I am currently trying to put something in place which you might be interested in. We should have a chat on the phone / skype or something, would be good to catch up anyway :-)

Regarding the blog, I have been itching to get busy with it again. Is nice to have people dropping by now that I have actually written on it for the first time in ages. At one point I considered dropping from 9rules or whether I may get booted out for lack of content but I am a survivor and knew my lapse was only temporary.

Business and family have come first recently, in some respects business has come first as the last year has been important to me but my focus is in constant flux.

Keep your eyes peeled though!

Back on topic, it’ll be interesting to see what happens once Bush goes, I guess that is one thing that they got right across the pond. Only allowing 2 terms in office, shame it wasn’t 2 weeks if you are a maniac just dying to push the nuke button.

Cheers!

Clearly Bush is a very limited man – educated and promoted way beyond his intelligence but he is limping out of the ‘power limelight’. I still have some optimism for the future when I think that with a strong democratic president some movement away from the current destructive foreign policy may happen.

You were missed at @media by the way! I expected to see you with Charlie and Scott.

Not meaning to be rude but I don’t beleive very much that I could read on the Whitehouse website of all places.

Propaganda central are the words that spring to mind.

I read a really interesting thing in the BIG ISSUE the other day and it was about the pointlessness of having cultural hub cities. Cities where they take in all this revenue from tourism etc and maybe get a famous architecht to build a statue in a new pedestrianised area of town.

The arguement came from the *real* inhabitants of the city they were surveying as most of the surveyed did not stand to benefit. There are still the issues of deprivation, poverty, homelessness.

The amount of money spent on going to war is rediculous, especially seeing as it seems to do more bad than good. Destabalising countries is not my idea of solving problems!

That money could be so much better spend on health service or god know what else… take your pick. Until governments can actually tell the truth about what they are acheiving then I will remain a skeptic.

For this one, it is necessary to compare it to the joint resolution (http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/10/20021002-2.html)

Then you can do some research on the 1998 law for regime change in Iraq.

There is much more but reality and actual recent history often don’t go very far in agenda driven politics or with those whose mind is already made up.

I have missed blogging so much it is nice to write something on a subject I don’t touch much. I’m no expert but I do care, the state of the world really does concern me.

The fact that in a lot of respects I have no control over my destiny annoys me as lunatics like Bush or lap dogs like Blair will decide who likes and dislikes me on a far more dangerous scale.

I think they are wrong to interfere with other countries and make them fight so they can step in and look like they are doing folk a favour.

I often think about leaving this country and going somewhere safer. It would need to be a desert island or something and to be quite frank, I would rather get wiped out by a tsunami than by a missle for something I haven’t done.

Cheers for the heads up on The Trap, I’ll try and track it down.

I suppose there are mechanism at work here we just don’t get. How is it that so many educated, intelligent people oppose this madness, and yet our leaders are these testosterone-driven arseholes? And why do we sometimes, as nations, as a collective, just follow this malarkey, while as individuals we would’t be seen dead in a ditch talking this drivel?

If you’ve got the taste, try and look for the three part BBC series The Trap. It’s about how the concepts of large numbers mathematics and game theory are directly responsible for war and aggression of this kind. Fascinating. Not currently on YouTube I believe, but there are torrents out there.

Glad you found and took the time to write.