[Debatewise RRT] Re: Debates
- From: macmarie123@xxxxxxx
- To: debatewiserrt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 02 Feb 2010 17:20:06 -0500
Hi,
I'll take: University Budgets should not be cut.
Thanks,
Marie
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From: Alex Helling <alex@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: debatewiserrt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tue, 2 Feb 2010 20:34
Subject: [Debatewise RRT] Debates
Evening everyone,
Lateness of the debates is due to me being at home – so there was a break for
dinner before I finished!
I would be interested to know if you have any preferences for what type of
debate you would like to have put on the site for everyone to add to and what
you would like as the debates that are sent out, it would be best if I put up
the ones that are most likely to have people wanting to contribute a little to
but not write the whole debate.
I realise that I have forgotten to add up who is debater of the month - it
being the 2nd of the month it is about time I did it. I will work it out
tomorrow morning and send it out.
Alex
Debates for you to take up:
University budgets should not be cut.
Politicians argue that our economy needs to move to being more of a ‘knowledge
economy’ as manufacturing and other jobs are outsourced to cheaper countries
overseas. However in order to produce this knowledge economy a good further
education sector is needed, if our knowledge base is to grow, our universities
must grow to provide the people with the relevant skills. Cutting university
budgets is therefore being used to reduce the deficit now, but will in turn
cost the economy in the future.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/education/article7011594.ece
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/8491729.stm
Has Israel sufficiently punished the officers responsible for the use of white
phosphorus?
Israel has finally admitted to some wrongdoing in its reprimand for two of the
officers in charge of the campaign in January 2009 against Hamas in Gaza. After
an internal investigation in response to the Goldstone report, that said both
sides may have committed war crimes, Israel has concluded that the white
phosphorus munitions were used in accordance with international law. These
slight punishments are unlikely to persuade those who want war crimes tribunals
to relent.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article7010851.ece
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/01/world/middleeast/02mideast.html
Book publishers should prevent E readers from undercutting their books
recommended retail price.
Macmillan has won a battle with Amazon, creator of the kindle, on the pricing
of its books online. The intent is to try to prevent readers from buying their
books online and instead purtchace traditional style books. However the lessons
of the music industry would seem to imply that in order to prevent pirating
electronic content needs to be priced as competitively as possible. Are
publishers making the same mistake as the music industry in battling paid
online versions of their content?
http://biztech.caledonianmercury.com/2010/02/02/are-book-publishers-trying-to-kill-e-readers/
http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/publishing/the_ipad_to_ruin_the_book_publishing_industry_150667.asp
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/technology/arrival-of-ipad-gives-publisher-clout-in-e-book-pricing/article1452775/
Murray will get his grand slam.
Although he lost in the final of the Australian Open Andy Murray seems to go
from strength to strength and seems likely to end Britain’s drought of grand
slams at some point in his career. However we in Britain do seem to keep
getting our hopes up over tennis only to have them disappointed, while Federer
is significantly older than Murray and will someday leave room at the top Nadal
is of a similar age so may deny Murray his dreams of a grand slam.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/tennis/article7011453.ece
http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/more-sport/2010/02/02/murray-i-fear-being-in-fed-s-shadow-for-years-115875-22012401/
Euthanasia tribunals; a good idea?
Terry Pratchett, author of numerous fantasy novels and himself a sufferer of
Alzheimer’s outlined in his Richard Dimbleby lecture that he would like to see
Euthanasia tribunals for cases of ‘assisted death’. This would mean that it is
not soley up to the ‘applicant’ and immediate relatives but instead the
tribunal could collect all the facts and evidence before giving a
recommendation. This would reduce the risks of people feeling compelled to die
and protect their rights.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2010/feb/02/terry-pratchett-assisted-suicide-tribunal
http://www.heraldscotland.com/life-style/real-lives/alive-to-the-dangers-of-legislation-1.1003079
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/michaeldeacon/100024694/sir-terry-pratchett-is-right-lets-legalise-assisted-death/
Debates on Debatewise (http://debatewise.org/categories/rrt as usual):
Does John Terry deserve to remain as England Captain?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog/2010/jan/31/john-terry-fabio-capello-england-captaincy
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/world-cup-2010/teams/england/7106154/Embarrassing-John-Terry-must-give-up-England-captaincy.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8492488.stm
The US is right to revert to a more hard line stance on Iran?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/feb/02/iran-dismisses-us-missile-shield
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jan/31/iran-nuclear-us-missiles-gulf
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/leon-t-hadar/multi-thinking-about-iran_b_446052.html
Religious freedom should come before equality.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/feb/01/pope-condemns-british-equality-bill
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2010/feb/01/pope-benedict-equality-legislation
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/telegraph-view/7131035/The-Pope-Labour-and-religious-freedom.html
The US should not cut back its space program.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/feb/01/us-space-mission-cuts-mars
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/barackobama/7139644/Nasa-forced-to-hire-private-space-taxis-by-White-House.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/02/AR2010020201775.html
The Royal Navy should be reduced to being a defence force.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article7011651.ece
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article7011329.ece
http://www.henryjacksonsociety.org/stories.asp?id=279
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