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NHS
Should the USA adopt a UK styled National Health System?  | read this item

Should the USA adopt a UK styled National Health System?

November 4, 2009
Chesney, United Kingdom
It is difficult to be objective about the National Health System (NHS). In one’s hour of need, one is grateful for any action which comes to the rescue.  No matter what system a dying patient is rescued by, they cannot speak too highly of the quality of the care and the [...]

Britain
Was my England really so bad?  | read this item

Was my England really so bad?

October 29, 2009
By: Chesney, United Kingdom
I am a working class man.  My education is heavily biased in the sciences and engineering and later in business.  Similar my work and life experiences are those of someone who has earned each crust my family ate and who has shouldered responsibility and got his hands dirty.  I have [...]

UK Prison
Muslims - direct relationship between criminality and radicalization   | read this item

Muslims – direct relationship between criminality and radicalization

October 2, 2009
Alan Travis, guardian.co.uk
Details have emerged of a private briefing between the United Kingdom’s most senior counter-terrorism official and MPs in which he warned of the dangers of radicalization among Muslim prisoners and admitted that CIA agents were operating in the UK.
Charles Farr, the head of the Home Office’s office of security and counter-terrorism, [...]

Brown_Qaddafi
Lockerbie Bomber Released for Oil?  | read this item

Lockerbie Bomber Released for Oil?

Severin Carrell, Scotland correspondent; guardian.co.uk, Friday 28 August 2009
The pressure on Gordon Brown over the UK’s dealings with Libya has intensified after Colonel Muammar Gaddafi’s son said there was an “obvious” link between their trade talks and efforts to release the man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing.
The Tory leader, David Cameron, led a chorus of [...]

Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Taleb--Rich should not pay more tax to help the poor  | read this item

Taleb–Rich should not pay more tax to help the poor

By: Nicholas Watt, chief political correspondent
guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 19 August 2009
A US academic billed as David Cameron’s new intellectual guru takes a Darwinian approach to economics and says it is wrong for the rich to pay higher taxes to help the less well-off.  Nassim Nicholas Taleb, a professor of risk engineering at New York University, attacked [...]

David Cameron
Spending Could Lead to Britain Defaulting on Debt  | read this item

Spending Could Lead to Britain Defaulting on Debt

By: Nicholas Watt and Larry Elliott
guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 18 August 2009
David Cameron today raised the stakes in the pre-election battle over government borrowing when he warned that Gordon Brown’s anti-recessionary spending could lead to Britain defaulting on its debt.
In remarks seized upon by Labour as evidence of political naivety, the opposition leader branded Labour’s plans to [...]

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