Category: Social Issues
The analysis published under this category are as follows.
Monday, November 09, 2009
Why I Hate Doctors / Politics / Social Issues
By: LewRockwell
Burton S. Blumert writes: Burt: "You've been my physician for over 25 years. You can't just dump me like you would a broken heart-lung machine."
Doc: "There's no room for sentiment in medicine, and frankly, your quaint right-wing viewpoints aren't as interesting as they once were. I'm turning your medical records over to young Dr. Kaloofka from my office."
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Monday, November 02, 2009
The Ayn Rand Cult / Politics / Social Issues
By: Murray_N_Rothbard
In the America of the 1970s we are all too familiar with the religious cult, which has been proliferating in the last decade. Characteristic of the cult (from Hare Krishna to the "Moonies" to EST to Scientology to the Manson Family) is the dominance of the guru, or Maximum Leader, who is also the creator and ultimate interpreter of a given creed to which the acolyte must be unswervingly loyal. The major if not the only qualification for membership and advancement in the cult is absolute loyalty to and adoration of the guru, and absolute and unquestioning obedience to his commands.
Saturday, October 24, 2009
Social Upheaval, How Close Are We? / Politics / Social Issues
By: Michael_T_Bucci
Many authors who have contributed to The Market Oracle have expressed concern - some overtly and some in passing - about the possibility of social upheavals in the US caused by economic dislocations and what impact these events would have on the markets. How close are we? An excellent synopsis by Mr Andre Damon of the current status of economic conditions extant in the US and the world on the eve of the G20
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Sunday, October 11, 2009
American's Gambling $100 Billion in Casino's Like Rats in a Cage / Politics / Social Issues
By: James_Quinn
The world is a vampire, sent to drain
secret destroyers, hold you up to the flames
and what do I get, for my pain
betrayed desires, and a piece of the game
even though I know-I suppose I'll show
all my cool and cold-like old job
Monday, August 17, 2009
How To Get Rich . . . and Why / Personal_Finance / Social Issues
By: LewRockwell
Gary North writes: Most Westerners are rich in the opinion of Asian farmers. Yet most Westerners do not think of themselves as rich. They do think of Asian farmers as poor.
Then who is rich? We think: "The guy three rungs up the financial ladder." So does he.
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Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Turning America into a Nation of Idiots, Fat, Drunk and Stupid is No Way to go Through Life / Economics / Social Issues
By: James_Quinn
Dean Wormer: Did you boys see your grade point averages yet?
Hoover: They're not posted yet, sir.
Dean Wormer: I've seen them. Mr. Kroger, two C's, two D's and an F - that's a 1.2 grade average. Congratulations, Kroger, you're at the top of the Delta pledge class.
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Monday, July 27, 2009
Gatsby lives! / Politics / Social Issues
By: Michael_T_Bucci
From time to time, I read my wife's "hometown" paper from my temporary "rest stop" in a Maine coastal town (pop. 2000). Philly boasts that its murder rate has decline 30% from 2007. This year it registers that only 162 homicides have been committed. Adding to this news is better news: The number of shootings has dropped 30 percent to 781 thus far, police said. Rape too has enjoyed a banner semi-year, for just 500 have occurred. All of this is good news to Philadelphia Mayor Nutter, said the Inquirer.
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Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Taser Hit Man Bursts Into Flames / Politics / Social Issues
By: Sarah_Jones
A man in Western Australia was engulfed in flames when police officers fired a Taser stun gun at him.Read full article... Read full article...
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Ageing Baby Boomers, the One Mega Trend NO ONE is Talking About / Politics / Social Issues
By: Graham_Summers
Thus far, analysis the financial collapse has been framed almost entirely in terms of money. All the research I’ve seen has delved into lending standards, securitization, inflation, interest rates, housing and the like.
Tuesday, July 07, 2009
Brits Taking Risks When Holidaying Abroad Summer 2009 / Personal_Finance / Social Issues
By: MoneySupermarket
Countless campaigns warn Brits about the dangers associated with sun burn, binge drinking and having unprotected sex whilst on holidays. But despite this, a third of Brits (33 per cent) are more likely to take risks on holiday abroad and do things that they wouldn't at home, according to research released by travel comparison site travelsupermarket.com.
Monday, April 06, 2009
The Crisis of Creativity in America / Politics / Social Issues
By: Pravda
Cage Innoye writes: There is a great crisis of creativity in our age. Critical problems are mounting up and very little is being done. It is because we do not understand, teach or promote creativity that we are in the great mess of today. We live in world of advancing complexity and evolving situations and contradictions; there is no way a species can manage all this without being creative. The more developed a culture and society, the more developed must be its creativity. But look at our nation, our creativity is either inadequate or simply non-existent. Read full article... Read full article...
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
New Year Resolutions and the Financial Crisis / Politics / Social Issues
By: Alex_Epstein
Given the devastated state of many Americans’ finances, our New Year’s resolutions will take on greater significance this year. To “get out of debt” was often a casually stated goal to be set as midnight approached and forgotten soon after; today it is rightly recognized as a fundamental necessity of life.Read full article... Read full article...
Thursday, December 18, 2008
Christmas Should Celebrate Reason, Selfishness and Capitalism / Politics / Social Issues
By: Ayn_Rand
Christmas in America is an exuberant display of human ingenuity, capitalist productivity, and the enjoyment of life. Yet all of these are castigated as “materialistic”; the real meaning of the holiday, we are told, is assorted Nativity tales and altruist injunctions (e.g., love thy neighbor) that no one takes seriously.Read full article... Read full article...
Monday, May 19, 2008
Britains Incapacity Benefits Culture Costs Tax Payers £16 Billion Annually- BBC One 8.30pm / Politics / Social Issues
By: BBC
The Government will need to make big reductions in the numbers "on the sick" in Britain's former industrial heartlands if it is to get anywhere near its ambitious UK-wide target of a million off Incapacity Benefit by 2015, according to Professor Steve Fothergill of Sheffield Hallam University.
He tells BBC One 's Panorama that in the Incapacity Benefit hotspot of Merthyr Tydfil in South Wales – where nearly one in five of working age population is on the sick – around 3,000 new jobs would have to be created.
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Monday, April 28, 2008
United States- The Land of the Robots / Companies / Social Issues
By: Michael_Nystrom
Imagine living amongst a race of immortal, super-human creatures with superior intellect, abilities, resources and power. Further, imagine that these alien creatures enjoy all the same rights as citizens, but are burdened neither with the responsibilities that come with citizenship, nor a moral conscience that would give them some measure of forbearance from using their full power to their own advantage against us. What would it be like to live in such a world? It would no doubt be treacherous, fraught with an assortment of possibly life-threatening dangers.Read full article... Read full article...
Monday, February 11, 2008
Democracy in the Madhouse / Politics / Social Issues
By: Darryl_R_Schoon
The success of self-government ultimately depends on the nature of the self to be governed.
Historians believe the earliest example of democracy occurred in India during the 6 th century B.C. There is, however, an earlier example, the story of which was lost for centuries and only recently rediscovered.
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Monday, January 14, 2008
Socialist Myths vs Capitalism / Politics / Social Issues
By: Gerard_Jackson
I am forever getting emails from ignorant socialists accusing capitalism of all manner of heinous crimes. Clearly the socialist view of economic history is deeply rooted in Western society, a view based on facts that turn out to be nothing but socialist myths derived from political prejudices deeply hostile to the classical liberal order. This, I believe, accounts for the staggering ignorance of leftwing critics. The contents of one particularly stupid email immediately brought to mind an especially bigoted anti-capitalist tirade by Bryan Patterson that he wrote some years ago.Read full article... Read full article...
Sunday, January 06, 2008
Seeds of Destruction, the Hidden Agenda of Genetic Manipulation - Review Part 1 / Politics / Social Issues
By: Stephen_Lendman
Bill Engdahl is a leading researcher, economist and analyst of the New World Order who's written on issues of energy, politics and economics for over 30 years. He contributes regularly to publications like Japan's Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Foresight magazine, Grant's Investor.com, European Banker and Business Banker International. He's also a frequent speaker at geopolitical, economic and energy related international conferences and is a distinguished Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization where he's a regular contributor. Read full article... Read full article...
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
Rightwing columnists stuff up labour market reform debate / Politics / Social Issues
By: Gerard_Jackson
What gives with our so-called rightwing columnists? John Buchanan from the University of Sydney's Workplace Research Centre wrote, along with another lefty, a seriously flawed study on the alleged detrimental effects of government legislation that loosened our labour markets. So what did our intrepid conservative columnists do? They mocked Buchanan and his co-author and sneered at their politics. In brief, they attacked the man instead of the argument.Read full article... Read full article...
Friday, August 31, 2007
Labor Day Hypocrisy / Politics / Social Issues
By: Stephen_Lendman
Labor Day is commemorated on the first Monday in September each year since the first one was celebrated in New York in 1882. Around the world outside the US, socialist and labor movements are observed on May 1 to recognize organized labor's social and economic achievements and the workers in them. This day gets scant attention in the US, but where it's prominent it's commonly to remember the Haymarket Riot of May 4, 1886 in Chicago. It followed the city's May 1 general strike for an eight hour day that led to violence breaking out on the 4th.Read full article... Read full article...