Month: September 2004
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Pakistan is a nuclear time bomb: Graham Allison
Not since the Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962 have I been as frightened by a single news story as I was by the revelation late last year that Abdul Qadeer Khan, the founder of Pakistan’s nuclear-weapons program, had been selling nuclear technology and services on the black market. The story began to break last…
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Bush's Lost Year
James Fallows in the Atlantic. Read it.
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RSS issues
I have been having some difficulty with RSS feeds, and I am working on resolving them. It really is quite complicated.
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New addition
The newest addition to my blogroll: Politics on Slashdot And I do hope they keep it up after the election.
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Russian TV broadcasts siege video
The BBC are streaming a copy of a video recorded inside the school at Beslan, probably early on in it siege. It seems to depict the number of explosives present, and how many hostage takers/murderers in the gym.
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Jiang said to offer to quit army post
Jiang Zemin, China’s military chief and senior-most leader, has told Communist Party officials that he plans to resign, prompting an intense and so far inconclusive struggle for control of the armed forces, two people with leadership connections say. Jiang’s offer to relinquish authority as chairman of the Central Military Commission potentially gives Hu Jintao, who…
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New oil proves elusive, and alarm bells ring
Jad Mouawad writing in the New York Times discusses such as facts as: According to Wood Mackenzie, an energy research firm, six of the 10 largest oil companies have cut their investments in exploration since 1998. Together, the world’s leading companies spent $8 billion drilling for oil last year; in 1998, they spent more than…
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Georgia asks for TV crew release
So amidst all the tragedy in North Ossetia, a Georgian film crew was captured by…the Russian Security Services? Surely not during the funerals of hundreds of Ossetian, slaughtered as they were by terrorist murderers? Yes, and the FSB are acting pretty strange about it too. Putin seems to be gunning for a showdown with Georgia…
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Using GMail to Blog
Ah what a great twist in the tale of blogging. Using the 1000Mb of free Google Mail storage to host your own blog. Wonderful. I have a GMail account, just not really bothered about using it.
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Get it right!
An interesting interview with philosopher Jamie Whyte, discussing logic, logic and more logic. Thought-provoking to say the least.