Idiot official puts more stress on Korean tension
A South Korean official ramped up tensions with the North when he suggested crackpot Kim Jong-un was preparing a fresh nuclear test. Fears grew that the rogue state was about to carry out a test on Wednesday…the same day it had warned it could not guarantee the safety of foreign diplomats in the country. The … [Read the full story]
Tommy Taylor’s SRU
An election will be fought out this September and issues of importance should be discussed over the coming months. Do you consider personal and private revelations are important? Do you consider back stabbing and leadership challenges are the order of the day? Of course it would be helpful if either party could establish a leader … [Read the full story]
On this day…in 1964
On this day, Stanley Kubrick released his black comic masterpiece, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb opens in theaters to both critical and popular acclaim. The movie’s popularity was evidence of changing attitudes toward atomic weapons and the concept of nuclear deterrence. The movie focused on the actions … [Read the full story]
Tommy Taylor’s SRU
This week, a young seventeen year old girl from Sri Lanka who worked as a nanny in Saudi Arabia was beheaded. She was executed because a baby (that she was looking after) died whilst being fed a milk bottle. Despite protests from many support groups and the government of Sri Lanka, the guilty verdict was … [Read the full story]
Davo’s quote of the day
‘You can’t be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of football team, or some nuclear weapons…but at the very least…you need to have beer’
On this day…in 1959
Twelve nations, including the USA and the Soviet Union, sign the Antarctica Treaty, which bans military activity and weapons testing on that continent. It was the first arms control agreement signed in the Cold War period. Since the 1800′s a number of nations, including Great Britain, Australia, Chile, and Norway, laid claim to parts of … [Read the full story]
Tommy Taylor’s SRU (Sunday Round-Up)
What a week. It seems we have been looking back over the last fifty years. The Beatles and James Bond are giving us nostalgia of times long ago. Have you forgotten Sir Cliff Richard and Status Quo are visiting us here in Australia? And who can forget The Rolling Stones. Living in the past brings … [Read the full story]
Is it safe to eat fish?
I can remember the time of the nuclear reactor melt-down at Chernobyl. Warnings were issued to be wary of eating welsh lamb. It seems the fallout had effected areas across England and Wales. The grass was contaminated and being eaten by lambs. Some caution was advised. Since the reactor calamity in Japan no such warning … [Read the full story]
Soccer players in danger from Chernobyl fallout
The effects of the nuclear meltdown in Russia at Chernobyl will continue to be felt for two hundred years at least. Despite a most heroic effort by the Russian military and local people the threat is still there for the world to discover over a period of time. Why am I bringing the past to … [Read the full story]
Britain deploys nuclear sub to the Falklands
A fearsome Royal Navy nuclear powered submarine is on its way to the Falklands as tensions simmer on the 30th anniversary of Britain’s war with Argentina. HMS Talent, armed with Tomahawk missiles, was despatched in a show of power after Argentina increased friction over the disputed islands with a host of inflammatory stunts. The Trafalgar-class … [Read the full story]
