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Post by fei on Mar 24, 2017 20:54:58 GMT 10
In light of the fact that I'm located in northeast Asia, in a part of the world that has two potential flashpoints for war (North Korea, South China Sea), I like to make sure that I'm as aware of current events and possible flare-ups as I can. Meanwhile, I'm also one of those seemingly few people under 50 years of age who doesn't walk around with my face glued to my phone all the time, and try to watch out what is going on around me.
I guess both of these points are types of situational awareness. However, the point of this post is to ask what other types of things people are looking out for, or have noticed and made some interpretations about, that indicate something may be about to happen in the near future?
One example - I have noticed over the past 6 months or so that my office campus, the campus next door and my apartment complex have all beefed up their security arrangements. So, more CCTV cameras everywhere, barbed wire and sensors on existing fences, extra locks on our doors requiring ID cards etc. While no-one else seems to think much of it, I'm guessing that the managers / risk teams of these companies are either reacting to or foreseeing more theiving due to the continued economic downturn.
What other stuff have people noticed?
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Post by shinester on Mar 24, 2017 22:28:07 GMT 10
More than happy to see your views from within bud, the amount of fake news around makes me skeptical of most pieces of info I can find on anything. In terms of what I've noticed, is not much since I live in a quiet rural town, everything's great, pristine.
In terms of the world at large, I think there's a definite push from Islam, particularly when you see the Turkey politicians [pretty much a dictatorship btw] waving their arms around with the Netherlands of all places. You see further escalation of attacks on the West and you see some cracks in the media nonsense with the term 'fake news' destroying some credibility [rightly so] of many outlets that seem to play a similar tune around the world. Kinda weird to my mind that they do actually.
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Post by fei on Mar 27, 2017 11:39:42 GMT 10
Yes, Turkey is a mess. Ataturk (the general defending Gallipoli in WW1 who then established the democratic secular state) would be rolling in his grave to see the Islamic dictatorship now in place.
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Post by mozzie101 on Mar 27, 2017 11:49:09 GMT 10
Yes, Turkey is a mess. Ataturk (the general defending Gallipoli in WW1 who then established the democratic secular state) would be rolling in his grave to see the Islamic dictatorship now in place. Sir Edmund Barton might end up doing the same thing in his grave in Australia in regards to an Islamic dictatorship. |
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Post by remnantprep on Mar 29, 2017 9:22:00 GMT 10
The crackdown on alternative media is for me a big thing and not just because of the reasons people think of. With an escalation in the amount of articles about possible war etc it almost feels to me that the censoring of certain media is really in preparation for Governments to control the flow of information during wartime. They are putting in place now the methods by which they will be able to do this. We will only be able to get the allowed news or government propaganda that they deem will be ok for us to receive. I can see though in wartime thats this may be a necessary thing in some ways. I found this video the other day and more and more people seem to be discussing war than I have seen over the past few years. Something I am tracking.
My other observation is the leaning back to fossil fuels (something Trump is doing in the USA) another big wartime need is fuel, so again while Trump is saying he is wanting to bring jobs back to the USA I feel that there is more to it than that. There have been a few articles about our fuel supplies here and it would be interesting to see how many countries are making policies to secure their fuel needs!! Also the rise in countries wanting a return to Nation states is another good indicator of coming conflict.
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Post by remnantprep on Mar 29, 2017 9:58:08 GMT 10
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Post by fei on Mar 29, 2017 13:41:04 GMT 10
Yes, thats why I asked. Basically, there are two levels - one with everyday stuff and another covering national / transnational events.
Transnational does apply for me too, as I plan on getting out of China well before anything big kicks off. Even if there is a localised confrontation not directly affecting me, you can bet that the Chinese government will either be rounding all foreigners up and jailing or deporting us at short notice (either before or after confiscating our assets), or at the very least whipping up anti-foreigner hysteria that will make living here dangerous -- the state-owned media has been full of anti-Korean stuff lately due to the South Koreans installing a missile system that supposedly allows spying on China, meaning that the Koreans we know here have been getting calls and visits from the cops at all hours + their kids have been threatened at school etc etc.
Basically stuff that I want to avoid if at all possible.
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Post by remnantprep on Mar 29, 2017 13:48:05 GMT 10
Yes, thats why I asked. Basically, there are two levels - one with everyday stuff and another covering national / transnational events. Transnational does apply for me too, as I plan on getting out of China well before anything big kicks off. Even if there is a localised confrontation not directly affecting me, you can bet that the Chinese government will either be rounding all foreigners up and jailing or deporting us at short notice (either before or after confiscating our assets), or at the very least whipping up anti-foreigner hysteria that will make living here dangerous -- the state-owned media has been full of anti-Korean stuff lately due to the South Koreans installing a missile system that supposedly allows spying on China, meaning that the Koreans we know here have been getting calls and visits from the cops at all hours + their kids have been threatened at school etc etc. Basically stuff that I want to avoid if at all possible. Thats why I feel it is important to watch international events as well. As Australians we need to be watching China and Asia and prepare the best we can. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 6, 2017 22:48:59 GMT 10
Hi glad to hear you speak of situational awareness, as the event that scares me the most is the one I don't see coming.
My focus recently has been issues around Fukushima as it has had three reactors loose containment of their fuel. It has entered what is known as a china syndrome stage and potentially could be far more serious than Chernobyl.
As far as terrorist security, a terrorist threat is a wonderful tool to curb personal rights by governments, as it allows them all sorts of surveillance of their citizens. And has uses we are only just starting to see. The formula for calculating how much a government needs to spend on security is always twice as much as their present budget. But in reality the odds of dying in a terrorist attack is about the same as dying in an earth quake, but we spend heaps more in trying to stop terrorists than we do trying to predict earth quakes. The facts are more lives would be saved spending that security money on medical research than trying to stop a hypothetical terrorist attack that may never happen.
As you stated Korea could be problematic, also the South China Sea .....and it is all compounded by the new leader of the USA as he is somewhat unpredictable at present.
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