Here's the thing see Jenny - oil confers power - power like the ability to deploy tanks and planes. Any nation that ignores this realpolitik will not maintain its independence for long. So nations stockpile fuel. I was shocked recently to hear a professor ...
Give HS a break - it can't be much fun being an apologist for Paula Bennett.
Hmm - if Assange "should" go to Sweden, Sweden most definitely "should not" hand him over to the USA. Life imprisonment would mean exactly that, if he survived it long enough to die of old age. Not to mention that the charges are a joke and a fraud. But ...
"...should..." If we're discussing what he "should" do - I've already answered that - the ethical path is to go to Sweden despite the threat from the USA.
So far as I am concerned the argument hinges upon evidence that a secret grand jury has been convened. The previous rendition was illegal, was it not? Assange's would be procured through legitimate legal channels, where I'm not sure "goodwill" would be ...
Union members are the highest paid workers. Poor Burt fails the reality check once again.
Depends whether you think the threat of extradition to the USA is real. Or, more importantly, whether Assange thinks it's real. I suppose on strictly ethical terms he should go to Sweden even if he's certain of extradition to the USA, but then "strictly ...
It depends whether you think the case can be separated from what is going on with Wikileaks - a considerable amount of resources has gone into attacking that organisation, denying it banking facilities, etc. It would be naive to assume that Assange would ...
What about left wing men on blog sites who are concerned that if a chief prosecutor throws out a case, only to have it reinstated by a politician, that politicises and therefore trivialises any alleged wrongdoing, especially alleged wrongdoing where no ...
Then you are probably employing a definition of democracy that allows no deviation. It isn't called the worst possible system apart from all the other ones for nothing.
PS: cf. pre- and post-revolutionary Iran as an example of a situation where neither side deserved to "win".
"...want Assad to win." Bollocks. "...the only process..." More bollocks. What about a process whereby democratic nations didn't prop up and legitimise gangs in the first place?
I don't think much of a place where a politician, acting as a prosecutor, can over-ride the ruling of the chief prosecutor. Say what you like about Assange, but that's that's just plain dodgy.
No. I'm saying that civil war is disgusting, and the Assad regime is disgusting, and the media's framing of it as a struggle of good vs evil trivialises it.
Assange's lawyer didn't accept this version of events.
Well you can hardly claim to be an anonymous donor if everything's done in public, can you?
Everyone quoting Assange's lawyer (Emmerson), in particular the passage where he repeats the allegations, should be aware that in the same piece of legal argument - as presented to Lord Justice Thomas and Mr Justice Ousely - see The Guardian's article, ...
Deano, a criticism of media coverage ≠ support for the Assad gang. Civil war is sufficiently disgusting that almost any regime is a better alternative. Pretending it's all about good vs evil is one way to turn a blind eye to atrocity. Supporting the right ...
Deano I don't think that follows from Rascal's comments at all (and who can tell what Muzza wants?) - I can recognise that the media are presenting a simplistic and distorted view of conflict, one that encourages us to look at it as a struggle of good vs ...
"telling everyone we are all doomed and there is nothing anyone can do about it." And yet funnily enough, the only person who has said anything remotely like that is you. There's nothing "doom-laden" about needed to reduce our energy usage, nor in pointing...
I do hope someone on the MP side had the competence to record the meeting. When they realise they've been screwed at least they'll have the sex tape.
Key's promise? Oxymoron much?
That may be so, but I was rolling my eyes at the timekeeper.
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Prism that sounds dangerously close to Julian Simon's arguments ;)
I was coming 'round to nuclear power until last year. On the one hand, judging nuclear fission by TEPCO's behaviour is unfair. On the other hand, with our lax regulations and weak employment protections (as a result of right wing delusions) I bet we'd make...
Sounds like you might be relying on a bunch of rational actors acting in their own self-interest in a free market. All the things you need to deliver your future require a great deal of energy. Cheap, reliable energy... PS: Of course there's hope - the ...
I think it's unlikely that the era of individual motorised transport will survive at anything like the current scale. Electric vehicles still need roads to run on. Roads require bitumen, etc. Never mind the massive investment in infrastructure required, ...
The way the FBI has behaved is enough to create bias in even the most impartial observer.
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Felix it really is that simple. The marriage of principle and pragmatism needs a trial separation.
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