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Iraq: Missing Iraq money may have been stolen, auditors say - latimes.com - 0 views

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Iraq: Missing Iraq money may have been stolen auditors say - latimes.com

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  • thinkahol * on 14 Jun 11
     
    U.S. Defense officials still cannot say what happened to $6.6 billion, sent by the planeload in cash and intended for Iraq's reconstruction after the start of the war.
mixawy late

Gunmen kill 11 Shiite Muslims in SW Pakistan - 0 views

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Gunmen kill 11 Shiite Muslims in SW Pakistan

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    Gunmen kill 11 Shiite Muslims in SW Pakistan
thinkahol *

As Scorn for Vote Grows, Protests Surge Around Globe - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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As Scorn for Vote Grows Protests Surge Around Globe - NYTimes.com

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  • thinkahol * on 28 Sep 11
     
    MADRID - Hundreds of thousands of disillusioned Indians cheer a rural activist on a hunger strike. Israel reels before the largest street demonstrations in its history. Enraged young people in Spain and Greece take over public squares across their countries.
Levy Rivers

Op-Ed Columnist - The End of Philosophy - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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shared by Levy Rivers on 08 Apr 09 - Cached
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  • Think through moral problems. Find a just principle. Apply it.
  • Today, many psychologists, cognitive scientists and even philosophers embrace a different view of morality. In this view, moral thinking is more like aesthetics. As we look around the world, we are constantly evaluating what we see. Seeing and evaluating are not two separate processes. They are linked and basically simultaneous.
  • Everything that we look at, we form an implicit preference. Some of those make it into our awareness; some of them remain at the level of our unconscious, but ... what our brain is for, what our brain has evolved for, is to find what is of value in our environment.”
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  • Most of us make snap moral judgments about what feels fair or not, or what feels good or not. We start doing this when we are babies, before we have language. And even as adults, we often can’t explain to ourselves why something feels wrong.
  • We don’t just care about our individual rights, or even the rights of other individuals. We also care about loyalty, respect, traditions, religions. We are all the descendents of successful cooperators.
  • They link themselves together into communities and networks of mutual influence.
  • Levy Rivers on 08 Apr 09
     
    As our brain sorts out of the thousands of bits of info it takes special note of those things your system of values and interest. We take note of those things that have been socially enriched objects and concepts
David Corking

Replace Police With Spin Doctors « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG - 0 views

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Culture

shared by David Corking on 16 Apr 09 - Cached
  • testing an age old theory about what happens when you approach a 6ft riot cop and tell him to fuck off repeatedly?
  • I blame Globalisation. Lets test this theory by choosing six other countries in the world, going over to each country one at a time, walking up to a riot cop and telling him to fuck off repeatedly. Compare injuries on return to UK. If you return to UK.
  • Will this person now be arrested for verbally abusing a Police Officer? If not, why not?
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  • canteen culture of the mindless violence of the few backed up by the silence of the many.
  • As an A+E nurse would it be right for me to strike each and every member of the public if and when the became aggressive?
  • The Police should be held to a higher standard than other services, surely you are trained professionals and as such should be able to deal with the provacation in a much more proportional way?
  • it was against their clients human rights to be filmed with out their consent
  • When it’s not practical for you to be arrested because it would take police resources away from the lines then you deserve to get a shove. If you come back, then you deserve to be struck (something home office approved).
  • You ARE PROFESSIONALS and this kind of insta-agression is something that the public could gain at a fraction of the cost from a security guard. No one is denying that being a police officer is a difficult job at times
  • Sadly people are people, maybe he was wrong to hit her, she was maybe wrong for confronting him in the first place. All I can say that is if a uniformed officer tells me not to do something I don’t do it. Full stop.
  • David Corking on 16 Apr 09
     
    Other countries are worse. So? The rest of us would be jailed for assault if we hit someone with a stick in response to extreme provocation.
David Corking

SOCIALIST UNITY » DEREK DRAPER - YESTERDAY'S MAN DAMAGES LABOUR | April 2009 - 0 views

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Culture Blogging

shared by David Corking on 16 Apr 09 - Cached
  • I actually do have some sympathy with Derek Draper’s argument that this was a private e-mail conversation, but the mistake Draper made was seeking to get down in the gutter and slug it out with the likes of Paul Staines.
  • The electorate respects conviction politicians, and the labour movement project to build a secure and just, better world is a principled and enduring platform that needs to be restored to the heart of left and centre-left politics.
  • Obscene, libellous smears are not the same as political tittle tattle.
  • David Corking on 16 Apr 09
     
    Sums things up. Sad really.
peoples movement

Picture The Homeless May Events Flyer - 0 views

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shared by peoples movement on 29 Apr 09 - Cached
  • peoples movement on 29 Apr 09
     
    May Events Flyer 2.
peoples movement

English - Oppose H.R. 2499: The Puerto Rico Democracy Act of 2009 - 0 views

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shared by peoples movement on 22 Jun 09 - Cached
  • peoples movement on 22 Jun 09
     
    The "Puerto Rico Democracy Act of 2009" (HR 2499) is not the product of consensus and should be opposed. Let your voice be heard!
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