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Friday, September 24, 2004 |
 CNN. Oil closes near record high at ~$49. The price of oil is an objective measure of the health of globalization. It begs the question: who is winning?
5:13:41 PM 
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Bazaar Dynamics. How the lessons of open source software apply to the new method of guerrilla warfare in Iraq.
3:10:34 PM
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More Halliburton targeting. Orascom, the a big telecom multinational that has the mobile phone contract for Baghdad, is attacked. 8 employees are taken hostage (2 telecom engineers in Baghdad today).
12:12:45 PM
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Lind. Destroying the National Guard. The real scope of the damage of Mr. Rumsfeld’s decision to send the Guard to Iraq – 40% of the American troops in Iraq are now reservists or Guardsmen – will probably not be revealed until units return. One of the few already back saw 70% of its members leave the Guard immediately. Update: the
Army Guard reported today that it fell 5,000 short of its recruiting goals. This is the first time since 1994 that it fell short.
11:08:28 AM
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MIT. Technology and Future warriors.
9:38:01 AM
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Reuters. Rebel fighters in Nigeria's oil-producing Niger delta will attack oil wells and pipelines if the army does not halt assaults on their forces, a rebel commander says. UPDATE: Shell is evacuating 200 people from Nigeria.
8:50:35 AM
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© Copyright 2004 John Robb.
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