GOD BLESS CORPORATE AMERICA

LOS TAJAMARES: MONDAY, OCTOBER 22
When not coughing, inhaling water vapour or downing glasses of Vitamin C the past few days, I have been working with Clare. Clare is copy-editing my book that comes out next March. Extraordinary to be able to work with someone in London while on a South American estancia some fifty miles from the nearest small town. Some emails have been delayed a day, few come in the order in which they were posted. The book and the emails contain many bad words. To name a few: Bush, Blair, terrorist, liars, torture, Halliburton, corruption.
Clare and I suspect that THEY are reading our mail. I have advised Clare to put a couple of bolsters in the bed and sleep on the floor for a while - better still, move in with an elderly relative who has always voted Tory and is a member of the Tory Party.
While waiting for mail from Clare, I skimmed BBC News. DynCorp is a splendid US corporation, very similar to Halliburton. DynCorp is training the Iraq police. Keeping records is an essential part of police work. DynCorp are unable to produce records for 1.2 billion US dollars of Government funds. Nor can they explain why they built themselves an Olympic size swimming pool in Iraq and purchsed a bunch of top of the line executive trailers ~ you know, those vast things in which movie stars have affairs. DynCorp also train the Afghan police. Both Afghan and Iraq police are notoriously corrupt - DynCorp must feel right at home. And DynCorp run the anti-cocaine aerial spraying in Columbia, another nice little earner. Over the past twelve months DynCorp shares have fluctuated between $10 and $25. If the President and Board bought and sold at the correct moment, they should be wealthy. Perhaps they can stop mislaying Government funds.