It is a time of freedom and fear, of Gaia and of borders, of many paths and the widening of a universal toll road, emptying country and swelling cities, of the public bought into privacy and the privacy of the public sold into invisible data banks and knowing algorithms. It is the time of the warrior's peace and the miser's charity, when the planting of a seed is an act of conscientious objection.

These are the times when maps fade and direction is lost. Forwards is backwards now, so we glance sideways at the strange lands through which we are all passing, knowing for certain only that our destination has disappeared. We are unready to meet these times, but we proceed nonetheless, adapting as we wander, reshaping the Earth with every tread.

Behind us we have left the old times, the standard times, the high times. Welcome to the irregular times.



Sunday, May 25, 2003
 
Have Bush and Cheney Identified Next Target for Invasion?

According to the Reuters news wire, the Bush Administration is showing signs of having chosen its next target for pre-emptive regime change: Iran. Accusing Iran of holding Al-Quaeda agents within its borders, the Bush Administration has abruptly cut all contact with the Iranian government and is discussing plans for replacing the current Iranian government with a new regime approved by Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld.

Take a look at a map, and things get interesting. You see, the United States already occupies Afghanistan and Iraq. What country, currently unoccupied by the United States, lies directly between Afghanistan and Iraq? You guessed it: Iran.

Now, scratch your chin hard and ask yourselves: What is the Bush Administration really up to, making plans to occupy a stretch of Asia reaching all the way from the Persian Gulf to the Himalaya mountain range, south of Russia, north of the Arabian Penninsula and east of Israel, knocking on China's western door?

I'm still scratching on this one myself, but the little thoughts that are coming to mind have me quite unnerved.


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