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14 years ago @ Heresy Corner - Defending Obscenity · 1 reply · 0 points

So fisting is now more acceptable than the utterance of certain words that lead to various "-ism" prosecutions. The rule of law is as prone as ever to high horses and the fashions of the chattering classes.

14 years ago @ The World's First... - Blogoir: Freedom of th... · 0 replies · +1 points

The "freedom of the press" is under attack in the realm of the internet, where individual bloggers are not treated the same way as employed writers. This was shown in a recent libel case in America (although the losing blogger did appear to have a screw loose but did have the basis to start a proper investigative report).

As for mainstream media holding establishment figures to account as in this https://www.judicialwatch.org/corrupt-politicians...
I cannot see MSM in the US touching it as the media owners are the buddies of the establishment.
A similar list in the UK would land the author in court with at best a super injunction, at worst a hefty libel penalty.

14 years ago @ Heresy Corner - Why bankers used to be... · 0 replies · +4 points

I have never understood why so many believe that we have to have a deity to enable us to treat others as they should be.

"Do as you would be done by" is all that is needed. It covers the ten commandments and pretty much all else that one needs in morality and ethics.

There will always be those that ignore real personal responsibility to other individuals and their society. Religion is but one way that people are coerced away from selfishness.

Agnostics and raging atheists can easily be good members of society.

14 years ago @ Heresy Corner - Charlie Hebdo · 0 replies · +10 points

....there will be no intellectual progress

Surely intellectual progress is precisely what the Islamic extremists are out to prevent?

14 years ago @ The World's First... - Blogoir: Down with Bur... · 0 replies · +1 points

Making squatting in residential buildings a criminal offence

This will be the raison d'être, commercial interests being given protection when they leave parts of their property portfolios vacant. This government only acts for the benefit of business interests, as did the last. This would perhaps be fine as long as there was balancing legislation to prevent residential property being left vacant, possibly bringing down rents (an aim in the changes to housing benefit). There would have to be joined up thought with other ministries to achieve this so it seems unlikely! What we do not need is any unforeseen circumstances such as resulted in the large scale demolition of vacant industrial and commercial properties following a change in the business rates rules.

The supposed changes regarding householders and their rights against intruders is just a worthless sop to the Daily Mail so they can make the changes appear to be for the common man.

14 years ago @ The World's First... - Blogoir: Pseudo-Google... · 0 replies · +1 points

It always amazes me that some people fall for this type of scam. As you point out the construction is atrocious, but then having employed people over the last twenty years I suggest that anyone now under thirty (including graduates) has trouble writing a correctly constructed sentence.

Would anyone give this information to a doorstep caller, or in reply to a postal letter?

There will always be fools, and therefore always be those that will take advantage of them.

14 years ago @ The World's First... - Blogoir: The EU/US Soc... · 0 replies · +1 points

The. Money. Is. No. Longer. There.

It never was there. That is the point. Predicated on growth that cannot be predicted and should in fact never have been expected. The trouble is that it was also the corporate financial institutions that built their own business model on the assumption of growth (or was it the assumption of government bailout?).

In fact the whole capitalist structure requires growth to service interest, and why not when things are going well?

Our corporatist state structures have, through subsidy, bailouts and bad regulation, distorted the capitalist system and themselves brought about the disfunction we see now. It is very blinkered and simplistic to see this as a left wing / socialist problem alone.

The private pension providers have been equally as bad when it comes to pretty lies as have the public sector pension schemes.

14 years ago @ The World's First... - Blogoir: Waste Not, Wa... · 0 replies · 0 points

Anyone who feels able to throw away food has too much money. Why buy that tomato if it is destined for the bin, recycle or not?

14 years ago @ The World's First... - Blogoir: The European ... · 0 replies · +1 points

the collective determination of the main British political parties to deny the British public a say on these momentous matters looks out of touch, if not oppressive.

Who will sponsor a UN resolution to protect UK civilians during the revolution?

14 years ago @ The World's First... - Blogoir: Eurozone Cris... · 0 replies · +1 points

As usual, what did the Romans ever do for us....

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