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 Monday, October 7, 2002
This is a very interesting article and I will have to read 'Rebuilding America's Defenses'. Presumably, these guys have been waiting since 1992 to make this a reality. They have learned how to present the proper facade and have adapted to ongoing events with a focus that is amazing. One question I have if this is true is how are they going to make it irreversible? How would they prevent some other president from essentially turning back the clock? I've downloaded 'Rebuilding America's Defenses'. Jay Bookman took part in a live discussion of his article today. There is also an article from 1996 by the founder of the New Century Project (the ones who wrote the present report) calling for a benevolent hegemony as America's new goal. I guess that is what they are calling empires these days. It should make good reading. I think it may be very interesting to look back at this a few years down the road. Because, if this is the plan, how are we going to pay for it? One of the things that arguably allowed Japan to recover so fast after WW2 was the fact that it had to spend very little on defense. We took care of that. If we are the world's policeman, then our allies will be able to spend their money on other things in their economy. Unless we force them to pay taxes to us to pay for their defense. I must read 'Rebuilding America's Defenses' to see what these great minds have thought of. 11:38:57 PM 
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BBC NEWS | Middle East | Craft 'rammed' Yemen oil tanker [Daypop Top 40]
I wonder what sort of ecological disaster blowing up tankers would do, not to mention clogging up the shipping lanes and affecting the price of oil. This was a double-hulled tanker in calm waters on a clear day.Even if it was something other than a terrorist attack, it has to give them ideas. Are we going to have to escort tankers out of the Gulf into open seas? 11:11:04 PM
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I uploaded a new version of my Knowledge Proposal that I wrote last year. I details some of my thoughts about the information glut in biotechnology and how it might be dealt with. Some of the material could be updated (like a lot more stuff on weblogs/data aggregators) but I think it makes a nice start. 10:49:42 PM
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