http://www.cnn.com/2005/ALLPOLITICS/02/16/...orea/index.html
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- North Korea's nuclear weapons arsenal has grown since the country was labeled part of an "axis of evil" by President Bush three years ago, CIA Director Porter Goss testified Wednesday before the Senate Select Intelligence Committee.
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LETS INVADE IRAN! COME ON! IRAN HAS NUCLEAR WEAPONS AND BOMBS AND GUNS AND OIL AND GUNS AND BOMBS AND OIL! AND HALLIBURTON DEALS AND GUNS AND ...... MUSHROOM CLOUD!
WAR GOOD!
WAR WE CAN WIN GOOD!
BLOOD GOOD
and these are the voices our fearless leader hears every night
Full Version: North Korea's nuclear capability grows
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: "53 JEWELS IN THE CROWN OF THE NUCLEAR AGE"
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"For game designers," says Terrence Ross, "role playing games are commonly set in the chaos envisioned as post-nuclear such as EarthAD; "Tank Girl"; "Waste World".""
In contrast to these depressing venues, some have found a kind of Holy Grail of the subconscious in KardtricK™ "53 JEWELS IN THE CROWN OF THE NUCLEAR AGE", a new game created by experimental game designer Terrence Ross. The fantasy of this game -- the total deconstruction of nuclear weapons.
"I thought it might be healthy to create a game set in the present, which sees the present problems of the world as a perfectly satisfying adventure. That is what KardtricK™: 53 Jewels in the Cronw of the Nuclear Age seeks to do."
Kardtrick is basically a fantasy role playing game that is designed to interface with reality. In that it is the first game of its type. "It's like a big D&D game incorporating one part of our regular reality – the part we call the Bomb. When we are done with this game, maybe the Bomb will have been transferred back to the fantasy realm, which is much safer place to keep it."
Like all RPGs or LARPs, KARDTRICK has a central fiction -- in this case, that there is parallel universe--an OtherEarth--to our Earth, only just a little bit ahead of us in time, where nuclear weapons have been completely deconstructed. It was found on this Earth that as they deconstructed nuclear weapons an entirely unheralded problem solving ability was liberated from the Structure of Nuclear Weapons. On Otherearth it is said "we built the bomb to take it apart" Indeed, in this fiction, it was found that immense mental powers unraveled from the structure of the Bomb, as it came apart. In other words, a unheralded Benefit was derived from deconstructing nuclear weapons -- a problem solving ability they came to call "the Glass Bead Game".
"The current world with all its inter-human conflicts is the place we need to exercise our imaginations," says Ross, "We must use the imagination not as an escape but as a tool of Presence -- - not in college basements and ungerground passages but out in the sun, in the streets, with the flowers and the trees. We need to think, not about the nuclear weapons destroying the world, but how to deconstruct nuclear weapons completely in the current times--and what that will Create. That is the great adventure of this game, which it is hoped will provide adequate entertainment for an entire generation.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: "53 JEWELS IN THE CROWN OF THE NUCLEAR AGE"
WEBSITE: http://www.kardtrick.com/52words.htm
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"For game designers," says Terrence Ross, "role playing games are commonly set in the chaos envisioned as post-nuclear such as EarthAD; "Tank Girl"; "Waste World".""
In contrast to these depressing venues, some have found a kind of Holy Grail of the subconscious in KardtricK™ "53 JEWELS IN THE CROWN OF THE NUCLEAR AGE", a new game created by experimental game designer Terrence Ross. The fantasy of this game -- the total deconstruction of nuclear weapons.
"I thought it might be healthy to create a game set in the present, which sees the present problems of the world as a perfectly satisfying adventure. That is what KardtricK™: 53 Jewels in the Cronw of the Nuclear Age seeks to do."
Kardtrick is basically a fantasy role playing game that is designed to interface with reality. In that it is the first game of its type. "It's like a big D&D game incorporating one part of our regular reality – the part we call the Bomb. When we are done with this game, maybe the Bomb will have been transferred back to the fantasy realm, which is much safer place to keep it."
Like all RPGs or LARPs, KARDTRICK has a central fiction -- in this case, that there is parallel universe--an OtherEarth--to our Earth, only just a little bit ahead of us in time, where nuclear weapons have been completely deconstructed. It was found on this Earth that as they deconstructed nuclear weapons an entirely unheralded problem solving ability was liberated from the Structure of Nuclear Weapons. On Otherearth it is said "we built the bomb to take it apart" Indeed, in this fiction, it was found that immense mental powers unraveled from the structure of the Bomb, as it came apart. In other words, a unheralded Benefit was derived from deconstructing nuclear weapons -- a problem solving ability they came to call "the Glass Bead Game".
"The current world with all its inter-human conflicts is the place we need to exercise our imaginations," says Ross, "We must use the imagination not as an escape but as a tool of Presence -- - not in college basements and ungerground passages but out in the sun, in the streets, with the flowers and the trees. We need to think, not about the nuclear weapons destroying the world, but how to deconstruct nuclear weapons completely in the current times--and what that will Create. That is the great adventure of this game, which it is hoped will provide adequate entertainment for an entire generation.
* See also: NucNews Links and Archives (by date) at http://nucnews.net * (Posted for educational and research purposes only, in accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107) *
Rice: 'We Will Get Bin Laden'
Updated 5:18 PM ET March 17, 2005
http://dailynews.att.net/cgi-bin/news?e=pr..._050317&src=abc
......KARL: North Korea has said that they will not go back to the six-party [nuclear disarmament] talks unless you apologize for calling them an outpost of tyranny. Are you going to apologize or take back those remarks?
RICE: The North Koreans are determined to change the subject from what North Korea is doing, and we are not going to let them change the subject. I am not going to get into a debate on semantics with the North Koreans. The North Koreans need to return to the six-party talks. It's the only way that they can find a way to enter the international community of states. It's the only way that they can realize the full benefits of integration into the international system of economic assistance, of ways to get out of the terrible [condition] in which the North Korean people find themselves -- where we talk every year about problems of starvation and malnutrition in North Korea. It is the only way they are going to be able to convince their neighbors that they are devoted to a peaceful, secure environment. There is a lot on the table for the North Koreans. They have been told that if they are willing to make the strategic choice and give up their nuclear weapons programs, they can have security assurances on a multi-lateral basis. They have been told people are ready to deal with their energy needs which are very severe. Even without six-party talks, the U.S. has been a major food donor because we don't want to penalize the people of North Korea. There is a lot at stake here for the North Koreans, and they really should come back to the talks and stop trying to change the subject.
KARL: But do you stand by your statement that North Korea is an outpost of tyranny?
RICE: Everybody knows what life looks like in North Korea, and everybody knows what kind of system rules in North Korea. And so as I said, "I'm not going to let the North Koreans change the subject."
Updated 5:18 PM ET March 17, 2005
http://dailynews.att.net/cgi-bin/news?e=pr..._050317&src=abc
......KARL: North Korea has said that they will not go back to the six-party [nuclear disarmament] talks unless you apologize for calling them an outpost of tyranny. Are you going to apologize or take back those remarks?
RICE: The North Koreans are determined to change the subject from what North Korea is doing, and we are not going to let them change the subject. I am not going to get into a debate on semantics with the North Koreans. The North Koreans need to return to the six-party talks. It's the only way that they can find a way to enter the international community of states. It's the only way that they can realize the full benefits of integration into the international system of economic assistance, of ways to get out of the terrible [condition] in which the North Korean people find themselves -- where we talk every year about problems of starvation and malnutrition in North Korea. It is the only way they are going to be able to convince their neighbors that they are devoted to a peaceful, secure environment. There is a lot on the table for the North Koreans. They have been told that if they are willing to make the strategic choice and give up their nuclear weapons programs, they can have security assurances on a multi-lateral basis. They have been told people are ready to deal with their energy needs which are very severe. Even without six-party talks, the U.S. has been a major food donor because we don't want to penalize the people of North Korea. There is a lot at stake here for the North Koreans, and they really should come back to the talks and stop trying to change the subject.
KARL: But do you stand by your statement that North Korea is an outpost of tyranny?
RICE: Everybody knows what life looks like in North Korea, and everybody knows what kind of system rules in North Korea. And so as I said, "I'm not going to let the North Koreans change the subject."
i don't even know why people pretend like international laws exist. i.e. International Crimes Tribual, Kyoto Treaty, Nuclear Proliferation,
it always ends up a battle of wills and a battle of guns anyways.
it always ends up a battle of wills and a battle of guns anyways.
N. Korean Nuclear Advance Is Cited
On Hill, Admiral Says Nation Can Arm Missiles
By Bradley Graham and Glenn Kessler
Washington Post Staff Writers
Friday, April 29, 2005; Page A01
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte...42802113_2.html
The Pentagon's top military intelligence officer said yesterday that North Korea has the ability to arm a missile with a nuclear device, stunning senators he was addressing and prompting attempts by other defense and intelligence officials later to play down the remarks.
The statement by Vice Adm. Lowell E. Jacoby before the Senate Armed Services Committee marked the first time that a U.S. official had publicly attributed such a capability to North Korea.....
President Bush, speaking at a news conference last night about North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, said: "There is concern about his capacity to deliver a nuclear weapon. We don't know if he can or not, but I think it's best, when you're dealing with a tyrant like Kim Jong Il, to assume he can."
Jacoby's remarks were made in response to questions from Sen. Hillary Rodman Clinton (D-N.Y.). Senate aides said the questions had been carefully crafted in consultation with the committee staff.
"Admiral, let me ask you, do you assess that North Korea has the ability to arm a missile with a nuclear device?" Clinton said.
"The assessment is that they have the capability to do that, yes, ma'am," Jacoby replied.......
Seizing on Jacoby's remarks as evidence the threat from North Korea's nuclear program is increasing, Clinton and Sen. Carl M. Levin (Mich.), the ranking Democrat on the committee, wrote to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice urging the administration "to engage in bilateral diplomatic efforts with North Korea to address this serious threat." The administration has refused to meet one-on-one with North Korea, except on the sidelines of the six-party talks, arguing that such a bilateral approach has proven ineffective......
On Hill, Admiral Says Nation Can Arm Missiles
By Bradley Graham and Glenn Kessler
Washington Post Staff Writers
Friday, April 29, 2005; Page A01
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte...42802113_2.html
The Pentagon's top military intelligence officer said yesterday that North Korea has the ability to arm a missile with a nuclear device, stunning senators he was addressing and prompting attempts by other defense and intelligence officials later to play down the remarks.
The statement by Vice Adm. Lowell E. Jacoby before the Senate Armed Services Committee marked the first time that a U.S. official had publicly attributed such a capability to North Korea.....
President Bush, speaking at a news conference last night about North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, said: "There is concern about his capacity to deliver a nuclear weapon. We don't know if he can or not, but I think it's best, when you're dealing with a tyrant like Kim Jong Il, to assume he can."
Jacoby's remarks were made in response to questions from Sen. Hillary Rodman Clinton (D-N.Y.). Senate aides said the questions had been carefully crafted in consultation with the committee staff.
"Admiral, let me ask you, do you assess that North Korea has the ability to arm a missile with a nuclear device?" Clinton said.
"The assessment is that they have the capability to do that, yes, ma'am," Jacoby replied.......
Seizing on Jacoby's remarks as evidence the threat from North Korea's nuclear program is increasing, Clinton and Sen. Carl M. Levin (Mich.), the ranking Democrat on the committee, wrote to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice urging the administration "to engage in bilateral diplomatic efforts with North Korea to address this serious threat." The administration has refused to meet one-on-one with North Korea, except on the sidelines of the six-party talks, arguing that such a bilateral approach has proven ineffective......
The senate armed services hearing mentioned in the article above is playing on C-span 2 right now.
Officials: US, N. Korea hold backdoor talks CNN International
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