February 10, 2016
Just in Case
...that you, gentle reader, have (for some reason) any interest in happenings that do not involve the presidential primary, here are a couple of things that seem to be getting short shrift.
That DPRK satellite has stopped tumbling and is seems to have stabilized its orbit. Amateur radio operators should be able to pick up the songs it's allegedly transmitting using information here (via). If it's working, it should sound just like this....but different. In other news from The Hermit Kingdom, it looks like they are going to pop another nuke soon, and another rocket may be being readied along their west coast. One interesting idea about why the sudden surge of tests is happening can be read here. In short, the idea is that these are to shore up domestic confidence in the countries military capabilities so that a major set of reforms and liberalization can be enacted during the upcoming Communist Party Congress. This sounds...optimistic, but they did just execute the head of the North Korean Military, so maybe their nukes are a sign of really militant dovishness rather than a nuclear armed, crazy nation being crazy. In this context the recent recommissioning of a plutonium enrichment center is a particularly cunning way to ensure that when they do spring peace on us, it will be a surprise.
While there are many foreign policy decisions that the current administration deserves...credit...for, he intervention in Libya looks to be one of the most....consequential. Not only is the no-man's land once known as Libya torn asunder by a civil war, but it also has become the home to a "province" of ISIS.
It get's better...It appears that ISIS may have absconded with the stocks of chemical weapons that were in that countries arsenal. The Sarin is obviously the greatest concern here, since ISIS is already making and using Mustard Gas and Chlorine.
One of the biggest shipping countries in the world, Moller-Maersk has slipped into the red.
Mark Gilbert has more news from the shipping industry.
Let's start with goods carried by train in the U.S. Since the middle of last March, carloads of agricultural products, chemicals, coal, metals, autos and other goods have declined every week:
On the bright side, the category "unaccompanied minors" is not suffering nearly as much.
I have no idea what this means but the words "Banking", "Crisis" and "Scarier" are in the headline, so it might belong here. This certainly does.
Someone at Vox, having talked to experts and run the numbers has decided that the chances of a war with Russia are only 11% which probably represent the most optimistic numbers in this entire post so we'll ignore that it's Vox and leave on an upbeat note.
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