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	<description>whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must make random noises</description>
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		<title>UN due influence</title>
		<link>http://platosbeard.org/archives/360</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2008 23:53:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Without any hint of irony or humour, The Guardian worries that Western influence within the United Nations is waning &#8212; worrisome because it wrecks &#8220;efforts to entrench human rights, liberties and multilateralism&#8221;.
Drop in influence at UN wrecks western attempts to push human rights agenda
The west&#8217;s efforts to use the United Nations to promote its values [...]]]></description>
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		<title>China: not bad enough</title>
		<link>http://platosbeard.org/archives/335</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2008 19:35:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Arrogance]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Reviewing a collection of China themed books in the NYRofB, Orville Schell unintentionally offers an insight:
China: Humiliation &#38; the Olympics - The New York Review of Books
So, partly in shock, and partly in disappointment, China responded to the demonstrations against its Olympic torch with incensed outrage, rejecting any suggestion that its own actions could have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is it worth it, let me work it!</title>
		<link>http://platosbeard.org/archives/332</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2008 01:13:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[East vs West]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Scratch even a leftist in the West and you will often find a hippie-hating individualist/reductionist. Every since Dawkins and Sokal, Summers and Pinker did a number on their brethren, many leftists have been labouring (no pun intended) hard to distance themselves from any feel good, &#8220;new age&#8221;, hippie type framework or explanations. This has to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The spectre of Malthus &#8230; again</title>
		<link>http://platosbeard.org/archives/311</link>
		<comments>http://platosbeard.org/archives/311#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 20:25:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[East vs West]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Paul Krugman has been writing a series of excellent blog posts recently that dare question the techno-optimism crowd that sees any questioning of the unsustainability of human overconsumption as a return to Malthusian thinking (population control, etc) that explicitly or implicitly disfavours the poor. Here is Krugman&#8217;s latest post:
Limits to growth and related stuff - [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blowhards of the world unite</title>
		<link>http://platosbeard.org/archives/309</link>
		<comments>http://platosbeard.org/archives/309#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2008 02:25:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Arrogance]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Biology]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[East vs West]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Silliness]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There is an interesting phenomenon to be seen these days, every time there is some controversy. It is quickly morphed into a controversy about the response to the original one! That happened with the Muhammad cartoon issue, where the publication of some silly cartoons aimed at infuriating Muslims (the same populations that are oppressed by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A fat lot of difference</title>
		<link>http://platosbeard.org/archives/270</link>
		<comments>http://platosbeard.org/archives/270#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 May 2007 14:24:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[East vs West]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Liberalism]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When Ralph Nader pointed out that there are no significant differences between the Democrats and Republicans it was met with responses that ranged from insult to false outrage which persists to this day among idle commentors in the blogosphere who challenge Nader&#8217;s motives, personality and commitment! One presumes they consider their own hard commenting e-politicking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cartoon comparisons</title>
		<link>http://platosbeard.org/archives/242</link>
		<comments>http://platosbeard.org/archives/242#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Nov 2006 02:30:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Doublespeak]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[East vs West]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We all remember the Danish cartoon controversy. You remember the one? Where most of the U.S press reported, with barely concealed glee, the horrors of the protests against the cartoons, rather than the cartoons themselves? To be fair they did comment on the cartoons i.e., as a free speech issue, as in the useless freedom [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IQ and the poverty of thought</title>
		<link>http://platosbeard.org/archives/230</link>
		<comments>http://platosbeard.org/archives/230#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Nov 2006 20:42:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[East vs West]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Evo Psychology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This from The Observer:
Low IQs are Africa&#8217;s curse, says lecturer &#124; The Observer
The London School of Economics is embroiled in a row over academic freedom after one of its lecturers published a paper alleging that African states were poor and suffered chronic ill-health because their populations were less intelligent than people in richer countries.
Satoshi Kanazawa, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The politics of Internationalised Domain Names</title>
		<link>http://platosbeard.org/archives/225</link>
		<comments>http://platosbeard.org/archives/225#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Oct 2006 17:36:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[East vs West]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Pluralism]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Vint Cerf is making noises that IDN is a huge technical challenge:
&#8220;One of the most important aspects is for the user to make unambiguous references to every registered domain name.
&#8220;Historically this has been through a small subset of Latin characters.&#8221;
[...]
Mr Cerf said that in order for other scripts to be introduced into the domain name [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Muslim-bashing as global white sport</title>
		<link>http://platosbeard.org/archives/196</link>
		<comments>http://platosbeard.org/archives/196#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Sep 2006 14:48:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[East vs West]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Terrorism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Great article about the state of things in Australia:
Australia&#8217;s Other Great Sport By Haroon Buksh:
[...]
The Australian public is increasingly being served a smorgasbord of politically charged rhetoric, an outpouring of invective masquerading as public debate. From questions of loyalty, discussions over identity, sermons about values, or warnings against extremism, the current discourse surrounding Islam and [...]]]></description>
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