FRIDAY NIGHT DOG BLOG: GOING HOME July 11, 2009
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Sasha and Dexter have memories longer than the road that stretches ahead. So they are going home.
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CLIMATE MORALITY? July 10, 2009
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Global warming is either a fact or it isn’t. There is no room for negotiation or politics. First there is the question of truth.
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RE-ELECTION July 9, 2009
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According to the “quick count” it seems that Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yuhoyono has won re-election without the need for a run off election in September.
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DR DAVID KELLY’S DEATH REVISITED July 8, 2009
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Dr David Kelly’s death of apparent suicide at the time seemed unconvincing and strange in July 2003. Now The Daily Express has revealed that he was writing an expose of his work on anthrax and to rebut the possession by Iraq nuclear or biological weapons.
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XINJIANG PROTEST July 7, 2009
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The response of authoritarian governments follow they stereotypical formula. Xinjiang is the latest example, when apparently the underlying tensions between the Han Chinese and Uighur ethnicities. 140 people are reported to have died as a result.
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US BASES July 6, 2009
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Chalmers Johnson has been on the case of off shore US bases. He notes that world wide they are now almost 800 in number. How might they be necessary? Why is there not more opposition to them?
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HAPPY PLANET INDEX July 5, 2009
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The New Economics Foundation has an index, first published in 2006, that combines scores for most countries into a single index combining life expectancy, carbon footprint and subjective life happiness.
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FRIDAY NIGHT DOG BLOG – TANGLED UP IN BLUE July 4, 2009
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You might ask how can a dog story be one of nonviolence?
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WAR OF WORDS July 3, 2009
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Wars are fought with words and narratives. Who would have thought that Associated Press was stubborned to the Pentagon?
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GAZA BLOCKADE CONTINUES July 2, 2009
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A group of twenty activists and their boat have been arrested in international waters by the Israeli navy.
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WHEN TURNING POINTS TIP July 1, 2009
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Seldom do people who live at history’s turning points caught up in events understand that a new course has been taken.
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ET TU, TURNBULL? June 30, 2009
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Utegate did not go down well with the punters so the polls suggest. Lest we forget it was supposed to be the political demise of Wayne Swan.
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THE “FIELDING” REBUTTAL June 29, 2009
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Senator Stephen Fielding, Family First, has issued a paper setting out his (and his four experts) rebuttal to the answers provided by the Government to his three questions on global warming.
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HONDURAS COUP June 29, 2009
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There has been a coup in Hondouras. Do we thereby conclude that the President could not be corrupted, or was it that the local wealthy elite merely acted on their own?
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IRAN’S FUTURE June 28, 2009
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Has the protest movement in Iran, as is suggested for example by Kim Sengupta in The Indpendent, run out of stream?
FRIDAY NIGHT DOG BLOG – WALKING AND WATCHING June 27, 2009
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Sasha and Dexter don’t just go for a walk. They get a chance to stop and look around. Sometimes they have their own ideas about what is interesting.
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“ALARMISTS” VS “SKEPTICS” June 26, 2009
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David Evans, along with three other scientists, who accompanied Senator Steve Fielding meeting with Senator Penny Wong, argues that the “climate alarmists” will not debate the “skeptics”.
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A SPECK IN THE SKY June 24, 2009
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How you see things depends on from position they are seen. In my case I could not see it all. Take the view from Saturn, and a crescendo hardly seems appropriate.
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POST-COLONIALISM June 24, 2009
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In an editorial the writers of The New York Times identify errors made in Afghanistan which will be need to be fixed if the mission is to succeed.
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PEOPLE POWER LIMITS June 23, 2009
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John Quiggin’s notes that “people power” is not unproblematic. People power is not guaranteed success, but how does it work at all?
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