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Death of Utopia
by hamilcarr intime to move on to the real world?.
a shattering moment in america's fall from powerthe global financial crisis will see the us falter in the same way the soviet union did when the berlin wall came down.
the era of american dominance is over our gaze might be on the markets melting down, but the upheaval we are experiencing is more than a financial crisis, however large.
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School massacre reopens gun law debate
by hamilcarr indue to its hunting tradition, finland ranks fifth in civilian gun ownership.
finland school massacre brings day of mourning and review of gun lawsprime minister says he is 'very critical' of easy access to handguns after gunman kills 10 at vocational collegerachel stevenson .
the finnish prime minister today said he will push for stricter gun laws as police began to identify the victims of the country's second school shooting in less than a year.. on a visit to the college where 10 people and their killer died yesterday, matti vanhanen said the government would consider if "people should get access to handguns so freely".. police today named the gunman as matti juhani saari, a trainee chef aged 22. he used a handgun and petrol bombs on his fellow pupils at a vocational college in kauhajoki town, then fatally shot himself in the head.. police said the dead were eight female students, a male student and a male teacher.
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E pluribus hokum
by hamilcarr ina short extract from neoconservative spengler on the bailout crisis in which he attempts to give an explanation that makes sense:.
(even he wonders why america opts for socialism for the rich).
why the taxpayers of america would allow their pockets to be picked in this fashion requires a different sort of explanation than one finds in economics textbooks.
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Both the religious & the scientific should admit to gaps on their canvases
by hamilcarr intesting the heavensscientists may be trying to engage with believers, but experiments won't resolve the big questionsmark lawsonthe guardian, monday september 22 2008 religious believers, when mentioning heaven, have traditionally cast their eyes skywards, but the possibility of an afterlife may now be proved by looking down towards the ground.
doctors at southampton university are placing pictures in resuscitation areas that can only be seen from the ceiling.
these will test the stories of defibrillated patients, who claim they have looked down on the crash teams attending to their lifeless bodies.
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Socialism for the rich
by hamilcarr indr dooms view on the current crisis in laissez faire capitalism.. http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/sep/18/marketturmoil.creditcrunch.
public losses for private gainthe effective nationalisation of huge sectors of the economy means us taxpayers are picking up the tab for failing banksall comments (59)nouriel roubiniguardian.co.uk, thursday september 18 2008 13:04 bst article historywith the nationalisation of fannie and freddie, comrades bush, paulson and bernanke started transforming the us into the ussra (united socialist state republic of america).
this transformation of the us into a country where there is socialism for the rich, the well-connected and wall street (ie, where profits are privatised and losses are socialised) continues today with the nationalisation of aig.. this latest action on aig follows a variety of many other policy actions that imply a massive and often flawed government intervention in the financial markets and the economy: the bail-out of the bear stearns creditors; the bail-out of fannie and freddie; the use of the fed balance sheet (hundreds of billions of safe us treasuries swapped for junk, toxic, illiquid private securities); the use of the other gses (the federal home loan bank system) to provide hundreds of billions of dollars of "liquidity" to distressed, illiquid and insolvent mortgage lenders; the use of the sec to manipulate the stock market (through restrictions on short sales).
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Anglicans back Darwin over 'noisy' creationists
by hamilcarr infrom the timesseptember 13, 2008. anglicans back darwin over 'noisy' creationistsalexandra frean and lewis smith div#related-article-links p a, div#related-article-links p a:visited { color:#06c; } the church of england expressed deep concerns last night about the spread of creationist views as it prepared to unveil a website promoting the evolutionary views of charles darwin.. anglican leaders fear that noisy advocates of a literal interpretation of the bible - especially in the united states, where even the republican vice-presidential candidate, sarah palin, is a vocal supporter - are infecting the perception of christianity worldwide.. the church will launch the website on monday, a few weeks after the 150th anniversary of darwin's first public proposal of natural selection and amid growing controversy over the teaching of creationism in schools.. the rev professor michael reiss, a biologist and director of education at the royal society, provoked a furore this week when he called for creationism to be treated in science lessons as a legitimate world-view.. the church of england weighed into the debate yesterday when a church house spokesman admitted that the treatment of darwin's theory of evolution by victorian clerics was wrong.. he said that science and religions were perfectly compatible and attacked creationism as a strand of christianity that created a false impression of the church as a whole.. the rev dr malcolm brown, one of the inspirations for the website, said: we felt there would be public interest, particularly because of the rise of creationism in the us.. christian attitudes don't have to be either a complete swallowing of darwin and everything that has been done in his name, on the one hand, and, on the other, the complete rejection of scientific method with a literal interpretation of the bible.. a culture that doesn't have a great deal of historic understanding of the christian faith can easily characterise all christians as being like the most noisy ones.. a church spokesman added: creationism should not be taught as a scientifically based theory but could be included in discussion of the development of scientific ideas down the ages or in re.. rasmandala das, of the oxford centre for hindu studies, said that the hindu approach was to teach all different views of the creation across the curriculum.. members of the humanist movement dismissed creationism as simply wrong but agreed that religious believers must be engaged by science teachers rather than ignored.. andrew copson, director of education for the british humanist association, said that professor reiss was right to think it was better to take the opportunity to debate the issue than to belittle children by telling them: shut up, that's for re.
should a teacher say, shut up, that's for re'?
if a child raises it in a classroom you don't say, shut up'.
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Armstrong set for shock comeback
by hamilcarr into raise cancer awareness.. what do you think?.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/other_sports/cycling/7605378.stm.
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Pakistani Governor urged military forces to defend the nation's sovereignty
by hamilcarr inafter at least 20 civilians were killed by isaf forces in pakistan's north west frontier province:.
i have already raised the issue of repeated predator attacks with the federal govt, the governor said adding, this is a direct assault on the sovereignty of pakistan and the people expect that the armed forces of pakistan would rise to defend the sovereignty of the country and give a befitting reply to all such attacks.
such attacks, he added hurt the pro-govt and peaceful sentiments among the people of targeted areas.
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Unconditional Love
by hamilcarr ini'm struggling with the concept of 'unconditional love' or friendship.. does it really exist?.
if so, how would you define it?.
thanks..