A low birth rate due to extended periods of prosperity and low perceived external danger is the primary reason that Rome and most other powerful civilizations collapsed.
Rome had a very high birth rate when under extreme pressure from Carthage and a low birth rate a few generations after Carthage, their last serious threat, was finally destroyed.
Remember, the government cannot *discount* anything, nor provide “free” stuff. YOU are paying for that with your tax dollars. This is just communist money laundering and will collapse in spectacular fashion, decimating local businesses in the process.
You are not gonna believe this…
Mohamud Hassan, the chairman of the Sincad political party in Somalia…
Also owns a healthcare company in Minnesota!
Of course
However, the address listed on his website doesn’t match his NPI address… super shady 🧐
REVEALED: Here Are the Mainstream Journalists on China’s Payroll 🚨
I exclusively uncovered the identities of prominent U.S. journalists flown to China by a CCP-linked influence operation seeking “favorable coverage” and “positive messages” about Beijing. 🧵
A bipartisan congressional report says the United Front works to “co-opt and neutralize sources of potential opposition” to the CCP.
American media was not incidental to the strategy. It was a target.
The public saw the articles.
It did not see the CCP-linked influence operation behind them.
Subscribe for free to help expose what the establishment is counting on you never finding out about. ⬇️
https://t.co/2MN1hezRpS
The network also reached Joe Biden’s orbit.
Bruce Stokes is married to Wendy Sherman, who became Biden’s deputy secretary of state and one of the administration’s most powerful foreign-policy officials.
Former NPR editor Marilyn Geewax later became a visiting professor at Tsinghua University, Xi Jinping’s alma mater and one of China’s most politically connected institutions.
Steve Chapman attacked Trump’s trade policies and published a now-deleted column making “the case for buying U.S. Olympic outfits from China.”
Ronald Brownstein opposed Trump’s confrontation with Beijing.
Matthew Yglesias joked about wanting to “give Party flunkies notes” on improving their “propaganda.”
Ezra Klein later credited China with buying America time during COVID.
David Rohde produced one of the clearest examples after a CUSEF-organized trip:
“The Chinese state has played a central role in creating, supporting and expanding businesses here.”
Rohde continued:
“Those successes show that, for all the attacks from American politicians on Chinese currency manipulation, American companies can find profits in China.”
Then came the verdict on American industry:
“Americans, meanwhile, should accept that large-scale manufacturing will never return to the United States.”
Rohde urged American companies to profit from China’s rise and dismissed political objections in Washington as “ideological babble.”
Catherine Rampell repeatedly attacked Trump’s China policies.
One dispatch from her CUSEF-funded trip amplified Chinese officials portraying America as the aggressor and urged Washington to abandon its “zero-sum-game attitude” toward Beijing.
Then came the coverage.
Shikha Dalmia published “China Bashing is for Losers.”
Bradford Plumer praised Beijing’s climate agenda.
Bruce Stokes warned that economic “decoupling” from China would “backfire.”
The access went far beyond conference rooms.
American journalists were taken on curated tours through China, including visits to Chinese military bases, by the same network seeking favorable coverage.