How badly do Western companies–puppets of Team Neo-Con, no doubt–want Eurasian oil? Well, this badly: ExxonMobil will pay $30 mln. to the Azerbaijan [...]

From what I’ve been told by certain folks, it sounds possible to me that the warning was due to a lot of chatter. There can be lots of that without an attack, but better safe than sorry, I suppose.

For what it’s worth, I’ve told people that if they have plans to go, they should still go.

You know, I think the problem here is that a few weeks ago a hell of a lot of people discovered that Central Asia exists, and they’re just extending their previous theories to fit this “new world” they had never heard of before. They probably figure they can say whatever they want, too, since obviously because they didn’t know about Central Asia before, nobody else knows anything about it either.

The sad thing is how true it is.

P.S., in case nobody else has noticed, nothing has blown up in Tashkent yet. I asked an Australian friend the other day if he knew why nothing had happened yet, he said, yeah, two words: “American Intelligence.”

I’m starting to get kind of mad. They get us all worked up and nervous, all kinds of people leave the country, even more cancel their trips, they evacuate the families of their own staff (they being the State Department) and then nothing happens. Am I totally fucked up that I am dissapointed by this? I guess I should be glad nothing has happened.

Somebody living in a sane country please slap me in the face.

Btw – I know that the US did want to negotiate some kind of access use for Almaty airport in Kazakhstan, but it met with local opposition. Do you know what happened to that deal – are they still half-heartedly negotiating, or was the idea abandoned?