[Debatewise RRT] Re: late debates (again)
- From: Chris Madden <chris6madden@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: debatewiserrt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2009 22:43:19 +0000 (GMT)
Hi all,
Ill take 'Should Serena Williams have been suspended?' if thats cool
Chris
--- On Tue, 1/12/09, Alex Helling <alex@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
From: Alex Helling <alex@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [Debatewise RRT] late debates (again)
To: debatewiserrt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Tuesday, 1 December, 2009, 21:18
Hi everyone,
Sorry about sending out so few debates, I spent too
long adding up the scores for debater of the month. We just get too many
debates these days to do it quickly, which is of course a good thing! Even if
it does mean more work for me. It will come as no surprise that Nadia and Sarah
are the top two again, I make it that Nadia had 90 points to 88, so a close run
thing, as I almost certainly missed some will Sarah call in the observers and
demand a recount? I hope not as I don’t have the time! Also congratulations to
Helen Doherty for coming in third.
And to everyone else thanks for all your contributions as always,
I promise to send out more debates on Friday/Saturday.
Alex
Dubai debt crisis signals a further recession.
Dubai has been the fastest growing financial centre over the past decade, it
has been a showcase to show oil rich countries how to deal with running out of
oil. Dubai did this by moving into finance, making itself the centre of the
Middle East. However Dubai world, the emirate’s biggest company is in crisis
and its larger neighbour Abu Dhabi is having to bail Dubai out. As a financial
centre, with a ruling family with investments all over the world the crisis may
reach worldwide, hitting confidence that is still not good. This in turn could
mean that the recovery stalls. So are we heading to a new financial crisis?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/27/dubai-debt-crisis-will-it_n_372055.html
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Global_Economy/KL01Dj04.html
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE5AP1L120091127
Javier Solana has been a successful representative of Europe
Javier Solana has served Europe as the High Representative for Common Foreign
and Security Policy for ten years. He represented Europe in areas of foreign
policy where Europe had managed to agree to a common policy. He has been
involved in negotiating numerous treaties for Europe but he has mostly been
involved in the Middle East as Europe negotiates together as part of the
Quartet on the issue of Israel/Palestine and has been working together with
Germany, France and Great Britain to try to solve the nuclear crisis, and has
so far not succeeded. So as he is about to be replaced by Cathy Ashton is his
legacy good for Europe?
http://www.europeanvoice.com/article/imported/what-the-eu-can-learn-from-solana%27s-legacy/66524.aspx
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jul/08/javier-solana-eu-foreign-policy
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/eu/6695817/Catherine-Ashton-prepares-to-replace-Javier-Solana-as-EU-foreign-chief.html
Russia’s strong arm tactics have failed to quell militants
Russia’s tactics in its separatist regions are very brutal, its opponents are
in turn brutal themselves. The Russians long ago declared that the war in
Chechnya was over yet the separatists have still been involved in bombings
since. On 28th October an express train between Moscow and St. Petersburg was
derailed, investigators have blamed a bomb. Although no one has claimed
responsibility the authorities are blaming Chechen and Ingushetian terrorists
for the bombing. This shows that the Russian tactics may prevent open
resistance but is breeding resentment that surfaces in continuing terrorist
attack
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8383960.stm
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125938999092967765.html
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/SNAA-7WF562?OpenDocument
Should Serena Williams have been suspended
Serena Williams’ outburst at a line judge in her semi final of the US open
handed kim Clijsters the match as the decision was made to hand kim a point due
to it being a second penalty. Now it has gone further and Williams has received
a record fine for the offence. She did how ever get away without being
suspended from playing tennis, should she have received this further penalty?
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/sports_blog/2009/09/serena-williams-outburst-video-/comments/page/2/
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/tennis/article6832729.ece
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/addiction-in-society/200909/mcenroe-serenas-outburst-was-fine
http://www.usatoday.com/sports/tennis/2009-11-30-serena-williams-open-fine_N.htm
Iran needs the economic reforms proposed by Ahmadinejad
Despite having some of the largest Oil and gas reserves in the world Iran’s
economy is in dire straits. For example despite being a member of OPEC Iran
imports refined fuels at a high price. This bill would phase out or reduce
subsidies on food and fuel, immense costs to the state, which is clearly
unsustainable. However there are worries that such a change could cause
stagflation, the worst possible problem for an economy. So are these reforms
helpful or not?
http://www.rferl.org/content/Iran_President_Proposes_Economic_Reform_Bill_To_MPs/1365014.html
http://www.thenational.ae/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20091112/FOREIGN/711119854/1002
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2009/11/03/iran_on_the_edge
http://www.rferl.org/content/Iran_MPs_Hand_President_Setback_On_Economic_Reform/1507619.html
Are Britons becoming lazy?
Britain is suffering an epidemic of laziness. The government is unable to
tackle obesity and we spend longer and longer in front of the TV. However is
this not how things were supposed to be, as we get richer there is less reason
for us to work continuously, indeed in the 1930’s the economist John Maynard
Keynes predicted we would be working a 15 hour week by 2030, so what’s wrong
with a little laziness?
http://www.politics.co.uk/news/health/britain-s-laziness-epidemic-$1317327.htm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2009/aug/10/nuffield-health-study-laziness
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/sep/01/economics
Is the ‘war on terrorism’ winnable?
The war on terrorism that started after 9/11 is still ongoing, it goes through
name changes but the core of the conflict remains the same, we are involved in
a conflict against a nebulous group of terrorists. This is not a war in the
conventional sense, nor is it winnable in the conventional sense. We win when
there are no more terrorist attacks, even capturing Osama bin Laden no longer
makes more than a symbolic difference. Previous conflicts have shown that
terrorism can be won, for example the IRA gave up its guns and stopped bombing,
but such examples are localised, a deal cant be reached with al Qaeda globally
to make peace, so can it be won, or even end?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/jul/19/alqaida.terrorism
http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=2602
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=4820
Schools should have single sex classes to improve academic standards.
Even in co-educational schools more and more pupils are being taught in single
sex classes. Both male and female students concentrate better in single sex
classes so they should help push up academic standards. Parents are worried
that girls in particular get distracted by the boys so wish to have single sex
classes to prevent this, however the benefits are mainly for the boys. However
are academic standards everything, surely it is a more rounded experience to be
taught together, presumably not everyone benefits by being separated and
schools may well not have the necessary resources to teach things separately –
especially if this requires different styles of teaching.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/education/article6938112.ece
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2006/jun/25/schools.gender
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/03/080303120346.htm
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