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Welcome to Camp Ashcroft
It's not as fun as it sounds. And it doesn't sound fun. At all.
:: STARTED BY Regrettable Juvenilia
:: 3 REPLIES, LAST AT 21:49 23.08.02
Belarus Makes a Stand
The president of Belarus has made McDonald's restaurants against the law.
He has evicted the clown.
The clown, in turn, is suing the Belarus government.
:: STARTED BY grant
:: 12 REPLIES, LAST AT 19:06 23.08.02
Doing a Roman?
No summary available
:: STARTED BY NotBlue
:: 2 REPLIES, LAST AT 17:24 23.08.02
Confucianism
Confucianism: A useful philosophy for life in a corrupt state, or intellectually attractive fascism?
:: STARTED BY Perfect Tommy
:: 10 REPLIES, LAST AT 19:28 22.08.02
"Regime change", and "Is it easier to be idealistic in comfort?"
Discuss how does proximity to and emotional engagement with a political issue affect the opinions you form about it, particularly w/r/t the intended campaign in Iraq, and/or discuss your response to the views of the Iraqi expat described in the opening post.
:: STARTED BY lentil
:: 23 REPLIES, LAST AT 16:49 21.08.02
"Axis of Evil"
The ridiculousness of an article written to terrorize people away from any leftist-socialist sympathies. PLus, the lack of criticism from a journalist reader.
:: STARTED BY pacha perplexa
:: 9 REPLIES, LAST AT 15:24 21.08.02
Kicking ass (Kicking ass!) Kicking ass is whut we do...
Pro-Bombing Music; If you tolerate this, your children will be blown to shreds.
:: STARTED BY Our Lady of The Two Towers
:: 53 REPLIES, LAST AT 07:19 21.08.02
Russia Picks Up Where US Falls?
Russia moves to further relations with countries demonised by the US. Sensible move for them maybe, but what does it imply for future relations?
:: STARTED BY w1rebaby
:: 0 REPLIES, LAST AT 19:10 17.08.02
Selling Adult Comics To Adults Illegal
Texas comic shop owner given six months for selling adult comics to, er, an adult, in blatant moralistic censorship attempt.
:: STARTED BY w1rebaby
:: 5 REPLIES, LAST AT 23:01 16.08.02
Flagwaving, Flight 93 and Fervour
How much of the story we hear about Flight 93's passengers has been elaborated for that "patriotic feel-good" vibe?
:: STARTED BY STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
:: 8 REPLIES, LAST AT 12:34 16.08.02
CIA advocates... limits... on the freedom of the press.
A CIA official went on record (maybe) advocating sending SWAT teams after journalists who find and print classified information.
He may have a point. Then again, he may just be awfully frightening.
:: STARTED BY grant
:: 0 REPLIES, LAST AT 18:32 15.08.02
The United States is Still #1 in Arms Sales
USA sells lots of death-machines to unethical monsters. Yay!
:: STARTED BY Regrettable Juvenilia
:: 2 REPLIES, LAST AT 22:16 13.08.02
The Israel/Palestine situation, condensed
A young member the Israeli Defence Force expresses how he feels about a two state solution...
:: STARTED BY Regrettable Juvenilia
:: 0 REPLIES, LAST AT 19:33 13.08.02
Positive Abstention
The possibility of voting reform. Is it a Good Thing?
:: STARTED BY Shortfatdyke
:: 12 REPLIES, LAST AT 12:58 13.08.02
Implantable tracking devices: Now it's time to get scared
Big Brother shakes his hoary head, rubs his eye in the sky, and snarls.
:: STARTED BY XXII:X:II = XXX
:: 4 REPLIES, LAST AT 09:55 12.08.02
Contacting MPs in the UK
Now you have *no* excuse for not writing to 'em.
:: STARTED BY Naked Flame
:: 4 REPLIES, LAST AT 14:45 09.08.02
After Gurbux Singh - what's the future for the CRE?
The commission for racial equality - are it's days numbered? (How) should goverments intervene in racial discrimination? what are the implications for other forms of discrimination?
:: STARTED BY Goodness Gracious Meme
:: 4 REPLIES, LAST AT 11:59 09.08.02
The Memory Hole - keeping track of info likely to be lost
Link to a site preserving information that's little-known, hard to find or likely to be lost - and is potentially very significant.
:: STARTED BY w1rebaby
:: 2 REPLIES, LAST AT 09:08 09.08.02
The Right of Return
The Right of Return for Palestinians is, apparently, unthinkable and must be reserved for Israelis (and Peruvians...) 'Struth!
:: STARTED BY Mourne Kransky
:: 5 REPLIES, LAST AT 08:43 08.08.02
Freedom of Religion in the post-liberal democracies
Jumping off from the "driver's license" thread, what does "Freedom of Religion" mean in the U.S. (or any "democracy") anyway. Is the government obliged to take action to protect it, or is it a "negative" right.
:: STARTED BY Ethan Hawke
:: 0 REPLIES, LAST AT 12:39 07.08.02
Please tell me I imagined this... or did I miss something?
Was there a massacre at Jenin?
:: STARTED BY STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
:: 13 REPLIES, LAST AT 10:22 07.08.02
FBI wants to polygraph Congress
The FBI wants to give lie detector tests to members of congress on the intelligence committee and their staff to determine who leaked to the press information about the inability of US intelligence to promptly translate September tenth clues to the attacks last year.
:: STARTED BY Rev. Jesse
:: 11 REPLIES, LAST AT 10:14 07.08.02
Saudi Gov't Trying to Buy Pakistani Nukes
Saudi Arabia, the possibility of being nuclear armed. What to "do" about Saudi Arabia? What shoudl be the U.S., E.U. posture towards them?
:: STARTED BY Ethan Hawke
:: 4 REPLIES, LAST AT 19:40 06.08.02
Guerilla Marketing
Guerilla Marketing (a.k.a. Stealth Marketing): evil? disingenuous? a huge waste of money?
:: STARTED BY Margin Walker
:: 10 REPLIES, LAST AT 12:57 06.08.02
The United States of Oceania?
Are comparisons between the Bush administration and Orwell's 1984 dead-bang right or slightly exaggerated?
:: STARTED BY Hieronymus
:: 6 REPLIES, LAST AT 03:31 03.08.02
Mysterious Blobs
No summary available
:: STARTED BY Bill Posters
:: 1 REPLIES, LAST AT 15:08 02.08.02
Witches in Romania Use Magic to Fight Political Oppression
I wonder if they get reruns of Bewitched in Romania....
:: STARTED BY gridley
:: 1 REPLIES, LAST AT 21:07 01.08.02
The MP3 Party
The Mp3 party. Are they:
a>Mad
b>Bad
c>(reason to be) Glad
d> Lonely....
:: STARTED BY The Sinister Haiku Bureau
:: 9 REPLIES, LAST AT 13:10 01.08.02
We don't need no education!
School - Draconian as fuck or important for the future of society?
:: STARTED BY Panda
:: 13 REPLIES, LAST AT 16:46 30.07.02
Court rules 'Barbie Girl' can party on
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:: STARTED BY gridley
:: 17 REPLIES, LAST AT 06:04 30.07.02
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