No big news update this morning; I have to write this week's (with a “BME week” being about 11 or 12 days long) article, and prep the news-reel software for 2003. But first, it's meeeee! I'm always a bit nervous doing telephone interviews because you never quite know how you're going to be quoted, but I think the paper did a good job with this article.
Although if the snow gets heavier, maybe the satellite will cut out and I can just take it easy instead… Yeah, I'm back to a world with “snow days” even though I'm a home-office guy.
Other than that, I see the US is going to try and buy loyalty in Iraq. After all, remember how well it worked in Afghanistan, when a bunch of drug warlords tricked the West into bombing their competition, and we did little but kill the wrong people and let the terrorists escape…
You probably know about the “Predator” drone plane that the CIA recently used (along with a “Hellfire” missile) to carry out assassinations. Anyway, while “they have no plans to arm them”, the US is planning on deploying these drones domestically, up and down the east coast. Hello sci-fi police state! Do you really want to live in a world where sentinel robots patrol the country seeking out “potential threats” to American corporations?
I really wonder sometimes — what are the warmongers trying to achieve? What are they trying to protect? The actions don't make sense. Maybe I'm a simpleton and I'm not seeing the big picture, maybe I'm a part of post-Vietnam utopian pacifism, but I really believe the answers are simple. Be nice to your neighbours. Don't go where you're not welcome. Help when asked, but not until. Offer sanctuary when you can. And so on.
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