There are times when things are bigger than our individual needs for restraint, anonymity or well-being.

This is one of those times as we bring you this horrifying story. We don't profess to have the answers, because we don't. What we do have is a single question for those covering up.......  Why aren't you telling us?

The Earth is a beautiful planet, a lush, warm paradise for life.

It hasn't always been this way, with the planet a barren wasteland for billions of years as it cooled from a molten lump of intermingled molecules.

For the first two or three billion years of life on Earth, bacteria and single-celled organisms populated the planet on their own. 

Once some of these organisms had mutated/evolved into other life form, the age of fish began, with trilobites and coelacanths ruling the oceans. Fish have been so successful, that despite human attempts (occasionally successful) to drive species to extinction, coelacanths are still caught today, hundreds of millions of years after evolving. 

Next was the reign of the reptiles, a magnificent period of hundreds of millions of years, characterised forever in human thoughts by tyrannosaurus rex, seismosaurus, stegosaurus and triceratops. 

This was a period when life evolved down a path of size ruling all, taking full advantage of the lushness of this planet paradise. 

Mammals then took over, again attaining gigantic sizes due to the lushness of the planet. The largest ever (known) animal, the blue whale swam the sea while gigantic sabre-tooth tigers and mastodons walked the earth. 

Then, for the first time, a single species became dominant - humans. 

During our short time on earth, we have changed the planet far more than two hundred million years of dinosaur rule did. 

Humans have only been a separate species for two million years, compared to hundreds of millions for reptiles and fish, and billions of years of single-celled life. Evolution has clearly sped up in the past million years, which is no more than an eye-blink in the time scale of the cosmos.  

Imagine just for a moment, a colony of bees. Each bee on its own is completely incapable of thought beyond the reaches of its instinctive duty, be it gatherer, feeder or queen. 

Yet bees have one of the most sophisticated societies in the entire animal kingdom. Nurses, midwives, soldiers, hunters/gatherers, chemists, production hands, design engineers, builders, labourers and cleaners, all housed in a modern, state of the art and structurally brilliant form. 

It took hundreds of thousands of years of human evolution to develop this level of society.

Now image a brown rat. A single brown rat.

On its own, a versatile, cunning, omnivorous beast of prodigious physical capabilities. As an army, capable of attacking a human being.

Rats have enormous physical endurance, are supremely agile, can live on almost any organic matter, and for that matter can even survive short periods of feeding on inorganic matter. They survive in almost any climate, have an individual intelligence and have a structured society. Their night vision is superior to cats, their power to weight ratio is the highest in the entire mammal world and they are impervious to almost all bacteria and viruses. 

The major problem facing rats is that they are susceptible to poisoning. They very soon realise that they are being poisoned and stop eating it, but human cunning had previously been more than a match for rats, with slow-acting poisons and rats being omnivorous combining to enable man to control the rat with ease. 

It wasn't always like that; the Black Death, bubonic plague, was carried throughout the entire population of Europe on the fleas which infest the rats. 

So why is it that the following information is NOT yet public knowledge? 

Rats' are now born in several distinct genetic groups. The few zoologists who even bother studying the rat have categorized them in the following way (see Steinmetz and Pohlen,,  27 March 2010, KC University Press and Royal College of Mammalian Studies, Oxton University Press, 2002): 

Females                 All do nothing but bear young or care for others rearing or bearing young. Each female produces litters of 10- 12 young. According to a four year survey of rats in 126 cities worldwide, the average female is giving birth to 46 kittens each year (Paul Whiteman, PhD. Presentation to the Royal College of Mammalian Studies, 13 June 2009) 

Workers                Some 40% of all male rats are now born sterile at birth. Studies from 20-50 years ago have been assessed for historical levels of infertility and these show that the average rate was previous 4.6%. Rates in 1980 were at an historical low of 3.9%! Somehow, infertility rates amongst male rats have increased by 1000% in the last  30 years.
 
Presently, sterile rats being born rats are always far smaller than average, but have far more stamina than an average weight brown rat (MCIT Dep't of Biology reported in May 2010 that these rats were able to live for 2 -4 times as long without ANY food or water, than their contemporary fertile brothers and sisters)
 
These infertile "workers are exactly akin to their insect relative drone bees and they have been primarily identified in what publications we have found, as "workers".
 
Their primary role is that of hunter-gatherer. Around 10% of them however live within the confines of the colony. These then split into two groups, the "builders" (see below) and those which serve as food tasters. These tasters sample all food brought into the colony, which is then left for a fortnight before consumption. Present metropolitan rat colonies have been observed dumping food which had been eaten by food tasting rats which later sickened or died. (Philips and Wilson, University of West Asia, Brunei- Darussalam 1 June 2012) 

Soldiers                 Among the remaining 60% of male rats, about half are designated as soldiers. These rats guard colony entrances in huge numbers. Between June 2011 and the end of 2012, there were 122 extermination workers worldwide killed at work, compared with 14 people, IN TOTAL, in the previous two hundred years!

 Exhaustive media checks have found only one newspaper to have recorded any of these deaths as actual attacks by rats (Northern Herald-Tribune, 22 July 2011, Saskatoon, Canada)

All of the other deaths have simply been reported as "accidental"

In our possession however, we have authenticated photographs and death certificates of 32 cases where the victim has been clearly and deliberately attacked by packs of rats.

We hold further documentation by way of copies of the death certificates which replaced the originals - the new ones mentioning none of the tooth and claw marks. In three cases, at the post-mortem, it was found that the victims entire genitalia had been eaten during and after the attack, yet every single one of these deaths has been officially recorded as either an accidental poisoning, a fall or a car crash on the way to the site.

There have been recent attacks on people in several dozen cities worldwide outside the colonies as soldier rats have for some reason taken the fight beyond the confines of their own home. (Mumbai Strait Times, 12 December 2011, 14 April 2012 & 1 July 2012)

Studies on soldier rats have been almost impossible to find, mainly due to the lack of research into rats in general, but also exacerbated by the fact that every time they have been captured for study, they simply stop eating and die. (Royal College of Mammalian Studies, 22 January 2009 and 6 May 2010)

Omega                  Amongst the rats of the past ten or so years, a genetic mutation has taken place, an event of which we understand very little, and about which, even less has been written.  

Dissection and analysis of the dead bodies of these Omega rats has shown that, on average, they are an amazing 140% heavier than females or soldiers and have comparatively larger jaws than their smaller cousins to the extent that their bite has six times the circumference of soldier rats. Their canine teeth are double the length of soldiers and they have much longer and stronger claws.

These rats have officially been classified as a new species- Royal College of Mammalian Studies, 1 January 2010 - while still being socially and biologically attached to rats.

They have an extra 12 strands of DNA to other types of rats. The repeating sequence of these 12 strands - GGGT - is unknown in any other species. 

Despite these physical and genetic differences, omega rats are able to impregnate female rats. Offspring have no pattern beyond the ratios shown above, with only laboratory rats now not giving birth to the same genetic variety.

The only relevant studies (J Tseung, Taepei University, 3 May 2012 and F Wilshire-Bowes, Oxton, 22 August 2012) have observed large gatherings of omega rats in colonies. The gatherings have all been in colonies where there is a virtually impregnable area to gather in. Two of Tseung's research assistants were killed in the pursuit of the study.

We understand that two as yet unpublished articles will suggest that omega rats are able to communicate inaudibly with each other. Laboratory studies have noted extreme agitation and vastly increased aggressiveness and ferocity in omegas when one of their number is being gassed for dissection, even though they are often in different rooms. Sound monitors able to register sounds well below and above human hearing have not picked up any additional sound waves at these times.

Omega rats have been observed to gnaw their way through a 5 cm thick concrete block in 6 hours with no noticeable wear of their teeth.

Along with the above research, a very recent study has noticed a change in the structure of rat colonies. Up until now, rats have lived wherever there was a space for them to live, with minimal concessions made for nesting. The Zoological Studies Dep't of Biejing University came across a huge colony (circa 200,000) killed when a minor earthquake hit Central Sizhuan Province in March 2011. there were no fatalities other than 9 workers killed when their factory floor dropped twenty feet into the ground, collapsing the building on top of them.

As the building was carefully demolished to try to salvage expensive machinery, workers cleared rubble to the extent of leaving the 1,850m2 concrete base intact and clear of rubble. It and some land around it had clearly fallen into an unknown subterranean void of some considerable size, very much like a sink hole. When the factory's base sheet was broken, the immediately apparent maze of nests and the enormous number of dead rats drew the attention of the research group, which managed to chronicle the structure of the colony.

The colony consisted of seventeen separate levels, with the nursing and breeding females at the very bottom. A sophisticated air duct system was noted. It was also noted that three attempts - all unsuccessful - had been made to gas the rat colony in the six months before the building's demise.

The research team showed that several dozen air ducts had been previously blocked by bodies of worker rats. Gas spectrometer readings of rat bodies (J Tseung, Taepei University21 November 2011) shows that the rats at the front of the tunnel had highest concentrations of poison gas in their systems while those at the rear of the blockage had no gas residue at all but had clearly starved to death. There can be no other explanation than groups of rats have found a way of protecting their colonies from gas attack by having squadrons of "kamikaze" rats which block ducts when poison gas is introduced to the colony.

They are sophisticated enough to know that even letting the gas seep in would endanger them, so ensure the seal by filling the tunnel with starving workers.

Omega rats were found all in the same area, a complex cavern system comprising three separate levels - one for sleeping, one for feeding, the other for copulation.

Lines of rats carrying food to this system suggests that some worker rats are servants for their far larger omega cousins.

So, how many rats are there at the moment?

With rats' recent surges in metropolitan areas (Smith, Halliwell and Tulaga, Toranto University Press 1 May 2012 and the Federal Bureau of Urban Pests Report 6 December 2012), rat populations have been growing at spectacular rates. It is estimated that presently the populations are increasing at nearly 43% of the gross birth rate, meaning the world population of rats is DOUBLING every 2 ½ years.

It was estimated in the year 2010 (McFadgen and Smith, Royal Mammalian Society Census) that the Earth's rat population was around 2700 million, over ten times the figure of ten years previously.

No more recent figures are available, but let's look at a generous estimate. Say the current population is only 5 billion. In just four years' time there will be three rats to each person, and bigger rats at that.

Given rats' tenacity, aggression and fearlessness, how long will it be before they are competing for food with people on an individual and collective basis?

Why is nobody mentioning this?

We have contacted 13 Ministries and Departments of Urban Pests worldwide so far and not one has shown any interest in this impending ecological disaster. The Environmental Preservation Agency met with our representatives and pointed out that rats aren't a problem. They feel that the growth figures are unlikely given results in poisoning over the past 200 years. They accepted that in very recent times poison campaigns had not been working due to food-tasting rats, but felt that the problem would be short-lived as commercial developments brought out new products. In other words, they are happy that capitalists will defeat rats.

Staff and committees at the Royal College of Mammalian Studies have informed us that they are presently conducting a study into the species and therefore will not comment.

We have spoken with staff at Rentakill, the world's largest rat control company, as well as Urban Pest Chemicals. These two between them control 60% of the world market for rat population control. The official line from both companies has been that yes, there is currently a small problem, but efforts in current testing and production programmes will result in efficient new products in the "very near future".

We did manage to have private talks with three research scientists, one from Rentakill and two from UPC, who all expressed the view that they were not even close to having a product available. One, who is deeply involved in the research programmes stated that he felt a successful product is some four or five years away. He professed to being "very concerned" about the current population explosion and was the only contact who coupled this growth in numbers with the newly noted structure of rat colonies, saying "This poses one of the greatest health threats to humanity of all time."

He also pointed out that omega rats appear to be getting larger with each passing generation at a constant rate. He estimated that within three years, the average omega will weigh five kilograms, about the same as a Cocker Spaniel, but armed with barracuda-like jaws the size of an Alsatian.

By the end of 2019, there will be roughly six or seven Omega rats for EVERY human being, with a further 20-30 other rats per person thrown in.

Now imagine them 20 of them in your house while the family is asleep.

Current computer projections show that rats' current means of food supply will run out in late 2017, when their world population has passed 30 billion.

Where do you think their next meal is going to come from?

 

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