Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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A deep divide over safety in the skies
An interesting piece on recent problems over sky marshalls. Relations between the United States and the rest of the world have hit another patch of turbulence in recent weeks over the issue of armed sky marshals. Many countries are deeply unhappy about new airline security requirements, and public anger against perceived American imperialism is again…
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Enlargement could spell the end of the EU
A stark warning from Richard North, author of The Castle of Lies: Why Britain Must Get Out of Europe and former research director for the Europe of Democracies and Diversities Group in the European Parliament. If, against all the odds, the Constitution does go ahead, it would be like locking down the lid on a…
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The guy who created this website deserves to be mute
Look, this is one of the worst example of intolerance I found on the net: http://www.mtvhell.com/articles/mute/
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Charlie McCreevy
Our own Finance Minister, Charlie McCreevy, was just on BBC Newsnight. God I hate that guy, he treats Irish people with contempt, and his arrogance knows no bounds.
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A Caucus of Democracies : How to reform the U.N
Max Kampelman has a thoughtful article in the Opinion Journal/Wall Street Journal on reforming the UN. This is a subject fairly dear to me, as I believe that in order for humanity to survive we must come to some sort global arrangement. Kampelman’s suggestion is interesting to say the least: In order to advance the…
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William Safire: America is rolling back global terror
William Safire makes a list of the reasons why America is winning the war on terror. There are, I think, some erroneous logical errors in there, as well as some irrelevent stuff. If he is right, why have the number of terrorist incidences in the world risen rather than fallen since the war on terror…
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UPI Exclusive: Bush OKs new moon missions
This UPI article goes into greater detail than most on the plans for the Moon and Mars. I didn’t see any of these details in other news reports. Where or if they go to Mars, they will initially only orbit the planet and then come straight home, much the same as the Apollo program. Under…
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An EU challenge for Ireland
It appears that the Irish media missed this editorial in the Herald Tribune. They might catch up later in the week, or else I missed it being reported. The editorial is fairly positive, it indicates the challenges facing Ahern and Ireland during our EU presidency. That’s because the Irish and their prime minister, Bertie Ahern,…
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Reuters protests about detention of staff in Iraq
Seems that Reuters has now made a formal complaint to the US military about the detention of three members of their staff. According to this Ha’aretz article, the Reuters staff were detained for 72 hours, on suspicion of posing as journalists in order to shoot down helicopters. I hope the military do a proper investigation,…
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KJ-52's songs about Eminem
A few weeks ago, I have posted an article about KJ 52s « Dear Slim » songs. In the meantime, I had the curiosity to have a look at the lyrics and to listen to the songs. I know that KJ has driven mad a lot of Eminem fans (mostly kids), but I think it…
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