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Russian President Vladimir Putin’s decision to launch a massive conscription drive is leading some Russians to leave the country, in an attempt to avoid being drafted for the ongoing war with Ukraine. The Russian defense ministry is preparing to conscript some 300,000 men for army duty, after President Putin announced Wednesday that the country would undertake a “partial mobilization.” "I consider it necessary to support the proposal of the Ministry of Defense and the General Staff to conduct partial mobilization in the Russian Federation," Putin said. The announcement sparked anti-war protests Wednesday in 38 cities across Russia. More than 1,300...

Hong Kong saw a net outflow of 65,295 and 66,334 residents in February and March respectively, according to the city’s official immigration data. The trend will remain strong, as a new poll revealed that nearly 80 percent of Hong Kong residents surveyed were interested in emigrating. In mid-March, Bartra interviewed nearly 500 Hong Kong residents aged 18 and above through an online questionnaire. According to the poll, 79 percent of the respondents indicated that they are considering emigration or will consider this in the future; 48 percent indicated that it was “possible in the future,” and 31 percent indicated that...

Principals of Jewish schools in France are urging their students to move to Israel due to the increasing amount of anti-Semitic attacks in the country, Ynet reported on Sunday. "I think all Jews should move to Israel," Paul Fittousi, the director of Yavne School in Marseille said. "France is not our place anymore. The younger generation must do this. Two of my daughters have already moved and are learning in Be'er Sheva, and I'm encouraging my third to do the same." It's not just the principals who feel that France isn't safe for Jews anymore - the students feel it...

A Jewish Home MK has unveiled a plan to bolster Arab emigration from Israel, and ultimately end the Palestinian Authority. MK Bezalel Smotrich, a member of the National Union faction within the Jewish Home party, is calling on the State of Israel to provide financial benefits for Arabs who move abroad. “This is not transfer,” said Smotrich, distancing his proposal from the platforms of MK Rabbi Meir Kahane’s Kach party and slain Tourism Minister Rehavam Zeevi’s Moledet party, which later joined the National Union faction. “Today, some 20,000 Palestinians leave Judea and Samaria every year,” Smotrich told Israel Hayom in...

Nigerian Nobel-literature laureate Wole Soyinka has confirmed that he has relocated to his native Nigeria. The move is in line with his pledge to leave the United States if Donald Trump won the US elections. The infamous decision to rip apart his green card made the headlines before and after the November 8 polls that Trump won beating Hillary Clinton, his main contender. A green card simply is a document that identifies the bearer as an alien with permanent resident status in the United States. The 82-year-old told AFP on the sidelines of an education conference at the University of...

Canada’s official website providing information on immigration and citizenship has been experiencing repeated outages, presumably due to a surge in traffic as Donald Trump grabbed an early lead in the US presidential race.

The latest polls indicate a weak economy continues to drag down President Obama’s job approval rating, but those hardly guarantee any big changes in Washington. Americans may want more jobs and better wages but they also support many of the president’s specific policies. Obama’s recovery is hardly better, or worse, than President Bush’s. Both only registered 2.3 percent GDP growth, whereas the economy expanded more than 4 percent annually for Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton. The continuing mess in Manhattan is a joint venture of the Republican and Democratic Parties, as neither seems able to break loose from its campaign...

North African country denounces 'ill-disposed' call, which it warns amount to 'meddling' in Tunisia's domestic affairs. Tunisia's Foreign Ministry on Monday condemned a call by Israeli officials for Jews to emigrate to Israel over concerns about possible economic hardship ahead in the North African country. "The ill-disposed call amounts to meddling in Tunisia's domestic affairs and an attempt by Israel to tarnish the post-revolutionary image of Tunisia," the ministry said.

Recently two people I know are checking to see if they can go back because grandma or grandpa was born in the old country.

Have the American people outlived their usefulness to the rich minority in the United States? A number of trends suggest that the answer may be yes. In every industrial democracy since the end of World War II, there has been a social contract between the few and the many. In return for receiving a disproportionate amount of the gains from economic growth in a capitalist economy, the rich paid a disproportionate percentage of the taxes needed for public goods and a safety net for the majority. In North America and Europe, the economic elite agreed to this bargain because they...

Two million Britons emigrate in 10 years By James Kirkup, Political Correspondent Last Updated: 12:59AM BST 20/05/2008 Two million British citizens have left the UK in a decade, the greatest exodus from this country in almost a century, new figures will show. Some historians say the departure of two million Britons in a decade is almost unparalleled in the country's history The Office for National Statistics (ONS) will release figures showing that more than 200,000 Britons emigrated during 2006. That will take the total number who left the country between 1997 and 2006 to 1.97 million. Another 1.58 million foreign...

WHEN Brian Willott moved to these central Brazilian plains to fulfill his dream of farming, there was much to remind him of the home he left in the American heartland. The sign at the end of a dirt lane proclaimed his rented land "Fazenda Kansas," Portuguese for "Kansas Farm." The flat fields stretching to the horizon teemed with cotton and soybeans. Billboards boasted familiar names such as Cargill, Monsanto and John Deere. But the going hasn't been as smooth as the level terrain. U.S. farmers have been the targets of squatters, thieves and scammers. Willott has discovered that slave labor...

AMSTERDAM — About 20,000 Dutch people have serious plans to emigrate permanently, demographic research institute NIDI said on Wednesday. In general, those with serious plans to emigrate have at least a diploma from upper secondary vocational education (MBO) and are aged between 35 and 44. They often earn a good income. "Just" 2 percent of the Dutch population aged 15 or older is thinking of emigrating in the future, while about one in 10 of this group has serious plans. This means, from an adult population of 13.2 million, some 250,000 are thinking of emigrating and about 20,000 have serious...

“Man and Woman”, “Wife”, “Husband”, “Widow”, “Widower” Banished From all Ontario Law Terms, when referring to spouses, are banned from all government programs, services, documentsToronto, February 25, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – With the obscenely rapid, three-day introduction and passage of its same-sex “marriage” Bill 171, the Ontario government has advanced a revolutionary change in the way all laws and government programs and institutions refer to marriage and married persons. Everything referring to spouses must now be gender neutral. No longer can a married couple be referred to as “husband and wife” or “man and woman”. The terms “Widow” and “widower” are...

With the liberals in a depressed mess over losing AGAIN and the Canadian immigration websites hits triple than normal along with Hollywierd threatening to leave the country if Bush won again gave me an idea. Why not start up a fund-raising organization to help liberals who want to leave? It's called the "Send A Liberal Overseas" program. They get their choice of a one way ticket to exciting utopian vacation destination hotspots such as Cuba, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Iran and so much more! Once there they will get to see racism, intolerance, hatred, pessism and fatalism, environmental destruction, torture,...

i'm disappointed there are no takers at this website yet to leave the country, but it's early yet. the angst seems to be a bit quieter today. i wonder if leftists are settling down into a modified, long-term funk. i wonder if they will regroup with a revamped philosophy that is more appealing to mainstream america. i doubt it and i hope not.