Apologetics
The Jury System: A dozen ways the legal system courts disaster
January 26, 2014 Mary Thompson Is it really wise to allow ordinary people to be such a powerful force in our justice system? Illustration: Jim Pavlidis. When you have a complex and demanding task to be done, you’d be asking for trouble if you just went out and hauled in the first person you met […]
Israel: legality of settlements???
Bishop’s troubling stance on legality of Israeli settlements January 18, 2014 Obstacle: Pisgat Zeev, a settlement in occupied east Jerusalem, is protected by Israel’s separation barrier. Photo: Reuters “I would like to see which international law has declared [Israeli settlements] illegal,” Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said last Tuesday. Her statement regarding the settlements in the occupied […]
Legalising marijuana ?
Legalising marijuana creates big problems in preventing teen access January 18, 2014 Jen Vuk CNN’s chief medical correspondent, Sanjay Gupta. Photo: AP For someone so opposed to the legalising of cannabis, it must have come as a surprise to neurosurgeon and chief CNN medical correspondent Sanjay Gupta to find himself not only embracing the drug’s medical […]
Porn’s influence is real. Sex education is the answer
Online sexual fantasies are blurring into reality – young people need another narrative showing what a healthy relationship looks like  Tuesday 28 January 2014 ‘At the moment, the only place young people can easily learn about sex is on the internet.’ Photograph: Martyn Vickery / Alamy/Alamy Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett Tomorrow, the House of Lords will […]
Marlboro ad man Eric Lawson dies of chronic lung disease
Actor who appeared in cigarette campaign in late 1970s is third Marlboro cowboy to succumb to smoking-related illness Top lessons from 50 years of fighting the tobacco industry  Monday 27 January 2014 Eric Lawson appeared in the Marlboro ads from 1978 to 1981. Photograph: Paul Morse/Associated Press Eric Lawson, who portrayed the rugged Marlboro man […]
Indigenous people are told to ‘get over it’. It’s impossible
Australia Day: Indigenous people are told to ‘get over it’. “It’s impossible” vs ‘We must forgive”… When Aboriginal people boycott celebrations, we are told to move on. It’s like the breathtaking legacy of disadvantage we have to endure did not exist  Monday 27 January 2014 Children carrying the Australian Aboriginal Flag in Brisbane on Australia […]
Advance Australia fair? Maybe not
Advance Australia fair? Maybe not January 27, 2014 Clancy Yeates Banking reporter Illustration: Michael Mucci. Lots of national myths get bandied about on Australia Day, and a common one is that we are a fairly classless society. Unlike capitalistic Americans or stuffy Brits, many of us like to think the gap between the haves and […]
Australia Day: Is Australia a “nation of idiots”?
by Nils von Kalm http://soulthoughts.com As we come to another Australia Day and thank God for the public holiday, I think it would do us well to have a read of a couple of very good articles decrying the fact that we generally live in a nation of self-centred idiots. Writing in the Sydney Morning […]
Bhutan: Putting People before Profit
The Happiness Index Putting people before profit in Bhutan BY GRETCHEN LEGLER Published in the January/February 2014 issue of Orion magazine FROM THE FORESTED HILLSIDE above us, a bulldozer sends giant rocks and tree limbs sailing down onto the hundreds-of-years-old footpath leading us from the Paro Valley floor to Dra Lhakhang, a cliffside temple where the six of us […]
Bill Gates predicts almost no poor countries left by 2035
Bill Gates predicts almost no poor countries left by 2035 in annual letter By Ashley Hall Updated 49 minutes ago PHOTO: Former Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates predicts there will be almost no poor countries by 2035. (Rick Wilking: Reuters)  Billionaire software baron Bill Gates has made the bold prediction that there will be almost no poor countries left […]
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