The point about yesterday’s piece was not so much about radiation and bombs, but the fragility of our society.
In the interconnectedness of our world, people and places have become specialized. Transportation and manufacturing and finance have their centers and are concentrated at places like Rotterdam and Shanghai and New York. Even more, the world has [...]
Monthly Archive for June, 2007
A Radiological Apocalypse
Posted in America, Economy, Environment, Russia, Terrorism, The U.N. on Jun 28th, 2007
I tend to be the collector of obscure facts.
Such as the five percent rule for drug smuggling. The rule is that you only catch five percent of all the drugs smuggled across your border. Sometimes you get more. Sometimes you get less, but generally you only get five percent.
In other countries, like Russia, it’s actually [...]
That’s Not Desperation, That’s HATE
Posted in Media, Palestinians, Religion, Terrorism on Jun 27th, 2007
I’m working my way through an embarrassingly large collection of unwatched DVDs – a stack about chest high*, if you must really know. (They’re just so cheap over here, and when I get back to Israel…)
Anyway, there I sat, watching an Israeli film, when there was reference to a suicide bombing in Israel. One of [...]
IÂ raised a bit of a ruckus a few days ago.
In my article, Always Shoot the Looters, I illustrated one of the most important mistakes made by coalition forces in Iraq. By not acting to stop the looting, they signaled to the population as a whole that the rule of law was no longer in effect.
That [...]
A friend of a friend is a military police investigator (MPI) in Iraq. He helps run one of the military prisons in southern Iraq – supposedly one of the ‘nicer’ areas.
Let’s call him Bill. It’s a nice name, and he’s a nice guy.
He says something interesting. He says that the nicest prisons in Iraq are [...]