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A thread about the ongoing situation in Palestine
Rolling news and comment
:: STARTED BY All Acting Regiment
:: 8 REPLIES, LAST AT 18:25 21.06.07
Rape accusation against Duke lacrosse team
Duke Lacrosse team, horrifying sexual violence and racial hatred, reactions from the press and attorneys. Content may be disturbing.
:: STARTED BY *
:: 354 REPLIES, LAST AT 21:38 20.06.07
Drought in the USA
Went to the levee but the levee was dry... dustbowl, depression, lake on fire, America feeling the effects of climate change some more
:: STARTED BY Quantum - killed by hadrons
:: 5 REPLIES, LAST AT 23:16 15.06.07
Third Parties
The United States is, some say, saddled by an entrenched two-party system. What about Greens, Libertarians, Natural Law-ists and the rest?
:: STARTED BY grant
:: 23 REPLIES, LAST AT 20:13 15.06.07
I love chavs
The return of class politics
:: STARTED BY jmw
:: 54 REPLIES, LAST AT 17:56 14.06.07
A barrister provoked outrage during ongoing UK rape case
Discussion about UK case. Also UK folks can you apply pressure to this?
:: STARTED BY XK
:: 21 REPLIES, LAST AT 16:01 08.06.07
Sustainability and the left
Whatever happened to progress?
:: STARTED BY jmw
:: 118 REPLIES, LAST AT 16:37 05.06.07
Hugo Chavez, Socialism in South America
Socialist with the mostialist? President of Venezuela wins a third term, Latin America turning red, the rise of anti-US rhetoric
:: STARTED BY Quantum - killed by hadrons
:: 54 REPLIES, LAST AT 11:46 05.06.07
Have a potentially transmittable drug-resistant respiratory disease? Fly the friendly skies!
Keywords: XDR TB, selfishness, individual rights, Apocalypse.
:: STARTED BY Always Pro Neil Gaiman Kali
:: 3 REPLIES, LAST AT 21:20 01.06.07
The Future Lies in China
China, the future, environmental and human rights concerns, censorship, Tibet, & the possibility of a new cold war.
:: STARTED BY Quantum - killed by hadrons
:: 10 REPLIES, LAST AT 23:03 31.05.07
Fixated Threat Assessment Centre = thought police?
The Home Office's new Fixated Threat Assessment Centre could be somewhat sinister. Does it have a Room 101?
:: STARTED BY Mon Oncle Ignatius
:: 0 REPLIES, LAST AT 23:10 27.05.07
Turkey and EU
should Turkey be permitted to join the EU?
should Turkey bother when it's clear (central) Europe doesn't want them to join?
Wouldn't it be stronger in a Pan-Turkic Federation now that all the turkic ex-soviet republics have shitloads of oil?
:: STARTED BY yawn - thing's buddy
:: 7 REPLIES, LAST AT 02:31 27.05.07
Gays prohibited from giving blood
blood donation, homosexuality, HIV, AIDS, discrimination, Red Cross, African Americans, Africans, pandemic, protest
:: STARTED BY TeN
:: 52 REPLIES, LAST AT 15:06 22.05.07
U.S. Congresspeople's "Food Stamp Challenge"
Some Washington types try to spend a week on a "food stamp budget" ($21) and blog about it.
:: STARTED BY MattShepherd: LARGELY ABSENT!
:: 7 REPLIES, LAST AT 20:55 21.05.07
Thinking about copyright violation? GO TO JAIL.
Do not pass go! As the U.S. looks at making "attempted" copyvio a crime, we get closer and closer to the Thoughtcrime state...
:: STARTED BY MattShepherd: LARGELY ABSENT!
:: 1 REPLIES, LAST AT 23:06 19.05.07
Oderint Dum Metuant: Dissent from within
Dissent and contention over the (proposed) war on Iraq from within the governments of the US and UK.
"Oderint dum metuant" means "let them hate, as long as they fear."
:: STARTED BY grant
:: 33 REPLIES, LAST AT 19:26 17.05.07
How long will Gordon Brown last?
Tick tock, tick tock, will Gordon Brown have time to get settled in to the seat of power, or is he just keeping it warm for the transition from Blair to Cameron?
:: STARTED BY Our Lady Won't Do That Again
:: 20 REPLIES, LAST AT 23:38 14.05.07
Help me understand my politics
In which a confused chap in his mid-twenties asks a screenful of non-accountable strangers to dissect his beliefs.
:: STARTED BY Happy Dave
:: 5 REPLIES, LAST AT 20:16 11.05.07
School shooting at Virginia Tech
Mass murder at Virginia Tech is deadliest campus shooting in U.S. history.
:: STARTED BY grant
:: 117 REPLIES, LAST AT 18:06 10.05.07
Immigration Rights Rally in Los Angeles
Some LAPD officers attack a peaceful protest, assault protesters and media. Two are disciplined so far.
:: STARTED BY *
:: 5 REPLIES, LAST AT 17:42 09.05.07
A new and shiny gun control collation and ongoing discussion thread.
When it comes to shooty rants, we just can't keep it in our pants. So general argument goes here, to keep our other threads more clear.
:: STARTED BY A Haus of Minions
:: 32 REPLIES, LAST AT 15:48 09.05.07
Could a new currency bring down a government?
Could a 21st century form of civil war be waged by taking away a government's control of money?
:: STARTED BY lord henry strikes back
:: 23 REPLIES, LAST AT 19:20 05.05.07
Historical reasons for the US/Europe split on gun control
Is the difference in views on gun control a result of the histories of the respective cultures? Could this explain other cultural differences as well?
:: STARTED BY lord henry strikes back
:: 33 REPLIES, LAST AT 15:05 03.05.07
Is civil war now impossible in European nations?
Do the populations of Europe now lack the power to rise up militarily against their governments?
:: STARTED BY lord henry strikes back
:: 1 REPLIES, LAST AT 02:43 28.04.07
What do you mean by sustainable?
How do you define sustainable? What are you aiming for? Embodied energy, emergy, footprints, needs, fair shares, aspiration, realistic goals, permaculture, future, David Holmgren.
:: STARTED BY aim for joviality
:: 5 REPLIES, LAST AT 20:19 25.04.07
Blair, Race and the Blame Game
A thread about Blair's recent claim that, as the Guardian puts it, 'the spate of knife and gun murders in London was not being caused by poverty, but a distinctive black culture'.
:: STARTED BY Glenn Close But No Cigar
:: 25 REPLIES, LAST AT 22:00 21.04.07
The Death of Roe V. Wade
With the likely confirmation of John J. Roberts to the Supreme Court, and the continuing erosion of a woman's right to choose, can abortion rights in America be saved?
:: STARTED BY Cherielabombe
:: 62 REPLIES, LAST AT 19:58 20.04.07
Patenting other people's culture
UK clothing firm steals traditional Kenyan textile and tries to patent it. Keywords: cultural appropriation, intellectual property rights, colonialism, bastardry.
:: STARTED BY *
:: 4 REPLIES, LAST AT 01:39 19.04.07
Bullying
Bullying, at school or elsewhere, solutions such as restorative justice.
:: STARTED BY Quantum - killed by hadrons
:: 1 REPLIES, LAST AT 15:58 13.04.07
Widening the debate or disrespectful shock tactic?
The abortion debate has a new sideshow opening up at a campus near you. Is it appropriate or over the top?
:: STARTED BY XK
:: 9 REPLIES, LAST AT 21:51 11.04.07
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