Prospects for Wednesday, 27 February
- 27 Feb 08, 11:08 AM
Today's programme producer is Carol Rubra - here is her early email to the team.
Good morning,
There's no obvious lead today but I'm interested in looking at Welfare reform ahead of James Purnell's announcement tomorrow. Do we need a new Welfare State for the 21st Century? Have social attitudes to the benefits system changed as society has become less homogenous? Please come to the meeting with ideas for guests for a big discussion, treatments and angles.
Which other stories interest you?
Heathrow protesters on the roof of parliament, more chip and pin, EU expenses, DNA case, the Obama/ Clinton debate, pro referendum lobby of parliament.
We have a film from Rupert Wingfield Hayes from the Volga on Russia reviving its strategic nuclear bomber force.
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Pleased you are to continue the chip & pin debate judging by the massive number of "blogs" on this, inspite of 502 messages on your server. (hence the large number of "duplicate +" messages. GET IT SORTED)
Perhaps a return to using gold, cash or barter may be in order? Technology-eh? You can't beat it-well some can obviously do??!!
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Will the tramline thinking persist with Russia?
Q-is a strong Russia good for the West?
Yes- it protects our flank with emerging powers in the East
Q-Is Russia our enemy?
No
Can we work with her?
Of course, and why not?
Q- who generates this (lazy) cold war rhetoric and mentality and why?
perhaps we might ask this,
a new 'Russian threat' will need squillions of pounds and dollars wasted on anti-volga aircraft missiles,
history repeating itself
Bob
PS the minkies (or should it be the minskies) must have got my last blog
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I watched last night's Democratic Party "debate". A points win for Obama. She never laid a glove on him.
I was disappointed that neither candidate seems able to show anything less than unqualified, unquestioning, uncritical support for Israel.
tinyurl.com/3ddpgy
Far from being "our most important ally", Israel is one of our biggest liabilities.
There is a difference between anti-semitism and seeing the arrogance and oppression dealt out by Israel to the natives of that fair land. I'm sure even some of his "many Jewish supporters" are less than totally uncritical of the behaviour of that rogue state.
How does either candidate hope to heal the world while remaining blindfolded?
In sadness,
Salaam/Shalom/Shanthi/Dorood/Peace
Namaste -ed
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I watched last night's Democratic Party "debate". A points win for Obama. She never laid a glove on him.
I was disappointed that neither candidate seems able to show anything less than unqualified, unquestioning, uncritical support for Israel.
tinyurl.com/3ddpgy
Far from being "our most important ally", Israel is one of our biggest liabilities.
There is a difference between anti-semitism and seeing the arrogance and oppression dealt out by Israel to the natives of that fair land. I'm sure even some of his "many Jewish supporters" are less than totally uncritical of the behaviour of that rogue state.
How does either candidate hope to heal the world while remaining blindfolded?
In sadness,
Salaam/Shalom/Shanthi/Dorood/Peace
Namaste -ed
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I watched last night's Democratic Party "debate". A points win for Obama. She never laid a glove on him.
I was disappointed that neither candidate seems able to show anything less than unqualified, unquestioning, uncritical support for Israel.
tinyurl.com/3ddpgy
Far from being "our most important ally", Israel is one of our biggest liabilities.
There is a difference between anti-semitism and seeing the arrogance and oppression dealt out by Israel to the natives of that fair land. I'm sure even some of his "many Jewish supporters" are less than totally uncritical of the behaviour of that rogue state.
How does either candidate hope to heal the world while remaining blindfolded?
In sadness,
Salaam/Shalom/Shanthi/Dorood/Peace
Namaste -ed
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In the case for a DNA database as usual correspondants and the media have concentrated on the sensational and emotional but not the practical.
Consider. A young woman (or man) leaves their house for a night out and catches a bus into the city centre, brushing past many people on the way to their seat which is covered in DNA from others having sat there since it was last cleaned. The person spends the evening in crowded pubs and clubs collecting many pieces of DNA from people. Then they walk home and get attacked and killed.
The police (if they do their job right) will have hundreds if not thousands of DNA samples to search for on their DNA database. But they will all be on the database so does it mean everyone who came into contact with the victim is arrested?
Sounds ridiculous doesn't it but that's what happens now....
The problem with DNA is that science is well in advance of the judicial system and the publics ability to realise the consequences of the science. If you sneeze in a pub, a shop or on the street as a future murder or rape victim walks past you will be a suspect.
I support the police and I admire them but sadly I don't think they have the capacity to properly use a DNA database.
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