IFocus
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Sorry I am late here got some examples to debate?
IFocus,
Its not the economic agenda bringing out the neo nazies, it's the sociocultural agenda.
Sorry I am late here got some examples to debate?
In the United States, there are many state laws that force mothers to share their children who were conceived as a result of being raped.
One such case is 18-year-old Noemi, whose home state of Nebraska has a law that forces her to let the rapist who fathered her baby daughter share custody with the child, reports CNN.
“I can’t tell what he will do to my daughter,” Noemi said. She is afraid that her baby will “get hurt or something bad will happen to her” while in custody of the man who attacked her.
“Now, I have to text my rapist or email my rapist,” she said. “To leave my daughter with someone I didn’t trust. I’m forced to parent with him and to see him on a weekly basis …”
According to the National Conference of State Legislatures, there are an estimated 17,000 to 32,000 rape-related pregnancies in the United States each year.
Noemi’s rapist was charged with first-degree sexual assault, but successfully pleaded to a lesser charge of third-degree sexual assault.
Had he been convicted of sexual assault in the first degree, he would have no parental rights under Nebraska law. But since he was convicted of third-degree assault instead, he was granted parental rights.
As a result, he won unsupervised visits with his daughter for a few hours every other weekend, along with two Tuesdays each month. And there’s nothing Noemi can do about it.
This legal situation also benefits the rapist in other ways, notes Salon, citing a real-life example. In that case, the rapist bribed the mother by dropping his demand for visitation rights on the condition that she agree to waive his obligation to pay child support.
There are mothers in Noemi’s situation all over the country, because fewer than half the states have laws that allow the termination of parental rights to rapists without a conviction.
According to experts, most of these state laws were written at a time when there was a strong social bias against unmarried mothers and the laws, therefore, did not grant parental rights for children who were born to unmarried women.
As for Noemi, she says is determined to fight. She plans to take her case to the Nebraska legislature, which is considering changing the law so that it protects her and the thousands of other mothers who are currently compelled to share their children with rapists.
Immigration, Hanson, "no more Muslims" .
Australia depends on immigration for many reasons a lot being of being of a high complexity and conflicting aims.
We used to depend on immigration to supply people to work on the farms, in the factories and in the mines, but with increasing automation and technology we don't need them any more and a lot will end up unemployed.
Low wages growth indicates an over supply of labour, the solution to that should be obvious.
When the economy started tanking the USA prime pumped just like us. The USA increased its industry and we reduced ours. The USA has a shortage of mobile skilled labour, we don't need much skilled labour because we don't have any real scale industry.
It's difficult to see where we will be going without a genuine manufacturing capability. A service economy probably with most of the jobs going to child/old age/ disability support and selling imported goods.
There isn't much point in people getting university qualifications in science or engineering unless they intend to live and work overseas, and we therefore lose the tax revenue that we invested in their education.
Science degrees might get you a job in high school teaching, but without govt departments the pond is very small.
A number of NSW and ACT universities are vying for the opportunity to access funding from the Ramsay Centre for Western Civilisation, which aims to “revive” liberal arts and the humanities in university education in Australia.
John Howard: launched the Ramsay Centre on Monday. Dean Lewins/AAP
The centre, launched on Monday by former prime minister John Howard, has the support of former Labor leader Kim Beazley, and former prime minister Tony Abbott. The centre defines “western civilisation” through classical studies, including ancient Greek and Rome, the European renaissance and enlightenment, modernism, and Christian thought and philosophy. It seeks to put European cultural production at its heart.
Na. Churchill was wrong there. And he ought to know better having been at the head of an imperial power in decline.
The decline and fall of Western civilisations, as with any civilisation, will not be due to the lack of a good story to tell. But will be due to imperial hubris. Military over-reach. Way too many useless foreign adventures.
That's a bit brutal Luutzu!! But on reflection makes sense.
I still think that a good cohesive worthwhile narrative in a society can be valuable in terms of a unifying force. Having said that I struggle to see what that could be today.
If I had to offer one theme it would be Renewal of the Earth. Practically speaking there is zero chance we can survive as a structured society on this planet if we continue to overuse our resources and effectively destroy the infrastructure that supports all life. Maybe that is the "cause" ?
Maybe the story we can tell our kids today could be, I don't know... to quote JFK...
Then there's Trump... going around the world using his presidential authority to personally pressed other countries to buy American arms, waging wars on everything and everyone but wealth and the rich.
Bragging about bombing Syria, quoted by his UN envoy as America is "lock and loaded"... Jesus Christ.
What was I saying?Long day.
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