Nation’s Conservationists Warn There Only 8 Trillion Rats Left
WASHINGTON—Saying their numbers could easily plummet into the hundreds of billions within our lifetime, officials from the World Wildlife Fund issued an urgent warning Thursday stating that as few as 8 trillion brown rats remain in existence. “The world’s beleaguered brown rat population has reached a critical turning point, with only 1,085 of the animals to every human on the planet,” said conservationist Irene Kushner, who noted that human involvement, such as trapping and habitat degradation, meant that a mere 98 percent of wild rats are now able to successfully mate and reproduce. “If action isn’t taken to reverse these threats, then seeing one of these creatures in its natural habitat, skittering along subway tracks or poking its head out of a sewer grate, could become marginally less common. We must act now.” Kushner encouraged everyday citizens to do their part to help the rats’ numbers by producing as much garbage as possible.
US On Road To Third World
Guest Post by Paul Craig Roberts
On January 6, 2004, Senator Charles Schumer and I challenged the erroneous idea that jobs offshoring was free trade in a New York Times op-ed. Our article so astounded economists that within a few days Schumer and I were summoned to a Brookings Institution conference in Washington, DC, to explain our heresy. In the nationally televised conference, I declared that the consequence of jobs offshoring would be that the US would be a Third World country in 20 years.
That was 11 years ago, and the US is on course to descend to Third World status before the remaining nine years of my prediction have expired.
The evidence is everywhere. In September the US Bureau of the Census released its report on US household income by quintile. Every quintile, as well as the top 5%, has experienced a decline in real household income since their peaks. The bottom quintile (lower 20 percent) has had a 17.1% decline in real income from the 1999 peak (from $14,092 to $11,676). The 4th quintile has had a 10.8% fall in real income since 2000 (from $34,863 to $31,087). The middle quintile has had a 6.9% decline in real income since 2000 (from $58,058 to $54,041). The 2nd quintile has had a 2.8% fall in real income since 2007 (from $90,331 to $87,834). The top quintile has had a decline in real income since 2006 of 1.7% (from $197,466 to $194,053). The top 5% has experienced a 4.8% reduction in real income since 2006 (from $349,215 to $332,347). Only the top One Percent or less (mainly the 0.1%) has experienced growth in income and wealth.
The Census Bureau uses official measures of inflation to arrive at real income. These measures are understated. If more accurate measures of inflation are used (such as those available from shadowstats.com), the declines in real household income are larger and have been declining for a longer period. Some measures show real median annual household income below levels of the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Untangling America From The American Empire
Submitted by Charles Hugh-Smith of OfTwoMinds blog,
Those calling for an end of the Empire don’t seem to realize that the federal state’s vast entitlement programs are ultimately funded by the Empire.
The Status Quo would have us believe that America and its Empire are one entity. This is handy for those with Imperial designs but it is false: America could be untangled from its Empire, and many of us believe it is essential that America untangles itself from its Imperial structures and ideologies.
What I call The Imperial Project was cobbled together in the aftermath of World War II, when the Soviet Union and America posed an existential threat to each other’s ideologies and systems. It may be hard to believe, but the U.S. did not have a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) or other espionage/intelligence gathering agency prior to World War II.
America had no spy agency and no Black Operations/Special Forces capabilities. The National Security State as we know it today did not exist.
Though the Deep State has long been an essential feature of the American power structure, the post-war Deep State extended its reach globally in ways that the pre-war Deep State could not.
I have covered the Deep State for many years:
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WHERE ARE ALL THE AMERICANS?
A Russian arrives in New York City as a new immigrant to the United States. It’s 11:00 AM on a Wednesday.
He stops the first person he sees walking down the street and says, “Thank you Mr. American for letting me come into this country, giving me housing, food stamps, free medical care, and a free education!”
The passerby says, “You are mistaken, I am a Mexican and here illegally.”
The man goes on and encounters another passerby. “Thank you for having such a beautiful country here in America.”
The person says, “I not American, I Vietnamese and here on a Green Card that expired two years ago.”
The new arrival walks farther and stops the next person he sees, then shaking his hand, and says, “Thank you for wonderful America!” That person puts up his hand and says, “I am from Middle East. I am not American. It was easy to get here via Arizona.”
He finally sees a nice lady and asks, “Are you an American?”
She says, “No, I am from Africa here on an Education Green Card that expired 10 years ago.”
Puzzled, he asks her, “Where are all the Americans?”
The African lady checks her watch and says: “Probably at work.”
Question of the Day, Oct 30
What was your favorite Halloween costume you ever wore? Feel free to post pictures!
What Happens When Black Man With A Hoodie, Strapped With A Glock, Gets Pulled Over By Police…
Hat tip Starfcker
Arizona author and veteran Steven Hildreth, Jr. was on his way to work. He was driving with a front headlight out, when he was pulled over by the Tucson Police Department.
HT: The Blaze
“Now I’m Afraid Of The Cops.”
“Incompetent Cops Arrest Innocent Deaf Woman, Kidnap, Sedate, and Humiliate Her” ——->
The Madness Of The Millennials
This culture is SICK SICK SICK.
And if these kids are our future, we are DOOMED DOOMED DOOMED!!
Millenial Utes waiting in line at Barney’s on Madison Avenue in New York to buy Kanye West horseshit.
That’s a $636 pair of boots, and a $230 shirt!
That outfit … which I wouldn’t pay $30 for at a Salvation Army store … costs about $2,000.
Burn this motherfucker down!!!
Should We Fight for the Spratlys?
Guest Post by Patrick J. Buchanan
Trailed by two Chinese warships, the guided-missile destroyer USS Lassen sailed inside the 12-nautical-mile limit of Subi Reef, a man-made island China claims as her national territory.
Beijing protested. Says China: Subi Reef and the Spratly Island chain, in a South China Sea that carries half of the world’s seaborne trade, are as much ours as the Aleutians are yours.
Beijing’s claim to the Spratlys is being contested by Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei, the Philippines and Taiwan. While Hanoi and Manila have occupied islets and built structures to back their claims, the Chinese have been more aggressive.
They have occupied rocks and reefs with troops, dredged and expanded them into artificial islands, fortified them, put up radars and are building air strips and harbors.
What the Chinese are about is easy to understand.
Having feasted and grown fat on trade surpluses with the United States, the Chinese are translating their economic strength into military power and a new strategic assertiveness.
They want to dominate East Asia and all the seas around it.
The Constitution’s Big Lie
Guest Post by Antonius Aquinas
One of the greatest hoaxes ever perpetrated upon Americans at the time of its telling and which is still trumpeted to this very day is the notion that the U.S. Constitution contains within its framework mechanisms which limit its power. The “separation of powers,” where power is distributed among the three branches – legislative, executive, judicial – is supposedly the primary check on the federal government’s aggrandizement.
This sacred held tenet of American political history has once again been disproved.
Last Friday (October 23), the Attorney General’s office announced that it was “closing our investigation and will not seek any criminal charges” against former Internal Revenue Service’s director of Exempt Organizations, Lois Lerner, or, for that matter, anyone else from the agency over whether they improperly targeted Tea Party members, populists, or any other groups, which voiced anti-government sentiments or views.
The Department of Justice statement read:
The probe found ‘substantial evidence of mismanagement,
poor judgment and institutional inertia leading to the
belief by many tax-exempt applicants that the IRS targeted
them based on their political viewpoints. But poor
management is not a crime.’ (My emphasis)
Incredibly, it added:
We found no evidence that any IRS official acted based on
political, discriminatory, corrupt, or other inappropriate
motives that would support a criminal prosecution.*
That the DOJ will take no action against one of its rogue departments demonstrates the utter lawlessness and totalitarian nature of the federal government. The DOJ’s refusal to punish documented wrongdoing by the nation’s tax collection agency shows the blatant hypocrisy of Obummer, who promised that his presidency would be one of “transparency.”
TRICK OR…..
QUOTE OF THE DAY
“When a candidate for public office faces the voters he does not face men of sense; he faces a mob of men whose chief distinguishing mark is the fact that they are quite incapable of weighing ideas, or even of comprehending any save the most elemental — men whose whole thinking is done in terms of emotion, and whose dominant emotion is dread of what they cannot understand.
So confronted, the candidate must either bark with the pack or be lost. All the odds are on the man who is, intrinsically, the most devious and mediocre — the man who can most adeptly disperse the notion that his mind is a virtual vacuum.
The Presidency tends, year by year, to go to such men. As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”
H. L. Mencken
Paul Ryan Sucks Diseased Donkey D*ck
New boss same as old boss. Same shit, different day. Your Vote MATTERS …… according to a small legion of TBP morans.
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Rainmaker Paul Ryan Tabs Lobbyist as Chief of Staff
As the classic British rock band The Who once famously sang, “meet the new boss, same as the old boss” and despite nearly the entire fawning establishment media slobbering all over themselves that is precisely what it is going to be with Paul Ryan. Congressman Ryan, who is set to replace the weeping orange juicer John Boehner as Speaker of the House, is adored by conservatives who should by now be used to getting sold a bill of goods – remember that great 2014 mid-term election betrayal?
That Ryan’s biggest cheerleaders have been in the corporate media says a good deal about who he really represents and while this may be tough for many to swallow he doesn’t represent the average American workers who are busting their humps just to survive. This is why the new Speaker has just brought on a top Chamber of Commerce lobbyist as his new chief of staff. While the star-bellied Sneetches at the imperial city gazette aka the Washington Post have rolled out a puff piece to give Ryan a handy Andy and tout the credentials of David Hoppe the conservative blogosphere is screaming bloody murder as it well should over this latest stab in the back.
Super Secret ISIS Video Just Revealed!!
If you don’t think this is FUCKIN HILARIOUS then you are never allowed to talk to me again!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=EAJjpM4z_0g
Why Isn’t Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D -Hawaii) Running For President?
My meager contribution for the day …
I don’t know jackshit about Ms. Gabbard. But, based solely on the video below, I’d give her my serious attention. Take the time to watch it. This is one of the best, most logical, completely level-headed Congresscritters I’ve heard in a very long time.
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Tulsi Gabbard
Democrat from Hawaii, member of the Armed Services Committee, Iraq War Veteran and Major in the Hawaii National Guard is telling truth to power. In no uncertain terms it points out a fatal flaw in Hilary’s Syrian plan and US involvement as a repeat of the disaster in Libya 101 and to repeat the massacring of Christians and other minority groups.
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