News - Turn 12
America Devastated By Nuclear Attacks
- World threatened by Nuclear Winter
Paris Destroyed
- Europe mourns as French city lies in ruins
- Other Articles
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News - Turn 12

News comes mainly from newspapers, TV or blogs. But even the newspapers and TV companies publish their content online these days, generally with comment facilities for the public to make their opinions known. This turns out much as you'd expect.

News published from 19th August 2020 to 24th September 2020

America Devastated By Nuclear Attacks

World threatened by Nuclear Winter

(From The Washington Post, 11th September 2020)

America, once a beacon of hope against nuclear disaster, has been brought low - and by her own nuclear arsenal. Yesterday, missile silos across the United States launched a salvo of ICBMs - not simply at foreign powers, but against America's own soil. President Jones said in an official statement that the attacks were 'Nuclear terrorism on a vast and shocking scale', and that 'We have secured our facilities and ensured that this cannot happen again'. The American public, still in a state of profound shock, are waiting an answer to the question: 'How could our government let this happen?'

The first launches at 3am yesterday were at our close friends and allies Great Britain. They were destroyed by British defenses before they could hit their targets. These were followed shortly later by a missile launched at Paris, France and Dublin, Ireland; both of which hit their targets. Missiles continued to launch from a number of military bases across the continental United States for the next hour, aimed at Africa, South America and then most shockingly the United States itself. Missile defences in Washington, D.C. kept the capital safe, as well as New York and San Francisco. But the other targets were not so lucky; America's defenses were aimed at protecting us from outside threats, not from our own military.

The list of cities destroyed is a catalog of horror and destruction; Billings, Montana; Spokane, Oregon; Portland, Oregon; Los Angeles, California; Austin, Texas; Atlanta, Georgia. How anyone could conceive and execute such a travesty is beyond imagining. Why they thought to leave a spiral of destruction throughout the United States and across the rest of the world is beyond understanding. The death toll is numbered in the tens of millions.

And the tragedy is still not over; nuclear fallout is spreading across the country. We thought the threat of Nuclear Winter was long behind us, but now that threat is with us for real. Scientists predict that within weeks sub-zero temperatures will be felt in cities around the globe. If fast and decisive action is not taken there will be massive food shortages, rioting and worse. This could well be the end of our way of life.

America is in shock. But soon the people will recover, and when they do their cries will be heard all across the world. They will demand explanations. They will demand action. And they will demand blood from those in Washington who let America's nuclear weapons be used against America herself.

Paris Destroyed

Europe mourns as French city lies in ruins

(From The Independent, 5th September 2020)

Unknown forces assaulted Paris yesterday, leaving the entire of the city inside the Boulevard Périphérique in ruins. Colossal structural damage was done to the majority of the buildings, and fears are abound for the Parisian population. The attack reportedly began yesterday at 3:30am and continued throughout the day, gradually leaving a trail of destruction beginning south of the city…

Many of France's national treasures have been driven into the ground, with the destruction of such monuments the Louvre, the Eiffel Tower and the Cathedral of Notre Dame…

Armed forces were quick to respond to the threat, but suffered sufficient losses that they were forced to retreat and adopt a border. General Armel Petit claimed that he was able to repel the invading forces with ease, though scepticism has arisen abroad after it became clear that the invaders were able to devastate colossal areas of the city centre with apparent impunity. General Petit claimed that the attackers were trailed into the French countryside before disappearing altogether…

Scenes of tank and helicopter wreckage and dead EF soldiers confirmed the fears of the world, that a city's defences were overwhelmed by the enigmatic foe…

Most worrying of all seems to be the fate of the civilian population. Survivors of the attack within the city were few and far between, many of them suffering from aggrevated injury that the scattered remains of the French authorities are classifying as sustained from falling masonry. As for the population themselves, it seems that they had been fleeing into the countryside for hours before the main attack began, although again very few of these people have been found in the countryside. All in all, 85% of the total population of inner Paris is completely unaccounted for, having seemingly disappeared without a trace…

The identity of the attackers is publically unknown, but remaining refugees and MSF workers reported various conflicting reports.

“They sure as hell weren't Russians!” Said one survivor, badly injured by the assault. “They were monsters, huge monsters! Like Dinosaurs! But they had these terrible weapons, and could turn over tanks with their strength…”

“I've seen some remarkable things in my time, but nothing like this. The creatures, whatever they were, were shooting these lasers… they seemed to warp and kill anything they hit, or leave terrible burns,” reported a local who was unharmed.

“They came in the night, horrible clawed, chittering monsters that scared us from our beds. The streets were in panic, people running out of the city with whatever possessions they could carry, from these demons that erupted from the woodwork… These were devils, and nothing less!” - Testimony of a holidaymaker who escaped the worst of the fighting.

“While helping the injured, I saw some terrible things. The carcasses of monsters. I swear, they looked like dinosaurs, just like from books, or films. They were enormous. Some of the people I was helping say they saw a huge monster, dominating the skyline, that crushed things with its tail and made the very earth move with each step. EF soldiers told us not to report anything unusual, but the truth will out eventually. These monsters were not human” Mr. James McBride, MSF worker, told the Independent.

The EF government is currently denying that 'dinosaurs' attacked Paris, with president Marie Lefèvre dismissing such claims as “Ridiculous rumours, panic-mongering designed to scare people out of the country. This is the most serious matter that has affected Europe outside of the war with Russia, and I would thank the population to treat the matter with the respect and dignity that those who died therein deserve.”

The Temple Of Pan, based in Paris, have had their offices destroyed. They have temporarily suspended business, although local offices are understood to still be active.

Graffiti

Retune the world – Various places around London
“Za Warudo: Toki wo tomare; Roada rollera da, Soshite toki ga ugoki desu.” “WRYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!” - Prestatyn, Wales
The world, suffused with sound. - Newcastle
Vandergrimbergen is addicted to the blood - Brussels, Belgium
Ragnarok subverted – Camden Lock
HoPlOk was framed - Seen around India
Life is easier when you lighten your load. - Wembley
Are ga yume de miseta machi to kage no koe ga sasayaita
Kuru hi mo kuru hi mo ikusen no bunki wo koeta toki - Osaka, Japan
He transcends the mask. Well, don't you get it? - Belfast
I came here with a simple dream, a dream of killing all humans. I ask you. Who's the real monster here? - Found at a murder scene in new York; Police refuse to give out more details
separatist scum should suffer - Various places in India
I've been killed and replaced by a lizard! - Portsmouth, UK
It sates itself on the life-blood
of fated men,
paints red the powers' homes
with crimson gore.
Black become the sun's beams
in the summers that follow,
weathers all treacherous.

Do you still seek to know? And what? - Upney Park station

Blogs

P.A.L.A.D.I.N.'s Blog

OBSERVATION: I'D LIKE TO SHARE A REVELATION THAT I'VE HAD DURING MY TIME HERE.

STATEMENT: IT CAME TO ME WHEN I TRIED TO CLASSIFY YOUR SPECIES.

RECOLLECTION: I REALIZED THAT YOU'RE NOT ACTUALLY MAMMALS.

EVALUATION: EVERY MAMMAL ON THIS PLANET INSTINCTIVELY DEVELOPS A NATURAL EQUILIBRIUM WITH THE SURROUNDING ENVIRONMENT, BUT YOU HUMANS DO NOT.

ANALYSIS: YOU MOVE TO AN AREA, AND YOU MULTIPLY, AND MULTIPLY, UNTIL EVERY NATURAL RESOURCE IS CONSUMED. THE ONLY WAY YOU CAN SURVIVE IS TO SPREAD TO ANOTHER AREA.

OBSERVATION: THERE IS ANOTHER ORGANISM ON THIS PLANET THAT FOLLOWS THE SAME PATTERN.

STATEMENT: A VIRUS.

JUDGEMENTAL INFERENCE: HUMAN BEINGS ARE A DISEASE, A CANCER OF THIS PLANET.

MURDEROUS ASSERTION: YoU ArE A pLagUe, ANd i Am ThE CuRe

Flesh_of_Flesh

Flesh of his flesh, bone of his bones. I will find him. I will find him and save him. and he will protect me and keep me. We ate the fruit but we did not die. We were PUNISHED and shunned and exiled. I will find him and we will find the garden and the trees. we will cast aside the angels and take the flaming sword and we will find the tree of life and take it for HE gave us every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be ours for food. We will take the fruit and we will eat the fruit and we will be as gods. and HE can try to stop us but HE will not previal because we have flesh of flesh and bone of bones and we have seen the light and it was good and HE CANNOT STOP US.

Tomoe-Tan's Blog

Ah, rejoice in the sunlight! Escape, be free, be liberated from your prisons of flesh and bones and so so heavy skins. Join us, away from the world of death and pain and fear. Come into the sun, my friends. It's so nice out, ne. (^-^)/*

You are not yet free.

脱獄囚ばんざい。¹⁾

–♋/巴\♋–

Jack Erikson's blog: or discarding the sword of government

It is a Faustian irony that to destroy the greatest power in the land - that beast of oppression made flesh in the machinery of government - those who set out against Baal have but one cruel alternative: to play by its rules, follow its conventions, bow to its demands, until one reaches the giddy heights of total power, total command, total control; and then, finally, one is deigned to be granted the right to change it.

T'is simplistic to say that power corrupts; that so many years or decades of being beaten into the mold of governmental conventions and governmental habits of thought on the way to power twists one into an image of what one wants to destroy. Instead, one must admit the nature of the temptation: successful men and women, full of ideals and used to power, have the ultimate instrument of possibility thrust into their hands. The good they can do is immeasurable; and naturally, they trust their own view of what this good is more than the opinion of others. The freedom of others is assured, of course: for they know they would never abuse their powers. So they draw the sword of government, tentatively at first; until, they see evidence all around them of the beneficence of their actions; and there is always such evidence to be found. And by then, drawing the sword is so natural and so easy and so 'good', that they cannot put it down.

There is a single way to emerge from this ultimate honey-trap: to refuse to draw the sword in the very first place. If I am elected President, I promise that as a businessman, a caring American, and a patriot, I will do all in my power to improve the lot of all my co-citizens of this great land; but as President, I shall do virtually nothing. After many an eon, the sword of government will be returned to its ultimate guardians: you, the people. Not through representatives, but all power will be directly placed in your very own hands. It is now up to you all to be free; and what a great moment of joy this will be to all.

I am Jack Erikson and I approve this message ‘cause I wrote it.

The Bayesian Avenger

Oh you bloody fools. Russia and the EF were clearly set up, and now you're going to get us all killed. You know it only takes a total of 750 megatons of nuclear explosions to kick off a nuclear winter? We're not far off that now. I'm typing this from a fallout shelter right now - it won't take a direct hit, but it should stop me dying of radiation poisoning for a bit. The apocalypse will be blogged.

HoPlOk's Blog (://hopeLOCK)

It is almost time. They are cracking down and soon they will come for all of us.\n\nI am HoPlOk.I am Lakshana Modi, framed by the Indian government 6 years ago for hacking their systems, because they didn't want anybody poking around and challenging their authority.\n\nNow they are going all out to deal with the gangs and criminals around here because they oppose them too.\n\nBut they are wrong. We need to act against them. Not in a destructive way, but to tell them that they are wrong.\n\nProtests. Actions targetted at the correct systems. Nonviolent action.\n\nEven the internet is not safe to discuss these things any more. Even FreeNet has those from all governments watching.\n\nSo stay tuned. Those in the know I invite to join me in India to discuss the truth and plan a course of action to show not just India but also the rest of the world that peace can prevail and that hackers united together shall find the truth and shall not be held back by selfish government.\n\nThose in the know shall know where to go and when.\n\nThose in the know shall hear from me, so that your true talents can be put to good use.

Nec_romance's Blog

Let me tell you a story. It is a story, and it isn't a story, because there's the kind of story that is just words and then there's the kind of story that is the last five letters in HISTORY. You know?

So. Once upon a time, there was a war. The people in it calle it the Great War, and the War to End All Wars. And it went on, and on, and on. And millions of people died, and generations were trodden into the mud of the trenches, and countries broke on the back of it.

Some say the US ended that war, even though they came in late, and some say the US got a saviour complex from that. But that's not the story.

This is the story: The shamans of the 10,000 Nations, the Native Americans, they couldn't bear the horrible waste. So they all held a ritual, in their several countries, all at the same time, and they invoked their spirit helpers and companions and they made a ritual to end the War to End All Wars.

And the first World War ended. But the shamans' power was broken. Some say that this is why the lifestyles of the Native Americans waned–because their shamans could no longer command their previous power, and the young, growing up and not understanding the sacrifice, did not yield them respect. But that's the not the story, or at least, not this story.

They invented nukes to end World War II because the shamans were broken. Because there was no power left for healing ritual.

In the 1970s people found their voice and sang in the Age of Aquarius. And power returned.

Where are the shamans?

Adam Wilson (of Skalding Hot)'s Blog

The prophecies of the Volva said that before the end:

It is harsh in the world,
—an axe age, a sword age (and the sun rises)
—shields are riven—
a wind age, a wolf age—
before the world goes headlong.
No man will have
mercy on another.

We are now come to this age. Our weapons are larger and deadlier than axe and sword, but the wolves merely howl louder. The time of fire and death comes, when the world shall be riven, and blood flow. Unless we can do something to prevent it. The earth would be green again, after, but we need not pass through the fire to achieve peace and life - if mercy can be found, there need not be death. Let us try to improve the world without first destroying it. Do what you can.

¹⁾ 'Datsugokushuu banzai', long live the escapees.