Posts by DexterX
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Hard News: Calling the race before it's over, in reply to Barnard,
Except there's nothing about how all this is going to appear to the general public.
It is an opinion - How it appears to the general public isn't always the same as how it is reported in the media.
To me, as an unqualified member of the public, looking at the range of news report the unison of opinion in favour of Shearer, and having particular regard to the reporter who badgered Cunny it looks to me like a "rat trap" was set.
It takes a serious rat to set a rat trap. So, for now, Shearer remains the Rat King.
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Hard News: Calling the race before it's over, in reply to BlairMacca,
Purrfect.
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Hard News: The Righteous Humour, in reply to Chris Waugh,
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Via Life Journal as posted on live journal via 'fizzyland".
After Obama Victory, Shrieking White-Hot Sphere Of Pure Rage Early GOP Front-Runner For 2016
http://www.theonion.com/video/after-obama-victory-shrieking-whitehot-sphere-of-p,30284/
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Hard News: Crossing the line into idle bigotry, in reply to Sacha,
Can we please put this 'do nothing' nonsense to bed now. It didn't persuade people at the last election, and it won't at the next.
You're correct - my criticism of the current lot is more that in relation to available options they did not do much good and much of what they did was badly executed.
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Hard News: Crossing the line into idle bigotry, in reply to Angus Robertson,
The good news from all this is that I believe, the actions of the extremists will tail off in about 2070 (when the oil runs out).
The problem with fundamentalists be it in relation to religious belief, monetary policy or economics is that in seeking a return to the basic “ideal’ the drive is often hijacked by self serving interests that ignore the present reality and a radical version is created; a radicalisation of the ideal is created that distorts the ideal to the degree that it no longer entirely represent the fundamental ideals.
The influence of radicalism can reverberate for decades – you can see it in NZ in the manner successive governments have managed the economy since the Lange/Douglas government with a marriage to the “free market” – which isn’t really a free market but a manipulated economy for the advantage of a minority interest. An example would be the lack of intervention and hands off approach this govt has to the economy and the damage this does.
In a similar manner “Radical Isalm” and it exponents of extremism in their support for acts of violence and terror presently reverberate an influence around the globe. A major part of why we are engaged in this discussion is the pursuit of a political ideal expressed in the shooting of a school girl.
The expansion and pursuit of political agenda’s by radical Islam give me the shits – the moves to Sharia Law (Sharia courts being recognised in the UK) and retract the freedom of women. The expansion needs to be paid for to that end, the end of influence of the Petroleum Fuelled Fundamentalism would be a good thing – I hope it doesn’t take 50 years.
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For your and everyone’s time - the exchange of ideas and opinions - the communication – thanks for the gift – and long may you party on.
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Hard News: Crossing the line into idle bigotry, in reply to Sacha,
Isn't such an error a fundamental underpinning of all bigotry?
To my mind bigotry is the active expression of hatred or intolerance of others.
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Cox's viewpoint in the article doesn’t strike me as bigoted, he doesn’t express hatred or intolerance - in expressing his point of view he makes an error of attribution. What Cox doesn’t do is delve deeply enough into the wider reality of the situation and what he over looks is a disservice to "the truth".
It should be noted that In Pakistan a large number of Islamic Clerics gathered together following the shooting and issued a Fatwa against those who tried to kill Malala; in response to this Fatwa the Taliban affirmed their intention to kill Malala and her father.
The Pakistan Taliban regard Malala and her father as symbols of the infidels and consider them to be an obscenity, they have expressed their desire to execute them both and have issued instructions that this be done.
It has been reported that most Pakistani Government Officials have not condemend the Pakitsan Taliban for the attack and there appears to be a lack of commitment in Pakistan to stand against Taliban lead extremeist viewpoints. I don't know how true this is as I haven't asked them individually.
I hold concerns over the practice of Islam and these are based largely on what I regarded as universal human rights particularly os they relate to the treatment of women and gay people. Islamic Law does not treat women as equals to men.
Having regard to what I regard as the practice of inequality I would not like to live in or visit an Islamic State or have my daughter, sister or mother involved in the practice of Islam, however, that is my view I acknowledge people in this country are free to choose how they live and what they practice.
In Pakistan 97% of thje population are Muslim, the error of attribution made by Cox is similar to saying that “the Germans were responsible for the Holocaust” rather than being more specific and correctly saying that “that Nazi Germany were responsible for the Holocaust”.
When Russell say’s – “Malala was not, of course, shot by "the Muslims", but by members of a movement rooted as much in a patriarchal tribal culture as Islamist extremism” – it makes a similar attribution error and overlooks 1) that the order to Kill Malala and her father came from Mullah Fazlullah a Muslim Cleric based in Eastern Afghanistan and 2) that there could well be parents living in the region Malala lived who could be regarded as living a traditional life style that want their daughters to go to school - there were after all other children on the bus.
How fine a point one puts on things is important.
