And the miracle has come, without announcement, without apparent reason... the lights in Kabul are on - almost 24/7...
Weird - you betcha... what the heck is all this light doing? Why is it in? Why does my phone charger work when I plug it in?
First we heard "there has been no building on the Uzbek side of the power line that is supposed to come" then maybe there is somehow 70MW, maybe 20MW, not quite sure...
Maybe we just had a lot snow lately and it melted, which made the dam run better, in which case the power will disappear.
And it's now doubled in price to $0.14/kwhr - not quite the $0.02 it used to be for the lower residential rate...
Here's hoping...
Monday, 26 January 2009
Wednesday, 14 January 2009
Would you like a Nazi magazine in the lobby?
We're spending billions of dollars on the Military operation here in Afghanistan. Most of the cultural sensitivities here are pretty obvious.
Today I was supposed to leave back to Kabul from Jalalabad Airforce Base. So you come through some gates to some kind of main checking area. And just to show what could people we are, to all the guests, labourers, truck drivers, etc. they have a porno mag on the table...
They have a huge cluster of huts called 'Psyops' figuring out no doubt all kinds of ingenious ways of making people like us...
How would we back in the west feel if someone setup a base and then put a magazine about how we needed to revive Hitler and race sciencse on the front door? Probably not very good, because that magazine would be aganist and a comlpete violation of our core beliefs, of our society, the whole nine yards...
So what on earth are we doing here? And why does no one seem to care about it? What kind of diplomacy is this?
Most folks here are pretty tolerant of what you do under your rules in your space. In front of everyone else, come on, this is basic basic stuff here.
Disclaimer here - I know the folks who work in that base have a much more dangerous life than I do, and considerably more disconnected from the local society. But what I wanna know if they can spend that much on psyops and all the rest then why can't we basically mind our manners in front of the people who are hosting us?
Today I was supposed to leave back to Kabul from Jalalabad Airforce Base. So you come through some gates to some kind of main checking area. And just to show what could people we are, to all the guests, labourers, truck drivers, etc. they have a porno mag on the table...
They have a huge cluster of huts called 'Psyops' figuring out no doubt all kinds of ingenious ways of making people like us...
How would we back in the west feel if someone setup a base and then put a magazine about how we needed to revive Hitler and race sciencse on the front door? Probably not very good, because that magazine would be aganist and a comlpete violation of our core beliefs, of our society, the whole nine yards...
So what on earth are we doing here? And why does no one seem to care about it? What kind of diplomacy is this?
Most folks here are pretty tolerant of what you do under your rules in your space. In front of everyone else, come on, this is basic basic stuff here.
Disclaimer here - I know the folks who work in that base have a much more dangerous life than I do, and considerably more disconnected from the local society. But what I wanna know if they can spend that much on psyops and all the rest then why can't we basically mind our manners in front of the people who are hosting us?
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