[Telegraph] Rapidly growing human populations risk having a "terrible impact" on the world, the Duke of Cambridge has warned.
The Duke said that as a result, wildlife was being put under "enormous pressure" and called for the issue to be addressed with renewed vigour.
His concerns echo those of his grandfather, the Duke of Edinburgh, who in 2011 advocated "voluntary family limitation" as a means of solving overpopulation, which he described as the biggest challenge in conservation. If you feel compelled to reproduce, please try and keep within the family, or at least the Club.
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Every time I see one of these idiots talk about how there are too many people in the world, I think "This should have been in a suicide note."
What he is really saying is that there are too many OTHER people in the world.
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What he is really saying is that there are too many OTHER people in the world.
Other possibilities: he's just uttering platitudes or saying what his dad, the heir to the throne, wants said, given that his wife is expecting their third child.
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#5 What he is really saying is that there are too many OTHER people in the world.
Other possibilities: he's just uttering platitudes or saying what his dad, the heir to the throne, wants said, given that his wife is expecting their third child.
The environmeddler, Edward Abbey, who I greatly admired in my younger days, had five children.
[AccordingToHoyt] ...Yesterday just before going to bed, I read an article linked from Instapundit about poverty in the Appalachia. Of course, this meant I spent most of an unquiet night (yesterday was one of those days where real life and interruptions intervened to keep me from going for a walk or even using the treadmill ‐ by the time I had time to, I was dead on my feet. For some reason just walking around most of the day, but not an uninterrupted, full out, fast walk of three miles, doesn’t allow me to sleep well at night.) dreaming of buying land in that region. It was the line about violent crime being below national average and also the line about how cheap cost-of-living was.
...I have reasons to add some salt to it. First the characterization as a "White Ghetto" brings with it a whole lot of freight which the journalist should have been wary of and clearly wasn’t. Because of the title and leaving the correction about how low crime (other than welfare fraud) actually is, I imagined the images that "Ghetto" conjures: shootouts in the glades, women murdered in their houses... that sort of thing.
Turns out no. While it is inhabited by a bunch of welfare recipients, has almost no stores (this possibly to the lack of population density) and lacks opportunities for local employment, this region is not a hell hole of gang shootings and violent theft.
Which immediately makes it completely different, and far more desirable as an address, than any urban ghetto.
...Which brings us to what is wrong with the rest of the local population, and how to help them.
The first is obvious and is going to make me sound horribly heartless. The second... Ah the second is far more difficult.
The answer to the first is "There is nothing wrong. They are normal, sane humans."
And now you’re going to gibber at me about drug use and child neglect. And ‐ not here, but elsewhere ‐ someone is going to call for more federal money dumped into the place. They’ll call for more Head Start, more jobs programs. The left who ‐ with more than a bit of self flattery ‐ will flap gums about how our technological society is leaving people behind, how all these poor people simply aren’t SMART enough to make money and thrive in the new new technological world.
DIGRESSION
This flatters the left insanely because they clearly are "smart" enough to thrive in the new technological world. Lately in reading their stuff it’s all about power couples and marrying intelligent people and ‐ bah. They wouldn’t know intelligent people if one bit them in the arse. They are what in our school system were A students. These were never ‐ at least when I was going through school ‐ the actual SMART people (unless the smart people made a great deal of effort.) True geniuses tended to be odd. They dressed funny, sometimes had er... hygiene issues, and they had the confounded habit of correcting teacher. As such, they were heartily despised by all right thinking people, and usually managed Bs, unless they were really really smart, in which case they trolled the D/F region. In adulthood the geniuses I’ve known ‐ those functional enough to hold a job ‐ tend to hold jobs in convenience stores, fertilizer plants, or other menial positions where the fact they don’t dress fashionably and haven’t attended Harvard doesn’t matter.
This is why the beautiful people hold on to CREDENTIALS over accomplishments as signs of their specialness.
Which is why the "economy" the left is thriving on is a combination of glitz, glamour and valueless money printed at speed and of crony capitalism which devours the real substance of prosperity accumulated by our ancestors.
HERE ENDETH DIGRESSION
Part of the reason that even as the welfare model is collapsing all over the world, the left is hysterically seeking to bolster it is that they really think they are in a "With Folded Hands" future, where everything that "the little people" could do has been mechanized and therefore we should give the little people the means to survive and let them get stoned out of their minds, because, what else is there to do? Kill them? Oh, please, the left aren’t monsters. They just hold on to monstrous ideas. (Note I said "part of the reason" ‐ some of the left is doing this for the power, of course, and to create a neo-feudal society. But the rank and file of the evil party are not actually evil. They’re just human and know a lot of things that just ain’t so.)
(Is there a lack of work for uneducated/not particularly intellectual people? What, in the last 20 years? Show me where the advances in manufacturing/computing/etc put these people out of work. What is really happening is that our personal do-gooders have priced the US worker out of competition ‐ and it’s not even the minimum wage, an effort as sane as legislating air humidity, as the crazed and increasingly futile environmental and other regulations ‐ so the jobs have moved overseas. This will correct itself either when the other lands create a middle class that demands better treatment ‐ though they’re unlikely to demand crazy enviro regulations ‐ or when we hang the komissars with their own guts. Because as has been pointed out on this blog, there will always be need for the kind of mind that thrives on detailed, repetitive work, and which really really really doesn’t want to speculate about the causes of the Spanish-American war or read about Elizabethan England. Whether these minds are less able, I refuse to even consider, because look... I couldn’t do what my plumber ‐ or my hairdresser! ‐ does. I certainly couldn’t do what factory workers do. It would drive me as batty as for them to do what I do. Yeah, they test lower on IQ, a test designed to measure achievements of a certain kind. We’ll just say they have different types of mind and that, without interference, there would be work they could do.)
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It is true that many geniuses do not do well in the work world -- but there are certainly exceptions. OldSpook mentioned once that he has an IQ of 160, which puts him solidly in that category. He was a Special Forces master sergeant, comfortable talking to generals; the equivalent in the civilian world, it seems to me, is a technical track team leader in a large company.
I also know two who are a stay-at-home husband and a housewife. Both perfectly clean, sweet-smelling, and well adjusted to the fact that they were not suited to the work world, supporting spouses who are very well suited, and happy to be freed from household concerns while they get on with their careers.
[Daily Caller] Tucker Carlson laid out a number of reasons to distrust the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on Fox News Thursday, earning the praise of President Donald Trump.
Tucker began by talking about the seemingly incompetent investigation of the Las Vegas mass shooting.
Of the investigation, The Daily Caller co-founder said, "The people running this case don’t really know what they’re doing. You hate to conclude something like that, but it’s becoming hard not to, especially when you consider the Las Vegas case in its larger context."
Carlson mentioned other examples of FBI incompetence, including the investigation of Hillary Clinton’s emails.
He stated, "Speaking of emails, the FBI never examined the DNC’s email server after it was supposedly hacked. Instead they just accepted the claim of a private contractor hired employed by the Democratic Party that the hacking was the work of the Russian government. Why didn’t one of the bureau’s many tech teams conduct its own investigation of a matter this important and politically sensitive?"
[WND] CNN’s Jake Tapper wanted to know if there was anything that could have prevented the murderous rampage, in Manhattan, by a Muslim immigrant who had been recruited to live in America for no good reason. Once upon a time that was known as a rhetorical question. To ask the question would have been to answer it.
Broadcaster Mark Levin was no less obscurantist. You can’t bring certain individuals like the culprit, Uzbek Sayfullo Saipov, into the U.S. because ... of their governments, Levin raged on Fox News. There’s no way to vet individuals from chaotic countries with ineffective governments.
Sure, you can vet immigrants. Find out which faith they practice.
Mark should have said, "You can’t bring Muslims into the U.S. because of their faith. It predisposes them to violence," which is pretty much what President Donald J. Trump stated during his 2016 campaign.
The president’s first limited, immigration moratorium has expired. Let us hope that, following the murder-by-Muslim-immigrant of eight pedestrians along Manhattan’s West Side Highway ‐ Saipov ran them over in a rented pickup truck ‐ the president follows through, in the teeth of treasonous opposition, and expands the original "travel ban" beyond the six Muslim-majority nations to which it applied.
For a Muslim ban is neither illogical, immoral, nor un-libertarian.
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When you try to make sense like this the liberal response is inevitably along the lines of "What about the Las Vegas shooting? Isn't that terrorism?"
Yes, but this is an illogical argument. The flaw in the argument is that these are two separate problems. Linking the two problems, making them appear to be the same problem, serves no purpose other than to obfuscate and prevent a logical course of action. We have a readily available remedy for Islamic terrorism. Let's do what we can first about Islamic terrorists and then debate what to do about the domestic white boy terrorists.
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Mr. Saipov and his family were apparently perfectly moderate Moslems back home. It was once he arrived here that he gradually became dangerous, a pattern reportedly followed by anumber of his countrymen. So even serious vetting would not have prevented perfectly acceptable people going bad the way he did.
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Mr. Saipov and his family were apparently perfectly moderate Moslems back home.
Easy to be a moderate Muslim when surrounded by Muslims, dozens of whom you've known since from birth. Moving to a new society can mean anomie, dealt with by retreating into religion or the expatriate (from the old country) community. This guy went with religion. The problem for us is that his religion is Islam, which can be pretty murderous.
[Ynet] The Hisya industrial is home to joint Iranian-Syrian projects and Iranian companies, with ties to the Iranian government, such as Iranian car manufacturer Saipa. While it's yet unclear whether the attack's target had clear ties to Iran or Hezbollah, the Islamic Theocratic Republic certainly has a significant presence in the area.
The Hisya industrial area south of the Syrian city of Homs, which was attacked late Wednesday in an Arclight airstrike attributed to Israel, has been used over the past decade for joint projects of Iranian government companies and Syrian government and private companies, as part of the trade deals between the two countries, intelligence blog Intellitimes has learned.
Interesting photos at the link.
According to reports in the Arab world, the target of the attack was a military facility that may have been a rocket depot. Other reports claim the facility was a copper factory. It is yet unclear how the target of the attack is linked‐if at all‐to Iran or Hezbollah, but the industrial area nevertheless has strong ties to Tehran.
Among other things, the industrial area contains hangars belonging to Iranian car company Saipa, in which the Iranian government owns 48 percent of the stocks.
Saipa and its subsidiaries are controlled by the Industrial Development & Renovation Organization of Iran (IDRO), a government-owned corporation that controls 117 Iranian companies and has been under US sanctions for a long time over its support of Tehran's missile program.
Saipa also owns 80 percent of SIVECO, a corporation owned by the Iranian government and a private Syrian company called Hmisho Trading Group. The Iranian-Syrian company's factory in the Hisya industrial area manufactures an Iranian version of Kia vehicles.
The industrial area contains other Iranian-owned factories manufacturing, among other things, plastic and glass. The glass fibers are used to produce optic fibers and fiberglass, which have different kinds of uses in the military industry, including in the development of aircraft and precision-guided missiles.
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[American Thinker] As one alternate juror put it, "I felt like a little kid that finds out there is no Santa Claus." This was the remark of one citizen who observed testimony and other evidence arising from the 1992 Ruby Ridge incident, in which an innocent woman and her 14-year-old son were ambushed and gunned down by federal agents over what was, at worst, a minor infraction that could easily have been remedied without violence.
Then, in the following year, the Waco incident proved, once again, that there is no government Santa Claus. Seventy-six men, women, and children were killed in a fire started by the improper use of tear gas by federal agents after four of the agents were killed trying to gain forced entry to the building housing the targeted cult members. Yet the cult leader could easily have been arrested in prior days, when he had voluntarily visited the federal office to which he had been summoned.
Years later, I am finding the same childlike reaction expressed by the juror in myself with regard to the massive and pervasive corruption in Washington, D.C. that is slowly being revealed in the Uranium One scandal, and in the Mueller probe aimed at destroying the presidency of Donald Trump. There is no Santa Claus, no honesty in government.
What was demonstrated by the Ruby Ridge and Waco events is that government is like fire: necessary in its place and dangerous when it breaches its containment.
Until recently, I had always been convinced that however corrupt the government is, at least there are honesty and integrity in the upper reaches of law enforcement. My faith had been tested, but not shattered, when what I considered to be a few rogue officers went berserk and slaughtered the aforementioned innocent Americans in an abuse of power.
Now I understand that the problem is vastly worse than my worst fears had ever led me to believe. We are faced not with a few renegade cops, but with ensconced corruption almost beyond imagining.
Pardon the reference to the NFL team owner who said that we "can't have the inmates running the prison," but in fact, we now have criminals running the government.
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Under Carter my dad's cousin's GS rating was too high to fire so they made him the acting drug czar.
Something he wanted nothing to do with.
First day on the job it took two hours of security to get to his office. 15 mins later the mob walked in and demanded he leave their shipments alone or his family would be killed.
He was like fine... I am a cold warrior not a drug warrior I will leave you alone.
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When times seemed good (20 trillion in debt says they actually weren't, but let that go) and everyone had money and status and all their favorite trinkets, nobody gave a damn. Think of the Clinton years - full of corruption, full of immorality, but "Hey, I've got a great paying job!".
It's only when things finally crashed enough to hurt in 2007 that people started to take notice of these things again. We need to pursue this evil, publicly punish and vilify those who are evil, and advertise their fate. We might only get a few years of deterrence out of doing so, but that's better than life just goobering along.
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erase the state department.
erase the justice department.
fold the fbi into the cia or vice versa.
Start making the federal government smaller.
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[Daily Caller] Tucker Carlson laid out a number of reasons to distrust the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on Fox News Thursday, earning the praise of President Donald Trump.
[Ynet] The Hisya industrial is home to joint Iranian-Syrian projects and Iranian companies, with ties to the Iranian government, such as Iranian car manufacturer Saipa. While it's yet unclear whether the attack's target had clear ties to Iran or Hezbollah, the 
