Misunderstanding Risk: A More Dangerous World – Newsweek.com

Posted by Matt in February 19th, 2010 | no comment

Published in general, Assets, Catastrophes, Concentration, Dangerous World, Earthquake, Haiti, High Risk, Misunderstanding, Natural Disasters, New Decade, Newsweek, Omen, Population, Risk, Risk Areas, Slovic

The earthquake in Haiti is an omen for what the new decade has in store. We will see more natural disasters, and of larger scale, in the coming years. The trend is already accelerating: more than half of the planet’s 20 costliest catastrophes since 1970 have occurred since 2001. Because of the world’s quickly growing [...]

Tehran’s Biggest Fear – NYTimes.com

Posted by Matt in December 27th, 2009 | no comment

Published in Iran, Ayatollahs, Azeri, Contributor, Democratic Opposition, Ethnic Minority, Fear, Generals, Islamic Republic, Nytimes, Opposition Movement, Persian Iran, Population, Separatist Groups, tehran

The biggest threat to the ruling ayatollahs and generals in multi-ethnic Iran does not come from the embattled democratic opposition movement struggling to reform the Islamic Republic. It comes from increasingly aggressive separatist groups in Kurdish, Baluch, Azeri and Arab ethnic minority regions that collectively make up some 44 percent of Persian-dominated Iran’s population.
Op-Ed Contributor [...]

The Muslim Brotherhood: Islam, Anti-Semitism and Totalitarianism (Part One of Four)

Posted by Matt in December 13th, 2009 | no comment

Published in Islam, Anti-Semitism, Family Security, Minarets, Muslim Brotherhood, Muslim Brotherhood Islam, Muslim Islam, Muslims, National Referendum, Petition, Population, Posters, racism, Security Matters, Svp, Swiss Constitution, Swiss Law, Swiss People, Switzerland, Totalitarianism, Vote

On November 29, 2009, news broke that Switzerland’s controversial referendum on banning minarets had been passed. Against all the expectations of psephologists, 57 percent of the vote had gone to changing the Swiss constitution to ban further construction of minarets. Only four minarets exist in the country, which has a population of more than 300,000 [...]

The Problems with Social Security | Money and Markets

Posted by Matt in October 21st, 2009 | no comment

Published in Financial, general, Collecting Money, Cost Of Living Increase, Disability Benefits, Federal Budget, Free Email, Free Investment, Money Free, Money Markets, Population, Price Tag, Reason 3, Retirement Benefit, Security Section, Seniors, Social Security, Social Security Money, Ss, Tuition Dollars, Universe, Unwed Mothers

Reason #3: A markedly expanded coverage universe. When Social Security started, it covered about half of the U.S. population. Entire swaths of workers were not promised benefits.
But today, nearly all workers are covered by the program. In the event of injury, they usually qualify for disability. In the event of their death, their spouses [...]

Population Controls, Including Abortion, Spark Gender Imbalance in China; 30 Million More Men Expected in 15 Years – International News | News of the World | Middle East News | Europe News

Posted by Matt in October 8th, 2009 | no comment

Published in China, Demographics, 30 Million, Abortion, China Daily, Europe News, Foxnews, Gender Imbalance, Instability Problems, International News, Middle East News, News China, News Europe, News News, News Of The World, One Child Policy, Population, Social Instability, Tens

China will have 30 million more men of marriageable age than women in less than 15 years as a gender imbalance resulting from the country’s tough one-child policy becomes more pronounced, state media reported Friday.
The tens of millions of men who will not be able to find a wife could also lead to social instability [...]

Asia facing unprecedented food shortage, UN report says | The Guardian

Posted by Matt in August 24th, 2009 | no comment

Published in food, Asia Crisis, Asia Food, Better Management, Billions Of Dollars, Climate, Crops, Environment, Faces, Food Crisis, Food Shortage, guardian, Irrigation Systems, People, Population, Realistic Option, Social Unrest, Water Supplies

Asia faces an unprecedented food crisis and huge social unrest unless hundreds of billions of dollars are invested in better irrigation systems to grow crops for its burgeoning population, according to a UN report published today.
A combination of very little new land left for cultivation, an increasingly unpredictable climate and water supplies stretched to the [...]

Shanghai Tweaks One-Child Policy – NYTimes.com

Posted by Matt in July 24th, 2009 | no comment

Published in China, Child Policy, China Daily, Couples, English Language, English Newspaper, Exceptions, Family Planning, Nytimes, Planning Commission, Population, Proportion, shanghai, Tweaks, Urban Residents

China is not doing away with the one-child policy, which still largely applies to urban residents, but is allowing more exceptions to the rule. Shanghai, with 20 million residents one of China’s biggest cities, is leading the effort.
“We advocate eligible couples to have two kids because it can help reduce the proportion of the aging [...]