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An article full of incoherent ideas and lacking in any logic. Try again Paul.
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0You use words like "logic" as if you know what they mean.
Be specific, for once, and point out a logical fallacy in Goble's article. Bet you can't do it, you posturing buffoon.
Be specific, for once, and point out a logical fallacy in Goble's article. Bet you can't do it, you posturing buffoon.
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0Goble has simply latched onto a populist political tag which has no broader political relevance. The pendulum swings of Russian politics are not as easy to discern as he purports them to be. This is not a subject to be handled as lightly as Goble has done this time round.
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0"Goble has simply latched onto a populist political tag [what's that?] which has no broader political relevance [to what?]. The pendulum swings of Russian politics are not as easy to discern as he purports them to be. [If you are better-informed, then prove it.] This is not a subject to be handled as lightly as Goble has done this time round. [why?]"
Maxim, your inept efforts to inflate your own importance are embarrassing to witness.
Maxim, your inept efforts to inflate your own importance are embarrassing to witness.
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0Goble is respected as an expert. I think that he was the only one that predicted the collapse of communism in advance. If Maxim really knew something that Goble doesn't, he would simply tell what it is.
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0If ethnic Russians happened to be furry animals, they would be on the world's endangered species list. The birth-rate among them is so low that, by mid-century, there will only be a half as many of them. By constrast, the islamic portion of the Russian Federation is growing so fast that Moscow will be a predominantly Moslem by mid-century. To stifle these trends, Putin is desperately grasping at straws.
Estonia's birth-rate is also dangerously low. The preferred solution would be to integrate existing minorities, mostly Russians. Encouraging immigration has its perils, as France has discovered, and encouraging larger families is impractical.
Estonia's birth-rate is also dangerously low. The preferred solution would be to integrate existing minorities, mostly Russians. Encouraging immigration has its perils, as France has discovered, and encouraging larger families is impractical.
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0 Why is encouraging large families impractical? If the west does not wake up soon and sweep away the crazy liberal-leftist doctrines that have been the cause of our demographic problems then our entire civilization is doomed.
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0Liberal-leftist doctrines are the cause of many problems, but not the decline in birth-rates. That has other causes not well-understood but, nonrtheless, strongly correlated with the standard-of-living. In every corner of the world, birth-rates plunge just as the general populace acquires some wealth.
To reverse a falling birth-rate, a democratic government could spend a fortune on family-oriented policies with barely detectable impact because most women wish to complete a university education and work for several years before they have their first and only child before the age of forty. More day-care and large tax-incentives will not change that.
This phenomenon could be changed by a totalitarian government which took the view that population-growth is essential to the people's destiny. Where the people are important, individuals aren't, and a totalitarian government could establish a high birth-rate by coercion.
For direction, they could look to nations with exploding populations. There, pubescent girls are, by culture, forced into marriage to produce six or more children which are, in turn, each forced into marriage to produce as many again at about the same time that an Estonian woman is having her first and only child. This model is not an acceptable solution to our problem.
The democracies face serious problems. They need a growing number of young tax-payers to sustain our social programmes. With our non-replacement level birth-rates, they can only be found among assimilable immigrants.
Immigrants are available in bulk, but they are difficult to assimilate against the efforts of the enemies of democracy. Who are they? Specifically, those who wish to see "activist" judges on the supreme court and Sharia law in Ontario are two that pop to mind. In general, it's the leftist and Islamofascist who can't recognise any intrisic value in a human being.
To reverse a falling birth-rate, a democratic government could spend a fortune on family-oriented policies with barely detectable impact because most women wish to complete a university education and work for several years before they have their first and only child before the age of forty. More day-care and large tax-incentives will not change that.
This phenomenon could be changed by a totalitarian government which took the view that population-growth is essential to the people's destiny. Where the people are important, individuals aren't, and a totalitarian government could establish a high birth-rate by coercion.
For direction, they could look to nations with exploding populations. There, pubescent girls are, by culture, forced into marriage to produce six or more children which are, in turn, each forced into marriage to produce as many again at about the same time that an Estonian woman is having her first and only child. This model is not an acceptable solution to our problem.
The democracies face serious problems. They need a growing number of young tax-payers to sustain our social programmes. With our non-replacement level birth-rates, they can only be found among assimilable immigrants.
Immigrants are available in bulk, but they are difficult to assimilate against the efforts of the enemies of democracy. Who are they? Specifically, those who wish to see "activist" judges on the supreme court and Sharia law in Ontario are two that pop to mind. In general, it's the leftist and Islamofascist who can't recognise any intrisic value in a human being.
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0My reading of Estonian literature indicates that Bernard Kangro in his novel "Sinine Värav" was the first person to predict the fall of the Iron Curtain, when he wrote his novel back in the late 1950's. Why don't you all do a little more research before you come here to howl at each other.
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0 I have not read Sinine Värav but I will go through my large collection of Estonian books and see if I have it. Is it still in print?
The fall of communism was already predicted in the 1930s by Oswald Spengler in his 2 prophetic works, Decline of the West and Hour of Decision. They are must reading for anyone who wants to truly understand where our civilization is headed. He examines many past civilizations in his books and explains why they rose, matured, stagnated, declined, and then fell.
The fall of communism was already predicted in the 1930s by Oswald Spengler in his 2 prophetic works, Decline of the West and Hour of Decision. They are must reading for anyone who wants to truly understand where our civilization is headed. He examines many past civilizations in his books and explains why they rose, matured, stagnated, declined, and then fell.
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0To Peter -- Boy, do you ever swing at sucker-balls.
Spengler was a high-school teacher who quit his job in 1911 so that he could describe the future. His book "The Decline of the West" appeared in 1918, just as Germany lost WW I. In his eyes, it was the end of civilization. Others saw it differently.
Spengler was a high-school teacher who quit his job in 1911 so that he could describe the future. His book "The Decline of the West" appeared in 1918, just as Germany lost WW I. In his eyes, it was the end of civilization. Others saw it differently.
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0 Oswald Spengler was, without a doubt, the greatest historian of all time. By your comment it is obvious that you have not read any of his books.
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0Oswald Spengler, like Karl Marx, wrote about history, but they didn't record events or analyse them dispassionately as a historian would. Such men are better described as oracles, proselytizers, seers, or mountbanks.
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