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CHINA GOES TO THE MOON
China has sent a probe to the Moon. Sent up by a nice big rocket, it will orbit our orb for a year, sending back data as part of a plan to place Chinese spacemen on the Moon within ten years.
Well bravo for them! Just like the west, they have now launched their own huge phallic symbol; and equally like the west, it is being used to rape space in the name of politics. China, too, can now say: look, I’m a big boy.
One day this ridiculous one-upmanship will come to an end, and people will realize that space exploration is not about politics, but the next phase of human evolution. And as a ‘human’ endeavour, that means the species, as one!
© Anthony North, October 2007
THIRTY SOMETHING AND NOT FREE
The UK thirty somethings are increasingly not as free as they had once hoped. Modern living has landed them with high expenses, student loan repayments and ridiculous mortgages …
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MOORE AND BLAIR
Michael Moore was interviewed on British TV on Wednesday night (ITN – 10.30pm), and advised that Tony Blair was more responsible for the Iraq War than Bush Jr – and I must admit, I tend to agree …
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