It looks a lot like the campaign for attacking Iraq in 2002 and we know where that ended up. Commentators are beginning to get on an 'attack Iran' bandwagon. It is becoming obvious that they won’t listen to diplomacy, will ignore incentives and that there will never be a big enough stick through ...
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Is there an exercisable feasible solution to the excessive biased voting using fake A/Cs problem?
The voting on this site; tends to be biased and we need people to actually read , judge and vote on debates rather than vote for their own teams or friends/relatives.
Two days ago I ran a voting ...
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"Roma issue can not be really solved by repatriation. Repatriation can be a transient solution. But the basic problem remains unsolved, and the approach is not the right one, and this is what, both the Romanian authorities and the EU Commission emphasized, once and again. The Roma's problem ...
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A recent study at the University of Michigan has shown that arguing is good for your health. Essentially having the argument is better than avoiding the confrontation. Avoiding the conflict more often lead to abnormal rates of Cortisol generation, causing more physical stress symptoms the next da...
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Currently those who are addicted to drugs or alcohol can claim benefits. The benefits they claim can vary from their housing benefits to job seekers allowance. The Home Office are considering proposals to withdraw these benefits from drug users who refuse treatment for their addiction. Is this th...
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Disasters can not be protected: natural disaster can not stop because of no scientist prove the evidence that can stop it and it happens without definite time and has too much power. For human ambitions and increasing of technology, it creates man made disaster.
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The national flag is the symbol of the nation. We all wave the national flag around at sporting events to support our national team or players. Burning flags is often done when people are expressing displeasure at that country’s policies or acts. In some countries such as the USA they pledge alle...
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The practice of homeschooling has essentially been around since the dawn of time. Parents and guardians have always took it upon themselves to teach the younger generation the knowledge that they have received through their many years of experience. But we live in a different world now, governmen...
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Violence against women is one of the most widespread human rights abuses affecting the world today. Every day, thousands of women and girls are abused and murdered by their families, raped in armed conflicts and attacked for defending woman's rights. [[http://www.amnesty.org.au/svaw/]] We must ta...
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The European Commission is the executive branch of the EU, and operates as the cabinet of the EU. Each member state appoints one commissioner, so there are 27 in total. As with many other branches of government, the commission is male dominated. Is this a problem? And is forcing gender balancing...
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Though still a highly taboo subject throughout many cultures, it is unfair and narrow minded to discriminate against, and prohibit, consenting adults from practising incest, just as it is unfair and narrow minded to discriminate against or prohibit those who practise homosexual relationships.
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Recent advances in digital media have highlighted inadequacies in intellectual property (IP) laws that were often written long before content was decoupled from physical vessels like books or CDs. An overzealous reaction from industry, coupled with America's litigious culture has demonstrated man...
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Every year Muslims donate 2.5% of their wealth/belongings to the poor and needy. This principle is known as Zakat and constitutes as one of the five pillars of Islam. It is the only tax imposed by Islamic law or the Islamic state.
It is obligatory for Muslims who are sane, free and own a certai...
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Vladimir Putin the former President of Russia who is now the Prime Minister has said that it will take decades to reform Russia and he wants to keep shaping this reform. "I only have two choices, either to watch from the bank how the waters are flowing away and how something is collapsing or...
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The current welfare system employed in the UK and other countries around the world disincentivizes hard work and makes it difficult to get off benefits without losing out. A negative income tax system would mean there is a sliding scale which is fair to the worst off, but doesn't penalise people ...
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With pension time bombs sprouting across liberal democracies and more and more pensioners being brought below the poverty line this house would privatize pensions. This proposition supports a gradual phasing out of government pensions to be accompanied with a regulatory framework to ensure fair c...
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It looks a lot like the campaign for attacking Iraq in 2002 and we know where that ended up. Commentators are beginning to get on an 'attack Iran' bandwagon. It is becoming obvious that they won’t listen to diplomacy, will ignore incentives and that there will never be a big enough stick through ...
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Many people who voted for the Liberal Democrats at this year's general election did so becuase they were impressed with how their leader, Nick Clegg performed in the TV debates. Voters were supportive of some of their policies such as scrapping tution fees. But, since the Liberal Democrats formed...
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We on team proposition like the taste of meat. But we cannot deny that excessive meat consumption is a threat to the planet.
In fact we are going to show that there is ample scientific evidence to support this fear. Meat production increases global warming, abuses the water supply and leads to a...
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As we get older we need less sleep, forcing teenagers at school to wake up for a long journey into school at the crack of dawn is counterproductive. They would do better starting school later to allow teens to sleep in and be properly awake when they start school.
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In the recent years we have seen a dramatic increase in the popularity of some extreme political views that are unacceptable in democratic society. This problem harms all democracies, but especially it is harmful for young and instable democratic states. The Baltic states have entered the route o...
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Recent advances in digital media have highlighted inadequacies in intellectual property (IP) laws that were often written long before content was decoupled from physical vessels like books or CDs. An overzealous reaction from industry, coupled with America's litigious culture has demonstrated man...
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WODC Round 1
Estonia vs Australia
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“Calling rose by another name does not change its beauty neither smell”… There are quite a few differences between the events in Germany on February 27, 1933, and in the US on September 11, 2001. Where do these fundamental differences arise from? From where else than from the importance of how we...
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In the beginning of the societies, people gave their trust in a group of person for the administration, organization, control and protection of the state. When Constitutions appears the social contract took life. This security breaks when one, or a group of person, try to destabilize the harmony ...
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Bangladesh is demanding 15% of any adaption fund even though they have not even decided on a fund yet. Qazi Kholiquzzaman Ahmad, a leading economist, and part of the Bangladesh climate negotiation team argued "We are not begging any mercy from anyone. Rather we want justice as the worst vict...
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Hostage taking media coverage, creates sympathy and dialogue for not only the hostages but the hostage-takers, who bring into light their political agenda and strife. They come out as victims/heroes and governments are portrayed as the bad guys who moved them to this 'desperate' criminal act. Gov...
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There isn't a day that goes by where we don't hear about tragedies around the world. Does this mean that a benevolent god is out of the question? The greatest physicists in recent history do NOT reject God.Stephen Hawking and Einstein both vocally and in literature expressed their ideas of a no...
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PSYCHOLOGY - SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY - ATTRIBUTION THEORY Attribution theory explains how the individual social perciever uses information to make causal explanations for events. That is to say, attribution theory is how we explain what happens around us. There is no grand unifying theory of attributio...
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A one off tax on energy suppliers is being proposed by some MP’s to offset the homes in Britain classified as in fuel poverty. Fuel costs have been rising steeply since 2005, but since the credit crunch, people are calling on the government to stop allowing big companies to charge ever escalating...
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Mr Brown has made the first major gaffe of the election. He called Gillian Duffy, a lifetime Labour supporter from Rochdale a 'bigoted woman' once he got into his car after chatting with her about immigration from Eastern Europe. Mr Brown still had a microphone on him that had not been turned off...
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The National Trust owns some highly valuable real estate. It also needs to raise money to ensure it can pay for all the conservation projects we demand it takes on. Isn't it right then that it should be able to sell some land to pay for this good work?
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The government has said that in certain circumstances, phone tapping should be used as evidence in court, especially for fraud or terrorist cases. Is this beneficial? Would it increase our ability to accurately prosecute criminals, or would it undermine our already questionable rights?
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The English rugby world was struck with a interesting bit of this week (23rd February 2009). Saracens, a premiership rugby team based in London is being taken over by a South African group, and before anyone had any time to react to that, fourteen of local English talent were told they are no lon...
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Britain is finally out of recession. However growth is not yet secure and there is the possibility that it may slip, exports rely upon the weak sterling that could change if the overall economy improves. The banks may be in a better financial position but carry on the same way they always did. Ov...
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The coalition of non-governmental organizations, including Amnesty International and the Open Society Institute, for the last 5 years is pushing for an EU-wide strategy on Roma, who continue to face strong discrimination in parts of Europe.
In a number of official communications to European Co...
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Labour’s campaign slogan is ‘a future fair for all’ but how fair are its promises? Will Britain really be fairer under Labour than either the Conservatives or Liberal Democrats?
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The Anglican Church has been in dispute over whether there should be Gay bishops for years. Particularly between the mainstream of Anglicanism and the US church. In 2003 Jeffery John was forced to withdraw from being appointed Bishop of Reading but now Archbishop Rowan Williams wants to appoint h...
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