Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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The Frank Connolly Controversy
Over the last week and intensely at the weekend, the ‘Colombia-gate’ saga again reared its ugly head. Readers might remember the tale of 3 Irish men finding themselves in Colombia, bird-watching we were told, but arrested and tried for training anti-government marxist FARC rebels. They later popped up in Ireland, and the Colombian authorities are…
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Beirut bomb 'kills anti-Syria MP'
It looks like Syria are giving the proverbial two fingers to the UN: A prominent anti-Syrian MP in Lebanon has been killed in a car bomb attack in the capital Beirut, say reports. Gibran Tueni’s convoy was targeted as it travelled in the Christian-dominated eastern suburb of Mekallis. At least two other people were killed…
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Solicitors hit by new double bills scandal
This was flagged back by myself and Anthony over on Irishcorruption.com back when the scandal first broke. It was again repeated by Anthony in a post last Thursday where he noted that there were likely millions stolen by solicitors. Be that as it may, the Sunday Independent report today that there are likely to be…
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Passenger shot on Florida plane
London shooting take two? A passenger claiming to have a bomb on board an American Airlines plane in Miami has been shot and wounded by a US federal officer, officials have said. The passenger, who has been arrested, was challenged by the air marshal after he seemed to reach into a bag. He tried to…
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Blog party in Cork
I never got round to blogging about the excellent blog dinner arranged by Tom Raftery, here in Cork last week. What struck me was that, as far as I am aware, it took the arrival of a foreign (I use the term politely) blogger in order to get the biggest gathering of Irish bloggers in…
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Car sales rip off
Primetime has stirred up something of a hornet’s nest, detailed alleged cartels in the car industry. Doesn’t everyone know this happens already? I wasn’t surprised by anything in the report, as I am sure most people weren’t. Is not a risk of totally free markets that collusion occurs and prices are fixed artificially high?
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Pluggin
The Dossing Times notes of me: Gavins Blog. For some reason this blog always has a nice friendly atmosphere to it and I have no idea why. Always links to interesting articles and founder of www.irishcorruption.com/ Is there any reason why it would not have a nice friendly atmosphere? Hehe.
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Vatican advisers meet to consider future of limbo
This was mentioned on Gerry Ryan yesterday morning, where he asked the obvious question – what on earth happens all those people in limbo? Where do they go now. Sinead has also brought the subject up. Yes the Catholic Church is an easy thing to take the piss out of on occassions such as this.…
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Skype shout out
My handle on Skype is ‘gavinsblog’, if anyone in the Irish blogosphere wants to add me.
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Skiing in Dubai
I will be going skiing in the desert for Christmas, later in the day I will retire to the beach 😉 I would also hope to do some podcasting from Dubai over the holidays.
Got any book recommendations?