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#67460 North Korea
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#67459 The Night Thread Mk. IX
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#67315 Transfer Rumours 2013/14
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Quite.
#67276 Transfer Rumours 2013/14
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#67263 Transfer Rumours 2013/14
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#67249 Old Trafford Lounge
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#67208 The Night Thread Mk. IX
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That is excellent.
#67207 The Night Thread Mk. IX
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Oops, amended that, not that it detracts from the content of the argument.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2013/apr/09/russell-brand-margaret-thatcher
This is an interesting and well-written article by Russell Brand about this whole affair.
#67206 UEFA Champions League 2012 - 2013 Thread
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#67196 The Lower League Thread
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The 'km' run will be far more demanding, and therefore lead to muscle fatigue and increase risk of injury.
#67195 UEFA Champions League 2012 - 2013 Thread
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#67193 Transfer Rumours 2013/14
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#67045 English Premier League 2012/2013
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#67044 The Night Thread Mk. IX
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True, the death of a frail old woman is nothing to celebrate, especially given that her ideological stance is the default position for all common ground politics today. It's hardly like Thatcherism died with her.
#67002 The Night Thread Mk. IX
Jamieandhisego
Thatcher's ability to win elections was a mixture of Labour having to reorganize and regalvanize itself as the hardcore leftists left for the Social Democrats Party and the Socialist Worker's Party and the Tories reshifted the consensus towards a neoliberal monetarist ground. Winning elections in a two-party state is easy because of Duverger's law, which is that in a multi-party system that operates with a voting system like FPTP, you will always get safe seats and two dominant parties. Rather than attempting to win over the public, she was willing to absolutely destroy Wales, Scotland and the North and redistribute wealth to the South in an attempt to win the marginal seats. It was realpolitik at its worst, and it was shockingly immoral considering it only happened 30 years ago. I have lived in the South all my life, but it is obvious to see that she created nothing short of a class war and divided our country geographically as she did so economically, destroying the infrastructure of the North whilst bloating the financial sector of London, deregulated and tax-haven to the wealthy.
There is plenty of information available on the Winter of Discontent, and indeed, on Keynesianism, to suggest that there are substantial myths about the state of the country's finances and the ways in which they were caused and how they have been resolved. The country started to falter only during a recession when Callaghan started to adopt monetarism, something that Thatcher embraced more vehemently. The election results are a mixture of the fact that monetarism massively favours the wealthiest in society (ie. all private media outlets such as newspapers and television) and the elites of society, more so than any other economic and political ideology.
It's a mixture of the fact that she was warned about the Falklands, and did nothing, and then went gung-ho and then used this outpouring of military victory to pave over the cracks of her first term, and callously used the deaths of the soldiers of both sides for the political purpose of re-election.
Ireland remains under a post-colonialist shadow, divided by religion and political loyalties tied to economic development. Mandela is not a terrorist. The Falklands war perhaps could have been avoided, and I don't begrudge her that, but rather the manner in which it was used as the means of re-election strategy.
I forgot to mention that she was anti-feminist, anti-homosexuality, anti-society and pro-Pinochet.
#66989 English Premier League 2012/2013
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#66867 The Night Thread Mk. IX
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The privatization of infrastructure, the creation of a graduate class, a speculative and deregulated financial sector, Rupert Murdoch, calling the ANC that was fighting against apartheid 'a bunch of terrorists' (Nelson Mandela was one of those involved in the movement), supported the despotic regime of Pinochet, covered up the police incompetence with Hillsborough, mass unemployed and a stubborn refusal to change from monetarist policies even as Reagan changed course. I probably left some out.
#66703 English Premier League 2012/2013
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#66592 English Premier League 2012/2013
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#66440 The Night Thread Mk. IX
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An eye for an eye justice was dated when it was espoused in the Old Testament. Killing a man because you think killing is immoral is illogical, and state-sanctioned murder. Furthermore, if they're dead, there's no punishment.
#66439 English Premier League 2012/2013
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#66350 UEFA Champions League 2012 - 2013 Thread
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#66261 UEFA Champions League 2012 - 2013 Thread
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#66231 UEFA Champions League 2012 - 2013 Thread
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#66230 The Lower League Thread
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Obviously playing two top-flight games, especially in English football, is going to be more physically intense and more mentally fatiguing than playing against lower league opposition.
#66221 The Night Thread Mk. IX
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If I didn't know what would happen in the future, I would say that he looks less of a cunt than Jeremy Kyle in that clip.
#66220 The Italian Football Thread
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#66146 The Lower League Thread
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#66140 Newcastle Thread
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#65572 English Premier League 2012/2013
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