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The REAL Vicky Pollard

THE mother of a West Lothian schoolgirl who became pregnant at the age of 11 today told how she was “proud” of her daughter.
Now read this Scotsman article that this comes from, and tell me she isn’t the real Vicky Pollard?
The eight months pregnant mum-to-be is reported to have quit school following a string of [...]

Privatization of government roles

Now that a Center/Left government is imminent in Israel, one of my biggest hopes is the termination of the “Wisconsin Plan” in Israel. The program’s name in Israel is “Mehalev” = “From the Heart”, a goebbelsian name without a doubt as this program has no heart. The bigger issue I have with this program is [...]

Patriot Act derailed? I hope

CNN in a manipulatively titled article reports that [the] “Senate fails to reauthorize Patriot Act“, which translated from corpo-speech means that the Senate has so far refused to renew it.
I hope the renewal fails and that Dec. 31st comes and goes without the Patriot Act, a.k.a the Police State Act, renewed.
CNN also fails to indicate [...]

Saved by the Blogs?

If you’ve read my previous post, you might have noticed that last paragraph in which I was hinting at the development that might bring back the balance in Democracy. You would have probably guessed that I was referring to blogs.
Yes, lowly blogs.
For those of you not following closely, blogs, for a while now, have ceased [...]

The Coalition of Fear

Democracy in its purest form was designed to be a balanced system. Separate judiciary, executive and legislative institutions of government are not enough. Thus the freedom of speech exists to create another institution — the press. The press was designed as a watchdog; it was there to pay the price of eternal vigilance to guarantee [...]