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Mushroom Cloud Reported Over North Korea
cbrocious writes "Yahoo! News is reporting a mushroom cloud over North Korea that occured on Thursday in Yanggang province near the border with China. 'The explosion in Kim Hyong Jik county blasted a crater big enough to be noticed by a satellite, the source said.'"
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first post.
This isn't off topic this time.
Hey Hon, would you hand me another Carona. Forget the lime.
Anyone seen my jagged little pill?
Just like in Jakarta, also Thursday.
RYONGGANG (UMBRELLA) - Early reports are coming in that there has been a explosion, likely nuclear in origin, in the city of Ryonggang, North Korea. Ryonggang has long been an economic center of North Korea, and specifically, the American run Umbrella Corporation. Although the exact information hasn't been confirmed, there were rumors of an outbreak of a virus in the city.
Although North Korean officials were unavailable for comment, an Umbrella Corporation official was willing to speak with us.
"We've learned of a massive explosion, of roughly 2 miles, in the middle of Ryonggang. Also, more disturbingly, there's been a rumor of a viral outbreak in the city as well. We can deny that, as we maintained radio contact up until the explosion. There was no such problem. The explosion was most likely an accident in the reactor. We will have a press release in the morning with more information." Charles Harriford reported to us on a phone interview.
As a city, Ryongang was one of the three corporate centers of the Umbrella corporation. It was originally made as the only completley open part of North Korea. Free access was granted to Americans, Brits, and Germans. Eventually, the xenophobic country allowed free access to the city by all nations, and handed control over to the Umbrella Corporation.
Named after the main animal that inhabits the forest surrounding the city, it is translated into "The City of Raccoons". Some foreign residents started calling it 'Raccoon City' after being unable to pronounce Ryonggang. The name stuck, and it is even designated on most maps as Raccoon City.
"It was likely a nuclear plant accident," William Harris, of the NRC reports, "Although North Korea has developed as a nuclear nation, they are still primitive in their development of safety measures."
Damage estimates are unavailable, but it likely reaches into the hundreds of billions of dollars. The explosion was estimated in the 5 kiloton range, based on the range of the damage.
And why did you staple the trout to the RAM?
The Republicans are trying to pin the blame on the Democrats, but according to an Utne Reader article this month it is the Bush adminstration that is quietly pushing for this.. ETA is sometime in early 2005 The relevant bills are HR163 and S89.
There is also quite a bit on the resumption of the draft in Bush's "National Security Strategy" report dated Sept 20, 2002
The SSS is quietly pushing to finish filling local draft boards with members so that they will be ready to make status decisions quickly - in the case of a national emergency - an event like war, requiring an immediate resumption of the draft.
The Selective Service system is designed to provide hundreds of thousands of inductees to the DOD on very short notice..
The chances are the new draft will include both men and women and there will not be deferments for college.
Here is the description of the program from the PDF brocure for prospective board members.
"The Mission of the Selective Service is to provide manpower to the Department of Defense for military service in the event of a national emergency declared by the Congress or the President; implement an Alternative Service Program for registrants classified as conscientious objectors; and, maintain a program to conscript health care personnel when directed.
The all-volunteer armed force, instituted in 1973, was never intended to stand alone in time of emergency. In the event of conflict, the armed forces will be quickly augmented by the National Guard and the Reserves. If necessary, the Selective Service System will be mobilized to direct registrants to the Military Entrance Processing Stations (MEPS) around the country. "
Again, there is more info on the web, see http://www.sss.gov/perfplan_fy2004.html
latin, which actually has a predictable structure.
WTF are you talking about? Do you actually know any latin?
Because if you did, you'd probably know Latin is quite the other way around. The six cases make sentence word order almost irrelevant, and therefore, nearly any word order can constitute a valid sentence.
How is that a "predictable structure"? Further reading.
when you think of all the neural activity and cognitive skills required to identify piss in a boot, and then the motor control and coordination required to actually empty it, it really is a miracle of sorts, isn't it?
pr0n - keeping monitor glass spotless since 1981.
MMmmmmm... Mushrooms..
Is that like Kazaa?
Wheel in the sky keeps on turnin'.
Probably not.
I might not be a wit, but at least I am more than half way there.
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Your example of the AIDS help that America gives to Africa is just one small example of the terrible hypocrisy that plagues the American hating world. No other country has sacrificed so much and given so much for complete strangers
A quick Google led me to the verification of a counter-argument to the AIDS protestors. I had heard that the United States federal government spends more on AIDS research than the rest of the world, combined. So this is not counting private research efforts, which expands this gap even further. I found out the precise claim is that America, in fiscal 2002 and 2003, spent more than the rest of the world combined. Accounting for fully 50% of global expenditures in each of 2002 and 2003 is not as impressive a claim as spending more in one year than the rest of the world combined, but it is still a metric assload of money, considering America is not the source of 50% of AIDS cases in the world (source).
But wait, there's more. American taxpayers, starting with the current fiscal year, are spending not just more than the rest of the world's nations combined, but nearly twice as much! So we are going from about 50% to nearly 200% in one year, and it's still not enough for these protestors! So why are we still spat upon? Apparently because:
I'm incredulous at this point. Let me see if I have this right. Because we decide not to fund the UN effort, for whatever reason, we are the equivalent of evil incarnate, as if we spent zero on AIDS activities. Let's say for the sake of argument we don't quite trust the UN with a big wad of cash (ever seen an audit of UN finances that will stand up to scrutiny?) and try for once to be responsible with how taxpayer dollars are spent. The net result, whatever the root cause of the decision not to go through the UN, is someone's pet organization is maligned.
So instead of saying, "well, it's your money so you get to spend it the best way you see fit," or try to make UN finances transparent to the outside world so we can actually trust them with tons of cash, or do something constructive to find out why the UN was not chosen and fix that, they point the fingers at them dirty Americans and scream that we're just religious nutcases that want to bomb the rest of the world into mega-corporation submission. At the same time we don't choose the UN as the recipient of the increased funding, we still spend so much of our tax dollars on the UN AIDS organization we supposedly don't care about that we outstrip every other nation's funding for that very organization! And we're still hated for it!? Honestly, I don't even know why we Americans even try to be more nice than absolutely necessary to maintain civil but cool relationships with those who won't be satisfied no matter what we do. We're going to be hated and vilified regardless of our actions.
I guarantee you that if an American mega-corporate pharmaceutical finds a cure for AIDS, it still won't be enough for these protestors. They'll have to take a loss "for the good of mankind", and sell it at or below cost.