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Politics, News & Issues > Climate Change Is the US doing enough to stop global warming?: 2 of 13
This has become a very tricky issue for the public to disseminate, mainly because of its emotive nature and the fact that the whole argument for climate change was never based on a scientific consensus, as we were led to believe. This might come as a complete shock to many concerned members of the public, but the entire movem... More..
Politics, News & Issues > Presidential Elections 2008 Is Republican candidate Ron Paul out of touch with his party: 1 of 6
Regarding GOP 2008 Presidential candidate Ron Paul, one thing is clear: he's given birth to a political revolution. It's possible you might have missed it(as did the mainstream media)... United States election history has been made twice in the last month and a half. Ron Paul shattered another fund raising record, pulling in ... More..
Politics, News & Issues > International News Who should rule the Palestinians: Hamas or Fatah?: 1 of 6
Hamas or Fatah "ruling" the Palestinians...? A rather loaded question- and not entirely the correct question. But for the purposes of this debate we'll start by taking the side of Hamas, the party who were in fact democratically elected last year. Now if you truly support just democracy in the Middle East, and not our own US ... More..
Politics, News & Issues > International Politics (Other) Should the US continue to be the leader in world politics?: 10 of 57

We sincerely wish that the United States could be the voice of freedom and justice around the world but sadly, the idea of the U.S. being the chief leader in world politics is fast losing ground. This esteemed position may have been true even a decade ago, but recent events signal a paradigm shift towards a moral realignment ... More..
Politics, News & Issues > US Elections (Other) Are US presidential debates too controlled to allow freedom of speech?: 2 of 11

Debates...? Is that what we are calling them? To even call these sored affairs debates is a gross misrepresentation which falls foul of the English language. The US Presidential debates have turned into staged, clinical, overly regulated affairs that resemble some sort of benign glorified High School debate with TV cameras. W... More..
Politics, News & Issues > Party Politics & Ideology US Election candidates for 2008: Will the real GOP conservatives please stand up?: 3 of 16
The false paradigm which pits Republican vs Democrat, or Conservative vs Liberal has, for the most part, reduced the current 2008 Presidential race to a field of dead horses. There is one candidate though, who managed to avoid rigid party politics and shine through by broadcasting a message with real cross-over appeal and he ... More..
Politics, News & Issues > US Elections Archives A new (true?) conservative Republican candidate for the 2008 US presidential election: Fred Dalton Thompson: 2 of 9
Fred Thompson has been inserted into to mix to dilute the Republican field, providing yet another distraction for the media and voters. Are any of these so called Republicans really what they seem? Are they working for American interests? Let's look at what the term Republican actually means. The word 'Republic' features in t... More..
Politics, News & Issues > Terrorism Is al Qaeda to blame for summer 2007 bomb scares in London?: 1 of 4
It's often the case with geopolitical events that things are not always what they seem. If you believe the Official Report on the London Bombings of 7/7, it's probably because you haven't had an opportunity to see the following evidence. The smoking gun may actually be much closer to home than we previously thought. On 7/7 a ... More..
Politics, News & Issues > US Elections (Other) US Elections: Problematic methods for counting the votes: 1 of 4
The "Electronic Voting Frenzy"... looking at the forged results of Presidential elections in Florida 2000 and Ohio 2004, one might ask: was it a black-velvet' revolution? Many still believe that America lost its Executive Branch to an unelected government with relatively little fuss... and we may have lost our main lifeline t... More..
Society & Lifestyle > Political Values Parents: Would you send your child off to war?: 15 of 59
What parent in their right mind would want to send their offspring off to fight in an undeclared war? Unfortunately, a few would do it- so long as they are able to buy into the idea that the whole world is out to destroy "the American way of life." Getting families to willingly send their children off to protect big business ... More..