George Zimmerman, the man acquitted of murdering teenager Trayvon Martin in Florida, is to have his gun returned to him, the same weapon used to kill the unarmed boy. This is the dream of the NRA – armed men roaming the streets, some of them pyschologically disturbed no doubt (does it matter?), gunning down anyone …
The US insurance industry is sure that the science behind global climate change is correct, and its forward planning assumes increasing drought and catastrophic flooding. These are hard-headed money men. Why don’t the climate changes deniers listen to them? On the contrary, they fund “studies” with foregone conclusions, showing “conclusively” that the warming of the …
ISRAELI SETTLERS DESTROY OVER 1,000 OLIVE TREES IN AWARTA Settlers from the Itamar settlement near Nablus cut down over 1,000 olive trees belonging to families from Awarta village this week while Israeli authorities stopped the landowners from accessing their land. (Reported in the latest newsletter from Medical Aid for Palestinians, the Uk charity helping Palestinian …
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If creationism is true the history of life on earth is a litany of failures. 99% of all the creatures that have inhabited the Earth since it became liveable are extinct. God seems to have created a lot of life forms that were hopelessly inept at avoiding extinction, an unending string of experiments in living …
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I was taking part in a discussion about entrepreneurship the other day. One person was of the opinion that high taxes discouraged entrepreneurs, and if only taxes were minimal the economy would flourish. This is nonsense. I have started several new companies or stand-alone projects, and tax was the last thing I thought of. On …
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