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    Dieudonne ! ....who? Free speech and censorship.

    French comedian Dieudonne faces jail for antisemitism and glorifying terrorism. What are peoples thoughts on this? Personally iv'e come to defend this comedian. The whole controversy brings up alot of relevant questions and alot of hypocrisy , regards free speech and censorship. Things...
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    Where is the economy going ? RT report

    A very interesting piece on the RT, "The Keiser Report". The first 15 minutes essentially lays out Max Keisers analysis that despite the official parade that major economies are emerging from the global recession, is essentially a facade. He predicts that sooner or later the " plane will...
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    The Syrian Crisis

    As everyone knows America is renown for its global humanitarian interventions Imperial interventions. Syria is the latest. Although under the transparent excuse of humanitarianism (if only) America intends to bomb the Assad forces only "narrowly" and "limited". As if to cut of the right hand of...
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    Materialism

    The philosopher John Gray (known for his anti-humanism) takes on "Scientific Materialism" in the BBC Radio 4 series Points of View, titled The Limits of Materialism He also states : and after all: However, i see this as mistaken. First of all to propose that the world is only composed of...
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    Terrorism? : British Soldier killed in UK

    Something quite surreal happened in London recently, a small group of Islamic extremists from London, purposely it seems, assassinated and butchered a British Soldier near Army Barracks. What made it surreal is that they did not run after running the man down in a car and hacking him with...
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    GEO-Guesser

    This is pretty fun.. http://geoguessr.com/ Using google map street view you have to figure out where in the world you are Your given a score as to how close you were and shown how far/accurate you were on a world map.
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    Young Turks- Mayday !

    Its a little late but o'well. Great video on Young Turks which focus's correctly on mayday as a day of labour and why the USA should be protesting. (Wolf-pack however :? ....pffft)
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    Britain now has 7 social classes....

    Social Scientists have redefined the traditional divide of class - Upper, Middle and Lower- to 7 new categories. See Here The online calculator The online Class Calculator on the BBC Apparently im no longer lower class im now - "Precariat". :roll: As far as im concerned this less to do...
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    The Jewish Left against the Israeli State

    A great video on the Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2013/mar/17/my-neighbourhood-palestinian-israeli-video im not sure if it will stay up very long so ill include this trailer too
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    Atheism in Hindusim

    Firstly, Hinduism isn't strictly a religion in the western sense of the word...which was new to me. Currently I'm reading about caste which focuses primarily on Hindu caste society. And amongst my background fact checking i came across a school of Hindu philosophy known as Cārvāka or...
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    A question on Womens Sufffrage (history)

    Mr. Powers says: In arguing with a bigot i became a little stumped by this comment. And so far i haven't been able to find anything on the issue. And the issue is this: What was the reality for women who wished to vote ? For example for those women who had some rights in voting in local...
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    Jesus Was A Commie - Short Film

    Jesus Was A Commie - Short film by Matthew Modine; i think this is all of it It's nice...not sure really what to make of it though
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    Gun Control - A Superficial Solution ?

    Following one of Americas worst massacres where twenty young children and six adults were killed gun control and reforms are center stage. The killer used an assault rifle, similar to what is used by US military, plus a handgun which he used on himself as police approached. Regarding...
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    And I thought Sarah Pailin Was Bad...

    I happened to stumble upon this blog - WARCHICK http://americaswarchick.blogspot.co.uk/ just sharing cause Its pretty damn funny (unless you agree or sympathize with her (their) ideas)
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    Black History Month

    Its Black History Month , in the UK, although i endorse Morgan Freeman when he said "I don't want a black history month. Black history is American history." im gunna do some black history now and introduce, propagandize , a great leader of the civil rights movement who was assassinated and...
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    American election: two party system

    Its no secret that their is a vacuum in american politics of a left wing party or a party that represent ordinary working americans. The UK had a similar set up prior to the organisation of the Labour representative committee (lrc), in the beginning of the 20th century, which later formed the...
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    Chicken Ethics : middle class consumer ethics

    An absurdity i have recently came across is "Ethical Consumerism". And ill try to explain why i call it an absurdity by taking the case of chickens as an example. An "Ethical Consumer" will boycott the caged hen chicken, and therefore not purchase it in favour for the more expensive free...
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    The Origin of War

    I have been re -reading the best book i ever found. ' The Growth Of Civilization' (1924) by W.J.Perry (Anthropologist) [Anthropology is a fast moving subject- this was written in 1926, so is highly subject to new counter evidence where it exists] ..Simply, Perry proposes that Warfare...
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    Damien Hirst : 2012

    Damien Hirst is causing a bit of a hullabaloo in Britain with his retrospective show at Tate Britain. The disapproval has two main sides: On one side it is argued 'This is not art' and on the other it is argued 'this is bad art'. Hirst can be considered a 'Conceptual Artist'.... ....And he...
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    Money Can't Buy You Happiness ?

    Money can buy you happiness. Chaplin's Modern Times explores the life of two down trodden people. Their dream becomes the american dream, to get a house and settle down, to have food on the table without having to steal, to be left in peace from the law. This is what they aspire to, to become...
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