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Day by day, it becomes harder to deny that mass migration aims to erode and ultimately annihilate the unique cultures of local and national communities. Italian Minister of Agriculture, Francesco Lollobrigida, warned that Italy’s low birth rate and an increase in irregular immigration could lead to “ethnic replacement,” sparking anger from the country’s left-wing opposition. The brother-in-law and close political ally of Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s remarks come in response to a recent report which found Italy has one of the world’s lowest birthrates with fewer than 400,000 births in 2022. Lollobrigida’s comments were made at the national congress...

The federal government is financing the creation of robots that can assist the elderly and make sure they are eating healthily.A nearly $800,000 project from the National Science Foundation (NSF) is pairing the University of Pennsylvania with a robot company to create the machines, which will be able to deliver glasses of water to senior citizens.The government said that the project is necessary due to a demographic crisis in America where soon there will not be enough young people to take care of their elders.“This Partnership For Innovation project develops and tests the use of service robots to monitor and...

The Kiplinger Letter for Sept. 16, 2011, states: GDP is likely to grow no more than 2 percent. ... Such weakness usually spells recession ahead. ... But that pattern may not apply this time. Slowing growth may instead spell stagnation, a time more akin to Japan's 20 years of weak GDP gains. .... There has been no real bounce-back from the 2007-2008 slump. Twenty years of stagnation? So let me ask you all this: What is it that this economy has in common with Japan? What is it that this economy has in common with the last stagnation of the...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Monica Burton did not want to leave San Francisco. Born and raised in the city and a train driver for the Muni transit system for the past 16 years, she loves her home town, volunteers in its women's jail and prays weekly at her church in the Hunter's Point section along the San Francisco Bay. But as the main breadwinner for her family, which includes a 22-year-old daughter and two granddaughters, she faced some hard choices. Stay in San Francisco and abandon the dream of owning her own home because of skyrocketing housing prices, or leave. In...

Two secondary schools in the south Wales valleys will close next week because of falling numbers of children. Bedwellty Comprehensive in Aberbargoed, with 400 pupils, and 277-pupil Vaynor and Penderyn High in Merthyr are the latest casualties of Wales' falling birth rates. Pupils will be moved to nearby schools. The Vaynor closure was confirmed last year when a Welsh Assembly Government letter said it was "educationally and financially unviable". According to official figures, the number of children in Wales is set to fall by over 11% in the next 20 years. We have not got the young people starting families...

Korea's birth rate plunged to an estimated all-time low last year, opposition Grand National Party lawmakers Ahn Myoung-ock and Yim Tae-hee announced Sunday. Based on new births reported through the electronic family registry system of the Ministry of Government Administration and Home Affairs, they said the number of newborns nationwide was 481,085, down 12,300 from 2003. The birth rate is estimated to have plunged to its lowest point ever at 1.15. The lowest total fertility rate recorded so far was the 1.17 recorded in 2002. However, official statistics could look different since the National Statistical Office publishes birth statistics as...

Echoing the notorious 'F--- for Forest' stunt that combined public sex and fundraising for the rain forest, an organization of rural youth are trying to find ways to raise the population in Norway's outlying districts. The "F--- for bygda (rural areas/boondocks)" campaign from the Norwegian young farmers league (NBU) is a humorous - yet serious - attempt to focus attention on the exodus from Norway's rural areas, NRK (Norwegian Broadcasting) reports. Besides a declining birth rate Norway's outlying districts also see their residents moving to urban areas, and small local schools have begun to disappear. Six years ago the residents...