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The credibility of that rumour would lie heavily in the likelihood of Russia automatically protecting its citizens by evacuation. Not necessarily their style. *skeptic*
 
This is related 2 North Korea and Russia
One of the functions of the Periscope app is I can search a zoomable map of the world to look for Periscope broadcasts...
Today I found 2 in North Korea
Be ready to be amazed
This broadcast is from nearish Chunghwa, S of Pyongyang and dated 1 day old
Alex @Alexnoker

Herez anuther 1 from Pyongyang
lespongoporno @lespongoporno

I have also been looking near the NK and R border 4 podcasts...
 
Inannawhimsey said:
This is related 2 North Korea and Russia
One of the functions of the Periscope app is I can search a zoomable map of the world to look for Periscope broadcasts...
Today I found 2 in North Korea
Be ready to be amazed
This broadcast is from nearish Chunghwa, S of Pyongyang and dated 1 day old
Alex @Alexnoker

Herez anuther 1 from Pyongyang
lespongoporno @lespongoporno

I have also been looking near the NK and R border 4 podcasts...
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3 dots Eire on the horizon ...
 
I've had computer problems - so I'm still a bit out of touch. As I say, the paper I saw that in is not a good one. But it would make sense to evacuate people. In fact, I should think it would be a minimum response.
North Korea does have a huge army - theoretically the biggest in the world. But that doesn't necessarily mean a whole lot. In serious power rankings, it doesn't make the top thirty.
 
Graeme Decarie said:
I've had computer problems - so I'm still a bit out of touch. As I say, the paper I saw that in is not a good one. But it would make sense to evacuate people. In fact, I should think it would be a minimum response.
North Korea does have a huge army - theoretically the biggest in the world. But that doesn't necessarily mean a whole lot. In serious power rankings, it doesn't make the top thirty.
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Ante Ci NK's can be a pain in the drawers ...
 
Graeme Decarie said:
I've had computer problems - so I'm still a bit out of touch. As I say, the paper I saw that in is not a good one. But it would make sense to evacuate people. In fact, I should think it would be a minimum response.
North Korea does have a huge army - theoretically the biggest in the world. But that doesn't necessarily mean a whole lot. In serious power rankings, it doesn't make the top thirty.
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From what I can see, North Korea has the fourth largest military in the world, behind, in order, China, India and the United States. North Korea shoots to first only if you include its reserves - estimated at 6.3 million. How effective are its reserves, and how quickly could they be deployed? Open questions. North Korea's problem (missiles and nuclear weapons notwithstanding) is that much of its equipment is out of date - especially its Air Force - and its Navy is divided into Eastern and Western fleets, which don't work together.
 
revsdd said:
its Navy is divided into Eastern and Western fleets, which don't work together.
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Kind of makes sense, actually, given that its coasts aren't contiguous or connected. To move a vessel from one coast to the other, they would have to risk sailing past South Korean territorial waters or haul it overland.
 
Yes. That's the problem with so many sites. Other sites show the largest as China. Some show the U.S. And the biggest is, as you say, not necessarily the strongest. Right now, the most expensive military in the world cannot control Afghanistan. And, despite the brutality of its assault on Yemen - and with Saudi help - it cannot seem to defeat Yemen, one of the poorest countries in the world. And I would have the gravest doubts about its ability to control a meltdown in Latin America - which is quite possible.
Then we get from the biggest military to the most powerful one. On paper, that should be the U.S. And North Korea is out of the picture.
 
Probably the most dangerous fleet units for NK are its submarines. I'm surprised NK didn't built subs that could fire nuclear weapons. That would have solved the ranged problem and would have eased the problem of dealing with defence missiles.
 
Graeme Decarie said:
Probably the most dangerous fleet units for NK are its submarines. I'm surprised NK didn't built subs that could fire nuclear weapons. That would have solved the ranged problem and would have eased the problem of dealing with defence missiles.
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What sort of shape are they in, though? If they are anything like the Cold War relics we bought from the Brits, they may not be all that threatening to modern, cutting edge subs and sub chasers.
 
yes. One of the problems of war is that you rarely know who even your best weapons are going to perform. Canada went into World War 1 rejoicing with the Ross rifle.
 
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My Russian friend got back in contact with me and he says that he can trace the whole story of the Eastern Russian evac to a not reputable news outlet life dot ru
Where an unnamed source reported some 1500 residents had been ordered to move. He also says that local authorities have flatly denied this, without providing any additional commentaries.

So, good to know :3
 
Inannawhimsey said:
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My Russian friend got back in contact with me and he says that he can trace the whole story of the Eastern Russian evac to a not reputable news outlet life dot ru
Where an unnamed source reported some 1500 residents had been ordered to move. He also says that local authorities have flatly denied this, without providing any additional commentaries.

So, good to know :3
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What is to know for sure in an eternal domain? Simply put ... we just don't know much ... yet some are still confident ... and thus contemptible about what they don't really know!

God almighty with considerable passive intelligence ... hides so much from the beeL'ved ... at least until peeled rye ... the time to catcher ...
 
It's nice to get confirmation of a rumour from a person on the ground.

I heard some rather stunning allegations at a "refugee team/friends/etc." potluck a few months ago that completely reframed the Syrian civil war into a direct battle between the U.S. and Russia over control of an oil pipeline.
 
Well, it has become that. But that wasn't how it started.
The real problem, the final one, is greed. It recognizes no boundaries. Capitalism, necessarily is based on greed. (One can call it competition to be socially acceptable. But it has no limits - and that goes beyond competition to greed. Whole nations have been virtually enslaved or, often, destroyed by that greed. Historically, that's been true in China, India. Africa. It's still true in Africa, latin America. Our media don't tell is about the slavery and murder that our corporate leaders have been and are still involved in. And that means Canada, too.
Since 1950 or so, greed has been wildly out of control. We have have been murdering and torturing all over the world. And, in all history, that has created huge wealth for the moneyed class - but poverty for most others - as in Victorian England - and as in Canada and the U.S. today.
This is not only greedy, it is stupid. Such greed out of control cannot be sustained. It destroys great masses of people and, inevitably, it destroys the wealthy, too, as they destroy their own markets.
 
we have a church here in NB, built by the wealthiest family and named, of course, after the family itself. The Irving Chapel.
every Sunday in summer, it has the best preacher money can buy (usually a DD). It also has 'special music' hired for the day (also representing the devout.) And, of course, coffee and fellowship in 'the barn'.
Down the street is the grave of a lay missionary to Guatemala who was murdered to please North American billionaires. But nobody pays any attention to it.
 
BetteTheRed said:
It's nice to get confirmation of a rumour from a person on the ground.

I heard some rather stunning allegations at a "refugee team/friends/etc." potluck a few months ago that completely reframed the Syrian civil war into a direct battle between the U.S. and Russia over control of an oil pipeline.
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My friend also gave a pretty fun description of him being mistaken that Russian mass media hit bottom 10 years ago; they zoomed past " Orwellian World" a few years ago and are dropping ever faster :3
 
@Graeme Decarie
Some more things I have been thinking aboot:

We r now in a sitz where govt's are in constant real time contact with each other; their actions/inactions affect each other so how to control that? Accountability? Payment?

Do all govts "government" the same? In that one govt is made up of the people of that country...another is made up of special experts...another is made up of those given Divine Authority...etc

And since it looks like there will br an increased dependence on Internet and Social Media to make a living...how to then deal with the effect ordinary people can affect govts and businesses even those of a completely different country or gov't?

Isn't then the Tragedy of the Commons going to include more and more everyone on Earth, which includes people of vastly varying beliefs, behaviours, etc?

Trippy world
 
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