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North Korea’s New Nuke is 10 Times Larger Than Its Last. It Could Devastate U.S. Cities.
Post Date: 2017-09-04 10:15:50 by HAPPY2BME-4UM
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NTK looked at potential damage that a miniaturized North Korean nuke could do to U.S. cities. Here’s an updated summary following Kim’s H-Bomb test. About a month ago, reports emerged that North Korea had developed the capability to miniaturize nuclear warheads so that the regime could deliver the weapons via Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM). At the time, Pyongyang’s largest nuclear test had been around 10 kilotons of destructive power, but estimates of this new hydrogen bomb test place the explosive measure close to 100 kilotons. After the miniaturization reports, NTK analyzed the devastation on U.S. cities that are within range of North Korea’s successful ...
THE UNLIKELY JIHADI
Post Date: 2017-09-04 06:21:57 by Ada
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The FBI Pressured a Lonely Young Man Into a Bomb Plot. He Tried to Back Out. Now He’s Serving Life in Prison. Trial and TerrorTrial and Terror Part 6 The U.S. government has prosecuted more than 800 people for terrorism since the 9/11 attacks. Most of them never committed an act of violence. EXPAND ALL PARTS HARLEM SUAREZ WAS an unlikely jihadi. When he was born in Cuba, Suarez had blue skin. His fragile brain had been deprived of oxygen, a tragedy his family points to in explaining his lifelong social and intellectual challenges. As a child, Suarez also suffered several significant head injuries, including being struck by a brick and falling off motorcycles without a helmet on. ...
South Korea holds live-fire drill simulating attack on nuclear site to 'strongly warn' North Korea
Post Date: 2017-09-04 00:09:33 by HAPPY2BME-4UM
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Print South Korea’s military conducted a live-fire exercise simulating an attack on a nuclear site, to "strongly warn" North Korea in response to the rogue nation's apparent nuclear test, South Korean officials said early Monday. A surface-to-surface missile and long-range air-to-ground missile "accurately struck" targets in the Sea of Japan, Seoul's Joint Chiefs of Staff said. Officials added that the target was set considering the distance to where the North's test site was, and the exercise was aimed at practicing precision strikes, as well as cutting off reinforcements. President ...
Pentagon Admits Far More Troops in Afghanistan Than Official Figure
Post Date: 2017-08-31 08:22:51 by Ada
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Confirms That They've Been Lying About Troop Levels for Years Confirming long-standing speculations to that effect, the Pentagon today admitted that the 8,400 US troops that are in Afghanistan according to all official documents is not an accurate count, and that there are actually 11,000 US troops in the country. Officials were quick to insist that the new higher figure did not represent any escalations of the sort that President Trump promised in last week’s speech, but rather was just meant to correct the 8,400 number that had long been put forward. Pentagon officials admitted that they have routinely “lowballed” their troop levels across multiple wars, and ...
Afghanistan and the CIA Heroin Ratline
Post Date: 2017-08-29 06:40:09 by Ada
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The Persian Gulf harbors an array of extremely compromising secrets. Near the top is the Afghan heroin ratline – with the United Arab Emirates (UAE) positioned as the golden node of a transnational, trillion dollar heroin money laundering operation. In this 21st century Opium War, crops harvested in Afghanistan are essentially feeding the heroin market not only in Russia and Iran but especially in the US. Up to 93% of the world’s opium comes from Afghanistan. Contrary to predominant Western perception, this is not an Afghan Taliban operation. The key questions — never asked by Atlanticist circles — are who buys the opium harvests; refines them into heroin; controls ...
Military Leaders, Congress Praise Trump’s ‘Inspiring’ Afghanistan Speech
Post Date: 2017-08-27 19:50:46 by BTP Holdings
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Military Leaders, Congress Praise Trump’s ‘Inspiring’ Afghanistan Speech By Rusty | Featured Contributor | August 22, 2017 9:00AM If you had forgotten what a true commander-in-chief looks and sounds like over the past eight years, you could reasonably be forgiven. Former president Obama used a military strategy in Afghanistan that involved arbitrary timelines, ignoring generals on the ground, choosing politics over wise strategy, and leading from behind. President Trump, however, delivered a speech addressing a new strategy in Afghanistan that military leaders and members of Congress alike have universally praised. Trump outlined a comprehensive new military strategy ...
More American Troops to Afghanistan, To Keep the Chinese Out? Lithium and the Battle for Afghanistan’s Mineral Riches
Post Date: 2017-08-26 05:38:39 by Ada
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Trump calls for escalation of the war in Afghanistan. Why? Is it part of the “Global War on Terrorism”, going after the bad guys, or is it something else? Unknown to the broader public, Afghanistan has significant oil, natural gas and strategic raw material resources, not to mention opium, a multibillion dollar industry which feeds America’s illegal heroin market. These mineral reserves include huge veins of iron, copper, cobalt, gold and lithium, which is a strategic raw material used in the production of high tech batteries for laptops, cell phones and electric cars. The implication of Trump’s resolve is to plunder and steal Afghanistan’s mineral riches to ...
TGIF: Operation CYA – Afghanistan
Post Date: 2017-08-26 05:20:01 by Ada
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Steve Bannon’s Brietbart and others notwithstanding, that was Trump being Trump when he announced he would not be quitting Afghanistan, despite the manifest futility and counterproductivity — that is, idiocy — of America’s 16-year war there. He is not a captive of “my generals,” bad as they are. He is his own man. Just look at the attitude toward military power he displayed throughout his presidential campaign and young presidency. He boasted of being the most “militaristic” candidate in the large Republican field — and that was saying something. He promised to “bomb the shit” out of ISIS, torture terrorist suspects, and kill their ...
It’s the opium, stupid: ‘Afghan surge guarantees CIA black-ops budget boost’
Post Date: 2017-08-24 06:14:37 by Ada
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The CIA is also overjoyed because its black-ops budget - which is tied to the exponential growth of opium production in Afghanistan - is now secured possibly for another 20-50 years, claims Mike Raddie, co-editor of online site BSNews. The announcement on US strategy in Afghanistan comes as Donald Trump shakes up his inner circle: chief strategist, Steve Bannon, has become the latest to head for the exit. The US military said that in a matter of days additional US troops could be deployed to Afghanistan, following President Trump’s speech on a new strategy for the region. The first new deployments of American military personnel will happen "pretty quickly," Gen. Joseph ...
Trump’s Afghanistan Escalation Will Add to Massive War Costs
Post Date: 2017-08-24 05:49:50 by Ada
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Exact Costs of War Are Huge, But Not Well Documented With his Monday speech committing to the US to a continuation and escalation of the Afghan War, an already major increase in military spending for 2018 looks like it might be growing even more to cover the added expenses of a bigger conflict. There is no good figure available on the cost of the first 16 years of the US war in Afghanistan. Estimates are that $1 trillion has been spent so far, between direct spending on the war itself and medical costs for Afghan War veterans. That’s likely to just be a fraction of the overall cost, just for those 16 years, as the cost of caring for those veterans for decades to come will ...
Soft coup success? Wall Street and military-industrial complex run US Presidency
Post Date: 2017-08-23 08:11:32 by Ada
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Business as usual at the office of the US Presidency. Now that Steve Bannon is out, and Trump’s non-interventionist, America first advisors have been picked off one by one, a Goldman Sachs/Military Generals US run White House is gearing up for more war, starting with Afghanistan. Neocons like Lindsey Graham and John McCain are ecstatic… The mainstream liberal media is so happy with the Afghanistan ramp up they refused to lay down any criticism of a “Trump decision”…which is rare indeed, considering the liberal media finds fault in just about anything Trump says or does. To get a better understanding of what is really going on in Washington DC, Mike Krieger ...
Two CIA Contractors Successfully Sued for “Black Site” Torture
Post Date: 2017-08-23 07:44:08 by Ada
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Hired psychologists devised "enhanced interrogation techniques” to break prisoners. Given the intense media coverage over Charlottesville, a recent small headline largely escaped notice, but it could have a major impact on how Americans come to terms with the excesses that developed from the “global war on terror.” For the first time, several individuals closely associated with the CIA torture program were about to become answerable in a court of law for “legally aiding and abetting and/or factually aiding and abetting torture,” forcing the government to intervene and come to a settlement of the case. It is surprising that it has taken this long to reach ...
Trump May Not Finish His Term But the Assassination Complex Will Live On
Post Date: 2017-08-22 12:45:58 by Ada
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Donald Trump’s speech on Afghanistan will briefly turn the media spotlight onto America’s longest war. Much of the media analysis will undoubtedly be about how the speech impacts Trump politically. Given the events of the past week, it seems unlikely that Democratic pundits will repeat their inane praise of the State of the Union address, in which Trump apparently became presidential for the first time. But this speech should serve as a moment to seriously examine the trajectory of the U.S. war machine from 9/11 to the present. Amid the deluge of scandal, incompetence, and bigotry emanating from the Trump White House, the relative calm of the Obama era seems like a far-off ...
Sen. Rand Paul: 16 years on, it's past time to bring our troops home from Afghanistan
Post Date: 2017-08-22 07:25:28 by Ada
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The Trump administration is increasing the number of troops in Afghanistan and, by doing so, keeping us involved even longer in a 16-year-old war that has long since gone past its time. The mission in Afghanistan has lost its purpose, and I think it is a terrible idea to send any more troops into that war. It’s time to come home now. Our war in Afghanistan began in a proper fashion. We were attacked on 9/11. The Taliban, who then controlled Afghanistan, were harboring al Qaeda, and after being warned, and after an authorization from Congress, our military executed a plan to strike back. Had I been in Congress then, I would have voted to authorize this military action. But as is ...
How the Brass Talked Another President into a Losing Strategy
Post Date: 2017-08-22 07:03:32 by Ada
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Despite tough talk, Trump approach on Afghanistan is no different than 2009. The American people don’t like long wars with uncertain outcomes—and never have. That was true in 1953, when the U.S. accepted a stalemate and armistice with the Chinese-backed North Koreans, and it was true again in 1975, when the U.S. suffered an ignominious defeat and 58,000 dead at the hands of pajama-clad guerrillas and the North Vietnamese army. “Never fight a land war in Asia,” General Douglas MacArthur famously said, and for good reason: in both Korea and Vietnam, the enemy could be endlessly supplied and reinforced. The solution, in both cases, was to either widen the war or leave. ...
Syria: the facts on the ground
Post Date: 2017-08-20 07:26:02 by Tatarewicz
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Asia Times... Way beyond the al-Sadr-Saudi love fest, Mesopotamia and the Levant, in the post-Daesh era, are indeed unrecognizable compared to the state of play in the early 2010s. The facts on the ground in the Syrian war theater are stark. A girl looks out from a bullet-riddled bus in a rebel-held part of the southern city of Deraa, Syria July 9, 2017. REUTERS/Alaa Al-Faqir A girl looks out from a bullet-riddled bus in a rebel-held part of the southern city of Deraa, Syria July 9, 2017. Photo: Reuters/Alaa Al-Faqir While the Beltway was blinded by regime change, Moscow swooped in and with a small expeditionary force turned the Middle East game upside down. While Russian jets fully ...
Its Time to Stop Supporting Our Troops: Thirty Million People Killed by U.S. Since the End of World War II
Post Date: 2017-08-16 06:15:09 by Tatarewicz
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PMF... First published in December 2015 With the 115 year old tradition of the annual Army-Navy football classic on Saturday [December 2015], the so called Americas game and rivalry for the ages is now once again upon us. This occasion never fails to pay reverent homage to Americas so called cream of the crop elitist military academies and always from the president to celebrities Americans give tribute to our armed forces. At this time we hear that familiar patriotic mantra support our troops mindlessly repeated. So it seems appropriate now to take a cold hard look to examine what it actually means to support our troops. As both a West Point graduate and critic of the American Empire, to ...
2 US soldiers killed, 5 more wounded in possible ISIS attack in Iraq
Post Date: 2017-08-14 06:25:43 by Tatarewicz
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RT Two American soldiers have been killed and five more wounded during an operation in northern Iraq. Though the military has said they were taking part in “combat operations,” initial reports said the deaths were not from “enemy contact.” Read more © Ali Arkady/VII/Redux Iraqi forces carrying out tortures in Mosul mostly supervised by US – security official The troops were taking part in operations against Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL). "The entire counter-ISIS Coalition sends our deepest condolences to these heroes' families, friends and teammates," Lieutenant General Stephen Townsend, commander of the Combined Joint Task Force – ...
Russian- Syrian soldiers in AIRLANDING OPERATION BEHIND ISIS LINES
Post Date: 2017-08-13 01:28:41 by Tatarewicz
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LiveLeak... Few minutes ago the Syrian media released more info about the Tiger Forces landing operation behind ISIS lines in the province of Raqqah reported earlier today. According to the report, government troops led by Tiger Forces Commander Suheil al-Hassan were transported by 4 Mi-35 attack helicopters to the eastern Raqqah countryside 21km behind the front line and Khirbet Makman village, Al-Qadir town and Bir Rahum. The Russian Aerospace Forces supported the operation providing an air cover to the advancing government troops, according to the report. This was the first ever air landing operation conducted by the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) during the ongoing war. The operation ...
Food For Thought - Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany
Post Date: 2017-08-12 17:26:15 by Horse
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"I therefore suggest that it would be quite possible for Russia to remain a spectator of the Austro-Serbian conflict without involving Europe in the most horrible war she ever witnessed. I think a direct understanding between your Government (Russia) and Vienna possible and desirable, and my Government is continuing its exercises to promote it. Of course military measures on the part of Russia would be looked upon by Austria as a calamity we both wish to avoid and jeopardize my position as mediator which I readily accepted on your appeal to my friendship and my help. "This is the end of negotiations with America, once and for all! If Wilson wants war, let him provoke it and then ...
China To North Korea: You Hit The U.S., We’re Not Helping You
Post Date: 2017-08-12 15:42:06 by HAPPY2BME-4UM
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Via Daily Wire: China has delivered an ultimatum to North Korea: If they hit the United States, they’re on their own. The state-run Global Times wrote in an editorial, “China should also make clear that if North Korea launches missiles that threaten US soil first and the US retaliates, China will stay neutral.” However, should the U.S. and South Korea strike North Korea first, then “China will prevent them from” implementing regime change in North Korea. The editorial continued:http://www.dailywire.com/news/19624/china-north-korea-you-hit-us-were-not-helping-aaron-bandler
Who’s In Charge of U.S. Nukes? Energy Secretary Rick Perry
Post Date: 2017-08-12 08:39:06 by HAPPY2BME-4UM
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August 11, 201712:30 pm In 2012, then-Gov. Rick Perry (R-TX) famously forgot the Department of Energy during a debate performance in which he was listing the four federal departments he would eliminate as president. Today, he is now in charge of the Department of Energy and America’s nuclear weapons stock pile. The Department of Energy spends roughly two-thirds of the department’s $30 billion budget on maintaining the United States’ nuclear stockpile. In December, Politico reported on how crucial the Department of Energy is in maintaining the country’s nuclear stockpile. Politico reported:“The agency’s chief responsibility isn’t energy policy: ...
North Korea and the Trump AdministrationÂ’s Foreign Policy Dysfunction
Post Date: 2017-08-10 22:37:18 by bush_is_a_moonie
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Tillerson’s attempts to reassure Americans following Trump’s incendiary rhetoric on North Korea do not seem very reassuring: “I think Americans should sleep well at night, have no concerns about this particular rhetoric of the last few days,” Mr. Tillerson said as his plane stopped to refuel in Guam, the very island that North Korea threatened to target. He added, “Nothing I have seen and nothing I know of would indicate that the situation has dramatically changed in the last 24 hours.” It is understandable that Tillerson wants to back away from the alarming rhetoric that the president used earlier this week, but this points to the key problem with the ...
Japan ready to protect Guam, defense minister says
Post Date: 2017-08-10 08:41:40 by HAPPY2BME-4UM
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Japan ready to protect Guam, defense minister saysIn the event of a North Korean nuclear attack on Guam, Japan’s new defense minister said Thursday that his country’s military could shoot down the missiles before they reach the U.S. territory.In such a scenario, Japan has the right to activate its Aegis destroyer missile defense system, Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera said during a session of the National Diet, Japan’s parliament.Any attack against Guam would be considered an existential threat to Japan, the defense minister said, also citing a mutual defense agreement with the United States.Japan lies only about 620 miles to the east of North Korea, which has conducted ...
McMaster: US Prepared to Launch ‘Preventative War’ Against North Korea
Post Date: 2017-08-07 04:23:43 by Ada
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Says It Doesn't Matter Much If North Korea's Missiles Actually Work Continuing to hype the threat posed by North Korea, despite their two ICBM tests being eventually conceded to both be failures, National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster insisted that the US is fully prepared to launch a “preventative war” against North Korea, to prevent them threatening the US. The threat is with heavily fictionalized versions of North Korea’s missile program, but McMaster appeared undeterred about the war, saying he wasn’t going to confirm if North Korea really had missiles that could reach the US, before incredibly adding “I mean how much does that matter?” One ...
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