Korea Vs Korea

Yes, it's all kicking off in Korea.

One can only watch and wait to see what happens.

I expect China will call for calm, but may be secretly pumping for the North. Of course, rather like Star Wars, there is a further sub-plot. The one about China and America, the shipping routes to China under US control around Taiwan and the battle for energy resources that can only intensify in its friction. 40%, I believe, of China's energy is imported, and much of it by sea. All that stuff from Africa, the real war zone. Where US and Western forces have failed after trying to instill some form of Western government as part of the oil deal, China waltzes in, quite welcome, insisting on no such guff, only filling the pockets of the corrupt government and friends currently in charge. Gold Rolls Royces and all that, in exchange for black gold. What makes me laugh is the constant shouts and grunts of the US and the IMF for China's apparent, "Foul Play!" One thing I do like about Asia is that at least corruption is highly visible to all and sundry, unlike the devious Senator Palpatine tactics of the US. And with the latest cheap jibes and pot shot tactics of 'Nailing Palin, US presidential history is even more riduclous than, yes you guessed it, wheels on a tomato. Hollywood couldn't have dreamed this up, and if they had, they would never have made it into a movie. Philip K. Dick might have though.

Here's a classic from the Guardian,

"9.31am: Potentially awkward moment in Guangzhou, China, this morning, where two South and North Korean archers stood side-by-side on the Asian Games podium as their countries fired shells at one another.


I would like to think science can save us, but I do feel that Man's emotions will just have to sink the whole damn noodle.


Meanwhile Europe flails in the treacherous waters attempting to save the weakling countries. I understand that, in fact, Spain is the struggling "fat boy" that may bring down the whole crummy lifeboat and sink everyone in it

On a infinitely more fluffy note, I saw an amazing docu on the wildlife around the Chernobyl site that is indeed flourishing. Wolves, bears, feral, once domestic cats, deer, elk, birds of prey are all thriving in the 30 mile exclusion zone around the radioactive site. The wonderful fact being that animals, having a far shorter lifespan than ugly humans, don't live long enough to develop cancerous tumours, and all the mutants died out very quickly as they were weaker specimens. Well worth a watch if you can, along with Last Chance to See which will have you hoping that a lot more happens in Korea very quickly so we can speed up the annihilation of Man and return it to the animals, if any are left, as soon as possible.