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originally posted by: KittyStix
Ok so I had to join and throw in my three cents worth.
1) There is noting "special" about the deagel.com site coding. In fact it is very basic HTML, JS and CSS.
2) The Java codes: deagel14.js and jquery.js are basic simple code. In fact these can be found on the internet and hacked to your needs. There have been JS script packages on the net as long as the net has had JS.
3) Google is linked from withing the site
4) The site search function is not some super searcher on the backend requiring "gangs of programmers" It is a simple JS query of the site itself looking for your provided keywords.
To see this for yourself get off the lame Internet Explorer and Windows. Boot Ubuntu, use Chrome, in the Menu goto tools and fire up the developer options and see the non "sinister" code yourself.
The site is very basic, no backend, not even asp coded tricks not fancy html (basic). Most likely code with Expression Web and ran on 2008-2012 Windows server. There is one ad click connection, no backend databases, no backend code beyond the JS.
Looking through the site you can find errors Like calling a Bushmaster III a 50 Cal right before saying it is a 35mm.
This is most likely a gamers site dedicated to his or her love of their gaming world, the weapons used in it and the in world history of the game as the world stats of 2025 most likely indicate.
I would not put much stock in it at all.
originally posted by: nenothtu
a reply to: phoenix9884
Fascinating analysis. I couldn't find it there this morning, so I presume it's already been zapped from the site.
Maybe that'll bring the buffalo back after a few years of it, but it's doubtful - In 1878, we had a population density about half that, and they still disappeared.
It's China's and Latin America's turn, anyhow.
originally posted by: signalfire
It would be wonderful and smart to bring back the bison; they can handle the weather changes we're experiencing far more than domestic cattle can; they'll sleep right through the most awful blizzards. Just gotta get rid of the fences all over the place and let them do their normal migrations.
Okay, back on topic; interesting that the long explanation is gone from the site already. You'd think they'd leave it up what with all the recent commotion (arriving from ATS as well as at least one other site). Maybe the guy running it is just OCD combined with an actuarial bent? If he's doing it for money, he's doing a crappy job of monetizing it.
originally posted by: DigitalJedi805
a reply to: phoenix9884
Can't read through all of that right this second, but I find it interesting that there is mention of the Ebola pandemic - and that some of this is based on that... I thought Ebola was going to be contained and controlled 'very shortly'... Why would numbers reflect a continued pandemic? A much larger one at that...?
Good catch. Pretty interesting.
By the way, no pandemic or nuclear war is included in the forecast.
originally posted by: nenothtu
originally posted by: DigitalJedi805
a reply to: phoenix9884
Can't read through all of that right this second, but I find it interesting that there is mention of the Ebola pandemic - and that some of this is based on that... I thought Ebola was going to be contained and controlled 'very shortly'... Why would numbers reflect a continued pandemic? A much larger one at that...?
Good catch. Pretty interesting.
The post specifically said :
By the way, no pandemic or nuclear war is included in the forecast.
The upshot of the "Ebola" paragraph was apparently an attempt to illustrate how some factors are not necessarily accounted for in determining the impact of any single event, rather than as an indictment of Ebola in the collapse of America forecasted.
It says that an event with a certain kill rate under optimal conditions can get out of hand when conditions become less than optimal due to other determinant factors, and used the Ebola epidemic as a potential example, but not a factor in the forecast.
It goes on to say instead that the apparent population decrease is forecast to be driven by migration away from America as the economy continues to head down the crapper. We lose people which other countries then gain via the migration. There IS a pretty high mortality rate forecast to work in tandem with the migration, probably a result partially of competent doctors and such leaving town for greener pastures. Other factors would then include such things as the price of medicine to control conditions overwhelming the economic ability of patients who remain, and that sort of thing. He uses the collapse and chaos of the Soviet Union as an example of how it's forecast to go, but also says the fall will be harder here, because we have farther to fall.
Looking through some of the other country data, I found that Switzerland of all places, and most all of the Scandinavian countries also had horrendous population declines. Even the UK was forecast to decline by just short of half. Communist (whether in reality or name only) and seriously left-leaning countries appeared to fare better, but I don't think the underlying reason for that was because of their economic/political ideology, I think it is because they are perceived as being ripe for the pickings at the moment, whereas most "western" countries are already picked over and ragged out.
The underlying predicate seems to be the migration of "western" civilization, and the assumption that it moves on, like a swarm of locusts, as it devastates each area it alights in. The post specifies that it started out around the Mediterranean then migrated northward, then westward to North America, and that it's path of destruction now leads even further westward (and apparently has a fork heading southward), going west around the planet to the "east", which is next on the agenda according to the forecast.
Why Switzerland? All I can think of is the reputation of Switzerland as an economic power player, which fits in with the above scenario, as financial centers move to the eastern hemisphere. It's not likely to be war or disease or famine, the traditional apocalyptic horsemen. Switzerland has pretty fair defenses against all of the above, currently. When was the last time Switzerland was invaded?
SO - I don't think it's a "doomsday" prediction, just a model of how they expect global economics to shift, and the attendant population shift as people "follow the money", and as those who either elect not to or can't afford to follow it learn to deal with a harsh new reality, many of whom will die in the learning process. Following the economic and population shifts, the "east" can expect to have their resources and finances plundered, not to mention the influx of migrants which will irrevocably alter their culture.
That has ALWAYS been the way of the world.
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originally posted by: DigitalJedi805
Well thank you for the synopsis - trying to squeeze ATS in between work - but I have to ask ( just to play jesus' advocate ) - do you think that economical or immigratory changes will have an effect of over 200 million people in 10 years? I don't even think that's possible.
This also doesn't account for the numerous other countries that drop in population by the millions or tens of millions - or the 200 million overall drop worldwide.
I suppose that somewhere in that text there is some attempted reasoning for all of this, but I just don't buy that it doesn't have something to do with 'population quelling'.
The lack of revealing sources also raises some questions.
Furthermore - there isn't any news coverage or much else on the internet revolving around this site other than this thread - why would they be so quick to try and stifle the conception being generated from 'a conspiracy site'?
Aside from the fact that conspiracy theorists are frighteningly frequently right.
originally posted by: DondeEsta?
so basically my one line analysis was spot on. a reply to: phoenix9884