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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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)
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...
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
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...
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...
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...
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)
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...