Empires of the Mind

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Monday, August 01, 2005

Viva the Hans Island Liberation Front!!!

This is bloody hilarious! Even more so because it's true! I never knew Canada was an aspiring imperialist power...

http://www.angelfire.com/rebellion2/hans_island/index.htm

For some more factual, non-facetious information and perspectives on the Hans Island dispute, I would suggest you visit the following links:

http://www.naval.ca/article/Heubert/The_Return_of_the_Vikings.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Island

Here's to hoping that Canada and Denmark don't single-handedly disprove the Democratic Peace Theorem (a pseudo-"law" in political theory which asserts that democracies never go to war with one another)...

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