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Geocaching is a kind of game related to orienteering in which people hide and seek GPS/GSM receivers at random places of the globe. Some Czech organizations have brought the game to a brand new level: see Stratocaching.CZ and an explanatory article in English or a fresher one translated from Czech.



The video at Stratocaching.cz has 3 tabs, showing the situation in the balloon; control center; and the launch site. The server may be overloaded because billions of people may be afraid of thermonuclear detonations.

A 2-meter-diameter Japanese balloon will be shot to the stratosphere, 30 kilometers above the surface, in a few minutes (9:30 am Prague Winter Time on Saturday). The balloon will grow to 15 meters in diameter before it pops. It contains 10 thermonuclear warheads and 2 ordinary nuclear warheads.




They will explode and destroy the industial civilization in Europe due to some electromagnetic waves, thus returning the old continent by 7 centuries. But this technical detail is not the main part of the game. Each of the thermonuclear warheads contains an indestructible "stratocache".




Inhabitants of the continent which was returned to the Middle Ages will look for these 10 "stratocaches", using their smartphone-like devices with iOS and Android, assuming that they still work. The first 10 people who will find each stratocache will be given some prizes like tablets – 100 prizes in total – which may increase their chance to survive on this inhospitable continent again.

Before Europe is destroyed, you may download iOS and Android applications; search for Stratocaching on Play Store or App Store. Unfortunately, the registration was stopped before I learned about the game at 8:30 am.

Update

The balloon went to 31 kilometers as it was flying from Prague towards Southwest, to my hometown of Pilsen, practically copying the (100-km-long) Prague-Pilsen railway for quite some time. The chance was high that the seeds would land close to us.

The Dropion landed about 30 km from Pilsen. The first seed landed in Chrást by Pilsen, just 4 km from my home (only about 1/3,000 of the Czech territory is this close to me – the number is also the "probability" of something), but it was found by 10 contestants almost immediately. I would probably have no chance to find it in time. The remaining 9 seeds apparently lost their GPS capabilities. ;-) But at 14:05, it turned out that other seeds began to contact "Houston", too.

Another update: almost all the other caches also landed very close to my home, East of Pilsen – Smědčice where I would be going for fresh water; Bušovice where we went to a nice countryside restaurant to have a monstrous St Martin goose lunch exactly 1 year ago, and so on.

After four years, Canada abolished the tourist visa requirements for Czechs again. The visas have been introduced and canceled a few times in recent decades.



Judging by the sentiment in the face, this Czech woman probably got the visas back in 2009 when they were imposed again shortly before she was leaving the Canadian embassy.

The good news were announced by Otto Jelinek, the new Canada's ambassador to Czechia (born in Prague, Third Reich), a rich guy, and a former figure-skater. Incidentally, I do think that "binational" (yet loyal) folks are a good choice for the chairs of ambassadors. We are sending Livia Klausová, the Slovak-born ex-president's wife, to the Slovak capital and I support this idea.

It's being claimed that Canada had to reform its asylum system to prevent the abuse of its generous welfare system by Central European immigrants, especially the gipsies from Czechia. It may have been some work but it's obvious that it was the right thing to do.




A few days ago, I was surprised to learn that Canada – which I/we usually imagine as the most welcoming country possible – was actually the least welcoming major country for the Jews after the Night of Broken Glasses.




It's of course an internal question for the Canadians whether they want to allow someone else to enter the country. But if visas are introduced against the Czechs because of the gipsies, it's clearly a racist decision of a sort. And it's counterproductive – one creating many new unnecessary enemies (in Czechia and the EU that sort of began to protect its member country).

The actual problem was that it was easy to abuse the welfare system so it was this loophole that had to be fixed. It could have been abused by many others – and it probably was abused by many others even though the Czech citizens were obviously heavily overrepresented.

In the afternoon, at 5 pm, the historical Moravian capital Olomouc will host some unusual athletes from Canada – namely its soccer players. The Czech representation team is believed to be so superior that if they lose against the maple leaves, the players and the coach will be rightfully derided by everyone.

Earlier than that, at 4 pm, the Davis Cup finals will begin in Belgrade. The Serbs will host the defending winners from Czechia. Radek Štěpánek will face a hard foe in the first match – No-fuck Jock (of) Itch, the world's #2 (yup, I invented the new spelling of his name LOL).



Because much of this blog post was about Canada, I shouldn't forget to mention that I found it important for Canada to "applaud" Australia's plan to scrap the carbon tax. Canada and Australia are similar in many respects but due to their geographic separation, this trans-Pacific echo may influence the international atmosphere, indeed.

Even Western countries and confederations led by much more left-wing governments, most notably the U.S. and the EU, refuse some particular insane plan by Brazil and a group of developing nations to pay communist-style "compensations" because the temperature on Earth isn't at absolute zero, or something like that. Bizarre arguments are used both to support and reject similar bizarre proposals, too. It must be crazy over there in Warsaw.

26,794 Americans signed for the new, socialist health care in October. I thought it would already be mandatory? Of course that if it's not mandatory, people – including the superficial backers of Obama's policies – will avoid it. I can't believe that someone would identify such an obviously losing project as the tip of his political career. In Czechia, we've had various projects to computerize the health care documents (IZIP), welfare payments (S-card), and public transportation IDs (in Prague), not to mention the "second pillar of the pension reform". All these projects turned out to be similar non-events, with almost no one using it. It's almost inevitable.

On the other hand, I just got a "consumer card" of the Czech Post and it's wonderful. I was sending 3 packages and a recommended letter with documents during the last 3 days and avoided some extra paperwork with addresses, received e-mail confirmations that those things were delivered, and so on. Not to mention a minor 5% discount on the post office prices. This is good for me because it works and doesn't depend on the overall success of the project. I would still guess that almost no one will be using it – even though it is so useful. Recommended to all Czech readers, anyway.

About seven weeks ago, I wrote about the 75th anniversary of the Munich Pact. Britain and France thought that it was a wonderful idea to appease the Third Reich by throwing a third of their ally's territory to Hitler's throat.



An event that occurred seven weeks later, the Night of Broken Glass (November 9th-10th, 1938), adds some clarification concerning the character of the new friend of Mr Chamberlain and M. Daladier.

Comrade Goebbels "overinterpreted" a murder of a young German diplomat (Ernst von Rath) – allegedly by a Jewish teenager (German-born Polish Jew in Paris, Herschel Grynszpan; yes, it looks like the same surname as Alan Greenspan's). This murder had nothing to do with anti-German sentiments; the teenager was simply fairly punshing the the German embassy for its continuing bureaucratic terror against himself and his relatives. Within hours, hundreds (267) of synagogues and thousands (7,500) of Jewish businesses plus Jewish hospitals and schools were looted, ransacked, and pretty much destroyed or burned to the ground. 30,000 Jews were arrested and transferred to concentration camps. 91 Jews died.




I find it kind of amazing that it took 10 extra months for Britain and France to declare war against Germany.

Those barbarian acts have occurred on the whole temporarily extended territory of Germany, including Austria and Czechia's Sudetenland.




What did it look like may be seen on the example of Liberec, a North Bohemian city of 100,000 or so today (German: Reichenberg; population in the 1930s around 40,000). Before the war, about 1,600 Jews lived there; only 37 of them have avoided death in the extermination and concentration camps.



The synagogue in Liberec was put in fire, too.

All these acts by the Nazi rabble were pretty much sponsored by the ruling party in the Third Reich (although the official sources were trying to obscure these connections). I wonder whether Europe would react differently if similar events occurred in 2013.



It's sometimes being said that the Kristallnacht marked the beginning of the Holocaust. Well, I think that it only brought the process to a new level because many totally unacceptable things were happening much earlier than that. Well, Joseph Goebbels ordered a nation-wide boycott of the Israeli... I mean Jewish services already in 1933. Some people continue to organize practically identical boycotts even these days.

This whole hysteria seems totally irrational to me. As the video above points out, the Jews only represented about 1 percent of the population of Germany, they were largely loyal citizens, tended to quickly assimilate, and many of them fought for Germany in the First World War.

Nevertheless, they were miraculously blamed for everything that the German socialism considered evil – for capitalism, for communism, for inflation, and so on – quite a mixed bag, indeed.

Ninety years ago, Adolf Hitler attempted to overtake the power for the first time – by attacking a brewery in Bavaria in the so-called Beer Hall Putsch. In those good old times, a loser like himself (who had understandably found no allies) would spend five years in the prison (he was released after 9 months, for having been an obedient clown) and that would be the end of a similar painful story. Some weird changes (including the publication of An Inconvenient Truth in 1926, oops, I mean Mein Kampf) and problems in the 1930s allowed this ultimate loser to take power in Europe's most powerful – and, to a large extent, most sophisticated – country. An educated, insensitive primitive was suddenly good enough for a leader.