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Thursday, April 17, 2025

US reliant on China for essential goods - Plutocrats "running" government

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The Policy Circle, which is based in India, says the US reliance on Chinese inputs spans 532 key product categories, including essential ph...
Tuesday, April 08, 2025

The countries that lend to America

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Milton Friedman (1912-2006) was a Nobel laureate in economics and senior research fellow at the Hoover Institution and served on President...
Thursday, April 03, 2025

America is the sick man of the advanced world

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U.S. healthcare spending per capita is almost twice the average of other wealthy countries The average life expectancy in Western Europe ...
Sunday, March 30, 2025

GDP per capita April 2025: Ireland at $107.24 but is fake and Є30 thousands is correct

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IMF April 2025 GDP per capita, current prices: US dollars per capita Switzerland 111. 72; Ireland 107 .24; Singapore 93. 96; Norway 90. 35;...
Wednesday, March 05, 2025

Amazon's Jeff Bezos gift of $40 million to Melania Trump; Donald Trump's crypto project netted at least $350 million

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Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau slammed the US president for launching a trade war against "their closest partner and ally, the...
Saturday, March 01, 2025

Zelensky for 2025 Nobel Peace Prize? as Trump takes his guide from Moscow

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President Volodymyr Zelensky leaving the White House after a heated meeting with President Trump, 28 February, 2025 The Nobel Peace Prize is...
Sunday, February 23, 2025

Trump's appeasement is worse than Neville Chamberlain in 1938

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1% of Americans get almost 33% of the wealth while 53 million (44% of all workers) have a median annual wage of only $24,000 The U.S. res...
Monday, February 17, 2025

America's 1% control 31% of wealth- 50% control 6%

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Elon Musk in the Oval Office, Feb. 11, about cost-cutting in the federal government. The world’s richest man and government official...
Thursday, January 23, 2025

Irish poor voters as US improve and Nordic stars

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The 2024 Irish general election to elect the 34th Dáil (Parliament) took place on Friday, 29 November 2024. National voter turnout at 59.71%...
Sunday, January 05, 2025

Europe and Britain struggle in changing markets in 2025

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In Europe 2024, the STOXX 600 ended the 52 weeks with a gain of 6%, according to Reuters. The STOXX and the American S&P 500 tracked ea...
Friday, December 06, 2024

Wiltons still going strong as one of London's oldests restaaurants

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Wiltons is most known for its oysters which one would expect as George William Wilton first opened his shellfish mongers close to Haymarket ...
Tuesday, December 03, 2024

EU house prices up by 48% in less than 10 years

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In less than 10 years, between 2015 and 2023, house prices in the European Union (EU) on average rose by 48%. The biggest increase is mar...
Wednesday, November 13, 2024

Europe imports 80% of digital tech; trade-to-GDP ratio above 50% and German debt brake

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In September 2024 Mario Draghi, the former president of the European Central Bank (ECB) presented a report on Europe to Ursula von der Ley...
Thursday, November 07, 2024

Germany again the sick man of Europe

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Czar Nicholas I of Russia in 1853 is said to have described the Ottoman Empire as the "Sick man of Europe."   The phrase...
Friday, November 01, 2024

Etihad Airways needs to address its failings

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An Etihad Airways aircraft at Dublin Airport Not too long ago, the American market dominated intercontinental flights serving Dublin,...
Monday, October 28, 2024

Misinformation and amnesia from the American super rich

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A large-scale Bloomberg analysis reveals that Elon Musk has been spreading debunked theories of undocumented voters swaying the US ele...
Saturday, August 31, 2024

White Christian Nationalism overtakes America's "Shining City upon a Hill"

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The Declaration of Independence of the 13 United States of America: On July 4, 1776, it was adopted unanimously by the 56 delegates to the S...
Sunday, July 21, 2024

Ireland's GDP per capita at $39,000 in April 2024, Denmark at $69,000

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GDP per capita, current prices US dollars per capita The International Monetary Fund (IMF) in April 2024 published a ranking of GDP (Gross...
Sunday, July 14, 2024

Assassination attempt on Trump will embolden him and Democratic turmoil

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A gunman at a Trump rally in Pennsylvania was killed by the Secret Service on Saturday, 13 July. Trump said later online that he had been ...
Sunday, July 07, 2024

Vienna again crowned world's most liveable city, Dublin dips to 39th ranking

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Vienna again crowned as the world's best city for quality of life, in 2024 Time and again, Vienna, the capital city of Austria, has be...
Tuesday, June 25, 2024

In Age of Conflict only 7.8% of World Population in Full Democracies

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In 2024 there are o nly 24 Full Democracies in the World — 15 of them are in Western Europe. There is one in North America (Canada) and A...
Friday, May 31, 2024

The grim fifties in Ireland and Cork City

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St Patrick's Street, Cork, in the 1950s Over 500,000 people left independent Ireland between 1945 and 1960.  The 1961 Irish Census...
Thursday, May 16, 2024

The rich countries immigration boom and housing crises

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EU According to Eurostat in 2022, legal net migration was 5.1mn people, who immigrated to the EU from non-EU countries, while 1.0mn peop...
Wednesday, May 01, 2024

Smart City Index 2024: Dublin at 69th ranking among 142 cities

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Michelangelo  Buonarroti  (1475-1564): His cities were Florence and Rome* IMD World Competitiveness Center (International Institute for Man...
Friday, April 12, 2024

Israel's Carthage and Netanyahu's long record of duplicity

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Evacuation warnings issued by Israel to people in Gaza ahead of attacks contained a host of significant errors, BBC analysis has revealed. ...