Wednesday, December 29, 2004

The Saudi Takedown Scenario  Reuters.  2 huge car bombs explode near Saudi security buildings.  Earlier this year, my analysis indicated that the campaign against the Saudi state would begin in December, after the US elections.  Over the past months, I have made major revisions to my Saudi takedown scenario based on my evolving model of global guerrilla warfare.  The two attacks we have seen so far, fit the model perfectly.  I will publish it soon on global guerrillas.     6:26:34 PM    Comment_ Trackback []

Wow.  Little Green Footballs has its own Wikipedia page.  So does Instapundit. What's up with that?   5:29:27 PM    Comment_ Trackback []

Belmont Club.  Some interesting analysis of the existing Tsunami alert system.  Here's a great animation of the wavefront from the Tsunami (it provides a timeline of impact). 5:13:23 PM    Comment_ Trackback []

All Stick and NO Carrot  I agree with David Stephenson on this.  The US is missing a major PR and goodwill opportunity.   BTW, it looks like Pfizer is giving as much as the entire US to disaster relief.  Spain nearly doubled the US contribution at $68 million... A little free thinking: A balanced security budget would see us spending as much on support for our friends (people and not corrupt governments) in the developing world as on military power.  Remember, the Saudi Madrassa system costs $300 m a year.  You can't fight its influence with rhetoric alone.... 5:01:51 PM    Comment_ Trackback []

The Economist.  The Death of the American Meritocracy....   This premise of this article is totally correct.  My personal experience totally confirms this.  The new US tax laws will only only accelerate this trend.  Societal ossification in the face of extreme global competition (from both economic and system competitors) is bad, bad news... 1:02:12 PM    Comment_ Trackback []

Goss continues to clean house in the CIA.  It won't change anything. This is an understatement: Even before taking charge of the CIA, Goss and his close associates had been openly critical of the agency's directorate of intelligence, saying it suffered from poor leadership and was devoting too much effort to monitoring day-to-day developments rather than broad trends. If they want trends, they should be reading global guerrillas... 10:36:20 AM    Comment_ Trackback []