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How Viable is the United Nations Security Council?

mrcarlbakerstone wrote 5 months ago: It is difficult to predict exactly how global politics will play out in the future. By its very natu … more →

Tags: Future, Security Council, UN, United Nations

Should we ban dictatorships from the UN?2 comments

mrcarlbakerstone wrote 5 months ago: The establishment of the United Nations has always been controversial. Not necessarily because of th … more →

Tags: Politics, Dictator, Dictatorships, General Assembly, Security Council, UN, United Nations

Balancing the books in the education system.

mrcarlbakerstone wrote 5 months ago: I’ve heard a lot of arguments for improving education this week – but the two which I am perhaps mos … more →

Tags: Australia, Economy, Education, Economics in Education, Finance, Financial, Teaching

How valid is assassination as a tool of governments?

mrcarlbakerstone wrote 6 months ago: It is no secret that the Middle East is on the brink of collapse, and in many ways has already gone … more →

Tags: ethics, Future, Legal, war 2, assassination, Government, Policy, Politics 2

Why Alcohol and Smoking aren’t legitimate reasons for legalising Marijuana

mrcarlbakerstone wrote 6 months ago: The legalisation of Marijuana in Washington brought a whole new term to the meaning “the Evergreen S … more →

Tags: Science, ethics, Marijuana, smoking, Alcohol

How Useful is the National Curriculum?

mrcarlbakerstone wrote 6 months ago: Educational disparity between states is a problem for any country. It may lend to the development of … more →

Tags: Politics, Australia, Education, National Curriculum, National, curriculum, Gillard

Politics is letting itself down.

mrcarlbakerstone wrote 6 months ago: “You know, I voted for him in 2008 and I plan to stick with him in 2012 and will vote for him and vi … more →

Tags: Politics, Politics 2, USA, obama, Romney, Campaign, 2012, USA 2012, Barack

How useful is ATAR for admission to university.

mrcarlbakerstone wrote 7 months ago: It is a pretty difficult question to ask, this one. It is one that has continually attracted a flurr … more →

Tags: Australia, Future, Education, Atar, hsc, suitability

Amnesty in International Justice

mrcarlbakerstone wrote 7 months ago: International justice is increasingly more complicated. This becomes even worse when we consider how … more →

Tags: History, Future, Legal, ethics, Justice, Law, amnesty, punishment, Crime

Bringing the public and the government just a little closer together.

mrcarlbakerstone wrote 8 months ago: As much as democracy is a system “By the People, For the People” there comes a point when the public … more →

Tags: Politics, Australia, Future, democracy, Politics 2, Utilitarianism, Utilitarian, inherent good, Government

Where literature can take us.

mrcarlbakerstone wrote 8 months ago: Some of the foremost thinkers in the world are upset. As the decades roll on, they fear that a liter … more →

Tags: Future, ethics, Media 2, Literature, Literary, Books, Movies, Values

Is globalisation globally good?

mrcarlbakerstone wrote 8 months ago: Who’s that guy who said culture is a thing of the past? How true his observation seems… For years no … more →

Tags: Future, Globalisation, Global, Earth

“Lies, damn lies statistics.” “Oh, really?”

mrcarlbakerstone wrote 8 months ago: As much as I try, I can’t bring myself to find any compatibility with the idea of legalising recreat … more →

Tags: Science, Future, Society, Social Reform, statistics, Facts, Ideas!, Progression

“It belongs in a museum!”

mrcarlbakerstone wrote 9 months ago: As the able-bodied Olympics conclude at London, much of the fervour that surrounds the city has died … more →

Tags: History, museum, Culture, Artefact

How to go about democratising Africa and the Middle East.

mrcarlbakerstone wrote 10 months ago: Ubi dubium ibi libertas. Where there is doubt, there is freedom. This little anonymous proverb speak … more →

Tags: Politics, Future, ethics, democracy, Africa, middle east, Globalisation

Should we prosecute Julian Assange?

mrcarlbakerstone wrote 10 months ago: How is it a man who commits an action can simultaneously warrant calls for the Nobel Peace Prize and … more →

Tags: media, Australia, Legal, ethics, Assange, Julian, Julian Assange, ecuadorian embassy, Wikileaks

The Message behind the 2nd Amendment: Who should actually get guns?

mrcarlbakerstone wrote 11 months ago: Whilst I do not live in America, and am not entitled to any guns in the same manner as the US, recen … more →

Tags: Future, Guns, guns debate, gun regulation, Gun Control

What Palestine’s application to the General Assembly comes down to

mrcarlbakerstone wrote 11 months ago: In this aura of conflict and hate in the Middle East, Palestine has sought to assert itself by apply … more →

Tags: ethics, UN, General Assembly, Palestine

The debate heats up: Dealing with Climate Change denial

mrcarlbakerstone wrote 11 months ago: Climate change is all about the discourse behind it. As it stands we have several groups which conti … more →

Tags: Australia, Environment, Future, climate change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Policy, Clive Palmer, Gina Rinehart


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