Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Blix: US was bent on war
I believe Hans Blix has made the correct assessment, and I think he knew it all along. The contracts for *putting out* the oil well fires where discussed back in September 2002. In a scathing attack on Britain and the US, Mr Blix accused them of planning the war “well in advance” and of “fabricating”…
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Global domination carries grave risks
By renouncing Americas traditional foreign policy and adopting one of global military domination, the Bush administration has made a fundamental change in the international balance.
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Taxes
Just been reading about how French and German companies will be denied any contracts for rebuilding Iraq – but Dick Cheney and others in his ilk will likely benefit financially from the rebuilding contracts. Here is a simple equation for getting money from American taxpayers. Taxpayers pay money for US military, and invasion force, circa $100…
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Are tyrants shocked, awed or stocking up on nukes?
Jonathan Freedland pointedly asks if the war has really helped the situation or just made it worse. I would go with the latter too. This week William Kristol, senior intellectual of the neo-conservative set, testified before the Senate foreign relations committee. He was asked whether the logic of the Iraq war – targeting a Ba’athist…
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Homer's odyssey
Mark Lawson on Homer Simpson. 300th episode its almost here, I cant help but feel that since the death of Maude the Simpsons has declined somewhat. Still though, we have a movie to look forward to.
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Net woes
Jaysus everything on the net today seems to be going slow. The Independent website is constantly giving me messages saying the server is too busy to serve. Bernie is having DNS problems, the Iraqi Information site is down…hope I’m not next.
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We love the Iraqi Information Minister
The new site on the Iraqi Information Minister that I blogged on yesterday is temporarily down. It proved extremely popular – and with good reason, it was hilarious. Its expected to be back up in 24 hours. Note: from the webmasterThe site was so popular that 4000 visitors per second showed up from around the…
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Apple may bid for Universal Music
Chris used to work for Apple – this is an interesting idea. The iPod and downloaded music from Universal, seems like a natural combination.
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Flames engulf the symbols of power
Robert Fisk’s latest report from Baghdad. At the Kindi hospital, they ordered journalists away from the premises but, briefly obtaining access to the emergency ward, I found a Shia Muslim cleric inside, a man who had studied in southern Lebanon, lecturing the gunmen on the need to restore order in the city. Of course, that…
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Apologies
Apologies if I seemed to kicking up stink about Dishings.com – it just came as a shock. Im not quite sure who they are but I take it as a compliment that they liked my site enough to copy parts of it. I realise it is a Radio theme, just the links were the same! LOL…
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