God Morgen ud Kobenhavn! Good Morning form Copenhagen!!! So today is the day I leave Copenhagen from the Think about it #2 launch event. It has been a great few days where I have learned an awful lot and made new friends. There are 92 bloggers form 40 countries re[resenting every continent in the world at the event and I am really looking forward to the blogging. Yesterday was really interesting. We visited the Dyssekilde eco-village outside Copenhagen and...
Image via Wikipedia So the COP 15 summit is coming up in December in Copenhagen. I will be blogging about it in the lead up to it both here and on the Think About It blog when launched. Like Joe I have a bit of a manifesto going, for example learning more about Climate Change, COP15 and finding out Ireland’s poistion and expert and NGO poistions on it. For me though this is will personal aswell. While I applaud...
Image of Th!nk about it The 2nd round of the Th!nk Blogging Competition is open for applications. They are looking for 81 bloggers from Europe as well as having guests from India, China, Brazil and the USA. The focus of the competition this time round will be the COP15 Climate Change Confrence in Copenhagen, Denmark. You can sign-up for Th!nk2 on the home page as well as finding out more about the competition. PS: There is prizes and I...
Just after watching the Olympic Opening Ceremony (I know I said I wouldn’t) but WOW! It was amazing!! The Chinese put on quite a show! It was amazing. The power and energy was something else! I can’t remember watching the opening Ceremony to the Sydney or Athens Games but I remember the closing ceremony for the Athens Games and that was excellent! The Chinese have set a high standard for London in 2012! Best of luck also to the...
Okay so I can see me getting into a spot of bother with this post, but I seam to be heading more right wing in my old age (I turn an old 23 this year ). But anyway, Kevin Myers got into a spot of bother this week (not a new thing for him) over a colum he wrote for Indo on July 10th entitled “Africa is giving nothing to anyone — apart from AIDS” he raises some good...
Regular readers will know I opposed Kosovo’s Unilateral Declaration of Independce as it was illegal under international law, but what about Tibet? To me if I start going down the road of supporting Tibet I’ll end up ignoring the Olympics and I LOVE the Olympics. I dont know why but I do. This to me is an moral/ethical dilemma. Then theres the issue of a friend. A good friend of mine is from Chéngdū and firmly belives that the...
I believe China is not a threat in today’s world. I think that China could become a stabliser in world politics by forcing the United States to change for a malign hegemon back to a benign hegemon. The ‘preventive war’ in Iraq could have been avoided if the US was forced to stand down by another great power. The US has held a dominant position in world politics for too long, 60 years this year!! The US holds a...
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