Stupid World

**Viking01** · 12th July 2020, 17:16

https://www.mintpressnews.com/africa...system/269346/

**Viking01** · 29th July 2020, 17:27

https://wallstreetonparade.com/2020/...s-a-free-pass/

**Viking01** · 5th August 2020, 19:18

August 6th again tomorrow, and this time the 75th anniversary of the first atomic bombing in Japan.

It's quite sobering to visit Hiroshima and Nagasaki, particularly Hiroshima with its "Dome" and the Peace Memorial Museum. Especially recognising that despite the damage inflicted, it is estimated that only 1 kg of its 64 kg of enriched uranium used in the bomb actually went fissile.

Journalist John Pilger has provided a summary of some of the history relating to nuclear weapons, and giving recognition to another distinguished Australian investigative journalist Wilfred Burchett (who smuggled himself past US military lines and conducted his own investigation and reporting on the Hiroshima after-effects following the bombing, much to the annoyance of the US military):

https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/08...e-stop-it-now/

It's a pity that Pilger's article did not also mention the US intention to cause widespread nuclear devastation across Russian cities in the period 1946-1949 (this intention only set aside due to the USSR gaining its own nuclear weapon in 1949):

https://southfront.org/wipe-soviet-u...-world-war-ii/

The US has contemplated the development of low yield (tactical) nuclear weapons from time to time. Since the Russians developed hypersonic missile capability more recently, the US has again stepped up its intention to develop and deploy low yield nuclear weapons, apparently somehow confident that to such missiles would not lead to a all-out nuclear war:

https://www.strategic-culture.org/ne...e-nuclear-war/

It's not as if they don't already know the scale of devastation likely to be caused, and the impact upon both the environment and human populations around the world:

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitic...ar-would-cause

Even a modest nuclear war between two small powers (e.g. India and Pakistan) would be sufficient to cause world-wide famine:

https://www.rt.com/news/483282-india...uclear-winter/

Looking at what masquerades as "sound government" within the US at the moment, I can't help but feel pessimistic for the future of my own children.

**Viking01** · 11th August 2020, 18:30

One year already ...

https://www.scmp.com/news/world/unit...ar-ago-setting

**Viking01** · 15th August 2020, 09:15

https://www.rt.com/op-ed/498068-hbo-...igger-warning/

**Viking01** · 19th September 2020, 16:01

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitic...ire-has-fallen

Detail available from Murray's own website:

https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archi...earing-day-12/

**mashman** · 25th September 2020, 19:46

Dehumanise and treat as you choose. I thought I was reading some on KB for a moment.

**mashman** · 3rd October 2020, 22:10

Climate change in mind, Wall Street to start trading a new commodity: Water... well, iffen yer just gonna sit this one out this sort of shit is gonna happen. Good job we own our water, right

**Viking01** · 10th October 2020, 12:16

I see this morning that nuclear START negotiations in Vienna (between the US and Russia) may have been making some progress in the background. And that some "deal" may be imminent.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/americ...warhead-freeze

But current US politics must give Vlad a real headache. Who to publicly support?

Does he publicly support his "current US puppet" (better the puppet you know) - but who not only announced that US nuclear weapons systems were "tippy top", but threatened that "US conditions may harden" if a deal is not agreed before the election:

https://www.businessinsider.com.au/t...sagree-2020-10

Or does he support "a new US puppet" (Biden) - who has apparently indicated that he is willing to extend the existing START treaty (even without Chinese inclusion).

Who to believe ? Who to support ? Can only hope that he makes the right choice.

**mashman** · 13th October 2020, 15:23

Nobel: US auction theorists win Economics Prize

"The Rethinking Economics charity, which pushes for a broader application of economics, said it was "disappointing" that the prize had gone to "two white men from the global north working on auction theory".".

Game theory as if it's something new

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