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Depopulation Our Biggest Threat, says Cooks Islands PM ( -4% per year decline)
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| 5 August 2005
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Posted on 08/06/2005 6:23:26 AM PDT by Our_Man_In_Gough_Island
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Read anything about the Cook Islands lately? And most of that little you have read has probably been bad news.
To: Our_Man_In_Gough_Island
"In a multitude of people is a king's honor, but in the lack of people is the downfall of a prince." (Proverbs 14:28)
To: blueberry12
Something we, too, can learn from.
To: blueberry12
this is very true and the U.S. has contracepted itself about out of the Judeo-Christian vs Moslem race. The later have many children, which lend great strength to their cause. The Christians in America are so divided on issues and few in number that we shall be the first to get out of the way. Look around you. In our neighborhoods more and more Moslems and Asians are moveing in in hoards. My recent visit to D.C. was shocking as to what the ratio was.
Are they creeping in slowly over our boarders and into our country , thinking we are too stupid to notice, just because our government is? We need to pray hard because we are few against many.
To: Our_Man_In_Gough_Island
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08/06/2005 6:45:41 AM PDT
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rawhide
To: Piers-the-Ploughman
Are they creeping in slowly over our boarders and into our country , thinking we are too stupid to notice, just because our government is? We need to pray hard because we are few against many.Great nations always fall from within.
I can see the day when Osama Bin Laden replaces George Washington on the one dollar bill.
To: rawhide
Great photos. It is a tragedy that the beautiful South Pacific Islands are, sadly, no Paradise in their socioeconomic aspect.
To: Our_Man_In_Gough_Island
Miss Cook Islands 2002-2003
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posted on
08/06/2005 7:04:52 AM PDT
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rawhide
To: Our_Man_In_Gough_Island
Miss Cook Islnads 2001-2002-Louisa Maire Browne
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posted on
08/06/2005 7:06:33 AM PDT
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rawhide
To: Our_Man_In_Gough_Island
Miss Cook Islands 1990-Raema Chitty
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posted on
08/06/2005 7:08:01 AM PDT
by
rawhide
To: Our_Man_In_Gough_Island
As a scuba instructor, it's always been my dream to move there. I'd be more than willing to do my part with thier problem if they'd give me an open-ended visa.
To: rawhide
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posted on
08/06/2005 7:37:39 AM PDT
by
1066AD
To: 1066AD
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posted on
08/06/2005 7:49:20 AM PDT
by
rawhide
To: Our_Man_In_Gough_Island; blueberry12; CROSSHIGHWAYMAN; rawhide
I have traveled much of the earth and I cannot report a more lovely prospect which has ever graced the eye than the Cook Islands. The people match the land and seascape with their charm.
All this and a shrinking population too! What more could one ask? Would that the USA were so fortunate as to enjoy a shrinking rather than a metastasizing population.
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08/06/2005 7:51:59 AM PDT
by
nathanbedford
(Lose your borders, lose your citizenship; lose your citizenship, lose your Bill of Rights)
To: rawhide
Great looking babes, but can they cook?
To: Piers-the-Ploughman
more an more Moslems and Asians are moveing in in hoards
And WHAT's wrong with Asians? Don't you realise that there are many Asian Christians -- 80 million in the Phillipines, 30 million in India, countless millions in China, Malaysia, Indonesia, Sri Lanka etc. Even in the middle East -- Lebanon is 40 to 50% Christian, Syria is 10% Christian, Egypt is 2%.
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08/06/2005 7:57:06 AM PDT
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Cronos
(Never forget 9/11. Restore Hagia Sophia!)
To: rawhide
....looks like Hell on Earth!
/ sarcasm off.
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posted on
08/06/2005 8:37:00 AM PDT
by
taxed2death
(A few billion here, a few trillion there...we're all friends right?)
To: nathanbedford
I am mindful that there can be overpopulation concerns on small Pacific islands. Here, however, we are not talking about stable size, but rather a 4% decrease per year. That's an awful lot - 40% in 10 years, 80% decrease in the time it takes to grow from infancy to adulthood ( Pardon my math, I'm too lazy to work out the negative compound sums today).
In addition, we are also speaking of a rather small absolute population size - 12,000 as of now. That isn't very much on which to base a self-governing political entity in this era of land grabs, globalization, and power geopolitics. Also, it seems to be the young and ambitious future leaders who are most likely to leave the Cook Islands for greener pastures.
Like it or not, we need other people around us to sustain a community. As relatively affluent Westerners we have the privilege of basking in seemingly idyllic, individualistic vacation time-bliss on this " remote Pacific gem", but the reality for those who must raise a family and survive there requires better community stability than a 4% erosion year after dreary year can assure. I believe the Prime Minister has put his finger on a key concern of his own people, which it is his duty to do.
To: nathanbedford
Our population is exploding with criminals kicked out of Mexico. Meanwhile, the number of middle class Americans continues to decline thanks to the idiocy of family planning.For a clear picture of were we are headed, read the racist ramblings of U.T. professor Jose Angel Gutierrez.
To: nathanbedford
Our population is exploding with criminals kicked out of Mexico.Read the racist ramblings of U.T. professor Jose Angel Gutierrez to get a clear picture of what will happen if the non mestizo population continues to practice rigid population control.
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