America by the Numbers
2,972 Number of newspapers that have closed in America since 2005.
2.5 Number of local newspapers that close for good every week.
3.5% Percentage of Americans aged 60 or older who never receive Social Security benefits, including some police officers, firefighters and the Amish.
6.1% Percentage of Americans with more than one Social Security Number.
>100,000 Number of Americans with five or more Social Security Numbers.
15% Odds that someone else has used your Social Security Number.
$45 billion Amount of taxpayer subsidies, grants, and contracts to eight Ivy League universities, plus Stanford and Northwestern Universities, between 2018-22.
$50.9 billion …
Agricultural Digest
According to the United Nations, 31 percent of human-made greenhouse-gas emissions come from the global food system, but the sector received only 4.3 percent of “global climate finance” in 2019 and 2020, per the Climate Policy Initiative. So, naturally, our almighty climate overlords gathering in the UAE have signed a new “Emirates Declaration” emphasizing how naughty the agricultural sector is for contributing to global warming (despite receiving so little financial support to adapt, retrofit, and off-set its systems). The document states, “We affirm that agriculture and food systems must urgently adapt and transform in order to respond to the imperatives of climate change.” And, they say, shifting “from higher greenhouse gas-emitting practices to more sustainable production and consumption approaches” will lessen food insecurity.
In spite of the newly articulated focus on greening the ag sector, the …
America's Founding Document Debunked
Power grab by wealthy merchants targeted the men who fought and died for the Revolution
Honest soldiers deprived of pay
The Constitution and the Bill of Rights are foes, not friends
It sounds like a joke (and maybe it is), but a nursing-home occupant and a New York crime family boss are about to compete in an “election” to serve as our country’s next chief executive. Neither man believes that they need to debate anyone in public to secure their party’s nomination — and that judgment is almost certainly correct. Our whole lives, we’ve been fed fanciful stories about our nation’s fabulous “democracy” enshrined in its glorious Constitution. Now is probably the time to admit something: We’ve been conned.
The fact that the written text of the Constitution never uses the word “democracy” is no accident. Yet the US education system — and most of the country’s major media operations — center themselves around safeguarding the country’s precious “democracy” in order to pull the wool over the eyes of us rubes. For the American Establishment, the Constitution’s immaculate-conception origin story …
