Bill Emmott writes a rather hawkish piece in the Guardian today. A quick word search will show you that no where in his article is the word ‘oil’ mentioned. I think that this word is pivotal to any planned invasion of Iraq. It is interesting that this aspect of the war is not being played up as much as in the last one, but I think it is a crucial part of American rationale.
Month: November 2002
Yes, we did go the moon
The European Space Agency are planning to use the Very Large Telescope (VLT) to image the remains of NASA equipment still on the moon. This might convince conspiracy theorists that man did indeed land on the moon. I can be somewhat of a conspiracy theorist myself, but I think this one is too far fetched – man did go to the moon!
When State power goes wrong: Fred Hiatt
Fred Hiatt writes about press freedom in Eritrea and the effects the war on terrorism has had on overall freedoms in the US. The balancing act of freedom vs security is one that is increasingly going in favour of security – if it can even be called that.
Gavinsblog not to be updated until next week
Yes for all ten people reading this now! lol I will not be updating anymore this week, I am off to Manchester! ๐
Gavinsblog visits increase
Yes my own little weblog has managed to come nigh on 500 visits this month so far. I have my slice of the 500,000,000 people surfing around. Perhaps with a better site and better content, and who knows maybe even a comments section, I could get 2000 a month? My aim would be to get more than that, but I need to work hard on it. I need your help! LOL ๐
Ireland defeat Argentina
As I correctly predicted yesterday, Ireland beat Argentina. A very messy match in Dublin, the pitch was in an awful state. But we won, but hopefully our play will improve in the next match.
Ireland to beat Argentina tomorrow
Yes this is mainly a politics site, but its also current affairs – and that includes sport. Ireland plays the Argies tomorrow, and after our defeat of the Aussies :)) and then of Fiji I think we should win. But no doubt something will go wrong, this kind of success can’t last forever can it?
The US is right: Michael Glennon
A Michael Glennon presents a notable argument in today’s Tribune. He argues that the sidelining of the UN security council by the US is justifiable, to an extent. I am going to come back to this guy and this argument.
Things have gotten worse
Seumas (Seamus?) Milne in the Guardian today writes an excellent article on why the foreign policy pursued by the US has only worsened an already bad situation. You can read it here.
Star Trek 10
Yes you can see a preview now of Star Trek: Nemesis, not as much of a fan as I used to be, but was once a real Trekker ๐