- April 12, 2011
- Google Gagarin
- Posted by Strangely
- Environment, Life
- Tagged with: achievement, astronaut, atmosphere, benefit, Brave, bravery, Celebration, communist, confidence, Death, descendant, designer, Dog, Dream, Earth, Environment, gagarin, good, Google, Happy, ICBM, International, ISS, Jesus, John Glenn, machinery, man, Mankind, Mistake, NASA, Nuclear, parachute, Planet, public, radiation, Rocket, rocketry, Russia, Russian, scientist, Sergei Korolev, Shuttle, Soyuz, Space Station, spacecraft, speed, the first man in space, The West, Transport, universe, Vostok, voyage, war, weapon, Wikipedia, World, Yuri Gagarin
It Was 50 Years Ago, Today …when mankind left the gravitational confines of our Earth. A poor boy from the steppes, Yuri Gagarin, simultaneously became the first man in space and the first man to leave Earth and orbit it completely. (This is something that took NASA several steps before John Glenn finally emulated the [...]
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- March 4, 2011
- Laws are like sausages — it is best not to see them being made: Mercenary Guidelines for a Better World
- Posted by Strangely
- Environment, Freedom
- Tagged with: Afghan, BBC, Blair, British, british army, China, citizen, collapse, compensation, conflict, consumption, courage, Crap, crisis, crooks, descendant, Drug, Earth, Egypt, Flying, Government, greed, Guardian, gunship, Guts, Historical, India, International, Iraq, Korea, Labour, Mad, Minister, money, moral, nation, Nigeria, Nuclear, oligarch, Pakistan, PEACE, poison, power, Processes, Protest, realise, rights, sausage, Security, technology, The West, truth, Turkey, turkey shoot, unarmed civilians, us embassy, USA, weapon, weaponry, Western, WikiLeaks, Wikipedia, World, WW1, WW2
Guidelines for a Better World Laws are like sausages — it is best not to see them being made. Perhaps I should re-phrase this as: The Rules of Law and International Diplomacy are like sausages — it is best not to see them being made It’s a strange world out there. Two recent political events [...]
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- February 4, 2009
- Encountering Hungarian and British Dharma
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- Buddhism, Environment, Freedom
- Tagged with: Amsterdam, anger, Austria, birth, bomb, book, Britain, British, Buddhism, Buddhist, business, cake, cakes, camera, Cemetery, Circumstance, citizen, country, creative, Criminal, Daisaku, DANGER, Death, descendant, Egg, Eisenstadt, Encounter, England, Europe, Fossil Fuel, Freedom, fuck, future, Gakkai, gloom, good, Government, Guts, History, Human, humanity, hungarian, ID Card, ID Cards, Ikeda, Inspiration, investigation, knowledge, Labour, Makiguchi, nation, night, Paranoid, Picture, Police, power, Protect, queen, Religion, Security, sense, SGI, snow, Soka, soka gakkai, Sport, state, surveillance, town, Travel, Vienna, Vision
I’ve just been reading this fascinating book, Encountering the Dharma: Daisaku Ikeda, Soka Gakkai, and the Globalization of Buddhist Humanism by a non-Buddhist, Richard Seager, who gives a really good, well-balanced investigation into Buddhism, the Soka Gakkai (SGI) and it’s meteoric rise in popularity under the inspirational personas of Makiguchi, Toda and Ikeda. Well you’d [...]
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- August 21, 2008
- History is People connected through Time and Space
- Posted by Strangely
- Freedom
- Tagged with: BBC, British, conflict, descendant, DNA, Dream, Europe, existence, family, Genetic, Germany, History, Human, man, mind, Moon, OEM, politician, population, race, Religion, school, scientist, Sex, shame, spring, Teach, Times, war, Wikipedia, World
….but not too much space – read on! A little news item from Germany today jogged my mind into a similar local incident at Cheddar a few years back. The two stories are almost identical in several ways for reasons that are hard to quantify… Today’s News: Cavemen’s descendants traced Uncovering the ultimate family tree [...]
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- July 21, 2008
- Thoughts on a 64 year old Massacre
- Posted by Strangely
- Buddhism, Freedom
- Tagged with: Africa, atrocity, August, BBC, British, Buddha, Cache, camera, Creuse, Crime, Daishonin, Death, descendant, duty, email, English, Europe, forge, France, gallery, Germany, good, graph, Guardian, Happy, History, HOPE, Human, humanity, Information, Injury, Inspiration, justice, knowledge, man, Massacre, mind, moral, nazi, Nichiren, Paris, Picture, program, rubbish, sense, Shit, speech, steel, Task, Telegraph, tragedy, trial, truth, tyre, war, water, Website, Wikipedia, World, YouTube
France 24 item in English 64 years after massacre, villagers of Maillé may get some answers at last The Guardian The forgotten French village massacre BBC News The Nazis’ final atrocity: why, as they were surrendering, did one unit wipe out an entire village? Mail Online Orphans of forgotten Nazi massacre hope for justice Daily [...]
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- February 28, 2008
- How Much does the US/UK War (sorry, war on terror) cost?
- Posted by Strangely
- Freedom
- Tagged with: Afghan, America, Archive, bank, BBC, boat, book, Brother, Cancer, Cheney, Chile, conflict, country, crash, Crime, Criminal, crisis, Death, defence, Democratic, descendant, dirt, dodgy, explosion, family, fear, financial, Florida, Fuel, George, George Bush, governor, greed, Guardian, guilt, Hero, hypocrisy, imprisonment, Information, Instrument, insurance, International, invasion, Iran, Iraq, justice, legal, Mad, magazine, man, medal, mind, money, Murder, nation, nazi, night, Opium, parachute, Patriot, politician, Politics, power, president, price, prison, Revolution, Rocket, Rumsfeld, scam, SEIN, sense, September, sheep, society, Sound, Stagger, Taliban, terror, The West, Times, Torture, truth, Video, Vietnam, war, war on terror, Wikipedia, World, WW1, WW2, YouTube
There’s a neat book just been released by a Nobel prize winning author Joseph Stiglitz, and Linda Bilmes of Harvard, that counts the true financial cost of the Bush conspired conflict. This is a BBC article and a similar one on The Guardian written by Aida Edemariam who met him. It’s a truly staggering piece, [...]
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