Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Bombers put on alert for N.Korea
Don Rumsfeld has put long range bombers on alert in the pacific – in order to deter any Korean oppurtunism while the administration is engaged with Iraq. Recently there have been movements of fissile material in Korea – being watched closely by the Americans.
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Buzz Aldrin on Columbia disaster
The second man to walk on the moon has some comments on the future of space travel, and some inspiring words about courage and bravery. By Gill Robb Wilson: Somebody has to give himself As the price of a new frontier. Somebody has to take a course and climb to a rendezvous where a lonesome…
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Suing over global warming
Scientific American is reporting that a suit in San Francisco involving “Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace and the cities of Boulder, Colo., and Oakland, Calif., as plaintiffs, seeks to force two government agencies to assess the total impact on climate of the projects they finance. Rather than treaties and regulations, litigation may soon be the…
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Our age of discovery
Along the same lines as Duncan Steels article in the Guardian, Max Boot talks about past ages of discovery, and the fatalities that occured then. He also argues that our exploration must continue.
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Religion and Foreign Policy
William Pfaff writes a very intriguing piece today. He talks about the relation between religion and the Bush administration – Calvinism and Protestantism dogma in relation to Foreign Policy. Well worth the read.
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Anti-European is not nice
Todd Gitlin, professor of journalism and sociology at Columbia University, writes something of a polemic against his own country. He derides Bush and his cronies for their dismissal of ‘Old Europe’.It is a very interesting piece, I have not read anything like that in a while.
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Exploration must continue
Duncan Steel makes the case for the continuing of space exploration, and that human space flight should be at the forefront of such adventures into the skies. I can only agree with him.
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End of US imperialism?
A well-thought through, well constructed, reasonable and logical argument from Madelaine Bunting. This is one of the best pieces on US imperialism that I have read in some time. Its worth reading it twice – an excellent piece of writing.
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US caught spying on Security Council members
The Observers headline today makes for interesting reading. According to the report the US has been carrying out surveillance on the middle-six Security Council members. If true, and I would not be surprised if it is, then the US is engaged in an illegal activity – and is destined to war.
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Lack of updates
I haven’t been writing as much as I normally do – been busy with other matters. I went to see a production of Sophocles’ tragedy Antigone in the Cork Opera House on Saturday night. It was a riveting production, I have now read the play as translated on MIT’s classics archive. It is a great…
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