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Here is a map of the places around the world where not to go sailing.

Just because you never know when it might come in useful.

Meanwhile, Barack Obama has this morning been awarded the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize. This has, predictably enough, caused half of the world’s population to complain that he does not deserve it. The Nobel people think otherwise;

“Only very rarely has a person to the same extent as Obama captured the world’s attention and given its people hope for a better future,” the Norwegian committee said in a statement.

“His diplomacy is founded in the concept that those who are to lead the world must do so on the basis of values and attitudes that are shared by the majority of the world’s population.”

Personally, I’m half of the mind that this accolade for Obama does seem a little premature considering that he hasn’t actually done anything much, but then again it occurs to me that him not doing anything much is a vast improvement over George Bush when he did anything at all.

So in my humble opinion Barack Obama deserves the prize just for not being George Bush, if nothing else.

Yesterday, North Korea carried out another nuclear test. This one more powerful than the last. Bad news.

Luckily though, in order to help solve this highly dangerous situation;

‘The UN security council will hold an emergency meeting in New York later today to discuss its response’.

This is good news, as we can always rely on the United Nations.

Right?

Interesting market with some good prediction choices just spotted on Hubdub:

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Somali Pirates Capture US tugboat in Aden Gulf, what’ll happen now?

Somali Pirates Capture US tugboat in Aden Gulf, what’ll happen now?

I have two predictions open on this, firstly ’The stick: Obama uses the US Navy: mixed results‘, and, secondly, ‘Non-US ship plays a major role to settle matters‘.

As usual, only time will tell.

A Korean Missile Launch

The North Korean ‘government’ must be feeling a whole lot safer today as in response to this announcement;

North Korea has said it plans to carry out a controversial satellite launch between 4 and 8 April.

The United States, who could easily shoot the missile down, have now said this;

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned that Washington had “a range of options” it could take if North Korea went ahead with the launch – including, Reuters reported, action in the UN Security Council.

Action in the UN Security Council?

In that case, North Korea has nothing to fear.