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North Korea fires intercontinental ballistic missile amidst largest ever US-South Korea air force drills


RT
Thu, 03 Nov 2022 05:08 UTC
North Korea's missile launch
A TV showing a news report about North Korea's missile launch is seen at the Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, November 3, 2022.
North Korea has launched an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) as part of a large-scale show of force against the ongoing war games between the US and South Korea, according to Seoul's armed forces.

The South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff said the military detected "what is presumed to be a long-range ballistic missile launch from the Sunan area in Pyongyang" early on Thursday morning, noting that two additional short-range missiles followed about one hour later.

After analyzing details of the launch, the military added that the weapon traveled a distance of around 760km (472 miles) and reached a top speed of Mach 15. However, a defense source later told Yonhap that "the missile seems to have failed in normal flight" after its second-stage separation.


Comment: South Korea can't exactly gloat: Explosion at South Korean airbase caused by 'ballistic missile failure', occurred during drills in response to N. Korea's own launch


Comment: The US and South Korea are in the midst of their largest military drills ever, and yet North Korea shooting a few missiles is what's 'provocative'?

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Bad Guys

War without end. What is wrong with the United States of America?

Philip Giraldi
Global Research
Tue, 01 Nov 2022 00:00 UTC
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Prussian Major General Carl von Clausewitz famously drew on his own experience in the Napoleonic Wars to examine war as a political phenomenon. In his 1832 book On War he provided a frequently quoted pithy summary of war versus peace, writing in terms of politico-military strategy that "War is a mere continuation of politics by other means." In other words, war-making is a tool provided to statesmen to achieve a nation's political objectives when all else fails.

One can reject the ultimate amorality of Clausewitz's thinking about war while also recognizing that some nations have, historically speaking, exploited war-making as a tool for physical expansion and the appropriation of foreigners' resources. As far back as the Roman Republic, the country's elected leaders doubled as heads of its consular armies, which were expected to go out each spring to expand the imperium. More recently, Britain notably engaged in almost constant colonial wars over the course of centuries to establish what was to become history's largest empire.
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Footprints

Six reasons why Amerians should care that US troops are in Ukraine

Andrew Korybko
korybko.substack.com
Wed, 02 Nov 2022 00:00 UTC
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This is a big deal for more than just the obvious reason that it could push that declining unipolar hegemon closer to a hot war with Russia by miscalculation.

An unnamed senior military official revealed during a press briefing on Monday that US boots are on the ground in Ukraine as part of the Pentagon's efforts to inspect and track weapons shipments to that crumbling former Soviet Republic according to a transcript published by the Department of Defense. This is a big deal for more than just the obvious reason that it could push that declining unipolar hegemon closer to a hot war with Russia by miscalculation.

Here are the six other reasons why Americans should care that US troops are in Ukraine:

* The Deployment Proves That The Ukrainian Conflict Is Indeed A Proxy War On Russia

The US-led West's Mainstream Media (MSM) nor the SBU's anti-Semitic and fascist global troll network ("NAFO") can no longer deny that the Ukrainian Conflict is indeed a NATO proxy war on Russia, which was obvious to all objective observers but has hitherto not been acknowledged by those two forces.
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Stop

Roberts delays handover of Trump tax returns to House panel


MYNorthwest
Mon, 31 Oct 2022 06:55 UTC
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© AP/José Luis VillegasFormer US President Donald Trump • Minden Tahoe Airport, Nevada • October 8, 2022
Chief Justice John Roberts on Tuesday put a temporary hold on the handover of former President Donald Trump's tax returns to a congressional committee.

Roberts' order gives the Supreme Court time to weigh the legal issues in Trump's emergency appeal to the high court, filed Monday.

Without court intervention, the tax returns could have been provided as early as Thursday by the Treasury Department to the Democratic-controlled House Ways and Means Committee.

Roberts gave the committee until Nov. 10 to respond. The chief justice handles emergency appeals from the nation's capital, where the fight over Trump's taxes has been going on since 2019. Lower courts ruled that the committee has broad authority to obtain tax returns and rejected Trump's claims that it was overstepping.

If Trump can persuade the nation's highest court to intervene in this case, he could potentially delay a final decision until the start of the next Congress in January. If Republicans recapture control of the House in the fall election, they could drop the records request.
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Pistol

Former Pakistani PM shot in 'assassination attempt'


RT
Thu, 03 Nov 2022 12:31 UTC
Khan
© Tehreek e Insaf/APPakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, Imran Khan • Wazirabad, Pakistan • Nov. 3, 2022
Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan was shot and injured as he spoke during a protest march outside the town of Gujranwala on Thursday. Khan, who was rushed to the hospital after the incident, has been attempting to mount a political comeback after being ousted from power in April.

As Khan spoke to his supporters from the back of a truck, a gunman in the crowd opened fire. According to reports from different media outlets, the former PM was either hit in the foot or the leg.

Khan was rushed to a hospital in Lahore, around 100 kilometers (60 miles) away. One of Khan's aides, Raoof Hasan, told AFP that the former leader is in "stable condition."

"This was an attempt to kill him, to assassinate him," Hasan added. A suspect has been arrested, Pakistan's Geo TV reported shortly afterwards.
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Nuke

Terrorist plot foiled at Europe's biggest nuclear power plant - Russia


RT
Thu, 03 Nov 2022 10:30 UTC
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© ReutersPower plant logo on wall of a culture house • Enerhodar, Zaporizhzhia region, Ukraine
A Ukrainian terrorist attack on the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant has been thwarted, Russian officials have said, adding that the plot aimed to render the adjacent city of Energodar without heating during the winter.

"We have received information that our secret services have foiled a terrorist attack on the Zaporozye Nuclear Power Plant," Nikolay Patrushev, Secretary of Russia's Security Council, said on Wednesday.

Vladimir Rogov, a senior Zaporozhye regional official, told news agency RIA Novosti that the alleged plot had been orchestrated by the Ukrainian government.

He said that a cache with explosives had been discovered at the plant and that it had been placed there sometime after Russia's military operation began in late February and before Moscow's forces seized the facility in March. According to the spokesperson, the Seсurity Service of Ukraine (SBU) had planned to recruit an employee of the facility and instruct that individual to detonate the bomb.
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Arrow Up

US troops to stay in Poland for a long time, says President Joe Biden


CNBCTV18
Thu, 03 Nov 2022 01:34 UTC
Press conference
© unknownUS President Joe Biden takes questions from the press
The US plans to maintain its forces in Poland, a strong NATO ally, for a long time to defend the alliance and counter threats from Russia.

Asked how long he intended to keep US troops in Poland and other NATO countries, US President Joe Biden said "they'll be there for a long time". The US President was speaking at the infrastructure talent pipeline challenge event on Tuesday.

US troops in Poland lead the Enhanced Forward Presence (EFP) Battle Group and deploy a rotational Armored Brigade Combat Team under Operation Atlantic Resolve. Funds for the operation come through the European Deterrence Initiative. At present, there are about 10,000 US personnel on rotation in Poland, the US state department said recently in a release.

Comment: Biden gives details the brush off.


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Pistol

Former prime minister Imran Khan wounded in 'assassination attempt' in Pakistan

Shah Meer Baloch
The Guardian
Thu, 03 Nov 2022 17:15 UTC
former prime minister Imran Khan assassination attempt
© Associated PressAn image released of former prime minister Imran Khan by Tehreek-e-Insaf shortly after the shooting incident in Wazirabad.
Protesters have taken to the streets of Pakistan after a gunman opened fire on a on a convoy carrying former prime minister Imran Khan, wounding him and killing a supporter as he led a march on Islamabad to demand snap elections.

A party aide said Khan, 70, had been wounded in his lower leg and was stable in an incident described by his supporters as an assassination attempt. "A man opened fire with an automatic weapon. Several people are wounded. Imran Khan is also injured," said Asad Umar shortly after the shooting.

The identity of the gunman, who was arrested at the scene, was not immediately known. Footage circulated online of a dishevelled man in apparent police custody with his hands tied behind his back claiming he intended to kill Khan. Video from the scene showed a gunman being taken down by another man as he tries to fire his gun, reportedly a 9mm automatic weapon, at Khan. In the panic the crowd starts dispersing and some people start chasing the attacker and catch him.

Comment: The attempt was also caught on video:


Khan's supporters in the crowd may have saved his life


More background on the former prime minister:

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Eye 1

US cyber agency keeps the work of the 'Ministry of Truth' alive, leak shows

Rachel Marsden
RT
Thu, 03 Nov 2022 15:52 UTC
US Department Homeland Security
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Partially-censored meeting minutes of the Cybersecurity Advisory Committee advising the director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), an agency of the US Department of Homeland Security, have been obtained by The Intercept.

The documents reveal attempts to conflate the need to protect American "critical infrastructure" from what the committee repeatedly describes as threats of "disinformation" - or rather, "mis-, dis-, and mal-information (MDM)." The meeting notes describe telecommunications infrastructure (which would include the internet) and public healthcare infrastructure as in need of protection from wrong-speak. In essence, it keeps up the work of the short-lived and controversial Disinformation Governance Board, which earned the unenviable nickname of the 'Ministry of Truth'.

The papers focus on countering non-establishment narratives related to Covid-19 origins and vaccines, racial justice, the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan, and the US' involvement in the Ukraine conflict. It also reveals the existence of a back channel for Homeland Security to communicate its desire to boost or censor certain messages on Facebook and Instagram.
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Cult

UK's new PM Rishi Sunak will help usher in a technocratic age of global totalitarianism using digital currencies

Rhoda Wilson
The Expose
Tue, 01 Nov 2022 00:00 UTC
Rishi Sunak
The financial infrastructure of the Great Reset has arrived as Rishi Sunak was named the next UK Prime Minister without a vote - welcome, global currency.

On 14 October 2021, the Group of 7 ("G7") published a set of Public Policy Principles for Retail Central Bank Digital Currencies ("CBDCs"). This was published "alongside a G7 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors' Statement on CBDCs and digital payments."

If you are still unsure why CBDCs will bring about the end to our freedoms there are numerous resources available but you can start by exploring articles we've previously written about this subject HERE.

The G7 report was compiled by the CBDC drafting group consisting of representatives from finance ministries, and central banks of the G7 alongside invited contributors from other central banks and international organisations. The list of contributors to the public policy principles can be seen on pages 26 and 27 of the report and includes representatives from the G7 countries as well as the European Union, Switzerland, Bank for International Settlements ("BIS"), Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development ("OCED"), International Monetary Fund ("IMF") and the World Bank.
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