Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Greenhouse gases 'do warm oceans'
It is being called the most compelling evidence yet: Scientists say they have “compelling” evidence that ocean warming over the past 40 years can be linked to the industrial release of carbon dioxide. US researchers compared the rise in ocean temperatures with predictions from climate models and found human activity was the most likely cause.…
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Don't lift the arms embargo on China
So argues David Shambaugh, and I believe rightly so. He takes us through 5 arguments the Europeans are using to justify lifting the embargo, and basically destroys each one. I’ll quote the whole thing: In his meetings with European leaders this week, President George W. Bush will try to persuade the Europeans not to lift…
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U.S. presses Europe to shun Hezbollah
Europeans did do as requested in relation to Hamas, but now the US is demanding the same treatment for Hezbollah. The European argument for not listing Hezbollah as a terrorist organisation: …some European countries are questioning whether Hamas should remain listed now that some of its members have won elections in Gaza. This argument, pressed…
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Watersheds
Michael Ledeen’s recent article in National Review came up in conversation with some people on Friday night. I found the article through a Roger Simon’s blog, who believes this is something the blogosphere should get behind. Ledeen’s suggestion: The great political battlefield in the Middle East is, as it has been all along, Iran, the…
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Warming trends over the Atlantic
H.D.S. Greenway, a columnist for the Boston Globe provides this piece on the same subject as Dale. He does make some interesting points that I had not really read elsewhere, at least put in the way he puts it, for example: Now that the given reasons for going to war in Iraq have proved bogus,…
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Rice's tour: Your turn, Europe
Reginald Dale, editor of the policy quarterly European Affairs and a media fellow of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, with this piece from last week, yeah I meant to blog it, but it got lost in the list of things to blog. But it is relevant now that Bush is in the middle of…
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Against All Enemies
I managed to read most of Richard Clarke’s book, Against All Enemies, on the train back from Dublin. I finished the last couple of chapters this evening. Regardless of his views, it is a great read – almost more like a Tom Clancy book than a look inside the counter-terrorism heads in Washington. There are…
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Back
Back from my travels, now to catch up on this Paris Hilton story…
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Dublin trip
I am off to Dublin today folks – posting will be relatively light. Though if I hear any more on the events in Cork I will blog them. I am looking forward to meeting the good people from the Freedom Institute, Richard buying me my award pints, and getting to the final film at the…
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Arrests in Cork
Several people were arrested in Douglas, Passage West and Farran earlier today though this RTE report fails to mention that. A substantial sum of money was also found. I have little doubt it is related to the Northern Bank robbery in Belfast. One of those arrested is believed to have direct connections with Sinn Fein.…
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