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Now, this is scary:

Welcome to the Project for the New American Century

The Project for the New American Century is a non-profit educational organization dedicated to a few fundamental propositions: that American leadership is good both for America and for the world; that such leadership requires military strength, diplomatic energy and commitment to moral principle; and that too few political leaders today are making the case for global leadership.

The Project for the New American Century intends, through issue briefs, research papers, advocacy journalism, conferences, and seminars, to explain what American world leadership entails. It will also strive to rally support for a vigorous and principled policy of American international involvement and to stimulate useful public debate on foreign and defense policy and America’s role in the world.

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Good Morning Robot

This is interesting:

Saddam Hussein, Monbiot argues, signed his own death warrant in November, 2000, when he decided to sell Iraqi oil on the world market in euros instead of dollars. In doing so, he opened up the real possibility that in the not-too-distant future, the euro would become the currency in which oil is bought and sold the world over. From the American perspective [or, more precisely, the perspective of America’s post-industrial plutocracy] this would be disastrous, because it would effectively end the supremacy of the dollar in the world market.

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soliloquist….thoughts in solitude

Humanity finds itself in a very difficult position. Whilst our intellect has evolved far enough for us to harness the power of the atom, our wisdom remains so retarded that we are unable to halt our drive towards self-extinction. Greed still rules our existence in the same way it has done for so many years, the powerful have forsaken the life of the Sage in preference for that of the tyrant. We are unable to see beyond our own limited life-span and as time goes by it seems that many thousands of years must pass before we realise our ignorance, allowing us to move forward towards true wisdom.

via Soliloquist

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BBC NEWS | Technology | Blogging goes mobile

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Manywhere - Moblogger

This application runs as a background process that monitors a POP3 email account for new email, then downloads it, detaches any files such as pictures, sound or video, uses the Blogger API to post the text in the email to your blog and uses FTP to post the files to your server. Send the email from a phone and you immediately start “moblogging”.

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TheFeature :: It’s All About The Mobile Internet

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a klog apart

Part 1 of this lookat mobloggingis a shallow survey of the possible. The deeper effectswill come when it changes how people think about memory, privacy, co-working,and place. 

Memory.

I had a training job at Compaq Computer where I met and spent time with3000 people over nine months. If I’d snapped their portraits and blogged afew notes about each one, I’d have had some chance at sustaining a relationship,keeping names with faces. That would have been a career multiplier.

Imagine having near perfect recall of the meetings you’ve ever taken.All the business phone calls you’ve ever made.

Now imagine dipping into someone else’s memory bank.

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Wandering Muses

First photo of a newborn taken with a cameraphone and posted on his moblog!

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ABCNEWS.com : Officials: 9/11 Was Main Reason for War

W A S H I N G T O N, April 25 — To build its case for war with Iraq, the Bush administration argued that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, but some officials now privately acknowledge the White House had another reason for war — a global show of American power and democracy.
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The Bush administration felt that a new start was needed in the Middle East and that Iraq was the place to show that it is democracy — not terrorism — that offers hope.

I mean, ergh, how stupid can you be????

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A Simpler Way - Herbalist Evo Terra

A Simpler Way is the creation of herbalist Evo Terra. In these pages you’ll find articles and information on many aspects of herbs and their uses both traditionally and conventionally as medical resources. A Simpler Way is meant to be an interactive learning experience filled with information for both the herbal practitioner as well as the client interested in adding an herbal therapy to their health care regiment.

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Bearing Witness: Who Can Heal Such A World?

Another: “I was embarrassed to be there as a monk. So I took off my shoes to make it even harder for myself. Then I saw the mall was like the world the Buddha’s father had tried to display to young Siddhartha - a world of only happiness and pleasure, no suffering, old age, or death. In the forest the trees show all sides of life - their leaves fall and decay right beneath their flower blossoms. In the mall they tried to create a heaven with no suffering. But to learn to be free from suffering you need to be with suffering. And when I walked out I saw laborers trying to find rest in the heat, how the small people who are needed to run that thing had to suffer to keep it going.”

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The Monk in the Lab

I believe that there are practical ways for us as individuals to curb our dangerous impulses — impulses that collectively can lead to war and mass violence. As evidence I have not only my spiritual practice and the understanding of human existence based on Buddhist teachings, but now also the work of scientists.

For the last 15 years I have engaged in a series of conversations with Western scientists. We have exchanged views on topics ranging from quantum physics and cosmology to compassion and destructive emotions. I have found that while scientific findings offer a deeper understanding of such fields as cosmology, it seems that Buddhist explanations — particularly in the cognitive, biological and brain sciences — can sometimes give Western-trained scientists a new way to look at their own fields.

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Some photos from a trip to Nanos, a mountain near the Slovenian coast.
 

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Windley’s Enterprise Computing Weblog

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Yahoo! News - Clinton blasts US approach to international affairs

“Our paradigm now seems to be: something terrible happened to us on September 11, and that gives us the right to interpret all future events in a way that everyone else in the world must agree with us,” said Clinton, who spoke at a seminar of governance organized by Conference Board

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