tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17693767409289080342024-03-05T11:23:22.576+00:00The Young Political RadicalOpinions 'R' UsAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02497342676594489549noreply@blogger.comBlogger34125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1769376740928908034.post-32807108876954057252013-08-15T15:08:00.003+01:002013-08-15T15:08:28.554+01:00My Star Trek 'Western theory' re-upload<br />
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Star Trek is a common thing in the homes of many people - three generations of Trekkies and Trekkers now populate the world, from the OTS fans to TNG and now onto the remake fans (which will hopefully spark a new, and not Enterprise television series).<br />
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The Star Trek universe seems pretty nice - an Earth without greed or war, and a mostly Anglo-European command system. Wait, what?<br />
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Yeah, Star Trek's Earth is a world where most of the continents were nuked to ash, and what was left as the majority was European and American populations. We already know that humanity went through several major wars prior to the Federation or even Starfleet being formed.<br />
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Star Trek fans were given a special delight when, in 1987, Star Trek: The Next Generation launched. Arguably the best Star Trek spin-off show, TNG had a humble and dignified approach to most episodes, especially when comparing to Voyager.<br />
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The first episode, Encounter at Far Point Station, gave an insight in to the past of the Federation and humanity which had pretty much been a mystery in TOS, which hinted towards the past but never really dug deeper. Q points out that humanity engaged in a long struggle with itself; drugs and degeneration pretty much hit most of the world; it was a link in with TOS episode Bread and Circuses which showed a not-so-sunny near future for its audiences (with terrorists killing millions with nuclear weapons.<br />
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Memory Alpha (the most accurate wiki for Star Trek material) states:<br />
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"various parts of Earth were still affected by what became known as the "post-atomic horror." In 2079, one such culture reverted to a state of near-barbarism that followed the credo "[Kill] all the lawyers," and "[Guilty] until proven innocent." (TNG: "Encounter at Farpoint") Due to these and other factors, parts of Earth continued to be in – as Captain Jean-Luc Picard put it in 2365 – "chaos" well into the early 22nd century. (TNG: "Up The Long Ladder")"<br />
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We admire the Earth of the Star Trek universe for ridding many of the socio-economic matters we suffer today such as poverty, inequality and racism.<br />
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From Memory Alpha:<br />
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The post-atomic horror gave way to the stirrings of new attempts at establishing various unified world alliances, including the European Hegemony in 2123. (TNG: "Up The Long Ladder") These alliances were eventually instrumental in the establishment of the United Earth Government in 2150. (TNG: "Attached")<br />
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"By the early 2100s – less than two generations of the post-atomic horror – humanity was finally able to eliminate most if not all poverty, disease, war and hunger. Along with it, a lot of other things disappeared from humanity, including hopelessness, despair, and cruelty. (TNG: "Time's Arrow, Part II"; Star Trek: First Contact; ENT: "Broken Bow")"<br />
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How did this occur? How did humanity manage to get rid of such social diseases?<br />
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The majority of the populace outside of Europe and America died. Oh, and genocide was a popular method of ensuring the best stock for humanity.<br />
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This is where real world dynamics will bridge with the show:<br />
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Memory Alpha reports that 600million were directly killed due to Nuclear Strikes of World War Three.<br />
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Then the post-atomic horror "Earth historians to refer to the global turmoil which resulted after the end of the Third World War in 2053. Because the war was a nuclear exchange, large populations of Humans were bombed out of existence, and the survivors were placed in jeopardy by radioactivity, "<br />
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Back then, countries such as China weren't the same powerhouse as they are today, so take in to consideration that chances are that China would be one of the first to be hit during a Nuclear war, say 40% of the population was killed in China, that's nearly 600million additional people, bringing the death toll much higher than the show indicates.<br />
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Then the nuclear winters - the Johnston Archives has a good article relating to this - would leave about 60% of the population in total completely devastated.<br />
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Africa would become a wasteland; it already suffers from low water supplies and millions of deaths from starvation - imagine a nuclear fall out situation where the atmosphere's temperature would rise even higher.<br />
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Regions such as the Middle East and Southern Asia would have the same problem.<br />
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Why would Europe and America survive above all else? The climate in these continents are mild, and thus an increase in temperature would be more adaptable than else where.<br />
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Future generations would struggle to repopulate with radioactive-related deformities and retardation killing many potential generations.<br />
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Look at the senior staff from the primary television ships and tally their ethnicity:<br />
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Picard - French<br />
Janeway - American<br />
Sisko - American<br />
Arthur - American<br />
Kirk - American<br />
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Riker - American<br />
Spock - Vulcan/American<br />
Chakotay - American<br />
Cara - Bajoran<br />
Ta'pol - Vulcan<br />
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Crusher - American/Scottish<br />
Bones - American<br />
Flox - Alien<br />
Bashir - American/English (?)<br />
The Doctor - Hologram<br />
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Now, yes they are actors and their characters reflect that, however in the universe it is seemingly mostly European and Americans who are populating the human ships of the federation.<br />
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Star Trek has now taught us that we need to wipe out most of the human race, make contact with space elves and generation blast the shit out of anything that is a threat - great diversity and morals, eh?<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02497342676594489549noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1769376740928908034.post-51549252079160677022013-08-13T12:48:00.001+01:002013-08-13T17:49:15.530+01:003 main models of AnonymousYes, Anonymous, one of my favourite groups ever.<br />
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Most people view them as a one size fits all collective, but you'd be surprised how diverse they truly are.<br />
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Below are the 3 main models of Anonymous as I know them:<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02497342676594489549noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1769376740928908034.post-48399845631135957962013-08-10T05:26:00.003+01:002013-08-10T05:43:29.040+01:00Porn ban?From the creators of the 'Bed Room' tax and Boris Johnson's hair comes a brand new innovation aimed at destroying the internet: a porn ban!<br />
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The Conservative Government in the United Kingdom has now set its eyes on Internet porn; choosing to encourage (and likely future forcing) internet service providers to use an opt-out scheme for censoring pornographic materials. <br />
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Seeing the clear threat to both personal freedoms and their profit revenues many ISPs have declined to entertain the governments proposals; with much revenue and use of the internet for personal use coming from the 14-30 age range, the providers have chosen a hard stance against the government with many accusing the government of building the frame work for Chinese-style oppression of the widely and freely open information and movement of news on the internet.<br />
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David Cameron has stated that the opt-out scheme will affect (for the most part) websites which promote extreme forms of pornography such as staged rape and violent bondage practices.<br />
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If you take away the fake staging of such practices then what is left?<br />
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Well, a black market of pornography will be created which may not see the need to fake rape and instead may promote the real recording of actual rape; and rather than large multi-million corporations producing bondage porn in a secure environment with fully trained medical staff on call, you may be left with amateur pornographers creating their own version for distribution which can be nothing but bad when such practices involve borderline torture when not produced professionally.<br />
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If the war on drugs has taught us anything it's that banning something only promotes the creation of black markets where stock is more than questionable.<br />
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Speaking as someone who spent most of his young life tweeting the tweety bird to porn: it's not more damaging than the usual levels of sexual exposure seen on the highstreet or on many television shows.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02497342676594489549noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1769376740928908034.post-54165548889576494142013-07-14T19:49:00.002+01:002013-07-14T19:49:21.804+01:00The need for stronger powers against extremists With Abu Qatada's deportation running in to the millions as the British state fought against the human rights court of the European Union, we are left with several questions which even the pro-European members of the government would like answers to.<br />
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Having been born in the early 90s, I was exposed to the threats of terrorism from Ireland, and then later on in my life the threat of terrorism from the east. As a member of society who believes that the way forward - at current - for democracy is to weed out elements which would seek to take away liberties and the secular freedoms to which we have so grown accustom to is to fight at the ballot boxes and at the debating table to change public opinion, I feel nothing but disgust at the lack of true powers that our state seems to show against the extremist elements of society.<br />
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Many would consider it racist to advocate the deportation of residents of our nation - who having not been born here or having no roots here - as a weapon against our society becoming further divided by threats to safety and security.<br />
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I do not like Islamist preaches and I will place that card firmly on the table. Do I dislike Muslims? No.<br />
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See, like myself - a Christian raised then turned Atheist - many Muslims enjoy the freedoms of our nation and do not wish to disrupt the way of life we have fought for. We're able to engage in sexual activities without being stoned to death; we may drink alcohol, and engage in cultural activities such as festivals and artistic ventures. We may wish for a better society however what we have at current is much better than what was in place before and we should go forward with liberalism, not backwards.<br />
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Freedom-of-speech is indeed important. It allows one to comment on this blog post. It gives fair chance for all to spread truth over lies.<br />
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There is a very delicate line which separates freedom-of-speech from hatred. The difference of the wish to change immigration laws for economic reasons, and the wish to change them for the dislike or hatred of foreign elements.<br />
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I do not dislike Muslims however I will never support hard-pressing religious regimes, regardless of this being a multi-cultural nation. My culture comes first. The Scottish and British culture. The culture that my family died for, and the culture that we are slowly seeing being destroyed and put in to question by allowing a voice to the most extreme of views.<br />
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Often people ask why I pick on the Muslims in these articles, and the answer is quite simple: It's a common theme in media that many can relate to, it gives example to what I am discussing.<br />
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If those who have been given the privilege of being given Asylum in this nation seem fit to hold up signs such as 'death to the west' or 'burn all who oppose' then, in all honesty, they can go back to where they came from and perhaps then they will be more grateful for living in the west where we have maintained a relative peace and high standard of life for quite some time due to allowing science to flourish and preventing archaic principles from disrupting our progression as continental force.<br />
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Nations very seldom retain their peace through peaceful actions. Peace is maintained by forcefully removing those who threaten the lives of the majority, and quite frankly we need to remind ourselves of that.<br />
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It's politically incorrect, which is a sign that there is logic behind it.<br />
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Do not mistake racism for the will to defend your culture.<br />
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The culture of a sovereign nation should always have priority over those who enter later in the national progression.<br />
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Begin to arrest those who advocating mass murder and genocide.<br />
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Deport foreign elements that wish to force their own agenda on our nation.<br />
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Stop the view that any defiance against foreign affairs over our nation are racist.<br />
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Begin the defense of Western Society.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02497342676594489549noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1769376740928908034.post-30964735576593934772013-07-08T07:28:00.000+01:002013-07-08T07:28:39.310+01:00Open letter to the Anonymous & European Union<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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From: Robert Byng ~The Young Political Radical~<br />
To: Anonymous; European Union Parliament & all relevant European Union groups<br />
Subject: NSA scandal & US Imperialism<br />
Date: 08/07/2013<br />
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Dear Anonymous & Members of Parliament, officials and citizens of the European Union,<br />
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Over these last few weeks Edward Snowden - a true patriot to both the United States of America and western civilisation - has exposed the tactics of the NSA against not only United States citizens but also espionage against European Union nations and, indeed, the European Union itself.<br />
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As sovereign nations within the EU, we come together to push forward our ideals for stronger and freer nations, independent from the need to rely on the rest of the world for our democratic needs, and as European nations - despite sometimes disagreeing - we all want the same vision of a democratic and free world for our children. As a peaceful entity in the world, we present no threat to the United States in a military capacity, and while we may pose a threat to the economic interests of the 1% in America, our actions have been to serve the tens of nations of our congress which rely on the European Union to serve as a collective voice in the world.<br />
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Over the last weeks the trust to-which we have shown in the European Union has been broken.<br />
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To discover that European nations have been under surveillance by the United States of America should have prompted immediate action by the European Parliament, including a blockade on trade with the United States Government and a complete re-assessment of the security protocols in place to protect against such actions against the sovereignty of our nation-states.<br />
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This did not happen.<br />
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Instead the European Union and Parliament were submissive. I assume this is due to size and power of the United States and its influence over the world. Bullies are allowed to flourish when they receive no punishment, and as such the United States will undoubtedly continue their illegal operations against our citizens, politicians and assets.<br />
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I have nothing but love for the American people however American politics are international politics - America has gone far beyond a sovereign state and now begins to resemble an imperial force with the intention of forcing their ideals on the world through militant and illegal tactics.<br />
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America will continue to grow and expand unless the world begins to say 'no more'.<br />
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The European Union may not be able to match the United States in economy however we surpass them in morals - in Europe, we no longer believe that religion and politics should often go together; we no longer feel that it is political suicide to support gay and equal rights for all citizens; and as a continent, we have the potential to serve the world with a great deal of good through science and culture. We must use our strengths and begin to awaken our voice against the United States of America. We must say 'no more'.<br />
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What has happened to the President of Bolivia is unacceptable.<br />
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As sovereign nations, we have the right to forge our own opinions and decisions over international matters without strings being attached to our politicians. In the older days of politics, when politicians still had spines, they would have allowed the President of Bolivia to land and continue his flight regardless of the presence of Edward Snowden being true or otherwise.<br />
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The revelations from Edward Snowden effect the half billion citizens within the European Union as many online assets are held within the United States; they have a monopoly on the internet, and the internet should never be the sole responsibility of any one power.<br />
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He stood out for freedom, and in return we punished him.<br />
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Now we must look to nations such as Bolivia, which we often too readily criticize, for how our morals should be set. An absolute disgrace for Europe and the European Union.<br />
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I thought we were better than this. I thought we were a continent of freedom and liberty. Instead, we are become sheep.<br />
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I look to Anonymous, as one of the only true voices to the 99%, to do what must be done to crush the illegal destruction of our freedom.<br />
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The hope of the world's citizens is with you Anonymous, I hope you carry them well and just.<br />
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As for the European Union: Shame. On. You.<br />
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Signed,<br />
TYPR<br />
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Star Trek is a common thing in the homes of many people - three generations of Trekkies and Trekkers now populate the world, from the OTS fans to TNG and now onto the remake fans (which will hopefully spark a new, and not Enterprise television series).<br />
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The Star Trek universe seems pretty nice - an Earth without greed or war, and a mostly Anglo-European command system. Wait, what?<br />
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Yeah, Star Trek's Earth is a world where most of the continents were nuked to ash, and what was left as the majority was European and American populations. We already know that humanity went through several major wars prior to the Federation or even Starfleet being formed.<br />
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Star Trek fans were given a special delight when, in 1987, Star Trek: The Next Generation launched. Arguably the best Star Trek spin-off show, TNG had a humble and dignified approach to most episodes, especially when comparing to Voyager.<br />
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The first episode, Encounter at Far Point Station, gave an insight in to the past of the Federation and humanity which had pretty much been a mystery in TOS, which hinted towards the past but never really dug deeper. Q points out that humanity engaged in a long struggle with itself; drugs and degeneration pretty much hit most of the world; it was a link in with TOS episode Bread and Circuses which showed a not-so-sunny near future for its audiences (with terrorists killing millions with nuclear weapons.<br />
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Memory Alpha (the most accurate wiki for Star Trek material) states:<br />
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"various parts of Earth were still affected by what became known as the "post-atomic horror." In 2079, one such culture reverted to a state of near-barbarism that followed the credo "[Kill] all the lawyers," and "[Guilty] until proven innocent." (TNG: "Encounter at Farpoint") Due to these and other factors, parts of Earth continued to be in – as Captain Jean-Luc Picard put it in 2365 – "chaos" well into the early 22nd century. (TNG: "Up The Long Ladder")"<br />
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We admire the Earth of the Star Trek universe for ridding many of the socio-economic matters we suffer today such as poverty, inequality and racism.<br />
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From Memory Alpha:<br />
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The post-atomic horror gave way to the stirrings of new attempts at establishing various unified world alliances, including the European Hegemony in 2123. (TNG: "Up The Long Ladder") These alliances were eventually instrumental in the establishment of the United Earth Government in 2150. (TNG: "Attached")<br />
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"By the early 2100s – less than two generations of the post-atomic horror – humanity was finally able to eliminate most if not all poverty, disease, war and hunger. Along with it, a lot of other things disappeared from humanity, including hopelessness, despair, and cruelty. (TNG: "Time's Arrow, Part II"; Star Trek: First Contact; ENT: "Broken Bow")"<br />
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How did this occur? How did humanity manage to get rid of such social diseases?<br />
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The majority of the populace outside of Europe and America died. Oh, and genocide was a popular method of ensuring the best stock for humanity.<br />
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This is where real world dynamics will bridge with the show:<br />
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Memory Alpha reports that 600million were directly killed due to Nuclear Strikes of World War Three.<br />
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Then the post-atomic horror "Earth historians to refer to the global turmoil which resulted after the end of the Third World War in 2053. Because the war was a nuclear exchange, large populations of Humans were bombed out of existence, and the survivors were placed in jeopardy by radioactivity, "<br />
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Back then, countries such as China weren't the same powerhouse as they are today, so take in to consideration that chances are that China would be one of the first to be hit during a Nuclear war, say 40% of the population was killed in China, that's nearly 600million additional people, bringing the death toll much higher than the show indicates.<br />
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Then the nuclear winters - the Johnston Archives has a good article relating to this - would leave about 60% of the population in total completely devastated.<br />
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Africa would become a wasteland; it already suffers from low water supplies and millions of deaths from starvation - imagine a nuclear fall out situation where the atmosphere's temperature would rise even higher.<br />
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Regions such as the Middle East and Southern Asia would have the same problem.<br />
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Why would Europe and America survive above all else? The climate in these continents are mild, and thus an increase in temperature would be more adaptable than else where.<br />
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Future generations would struggle to repopulate with radioactive-related deformities and retardation killing many potential generations.<br />
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Look at the senior staff from the primary television ships and tally their ethnicity:<br />
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Picard - French<br />
Janeway - American<br />
Sisko - American<br />
Arthur - American<br />
Kirk - American<br />
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Riker - American<br />
Spock - Vulcan/American<br />
Chakotay - American<br />
Cara - Bajoran<br />
Ta'pol - Vulcan<br />
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Crusher - American/Scottish<br />
Bones - American<br />
Flox - Alien<br />
Bashir - American/English (?)<br />
The Doctor - Hologram<br />
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Now, yes they are actors and their characters reflect that, however in the universe it is seemingly mostly European and Americans who are populating the human ships of the federation.<br />
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Star Trek has now taught us that we need to wipe out most of the human race, make contact with space elves and generation blast the shit out of anything that is a threat - great diversity and morals, eh?<br />
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We live in an era where most people have an idea of what they'll be doing once shit hits the fan and Aunt Betty raises from the grave and begins turning your brains in to the next Sunday roast, but is it really necessary?<br />
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*note that I am basing this off Romero classic zombie who spread infection via bite, are slow, and very comical<br />
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We all know the scenario by now, so let's just skip the technical introduction and go straight in to the reasons why we should all chill out about the thought of zombie chaos!<br />
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Congratulations! You've now survived the first wave zombie strike. The local goths were thankfully the first to go, that's what they deserve for putting their balls where they weren't supposed to go. </div>
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See, Romero's zombie were never fast, and aside from the grab lunge as seen in Night of the Living Dead, Day of the Dead and Dawn of the Dead, you could pretty much continue about your day to day life without worrying too much.</div>
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For anyone who were abused as children and prevented from seeing the Romero zombies, I've supplied a link to the full movie in 720p for free on Youtube at the end of this article, you're welcome.</div>
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The average speed of a human living in Western Europe and America is 4mp - that's walking with intent - while zombies tend to stagger, after viewing the movies again, I calculated the following:</div>
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The average time for a zombie to cross 1 meter is 4 seconds at a stagger </div>
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That places the zombie's speed at 0.7456 mph</div>
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You outspeed them by over 3 mph</div>
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At worst case scenario for the zombie:</div>
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The average time for a zombie to cross 1 meter is 4 seconds at a stagger </div>
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The average speed for a zombie would be: 0.3482 mph</div>
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In the movies, we all seem to follow the dumbest bitches to ever escape Darwinism who run straight in to the zombies then wonder why their brains are being skull fucked by their old biology teacher who shot himself after Star Trek was cancelled on CBS. </div>
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Even zombie hordes wouldn't be that hard to escape. Unless you are trapped in a two way street with zombies at both exists and no building to escape in to then all you are required to do is walk around them in the same manner as your ex girlfriend does to you in the club. </div>
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These can survive direct impacts from IEDs, air bombardment, most RPG, and human fists.</div>
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I'm not going to insult your intelligence by stating the obvious, however say to say that if shawtee be rolling a tank down to the club in a world full of zombies then not a single shit would be given - most armoured vehicles used by the USA, Britain, France and...pretty much all nations now, are so beefed up to be so advanced to fight the other stuff that's beefed up to be advanced. </div>
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All the military would need to do is blast some Highway to Hell as they roll down the streets, crushing the unfortunate bodies of the dearly departed. </div>
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At last calculation, the combination total estimate of all armoured tech in nations belong to the UN Council was just under 3,000,000. </div>
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So it's all cool if you have an armoured car, but what about infantry?</div>
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Remember that speed calculations? I'm sure infantry will be more than safe to escape the average speed of a zombie.</div>
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A common argument is that you need to shoot a zombie in the head or it'll keep coming but I match this with the following logic:</div>
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Decaying flesh vs. average round fired from FN SCAR or SA80 with an average distance of 40 meters = one hell of an exist wound which could probably detach the zombie from its legs. </div>
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Even luckier if you live in a country like the US where every citizen is armed to the teeth - life would be pretty normal, with exception that the murders cause from deaths each year would be rewarded with the Zombie-hunter Cross. </div>
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There's also the Navy which is more powerful that the Army for firepower, and combined with the airforce there would literally be no threat of the zombies getting far. </div>
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Most modern construction has become so sophisticated in keeping that scum that is humanity from entering your personal space that security has never been so strong. This has become such a problem that police across many countries are having to re-assess their forceful entry battering rams. </div>
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Windows too have become so strong that modern double-glazed glass can survive a direct impact from most objects, especially in Europe where the European Union forces a certain level of construction sufficiency. </div>
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Not surprising that the similarities between these two works are common, Equilibrium could just be seen as a martial arts knock off of Orwell's masterpiece, however what if one is the future of the other?<br />
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In 1984 there are many things in the works by Big Brother and the Party that have been achieved in the Equilibrium world; for example, one main cause of the Party is to eliminate the orgasm, which has clearly been achieved in Equilibrium.<br />
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"We shall abolish the orgasm. Our neurologists are at work upon it now. There will be no loyalty, except loyalty towards the Party. There will be no love, except the love of Big Brother. There will be no laughter, except the laugh of triumph over a defeated enemy. There will be no art, no literature, no science. When we are omnipotent we shall have no more need of science. There will be no distinction between beauty and ugliness. There will be no curiosity, no enjoyment of the process of life. All competing pleasures will be destroyed. But always -- do not forget this, Winston -- always there will be the intoxication of power, constantly increasing and constantly growing subtler. Always, at every moment, there will be the thrill of victory, the sensation of trampling on an enemy who is helpless. If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face -- for ever.' " Chapter 3, 1984<br />
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Look at Equilibrium, doesn't it seem that all of that has been achieved? We're not quite sure how reproduction is performed in the world of Equilibrium, however the fact that all sensation has been chemically removed matches up perfectly with the 1984 universe.<br />
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"Libria, I congratulate you. At last peace reigns in the heart of man. At last war is but a word whose meaning fades from our understanding. At last, we are whole. Librians, there is a disease in the heart of man. Its symptom is hate. Its symptom is anger. Its symptom is rage. Its symptom is war. The disease is human emotion. But Libria, I congratulate you, for there is a cure for this disease. At the cost of the dizzying highs of human emotion, we have suppressed its abysmal lows. And you, as a society, have embraced this cure: Prozium. Now we are at peace with ourselves and human kind is one. War is gone. Hate, a memory. We are our own conscience now, and it is this conscience that guides us to rate EC-10, for emotional content, all those things that might tempt us to feel, again, and destroy them. Librians, you have won. Against all odds, and your own natures. You, have, survived"<br />
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Even the operation of the Party is consistent in Equilibrium<br />
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In 1984 all possible resources are put into protecting the oppression of the people, and Prozium was the tool to which the party aimed for.<br />
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Once the enemy was defeated, despite the book's claim that the war would be never ending, there was no need to even have the basic emotion of hatred. The family unit in Equilibrium is artificial, and we see how easily the Thought Police AKA Grammaton Clerics are able to assess the minds of those with false thoughts and emotions.<br />
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In 1984 Big Brother is paraded on the screens wherever possible, as is the case in Equilibrium - the two are so identical that you could clean up the streets of the 1984 movie, apply for slightly more advanced technology, alter the clothing, and you'd be left with the exact same world.<br />
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So why isn't there mention of the old Party, Big Brother or past events in Equilibrium?<br />
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Simple: by that point in time the party were successful in erasing paper documents which put into question the false truths of the Party, and as the world moved into computer era, the ability to delete people, information and new was so simple that human history was remove. The removal of emotion destroyed any urge to know about the past or compare it - the people of Equilibrium did not know if what they had was good or worse than previous.<br />
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"If the Party could thrust its hand into the past and say of this or that event, it never happened — that, surely, was more terrifying than mere torture and death?" 1984, Chapter 3<br />
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The war of 1984 turned nuclear, it's not hard to imagine. We know that 1984 is set after World War II, where clearly nuclear weapons were used. Russia AKA Eurasia was another nuclear powerhouse. At one point in the universe, the need to maintain a constant war faded and all hell broke lose, leading to the true World War III:<br />
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"In the first years of the 21st century, a third World War broke out. Those of us who survived knew mankind could never survive a fourth; that our own volatile natures could simply no longer be risked. So we have created a new arm of the law: The Grammaton Cleric, whose sole task it is to seek out and eradicate the true source of man's inhumanity to man - his ability to feel."<br />
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"He thought with a kind of astonishment of the biological uselessness of pain and fear, the treachery of the human body which always freezes into inertia at exactly the moment when a special effort is needed."<br />
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Free-market economics is
the removal of restriction and regulation by government entities
relating to mainstream enterprise and business. In free-market
economics, the distribution of goods and service is based almost
entirely on demand – that is to say that the higher demand, the
greater production and thus lower prices, whereas current economics
allows business to charge infinite fold in comparison to the actual
production cost.</div>
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Free-market economics may
fall in to two political ideologies in the United Kingdom: Socialist
or right winged Conservative. In general, each ideology will view
free-market economics as either good or bad, depending on the then
political climate, and economic stability. Both sides will also have
separate base-line philosophies over the principle purpose of
free-markets.</div>
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For example, many
socialists view free-market economics as the removal of large,
multinational corporations in favour of diverse, small business. In
free-market economics, employees are not property of their employers,
and are given wages which directly reflect the wealth generation of
the business or enterprise they are employed by. It is currently used
in companies such as John Lewis, where employees are given shares and
have bonuses calculated at a percentage of the total wealth.
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Socialists would view
this as prosperous for employees; however Conservative principles
would see it in favour of business owners, or those wishing to set up
business. In free-market economics, there are no regulations
preventing businesses from buying out competition, nor are there
often strict regulations on the sourcing of materials to make a
project (although, often is the case in traditional capitalism). Such
a lack of competition laws not only allows successful companies to
increase in value from the amalgamation of failing or small business,
but also motivates business to be more successful and sensible with
the output of fiscal – when sharks surround a vessel, not often
will divers jump into the jaws.</div>
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My argument for
free-market economics extends to private consumed goods; regulation
of items which are not essential to life would be removed, with items
indispensable to survival remaining regulated on the basis of public
safety – basic water, food and health care supplies/medication;
goods created for the military or police services, and items used by
emergency services.</div>
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Capitalism has been
incredibly successful for three hundred years, particularly to this
Island which used currency as a method of encouraging innovation;
greed is an extremely powerful motivational tool.
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The fundamental dilemma
with capitalism is that where wealth should be in continuous motion,
business and individuals have reached the point where their income
has reached stagnation. They cannot possible enter their profits back
into society or their business quick enough. Some of the top earners
are simply greedy, with no care for the needs of society.
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If the top 100 earners on
Earth invested their stagnated earnings back into the world, then
world poverty would have been ended several times over; we’d have
enough finance to end cancer and much disease, and we’d be having
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I see free-market
economics as a way of preventing this from occurring. When customers
and employees have so much power of business, it is fair to say that
business will do the right thing, even if it is for the wrong reason.
Starbucks is the prime example; the people of Britain simply stopped
buying over-priced coffee from their shops. What happened? Did they
leave the country? Did they close down? No, they got to their knees
and begged forgiveness despite fears that taxation would drive
business away. In reality, Britain is a consumer nation – our
currency is a paradise to multinational business for being ahead of
both the Euro and the Dollar. We need to take advantage of this more.
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Regulation frightens many
businesses and increases their costs – many lawyers and legal
experts are employed by the largest of companies just to avoid
regulation; avoiding tax and escaping through loopholes.
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We shouldn’t make it
harder to trade in this country than it already is, and so long the
citizens have true power of the markets (not the government, but the
people) then regulations aren’t required.</div>
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Under socialistic
free-market economies, all the wealth, all the money, all the
resources of individuals who allow them to sit in bank accounts for
tens of years, with no intentions of investment, are forced to share
the profits of their fruit.
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A common argument is
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<i>Why is this false?</i></div>
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<i>Imagine
you are a customer, and you buy, for example, a laptop computer from
company A. That computer breaks within a week; your partner has also
bought a mobile phone from company A; the mobile phone lasts for 2
weeks, to the despair of the family. John Smith, your next door
neighbour has also bought from company A; his items have
malfunctioned within a week also. You all complain to company A, but
no help is offered. </i>
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<i>You,
your neighbours, and fellow dissatisfied customers join to spread the
word that company A produces poor quality items. Company B offers the
same range of product for a smaller introductory price; these items
are of far higher standard and soon company A is out of business due
to poor business ethics.</i></div>
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<i>In
free-market economics, the consumer is forced to be as active in the
process of transaction as the manufacturer. This is nothing new to
any society – for hundreds of years, this is the essential workings
of business. If a craftsman produced poor items, his local community
would apply pressure to him until improvements were made. In modern
consumerism, very rarely do customers take the time to actively make
their dissatisfaction known. It was ‘too impolite’; the people of
the nation have often had attempts to brainwash and indoctrinate via
‘politeness’, though happily this has failed, especially in
Scotland where we still use curse words to greet our best friends.
Free-market economics hands power directly back to the consumer;
business is submissive to their clients for the very sake of
survival.</i></div>
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Free-Markets create
slave culture by removing set-wage regulations</div>
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<i>Prior
to national minimum wage, the standard of pay was significantly
higher; the problematic nature of national minimum wage is not the
morality of the idea behind the system, rather the inability of the
system to cope with variations In the economic climate. A system of
pay forced by law gives excuse to business to pay no higher than they
are legally obliged to. In older days, wages were negotiated by
unions and the workers directly, and would often be increased with
inflation. </i>
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<i>Free-market
economics in a socialist sense treats the employee as having a share
in the company, as an alternative to being a drone to production. </i>
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Free-market
economics leads to the destruction of unions and workers’ rights</div>
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<i>Historically
this myth is unfounded. The majority of trade unions were introduced,
created and succeeded in free-market Britain prior to the 1970s and
the Thatcher genocide of working class dignity. For example, the
Labour Party has its roots in Glasgow, Newcastle, Manchester and
other Industrial towns where workers were abused. In the 1800s, the
first organised strikes occurred against owners – despite the lack
of any regulation to simply fire employees, the owners were forced to
listen to demand as the workers had blockaded the factories and
brought production – therefore profit – to a complete stop.</i></div>
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<i>The
essential basis of this myth forms from Thatcherite economics,
masquerading as free-market economics. Free-market economics could be
closely related to Marxism socialism, which I am most certain
Margaret Thatcher would not have approved of. Thatcher too away the
power of the working man; socialist free-markets return them in
extensive amounts. </i>
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Last but not least –
free-market economics allows business to skip tax and sell apple
juice as flu medicine</div>
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<i>No!
No! No!</i></div>
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<i>Our
tax system is broke, regulation and legislation opens up more loop
holes than it closes. Count the number of companies that have avoided
tax. Go on. When you return, I doubt very much you will a) find less
than a handful b) not have used the services of atleast one.</i></div>
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<i>When
there are no regulation bodies to refer to, business can no longer
fall back onto the coined phrase of ‘please refer complaints to X
organisation’. You, the citizen, the consumer are in control of
regulation, even if it is not written into law. Removing regulation
removes the reliance on government to police business.</i></div>
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<i>I
do agree that several industries require regulation, pharmaceutical
being one. I’ll touch on this below. Briefly, pharmaceutical
industry use the same business model as any other industry – they
require their product to be received well by consumes (the sick)
therefore it’s in their best interest that people don’t drop dead
from flu drops, and that their product actually heals.</i></div>
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<u>Industries that need
regulation</u></div>
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There are some industries
that do require regulation over production, I will list them and
allow you to make your own mind up:</div>
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Pharmaceutics and medical
production – regulation to protect the consumer and NHS interests;
prevention of placebo drugs and faulty equipment
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<div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
Transport (public) –
nationalisation, transport is essential to life and the movement of
people is paramount to employability and civil freedoms</div>
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Mainstream media –
regulation to prevent articles without foundation being broadcasted
or displayed; media should no longer have such significant power of
voters with scare tactics funded by private individuals
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Power, gas, essential
foods and water – nationalisation; these are all essential to life,
and a country such as ours rich in all four commodities should not be
allowed to starve</div>
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Vehicles – minimum
regulation to prevent public health hazards, and to assist in
environmental reform</div>
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Arms industry for both
military and civil security – regulations to ensure quality of
equipment for armed services, police and fire services; only
government or local authority workers/agents should be charged with
the duty of protecting the people, no private firms</div>
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Electronics – bare
minimum regulation for safety standards</div>
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So, in closing, I’d ask
you forget everything you have been taught about free-markets, they
are often lies created by those too afraid to embrace the power of
people over business; governments bow to business, the people do not.
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So I have been re-watching Batman and suddenly a theory popped in to my head as to why the Joker specifically became the character that he is.<br />
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The Joker is deadly fearful of Clowns and other performers.<br />
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In the same way that Batman turned his fear of bats into his greatest tool, the Joker turned his fear of clowns and other freak shows into the most powerful asset of evil.<br />
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Why is the Joker afraid of Clowns and other performers though?<br />
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I think the many stories of the Joker's father gives a look into the psychology of the Joker; at one point he was a normal child up until he attempted to make his father laugh at some point, at which point his father went apeshit. In both the comic, the animated series and the new trilogy, we see the Joker give various stories of how he was abused - the common root is that he tried to please his father through laughter, to which he was severely punished, and there-on from was twisted, then when the incident of chemical waste occurred, all those mental instabilities burst open, with his psychopathic nature embodied by the performer, being released.<br />
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A petty mod-hound was turned into Gotham's greatest monster.<br />
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The Joker used the Batman philosophy - turn your greatest fear against others and make them afraid of it too.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02497342676594489549noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1769376740928908034.post-37085415085831387712013-06-13T11:02:00.002+01:002013-06-13T11:02:30.437+01:001984, Microsoft and the Xbox OneFollow us on Facebook, it's free and you get awesome stuff like a continued, more detailed and more serious version of the end story to come soon!<br /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/TheYoungPoliticalRadical">https://www.facebook.com/TheYoungPoliticalRadical</a><br />
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Having once again read 1984, I am pretty much assured that the scenario of the book and the elements contained within it are now becoming far more than just a cautionary tale of governments gone wrong.<br />
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When the book was published, in 1948, there was a distinct lack of the technology contained within the book such as two-way view screens, extensive wireless audio recording and even the ability to erase and alter newspapers post-release.<br />
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In the 21st century, however, there is an increasing frightful reality to what is happening in the book which is moving from cautionary fiction to a grim truth. The technology is very real, and almost every home has it - with the Xbox One including a mandatory video and audio capturing device, with many laptops and other devices with the potential to record audio and video 24/7, are we just a generation away from the Big Brother world?<br />
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I'm not afraid of Microsoft, or ASUS, or any other company, they don't have any real intention to take over the world, they already have it, but, as we seen in the rise of the Russian revolution and countless other political movements, many companies can have weapons against their necks to force them to comply with whatever wishes a government may have.<br />
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The only thing preventing the current enslaving of western civilization is that we are still too strong to be easily tamed; as future generations become weaker in their approach to militant action against governments, and as the cosmopolitan lifestyle slowly turned even the most butch men into weaklings, we really need to consider our future.<br />
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We've seen with the NSA revelations in the USA that the government already has the ability and, from the outside, there is absolutely nothing that can be done.<br />
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The technology and infrastructure is in place to allow the 1984 world to become a reality and the sad thing is that we payed for it, invited it in and demanded more of it. I'm using the same technology to type this, and it wouldn't surprise me that I've been added to a terrorist watch list in my own country for doing so.<br />
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Here's my theory on the future written in Orwellian style (with some comedy and satire):<br />
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It was a warm and unrelenting day, the sun was risen far above London and through the acidic clouds it was unforgiving in its assault on the senses, appearing green through the pollution. Chuck awoke to the piercing sound of the national anthem of the United States of Obama, the Ode to Masterchief, which was loud and did not allow for a moments rest; attached to the wall was a guardian. Chuck a man in this late 40s once knew them as Kinnect, the bringers of rage quit to those with funny voices.<br />
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Chuck was a skinny man, weighing less than 250lb, which at this time was eligible for entry into the Wii Earth Olympics. Chuck often pondered if life was always like this; he remembered vague points, the most memorable that of the elections to end all elections, the one where the party had risen, and Moot had taken control. At first it was peaceful, the Moot administration ended all US wars, claiming that 'we were not their personal army' although many things changed. Mudkips had become the national animal, children were being taught Memes and the elderly were awarded with the newly created 'oldfag star'.<br />
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Stretching, he reached for his ration of KFC gravy and consumed every litre of the delicious ooze. Chuck was luckier than most, he still maintained the ability to walk, although at times it was pointless as the need for many physical activities had been replaced. The orgasm soon died out as penises were unreachable by normal hands, and in a time not too distant ago, all sexual experiences were performed through SecondLife.<br />
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Chuck soon cleansed his thoughts. It was dangerous to have thoughts. Mods patrolled the streets and knew when someone had thought; worse yet were the admins who were assigned large hammers to ban anyone from continued life.<br />
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At every moment of every day every one was watched, recorded and surrounded by Google holographic adsense which instantly displayed the latest in mobility scooters.<br />
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Chuck did not know much but he did know that this was hell.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02497342676594489549noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1769376740928908034.post-27728687976261884492013-06-13T06:11:00.000+01:002013-06-13T06:11:43.426+01:00Scottish free loaders, the myths debunkedFOLLOW US ON FACEBOOK, SERIOUSLY IT'S AWESOME: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/TheYoungPoliticalRadical">https://www.facebook.com/TheYoungPoliticalRadical</a><br />
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Scotland - the hated free loader of many English tax payers who hated paying for the free services on Scotland such as medicine, health care, education and public transport; Scotland's reputation as the freeloader of the United Kingdom has officially been shattered.<br />
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Thanks to the Yes Campaign for Scottish Independence firing their sorties into the Westminster government, it has become official that Scotland has been holding up the British economy for years, serving as the only economically sound area of the country outside of London.<br />
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Glasgow and Edinburgh have been overtaking the financial services in cities south of the border since devolution; Glasgow has become a cultural superhub for the nation, often being preferred by artists for its down-to-Earth atmosphere and energetic crowds; Edinburgh is vastly becoming the next London, with more companies setting up practices in the city than any other area outside of London, and certainly coming close to the top hot-shot areas of Europe.<br />
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Scotland's success economically has been down to devolution of both government and Scot's law -- everything Holyrood does, Westminster quickly copies: initiatives to enforce stricter regulation on smoking, cheap drinking, gay marriage and a better standard of life for the common man.<br />
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Why has Scotland become so popular as a business and cultural centre for Europe? Culture.<br />
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Scotland has a very common culture throughout the country where business meets home-roots; the difference between wealth in Scotland is astonishing at times, where many Scottish business owners actively engage in charitable work or making their home towns better to be. Scotland's cities have a mix of simple heritage, and are surrounded by hundreds of natural retreats which is often seen as a massive plus for those looking to invest without being trapped to the urban landscape.<br />
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Here's the most common myths about the Scottish economy:<br />
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<b>Scotland freeloads off the English</b></div>
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The Scottish Government has ensured a socialist policy of supply the needs of Scottish citizens, with many services being preserved which the English have lost:</div>
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<li>Free education, abolished by the Conservative government</li>
<li>Education Allowance, abolished by the Conservative government </li>
<li>Fully public NHS, Labour and Conservative both introduced private elements to the NHS in England and Wales</li>
<li>Eye health care allowances, slowly being abolished by the Conservative goverment</li>
<li>Bedroom tax, the Scottish Government has officially given orders for evictions to be suspended</li>
<li>A freeze in Council Tax, maintained by the Scottish Government to prevent local authorities from raising their band prices</li>
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To name a few, but the few ignite a hatred in the English towards freeloading Scots who use their taxes to fund free stuff.</div>
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I think the English may forget that the Scottish pay taxes too, to which the Scottish Government used to ensure a fair and equal spread of wealth, even if indirect via services such as education and health. </div>
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Scotland has a smaller population with large percentages living in the primary cities of Glasgow, Edinburgh, Dundee, Stirling and Aberdeen. City life of the population effectively allows for services to be cost proficient rather than the population being spread mostly in smaller rural areas where access to large cities is hours away, such is the case in England. </div>
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Consider that 94% of North Sea Reserves are recognized as being part of the Scottish coat line under International Law; this accounts for a significant income to the British economy, including an extensive level of investment to the Island which is not accounted for in the North Sea Reserves Revenue Review. </div>
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In terms of energy, Scotland currently leads Europe and comes close to leading the world in renewable, substantially and ecologically stable power due to the nature of the Scottish pseudo-Antarctic coast-line which has potential for hydro and wind energy, which could ultimately provide an unlimited source of financially cost friendly energy as technology develops. </div>
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According to the Department for Work and Pensions, Scotland is below the national average of unemployment, with just about 7% unemployment rate compared to the 7.8% national average of the UK. </div>
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Historically, Scotland was the powerhouse of the UK for many, many industries, most notably textiles, ship building and natural resources; along with science and moral enlightenment, it is safe to assure the English that Scotland has given its fair share to the Island, if not above. </div>
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Scotland is also ahead of the UK in economic growth, reports from both the Scottish Government and Westminster show:</div>
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<br />"Scotland has 8.4% of the UK population, but generates 9.9% (£56.9bn) of its tax revenues, receiving 9.3% (£64.5bn) of spending back from Westminster. Although currently running a budget deficit, it is considerably smaller than that of the United Kingdom's as a whole, and over the past thirty years, Scotland has generated a budget surplus of almost £20billion to the UK economy. The Scottish unemployment rate currently stands at 7.1% as of June 2013, which is well below the UK figure of 7.8%. Scotland's youth unemployment rate is also much lower, standing at 15.2% compared to 19.5% for the rest of the UK. The employment rate is higher north of the border as well, standing at 72.2% in comparison to the UK figure of 71.5%"</div>
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Scotland also leads in science, thanks to all that 'useless' free education, with Scottish universities and projects being some of the highest recognized in the worst; Scotland is currently referred as the leader of bio-chemical research in Europe, and the world aside from the USA, with it's ecological sciences booming thanks to the research into green energy. </div>
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Estimated to the value of the Scottish economy would be substantially higher when considering the trade tax, revenues from Scottish businesses which go straight to London, and the many other industries labeled as British despite only having a increasing investment in Scotland. </div>
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Everything that Scotland has for free is funded by the Scottish people. </div>
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<b>Scotland Politics: The sensible choice</b></div>
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In no short way thanks to devolution, corrupt politicians and people being subjected to the greed of their elected officials is, if not completely, become a thing of the past. </div>
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The Scottish Government doesn't care what happened outside of Scotland, that's an important difference between the mentality of Westminster and Holyrood; where the British government would rather hold on the imperial forces, Scotland recognizes that it belongs to a wider community of nations, both in Europe and throughout the world. </div>
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Scots Law evolved incredibly quickly as the people of Scotland have more say in the running of their government. Scotland was introducing same-sex marriage before it was even on the table for Westminster, as is the case for restrictions of alcohol and tobacco sales. </div>
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Scots are known for our strong nature, and nothing has changed. We maintain the clan mentality of town vs. town, Edinburgh vs. Glasgow, but dear god, should you ever insult us as a nation, or our people, then we will united and use everything we collectively have to crush you. We have pride, without it being arrogance, we know our limits and we are happy to live within them. </div>
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Scotland is more European and British in political influence: we share the same socialist/capitalist mix as European countries such as Sweden, Norway, France and the Netherlands. It's not a bad thing, if anything it's deal - take money from the wealthy businesses to fund progressive advancements and free essential items; business can still make money while the people are able to enjoy a better standard of life. </div>
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Local authorities are also more accountable as the Scottish government has made it very clear, and will be introducing legislation later this year, to ensure that community groups have the authority and resources to maintain services and hold their councils to accountability. </div>
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If the English want to know who the true freeloaders are then they should look to London, not just the Parliament there, but the entire city.</div>
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The city reeks of corruption. </div>
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The problem with the UK is that most investment goes to large cities, in Scotland this is less of a problem due to the closeness of cities to many rural areas. I, myself, have never had a job in my home town of Barrhead, but instead have either commuted to Paisley or Glasgow, both of which are less than 30 minutes away. Edinbirgh is across the country but is still only an hour's train journey.</div>
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Everything goes to London and the rest of the UK is forgotten and left to fend for itself. </div>
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I plead the English to stop casting blame on us Scots, we didn't chose to have a Conservative government, that was all you. LITERALLY, we have 1 Conservative MP. </div>
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Blame the British Government, try to become independence, strive to have your own parliament which is just for England, and then you will enjoy what we have. </div>
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London has been a leach for all nations in this country for 40 years now, it's time to end it and spread investment, and stop the London Syndrome of greed and putting business about your countrymen. </div>
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Black Sabbath are back! The aging rockers have returned with their brand new album '13' which is showing no signs of age, but instead wisdom in this masterpiece of an album!<br />
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13 is distinctive in that is shares the same Sabbath composition and acoustic value as previous album, and certainly wont be lost on the ears of original Sabbath fans who will now be able to share the love of the band with the next generation of rockers and metal heads.<br />
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Make no mistake, this album has clearly has a lot of love and careful effort put in to it. Music will always be up to interpretation however I feel this may be Sabbath using their old age and many years to reflect on life in album, which is in no way a bad thing! </div>
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Past Sabbath albums have always contained themes often avoided such as mental illness, drug misuse, and the downside of the rock and roll lifestyle, and this album seems to be bringing the story of the band's many problems in the past to a close while still being full of inspiration. </div>
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On a more shallow level, this album will appeal to slow rockers and mellow metal heads rather than nu-metal punks and moshers. The rhythm in many of the songs opens itself up to headbangers, so headbangers may send their thanks to the band for that one. The album is heavy with the tempo being slow - in traditional Sabbath style. </div>
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There's a lot going on in this album which can sometimes be overwhelming to the senses, although this may only add a interest in digging deeper into the rhythm and exploring the notes of the music, which certainly was the experience for myself. </div>
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The mixing of the instruments is excellent, and I am particularly happy that the bass has remained true to Sabbath style by maintaining its power in most of the songs and not allowed itself to be over powered by the guitars or drums; something so sadly overlooked in metal. The bass is like my wet dream for music. </div>
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They haven't skipped hard-hitting topics, and as I said above, they approach it with an apathetic tone, most clearly heard in the song Methademic which seems like a direct reflection on the sex, drugs and rock and roll life style. I wont ruin the lyrics for you with spoilers, so go get the album and enjoy!</div>
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I've heard others state that 13 is repetitive and that the song composition is almost entirely the same throughout the album; on the surface they are correct.</div>
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To be able to enjoy Sabbath to its fullest, you must be able to allow yourself the chance to explore each layer of every song - you will find that within each melody are melodies all their own. Sabbath's style is dated without being old; many musicians have their unique style, and I am glad Sabbath have not sold out their influences in the same way that bands such as Fall Out Boy and Bullet for my Valentine have. </div>
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Ah, Repo! the Genetic Opera, a musical that will always have a special place in my heart. An original, quirky and instant cult class, something not seen since the Rocky Horror Picture show. I love it, simple.<br />
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So many questions unanswered in such an in-depth and complex dynamic universe.<br />
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After thinking about it a tiny bit, one of the biggest question for someone who is as big of a hypochondriac as myself is ...how clean are those organs once reposed? <br />
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This brought on my latest fan theory about the series: GeneCo created the disease that wiped out most of the human race, then proceeded to cure most disease and infection...to increase their profits.<br />
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Throughout the entire movie, we are riddled with scenes of Nathan cutting open his victims and taking their organs for re-use by GeneCo. Look at the gore throughout the movie, and then look at how exposed to blood and fluids several of the characters are. None of them seem particularly worried about it, and while the world of Repo! is desensitized to violence, what about all the disease that lurks in humanity, even in the 21st century?<br />
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At some point in the Repo! universe, a lot of people died, and then GeneCo came along and offered the solution: genetic perfection. From what we've seen of GeneCo, it's clear the company was set up, and pardon the conspiracy theorist in me, but it's always odd when something hits such a large population with one cure brought forth by a private company.<br />
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Now I know the premise is that GeneCo offers organ financing and all they do is replace old organs with new, but evidence suggests they do much more:<br />
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In the Limo, Rotti states he is making the cure to all blood diseases, which Shilo takes as credible.<br />
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The Grave Robber even sings about genetic perfection, in the very first song.<br />
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My theory is simple: GeneCo created the disease that killed those millions, then retracted it. How? Zydrate. I assume that in the Repo! universe, all of Rotti's patients were given Zydrate; as a common delivery method to the sick, it destroyed the disease that killed the old organs.<br />
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The people who didn't get sick? Either GeneCo employees or simply unaffected by the disease. We see in the intro sequence that the body movers were wearing gas masks, which would give logical reasoning to the disease being air born. That's not really important though. No where in the history of the main characters do we see them affected by the disease - all of them are either GeneCo employees, family of Rotti or born after the disease.<br />
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So GeneCo has their permission to finance organs in place, but there's always that problem of contamination, so that would ruin the reposed organs, eh? Not if GeneCo cured most disease to save their stock - the characters in Repo! have no fear of being sprayed with blood, we don't see Nathan wash down his suit with anything more than water - which is an awful cleanser - and sexual attitudes seem to be pretty free with no concern to HIV or Aids.<br />
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We even see the Grave Robber take Zydrate from the freaking dead, and no one has a problem with this - that must be one sanitized world.<br />
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None of the characters in Repo! are ill (except for Rotti), and why is Rotti ill? Because he never had any treatment - not a single bit. Happiness is not a warm scalpel is his direct quote. He never had treatment, never took any measures to use his own methods due to knowing what it would cost his pride.<br />
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tl;dr: GeneCo created the deadly disease, cured it through something in Zydrate, cured other disease to be able to use organs over and over again<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02497342676594489549noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1769376740928908034.post-36674987022225620352013-06-10T11:10:00.000+01:002013-06-10T11:11:27.505+01:00Independence for Scotland: Yay or Nay.<div class="MsoNormal">
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Scotland's independence from the rest of the UK, has been a
matter of debate for last few years. The Scottish parliament have been pushing
to get powers, to ensure Scotland looks after it onw, politically, financially
and of course helping to preserve Scotland heritage. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The questions is Do you trust Alex Salmond to have you best
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Being Scottish myself, I have to answer honestly and
say NO. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Why you may ask, some may even feel I am being traitor to my
origins, I will argue my point later on. But what does independence mean for
Scotland, and the rest of the UK. No mater which way you look at it the country
as a whole will feel the repercussions. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Lets take a look at the UK as a whole right now, the state
of the country is in dire straits, the country is in debt, barely holding its
head above water, we had a rather large debt hanging over our collective head.
WE the people had to make sacrifices to pay that debt back, higher taxes,
increased cost of living. We can barely survive week to week. More and more
people are living on the breadline. The working class is getting poorer, while
the upper classes are getting richer.
While his has always played it part in out history, It will have an
impact if Scotland separates from the rest of the UK. The government is always
passing laws it feels benefit the country as a whole. While many do not like
these laws, they have helped in a small way.
The Scottish government have proposed three possible out comes of the
referendum that is to take place in the autumn of 2014. <o:p></o:p></div>
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1 - full devolution
or 'devolution max' <o:p></o:p></div>
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This mean that Scotland will be able to make changes to the
law and taxes with the 'exception of defence and foreign affairs; financial
regulation, monetary policy and the currency' *. So basically England will still dictate our
affairs overseas and our money matters. No total independence, but enough that
we will recognised are our own country. Fair enough I guess. <o:p></o:p></div>
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2- * <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commission_on_Scottish_Devolution">Calman</a>
type fiscal reform, gaining the additional powers and responsibilities of
setting a Scottish rate of income tax that could vary by up to 10p in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pound_sterling">pound</a> compared to the
rest of the UK, setting the rate of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stamp_duty_in_the_United_Kingdom">stamp duty
land tax</a> and "other minor taxes", and introducing new taxes in
Scotland with the agreement of the UK parliament, and finally, "limited
power to borrow money.<o:p></o:p></div>
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SO again, not complete independence, We would still have to report to the English
government about money matter in some sense, but we would have ADDITIONAL
powers and responsibilities. For the most part thought Scotland would rule its
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3- * full
independence, stating that the Scottish Parliament would gain the powers to be
able to convert Scotland into a country which would "have the rights and
responsibilities of a normal, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_state">sovereign state</a>".<o:p></o:p></div>
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This means Scotland would be completely free of England and
her rule. Total freedom, the right to govern ourselves, regardless of what
England do. No one to report to and no one giving us ground rules at all. <o:p></o:p></div>
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(* Scotland Future: Draft of the Referendum bill) .<o:p></o:p></div>
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So there you have it. The three possible outcomes for
Scotland future. While most people in Scotland are pushing for the third option
I have to question our wisdom in this choice. <o:p></o:p></div>
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While I agree to a point, that Scotland is in need of
change, I believe we can achieve that with the Support of England, Then again I
believe the WHOLE country could do with change.
Scotland is acting like a rebellious teenager, who has been told its grounded
for misbehaving. Making rash choice based on it anger at England. Here are a
few questions I would want answered, and hopefully with proof. <o:p></o:p></div>
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1 – IS Scotland economically stable enough to support itself?. <o:p></o:p></div>
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2- Can Scotland's reputation around the world, grantee us,
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3 – How will Scotland's education, translate to the rest of
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4- Will Scotland
being free of the rest of the UK, open more jobs?.<o:p></o:p></div>
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5- What of the Monarchy. Before the joining on the crowns,
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again?. <o:p></o:p></div>
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6- How will Scottish independence, affect me and my family? <o:p></o:p></div>
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7 - Are we TRUELY
ready to stand on our own two feet, and succeed?<o:p></o:p></div>
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There are a number of issues I have with this. But these are
the highlights. The Scottish government see Scotland with a brilliant future,
but as with all elected member of government I hold judgement. <o:p></o:p></div>
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If they believed that Scotland would be a success, they
would not be asking for the legal age to vote to be dropped from 18 to 16, as
well as having other people from around the world of Scottish origin included
in the vote. If anything to me that shows that they do NOT have as much faith
in Scottish independence as they claim. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Looking at Scotland right now. We have more than enough
issues to contend with. The lack of affordable housing the number immigrants in
the country are putting pressures on the economy and housing, Lack on jobs,
lack of Scottish industry, More major banks and business that are based in
Scotland are actually run by English companies
( Tennants, Scottish and Newcastle,
RBS, Cyldesdale and many more). <o:p></o:p></div>
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I believe that Scottish independence is a nice idea, and one
day it may be for the benefit of Scotland, but as of right now. We can barely
house our people, or provide jobs for them. We have a country that is lacking
the resources and money to support ourselves. While Edinburgh does well with it
tourism trade, the rest of the country isn't as well off. How would Scotland look if was independent
from England, would there be argument over territory?, would you need you
passport to cross the boarder? Or would
we simply build Hadrian's wall and lock ourselves off from the rest of the
world, and return to our roots, as the barbaric tribe we once were rich in culture
and nothing else. <o:p></o:p></div>
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This topic cannot be cover in just one go, so it is
something I will return to at a later date. In the meantime, I encourage you
all to research, what Scottish Independence will mean for you and the UK as a
whole. And really think, Is the best way forward to the future or are we making
a massive mistake that will cost our children for generations to come. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Ever wonder if there's an expanded explanation for what occurs in video game plots? I sure as hell do, and fan theories are often correct in predicting the director's outcome in a franchise. Take the Saw series, one fan was able to predict the outcome for the Saw movies atleast 2 movies ahead of the end; this was so accurate that the producers of Saw had a panic meeting due to suspicions that the franchise screenplays were leaked.<br />
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Here's my theories on why the Reapers from Mass Effect may not be as evil as we are supposed to believe..<br />
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The reapers, the creators and destroyers of life in the Mass Effect universe; sentient machines who purge the universe of all advance biological life. Seen as the dicks of the Mass Effect games, they are kinda convinced and absolute in their wish to destroy pretty much anything around them. </div>
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According to the Mass Effect Wiki:<br />
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"According to the Catalyst, the Reapers harvest all advanced sentient life in order to preserve a fragile balance. The Reapers believe that without the extinction cycles, synthetic intelligence would completely annihilate all organic life. According to them, this is an inevitable consequence of technological advancement; organics will always create synthetics to improve their own state of existence, and synthetics themselves will evolve by means of surpassing their creators. The Reapers also believe that harvesting advanced civilizations is the only way to allow new civilizations to come into existence. The Reapers leave no evidence of their conquest, nor of their existence – only desolate, barren ruins of those who came before."</div>
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Wait...hold up a second...the Reapers destroy advanced civilizations in-order to preserve the continuation of the wider galaxy. It's already been proven in the Mass Effect universe that there were several instances of uprising from AI and machines, to the point where AI was banned throughout the galaxy. That logic actually indicates that the Reapers are guardians of the biological species who have no ability to defend themselves against the technology created by advanced species, and there was never any indication that the Reapers were going to destroy ALL life. </div>
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My theory: The history we have from the game shows a pattern: the Reapers only come into action once the galaxy has reached a boiling point; they intervene in the advancement of technology that could potentially destroy the entire galaxy's life. The Reapers are machines with intellect beyond imagination. They had thousands of years to calculate every potential outcome for their plans, and judging by the ending of Mass Effect 3, they may have known that it was inevitable that at one point enough civilizations with enough power would eventually team up against them, and thus creating a peaceful resolution to the many problems of biological creatures.</div>
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Think about it carefully - these machines had the ability to establish travel throughout the galaxy, and not just that, they managed to survive in dark space outside the freaking galaxy. They could easily destroy any resistance; it wouldn't be hard, they are machines with the ability to take over entire species, do you seriously think those bros would have a problem in finding a few hundred more starships to fight on their side?</div>
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Seems pretty reckless to hope that this one chain of biological worlds would be able to maintain peace without them, right? Well I'll get to that later.</div>
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Either way, the Reapers were protecting life in the galaxy - destroying civilisations who posed a threat to the long term survival of all life, or uniting the galaxy in their destruction.</div>
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The Geth are dicks. No two ways about it. Whatever your feelings on the Reapers, it can pretty much be agreed that these guys are to the Mass Effect universe what BP is to ours: pure dickery (up until the third game). They were the minions of the Reapers for most of the franchise, however it strikes me as odd that the Reapers would join forces with a species they would eventually end up destroying to maintain balance, right?</div>
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Well, it might be more complex than using them as simple minions...</div>
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How do you destroy or weaken an enemy without showing yourself? You get them to charge in and attack a much superior force, which they did. They attacked the System Alliance, especially humans, and as we witnessed playing the game, it isn't hard for humans to fight back the Geth when not caught off guard. Hero complex aside, Sheppard and co. were going through the Geth ranks in the hundreds - that was a single shit, imagine what the entire System Alliance would be able to accomplish in the Mass Effect universe.<br />
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In the final game there is a choice to completely destroy the Geth; they've been pushed back to the point of extinction and has turned to the Reapers as slaves for survival, and if the option to destroy the Geth was followed through, it would have folded nice into Reaper plans.<br />
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What logic is there in the Geth being destroyed by Reapers? Well, as the quote from the Wiki states, the Reapers set out to destroy all sentient machines created by advanced species, and why spend so much time attacking directly when you can simply get your enemy to destroy themselves?<br />
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The Reapers aren't really gone</h3>
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So, the Reapers sacrificed themselves to create peace throughout the galaxy. Happy ever after? Not even close, if the species of the Mass Effect universe are so similar to their human traits as is betrayed, the peace is only bound to last for a couple hundred years, maybe a thousand, and at one point they will forget the lessons of the war and start all over again. </div>
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At some point it is an eventuality that a species far off, not yet developed, will create artificial intelligence, and at some point shits going to get very hot. </div>
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The Mass Effect universe is about cycles that can't be broke, no matter how you try. You may see that the destruction of the Reapers in the battle for Earth broke the cycle, but nothing really assures that the Reapers are gone for good, or that they hadn't planned for the destruction of their kind over Earth. Machines can be backed up easily, and we witnessed straight from the first mission in the first game that they can implant themselves to human anatomy to create ghastly creations. </div>
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The Reapers are waiting to see the results of biological determination for peace. Dark space is infinite in its ability to hide shit in, and its pretty assured that there will be more Reapers out there. </div>
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Reapers aren't so much genocidal monsters as they are guardians of the galaxy, making sure stupid species such as humans don't go off creating technology that has the wish to kill anything made of flesh. The quote from wiki pretty much makes it sound that it is set in stone that AI will rise against their biological creators.</div>
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No species so intelligent to the stage of the Reapers will place all their technology on a single plan, and place all their eggs in one basket. I have more faith in them than that.</div>
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Vegans - for any one who have access to the internet, they are to social media what the Nazis were to leftist politics; often they are so wrapped up in their own opinions and views against the mainstream culture of consuming meat that they will often overlook factual evidence and human nature.<br />
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I consume meat, it is a stable part of my diet - I take no shame in it; it's what I was raised on, it's what almost all of us were raised on. It's tasty, and enjoyable to consume.<br />
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Go to any animal conservation society, endangerment activity group or animal shelter, and chances are you will find the majority of people consume meat as part of their diet. They also consume vegetables because humans are omnivores - we are opportunistic feeders, and while genetics suggests we spawned from herbivores, the transition from that to the ability to eat meat has been a crucial evolutionary point in human development which directly led to the increase in brain-mass and cognitive function. </div>
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Vegans chose to remove all animals produce from their diet - that's their choice and they are welcome to it - although with that comes some form of false moral high-horse which they take and attempt to accuse the mainstream, burger eating population of being monsters.</div>
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Expand that to the entire human race, and what you're left with would be the genocide of thousands of animals and plant life to facilitate the extensive land mass required for cultivation of vegetables and fruits - which is greater than that required for livestock. Expansion of cultivation land would need to crush down forests, natural green land and habitats to create enough food for an entirely vegan human race. </div>
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We, as we lost our fur, lost much of our ability to combat disease in raw meat and the ability for much of the world to survive climate without clothing - we evolved; as we developed tools, and took animals down using spears, the need for large canines for sinking into prey to drag it down like a lion became pointless. Evolution is awesome like that, it takes away stuff we don't need; our naturally evolution moved from relying on what we could produce with our bodies to items that we could produce with the substances around us.</div>
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So much stupid crap comes from the mouths of the Veganazis that it would take a decade to go through them all.</div>
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I'll just say that, when Veganazis make stupid statements such as 'meat eaters deserve to die' or 'meat eaters are murderers', it sort of becomes like a fly buzzing around the room that needs to be hit across the head with a shoe a few hundred-million times. </div>
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Veganazis. Think before you speak and perhaps the rest of society will stop treating you like the stuck up obnoxious asses that you believe you have the right to act like. When you can come to a discussion without labeling people murderers, monsters or morally lacking, then we will actually listen to you.</div>
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Expanding cultivation for tofu and tempeh is destroying the rain forests and adding hundreds of species to the extinct list every year, not to mention the human cost of such expansions.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02497342676594489549noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1769376740928908034.post-21075014737073343492013-06-05T08:20:00.004+01:002013-06-05T08:20:38.943+01:00Education and the use of technology: Pass or Fail?<div class="MsoNormal">
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Education in Britain on the whole is something that we
should all be aware of. It can effect us in so many ways. I look at kids today and I see them running
around with the latest phones and laptops, and think 'well at least they know
they can use modern technology, that should help them when it comes time to get
a job'. Then I see my son doing his home work and the worksheet he gets from
school and think ' Oh my goodness'.</div>
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When I went to school the only thing I was allowed to use a
computer for was Office information studies, and I could only use a calculator
for Physics. I had to write everything down, no matter if I got cramp or not. I
had to use book to research my course work, I could even walk in the library
and walk straight to the book I needed because I spent so much time there. My
teachers had no problem telling me to get on with my work regardless of whining
or huffing. I would get a note sent home to my mother along with a punishment
exercise that said I had to write 100 lines or something similar. If I
continued to misbehave, well then I was suspended, and given work to complete
while I was out of school. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The use of technology in schools, it not a bad thing,
however if the kids lean on it too much they can lose out on the actually
learning process. I remember a time when I would use nothing but pen and paper
for everything sometimes going five or six jotters for one class, unlike now
when one jotter while last my son, a whole year. The use of a computer was a
treat, a reward for hard work. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Now it seems that teachers have to replace some of the good
old fashion teaching styles, to incorporate PC learning. Nearly every child I
have met can work a computer better than I can, Is this really necessary?.
Every school is fitted with an IT lab, that the children can use when the have
free time, on to work on class projects, I have to ask, what is wrong with the
library? <o:p></o:p></div>
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While computers allow access to the world wide web, and a
massive wealth of information. Most take what what is said on the web as fact,
and never bothering to check the validity of the information. Kids would rather
just check wikipedia, instead of going to the library to check out a book, that
would have the same information. That to me seem lazy, I have to wonder if they
are losing out on the experience of using they natural curiosity and sense of
accomplishment you get when you find the information themselves with hard work.
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The world around us, is now so reliant on technology, It has
become essential for kids to learn how technology works, I feel that most are
looking for the easy and quickest way out of doing actual work. In this fast
pace world, it seem technology is they way forward. <o:p></o:p></div>
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SO what is technology doing to our educational experience?
It is teaching kids that if you can find a quick and easy way, do it.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I recently suggested to my son, to find a Penpal, something
that was very common when I school. I enjoyed the process of getting to know
people from around the world, writing a letter and taking to the post office,
the weeks of excitement waiting my reply.
My sons answer, ' mum, I can just email them'. I shook my head. I tried
to explain that letters with a person from another part of the world was a
great learning experience. He muttered something along the lines of ' that's
what the internet is for' <o:p></o:p></div>
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Really is that what
the world is coming to? An impersonal, instantaneous, auto-corrected form of
communication. Is this how all over children's social interaction will be done
from now on, in the cold digital world. <o:p></o:p></div>
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From a young age our children, are surrounded with
technology, and they grow up thinking that this how the world has always been.
The are shocked, to learn that their parent never had mobile phones to call
their friends, or had to write all over their class work down, or had to visit
the library to get information. Technology in school is teaching our children
how to be closed off, and reliant on others to get knowledge. Technology is
taking vital experiences from our children, and it is starting in out school,
exam results are falling, university applicant aren’t meeting the requirements,
because a simply 1500 word essay, isn't up to scratch. Even our children’s social relationships are
suffering. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I am not saying technology should be removed from school,
but it should be used less. More traditional teaching should take place, so
that our kids can, get the job they want. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Anyone who has had access to the new recently will be aware that the situation in Turkey has turned critical, with what was a peaceful protest in Istanbul now escalating into an unbelievable show of defiance against now-turned totalitarian and Islamist Prime Minister Recep Erdogan.<br />
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The peaceful protest in Istanbul - which serves to reserve one of few green spaces left in the capital which has seen rapid industrial take over of residential and green-belt areas - was met with the same force that would be expected to be shown to armed and violent insurgency which acted as a catalyst to years of pent up anger over the attack on secular living in the nation. Over 50 protests are now sparked in Turkey, many also being met by extreme levels of violent resistance by law enforcement in the country.<br />
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The Turkey riots are mammoth in comparison to recent examples of resistance to government in Iran, Greece and France and have been met with caution reporting by mainstream media outlets, and lack of response to the situation by almost all western nations, despite the clear example of the breach of human rights and lack of respect for the democracy that Turkey has worked so hard to create.<br />
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The death toll is mounting, and the feeling of discontent has spread throughout Europe, with protesting being held from London to Munich. The protests in Turkey have awakened many who feel discontent with their own government, so what can be learnt from the current situation?</div>
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Twitter has been so powerful to the effort of Turkey that the government has attempted - albeit failed - to block the social media website and others like it in major cities. </div>
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The reliance on traditional communication methods such as telephone and word of mouth has ended, and has been replaced with an outlet which has the ability to spread information instantly to thousands of people not only locally but internationally.</div>
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The ability to post videos and pictures furthers the views on the ground as protesters have met increasingly desperate measures from police, in some instances even having tear gas canister aimed directly to their bodies, in the same method with more destructive power as a rubber bullet. </div>
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The eyes of the world have been on Turkey, learning and planning from Turkey on how to start their own revolution against abusive governments</div>
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4. Elected governments are just as bad as dictatorships </h3>
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The Prime Minister, often making outlandish remarks against the free and secular nature of Turkey, has attempted to enforce Islamist ideals with regulation on the sales of alcohol, public signs of affection and homosexuality; the enforcement of these policies has been met with disapproval not only from secular citizens but additionally has been met with protest from left-leaning Muslims, to which the country is composed mostly of. </div>
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The Turkey situation proves that the control of power gives free-reign to the blatant abuse of citizens from elected officials with no systematic punishment. It could be likened to the current situation in the United Kingdom where benefits have been cut, and many face eviction from their home due to taxation and illegal actions taken by a right-winged government. </div>
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Turkey is on a balanced and ideal line between religious liberals and secular non-believers and has been for many years; this balance has allowed the country to prosper: tourists are free to relax to the same standard of freedoms as experienced in much of Western Europe, while also being able to enjoy Muslim and Turkish culture. That balance has mostly been maintained by the large population of young Turks who live in the freedom to express their religious or non religious values whilst also partaking in the western party lifestyle. </div>
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The original protest was small, with around 1,000 protesters, all of whom were peaceful. The police reaction to this was to use brutal tactics and physical force to force a non-democratic resolution. In reaction, cities all across the country sparked their own protests which has seen millions take to the streets of Turkey over the last few days. </div>
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Last year riots in London spread like wildfire to cities across England; although the ideals of the rioters in England were nothing more than the need for anarchy and destruction, it is a prime example of how the same principle of rapid spreading of protest can come over night, even in a country notorious for political inactivity. </div>
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One of the most important lessons to learn from this entire situation is that politicians are at the mercy of their public; in practical terms, nothing stops citizens from rioting in their streets except perhaps the lack of reason and reprisal by security services. It should serve as notice to politicians all over the world that bully tactics will no longer work, and that you are at our disposal, not the other way around. A politician is there to represent the needs of the people; not the needs of themselves, their party or those who sneak extra wages into their greasy pockets. </div>
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In my previous article, I describe how Anon is a power for good on Earth. This instance in Turkey has proved to be a glowing exhibition of not only the good Anon has, more-so also the level of power they contain. </div>
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Within hours, the vast majority of government websites were brought down by Anonymous; they had created private networks to ensure freely open internet to the protesters, and most crucially, they mainstreamed the Turkey situation, making Twitter alive with activity.</div>
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At the very moment thousands of Guy Fawkes masks are being deployed throughout Turkey; Turkey and Anon have become allies against a war on a much larger scale than just one nation - Turkey is bringing to show the true nature of government, elected or otherwise, while Anon are passing that show to the world through assisting the efforts in Turkey at the same time. </div>
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In a world where electronics is essential to much of life, it is not surprising that a group who are masters of collective control of many forms of media has such a grasp of power over governments and their systems. I, for one, am grateful to Anonymous. Keep up the good work, legion!</div>
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1. Western Governments are spineless</h3>
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Syria. Libya. Iran. Iraq. All insurgents in these countries have received support from western governments. All, except for Iran, have no military infrastructure which could match that of the forces of many nations in Europe and the United States. </div>
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Turkey, however, has a fully operation trade agreement with many nations, its own fully functional military and enough political influence to make things were hard for the western route to the Middle-East. </div>
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Where are the official letters of disgust? Where are the crates of supplies to fight the tear gas to the protesters? There are none, and it's all become Turkey has real power in the world and have many things that can only be given to Europe and America through consent.</div>
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If this situation was happening in a small Muslim country, or a nation-state of the Russian Federation, there would be absolute glee from Europe and America, but this instance it's within a large country that could easily defend itself politically and militantly. </div>
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Not to fool ourselves: Human Rights Violations are happening in Turkey; this critical situation was sparked by an abusive response to peace from the government of the nation, and as of yet not a single tear has been shed from those who normally preach democracy and free-will to the small, defenseless countries of the world. </div>
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Spineless rats. That is the fitting way to describe most western politicians. When the flames of insurrection reaches their door-step due to the crimes they have committed, I hope they remember that no one will be coming to their aid from another country.</div>
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Anonymous - the first truly international activist collective in the history of the human race; from simple teenager using their laptops to join in attacks on websites of oppressive regimes, to highly organised and sophisticated hacks, able to tap into government archives and resources to expose hidden atrocities. The often controversial nature of this collective often places them into the same category of terrorist organisations and splinter cells.<br />
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From 4chan, to the Onion Router; Anon has had influence over politics for the last 8 years, and while it could be argued that the means to their goal is often dangerous to modern society, the simple fact remains that they are possibly the most humanitarian collective on the face of the Earth, with campaigns which often aim to disarm dictator states, protect the poor, and generate social awareness to subjects such as equality and human rights.<br />
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Anonymous, I salute you in solidarity.<br />
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To the common public, I list the following reasons why Anonymous should be given the full support of political campaigners across the globe...<br />
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5. Anonymous does not discriminate </h3>
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Anonymous has no leaders, no membership fees and no concern over your skin colour, ethnicity or sexuality. They are Anonymous, and they do not care who you are as they do not care and do not wish to know; their collective is made up of individuals who partake in operations -- often there are key members who kickstart respective operations with their fellow Anon partaking through individual action to a hive goal. </div>
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Anonymous is made of all races, all peoples, all creeds and all class types; they will often show support for international efforts which do not affect their lives. They attack oppressors in the name of humanity regardless of how powerful or how small their target. Take for example what is happening in Turkey where the government's forces have blocked communications and have turned violent on often peaceful protesters: Anonymous has ensures through their own tools that communication blocks have been brought down through private networks and servers, enabling the people of Turkey to remain in communication with the outside world to show their stories and their pictures of the crackdown which is beginning to increase in death toll. </div>
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Anonymous has no official language - often communications from the collective will be diverse in their spoken and textual form proving that they are indeed universal; while English is a primary language due to the concentration of individuals in America and Western Europe, they frequently take the time and effort to translate communications to various languages to further the number of active supporters. </div>
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The collective also does not often support either right winged or left winged political parties, for there is a social rule of not bringing personal politics into the situation. Anonymous will never be absolute in their agreement on certain subjects, such as Israel and Palestine, however their ability to put those differences aside is unmatched in any human campaign. </div>
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You'd need to live in a cave to realize that there is a distinct barrier between law enforcement agencies across the world and Anonymous. Despite this increasing line, Anonymous will often use their collective resources to track down and bring to justice the worst of crimes on the internet - especially abuse of children sexually. Earlier in April, Anonymous took down the Association for Man-Boy Love, one of the most predominant pedophilia advocate websites - a group dedicated to the free love without prosecution of older aged men and young, often below the age of 14, boys. </div>
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Further cases have popped up where Anonymous has cracked down on hidden pockets of the internet where both child and adult rape/abuse video and picture galleries existed; they have been known to access the personal information of all those involved and pass them onto the local police services before crashing the offending websites permanently to avoid further spread of the material. </div>
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. Within 24 hours of the attack, Anonymous (while there were false accusations) discovered the identities of the bomb creators and spread the information to the Boston Police Department, FBI and other enforcement agencies - this links back to the idea that Anonymous does not discriminate, even against their enemies. </div>
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Amanda Todd's suicide left disgust in many internet users and sparked serious attention of mainstream media; while the police were useless in efficiently following up with the case to discover those involve, Anonymous were able to identify not only one suspect, but several who were involved in the use of Amanda Todd for sexual favours. Thanks to Anon, these suspects now face the law. </div>
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Look around, at all the mainstream media influences, notice anything about their political coverage? Yeah, it tends to be pretty one sided to either left or right, depending on who owns the particular cesspool of false news and advertisement. </div>
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Money is power over information, well...until Anon came along. </div>
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While there have always been free thinkers who attempt to portray the truth of broke society - myself being one such person - none of us truly managed to break into the mainstream light. Anonymous' nature allows it to spread its information to billions of people within days through the internet and also physical activism. </div>
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Seriously, go to Twitter and look through #opturk #opgtmo #opuk</div>
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See all that information? Go look for it somewhere else. You wont find it. </div>
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The non commercial and free nature of Anonymous allows EVERYONE to have their voice heard, pictures seen and videos viewed. They do not have financial backers not do they require them - Anonymous is innovative with its approach to politics and used the bare minimum of resources required while still being as effective as million dollar news corporations. </div>
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Anonymous does not gain its thoughts from cash, it gains it from ideals - something that was once the benchmark of politics in the civilized world.</div>
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2. Anonymous is a symbol</h3>
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We are all Anonymous; walk down the streets of any town or city and there you shall find them even if they do not wear a badge, t-shirt or uniform.</div>
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It is open to us all and while we may not call ourselves Anonymous, we do share their ideals and their blood lines. </div>
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Anonymous could be your son, or daughter. Perhaps your father or mother. It could be the man who serves your beer or performs your surgery. Anonymous is no longer a cult restricted to 4chan, they are international and they are powerful. </div>
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Their symbol is one known to all of those born in to this world over the last 40 years; the traditional Guy Fawkes mask from V for Vendetta speaks more words than this blog ever could. They do not seek personal fame or gratification - they are purists who seek a united and free human race without the tyranny of government preventing our development of peace. </div>
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At last count there were at the very least over 9000 official Anonymous pages that have exposed some of the worst atrocities committed in the 21st century.<br />
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1. Anonymous are not terrorists </h3>
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Terrorists - those who fight for the freedoms of every single person on Earth without causing death or destruction; those who would dare to stand up against the secretive and elitist nature of Goverme-...wait? That's not the official definition of a terrorist? Then why are Anonymous considered a terrorist group to many...?<br /><br />Oh yeah, because they do not stop until the truth is out there, and governments hate that with every fabric of their systematic being. The difference between protests in the streets which are peaceful, and the take down and blackouts of government websites is that the latter has true potential. Everything is stored online now in some form or another, and if there's a loophole into a server, Anonymous will eventually find one. </div>
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It's sort of like telling a child to stop speaking when they question the actions of their parents - chances are the child is right, however the parents will not accept it. Anon is scolded as they refuse to submit and refuse to give in - insurgents international. </div>
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Anonymous has caused no deaths, in fact they may have prevented millions at this point in history by getting word of human rights abuse to the public attention, prompting responses that would not have come otherwise. Terrorists? Nope. Don't believe everything you are told from mainstream media, it will be your death.</div>
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So Anon, I salute you!</div>
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02497342676594489549noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1769376740928908034.post-10070981668758704682013-06-03T14:21:00.001+01:002013-06-03T14:21:15.352+01:00Universal Tax Credits - A mother's perspective <h4>
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Allow me to introduce: <o:p></o:p></div>
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I am the new guest author on this site, Louise McOuat. my
dear friend was looking for some help and I offered, However I am not a
politically minded as he is, so my work will reflect a lot of personal views
and the views of others. I will be looking at the effects of the new changes in
laws, and the main topic in Scotland right now is Independence. Besides those I
hope to highlight other topic of worldwide interest, as well as looking at how
society has changed and if this is for the better. <o:p></o:p></div>
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When I first decided to help out and write this blog, I
struggled to find a topic to there were so many that I though could be
addressed, Education, the country’s debt, money matters etc. I found that these
topics can be incredibly boring. The more I looked the more I found that these
topics were at the heart of the nation’s concerns. I have a 12 year old son,
and have found myself wondering just how much does he understand of the world
around him. With the school holidays
coming up I have found he asking for more and more money to covers days trip
and club fees, money it would seem is something that everyone has issues with
at the moment. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The new bedroom tax, and Universal credit payments that are
to be introduced later on this year as in the forefront of everyone’s
mind. Parents and families on low
incomes are now struggling to pay rent, council tax and the new bedroom tax, on
top of their monthly bills, as well as survive another summer of their children
asking for more and more money, to help occupy them over the 7 week
holiday. <o:p></o:p></div>
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So we have to ask, Did the government really thinking this
through? Government, has come up with the brilliant plan of paying everyone all
their benefits in one monthly payment ( JSA, ESA, Housing and Council tax, Child tax credits, Working
family tax credits and Child benefit.) that is one large lump sum of money. You
the individual will be responsible for paying all of you bills off of that
payment, to budget for the whole month. Am I the only one who sees the problem
here? <o:p></o:p></div>
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The problem I foresee is this: Many people are already set
in a routine for paying bills and have worked out the finances accordingly, but
what of those people, ( elderly and mentally disable) who rely heavily on the
week to week routine, the distress it will cause, when that person has to
adjust to a new budget. There are people who are sitting on the breadline each
month, with more bills than they can afford, that have worked extremely hard to
find a balance. Will the bank, of the
utility companies, rent office allow for a grace period? NO they will continue to work on business as
usual, which means for the first couple of month, most people with be getting
hit with Bank charges, late payment fines and the like. This is of course, if you are a hard working
individual, who will plan and prepare for the changeover. <o:p></o:p></div>
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But what of those who are unable or unwilling to take this
new responsibility on. I mean no offence
of course, but Do you really think a drug addict or alcoholic (recovering or
not) will be able to resisting the opportunity to spend a little extra to feed
their habit. I would like to think they would, with support of agencies involved in their care, But what of those not
one knows about? those who haven't come
forward.<o:p></o:p></div>
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In closing, I feel like we need to be asking more questions
about this Universal credit payment scheme, and looking closely at those who
are already struggling financially.<o:p></o:p></div>
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IS this really the best plan for allowing us the people some
independence, to feel like we are in control of our lives. <o:p></o:p></div>
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OR are we going to be hearing report of riotous behaviour,
overdoses and a higher police present required handling the overflow from the
pubs and clubs each weekend? <o:p></o:p></div>
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Only time will tell, but I believe that this new payment
scheme will only bring more trouble, and a larger debt to the country for a
long time after it has started. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Find out more about the Universal credit payment here:
https://www.gov.uk/universal-credit<o:p></o:p></div>
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NEXT TIME: Education standards.<o:p></o:p></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02497342676594489549noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1769376740928908034.post-44827454223921387912013-06-01T19:49:00.001+01:002013-06-01T19:49:20.993+01:00The badger cull - the lesser of two evils (and what protesters are ignoring)Well once again we are flocked by celebrities jumping on the band wagons of eco-protesting. The badger cull is the newest designer campaign this summer, and has seen two of my personal favourite celebrities of all time joining in - Dame Judi Drench, and Brian May.<br />
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Badgers sadly carry TB which is a nasty disease responsible for 20-40% of natural loss in cattle due to disease - costing hundreds of millions of lost profits to farmers across the country. The disease also has the potential of spreading to humans, although due to strict controls and sanitation of live-stock with the numbers of cases reporting in humans increasing steadily.<br />
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I am not a fan of the need to kill animals senselessly; I love animals, and as someone who regularly enjoys natural surrounding - living in a small town surrounded by country parks, burns and vast hill landscapes - it brings me no great pleasure in siding with the government when I say that the cull is the lesser of two evils.<br />
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I am not one to list my opinions in separate sections, however for this article I am going to break with tradition as it is needed to convey the separate reasons for my support of the government's decision.<br />
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So, here we go...<br />
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<b>5. The Government has already attempted vaccination, and it failed to be effective</b></h3>
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In 2009, DEFRA (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) attempted to vaccinate badgers in England and Wales however the process of capturing badgers across 150sqkm of rural wild lands proved to be ineffective in preventing the spread of the disease. The vaccinate was effective only on those badgers who were not infected prior to capture. </div>
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The vaccination proved to be so ineffective and so expensive that the benefits of attempts to vaccinate were outweighed by lack of results.</div>
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Under European Commerce Law, cattle cannot be vaccinated against TB due to the regulations and standards of transferable produce. This isn't a law we created, and farmers need to follow in-order for much of their produce to be sold in Europe. It's not a law that was created by our government; it serves a purpose of disease control and isolating stock from circulation that may put to threat the entire beef markets of Europe. </div>
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Imagine how difficult it is to vaccinate the human race against disease -- we are far more controllable than animals; many of us willingly choose to be vaccinated, yet disease still spreads due to those who do not. Multiple that problem on a much grander scale and you have the badger situation: if 1/20 badgers were vaccinated, that would leave 19 potential carriers for the disease roaming around with potential to infect cattle. </div>
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The alternatives to the cull were tried, tested and mothballed because they simply failed to be any use. </div>
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4. Badgers aren't endangered and have very few natural predators</h3>
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Badger populations have skyrocketed post the 1992 protection act; the ban on badger baiting, hunting and killing has resulting in their numbers to burst. Badgers have an abundant source of food which is primarily Earth worms and small insects, none of which are in short supply in the UK.</div>
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Many see the cull as endangering the badger population of the UK. It must be pointed out that the entirety of the culling will be controlled and monitored. Many have an image of farmers being granted the ability to declare Jihad on their black and white furry rivals but it simply isn't the case. </div>
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DEFRA has placed strict regulations on who can and cannot be pro-active in the culling process; they are not wishing to kill of the species, rather they are reducing the total population in specific areas where cattle farms are dense in small areas. </div>
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To put it lightly, the information being handed out of cute and fluffy animals with bullet holes in their face is misleading. </div>
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Badgers run the risk in England of overpopulation - their natural predators are dying out; foxes, birds of prey and more aggressive mammals are seeing their numbers plummet with the result imposing more territorial themed escalation of badger on badger violence. </div>
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3. The celebrities have done nothing for the hundreds of other endangered species </h3>
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Look at this list: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_endangered_species_of_the_British_Isles">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_endangered_species_of_the_British_Isles</a></div>
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That's a lot of animals!</div>
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It's a cheap shot but where are these animals and their supporters? I understand that the GROUPS (such as the RSPCA and Wildlife Conservation Society) are involved in amazing work to preserve the populations of many endangered species, however where are the celebrities?</div>
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Well, the simple fact is, and I tell you this from experience of campaign trails, celebrities will only join a cause if it is beneficial to their public image. Let's be harsh - when was the most recent genuinely profound appearance of these celebrities that was not in a campaign leaflet? Brian May had the Olympics. That's it. </div>
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Many people are idiots and will instantly feel disgust in the killing of this: </div>
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As opposed to this:</div>
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The latter is substantially more important to our ecosystem than the former but has a distinct lack of any cuteness. I some of the eco-warriors reading this have killed ants (or insects as a rule of thumb) in the past. Well done eco-warriors, you're killed the most important biological aspect of our ecosystem. </div>
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2. The badgers will have a quicker death than in the wild</h3>
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Nature's sort of a dick. Outside of human and domestic animal lifestyles, you are tossed into a war zone where ever single day is an uphill effort to stay alive, find enough food and pass on your genes. </div>
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Now what's worse - a badger being shot in the head or a fox ripping it limb from limb while it's still alive?</div>
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I'm going to get the argument that there is a natural way of life and death, and that what we do isn't part of it. Guess what, we're natural - we are animals - and everything we create is natural. We create tools, which is natural to many animals, the only difference is that we have made them increasingly more sophisticated. </div>
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Be happy for the badger: it's being finished off quickly. Rarely in nature do animals reach older ages. </div>
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1. TB is driving up food prices</h3>
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As stated, TB is costing the farming industry hundreds of millions of profit a year. Think for a moment what that must do to the average price of a side of beef. </div>
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I break the standard accepted morals when I say very clearly that killing an insignificant number of badgers will lose me no sleep if it reduces the cost of living in this country. My species comes first; my people come first. Disease and lost livestock is estimated by DEFRA to add 15% to shelf price of beef; not all of that is to blame on TB, there are other factors although when you compare those to the crashing effects of TB, then frankly I support the cull. </div>
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I can envision the hate I will get for showing these points but...I don't really care if I'm being honest. The badger cull protests are a fad, a pointless moral distraction for those who like cute fluffy animals. </div>
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Here's an idea for those people - how about instead of trying to protect a species that wont be endangered by this cull, you concentrate on the millions of people who die every week due to hunger? Or perhaps those celebrities could fight against the culling of people in this country brought on by austerity?</div>
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So have your fad and shove it.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02497342676594489549noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1769376740928908034.post-77818711387130549642013-05-31T09:40:00.002+01:002013-05-31T09:42:34.780+01:00My Welfare is a right, not a privilege <h4>
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Welfare - the cushion to a hard fall; the system designed to protect the quality of life for those who, due to whatever reason, become unemployed or ill. It's creation was a direct result of the Liberal reforms in the early 20th century and began with the Old-Age Pensions act which ensured that those too old to work were able to be secure in income after retirement; national insurance, school meals, sick pay and benefits were all introduced within twenty years of 1910 in some form or another.<br />
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The reason we have a welfare system is due to the World Wars where soldiers would return from fighting fascism and cruel overlords, only to find they themselves were ruled by the very same type of person they were ordered to kill. They were tired of being sent to the field while politicians sat neatly in their leather chairs and enjoyed the finer things in life - their sense of disgust at the inequality and unimaginable divide of society formed the labour unions and universal suffrage.<br />
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The government also saw value in ensuring that their work force was kept to a high standard of health: a sick workforce is a less productive workforce, and a less productive workforce produces ineffective profits. It was of mutual benefit to both sides and fast forward to today we face the exact same situation that they faced: a government who entitles itself to the finer things in life while the workforce slave away their life and soul to try and make a livable standard for themselves and their families.<br />
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Welfare is our morality as a nation, it's how we wish to treat one another; pick one another up when we fall and support people to realize their ambitions and fight their hard times. It's our moral instinct that we do not believe someone should be left to rot because they are ill and cannot work. We do not base the value of a person on the shoes they can produce or the gears they can oil, we base it on the fact that human life is precious and deserves nurturing We hope that the contributions we make go to our children to help their road in life, or our parents so that they can enjoy their few years of relaxation before death.<br />
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I don't think the Conservative government understands that its our money - we paid into it for ourselves - and it should be our choices where taxation and national insurance are spent.<br />
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We struggle each and every day while those who who cause this mess live the life of pleasure. The working class are suffering for this more than the bankers.<br />
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Welfare is an entitlement because we are not handed it for nothing; we, our parents, and our children have, do and will all pay into the system so that no one is left behind to rot, despite what the Conservatives may wish. It's our right to access it, for it's OUR savings which we give the government to keep safe. It's not the play thing for politicians to decide how to waste.<br />
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I turn 20 this year and already I am losing my faith for a secure future. Ever single day I wake up and wish I hadn't; I wake up and think that I must be still asleep and dreaming of a George Orwell book. Alas no, this is very much real and we must defend ourselves against the slaughtering dogs in Parliament.<br />
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If we don't fight, if we allow ourselves to fall silent, then they have already won, and they will use their victory over you to embody your blood into nothing more than a machine; a play thing for their amusement.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02497342676594489549noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1769376740928908034.post-24204546033550530762013-05-30T11:05:00.001+01:002013-05-30T11:10:44.387+01:00I can't wait to go to hellAs an Atheist, I am reminded constantly that my lack of faith in the flying spaghetti monster will lead to my inevitable one way trip to hell. When I walk through my native city of Glasgow, there are preachers who hand out leaflets that are a reminder of each and every sin I have committed. The more and more I read these leaflets, the more and more I am quite frankly looking forward to hell.<br />
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You're telling me that I can have sex before marriage, listen to heavy metal and enjoy life and then go to a place that is full of like minded individuals who are willing to create the largest orgy on record while some AC/DC and Steel Panther plays in the distance? I may actually start believing in religion if that is to be my eventual outcome.<br />
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Silly isn't it? According to right-leaning religious creeds, every little sin will be accounted for and tolled against me by St. Peter or Nicholas (I lose track of who does what), to which I will then be cast into a tropical paradise full of rockers, beautiful women and Charlie Sheen? I call that winning.<br />
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It strikes as strange that no religion or denomination can agree on what exactly hell looks like; I would expect that if God were all powerful then, at the very least, he would leave perhaps a picture on Tumblr showing the real hell. Unfortunately, no such luck. Despite looking through the tag 'hell' in Tumblr, all I was able to source were pictures of broken IPhones, bad hair days, insecure tweens and memes. Is God sending us a message to indicate that hell is essentially going to look like a modern day remake of Saved by the Bell?<br />
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As an Atheist, it comes to thought that perhaps the reason that hell is so sporadic in its description is perhaps the bible is being viewed as any other piece of fiction -- inside the reader's mind. Hell is no more of a worry to me than stepping in the rear left overs of a dog; that is to say that it isn't really a worry: I simply wipe it from my mind as I would wipe the brown from my shoe. Religion has often used the fear element to meet its quote of follows, and while I respect their right to base convictions and morals off of a 1600 year old book that has been rewritten twenty times, I would like to be left alone without having to be told that I am a bad person for embracing the beauty of a pseudo-secular society. Religion only becomes a problem when it forces ideals onto those who do not wish to follow them -- sort of like the right winged political parties. </div>
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I stated that I respect their right to their religion, and I do, however that wont stop me from tearing it into several million small chunks. Let's start off by finding several contradictions:</div>
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<i style="font-size: 16px;">"So they sent twelve thousand warriors to Jabesh-gilead with orders to kill everyone there, including women and children. "This is what you are to do," they said. "Completely destroy all the males and every woman who is not a virgin." Among the residents of Jabesh-gilead they found four hundred young virgins who had never slept with a man, and they brought them to the camp at Shiloh in the land of Canaan." </i><span style="font-size: 16px;">Judges 21:10-24 NLT</span></h3>
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Wait. So it's alright to have sex before (or commit adultery) marriage so long as you murder innocent dwellers and force your self upon the women and rape them? This isn't a part of the bible where they show the brutality of worshipers of 'false Gods', this is literally the depiction of Christian warriors, and even worse, after they rape those virgins, they need more:<br />
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<i style="font-size: 16px;">Then they thought of the annual festival of the LORD held in Shiloh, between Lebonah and Bethel, along the east side of the road that goes from Bethel to Shechem. They told the men of Benjamin who still needed wives, "Go and hide in the vineyards. When the women of Shiloh come out for their dances, rush out from the vineyards, and each of you can take one of them home to be your wife! And when their fathers and brothers come to us in protest, we will tell them, 'Please be understanding. Let them have your daughters, for we didn't find enough wives for them when we destroyed Jabesh-gilead. </i><span style="font-size: 16px;">Judges 21:10-24 NLT</span></h3>
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<i style="font-size: 16px;">Chastised a little, they shall be greatly blessed, because God tried them and found them worthy of himself. <b>As gold in the furnace, he proved them, and as sacrificial offerings he took them to himself.</b> In the time of their visitation they shall shine, and shall dart about as sparks through stubble. </i><span style="font-size: 16px;">Wisdom 3:5-7 NAB - The Book of The Wisdom of Solomon</span></h3>
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Above is one of those passages from the Bible where even the Christians went 'wooooah not cool bro!' and excluded it, with exception to the Roman Catholic Church which saw it fit to include verses of human sacrifice by fire to God. This is what I mean about inconsistencies; seriously, go look through the New Testament - IT'S NOT THERE. I read through the Methodist, Church of Scotland and Baptist editions and I couldn't find it!</div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px;"> </span><i style="font-size: 16px;">Anyone arrogant enough to reject the verdict of the judge or of the priest who represents the LORD your God must be put to death. Such evil must be purged from Israel. </i><span style="font-size: 16px;">Deuteronomy 17:12 NLT</span></h3>
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<i style="font-size: 16px;"><br /></i><i style="font-size: 16px;">If a man lies with a male as with a women, both of them shall be put to death for their abominable deed; they have forfeited their lives."</i><span style="font-size: 16px;"> Leviticus 20:13 NAB</span></h3>
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<span style="font-size: 16px;"><br /></span><i style="font-size: 16px;">Whoever strikes his father or mother shall be put to death. </i><span style="font-size: 16px;">Exodus 21:15 NAB</span></h3>
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<span style="font-size: 16px;"><br /></span><i style="font-size: 16px;">From there Elisha went up to Bethel. While he was on his way, some small boys came out of the city and jeered at him. "Go up baldhead," they shouted, "go up baldhead!" The prophet turned and saw them, and he cursed them in the name of the Lord. Then two shebears came out of the woods and tore forty two of the children to pieces. </i><span style="font-size: 16px;">2 Kings 2:23-24 NAB</span></h3>
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<li>It's not alright for me to have sex before marriage - unless I rape an entire village full of virgins?</li>
<li>I can burn people alive as a birthday gift to God?</li>
<li>I can murder children is their cheeky</li>
<li>If I flip a Priest off for taking the last Subway cookie, I'll be put to death?</li>
<li>I should murder the children and rape the wives of any man who beats me on Call of Duty?</li>
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Okay religion...you just...stay cool, mkay?</div>
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I have so many quotes and not nearly enough time in the world to go through them all. From what I understand of the bible, Atheists and Christians will be going to hell in equal quantities simply for farting. </div>
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So to all my fellow Atheists out there, save me a VIP badge to the Motorhead and Anthrax gigs in hell; make sure that there's a chilled bottle of Jack Daniels, and try to find some curvy punkrockers for me to spend the night with.</div>
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I'm the Young Political Radical. Stay opinionated, and stay beautiful!</div>
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