This video, which I cannot embed due to lack of expertise, comes from Fakeologist, and Ab Irato, the host. Ab posts a great deal of important stuff, and mostly without comment. He interviews a large number of people, doing four or five shows a week, usually of extended length. He has interviewed me on occasion, and I am always surprised at how much fun it is to talk to him. He knows stuff, but usually reduces that knowledge into a brief phrase or even one word, such as “Covaids”. That speaks volumes.
His blog is multi-faceted, and I usually go to this page, daily now as I have abandoned some of my usual stops. But if you go to the introductory page, you will have access to the full treatment of his wanderings.
I think of Ab as a man in a field with a shovel, digging here and there, occasionally uncovering a bone or a buried treasure, which he passes on to us without comment. Unlike me. I comment about everything.
Including the video above, about population. It is less than five minutes, sponsored by “Epic Cash,” a pseudonym for someone I do not know. In it, he notes that our planet is now said to be home to 8 billion people. He takes one example, India, said to be 1.4 billion and rising.
He got a list (from the UN, so take it with a grain of salt) of the 300 largest cities in India, and then added the population of all of them. The largest, Mumbai, is 12.4 million, and in 300th place is Arangabad, at just over 100,000. Adding together all those cities yields a population among them of just over 200 million, leaving 1.2 billion yet to account for.
Where are they? Hidden in tunnels? (No, that was Vietnam.) They are scattered about in the hinterlands? I suppose, but I cannot begin to fathom how a host of small towns, even a lot of them, can begin to approach 1.2 billion people.
Of course, I suffer from a limited brain. I cannot begin to comprehend a number like one million, much less one billion. For this reason, we are all open to manipulation.
There was once a monument called the Georgia Guidestones, since destroyed. I wrote about it, but cannot locate my post. So I offer Wikipedia to you. That source is not always compromised. I remember the ten precepts it offered, most mere virtue signals. But the first one caught my eye:
1. Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature.
I wondered, as did others, if that sentence is a promise to eradicate billions of us in order to come into perpetual balance? But then, I thought, I cannot comprehend 8 billion, a number so big that none of us can conceive of it. They could as easily tell us the current population of the planet is 100 billion. How would we know any better?
The word “maintain” can either be a future plan or current reality. Again, how can we know? None of us can envision such a number.
I was born and raised in Montana (USA), the fourth largest American state in land mass (behind Alaska, Texas and California), yet holding maybe a million people (2020: 1,084,225). I’ve traveled that state from end to end, top to bottom. It is a collection of small towns and a few small cities. It is mostly rural, and largely uninhabited. I need to do the Epic Cash exercise and add together populations of the largest towns, #1 (probably Missoula) down to #300, perhaps Ismay. What would it yield?
Does Montana even have 300 cities and towns?
That ‘s a lot of work, but I did numbers for a living and am dynamite on a ten-key. Maybe I will give it a go. I would also like to do the same for the country as a whole, to see if it comes anywhere close to be 340,766,479. And counting. Maybe someone else can beat me to it.
Piece of Mindful 
Another piece of his-story that “the powers that be” has destroyed.
The monuments (or visuals) can be removed, but the idea(s) will not be so easily forgotten.
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I did a quick tally of the population of Russia’s 1119 largest cities from Wikipedia and it adds up to 103 million, with the total population of 147 million. Do 44 million people live in the countryside? I highly doubt it. There’s hardly anyone left there.
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%BF%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%BA_%D0%B3%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%BE%D0%B2_%D0%A0%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%B8
When authorities did a census in 2010, it took them about a year or two to publish the results. They never explained why it took them so long in this age of computerization. Did they massage the numbers or think about how to present the data to the public? There was also a case of a lady in ZAGS (federal agency for marriage records) who let it slip publicly that Russia’s population was actually 89 million and not 140 million or so that was officially claimed at the time. Whether it was true or not, all this looks highly suspicious.
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Good work, sir. Thank you for the comment.
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Thank you, too, Mark, for your blog and everything you do, despite some occasional drive-bys here and there. I for one enjoy your blog very much. Been lurking here for a couple of years now. It would be a shame of you quit writing.
Regards,
Yuri
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Here’s a link to the Excel file with the calculations.
https://file.io/dzTkbKMtBz6k
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Thanks for that link. I feel like we are missing something, however.
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Like showing up at a show and it’s only…Art Garfunkel
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Which would be one great show.
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Sings like an angel, But somethings missing…Mr. Simon.
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India’s 300 largest cities add up to 143 million only, rather than 200+ million claimed by Epic Cash.
https://file.io/Ug3A6Mwt71OQ
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_in_India_by_population
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Oops, correcting myself here. There was an error in my calculations. India adds up to 201 million. Epic Cash was right after all.
https://file.io/3p0yeonFpN5w
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Robert Heinlein expressed doubt about the population of Moscow after he visited the place in 1956. He felt Moscow had the feel of a much smaller city than the official stats indicated. He chronicled his experiences in an essay titled “Pravda Means ‘Truth’,” which was published in 1959.
I don’t know. Perhaps Russians are more sedentary than Americans and don’t stand out so much. Also, for all we know, there might well be 44 million people in the Russian countryside. There is an awful a lot of it. But the official population figures are statistics, and we know that not all statistics are accurate.
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When wikipedia gives those city population numbers, they may be strictly talking about the city limits. Sometimes the entire “metro area” has a much larger population. Maybe you accounted for that? But I do wonder about the totals we’re given, would be surprising if they’re not cooking the books on some level.
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Yes, we don’t know how they counted the numbers. But it’s unlikely that 44 million live outside major cities. Maybe a few million, but not 44 million. It’s been heavily depopulated, as can be seen by going outside the major cities.
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As I recall, Epic Cash mentioned outlying populations around cities, what we call SMAs, or statistical metropolitan areas. (Going on memory here … my description could be wrong, but the concept is valid.) Cash said it had impact on the 200 million figure, but not nearly enough to account for 1.2 billion living outside major cities and towns.
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I think you will find most cities more than double in population. For example Mildura my wifes home town has a population of either 30 something thousand or 80000 depending on which method you use. India would be much more than double for most of their cities that just stretch out for ever.
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The United Nations uses three definitions for what constitutes a city, as not all cities in all jurisdictions are classified using the same criteria. Cities may be defined as the cities proper, the extent of their urban area, or their metropolitan regions.
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A city can be defined by its administrative boundaries, otherwise known as city proper. UNICEF defines city proper as, “the population living within the administrative boundaries of a city or controlled directly from the city by a single authority.” A city proper is a locality defined according to legal or political boundaries and an administratively recognised urban status that is usually characterised by some form of local government.[1][2][3] Cities proper and their boundaries and population data may not include suburbs.[4]
The use of city proper as defined by administrative boundaries may not include suburban areas where an important proportion of the population working or studying in the city lives.[4] Because of this definition, the city proper population figure may differ greatly from the urban area population figure, as many cities are amalgamations of smaller municipalities (Australia), and conversely, many Chinese cities govern territories that extend well beyond the core urban area into suburban and rural areas.[5] The Chinese municipality of Chongqing, which is the largest city proper in the world by population, comprises a huge administrative area of 82,403 km2, around the size of Austria. However, more than 70% of its 30-million population are actually agricultural workers living in a rural setting.[6][7]
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I remember Peter Jennings of ABC News saying in the early 1980s, it was the first year that the United States did not have enough population to replace themselves – due to abortions, birth control, families only having one or two children. There is NO WAY there are 8 billion people on the face of the earth!!
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it’s nice to see you there mark
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Interesting quote from above “He interviews a large number of people, doing four or five shows a week, usually of extended length.” Aha… so from what does he live? Seems to do no work. So either is a rich fucx (see below*) or someone pay him for his “shows” and blog etc.
*…which may explain he dislikes the “poor” or social help for them and/or want “Raubtierkapitalismus”. Yes I heard him in a “show” w/ fakenukes Phil say something along this and I was irritated but also how gax he sounds or what is the english word consending or so? Very strange that fakenukes hangs w/ all these suspicious people but claims to be a defender of whites? Or even Europeans or even “Germans” ? As an AmeriKKKan and possible shill? Very unlikely for several reasons–. :))
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