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Press Release for Unknown Empire by Dean W. Arnold (333 words)
For immediate release
Contact: deanarnold at icloud dot com
The future of civilization is shifting. Some say to an Asian world, others to a Muslim world, or perhaps to a New World Order—if China and Islam do not win the day. However, a new book offers the little-considered thesis that Ethiopia, unknown as a majority Christian nation and the first Christian empire, could be the next epicenter of civilization.
According to Dean W. Arnold in Unknown Empire: The True Story of Mysterious Ethiopia and the Future Ark of Civilization, Ethiopia can make such a claim for the coming shift based on plummeting global birthrates, which are causing the West to decline and exposing a now-struggling Asia. But birthrates are booming in Africa, and Arnold provides the also rarely-shared facts that resources are abundant to handle the growth. Ethiopia serves as Africa’s cultural and spiritual leader.
“I think the biggest problem the world will face in 20 years is population collapse,” says Elon Musk, the high-profile futurist and Tesla CEO. “Collapse. I want to emphasize this . . . Most people think we have too many people on the planet, but actually this is an outdated view.”
Ethiopia leads Africa culturally and spiritually with its 2,000 year old Christian tradition and its claim of 1000 years of Judaism before Christ. The only African nation to never be colonized, Ethiopia was chosen for the permanent home of the African Union. Ethiopia’s claims as the first Christian empire, the location of the Garden of Eden, and the keepers of the Ark of the Covenant are all explored by Arnold throughout the book.
“Reading ‘Unknown Empire’ is like reading a book about the New World in 1650,” said Arnold.
Arnold’s emphasis on “history with a plot,” a style making the stories highly readable, gained the accolades of Prince Asfa-Wossen Asserate (PhD, Cambridge, Frankfurt), the great nephew of Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie. Prince Asfa-Wossen is himself a bestselling author. He calls Arnold’s book “captivating . . . scholarly, and most enjoyable.”
Previous books by Arnold have been endorsed by U.S. Senator Bob Corker and author Jon Meacham, Newsweek Editor and Pulitzer Prize winner.
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Press Release for Unknown Empire by Dean W. Arnold (467 words)
For immediate release
Contact: deanarnold at icloud dot com
The future of civilization is shifting. Some say to an Asian world, others to a Muslim world, or perhaps to a New World Order—if China and Islam do not win the day. However, a new book offers the little-considered thesis that Ethiopia, unknown as a majority Christian nation and the first Christian empire, could be the next epicenter of civilization.
According to Dean W. Arnold in Unknown Empire: The True Story of Mysterious Ethiopia and the Future Ark of Civilization, Ethiopia can make such a claim for the coming shift based on plummeting global birthrates, which are causing the West to decline and exposing a now-struggling Asia. But birthrates are booming in Africa, and Arnold provides the also rarely-shared facts that resources are abundant to handle the growth. Ethiopia serves as Africa’s cultural and spiritual leader.
“I think the biggest problem the world will face in 20 years is population collapse,” says Elon Musk, the high-profile futurist and Tesla CEO. “Collapse. I want to emphasize this . . . Most people think we have too many people on the planet, but actually this is an outdated view.”
Ethiopia leads Africa culturally and spiritually with its 2,000 year old Christian tradition and its claim of 1000 years of Judaism before Christ. The only African nation to never be colonized, Ethiopia was chosen for the permanent home of the African Union. Ethiopia’s claims as the first Christian empire, the location of the Garden of Eden, and the keepers of the Ark of the Covenant are all explored by Arnold throughout the book.
Arnold spends the latter part of the book featuring the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the United Nations with their highly focused efforts to bring population control to Africa. In fact, the Gates' have made African contraception their number one priority. The West and parts of Asia are now below replacement rate of 2.1 children per woman, while African women average five children. Targeting Ethiopia, the Gates' have seen birthrates there decrease and it is projected to decline to 4.2. Further decline could cause the 35 percent Muslim minority to finally overtake the Christian majority, largely Orthodox Christian. Arnold discusses the intent of Gates’s gathering of the world’s top oligarchs to address Africa’s population as the world’s biggest threat. Is their intent to control, to help humanity, or something even more sinister?
Arnold’s emphasis on “history with a plot,” a style making the stories highly readable, gained the accolades of Prince Asfa-Wossen Asserate (PhD, Cambridge, Frankfurt), the great nephew of Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie. Prince Asfa-Wossen is himself a bestselling author. He calls Arnold’s book “captivating . . . scholarly, and most enjoyable.”
Previous books by Arnold have been endorsed by United States Senator Bob Corker and author Jon Meacham, Newsweek Editor and Pulitzer Prize winner.
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Press Release for Unknown Empire by Dean W. Arnold (840 words)
For immediate release
Contact: deanarnold at icloud dot com
The future of civilization is shifting. Some say to an Asian world, others to a Muslim world, or perhaps to a New World Order—if China and Islam do not win the day. However, a new book offers the little-considered thesis that Ethiopia, unknown as a majority Christian nation and the first Christian empire, could be the next epicenter of civilization.
Ethiopia can make such a claim for the coming shift based on plummeting global birthrates, which are causing the West to decline and exposing a now-struggling Asia. But birthrates are booming in Africa, and resources are abundant to handle the growth. Ethiopia serves as Africa’s cultural and spiritual leader.
“I think the biggest problem the world will face in 20 years is population collapse,” says Elon Musk, the high-profile futurist and Tesla CEO. “Collapse. I want to emphasize this . . . Most people think we have too many people on the planet, but actually this is an outdated view.”
The African Union, the continent’s United Nations, meets permanently in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia’s capital. When the African nations threw off the yoke of colonialism in the 20th century, they looked to Ethiopia, the only such nation to never be colonized. In fact, Ethiopia claims to have never been conquered by any invader ever in its 3,000 years of empire. Ethiopia is a majority Christian country, nearly half of those Orthodox Christians, and boasts 1,000 monasteries. Ethiopia also makes the following claims: keepers of the Ark of the Covenant, a thousand years of Judaism before Christ (through King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba’s alliance), and also the status as the very first Christian Empire which started with the evangelizing of the Ethiopian Eunuch from Acts chapter 8 of the Bible. Ethiopia even claims to be the location of the Garden of Eden.
All these distinguishing factors—along with a millennia-old script and written language not possessed by the other nations—contribute to Ethiopia’s status as the leader of the great continent.
Elon Musk's counter-intuitive position on population has in fact been reported in the mainstream media for years. “Europe will continue to shrink, which is worsening its economic problems,” declared the Washington Post in 2013, noting that China is also in trouble. “The Asian century could be followed by the African century. As China shrinks, its workforce will get smaller precisely when it needs them most.” The Post entitled this article, “The amazing, surprising, Africa-driven demographic future of the Earth.”
Japan is worse off than China, with a birth rate of 1.2, far below the replacement level of 2.1 children per woman. (No country has ever recovered from a rate of 1.3.) Recent reports named South Korea with the world’s lowest rate at 0.96. Italy is in second place with a rate of 1.2. The rest of Europe shares similar alarming numbers. The story of the Islamification of Europe is well known. The United States will share a similar fate, but is slightly ahead of the curve due to immigration.
The women of Ethiopia and Africa bring into the world an average of five children each. Ethiopia’s work force costs less than 1/10 that of China, which has been pouring massive investment into the growing economies of Ethiopia and Africa. Demography is destiny, both politically and economically, and Africa is now viewed by many as the continent of the future.
What is the reaction from the West? The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the United Nations now bring highly focused efforts of population control programs to Africa. In fact, the Gateses have made African contraception their number one priority. Strategically targeting Ethiopia, they have seen birthrates there decrease—they are projected to decline soon to 4.2. Further decline could cause the 35 percent Muslim minority to finally overtake the Christian majority, largely Orthodox Christians. What is the intent of Bill Gates’s gathering of the world’s top oligarchs in 2009 to address Africa’s population as the world’s biggest threat? Is their need to control, to help humanity, or is the motive even more sinister?
Arnold’s emphasis on “history with a plot,” a style making the stories highly readable, gained the accolades of Prince Asfa-Wossen Asserate (PhD, Cambridge, Frankfurt), the great nephew of Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie. Prince Asfa-Wossen is himself a bestselling author. He calls Arnold’s book “captivating . . . scholarly, and most enjoyable.”
The traditional pro-family values of Africa and Christian Ethiopia provide an intriguing possibility for future leadership of the globe. Will Ethiopia and Africa own the future? The world’s richest people seem to that view, but with alarm rather than admiration.
Previous books by Arnold have been endorsed by U.S. Senator Bob Corker and author Jon Meacham, Newsweek Editor and Pulitzer Prize winner.