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The Young And The Idealistic - On Campus With Jonathan Fantini Porter
- By: Caitlin J. Noris
- Published: 2007-03-02
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- Views: 815
The pen, they say, is mightier than the sword. Jonathan Fantini owes his very existence to a well-written letter. More ...
Iran – The Unwinable War, with Unachievable Aims and Unbelievable Consequences
- By: Stephen Morgan
- Published: 2007-03-02
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- Views: 129
Despite all the contradictory messages and attempts to throw dust in the eyes of the public, it is likely that the US has decided, together with Israel, to launch a "pre-emptive" attack on Iranian nuclear facilities. There is only a short windo More ...
Elections by Random Lottery? A Polemic for "Sortition"
- By: Ugur Akinci
- Published: 2007-03-01
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- Views: 731
In a true democracy where the Parliament truly (that is, in a "statistically correct" manner) represents the people, shouldn't the elections be carried out by random lottery? More ...
National Archives Needs to Embed RFID Tags in Ink - Politics
- By: Unknow
- Published: 2007-02-28
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- Views: 71
Perhaps we should have printers with ink which has metallic properties which would simulate RFID Tags in pages scattered throughout the reports and papers of secret documents, then if one decides to do something unethical to steal the paper work then More ...
Budget 2007 - My Stupid View
- By: Varughese Rajan
- Published: 2007-02-28
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- Views: 838
How good was the Budget-2007 presented yesterday by Mr. P Chidambaram? This was the question that was running all over the place yesterday. The final verdict came down to a great Thumbs Down to the Finance Minister. The main reason for these thumbs d More ...
Iran – The Unwinnable War, with Unachievable Aims and Unbelievable Consequences
- By: Stephen John Morgan
- Published: 2007-02-28
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- Views: 167
Writing about the US becomes more like Alice in Wonderland everyday. Everything is topsy-turvy and nothing follows the usual laws of international relations any more. The world's greatest unipolar superpower is now powerless. It has now become a vict More ...
New Early Warning System Uses Artificial Intelligence
- By: Rudolph Rodriguez
- Published: 2007-02-27
- Categ:[Current Affairs]
- Views: 465
Rather than risk more human lives in the ongoing war against terrorism, advances in computer technology are enabling contractors to create remote-controlled machines to do reconnaissance and risk management. More ...
Current Affairs Government Iraq / Middle East The Big Picture
- By: PETER CEDERHOLM
- Published: 2007-02-27
- Categ:[Current Affairs]
- Views: 496
A good friend of mine lives in Dubai. He explained that, even today, no arab school -not even in Jordan or Egypt- teaches that Israel is a country. They all refuse to even reckognize it. More ...
Fear of Government Survey Said!
- By: Lance Winslow
- Published: 2007-02-26
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- Views: 87
The votes were flooding in more and more each day to the online think tank survey, as you might have guessed Global Warming and Al Qaeda were both big on the chart. But looking through the data we saw more and more fears such as; Fear of Government; More ...
The Trouble With Power
- By: Arleen Kaptur
- Published: 2007-02-25
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- Views: 856
Power is by itself a very powerful word. In fact, in many advertisements, using "power" gives the reader the feeling that this product will do things that are not capable of being accomplished by ordinary means. There are power this, and power that. More ...