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  A comment on Conversation: Central Banking or Nationalized Banks?

  Nov 9 2012: wee need to rid our selves of the old cold war propaganda about capitalism or socialism,
  CHINA has now got a free market economy with a lot of capital, drew millions out of poverty through our free market whos the dady there then

• A comment on Conversation: Central Banking or Nationalized Banks?

  Nov 9 2012: the cold war is now over lets nationalise everything but keep free enterprise and the free market that way the people will be safer and more prosperous while the coorporations battle it out with eachother and only themselves to exploit

• A reply on Conversation: Central Banking or Nationalized Banks?

  Nov 9 2012: most socialist today believe in the free market , look at china they marketed our ass off so no bull about nationalist not for the free market

• A comment on Conversation: Central Banking or Nationalized Banks?

  Nov 9 2012: nationalist banks but with the free market would benifit all

• A reply on Conversation: Discuss the ways the media influences or tries to influence your vote.

  Nov 9 2012: here in the uk the media use there cunning to split the vote by publicising minor partys that dont stand a chance winning, but enough publicity to take away a particular type of voter i.e a labour voter swings to nationalist e.t.c.
  therefore conservative voters remain the same amount as nationalist policies are of no concern to conservatives or vice versa whoever pays the bill that time round.
  Dirty tricks fooling the people for their own profit, education is the key

• A comment on Conversation: Discuss the ways the media influences or tries to influence your vote.

  Nov 9 2012: If people had more political awareness education from schooling, then the media would have a lot less influence and be less bias. If wee all had a real in depth knowledge of what each political party actually stands for.
  A lot of voters just vote becuase they like the look or the spiel made by a candidate and falls for the propaganda reinforced by the media, if a particular newspaper or broadcaster is biased towards a particular party then their reporting will reflect this, thats why certain political partys never get any airtime or press coverage, if it doesn,t fit into their political ideal it is a no goer.
  the media is the most powerfull force in the world when it comes to spreading information and they know it and profit from it.
  The problem is that most voters know nothing about politics or very little and just go by what they here on the media.
  And for the few in the know about politics vote as per their standard of living whether they believe themselves to benifit by voting for a particular party as if they feel that they are of that particular class in society or aspiring to be in that particular class. these people are known as upstarts and this is what keeps the status quo going i.e democrates/republicans or in the uk labour /conservative.
  other political partys don,t get a look at in the media as the main partys run the media.
  So more political education is needed from a young age and should be taught without bias about all political ideologies, knowledge is the key to ending the cycle of more of the same but needs to be delivered in an untampered with way, so the education reaches the people, people will then really decide who runs thier country and not the media

• A comment on Talk: Shai Agassi: A new ecosystem for electric cars

  Sep 23 2009: lets just do it

• A comment on Talk: Jane Poynter: Life in Biosphere 2

  Sep 23 2009: I found this very interesting.
  it proves it could be possible to build a self contained biosphere on another planet like the moon,without the concrete though.