Hi out there!

I'm no longer a myth; Your Loyal TriSec does indeed still exist.

There's been a bit of a crackdown at work since the New Year...even as a newbie, it's very easy to get used to being online at will and streaming audio again, but that seems to have gone away for now. It does appear to be technical, not anti-internet. We've been having all sorts of bandwith issues and our system has been up and down far more than normal since we pulled 2010 off the calendar, so we'll see what shakes out as we go deeper into 2011.



In any case, I've been following the news just like you this week. The laundry list of things Bob wrote about yesterday throws something else into clarity this week; the piss-poor quality of our so-called media outlets. 2011 marks an anniversary for me; it's been 20 years since I've been going to the BBC as my primary international news source. Remember 1991? In August of that year, the Soviet Union started falling apart. During the coup attempt, the BBC had a reporter on the ground at their so-called "White House" with Boris Yeltsin. At the time, she didn't know if she would live or die, and the reporting that afternoon reflected that.

As I've said ever since, the Soviet Union fell apart and the world changed...and it's like I was there to see it. Such is the power of true journalism.

I'll throw a couple more stories out there...has anyone heard about what is going on in the Ivory Coast, or Tunisia this week? And did we all remember that it's the one-year anniversary of the earthquake in Haiti?

Some years ago, I believe it was George Carlin, did a satirical piece about the foreign exchange rate. It wasn't about currency; it was people. Specifically, how many foreigners needed to be killed or injured for a rough equivalency in Americans. For the Brazilians, it's running at least 500:1 before we've even paid attention. Of course, your mileage may vary.