Welp i.e. well,-...no more late nights up at the computer for me. I do not have a love interest and as much as news and infotainment is fascinating it can also be depressing in comparison to my real life (um,uhh, ahem : rl), so I know there are as many people out there who can empathize (not what I need) and sympathize (not what I need) and channel their not insignificant amounts of pennywise pound foolish shadenfreude towards me (believe me I'm not worth it) but I also believe that for still others visiting this blog amounts to little more than a perverse form of voyeurism.
With that said, I find the whole situation in the world right now a little bit more on the scary side than the precarious (because precarious is always leading towards scary I would say) especially in light of the whirlwind in the media (against the backdrop of BP who can compete?) of spies being rounded up in America and exchanged for prisoners from Russia.
I offer you two link and twinned events for your own distinct analysis and I trust you WONT leave a comment below if you dont share an iota of my concern.
One is a decidedly gloomy and backwards leaning piece about Russians recent stance on Iran (is it a pose?)
and another is the sudden defection of a supposed CIA asset back to Iran.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jul/13/iranian-nuclear-scientist-washington-dc
Why is this troubling at all, even if you are a housewife in slippers and robe at 11:00 am on a Tuesday morning finally daring all to pick up the paper from the curb?
Because in realizing this is all against the operatic background of a arresting of spies and exchnaging them from Russia (how often are we privy to such spectavle?) the intelligence apparatus of Pakistan is already in a constant grey area with the US and NATO over everything from Taliban suspects, hiding AQ/Bin Laden (whom both happen to disagree on soccer as being halal) and not too mention unfriendliness with India (another schism since one believes the world will continue in one great big grande universal karmic revolutionary wheel even if theres a nuclear showdown and we reach like yeah: oblivion.), this is the country that felt no pang of conscience in compulsively assisting strong man Khaddaffi from acquiring nuclear arms.
And with rumours of war drums in Lebanon drowning out any plaintive naive cries for peace (Hello Obama) I am beginning to suspect that a domino effect is happening with Syria and Egypt towards the Jewish homeland and are getting a rude shock delivered to them from somewhere close near round about someplace called East Africa.
It all comes together in my mind.
Thats what you get though for staying up late even after the late night news nook lights dim down. For we interested in just a tad more information please, the internet is a bounty of intelligence that can only though keep our minds spinning around whats been posted and released as information.
Like this little tid bit for example that mentions the Quiet Canadian.
As opposed to this guy here.
It has me more interested about what CSIS meant about politicians in Canada getting rubbed the right way by foreign influences than news about four spies from Russia.
They are American.
I shall sleep soundly after all.
