BLUF: Blue cities will continue the trend of driving away legal residents, while cities in red states will continue to gain.
[UPI] Many cities across the United States could become ghost towns by 2100, according to new research published Thursday.
"Close to half of the nearly 30,000 cities in the United States will face some sort of population decline," researchers from the University of Chicago in Illinois wrote in a journal article published in Nature Cities.
Major cities in the Northeast and Midwest are already slowly losing population. While cities in the South and West regions are experiencing a population increase, some major cities in Alabama, Georgia and Tennessee are slowly depopulating, the researchers found.
Cleveland, Buffalo, and Pittsburgh could see depopulation of 12 to 23 percent by 2100 while cities like Louisville, New Haven and Syracuse -- not currently showing declines - likely could soon.
"You might see a lot of growth in Texas right now, but if you had looked at Michigan 100 years ago, you probably would have thought that Detroit would be the largest city in the U.S. now," Sybil Derrible, one of the researchers, told Scientific American.
The study briefly looked at possible causes for these population changes, from the effects of an aging population to changes in the economy, wages and access to transportation -- as well as things like climate change and similar factors.
"In the Northeast and Midwest, urban cities with lower median household income are more likely to experience depopulation over time," the study authors wrote.
"Such trends could exacerbate socioeconomic challenges experienced by lower-income households in these regions, given that population decline can create affordability concerns with infrastructure services."
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A INTERESTING SIMILARITY As a Metro fails to sustain itself, having used up available resources for political growth. Metro's tend to seek out new needed resources in order to sustain itself. (eg. metro/county consolidations or Rain Taxes)
As a Virus grows it seeks out new areas to infect, having also killed its initial foundational base and needs new areas to live and sustain itself.
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You could always enjoy the good fortune of Springfield, Ohio. Plunging from a population of 82k in 1960 to 58k in 2020 with an associated decline of inflation adjusted revenue of 27%. Oh - and did I mention the current influx of 8-10,000 Haitians in the past 5 years impacting those figures.
[NYP] By regularly griping about the supposed mystery of why so many voters say they prefer Donald Trump or another Republican, President Biden’s pundit backers mainly expose their own elitist ignorance.
Because if they’d been shopping to feed their families these last few years, they would have noticed the average grocery bill has shot up 25%. While servings, packages, and individual items have gotten smaller. Lose-Lose
And wage growth hasn’t remotely kept pace: It rose less than inflation for Biden’s first two years, and while the 2023 stats aren’t final, it wasn’t a ton better last year.
Inflation has eased some in recent months, but remains well above 3% — and may well spike back up as Houthi attacks on Red Sea shipping create new global supply-chain disruptions.
Perhaps because they drive electric vehicles, the pro-Biden pundits may have missed the huge hike in pump prices on his watch — a daily nightmare driven largely by his policies.
And while Democrats may find it convenient to forget, plenty of voters will recall how this president spent months insisting inflation was "transitory" even as it was raging up toward 9%.
Oh, and few pundits are all that young, so they also lack personal experience of how high interest rates (raised to combat Bidenflation) are a huge reason why buying a first home is increasingly out of reach for the middle class.
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[RIA] The gathering of the "rich and famous" in the Swiss Alps, which kicks off today, resembles a collective femme fatale well past her peak of attractiveness. And social responsibility, which is declining almost before our eyes, is exclusively ahead. Therefore, for the opportunity to kiss the cheek or kiss the hand, the price tag is announced in advance to the potential clientele, without even showing the product, so to speak, in person.
The right to dry off in the corridors with those who consider themselves rulers of the world will cost more than last year (at that time such a whim cost about four hundred thousand euros, that is, if they even let you look at the discussions), and many times more than, for example, five to seven years ago.
Do you want to see von der Leyen or Macron (and their speeches are promoted by the forum’s PR people as something important and epoch-making)? Make money - and quickly.
Politicians of the upper echelon of globalist power and the elite, who decide the fate of tens, or even hundreds of millions of people, in this paradigm of relations are nothing more than insidious people, entertaining the public.
To force the rich Pinocchio to part with their hard-earned half a million hard-earned euros, the foxes of Alice and the cats of Basilio of Davos are literally bending over backwards.
The agenda should (in their opinion) make an impression.
The geopolitical crisis in European security (as we call the current situation) has acquired a different formulation. Now what is happening is called the “Peace Conference on Ukraine”. Quite Orwellian words. The proxy war, unleashed by those who intend to conduct a discussion, is called today “security guarantees for Kyiv.” Almost two years ago, Moscow tried to achieve real security guarantees, but our voice was not heard, our concerns were not even considered, but now and today those who practically lied to our eyes are telling us the same thing (what from the forum rostrum, which, naturally, we do not want to be in, does not matter) that “we must strive for a peaceful settlement.”
Of course, all those who participate in the parade of political peacocks (the exact wording of both the essence and form of the event) understand perfectly well that only Russia today has the keys. Almost everything. Starting from supplying Europe, nervous from the lack of the same mineral fertilizers, with substances to nourish soils and plants, mainly containing nitrogen, to supplying agricultural products - primarily grain - to poor countries.
Whether those who pompously consider themselves globalists like it or not, it is our country and the economic blocs in which it participates that are the real global players.
You can roll out your chest like a cartwheel for a long time, slyly squint and puff out your cheeks, but the balance of power in the confrontation that was not started by us is determined by long-term economic (and, as a consequence, political too) stability.
In none of the countries that strives, like that very popular rocker, to show off (for money) their features and charms, anything like this is observed.
Brussels is awaiting the June elections to the European Parliament, which could completely redraw the political map of the EU . At the same time, the same European bloc is nervous, since all its resources and all its nest eggs, which made it possible to feed the pan-Europeans, have either already dried up or are about to dry up. And although, unlike the “Ukrainian issue,” the discussion among bankers, including the heads of central banks, is not promoted by Davos PR people, it is worth mentioning.
Serious people will not look away from their work to admire the snow-capped peaks of the Alps: they are in Switzerland to discuss the issue of the uncontrolled growth of public debt.
American, pan-European and those little things. This is definitely more serious than “peace formulas”. This is the blood and flesh of the globalist economy and finance, and if an accounting gap appears somewhere, it will explode everywhere so that no one will think it’s enough.
Actually, last year they also tried to discuss both inflation and the lending rate, but it didn’t work out. Now the situation has turned out to be so acute that the meeting of the main financiers of the planet was closed to the press, to outsiders (yes, the same ones who gave half a million euros) and to comment.
The open world - and in this case too - turned out to be exactly like Orwell: opaque and totalitarian.
It’s not worth mentioning seriously about the “forty heads of foreign affairs agencies” who should be in Davos, as well as about the entire UN Secretary General Guterres, so as not to unwittingly quote Gogol’s “The Inspector General”.
The only thing that makes sense to note: globalism and Western-centricity today have already been or are being removed from economic competition, if we talk about the scale of the planet. And we know it. The question is when will those who ordered a fight against us and ingloriously (and predictably) lost it understand this.
Maybe not but I bet they still find ways to gratify themselves in Davos. Only question is: Who is the new pimp? You can't leave a vacuum like that for very long.
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I guess they'll have to go back to conspiring to take over the world in private.
(Kinda reminds you of 'Pinky and the Brain'...)
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[MSN - FoxNews] No wonder John Kerry is stepping down as climate czar. Joe Biden’s trillion-dollar green agenda is blowing up, and no one is more closely tied to the fast-deflating boondoggle than John Kerry.
The push for electric vehicles is a bust, renewable projects like offshore wind farms are being canceled by the boatload, people are tired of being told they can’t buy things they want, like gas stoves and incandescent light bulbs and – guess what? – sane people in our country are willing to admit (finally) that the world will run on fossil fuels for the foreseeable future.
Just last week, Chesapeake Energy announced it will spend $7.4 billion to purchase Southwestern Energy, creating what will be our country’s largest producer of natural gas. The combined companies will feed an ever-growing demand for U.S. gas to supply LNG exports, essential to loosening Russia’s grip on Europe’s energy. The acquisition signals confidence that Biden’s crack-down on oil and natural gas production has run smack into a reality brick wall; much as the White House wants to pander to the climate lobby, we need fossil fuels.
In 2022, Biden promised our NATO allies the U.S. would ramp up LNG exports to help supply their energy needs. Even as he did so, his confused administration continued to roll out regulations that make generating such supplies more costly and more difficult. Just last week, the White House proposed new fines on methane emissions, part of a broader crackdown that could reportedly make a large number of smaller oil and gas wells uneconomic and curb U.S. production by as much as 5%.
Right now the feds are deliberating whether to permit construction of another LNG terminal on the Louisiana Coast. Will the White House climate zealots actually decide against it?
At the same time, war in the Middle East is driving home once again that energy security is national security; the government’s war on fossil fuels looks dumber by the minute. Aggression from Russia’s Putin and Iran’s mullahs is funded by oil; they would have less money to invest in malicious activities were it not for the Biden White House discouraging U.S. production which could bring global prices down. US output is currently 13.2 million barrels per day, finally surpassing the 13 mb/d peak reached during the Trump presidency. But….it would be higher but for the delays in leasing, increased fees, and other obstacles thrown up by the Biden group.
[Townhall] On the evening of the first-in-the-nation caucuses, MSNBC's race-obsessed Joy Reid, a black woman who oft-complains about "cultural appropriation" yet dyes her hair blonde, was triggered that white Christians make up a majority of Iowa's electorate.
"I feel like the important sort of data point [...] is that these are white Christians," she said. "This is a state that is overrepresented by white Christians that are going to participate in these caucuses, especially tonight [...] This is a hyper evangelical, white state."
According to the left-wing Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI)'s demographics data, which Reid cited, as of 2022, white Christians account for about 6 in 10 of Iowa's residents (61%). The number is largely unchanged from 2020 when 63% of Iowans identified as white and Christian. Nationally, white Christians comprise approximately 42% of the U.S. population, Reid griped.
"What do they get out of supporting Donald Trump? Because he keeps losing. He keeps delivering losses and losses and losses," Reid asked PRRI's president and founder Robert "Robbie" Jones, who has authored anti-white, anti-Christian books titled White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity and The End of White Christian America.
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"CBS News reports Johnson County Iowa Caucus precinct “ran out” of party-switch forms after Democrats overwhelmed precinct to vote as “Republicans” for Nikki Haley, causing Haley to win by ONE vote" - link
[Bee] DES MOINES, IA — Motivated by a lackluster showing in Monday evening's caucus, presidential candidate Nikki Haley has ordered the bombing of Iowa. Reports coming in from the ground indicate hundreds of eligible voters have lost their lives as a result of attacks on key polling locations throughout the state. Nikki Haley has officially claimed responsibility for the attacks.
"There's only one solution to this problem, which is the same solution to every problem, and that is bombing things," Nikki Haley reportedly said as she gave the official go-ahead to her personal drone-strike team. "Ooo! Look at the explosions!"
Final polling data ahead of the official caucus shows Nikki Haley losing to Trump, which the presidential candidate has emphatically said is "unacceptable." According to sources, polling data motivated her to launch retaliatory attacks against a voter base that despises her.
Support by defense contractors for Haley's presidential campaign has since quadrupled.
"We're all in for Team Haley," said Lockheed Martin CEO David Rumsfeld. "It's so inspiring the way she wants to give us money to bomb people. Boy, do I love bombing people."
Iowans have responded unfavorably to the bombings, but Fox News reporters confirm that the diminished Iowan population is likely to give her an edge should her candidacy survive to the general election. "The lack of Iowa voters will undoubtedly turn the tide," related Fox News' chief political anchor Bret Baier. "Some Haley voters may be collateral damage, but most of those who hate Haley will no longer be able to vote against her. This is a big win for Team Haley."
At publishing time, Nikki Haley's polling numbers surged in New Hampshire with voters indicating they were planning to vote for Haley out of fear.
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It has more to do with business greed than DEI. The CEO of Boeing was focused of stock buybacks and increasing stock value than it was over quality. During Mullenberg's time Stock took a tear toward $400 per share. He restructured the supply chain from airframe specifics to commodities base procurement. For example: You have been buying a transmission for helicopters from a vendor for 30 years, say Triumph, and when it comes for the next round of purchases you cancel from the vendor and go to a low cost vendor. The low cost vendor build to print, but have zero destructive testing, casting experience, and on and on, but the second vendor says they can do it cheaper. So Boeing buys it. Now we have a sub par critical component being installed on an aircraft with zero developmental proofs in quality and safety. SO we see faulty transmissions and manufacturing misses that cost millions. This is a trap of outsourcing.
When you outsource an item and allow the sub to bear the research and development costs, they get to keep the data, he who pays for it, owns it so to speak. Reducing costs by outsourcing spreads the development costs over the life of the program. Where it goes south is when you then change vendors and the manufacturing data, not just the prints, legally don't belong to the OEM. You essentially have to start over with the R&D. There are ways around it, but with flight critical items, you get what we have here...
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Bee] DES MOINES, IA — Motivated by a lackluster showing in Monday evening's caucus, presidential candidate Nikki Haley has ordered the bombing of Iowa. Reports coming in from the ground indicate hundreds of eligible voters have lost their lives as a result of attacks on key polling locations throughout the state. Nikki Haley has officially claimed responsibility for the attacks.
