using bushmeat for many of these people is starving to death and I don't think we can reasonable expect them to take the offer, nor should we. "Can be done away with...", that's so naively gullible its cute. Banning things doesn't do away with them. If anything, it pushes it into the shadows. I'm afraid that countries who are too poor to even feed their people will have a much bigger problem with incurring the additional costs of regulating, implementing, and also enforcing a proper sanitation protocol.Again, this may seem like a valiant effort from your vantage point as a rich american who is concerned about a virus, but if you look at it from the perspective of a starving african who is desperately looking for protein, then I think you can realize that they aren't going to give the slightest fuck about your concerns. What, like how shark fin soup is no longer a thing? Or how we've totally eliminated Japanese whaling? I mean, those people aren't even starving and we can't stop them.What makes you think it would be "stopped in its tracks"? Well I think its a waste of time so I'll leave it to you. Personally, I think the best approach is to just wait.The virus will mutate and go the likes of SARS, swine flu and bird flu.They're big deals when they're a hot button in the news, but after some time when the frenzy dies down and the disease changes then it just won't be that big of a deal anymore.

Not "animals like prairie dogs", but the prairie dog explicitly. That was the one non-African animal on the list (it didn't stand out as non-African during my first read). And they were only mentioned because they were the vector for transmission to Americans, not the source of the disease.And the "ban" is actually:

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You must not capture, offer to capture, transport, offer to transport, sell, barter, or exchange, offer to sell, barter, or exchange, distribute, offer to distribute, or release into the environment, any of the following animals, whether dead or alive:

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If you had a prairie dog as a pet, you could keep it. That's hardly a ban on the animal, itself.But regardless, this is still nothing like local people hunting native species for protein to eat.Preventing Americans from trading prairie dogs is nothing like stopping Africans from eating bushmeat.