Unlike the slowdown of the Great Depression, which was a blip followed by a boom, the slowdown this time is part of a longer-term trend, tied to the aging of the country’s White population, decreased fertility rates and lagging immigration.
It appears Covid and Trump skewed the results
Without robust immigration, the United States would look more like Japan, Germany and Italy, where births and the influx of newcomers have been unable to keep pace with the graying of the population, placing burdens on social services and the labor force.
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🚨After decades of not using a huge chunk of the Internet, the Pentagon has given control of millions of computer addresses to a previously unknown company in an effort to identify possible cyber vulnerabilities and threats @Redrum_of_Crows Global Resource Systems LLC, FL
Did someone at @DeptofDefense sell off part of the military’s vast collection of IP addresses as Trump left office? Had the Pentagon finally acted on demands to unload the billions of dollars worth of IP address space the military has been sitting on, largely unused, for decades?
The change is the handiwork of an elite Pentagon unit known as the Defense Digital Service, which reports directly to the secretary of defense. “This pilot will assess, evaluate and prevent unauthorized use of DoD IP address space. "
The Biden administration imposed a raft of new sanctions on Russia, including long-feared restrictions on buying new sovereign debt, in retaliation for alleged misconduct related to the SolarWinds Corp. hack and efforts to disrupt the U.S. election.
Sanctions 32 entities and indivs incl gov and intel officials, and 6 Russian cos that provide support to the Ru government’s hacking operations. The U.S. is also expelling 10 Russian diplomats working in Washington, including some intelligence officers.
The Biden administration is barring U.S. financial institutions from participating in the primary market for new debt issued by the Russian central bank, Finance Ministry and sovereign wealth fund.
Also among those on the trip: the former minor who is key to the investigation, whose presence on the trip was previously unreported. Everyone on the trip was over the age of 18 — including the woman in question, who had turned 18 years old months before the trip, but the inv
Is regarding 2017 when she was 17.
But questions surrounding the ages of some of the women surfaced immediately upon their return — three of them looked so young when they returned on Beshears’ private plane that U.S. Customs briefly stopped and questioned him
Hidden cameras expose Kim Jong-un's clandestine weapon and drugs trade | 60 Minutes Australia
#TheMole
Hidden cameras over a 10 year period, caught interesting characters in the act of selling serious arms, weapons systems, and manufactured meth for DPRK for money.
Could it all be true? One former UN official told the BBC he found it "highly credible".
The film, titled The Mole, is the work of Danish film maker Mads Brügger, who says he orchestrated a complex three-year sting operation to reveal how North Korea flouts international law.
🚨"We’ve created a persuasion machine that allows conservatives to reach, engage and move people to action like never before. Now is the time to expand and capitalize on this machine, setting the political playing field in advance of the 2022 election.” washingtonpost.com/politics/repub…
Titled “Reclaiming the Public Narrative,” the solicitation argues that the left, because of its clout within cultural institutions, has more access to centrist voters while the right is stuck “within its own echo chamber.”
It says the group will collect personal data gathered from petitions and other online tools to target voters using “language consumed by those in the persuadable middle.”