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Our friend Eamonn Butler has a letter published in the Telegraph about thishttps://twitter.com/ASI/status/557886394434322433What he knows but has chosen to ignore is that £1.30 today, is the equivelent of £0.38 at 1981 prices. Ignoring inflation distorts the picture in favour of showing rising wealth over time… To compare wealth levels in money terms over time you have to adjust for inflation / deflation.EDIT: Unless he's getting the figures from a dataset already adjusted for inflation…
Here's some more mad marketeers on this:http://www.adamsmith.org/blog/economics/oxfam-capitalism-and-poverty/
Found this podcast in my RSS feed today pretty much covers all the issues surrounding "Speciesism" it's pretty good..http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/philosopherszone/the-tommy-dilemma3a-animal-right-or-human-privilege3f/5960902
I don't know. I really don't have the time to look into it..Incedentatlly though Ben Goldacre's book "Bad Science" is one of my favourites, I keep meaning to read the sequel "Bad Pharma"..
Perhaps vivisection is unenessary I really don't know enough to know either way, but linking to anti-vaxxer crank science conspiracy theory websites isn't doing your case much good…
Interestingly that freepost address seems to belong to the Labour Party!http://www.labouremail.org.uk/files/uploads/cddf502d-2649-2794-c94c-e2c1025d807d.pdf?utm_source=taomail
jondwhite wrote:Word of mouth is always more powerful than leaflets.Well yes. But it's about getting to the point where people are talking about you. That doesn't happen if you just sit on your arse and don't go out to people…
I’m not sure either. I’ve just read the introductory article by him to a reprint of Pannekoek’s “Workers Councils” and I still don’t know either way…Here’s the other half of the comic including the punch line…
John Oswald wrote:Do you really think capitalism is interested in your health?Well yes to a certain extent. There's no surplus value to be extracted from the ill and infirm..Do you think "alternative" medicine is not a capital generating business?I'm not sure what point you're trying to make.
John Oswald wrote:By the way, these books: NAKED EMPRESS, SLAUGHTER OF THE INNOCENT and VIVISECTION OR SCIENCE? are generally blocked by most animal rights organizations!Sorry, what do you mean by "generally blocked"?
Well I made it about half way through then had to stop. It's horribly tacking…Things like these two videos I like. The guy kind of makes me think of what a more informed Russel Brand would sound like..https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xS4sEJxJK9Ahttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gu0JeGeEKSc
Well that can't be a bad thing, keep at it. Though in all honesty I can't see that on it's own making much difference. I hope I'm proved wrong..
Came across this which I thought was apt, if only as a note to myself
Bertrand Russell – An Outline of Intellectual Rubbish wrote:If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry, that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware of having no good reason for thinking as you do. If someone maintains that two and two are five, or that Iceland is on the equator, you feel pity rather than anger, unless you know so little of arithmetic or geography that his opinion shakes your own contrary conviction. The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way. Persecution is used in theology, not in arithmetic, because in arithmetic there is knowledge, but in theology there is only opinion. So whenever you find yourself getting angry about a difference of opinion, be on your guard; you will probably find, on examination, that your belief is going beyond what the evidence warrants.ALB wrote:You are right "Animal rights" and "anti-speciesism" have nothing to do with vegetarianism. You don't have to be a vegetarian to espouse theseNot sure if that's right. To be none-speciesist would either involve veganism (since if it is not right to eat humans or use them for food products, it is not right to do so to animals either) or cannibalism (since if it is ok to eat animals it is ok to eat humans to). As far as I'm concerned Peter Singer's (that's where this comes from) arguments about speciesism are rather specious, but that doesn't mean I'm pro blood sports or whatever….
