Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Nato is a threat to Europe and must be disbanded
Jonathan Steele argues for the disbandment of NATO: We must go all the way, up to the termination of Nato. An alliance which should have wound up when the Soviet Union collapsed now serves almost entirely as a device for giving the US an unfair and unreciprocated droit de regard over European foreign policy. As…
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US ready to put weapons in space
The Guardian is reporting that recent documents have revealed that the US is looking towards the using orbital platforms for weapons, and researching the use of weapons in space: Internal USAF documents reveal that seizing control of the ‘final frontier’ is deemed essential for modern warfare. Counterspace Operations reveals that destroying enemy satellites would improve…
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Exclusive: Rules Set for $50 Million 'America's Space Prize'
A rather ambitious successor to the Ansari X-prize: Anyone who wants to follow in the shoes of Burt Rutan and win the next big space prize will have to build a spacecraft capable of taking a crew of no fewer than five people to an altitude of 400 kilometers and complete two orbits of the…
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2004 Election Weirdness Continues
Alot of these stories have been discounted of late, but still worth a look at with regard to the whole subject of e-voting. I’ve read dozens of submissions about election anomalies in the last week and they show no sign of slowing so I’ve decided to post a few of the main ones here to…
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Blogging As Typing, Not Journalism
Eric Engberg lambasts bloggers in this piece on the CBS news, he notes: The public is now assaulted by news and pretend-news from many directions, thanks to the now infamous “information superhighway.” But the ability to transmit words, we learned during the Citizens Band radio fad of the 70s, does not mean that any knowledge…
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Yellow Brick Road
The Yellow Brick Road song addresses to the many people who have misunderstood and misinterpreted some precise episodes of Marshall’s past. The introduction clearly reveal each generation’s will to make some progress in comparison to the elder generations: ‘ We all have this idea that we should move up from our parents station and each…
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Another touching ode for Hailie: Mockinbird
The most touching words Eminem put into his brand new album are the words dedicated to his little daughter Hailie. When I first listened to the song, I loved the softness of the song and I couldn’t hide my tears, because I was moved deeply inside. When Marshall talks about Hailie, nobody could doubt his…
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J.R Watkins' betrayal
The Eminem Blog I don’t want to sound too na’ve, but I will never get why some women dare using Eminem’s celebrity status after dating him just to get so much talked about. As far as I am concerned, no matter about the identity of the person you are dating, there is a dangerous line…
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Russian warns of Abkhazia intent
More ructions in one of Georgia’s breakaway regions : Russia may intervene in Georgia’s breakaway province of Abkhazia to protect its interests there, if a post- election crisis escalates further. In response, Georgia has called on the international community to protect the country’s sovereignty. A decade-long row between Georgia and Russia over Abkhazia is getting…
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Cheney undergoing hospital tests
Dick Cheney may have heart problems – will this affect his role as VP after January?
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