Finally Some News

Yeah - power to the people.  Something has flicked their switch.  CNB Newschannel went to a red "Breaking News" screen for about 5minutes solid, that's why the crowd gathered by the lunch room.  When it 'broke' it was more surreal than before, if you can believe that.  CNB only half jokingly said they had a minor coup in the news room!  Get this - they say that they have over-ruled their management, and are no longer going to keep the public in the dark.  They said the station had a big meeting, and even though they were all fired on the spot, they realized that the station manager was not going to be able to do anything to stop them so they are going ahead!  Crazy stuff.

So they said, they were detaining him in-communicado for 30min while they file this report, then will let him do what he must. They say they expect to be cut off, but feel their ethics require them to not hold out any longer.

Here's what I got out of the info dump that followed.  They say that several other stations around the world, well in the west anyway are doing the same thing and shared info over the net to coordinate their timing.  So don't be surprised if the Army starts shutting down your TV whereever you are, but if you can, get to the TV to see before then.

They have video of fighter jets headed towards Scandenavia, and say they've heard that as they go in, they go radio silent and never come out again.  Ground troups have gone in and also not returned. It's like a big black hole over there, and nobody can get any info. It's a big area in Norway, Sweden and Finland, around the gulf of Bothnia and upper Baltic. Weird.

And satellites are unable to do anything. Oh and they've confimed too that the Space station is indeed on the other side of the fricking MOON.  How weird is that.

They said that they agreed to news silence due to unknown nature of the threat and fears about panic, but have now decided that the lack of information is causing too much fear and rumour and journalists are all over the world forming some sort of freedom of information pact.  

Last I saw they were mostly reporting on themselves - typical. I guess that means they have limited additional info about the "space crisis' - I can't believe they're calling it that.  Then again, I suppose they could call it space-gate, and that would be ten times worse.  So anyway they're mostly going through which stations have been shut down and more encouragingly, there are countries in Europe and elsewhere that have agreed to be open now, and no longer restrict their media.  Sadly Britain, Germany, France and the US are not among them.  Canada seems to be in limbo.  There is Army at several transmitter sites and media outlets they say, but they aren't doing anything.  Someone must be trying to decide.

So how long can it stay like this? Can we really have a chunk of the planet where nobody gets out for a month? A year? A decade? Too weird.  How can that become the new normal.

Oh, I did go upstairs, and Kate wasn't around. Drat.

I guess I'm going to cut out, nothing is getting done here now, and I'm going to meet up a couple of the guys at the Roasted Bean for a cuppa and see what's going on.  Tam says he'll be there too.