The conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government have taken a review on the welfare payments offered to everyone. These benefits include the child allowance and winter fuel payments for pensioners. These benefits everyone can claim regardless of their income or wealth. However, given the cr...
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Tony Blair’s is expected to make millions from his memoirs, however he has decided that he is going to donate all the money he makes from them to the British legion who look after wounded soldiers. Many will think this is evidence of a guilty conscience in someone who has so far been unwilling to...
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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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Being unemployed is a situation none of us would like wind up in and when we find ourselves in it due to circumstances, we should get out of it as fast as possible. However, unemployed people who are receiving their unemployment benefits often forget that the role of the state transferred resourc...
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Children used to play outdoors all of the time, in parks, in the streets, practically anywhere but the house and no one was worried about them. But now we are ever more worried about children’s safety and technology came to the rescue of parents wanting to keep their children indoors so as to be ...
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At the end of Mother 3, Porky, the villain of the game, ends up trapped inside the Absolutely Safe Capsule, a device that keeps one 'Absolutely Safe' – from the outside world, for all eternity. As he was already immortal, he would be trapped indefinitely ...
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It was a surprise when Tony Abbott was elected leader of Australia’s Liberal party. Even more surprisingly following the collapse of support for ex-PM Kevin Rudd and his being booted in a coup by his own party Abbott’s Liberals are close on the heels of the Labour party despite Australia emerging...
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Ahmed Djoghlaf the secretary-general of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity says "We are losing biodiversity at an unprecedented rate. If current levels [of destruction] go on we will reach a tipping point very soon. The future of the planet now depends on governments taking action in ...
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This week was the 65th anniversary of the end of World War II in the Pacific. The Japanese Prime Minister read out an apology for Japan’s role in the War. However it is obvious that Japan’s neighbours do not regard statements by the prime minister of the day as enough. They argue that Japan has n...
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A billion dollars is a vast amount of money, many times more than is needed to live even a very luxurious lifestyle. Yet many of those who have it do not seem to inclined to give it away to those who are in much more need. Bill Gates and Warren Buffet have kicked off a philanthropy campaign which...
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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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In 2004 the excuse for not helping Earthquake victims in the Northwestern war-zone region of Pakistan was that most funds were being sent/delivered to Tsunami victims. Now according to Ban-Ki-Moon the floods in Pakistan are worst than the Tsunami. Yet funds are meager.
Could this be because at ...
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If it's the world's oldest profession, why is it illegal? Should sex be treated as a commodity or is it sacred?
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Banks are making big profits once again and the pressure is increasing to force them to lend more so that the rest of the economy can bounce back too. However it seems that while profits are going up lending is not. Many businesses need money lent to them if they are to be able to invest in order...
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An independent inquiry set up after it was found that the IPCC had exaggerated claims of the rate of melting Himalayan glaciers has said that although the findings are mostly sound “straying into advocacy can only hurt IPCC’s credibility”. However this seems to deny part of what the IPCC is there...
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Garry Small conducted some tests with experienced web surfers and novices on their brain activity. He scanned their brains while they were surfing the net. The experienced internet users there was much more brain activity in the prefrontal cortex. Having had the novice surfers spend an hour a day...
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Here we go again, another round of direct talks between the Israelis and the Palestinians. We have had them before and they never seem to get anywhere. But there always has to be some hope that this time there will be a breakthrough. Just like 'only Nixon could go to China' it is possible that on...
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Israel's major offensive at the beginning of 2009 has altered balance of relations in the Middle East. Reports that Israel have been blockading civilian encampments in Gaza before bombing them, indicate that Israel is more than happy to inflict civilian casualties in this latest development of th...
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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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Many people list the white tiger as their favourite animal, but are perhaps unaware of the appalling inbreeding the animals were put through to obtain their white coat. Can there be any justification for the suffering inflicted upon them?
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Team South Africa is over the moon to be proposing this most orgasmic of debate motions ;)
The context is clear: the world is barely emerging from a banking crisis that caused near-irreparable damage in countless local economies, and the international banking system more generally. The causes,...
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There are many types of drugs, which exist under the sun. Heated debates have been going on trying to find out the true answer to a major question: Does the legalization of drugs give positive or negative results? The common perception is that such substances should be banned in order to protect ...
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Any issue that concerns human life is an important one deserving of our attention and opportunities where the different perspectives may be heard. The question of Physician-Assisted Suicide (PAS) made legal by the government is a question of a citizen’s freedom to control when that citizen would ...
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Water is one of the essentials of life. Its management is needed first and foremost to provide drinking water. However there are many other uses which put strain on water supplies, particularly agriculture and industry. In most countries individuals are not able to simply collect their own from r...
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Western powers have been occupying Afghanistan since the invasion in 2001 and the escalating human, financial and political costs of the continued occupation far exceed any benefits, either to the West or to the Afghan people themselves. The time has come for the West to admit they cannot contin...
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By lowering the voting age we are more able to engage young people with politics and with the democratic process. This has major long term benefits for political engagement.
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Immunization by vaccine saves thousands of lives. The benefits are much greater if everyone is vaccinated than if not, therefore it is essential that as many people as possible are vaccinated. There should be as few obstacles as possible to such a program in order to save as many lives as possibl...
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The Debbie Purdy case in the United Kingdom shows a trend where assisted suicide is a notion that is becoming more common. Moreover, as modern medical technology advances, more people are given the opportunity to live longer than they wish, which results in unnecessary pain because they have no c...
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Britain ranks fourth among industrialised nations and attracts a large number of immigrants. London in particular has put other European capitals in the shade. Yet the construction of Heathrow's terminal 5, the loss of vital electronic data by the administration, the exploding housing bubble, the...
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Liam Byrne, the former Chief Secretary to the Treasury, left a letter to his successor that just said "I’m afraid to tell you there’s no money left.” Labour has left the economy in dire straits, the country has a large deficit and a growing national debt so there is certainly no money to spa...
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In a few ill judged remarks recently described blue-collar workers as "bitter" because they preferred to cling to God and Guns rather than reaching out for the help that the state offered. This is a electoral gaff that will cost him dearly, whether he wins Pennsylvania or not. Yet, he h...
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After graduating from the United States Naval Academy John McCain embarked upon what would become a distinguished 22-year career as a naval aviator. His naval honors include the Silver Star, Bronze Star, Legion of Merit, Purple Heart, and the Distinguished Flying Cross. He was elected to the Hous...
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At the end of the next-gen format war, we have one winner and thousands of customers with now-defunct players with little content to play on them. Having lost out to Sony's Blu-ray Disc, should Toshiba and its partners in the HD-DVD consortium compensate the early adopters who picked the wrong ho...
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While the language of the nation is English in order for many minorities some are not fluent enough in English to understand government information given out in English. So even if the numbers are very small they need to have information published in their language. Minority British languages su...
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Nowadays, cosmetic surgery has become more popular for modern people. Some people believe that it is a science to increase the beauty of a person. The basic aim of this surgery is to enhance the appearance of the individual that is done by altering the parts of the body. On the other hand, other ...
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Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic may be defending himself at the ICTY rather than taking on defence lawyers and may well have not had enough time to look through all the documents relating to his prosecution but he should have thought of that when deciding to defend himself. He was always goi...
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The killing of a Hamas chief in a Dubai hotel room by alleged Mossad agents travelling on counterfeited British passports of olim has led Gordon Brown to announce an inquiry by the Serious Organised Crime and Fraud Agency (Soca). The Hamas official had been wanted for the capture and murder of tw...
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