No.

They are inconveniencing the public. That is all he cares about. Their new contract might demand that they have ground up glass inside their shoes all day, every day, but his interest was lost the moment someone tried to complain.

Not exactly. Guessing is what you do when wondering if North Korea could actually do what their propaganda insists they will do. Worst case scenario is that, yes, mutually assured destruction is possible as demonstrated by the field demonstration.

An iconic photographer…

In Washington D.C., the capital of America, in the summer 1967, Jan Rose Kasmir, a Vietnam War protester, stood infront of a row of National Guard servicemen outside the Pentagon. The soldiers would not have looked out of place on the frontlines of a world war – hardhats on, their rifles lowered, bayonets fixed.

Kasmir, in a flowing tye dye dress which is such a part of the 60s hippy movement, was smiling, holding a flower out towards them. It became one of the most seen photographs of the twentieth century.

The creator of the image, a French photographer called Marc Riboud, died on August 30, 2016, just over 49 years, to the day, since that picture of Jan Rose Kasmir was taken.

Riboud passed away after a long struggle with Alzheimer’s disease, at the age of 93.

http://www.bjp-online.com/2016/09/remembering-marc-riboud-who-has-died-at-age-93/

I can remember being part of a team compiling what was essentially a top ten within various genres in the run up to the new millennium, and having to fight to have this image included as part of either the protest section or the 1960s; there were other excellent images with which it was in competition, but it was a powerful shot which helped to explain the time and the situation well. Riboud said of the photo, “She was just talking, trying to catch the eye of the soldiers, maybe trying to have a dialogue with them. I had the feeling the soldiers were more afraid of her than she was of the bayonets.” Smithsonian Magazine later called it “a gauzy juxtaposition of armed force and flower child innocence.“

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Also… A boy whose girlfriend was a little too passionate.

A 17 year old boy from Itzdapalapa, Mexico, has died in a shock incident after his 24 year old girlfriend gave him an overly passionate love bite.

Julio Macias Gonzalez started to fit at the dinner table when he was eating with his family. An ambulance was called but unfortunately the boy died at the scene.

Doctors noticed a small bruise on his neck and discovered that he’d been with his girlfriend earlier in the day. They believe that his girlfriend’s passionate neck sucking had put trauma on one of his arteries causing a blood clot which then travelled up to his brain and caused a stroke.

It’s thought that the girlfriend has gone into hiding after the incident and reportedly the boy’s parents never approved of the relationship because of the age gap. They are now blaming her for the incident.

This isn’t the first time someone has suffered a serious injury as a result of a love bite. In 2011 a 44-year-old woman from Auckland, New Zealand, lost the use of an arm after a similar incident.

Dr Teddy Wu, who treated her, said: “To my knowledge, it’s the first time someone has been hospitalised by a hickey.”

http://lifestyle.one/closer/news-real-life/in-the-news/17-year-old-died-love-bite/

Maybe they will film it elsewhere, in CGI.

Trumpy talks to Mexican president, comes away and declares that Mexico will build his wall. And pay for it.

El presidente says they had a cordial meeting that never discussed the wall in detail, just a passing mention where, he stated, “I made it clear that Mexico will not pay for the wall”. The Hillary Clinton campaign said “he got beat in the room and lied about it”.

Further.

Ken Jarecke was a photographer during the first Gulf War (1991) who took a photograph – the photograph – of the burned body of an Iraqi soldier in the cab of a truck on the ‘Highway of Death’, the road from Kuwait City to Basra which was used for the mass retreat, and became a turkey shoot.
He justified taking the image by telling an accompanying soldier ”If I don’t photograph this, people like my mom will think war is what they see on TV”.
The picture was not used by newspapers in America but was on the front page of The Observer.

“In the UK it was published by the London Observer and I was actually going through Heathrow and I picked up the newspapers and I saw it was quite big, and that was basically the scene I thought I was going to see in all the newspapers around the world, since everybody had access to the image. It caused quite a controversy in London, which is what images like that are meant to do. They’re meant to basically cause a debate in the public: “Is this something we want to be involved in?”

How can you decide to have a war if you are not fully informed? You need to know what the end result will be, what the middle result will be.”

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If Hersey had not been able to describe what had happened at Hiroshima then maybe the military could have used the bomb in Korea, with the chance that the Russians replying in kind, and then what…?

Thank you for your concern.

Unfortunately, despite what you seem to believe, I am not ACDC so your therapy will be wasted. But I thank the entire forum for their interest. Well, most of them anyway.