When Margaret Thatcher died this past week, I was sincerely sad to see her pass. Not because of the political views that I hold for her, but because of my grandmother, who lived through the iron lady- and insists to this day that although she was tough and hard, and took away many factory jobs- She was successful at rallying British Morale, and creating unity among England during the war period. However, in her passing though she had questionable political policies- does not deserve to have to song played back in 1939 that was spread throughout the world as the anti-thatcher song. Lo and behold, the anti-thatcher song is widely know as “Ding Dong the Witch is Dead,” from Wizard of Oz…who knew, the song in the musical was emotionally charged towards its sentiments to Margaret thatcher. Fast forward to today, BBC and Itunes are debating whether to allow this song to be played during the memorial for thatcher, or and if Itunes should place a cap on the songs download- for it has skyrocketed in hits ever since her passing. The Chairman of the Culture, Media Committee told the Daily Mail; “It is an attempt to manipulate the charts by people trying to make a political point.” However, in her passing I think we can all agree that the political protesting, or agendas of the anti-thatcher movement can be put on hold, not resurrected the moment she passes. “Most people (whether her fans or not) find that offensive and deeply insensitive.”  The Conservative Party of Britain was absolutely astounded that the corporation in charge of her memorial would even consider playing it- it would upset more people than satisfy the few trouble makers. Lady Thatcher’s Biographer insists that in this case, thatcher is Dorothy and not the wicked witch….both point of views I’m sure came up during the her campaign in 1980. However, the debate was sparked because it has been top of the charts- and thus they have to play it whether or not BBC can define the basis of which something has reached the top if the charts. What is completely ridiculous is that BBC and the memorial corporation and itunes, are even having this debate in the first place- Broadcasters should be respecting the dead, and inappropriately playing songs that don’t have negative connotations attached to it even if its lighthearted.

The thing that strikes me as a bit odd, is Washington appears to be treating the threat of north Korea with the same policies they used back in the hammer and the sickle days. It doesn’t seem to the bother the White House in the slightest, that the intelligence disclaimer report enclosed that we are “moderately confident” Korea has the nuclear weapon… This is really excellent intelligence investigation, (but we all know the U.S has struggled with attempting to have clear foundation of policies that derive from unclear intelligence report; see 9/11.)

As such, CNN reports that pretty much, the US doesn’t exactly know whats going.

http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/12/politics/5-things-north-korea-nukes/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

“The U.S., the Korean peninsula and the rest of the world are on edge, worried about the possibility of an imminent missile launch.” Sounds, like reminisces of the communist scare….as such, the U.S plan to be treating it the same-  However, based on the following quote, yes North Korea will be classified as a nuclear state by the rate they are producing nuclear war heads- however, the U.S doesn’t like their territory to become infringed upon by a tiny communist state- it is a threat to the U.S’s potential to fully exert their power using the leverage of their many nuclear weapons…I don’t see any nation trying to stop the US from producing more nuclear war heads…

Still, with few than 10 functional nuclear devices compared to the more than 7,650 warheads in the U.S. arsenal — the tiny nation is at the dangerous infancy of becoming a nuclear state.

The intelligence report disclosed in the news articles using vocabulary, like “possibly” or maybe or we’re not sure…and attributes all their uncertainties that Kim Jung Un is a secretive guy…We knew more about Stalin and their plans with Cuba, and the later on in the space race, and Stalin “isolated himself much from the rest of the world.” just like Kim Jung Un. And yet, the US seems to have no answers, to plan for getting more answers and are acting pretty calm when they say “If North Korea launches a missile, how will we know if it is carrying a nuclear warhead? Basically, we won’t.”