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Elders Part One | Padraig Colman
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Rambling ruminations of an Irishman in Sri Lanka. This article appeared in. On Thursday June 25 2015. Population ageing arises from two demographic effects: increasing longevity and declining fertility. In all human history, the world has never seen as aged a population as currently exists today. This is the case for every country in the world except the 18 countries designated as “demographic outliers”. There has to be a worry that businesses providing care for profit might put profit before care and th...
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An Australian Coup Part 2 | Padraig Colman
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Rambling ruminations of an Irishman in Sri Lanka. An Australian Coup Part 2. This article was published in. On June 19 2015. Before Whitlam, the Australian people had been electing the “right people,” namely the Liberal-National Country Party Coalition headed for many years by Robert Menzies. Menzies was always happy to do the bidding of the US and the UK. He once said, “A sick feeling of repugnance grows in me as I near Australia.”. Kerr had longstanding ties to Anglo-American intelligence. He was a...
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Elders Part Two | Padraig Colman
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Rambling ruminations of an Irishman in Sri Lanka. This article appeared in. On Tuesday July 2 2015 under the title ‘Betrayal of the Elderly. Professor Indralal De Silva, Senior Professor of Demography, University of Colombo, estimates that 25 percent of the population of Sri Lanka will be over 60 years of age by 2040. He argued that unless our development process is improved and sustained we would have a lower level of income to support this aging population. Abuse in Sri Lanka. If you search the interne...
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Chuckle Muscles Part Two | Padraig Colman
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Rambling ruminations of an Irishman in Sri Lanka. Chuckle Muscles Part Two. This article appeared in. On July 22 2015. It’s being so cheerful as keeps me going. Mona Lott, a character on the 1940s radio show ITMA (It’s that Man Again). Legal scholar and behavioral economist Cass Sunstein wrote in the. New York Review of Books. In 1974, economist Richard Easterlin published a paper, Does Economic Growth Improve the Human Lot? Above a low level of income, Easterlin found no correlation between happiness an...
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Ad Hominem, Mr Corbyn | Padraig Colman
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Rambling ruminations of an Irishman in Sri Lanka. Ad Hominem, Mr Corbyn. This article appeared in. On Tuesday August 4 2015. Nevertheless, I have a big problem with Corbyn. It is the history of Islington Council and child abuse. John Mann, the Labour MP for Bassetlaw, wrote an open letter to Corbyn about this and said that Corbyn’s behaviour in relation to the Islington care homes scandal made him unfit to be leader of the Labour Party. It was Hodge’s successor as council leader, Derek Sawyer, who ...
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Chuckle Muscles Part One | Padraig Colman
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Rambling ruminations of an Irishman in Sri Lanka. Chuckle Muscles Part One. This article appeared in. On Monday July 6 2015. More than his Share? 8221; Dodd replied, “The notes are very light, M’Lord.”. Even at the age of 87, Dodd still follows a punishing work schedule. During the 1960s he earned a place in the. Guinness Book of Records. Another Liverpudlian, John Lennon, sang that happiness was a warm gun but Mark Chapman shot him dead. What is happiness and how can we measure it? Many league tables at...
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Getting Death off our Roads Part 2 | Padraig Colman
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Rambling ruminations of an Irishman in Sri Lanka. Getting Death off our Roads Part 2. This article appeared in. On Tuesday May 26 2015.The article was illustrated with this picture. I am not sure if the red stuff is blood or betel spit. In a previous article in these pages, I wrote about the problem of killer buses in Sri Lanka and canvassed the opinions of Sri Lankans home and abroad. Testing for Drugs and Alcohol. Five years on, what has Wijeratne done to clean up his members’ act? Some agreed with a p...
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lobbying parliament about false memory syndrome | My so-called false memory
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My so-called false memory. Lobbying parliament about false memory syndrome. May 7, 2015. In the early naughties the false memory people joined-up with other groups who were also busy denying CSA. They started writing submissions to parliament and enquiries. These groups held joint training days with groups such as F.A.C.T. The journalist David Rose gave advice on how to deal with the media. Two of these people were part of the UK false memory movement. Here is some of what they said:-. 8220;You have been...
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July | 2015 | My so-called false memory
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My so-called false memory. Monthly Archives: July 2015. July 30, 2015. Anomalistic psychology is the name given to the critical study of paranormal beleifs in phenomena such as:- abductions by UFOs new-age healing crystals satanic cults talking to your pot plants. […]. Read Article →. Memory, Morrissey and the Beeb. July 24, 2015. Read Article →. An Ode to the British Establishment. July 13, 2015. The techniques used by the false memory people. Read Article →. July 9, 2015. Read Article →. July 6, 2015.