--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > IN our case here in the Philippines, the peso dipped > to an all-time low of > 1 is to 55 US dollars because of war jitters. Panic > buying was not > reported in the papers but we are all pani-buying.
Over here, the price of gasoline went up when there were worries there was going to be a war. Now that there IS a war, the price of gas has gone down (?) How sick is that? > Just > yesterday while I was > holding classes, two low-flying planes passed by the > academic oval that > had 2/3 of the students jumping off their seats, and > then realizing its a > plane, they nervously laughed and went back to their > seats. > > With the threats that the Mindanao wars will > escalate in the Metro because > of the all-out support of our government to the > US-led war, bus terminals, > malls, cinema, public places are strangely quiet. > > Generations later, I hope the people will not forget > the atrocity of this > war and not forgive the those who left long-lasting > scars in our psyche. Over here, I think the powers that be are more worried that other opportunistic types will take advantage of what's going on elsewhere in the world to further their own weird agendas. Certainly in the last few years bomb threats have gone up, even though there have been few, if any, actual bombs. However threats are enough to cause mass evacuations of entire buildings' worth of people (usually, but not always, gov't buildings). And since 9/11, we have other things to consider apart from the usual fire, flood or gas leak - things none of us would have believed possible before then. Anxiety levels are certainly way up and the drone of flying engines now frightens peope. ===== Catherine Toronto ______________________________________________________________________ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca
