Some Generic New York Pun. Pt.2

This should be read as a continuation of Part 1; https://watchitdie.blogspot.co.uk/2017/12/some-generic-new-york-pun.html

The seventh round of meetings was of course not the only significant diplomatic event during Britain's recent outburst. There was also the Brexit negotiations and the COP23 Summit.

Heading into the Brexit negotiations Britain thought its expertise in terrorism and security matters would be an asset. Then the March 22nd (22/3/17) Westminster Bridge terror attack happened.

If you are trying to assassinate a protected person such as a Prime Minister or President you are faced with the problem that they are often guarded by multiple layers of security inside a secure building.

To try and get around this problem you might attempt to beat the bushes by staging a diversionary attack on the building. This will often trigger the protected person being evacuated from the building forcing them out in to the open for a short period where they can be picked off by a sniper.

There are entire breeds of gun dogs dedicated to this way of thinking.

When Khalid Masood crashed his vehicle into the gates of the UK Parliament building sure enough it triggered the evacuation of the Prime Minister Theresa May from the building. This was a shambles.

Prime Minister May's police bodyguards evacuated her from the building into an open courtyard/carpark. They then stood around for ages as they tried to work out which vehicle they were supposed to be putting her into and who had the car keys. Just from watching TV even I know there should have been a driver with the vehicle at all times.

Funnily enough after that Britain stopped trying to use its supposed expertise in terrorism and security matters as an asset within Brexit negotiations.

On December 5th (5/12/17) the head of Britain's internal security service MI5 informed Parliament that they had thwarted an Islamist plot to assassinate Prime Minister May. Two men would appear at Westminster Magistrates Court charged with the plot the following day.

As it turns out only one man appeared in Court over the plot. Naa'imur Zakariyah Rahman, a 20 year old immigrant from Bangladesh. The alleged New York City pipebomber Akayed Ullah is also an immigrant from Bangladesh.

Bangladeshi Muslims tend to practice a very extreme form of Salafi Sunni Islam. Throughout 2015 and 2016 the country saw a huge increase in Islamist violence. For the most part this took the form of small scale, seemingly isolated murders and attempted murders of bloggers, gay-rights activists and others the Bangladeshi Interior Minister Asaduzzaman Khan accused of insulting Islam.

On July 1st 2016 (1/7/16) there was a large-scale terror attack in the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka. Six attackers stormed a restaurant and held its customers and staff hostage. During the course of a 12 hour siege 20 of the hostages were murdered before the attackers were killed and 13 hostages were released.

That attack very closely mirrored my movements of that day. Almost down to the minute despite the time difference. As such there was always a suspicion that it was intended as a threat to me. 

The question though is how were ISIL fighters in Bangladesh able to track my plans and movements so closely? There has always been a strong suspicion that it was the result of a flow of information between the US government of Democrat Barack Obama and ISIL.

More recently Bangladesh has come to play a key role in Erdogan's attempts to muscle in on discussions regarding the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK/North) nuclear weapons program.

Using Bangladesh's pool of extremist Muslims Erdogan has formed an Islamist terror group calling themselves the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA). They have crossed the border into Bangladesh's neighbour Myanmar/Burma to conduct attacks against the Burmese security forces in the name of the nation's Muslim Rohingya minority.

As they were intended to do the ARSA's attacks have prompted a backlash by the Burmese security forces. Amid some pretty wild accusations of ethnic cleansing and genocide this backlash has prompted tens of thousands of Rohingya to cross the border into Bangladesh. This makes the Bangladeshi city of Cox's Bazaar pretty much ground zero for Erdogan's efforts.

Then of course there is the British Labour Party's attempts to overthrow the government of Prime Minister May by burning down the Grenfell Tower apartment block in London on June 14th (14/6/17). 

This fire spread in part due to insulation cladding fitted to the building to meet the UK's obligations under the UNFCCC. As a result it was a big talking point of the sidelines of the COP23 Summit.

During the course of COP23 London police confirmed that not only did they failure to investigate this arson attack they artificially inflated the deathtoll. In making that admission they still attempted to inflate the actual deathtoll of 70 to 71 by including an unborn child. A death which does not count under UK law.

The general consensus from COP 23 was that nations will not embarrass the UK by releasing evidence they hold detailing the Labour Party's arson conspiracy. However generally they can think of no reason why Britain would want to continue keeping that a secret.

Many of those affected by the Grenfell Tower fire are recent immigrants from Morocco. In an attempt to bring down the government the Labour Party have seized on this by accusing the Public Inquiry of racism. They insist it should include more representatives of people who understand Moroccan culture.

Through a November 20th (20/11/17) stampede which killed 15 Morocco has described the Labour supporter Grenfell survivors as the type of people who will trample anyone to death for a free handout. I think perhaps Labour want less Moroccan cultural understanding in the Public Inquiry.

In the Grenfell Tower plot to 'assassinate' Prime Minister May one of the key suspects would of course be Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn. The other would be Labour's London Mayor Sadiq Khan.

On December 6th (6/12/17) Jeremy Corbyn was in Westminster. Sadiq Khan however was overseas in Bangladesh's neighbour India. Which probably explains why only one suspect rather than the promised two turned up in Westminster Magistrates Court.

Then of course there have been the Germans. The Germans have also been extremely noisy in the period following Britain's outburst.

As I mentioned I recently went to visit my mothers. Between November 29th (29/11/17) and December 1st (1/12/17).

Compared to a mega city like London where my mothers live is relatively rural. So I used the opportunity of the visit to buy some cross-country running shoes. These are essentially normal running shoes that are better able to deal with rain, mud, snow and ice. 

There are plenty of shops that sell this sort of thing where my mothers live but comparatively few where I live.

As I was acquiring this shoebox sized package one of the shops I visit was right by the town square which was hosting a German-style Christmas Market.

So on December 1st (1/12/17) a non-functioning parcel bomb type IED was discovered at a Christmas Market in the German city of Potsdam. Rather than terrorism this has been blamed on a blackmail plot against the courier company DHL. Rather like the April 11th 2017 (11/4/17) bombing of the Borussia Dortmund team bus was blamed on a stockmarket scam.

The Potsdam parcel bomb did not detonate because it was lacking an ignition device. While visiting my mothers I also brought a cigarette lighter. My existing cigarette ignition device had failed.

The train I used to visit my mothers had Wi-Fi Internet service. I tend not to use it though because I actually prefer a couple of hours away from the noise of the Internet. However on my return journey I forgot to switch off the Wi-Fi on my tablet so it tried and failed to connect to the train's system.

On December 5th (5/12/16) - the day after the big failure in the Brexit negotiations - a passenger train crashed into a goods train close to the German city of Dusseldorf. An economist would describe this as a collision between human capital and physical capital. A reference to the role that the free movement of people will play in a post-Brexit trade deal.

One of the main stories coming out of the immediate aftermath of the crash was rescuers inability to make contact with trapped passengers. Rather like how my tablet was unable to make contact with the train's Wi-Fi despite its best efforts.

In her retirement one of my mothers has decided to take up knitting. Over the course of the last year it's sort of become a running joke that she is going to knit me a sweater. Particularly while she's trying to 'discreetly' measure me while were out in public restaurants.

Last week my mother finally finished knitting this sweater. So she posted it to me. Unfortunately she didn't tell me she was posting it to me meaning I missed the deliver and spent much of the next week trying to arrange a re-delivery.

This led to some speculation in my house and beyond about what the mystery package could be. After all normally when I receive an unsolicited package without a return address the first thing I do is check it's not ticking.

On December 10th (10/12/17) the German city of Berlin helpfully suggested the package could contain some 200 rounds of ammunition for a Walther PPK handgun.

Sadly the little details of my life are just not that interesting. They do though give Germany opportunity to take a position of power in Brexit negotiations by pretending they don't know what's going on when in truth they do.

Germany is considered one of the most powerful nations within the European Union (EU). However they are currently weakened by a political crisis of their own.

The September 24th 2017 (24/9/17) General Election left the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party of incumbent Chancellor (Head of Government) Angela Merkel not only unable to govern as a single party but also apparently unable to form a coalition government. Germany seems set for fresh elections in 2018.

Germany's neighbour Austria seems to have suggested it might be time for Ms Merkel to drop all the anti-Trump nonsense. For politicians it seems to be the quickest route to unemployment.

Well  in nations that can still legitimately claim to be democracies. 

17:35 on 14/12/17 (UK date).