Coffee: how "fairtrade" isn't actually that fair
Sun, 12 Mar 2006 12:58:42 GMT
This URL goes to an excellent article from the Globalisation Institute.
The article analyses how "fair trade" is actually a form of
protectionism, with the effect of exacerbating the poverty of those it
pertains to help!
http://www.thebusinessonline.com/Stories.aspx?Why%20%E2%80%98fair%E2%80%9
9%20trade% ...
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Education: how socialists despise children
Sun, 12 Mar 2006 12:58:42 GMT
A paragraph from the Sunday Business's opinion:
"The dismal extent to which Labour is still in the real
a??Clause IVa?? dark ages on education is illustrated by the
fact (discovered by Reform, a centrist think-tank) that, of the
91 Labour MPs most opposed to even modest change ...
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M. Willett's Comrade Sheep Believed This!
Tue, 7 Mar 2006 16:09:19 -0600
MARTIN WILLETT'S FOLLOWERS TOOK THIS SPOOF SERIOUSLY! GET READY TO LAUGH!
"It's great as America gets bigger and better ever year as we hit the 300
million mark. As America continues its never-ending ascendancy and continues
to be the biggest most powerful country on earth, especially with our 50,000
nuclear ...
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slavery or freedom
Tue, 07 Mar 2006 12:09:31 -0900
Given that the love of money is the root for all evil, is the love of
money as an economic engine of growth a good thing or a bad thing?
Given that debt limits growth, is a debt based economic system a good
thing or a bad thing?
Given that money is printed out of thin air by central banks in order to
con ...
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Is Welfare Part of Capitalism?
3 Mar 2006 06:04:20 -0800
This article is dedicated to:
A man I met, with most of his body heavily burned, simply because he
was a Chinese during the 1998 May Riot in Indonesia.
Lots of capitalists that are slaughtered during the cultural evolution.
Ten thousands of peaceful smugglers that are massacred in Banda island
by the Dutch fo ...
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Conservatism-Liberalism-Socialism
28 Feb 2006 10:36:59 -0800
Can we still seperate parties and politicians into the trias of
Conservatism-Liberalism-Socialism?
Is it not the case that politicians nowadays neglect the ideological
frameworks of their parties and hence become (realpolitik) pragmatists?
has not the dominance of the economic shifted the scope of politicians
t ...
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Noticing The Unnoticed - Part 2
14 Feb 2006 09:23:41 -0800
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POLITICAL ESSAYS
Noticing The Unnoticed - Part 2
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Friday, January 13, 2006
The Intelligencer [1]
BB&T Charitable Foundation
Donates $700,000 to WJU
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"The BB&T Charitable Foundation
is a private foundation created
by the BB&T Corp."
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WJU?
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Wheeling Jesuit Univ ...
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Plunder in Iraq - mp3s and video
Sat, 11 Feb 2006 14:07:11 GMT
Plunder in Iraq: Corporate Crime in Iraq - mp3s and video clips
Manchester, UK. 31st January 2006. A public event takes place on corporate
crime in Iraq--a subject that has been neglected by much of the Western
media. The event is organised by Manchester Stop the War Coalition and
Greater Manchester Campaign f ...
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God save our hero's and bless the kids in the sand, please?
Sat, 4 Feb 2006 23:17:44 -0500
Hello cool Yanks and Brits;
I really don't care about politics, I care about the folks politicians kill
to further their goals.
I care about the crying moms and sisters left asking why?
I care that the greatest country on earth is getting a black eye, looking
for cheap oil.
The American people are so freakin ...
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Replace council tax with property levy
Tue, 31 Jan 2006 02:40:53 GMT
Replace council tax with 1% property levy - NIESR
Ashley Seager
Guardian
Friday January 27, 2006
The government should scrap council tax and replace it with a 1% tax on
the value of property, a leading thinktank proposes. Releasing its
latest quarterly economic forecasts, the National Institute of Economic
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