We think the collapse in birth rates is a modern problem. It is not. The most powerful man in the world once faced the exact same thing, and he was so alarmed he passed laws to force his people to have children.
This was not a modern government: it was Rome 2000 years ago...
The emperor was Augustus, and by his reign the Roman elite had grown wealthy, comfortable, and reluctant to marry or raise families. Men preferred bachelorhood and affairs to the burden of a wife and children.
Augustus found it alarming enough to legislate. Around 18 BC and again in AD 9, he pushed through the Lex Julia and the Lex Papia Poppaea, a sweeping set of laws designed to engineer a baby boom by decree.
The measures were direct: unmarried men and childless couples faced penalties on what they could inherit. Those who married and had children were rewarded with faster careers and public honors. Women who bore three or more children were granted a special legal freedom, the ius trium liberorum, the "right of three children," releasing them from male guardianship.
The state was, quite literally, paying its citizens to reproduce and fining them when they did not.
It didn't work...
The laws were resented, evaded, and endlessly tinkered with, and Rome's elite went on having small families anyway. The historian Cassius Dio records Augustus standing before the childless men of Rome and shaming them to their faces: "You are committing murder in not begetting in the first place those who ought to be your descendants." A city, he warned them, is not its buildings but its people: "For it is human beings that constitute a city, not houses or porticos or market-places empty of men."
Now look at the numbers today. For a population simply to hold steady, women need to average about 2.1 children each. South Korea recently hit 0.72, the lowest rate ever recorded for any country on earth, and even after a small rebound to 0.8 in 2025, it remains less than half of what a country needs to sustain itself. Italy and Japan sit near 1.2, China around 1.0, Spain near 1.1. The United States is about 1.6, the United Kingdom 1.5. According to the UN, more than half the world's countries are now below that line.
History doesn't repeat itself, the saying goes, but it often rhymes, and this pattern is old and eerily familiar. A society climbs to the height of its wealth and comfort, and at that very peak its people stop having children, and no law, no incentive, no sum of money seems able to talk them back into it.
Rome tried, with the full power of an empire behind it, and failed. At its height the city held more than a million people, a size no European city would reach again for 1700 years, until London in the 1800s.
The Roman historian Livy, writing as the Republic gave way to the empire, said his was an age that "can endure neither its vices nor their cure." Two thousand years later, staring at the same problem and just as unable to solve it, we may be watching the beginning of the same story...
A civilization does not always fall to an enemy at the gates. As the historian Arnold J. Toynbee once said: “Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder.”
#boeren#terreur#koeien Boer Arjan is ontroostbaar: 2/3 van zijn veestapel moet binnen 6 maanden weg, anders krijgt hij een dwangsom van 117.000 euro per kwartaal.
Boy George released "Od Nirkod (We Will Dance Again)" a song about the Nova festival massacre - with the caption "Shalom."
The backlash was immediate. His management pulled him from his role in "Jesus Christ Superstar" at the London Palladium. He split from his record label. Then some of his own band members started questioning whether they'd perform the song with him.
His answer was simple: anyone who won't play it is out of the band.
Artists get praised constantly for speaking up about injustice - unless the victims are Israeli. Boy George already paid for refusing to accept that double standard. He's not backing down now.
Jewish communities remember who stood beside them when it actually cost something.
Lindsay Clancy methodically killed her three children one by one while her husband was out running errands.
Women on TikTok have raised $715,000 for her defense.
"Many of us know we could have been only one step away from doing those horrific things."
No. We don't see ourselves in a woman who murdered her three children.
She sent her husband out first. This was premeditated. That's not postpartum depression, that's first degree murder.
@UnamunoAgain Of het nut heeft weet ik niet, maar ik weet wel dat Europese landen alleen op papier het woord democratie dragen. We zijn eerder een autoritaire bureaucratie en de EU doelt erop om dat door te zetten naar Václav Havels post totalitaire systeem.
Turquía lleva más de un siglo cometiendo genocidios:
🔴 Genocidio armenio (1915): 1,5 millones masacrados y deportados.
🔴 Genocidio griego (1914-1923): 1,2 millones exterminados o expulsados.
🔴 Genocidio asirio (1915-1918): 275.000 cristianos masacrados.
🔴 Gran Hambruna del Líbano (1915-1918): 200.000 muertos por confiscación deliberada de alimentos.
🔴 Genocidio de Dersim (1937-1938): armas químicas contra kurdos.
🔴 Impuesto racial (1942): 232% para armenios, 179% para judíos, 156% para griegos. Destrucción económica sistemática.
🔴 Pogrom de Estambul (1955): cientos de mujeres y niños griegos violados por turbas organizadas por el Estado.
🔴 Invasión de Chipre (1974): 200.000 griegos expulsados. Ocupación que continúa hoy.
🔴 Kurdos (años 80-90): 2.685 pueblos arrasados. 2 millones de desplazados.
🔴 Norte de Siria (2015-hoy): 400.000 kurdos expulsados y reemplazados por colonos árabes.
Un país que pasó del 20% de población cristiana al 1% en pocas décadas. No por milagro. Por exterminio sistemático.
Y mientras tanto, la ONU dedica más resoluciones a Israel en un año que a Turquía en un siglo.
@sanchezcastejon rompe con el único Estado judío del mundo y llama aliado a Erdoğan.
🛡️ 700,000 signatures!
Thank you to all the European patriots and supporters who have signed the Save Europe Act and helped bring the campaign to this milestone.
Despite the rejection, despite the censorship and the bans, we will continue to get to 1 million signatures to show the Brussels elites that we are many and we are strong and we will bring remigration to the doorsteps of the EU!
700,000 down. The road to one million continues.
Share the petition with everyone you know and sign the act today!
Remigration saves Europe.
😰 Ein Bild, das um die Welt gehen muß.
🇺🇦 In Kamenskoe (Каменское) im Oblast Dnipro fleht eine Frau auf Knien vor dem Häscher des Territorialen Rekrutierungszentrums (#ТЦК), ihren mit brutaler Gewalt von der Strasse geraubten Mann nicht mitzunehmen.
Das half ihrem Mann nichts.
Das Foto veranschaulicht wahrscheinlich am besten, wie sehr die Bürger in der Ukraine unter dem Joch des von Korruption verseuchten Selenskyj Regimes in Kiew und der starrköpfigen, bellizistischen Haltung der Regierungen der #EU Staaten zu leiden haben.
🇩🇪 Gut gemacht, Herr #Merz ...
#Ukraine #Selenskyj #Massenmörder #Terrorist #Kriegsverbrecher #Busifizierung #Бусификация #людоловами #бандеровскаяОккупация
@OliLondonTV This could have been our first gay prime minister, if he wasn't killed by Volkert van der Graaf. Not that Fortuyn cared about his sexual preferences as a part of his image or political career.
Dit soort busjes waarmee het Zelensky-regime Oekraïners ontvoert om ze af te voeren naar het front worden gratis geleverd door het Jetten-regime. Geen woord daarover in de MSM.
It has been 200 days since the Epstein files were released with zero prosecutions.
As someone works in human rights, I’ve never seen anything like the Epstein files in my 15-year career. There are 3 million files of documented evidence about powerful men and women who
Raped
Cannibalized
Trafficked
Filmed
Terrorized
Tortured
Hunted
Murdered
13, 14, 15 year children!
Remember: this is a minority of the files. This's just what they were willing to release.
Not a single arrest or investigation. ZERO have been arrested for raping children.
We called on the U.S. Department of Justice to hand over the full Epstein files to the UN Special Rapporteurs and UN independent committees for investigations, as this is an international case of crimes against humanity. But the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, the UN's top human rights official didn't even care to open an investigation or listen to our call for the DOJ, nor utter a single word regarding the largest human trafficking network in modern history.
Epstein pedophiles are investigating Epstein files. We wonder why nobody arrested. Jeffery Epstein has every major politicians and billionaires on video doing something terrible to a child or to multiple people. And the media isn't silent about child sex trafficking because of the children. It’s silent because of who the customers are!
The Epstein files is never really about just a "list." It is about children raped by powerful men, and a system that let them get away with it.
The bottom line here is the world system has become so corrupt that the time has come I think to clean the crap out of the stables and start over.
The Epstein files is about protecting children. There's no greater cause. If people can't unite over children being raped and abused there's no hope for humanity.
I don't understand how we're not having a global revolution right now.
🛡️A new milestone in the rankings!
For the first time, the UK is now in 3rd place, overtaking Italy in signatures 🇬🇧:
from 45,251 to 51,543 signatures, an increase of 6,292.
That surge is enough to move the UK from 4th to 3rd place, overtaking Italy 🇮🇹, which stands at 51,228.
Other notable changes from the last ranking update:
🇪🇸 Spain: 37,483 → 44,602
🇸🇪 Sweden: 28,879 → 33,551
🇸🇰 Slovakia: 26,038 → 29,142
At the top, the Netherlands 🇳🇱 and Germany 🇩🇪 remain firmly ahead.
Do you want to see your country in the top ranks? Then sign the Save Europe Act now and share the message with everyone you know.
Remigration saves Europe!
Charlie Kirk: “Als je economie studeert en ze leren je niet over Thomas Sowell, dan krijg je geen onderwijs. Je krijgt een indoctrinatie.
“Milton Friedman, Ludwig von Mises, Murray Rothbard, F. A. Hayek, Frédéric Bastiat… je zou ze allemaal moeten kennen.”
En dat is ook het geval met de Nederlandse universiteiten. 👇🏻
Christenen in Marokko:
•Een Marokkaanse christen mag niet vrij evangeliseren onder moslims. Artikel 220 van het Wetboek van Strafrecht stelt het strafbaar om iemand tot een andere religie te proberen te bekeren onder de daar genoemde omstandigheden.
Daarop kan een gevangenisstraf van 6 maanden tot 3 jaar staan.
•Marokkaanse christenen kunnen niet een eigen christelijke kerk oprichten. De geregistreerde kerken zijn voornamelijk verbonden aan buitenlandse christelijke gemeenschappen.
•De Marokkaanse wet staat niet toe dat Marokkaanse christenen op christelijke begraafplaatsen worden begraven.
Ook mogen christelijke organisaties van Marokkaanse burgers geen eigen christelijke begrafenis- en uitvaartdiensten organiseren. Buitenlandse christenen verkeren hierin in een andere juridische positie.
•Een Marokkaanse christen kan niet zomaar een christelijke voornaam aan zijn of haar kind geven; de bronnen melden dat christelijke namen voor Marokkaanse christenen niet zijn toegestaan.
•Marokkaanse christenen kunnen niet worden begraven op een christelijke begraafplaats. Volgens recente rapportages worden zij in de praktijk volgens islamitische gebruiken begraven.
•Marokkaanse christenen vallen onder het Marokkaanse familierecht, dat grotendeels is gebaseerd op islamitische rechtsbeginselen. Een kerkelijk huwelijk heeft geen wettelijke rechtsgeldigheid.
•Marokkaanse christelijke kinderen krijgen op scholen verplicht islamitisch godsdienstonderwijs.
•Openlijk christen zijn kan leiden tot sociale uitsluiting, druk vanuit familie, discriminatie op het werk, intimidatie en soms bedreigingen. Daarom kiezen veel Marokkaanse bekeerlingen ervoor hun geloof grotendeels privé te beleven.
•In Marokko kan openlijk bekritiseren of aantasten van de islam strafbaar zijn en tot gevangenisstraf en/of een boete leiden.
En niemand die hier iets van zegt of die het boeit.
Alleen het Westen moet ONEINDIG inclusief en tolerant zijn 🤮