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Showing posts with label Musings. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Musings. Show all posts
Sunday, November 30, 2025

About 25O,000 civilian gun deaths annually: 65.9% occur in just six countries

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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, 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...
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 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...
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...
Tuesday, November 21, 2023

Israel a "brutal colonial power"; local rights group calls it "apartheid"

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A Bedouin by the Jordan River in the early 20th century taken by the German Protestant Institute of Archaeology. The heinous attack on ci...
Tuesday, October 31, 2023

The ‘Perfect Storm’ metaphor and lame excuses

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Google Books Ngram Viewer cites 'Perfect Storm' in the early 1700s and the Oxford English Dictionary has published a reference fro...
Sunday, October 22, 2023

Secure homelands for Jewish and Palestinian people

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November 10, 2023: Israel is the West's last settler colony In James Joyce's 'Ulysses' the character Mr Deasy says "I...
Saturday, June 24, 2023

The misplaced fascination with the RMS Titanic

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The Titanic leaving Belfast on April 2, 1912 The sinking of the RMS Titanic in April 1912 has been in the news again and the US Coast Guard...
Sunday, June 11, 2023

Irish Celts are as real as Leprechauns

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In Ancient Greece Κελτοί (Keltoí) was the word used for "Barbarian" (non-Greek-speaking people, including Egyptians, Persians, Med...
Thursday, March 09, 2023

Jon Stewart on gun control and Irish useful idiots

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Jon Stewart is an American comedian, political commentator, actor, director and television host. Stewart hosted The Daily Show, a satirica...
Saturday, January 14, 2023

Michael Hennigan's year of 1953 and 70 years later

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"Tour Bus made a short stop here. A small village near Galway. May 14, 1953" Photo by Martin J. Walsh Jr on a trip to Ireland in...
Friday, December 30, 2022

Europe's music man André Rieu: famous Dutch violinist and conductor

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Maastricht, The Netherlands André Rieu created the Johann Strauss Orchestra in 1987 and began with 12 members, giving its first concert in...
Friday, August 19, 2022

Irish Genealogy Page: Hennigans and Walls in County Cork

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Leabhar Mór Leacain / The Great Book of Lecan, written in 1397-1418 AD This page is a tribute to my parents Michael and Johanna Wall Hennig...