tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19435968.post116047864559283039..comments2024-01-18T11:30:45.737-05:00Comments on Les Politiques: Apocalypse Now ?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19435968.post-1160762433967166862006-10-13T14:00:00.000-04:002006-10-13T14:00:00.000-04:00Anonymous,Thanks for the links.Anonymous,<BR/>Thanks for the links.Sophiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09577807573716384982noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19435968.post-1160761192034567522006-10-13T13:39:00.000-04:002006-10-13T13:39:00.000-04:00will the nuclear powers stand up please?<A HREF="http://www.accuracy.org/newsrelease.php?articleId=1368" REL="nofollow"> will the nuclear powers stand up please? </A>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19435968.post-1160681253463918632006-10-12T15:27:00.000-04:002006-10-12T15:27:00.000-04:00I just want to give a glimpse of what is happening...I just want to give a glimpse of what is happening in Iranian news.<BR/><BR/>Last week, Iranians had suggested that if the US abandons its threatening tone of sanctions and war and etc, they are willing to sign business contracts with three American aeronautic companies!<BR/><BR/>Well, today's reports say that Americans are going to sell spare parts for Iranian airplanes; this is apparently out Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19435968.post-1160668543740604202006-10-12T11:55:00.000-04:002006-10-12T11:55:00.000-04:00This very subject came up last night over dinner w...This very subject came up last night over dinner with friends, a British Jew and his Israeli wife.<BR/><BR/>I was adamant that Iran was no, or at least little threat to Israel in spite of the Theocratic nature of the Iranian regime. Interestingly he was convinced that Iran harboured designs of war, particularly of a nuclear offensive whereas his wife agreed that the threat was overstated or even Wolfiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05820269114208456064noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19435968.post-1160605201301550422006-10-11T18:20:00.000-04:002006-10-11T18:20:00.000-04:00Wolfie,I didn't find the page but if you are talki...Wolfie,<BR/><BR/>I didn't find the page but if you are talking about the docu 'Will israel bomb Iran?" It seems to me that the US and Israel will be going hand in hand to achieve this. Pretty gloomy picture, two unpopular regimes lightning with a nuclear row their last days in power...I think someone has get to stop this madness.Sophiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09577807573716384982noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19435968.post-1160604746596951922006-10-11T18:12:00.000-04:002006-10-11T18:12:00.000-04:00Naj,I have never seen Neurosicence so close to Pol...Naj,<BR/><BR/>I have never seen Neurosicence so close to Politics or at least the human motivations behind politics and the effects of politics on our Mind. Unfortunately freud,s project for social psychology turned out to be a project for couch psychology and social psychology of our time is turned toward quantitative assessements of phenomena. May be Neuroscience can take over this field, youSophiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09577807573716384982noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19435968.post-1160597432306849832006-10-11T16:10:00.000-04:002006-10-11T16:10:00.000-04:00Yes my exam of course; which is giving me the exis...Yes my exam of course; which is giving me the existentialist creeps nowadays! I am going to prove that there are two types of people on the earth; those who are stressable, and those who are not! I will then conclude that people who are not stressable have bigger better brains! Oh of course the society that funds my research also is doing ample number of studies to show people who have low SES, Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19435968.post-1160571087712678202006-10-11T08:51:00.000-04:002006-10-11T08:51:00.000-04:00Naj,It is because you don't have a blogger account...Naj,<BR/>It is because you don't have a blogger account I guess. Did you try choosing 'Other' ? Because sometimes it works, sometimes you are posting under 'Naj' and others under 'Anonymous'.<BR/>But please Naj, prepare for your exam before...Sophiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09577807573716384982noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19435968.post-1160570200557365322006-10-11T08:36:00.000-04:002006-10-11T08:36:00.000-04:00Hi Sophia, You are right about action. I think the...Hi Sophia, <BR/><BR/>You are right about action. I think these days I am just pondering about how to maximize the effectiveness of the action.<BR/><BR/>Cheers<BR/>Naj<BR/><BR/>I wonder why I cannot post messages unless I choose "anonymous"!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19435968.post-1160561022906799852006-10-11T06:03:00.000-04:002006-10-11T06:03:00.000-04:00The BBC are onto this one too :http://news.bbc.co....The BBC are onto this one too :<BR/><BR/>http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/this_world/5409816.stm<BR/><BR/>Though if they went for it they would find themselves very alone.Wolfiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05820269114208456064noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19435968.post-1160528342173407542006-10-10T20:59:00.000-04:002006-10-10T20:59:00.000-04:00Pierre,Thanks for the fresh and first hand news. ...Pierre,<BR/><BR/>Thanks for the fresh and first hand news. I am not capable to judge if they are reassuring or if we should be worried by these facts. Lets just hope that there will not be another ugly war in the middle east...Sophiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09577807573716384982noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19435968.post-1160527953839065022006-10-10T20:52:00.000-04:002006-10-10T20:52:00.000-04:00Naj,Sorry for answering late this comment. People...Naj,<BR/><BR/>Sorry for answering late this comment. People are apathetic because they think that they should act only if their actions produce results. This is not my idea of action. We should do whatever we can to work for peace so we cannot blame ourselves for not having acted before when tragedy falls upon us.Sophiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09577807573716384982noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19435968.post-1160526614484279502006-10-10T20:30:00.000-04:002006-10-10T20:30:00.000-04:00Sophia... I did a minor bit of checking around on ...Sophia... I did a minor bit of checking around on this; Hedges (whom I respect and admire) is right, the carrier group left Norfolk for the waters off the coasts of Iran, but only to relieve the Enterprize carrier group that has been there for the past year; that group is scheduled to leave and return to the United States, its crews having been overspent by a good number of "sorties" over Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19435968.post-1160506868676446272006-10-10T15:01:00.000-04:002006-10-10T15:01:00.000-04:00Chatastrophizing ... but if true, it will indeed b...Chatastrophizing ... but if true, it will indeed be chatastrophic. I picked up the phone and called my husband: "Will they attack?", I asked. "The math doesn't work", he replied!<BR/><BR/>I can still not fathom Americans will dare to go to war with Iran. But precisely this over-confidence of the mathematical proportion might intrigue them to prove the unbelievers wrong! After all, as you said, Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com