Trump Relishes Annihilation Like a Hors D’Oeuvre

 

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Finian Cunningham

Aug 10, 2017

It really is saying something when US President Trump’s latest threat against North Korea draws a rebuke from John McCain – America’s most hawkish lawmaker.

McCain said Trump’s comments about striking North Korea with “fire and fury” were not helpful in the current spiral of tensions.

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Other members of the US Congress deplored Trump’s reckless rhetoric, even comparing the president to the North Korean leader Kim Jung–un, who is commonly regarded as “a nut-job” by American politicians and media.That comparison is saying something about Donald Trump’s own state of mind.

Speaking before dinner this week at this private golf club in New Jersey, Trump warned North Korea that the country would “face fire and fury, the like of which the world has never seen before”. Such words coming on the 72nd anniversary of the US dropping two atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki — killing over 200,000 people — are grotesque.

Do American political leaders have no shame about the past criminal deeds of their country? Speaking about ordering genocide as if it’s like ordering a hors d’oeuvre.

© AP Photo/ U.S. Air Force

Even in the gung-ho political culture of the United States, Trump’s casual belligerence and threat of annihilation caused a shock among some politicians and media. One lawmaker, New York Representative Eliot Engel, called Trump’s rhetoric “unhinged”.The alarm is well founded. Given numerous threats already from the US that it is prepared to use pre-emptive military force against North Korea, the words from Trump implying a catastrophic attack worse than the horror of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are indeed criminally reckless.

North Korea quickly responded that it was ready to carry out a pre-emptive attack on the US airbase on the Pacific island of Guam, which would “envelope it in fire”. Pyongyang uses this kind of melodramatic rhetoric all the time, regularly threatening to turn the US and its allies in South Korea and Japan into “a sea of fire”.

But now, even more alarmingly, we have the American Commander-in-Chief indulging in a treacherous spiral of warmongering threats, where one misstep, one misunderstanding, could launch a nuclear war in the region.

© AP Photo/ Stanley Troutman

‘Smell of Human Burning Flesh’: Nuclear Attack Survivors Recall Terrors of Hiroshima

Russia and China have both called for calm and for dialogue to resolve the long-running conflict on the Korean Peninsula, which has seen recurring tensions ever since the end of the Korean War in 1953.However, Russia and China bear a measure of responsibility for the latest flare-up. Both countries supported US calls last weekend to pile on more economic sanctions against North Korea, when they voted unanimously at the Security Council. Those sanctions were imposed in response to North Korea’s defiance of previous resolutions banning the testing of ballistic missiles and nuclear warheads. Last month, North Korea launched two intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), which many analysts believe are capable of hitting the US mainland.

But by piling on more sanctions against North Korea, the move has inevitably inflamed tensions.

Pyongyang denounced the latest round of sanctions as an outrageous violation of its sovereignty and its right to develop military self-defenses. After all, it points out, the US has thousands of nuclear weapons capable of hitting North Korea. Washington has also installed this year a new missile system, the THAAD, in South Korea, which gives it a first strike advantage.

© AP Photo/ Japan Air Self Defense Force

US Nuclear Bombers Buzz Korean Peninsula as Kim Jong-un Threatens Guam

Moreover, the latest sanctions signed off at the UN last weekend are, on the face of it, deeply punishing against the North Korean economy and its populace. The nation’s top exports of coal, minerals and seafood are to be banned, which would axe its already paltry export revenue by one-third, going from $3 billion to $2 billion a year.Given the array of American offensive military forces, the repeated verbal threats of “all options on the table” and now the latest ratcheting up of sanctions, is it any wonder North Korea perceives an existential danger? Then we have Trump making shockingly grotesque comments about the prospect of ordering an annihilation right on the anniversary of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, while he is about to have dinner with his wife.

Russia and China made a huge mistake in backing more US-led sanctions against North Korea last weekend. That move has only escalated tensions and has emboldened the Americans in their incorrigibly aggressive mentality.

Moscow and Beijing, more than anyone else, should know that sanctions are a counterproductive policy. They are a weapon of war-making and a baleful substitute for diplomacy.

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Guam Governor Calms Residents Down in Wake of N Korea’s Threat to Strike US Territory

In the case of Korea’s historic conflict, the only solution is to recognize that America is part of the problem. Ever since the end of the Korean War, the perennial presence of American military forces on the peninsula is a never-ending source of conflict.Russia and China are right to insist on immediate all-party talks for the region, involving the two Koreas. But slapping sanctions on one side is wrong, especially given the ongoing war threats issued by the US. Only days ago, the US flew nuclear-capable B-1 bombers from Guam over the Korean Peninsula. Why should North Korea, the region and the world for that matter accept such American aggression with impunity?

Russia and China have a crucial role to play in order to make the US come to its senses and scale back from a catastrophic war. But given the American hubris and self-righteousness to wage criminal wars, and given the twittery state of mind of its Commander-in-Chief, the task of making the US behave like a normal law-abiding nation is foreboding.

It’s not North Korea that needs to be sanctioned. It is the world’s biggest rogue state, the USA, that should be sanctioned and prosecuted many times over. Until it reserves the right to unilaterally threaten and attack any nation, including with the use of dropping of atomic bombs on civilian centers, the world will always be in grave peril. Joining US calls for sanctions on North Korea is like feeding a monster.

The views expressed in this article are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the official position of Sputnik.

John Pilger: How the World May End – A Warning for Mankind

Source: How the World May End – A Warning for Mankind | Humans Are Free

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John Pilger

Aug 10, 2017

The U.S. submarine captain says, “We’ve all got to die one day, some sooner and some later. The trouble always has been that you’re never ready, because you don’t know when it’s coming. Well, now we do know and there’s nothing to be done about it.”

He says he will be dead by September. It will take about a week to die, though no one can be sure. Animals live the longest.

The war was over in a month. The United States, Russia and China were the protagonists. It is not clear if it was started by accident or mistake.

There was no victor. The Northern Hemisphere is contaminated and lifeless now.

Gregory Peck in a scene from the 1959 movie, “On the Beach,” 

showing how a nuclear war ends life on the planet.

A curtain of radioactivity is moving south towards Australia and New Zealand, southern Africa and South America.

By September, the last cities, towns and villages will succumb. As in the north, most buildings will remain untouched, some illuminated by the last flickers of electric light.

This is the way the world ends.

Not with a bang, but a whimper.

These lines from T.S. Eliot’s poem The Hollow Men appear at the beginning of Nevil Shute’s novel On the Beach, which left me close to tears. The endorsements on the cover said the same.

Published in 1957 at the height of the Cold War when too many writers were silent or cowed, it is a masterpiece.

At first the language suggests a genteel relic; yet nothing I have read on nuclear war is as unyielding in its warning. No book is more urgent.

Some readers will remember the black and white Hollywood film starring Gregory Peck as the U.S. Navy commander who takes his submarine to Australia to await the silent, formless specter descending on the last of the living world.

I read On the Beach for the first time the other day, finishing it as the U.S. Congress passed a law to wage economic war on Russia, the world’s second most lethal nuclear power.

There was no justification for this insane vote, except the promise of plunder.

Aiming Toward a Hot War

The “sanctions” are aimed at Europe, too, mainly Germany, which depends on Russian natural gas and on European companies that do legitimate business with Russia.

In what passed for debate on Capitol Hill, the more garrulous senators left no doubt that the embargo was designed to force Europe to import expensive American gas.

Russian President Vladimir Putin with German Chancellor Angela Merkel on May 10, 2015, 

at the Kremlin. (Photo from Russian government)

Their main aim seems to be war – real war. No provocation as extreme can suggest anything else. They seem to crave it, even though Americans have little idea what war is.

The Civil War of 1861-65 was the last on their mainland. War is what the United States does to others.

The only nation to have used nuclear weapons against human beings, they have since destroyed scores of governments, many of them democracies, and laid to waste whole societies – the million deaths in Iraq were a fraction of the carnage in Indochina, which President Reagan called “a noble cause” and President Obama revised as the tragedy of an “exceptional people.”

He was not referring to the Vietnamese.

Filming last year at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, I overheard a National Parks Service guide lecturing a school party of young teenagers.

“Listen up,” he said. “We lost 58,000 young soldiers in Vietnam, and they died defending your freedom.”

At a stroke, the truth was inverted. No freedom was defended. Freedom was destroyed.

A peasant country was invaded and millions of its people were killed, maimed, dispossessed, poisoned; 60,000 of the invaders took their own lives. Listen up, indeed.

A lobotomy is performed on each generation. Facts are removed. History is excised and replaced by what Time magazine calls “an eternal present.”

Harold Pinter described this as “manipulation of power worldwide, while masquerading as a force for universal good, a brilliant, even witty, highly successful act of hypnosis [which meant] that it never happened.

Nothing ever happened. Even while it was happening it wasn’t happening. It didn’t matter. It was of no interest.”

Those who call themselves liberals or tendentiously “the left” are eager participants in this manipulation, and its brainwashing, which today revert to one name: Trump.

Trump is mad, a fascist, a dupe of Russia. He is also a gift for “liberal brains pickled in the formaldehyde of identity politics,” wrote Luciana Bohne memorably.

The obsession with Trump the man – not Trump as a symptom and caricature of an enduring system – beckons great danger for all of us.

A Narcissistic Media

While they pursue their fossilized anti-Russia agendas, narcissistic media such as the Washington Post, the BBC and the Guardian suppress the essence of the most important political story of our time as they warmonger on a scale I cannot remember in my lifetime.

Unlike every other Trump signing, this was conducted in virtual secrecy and attached with a caveat from Trump himself that it was “clearly unconstitutional.”

On 3 Aug., in contrast to the acreage the Guardian has given to drivel that the Russians conspired with Trump (reminiscent of the far-right smearing of John Kennedy as a “Soviet agent”), the paper buried, on page 16, news that the President of the United States was forced to sign a Congressional bill declaring economic war on Russia.

A coup against the man in the White House is under way. This is not because he is an odious human being, but because he has consistently made clear he does not want war with Russia.

This glimpse of sanity, or simple pragmatism, is anathema to the “national security” managers who guard a system based on war, surveillance, armaments, threats and extreme capitalism.

Martin Luther King called them “the greatest purveyors of violence in the world today.”

They have encircled Russia and China with missiles and a nuclear arsenal.

They have used neo-Nazis to install an unstable, aggressive regime on Russia’s “borderland” – the way through which Hitler invaded, causing the deaths of 27 million people.

Their goal is to dismember the modern Russian Federation.

In response, “partnership” is a word used incessantly by Vladimir Putin – anything, it seems, that might halt an evangelical drive to war in the United States.

Incredulity in Russia may have now turned to fear and perhaps a certain resolution.

The Russians almost certainly have war-gamed nuclear counter strikes. Air-raid drills are not uncommon. Their history tells them to get ready.

The threat is simultaneous. Russia is first, China is next. The U.S. has just completed a huge military exercise with Australia known as Talisman Sabre.

They rehearsed a blockade of the Malacca Straits and the South China Sea, through which pass China’s economic lifelines.

The admiral commanding the U.S. Pacific fleet said that, “if required,” he would nuke China.

That he would say such a thing publicly in the current perfidious atmosphere begins to make fact of Nevil Shute’s fiction.

Silencing Dissenting Journalists

None of this is considered news. No connection is made as the bloodfest of Passchendaele a century ago is remembered. Honest reporting is no longer welcome in much of the media.

Windbags, known as pundits, dominate: editors are infotainment or party-line managers.

Where there was once sub-editing, there is the liberation of axe-grinding clichés. Those journalists who do not comply are defenestrated.

Nuclear armed, the missiles were aimed at both China and Russia.

A junior officer questioned this, and the order was eventually rescinded – but only after they were issued with service revolvers and ordered to shoot at others in a missile crew if they did not “stand down.”

A poster for the 1959 classic, “On the Beach,” 

telling the story of the last days of life on earth.

The urgency has plenty of precedents. In my film, The Coming War on China, John Bordne, a member of a U.S. Air Force missile combat crew based in Okinawa, Japan, describes how in 1962 – during the Cuban missile crisis – he and his colleagues were “told to launch all the missiles” from their silos.

At the height of the Cold War, the anti-communist hysteria in the United States was such that U.S. officials who were on official business in China were accused of treason and sacked.

In 1957 – the year Shute wrote On the Beach – no official in the State Department could speak the language of the world’s most populous nation.

Mandarin speakers were purged under strictures now echoed in the Congressional bill that has just passed, aimed at Russia.

The bill was bipartisan. There is no fundamental difference between Democrats and Republicans. The terms “left” and “right” are meaningless.

Most of America’s modern wars were started not by conservatives, but by liberal Democrats.

When Obama left office, he presided over a record seven wars, including America’s longest war and an unprecedented campaign of extrajudicial killings – murder – by drones.

In his last year, according to a Council on Foreign Relations study, Obama, the “reluctant liberal warrior,” dropped 26,171 bombs – three bombs every hour, 24 hours a day.

Having pledged to help “rid the world” of nuclear weapons, the Nobel Peace Laureate built more nuclear warheads than any president since the Cold War.

Trump is a wimp by comparison. It was Obama – with his Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at his side – who destroyed Libya as a modern state and launched the human stampede to Europe.

At home, immigration groups knew him as the “deporter-in-chief.”

One of Obama’s last acts as president was to sign a bill that handed a record $618 billion to the Pentagon, reflecting the soaring ascendancy of fascist militarism in the governance of the United States. Trump has endorsed this.

Buried in the detail was the establishment of a “Center for Information Analysis and Response.” This is a Ministry of Truth.

It is tasked with providing an “official narrative of facts” that will prepare us for the real possibility of nuclear war – if we allow it.

By John Pilger, Guest author / On the Beach film is available on Amazon.com

Final Stages Of The Event Horizon

Source: Event Horizon Chronicle

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Richard Sauder

August 2, 2017

People just don’t get it. Just do _not_ get it.
 
For the life of me, I do not know why.I recently received an e-mail from one of my readers, which consisted of a link to an info-graphic showing the myriad connections between major USSA media personalities and power brokers, and the Council on Foreign Relations, the Bilderberg Group and the Trilateral Commission.I responded: “I am aware of all of this. You won’t ‘save’ America, whatever ‘America’ really is. Just get out while there is still time.”He answered that he couldn’t think where to escape to. And then asked if I were foreseeing a “massive population reduction event” in the USSA.

<< Sigh. >>

What the f*ck have I been writing about for years?? Why have I been out again and again and again on nuclear missile silos in various states of the USSA to repeatedly, nonviolently, peacefully protest against massive preparations for nuclear warfare? Why do you think I have been jailed again and again and again and again as a direct consequence of my protests? Just because I enjoy being locked up with murderers, arsonists, robbers, gang bangers, drug dealers??

Do  _any_ of you get it?

I recently heard an interview with Catherine Austin Fitts in which she maintained that what “we” have to do to begin to straighten things out is to elect new commissioners to all of the 3,000 different county commissions in the USSA.

Really, Catherine?

Really??

Really??? 

What we have to do is elect new county commissioners and begin from the bottom up. Yeah, let’s everybody register to vote and go elect new county commissions. That’ll fix things. For sure.

Does the controlled opposition even understand how controlled it is?

Listen, I foresaw all of this — decades ago, very early in my life. And I don’t even have a Wharton degree. Hard to believe, I know.

It was all abundantly evident, even then, for any and all of those who have the eyes to see, and ears to hear and understand the unimaginable hideousness of the ghastly thing known as the “United States”.

And still so many of you do not get it. Just endlessly surfing the Internet while it all collapses around you. Hey — why waste time when there is a new county commission election coming up, right?

If you are still with me at this point — and given the shallowness of the modern mind and its short attention span, I am sure to have lost a lot of readers already, but no matter, let the idly curious flit on to some other glittering little trifle — I finally answered my reader thusly:

“Frankly I have been seeing nuclear detonations in my dreams in recent days and weeks. Just because I see these things in my dreams does not mean that they necessarily will happen, but it does indicate that my subconscious is detecting what is out there in the future reality probability mix and presenting it for my conscious mind’s consideration.

“I consider nuclear false flag events and even outright nuclear war as real possibilities. The USSA is likely to figure large in either scenario. If it comes to that, immediate casualties will be hundreds of thousands or millions, and those would be just the early days. Events would move very quickly and extremely violently. I have been writing and warning of these things for years and years, and maybe a fraction of one percent of my readers are able to wrap their heads around it.

“Do you pay taxes to the IRS? You are paying for your own obliteration.

“Do you vote for the transparently stupid politicians in Washington, DC? They are the ones who have set the table for nuclear war, by their own stupidity and corruption. 

“I have repeatedly mentioned the Deagel.com country numbers for 2025. Deagel.com contemplates an 82% population reduction in the USSA by 2025. They don’t mention the nuclear word, but do mention crippling economic factors. 

“When the system collapses there will be holy hell to pay. It could happen five years from now; it could happen later this year, even later this month. But it does look like it’s coming — and with a wicked vengeance.”

What’s Coming Next

The next stages of our terrestrial human drama are highly likely to be catastrophic.

I have written previously about the rampaging, ongoing, obvious, ecological collapse. It is planet-wide and shows no sign of abating. It is driven by human stupidity, shallowness, superficiality, greed, short-sightedness, self-centeredness, lack of forethought, lack of introspection, and even downright evil. 

That’s just one of the pressing, global issues facing us. Though to be sure, failure of the global ecology also implies the failure of the human race, i.e., extinction. Guy McPherson, the PhD biologist who left his academic post to warn of the seriousness of our predicament, estimates that at the current rate of failure of the global, natural environment that humanity has ten years left, maybe less. I’m not going to argue with him. The rate of species extinction is accelerating and the human race is just one among many species. As the others disappear, we will also. 

Oh, you live or work on the 48th floor of a big building in a big city? No problem, that just means that you may die on the 48th floor of a big building in a big city, as the putrid, corrupt empire in which you live and work catastrophically fails and brings down huge chunks of the rest of the living world with it.

But isn’t it interesting that so many of those who have for years and decades sent in their money to the IRS, now think of their own salvation, when their blood tithe to the IRS has paid for the extermination of millions of their fellow human beings, in country after country, at the hands of the CIA and the various Pentagon forces and USSA militia or paramilitary forces, such as ISIS and al-Qaeda, among others? All this blood and slaughter funded by the corporate death machine known as the USSA — and now the very ones who paid for this great, global slaughter think to save themselves from the Satanic hell that they themselves have paid for, over and over and over?

And after voting for transparently stupid and corrupt Senators, Congressmen and Congresswomen, and Presidents, they now want to disavow the policies of the very ones whom they personally helped to bring to power?

Really?? Do you really believe it’s that simple? Just walk away from the mess you yourself have helped create?

The people of the USSA have set a ghastly banquet buffet of blood, guts, gore, slaughter, destruction, mayhem, corruption, lies, theft, economic exploitation  and now that the time has come to personally enjoy Satan’s great buffet, which they themselves have paid for, they want no part of it? They say they do not like it. They had no idea.

Oh, really? No idea? Nothing to do with any of it?

Wait. Just wait. It won’t be too much longer.

Satan’s great party is just getting started. The money you sent to the IRS has paid for it. The politicians you elected will be presiding over it all.

Don’t try to pretend you had nothing to do with any of it.

I saw none of you out on the nuclear missile silos with me, protesting.

Not one of you. I heard not a whimper of objection from you. I was arrested again and again and again, over a period of many years, for nonviolently, peacefully protesting massive preparations for nuclear war. I was jailed again and again and again and again, in multiple of the so-called “United States”. None of you joined me in jail, for reasons of conscience against the ghastliness building all around us.

Almost none of you have read the first two posts in this blog, in late 2010, which concern my nonviolent, peaceful demonstration and arrest on a nuclear missile silo in North Dakota, 15 April 2010, for which I was jailed for 100 days, and then subsequently left the USSA.

Minot Manifesto

A Serious Message From The Heart of America

I have lived with great difficulty at a bare subsistence level for many years. I haven’t voted for decades. I realized long ago the deep corruption in the system. Most years of my life I have either paid extremely little, due to my greatly reduced economic circumstances, or most years, nothing at all to the IRS.

Separate yourself from the USSA, inc.  any way you can. If you work for or in the USSA military forces, or on Wall Street, or the Fortune 500,  etc., all I can say is that you have my condolences. These are vastly evil forces and institutions. Separate yourself from them. That’s my unsolicited advice.

Karma is a real bitch, and the karmic boomerang headed for the USSA has two centuries of genocidal, global momentum behind it.

You do the math. Whoever is behind Deagel.com has, if you care to click the link and ponder the meaning of a projected 269 million dead in the USSA by 2025.  The USSA is number 11 on their 2025 country list. It’s like a “greatest hits” list, and it does look like the USSA will take a very great hit, indeed.

This Is The Closest That The U.S. Has Been To Nuclear War Since The Cuban Missile Crisis

I like Michael Snyder, but is a Republican Christian running for Congress. It always astounds me that American Christians waiting for Armageddon or the Apocalypse do not realize they are on the wrong side of the equation. The evil hordes of the Apocalypse ARE the Americans. Talk about self-delusion.

Source: This Is The Closest That The U.S. Has Been To Nuclear War Since The Cuban Missile Crisis

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By Michael Snyder

 August 8th, 2017

 

 

Are we on the verge of a nuclear war with North Korea?  It has now been confirmed that North Korea has successfully created a miniaturized nuclear warhead, and last month they tested a missile that can reach at least half of the continental United States.  Since 1994 the U.S. has been trying to stop North Korea’s nuclear program, and every effort to do so has completely failed.  Last September, the North Koreans detonated a nuclear device that was estimated to be in the 20 to 30 kiloton range, and back in January President Trump pledged to stop the North Koreans before they would ever have the capability to deliver such a weapon to U.S. cities.  But now the North Koreans have already achieved that goal, and they plan to ultimately create an entire fleet of ICBMs capable of hitting every city in America.

Right now, North Korea and the Trump administration are locked in a game of nuclear chicken.  Kim Jong Un’s regime is never, ever, ever going to give up their nuclear weapons program, and so that means that either Donald Trump is going to have to back down, find another way to deal with North Korea, or use military force to eliminate their nuclear threat.

And time is quickly running out for Trump to make a decision, because now that North Korea has the ability to produce miniaturized nuclear warheads, the game has completely changed.  The following comes from the Washington Post…

North Korea has successfully produced a miniaturized nuclear warhead that can fit inside its missiles, crossing a key threshold on the path to becoming a full-fledged nuclear power, U.S. intelligence officials have concluded in a confidential assessment.

The new analysis completed last month by the Defense Intelligence Agency comes on the heels of another intelligence assessment that sharply raises the official estimate for the total number of bombs in the communist country’s atomic arsenal. The U.S. calculated last month that up to 60 nuclear weapons are now controlled by North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. Some independent experts believe the number of bombs is much smaller.

The truth is that nobody actually knows how many nukes North Korea has at this point, and they are pumping out more all the time.

Yes, the Trump administration could order an absolutely devastating military strike on North Korea.  But if the North Koreans even get off one nuke in response, it will be the greatest disaster for humanity since at least World War II.

But at this point Trump doesn’t sound like someone that intends to back down.  In fact, on Tuesday he threatened North Korea with “fire and fury” if they keep threatening us…

“North Korea best not make any more threats to the United States,” Trump said from the clubhouse at his golf course in Bedminster, N.J. “He has been very threatening beyond a normal state, and as I said they will be met with the fire and fury and frankly power, the likes of which this world has never seen before.”

In response to Trump’s comments, the North Koreans threatened to hit Guam with a pre-emptive strike…

If Trump thought that his bluff would be sufficient to finally shut up North Korea, and put an end to Kim’s provocative behavior, well… bluff called because North Korea’s state-run KCNA news agency reported moments ago that not only did N.Korea escalate the tensions up another notch, but explicitly warned that it could carry out a “pre-emptive operation once the US shows signs of provocation”, and that it is “seriously considering a strategy to strike Guam with mid-to-long range missiles.”

Most Americans appear to be completely oblivious to the seriousness of this crisis.  Once we hit North Korea, they will respond.  A single nuke could potentially kill millions in Tokyo, Japan or Seoul, South Korea.  And the North Koreans also have some of the largest chemical and biological weapons stockpiles on the entire planet.  If things take a bad turn, we could see death and destruction on a scale that is absolutely unprecedented.

And if the North Koreans launch an invasion of South Korea, we will instantly be committed to a new Korean War and thousands upon thousands of our young men and women will be sent over there to fight and die.

There is no possible way that a military conflict with North Korea is going to end well.  If things go badly, millions could die, and if things go really badly tens of millions of people could end up dead.

But members of the Trump administration continue to insist that “a military option” is on the table…

In an interview broadcast Saturday on MSNBC’s Hugh Hewitt Show, national security adviser H.R. McMaster said the prospect of a North Korea armed with nuclear-tipped ICBMs would be “intolerable, from the president’s perspective.”

“We have to provide all options . . . and that includes a military option,” he said.

Of course letting North Korea construct an entire fleet of ICBMs that could endanger the entire planet is not exactly a palatable option either.  The Clinton, Bush and Obama administrations all kicked the can down the road year after year, and now we facing a nightmare problem that does not appear to have a good solution.

Unfortunately for Trump, time has now run out and a decision has to be made…

“Today is the day that we can definitely say North Korea is a nuclear power,” Harry Kazianis, director of defense studies at the Center for the National Interest, told USA TODAY. “There is no more time to stick our heads in the sand and think we have months or years to confront this challenge.”

Let us pray that a way can be found to derail North Korea’s nuclear program that does not involve us going to war.

Because the moment that U.S. forces start striking North Korea, the North Koreans could literally unleash hell if they are inclined to do so.

It appears that we are now closer to nuclear war than we have been at any point since the Cuban missile crisis.  A nuclear holocaust was avoided back then, and hopefully a way will be found to avoid one now.

Michael Snyder is a Republican candidate for Congress in Idaho’s First Congressional District, and you can learn how you can get involved in the campaign on his official website. His new book entitled “Living A Life That Really Matters” is available in paperback and for the Kindle on Amazon.com.

“They May Have Information We Don’t” – Are The Elite Preparing For A Cataclysmic Event?

When Forbes Magazine starts publishing the Doomsday map then I have to think there’s some validity to it…

Source: “They May Have Information We Don’t” – Are The Elite Preparing For A Cataclysmic Event?

SHTFplan.com

Mac Slavo
July 20th, 2017

As the world appears to be getting closer to the brink of widespread economic collapse and war, it seems we may all have something even more serious to consider: cataclysmic events.

Based on a flurry of reports, we know the Yellowstone Super Caldera has been quite active in recent weeks, with many warning that a super volcanic eruption could happen at any moment, threatening to potentially kill millions. Such an event would not be unprecedented according to scientists who subscribe to the Toba catastrophe theory, we suggests that a similar eruption may have been responsible for a near Extinction Level Event (ELE)  75,000 years ago that bottle-necked the human population down to about 10,000 people worldwide.

As well, we now regularly see warnings from scientists about the possibility of ELE events like asteroid impacts and solar flares.

While such theories and warnings were once relegated to the fringes of the internet, a new article in Forbes Magazine seems to be sounding the alarm that a major, cataclysmic event could be on the horizon.

They’ve even included a handy map letting us know, for example, how rising sea levels (resulting from climate change or a pole shift) will wipe out populations on the East and West coasts:

Joe Joseph of The Daily Sheeple suggests in his latest Youtube News Report that elite billionaires around the world may well have information we don’t, which would explain why they are feverishly building bunkers and stockpiling them with everything from emergency food supplies to protective chemical, biological and nuclear gear:

A lot of people might remember.. perhaps looking up Doomsday scenarios… there are a lot of billionaires buying bunkers trying to get ready for the Apocalypse… or whatever it is they are getting ready for… they may have information we don’t.

We don’t know… but one thing’s for sure… they’re buying property… buying up these old missile silos and converting them into bunkers… they’re building their own bunkers… it’s an  amazing amount of preparation for things that you who prepare are openly vilified for…

…This is being highlighted in Forbes… things like this used to not even be discussed in a publication like Forbes Magazine… Now they are going full-on Doomsday… when Forbes Magazine starts publishing the Doomsday map then I have to think there’s some validity to it.

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New report notes even a LIMITED nuclear attack could lead to one billion deaths and the collapse of the global food order

Source: New report notes even a LIMITED nuclear attack could lead to one billion deaths and the collapse of the global food order – NaturalNews.com

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by: JD Heyes

July 17, 2017

(Natural News) Most preppers don’t need a good reason to continue improving their chances of survival during any given national or global emergency. However, a new report definitely puts new urgency into doubling and tripling your current readiness efforts.

A group of experts led by Adam Liska, a biological engineering professor at the University of Nebraska, says that even the detonation of a single nuclear warhead could trigger massive climate-related changes that would lead to widespread drought followed by famine, costing a billion lives.

The report notes that for decades during the Cold War, the theory of MAD — Mutually Assured Destruction — kept the world’s two superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union, from engaging in a hot war that most certainly would have gone nuclear. The theory went that no matter who struck first, the other side would retain enough of a capability to launch a massive nuclear counterstrike, thus wiping out both nations (and the rest of the world).

However, they argue, Cold War rules based on MAD no longer seem to apply, as smaller, less stable nations like North Korea, Pakistan and (eventually) Iran gain nuclear weapons and the means to deliver them anywhere in the world.

“We’re losing our memory of the Cold War and we’re losing our memory of how important it is to get this right,” observed co-author Tyler White, a political scientist professor at the university who specializes in international security and nuclear policy. “Even a conflict that doesn’t involve the United States can impact us and people around the world.”

Pakistan has a nuclear capability and the missiles with which to launch them. Though North Korea recently tested an ICBM-capable missile, Western military intelligence experts do not think Pyongyang has yet mastered the technology to miniaturize the nuclear devices it has and place them atop an ICBM. However, they also note that North Korea is getting closer to the day when it will master the technology and deploy nuclear-tipped ICBMs.

In addition to that threat, some analysts note that there are nuclear powers who have adopted first-use or limited-use policies regarding nuclear weapons as a way to make up for their lack of conventional military power. That includes Russian defense strategy, by the way.

But U.S. military planners also note that the Pentagon may recommend the same strategy to the White House if the country or an ally were under serious military threat or invasion; if a country used chemical or biological weapons against U.S. and allied forces; or to target rogue nuclear countries (like North Korea and Iran).

As reported by Homeland Security Newswire:

Using publicly available data on 19 types of weapons now held by five major nuclear powers — the United States, Russia, China, the United Kingdom and France — Liska and his colleagues calculated how many nuclear bombs in each category could be used before triggering conditions they describe as “nuclear autumn” or “nuclear drought.” Not as severe as the nuclear winter predicted by scientists in the 1980s, a nuclear autumn nonetheless would significantly impact Earth’s climate.

“The question is not if a nuclear drought can occur, but what factors increase its probability of occurring and what actions can be taken to mitigate the potentially devastating global impacts?” noted Liska.

Previous studies have concluded that a nuclear blast capable of destroying a large U.S. metropolitan area the size of Los Angeles (roughly 500 square miles) would release 5.5 million tons of soot and ash into the stratosphere, causing a loss of sunlight, decreased temperatures and less rainfall around the world for at least five years.

The effect of that one blast, analysts say, would significantly reduce growing seasons, while rainfall could decrease as much as 80 percent in some parts of the world.

J.D. Heyes is a senior writer for NaturalNews.com and NewsTarget.com, as well as editor of The National Sentinel.

Sources include:

HomelandSecurityNewswire.com

Tandfonline.com

TheNationalSentinel.com

ScienceDaily.com

Elon Musk Unveils Apocalyptic Vision For The World

Source: Elon Musk Unveils Apocalyptic Vision For The World | Zero Hedge

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by Tyler Durden

Jul 16, 2017

Elon Musk is no stranger to futurecasting a foreboding dystopia ahead for mankind, as we noted recently. But during a  speech he gave today at the National Governors Association Summer Meeting in Rhode Island, Musk turned up the future-fearmongery amplifier to ’11’.

As a reminder, in the past, when he was asked about whether humans are living inside a computer simulation, Musk made headlines last year by saying he thinks the chances are one in billions that we aren’t.

“The strongest argument for us probably being in a simulation I think is the following: 40 years ago we had Pong – two rectangles and a dot,” Musk stated.  

“That’s where we were. Now 40 years later we have photorealistic, 3D simulations with millions of people playing simultaneously and it’s getting better every year. And soon we’ll have virtual reality, we’ll have augmented reality. If you assume any rate of improvement at all, then the games will become indistinguishable from reality, just indistinguishable.”

Here Musk is referring to the exponential growth of technology, the lynchpin of the Singularity theory. If in 40 years we’ve gone from the two-dimensional pong to the cusp of augmented and virtual reality, imagine where we’ll be in another forty, or a hundred, or 400. And that is where he began today…

But today, Musk discussed a broad range of topics from energy sources in the future…

“It’s inevitable,” Musk said, speaking of shift to sustainable energy. “But it matters if it happens sooner or later.”

As for those pushing some other type of fusion, Musk notes that the sun is a giant fusion reactor in the sky. “It’s really reliable,” he said. “It comes up every day. if it doesn’t we’ve got (other) problems).”

To Tesla’s share price:

Musk said he has been on record several times as saying its stock price “is higher than we have any right to deserve” especially based on current and past performance.

“The stock price obviously reflects a lot of optimism on where we will be in the future,” he said. “Those expectations sometimes get out of control. I hate disappointing people, I am trying really hard to meet those expectations.”

Musk added that he won’t be selling any stock “unless I have to for taxes,” and said “I’m going down with the ship… I’ll be the last [to sell].”

Musk addressed government regulation and incentives:

“It sure is important to get the rules right,” Musk said. “Regulations are immortal. They never die unless somebody actually goes and kills them. A lot of times regulations can be put in place for all the right reasons but nobody goes back and kills them because they no longer make sense.”

Musk also focused on the importance of incentives, saying whatever societies incentivize tends to be what happens. “It’s economics 101,” he said.

And what drives him:

“I want to be able to think about the future and feel good about that, to dream what we can to have the future be as good as possible. To be inspired by what is likely to happen and to look forward to the next day. How do we make sure things are great? That’s the underlying principle behind Tesla and SpaceX.”

Within 20 years, he said driving a car will be like having a horse (i.e. rare and totally optional). “There will not be a steering wheel.”

“There will be people that will have non-autonomous cars, like people have horses,” he said.

“It just would be unusual to use that as a mode of transport.”

But what started off as the latest sales pitch for electric cars quickly devolved into a bizarre rant that among other things, touched on Elon Musk’s gloomy, apocalyptic vision of how the world could end… (via ReCode)

Musk called on the government to proactively regulate artificial intelligence before things advance too far.

“Until people see robots going down the street killing people, they don’t know how to react because it seems so ethereal,” he said.

“AI is a rare case where I think we need to be proactive in regulation instead of reactive. Because I think by the time we are reactive in AI regulation, it’s too late.”

“Normally the way regulations are set up is a while bunch of bad things happen, there’s a public outcry, and after many years a regulatory agency is set up to regulate that industry,” he continued.

“It takes forever. That, in the past, has been bad but not something which represented a fundamental risk to the existence of civilization. AI is a fundamental risk to the existence of human civilization.”

Musk has been concerned about AI for years, and he’s working on technology that would connect the human brain to the computer software meant to mimic it.

Full interview below (Musk begins talking around 42 minutes in)…