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Topic History of: Where is all this leading to?
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JC Not so long ago I was doing a course which involved reading old newspapers from the mid 1800s. Similar shock and gossip stories to today, just no pictures to help with impact. The Alfie story is amazingly insignificant on the scale of things. It happened, it's over, and it'll be forgotten. Just like all the other supposedly sensational stories over the past 200 years.

There was also a lot of parliamentary corruption back then. As the saying goes - Power corrupts.
Locked Out Well, I don't know about anyone else, but I'm beginning to get just a little jaded hearing MP after MP talking about "the system being rotten". Nothing happens by accident. The system didn't make them take advantage of it, and if they tried that argument in court they'd probably get an extra couple of years for contempt. Every single one of them made their own decisions to claim as a matter of course. Ten years ago I did stupid things that resulted in my learning in the hardest possible way that you have to take responsibility for your own actions. As someone who crossed the boundaries of decency I take full responsibility for mine. The lawmakers, it seems, have yet to take a similarly honest approach to their own offensive and offending behaviour.

And people think I'm scum...
JK2006 Yes I really feel we will look back fondly on 12 year old "Dad" Alfie as the moment when the media lost the plot forever.
veritas I'm pretty sure some sort of one world government is a great wish for many with a countries present government becoming like administrative state council but I feel the "1984" type control may not be the sucess planned for.

With the downfall of the USSR we saw the Russian Mafia spread worldwide to a point where it's now impregnable and untouchable. The old Mafia dons of the US mustlook on in envy.

We see with credit card fraud-which was always a thousand times bigger than we were ever told, that whatever new measure is put in place, crime gangs can circumvent it within months.

I reckon most politicians are really flailing around like chooks without heads and dreaming up any new law or policy they think may divert the public from their basic uselessness.

And the media is likewise. JK points to the infamous Alfie tale..in some ways that was almost a watershed. I reckon the tabloid media is on a downward slide that will accelerate dramatically.
JC I don't know why it's not possible to care about the small things AND the big things.
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