As part of the checks before approving a request for membership I check the requester's journal and user info, this has been noted on the community info page since this community was set up.  The purpose of this is to reduce the chance of a spammer joining and posting to the community ( Read more... )

Michael Gove has announced plans to privatize local government children protection services, basically hand it over to companies like G4S, Serco etc.

The DfE are putting this out to public consultation.

Item: The great scapegoating of the poor and needy which is happening in Britain today bears many similarities to the ancient Greek ritual of pharmakos, a form of human sacrifice performed at times of great crisis in which a poor or disabled person was exiled or murdered by the entire community ( Read more... )

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The forthcoming election of president in Russia scheduled for March 4, 2012 is already illegitimate. Why? Candidates from parliamentary parties and self-nominee candidates are set in unequal conditions in violation of Constitution. If you are a self-nominee you are to collect 2 million signatures of votes in you support, in......20 days! That is ( Read more... )

Why do you think it is so hard to burst into to the ranks of elite? You may think they guard so hard the purity of their family bloodlines only out of the idea of preserving the status of their ancestors. It already became a tradition over the centuries. Does it mean people outside of their status are not considered worthy anymore? It all has much ( Read more... )

Ten years ago I had just finished an MBA at what is usually ranked the best business school in Europe.  While we were studying there was the dotcom boom and bust, so we did carefully consider the nature of capitalism and its foibles.  Lecturers with much more experience than me pronounced that (beyond complying with the law) the only duty of a ( Read more... )

Note: The truth is the last thing anyone wants to hear. I'm expecting to get abuse for this, if certain people end up reading it.The march 26th demonstration was... interesting: Very dull, very boring but very neccesary. There was a desperate, depressed atmosphere in the crowd. They were led along, often corralling themselves behind arbitrary ( Read more... )

Moronic drug policy to increase drug use and crime shocker!

The most under apprecieted thing that Labour did was their work on drugs. Remember how smackheads used to roam around stealing everything that wasn't nailed down? Remember how that stopped in a lot of areas? Well, the fact that working class people can have nice things without getting them ( Read more... )

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It's one hour long. Hmmm, I can see why they call him "Red Ed" now. Still, he's nowhere near Fidel Castro's seven hour record lols ( Read more... )