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Iran remains a threat to Israel's very existence

Do No Evil – Amid the winks and nudges about a reduction of tension between America and Iran, it should not be forgotten that Tehran's policy, enunciated most forcefully by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, is the destruction of Israel. That is already apparent in Iranian support for Hamas and Hizbollah. Possession of nuclear weapons would give it a further edge.

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Submitted and Voted for on July 04, 2008 06:36pm

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The century of cheap energy is behind us

Money – The century of cheap energy is behind us - in the future we are all going to have to work longer and harder to pay for it.

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Submitted and Voted for on July 04, 2008 06:33pm

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The issue of bankers' pay cannot be ignored

Money – Such are the miseries galloping through western economies at the moment that talk of regulatory reform of the global financial sector inevitably sounds like stable doors slamming. And it is true that no reform our political leaders push through now can change where we are. The credit crunch cannot be reversed.

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Submitted and Voted for on July 04, 2008 06:33pm

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It's always the poor who suffer from sanctions

Do No Evil – Sanctions are pretty blunt instruments, rarely effective and having many unintended effects, some of them wickedly cruel. We should ponder that as Britain, the U.S. and the EU muse on the next stage in isolating Robert Mugabe, or indeed Iran. Borders are always porous; dictatorships can insulate themselves from hardship; the poor can't.

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Submitted and Voted for on July 04, 2008 06:30pm

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The Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global Order

Books – Are empires as dominant today as they have ever been? It's an ambitious claim, but it's easy to quibble with this work's conclusions, says Niall Ferguson

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Submitted and Voted for on July 04, 2008 06:27pm

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United States of Anxiety

Money – The floods, the California wildfires, and the violence in Chicago are nothing compared to what the slow-motion disaster of a crumbling economy is doing to us. A personal account of a breakdown.

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Submitted and Voted for on July 04, 2008 10:43am

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Almost everything that could is going wrong for world stockmarkets

Money – They rarely ring a bell at the bottom of bear markets. Investors who thought they had heard a tinkling sound when Bear Stearns, a failing American investment bank, was bundled into JPMorgan Chase in March have been disappointed. The Dow Jones Industrial Average is now weaker than it was in the spring.

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Submitted and Voted for on July 04, 2008 06:29am

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Humor Shown To Be Fundamental To Our Success As A Species

Science – First universal theory of humour answers how and why we find things funny, the reason humour is common to all human societies, its fundamental role in the evolution of homo sapiens and its continuing importance in the cognitive development of infants.

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Submitted and Voted for on July 02, 2008 10:22am

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A Very Memorable Trip

Health & Fitness – More than a year after taking a hallucinogenic drug in a carefully controlled experiment, most people rate the experience among the most personally meaningful and spiritually significant of their lives. Such findings are helping to renew interest in research with hallucinogens.

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Submitted and Voted for on July 02, 2008 10:20am

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Bringing Down Bear Stearns

Do No Evil – On Monday, March 10, the rumor started: Bear Stearns was having liquidity problems. In fact, the maverick investment bank had around $18 billion in cash reserves. But soon the speculation created its own reality, and the race was on to keep Bear's crisis from ravaging Wall Street.

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Submitted and Voted for on July 02, 2008 10:15am

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Hercules or Sisyphus: The EU Whirlwind Named Sarkozy

Politics – The plans were grandiose. But now that Ireland has rejected the Lisbon Treaty, Nicolas Sarkozy will have to scale back his goals for the French EU presidency. His answer? Frenetic activity.

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Submitted and Voted for on July 01, 2008 08:42pm

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Where did it all go wrong? When Labour started telling lies

Politics – Not since Trivial Pursuit became an instant hit in the early 1980s has a parlour game so dominated the leisure hours of Britain's chattering classes. I'm referring, of course, to Where Did It All Go Wrong?, the pastime of choice for many who regarded Gordon Brown's expropriation of Number 10 as the precursor to a new phase of Labour hegemony.

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Submitted and Voted for on July 01, 2008 08:12pm

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Religions should not be allowed to make ghettos

Religion – Some ardent Christians, Jews, Hindus, and Muslims are rising, collaborating to demolish secularism in the UK, which has always been weak and too loosely committed to the separation of faith and state.

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Submitted and Voted for on July 01, 2008 08:07pm

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Photo of 5 month old's bottom deemed pornographic by supermarket

Do No Evil – Gail Jordan asked her local Asda to transfer a photographic print of her son as a five-month-old baby on to a cake for his 21st birthday party? Asda, however, did not just think this was embarrassing. They thought it was positively sinister, becausethe print revealed the naked bottom of the infant David Jordan.

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Submitted and Voted for on July 01, 2008 08:06pm

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Break the climate change deadlock

Do No Evil – There has been an enormous shift in opinion in recent years over climate change. Scientists and political leaders are now united over the threat and the need for action. But there is a danger of a yawning chasm on the size and speed of the cuts to greenhouse gas emissions we require.

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Submitted and Voted for on July 01, 2008 07:54pm

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