The World Events Thread

[CBH1926]

CSTO peacekeepers will use deadly force in Kazakhstan.

I guess word peacekeepers means something different in Russian.

 

https://www.rt.com/russia/545338-csto-kazakhstan-peacekeeping-mission/

[Gurn]

9 minutes ago, Bure_of_94 said:

That’s what a REAL insurrection looks like.

So bringing a guillotine, a sword, guns, and using a fire extinguisher to bash cops in the head doesn't count for you?

[Bure_of_94]

2 minutes ago, gurn said:

So bringing a guillotine, a sword, guns, and using a fire extinguisher to bash cops in the head doesn't count for you?

What are you talking about? 

[CBH1926]

11 minutes ago, Bure_of_94 said:

That’s what a REAL insurrection looks like. They were literally beheading police and security in the streets. Of course North American news isn’t picking the full story up as they wouldn’t want the blissfully ignorant here to be able to differentiate between the two. 

I only heard one officer being beheaded, but that info is from the government sources in Almaty.

[Bure_of_94]

Just now, CBH1926 said:

I only heard one officer being beheaded, but that info is from the government sources in Almaty.

Oh I had heard it on German news, RT and the BBC that it’s was multiple beheadings. I Don’t trust a singular news source when it comes to global events. Because every country uses a global event to posture and position themselves politically. 

[WHL rocks]

Looks like we failed in Xinjiang with ETIM. 

 

Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan are not option anymore.. so we're blocking BRI and giving Russia a headache other than Ukraine.

 

 

[CBH1926]

Saw a story about Russian boxer that killed a bear with a knife.

Not only you have to be tough to stab bear to death but his last name is Medvedov.

In Russian bear is called Medved.

https://torontosun.com/news/world/young-russian-boxer-fighting-for-life-after-killing-bear-that-fatally-mauled-pal

Edited January 9, 2022 by CBH1926

[bishopshodan]

Wow.

 

In first, U.S. surgeons transplant pig heart into human patient

 

https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/in-first-u-s-surgeons-transplant-pig-heart-into-human-patient-1.5734509

 

In a medical first, doctors transplanted a pig heart into a patient in a last-ditch effort to save his life and a Maryland hospital said Monday that he's doing well three days after the highly experimental surgery.

While it's too soon to know if the operation really will work, it marks a step in the decades-long quest to one day use animal organs for life-saving transplants. Doctors at the University of Maryland Medical Center say the transplant showed that a heart from a genetically modified animal can function in the human body without immediate rejection.

[Ilunga]

 

Oxfam's latest report 

Inequality Kills 

 

Australia's billionaires have doubled their wealth over the last year's.

So have the 10 richest men on the planet.

 

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-01-17/oxfam-report-covid-pandemic-billionaires-increase-fortune/100760968

 

"10 men hold more wealth than two thirds of humanity" 

 

" Not only that, but the bottom 40 percent are hanging on by a thread" 

 

 

[Gurn]

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/tonga-faces-unprecedented-disaster-as-new-zealand-warns-of-further-eruptions-and-tsunami-risk/ar-AASVk9b?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531

 

n its first official update since Saturday's eruption of the underwater Hunga-Tonga-Hunga-Ha'apai volcano, Tonga's government on Tuesday confirmed the deaths of three people and several other injuries, and outlined the scale of destruction to communities.

Tongan Prime Minster Siaosi Sovaleni said all houses on the island of Mango, where 36 people live, were destroyed. Only two houses remain on Fonoifua island, and extensive damage was reported on Nomuka island, home to 239 people, he said.

"An unprecedented disaster hit Tonga," Sovaleni said, adding a "volcanic mushroom plume" extended to cover all of the country's roughly 170 islands -- of which 36 are inhabited -- impacting the entire population of more than 100,000 people.

According to experts, the eruption of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcano was likely the biggest volcanic event recorded since Mount Pinatubo erupted in the Philippines in 1991.

On Tuesday, New Zealand's Foreign Ministry warned further eruptions of the volcano were likely, posing a tsunami risk.

The estimation was based on modeling by GNS Science, a New Zealand geological research institute, the ministry said. "The most likely scenario is for ongoing eruptions in the next several days to weeks, with ongoing tsunami risk to Tonga and New Zealand," it said.

The eruption on Saturday generated tsunami waves up to 49 feet (15 meters) high that hit the west coast of Tonga's main island, Tongatapu, and the 'Eua and Ha'api islands.

A United Nations spokesperson said an initial assessment by Tongan authorities found 100 houses were damaged and 50 destroyed on Tongatapu, the country's main island, home to the majority of the population. No evacuation centers are open on the main island, and people who were displaced are mostly staying with extended families.

On 'Eua, 89 people are in evacuation centers, the spokesperson said, adding that information from outer islands remains scarce.

 

Race to deliver aid to Tonga

The first details of the devastation emerged on Tuesday after Tonga's Pacific neighbors, Australia and New Zealand, made reconnaissance flights to the archipelago -- a three- to five-hour journey.

Photos show entire island communities that were once lush and green, now blanketed by thick, gray ash. Many homes appear damaged or completely destroyed.

Widespread stagnant pools of salt water, coupled with the volcanic ash, are polluting drinking water sources, according to the Red Cross.

The delivery of aid was hampered by ashfall covering Tonga's Fua'amotu International Airport runway, forcing New Zealand to send two navy ships to assist with recovery -- but they will not arrive until Friday.

Yutaro Setoya, the official in charge of the WHO liaison office for Tonga, said he believed the first aid flights could arrive on Thursday.

He also described the the conditions in the wake of the disaster.

"After the eruption initially, there was a sound on the roof like rain, and it was not actually a rain. It was small pellets falling from the sky," Setoya told CNN on Wednesday. The pellets were followed by very fine ash, which by the time Tonga woke up the next day resembled "gray snow like two centimeters everywhere."

With cleanup efforts underway, rescue workers are racing to deliver safe drinking water to the island nation as it grapples with the shortages.

"Securing access to safe drinking water is a critical immediate priority," said Katie Greenwood, the Pacific Head of Delegation for the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, pointing to the mounting risk of diarrhea and diseases such as cholera.

 

Covid risk

Tonga has reported just one coronavirus case during the pandemic, and there is concern the nation could see its first outbreak if aid workers bring the virus with them from countries where the Omicron variant is spreading rapidly.

The World Health Organization (WHO) will not send international aid teams to Tonga due to the risk of bringing Covid-19 into the community, according to Sean Casey, WHO's Pacific Covid-19 incident manager.

Tonga has done "extremely well" on their vaccine rollout with more than 80% fully inoculated, Casey said. The country shut its borders to international travelers near the start of the pandemic, and has used this time to prepare its population and health care systems for an outbreak, he added.

"We have lots of natural disasters in this part of the world and you don't want to have to deal with multiple emergencies at the same time, if that can be avoided," Casey said.

WHO is still working to send supplies to Tonga, including telecommunication tools such as satellite phones, water sanitation equipment and materials to repair and build shelters.

"Everybody in Tonga, every family in town is affected by this," Casey said. "That's always the case in the Pacific. The numbers look very small, but the impact proportionately on a very small country is massive."

 

Tonga is largely cut off from the world

Tonga's communication systems remain severely limited after damage to a key undersea cable cut international and inter-island calls, New Zealand's Foreign Ministry said Tuesday.

According to the ministry, an international mobile network provider has set up an interim system on Tongatapu using a satellite dish, which could restore 2G connections. But this "will be limited and patchy," the ministry said.

Many Tongans living outside the country now face a daunting wait to reconnect with loved ones at home, as rescue workers try to salvage the underwater cable.

Repairs are not expected to begin until February 1, and it may take a further two weeks after that to restore the cable, according to a company assisting with the work.

Tongan Olympian Pita Taufatofua -- the nation's flag bearer in Tokyo last year -- said on Instagram he had been unable to reach his father, the governor of the Ha'apai islands.

"Just received word that our family on the main island of Haapai is safe and that our Ha'apai home 'Fuino' is still standing! Its over 100 years old and has been through many cyclones and now a tsunami," Taufatofua said Wednesday. "Still no word from my Father or our family on Kotu and surrounding lower islands."

Taekwondo player Taufatofua, who is at a training camp in Australia, has started a fundraising page for rescue efforts that has garnered more than $300,000 in donations as of Wednesday.

 

Tongan-Australian artist and activist Seini Taumoepeau told Reuters her "worst fear is always that you're not going to see the people that you love again," adding she has had no contact with anyone from Tonga since before the tsunami hit.

The Hunga-Tonga-Hunga-Ha'apai volcano, about 20 miles (30 kilometers) southeast of Tonga's Fonuafo'ou island, sits underwater between two small islands at about 6,500 feet (2,000 meters) high from the sea floor, with about 328 feet (100 meters) visible above sea level.

Researchers said it has erupted regularly over the past few decades.

The most recent eruption began in December 2021, with gas, steam, and ash plumes rising about 7.5 miles (12 kilometers) into the air. The volcano erupted again on January 14 and the massive eruption on January 15 sent shockwaves around the world and triggered tsunami waves that were felt thousands of miles away, killing at least two people in Peru.

[Boudrias]

The world kinda shrugs as the Russians get ready to snuff out the Ukraine. Biden says a Russian invasion is very likely. At the very least I hope the Ukrainians have the Russian pipelines to Europe wired with explosives and set them off. Ukraine has over 2500 tanks, how many are battle worthy? The Russians probably have 5th column groups ready to go. 
 

Just goes to show what the world would do if the Americans were positioning troops on the Canadian border. Many posters on here think the USA is next to the Devil so why not? Eastern Canada is kinda a write off but the West has lots of farm land and of course oil. Without a softwood lumber problem the Americans could clearcut BC to make their home construction cheaper. Northwest Passage without irritating Canadians to worry about. Yup, lots of reasons to assert Manifest Destiny. 

[UnkNuk]

5 hours ago, Boudrias said:

The world kinda shrugs as the Russians get ready to snuff out the Ukraine. Biden says a Russian invasion is very likely. At the very least I hope the Ukrainians have the Russian pipelines to Europe wired with explosives and set them off. Ukraine has over 2500 tanks, how many are battle worthy? The Russians probably have 5th column groups ready to go. 
 

 

It's a big problem.

 

If Russia were to invade, would Canadians be in favour of Canadian soldiers (via NATO) going to Ukraine with some of them being killed?

 

That's the same question that Biden is asking himself in regards to American soldiers being killed.

 

I've read reports that the Russians could (fairly) easily take over Ukraine but then they would have to hold onto it.  Speculation is that there would be guerilla attacks on Russian soldiers.  And it's not clear how Russians would react to the death of Russian soldiers.

 

This sounds like an invasion that wouldn't really benefit anyone.

[Canuck Luck]

Vladimir Putin was told the Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau would not stand for Russia invading the Ukraine and that Trudeau stated "...there would be repercussions!"

 

 

When asked how he felt about the hardcore warning from Trudeau, Putin stated:  "Isn't she cute!"

 

 

 

 

 

 

No, this never happened but I do imagine something similar would if Putin was ever asked about turdeau.

[bishopshodan]

On 1/10/2022 at 4:24 PM, bishopshodan said:

Wow.

 

In first, U.S. surgeons transplant pig heart into human patient

 

https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/in-first-u-s-surgeons-transplant-pig-heart-into-human-patient-1.5734509

 

In a medical first, doctors transplanted a pig heart into a patient in a last-ditch effort to save his life and a Maryland hospital said Monday that he's doing well three days after the highly experimental surgery.

While it's too soon to know if the operation really will work, it marks a step in the decades-long quest to one day use animal organs for life-saving transplants. Doctors at the University of Maryland Medical Center say the transplant showed that a heart from a genetically modified animal can function in the human body without immediate rejection.

So far, the heart is not being rejected.

The man may get to leave the hospital soon.

 

Pigs are stating to save lives. Wonder if we ever want to think about reciprocation? 

 

They are so similar to humans, no wonder why some of you love bacon so much.

[bishopshodan]

3 minutes ago, Canuck Luck said:

Vladimir Putin was told the Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau would not stand for Russia invading the Ukraine and that Trudeau stated "...there would be repercussions!"

 

 

When asked how he felt about the hardcore warning from Trudeau, Putin stated:  "Isn't she cute!"

 

 

 

 

 

 

No, this never happened but I do imagine something similar would if Putin was ever asked about turdeau.

I got JT in a stand up fight.

 

Putz in a grappling match. 

[Alflives]

2 minutes ago, Canuck Luck said:

Vladimir Putin was told the Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau would not stand for Russia invading the Ukraine and that Trudeau stated "...there would be repercussions!"

 

 

When asked how he felt about the hardcore warning from Trudeau, Putin stated:  "Isn't she cute!"

 

 

 

 

 

 

No, this never happened but I do imagine something similar would if Putin was ever asked about turdeau.

The last idiot who thought JT was only a pretty face got his ass kicked in the ring.  JT would easily nut up and pound the crap out of Putin.  Putin has that little man syndrome.  

[bishopshodan]

4 minutes ago, Alflives said:

The last idiot who thought JT was only a pretty face got his ass kicked in the ring.  JT would easily nut up and pound the crap out of Putin.  Putin has that little man syndrome.  

He's 5'7 and 69 yrs old.

 

Yeah, he's ex KGB  but JT would box him up and do yoga moves on the knocked out little war monger. 

[JM_]

8 minutes ago, bishopshodan said:

I got JT in a stand up fight.

 

Putz in a grappling match. 

you have to figure if anyone knows how to do a Vulcan nerve pinch or something similar tis Vlad. 

[CBH1926]

5 hours ago, UnkNuk said:

It's a big problem.

 

If Russia were to invade, would Canadians be in favour of Canadian soldiers (via NATO) going to Ukraine with some of them being killed?

 

That's the same question that Biden is asking himself in regards to American soldiers being killed.

 

I've read reports that the Russians could (fairly) easily take over Ukraine but then they would have to hold onto it.  Speculation is that there would be guerilla attacks on Russian soldiers.  And it's not clear how Russians would react to the death of Russian soldiers.

 

This sounds like an invasion that wouldn't really benefit anyone.

If Russians do invade Ukraine, they will be in Kiev in matter of days.

West or NATO is not going to stop it or intervene, especially Canada with its tiny army.

The only thing that might happen is delivery of Javelins and Stingers to help Ukrainians out.

Edited January 21, 2022 by CBH1926

[CBH1926]

11 hours ago, Boudrias said:

The world kinda shrugs as the Russians get ready to snuff out the Ukraine. Biden says a Russian invasion is very likely. At the very least I hope the Ukrainians have the Russian pipelines to Europe wired with explosives and set them off. Ukraine has over 2500 tanks, how many are battle worthy? The Russians probably have 5th column groups ready to go. 
 

Just goes to show what the world would do if the Americans were positioning troops on the Canadian border. Many posters on here think the USA is next to the Devil so why not? Eastern Canada is kinda a write off but the West has lots of farm land and of course oil. Without a softwood lumber problem the Americans could clearcut BC to make their home construction cheaper. Northwest Passage without irritating Canadians to worry about. Yup, lots of reasons to assert Manifest Destiny. 

Ukrainians lost any fighting chance when they signed Budapest memorandum back in 1994.

No chance that Putin would have invaded Crimea if they kept part of the arsenal.

As far as your bottom paragraph goes, China, Russia and U.S have their eyes set on Canada’s vast resources.

Wars of the future will be fought over natural resources.

The one and only guarantee of Canadian sovereignty is the military, and that aspect has been neglected for decades.