Venezuelan prisoners are eating rats and pigeons as a means of survival as food supplies continue to dissipate in the failed socialist state, according to a report published this weekend. El Nuevo Herald reports that a group of prisoners at the Vista Hermosa (Beautiful View) prison in Bolivar state have turned to eating such creatures simply to sustain themselves. One inmate, 41-year-old Alejandro... 

A new video shows Venezuelans competing with dogs to eat from trash in the middle of the street. Shot near Banesto Bank in Valencia, the third largest city in Venezuela, the clip shows people picking through garbage in the hope of finding scraps of food. One man is seen shooing away children and dogs as he eats the scraps there and then, while others attempt to fill up a plastic bag. Highlighting... 

Amid soaring pressure on Theresa May, a memo has emerged claiming that if Brexit happens, the UK economy’s growth will slow down whatever the deal is. Sputnik has discussed the potential impact of the leak on Brexit talks with Mark Garnett, a politics professor at Lancaster University and author of “From Anger to Apathy: The British Experience.” Sputnik: This is the information [analytical... 

The inequality crisis is worsening, according to a new study by global charity Oxfam, which found that the world’s richest 42 people own the same amount of wealth as the poorest 50 percent worldwide. The annual report showed that 2017 saw the biggest increase in the number of billionaires in history, with new ones created at a rate of one every two days. Their wealth has increased by 13 percent... 

The bottom half of adults in the world collectively own less than the richest one percent, according to a Credit Suisse report. The gap between the super-rich and the poor has significantly grown since the global crisis. The wealthiest one percent owned 42.5 percent of global wealth in 2008, the bank reports. “The downward trend reversed after 2008 and the share of the top one percent has been... 

Starving Venezuelans tore down a statue to Socialist leader Hugo Chavez on Saturday. They tore it down and dragged it through the street. The average weight loss in the latest failed Socialist state is 19 pounds. The people are starving as the Socialist state suffers a complete economic collapse. Here’s another video of the people tearing down a Chavez statue. The AP reported: Women banged on pans... 

While shortages of basic foods, medicines, and toilet paper may be a major societal problem, the people of Venezuela face an even more existential problem: the nation now lacks the materials to meet the soaring demand for new passports – making it almost impossible to leave the socialist utopia. “People used to move to Venezuela from all over the Americas, Europe and Asia and now they are all... 

Venezuela continues its inevitable collapse. The communist paradise is down to its last $10 billion in cash reserves. The people are starving. School children recently told reporters they had not had milk in over a year. This is what communism/socialism does! Smash socialism and never vote for a leftist party unless you wanna starve to death. CNN Money reported: Venezuela only has $10.5 billion in... 

In a new sign that Venezuela’s financial crisis is morphing dangerously into a humanitarian one, a new nationwide survey shows that in the past year nearly 75 percent of the population lost an average of 19 pounds (8.6 Kg) for lack of food. The extreme poor said they dropped even more weight than that. The 2016 Living Conditions Survey (Encovi, for its name in Spanish), conducted among 6,500 families,... 

Bernie Sanders, played an entire deck of race cards in one fell swoop at the Democrat debate Sunday night, but it was his take on poverty that earned a facepalm. The Jewish socialist/communist Vermont senator did his pandering best to wrestle the black vote away from Hillary Clinton by accusing police officers of terrorizing black people… the usual schtick. “I’m not just talking about the... 

Activist prankster Mark Dice hit the strip in San Diego once again this week to expose how lefty Americans will agree with anything so long as they think Hillary Clinton is behind it. This week, Dice sold the sheep members of the public on the idea that one of Hillary’s primary campaign promises is to lower the standard of living, and asked if they think it is a good campaign platform to run on. “I... 

Startup culture and the “sharing economy” could be replacing the traditional American Dream of freedom of lifestyle choice and the ability to own a home, according to a new survey paralleling research conducted in 1986. Young white Americans have become as hopeless regarding the “American Dream” as their non-white counterparts, according to a poll conducted among US 18 to 34-year-olds,... 

About 565,000 people were homeless in the United States, according to a one-night federal survey. While this is a two percent drop from 2014, major cities like New York, Seattle and Los Angeles continue to battle rising homelessness. The US Department of Housing and Urban Development’s 2015 Annual Homeless Assessment Report to Congress found that of the 565,000 homeless counted during a point-in-time... 

The middle class in America has been disappearing because of the rapid increase in the cost of living in the United States. Indeed, the cost of living in the United States (food, rent, medical insurance and so on) has been growing rapidly. On the federal level, the poverty threshold for a family of five makes up $28,410, although 51% of all American workers make less than $ 30,000 a year at the moment. In... 

A new report suggests that youth homelessness in the UK is more than eight times higher than the official figures. A new report suggests that youth homelessness in the UK is more than eight times higher than the official figures. The report has been published by Centrepoint – the UK’s leading charity for homeless young people. It says some 136,000 young people aged between 16 and 24, sought...