Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Data Is Lacking on Iran's Arms, U.S. Panel Says
It looks like US intelligence on Iran is not up to scratch: A commission due to report to President Bush this month will describe American intelligence on Iran as inadequate to allow firm judgments about Iran’s weapons programs, according to people who have been briefed on the panel’s work. The report comes as intelligence agencies…
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MSNBC Blog roundup
I just watched Jeff Jarvis‘ blog roundup stint on MSNBC for the first time. How far ahead the US is in terms of blog coverage – not only do newspapers and journals roundup the blog news, now TV news stations do too. Fascinating.
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The Conservative Blogosphere
Kevin Drum and Hugh Hewitt link to a piece by American Prospect Senior Editor Garance Franke-Ruta. Franke-Ruta argues that much of the Conservative blogosphere in the US is not really citizen hackery, but more like organised conservative mobs. As Drum quotes: Right-wing blogs…increasingly provide cover for professional operatives to conduct traditional politics by other means…
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Russian MPs hail Maskhadov death
In some chilling photos, the killing of Aslan Maskhadov, notorious Chechen leader, has been confirmed. The celebrations by Russia’s Dumas will likely be short-lived, Shamil Basayev will probably replace Maskhadov, and may already be planning retaliation.
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Smart-1 to image Apollo sites
Via Slashdot, the ESA probe Smart-1 will image the Apollo sites, this might put to rest certain conspiracy theories.
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Earth from 1954km
The ESA probe Rosetta has taken more spectacular images of Earth.
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Italy disputes US hostage account
The Italians are now contradicting the US version of events in relation to the killing of Nicola Calipari. The other agent in the car has said that the car did come to a halt, but the car was fired on anyway. The investigation into the incident could take up to 4 weeks.
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Over the top in Dubai
Steve Clemons, Senior Fellow at the New American Foundation has responded to my blogging about his post on tennis on top of the Burj Al Arab. He rightly accuses me of over-reacting to a tennis match and over-reaching by using this as a metaphor of some of the problems in the Middle East. Blogging never…
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London photos
I’ve uploaded some photos I took in London to Flickr.
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Back
Back to the wee island of Ireland, blogging shall now resume.
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