The Big Wobble

As two school yard bullies square up to each other, with no thought for their own citizens the world is on the brink of world war...
Kim Jong-Un is without doubt mad and wants conflict with the US, leaving President Trump too clumsy to handle the situation properly.
Tension around the world has reached new heights as Kim Jong-Un after his first successful test of an ICBM capable of hitting Alaska - as America and South Korea respond with their own ballistic missile drill, as the North Korean leader seems to be hell bent on causing war.
Kim Jong-Un is deliberately pushing President Trump into a corner and the only outcome can only end in Trump retaliating, which could pull the whole world into conflict.
As North Korean leader Kim Jong Un bragged about sending more "gifts" to U.S. President Donald Trump, South Korea and the U.S. announced Wednesday they had conducted a joint ballistic-missile drill in waters off the eastern coast of the Korean peninsula.
According to Bloomberg, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is calling North Korea’s actions a “new escalation of the threat” to the U.S. and its allies, the UN is set to issue a condemnation of the missile test, which comes in defiance of international sanctions. Still, with China and South Korea also calling for caution, and urging fresh efforts to entice North Korea to talks, the prospects for strong action appear limited.
Kim’s progress toward acquiring missiles that can carry a nuclear warhead to the U.S. mainland also show how efforts to rein him in -- from international sanctions to U.S. and Chinese pressure -- have not worked. Even so, Tillerson called for “global action” to stop a "global threat.”


Washington (AFP) reported- North Korea has test launched an intercontinental ballistic missile for the first time, the United States confirmed Tuesday as it warned of an escalating threat from Pyongyang and insisted America would never accept a nuclear-armed North Korea.

Reuters reported North Korea said on Wednesday its newly developed intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) can carry a large nuclear warhead, triggering a call by Washington for global action to hold it accountable for pursuing nuclear weapons.

N. Korea vows more 'gift packages' of missile tests for US, SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea delighted in the international furor created by its first launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile, vowing Wednesday to never give up its missiles or nuclear weapons and to keep sending Washington more "gift packages" of weapons tests.


The NY Times reported when President-elect Donald J. Trump said on Twitter in early January that a North Korean test of an intercontinental ballistic missile capable of reaching the United States “won’t happen!” there were two things he still did not fully appreciate: how close Kim Jong-un, the North’s leader, was to reaching that goal, and how limited any president’s options were to stop him. The ensuing six months have been a brutal education for President Trump. With North Korea’s launch on Tuesday of what the administration confirmed was an intercontinental ballistic missile, the country has new reach. Experts said the North Koreans had crossed a threshold — if just barely — with a missile that could potentially strike Alaska.


Pyongyang said earlier the Hwasong-14 intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) had reached an altitude of 2,802km (1,731 miles) and flew 933km for 39 minutes before hitting a target in the sea. North Korea, it said, was now "a full-fledged nuclear power that has been possessed of the most powerful inter-continental ballistic rocket capable of hitting any part of the world", according to the BBC.

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NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite provided a visible-light image of Tropical Storm Nanmadol approaching Japan. Credits: NASA/NOAA

Typhoon Nanmadol ripped through the Japanese archipelago Tuesday, dumping heavy rain, disrupting traffic and leaving nearly 70,000 without power as it traveled east after making landfall in Nagasaki in the morning.
The season's third typhoon is expected to reach the Pacific Ocean east of Japan and be downgraded to a tropical depression by Wednesday morning, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency.
Around 68,500 households suffered brief blackouts in Nagasaki and Kumamoto prefectures in southwestern Japan, while power outages were also reported in Oita, Miyazaki and Kagoshima prefectures, the Kyushu Electric Power Co. said.
Some rail services, including bullet trains between Hakata and Kagoshima-Chuo, were disrupted on the southwestern main island of Kyushu.

Above RSOE Alert map showing Typhoon Nanmadol  disrupting shipping and flights in the Nagasaki area'

In Kumamoto city, a first-grader suffered a slight hand injury when a window broke at his school. Strong winds in neighboring Oita Prefecture also caused a man and a woman fall and sustain minor injuries.
The city of Aso in Kumamoto saw over 80 millimeters of rain over an hour period and Nagasaki some 50 mm, the typhoon also brought downpours to the Hokuriku area on the Sea of Japan, measuring over 60 mm in Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture.
The weather agency warned against possible landslides in some areas in Niigata, Toyama, and the northern part of Nagano Prefecture that saw heavy rainfalls of up to a total of 300 mm over a period of several hours.

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Another glimpse of the future, an astonishing amount of rainfall hits Bulgaria after heatwave kills 5 with many more taken to hospital as temperatures hit 44 degrees Celsius (111.2 degrees Fahrenheit). In the Western Bulgarian town of Samokov, the municipality is assessing the damage done by the torrential rainfall experienced Monday.
Mayor Vladimir Georgiev told Bulgarian National Television (BNT), last night, 15 teams had been busy draining people's homes after the rain had turned streets into rivers.
In Samokov itself, but also in villages around the town, a lot of damage had been registered to the infrastructure.
According to Georgiev it is too early to release figures, since the damage needs to be calculated first. Several streets were damaged, while basements, houses and apartments were flooded.
This includes public buildings.
During the heavy rainfall, the authorities on site received 560 calls.
In the region around Samokov, 200 liters of rain per square meter had fallen on July 3, 2017.
By now, the situation in Samokov has normalized.
Mayor Georgiev has promised help to affected inhabitants.
Five people died on Saturday as soaring temperatures hit the Bulgarian capital Sofia where the mercury was expected to reach as high as 44 degrees Celsius (111.2 degrees Fahrenheit), hospital sources said.
By midday (0900 GMT), the city's emergency services had provided assistance to around 200 people who felt unwell, emergency services spokeswoman Katia Sungarska said.

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As the sun glimmered over a cloudless sky onto the sweltering pavement of southern Tel Aviv Monday afternoon, Moshe Ben-David, 88, used one hand to hold a miniature blue fan next to his lined face, and the other to spray it with water from a former Ajax bottle.
"This is how we do it here," he said, as his two octogenarian friends, sitting on lounge chairs in front of an electronics shop off a well-traveled store-lined street, nodded their approval.
"It makes for a nice shvitz when it's this hot," he added knowingly.
The protracted heat wave is expected to grip much of the nation until Thursday, with breaking records for electricity demand on Sunday and Monday.
Over the weekend, United Hatzalah and Magen David Adom paramedics responded to over 100 emergency calls throughout the country due to dehydration, as temperatures continue to hover around 40°C, 104F.
Noting that a heat wave can cause a person to lose up to 10% of their body weight, United Hatzalah spokesman and EMT Raphael Poch on Monday advised people to first and foremost remain hydrated. "Avoiding dehydration at all costs is critical, so drinking large amounts of water, or Gatorade, which has electrolytes, is key to staying hydrated," said Poch, adding that "thirst quenching" drinks such as sugared colas and certain iced teas, can actually cause dehydration.
Moreover, Poch cautioned that simply being in an air-conditioned space is not enough to ward off dehydration.
"Even inside, you must continue to drink water," he said.
"However, people should not drink water from plastic bottles that have been exposed to the sun in a car because the plastic can melt, releasing toxins into the water," he added.
"So, if you have a bottle of water in a car, you want to put it in a cooler and not just leave it in the sun.

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