The Devils Brew

History tells us that it has never been easy for the Persians (modern day Iran) to think practically until almost on the verge of total annihilation. By this time it has always, without exception, been too late to save Kings and Empires.

I am not going to give a history lesson here (I have given it in articles several years ago) but suffice to say the Iranian Clergy find themselves in the same historical 'location' as their predecessors.

They have a enemy whom they have demonized (sic. The United States) yet without the military (or, at the very least, technological) assistance of this very enemy, Shiasm itself may not survive. Their enemies can see this but the Iranian leadership is blinded by it's very own rhetoric and thus finds it impossible to 'do a deal with the devil.'   Pride.   America, on the other hand, agonizes as to how to stabilize Iraq without destroying it's relationships (economic, military and political) with the Sunni world – which, on the whole, is more 'practically minded' than their zealous Shia counterparts.   On the other hand, it is that very zeal which will motivate Iranian Shias (and many in Iraq not under the direct military control of the government) to stand and fight their ground in a way their Sunni counterparts will not.  Be in no doubt, these ISIL fanatics, highly motivated by religion, will not stop at Iraq.  The 'apostate Satan Iran' and the 'Satan Israel' will both be high priorities for their next crusades – adding to decades (maybe centuries) of new strife in the region.   They will be as inflexible about doing a deal with Iran as Iran currently is in negotiating for it's very survival with the United States.

Blinded by their own rhetoric, Iran's leadership cannot see that it's very existence is at stake.  If there every is a 'pact' between Iran and ISIL it will be a Molotov-Ribbentrop, holding position, in outlook, and, again, Iran will be the ultimate loser and will face total destruction at the hands of a very vengeful enemy – not the United States but their own Sunni 'co-religionists' backed by the rest of the powerful Sunni world united as one to rid itself of 'the Iranian heretics' for once and for all.

History would suggest that the Iranians will not 'see reason' until the 'Barbarians' are not just at the 'Gates of Rome' but are actually sacking the 'Eternal' city and putting all it's citizens to 'the sword'.

The sad fact is that today our politicians and many religious leaders have all painted themselves into corners, making it virtually impossible to escape the prisons of their own vanity, pride and rhetoric. This equally applies to the United States as it does to Iran. No superpower can survive as an insular island.  Likewise Shiasm will not survive as a religious force of world influence without the assistance of that one power which has the technological capabilities to assist it at this time of extreme crisis.   Be assured, even if the religious leadership in Qom and Tehran cannot see it, this is more a long-term crisis of survival for Iran than it is for the United States.  But both countries will ultimately be weakened should ISIL succeed in Iraq.  First Iran then the interests of the United States because in the (extremist) ISIL Sunni world Caliphates and Emirates will no doubt demand Islamic compliance codes both amongst themselves and in their dealings with 'Infidels' which the Christian world (it's citizens in particular) will ultimately find unacceptable for most interactions, except dealings in trade and commerce.

Hence my earlier statement about the ball being 'kicked' further down the road before hard choices and decisions have to be made and taken where ideologies based on religious extremism are not just in ascendancy but become the status quo.

America's (Sunni) allies in the region are all warning about doing a 'deal with the devil' (Iran).   The Shia religious leadership at Qom and Tehran are all warning their Clerics and politicians about doing a 'deal with the devil' (The United States.)  In the United States powerful politicians are equally warning about doing a 'deal with the devil' (Iran.) In this schizophrenic situation they are all damned if they do - but believe you me, they are all most certainly damned if they don't.

In the end it may well be that we will have to walk away from our responsibilities to the entire region and leave it to it's own bloody fate - only to return when the regional Puppet Masters have settled their leftover 'scores' from the era of the Prophet – or when so much innocent blood has again been shed amidst so much destruction and havoc reaked throughout the entire region, that they all have no choice but to grudgingly and universally sue for a temporal peace.

Patrick Emek

(amended June 24, 2014)

Muqtada al-Sadr:
Where History Meets Destiny

It is sometimes said that there is a time for every great leader to meet history and destiny.

This is Muqtada al-Sadr's time of destiny.

Revered by the Shias in Iraq as both as a spiritual and a military leader and being prepared in Iran for spiritual ascendency, over last weekend, al-Sadr reportedly visited the leadership of border forces in the area of Hira, South of Najaf.

''He met its Leader to discuss the latest developments and Border Protection he checked the progress of operations of Border Protection.”

Far from fleeing to Beirut, al-Sadr was reportedly providing spiritual inspiration and blessings to Shia Commanders at various locations and is coordinating with other spiritual and military commanders in the overall region to effectively rout the ISIL (Islamic State/Caliphate in Iraq and the Levant) forces and bring to justice those Sunni butchers responsible for despicable War Crimes against prisoners of war and defenceless civilians.

Let us just hope (and if you are religious, pray) that he succeeds in those endeavors and that when they are triumphant, that he and the Shia leadership offer those captured Sunni extremists the benefit and mercy of a civilised trial without torture – something which these evil people failed to show to their captured Shia PoWs and helpless civilian victims.

I would also expect that, as a future leader of Iraq, Muqtada al-Sadr will equally bring to justice all Shias involved in the summary execution of Sunni prisoners and of innocent Sunni and any other civilian victims.

Patrick Emek

http://www.abna.ir/english/service/middle-east-west-asia/archive/2014/06/16/616416/story.html

Reference from my earlier blog The Ukraine: ' The Slide Towards Civil War-Who Is Really To Blame?': 

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/iraq/al-sadr.htm

Crisis in Iraq [Part III]

                           Crisis in Iraq [Part III]

As fanatical Jihadi insurgents force a reluctant President to again commit U.S. troops to Iraq I am looking in this article at the prospects of defeating the insurgents.

I have no doubt that the civilized world stands with President Obama in attempting to stop the bloody carnage these religious zealots are bringing both to Iraq and to Syria.

My take here would be that the President may be acting too late and he also fails to address the root cause of the problem - Saudi Arabia. For so long as the West believes that Saudi Arabia will bring ultimate peace and unity to what will emerge as Emirates and Caliphates, the wholesale butchering of thousands of captured prisoners of war and of innocent Shia civilians in Iraq, Syria or elsewhere these apostates of Islam arrive, contrary to every concept of modern  humanity and harking back to a medieval past where such were the order of the day, in the name of the Pope, of Christendom or in the name of Islam, will continue.
What their merciless actions will do will be to most certainly strengthen the resolve of the world to defeat them and bring them all to justice at some time in the future.

I said in a previous article that the media in West has not prepared itself psychologically for the fact that it will be impossible to operate under such conditions – in war zones where absolutely zero international rules govern the treatment of civilians, PoWs, women and children, apply. These insurgents are not frightened at the prospect of appearing before any Western War Crimes 'tribunal' ,or, as they might say, one created by 'Satan' [sic. America and it's Allies] Indeed they are only too pleased to pose beside the mutilated corpses of hundreds or thousands of unfortunate Prisoners of War or other men, women and children, they have butchered without a shred of mercy.

I could express my disgust, my outrage, my anger or indeed cry or grieve for those helpless civilians caught up in such tragedies and lament about the futility of war – but that will neither bring ultimate, infinite, justice to the dead, nor solve the current problem. 
When I look at such refugees (either dead on the ground) or fleeing in fear with what little they can carry, with their confused and scared children clutching a precious toy, I never stop to reflect on how fortunate we are that we live in a civilized and tolerant society and remember that such extremists causing this misery would, if they had their own way, create the same conditions of intolerance and division at home.  This is the only way that they, the extremists, can survive.  This is why they have to be confronted, regardless. 

The first thing that should happen, by Presidential decree, via the Attorney General's Office and The Department of Justice, is an immediate end to the 'show trials' against the (former) Blackwater contractors, that they be restituted in full, and reinstated into an immediate support or advisory service (should they still be willing to serve) on behalf of the nation. It is individuals like this that the country needs to diffuse such an offensive in Iraq  (or at least hold the line) as conventional troops are simply out of their depth confronting such butchers. You require a different type of 'army' to confront religious zealots, one which the West is woefully unprepared for warfare against.  Neither is NATO  configured for battle against such spirited individuals.  It's like having a giant colossus, writhing and lashing out blindly with it's muscular body, hands and feet while being felled by David with his humble stone - aimed precisely where that fatal blow will do the most grievous damage. No, you simply cannot put conventional forces into such a melee.  But the good news is that America does have patriots and professionals equally motivated to confront such evil (and if there is such a thing,Satanic) forces in a way they most certainly will understand and fear in terror, and, given carte blanche, will most certainly prevail, as day follows night.

At this point in time it is akin to suicidal to commit conventional combat forces to Iraq without additional specialized resources. Public opinion should be held in check because a very clear strategy – entry and exit - needs to be devised before committing forces in these conditions, into harms way.

Secondly, these evil individuals watch carefully and understand the impact of 'public opinion' in our Christian societies. They understand 'shock and awe' probably better than we ourselves do. They manipulate divisions between Republican and Democrat, Left and Right for their own advantage. In their eyes such divisions are simply Lucifer's children fighting over the spoils of existence, which, in their perfect Islamic society, shall never exist because all would be one under one version of Allah – with all heretics (Muslim and Christian, Buddhist, Hindu, Jew and the rest) erased from the face of the earth.

So then, we need to 'get ahead' of the game.

Thirdly, Saudi Arabia and Iran both continue to be at the root cause of all our problems in the Middle East. To weaken one is to strengthen the other - and both are equally pernicious.

Indeed letting Baghdad fall will put these Sunni zealots into direct confrontation with Shia Iran.   But Iran's defeat will hasten the creation of Emirates and Caliphates and could herald the end of Shiasm as a dominant force in the Islamic world – leaving the road ahead for Salafism and Wahhabism to dominate the Muslim globe at a more rapid pace than I could ever have imagined. I still contend that Saudi Arabia will be unable ultimately to control the [religious] forces it has unleashed – so we will still be on a confrontational path with a zealous Islamic world.  In this scenario, the ball will simply have been kicked further own the road before hard decisions, choices and actions have to be made and taken.

It's not an easy call for President Obama, conscious as he must also be of his place in history.  But there are few options on the table – these fanatical Sunni butchers have, by their merciless actions, ensured this is fact.  I have misgivings about rushing U.S. (or indeed any conventional ) troops back into Iraq in any large numbers, given hindsight and the existing circumstances.

America's armed forces will do their job effectively and will hold the line for the politicians but they need to be supported with unconventional U.S. units more accustomed to the operating conditions of the new environment.

U.S. ground forces must also be made aware that additional resources for 'shock and awe' are being deployed in the field to support their endeavors and guarantee outright and unequivocal victory on this occasion.

Republicans will simply see this issue as something to 'bash Obama' with, failing to appreciate that our very way of life could be drastically altered if there is not unity behind the President and U.S forces when confronting extremist Islam throughout the world and, more specifically, showing that there are issues around which America and it's Allies can unite with one voice and around one flag, just as our enemies can so do.

Patrick Emek

Caliphates and Emirates-World Futureshock

    

         Caliphates and Emirates-World Futureshock

About 6-8 years ago I was asked by a major television network to 'paint' the face of Islam under extremism (that is to say, the 'vision' Islamic Jihadi groups have for the world.) That world news network extrapolated what I had said in words onto a (visual) 'world map'-showing quite accurately what Al-Qaeda and their sub-contracted groups had in mind - to create an Islamic Empire consisting of Emirates and Caliphates, as I had described them and as such were projected to evolve. As usual I was something of an embarrassment (the network was probably told not to follow-up and quietly drop the alarmist rhetoric of the world as I described it potentially emerging under a resurgent Islam.) I don't profess to always get it right but, in this case, I was 'right on the money'. [This is why I have empathy with individuals whom, for their own personal reasons, are not within the 'system' (of eminent think-tanks nor corporate industry nor government) but who nonetheless have have enough experience in their field to be able to accurately see how trends are evolving and are not constrained to express their views independently of government, institutions and corporations.]

Futureworld

Now that Islamic extremism is becoming mainstream in the Middle East we are now too war-weary and unlikely to go back with overwhelming force into the chaos today called Iraq and Afghanistan, I want to look at how we should be thinking of interacting with Emirates and Caliphates which stretch from The Southern Philippines, through Malaysia, Iraq, the Gulf States, through Afghanistan-Pakistan (border tribal regions) through to the parts of Kurdistan which straddle Iraq, Syria and Turkey in the Levant and across to Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya and Egypt.  With regard to the latter, I am looking beyond possibly decades of Islamic Jihadi (Muslim Brotherhood-Al-Qaeda linked) insurgency against the al-Sisi regime before these Caliphates emerge as a unitary entity.

''Just Get Used To It''

Several years ago I asked a prominent politician how do you 'adjust' to an an emerging China as a super-giant.  His answer was quite interesting and equally profound: 'Well Patrick I suppose you just have to get used to it.'   In much the same way as we have adjusted to China being both a vital economic partner while at the same time, a potential enemy or, at the very least, a primary key  rival, in the battle for global resources, military and economic global governance, so too it might be well worth our while seeing what economic and other areas we might find common ground to pursue within such Emirates and Caliphates so as not to create economic and military vacuums – which other superpower rivals will most willingly occupy.

Islamic Banking

Islamic banking is probably the easiest to adjust to – and one which both the Christian West and Emirates-Caliphates can equally agree.

International Trade and Commerce

Again here is no reason why religious differences should interrupt the flow of trade and commerce between willing partners.

Religious Tolerance

The repression of Christianity within such Emirates and Caliphates is likely to mean that Christian Europe and the Christian Americas will not be well disposed toward the continued expansion of Islam within the Christian world. Such will be an inevitable consequence of the (likely) widespread discrimination and repression of Christians under such Islamic regimes. The likely scenario in these Emirates and Caliphates will be, as it exists in Saudi Arabia today, that it is a criminal offence (for a native Saudi) to be anything other than a Muslim, illegal to build Christian Churches (on the grounds of heresy) and (as in Saudi Arabia) that such heretics are subject to capital punishment (the death penalty.)  On such matters it is unlikely that there will be few grounds for understanding.  The likely scenario is that, in the interests of trade and commerce, as currently takes place with Saudi Arabia for example, such matters will go, for the most part, unreported in the mainstream Western media, on the grounds of national (economic) security. Such reporting could also be construed as promoting racial or religious hatred but in any event, whether voluntary or otherwise, the fate of Christians in such lands has already been discounted in favor of trade and commerce. That's the harsh reality. In many respects such Christian communities will be portrayed to be 'leftovers' of imperial and other European empires over the millennia about whose ultimate fate, well, it does not really concern us but is the ultimate responsibility of their 'new' political (and religious) masters. I already saw this happening with the Syrian Christians in the run-up to (what was anticipated by others to be) U.S. intervention to topple the Assad regime whose minority Shia (Alawite) community were being 'painted' as minority ' lackeys', inferior, and 'out of touch' with reality.) The objective was to demonize Assad prior to invasion. Let me be clear about something here: Assad himself is a very ugly character running a tyrannical terror state where, before the uprising, you were murdered by the Secret Police just for expressing opposition to his regime. The problem however is that what was intended to replace him-Al-Qaeda- was infinitely a worse enemy of the The United States and the West than the terror regime we already knew¹. Apart from everything else, Assad's intended successors were directly responsible for the murder of thousands of Americans on American soil and the murder of  U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens and his Staff in Libya.

In addition to those Personnel killed by the butchers of Benghazi, others sustained terrible injuries from which they will never fully recover.

Mutiny and Military Cooperation

When President Obama was advised that mutiny within the ranks of the Armed Forces serving in Syria could not be ruled out if the President followed an (essentially Republican) agenda (which would place U.S. troops conceivably, nominally, under the command of Al-Qaeda, or, at the very least, fighting to support them) and, apart from anything else, it would most certainly become President Obama's 'Vietnam' (with the President facing a stark and certain electoral defeat – similar to that of a historical predecessor), sanity prevailed. You don't have to go to war abroad to win a general election - but sometimes it helps (!) There are many reasons why it is improbable that high level military and intelligence cooperation will exist in such a future world but such 'splendid isolation' could dramatically change overnight if these Islamic entities were faced with a common enemy – or where the support of the Christian West was vital to their very survival or stability or to the flow of strategic resources either exiting or transiting Caliphates or Emirates.

Dual Purpose Technology (Nuclear and Chemical-Biological)

Someone will make a quick buck in the future supplying such technology to Emirates and Caliphates-probably France, China, Pakistan or North Korea or all four countries. Generally speaking I would see many difficulties supplying advanced techniques to such regimes – but I do not profess to be able to read the mind of corporate America where the balance sheet is the final consideration.

[I am of course being highly cynical here.  There may well be strategic implications in such a future world which would mitigate in favor of the supply of dual technology to such Islamic regimes, despite all misgivings.]

Social and Cultural Cooperation

Highly unlikely. Even in so called 'progressive' Muslim countries in the Middle East and in the Gulf the trend is towards ultra-Conservatism. For example, Mosques are being specially built to 'placate' foreigners who visit or work in such countries and want to see where Muslims 'pray'. A sort of Muslim 'Disney World' or 'Disneyland' especially created for foreigners so that they will go home with a 'good impression' of Islam². Under pressure from Imams, Muslim girls are now forbidden to 'shake hands' or even 'hug' in greeting Western women on the grounds that such practice is 'unIslamic' and that they (Western Women) are 'unclean'². I recently read an article in a British Newspaper that Muslim schools in the United Kingdom teach that all Western (Christian) women are 'unclean' and are 'whores and prostitutes'. This philosophy was being indoctrinated to children as young as six years of age³.  The United Kingdom government had known about this for at least one decade (and possibly longer) but chose not to do anything in the interests of not wishing to upset good community relations. I was aware of extremism within the Muslim Schools communities in the United Kingdom but never imagined something as disgraceful as this could be happening – with the apparent tacit knowledge of the authorities, for some considerable period of time. I would go even further and suggest that over several decades in the United States and in Europe such extremist organizations have secretly infiltrated individuals into bodies (trusts and other organizations) which have considerable financial resources and have ensured that such extremist groups, colleges and schools have been well resourced and funded to carry out their 'evangelical' work. These then are the reasons I do not foresee a high degree of social and cultural cooperation between the emerging Emirates and Caliphates and the Christian world as a whole.

Global Survival In the 'New Age' of Islamic Extremism and NeoConservatism

Whether we agree with their philosophies or not, co-existence should, wherever possible, and practicable, continue to be the order of the day, to foster continuity in the areas of trade and international commerce. Equally, Emirates and Caliphates will also have to make painful choices if they intend to partake and interact with the non-Muslim world in any meaningful and mutually beneficial ways.

I am neither optimistic nor pessimistic with regard to this future world. So many times in the past I have thought that sheer 'common sense' would be the order of the day.  How could it be otherwise?  However, for so long as humans base their strategies on religious, political and economic (financial), racial, ethnic, tribal and clan doctrines, 'common sense' often just flies straight out the window – or indeed through it, shattering all the glass in the process.

Patrick Emek

revised typographical corrections on 28th September, 2014

1 http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/137407/leon-goldsmith/alawites-for-assad

2 unattributable source

see wikipedia speaking terms:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unattributable#.22Speaking_terms.22

3 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2651700/Hellfire-Muslim-teachers-Trojan-Horse-school- warned-six-year-olds-white-prostitutes.html#ixzz344gYkAnE

3 http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/tobyyoung/100275645/imagine-if-the-religious-sect-at-the-centre-of-the-trojan-horse-plot-were-christian/

Godzilla!!!

What In The Name of Fukushima Is Going On?

Tepco's plan to build a 'Great Wall of Ice' should signal to the world that the situation is very far from 'under control'

It's been over 3 years since the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant disaster - caused incidentally by a massive magnitude 9.0 ((M_w) ) megathrust underwater earthquake (off the Pacific coast of Tōhoku) triggering a tsunami which overwhelmed the nuclear facility at Fukushima causing a major accident, the highest (level 7) on the nuclear incident scale, causing 3 nuclear reactor meltdowns and the evacuation of hundreds of thousands of local people; one of the world's worst nuclear disasters since Chernobyl, in the Ukraine, in 1986.

As I watched the radiation plume leap from the plant to kiss the horizon I instinctively felt like leaping behind my sofa to avoid contamination – fat good it would have done me (!)

Tokyo Electric Power Company, the plant managers, first tried to tackle the problem with it's own personnel. When their geiger counters ran off the scales they quickly re-grouped for Plan B: to call in the Yakuza (The Japanese Mafia!), who in turn called in their own 'markers' – offering civilian 'volunteers' to clean up the mess (and we don't to this day know what 'concessions' they were offered in exchange for this assistance by a desperate Japanese government – indirectly via Tepco of course; don't bother looking, you are unlikely to find such 'agreements' recorded anywhere or indeed reported in the Western media.) When plan B failed-and some of the world media started reporting on rather strange and shady goings on between the Japanese Mafia and the authorities, it was On to Plan C: to again try to contain what was now a monumental contamination potentially affecting not just the immediate area as proposed by Tepco, but on U.S. advice, to evacuate all residents within a 80 -100km epicenter.  The Tepco evacuation initially affecting thousands of local residents in high risk areas within the 10km radius surrounding the 3 crippled reactors and tens of thousands within a 80km area.  In addition to this, Plan C was focused on reassuring the Japanese public and a worried international community that the situation was, of course, 'under control'. When an increasingly sceptical international Western (and technologically nuclear astute) community, used to empirical thinking, started 'poking it's nose' into 'Japanese affairs' , Plan D was implemented: let the world assist (and take 'responsibility' should anything further go wrong.)   A savvy Western world wasn't prepared to 'dive in head first' but did offer technical assistance to help out a beleaguered Japanese government (but not to solve Tepco's home-grown managerial and structural problems which contributed to the disaster.) On to Plan E: blame Japanese culture as a whole, collectively, for the failings of Tepco, utilizing the concept that all Japanese must share 'collective' 'cultural' responsibility for 'failure' – so Tepco is also a 'victim' - as are the entire Japanese people – of their very own culture.  Even the Japanese people were not buying this one (!)  On to Plan F: again re-assure the world that it is safe to eat Japanese fish – forget the fact that they (the fish) don't require permission (nor passports) to 'travel' locally, nationally and (indeed internationally.) 'Japanese' fish with off-the scale radiation were turning up everywhere -and likely to be on everyone's dinner plates unless drastic (international) action was taken as the figures of the doses and levels of radiation being reported by Japanese authorities were, shall we just say, at some high degree of variance, with that which Western experts were able to discern – again from empirical analysis. On to Plan G: Prepare to loose face – by listening to international (U.S.) advice and evacuate all human life within a 50km radius this time affecting an estimated 160000 citizens – and rather humiliatingly announce to the world that a major disaster was unfolding. On to to Plan H: Well yes, tell the world that there are a few little problems with the reactors, but precautions are being take by prudently evacuating 160000 residents but the situation in still under control - and at least nobody has died. [It was only in 2014 that the official morbidity mortality figures were released and hotly contested for their accuracy by the Japanese authorities: ''More than 18,000 people died as a result of the disaster. The National Police Agency of Japan records 15,881 documented deaths and 2,668 individuals still classified as missing.'' (www.usnews.com)   On to Plan I: Blame those interfering Western busybodies for the continuing Japanese recession and the fact that nobody wants to eat Japanese fish nor farm produce in the Western world because of a few 'inaccurate' and 'wildly speculative' non-typical examples of contaminated fish (incidentally showing some 800-1500 times more radiation than would be normally expected and popping up everywhere along a 200-mile coastline – with even estimates for the contamination reaching Alaska and the Western American seaboard by 2014.) On to Plan J:Blame it on those arrogant Europeans and Americans and their international friends - Oh!;wait a minute!; we can't do that!; they're helping us at Fukushima!; onto Plan K:Launch a Trade and Travel initiative for Japan - we want those pesky foreigners to come to Japan, see that everything is 'normal' and go home telling their sceptical friends we are still in love with Manga and Hentai and everything is OK, nothing has changed - but don't make it look like a national government initiative. [Pity we didn't think of Plan K sooner! We would have made billions of dollars! look at how much the U.S. and Great Britain have pulled in from those pesky foreigners [tourists] – even the Chinese prefer London, New York, Los Angeles, Miami, Atlanta and San Francisco than seeing the beauty of Mount Fuji and our rich history.] (This initiative does not appear to have 'bought over' the discerning intrepid traveler.) On to Plan L: Lets invite in the world media so that they can see how transparently we are handling the disaster at Fukushima [yes, sadly the world now knows it's a major disaster even worse than Chernobyl so we'd better admit it quickly – and move on quickly.] But wait a minute! Many of those Western investigative journalists are professional, independent, highly aggressive, educated, and some are 'loose cannons', not like the docile Malaysians and Singaporeans. Once we let them loose, only Buddha knows what they will unearth – and we can't so easily 'buy off' their employers so as not to loose face, so we could find ourselves in even hotter water (not to pun a critical meltdown!); On to Plan M: Let's have Tepco admit their guilt, apologize to the nation and get everything back to normal again. But wait, they have already done that, haven't they?; well sort of; but that didn't work; are we back to normal yet? Perhaps nobody heard them apologize after our Official Report was published?  Shall we try that again?   No that won't work either? On to Plan N: Let's focus on lateral thinking: if we get back the Kuril Islands from Russia we shall have new fishing grounds to compensate for the 90 million gallons of radioactive water gushing out of the stricken reactors (and, by now, 2014, probably circling and polluting this entire planet.)

On to Plan O: If one of our venerated Minister's asks the elderly to kill themselves hence we will save billions of Yen on 'non-productive' 'maintenance'. They will be doing this as a service to mother Japan and saving their nation billions of Yen – which we desperately need to compensate for Fukushima. Drat! We still won't save enough to compensate for our irradiated losses!; and everything will still not be back to normal!  Why can't we just start again? On to Plan P: Why don''t we take a fresh look at the problem before we run out of plans (or characters in the alphabet for plans, whichever is the greater); On to Plan Q: Let's just give up on nuclear power, close down the countries remaining reactors and switch to alternative energy sources. But wait a minute! we don't have an alternative national energy plan for the country! There are potentially 20 geothermal sites we could look at, but nobody ever thought anything would go wrong with our nuclear energy reactors so no other source was ever developed; Onto Plan R: Reduce the amount of media airtime Fukushima gets in Japan to near zero and everyone will forget. That will surely return things to normal?  Won't it?  On to Plan S: Let's expand our diplomatic presence worldwide. That will allow us to explain to the world and our big neighbors (China and Russia) that everything is getting back to normal. Why shouldn't we? China is everywhere in the world but we are mainly in the West and South East Asia. How can we ever explain to the world that all is OK at Fukushima when they get their news from CNN, Fox, The BBC, China News and Russia Today?  Nobody has ever heard of TV Japan (let alone can understand it.) Oh, yes, I forgot, we don't want non-Japanese speakers to watch it - and do not give permission for it to be broadcast outside Japan.   We'd better change this - and get in a few Western translators!; quick! But wait a minute! Foreigners are so stupid they will never understand Japanese television – so we still cannot explain to them our version of Fukushima, and the fact that everything is OK at the plant! [give or take a few cows with three wagging tails, fish with double heads and chickens whose eggs are 4500 times the normal radiation limit. On to PlanT: Ah, Yes, Plan T! Let's call it 'Plan 'ET', 'E' for 'Extra' and 'T' for 'Terrestrial'. Bring back Godzilla! Japan's not finished – not just yet. We have our own world-wide 'Super Hero' to rival 'Superman'. Surely after this blockbuster everyone will most certainly forget about Fukushima, be visiting Japan in their millions and we can all start again? Plan U: Universal worldwide distribution of the Godzilla distribution rights: Facebook; U-Tube; A Godzilla Twitter Account; toys, confectionery, chocolates, Godzilla Sushi, e-books, T-Shirts, history of Godzilla (perhaps even an interview with the Hero itself?); If that doesn't work...On to to Plan V:''V' for Victory! Let's recall our glorious past – surely that will take everyone’s' minds off Fukushima – and we can get back to normal (!) No? How regrettable! On to Plan W: Now 'W' stands for Water. This problem all started in the sea. Godzilla came across the sea but could not take world attention away from Fukushima. Perhaps we should, in the interests of fostering good bilateral relationships,think about using Feng Shui. Yes! We will harmonize water with water! Let's freeze the soil around the irradiated stricken reactors at Fukushima! No? That won't work – unless we can freeze everything! If only Godzilla had done the job, we would not be in this crisis! No! We can't blame Godzilla! It's one of the world 'teens' favorite movie of 2014! On to Plan X: X stand for 'X-ray'. We must do something to stop the millions of gallons of Fukushima radioactive water polluting this entire planet – before some pesky journalists in the world work out exactly where these hundreds of millions of gallons of radioactive-contaminated water are actually ending up (!) [http://www.naturalnews.com/032291_Fukushima_radiation_monitoring.html:

“Radiation is continuing to leak out of the reactors, the situation is not stable at all, radiation continues to leak,” says Dr. Michio Kaku, Professor of theoretical physics at the City University of New York and top graduate of Harvard. “We are looking at a ticking time bomb. It appears stable but the slightest disturbance, a secondary earthquake, a pipe break, evacuation of the crew at Fukushima could set off a full scale melt down at three nuclear power stations – far beyond what we saw at Chernobyl ' ' .] No? That won't work either? Why can't we just get everything back to normal? On to Plan Y: Or should we can it Plan 'Why?' : Why can't we just build a massive ice wall around the stricken reactors, keep it permanently frozen for, say, a few thousand years, to give us a little time to work out how to solve this problem? Surely this must work!; and everything will go back to normal. But what if it doesn't? Plan Z: We will build the Great Ice Wall of Fukushima!; sell tickets to the Ice Wall Gala Opening; and pray that the world experts have got it wrong – they just don't understand Japanese society nor Japanese culture! We will have the Grand Gala Opening – inviting as many Pop Idols as the country can afford, stream broadcast the nuclear 'freeze' live on the internet, mobile phones,Ipods, with a fanfare of the top international music artists in attendance, all happily singing and dancing. Perhaps Billy Idol will agree to open the festivities with the song 'White Wedding'?  Will this work? What happens if the ringed coils which generate ice and fence the stricken nuclear plants cause subsidence or even worse, if there is another earthquake within the next one thousand years?

Beyond Plan Z:

(Mein Führer, I Can Walk!!! )

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© Patrick Emek

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Mein Führer I Can Walk!!!

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