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condor_0000
Tampa, FL
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Meanwhile, the world's ruling-class elites see the only problem in the world as being that billionaires just don't have enough money.
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Scientists warn of “biological annihilation” as Earth’s mass extinction accelerates
By Josh Varlin
12 July 2017
World Socialist Web Site
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2017/07/12/exti-j12.html
Excerpts:
A study published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS) indicates that human activity is precipitating “biological annihilation” and a mass extinction event.
The peer-reviewed paper, “Biological annihilation via the ongoing sixth mass extinction signaled by vertebrate population losses and declines,” argues that the severity of the ongoing biodiversity crisis is often underestimated by looking primarily at extinctions (the loss of all individuals in a species). The study looks more broadly at species’ population decline and argues that “Earth’s sixth mass extinction episode has proceeded further than most assume.”
The study was coauthored by Gerardo Ceballos of the Instituto de Ecología at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México in Mexico City and by Paul R. Ehrlich and Rodolfo Dirzo of Stanford University’s Department of Biology.
The authors argue that while the extinction rate is already alarmingly high—including at least Because of the complexity of the environment, removing even a seemingly minor population or species can severely impact other species—if enough species go extinct, it can damage whole ecosystems. Human life as we know it relies on an increasingly strained ecological balance, and may be impossible if biodiversity is reduced too much. The loss of this dynamic balance, once it reaches a certain point, can cascade into a catastrophic, possibly irreversible collapse.
The study identifies “the proximate causes of population extinctions” as “habitat conversion, climate disruption, overexploitation, toxification, species invasions, disease and (potentially) large-scale nuclear war—all tied to one another in complex patterns and usually reinforcing each other’s impacts.”
These factors are all caused or greatly exacerbated by humans’ unplanned and irrational interaction with the environment, rooted in the subordination of all social and economic life to private profit. It is worth noting in this context the mention of the potential environmental consequences of a nuclear war, which could be set off by any number of conflicts around the world caused by the division of the world into competing capitalist nation-states.
The authors identify “the ultimate drivers of those immediate causes of biotic destruction” as “human overpopulation and continued population growth, and overconsumption, especially by the rich.” One need not agree that population growth itself is the problem to recognize that human activity, without scientific planning, places immense strains on the environment.vertebrate species per year for the past century—this does not tell the full story. Even if species have not yet gone extinct, their numbers and geographic distribution are decreasing dramatically, signaling an accelerating trend toward eventual extinction.
Because population declines presage extinction, the study concludes that the planet has already begun its sixth mass extinction—the first since humans evolved.
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| 7/12/2017 2:02:43 AM |
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condor_0000
Tampa, FL
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"We're Going To Become Extinct, Probably Within 100 Years" Eminent Scientist Says
By Cheryl Jones
September 17, 2016 "Information Clearing House
June 16, 2010
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article45495.htm
Excerpts:
FRANK Fenner doesn't engage in the skirmishes of the climate wars. To him, the evidence of global warming is in. Our fate is sealed.
"We're going to become extinct," the eminent scientist says. "Whatever we do now is too late."
Fenner is an authority on extinction. The emeritus professor in microbiology at the Australian National University played a leading role in sending one species into oblivion: the variola virus that causes smallpox.
And his work on the myxoma virus suppressed wild rabbit populations on farming land in southeastern Australia in the early 1950s.
He made the comments in an interview at his home in a leafy Canberra suburb. Now 95, he rarely gives interviews. But until recently he went into work each day at the ANU's John Curtin School of Medical Research, of which he was director from 1967 to 1973.
Decades after his official retirement from the Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies, which he set up in 1973, he continued a routine established when he was running world-class facilities while conducting research.
He'd get to work at 6.30am to spend a couple of hours writing textbooks before the rest of the staff arrived.
Fenner, a fellow of the Australian Academy of Science and of the Royal Society, has received many awards and honours. He has published hundreds of scientific papers and written or co-written 22 books.
His deep understanding of evolution has never diminished his fascination with observing it in the field. That understanding was shaped by studies of every scale, from the molecular level to the ecosystem and planetary levels.
His biological perspective is also geological.
He wrote his first papers on the environment in the early 1970s, when human impact was emerging as a big problem.
He says the Earth has entered the Anthropocene. Although it is not an official epoch on the geological timescale, the Anthropocene is entering scientific terminology. It spans the time since industrialisation, when our species started to rival ice ages and comet impacts in driving the climate on a planetary scale.
Fenner says the real trouble is the population explosion and "unbridled consumption".
The number of Homo sapiens is projected to exceed 6.9 billion this year, according to the UN. With delays in firm action on cutting greenhouse gas emissions, Fenner is pessimistic.
"We'll undergo the same fate as the people on Easter Island," he says. "Climate change is just at the very beginning. But we're seeing remarkable changes in the weather already.
"The Aborigines showed that without science and the production of carbon dioxide and global warming, they could survive for 40,000 or 50,000 years. But the world can't. The human species is likely to go the same way as many of the species that we've seen disappear.
"Homo sapiens will become extinct, perhaps within 100 years," he says. "A lot of other animals will, too. It's an irreversible situation. I think it's too late. I try not to express that because people are trying to do something, but they keep putting it off.
"Mitigation would slow things down a bit, but there are too many people here already."
In 1980, Fenner had the honour of announcing the global eradication of smallpox to the UN's World Health Assembly. The disease is the only one to have been eradicated.
Thirty years after that occasion, his outlook is vastly different as he contemplates the chaos of a species on the brink of mass extinction.
"As the population keeps growing to seven, eight or nine billion, there will be a lot more wars over food," he says.
"The grandchildren of today's generations will face a much more difficult world."
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korbyn
Bat Cave, NC
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We need to accelerate the creation of AI and transhumans. They can save us.
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| 7/12/2017 5:01:04 AM |
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bumblebee7
Fort Payne, AL
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Well, whatever happens...I won't hardly notice.
I'll be too busy looking good and enjoying life.
I'm not wasting my time on worrying about what might be....I'm going to enjoy my time, while I can.
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| 7/12/2017 5:50:59 AM |
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easttowest72
Bremen, GA
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I'm not worried about it either. Earth has it's own way of clearing out people and protecting itself.
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| 7/12/2017 6:49:30 AM |
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monkey_harris
Houston, TX
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OP, the global population is growing..as such there can't be an extinction "acceleration".
Dumbf**ks be dumbf**kin'
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| 7/12/2017 7:21:49 AM |
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stl1
Saint Louis, MO
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That berg broke off.
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| 7/12/2017 7:33:38 AM |
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de_aardbei
Montreal, QC
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And global warming has been debunked as sloppy science!
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| 7/12/2017 9:00:48 AM |
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kandykayn
Clarksville, TN
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We need to accelerate the creation of AI and transhumans. They can save us.
What happens when AIs become self aware.
They will not save us meatbags would be useless to them.
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| 7/12/2017 9:03:48 AM |
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monkey_harris
Houston, TX
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What happens when AIs become self aware.
they'll probably spend a millennia or two jacking off to the dishwasher.
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| 7/12/2017 9:07:22 AM |
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playingindirt
Eugene, OR
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did anybody actually read all that?
wow. I think I'll look for a film version. lol
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| 7/12/2017 9:13:06 AM |
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april67_
San Antonio, TX
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did anybody actually read all that?
wow. I think I'll look for a film version. lol
No
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| 7/12/2017 9:14:05 AM |
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de_aardbei
Montreal, QC
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I skimmed as well.
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| 7/12/2017 9:14:13 AM |
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monkey_harris
Houston, TX
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No, the inaccurate subject line mooted anything that followed.
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| 7/12/2017 9:14:35 AM |
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playingindirt
Eugene, OR
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No
lol
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| 7/12/2017 9:17:31 AM |
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monkey_harris
Houston, TX
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It's like any statement that begins with "Ancient Alien theorists believe"...you know anything that follows is going to be horseshit 
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| 7/12/2017 9:35:39 AM |
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cajunmister
Kinder, LA
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No matter, DH will go on and on, and on
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| 7/12/2017 12:07:12 PM |
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condor_0000
Tampa, FL
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It's like any statement that begins with "Ancient Alien theorists believe"...you know anything that follows is going to be horseshit
Here's a tip for you right-wingers who find reading a few peer-reviewed science paragraphs to be so extremely difficult. Just pretend that it started with, "Kim Kardashian believes," or "Sean Hannity said," or "Tonight on Dancing With the Stars," or "How the Skipper could have saved the S.S. Minnow." Then you morons will eagerly gobble up ever word.
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| 7/12/2017 12:13:44 PM |
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condor_0000
Tampa, FL
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Earth has it's own way of clearing out people and protecting itself.
Yeah, it's called extinction of humans. Sure, the Earth will survive just fine. If you love the Earth, it'll still be here. It won't be fit for humans to survive, but it will still be around. Only people, whom you right-wingers have never given a shit about, will not survive. And what do you care? You'll be dead by then anyway, and f**k everybody else.
Of course, your children and grandchildren are going to suffer through an enormous hell before the entire human species goes extinct. But so f**king what? F**k 'em all!
You know, it doesn't surprise me in the least that you right-wing capitalists don't give a shit about anyone or anything but yourselves. Even your own f**king children and grandchildren don't matter. Even the survival of the human race doesn't matter. All that matters to you is to make lots of money by f**king the royal shit out of other people. If that means the entire human race must die off within 100 years, well, you're all fine with that.
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monkey_harris
Houston, TX
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Here's a tip for you right-wingers who find reading a few peer-reviewed science paragraphs to be so extremely difficult.
/snip
I don't, I simply don't waste my time reading something that invalidates itself with the title/subject line
...to accelerate means than it's currently happening and speeding up...as that is contrary to the fact the amount of life is INCREASING not DECREASING on Earth it immediately means it's another horseshit document...and yes simply because something is peer reviewed doesn't mean it's beyond critiquing and dismissing.
As always Condor, try to think with your own brain rather than copy/pasting shit that is beyond your reasoning skills
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condor_0000
Tampa, FL
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I don't, I simply don't waste my time reading something that invalidates itself with the title/subject line
...to accelerate means than it's currently happening and speeding up...as that is contrary to the fact the amount of life is INCREASING not DECREASING on Earth it immediately means it's another horseshit document...and yes simply because something is peer reviewed doesn't mean it's beyond critiquing and dismissing.
As always Condor, try to think with your own brain rather than copy/pasting shit that is beyond your reasoning skills
If you had simply read even a few words of that article, you wouldn't be saying stupid shit now.
I'm sure that you merely noticed that the article was from the World Socialist Web Site and that immediately turned you away. After all, it's blasphemous for a capitalist to ever read anything written by a socialist (It's funny how you right-wingers are all experts on socialism without ever having read anything substantial written by a socialist). But that story was actually carried on much of the capitalist media as well. Although, interestingly, Fox News doesn't seem to have reported it. I guess Fox didn't want to upset any raping, looting capitalists by suggesting that they are destroying life on Earth. We all know how rich capitalists can be such snowflakes when criticized.
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'Biological annihilation:' Earth’s 6th mass extinction is underway
Doyle Rice
USA TODAY
July 10, 2017
https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/science/2017/07/10/earth-faces-sixth-mass-extinction/465655001/
Earth's sixth mass extinction event under way, scientists warn
July 10, 2017
Damian Carrington
The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jul/10/earths-sixth-mass-extinction-event-already-underway-scientists-warn
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monkey_harris
Houston, TX
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If you had simply read even a few words of that article, you wouldn't be saying stupid shit now.
..and if you simply read my response that you can't have an acceleration of loss of life when life is increasing...you wouldn't be copy/pasting stupid shit now 
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| 7/12/2017 12:47:32 PM |
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condor_0000
Tampa, FL
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If you had simply read even a few words of that article, you wouldn't be saying stupid shit now.
..and if you simply read my response that you can't have an acceleration of loss of life when life is increasing...you wouldn't be copy/pasting stupid shit now
READ THE ARTICLE, moron!
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| 7/12/2017 1:19:25 PM |
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mylegsarecold
Gainesville, FL
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No
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| 7/12/2017 3:10:14 PM |
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condor_0000
Tampa, FL
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Here's a tip for you right-wingers who find reading a few peer-reviewed science paragraphs to be so extremely difficult. Just pretend that it started with, "Kim Kardashian believes," or "Sean Hannity said," or "Tonight on Dancing With the Stars," or "How the Skipper could have saved the S.S. Minnow." Then you morons will eagerly gobble up every word.
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| 7/12/2017 3:11:41 PM |
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monkey_harris
Houston, TX
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READ THE ARTICLE, moron!
No point, again there is no mass extinction to accelerate...do you not comprehende de Engrish?
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archer513
Cincinnati, OH
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READ THE ARTICLE, moron!
No point, again there is no mass extinction to accelerate...do you not comprehende de Engrish?
I copy and pasted it for him...maybe he'll understand now
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| 7/12/2017 3:17:07 PM |
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mylegsarecold
Gainesville, FL
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There are not enough right-wingers to balance out the left-wingers.
That's why there is a problem, more capitalist will solve it.
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| 7/12/2017 3:18:46 PM |
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garfuknuckle
Mountain View, AR
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Ain't skeered.
Much.
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| 7/12/2017 3:20:11 PM |
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monkey_harris
Houston, TX
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There are not enough right-wingers to balance out the left-wingers.
That's why there is a problem, more capitalist will solve it.
The short shortsightedness of Americans is they think there can only ever be two wings...
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mylegsarecold
Gainesville, FL
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There are not enough right-wingers to balance out the left-wingers.
That's why there is a problem, more capitalist will solve it.
The short shortsightedness of Americans is they think there can only ever be two wings...
Well we have the British Conservative and Labour two party system as a model.
What do you expect?
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monkey_harris
Houston, TX
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short shorts was an accident, I was just thinking about my jogging wear for the park this evening.
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| 7/12/2017 3:27:26 PM |
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monkey_harris
Houston, TX
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Well we have the British Conservative and Labour two party system as a model.
What do you expect?
Um there are more than those two...
Here are a few for you to start with..
Conservative Party.
Co-operative Party.
Democratic Unionist Party.
Green Party.
Labour Party.
Liberal Democrats.
Plaid Cymru.
Scottish National Party.
..stupid Americans
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rightguyforu732
Lisle, IL
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Stephing Hawking says get out now...while there is still time... 100 years is all we have left
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| 7/12/2017 3:30:20 PM |
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monkey_harris
Houston, TX
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Stephing Hawking says get out now...while there is still time... 100 years is all we have left
I only need about another 15 or so..I'm good here.
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| 7/12/2017 5:11:09 PM |
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condor_0000
Tampa, FL
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Stephing Hawking says get out now...while there is still time... 100 years is all we have left
I only need about another 15 or so..I'm good here.
The right-wing, capitalist answer to mounting evidence that capitalism is destroying humanity: So what? I don't care. I got mine. I made it! F**k everybody else. F**k my children and grandchildren. F**k humanity! F**k your children and grandchildren! F**k you all!
It is the right-wing capitalists themselves who are showing us all that the working-class overthrowing capitalism is an urgent task. If you love your children and grandchildren, well, we're fighting for their lives now. Their only chance is the overthrow of capitalism, and even then the chance is increasingly slim.
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inde_5
Bonaire, GA
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Its the roaches...
Thier building up & infesting.
They plan to over run the globe....by laying eggs everywhere.
Noahs Ark isnt gonna save us this time...wood & water just increases thier populations.
Put those ipads and cell phones down and run.
...before one jumps onto your leg & sprays poop on you!!
Dont worry about whos president or what color your neighbor is....just quickly grabb a durable fly swatter & start swatting for your life & freedom.
Iv seen it coming , while staying at Motel 6.
The roaches there told me all this.
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| 7/12/2017 5:16:25 PM |
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condor_0000
Tampa, FL
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Its the roaches...
Thier building up & infesting.
They plan to over run the globe....by laying eggs everywhere.
Noahs Ark isnt gonna save us this time...wood & water just increases thier populations.
Put those ipads and cell phones down and run.
...before one jumps onto your leg & sprays poop on you!!
Dont worry about whos president or what color your neighbor is....just quickly grabb a durable fly swatter & start swatting for your life & freedom.
Iv seen it coming , while staying at Motel 6.
The roaches there told me all this.
And, or course, another name for roaches is "capitalists."
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