[CNN] Russian President Vladimir Putin warned that the escalating crisis over North Korea's weapons program risks developing into a "global catastrophe" with mass casualties.
But Putin, speaking in China on Tuesday, cautioned against "military hysteria" and said that the only way to resolve the crisis was through diplomacy.
He warned that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has calculated that the survival of his regime depends on its development of nuclear weapons. Kim had seen how western intervention in Iraq had ended in the overthrow of Saddam Hussein after which the country was ravaged by war, Putin warned, and Kim was determined not to suffer the same fate.
"Saddam Hussein rejected the production of weapons of mass destruction, but even under that pretense, he was destroyed and members of his family were killed," Putin said.
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"Saddam Hussein rejected the production of weapons of mass destruction, but even under that pretense, he was destroyed and members of his family were killed," Putin said.
Such short memories. Vlad should speak to some of his United Nations Special Commission (UNSCOM) inspectors. One Russian colonel in the UNSCOM office comes to mind. Perhaps the colonel could explain to Vlad the actual thinking and facts at the time.
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Given that Putin considers the collapse of the Soviet Union the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th century, this might not be such a bad thing.
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The only country getting attacked will be North Korea. Nothing else is worth it, and there are no secret alliances. If China can go in and clean their fingerprints off Nork Nook tech before anyone else gets there, they'll be fine.
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So Pakistan got nuclear bomb tech from China and suddenly decided to shelter Bin Laden. In a world with non-retarded patriotic american leadership, that's worthy of a 100% tariff right there. IMHO.
[Breitbart] President Donald Trump has alarmed the Chinese government again with a threat to cut economic ties to nations that do business with North Korea.
China is North Korea’s largest trading partner and a major player in the U.S. market. Trump will face heavy criticism suggesting that no trade warnings will get China to abandon its fellow communist state and North Korea may never react rationally to international pressure.
These concerns, like North Korea itself, are not relevant to the real reason America cannot morally justify trade with China: its decades of history committing flagrant human rights abuses, the kind that have gotten countries like Cuba blacklisted from the American market for decades.
Following North Korea’s announcement of yet another nuclear bomb test on Sunday ‐ its sixth such test and, Pyongyang claims, its first successful hydrogen bomb attack ‐ President Trump took to Twitter, scolding South Korea’s leftist government for believing dialogue with the regime was an option and threatening military action against North Korea.
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Morality is rationalized - see Lawrence vs Texas.
The 'opening of China' was done by the (not) 'Best and Brightest' to integrate China into the world economic system making it a partner (ignoring 2000 years+ of imperialism and chauvinism). Backed, cf course, by the Chamber of Commerce K street brigade who saw $$$ and didn't give a frig about the consequences, thus fulfilling Lenin's screed that a capitalist is a person who'll sell you the rope you'll hang them with.
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they're lying cheating scum, communist scum (the worst kind). And the Americans have naievly walked into dependency with them. "most favored nation" my ass. cut them off completely, no more higher education in the USA, no more anything in or to do with the USA would be best. Wake up America!!!
[PJ] Television is overly populated with ads for various pharmaceutical products and I'm SICK of it. (Is there a drug for that?) Viewers cannot watch more than 15 minutes of television without medicine being peddled for a pernicious or deadly condition with a pharmaceutical solution.
"FOR PEOPLE WITH HEART FAILURE, TOMORROW IS NOT A GIVEN," voices a macabre announcer over a sad and somber rendition of "Tomorrow" from the musical "Annie!" (I will not link the commercial on YouTube and thanks for ruining that song for me forever.)
Most commercials on television are there for a good reason: the audience is full of consumers; we buy things and we are enticed by television to purchase new or better products to enjoy. Repetition is key to sales, so while commercials annoy me, I understand why they are there. But that's not the case with prescription medications. I can't go out and buy pharmaceuticals because I, like the majority of the population watching television, am not a physician. I don't know the difference between the TOMORROW IS NOT A GIVEN drug and a baby aspirin. How can I make an informed decision about which one is best for my medical condition? I can't. That is why I pay serious coin to my doctors, who are up to date on the proper medication for my ailments. I hope my doctors will not prescribe me medicine based on my exposure to a 30- or60-second spot on television. Am I asking for the drug because I like the look of the "patients" in the commercials or because I am thankful for just one more TOMORROW? (So ghoulish!) Or is it because I like the name -- they all seem to have snazzy names now like "glitterazatol" or "spazatopaderm"? Do I just go into my internist and ask for "jazzralpneril" or "shazzamazine" because it sounds cool? I hope you don't have doctors who make serious medical decisions based on a patient's TV commercial-based solution. (If any Big Pharma companies steal my made-up drug names, I'll have my lawyers on you.)
All of this marketing costs a fortune. Axios reports: "Pharma ads often cost more because of their length. (They have regulatory requirements to disclose side effects, dosages, etc., so they often need to take out 60-second ads as opposed to 30-second ads.)" So we aren't talking about a standard marketing budget for products like the new tuna-fish-and-Skittles-flavored-Dorito-Taco-Bell burrito, but exponentially more dollars.
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IMHO lawyer ads saying "you may be entitled to compensation..." are as bad, or worse. They're all frickin' leeches ambulance chasers who end up with most of any money awarded.
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What I love about the ads for these medicines - '..may cause drowsiness, scabies, flatulence, drowsiness, ingrown toenails, high blood pressure, low blood pressure, and death.'
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This doctor recommends "Chiroplastin", which contains double the inactive ingredients in any other placebo. Give one to a man, two to a horse. In the big red gluten-free capsule, so you know it works!
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The one that caught my attention was the one that had as a known side effect 'ruptured spleen'.
Does the Pharmacist beat you with a baseball bat when you order it?
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The one that caught my attention was one for depression with a side effect of possible suicidal feelings. Whoops.
[American Thinker] There is something actually touching about the profound detachment of the New York Times from blue-collar America, once you get past the condescension and perceive the underlying naiveté of the know-it-alls. Steven Greenhouse, the longtime labor correspondent, uses the Labor Day weekend Sunday Times to ask, "Is Trump Really Pro-Worker?"
I love it when progressive intellectuals throw around the word "worker," as if it were 1917, not 2017. It reeks of nostalgia for a lost vision.
The arguments he marshals are what you'd expect Times readers to value. The graphic deployed by the Times actually depicts Trump as factory effluent, from a circa 1917-looking factory:
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Unfortunately recently the top brass of major corporations have taken on the role of social justice warrior. And they target employees with propaganda such as the letter the Chase CEO sent to all of his employees about why he left a Trump committee. This letter was nothing more than a propaganda letter support certain politics that in the back of every employees mind, "he signs my paychecks".
Years ago at a major corp an executive walked up to two employees discussing politics and stated that there are two topics forbidden for discussion on the company's facilities, religion and politics. That was wisdom.
This is idiocy at the highest level and these people have shot themselves in the foot.
[WSJ] WASHINGTON‐Congress returns Tuesday from its summer break and, in a test of the uneasy alliance between President Donald Trump and Senate Republicans, will have to grapple with keeping the federal government open, paying U.S. creditors and passing a hurricane-aid bill.
The list is long, and the time is short. The Trump administration is asking for approval of $7.85 billion to begin paying for the recovery from Hurricane Harvey, with a House vote scheduled for Wednesday. Congress also must keep the government running after current funding expires by Oct. 1, as well as raise the U.S. borrowing limit or risk defaulting on the nation’s debt.
Adding to the tension, the House and Senate are in session at the same time for just 12 days in September, and Messrs. Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell haven’t met in weeks.
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The 115th Congress of the United States will very likely accomplish nothing between now and the upcoming election. The total obstruction of President Donald Trump demands it.
Error? On the contrary, they know precisely what they are about.
[DAWN] A SHOCKING attack that missed its target but claimed the lives of at least two others on Eid day in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... has revealed a dangerous and apparently growing dimension of militancy in the country. Sindh MPA Khawaja Izharul Hassan, a big shot of a faction of the MQM, survived the audacious attempt on his life on Saturday, but the alleged criminal mastermind escaped the scene of the attack. Believed to have been injured in the attack, the bully boy belonging to a new outfit, Ansarul Sharia Pakistain, was quickly identified by the Sindh police: Abdul Karim Sarosh Siddiqui, a former student of the University of Karachi. The involvement in militancy of young individuals from the mainstream-education system is not a new phenomenon. Saad Aziz of the Safoora Goth carnage was a student of the Institute of Business Administration, Karachi, while Noreen Leghari, an MBBS student of Liaquat University of Medical and Health Sciences, Hyderabad, has been implicated in ties with the bully boyIslamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group.
What is clear is that the higher education system in the country remains thoroughly ill equipped to either curb extremism among students or identify individuals before they are able to go on to commit violent crimes. In the wake of the latest Karachi attack, Sindh Chief Minister Murad Shah has claimed that a security audit and verification system will be introduced in the province to try and identify students with bully boy and terrorist leanings. That may be a welcome move, but it will need to be carefully implemented. The blunt instrument of the state should not be used against young people who may simply have an educational interest in different ideologies or want to practise a different kind of politics to what the state condones. The focus must be narrow and precise: religiously inspired faceless myrmidons who are on the path of violence against state and society, be they so-called lone wolves or part of an established network of militancy.
The measures that need to be taken cannot be limited to the campus either. The physical and online networks of jihad must be monitored more closely. After more than a decade of fighting militancy, why is it still relatively easy for individuals seeking to join bully boy groups to do so? Surely, as the militancy evolves, the state’s response in fighting it must evolve too. Finally, there is the original reality ie madressah networks through which a great deal of recruitment and facilitation of militancy occurs. The emergence of a new challenge does not mean long-standing threats can be ignored. More effort is needed on all fronts.
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[Barley a Blog] From George Orwell’s "1984": "Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And that process is continuing day-by-day and minute-by-minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right."
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It happens when people refuse to notice the 'request for tolerance' shifted to 'demand submission' by small number of loud people. Just another form of Danegeld.
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I guess it is still "too much" to say that the Lincoln "Memorial" needs to be demolished as well. Mr. Habeas Corpus Lincoln stated point-blank that people of color were inferior. I suppose that is one Republican whom the Left/Antifa won't criticize as it would upset the 150-year "narrative".
[IsraelTimes] Prewar Boston was a hotbed of ties to Nazi Germany, both public and covert. During the war, Jewish youth paid a bloody price for years of virulent hate
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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