Over the last month, the Trump administration has escalated tensions between both North Korea and Iran. Vice President Mike Pence has warned North Korea, saying all options are on the table—including preemptive military strikes. Will either of these conflicts escalate to outright war?
For more, Democracy Now!’s Amy Goodman asked world-renowned linguist, professor and political dissident Noam Chomsky, during a wide-ranging interview Monday night at the First Parish Church in Cambridge, Massachusetts. -democracynow.org
Did the financial oligarchs just get the message? Wolfgang Schauble, the German Finance Minister, seems to indicate that they did... OR...it may just be a case of more window dressing, depending on what "restructuring" means:
Article: We need a new global economic goal: resilience
Ben Davidson joins again to continue the conversation on space weather and its influence on the climate. He discusses the regular solar cycles and the impact of the coming Solar Grand Minimum and the emergence of the Polar Vortex. He takes it deeper with a discussion on magnetic reversals and the current state of our magnetosphere and provides some similarities with solar magnetic reversals and the Earth's current magnetic excursion. He also covers the role of galactic cosmic rays and their impact on the climate. -GunsandButter.org
H.R. McMaster, President Trump's national security advisor, is working behind the scenes to send tens of thousands of ground troops into Syria to take out the government of Bashar al-Assad. On the edition of The Geopolitical Report, we look at how Barack Obama set the stage for an escalation of U.S. intervention in a “civil war” engineered by the CIA and the Gulf Emirates. We also take a look at McMaster's record in Iraq where he mistreated detainees and his association with the convicted criminal and former CIA director David Petraeus. H.R. McMaster is Donald Trump's Master of War.
-Newsbud.com
Professor Filip Kovacevic discusses the articles from four Russian newspapers: Izvestia, Nezavisimaya Gazeta, Pravda and Argumenty i Fakty.
He discusses the U.S.-led coalition bombing of Deir-ez-Zor, Syria which allegedly released chemical poisons into the air, the U.S. under Trump positioning even more nuclear weapons in Europe, the NATO-CIA-MI6 Gladio C operations in Moldova and Belarus, and the Russian prospects in cyber warfare. -Newsbud.com
1. EMP THREAT Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP)
2. RUSSIAN MEGA NUKE
3. KOREA THREAT
4. WHAT IS: Task Force on National and Homeland Security, United States Nuclear Strategy Forum.
5. Russia and America on the Nuclear Brink, Nuclear Wars: Exchanges and Outcomes.
6. The Strategic Nuclear Balance: And Why It Matters, and Israel’s Nuclear Arsenal
BIO:
Dr. Peter Vincent Pry is Executive Director of the Task Force on National and Homeland Security, a congressional advisory board dedicated to achieving protection of the United States from electromagnetic pulse (EMP) and other threats on an accelerated basis. Dr. Pry also is Director of the United States Nuclear Strategy Forum, an advisory body to Congress on policies to counter Weapons of Mass Destruction.
Dr. Pry has served on the staffs of the Congressional Commission on the Strategic Posture of the United States (2008-2009); ); the Commission on the New Strategic Posture of the United States (2006-2008); the Commission to Assess the Threat to the United States from Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) Attack (2001-2008); as Professional Staff on the House Armed Services Committee of the U.S. Congress, with portfolios in nuclear strategy, WMD, Russia, China, NATO, the Middle East, intelligence, and terrorism (1995-2001); as an Intelligence Officer with the Central Intelligence Agency responsible for analyzing Soviet and Russian nuclear strategy and operational plans, including EMP threats (1985-1995); and as a Verification Analyst at the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency responsible for assessing Soviet compliance with nuclear and strategic forces arms control treaties (1984-1985).
Dr. Pry played a key role: running hearings in Congress that warned terrorists and rogue states could pose an EMP threat, establishing the Congressional EMP Commission, helping the Commission develop plans to protect the United States from EMP, and working closely with senior scientists who first discovered the nuclear EMP phenomenon. Dr. Pry has written numerous books on national security issues, including Civil-Military Preparedness For An Electromagnetic Pulse Catastrophe, War Scare: Russia and America on the Nuclear Brink, Nuclear Wars: Exchanges and Outcomes, The Strategic Nuclear Balance: And Why It Matters, and Israel’s Nuclear Arsenal. -caravantomidnight.com
Story #1: Trump Names Rabid Cannabis Prohibitionist as Drug Czar
Wikipedia: Drug Czar
New DHS Secretary John Kelly Saying, “Marijuana Is Not a Factor In The Drug War”
Homeland Security Will Continue to Enforce Marijuana Laws
Wikipedia: John F. Kelly
Announcing Legal Cannabis In Canada - What You Need To Know
Roadside Tests For Pot Need Rethink Before Canadian Legalization
Pharmacy Distributors Want In On Canada’s Legalized Marijuana Regime
Canada Will Legalize Pot, After Arresting A Bunch Of People For Pot Offences First
California Marijuana Legalization Faces Unlikely Foe in Pot Growers
Here’s What Happens If You Get Caught With Weed In Japan Story #2: The BBC Looks At "How Western Civilization Could Collapse"
Sentient World Simulation: Meet Your DoD Clone Story #3: The Alt-Media Purge In Full Swing
In Defence Of Alex Jones
Bill O’Reilly Was A JFK Truther
How Kiss Created Indie Rock
This week on China Watch with Peter Lee: Ultimatums, aircraft carriers, and backchannel messaging fuel the North Korean nuclear crisis as Trump makes his big Asian move and much more!
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