I've been twittering a lot more lately and it has affected my blogging. Reading and commenting 134 characters at a time seems to have taken the edge off any need to vent at greater length. It has been well over a month since my last one and by golly, given the news to-day, nothing has really changed.
Syria's still going on, looking better for Assad day-to-day - but that was already happening. The US is still in-country but talking about pulling out, On the other hand the French are there now, Italians too, 'supporting' the SDF Kurds in the north. They're not talking about leaving.
In similar fashion the Germans have deployed to the Sahara, along with Canadians. The US and French have 'special forces' fighting with the anti-rebel coalition in Yemen. EVERYBODY (The Brits, the Aussies, the Croats and EUkrainians) looks like they're 'piling back onto' the Afghan rabbit in the hope that eighth time's lucky and the big win's in the cards.
Trump is still trying to slough-off charges that he's a dupe of the Kremlin but he's got a meeting with Putin on deck - an opportunity to call the pot black and see if he can't make a deal for the Russians to 'back off' in EUkrainia or ,at least, support Jared's plan for 'peace in Palestine', in return for a 'free hand' he's already got in Syria. If it's anything like the 'breakthru' deal with the Norks , it's not worth the airtime expended on it. Pompeo was very recently disappointed in meetings with the Rocket-man peeps - he shone a positive light on it but he didn't get the concessions he wanted and the Norks called the meetings "regrettable".
Brexit looms closer than ever but, once again, thinking about that has been derailed by another 'Novichok' attack. This one involving what have been called by relatives "a pair of lost souls" and long tome drug users. Why the Russians would want to target them is unknown.Save it to say that apparently THEY have smeared a non-toxic form of the deadly substance in places all around Britain - like parks where somebody could inadvertently become 'affected' by it.. The Russians are now targeting everybody in England not just former spies and traitors. The Euros are saying, unless the Brits get their exit act together, that hard one they're angling for is going to hurt more than Trump's tariffs. Lots more.
It could have something to do with bringing Putin down a peg or two after what is looking like one of the best FIFA World Cup venues to have happened in a score of years but the niggling of the Russians goes on. In Britain and, surprisingly, in the USA. While the US hasn't ever had a World Cup and barely has a international-calibre team, they aren't shy about grousing that Sochi, the venue for the finals is the site of 'Russia's shame'. They're saying they 'hope' they don't find out that the Russians have doped their soccer squad and 'fixed' the Cup. But that might take another couple of defected Russian 'pensioners' - like the other scandal did. No proof of those charges was ever offered. Not even the hint of a denial of human rights - even to idiot Englishmen. the US is complaining after the Russians leaned on a couple of their anti-government media sources in Russia, fining Radio Free Europe $3 000.
Oh by the way. Russia was knocked-out of Cup competition to-day, by Croatia. I guess they couldn't fix that World championship.
THE 'ROYAL' CANADIAN.....the ravings of somebody who's been out in the 'Big White' too long.
Showing posts with label North Korea. Show all posts
Showing posts with label North Korea. Show all posts
Saturday, July 07, 2018
Monday, January 15, 2018
Hawaii's Big Skeer
Saturday morning last , or at least 28 minutes of it, must have been a real 'doozie' for those Hawaiians, and tourists, who weren't sleeping through it. Some lummox at Civil Defense HQ accidentally toggled the switch that posts the alert for incoming rocket strikes - assuming there are a variety of such alerts. All of a sudden individual cell phones received the 'automated message'. If you were messaging the family, back on the mainland, over a vacation breakfast, they had a few minutes to wish you hadn't done that Hawaiian get-away. TV programs were interrupted with a red 'warning bar' scrolling across the screen indicating ICBM, imminent and take cover - a British premier league soccer game - was one I noticed. The warnings triggered 'somebodies' else to toggle local air raid sirens (which had, we are told, recently been part of the high-intensity 'training' going on - the NORK's threat to civilization, eh?). So a cacophony of sound (I was going to say not heard since the Japs bombed Pearl Harbor, but they've 'upgraded' the sound to a sort of eerie, alien 'warbling' - that none save a sound engineer, or Darby O'Gill, has ever heard) added to the already heightened tensions. Road traffic took a turn for the worse as people pulled-off to the side as instructed, and abandoned their cars, while others bolted for home or the office. One fellow even tossed his toddler into a storm drain for protection.
It only took Civil Defence 28 minutes - in consultation with every other attack detection and warning agency on 'erth', the four branches of the armed forces in the Pacific, National Security HQ and, no doubt, the White House - to determine that one, there was no incoming attack and two, someone had blundered. I guess the notion of just turning things off isn't in the 'play book'.
Which all leads one to believe that the CD warning system might be tied into something automatic with the 'manual override' that caused the problem. And that 'the human element' doesn't have immediate access to real-time awareness of an actual threat situation. Next time a faulty chip or sensor could trigger a warning and nobody might 'know' for more than an hour - although real incoming missiles from eastern Asia would have a flight time of between 13 and 20 minutes - so the loud 'bangs' interspersed with the alien noises and the pandemonium might 'prove' something. A blinding white flash or two, would shut everything to fuck up.
The White House took until later on Saturday to comment. Thank goodness the President might have been 'occupied' - taking a Trump dump, or entertaining some overpaid, over-injected "golf tournament diversion" and didn't make one of those crucial '2 pm decisions'. I'm pretty sure somebody important was asking if the Norks, or the Chinese or the Russians, might not have 'stealth ICBMs? And shouldn't we let off a few just to be careful? I visualize Pence and the Prosyliterians poring over 'the Big Board' down in the war bunker.
There's possibly a book, or two, in this one.
Mia Khalifa - last weeks 'meme' for Islamic 'wummin' and golf diverter
What ever happened away from the news is starting to take on the aspects of human nature at its best and worst. Honeymooning couples celebrated their last few minutes together with a glass of wine and render expressions of eternal love. Others used the opportunity to do some crime. One fellow stiffed his young child into a manhole to help him, or her, survive. Others made tearful calls home , bidding farewell - courtesy of our interconnected whirled. I'm pretty sure more than a couple hit their knees to 'get right' with 'God' or simply bent over, quietly, to kiss their ass good-bye.
To-day it's looking like the 'book' would be a revised CD manual, for the only thing America sees going wrong is that this was 'only' a false alarm. the notion of it actually being a real alarm is discounted as - well - not very 'American', or not very 'well-prepared to survive'. After some clear-eyed thinking, 'upping the CD 'game' is being touted as the panacea.
Atomic war is still very much 'on the table'.
It only took Civil Defence 28 minutes - in consultation with every other attack detection and warning agency on 'erth', the four branches of the armed forces in the Pacific, National Security HQ and, no doubt, the White House - to determine that one, there was no incoming attack and two, someone had blundered. I guess the notion of just turning things off isn't in the 'play book'.
Which all leads one to believe that the CD warning system might be tied into something automatic with the 'manual override' that caused the problem. And that 'the human element' doesn't have immediate access to real-time awareness of an actual threat situation. Next time a faulty chip or sensor could trigger a warning and nobody might 'know' for more than an hour - although real incoming missiles from eastern Asia would have a flight time of between 13 and 20 minutes - so the loud 'bangs' interspersed with the alien noises and the pandemonium might 'prove' something. A blinding white flash or two, would shut everything to fuck up.
The White House took until later on Saturday to comment. Thank goodness the President might have been 'occupied' - taking a Trump dump, or entertaining some overpaid, over-injected "golf tournament diversion" and didn't make one of those crucial '2 pm decisions'. I'm pretty sure somebody important was asking if the Norks, or the Chinese or the Russians, might not have 'stealth ICBMs? And shouldn't we let off a few just to be careful? I visualize Pence and the Prosyliterians poring over 'the Big Board' down in the war bunker.
There's possibly a book, or two, in this one.
The Trump dump emoji
Mia Khalifa - last weeks 'meme' for Islamic 'wummin' and golf diverter
What ever happened away from the news is starting to take on the aspects of human nature at its best and worst. Honeymooning couples celebrated their last few minutes together with a glass of wine and render expressions of eternal love. Others used the opportunity to do some crime. One fellow stiffed his young child into a manhole to help him, or her, survive. Others made tearful calls home , bidding farewell - courtesy of our interconnected whirled. I'm pretty sure more than a couple hit their knees to 'get right' with 'God' or simply bent over, quietly, to kiss their ass good-bye.
To-day it's looking like the 'book' would be a revised CD manual, for the only thing America sees going wrong is that this was 'only' a false alarm. the notion of it actually being a real alarm is discounted as - well - not very 'American', or not very 'well-prepared to survive'. After some clear-eyed thinking, 'upping the CD 'game' is being touted as the panacea.
Atomic war is still very much 'on the table'.
Saturday, August 26, 2017
I'm Gonna Huff, and I'm Gonna Puff ...
And he'll wind-up blowing North Korea too.
Donald Trump is reported by some media to have responded to the North Korean threat to' make the US pay' for its new sanctions program. while everybody else on earth views the North Koreans as all talk and very little effective shelling, Trump had to respond in in kind - threatening an American response of "fire and fury", this after US 'scientists' conceived that the North Koreans had advanced miniaturization processes in hand and had, in fact, produced an atomic warhead small enough to fit into the nose of the artillery rockets they have been firing into inner space of late. Is it now also believed that those rockets, if fired on the same kind of trajectory as most other ICBMs, could travel as far as Chicago.
Other US agencies were announcing a willingness to talk to North Korea if they promised to stop launching missiles. And yet others were taking some delight in the prospect of costing North Korea a billion dollars a year in truncated exports - essentially we are told the USA was shutting down the North Korean sea food industry - as well of course as enduring they will be blackballed by anybody peddling weapons or electronic technology. So I guess when the gargantuan TV on Kim il Sung square goes on the blink, they'll be scrambling for some circuit boards and switches. That should serve them right!
When the Norks actually did stop launching more missiles (at least the ones they said they were planning to shoot towards Wake) the CinC congratulated them on being "wise" (good cop) , the Sec State (bad cop) said he'd be willing to talk but that it would take "a little more" something from the Norks. They gave three short-range rockets as a reply (but they all 'failed' (yay!))
One has to wonder what, in all this, did the North Koreans do to 'break the agreement' they had made with Clinton's America? That saw them go from "world threat" to "world charity case" in less than three years. It also saw them allow US technicians to 'assist' in dismantling their sole nuclear reactor and, as far as was evident by inspection, stop developing Uranium towards making a weapon. George Bush moved into the White House and before the dust settled on the WT complex, the Norks were again "pariahs" and "threats" and the US was reneging on whatever Clinton had agreed to do.
They started work again. rebuilding their reactor and, by the time Obama took over the fear mongering, they had detonated a real bomb. Since then, 'the threat' has only gotten worse, exacerbated perhaps by the thought that , if they kept it up, they might be tempted to nuke America rather than Seoul, or Tokyo. To-day, according to Trumpco, they can. And the US military, we were told last week waits only for the go signal.
When you Google "North Korea Nuke" this is the first image that isn't a 'real' rocket photo or a cartoon. Even this is a photo=montage creation - for,you see, there is precious little evidence of Pyong yang's Nukes, either. Hopefully that's enough to stop a war , as well as to start one?
The question remains - how lucky do we feel?
Gone from America's media is Syria - a perfectly good peoples' rising against tyranny has gone 'poof'. Oh sure there is still stuff happening over there. The USAF is custom-bombing Raqqa, the Marines are bringing in equipment 'for themselves' (and the Syrian Kurds). But things have gone to hell in a handcart down in the Jordanian border - where a little incident (two weeks ago) involving some 'retreating' freedom fighters being 'ambushed' trying to cross into Jordan, parlayed itself into a fight between factions and, a few days ago, a fairly significant desertion (with all their equipment) by one group of America's 'anti-Assad' heroes.
So far, whatever agreement about Syria that Trump made with Putin seems to be holding. and while it does, the Assad forces are making significant inroads in blocking future coalition moves to 'grab territory', while putting some significant dents in ISIS land. It would appear that Assad is moving toward the relief of Deir ez Zor and clearing the rest of the Iraq border. But none of this matters to American news sources for the news isn't good. They need another good 'gassing' while somebody still remembers the hokum about the last one. (actually there was an attempt again to launch an 'Assad dunnit' news story. This once complete with the standard gasping babies and water hose decontamination procedures - flopped. It didn't make the front page anywhere, maybe even not onto the 'beautiful baby- cruise missile strike calculator'.
Meanwhile America has shifted focus to considering a bunch of 'initiatives': somebody's got the military option for Venezuela out for a 'boo'. 'Defensive' lethal weapons ( how are they different from offensive lethal weapons?) are 'on the table' for EUkrainia. And just to show how much we care , the NATO contingent ( un-armed eh?) marched in EUkraine's national independence day military parade. Hopefully the Ukrainian 'elite' units (they didn't seem to be lacking much lethal equipment) were around for the post-parade party, before shipping-out for some 'blooding' in the 'ostfront'. The message for Putin 'ist klaaar' - Barbarossa only sleeps.
Addendum:
One of the side stories coming out of the Nork's threat to whirled piece is the answer to the question "How'd they do that?' The answer being, they bought the rocket technology from somebody.
What somebody? Probably directed by Putin's goons, the finger initially pointed at Ukraine - purveyor of rockets parts and engines to everybody engaged in space activity. The Ukrainians naturally denied doing it and fingered the Russians who, it was claimed, had three or four Ukrainian-made roman candles that they hadn't bothered to shoot upwards. The russkies must have sold them to the Norks.
To-day another double back-cover story floating out of EUkrainia with all the eyes dotted and fingers crossed: the saga of how Ukraine duped the Norks into stealing phony rocket plans and got hem doing it on tape.
Ecce evidencia
Donald Trump is reported by some media to have responded to the North Korean threat to' make the US pay' for its new sanctions program. while everybody else on earth views the North Koreans as all talk and very little effective shelling, Trump had to respond in in kind - threatening an American response of "fire and fury", this after US 'scientists' conceived that the North Koreans had advanced miniaturization processes in hand and had, in fact, produced an atomic warhead small enough to fit into the nose of the artillery rockets they have been firing into inner space of late. Is it now also believed that those rockets, if fired on the same kind of trajectory as most other ICBMs, could travel as far as Chicago.
Other US agencies were announcing a willingness to talk to North Korea if they promised to stop launching missiles. And yet others were taking some delight in the prospect of costing North Korea a billion dollars a year in truncated exports - essentially we are told the USA was shutting down the North Korean sea food industry - as well of course as enduring they will be blackballed by anybody peddling weapons or electronic technology. So I guess when the gargantuan TV on Kim il Sung square goes on the blink, they'll be scrambling for some circuit boards and switches. That should serve them right!
When the Norks actually did stop launching more missiles (at least the ones they said they were planning to shoot towards Wake) the CinC congratulated them on being "wise" (good cop) , the Sec State (bad cop) said he'd be willing to talk but that it would take "a little more" something from the Norks. They gave three short-range rockets as a reply (but they all 'failed' (yay!))
One has to wonder what, in all this, did the North Koreans do to 'break the agreement' they had made with Clinton's America? That saw them go from "world threat" to "world charity case" in less than three years. It also saw them allow US technicians to 'assist' in dismantling their sole nuclear reactor and, as far as was evident by inspection, stop developing Uranium towards making a weapon. George Bush moved into the White House and before the dust settled on the WT complex, the Norks were again "pariahs" and "threats" and the US was reneging on whatever Clinton had agreed to do.
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| A Nork Nuke funny |
They started work again. rebuilding their reactor and, by the time Obama took over the fear mongering, they had detonated a real bomb. Since then, 'the threat' has only gotten worse, exacerbated perhaps by the thought that , if they kept it up, they might be tempted to nuke America rather than Seoul, or Tokyo. To-day, according to Trumpco, they can. And the US military, we were told last week waits only for the go signal.
When you Google "North Korea Nuke" this is the first image that isn't a 'real' rocket photo or a cartoon. Even this is a photo=montage creation - for,you see, there is precious little evidence of Pyong yang's Nukes, either. Hopefully that's enough to stop a war , as well as to start one?
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| The 'situation' for Long Dong Clinton |
The question remains - how lucky do we feel?
Gone from America's media is Syria - a perfectly good peoples' rising against tyranny has gone 'poof'. Oh sure there is still stuff happening over there. The USAF is custom-bombing Raqqa, the Marines are bringing in equipment 'for themselves' (and the Syrian Kurds). But things have gone to hell in a handcart down in the Jordanian border - where a little incident (two weeks ago) involving some 'retreating' freedom fighters being 'ambushed' trying to cross into Jordan, parlayed itself into a fight between factions and, a few days ago, a fairly significant desertion (with all their equipment) by one group of America's 'anti-Assad' heroes.
So far, whatever agreement about Syria that Trump made with Putin seems to be holding. and while it does, the Assad forces are making significant inroads in blocking future coalition moves to 'grab territory', while putting some significant dents in ISIS land. It would appear that Assad is moving toward the relief of Deir ez Zor and clearing the rest of the Iraq border. But none of this matters to American news sources for the news isn't good. They need another good 'gassing' while somebody still remembers the hokum about the last one. (actually there was an attempt again to launch an 'Assad dunnit' news story. This once complete with the standard gasping babies and water hose decontamination procedures - flopped. It didn't make the front page anywhere, maybe even not onto the 'beautiful baby- cruise missile strike calculator'.
Meanwhile America has shifted focus to considering a bunch of 'initiatives': somebody's got the military option for Venezuela out for a 'boo'. 'Defensive' lethal weapons ( how are they different from offensive lethal weapons?) are 'on the table' for EUkrainia. And just to show how much we care , the NATO contingent ( un-armed eh?) marched in EUkraine's national independence day military parade. Hopefully the Ukrainian 'elite' units (they didn't seem to be lacking much lethal equipment) were around for the post-parade party, before shipping-out for some 'blooding' in the 'ostfront'. The message for Putin 'ist klaaar' - Barbarossa only sleeps.
Addendum:
One of the side stories coming out of the Nork's threat to whirled piece is the answer to the question "How'd they do that?' The answer being, they bought the rocket technology from somebody.
What somebody? Probably directed by Putin's goons, the finger initially pointed at Ukraine - purveyor of rockets parts and engines to everybody engaged in space activity. The Ukrainians naturally denied doing it and fingered the Russians who, it was claimed, had three or four Ukrainian-made roman candles that they hadn't bothered to shoot upwards. The russkies must have sold them to the Norks.
To-day another double back-cover story floating out of EUkrainia with all the eyes dotted and fingers crossed: the saga of how Ukraine duped the Norks into stealing phony rocket plans and got hem doing it on tape.
Ecce evidencia
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