Feb 20 2008
# Cricket, tennis, football plus other leading sports are calling for a percentage of betting profits. # Gambling is a threat to sports but if regulated, could draw significant action off the black market. # Sporting bodies are asking for a share of...
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Feb 19 2008
YES # President Musharraf ‘s party badly losing the Pakistan elections is verdict against US polices in the country. # Under the shadow of Al Qaida / Taleban, it will be harder for an unstable democratic Pakistan to back Americas war on...
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Feb 18 2008
YES # Humanity is on the brink of advances that will see tiny robots implanted in people’s brains to make them more intelligent. # Merger of humans and machines would eventually help people to keep them healthy and improve their intelligence....
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Feb 16 2008
YES # It is the business where you stock your shelves with what sells and women of colour are not a trend. # The fashion industry sells beauty not ethnicity. Fashion industry is unnecessarily been targeted for race discrimination claims. NO #...
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Feb 15 2008
The Northern Illinois University shootout today comes 10 months after 32 students and staff were shot dead by a Virginia Tech University student. It is also the fourth shooting at a US education establishment in a week. # Any attempt to control the...
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Feb 13 2008
YES # Valentine’s Day is supposed to be about love and tenderness, but it has turned into a holiday driven with competition, hyper-consumerism and dashed hopes. # Valentine’s Day is a contrived occasion exploited for commercial gain. NO #...
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Feb 13 2008
# Australia has made a historical apology to its aboriginal people for their past suffering as a result of the country’s laws and policies. # Apology envisions future where gaps among ‘all Australians’ are closed. # Conservatives fear that...
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Feb 12 2008
YES # The accused should be tried openly in a civilian court of law, there has to be complete transparency no matter if they are terrorists. # America is failing to practice what they preach when it comes to safeguard people’s rights. # Unless...
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Feb 11 2008
YES # This amendment is a troubling sign of the secular state’s eroding authority and the creeping Islamisation within Turkish society. # Lifting the ban against women’s headscarves at universities will ultimately bring in Hezbollah, al-Qaeda terror...
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Feb 8 2008
YES # NATO and other western leaders are increasingly pessimistic about the Afghanistan mission and bitter disagreements about burden-sharing within the alliance can lead to crisis within NATO. # With gaining unpopularity about Afghan mission in...
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