Most of the US Presidential candidates who have emerged so far are like plastic bags caught in a tree. No one knows how they got up there and no one is going to be bothered to get them down. (With apologies to British comedian Bill Bailey, who originally cracked this joke about Ed Milliband, Labour …
A recent survey by Duke University found that to a large degree, the person’s opinion of the solution influenced their acceptance of the problem. For instance, most Republicans said they believed in man-made climate change when the proposed solution was free-market based – the development of green technologies. But when the solution was government regulation, …
So desperate have been British conservatives to privatize everything in sight before the election that they hit on one of the most egregious and nasty manoeuvre: they are privatized the probation service (utter chaos) and have written in to the 10 year contracts for the private companies involved a clause that commits the taxpayer to …
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“What terrorist fundamentalists lack is a feature easy to discern in all authentic fundamentalists, from Tibetan Buddhists to the Amish: the absence of resentment and envy, the deep indifference to the non- believers’ way of life. If today’s so-called fundamentalists really believe they have found their way to Truth, why should they feel threatened by …
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“Nationalism is an infantile disease, the measles of mankind”. Albert Einstein It was nationalism that was a major cause of the First World War and the Second one, too, although the nationalism was a trifle one-sided in that case. There are many good things about living in the US, but the nationalism of a certain …
