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What is Truth?
I’m looking for some notes on Guide. I haven’t found them yet but came across this: What is truth? Something to trip up the lazy, the unwary and those with simplistic political agendas. Warnings about Bernie Madoff’s impossible investor returns … Continue reading
Posted in General, Opinion, Trivia
Tagged Bernie Madoff, Bertie Ahern, Jacques Chirac, New York Times, Tony Blair
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Philip K Dick, again
This morning, I was certain that chrome on my PC had been infected by a virus; after a bit of digging, I realised that Google had done their usual: we’ve decided to change the interface and we’re sure you’ll like it but … Continue reading
Posted in Opinion, Philosophy, Review
Tagged Ace Books, Analog, Blade Runner, Dickanian, Drugs, John Brunner, John W Campbell, Michael Moorcock, Michael Sheen, New York Times, Philip K Dick, Plato The Republic, Robert Heinlein, Science Fiction, SF, Stranger in a Strange Land, the real world, Ursula K LeGuin
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Ukraine, Russia and the West
Ukraine is a post Soviet-Empire time-bomb on which the sticky finger marks of the EU and the US are visible. We are where we are (and as a normal citizen, I bottle up my irritation). Looking around the net, it’s … Continue reading
Posted in General
Tagged EU, Germany, Guardian, intelligence, Merkel, Mother Bear, New York Times, NSA, Obama, Putin, Russia, Surzhyk, Ukraine, US, Washington, White House
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More Climate Change?
In Senate Passes Bill to Delay Spike in Flood Insurance Rates, the opinions of the Climate Change lobby are given an airing. ‘The aim of the Biggert-Waters Act was to shift the financial risk of insuring flood-prone properties to the … Continue reading
