A study entitled “Borderless Welfare State: The Consequences of Immigration on Public Finances” shows that the Dutch spent €400 billion (!!) in net costs to the immigrants who are replacing them over the period 1995-2019

https://archive.is/YatZ4
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#immigration #economy #Netherlands #money
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13 Years of (UK) Conservatives promising to reduce Immigration
https://twitter.com/kunley_drukpa/status/1734169027449114763

Majority of Americans feel US economy is in recession: survey
https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/majority-americans-us-economy-recession-survey

Attractiveness (rated by interviewers) is associated with both identification as conservative & identification with the Republican party, even after controlling for socioeconomic status. Findings were consistent in both the ANES & WLS datasets used.

https://t.co/FqoCbcar0p?amp=1

Conservatives keep getting vindicated

"Society is again learning via hard experience that drugs are dangerous. Efforts to destigmatize drug use may delay this learning, draw out the epidemic, invite new cohorts to try hard drugs, and create more addicted people. Instead, we as a society should have the wisdom to say unequivocally that in this new era of synthetic drugs, none of these drugs—nor any illegal substance, which may well contain them—should ever be used."

Destigmatizing Drug Use Has Been a Profound Mistake
https://archive.is/d9fJm

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#drugs #USA
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'Diversity hire' Harvard president Claudine Gay plagiarized PhD dissertation: report
https://thepostmillennial.com/diversity-hire-harvard-president-claudine-gay-plagiarized-ph-d-thesis-report

Women are increasingly less satisfied with the treatment of women since the early 2000s

Gender Disparities in Views of Women's Equality Persist
https://news.gallup.com/poll/355958/gender-disparities-views-women-equality-persist.aspx
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#women #USA #equality #satisfaction
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President’s (Joe Biden) Rating Hits Record Low

https://www.monmouth.edu/polling-institute/reports/monmouthpoll_us_121823/

Does Wealth Inhibit Criminal Behavior? Evidence from Swedish Lottery Winners and Their Children
https://www.nber.org/papers/w31962

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#wealth #crime #genetics
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Liberal democracies around the world have more or less respected freedom of speech until the 1990s and the 2010s

Money and crime: the relationship that wasn't
https://www.emilkirkegaard.com/p/money-and-crime-the-relationship

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#crime #poverty #wealth #money
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Russia has created a fake airline, which will probably be engaged in the transportation of illegal immigrants to Europe via Belarus

This is reported by the publication Bild. The investigation revealed that the airline called Southwind Airlines is based in Antalya and was created after the outbreak of war in Ukraine, but three airplanes and most of the company's employees are from Moscow-based Nordwind Airlines. Nordwind Airlines is owned by Pegas Touristik, and its owners are Russians with Turkish roots.

https://m.bild.de/politik/ausland/politik-ausland/geheimnisvolle-route-istanbul-minsk-putin-startet-neue-schleuser-airline-86501732.bildMobile.html?t_ref=https%3A%2F%2Fduckduckgo.com%2F

From this year November :

Finland accuses Russia of aiding illegal migrant crossings
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-67420564

"There is no need to accept demographic decline as the price of prosperity. We have beaten it before. We can beat it again!"

The Baby Boom

https://www.aporiamagazine.com/p/the-baby-boom
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#feminism #fertility
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A compilation of recent articles documenting present-day censorship in science

Spotlight on scientific censorship: A virtual collection
https://hxstem.substack.com/p/spotlight-on-scientific-censorship

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#bias #research #science #censorship
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There are various arguments in favour of immigration, which may or may not have merit. The claim that “immigration is good for the economy” is so vague as to be meaningless.

Is "immigration" good for the economy?
https://www.aporiamagazine.com/p/is-immigration-good-for-the-economy
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#immigration #economy
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