Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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'100 day countdown' to China's first astronaut
China seems the be the only country in the world currently looking ‘up’. China is on course to become only the third nation ever to place a human in space, following press reports that the first crewed flight will take place in 100 days. A government source told the state-controlled news service Wen Wei Po…
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Paul Krugman: Who's unpatriotic now?
Paul Krugman on the wife of Joe Wilson and what it means to be patriotic. And while we’re on the subject of patriotism, let’s talk about the affair of Joseph Wilson’s wife. Wilson is the former ambassador who was sent to Niger by the CIA to investigate reports of attempted Iraqi uranium purchases and who…
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Won't get fooled again
Simon Tisdall believes that the US still needs the UN With Iraqi oil revenues coming nowhere close to reconstruction requirements, the US needs UN authority to attract foreign funds – or else those funds may never come. And if Bush (and Blair) are ever to escape the WMD miasma, they must allow the UN inspectors…
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Another Apology In Iraq-Nukes Flap
Another apology for us, from the deputy National Security Advisor. “The high standards the president set were not met,” Hadley said. He said he apologized to the president on Monday. Tenet previously issued a statement saying that he should have raised objections to the Iraq-Africa-uranium sentence when the CIA reviewed an advance copy of the…
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Key allies are casualties of U.S. war on court
Maria Cristina Caballero, Colombian journalist and fellow at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, discusses the US reaction to the ICC. An interesting read. It is time for Washington to reconsider its war against a court that serves to defend human rights around the world. It is time for the Bush administration to start…
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But the Russians aren't coming
Article over at the Guardian on the birth of the new Eurofighter Typhoon. I have been reading about this aircraft for over 15 years now I think, and played a flight sim for it designed by DID back in in 1995? LOL No, the pilot was not me: At the Royal International Air Tattoo on…
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Foreign Affairs
This bi-monthly journal is the best money can buy. Stuffed with exhaustive essays and great ideas. Buy it! I will blog on some of the ideas in the latest edition later this evening.
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Moveable Type
God. I must say I have been well and truly converted. I used Dave Winers Radio Userland for about six months. Since moving to MT I have not looked back. It beats Radio hands down. And there is one reason, at least in my own thinking. MT is server based. I dont have to leave…
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Westminster Photoblog
Taken with a Nokia 7210 + Nokia camera and sent via MMS/GPRS Stephen Pollard adding his voice to the debate at the Weblog Seminar in the Houses of Parliament. Yes it started at 7, and yes I was 30 minutes late. Blame the trains.
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Britain's alter ego
Mark Lawson wonders if English people tend to be jealous of other cultures, such as claiming people to be English when in fact they were Irish. The English have long suffered from propriety towards the Irish. From either colonial nostalgia – or jealousy of the literary instinct and social ease which seems to run in…
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