Analysis Topic: Politics & Social Trends
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.
Friday, February 18, 2005
£700 billion Pensions hole ! / Politics / Pensions & Retirement
By: John_York
Talk about a pensions black hole !The Public sector pensions bill is estimated at £700 billion pounds which is £300 billion more than the previous published estimate of £380 billion.
To make matters worse, the TUC are organising a series of events across the UK over plans to raise the retirement age of nurses, teachers and other public workers. Read full article... Read full article...
Thursday, January 01, 1970
If Nuclear War Doesn’t Exterminate Us The Ebola Virus Might / Politics / Social Issues
By: Paul_Craig_Roberts
I just heard on National Public Radio two things that have totally destroyed what tiny bit of belief I still had in American leadership. I have concluded that the term “intelligent American” is an oxymoron.
American elites have decided that Americans are not sufficiently threatened by war and economic chaos, so they are bringing the ebola virus to America. National Public Radio reported that two people infected with the ebola virus, which cannot be cured and is usually deadly, are being brought to Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia.
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Thursday, January 01, 1970
Why We Are So Bad at Solving Problems / Politics / Social Issues
By: Raul_I_Meijer
Before you raise your voice, please allow me to say that I do indeed know this starts to feel like a set of Russian dolls, and this is a re-run of a re-run. It’s just, I didn’t start it. Got a mail yesterday from the people at OpEdNews.com asking if I would allow them to repost something I wrote over a year ago. And since I’m notoriously bad at remembering anything I wrote even just 24 hours ago, when I read what they wanted to republish, it was almost like a whole new world opened up for me. And I kind of liked it.