[FRIAM] The apocalypse

[Gillian Densmore]

Budda nature, calm and a good ol' jedi  about now
Aka cooler heads tend to prevail and do some awsome stuf.


On Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 12:03 PM, Marcus Daniels <marcus at snoutfarm.com>
wrote:

> "I suppose firing 4 rockets to land in NK waters? Or sending 4 drones to
> hover over NK? Shooting down the NK rockets would be risky, showing our
> hand as to effective antimissile capabilities."
>
>
> The best thing would be to have people in charge that don't freak out at
> the slightest provocation.
>
>
> "Third, we must enhance our antimissile systems and other defenses, and
> those of our allies, which need our reassurances more than ever."
>
>
> https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/10/opinion/susan-rice-
> trump-north-korea.html
>
>
> <https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/10/opinion/susan-rice-trump-north-korea.html>
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> *From:* Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> on behalf of Owen Densmore <
> owen at backspaces.net>
> *Sent:* Thursday, August 10, 2017 10:26:46 AM
> *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
> *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] The apocalypse
>
> OK, what's tit for tat with the North Korea Guam threat:
>
> President Trump seemed to draw a red line Tuesday when he warned North
> Korea that continued threats against the United States would be met with
> “fire and fury like the world has never seen.” The next day, North Korea
> crossed it.
>
> Or at least it announced, in unusually specific terms, how it could. The
> country’s state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on Wednesday night
> issued a statement that said the North is “seriously examining the plan for
> an enveloping strike at Guam through simultaneous fire of four Hwasong-12
> intermediate-range strategic ballistic rockets in order to interdict the
> enemy forces on major military bases on Guam and to signal a crucial
> warning to the U.S.” The statement, citing the North’s Strategic Rocket
> Forces head General Kim Rak Gyom, added that the plan would be finished by
> mid-August before going to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un for approval.
>
> “Sound dialogue is not possible with such a guy bereft of reason and only
> absolute force can work on him,” the general said, in apparent reference to
> Trump, whose ultimatum he described as a “load of nonsense.”
>
>
> I suppose firing 4 rockets to land in NK waters? Or sending 4 drones to
> hover over NK? Shooting down the NK rockets would be risky, showing our
> hand as to effective antimissile capabilities.
>
>    -- Owen
>
> https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/08/
> north-korea-answers-trumps-vague-threats-with-specific-ones/536433/
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 9, 2017 at 9:36 PM, Gillian Densmore <gil.densmore at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I (razzingly) suggest bad summer movies or  that somehow all the Doom
>> will some freeze in place at the same time.
>> Perhaps we shall some how find a bunch of tribbles, zombies, a large rock
>> in the sky, and dinso's all at the same time and that because of the Doom
>> Metter the'll just stay their, thus no more doom can happen.
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 9, 2017 at 8:04 PM, Jochen Fromm <jofr at cas-group.net> wrote:
>>
>>> I doubt that North Korea has the ability to hit a tiny island like Guam
>>> in the Pacific, but it can without doubt destroy the 9 million capital
>>> Seoul near the border with weapons bought from Russia or China.
>>>
>>> The danger of a nuclear apocalypse is greatest when the world has
>>> forgotten how dangerous these weapons of mass destruction are. Even trying
>>> to model mutually assured destruction is useless with people like Kim
>>> Jong-Un and Trump. How can he brag on Twitter about nuclear weapons? WTF ?
>>>
>>> -J.
>>>
>>>
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