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If you follow the news regularly, you can be forgiven for not knowing much other than Trump’s latest harrumph, or Hillary’s health scares, but there is still a World out there spinning, independent of America’s election cycle. Last week, North Korea again tested the nuclear waters with its second weapon test this year. This time they claim to have detonated a Hydrogen bomb.
With a thumb aimed squarely at Uncle Sam’s eye, a Korean Central News Agency release said, “The U.S. will be made to clearly see how the DPRK rises imposingly out of chains of sanctions, blockade and pressure.” (The Obama administration recently responded to a series of North Korean missile tests with promises of more sanctions.) We’re all left to wonder, “What would/will president Trump do?”
Tim Shorrock is a journalist, musician, and author of the web site, Money Doesn’t Talk, It Swears, and the book, ‘Spies for Hire: The Secret World of Intelligence Outsourcing.’ Tim’s upbringing in the Far East especially informs his coverage of Japan and South Korea, and he spent much of the 1980’s in Japan, following the financial intrigues of the then-biggest of the Asian Tiger economies. These days he’s based in Washington, D.C.
Tim Shorrock in the first half.
And; living here, at this time, in this still magnificent remnant of creation called British Columbia, the sorrow of what of the wild world here has already been lost, and what is currently risked through unrelenting “resource” extraction may make it easier for we less imaginative, less passionate people to understand Grant Hadwin’s last desperate act. The former logger and backwoodsman disappeared after felling, in a mad act of environmental apotheosis, the singularly majestic Golden Spruce, a tree sacred to all who beheld it.
Hadwin’s life was immortalized in John Vaillant’s book, ‘The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness and Greed,’ and now in a film inspired by that book, ‘Hadwin’s Judgement.’
Elizabeth Yake is one of the producers of the film, who will appear with John Vaillant and Ken Wu and TJ Watts at the fundraiser screening for the Ancient Forest Alliance in Victoria Thursday, September 29th at UVic’s Cinecenta theatre.
Elizabeth Yake in the second half.
And; Victoria Street Newz publisher emeritus and CFUV Radio broadcaster, Janine Bandcroft will be here at the bottom of the hour to bring us news of good things planned for the streets of our city, and beyond there too, in the coming week. But first, Tim Shorrock and a World still restive, beyond the Beltway politics.
