June 2012
12 posts
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Carr, Cameron’s Hypocrisy & The Morality Of Tax...
One week on, the Carr tax-avoidance scandal has gone away; the problem has not. With beautiful views of the French Alps, ski resorts aplenty and the world’s third highest life expectancy; Lake Geneva, Switzerland is a pretty good place to live. The rich and famous clearly think so – Shania Twain, Phil Collins, Michael Schumacher, Boris Becker, Roger Moore and Ingvar Kamprad (Ikea Founder) are...
Jun 30th
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Ban Saudi Arabia From The Olympics →
Saudi Arabia fails to provide equal rights to women….it has no place in the Olympics…
Jun 29th
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Jun 27th
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“According to the latest national polls, more than seven out of 10 young Greeks...”
– When a country is in a ‘brain drain’, its never good news…it is people after all that can pull a state out of economic strife, nothing else…
Jun 24th
EURO 2012: UEFA's Strange Priorities
So as Euro 2012 reaches the later stages and the footballing masses of Europe have to look forward to a summer without any more football – but luckily, not without sport with Wimbledon and the Olympics to come (though the moral questionability of the… View Post shared via WordPress.com
Jun 23rd
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WatchWatch
Obama Teleprompter Attack Ad…all very clever… After all, why does being a good orator make you a good leader? A reflection of how people in power are now nothing more than PR Faces if thats the case. Shows what a truly stupid and desperate argument by the Republicans it really is
Jun 23rd
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"Boy Band Jihad: One Direction Mega Pop Star... →
Wow….”And the scary thing is that millions of girls in America and around the world are infatuated with the members of One Direction, including Malik. He’s no dummy. He knows the power he has over these mindless girls and is using that influence to preach the Islamic faith to them and try to convert them. It’s dangerous. And there’s a reason he tweeted that he didn’t have a girlfriend...
Jun 22nd
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The 'Olympic Bonus' Bus Strike Make No Sense
Why The Bus Strikes Over a Olympic Bonus Make No Sense… I have to say its difficult to be claim to be a socialist or left-wing and then be against strikes or Union action. Most people, from both sides of the political spectrum, would say that it shows a degree of conflict. Perhaps that is why I am a somewhat… View Post shared via WordPress.com
Jun 22nd
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Man Jailed For Facebook 'Riot Messages' →
3 years for three Facebook posts? A little extreme or fair enough?
Jun 22nd
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Jun 21st
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Jun 21st
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NeverSeconds - A Schoolgirls Blog Banned...(+ a...
Never Seconds - A 9 Year-Old Girl’s School Lunch Blog Banned… I meant to mention something on this a few days ago (when it was a more relevant news story; oh well), but last week a this story cropped up; “Girl banned from taking photos of school meals for hit blog“. The immediate reaction is, naturally, to question… View Post shared via WordPress.com
Jun 20th