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Post by Chromeo on Aug 11, 2010 15:39:47 GMT -5
Society at large won't do anything significant without being told to by a higher authority, be that the church, the government, or the TV. That's just the truth.
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Post by Tails82 on Aug 12, 2010 16:46:05 GMT -5
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Post by Chromeo on Aug 12, 2010 17:37:34 GMT -5
If by "secret US climate change weapon" you mean the failure to sign the Kyoto agreement, then yeah.
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Post by Tails82 on Aug 12, 2010 18:16:57 GMT -5
Yeah, we're fools not to limit our production and sign away our national sovereignity, spending billions on a nonexistent issue.
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Post by Chromeo on Aug 12, 2010 19:35:10 GMT -5
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Post by Tails82 on Aug 12, 2010 23:27:17 GMT -5
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Post by Chromeo on Aug 13, 2010 8:14:30 GMT -5
You've linked to a lot of things that make me reag but that was one of the worst.
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Post by Tails82 on Aug 13, 2010 15:29:11 GMT -5
I aims to please ^_^'
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Post by Parappa on Aug 14, 2010 17:15:35 GMT -5
*reag*
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Post by Tails82 on Aug 14, 2010 21:46:02 GMT -5
Lemme go looking for another rage-inducing piece?
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Post by Chromeo on Aug 14, 2010 22:04:11 GMT -5
That's okay. For once you showed me a conservative moron who wasn't getting his way. In retrospect it's a fairly heartening piece.
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Post by Tails82 on Aug 14, 2010 23:53:34 GMT -5
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Post by Tails82 on Aug 15, 2010 0:59:31 GMT -5
Ok, this made me rage. www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,710972,00.html The donors are taking the place of the state. That's unacceptable. Read: People are too stupid to decide where their money goes. Yes, one cannot forget that the US has a desolate social system and that alone is reason enough that donations are already a part of everyday life there. Read: US has a freer society, more charitable populace. It is their money at the end of the day.All that needs to be said. |
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Post by Chromeo on Aug 15, 2010 17:04:58 GMT -5
www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/aug/15/coal-fired-power-stations-coalitionThe coalition is watering down a commitment to tough new environmental emissions standards, raising the possibility of dirty coal-fired power stations such as Kingsnorth going ahead.
Green groups are aghast that a flagship policy called for in opposition by both Lib Dems and Tories, and which they last year tried to force on the Labour government, will now not be implemented in the coalition's first energy bill to be published this year.
Their criticism of the government's commitment to green issues follows news last week that nature reserves could be sold off as countryside protection measures also bear the brunt of budget cuts in the Department for Environment.Surprise bloody suprise
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Post by Chromeo on Aug 15, 2010 17:13:00 GMT -5
www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/jul/20/recipe-state-funded-madrasas-segregationExpect exclusions to increase, as schools will be able to keep their funding for the year for pupils they exclude, instead of handing it over to whoever takes in that child. Ministers say this will "remove the disincentive to exclude" – but how perverse to add a very strong financial incentive to throw out those who risk lowering an academy's standards.
Faith schools are likely to boom, in this most secular of nations. An ICM poll for The British Humanist Association – of which I am president – finds 72% of people concerned at academies being set up by religious organisations. So far 273 faith schools are bidding to become academies, free to teach creationism or any nonsense they like. In the Lords, Baroness Murphy described one example: "Take the case of the Ebrahim Academy in Whitechapel, an academy school for boys … The school day begins with tahfeez, which is reciting the Qur'an and getting the pronunciation right, which takes up half the day. Then the national curriculum takes up the second half of the day. It is a state-funded, tax-funded madrasa for the Islamic faith."
The unscrutinised passage of this bill, with so many questions unanswered and such absolute power given to Gove, is an alarming augury of this government's style of policymaking. Contrary to everything Cameron said about giving power back to parliament and decentralising decision-making to local people, this is casual law-making by arbitrary diktat.And people ask me why I'm reluctant to read the papers?
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