cold

not at my best at the moment as i have a stinking cold. bunged up nose and annoying cough. it's the sort of thing that makes you really irritable. it meant i missed going out last night - there were several clubs i wanted to go to, and it also meant that i fell asleep during the presidential debate so i missed it - and it is probably the only one i am going to get to see.
why do i care about the debates? well simply put america is the hyperpower and the fate of the world largely rests on it's shoulders. thanks to it's iraq adventure (and thanks to blair's desire to do what he saw as the right thing) we are now in a situation where the world is being quickly crystalised into two warring camps. it is almost like we are about to have the crusades all over again, only this time the stakes are much higher and each and everyone of us is a potential casualty in the conflict.
and why have we gone down this road? more and more i can't help thinking that bush and co are doing this purely and simply to finish off the job they started when it was bush senior in charge.
of course the even more whacked out conspiracy theory is that they are happy for the war on terror to spiral out of control as it means they can take away more and more civil liberties from the population. until such time as the new world order has taken hold and that we as individuals have no say in what is really going to be going on.

as i say colds make me more miserable than normal. they also make me think that david icke is a wonderful human being and he has something sensible to say, rather than his books are the funniest things ever written. dont believe me then read this stuff.