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FRIDAY NIGHT DOG BLOG: “INTELLIGENT OR NOT?” May 25, 2013

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Astrophysicist, Neil De Grasse Tyson, poses the problem of how do we expect to understand another species when we cannot communicate with creatures here on earth  who share our DNA.
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DRONE ON, IGNORING THE MURDERERS May 23, 2013

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The questions, moral and others, that surround the drone murder program in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen and elsewhere are many.
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THE ONE AND ONLY WAY May 21, 2013

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Group Think as might be expected is the way of corporations, as is propaganda. When these two characteristics combined with money as political influence, the mere semblances of democracy process are cast into disrepute.
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FRIDAY NIGHT DOG BLOG: DANGER IN THE DOWNWARD PATH May 18, 2013

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“Religious” reflection this week1.. And who knows what the cosmos has to do with? Dexter and Hannah, whatever else, are always acting in present time. In other words that pay attention.
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GUATEMALA: TERROR AND JUSTICE May 15, 2013

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The news cycle moves quickly. Often the reports available are comprehensive, often leaving unanswered questions. Such was the case just two or three days ago when their reports of the conviction of a former dictator of Guatemala, Jose Efrain Rios Montt, for genocide and crimes against humanity.
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WE MADE IT: 400(PPM)!!! May 12, 2013

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That is all of us. Everyone on earth. As in any common activity there a some slackers, some non-makers. The Chinese and Indians lately have picked up, assisted with imports of Australian coal.
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FRIDAY NIGHT DOG BLOG: “WHAT I THOUGHT OF YOU” May 11, 2013

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I went with a neighbour and two children to visit our former neighbour, Ernie, at his nursing home. Along the way we listened to Holly Throsby.
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SOCIO-ECONOMIC PARADIGMS May 10, 2013

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Joe Hockey, I imagine is pleading for a new paradigm that will make his budgeting more relevant to the world as it now has become. We can listen to two people, one who addresses his current paradigm, neoliberalism and the other who will address, “What it means to be human”.
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NEVER ENOUGH May 9, 2013

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The rich it seems just want to be richer. There is never enough. We all seem to be caught up in the politics of more, the politics of growth. To criticize the few is to criticize the many, who will not be denied the opportunity to be rich.
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FEEDING THE CHOOKS May 6, 2013

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These people are not even in the proper media. They are not from the touchstones tabloid images created by Rupert.The Institute of Public Affairs doubtless is all indignity.
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FRIDAY NIGHT DOG BLOG: TRACK OF TANGENTS May 4, 2013

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Apparently, I am told that the London Underground had a sign: DOGS MUST BE CARRIED ON ESCALATORS. And that is a poor portent for me because I did not get it.
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ABC: A CASE FOR PRIVATISATION May 3, 2013

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Political leaders are not required to state there intentions or their beliefs, but more than willing to accept mandates. This is especially true of the the current leaders in Australia, and it seems more than likely that Tony Abbott will become prime minister with a hidden agenda, including it is supposed the privatisation of the ABC.
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PLANNING FOR AFTER THE ELECTION? May 1, 2013

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The Opposition has  ”a plan” that amounts to more of the same but more focused, competitive and stronger that keeps the environment in the rear view mirror.
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FRIDAY NIGHT DOG BLOG: “TAKING A BREATHER” April 27, 2013

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Sometimes I go down to the fruit shop, about half a kilometer away, with a back pack, and walk back carrying about 12.5 kilograms. I broke out into a sweat last time, so it seems I am doing more work than on the dog walks.
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CONSPIRACY AND BLOWBACK April 27, 2013

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The Boston Marathon bombing has given rise to inevitable conspiracy theories. Inevitable, because the internet provides greater opportunity to call into question the official story as it unfolds, and because there is an entrenched suspicion of government in general in the US, and in particular of the “leviathan security state”. However, the pressing issue is of motivation, and what it is that gives rise to barbaric and cruel behavior.
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THE REPUBLIC: PROSPECT AND RETROSPECT April 23, 2013

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It is strange to reflect now that the decisive issue, a major turning point, in the the republican debate during the Referendum was whether the head of state was to be appointed by the parliament or the people.
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FRIDAY NIGHT DOG BLOG: ALL IN VAIN? April 20, 2013

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Sometimes with a struggle, the dogs got out again this week. For them all the outings are not in vain. It is the sort of thing as nature’s scavengers and hunters they would be doing. 

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DOTS AND THEIR CONNECTIONS? April 19, 2013

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Three events have captured my attention this week. Firstly there was the bombing in Boston, then the “State” funeral for Margaret Thatcher, and the explosion of the fertilizer plant in West, Texas.
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LETTER FROM BIRMINGHAM April 17, 2013

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It is now fifty years since Martin Luther King wrote his letter from a Birmingham Jail. He writes, “You are quite right to call for negotiation. Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor”.
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INDIVIDUALISM AND SOCIETY April 14, 2013

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The relationship between neo-liberalism and neo-conservativism is puzzling. Such a relationship between these doctrines did not exist in the Nineteenth Century.

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