News you might not have heard

[Gullscorer]

Happy New Year...!!

It's now the Year of the Horse.

Should be an interesting year for Chinese takeaways...

[Gullscorer]

The Department for Transport has issued a consultation document on council parking.
https://www.gov.uk/government/upload...nsultation.pdf

The proposals include a ban on the use of CCTV for parking enforcement, whether there should be statutory 'grace' periods, whether adjudicators should be able to have discretionary powers and clearer guidance when adjudicators can allow costs.

The DfT invites your views on current local authority parking strategies and on options they are considering to change the balance of how parking is enforced. The consultation ends on 14th February 2014.

You can respond on-line here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/T8W8R2F

[Alpine Joe]

Some alterations with French letters:

From now on, a woman's surname at birth will be the default option used by government bodies, the tax office and any other state organisations.

Her married name will only be used if the recipient specifically agrees to the change.

The change is part of a wide-ranging equality law.

http://www.connexionfrance.com/france-m ... ticle.html

[Gullscorer]

No problem with that in principle, nor with any law which promotes equality of choice or opportunity for the individual.

The problem lies with laws which enforce things such as 'positive discrimination' which aim to help one group or groups in society with the resulting disadvantage of others. When true equality and freedom are distorted in this way, meritocracy becomes a sham and society becomes a shambles.

Nature prefers evolution; when a revolution occurs, the result is usually catastrophic. Which is why those with hidden agendas know they have a better chance of success if they work slowly and quietly to achieve their goals over a long period of time. The revolutionaries have become evolutionists.

But those who quietly and stealthily pursue the revolutionary agenda of social engineering are rarely interested in achieving a true egalitarian society, even though that may be their proclaimed goal.

[Gullscorer]

The Woody Allen story: followed by Philip Seymour Hoffman's death:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2 ... -fast.html

[Gullscorer]

German skyscraper blows up: http://rt.com/news/demolition-explosion ... raper-541/
USA deploys Aegis destroyer; Russia threatens to quit START: http://rt.com/news/destroyer-us-poland- ... reaty-530/
Israel still doesn't get it: http://rt.com/news/israel-invade-gaza-minister-540/
Journalism under fire in Egypt: http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/spotlight/freeajstaff/
UN condemns detention of Al Jazeera team in Egypt: http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeas ... 42864.html
Egypt court acquits Al Jazeera cameraman: http://www.aljazeera.com/video/middleea ... 54941.html
Expensive Ireland: http://www.rte.ie/news/2014/0202/501739-economy-forfas/
Underwater wedding: http://www.indiatimes.com/news/asia/a-w ... 26314.html
Chinese Moon Rover:

[Gullscorer]

Wikipedia: http://dailycaller.com/2014/02/02/wikip ... to-fix-it/

And the price of ‘free’ speech: http://equalitycanada.com/

[Gullscorer]

Boy-shaming sex education campaign planned for UK schools:
http://www.avoiceformalestudents.com/bo ... k-schools/

[Gullscorer]

Bargain deals here..? http://lifefactopia.com/uk/shopping/Und ... b=d02-slip

[Gullscorer]

The Woody Allen story: followed by Philip Seymour Hoffman's death:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2 ... -fast.html

And Woody Allen responds to the recent Dylan (Malone) letter: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/09/opini ... .html?_r=1

[Gullscorer]

Fukushima radiation: http://rt.com/news/fukushima-radiation- ... mated-143/
USA about to go bankrupt: http://rt.com/usa/us-debt-lew-treasury-173/
Iranian warships headed for USA: http://rt.com/news/iran-warships-us-waters-197/
On whistleblowing: http://rt.com/op-edge/snowden-files-vil ... alism-005/
Internet censorship in Turkey: http://rt.com/news/turkey-teargas-protest-internet-212/
Guantanamo, America's shame: http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinio ... terAccount
The most common cause of death in Sweden: suicide among men aged 15 to 44: http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/featur ... 39987.html

[Gullscorer]

A man gets 14 years in prison for sliding his girlfriend the “abortion pill.” Obviously he committed some kind of offence.

Although both of them were biologically responsible for the pregnancy, she wanted a child and he didn't. He shouldn't have relied on her to take the precautions.

But if she took this pill on her own, it is a woman’s right to choose. He gives it to her without telling her, it’s murder. Same foetus, same life terminated. Only in the modern west, folks.

http://www.lifenews.com/2014/01/27/man- ... -14-years/

[Scott Brehaut]

Errr, have you read the article??

Read what he did - he deceived her and killed the baby.

[Gullscorer]

Errr, have you read the article??
Read what he did - he deceived her and killed the baby.

I know; I'm not saying he didn't, and I'm not saying he shouldn't have been punished. The point I was trying to make is that if a woman deceives a man in order to get pregnant and then decides to kill the baby, it's an abortion, or infanticide at worst, and she gets away with minimal punishment or none at all, whereas if the man deceives the woman to abort the same baby (which is his baby as much as hers) he normally gets charged with murder, and so there appear to be double standards at play here, regardless of the morality of what he did or the moral judgements to be made regarding abortion itself (and I generally take a pro-life anti-abortion position in such matters, unless there are special reasons requiring an abortion).

[Gullscorer]

Strange event in Germany: