[Debatewise RRT] Re: late debates (again)
- From: helen doherty <xhelendohertyx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <debatewiserrt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2009 23:18:19 +0000
I'll take lazy Britons please
Thanks
Helen
From: alex@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
To: debatewiserrt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [Debatewise RRT] late debates (again)
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2009 21:18:02 +0000
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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