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Ukrainians are becoming less in numbers. In addition to demography the population is declining due to labor migration. In recent years millions of citizens have gone to work abroad. The "Nation" understood how demography and labor migration hit the domestic market and how it affects the economy. How does mass migration affect domestic consumption and what does this mean for the economy. We are not only not 42 million (from 52 million under USSR), but not even 40 million anymore. Experts say that the population in Ukraine has declined to 37 - 38 million, or even 35 million. And this...

CNN political analyst Joe Lockhart created fake news in real time during President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial in the Senate on Wednesday, falsely claiming that House Democrats were swaying Senate Republican opinions. Lockhart tweeted: “Overheard convo between two Republican Senators who only watch Fox News. “is this stuff real? I haven’t heard any of this before. I thought it was all about a server. If half the stuff Schiff is saying is true, we’re up shit’s creek. Hope the White House has exculpatory evidence”. As of Thursday morning, his tweet had nearly 9,000 retweets.

U.S.—Hillary Clinton had some helpful advice for the Bernie Sanders campaign after she claimed nobody likes him. In a candid moment, she told the interviewer that if she were running the Sanders campaign, the vocal critics would find themselves "swimming with the fishes." "Look, if you want to be likable in politics, you've got to be willing to fight for it, and maybe kill for it," she said. "The absolute number of people that like Bernie may not go up, but the percentage of surviving people who like him will increase. And the people who still don't like him wouldn't...

Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon said Thursday that the powerful investment bank will only finance initial public offerings (IPOs) for companies that have at least one nonwhite male board member. Solomon said during a Thursday interview with CNBC that as of July 1 in the U.S. and Europe, Goldman “is not going to take a company public unless there is at least one diverse board candidate, with a focus on women.” “Diversity on boards is a very very important issue, and we've been very very focused on it and so we're trying to find ways to encourage that,” Solomon told...

JOHANNESBURG -- Locusts by the millions are nibbling their way across a large part of Africa in the worst outbreak some places have seen in 70 years. Is this another effect of a changing climate? Yes, researchers say. An unprecedented food security crisis may be the result. The locusts “reproduce rapidly and, if left unchecked, their current numbers could grow 500 times by June,” the United Nations says. Heavy rains in East Africa made 2019 one of the region’s wettest years on record, said Nairobi-based climate scientist Abubakr Salih Bawanker. He blamed rapidly warming waters in the Indian Ocean off...

Former Vice President Joe Biden flatly refused to appear as a witness at the impeachment trial for President Trump at a campaign stop in Iowa on Wednesday. In response to a question about rumors that Republican and Democratic Senators were considering the idea of trading testimony from former national security adviser John Bolton for an appearance by Biden or his son Hunter. Biden said Republicans are trying to turn the impeachment trial in "political theater" and a "farce."

The first night of arguments in favor of President Donald Trump’s impeachment before the U.S. Senate was judged not ready for prime time by many of the nation’s television executives. ABC, CBS and NBC all stuck with regularly scheduled programs like “Chicago Med,” “Criminal Minds” and “Modern Family” Wednesday evening instead of showing the House managers’ evening session at the impeachment trial. That lasted about two hours, 15 minutes. CNN and MSNBC carried the trial in full. Fox News Channel, after showing Rep. Adam Schiff speak for about a half hour, interrupted for a story about a child support case...

Rudy Giuliani, the personal attorney for President Trump, threatened Thursday to go public with information that would expose corruption by 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden. “Everything I tried to tell the press last March is now coming out, and more. I will now start to reveal the evidence directly to you, the People,” the former New York mayor tweeted. “The Biden Family Enterprise made millions by selling public office. Then when Joe was Obama’s Point Man, they ALL made millions.” Giuliani’s claim that he could reveal evidence detrimental to the former vice president follows his offer to testify in...

WASHINGTON, D.C.—In his opening statement at Trump's impeachment trial, Rep. Adam Schiff reminded the Senate of their solemn duty and the gravity of just what it is they will be discussing at the trial. Schiff warned that if Trump is not impeached, the American people may have a chance to tamper with the next election. "If President Trump is not impeached, the American people might get a say in who is president,"...(SNIP)

I am asking for assistance in respecting neighbors that have lived in my neighborhood for two+ years. Each year they decorate their home as we do for Christmas. This year I would like to respect their religion and customs but giving them a present for the Lunar New Year - January 23rd.

We better hope that the U.S. economy holds together in 2020, because if there is any sort of major economic crisis much of the country is going to be broke almost immediately. Today, close to half of all Americans are living on the edge financially. For many, it is out of necessity, but for others it is a conscious choice. Way too many people out there see no need to build up a substantial financial cushion because they have a tremendous amount of faith in the system. They don’t think that things will ever get too bad in this country,...

The travel restrictions imposed on Wuhan were extended to at least four more cities. At least 18 people have died and more than 600 have been sickened by a mysterious illness. By The New York Times Right Now The authorities confirmed the first death outside of the virus’s epicenter, in a province more than 600 miles to the north. First death confirmed outside of virus epicenter A patient died in the province of Hebei — more than 600 miles north of the city where the outbreak began — after contracting the new coronavirus, the provincial authorities announced on Thursday. It...

The mainstream media in the western world isn’t telling you that Chinese hospitals are being absolutely overwhelmed by the number of sick people showing up for treatment. So the truth is that the official numbers that the Chinese government is putting out are almost meaningless at this point because hordes of sick people are being turned away from the hospitals because there is no room for them. On Wednesday, Chinese officials took the unprecedented step of attempting to quarantine the entire city of Wuhan, but what good is that going to do if most of the sick people are turned...

Trump administration reveals 'birth tourism' crackdown: Pregnant women trying to travel to the U.S. to get American citizenship for their babies will be REFUSED visas Trump administration will unveils crackdown on birth tourism and will bring it into force Friday Move is against women who come to the U.S. to give birth to children so they get American citizenship Visa applicants deemed by consular officers to be coming to the U.S. primarily to give birth will now be treated like other foreigners seeking medical treatment The applicants will have to prove they are coming for medical treatment and they have...

One of President Donald Trump’s strongest supporters on cable news and Capitol Hill was surprisingly excluded from his impeachment defense team — and he has suspicions as to why. Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Florida) was widely believed to have been a frontrunner to join a select group of House Republicans to defend the president through media outreach and providing consultation to his legal team, but he was snubbed. In an interview with Politico, Gaetz said he wasn’t entirely sure why he was kept off the team, but he has been told by someone in the White House that Eric Ueland, the...

In a letter from Maxwell’s lawyers to a New York judge that was made public last week, we learn that they, too, have no idea where the Madam is, and that her emails have been compromised. Image result for ghislaine maxwell "youtube" Ghislaine Maxwell/YouTube According the Daily Mail, “Ghislaine Maxwell’s personal emails have been hacked, and damaging information, including the names of individuals linked to Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking case, are at risk of being publicly released…sparking fear.” If pedophiles weren’t already living in fear, we have truly failed as a society. In a letter sent to the New York...

I remember well the first Trump campaign, and how many Evangelicals (or so-called) were vehemently against him. None of these people openly said that they were voting for Hillary. But they actually were casting votes for her by withholding votes from President Trump. I also remember the night of the election results. My husband refused to watch. He believed the polls. I did not. Lying is like breathing to the Left. CNN and the rest of the fake news club were throwing bogus numbers at the public in hopes of discouraging Conservative voters to just stay home because their votes...

The Doomsday Clock moved to 100 seconds to midnight – the closest symbolic point from an “apocalypse” since 1953. The decision was made on Thursday by The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, which announced it from the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. on Thursday. "We argued that the global situation was abnormal," Rachel Bronson, president and CEO of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, said during the press conference of the decision to keep last year's Clock the same, but noted that nuclear and climate situations are "worsening." Sharon Squassoni, Georgetown University professor and member of the Science and Security Board...

CNN anchor John Berman had harsh words for senators who did not stay inside the Senate chamber as the House impeachment managers presented their case against President Trump on Wednesday. Berman especially called out Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY). "The presentation from the House managers is earning praise even from Republicans. We have a picture to show you, late last night, that’s Senator Lindsey Graham, one of the president’s fiercest defenders, telling lead manager Adam Schiff that he had done a good job. Really well-spoken, he said. Although it does beg the question, how would Senator...

OVID, MI — When Howard Kirby returned more than $43,000 in cash he found in a couch cushion he bought at a thrift store, the mid-Michigan man said he didn’t want attention or expect a reward. But doing the right thing has touched others who are now helping Kirby with his needs. The Saginaw branch of Eikenhout Building Supplies is donating the materials needed to give Kirby’s home a new roof and a local contractor has volunteered to fix it, Kirby said Wednesday, Jan. 22. A GoFundMe page in support of Kirby has so far, raised more than $2,200 as...