Governments are splurging on handouts to avert catastropheThree decades ago, when women now entering their 40s became fertile, East Asian governments had reason to celebrate. If a South Korean woman behaved the same way as her older compatriots, she would emerge from her childbearing years with 1.7 offspring on average, down from 4.5 in 1970. ( Read more... )

The chair of the German parliament's defense committee, Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann, called on the country's armed forces to activate 900,000 German reservists in light of Russia's threatening policies, the DPA news agency reported on June 1 ( Read more... )

At first glance, the world economy looks reassuringly resilient. America has boomed even as its trade war with China has escalated. Germany has withstood the loss of Russian gas supplies without suffering an economic disaster. War in the Middle East has brought no oil shock. Missile-firing Houthi rebels have barely touched the global flow of goods ( Read more... )

И действительно партия "Альтернатива для Германии" набирает вес.
Её называют неонацистской.
... а вот неонацистов в Нэньке не боятся , и финансируют десятилетиями.

Парадокс? Нет, потому что
- "это другое дело"(с)
- этого не может быть, потому что не может быть никогда!(с)
- я этого не знаю и не хочу знать!(с)
- эффект плацебо и ноцебо передают ( Read more... )

Delivered by comrade V.M.Molotov, Chairman of Council of People's Commissars and People's Commissar of Foreign Affairs, at Sitting of the Sixth Session of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR on March 29, 1940Comrades deputies ( Read more... )

The Daily Beast
Not all the members of the Ukrainian ultranationalist militias the U.S. is training have SS tattoos, and not all espouse fascism. But enough do to be worrisome.
Will Cathcart Joseph Epstein
Updated Apr. 14, 2017 10:36AM EDT / Published Jun. 09, 2015 5:15AM EDT

The Guardian
Azov fighters are Ukraine's greatest weapon and may be its ( Read more... )

11 August 2014 • 9:00am
Kiev throws paramilitaries - some openly neo-Nazi - into the front of the battle with rebels

The fighters of the Azov battalion lined up in single file to say farewell to their fallen comrade.

A man who made himself homeless and broke on purpose to prove he could make $1 million in a year has called it quits after he says his health began to deteriorate quicklyA YouTube millionaire was forced to quit his social experiment designed to prove anyone could become rich fast after his health started seriously declining ( Read more... )

2023 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: Ukraine

There were also significant human rights issues involving Ukrainian government officials, although not comparable to the scope of Russia’s abuses, which included credible reports of: enforced disappearance; torture and cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment; harsh and life- ( Read more... )

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday debated whether laws against homeless people for sleeping outside violate their Eighth Amendment right to be free from cruel and unusual punishment.The case pits three homeless people against the 40,000-population rural town of Grants Pass, Ore., at least 600 of whose residents have no place to live. Local advocates ( Read more... )