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From the Telegraph:

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Christopher Hitchens is a man who I find profoundly irritating most of the time. He has perfected the art of arrogance to the level that even when he is saying something I agree with (It’s about 50:50), I still mostly want him to shut up. He has frequently been an apologist for Bush’s interventionist policies, and the ensuing misery that perpetuates from them. However he is nothing if not a complicated man, and he was recently willing to put himself through something pretty unpleasant for a piece in Vanity Fair. I hope his experience, and his conclusions, will inform his future pronouncements.

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Recently, at TED, the Technology, Entertainment, Design conference, Al Gore spoke about the challenges facing our world:

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Sigh. Because apparently even Giuliani’s own adverts can’t stop playing with themselves, I’ve had to put it on it’s own page. It keeps repeating randomly. Not what you want when you’re trying to read happy stories about giant playmobil. Click below for the story.

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The National Intelligence Estimate, available to read in full online, is not going to be a popular read in neocon circles. Lets have a look at it’s key findings in full:

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Via Atrios, this story could be quite serious.

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The internet is buzzing about Ron Paul. For those who have managed to miss it, he is running for the Republican nomination for the 2008 US Presidential election. This is mostly on the back of his opposition to the Iraq war, and as a result, he seems to be drawing support from the left as well as the right, which makes it fairly interesting to watch. Anyhows, I thought I’d just jot down a few of my thoughts on him.

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Everyone’s a critic.

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