UN Report: Human Development Is The Real Wealth Of Nations
Yesterday, the United Nations released its annual Human Development Report. It is the 20TH anniversary of the report, and this year’s report is broadening the general understanding of what it means for a nation to be “developed” by adding new parameters to calculate the nations respective index. The 2010 report has taken under consideration to […]
Election: America As An Idiocracy With ADD And Stockholm Syndrome
Americans have just traded the little hope for some change that the Obama administration was timidly trying to bring to the country for anger, fear, and ignorance by relying on “solutions” which have caused a down hill spiral for the United States for the past 30 years. As I am writing this, the GOP and […]
France: Is Sarkozy’s Waterloo Just Delayed?
Today, hundreds of thousands of demonstrators turned out in French’s streets to protest, yet again, the already approved, by the French Senate, Sarkozy administration pension plan reform. Once in effect, the new law will raise the retirement age from 60 to 62. According to both sides( the government and the unions), the overall number of […]
Haiti: Will Cholera Spread To Port-au-Prince’s Tent Cities?
Yesterday, the United Nations raised concerns, and urged the international community for action to deal with the real possibility of a nationwide cholera epidemic in Haiti. Since the outbreak from last week, in the earthquake ravaged island, 259 people have died from cholera. According to the UN, and several NGOs, the number of cases currently […]
Reactions To Austerity: Passivity In The UK, Strikes And Riots In France
France and Britain are not separated by much geographically, but politically the reactions of British and French people are a study in contrast. Today, the British government of David Cameron announced the most drastic budget cuts in decades. Meanwhile, in France the popular protests over a much more timid plan to raise the retirement age […]
