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The Future of Work - worklife balance, Feirabend, (breaking off from work at 5.01), 30 hour weeks and longer careers

09/13/2023

What does the future of work look like. Ideas from Laura Carstensen of the Stanford Center for Longevity who says rather than follow an outdated norm of education in the early part of life, work in the middle part of life and leisure in the latter part of life, it makes sense to mix education, work and leisure throughout life. Feierabend is the German practice of breaking off from work at 5.01 pm so that one can go outdoors for exercise and fresh air. All this with nutrition and exercise, healthy living, contributes to a more productive satisfying life that includes time for family, parents and children.

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Pedro Sanchez and the Workers Socialist Party in Spain 31.5% votes in Spanish elections 2023

08/25/2023

Pedro Sanchez Spanish prime minister, calls for snap general elections in 2023 soon after losing local elections in Spain. After a last minute surge the Socialist get 31.5% of the vote showing the influence of the moderate voters in Spain. The election also produces an unexpected result restoring the two main parties Partido Popular and the Socialists to their dominant positions and reducing the influence of smaller parties such as Podemos and VOX. The elections give both PP and the Socialists more seats in parliament and could give Sanchez a continuation in government. By all accounts Spain has come through the pandemic better under the Sanchez government with relief in the cost of living and government support.

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Whither Spain? The July 2023 General Election Results and Beyond

08/25/2023

Spain PM calls snap election after local poll drubbing

France 24 05/29/2023

Food inflation of 15-20% in Europe in 2023 worsening cost of living crisis.

05/26/2023

As energy prices recede somewhat food prices remain very high in Europe increasing the impact on middle and lower income households. Food retailers are seen as increasing profit margins at a bad time for households. It has become that bad that households are cutting purchases by 10%.

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Jeremy Hunt backs interest rate hikes even if they cause recession; UK retail sales jump – business live

The Guardian 05/26/2023

German economy enters recession, shrinks 0.3% in 1st quarter – DW – 05/25/2023

dw.com 05/25/2023

It Just Had an Energy Crisis, Now Europe Faces a Food Shock

WSJ 05/24/2023

Japan Core Inflation Hits 4% for First Time in Four Decades

WSJ 01/20/2023

UK inflation falls to 8.7% but food price rises remain close to 45-year high

The Guardian 05/24/2023

Spain announces €10bn help to fight rising prices

BBC News 02/02/2023

Food inflation of 15-20% in Europe in 2023 worsening cost of living crisis.

05/26/2023

As energy prices recede somewhat food prices remain very high in Europe increasing the impact on middle and lower income households. Food retailers are seen as increasing profit margins at a bad time for households. It has become that bad that households are cutting purchases by 10%.

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Jeremy Hunt backs interest rate hikes even if they cause recession; UK retail sales jump – business live

The Guardian 05/26/2023

German economy enters recession, shrinks 0.3% in 1st quarter – DW – 05/25/2023

dw.com 05/25/2023

It Just Had an Energy Crisis, Now Europe Faces a Food Shock

WSJ 05/24/2023

Japan Core Inflation Hits 4% for First Time in Four Decades

WSJ 01/20/2023

UK inflation falls to 8.7% but food price rises remain close to 45-year high

The Guardian 05/24/2023

Spain announces €10bn help to fight rising prices

BBC News 02/02/2023

How 65% of students failing reading comprehension and 75% failing civics and history is holding back America.

05/19/2023

The scores on National Assessment of Education Progress NAEP show two thirds of students failing reading proficiency, similar math scores, and over 75% failing civics and history. This has a serious effect on everything in society- the ability to get good jobs, to increase incomes, to teach their own children to create a better future, for the overwhelming majority of Americans. This has not changed for about two decades and is only getting worse. Nothing that Silicon Valley or capital markets have done, or successive governments have done so far for 2 decades is changing this situation. What Biden calls the struggle for the Soul of the Nation has this as the probable cause because lack of reading comprehension affects everything and leads to serious deterioration and breakdown in society. What is sometimes called technology is not really technology, computers yes, but not social media which damages the capacity for clear thinking and in the young of mental health also or what passes for technology that takes everything to the lowest common denominator including Google Search as shown in Lyrarc's Movement for Global Literacy.

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History and civics scores drop for U.S. eighth-graders on national test

NPR 05/03/2023

National math and reading scores remain constant, but disparities emerge

Washington Post 04/11/2018

U.S. student performance slips on national test - The Washington Post

Washington Post 10/28/2015

Eighth-Graders’ History, Civics Test Scores Hit Record Low

WSJ 05/03/2023

Test Scores Show Students Made Little Progress in National Exam

WSJ 04/10/2018

The Great Stagnation in American Education

New York Times 09/07/2013

"Hard to see how bad actors would not misuse AI for bad things"

05/03/2023

Geoffrey Hinton resigns from Google saying: "It is hard to see how bad actors would not misuse AI for bad things." A call for a pause in development of Ai is ignored as profit seeking behaviour and competition leads to an acceleration of AI development without the ground rules being set and the regulatory agencies powered by law, and without the necessary government action. The tendency of business profit seeking behaviour to lobby legislatures that set the rules has led to lack of regulation for pharma, banks and tech, leading to social breakdown in society with higher health costs, lost decades through unemployment and loss of savings for families. AI takes the problem to another dimension with an effort to replace human thinking behind behaviour. With AI laissez faire ceases to exist as a viable option for free people, only with strict regulation can banks, tech and AI operate to perform useful functions in society. For this to happen schools, media have a role to perform well their role to educate people.

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'Godfather of AI' quits Google to warn of the tech's dangers

France 24 05/02/2023

Opinion | AI can’t teach children to learn. What’s missing?

Washington Post 04/23/2023

Opinion | This Is Too Important to Leave to Microsoft, Google and Facebook

NYTimes.com 04/16/2023

Microsoft Puts Caps on New Bing Usage After AI Chatbot Offered Unhinged Responses

WSJ 02/18/2023

ChatGPT isn’t a great leap forward, it’s an expensive deal with the devil | John Naughton

The Guardian 02/04/2023

Essay | Without Consciousness, AIs Will Be Sociopaths

WSJ 01/13/2023

The fight over pension age in France- unfairness to women and people starting work early

04/08/2023

Pension protests in France with 75% of women opposed to the pension changes. A sense that the timing was wrong because of the cost of living crisis following a pandemic. And the nature of pensions requiring efforts to change culture of age discrimination at work in France that has a serious impact on pensions, pension age and fairness of the system. About two thirds of French people oppose the pension changes put through by presidential executive action without parliament approving it.

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What Is the Ideal Retirement Age for Your Health?

NYTimes.com 04/08/2023

France’s Macron Seeks Bigger Military, Leaner Pension System

WSJ 01/20/2023

‘Not just about pensions’: French protesters see threat to social justice in Macron’s reform

France 24 02/05/2023

Hundreds of thousands protest across France against pension reform, unions vow to ramp up strikes

France 24 02/12/2023

Fight Over Retirement in France Is a Question of Identity

NYTimes.com 03/08/2023

‘We can defeat Macron’: Why women’s anger is fuelling French pension protests

France 24 03/08/2023

How Europe won the energy war after shutdown of Russian gas supplies

04/07/2023

By April 2023 with winter over it is clear that Europe has come out of the winter season with its economy intact after shutdown of pipeline gas from the pipelines in Russia. A lot of action was taken in a short time- Germany's Habeck went to Qatar and other countries to secure LNG supplies, a new LNG terminal was built at Wilhelmshaven in record time, Norway and the US pitched in with more supplies, conservation went into high gear, and renewable energy investments were accelerated. There is no recession in the European Union as a result of this effort. And in this sense and with the Ukrainian economy functioning, generators taking Ukraine through a tough winter, EU taking in 80% of Ukraine agricultural exports, and supermarket shelves kept well stocked, refugees settled in Poland and Germany, the war has already been decided. The principle of no impunity for attacks on neighboring countries has been preserved by the EU acting together to protect itself.

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Opinion | Putin’s Energy Offensive Has Failed

NYTimes.com 04/07/2023

Thwarting Vladimir Putin: The Ukrainian Economy Just Keeps On Going - DER SPIEGEL

SPIEGEL ONLINE 04/07/2023

An LNG pipeline built in record time – DW – 11/01/2022

dw.com 11/04/2022

How Europe won the energy war after shutdown of Russian gas supplies

04/07/2023

By April 2023 with winter over it is clear that Europe has come out of the winter season with its economy intact after shutdown of pipeline gas from the pipelines in Russia. A lot of action was taken in a short time- Germany's Habeck went to Qatar and other countries to secure LNG supplies, a new LNG terminal was built at Wilhelmshaven in record time, Norway and the US pitched in with more supplies, conservation went into high gear, and renewable energy investments were accelerated. There is no recession in the European Union as a result of this effort. And in this sense and with the Ukrainian economy functioning, generators taking Ukraine through a tough winter, EU taking in 80% of Ukraine agricultural exports, and supermarket shelves kept well stocked, refugees settled in Poland and Germany, the war has already been decided. The principle of no impunity for attacks on neighboring countries has been preserved by the EU acting together to protect itself.

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Opinion | Putin’s Energy Offensive Has Failed

NYTimes.com 04/07/2023

Thwarting Vladimir Putin: The Ukrainian Economy Just Keeps On Going - DER SPIEGEL

SPIEGEL ONLINE 04/07/2023

An LNG pipeline built in record time – DW – 11/01/2022

dw.com 11/04/2022

How Europe won the energy war after shutdown of Russian gas supplies

04/07/2023

By April 2023 with winter over it is clear that Europe has come out of the winter season with its economy intact after shutdown of pipeline gas from the pipelines in Russia. A lot of action was taken in a short time- Germany's Habeck went to Qatar and other countries to secure LNG supplies, a new LNG terminal was built at Wilhelmshaven in record time, Norway and the US pitched in with more supplies, conservation went into high gear, and renewable energy investments were accelerated. There is no recession in the European Union as a result of this effort. And in this sense and with the Ukrainian economy functioning, generators taking Ukraine through a tough winter, EU taking in 80% of Ukraine agricultural exports, and supermarket shelves kept well stocked, refugees settled in Poland and Germany, the war has already been decided. The principle of no impunity for attacks on neighboring countries has been preserved by the EU acting together to protect itself.

Grouped Articles

Opinion | Putin’s Energy Offensive Has Failed

NYTimes.com 04/07/2023

Thwarting Vladimir Putin: The Ukrainian Economy Just Keeps On Going - DER SPIEGEL

SPIEGEL ONLINE 04/07/2023

An LNG pipeline built in record time – DW – 11/01/2022

dw.com 11/04/2022

How Europe won the energy war after shutdown of Russian gas supplies

04/07/2023

By April 2023 with winter over it is clear that Europe has come out of the winter season with its economy intact after shutdown of pipeline gas from the pipelines in Russia. A lot of action was taken in a short time- Germany's Habeck went to Qatar and other countries to secure LNG supplies, a new LNG terminal was built at Wilhelmshaven in record time, Norway and the US pitched in with more supplies, conservation went into high gear, and renewable energy investments were accelerated. There is no recession in the European Union as a result of this effort. And in this sense and with the Ukrainian economy functioning, generators taking Ukraine through a tough winter, EU taking in 80% of Ukraine agricultural exports, and supermarket shelves kept well stocked, refugees settled in Poland and Germany, the war has already been decided. The principle of no impunity for attacks on neighboring countries has been preserved by the EU acting together to protect itself.

Grouped Articles

Opinion | Putin’s Energy Offensive Has Failed

NYTimes.com 04/07/2023

Thwarting Vladimir Putin: The Ukrainian Economy Just Keeps On Going - DER SPIEGEL

SPIEGEL ONLINE 04/07/2023

An LNG pipeline built in record time – DW – 11/01/2022

dw.com 11/04/2022

Indian effort to power renewable energy with the help of Denmark and Nordic countries

03/07/2023

Denmark is a key player for renewable energy expansion and for port logistics modernization in India. Denmark produces 50% of its energy from wind power, Germany 25%. A Danish business delegation accompanies the prime minister on a visit to New Delhi and India participates in a Nordic Conference in 2022.

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A Nordic-India connect to power a green transition

The Hindu 02/08/2023

India-Nordic Summit

www.narendramodi.in 08/27/2022

Danish port city to play key role in Europe's wind energy plans | DW | 24.07.2022

DW.COM 07/24/2022

Denmark eyes Germany among top wind farm clients | DW | 09.10.2021

DW.COM 10/09/2021


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