I have been listening to the same old politicians, espouse the same old arguments for far too long. A collection of bitter, irrelevant dinosaurs, living in a past best left behind. They do not seek genuine solutions to our problems, they create new ways of stirring the pot.
If we had a party genuinely dedicated to the principles of tolerance, it would be swallowed up by loud mouthed bigots, who know that common sense policies, not driven by irrational fear of “the other lot” would be their nemesis, if it were allowed to flourish.
The divisive rhetoric designed to set ordinary decent people against each other, is cynical manipulation of our tragic past. Deflecting political debate away from the things which matter to us most in our daily struggle, keeps the fools on the hill in power,...
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If you put the various parts of a bomb in the center of a room, nothing will happen. If a pound of methamphetamine simply sits on a table, no one will die. Yes, a shotgun on the ground isn't capable of picking itself up and shooting somebody any more than a bike is capable of peddling itself or a wind-up toy of winding itself. No one is arguing that inanimate objects are capable of violent acts without human intervention. The problem lies in the hearts of humans, and the danger arises when access to inanimate objects that ARE capable of inflicting harm if misused by human hands is too freely given.
By this logic bombs don't kill people, meth doesn't kill people, cyanide pills don't kill people, lethal injections don't kill people. Any number of terrible, deadly things you can think of...
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Dr Ben Carson,
As a clergy-trained fellow Seventh-day Adventist, I urge you to stop singling out Islam and Muslims. This upcoming weekend there are anti-Muslim rallies planned across the country—some of them calling for armed protesters—fueled by the anti-Muslim rhetoric you are helping advance in mainstream America. You are profiting in fundraising and in polls off the backs of a marginalized religious minority in our country.
Your singling out of a marginalized faith community is ironic, perhaps hypocritical, on many levels. As a lifelong Seventh-day Adventist, I am well aware (and assume you are, too) of the fears held by many in our community of the possibility of persecution for beliefs that differ from mainstream Christianity, such as a Saturday Sabbath. Holding membership in...
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The following letter has been signed by 587 Canadian academics, condemning the tactics being employed by the Conservative Party of Canada in the current federal election campaign. It will appear in newspapers tomorrow, but there is no room in print to reproduce all of the signatures. So we are making the full list available here:
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We are a diverse group of academics with different political views and different political allegiances. We are united by a common interest in the integrity of democratic processes and a concern about the ugly and dangerous turn we have recently witnessed in the election campaign. In democratic electoral politics there is an ethical line that distinguishes spirited partisan strategy from cynical tactics that betray the values of mutual respect...
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”Mr President, it is worthy to note that Saraki in recent times has been treated as an outcast. This is very bad development which if not carefully managed will consume the All Progressives Congress and doom our democracy. What has happened unfortunately does not reflect the change we promised Nigerians.
“Is Senator Saraki the only Former governor in Nigeria? Are there no other former governors especially from the South West and other zones that are not just enjoying their booty but are integral part of the government? Yes, Saraki is not the anointed candidate for the senate presidency, but his colleagues elected him. So, why don’t we allow him some peace to deliver on the promises of change?
“Mr President, the executive needs the legislature; hence, the relationship must be cordial...
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To the leadership of Anonymous… Your help is badly needed and hereby requested...
My friend Bruce Gorcyca is a USA government whistle blower who is being smeared by professionals on line. He is not now, nor ever was a “wanted pedophile”. What he is and was for thirty years is a government whistle blower who tried to expose a member of the Bush family linked to drug smuggling in Canada for over ten years through a corrupt FBI agent named Terry Nelson who owns a $6 million mansion on Key Biscayne and an even nicer one in Montreal. They have brought more than $1B of drugs into Canada on native aboriginal lands. They were even caught red handed in 1997 - and released See here
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I am numb. This is the sad fact I came to when I learned of the shooting at the Umpqua Community College in Oregon. I read the news on my phone and, sadly, I immediately felt nothing. No tears, no sharp breath, no pain in my heart, nothing. I only shook my head and went on with my day. I feel horrible now to realize this truth, but unfortunately this is what we face. Mass shootings are so deeply embedded into our experience and expectation as a society that we no longer feel anything of significance in reaction to their occurrence. It’s just another shooting, another group of people dead, and another disturbed individual leaving pain and unanswered questions in their wake.
When I watched President Obama’s press conference on the shooting I finally felt an immense sadness and cried. A...
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Dear xenophobic bogans,
Imagine you’re at the beach smashing a slab of VB tins with a few mates. Brayden removes his Bintang singlet to proudly display his hectic Ned Kelly/Southern Cross back piece, Jayden is, by his own admission, "Swole as fuck for Stereo, brah, YEEEEW", and Kymberleigh-Montana-Dakotah-Kruze is lungin’ durries like a champion and saying "Cunt" a lot.
From a distance, you notice a group of people huddled at the shore. As you get closer, you see the limp, lifeless body of a fully clothed toddler face down in the cold, wet sand.
Imagine how horrifying this would be.
As you probably know, Aylan Kurdi—a three-year-old asylum-seeker from war-torn Syria—drowned alongside his mother and brother this week whilst seeking refuge from hell on earth. His tiny corpse rag...
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Most people of the world think that the United Nations Treaty of Human Rights is only for refugees. This is a false notion. We are all covered by its protections which you should read and know here http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/index.shtml
With America becoming a police state, almost 300,000 Americans are moving to Canada and abroad to begin a new life every year. This is a right every person has. Yet PM Stephen Harper does not want you if you are a whistle-blower or someone who knows about his secret crimes and treaty violations.
While most Canadians hold George W. Bush and Dick Cheney in contempt as modern day war criminals, PM Harper has actually come out and praised the pair and even endorsed torture as a legitimate "intelligence tool".
So when American federal agent...
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