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‘Race suicide’ marked by a low and declining birth-rate, as is well known, is a world-wide social phenomenon of the present day.
White America Reacts 2009
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‘Race suicide’ marked by a low and declining birth-rate, as is well known, is a world-wide social phenomenon of the present day.
White America Reacts 2009
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Current numbers failed to anticipate the rising birth-rate of the past 10 years, nor the increasing complexities of cases, as older women and those with other health problems such as obesity go into labour – nor the need for post-birth care over breastfeeding and the risk of infection, for example.
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The findings may help explain the falling birth-rate of boys in industrialised countries, including the UK and US.
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On New Year's 1925 all nations disarm at Goliah's order; private property and crime virtually vanish; household chores are simplified; the birth-rate falls ( "People ceased breeding like cattle"); there is more time for recreation and the "pursuit of beauty and nobility and all the higher attributes"; indeed human dissatisfaction practically disappears as "The world had become gay ..."
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To say nothing of its positive impact on the birth-rate.
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To say nothing of its positive impact on the birth-rate.
Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I... 2010
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This effort to lift the nation's falling birth-rate is going to cost Japan $2.4 billion more than it in the current fiscal year ending in March.
Japan's Superbad Budget James Simms 2010
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To say nothing of its positive impact on the birth-rate.
Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I... 2010
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To say nothing of its positive impact on the birth-rate.
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