Category Archives: Jingoism – pushing for war

VICE assists the North Koreans with disseminating their propaganda

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This VICE clip is interesting on a couple of levels. Somewhat at face value. But I can’t help but wonder why VICE would be invited to North Korea after the exceptional and important documentary they did on VICE guide to Travel about North Korea, where they broke all kinds of local laws and showed the regime for what it really was.

Of course, that was when Vice was amazing and courageous, and before they took a hard hard lurch to the left. 

Perhaps the new slant on things makes it acceptable to the Kim Jong dynasty despite its previous libertarian bent.

General Mattis Warns North Korea: Stop or Face ‘Destruction of Its People’

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From CBN:

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U.S. Defense Secretary James Mattis warned North Korea to stop its missile tests and nuclear program or face devastation.

The news comes after dictator Kim Jong Un threatened to attack U.S. forces in Guam after revelations that his regime now has mini-nukes.

“The DPRK must choose to stop isolating itself and stand down its pursuit of nuclear weapons,” Mattis said in a statement, referring to North Korea. “The DPRK should cease any consideration of actions that would lead to the end of its regime and the destruction of its people.”

U.S., Japanese Analysts Agree: North Korea Has Developed Nuclear Missile Warheads

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From Breitbart:

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un seen celebrating the successful test of an intercontinental ballistice missile July 5, which has prompted calls at the UN for tougher sanctions on Pyongyang

AFP

by JOHN HAYWARD8 Aug 20170

A grim milestone appears to be passing, as both U.S. and Japanese intelligence analysts believe North Korea has developed the technology to miniaturize nuclear warheads and fit them inside long-range missiles, years ahead of schedule.

 

Japan’s annual defense review, released on Tuesday morning, described the threat from North Korea’s nuclear missile program as “acute.”

 

“It is conceivable that North Korea’s nuclear weapons program has already considerably advanced and it is possible that North Korea has already achieved the miniaturization of nuclear weapons and has acquired nuclear warheads,” the white paper warned. “Since last year, when it forcibly implemented two nuclear tests and more than 20 ballistic missile launches, the security threats have entered a new stage.”

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North Korea threatens to attack Guam

New York Post:

North Korea is mulling a possible missile strike on Guam, where strategic US bombers and countless soldiers are based.

The Hermit Kingdom’s official news agency announced early Wednesday local time that the nation was “carefully examining” plans for a medium-to-long range rocket attack.

Their statement came just hours after President Trump threatened to unleash “fire and fury” on the North “like the world has never seen.”

 

His warning was in response to reports that Pyongyang had developed a nuclear warhead capable of fitting inside its ballistic missiles.

 

Guam — which is known as the “Tip of the Spear — is home to thousands of American service members and their families.

 

North Korea’s state-run news agency, KCNA, said Tuesday that the government was looking at an “operational plan” that would send numerous medium-to-long-range strategic ballistic missiles towards the US-owned Pacific island to counteract the bombers that are positioned there and “send a serious warning signal to the US.”

(I suddenly understand Obama’s policies of “Strategic patience”. If he waited long enough and did nothing North Korea and Iran will destroy the USA for him)

 

Trump makes strong statements

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The debate on this will be endless. I suspect we all know what he means, and I suspect we all know what he expects. The Saudis better pay attention. They have 4 years less a few months to make it happen. For the moment, they seem happy as hell to have a man in the White House who is not an Iranian proxy as they see it. But they seem to be having the riot act read to them.

Here is the Clarion page on this.

Item 3:

3. That means honestly confronting the crisis of Islamist extremism and the Islamist terror groups it inspires. And it means standing together against the murder of innocent Muslims, the oppression of women, the persecution of Jews and the slaughter of Christians.

Most of the speech used vague, relative terms like “terrorism” and “extremism.” The focus was almost entirely on ISIS and Iran. But then came this paragraph. President Trump identified the enemy not just as Islamist terrorist groups, but the Islamist extremism foundation necessary for those groups to manifest.

Of special note is the line about “persecution of Jews.” This was not stated with some moral equivalence about how Israel shares blame for stifling the nationalist aspirations of Palestinians. No, Trump identified anti-Semitism as a central problem outside of the context of Israel. That omission is powerful.

The identification of the enemy as Islamist extremism is refreshing, but as Dr. Daniel Pipes points out, “one statement does not a policy make.” Even Obama uttered the word “jihadist” on a few rare occasions.

The framing of the enemy as Islamism should have been the focal point of the speech, rather than waiting until the middle and the end to use the term. What should have followed was a strategy, with the sticks and carrots, to uproot the sustainers of the ideology so it dissipates into history. A question is left hanging, “Now what? What changes?”

This appears to be a video of the whole speech:

Although I have not seen it all yet, I look forward to comparing it to Obama’s Cairo speech,    of which I did an analysis some years ago.

Most recent NORK provocation

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It appears that North Korea has launched a missile which traveled between 600 and 700 miles, landing in the Sea of Japan. Below, a series of videos and reports that seem to be phase 1 of the “fog of war”.

At this link there is an interview with the PM of Japan, Shinzo Abe, which I cannot find on YT. He doesn’t say much outside of the usual language of the UN, protest strongly, “will send a very angry letter” but does refer to a meeting of the UN. security council.

CNN’s muffled report:

This Oz report seems to contain clearer uncertainty, free of CNN speculations. It also has some classic North Korean 1960s looking news reports of the launch.

Pentagon confirms:

New and more information will be added to this post throughout the day. Please leave links to decent info under this post.

Thank you Richard, NorseRadish, M., and all.

 

 

Geopolitics: The escalating kinetics on multiple fronts

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1, France now also released a statement confirming Assad was behind the chemical attack

(Israel also claimed their intel showed the attack was Syrian government forces)

France’s foreign minister said on Wednesday that the chemical analysis of samples taken from a deadly sarin gas attack in Syria earlier this month “bears the signature” of President Bashar Assad’s government and shows it was responsible for the deadly assault.

According to Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault, France came to this conclusion after comparing samples from a sarin attack in Syria from 2013 that matched the new ones. The findings came in a 6-page report published Wednesday.

The Kremlin promptly denounced the French report, saying the samples and the fact the nerve agent was used are not enough to prove who was behind it. Assad has repeatedly denied that his forces used chemical weapons and claimed that myriad evidence of a poison gas attack is made up.

2. U.S. Moves THAAD Anti-Missile To South Korean Site, Sparking Protests

SEOUL (Reuters) – The U.S. military started moving parts of an anti-missile defense system to a deployment site in South Korea on Wednesday, triggering protests from villagers and criticism from China, amid tension over North Korea’s weapons development.

The earlier-than-expected steps to deploy the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system was also denounced by the frontrunner in South Korea’s presidential election on May 9.

South Korea’s defense ministry said elements of THAAD were moved to the deployment site, on what had been a golf course, about 250 km (155 miles) south of the capital, Seoul.

“South Korea and the United States have been working to secure an early operational capability of the THAAD system in response to North Korea’s advancing nuclear and missile threat,” the ministry said in a statement.

3. US Navy fires warning flare at Iran vessel in Persian Gulf

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — A U.S. Navy guided-missile destroyer fired a warning flare toward an Iranian Revolutionary Guard vessel coming near it in the Persian Gulf, an American official said on Wednesday, the latest tense naval encounter between the two countries.

The incident happened Monday as the vessel attempted to draw closer to the USS Mahan despite the destroyer trying to turn away from it, said Lt. Ian McConnaughey, a spokesman for the Bahrain-based 5th Fleet.

[…]

Since the nuclear deal with world powers, the hard-line Revolutionary Guard has stepped up its encounters with the Americans. The Navy recorded 35 instances of what it describes as “unsafe and/or unprofessional” interactions with Iranians forces in 2016, compared to 23 in 2015. With Monday’s event, there have been seven so far in 2017, McConnaughey said.

4. More than 700,000 granted asylum in EU in 2016

(It is a dead cert that this number will be dwarfed by the number of Africans and muslims who entered Europe in 2016 and remain there)

The European Union’s statistical agency says European countries granted refugee status or some other protection to more than 700,000 people last year, most of them Syrians.

Eurostat said Wednesday that the 28 EU member countries gave protection to 710,400 asylum-seekers in 2016, more than double the number the previous year. It came after more than a million people entered Europe, most fleeing conflict in Syria or Iraq but some also looking for jobs.

Eurostat said that 405,600 people were Syrians, 65,800 were Iraqis and 61,800 Afghans.

More than 70 percent of the Syrians were offered protection by Germany. Sweden took in almost 45,000

(The bookies are likely tilting the odds toward the likelihood that the majority indeed are not Syrians at all, but Pakistanis, Afghans, and Maghrebis)

 

Thank you Richard, Xanthippa, M., and all who sent in materials for this post.

It is going to be an interesting week.

Statement by DPRK (NORK) to President Trump

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U.S. military provocation will result in merciless counteraction of North Korea [English] 

A spokesman for the General Staff of the Korean People’s Army (KPA) issued a statement Friday as regards the extremely dangerous situation prevailing on the Korean peninsula due to the Trump administration’s reckless military provocation. The Trump administration of the U.S. began to disclose its brigandish nature timed to coincide with Key Resolve and Foal Eagle nuclear war games now under way in across south Korea, the statement said, and went on: The DPRK policy shaped by the Trump administration is first to put high-intensity sanctions and pressure together with someone, second to constantly keep tactical nuclear weapons deployed in south Korea and third to launch an independent military action aimed at “beheading operation” against the leadership of the DPRK and “preemptive strike”.

In actuality, the Trump administration, which made a surprise cruise guided missile strike at Syria on April 6, has entered the path of open threat and blackmail against the DPRK, describing it as “a strong warning message” to it. The U.S. State secretary, Defense secretary and other officials concerned with security of the U.S. are openly crying out more often than not for launching an independent military action against the DPRK. Under the prevailing situation where the Trump administration’s serious military hysteria has reached a dangerous phase which can no longer be overlooked, the KPA General Staff re-clarifies its principled stand as follows upon authorization:

1. All the brigandish provocative moves of the U.S. in the political, economic and military fields pursuant to its hostile policy toward the DPRK will thoroughly be foiled through the toughest counteraction of the army and people of the DPRK. Our toughest counteraction against the U.S. and its vassal forces will be taken in such a merciless manner as not to allow the aggressors to survive. Under the prevailing grave situation, the U.S. has to come to its senses and make a proper option for the solution of the problem.

The army and people of the DPRK will as ever courageously counter those who encroach upon the dignity and sovereignty of the DPRK and will always mercilessly foil all the provocative options of the U.S. with Korean-style toughest counteraction.

US navy fires back

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There is a great of material piling up in the comments and much of it will get posted. But editing takes time, so it may not be right away. But this event is interesting and deserves priority.

John Bolton speech from the 21st coming up soon and its superb although, well depressing. I would call him a Cassandra except he is talking about the now and the known, not the future and the unseen.

Hizb ut-Tahrir holds rally on Temple Mount demanding Arab nations destroy Israel

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Story at Elders of Zion

Direct incitement against Jews and demanding the destruction of the Jewish state – on Judaism’s holiest spot.

I only found this story in one place, Wattan TV, but according to that article there was a massive rally on the Temple Mount today from Hizb ut-Tahrir, a radical Islamist group that wants to reinstate the caliphate. In fact, this rally was meant to mark the 93rd anniversary of the caliphate being dismantled.

Thousands of members of the Hizb ut-Tahrir gathered in the courtyards of Al-Aqsa Mosque to participate in the appeal to “the Islamic nation and the Muslim armies in order to establish the caliphate and move armies to liberate Al-Aqsa Mosque and the rest of Palestine from Jewish occupation.”

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M files. Ukraine and more April 27 2014

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1. VICE NEWS – First Video Evidence of Russians Among Ukrainian Separatists

2. Pro-Russian activists rally in Donetsk as separatists seize TV station

3. Obama warns Russia as tensions spike in Ukraine

4. Ukraine: OSCE observer released by Slavyansk captors

5. USA: American Jews rally against anti-semitism in Ukraine

6. Der Spiegel – April 27 2014 – Ukraine supplies syrian jihadists since 2011 (SPIEGEL report)

According to the german magazine DER SPIEGEL, the Ukraine supplies syrian islamistic rebels with rifle typs of SKS Simonow. The ukrainian state concern Ukroboronprom sends the weapons over Germany to Syria. It is not clear, to which place in Germany the weapons are transported, the german foreign department denied a statement. The rifles were send to Germany for “modifications”, an official said to SPIEGEL.

The magazine citated the american Think Tank Jamestown Foundation (connected with US-Spy Agencies). The Think Tank believes, that the weapons are sent from Germany to syrian rebels. Jamestown speaks about a number over 54 000 rifles for jihadists supplies only in 2011 and 2012. “They could be used for covert operations in syria”, Jamestown said to SPIEGEL.
The german government doesn’t want to investigate the shipments. The lawmaker of the german parlament, Sevim Dagdelen said: “It is scandalous, that the german government can’t say  anything about the actual place of the weapons.” It would be very possible, that the weapons reached jihadists in Syria.