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I propose we create new topic groups for Climate Change, and Conflict: Dirtfarm, and instruct users to confine discussion about these topics to those new areas. These two subjects spill over into almost every thread these days.

Not a bad fight but it was hard to give condit a round. Kampman knocked out! 3 of 4 Canadians lose.

http://www.cnn.com/2....html?hpt=hp_t1


This isnt just happening in places like China, its happening in the west as well. At what point do that lazy apathetic cowards that pass for citizens in the west start to stand up for themselves? Is there any kind of non-violent way to combat our governments hatred of us and our freedom that is likely to have any success? And with a fair sized portion of our population being made up of state-power sycophants, and people that support everything a government does simply because the right party is in charge Im wondering if we are effectively marginalized as a citizenry?

In the last half of 2011, U.S. agencies asked Google to remove 6,192 individual pieces of content from its search results, blog posts or archives of online videos, according to the report. That's up 718% compared with the 757 such items that U.S. agencies asked Google to remove in the six months prior.

We are in a situation now, where we basically count on companies like google to fight censorship on our behalf. They do a decent job at times, but they are starting to comply with more and more requests, and I think we will keep sliding down this slippery slope.

http://www.cnn.com/2....html?hpt=hp_t2


Good news. HOpefully the departure of this conservative hardliner, and all his firey rhetoric will make it less likely that OUR conservative hardliners will waste a shitload of my money paying for another useless war in the dirt-farm.

Buh-bye shitbag  

If Greece was the focus of markets' angst last week, attention this week has shifted to the other end of the Mediterranean.

Spain's public finances are nothing like as grim as the Greeks', but a worsening banking crisis threatens to deepen an already painful recession and endanger the future of the eurozone.

The immediate cause of the pain in Spain is the need to recapitalize the country's fourth-largest bank, Bankia -- itself an unwieldy amalgam of previously-ailing financial institutions.

The bank asked the government for the not inconsiderable sum of €19 billion ($23.5 billion) last week. The state has already pumped some €20 billion into a banking system crippled by bad debt -- much of it property-related.

Same old story... Banks bid up a false property boom by setting interest rates too low, and now they want the tax payers to bail them out.

Once spain needs to be bailed out by the ECB it will probably take about 10 times as much money to do it compared to Greece. Hope youre all ready to pay your share!