Friday, January 21, 2005

Unfortunately, Netflix is slowing down.  My normal two day turn around has stretched into a three or four day flip (four times now, so it is a trend).  The Saturday turn-around went away a long time ago.  Further, I can't get the top movies on my list.  The same top movies on my list have been frozen there for two weeks.  Any recommendations?  6:15:00 PM    Comment_ Trackback []

Lind on to the decline of the state and the rise of global disorder.  My note:  Moral decay/discord is radically catalyzed by systems sabotage.  Most significantly, if we look at the larger world, we see ever more states coming unglued, which is the root phenomenon of Fourth Generation war. The Saudi regime is in trouble, and its replacement will not be parliamentary democracy. Pakistan’s General Musharraf is one bomb away from his destiny, at which point al Qaeda will have nukes (if it doesn’t already). Russia’s President Putin is acting to strengthen the Russian state because he knows the state’s existence is on the line in Russia. In West Africa, the state is almost gone, and it is going in the rest of Africa. Most interestingly, as the next few months will likely show, the state is fracturing in Israel, a modern, Westernized country. That is how Fourth Generation war works: it pulls the state apart at the moral level. Soon, just as Arab is fighting Arab, Jew will be fighting Jew. 2:25:01 PM    Comment_ Trackback []

Reuters.  More systems disruption aimed at globalization's people flows...  Insurgents who have threatened to kill eight Chinese hostages said on Friday they would treat them "mercifully" if China banned all Chinese citizens from entering the country. 11:52:50 AM    Comment_ Trackback []

New Post to PC Home Theater  A DVD storage system?  I want one. 9:50:00 AM    Comment_ Trackback []

Indian separatists try their hand at global guerrilla tactics. 9:20:06 AM    Comment_ Trackback []

New Post to Global Guerrillas  The ongoing disruption of Saudi Arabia may create the conditions necessary for a coup d'etat.  Here are some of the mechanics of how a coup would work in the Kingdom.  The key to a coup attempt that I don't mention in the brief:  the disruption of basic services.  If the Saudi government is unable to deliver basic political goods to citizens, its ability to "buy" acquiescence to the kleptocracy will crumble. 9:16:41 AM    Comment_ Trackback []