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Before Sunrise

Never saw this movie, but the sequel Before Sunset's premise seems very interesting. A question that I often ask is what it would be like to meet the girl that I had fallen head over heels for years ago, but never had the opportunity to see what could really be.

So decided to watch the first movie last night. It was actually a really good movie, definitely a movie I could relate to and I'm sure most people can see shades of their own experience in the film. Looking forward to seeing the sequel now, got it on DVD.

One thing of note, some of the psuedo-philosophical rantings in the movie were quite interesting. I especially like Ethan Hawke's observation of how if there were only some one million people thousands of years ago, and now billions, where did all the souls come from, and are we just bits of the collective now? Intersting question and I wonder how one that believes in reincarnation would answer that.

Chaos in Haiti

Haiti Massacre

As if Haiti wasn't in bad enough shape...it's sad enough that the US staged the coup of Aristide last year, with no repurcussions as usual, based on some far-fetched rhetoric that Haiti needs new leadership to get out of its then violent and poverty-stricken state.

Yes, Haiti was in horrible condition, no thanks to the US policies that brought them there in the first place. But as always, whenever true democracy works its course particularly in the Southern Hemisphere, the US steps in to try to shut it down. If Venezuela were smaller I'm sure Chavez would've been long gone. I mean how many times does a guy have to get voted in before it counts? I guess democracy isn't democracy unless the outcome is agreeable to the United States.

And so fast forward almost one year. How's the situation in Haiti? More divided and violent than ever. No help from the outside.

Sound familiar? Because it's the same US policy that they've been enforcing upon the rest of the world over and over again.