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Monday, September 27, 2004 |
 Wow. The Institute of Accelerating Change (an organization I helped co-found) has a great conference at Stanford in November. I guess I have spun off into the future and its enemies territory.
7:47:17 PM 
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BBC. Branson contracts five "Virgin Galactic" spaceliners from Rutan.
1:48:23 PM
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Reuters. The ETA in Spain has started to target systems (global guerrilla tactics). Spanish police have blown up a bomb left by ETA on an electricity pylon and are searching for another device as the Basque guerrillas adopted a new tactic of targeting the country's power infrastructure... One of the 220 kV lines was temporarily disconnected while the police blew up the Guipuzcoa bomb, but the 400 kV lines were not affected, the Red Electrica source said... Last week several small bombs on a Red Electrica pylon reduced cross-border electricity flow between Spain and France for a week. No one claimed the attack but it bore the hallmarks of ETA.
9:21:24 AM
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Reuters. Frenchman shot in Saudi Arabia. Disrupting population flows. UPDATE: The person killed was reported to be a French intelligence agent working under a NOC.
9:16:56 AM
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WP. More on the Kroll report to USAID that Kos quoted. Exporting instability to new areas (again, the analysts at Kroll are behind the power curve): Moreover, the security reports indicate that a majority of the hostile acts committed against U.S. and Iraqi security forces over the past two weeks have occurred outside those three provinces. For example, the cities of Amarah in the southern province of Maysan and Samawah in Muthanna province, also in the south, had long been relatively free of violence but are now experiencing frequent attacks, the reports indicate.
9:08:33 AM
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Baghdad Burning (this concurs with my analysis of global guerrilla attacks on Iraqi electricity infrastructure): You know things are really going downhill in Iraq, when the Bush speech-writers have to recycle his old speeches. Listening to him yesterday, one might think he was simply copying and pasting bits and pieces from the older stuff. My favorite part was when he claimed, "Electricity has been restored above pre-war levels..." Even E. had to laugh at that one. A few days ago, most of Baghdad was in the dark for over 24 hours and lately, on our better days, we get about 12 hours of electricity. Bush got it wrong (or Allawi explained it to incorrectly)- the electricity is drastically less than pre-war levels, but the electricity BILL is way above pre-war levels. Congratulations Iraqis on THAT!! Our electricity bill was painful last month. Before the war, Iraqis might pay an average of around 5,000 Iraqi Dinars a month for electricity (the equivalent back then of $2.50) - summer or winter. Now, it's quite common to get bills above 70,000 Iraqi Dinars... for half-time electricity.
8:41:11 AM
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