"YOU WILL KNOW THEM BY THE FRUITS OF THEIR EFFORTS!" "THANK GOD!" "IT IS THE END!" . . OF . . "RUTHLESS RULE BY THE SUPER RICH!" GOD WAS WAITING UNTIL "THE SIBERIAN METHANE MONSTER" EXPLODED HYPER-EXPONENTIALLY, EXPLODING "THE FIREY WAVES OF DEATH," AS LA HAS EXPERIENCED, GLOBALLY, BY 2027! IF IT WEREN'T FOR SATAN'S EMPIRE OF NAZI TOTALITARIAN GANGSTER FASCISTS AND THE ANTI-CHRISTIAN RIGHT, IT COULD HAVE BEEN MILLIONS OF YEARS OF TOTALITARIAN GANGSTER CAPITALISM AND TOTALITARIAN GANGSTER SOCIALISM, WHICH ARE NEITHER CAPITALIST OR SOCIALIST! THEY ARE GANGSTERS RUTHLESSLY CONTROLLING THE WORLD'S INCOME, WEALTH & POWER BY THEIR PURE EVIL GREED FOR MONEY! ENJOY "THE HELL OF ALL HELLS" YOUR PURE EVIL GREED CAUSED! VERY SOON! THE GOOD NEWS! SATAN'S MAFIA DEVIL DONS ARE ACCELERATING "THE FIREY WAVES OF DEATH" AS RAPIDLY AS POSSIBLE! "GO BAM BAM DONNY DON!' "DRILL BABY DRILL!" WILL EXPLODE "HOT STUFF!" "THE SIBERIAN METHANE MONSTER," WHEN "THE ARCTIC IS COMPLETELY ICE FREE," BY 2027! PRAY 2025! AS THEN IT WILL BE . . "THE SECOND COMING" AND "THE FINAL JUDGEMENT!" STOPPING THE PERSECUTION OF BILLIONS FOR THE RUTHLESS, PURE EVIL GREED, OF THE WORLD'S BILLIONAIRES. THANK GOD! PLUS, ALTHOUGH I AM COMFY COZY AS "Little jC Burlington Girl," JAZZIE CANT WAIT TO GO HOME AND BE GOD'S BEAUTIFUL DAUGHTER. LIVING IN GCA'S, "GODS CLOSEST & ANGELS," THE MOST BLESSED SOULS, IN AN AMAZINGLY GOD'S SPIRIT FILLED MUSIC, ARTS, THEOLOGY, SCIENCE, CULTURE HEAVENLY MOST BLESSED EXPERIENCES TO HELP ALL SOULS TO "BECOME ONE WITH JESUS!" "I CAN'T WAIT TO GET HOME!" FOR ALL OF THOSE POOR SOULS SUFFERING! AND TO "BECOME ONE WITH JESUS, SARAYU, MAMMA AND FATHER GOD!" VERY SOON PLEASE! LOVES AND KISSES, JAZZIE "BECOME ONE WITH JESUS!" DO "MY FINAL TESTAMENT TO THE GOD OF LOVE!" BECOME A TRUE APOSTLE OF CHRIST! BECOME A DEVOTED DANISH BEST OF THE BEST NORDIC CHRISTIAN HUMANIST! "BECOME ONE WITH JESUS" BY PASSIONATELY LOVING GOD & GOOD ABOVE ALL ELSE! THEN LOVE OTHER'S WITH GOD'S LOVE. MOST IMPORTANTLY, HELP "TAKE CARE OF THOSE IN NEED!" NOT "YOUR EVIL GREED FOR MONEY!" "THE SECOND COMING" AND "THE FINAL JUDGEMENT" BY 2027! "BECOME ONE!" NOW!
THE DEVILS . . SATAN'S MAFIA NAZI TOTALITARIAN GANGSTER FASCIST KLEPTOCRATS! THE GANGSTERS TAKE TOTAL CONTROL OF SATAN'S EMPIRE! "TAKING THE LIGHT SPEED TRAIN INTO THE DEPTHS OF THE HELL OF ALL HELLS!" ACCELERATING HYPER-EXPONENTIALLY "THE FIREY WAVES OF DEATH" THAT ARE NOW TORCHING LA! DO NOT SUPPORT THESE EVIL GANGSTER KLEPTOCRAT FASCISTS! OR RISK FRYING IN THE HELL OF ALL HELLS WITH THEM! VERY SOON! BY 2027! SUPPORT THE DANES/GOD'S MODEL! THE VERY EXTENSIVE PROOFS ARE ON THIS POST AND GOD'S SITE, THAT THE DANES AND THE BEST OF THE BEST NORDIC POLICIES, ARE "THE NARROW GATES TO HEAVEN," AS THEY HONOR "CHRIST'S ONE COMMANDMENT" "TAKE CARE OF THOSE IN NEED!" NOT "YOUR RUTHLESS GREED FOR MONEY!" OR "I WILL FRY YOU IN THE VERY HELL OF ALL HELLS" YOU DAMNED MY CHILDREN/SOULS TO SUFFER IN! AS I AM ONE WITH ALL OF MY CHILDREN! WHAT "YOU DO" OR WHAT "YOU DON'T DO" TO "THE LEAST OF MY CHILDREN/SOULS" "YOU DO TO ME!" "YOU DAMNED ME TO SUFFER IN THE HELL OF ALL HELLS" THAT I / GOD HAS LAID OUT ON THIS POST, AND ON GOD'S SITE. TO THE SUPER EVIL SUPER RICH! WHAT "YOU DID NOT DO TO ME!" THE LORD GOD! IS WHAT THE DANES AND THE NORDICS HAVE DONE FOR THEIR PEOPLE, WHICH IS LAID OUT BELOW IN EXTENSIVE DETAIL! WHAT "YOU DID TO ME" IS ALSO LAID OUT IN THESE GRAPHS, TABLES, ARTICLES AND ON GOD'S SITE. NOW "THE EVIL RICH AND THEIR OPERATORS AND ROBOTS" WILL SUFFER IN "THE FIREY WAVES OF DEATH" "YOUR PURE EVIL GREED FOR MONEY CAUSED!" DO NOT SUPPORT THESE EVIL SATAN'S MAFIA DONS! "YOU WILL KNOW THEM BY THE FRUITS OF THEIR EFFORTS!" SUPPORT THE DANISH/BEST OF THE BEST NORDIC MODEL POLICIES! THESE ARE "THE NARROW GATES TO HEAVEN!" BE BLESSED! BE A TRUE PROGRESSIVE CHRISTIAN HUMANIST, OR AT LEAST A TRUE PROGRESSIVE HUMANIST, IF YOU DON'T KNOW GOD YET! "THE SECOND COMING!" & "THE FINAL JUDGEMENT" BY 2027! PREPARE YOUR SOUL! DO "MY FINAL TESTAMENT TO THE GOD OF LOVE!" NOW! PASSIONATELY LOVE GOD/GOOD! PLEASE SEE THE PRIOR POST: "THE FINAL NEW TESTAMENT!" CHRIST'S WORDS ARE GOD'S PATH TO HEAVEN & CLOSER ONENESS! CREATE "MY FINAL TESTAMENT TO GOD!" NOW! VLAD WILL GET HIS BILLIONS INVESTED IN DONNY THE DUNCE DON! TRUMP WINS NAZI AMERICA! TRUMP LOOSES CIVIL WAR! VLAD'S LAST CHANCE!
LA FIREY WAVES OF DEATH . . REPAIR BILL AS OF NOW . . $250 BILLION! ESTIMATED AMOUNT COVERED BY INSURANCE . . $20 BILLION! . . BETTER GET IN LINE TO "KISS SATAN'S MAFIA TOTALITARIAN GANGSTER FASCIST CON MAN OF CON MEN'S SATAN & VLAD'S DUNCE DON'S RING!" SELL YOUR SOUL TO SATAN . . OR . . NO RELEIF FOR THE REST! . . JUST MORE "TRILLIONS FOR THE BILLIONAIRES!" . . THE MOST EVIL SOCIETY TO EVER DISGRACE GOD'S NAME! SATAN'S EMPIRE OF NAZI TOTALITARIAN GANGSTER FASCIST KLEPTOCRATS! "THANK GOD!" "IT IS THE END!" OF "RUTHLESS RULE BY THE SUPER RICH!" "THE SECOND COMING!" & "THE FINAL JUDGEMENT" . . BY 2027! . . PREPARE YOUR SOULS! DO "MY FINAL TESTAMENT TO THE GOD OF LOVE!" PLEASE SEE THE PRIOR POSTS: "LA FIREY WAVES OF DEATH!" GLOBE 2025-7! "IT IS THE END TIMES!" CLIMATE HELL=BILLIONAIRE LAND GRABS! INSURANCE HELL! PALISADES GONE NOT PARADISE W HOMES DUST! TREES NOT! TRUMP TORCHES LEFT=DONNY DRONES FIRES! TRUMPS IMPERIALISM JUSTIFIES PUTINS & GAZA! 2024 HEAT RECORDS OFF THE CHARTS! WHY? SIBERIAN / ARCTIC METHANE! "ABRUPT CLIMATE CHANGE HELL EXPLODES 2025!" COMPLETELY ICE FREE ARCTIC BY 2027, MAYBE 2025 = CLIMATE APOCALYPSE! A LOOK AT 2024'S CLIMATE DISASTERS! SUPPORT THE NORDIC/DANISH MODEL! TRANS HELL COMING! SATAN/VLADS RUSSIAN PUPPET PRESIDENT DEVIL OF THE YEAR DON! WILL TRUMP WALL IN BURLINGTON & SEND IN WILD ANIMALS & PROGRESSIVES LIKE KING KOCH'S PARENTS? "THANK GOD!" "IT IS THE END!" DON'T SUPPORT THE DEVILS! WORK INIQUITY=FRY IN HELL FORGET POLITICS & ORGANIZED RELIGION! IT IS ALL BS FOR THE BILLIONAIRES! EXCEPT NORDIC/DANISH CHRISTIAN HUMANISM! BECOME ONE WITH JESUS! DO "MY FINAL TESTAMENT TO THE GOD OF LOVE!" REALLY SEEK TO FOLLOW CHRIST'S WORDS AND EXAMPLE EVERY DAY IN EVERY WAY! DANES OR DEVILS! GIVE THANKS 4 SATAN'S EMPIRE ANTI-CHRISTIAN DONS & ROBOTS THAT INSURED GLOBAL OMNICIDE RAPIDLY! THANKS DANES/NORDICS 4 BEING TRUE CHRISTIANS! SHOWING US THE NARROW PATH & GATES TO HEAVEN! CHOOSE DANISH/NORDIC CHRISTIAN! GOD NOT MONEY! "THE FINAL NEW TESTAMENT!" CHRIST'S WORDS ARE GOD'S PATH TO HEAVEN & CLOSER ONENESS! CREATE "MY FINAL TESTAMENT TO GOD!" NOW! VLAD WILL GET HIS BILLIONS INVESTED IN DONNY THE DUNCE DON! TRUMP WINS NAZI AMERICA! TRUMP LOOSES CIVIL WAR! VLAD'S LAST CHANCE! "CHRIST'S MOST PROFOUND PROPHECY!" WHEN "THE ARCTIC IS ICE FREE!" "STRONG EL NINO COLLAPSE OF AMOC & THE 2ND COMING!" "BECOME ONE II!" TRANS HELL! PASSIONATELY LOVE GOD! NOT MONEY! GIVE YOUR WEALTH & LIFE TO GOD! OMICRON VARIANT 10X PLUS CONTAGIOUS!  Happiest Countries in the World 2024 Snapshot
Since 2002, the World Happiness Report has used statistical analysis to determine the world's happiest countries. In its 2024 update, the report concluded that Finland is the happiest country in the world. To determine the world's happiest country, researchers analyzed comprehensive Gallup polling data from 143 countries for the past three years, specifically monitoring performance in six particular categories: gross domestic product per capita, social support, healthy life expectancy, freedom to make your own life choices, generosity of the general population, and perceptions of internal and external corruption levels. In order to properly compare each country's data, the researchers created a fictional country—christened Dystopia—filled with "the world's least-happy people." They then set Dystopia as the rock bottom value in each of the six categories and measured the scores of the real-world countries against this value. All six variables were then blended to create a single combined score for each country. Six out of the top seven happiest countries in the world for 2024 were Northern European countries. Finland took top honors—for the tenth year in a row—with an overall score of 7.741, followed (in order) by Denmark (7.583), Iceland (7.525), Sweden (7.344), Israel (7.341), the Netherlands (7.319), and Norway (7.302). The least happy country in the world for 2024 was Afghanistan, whose 143rd-place ranking of 1.721 can be attributed in part to a low life expectancy rate, low gross domestic product rates per capita, and perhaps most importantly, the recent Taliban takeover of Afghanistan. Rounding out the bottom five are Lebanon(2.707), Lesotho (3.186), Sierra Leone (3.245), and DR Congo (3.295). 1. Finland. 7.74 2. Denmark. 7.58 3. Iceland. 7.53 4. Sweden. 7.34 5. Israel. 7.34 6. Netherlands. 7.32 7. Norway. 7.3 8. Luxembourg. 7.12 9. Australia. 7.06 10 Switzerland. 7.06 The Top 7 Happiest Countries in the World (plus an inspiring honorable mention) for 2024: Finland Finland ranks as the world's happiest country based on the 2024 report, with a score of 7.741 out of a total possible score of 10. The citizens of Finland have strong feelings of communal support and mutual trust that not only helped secure the #1 ranking but also helped the country as a whole navigate the COVID-19 pandemic. During that trying time, Finlanders felt strongly that they were free to make their own choices and showed minimal suspicion of government corruption. Both of these factors are strong contributors to overall happiness. Denmark The second-happiest country in the world is Denmark, which scores 7.583. Denmark's values for each of the six variables are quite comparable to those of Finland. In fact, Denmark has even outscored the leader in multiple categories, including GDP per capita and generosity. The country also scored the highest in happiness among older adults (60+). Iceland Iceland ranks as 2024's third-happiest country in the entire world, with a total score of 7.525. Of the top seven happiest countries around the globe, Iceland boasts the highest feeling of social support. Iceland also had the second-highest generosity score in the top seven, though it's worth noting that it ranked only 11th worldwide. Iceland is also a happier country for the youngsters at #4 than Finland (#7) and Denmark (#5). Sweden Fourth-place Sweden (7.344) ranks only #18 for happiness among the younger people (aged below 30). Yet, it is also #4 in older adults’ happiness. In fact, according to the report, along with Norway, Germany, France, the United Kingdom, and Spain, Sweden is a country where the old are now significantly happier than the young, while in Portugal, Greece, and Israel the opposite is true. Israel Fifth in the ranks of the happiest countries with a score of 7.341, Israel showed emotional resilience in the wake of the October 7th attack. Israel occupies the second spot for the happiness of the young people, just behind Lithuania. However, conversely to Sweden and Norway, the older Israelis are significantly less happy than their young fellow citizens, the country ranking #18 for senior citizens’ happiness. Netherlands Edging out Norway for the honor of sixth-happiest country in the world is the Netherlands (also known as Holland to many tulip lovers), with a score of 7.319. The Netherlands scored higher in the generosity category than any other top-seven country and also had the highest GDP. Norway The citizens of seventh-place Norway (7.302) feel they are being well cared for by their government thanks to universal healthcare and free college tuition. Norwegians also enjoy a healthy work-life balance, working an average of 27 hours per week vs. 36 hours per week in the United States. Additionally, Norway has a low crime rate and a strong sense of community among its citizens—a quality it shares with many in the top seven. Honorable Mention: Bhutan Bhutan was previously excluded from the 2021 report due to a technicality: each country's scores were based upon detailed Gallup polls, but Gallup did not conduct polling in Bhutan during the required timeframe. In the 1970s, the 4th King of Bhutan stated, “Gross National Happiness is more important than Gross Domestic Product.” Since then, the idea of Gross National Happiness (GNH) has influenced Bhutan’s development policy. Its GNH Index value increased from 0.743 in 2010 to 0.781 in 2022. With a focus on mindfulness and well-being, Bhutan may soon give some of its Northern European counterparts a run for their money in terms of people’s happiness.   Happiest Countries in the World 2024 WORLD HAPPINESS REPORT PDF In this issue of the World Happiness Report we focus on the happiness of people at different stages of life. In the seven ages of man in Shakespeare’s As You Like It, the later stages of life are portrayed as deeply depressing. But happiness research shows a more nuanced picture, and one that is changing over time. In the West, the received wisdom was that the young are the happiest and that happiness thereafter declines until middle age, followed by substantial recovery. But since 2006-10, as we shall see, happiness among the young (aged 15-24) has fallen sharply in North America – to a point where the young are less happy than the old. Youth happiness has also fallen (but less sharply) in Western Europe. By contrast, happiness at every age has risen sharply in Central and Eastern Europe, so that young people are now equally happy in both parts of Europe. In the former Soviet Union and East Asia too there have been large increases in happiness at every age, while in South Asia and the Middle East and North Africa happiness has fallen at every age. It is of course an issue to what extent these changes reflect generational changes that can be expected to persist as each generation gets older. In pioneering work, Chapter 2 disentangles the effect of which cohort you are in from that of age. At the global level, it reveals a lower level of happiness among people born since 1980. One thing is the average level of happiness, another is its dispersion. Since 2006-10, the inequality of happiness has increased in every region except Europe – another worrying trend. As usual, all these trends are discussed in Chapter 2, together with the country rankings. The position of the young is discussed in finer detail in Chapter 3. This draws on a wide range of data sources and also includes data for young people aged 10-15. The rest of the report focuses on the old. As Chapter 4 stresses, the greatest plague in old age is dementia. Fortunately, new and accumulating research demonstrates that higher well-being is a protective factor against future dementia. In addition, there are significant environmental and behavioral strategies that improve the lives of those living with dementia. Finally, Chapter 5 focuses on India, the first such chapter in the World Happiness Report. It stresses that in India, the world’s most populous country, with a rapidly growing elder share, happiness rises into old age,more so for men than women. In what follows, we give summaries of each chapter, which will hopefully tempt readers to read further. Chapter 2. Happiness for the young, the old and those in betweenOverall rankings
Read Chapter 2 of the World Happiness Report 2024. Chapter 3. Child and Adolescent Well-being: Global Trends, Challenges and Opportunities
Chapter 4. Supporting the Well-being of an Aging Global Population: Associations between Well-being and Dementia
Chapter 5. Differences in Life Satisfaction among Older Adults in India
    COMPARE THE DISTRIBUTION OF GOVERNMENT SPENDING IN DENMARK ABOVE TO US GOVERNMENT SPENDING BELOW!      The next supermodel Politicians from both right and left could learn from the Nordic countries Feb 2nd 2013 SMALLISH countries are often in the vanguard when it comes to reforming government. In the 1980s Britain was out in the lead, thanks to Thatcherism and privatisation. Tiny Singapore has long been a role model for many reformers. Now the Nordic countries are likely to assume a similar role. That is partly because the four main Nordics—Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland—are doing rather well. If you had to be reborn anywhere in the world as a person with average talents and income, you would want to be a Viking. The Nordics cluster at the top of league tables of everything from economic competitiveness to social health to happiness. They have avoided both southern Europe’s economic sclerosis and America’s extreme inequality. Development theorists have taken to calling successful modernisation “getting to Denmark”. Meanwhile a region that was once synonymous with do-it-yourself furniture and Abba has even become a cultural haven, home to “The Killing”, Noma and “Angry Birds”. As our special report this week explains, some of this is down to lucky timing: the Nordics cleverly managed to have their debt crisis in the 1990s. But the second reason why the Nordic model is in vogue is more interesting. To politicians around the world—especially in the debt-ridden West—they offer a blueprint of how to reform the public sector, making the state far more efficient and responsive. From Pippi Longstocking to private schools The idea of lean Nordic government will come as a shock both to French leftists who dream of socialist Scandinavia and to American conservatives who fear that Barack Obama is bent on “Swedenisation”. They are out of date. In the 1970s and 1980s the Nordics were indeed tax-and-spend countries. Sweden’s public spending reached 67% of GDP in 1993. Astrid Lindgren, the inventor of Pippi Longstocking, was forced to pay more than 100% of her income in taxes. But tax-and-spend did not work: Sweden fell from being the fourth-richest country in the world in 1970 to the 14th in 1993. Since then the Nordics have changed course—mainly to the right. Government’s share of GDP in Sweden, which has dropped by around 18 percentage points, is lower than France’s and could soon be lower than Britain’s. Taxes have been cut: the corporate rate is 22%, far lower than America’s. The Nordics have focused on balancing the books. While Mr Obama and Congress dither over entitlement reform, Sweden has reformed its pension system (see Free exchange). Its budget deficit is 0.3% of GDP; America’s is 7%. On public services the Nordics have been similarly pragmatic. So long as public services work, they do not mind who provides them. Denmark and Norway allow private firms to run public hospitals. Sweden has a universal system of school vouchers, with private for-profit schools competing with public schools. Denmark also has vouchers—but ones that you can top up. When it comes to choice, Milton Friedman would be more at home in Stockholm than in Washington, DC. All Western politicians claim to promote transparency and technology. The Nordics can do so with more justification than most. The performance of all schools and hospitals is measured. Governments are forced to operate in the harsh light of day: Sweden gives everyone access to official records. Politicians are vilified if they get off their bicycles and into official limousines. The home of Skype and Spotify is also a leader in e-government: you can pay your taxes with an SMS message. This may sound like enhanced Thatcherism, but the Nordics also offer something for the progressive left by proving that it is possible to combine competitive capitalism with a large state: they employ 30% of their workforce in the public sector, compared with an OECD average of 15%. They are stout free-traders who resist the temptation to intervene even to protect iconic companies: Sweden let Saab go bankrupt and Volvo is now owned by China’s Geely. But they also focus on the long term—most obviously through Norway’s $600 billion sovereign-wealth fund—and they look for ways to temper capitalism’s harsher effects. Denmark, for instance, has a system of “flexicurity” that makes it easier for employers to sack people but provides support and training for the unemployed, and Finland organises venture-capital networks. The sour part of the smorgasbord The new Nordic model is not perfect. Public spending as a proportion of GDP in these countries is still higher than this newspaper would like, or indeed than will be sustainable. Their levels of taxation still encourage entrepreneurs to move abroad: London is full of clever young Swedes. Too many people—especially immigrants—live off benefits. The pressures that have forced their governments to cut spending, such as growing global competition, will force more change. The Nordics are bloated compared with Singapore, and they have not focused enough on means-testing benefits. All the same, ever more countries should look to the Nordics. Western countries will hit the limits of big government, as Sweden did. When Angela Merkel worries that the European Union has 7% of the world’s population but half of its social spending, the Nordics are part of the answer. They also show that EU countries can be genuine economic successes. And as the Asians introduce welfare states they too will look to the Nordics: Norway is a particular focus of the Chinese. The main lesson to learn from the Nordics is not ideological but practical. The state is popular not because it is big but because it works. A Swede pays tax more willingly than a Californian because he gets decent schools and free health care. The Nordics have pushed far-reaching reforms past unions and business lobbies. The proof is there. You can inject market mechanisms into the welfare state to sharpen its performance. You can put entitlement programmes on sound foundations to avoid beggaring future generations. But you need to be willing to root out corruption and vested interests. And you must be ready to abandon tired orthodoxies of the left and right and forage for good ideas across the political spectrum. The world will be studying the Nordic model for years to come. The 'Nordic model' of capitalism The five Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden) are often characterised as being welfare capitalist, featuring a combination of free market activity and government intervention. However, the institutional frameworks and economic policy models have changed over time, and the ‘model’ used has varied between countries and throughout their history. The success of the Nordic economies has arguably shown that economic prosperity can go hand in hand with the welfare state. Current challenges include increasing wage differentials and an ageing population, however. Institutional settings in the Nordic countries are fairly similar, due to their close cultural and historical roots. The Nordics are often characterised as welfare capitalist countries, featuring a combination of free market activity and government intervention. The institutional framework has changed over the course of time, however. In the post-war decades, many sectors of the economy, such as the financial markets, were highly regulated in all the Nordic countries. Economic planning and steering were at the fore in order to modernise the economy and promote growth. This changed radically in the 1980s and 1990s when a paradigm shift occurred, affecting both economic policy and institutional models. Market-based solutions were adopted, and the emphasis in economic policy, which had primarily been based on aggregate demand and/or investments, was transferred to monetary stability. Not just one ‘Nordic’ or ‘Scandinavian’ economic modelThe models have varied between the individual countries as well. In Finland and Sweden, top-down policies and direct intervention have been prevalent, and at times the state has been both strong and active. The state’s role in infrastructural investment has occasionally been significant and active growth policies have been prominent. In Finland, Norway and Sweden state-owned companies have had an important role. The Nordic model should, however, not be considered to be the same as a strong state and/or interventionist economic policy. Denmark can, moreover, be characterised as a more liberal economy, in which direct state interventions have been less common. Since the 1990s direct state intervention and regulation have decreased radically and in the wake of the international trend for privatisation since the 1990s, privatisation of state companies has occurred in the Nordic countries. Economic policy models have varied over time The adoption of economic policy models have varied over time, too. For example, Sweden and Denmark explicitly adopted the Keynesian model in the post-war period, while Finland’s economic policy focused more on promoting growth by keeping the investment rate high and expanding the export sector. The promotion of industrialisation was also important in Norway. In Sweden and Finland problems of competitiveness were, on the other hand, often solved by resorting to devaluations. The Nordic countries have been characterised by a certain amount of pragmatism in economic policy. The Nordic model should not be considered to be the same as a strong state and/or interventionist economic policy. Aleksanterinkatu, Helsinki, Finland. Photo: Tapio Haaja, Unsplash. The welfare state as the cornerstone of Nordic economic development Internationally the ‘Nordic model’ is often considered to mean welfare states and consensual policies in the labour market. The welfare state has been an important cornerstone in Nordic economic development, and during the post-war decades collective wage bargaining and policies to preserve peace in the labour market were common. Collaboration and co-ordination were key words. Although the development of the welfare state meant growing taxes and an expanding public sector, it also increased participation in gainful employment, especially among women. Investment in education has been a key goal in the Nordic countries and as a result the population has attained a high level of education. The labour supply has also been favoured by extensive immigration, particularly in Sweden and Denmark. Since the 1990s the proportion of foreigners in the labour force has increased in Finland and Norway too. The Nordics: countries with small income differentials Wage and income differentials have been small in the post-war period in the Nordic countries. This was partly a result of active policies. Since the 1990s income differentials have, however, shown a tendency to grow again. This is mainly due to the growing share of capital incomes, which tend to grow faster than salaries, while wage differentials are still fairly small. These trends are also a result of changes in labour market, however. Temporary labour contracts have become more common, and wage setting has become more decentralised. A paradigm shift during the 1980s towards liberalisation and deregulation, and the financial crises of the 1990s also changed the role of the welfare state in the Nordic countries. Social benefits were reduced to promote incentives to seek employment. The tax burden was reduced and the public sector slimmed. As a consequence, public spending as a share of GDP has shrunk in the Nordic countries. For instance, in Sweden, where the public spending’s share of GDP was for a long time one of the highest in the world, the share has been reduced to just over 50% of GDP in 2019 (compared with, for example, the UK and Japan, where it is 42.2% and 39.4% respectively (2015 figures)). 'slush' is a widely acclaimed international conference for entrepreneurs and start-up businesses held in Helsinki annually. www.slush.org. The welfare state can support economic growth Despite public spending being reduced, the welfare state still holds a deep-rooted position in the Nordic societies. Research has also shown that a generous welfare state is not necessarily in conflict with economic prosperity, but that it can actually support economic growth. The Nordic countries provide a good example of welfare states, which, together with well-developed educational systems, have provided the economy with a highly educated and generally healthy labour force that is integrated in the labour market. This has boosted overall development. The investment role of the state can also be significant. Investments in education and technology, the promotion of innovation, and technological and organisational renewal have used up more public resources during recent decades than previously; these are seen as important for enhancing growth in the future. Future challenges to Nordic economiesPrevious success is, however, never a guarantee for future success. Common to all the Nordic economies are challenges such as an ageing population, and the prolonged economic crises in Europe. Further reading:
 TAXES ON THE SUPER RICH HAVE BEEN SLASHED BY REAGAN BUSHES & TRUMP!              
Which Country Is Best to Start a Small Business in? By JEAN FOLGER Updated January 31, 2023 The easiest countries in which to start and operate a business aren't necessarily the largest economies. Every year, the United Nations' World Bank Group—an international financial institution that offers loans, grants, and other resources to low- and middle-income countries for capital programs—publishes the Doing Business 2020 report, which looks specifically at which country is best to start a small business in. The rankings examine 190 countries worldwide, based on 10 key indicators:12
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Top 5 International Countries to Start a Business in 1. New Zealand For the fourth year in a row, New Zealand is the economy with the most business-friendly environment. The country earned top scores for "starting a business," the indicator that looks at the number of steps entrepreneurs can expect to go through to start up and formally operate a business, plus the time and cost it takes to complete those steps. It also ranked first for the indicator on "getting credit," which measures the strength of the country's legal rights and depth of credit information. The country also ranked well for registering property (second place) and protecting minority investors (third place). Thanks to a streamlined online process, starting a business in New Zealand only takes about half a day—the shortest time in the world.3 2. Singapore Singapore has maintained a consistent ranking as the world's second most business-friendly environment. Among the highlights, the country ranked second in terms of enforcing contracts and third for protecting minority investors. Singapore also ranked well for starting a business (fourth place) and dealing with construction permits (fifth place). Recently, Singapore also simplified construction permits by improving its risk-based approach to inspections, improving the accessibility of soil information to the public, and making it easier to acquire a construction permit. 3. Hong Kong (China) Hong Kong, a special administrative region considered part of China, has worked its way up the list in recent years. It was ranked first for dealing with construction permits, second for paying taxes, and third for the ease of getting electricity. Reforms over the last few years have made it easier to start a business by doing the following:
4. Denmark Denmark is the fourth-easiest country in which to do business. It ranked highest in trading across borders (first place), and achieved fourth place for dealing with construction permits, and sixth for resolving insolvency. The report notes that Denmark made dealing with construction permits cheaper by eliminating fees for building permits. In addition, Denmark also recently "lowered its paid-in minimum capital requirement from 50,000 kroner ($7,470) to 40,000 kroner ($5,975) for domestic limited liability companies." 5. South Korea The Republic of Korea ranked first in enforcing contracts and second in getting electricity. Other areas of strength included: getting electricity (second place) and enforcing contracts (second place). In recent years, the country has made advancements that have made transferring property easier and strengthened minority investor protections. Overall, in Korea, it only takes 13 days to get electricity, while getting a road maintenance contract takes as little as 161 days.7 It's all about efficiency in this island nation: it is also the fastest economy to award public contracts in just four months after communicating the opportunity for the bid, collecting the bids, opening and evaluating them, and finally signing the contract and authorizing the beginning of the work. The Bottom Line These five countries listed are the easiest places in the world to do business, according to the World Bank’s Doing Business 2020 report. The report also notes that worldwide, 115 economies made it easier to do business in the past year with the most notable improvements coming from Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and Togo. By region, Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America still fall behind on their ease of doing business; in fact, no countries in Latin America make the top 50. Top 10 Most Democratic Countries in the World Published on October 9, 2023 at 11:28 pm by ASHAR JAWAD in News 6. Finland Score: 7.5 Finland is a parliamentary republic under the 1999 constitution. It ranks fifth on the The Economist and 10th on V-dem Institute’s democracy indices. 5. Switzerland Score: 5.5 Switzerland is a direct democracy, where the public not only votes to elect a government, but also on specific issues of national interest, such as amendment of the constitution. 4. New Zealand Score: 4 Due to a strong rule of law, and fair and transparent electoral process, New Zealand ranks among the most democratic countries in the world. It is considered among the top ranked countries for political participation. 3. Denmark Score: 3.5 Denmark is one of the most democratic countries in the world, and usually finds itself listed among the top ranked countries in all democracy indices. Denmark’s media is pluralist with a high degree of freedom. It received a solid 10/10 score from The Economist for its electoral process in its 2022 report. 2. Sweden Score: 3 Sweden is the second most democratic country in the world. The country has a parliamentary system functioning under a constitutional monarchy. An estimated 74% of the Swedes are satisfied with democracy in their country. 1. Norway Score: 2 Norway is the most democratic country in the world. It scored 10 out of 10 on three metrics considered by The Economist’s Democracy Index 2022: electoral process and pluralism, political participation, and political culture. The country is ranked third on V-dem Institute’s Democracy Report 2023   RECORD SHATTERING LOW SEA ICE IN THE ARCTIC AND ANTARCTICA!
NEOLIBERAL RIGHT-WING HUNDRED MILLION TO BILLIONAIRE MONOPOLIST SLAVE OWNER FASCIST KINGS AND QUEENS HAVE HIJACKED THE US WEALTH & INCOME FROM . . "THE REST" . . SENSE THE ASSULT BEGAN IN 1980! THE REAGAN, BUSHS AND TRUMP'S FLEECING OF . . "THE REST" . . FOR . . "THE RUTHLESS RICH!" . . THE IMPACTS HAVE BEEN HORRIFIC! . . "THE BENEFITS . . HAVE NOT . . TRICKLED DOWN . . TO . . THE REST!" . . THE PROOF IS IN PART IN . . THE GRAPHS! Most Environmentally Friendly Countries 2023 Environmentally friendly countries—alternately known as eco-friendly, nature-friendly, or green countries—are those that engage in processes and practices that minimize harm to ecosystems and the environment. The most desirable environmentally friendly practices are sustainable, meaning they can be carried out on an ongoing basis with little to no negative impact upon the world around them. The term "environmentally friendly" is often also applied to goods and services, laws, guidelines, and policies that inflict minimal (or no) damage upon the environment and ecosystems. Environmentally friendly products, processes, and practices impose no harm to the natural environment, help conserve resources like water and energy, and do not contribute to air, water, and land pollution. How to measure a country's environmental friendliness: the Environmental Performance Index Compiled annually by Yale University's Center for Environmental Law & Policy, the Environmental Performance Index (EPI) is a statistical method of computing the collective environmental impact of all of a country’s policies combined. The 2020 Environmental Performance Index ranks 180 countries across 32 performance indicators related to environmental health and ecosystem vitality, from the amount of particulate pollution in the air and the purity of drinking water to the health of fish stocks and the management of wetlands. The EPI then combines these scores into a single overall score that ranges from 100 (best) to 0 (worst). These scores provide a foundation from which governments can see how close they are to their established environmental policy goals and implement effective environmental policies. Top 10 Most Environmentally Friendly Countries in the World (2022 EPI):
Profiles of the world's most environmentally friendly countries 1. Denmark — 77.9 As in most countries, Denmark's EPI score of 77.9 in 2022 was notably lower than its 2020 score of 82.5. Nonetheless, Denmark again earns the title of most environmentally friendly country in the world. Denmark stands out for its high scores in "nearly all issues tracked by the EPI", and garnered extra praise for its efforts in the fields of clean energy and sustainable agriculture. Denmark is also one of only a handful of countries on track to reach "net zero" CO₂ emissions by 2050. In addition to implementing some of the world's most efficient policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and prevent climate change, Denmark has long focused upon sustainability, championing clean products such as eco-friendly hotels, solar-powered boats, and organic food. 2. United Kingdom — 77.7 The United Kingdom's 2022 EPI score of 77.7 was the second-highest in the world, and the country's 23-point improvement over the ten years from 2012 to 2022 was the third-highest of any country. The report's creators specifically singled out the UK's efforts to control greenhouse gas emissions—like Denmark, the UK is one of very few countries currently on schedule to reduce their net CO₂ emissions to zero by 2050. The UK was also one of six countries to post a perfect score of 100 for sanitation and drinking water, and scores high for its management of solid household fuels and soil acidification. 3. Finland — 76.5 The country with the third-highest EPI rating (76.5) in 2022, Finland ties several other high-scoring countries for first place in several performance indicators, including Marine Protected Areas, Grassland Loss (protection), Soil Acidification, Wastewater Treatment, Household Solid Fuels, PM2.5 (air quality), Sanitation, Drinking Water, Heavy Metals, and "Black Carbon" Emissions. About 35% of Finland’s power comes from renewable energy resources, and forest and wildlife conservation are high priorities. 4. Malta — 75.2 Vaulting into fourth place is Malta, which ranked 23rd on the 2020 EPI but has improved by 25.4 points between 2012 and 2022, the biggest gain of any country in the world during that period. Malta tied for first place in categories including its protection of tree cover, its marine trophic index (which measures the quality of fish in its fisheries), the quality of its drinking water, N₂O emissions. Malta is also one of only three countries, along with Ireland and Botswana, to share a first-place ranking in greenhouse gas (GHG) intensity growth rate, which measures a country's ability to grow economically without increasing its greenhouse gas emissions. 5. Sweden — 72.7 Fifth place belongs to Sweden, which scores at or near the top in multiple categories related to air and water quality, such as Soil Acidification and PM2.5 (which measures particulate pollution in the atmosphere). Sweden also ranks second-in-the-world for Sustainable Pesticide Use, just one place behind Australia, and has the fourth-best management of Heavy Metals (lead) in the world. Sweden is one of the planet's most sustainable countries, known for its use of renewable energy sources and low carbon dioxide emissions. 6. Luxembourg — 72.3 The small European country of Luxembourg—the sixth-most environmentally friendly country in the world—scores well in several Biodiversity-related categories. It is ranked second in the world at protecting its various plant and animal species, behind only Botswana. Luxembourg also posts top scores in the categories of Sanitation, Waste Management, Household Solid Fuels, and Soil Acidification. Perhaps most impressive is the fact that Luxembourg has made significant progress in protecting its environmental health despite having a rapidly growing population and the highest gross domestic product per capita in the world. 7. Slovenia — 67.3 The highest-ranking Eastern-European country in the 2023 EPI, Slovenia ranks only 35th in terms of overall air quality thanks to its unfortunate greenhouse gas emissions. However, it ranks second in the world in terms of overall Ecosystem Vitality, with top-ranked Terrestrial Biomes, minimal Wetland Loss and Soil Acidification, and excellent Species Protections. According to the EPI, more than 30% of Slovenia's territory is protected land, the highest percentage of any European country. 8. Austria — 66.5 The world’s eighth-most eco-friendly country, Austria ranks first in the world in the category of Ecosystem Vitality, making it the only country to score higher than Slovenia. Austria has some of the strictest standards in Europe in categories such as waste management, chemicals, and air pollution. Agricultural regulations are also stringent, specifically with regard to pesticides and fertilizers. 9. Switzerland — 65.9 Ninth-ranked Switzerland has high environmental health, sustainability, water sanitation, and water resources. Switzerland’s public sector is increasingly requiring eco-friendly and resource-friendly products. The country is one of the top recyclers in the world, and has strongly embraced renewable energy. For example, Switzerland's largest transportation company, SBB (Swiss Federal Railways), relies upon electric trains—and as of 2023, 90% of the trains' electricity was generated via hydropower plants. 10. Iceland — 62.9 The final country in the 2023 top ten, Iceland ranks first in the world in terms of overall Environmental Health, an umbrella category made up of indicators such as Air Quality, PM2.5 (which measures particulate air pollution), Ozone, Sanitation, Drinking Water, Waste Management, Recycling, Lead, and more. Although Iceland's environmental performance has few weaknesses, the EPI report postulates that improved grazing management in the Agriculture sector could boost Iceland's score even higher.  REGAN, BUSHES AND TRUMPET HAVE MADE US . . "ALL FOR US . . NONE FOR THE REST!" . . JUST LOOK AT THE GRAPHS BELOW AND ABOVE! . . "ALL FOR THE RUTHLESS RICH!" . . "NONE FOR . . THOSE IN NEED!" . . "ENJOY THE HELL OF ALL HELLS YOU CAUSED!
Super Wealthy versus the Merely Rich February 7, 2022 10:00am by Barry Ritholtz 
but it’s much worse than they assume (see chart at right). This is a mostly (but not exclusively) American issue; Europe for example has less income and wealth inequality than we do here. Most of all, it presents an opportunity to think about complex issues from vantage points that include financial, psychology, behavior, policy, even temporal. This is why I am always keen to check out any new analytical tool that gives us a fresh way to analyze the associated data. The latest such tool comes from the economic trio of Thomas Blanchet, Emmanuel Saez, and Gabriel Zucman of the University of California Berkeley. They have introduced a very interesting new tool: Realtime Inequality. (H/T Paulie the K via Invictus; methodology here) Let’s use this tool to do a little wage & wealth inequality analysis in real-time: Confirming my priors, the Realtime Inequality data set and charts show just how lopsided wealth in America actually is; sure, the top 10% and top 1% have seen their wealth increase substantially over the past four decades, but it is almost modest compared to the top 0.1% and 0.01%. Those at the top of the pyramid have seen their fortunes disproportionately soar since the 1980s. It’s generally well understood that the wealthier you are, the better you have done during the pandemic, since the GFC, or during the 1980s-90s bull market. But most people are not aware of exactly how lopsided those gains are. Consider the top 1% and various tiers in income: The top 1% has seen average income gains of $1.2m versus the top 10% adding $230k and the next 40% adding $33k. But those numbers are rounding errors compared to the income gains of the top 0.1% of $5.8m, and the top 0.01% of $28m.  Income Tier Comparison including Top 0.1% and 0.01%  It is even starker when we compare wealth (typically public stocks and bonds, real estate, alternative investments, and privately held businesses). The top 1% added $16m in wealth over this time period versus the top 10% adding $2.9m and the next 40% adding $240k. Again we see these numbers dwarfed by the wealth gained by the top 0.1% of $89m, and the top 0.01% of $500m. Half a billion in wealth gains on average for people in the top 0.01% is a surprising number: Wealth Tier Comparison  Wealth Tier Comparison including Top 0.1% and 0.01%  Compare the wealth gains among different economic tiers since 1981: Bottom Half = $4.8k Middle 40% = $240k Top 10% = $2.9m Top 1% = $16m Top 0.1% = $89m Top 0.01% = $500m That is pretty astounding. These are complex issues, and they can be emotional, politicized, and easy to misunderstand. But here is the bottom line: The difference between the top 1% or 10% and the bottom half of the country is relatively modest compared to this new category of super-wealthy. That has ramifications for all of society, whether people believe the nation is on the right track or not, and how policymakers might respond. Source: Realtime Inequality Thomas Blanchet, Emmanuel Saez, Gabriel Zucman Department of Economics | University of California, Berkeley https://realtimeinequality.org/ Previously: Wealth Distribution Analysis (July 18, 2019) Composition of Wealth Differs: Middle Class to the Top 1% (June 5, 2019) John D. Rockefeller Was Richer – Way Richer – Than You Are… (February 22, 2016) Are the Poor Better Off Than King Louis XIV? January 16, 2015 Wealth Disparity Expands Further (November 13, 2019) Wages in America (2013-2021) Understanding Wealth Comparisons (2004-2020) These Countries Care the Most About Human Rights These are the top countries viewed as caring about human rights by global survey respondents. This quality factors into the overall U.S. News Best Countries rankings and Social Purpose subranking. For more information on the rankings, see our methodology. Denmark #1 in Cares about human rights Sweden #2 in Cares about human rights Norway #3 in Cares about human rights Canada #4 in Cares about human rights Netherlands #5 in Cares about human rights Switzerland #6 in Cares about human rights Finland #7 in Cares about human rights New Zealand #8 in Cares about human rights 2023 Global Peace Index Overall GPI Score A composite index measuring the peacefulness of countries made up of 23 quantitative and qualitative indicators each weighted on a scale of 1-5. The lower the score the more peaceful the country. RANK REGION SCORE 1 Iceland 1.124 2 Denmark 1.31 3 Ireland 1.312 4 New Zealand 1.313 5 Austria 1.316 The 25 best countries for social progress The latest Social Progress Index suggests that global living standards have improved for the 11th year running, but the results are a mixed bag depending on where you live. Here are the best countries for health, safety, education, rights and quality of environment. That’s according to the latest Social Progress Index, which each year scrutinises life in 169 countries. The index is put together by the Social Progress Imperative, a US-based non-profit that promotes positive social change. Since 2011, its researchers have used key indicators, such as quality of healthcare, personal safety, access to education, access to technology, rights, and quality of environment, to measure progress. They then give annual scores for nations and the world as a whole. The latest findings suggest that social progress has marched onwards for the 11th consecutive year, albeit unevenly. Once again, Norway was declared the world’s most progressive country in 2022, with Denmark and Finland ranking second and third respectively. The UK and US both slipped down a place each to 19th and 25th respectively. The UK was identified as one of only four countries where social progress has regressed since the index began. The others are Syria, Venezuela and Libya. “The UK has slipped into a social progress recession after a lost decade,” the report noted. “We see the impact of austerity measures and Brexit showing up in the data in every area from education, to healthcare, rights, and tolerance.” The US was the lowest ranking nation in the G7, partly because of its poor safety score. The country was ranked 48th for personal safety, and 107th for interpersonal violence, behind the Republic of Congo, Nicaragua, and Sierra Leone.
  CEO pay has skyrocketed 1,460% since 1978 CEOs were paid 399 times as much as a typical worker in 2021 Report • By Josh Bivens and Jori Kandra • October 4, 2022 What this report finds: Corporate boards running America’s largest public firms are giving top executives outsize compensation packages that have grown much faster than the stock market and the pay of typical workers, college graduates, and even the top 0.1%. In 2021, we project that a CEO at one of the top 350 firms in the U.S. was paid $27.8 million on average (using a “realized” measure of CEO pay that counts stock awards when vested and stock options when cashed in and ownership is taken). This 11.1% increase from 2020 occurred because of rapid growth in vested stock awards. Using a different “granted” measure of CEO pay (which counts the value of stock awards and options when announced (or “granted” rather than realized), average top CEO compensation was $15.6 million in 2021, up 9.8% since 2020. In 2021, the ratio of CEO-to-typical-worker compensation was 399-to-1 under the realized measure of CEO pay; that is up from 366-to-1 in 2020 and a big increase from 20-to-1 in 1965 and 59-to-1 in 1989. CEOs are even making a lot more than other very high earners (wage earners in the top 0.1%)—almost seven times as much. From 1978 to 2021, CEO pay based on realized compensation grew by 1,460%, far outstripping S&P stock market growth (1,063%) and top 0.1% earnings growth (which was 385% between 1978 and 2020, according to the latest data available). In contrast, compensation of the typical worker grew by just 18.1% from 1978 to 2021. ADAM SMITH . . FATHER OF CAPITALISM . . STATED . . "IF THE MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE" . . THEN THE KINGS QUEENS AND MERCANTILISTS . . TODAY THE CEOS AND SUPER RICH . . STILL LIVE BY . . "THEIR VEIL MAXUM!" . . "ALL . . FOR US!" . . "NONE . . FOR THE REST!" . . "CAPITALISM HAS FAILED!" "THE FINAL TESTAMENT" PROVES . . "TOTALITARIAN GANGSTER CAPITALISM" IS . . "PURE EVIL GREED!" . . "RIGHT-WING ANTI-CHRISTIANS ARE TRULY LOST!" Why it matters: Exorbitant CEO pay is a contributor to rising inequality that we could restrain without doing any damage to the wider economy. CEOs are getting ever-higher pay over time because of their power to set pay and because so much of their pay (more than 80%) is stock-related. They are not getting higher pay because they are becoming more productive or more skilled than other workers, or because of a shortage of excellent CEO candidates. This escalation of CEO compensation and of executive compensation more generally has fueled the growth of top 1% and top 0.1% incomes, leaving fewer of the gains of economic growth for ordinary workers and widening the gap between very high earners and the bottom 90%. The economy would suffer no harm if CEOs were paid less (or were taxed more). How we can solve the problem: We need to enact policy solutions that would both reduce incentives for CEOs to extract economic concessions and limit their ability to do so. Such policies could include reinstating higher marginal income tax rates at the very top; setting corporate tax rates higher for firms that have higher ratios of CEO-to-worker compensation; using antitrust enforcement and regulation to restrain the excessive market power of firms—and by extension of CEOs; and allowing greater use of “say on pay,” which allows a firm’s shareholders to vote on top executives’ compensation. Introduction Chief executive officers (CEOs) of the largest firms in the U.S. earn far more today than they did in the mid-1990s and many times what they earned in the 1960s or 1970s. They also earn far more than the typical worker,1 and their pay—which relies heavily on stock-related compensation—has grown much more rapidly than a typical worker’s pay. Importantly, rising CEO pay does not reflect a rising value of skills but rather CEOs’ use of their power to set their own pay. In economic terms, this means that CEO compensation reflects substantial “rents” (income in excess of actual productivity). This is problematic since the growing earning power of CEOs has been driving income growth at the very top—a key dynamic in the overall growth of inequality. But it also means that CEO pay can be curtailed without damaging economywide growth. Key findings
5 Most Egalitarian Countries in the World Published on October 13, 2023 at 6:57 am by AFIFA MUSHTAQUE in News This article will look at the 5 most egalitarian countries in the world. In another article, we discussed egalitarianism and how some companies try to help achieve that for many countries. If you want to read about that and a more extensive list, head straight to the 20 Most Egalitarian Countries in the World. 5. Switzerland Average Rank: 6.5 Switzerland maintains a relatively stable income distribution, with the top 10% consistently earning about one-third of total national income before and after government redistribution. Switzerland’s strong economy and employment opportunities, coupled with its dual education and training system, help limit income disparities. The richest 10% of Swiss citizens pay approximately 51% of all income tax, while a progressive federal tax balances tax competition among cantons. 4. Finland Average Rank: 5.75 According to a study conducted by the Labour Institute for Economic Research, Finland has relatively small pay differences and low-income inequality compared to most European countries. In 2015, full-time wage and salary earners in the highest income decile in Finland were paid an average of 2.73 times more than those in the lowest income decile, considered a low figure internationally. The study also found that Finland’s share of low-paid workers was the fourth lowest in Europe at 11.6%. Factors contributing to Finland’s low-income inequality include a high union density, broad coverage of collective agreements, and coordinated wage and salary formation. It is one of the most egalitarian countries in the world. 3. Denmark Average Rank: 5 Denmark has exceptional income equality and gender balance. Women actively participate in the workforce, which is further helped by parental leave and daycare support. They hold important political roles, with a history of female ministers. Men enjoy ample family time, sharing childcare responsibilities and housework. LGBTI+ rights are progressive, with same-sex marriage and acceptance. Denmark is renowned for transgender history and LGBTQ+ inclusivity, notably hosting the annual Pride Parade. 2. Sweden Average Rank: 4.5 Sweden has a reputation for being one of the most egalitarian countries in the world due to its strong commitment to social welfare, progressive taxation, and gender equality. The Swedish government provides extensive public services like healthcare and education to a relatively even distribution of benefits and opportunities. Furthermore, their progressive tax policies aim to reduce income inequality. Sweden’s focus on gender equality has led to women’s active participation in the labor force and in leadership roles. It is one of the most equal countries in the world. 1. Norway Average Rank: 2 Norway is a global leader in gender equality and has, thus, both societal prosperity and financial growth. Women’s important participation in the workforce has contributed substantially to the country’s GDP, with a 10% boost attributed to increased female employment between 1973 and 2013. Government policies, like shared parental leave, help women’s career opportunities and increase fathers’ involvement in childcare. The legislation mandates that 40% of boards in public limited companies include women to gender balance in leadership roles. Norway is the most egalitarian country in the world. 10 Countries with the Highest Median Income, March 2021 (PPP, Current Int$): World Population Review MEDIAN INCOME, TAKES "ALL PEOPLE" IN THE COUNTRY, AND RANKS THEM BY "TOTAL INCOME." EVEN IF THEY DON'T HAVE ANY INCOME. THE MEDIAN IS THE 50% PERSON. THE NEXT TABLE RANKS BY "WAGES," WHICH ONLY INCLUDES THOSE WITH WAGES, WHICH EXCLUDES THOSE WITH NO WAGES OR ONLY THOSE WITH SOCIAL SECURITY BASED INCOME PAYMENTS. WHAT A DIFFERENCE! Luxembourg $28,382 United Arab Emirates $26,324 United States $24,327 Norway $23,835 Switzerland $23,488 Austria $21,572 Netherlands $21,480 Iceland $20,630 Denmark $20,593 Canada $20,550 WORLD DATA.INFO Difference between wage and income The wage or salary is paid to a worker or employee for his work in an employment relationship. Self-employed persons, freelancers, pensioners or also social welfare recipients have neither wage nor salary, but nevertheless an income. Workers or employees can also have additional income to their wages or salary. This includes, for example, capital gains (e.g. securities or interest) or rentals. Steve Jobs had an annual salary of only $1 for a long time. In addition, however, he had an income, namely the proceeds from rising stock prices. In many countries, interest is also paid on shareholders' deposits in corporations. These are also income, but not wages, because they do not arise from active work. A person's income is therefore the sum of all money earned. The average income of a country is calculated from the gross national product and the number of inhabitants. Dividing all earnings and profits of all inhabitants (= gross national income) by the number of inhabitants gives the average income per person. This includes all wages and salaries, but also other income, e.g. from capital gains. At first glance, that may sound somewhat inaccurate in a country comparison, as companies also generate an income. Regardless of size, the company is also owned by individuals. Therefore, the income of the owners increases to the same extent as the income of their companies. Salary, on the other hand, is something quite different and can only be compared internationally in a few cases. It only includes those who also receive a salary (or wage) and ignores large parts of the money earned. Moreover, what is covered by this salary varies from country to country. In the major industrialized nations, social security contributions (e.g.: Pension, health care, accident and health insurance, unemployment insurance or even insolvency contributions) are parts of the salary. Sometimes the employer already pays part of it, and this part is no longer part of the gross salary. In other countries, there are no employer contributions at all, or even unemployment or pension insurance. Worldwide, around 4 billion people live without social security. RANKED BY HIGHEST GROSS ANNUAL WAGE Country/Region Annual income Gross annual wage Switzerland $89,450 $98,177 Iceland $68,220 $92,175 Luxembourg $91,200 $83,318 United States $76,370 $74,738 Denmark $73,200 $73,540 Norway $95,510 $72,697 Australia $60,430 $66,776 Ireland $81,070 $61,117 Netherlands $57,430 $60,324 Canada $52,960 $59,156 Belgium $48,700 $57,299 Austria $56,140 $55,796 New Zealand $48,460 $55,049 Israel $54,650 $54,882 United Kingdom $48,890 $53,896 Finland $54,360 $53,653 Sweden $62,990 $53,501 Germany $53,390 $51,710 France $45,860 $47,444 Japan $42,440 $40,476 South Korea $35,990 $37,175 Italy $37,700 $35,119
    
    MEDIAN WEALTH IN DENMARK                          Nordic model
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia This article is about the social and economic model in Northern Europe. For the political ideology often associated with the Nordic model, see Social democracy. For the type of prostitution law, see Nordic model approach to prostitution. Part of a series on Economic systems The Nordic model comprises the economic and social policies as well as typical cultural practicescommon in the Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden).[1] This includes a comprehensive welfare state and multi-level collective bargaining[2] based on the economic foundations of social corporatism,[3][4] and a commitment to private ownership within a market-based mixed economy[5]— with Norway being a partial exception due to a large number of state-owned enterprises and state ownership in publicly listed firms.[6] Although there are significant differences among the Nordic countries,[7] they all have some common traits. The three Scandinavian countries are constitutional monarchies, while Finland and Iceland have been republics since the 20th century. All the Nordic countries are however described as being highly democratic and all have a unicameral legislature and use proportional representation in their electoral systems. They all support a universalist welfare state aimed specifically at enhancing individual autonomy and promoting social mobility, with a sizable percentage of the population employed by the public sector (roughly 30% of the work force in areas such as healthcare, education, and government),[8] and a corporatist system with a high percentage of the workforce unionized and involving a tripartite arrangement, where representatives of labour and employers negotiate wages and labour market policy is mediated by the government.[9] As of 2020, all of the Nordic countries rank highly on the inequality-adjusted HDI and the Global Peace Index as well as being ranked in the top 10 on the World Happiness Report.[10] The Nordic model was originally developed in the 1930s under the leadership of social democrats,[11]although centrist and right-wing political parties, as well as labour unions, also contributed to the Nordic model's development.[12] The Nordic model began to gain attention after World War II[13] and has transformed in some ways over the last few decades, including increased deregulation and expanding privatization of public services.[14][11] However, it is still distinguished from other models by the strong emphasis on public services and social investment.[15] Overview and aspects[edit] Flags of the Nordic countries from left to right: Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, and DenmarkThe Nordic model has been characterized as follows:[16]
Economic system[edit]The Nordic model is underpinned by a mixed-market capitalist economic system that features high degrees of private ownership,[36][37] with the exception of Norway which includes a large number of state-owned enterprises and state ownership in publicly listed firms.[6] The Nordic model is described as a system of competitive capitalism combined with a large percentage of the population employed by the public sector, which amounts to roughly 30% of the work force, in areas such as healthcare and higher education. In Norway, Finland, and Sweden, many companies and/or industries are state-run or state-owned[38][39][40][41] like utilities, mail, rail transport, airlines, electrical power industry, fossil fuels, chemical industry, steel mill, electronics industry, machine industry, aerospace manufacturer, shipbuilding, and the arms industry.[42] In 2013, The Economist described its countries as "stout free-traders who resist the temptation to intervene even to protect iconic companies", while also looking for ways to temper capitalism's harsher effects and declared that the Nordic countries "are probably the best-governed in the world."[8][43] Some economists have referred to the Nordic economic model as a form of "cuddly capitalism", with low levels of inequality, generous welfare states, and reduced concentration of top incomes, contrasting it with the more "cut-throat capitalism" of the United States, which has high levels of inequality and a larger concentration of top incomes, among others social inequalities.[16][44][45] As a result of the Sweden financial crisis of 1990–1994, Sweden implemented economic reforms that were focused on deregulation and the strengthening of competition laws. Despite this however, Sweden still has the highest government spending-to-GDP ratio of all the Nordic countries, it retains national-level sectoral bargaining unlike Denmark and Iceland, with over 650 national-level bargaining agreements,[46] it retains the Ghent systemunlike Norway and Iceland and consequently has the second-highest rate of unionization in the world.[47][48][49] Despite being one of the most equal OECD nations, from 1985 to the 2010s Sweden saw the largest growth in income inequality among OECD economies.[50][51] Other effects of the 1990s reforms was the substantial growth of mutual fund savings, which largely began with the government subsidizing mutual fund savings through the so-called Allemansfonder program in the 1980s;[52] today 4 out of 5 people aged 18–74 have fund savings.[53] Norway's particularities[edit]The state of Norway has ownership stakes in many of the country's largest publicly listed companies, owning 37% of the Oslo stock market[54] and operating the country's largest non-listed companies, including Equinor and Statkraft. In January 2013, The Economist reported that "after the second world war the government nationalised all German business interests in Norway and ended up owning 44% of Norsk Hydro's shares. The formula of controlling business through shares rather than regulation seemed to work well, so the government used it wherever possible. 'We invented the Chinese way of doing things before the Chinese', says Torger Reve of the Norwegian Business School."[54] The government also operates a sovereign wealth fund, the Government Pension Fund of Norway, whose partial objective is to prepare Norway for a post-oil future but "unusually among oil-producing nations, it is also a big advocate of human rights—and a powerful one, thanks to its control of the Nobel peace prize."[55] Norway is the only major economy in the West where younger generations are getting richer, with a 13% increase in disposable income for 2018, bucking the trend seen in other Western nations of Millennials becoming poorer than the generations which came before.[56] Lutheran influence[edit]Some academics have theorized that Lutheranism, the dominant traditional religion of the Nordic countries, had an effect on the development of social democracy there. Schröder posits that Lutheranism promoted the idea of a nationwide community of believers and led to increased state involvement in economic and social life, allowing for nationwide welfare solidarity and economic co-ordination.[57][58][59] Esa Mangeloja says that the revival movements helped to pave the way for the modern Finnish welfare state. During that process, the church lost some of its most important social responsibilities (health care, education, and social work) as these tasks were assumed by the secular Finnish state.[60] Pauli Kettunen presents the Nordic model as the outcome of a sort of mythical "Lutheran peasant enlightenment", portraying the Nordic model as the result of a sort of "secularized Lutheranism";[59][61]however, mainstream academic discourse on the subject focuses on "historical specificity", with the centralized structure of the Lutheran church being but one aspect of the cultural values and state structures that led to the development of the welfare state in Scandinavia.[62] Labour market policy[edit]The Nordic countries share active labour market policies as part of a social corporatist economic model intended to reduce conflict between labour and the interests of capital. This corporatist system is most extensive in Norway and Sweden, where employer federations and labour representatives bargain at the national level mediated by the government. Labour market interventions are aimed at providing job retraining and relocation.[63] The Nordic labour market is flexible, with laws making it easy for employers to hire and shed workers or introduce labour-saving technology. To mitigate the negative effect on workers, the government labour market policies are designed to provide generous social welfare, job retraining and relocation services to limit any conflicts between capital and labour that might arise from this process.[64] Nordic welfare model[edit]The Nordic welfare model refers to the welfare policies of the Nordic countries, which also tie into their labour market policies. The Nordic model of welfare is distinguished from other types of welfare states by its emphasis on maximising labour force participation, promoting gender equality, egalitarian, and extensive benefit levels, the large magnitude of income redistribution and liberal use of expansionary fiscal policy.[65] While there are differences among the Nordic countries, they all share a broad commitment to social cohesion, a universal nature of welfare provision in order to safeguard individualism by providing protection for vulnerable individuals and groups in society, and maximising public participation in social decision-making. It is characterized by flexibility and openness to innovation in the provision of welfare. The Nordic welfare systems are mainly funded through taxation.[66] Despite the common values, the Nordic countries take different approaches to the practical administration of the welfare state. Denmark features a high degree of private sector provision of public services and welfare, alongside an assimilation immigration policy. Iceland's welfare model is based on a "welfare-to-work" (see workfare) model while part of Finland's welfare state includes the voluntary sector playing a significant role in providing care for the elderly. Norway relies most extensively on public provision of welfare.[66] Gender equality[edit]When it comes to gender equality, the Nordic countries hold one of the smallest gaps in gender employment inequality of all OECD countries,[67] with less than 8 points in all Nordic countries according to International Labour Organization standards.[68] They have been at the front of the implementation of policies that promote gender equality; the Scandinavian governments were some of the first to make it unlawful for companies to dismiss women on grounds of marriage or motherhood. Mothers in Nordic countries are more likely to be working mothers than in any other region and families enjoy pioneering legislation on parental leave policies that compensate parents for moving from work to home to care for their child, including fathers.[69]Although the specifics of gender equality policies in regards to the work place vary from country to country, there is a widespread focus in Nordic countries to highlight "continuous full-time employment" for both men and women as well as single parents as they fully recognize that some of the most salient gender gaps arise from parenthood. Aside from receiving incentives to take shareable parental leave, Nordic families benefit from subsidized early childhood education and care and activities for out-of-school hours for those children that have enrolled in full-time education.[67] The Nordic countries have been at the forefront of championing gender equality and this has been historically shown by substantial increases in women's employment. Between 1965 and 1990, Sweden's employment rate for women in working-age (15–64) went from 52.8% to 81.0%.[68] In 2016, nearly three out of every four women in working-age in the Nordic countries were taking part in paid work. Nevertheless, women are still the main users of the shareable parental leave (fathers use less than 30% of their paid parental-leave-days), foreign women are being subjected to under-representation,[67]and Finland still holds a notable gender pay-gap; the average woman's salary is 83% of that of a man, not accounting for confounding factors such as career choice.[70] Poverty reduction[edit]The Nordic model has been successful at significantly reducing poverty.[71] In 2011, poverty rates before taking into account the effects of taxes and transfers stood at 24.7% in Denmark, 31.9% in Finland, 21.6% in Iceland, 25.6% in Norway, and 26.5% in Sweden. After accounting for taxes and transfers, the poverty rates for the same year became 6%, 7.5%, 5.7%, 7.7% and 9.7% respectively, for an average reduction of 18.7 p.p.[72] Compared to the United States, which has a poverty level pre-tax of 28.3% and post-tax of 17.4% for a reduction of 10.9 p.p., the effects of tax and transfers on poverty in all the Nordic countries are substantially bigger.[72] In comparison to France (27 p.p. reduction) and Germany (24.2 p.p. reduction), the taxes and transfers in the Nordic countries are smaller on average.[72] Social democracy[edit] Vote percentage over time of the main social democratic parties in Denmark, Finland, Sweden, and Norway[73] Labour Party (Norway) Swedish Social Democratic Party Social Democrats (Denmark) Social Democratic Party of Finland Social democrats have played a pivotal role in shaping the Nordic model, with policies enacted by social democrats being pivotal in fostering the social cohesion in the Nordic countries.[74] Among political scientists and sociologists, the term social democracy has become widespread to describe the Nordic model due to the influence of social democratic party governance in Sweden and Norway, in contrast to other classifications such as Christian democratic, liberal, Mediterranean, radical, and hybrid, based on consistency levels ("pure", "medium-high consistency" and "medium consistency").[75] According to sociologist Lane Kenworthy, the meaning of social democracy in this context refers to a variant of capitalism based on the predominance of private property and market allocation mechanisms alongside a set of policies for promoting economic security and opportunity within the framework of a capitalist economy as opposed to a political ideology that aims to replace capitalism.[76][77] While countries such as Austria, Belgium, Canada, France, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom have been categorized as social democratic at least once, the Nordic countries have been the only ones to be constantly categorized as such. In a review by Emanuele Ferragina and Martin Seeleib-Kaiser of works about the different models of welfare states, apart from Belgium and the Netherlands, categorized as "medium-high socialism", the Scandinavian countries analyzed (Denmark, Norway, and Sweden) were the only ones to be categorized by sociologist Gøsta Esping-Andersen as "high socialism", which is defined as socialist attributes and values (equality and universalism) and the social democratic model, which is characterized by "a high level of decommodification and a low degree of stratification. Social policies are perceived as 'politics against the market.'" They summarized the social democratic model as being based on "the principle of universalism, granting access to benefits and services based on citizenship. Such a welfare state is said to provide a relatively high degree of autonomy, limiting the reliance on family and market."[75] As of the 1990s, the Nordic identity has been explained with cultural, not political factors; by the 2010s, politics has been re-entering the conversation on the Nordic identity. According to Johan Strang, cultural explanation benefits neoliberalism, during whose rise the cultural phenomenon coincided. Strang states that "[t]he Social Democratic model, which was still very much alive during the Cold War, has now been abandoned, and other explanations for Nordic success have been sought to replace it."[11] History[edit] The term 'peasant republic' is sometimes applied to certain communities in Scandinavia during the Viking Age and High Middle Ages, especially in Sweden, where royal power seems to have been initially somewhat weak,[78] and in areas of modern day Sweden that were not under the rule of the Swedish king yet, as well as in Iceland where the Icelandic Commonwealth serves as an example of an unusually large and sophisticated peasant republic building on the same democratic traditions.[79] Some historians have also argued that Gotland was a peasant republic before the attack by the Danes in 1361.[80] Central for the old Scandinavian democratic traditions was the assemblies called the Thing or Moot. The Nordic model traces its foundation to the "grand compromise" between workers and employers spearheaded by farmer and worker parties in the 1930s. Following a long period of economic crisis and class struggle, the "grand compromise" served as the foundation for the post-World War II Nordic model of welfare and labour market organization. The key characteristics of the Nordic model were the centralized coordination of wage negotiation between employers and labour organizations, termed a social partnership, as well as providing a peaceful means to address class conflict between capital and labour.[4] Magnus Bergli Rasmussen has challenged that farmers played an important role in ushering Nordic welfare states. A 2022 study by him found that farmers had strong incentives to resist welfare state expansion and farmer MPs consistently opposed generous welfare policies.[81] Although often linked to social democratic governance, the Nordic model's parentage also stems from a mixture of mainly social democratic, centrist, and right-wing political parties, especially in Finland and Iceland, along with the social trust that emerged from the "great compromise" between capital and labour. The influence of each of these factors on each Nordic country varied as social democratic parties played a larger role in the formation of the Nordic model in Sweden and Norway, whereas in Iceland and Finland, right-wing political parties played a much more significant role in shaping their countries' social models. However, even in Iceland and Finland, strong labour unions contributed to the development of universal welfare.[12] Social security and collective wage bargaining policies were rolled back following economic imbalances in the 1980s and the financial crises of the 1990s which led to more restrictive budgetary policies that were most pronounced in Sweden and Iceland. Nonetheless, welfare expenditure remained high in these countries, compared to the European average.[82] Denmark[edit] Social welfare reforms emerged from the Kanslergade Agreement of 1933 as part of a compromise package to save the Danish economy.[4] Denmark was the first Nordic country to join the European Union in the 1970s, reflecting the different political approaches to it among the Nordic countries.[11] Finland[edit] The early 1990s recession affected the Nordic countries and caused a deep crisis in Finland, and came amid the context of the dissolution of the Soviet Union and collapse of trade from the Eastern Bloc. Like in Sweden, Finland's universalistic welfare state based on the Nordic model was weakened and no longer based on the social-democratic middle ground, as several social welfare policies were often permanently dismantled; however, Finland was hit even harder than Sweden. During the crisis, Finland looked to the European Union, which they were more committed and open to joining than Sweden and especially Norway, while Denmark had already joined the EU by the 1970s. Finland is, to date, the only Nordic country to become a Eurozonemember state after fully adopting the euro as its official currency in 2002.[11][83] Iceland[edit] According to analyst Harpa Njálsdóttir, Iceland in the late 2010s moved away from the Nordic model towards the economic liberal model of workfare. She also noted that with the large changes having been made to the social security system, "70% of elderly people now live well below national subsistence criteria, while about 70% of those who live alone and in bad conditions are women."[84] Despite this, as of 2021, Iceland has the lowest poverty rate in the OECD of only 4.9 percent.[85] Norway[edit] Norway's "grand compromise" emerged as a response to the crisis of the early 1930s between the trade union confederation and Norwegian Employers' Association, agreeing on national standards in labour–capital relations and creating the foundation for social harmony throughout the period of compromises. For a period between the 1980s and the 1990s, Norway underwent more neoliberal reforms and marketization than Sweden during the same time frame, while still holding to the traditional foundations of the "social democratic compromise" that was specific to Western capitalism from 1945 to 1973.[86] Norway was the Nordic country least willing to join the European Union. While Finland and Sweden suffered greatly from the 1990s recession, Norway began to earn enough revenue from their oil.[11] As of 2007, the Norwegian state maintained large ownership positions in key industrial sectors, among them petroleum, natural gas, minerals, lumber, seafood and fresh water. The petroleum industry accounts for around a quarter of the country's gross domestic product.[87] Sweden In Sweden, the grand compromise was pushed forward by the Saltsjöbaden Agreement signed by employer and trade union associations at the seaside retreat of Saltsjöbaden in 1938. This agreement provided the foundation for Scandinavian industrial relations throughout Europe's Golden Age of Capitalism. The Swedish model of capitalism developed under the auspices of the Swedish Social Democratic Party which assumed power in 1932 and retained uninterrupted power until 1976. Initially differing very little from other industrialized capitalist countries, the state's role in providing comprehensive welfare and infrastructure expanded after the Second World War until reaching a broadly social democratic consensus in the 1950s which would become known as the social liberal paradigm,[4] which was followed by the neoliberal paradigm by the 1980s and 1990s.[88] According to Phillip O'Hara, "Sweden eventually became part of the Great Capitalist Restoration of the 1980s and 1990s. In all the industrial democracies and beyond, this recent era has seen the retrenchment of the welfare state by reduced social spending in real terms, tax cuts, deregulation and privatization, and a weakening of the influence of organized labor."[89] In the 1950s, Olof Palme and the prime minister Tage Erlander formulated the basis of Swedish social democracy and what would become known as the "Swedish model", drawing inspiration from the reformist socialism of party founder Hjalmar Branting, who stated that socialism "would not be created by brutalized...slaves [but by] the best positioned workers, those who have gradually obtained a normal workday, protective legislation, minimum wages." Arguing against those to their left, the party favored moderatism and wanted to help workers in the here and now, and followed the Fabian argument that the policies were steps on the road to socialism, which would not come about through violent revolution but through the social corporative model of welfare capitalism,[90] to be seen as progressive in providing institutional legitimacy to the labour movement by recognizing the existence of the class conflict between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat as a class compromise within the context of existing class conflict.[91] This Swedish model was characterized by a strong labour movement as well as inclusive publicly funded and often publicly administered welfare institutions.[4] By the early 1980s, the Swedish model began to suffer from international imbalances, declining competitiveness and capital flight. Two polar opposite solutions emerged to restructure the Swedish economy, the first being a transition to socialism by socializing the ownership of industry and the second providing favorable conditions for the formation of private capital by embracing neoliberalism. The Swedish model was first challenged in 1976 by the Meidner Plan promoted by the Swedish Trade Union Confederation and trade unions which aimed at the gradual socialization of Swedish companies through wage earner funds. The Meidner Plan aimed to collectivize capital formation in two generations by having the wage earner funds own predominant stakes in Swedish corporations on behalf of workers. This proposal was supported by Palme and the Social Democratic party leadership, but it did not garner enough support upon Palme's assassination and was defeated by the conservatives in the 1991 Swedish general election.[92] Upon returning to power in 1982, the Social Democratic party inherited a slowing economy resulting from the end of the post-war boom. The Social Democrats adopted monetarist and neoliberal policies, deregulating the banking industry, and liberalizing currency in the 1980s. The economic crisis of the 1990s saw greater austerity measures, deregulation, and the privatization of public services.[4] Into the 21st century, it greatly affected Sweden and its universalistic welfare state, although not as hard as Finland. Sweden remained more Eurosceptic than Finland, and its struggles affected all the other Nordic countries, as it was seen as "the guiding star of the north", and with Sweden fading away, other Nordic countries also felt like they were losing their political identities.[11] When the Nordic model was then gradually rediscovered, cultural explanations were sought for the special features of the Nordic countries.[11] Reception The Nordic model has been positively received by some American politicians and political commentators. Jerry Mander has likened the Nordic model to a kind of "hybrid" system which features a blend of capitalist economics with socialist values, representing an alternative to American-style capitalism.[93]Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders has pointed to Scandinavia and the Nordic model as something the United States can learn from, in particular with respect to the benefits and social protections the Nordic model affords workers and its provision of universal healthcare.[94][95][96] Scandinavian political scientist Daniel Schatz argued that Sanders is wrong, saying that "the success of Nordic countries like Sweden — as measured by relatively high living standards accompanied by low poverty, with government-funded education through university, universal health coverage, generous parental-leave policies and long life spans — precedes the contemporary welfare state.", adding that "Research has suggested that the Northern European success story has its roots in cultural rather than economic factors. The Scandinavian countries ... historically developed remarkably high levels of social trust, a robust work ethic and considerable social cohesion".[97] According to Luciano Pellicani, the social and political measures adopted in countries like Sweden and Denmark are the same that some other European left-wing politicians theorised to combine justice and freedom, referring to liberal socialism and movements like Giustizia e Libertà and Fabian Society.[98]According to Naomi Klein, former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev sought to move the Soviet Union in a similar direction to the Nordic system, combining free markets with a social safety net, but still retaining public ownership of key sectors of the economy—ingredients that he believed would transform the Soviet Union into "a socialist beacon for all mankind."[99][100] The Nordic model has also been positively received by various social scientists and economists. American professor of sociology and political science Lane Kenworthy advocates for the United States to make a gradual transition toward a social democracy similar to those of the Nordic countries, defining social democracy as such: "The idea behind social democracy was to make capitalism better. There is disagreement about how exactly to do that, and others might think the proposals in my book aren't true social democracy. But I think of it as a commitment to use government to make life better for people in a capitalist economy. To a large extent, that consists of using public insurance programs—government transfers and services."[101] Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz says that there is higher social mobility in the Scandinavian countries than in the United States and posits that Scandinavia is now the land of opportunity that the United States once was.[102] American author Ann Jones, who lived in Norway for four years, posits that "the Nordic countries give their populations freedom from the market by using capitalism as a tool to benefit everyone" whereas in the United States "neoliberal politics puts the foxes in charge of the henhouse, and capitalists have used the wealth generated by their enterprises (as well as financial and political manipulations) to capture the state and pluck the chickens."[103] Economist Jeffrey Sachs is a proponent of the Nordic model, having pointed out that the Nordic model is "the proof that modern capitalism can be combined with decency, fairness, trust, honesty, and environmental sustainability."[104] The Nordic combination of extensive public provision of welfareand a culture of individualism has been described by Lars Trägårdh of Ersta Sköndal University College as "statist individualism."[55] A 2016 survey by the think tank Israel Democracy Institute found that nearly 60 percent of Israeli Jews preferred a "Scandinavian model" economy, with high taxes and a robust welfare state.[105] Criticism Socialist economists Pranab Bardhan and John Roemer criticize Nordic-style social democracy for its questionable effectiveness in promoting relative egalitarianism as well as its sustainability. They posit that Nordic social democracy requires a strong labour movement to sustain the heavy redistribution required, arguing that it is idealistic to think similar levels of redistribution can be accomplished in countries with weaker labour movements. They say that even in the Scandinavian countries social democracy has been in decline since the weakening of the labour movement in the early 1990s, arguing that the sustainability of social democracy is limited. Roemer and Bardham posit that establishing a market-based socialist economy by changing enterprise ownership would be more effective than social democratic redistribution at promoting egalitarian outcomes, particularly in countries with weak labour movements.[106] Historian Guðmundur Jónsson said that it would be historically inaccurate to include Iceland in one aspect of the Nordic model, that of consensus democracy. Addressing the time period from 1950 to 2000, Jónsson writes that "Icelandic democracy is better described as more adversarial than consensual in style and practice. The labour market was rife with conflict and strikes more frequent than in Europe, resulting in strained government–trade union relationship. Secondly, Iceland did not share the Nordic tradition of power-sharing or corporatism as regards labour market policies or macro-economic policy management, primarily because of the weakness of Social Democrats and the Left in general. Thirdly, the legislative process did not show a strong tendency towards consensus-building between government and opposition with regard to government seeking consultation or support for key legislation. Fourthly, the political style in legislative procedures and public debate in general tended to be adversarial rather than consensual in nature."[107] In a 2017 study, economists James Heckman and Rasmus Landersøn compared American and Danish social mobility, and found that social mobility is not as high as figures might suggest in the Nordic countries, although they did find that Denmark ranks higher in income mobility. When looking exclusively at wages (before taxes and transfers), Danish and American social mobility are very similar; it is only after taxes and transfers are taken into account that Danish social mobility improves, indicating that Danish economic redistribution policies are the key drivers of greater mobility. Additionally, Denmark's greater investment in public education did not improve educational mobility significantly, meaning children of non-college educated parents are still unlikely to receive college education, although this public investment did result in improved cognitive skills amongst poor Danish children compared to their American peers. There was evidence that generous welfare policies could discourage the pursuit of higher-level education due to decreasing the economic benefits that college education level jobs offer and increasing welfare for workers of a lower education level.[108] Some welfare and gender researchers based in the Nordic countries suggest that these states have often been over-privileged when different European societies are being assessed in terms of how far they have achieved gender equality. They posit that such assessments often utilise international comparisons adopting conventional economic, political, educational, and well-being measures.[109] By contrast, they suggest that if one takes a broader perspective on well-being incorporating, such as social issues associated with bodily integrity or bodily citizenship,[110] then some major forms of men's domination still stubbornly persist in the Nordic countries, e.g. business, violence to women, sexual violence to children, the military, academia, and religion.[111][112][113] While praising the Nordic model as a "clear and compelling contrast to the neoliberal ideology that has strafed the rest of the world with inequality, ill-health and needless poverty," economic anthropologist Jason Hickel sharply criticizes the "ecological disaster" that accompanies it, noting that data shows the Nordic countries "have some of the highest levels of resource use and CO2 emissions in the world, in consumption based terms, drastically overshooting safe planetary boundaries," and rank towards the bottom of the Sustainable Development Index. He argues that the model needs to be updated for the Anthropocene, and reduce overconsumption while retaining the positive elements of progressive social democracy including universal healthcare and education, paid vacations and reasonable working hours, which have resulted in much better health outcomes and poverty reduction compared to overtly neoliberal countries like the United States, in order to "stand as a beacon for the rest of the world in the 21st century."[114][115] Swedish economist John Gustavsson, writing for American conservative magazine The Dispatch, criticized the Nordic model for its high taxation rates, including on the middle class and poor people.[116] Political scientist Michael Cottakis has noted the rise of right-wing populist and anti-immigration sentiment in the Nordic countries, arguing that these countries, in particular Sweden, have failed to handle immigration effectively.[117] Misconceptions George Lakey, author of Viking Economics, says that Americans generally misunderstand the nature of the Nordic model, commenting: "Americans imagine that "welfare state" means the U.S. welfare system on steroids. Actually, the Nordics scrapped their American-style welfare system at least 60 years ago, and substituted universal services, which means everyone—rich and poor—gets free higher education, free medical services, free eldercare, etc."[118] In a speech at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, Lars Løkke Rasmussen, the centre-right Danish prime minister from the conservative-liberal Venstre party, addressed the American misconception that the Nordic model is a form of socialism, which is conflated with any form of planned economy, stating: "I know that some people in the US associate the Nordic model with some sort of socialism. Therefore, I would like to make one thing clear. Denmark is far from a socialist planned economy. Denmark is a market economy."[119] See also[edit] References
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VLAD WANTS UKRAINE'S GAS OIL PIPELINES FOOD PORTS AND DOESN'T WANT NATO ON ITS DOORS. CHENEY & BUSH . . THE EVIL RIGHT WING ROCKEFELLER TOLD US ON LAST 13 MIN OF ZEITGEIST THEY DID 9/11, DOING GENOCIDE IRAQ & AFGHANISTAN NOW GAZA WEST BANK SYRIA TO TAKE OVER THE MIDDLE EAST THEN VENEZUELA WITH PLANS TO CHIP EVERYONE! KILLING THOSE THAT STOOD AGAINST THEM! GLOBAL GENOCIDE! "THANK GOD!" . . "IT IS . . THE END!" . . OF "RUTHLESS RULE" . . BY "THE EVIL RICH!" AMEN! UPDATED . . THE MOST IMPORTANT POST ON GOD'S SITE: "ENTER THE NARROW GATES!" TRUE NORDICS! THE GREEN PARTY! JILL STEIN BERNIE AOC THE SQAD! WIDE & BROAD ARE THE GATES TO HELL! TOTALITARIAN GANGSTER CAPITALISM & SOCIALISM! FORETOLD! "DONNY THE DEVIL!" OF SATAN'S EMPIRE! DAMN TRANS/GTLBX = GOD DAMNS U! SIBERIAN METHANE + HOT HOUSE EARTH + AMOC SHUTDOWN = "THE SIBERIAN MONSTER HURRICANE BERYL!" CAT 6! 150 F PLUS! SOON! "HOT STUFF!" "THE SIBERIAN METHANE MONSTER!" CAUSES THE METHANE HEAT WAVE AND SURFACE FIRESTORM! THE FIREY WAVES OF DEATH! BY 2027-30! CHRIST DID NOT COME DOWN TO EARTH TO DIE FOR YOUR SINS! HE CAME TO BE YOUR TEACHER! YOUR BFF! ALL GOOD TO YOU! TALK TO GOD DAILY! ASK GOD FOR GUIDANCE IN EVERYTHING EVERY DAY! LOVE GOD ABOVE ALL ELSE! PASSIONATELY! LOVE OTHERS WITH GOD'S LOVE! LOVE U! CHRIST LAID OUT IN THE 1,500 TO 2,000 UNIQUE WORDS THAT THEY ESTIMATE HE SPOKE IN THE GOSPELS, THAT SUPPORTING . . "THE NORDIC MODEL" . . IS THE PATH TO ENTERING . . "THE NARROW GATES" . . INTO ETERNITY IN CHRIST'S / GOD'S HEAVEN. "THE FINAL TESTAMENT," WHICH I HAVE LAID OUT HERE. CHRIST TOLD ME TO JUST USE HIS WORDS HERE, TO SHOW THAT CHRIST . . "LOGICALLY" WAS THE FIRST . . RADICAL PACIFIST ANTI-WAR LIBERTARIAN DEMOCRATIC MARKET SOCIALIST . . THE FIRST NORDIC MODEL ECONOMIST! THE LOGIC OF THE GOD OF LOVE! NOTABLY A DANE. AS THE DANES HAVE PROVEN BY . . "THE FRUITS OF THEIR EFFORTS" . . THAT THEY HAVE CREATED THE MOST . . SUSTAINABLE HUMANE AND EGALITARIAN SOCIETY . . "AS IT IS IN HEAVEN! SO SHOULD IT BE ON EARTH!" . . THEY ARE MOST BLESSED NOW & IN HEAVEN! THE NORDICS, NOTABLY THE DANES, HAVE CREATED THE MOST BLESSED SOCIETIES/Y THAT . . "TAKES CARE OF THOSE IN NEED!" THE PRIMARY CRITERIA CHRIST SAID WILL DETERMINE IF YOU ARE BLESSED TO LIVE FOR ETERNITY IN HEAVEN, IN THE FINAL JUDGEMENT! NOT! THE RUTHLESS GREED FOR MONEY FOR THE SUPER RICH! BE BLESSED! SUPPORT . . THE NORDIC MODEL! . . BERNIE AOC THE SQUAD, THE TRUE PROGRESSIVES SUPPORTING . . "GOD'S MODEL!" . . "THE NORDIC MODEL!" 
The Purpose of Life Pray "Help Me To Love Others The Way YOU Love Me!" This IS ALL YOU NEED to Become One With God! I LOVE YOU SOO MUCH! "JC!" THE GOD OF LOVE!
JIM'S SUGGESTIONS: PRACTICE FOR HEAVEN! "LIVE LIKE THE PLANET IS DYING!" It Is THE END! LOVE MORE, AND LOVE MORE PEOPLE! TRY! FIND A CAUSE! GIFT AS MUCH AS YOU CAN! TO "THOSE IN NEED!" GIFT MOST OF YOUR WEALTH TO GOD! TO "THOSE IN NEED!" IF YOUR EVIL GREED HAS ENGULFED YOUR SOUL! IF YOU ARE VERY RICH! SUPPORT "AS IT IS IN HEAVEN, SO SHOULD IT BE ON EARTH!" SUSTAINABLE, HUMANE AND EGALITARIAN! "THE SHE NORDIC MODEL!" JILL STEIN BERNIE AOC & THE SQUAD! AND . . "BECOME ONE!" REALLY OPEN YOUR LIFE TO GOD'S LOVE! GOD WANTS TO BE YOUR BFF! LET GOD GUIDE AND FULFILL YOU! LOVE GOD WITH ALL OF YOUR PASSION! EVERY DAY! IF YOU DON'T BELIEVE IN GOD! BE A "GOOD HUMANIST!" AND . . "I WILL SEE YOU IN HEAVEN SOON!" JIM "JAZZIE" GOD'S TRANS GENDER DAUGHTER. CHANNEL FOR WRITING "THE FINAL TESTAMENT OF JESUS SARAYU MAMMA AND FATHER GOD!" "THE ONE!" TRANS MS DENMARK! TRNS MS BURLINGTON! DANISH CHRISTIAN HUMANIST! FOCUSED ON "THOSE IN NEED!" IN MY DREAMS! VERY FEM! 
"JAZZIE CAT!"
"JAZZIE GIRL!" "Little jC Burlington Girl!" THE PRIMARY CHANGE FROM 2016 GENDER SOCIETY OVERVIEW BELOW. WHERE I FORECAST 2100 FOR "ICE FREE ARCTIC" WAS THE START OF MASSIVE METHANE RELEASE DOCUMENTED FROM 2016-2017. ORIGINALLY IN 2012 MALCOM LIGHT FORECAST Global Extinction within one Human Lifetime as a Result of a Spreading Atmospheric Arctic Methane Heat wave and Surface Firestorm, DUE TO BARROW ALASKA METHANE LEVELS SPIKING FROM 1800 TO 2000 IN 2010. SAM CARANA'S GRAPHS 2000 TO 2400 RISE FROM 2020 TO 2024! THE FIRESTORM HAS EXPLODED! IN 2017 DR. PETER WATAMS CAMBRIDGE FORECAST "ICE FREE ARCTIC" BY 2025! CHRIST SAID, THIS IS WHEN "MY MOST PROFOUND PROPHECY" WILL BE FULFILLED! AT THE END TIMES, IT WILL BE LIKE NOAH & SODOM & GOMORRA, ONE DAY NORMAL, NEXT HELL ON EARTH. 
GOD’S . . JC’S . . PROGRESSIVE NEWS, SCIENCE & TRUE CHRISTIANITY! . .
. . “THE LIBERATION THEOLOGY OF JESUS CHRIST!” . . “JC!”. . . . “ALL TRUTH!” . . . . “NO LIES!” . . TO HELP PREPARE . . . . “YOUR SOUL!” AS . . . . “It Is THE END!” . . . . . . “SAVE YOUR SOUL!” . . . “BECOME ONE!” NOW! PLUS . . . . . . MORE PROGRESSIVE NEWS, INSIGHTS AND ANALYSIS . . IN 1 POST . .THAN CNN IN A YEAR! CHRIST STATED: I HAD TO COME TO TELL "YOU" "MY FATHER'S WILL!" WHICH MY FATHER HAS UPDATED TO TODAY! ON "GOD'S SITE!" SOON! "YOU" WILL BE JUDGED! BY HOW "YOU" "DO MY FATHER'S WILL!" "TAKE CARE OF THOSE IN NEED!" NOT "YOUR EVIL GREED!" OR "FRY BABY FRY!" IN THE IMPACTS OF "YOUR EVIL GREED!" . . VERY SOON! "The Spirit of the Lord is upon me; he has anointed me to tell the good news to the poor. He has sent me to announce release to the prisoners and recovery of sight to the blind, to set oppressed people free, and that the time of the Lord ’s favor has come.” Luke 4:18-19 Christ's Message is . . Good News for The Poor Imprisoned Blind and for The Oppressed! It is . . "The Last Warning" for . . THE EVIL RICH and The Oppressors! The EVIL Republicans Right Dems Right Independents and Right Anti-Christians! Support The Nordic Model Now! Gift Your Evil Income & Wealth! Or Fry in Hell You caused! "Depart From ME!" "Ye" "That Have Worked" . . "The Most Evil Iniquity of Wealth, Income & Justice! Of ALL TIME!" "To THE REST!" . . Do what Tori sings so amazingly in the first video. Pray "Help Me To Love Others The Way YOU LOVE ME!" Support "As it is IN HEAVEN!" Sustainable Humane and Egalitarian . . "The Nordic Model!" Bernie / AOC / The Squad! Now! Gift as much as you can! Little did I know over the past 20 plus years of going to Maui, our favorite spot, and laughing at the sign below, that "Christ" would select me to "prepare the way!" Truly "Jesus Is Coming Soon!" By 2025-2030! Soon after "The ARCTIC is Ice Free!" The Spiral below goes to Zero! Prepare your Souls! . . NOW! THESIS SUMMARIES & Key Links SideBar Below 
THE FINAL TESTAMENT OF JESUS CHRIST! “THE LOGICAL GOD OF LOVE!”
"MY HIS STORY" My journey with "JC!" My BFF! The Only Reason! "Become One!" NOW! In process but most is here or on my "Jazzie" page. "JAZZIE" . . "LITTLE Jc" My Trans story written in spring 2016. "His Site" was launched in 8/2015. Amazing how little has changed! Need to join Gender Society to read bios! The primary NEW INFO. Methane Release has skyrocketed! Which I have documented here! Hence, "It Is THE END" by 2030! Not by 2100! CLICK HERE FOR THE PDF FILE! . . OF . . "JAZZIE!" . . "LITTLE Jc!" VISIT GENDERSOCIETY! PROVING . . CHRIST'S MOST PROFOUND PROPHECY! . . BY 2022 TO 2027! PLEASE READ "CHRIST'S MOST PROFOUND PROPHECY!" WHEN "THE ARCTIC IS ICE FREE!" "STRONG EL NINO COLLAPSE OF THE AMOC & THE 2ND COMING!" "BECOME ONE II!" TRANS HELL! PASSIONATELY LOVE GOD! NOT MONEY! "LOVE OTHERS WITH GOD'S LOVE!" GIVE YOUR WEALTH & LIFE TO GOD! WELCOME TO "THE END OF THE WORLD!" "THANK GOD!" "It Is THE END!" PUTIN STARTS WWIII! 1 "THE FINAL JUDGEMENT" BY 2027! DURING "THE SECOND COMING!" MOST BLESSED - "NORDIC MODEL SUPPORTERS!" THE MOST DAMNED "THE EVIL RICH & RIGHT WING ANTI-CHRISTIANS!" JOE DO "THE SUMMIT TO SAVE OUR SPECIES!" AND "ONE LOVE!" NOW! PREPARE YOUR SOULS - NOW! BECOME "ONE" WITH "THE ONE!" NOW! THE END IS MUCH CLOSER THAN YOU THINK! WHEN I SPEAK - "AS MY FATHER" - I SPEAK - "FOR MY FATHER!" BECOME ONE! - NOW! HIS CHANNEL! LOVE U! MY PRIMARY ROLE IS AS MY CLOSEST SPIRITUAL BROTHER, JOHN THE BAPTIST, TO PREPARE THE WAY! LOVE U! LOVE GOD WITH ALL OF YOUR HEART! DEVOUT YOUR SOUL LIFE & WEALTH TO - “THE GOD OF LOVE!” NOW! NOW! TRY TO LOVE ALL OTHERS WITH GOD’S LOVE! BE OF PEACE! FORGIVE THE WAY YOU WANT TO BE FORGIVEN! PRAY FOR YOUR FORGIVENESS FOR CHOOSING MONEY OVER GOD! INIQUITY OVER EQUITY! FOR NOT SUPPORTING THE ONLY OBVIOUS EGALITARIAN SOCIETIES OF GOD’S LOVE - HELPING “THOSE IN NEED!” THE NORDIC MODEL COUNTRIES! FOR SUPPORTING “THE GREED OF THE FEW!” VERSUS HELPING “THOSE IN NEED!” FOR - NOT BECOMING “ONE WITH - THE ONE!” GOD’S LOVE! Matthew 7:21-23 King James Version 21 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. FATHER’S WILL IS TO HAVE SUSTAINABLE HUMANE AND EGALITARIAN SOCIETIES/MARKETS! ”THE NORDIC MODEL!” AS IT IS IN HEAVEN IT SHOULD BE ON EARTH! 22 Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? 23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity. RIGGED! KOCHS TAKE OVER COVID & HEALTHCARE! "ICE FREE ARCTIC!" UNLEASHES "HOT STUFF" "GIGATONS OF METHANE!" CAUSED BY STRONG EL NINO EARTHQUAKES SUPER STORMS AMOC COLLAPSE REDUCED ALBEDO BY 2023-2027! ADD "LATENT HEAT OF FUSION!" = "MELTING OF ANTARCTICA!" JOE DO "THE SUMMIT TO SAVE OUR SPECIES!" AND "ONE LOVE!" OR FRY WHEN YOU DIE! METHANE EXPLODES! IPCC ISSUES NO METHANE NON-SCIENCE! ARCTIC ICE BY GEOENGINEERING!? AMOC COLLAPSE EXPLODES GULF TEMPS! SUPER STORMS DESTROY GULF BY 25! "It Is THE END!" 2030! REMEMBERING - CHENEY BUSH STOLE B-TRILLIONS DOING 9/11! A NEWS WOMAN CALLED BLD 7 DOWN LIVE ON TV! ROCKEFELLER TOLD RUSSO 9/11 WOULD HAPPEN 11 MONTHS BEFORE AND ROCKEFELLER TOLD RUSSO "SATAN'S MAFIA GLOBAL DEPOPULATION AND POLICE STATE AGENDA!" NO VACCINES FOR POOR COUNTRIES IS SATAN'S MAFIA DEPOPULATION AGENDA! It Is THE END! ENJOY HELL! "THANK GOD!" . . "It Is THE END!" . OF . "RUTHLESS RULE BY THE EVIL RICH!" THEIR OPERATORS AND ANTI-CHRISTIAN WHORES! . . OMG! "THE ARCTIC OCEAN" IS . . "ON FIRE!" . . "HOT STUFF!" WILL ARISE ON "TRUMPET COCAINE!" SOON! THE FINAL WARNING TO "SATAN'S STATES OF EVIL GREED!" "SUPPORT THE NORDIC MODEL" & "GIVE TO THOSE IN NEED!" THE NORDIC THEORY OF LOVE - VS - SATAN’S EMPIRE OF EVIL GREED’S THEORY OF “ALL FOR ME!” “FUCK YOU-ISM!” OR "FRY BABY FRY!" SOON! STAND AGAINST THE PURE EVIL INIQUITY OF WEALTH INCOME & JUSTICE IN THE US & GLOBALLY! SEEK - NOT - TO STORE UP WEALTH ON EARTH! BUT IN HEAVEN! RARELY WILL A RICH PERSON ENTER HEAVEN UNLESS THEY GIVE AWAY THEIR INSANE INCOME (BAGS OF HARVEST) AND INSANE WEALTH (HUMPS ON THEIR BACKS) TO “THOSE IN NEED!” FOR THE LOVE OF GOD! WILL THEY FIT THROUGH THE EYE OF THE NEEDLE! HEAVEN! WORTH OVER $5 MILLION? GIFT EXCESS OVER $5 MILLION IN ASSETS AND A $5 MILLION HOUSE PER FAMILY BY 2025! IS YOUR NET WORTH FROM $1 TO $5 MILLION - GIFT 10% OF TOTAL INCOME! UNDER $1 MILLION - WHAT YOU CAN! T0 - “THOSE IN NEED!” STRETCH! SHOW GOD HOW MUCH YOU LOVE GOD! BY SHOWING YOUR LOVE FOR - THOSE IN NEED! YOUR LOVE AND HELP FOR - “THOSE IN NEED” - MAY - “SAVE YOUR SOUL!” SAVE A CHILD IN NEED! GIVE THAT CHILD A GOD / GOOD CENTERED HOME AND UPBRINGING! THE CHILD’S LOVE WILL SAVE YOUR SOUL! DON’T GET TOO MANY CHILDREN! ONE IS GOD! IT IS SIMPLY WHAT - “A GOOD SOUL” - WORTHY OF ETERNITY - ONE IN GOD’S LOVE WOULD DO! BY 2023-2027 IT WILL BE - MAD MAX! RAISE YOUR SPIRITS UP TO GOD! “ASCENSION THURSDAY 2025!” OR SPIRITUALLY MEANINGFUL DAY TO YOU! A NICE SUNSET! GET YOUR SUCK BAGS - NOW! PREPARE YOUR SOUL! PREPARE YOUR FAMILIES! LOVE GOD! GIVE TO & HELP THOSE IN NEED! SUPPORT “THE NORDIC MODEL!” NOW! . . NOW! NARROW IS THE ENTRANCE TO HEAVEN! THE NORDIC MODEL SUPPORTERS! WIDE IS THE GATE TO HELL! THOSE NOT SUPPORTING SUSTAINABLE HUMANE AND EGALITARIAN! MY MAIN GOAL! . . . . “TO SAVE YOU!” LET JESUS, SARAYU AND MAMMA - “THE LOGICAL GOD OF LOVE!” GUIDE YOU HOME! NOW! 
“GET YOUR SUCK BAGS” NOW! TIME TO “RAISE OUR SPIRITS UP TO GOD!” BY “ASCENSION THURSDAY 2023” AT THE LATEST!
MY MAJOR SCIENTIFIC ARGUMENTS: WITH ONLY A 3-5C RISE IN GLOBAL TEMPS GMAT, ABOVE PRE-INDUSTRIAL TEMPS, 2-3 ABOVE TODAY, CORE SAMPLES BY ANDRILL IN ANTARCTICA PROVED THAT IT CAUSED 60 FEET PLUS SEA LEVEL RISE. ANTARCTICA MELTED 60 TIMES AT THESE TEMPS, WEST AND EAST. PER SAM CARANA 2 C WAS HIT FEB 2020. AN ADDITIONAL 1-3C WILL BE HIT BY 2023-2027! “The last time the Earth experienced a comparable concentration of CO₂ was 3-5 million years ago, when the temperature was 2-3°C warmer and sea level was 10-20 meters (30’ TO 60’) higher than now. But there weren’t 7.7 billion inhabitants,” said WMO Secretary-General Professor Petteri Taalas. 30’-60’ SEA LEVEL RISE BLOWS UP MOST OF THE 440 NUCLEAR REACTORS! DUE TO “THE REDUCTION IN GLOBAL DIMMING” - CAUSED BY DR DEATH’S KILLER COVID! CAUSING A COLLAPSE IN GLOBAL ECONOMIES! “HOT STUFF” “THE CLATHRATE GUN FIRING ON TRUMPET COCAINE” WILL HAPPEN BY 2025! DUE TO “COMPLETELY ICE FREE ARCTIC” BY 9/2023-9/2027! “MASSIVE RELEASES OF SIBERIAN METHANE” WILL CAUSE 2-3C RISE IN GMAT BY 2025-27! MELTING ANTARCTICA WEST & EAST RAPIDLY! CAUSING 60’ SEA LEVEL RISE BY 2025-2030! THIS DESTROYS MOST OF THE 440 NUCLEAR REACTORS. GAME OVER “It Is THE END!” HENCE MY PROPOSAL FOR 350-400’ PYRAMID STRUCTURES AROUND NUCLEAR REACTORS, SINCE WATCHING THE ANDRILL VIDEO 2017. ALONG WITH “SIBERIAN METHANE CAPS” TO SEQUESTER METHANE! STORING IT IN TANKS! “THE MONSTER SUPER STORMS” AND STORM SURGE MAY DESTROY NUCLEAR REACTORS, SOONER THAN SEA LEVEL RISE. BY 2025 THE GULF & FLORIDA WILL BE DESTROYED BY “THE MONSTER SUPER STORMS” - EXIT NOW! THIS IS “HERD GENOCIDE“ - NOT - “HERD IMMUNITY!“ THIS IS THE GLOBAL DEPOPULATION AND POLICE STATE AGENDA! “It Is THE END!” BY 2030-2040! “HERD GENOCIDE!” NOT “HERD IMMUNITY!” PART II. Americans Are Dying At Rates Far Higher Than Other Countries! 8 MILLION MORE POOR! “HERD GENOCIDE III” COVID LONG-HAULERS! ACCELERATES “GLOBAL DIMMING!” CAUSING “ICE FREE ARCTIC!” 9/2022 UNLEASHING “HOT STUFF!” MELTING ANTARCTICA! GMAT 2-3C RISE = 60’ SEA LEVEL RISE 2025-30! BLOWING UP 440 NUCLEAR REACTORS! “THE END!” MY PRAYER FOR - “THE REST” - SUPPORTING - “THE EVIL RICH!” CHRIST’S COMMANDS US TO - COMMAND THE RICH TO “TAKE CARE OF THOSE IN NEED!” TO ENTER HEAVEN! MY INSPIRATIONS OF WHAT YOU MUST DO IN TODAY’S TERMS - TO ENTER GOD’S HEAVEN! MOVE TO - CANADA - NOW! IF YOU CAN! BANF TO LAKE SUPERIOR UP TO HUDSON BAY, EAST. NORDIC COUNTRIES. NEW ZEALAND IF YOU CAN AFFORD TO. LAKE TAHOE, LAKE CHAMPLAIN, GREAT LAKES EAST TO COAST IN US! MUCH OF MY WORK IS IN ALL CAPITALS - most of others works are in non-caps. Sources are linked - blue text. POSTS TO RAISE YOUR SPIRIT UP TO GOD HUMANELY: GUYMCPHERSON.COM MAXDOGBREWING.COM PEACEFUL PILL HANDBOOK.COM SUICIDE.ORG DUE TO - “THE LATENT HEAT EFFECT!” - UNLEASHING - “HOT STUFF!” I COMPARE MY FORECAST FOR EXTINCTION TO SAM’S AND GUYS!!” CAUSING GMAT TO RISE BY 18 C / 32.4 F BY 2026 ACCORDING TO SAM CARANA!
LOTS OF VIDEOS - TAKES TIME TO LOAD! New Topic /Videos Each Post Plus Key Videos ALL CREDIT FOR TRUTH IS TO - "THE ONE" - THE SUNSHINE BAND AND AUTHORS NOTED. MY CREDIT IS FOR ANY MISTAKES! SORRY! THE NORDIC MODEL & The Final Judgement: Take Care of "Those in Need!" Or Fry in Hell! Christ IS "The First Great SOCIALIST!" Last Warning! SUPPORT THE NORDIC MODEL or FRY Baby FRY! WHEN YOU DIE, BABY, DIE! SOON!
GLOBAL POLICIES TO SAVE THE SPECIES: ONE LOVE CLIMATE REFUGEES & PRISON COMMUNITIES ENCASE NUCLEAR REACTORS - ENCASE POWER POLES - CAP SIBERIAN AND ARCTIC METHANE - TRANSITION TO PRIMARILY SOLAR AND WIND - USING THE SAVE THE SPECIES - NON-DEBT BASED CURRENCY! EFFECTIVELY A NORDIC MODEL / RESOURCE BASED GLOBAL RENEWABLE ENERGY ECONOMY! - NOW! ALL POSTS (clickie) TOP POSTS: "THE LOGIC OF THE GOD OF LOVE!" MEDICARE FOR ALL - CHRISTIAN! CAPITALISM - EVIL! DO YOU CHOOSE - MONEY OR GOD! "MY HIS STORY" ANTARCTICA MELTING RAPIDLY! ANDRILL 2016 VIDEO - 60-75 FOOT SEA LEVEL RISE WITH 400 PPM CARBON, SAME AS TODAY, AND JUST SLIGHTLY HIGHER TEMPS THAN TODAY! "LIVING GIVING NETWORKS:" THE THEISTIC HUMANISTIC MODEL FOR ACHIEVING -"ONENESS" - WITH - "GOD'S LAW" - TO TAKE CARE OF - "THOSE IN NEED!" TO ACHIEVE "THE SHE MATRIARCAL NORDIC MODEL!" (not a business solicitation) "BECOMING ONE" CORONAVIRUS HELL ON EARTH! THEN - "HOT STUFF"- IS UNLEASHED! EXIT - THE GULF & FLORIDA - NOW! “THE MONSTER SUPER STORMS” WILL DESTROY THEM . . . . BY 2025! OMG! "GET YOUR SUCK BAGS" NOW! "THE HAMMER AND THE DANCE!" THE MOST HORRIFIC CASE. . . . . "It Is THE END!" WORLD'S ONLY MAJOR TERRORISTS GROUP! THE EVIL RIGHT WING! "AS IT IS IN HEAVEN - SO SHOULD IT BE ON EARTH!" SUPPORT THE ONLY CHRIST LIKE SOCIETY OR FRY IN THE HELL YOU SUPPORT! RIGGED - The GREAT SIBERIAN METHANE COVER UP! CAN "THEY" FIX IT? STOP HELL ON EARTH? "HOT STUFF LIVES?" The Clathrate Gun Fired FOR FULL SCREEN: Login to Youtube FIRST, then Open My Site, Then Click on Video you Want Full Screen. Now Go To Youtube, Switch Screens, Click on History, the First Is the Video You Clicked On - On My Site! If NOT close All, Repeat Process. MUST READ and WATCH The Nordic Theory of Everything / Love, and Anu Partanen’s writings Viking Economics: How the Scandinavians Got It Right - And How We Can, Too; The Secrets of The Nordic Model, by the same author, and The Nordic Perspective! US CORPORATE STATE SOCIALISM, Fascist Monopolistic, Homo and Transphobe, Racist, Kleptocratic / Thieves, Oil War Imperialist Focused, "ALL for THE RICH" - - "RAPE THE REST!" Especially Destroy the Lives of the Truly Good People Who Stand against THE EVIL GREED of THE FEW, The Sunshine Band. UNTIL The Horrific Demise of ALL God's Children, God's Species and Wonder Filled World for THE EVIL GREED OF THE FEW . . . . . . . . is EVIL! THE NORDIC MODEL: Libertarian Democratic Market Socialism: Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden, are Sustainable, Humane and Egalitarian (Think - SHE - The Matriarcal Nordic Model). . . . . . .it is GOOD! Vote for THE MATRIARCAL NORDIC MODEL - NOW! Jill Stein, Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez - AOC, and The Squad 2024! VOTE! MY HEROS OF "THE MATRIARCAL NORDIC MODEL!" BELOW BERNIE SANDERS AND ALEXANDRIA CORTEZ 2020! IF NOT, JILL STEIN AND ABBY MARTIN - GREEN PARTY - 2020! 
"God's Girls!" "GG's Community," God's Gifted, think "The Beatitudes," is the Amazing Arts Colony We Will Be playing, singing, praising, loving, adoring God at Soon! Think billions of souls coming to see you, millions daily! Loving U!
MY HEROS, ABOVE:
LESTER BROWN, "WORLD ON THE EDGE," "PLAN B 4.0," EARTH-POLICY.ORG DR. GUY MCPHERSON, FATHER OF "ABRUPT CLIMATE CHANGE" DR. JORGEN RANDERS, FATHER OF "THE LIMITS TO GROWTH!" AND, "2052: A Global Forecast for the next 40 Years!" MICHAEL MOORE - DOCUMENTARIAN - FOR - "JC AND THE SUNSHINE BAND!" EXCEPTIONAL DOCUMENTARIES! RICK STEVES - THE NORDIC MODEL - THE GOOD LIFE! POSTER CHILDREN, BELOW: EVIL TRUMP! OF "THANK GOD!" - - "It Is THE END!" "HOT STUFF!" "THE SIBERIAN METHANE MONSTER!" 
"House of Trump, House of Putin: The Untold Story of Donald Trump and the Russian Mafia"
“Damning in its accumulation of detail, terrifying in its depiction of the pure evil of those Trump chose to do business with.”--The Spectator (UK) 
Watch "THE SIBERIAN METHANE MONSTER" - ABOVE - BURN UP and SUPER STORMS DESTROY Planet EVIL GREED! DAILY! OH BOY, WHAT COULD BE MORE EXCITING THAN THAT!? OK, Her Name is . . . . . . . "HOT STUFF!"
"The Limits to Growth: A Final Warning" tells you about the authors work since the early seventies, my work since 1980, and the stage of the "science of overpopulation analysis." Dr. Jorgen Randers, "2052: A Global Forecast for the Next Forty Years," and Lester Brown, "World on The Edge," have portended the fate of the world, due to overpopulation since the seventies! However limited I see their understanding of "abrupt climate change." Archives
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