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The United States has all but solidified its climb-down after a militaristic month of April in North Korea. All of the joint military drills with Japan and all of the UN resolutions in the world are merely designed to obfuscate a deeper reality. America simply is afraid to attack North Korea, less because of North Korea itself but because they are fearful of creating a new war on the border with China. The recent passage of extended sanctions on Pyongyang by the UN Security Council is merely an affirmation of America's continued policy of attrition over Korean matters.
© ReutersNorth Korean leader Kim Jong Un inspects the long-range strategic ballistic rocket Hwasong-12
North Korea poses a "clear and present danger" to the US, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said at the Shangri-La Dialogue, Asia's premier defense summit, in Singapore on Friday.
"The current North Korean program signals a clear intent to acquire nuclear-armed ballistic missiles, including those of intercontinental range, that pose direct and immediate threats to our regional allies, partners and all the world," Mattis said, adding that Pyongyang's actions "are manifestly illegal under international law."
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A new ad uses the controversial comedian to criticize Democrat Jon Ossoff, saying her recent controversial actions are part of a pattern of behavior from "liberal extremists" who now support the House candidate running in Georgia's 6th Congressional District.
Griffin drew widespread condemnation this week when she was pictured holding a fake severed head made to look like President Donald Trump. The head was covered in fake blood.
"Now a celebrity Jon Ossoff supporter is making jokes about beheading the president of the United States," a narrator intones in the ad. "It's not funny."
Video of Griffin holding the head appears in the ad, alongside images of liberal filmmaker Michael Moore and black-hooded protestors smashing windows.
The Thursday night raid of a home on the 7200 block of Jonathan Street in Dearborn, Michigan, involved a national security issue, but not a planned terror attack, the Detroit Free Press reported.
Agency spokesperson Tim Wiley declined to comment on specifics, but released a statement that described the search as a "law enforcement operation."
Let's rewind. A month ago RI warned that US and Russia were on a collision course in Syria. The Syrian army was advancing toward the al-Tanf border crossing on the border with Iraq - which is held by a group of rebels who are not just armed, trained and paid by the US, but also frequently have US Special Forces embedded with them.
That is precisely what happened. A week after our warning the US "defensively" bombed the advancing Syrian army column and forced it to halt.
Russian President Vladimir Putin attending at St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF), June 2, 2017
'No secret deal'
There have been no secret agreements between the Russian ambassador to the US, Sergey Kislyak and the Trump administration, Putin said at Friday's Q&A session in St. Petersburg.
"My answer is - no!... No talks had even started," the president told the forum, adding that he was surprised with all the fuss surrounding the work of the Russian diplomat in the US and calling anti-Moscow allegations "delirious."
© Reuters photo: Brian SnyderClinton speaks to supporters the day after the election, November 9, 2016
Hillary is retired, but courtiers help her maintain the appearance of importance.
The funniest episode in the protective yet revealing new Hillary Clinton profile arrives when we learn that this sad, unemployed, 69-year-old lady is so desperate to keep her self-image alive that she still employs flunkies and retainers to treat her as though she actually were the president, or the secretary of state, or a president in waiting, or at very least the leader of the opposition. Her longtime loyalists are so happy to bustle around her in the service of maintaining the illusion that, after she takes an hour away from it all to exercise, her communications director, Nick Merrill, breathlessly updates her on everything that's happened in the political world in the last threescore ticks of the minute hand. Her profiler, Rebecca Traister of New York magazine, obviously a great admirer but one who declines to throw herself overboard from reality for the sake of giving Hillary more company bobbing about in the sea of fancy, writes that Clinton "listens to the barrage of updates, nodding like a person whose job requires her to be up-to-date on what's happening, even though it does not."
Ouch. Hillary Rodham Clinton isn't merely in a state of denial. She has become Bruce Willis in The Sixth Sense. Politically speaking, she is dead, but she doesn't know it. Her staffers are so many Haley Joel Osments — too kind (and too attached to their salaries) to tell her that her career is over. She doesn't need briefings. She doesn't need to do interviews. She doesn't need to write the book she is writing (after so many indigestible volumes, why bother with one more?). She doesn't need to stake out a politically nuanced position on James Comey's firing or scramble to get out in front of the Resistance parade. She lost two exceedingly winnable presidential campaigns in Hindenburgian fashion. There is no demand for her to run again and there is nothing left for her except to receive whatever ceremonial honors and sinecures may come her way. She has been handed her political retirement papers by the American people. She's done.
Trouble is, it's all bullshit. There is literally nothing linking Russia to the hacking attempt France experienced, and there never was.
As my colleague Adam Garrie has pointed out, The New York Times story that Russian President Putin has 'suggested' that patriotic Russian hackers might have hacked Podesta and the DNC is mendacious and wrong.
I would add that it is not merely the headline of The New York Times article which is mendacious and wrong. The opening paragraph is so also. It reads as follows
Shifting from his previous blanket denials, President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia suggested on Thursday that "patriotically minded" private Russian hackers could have been involved in cyberattacks last year that meddled in the United States presidential election.This is a complete misrepresentation of Putin's words. Putin made no such 'suggestion'. As the full text of his comments shows he made no reference to the US Presidential election at all. As for hacking, as my colleague Adam Garrie correctly says, Putin on the contrary categorically denied that the Russian state ever engages in hacking.
Comment: Using Kathy Griffin's vile footage to gain votes is deplorable.