“With US forces holding the purse strings and oil fields in Syria, the US intends to make Syria an international pariah state much like North Korea.”
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/us-syria-assad-remove-north-korea-2018-2
“More than a dozen former Pentagon officials, CIA analysts, US military officers, and think tank experts, as well as a retired South Korean general who spent his entire professional life preparing to fight the North, have all said variants of the same thing: There is a genuine risk of a war on the Korean Peninsula that would involve the use of chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons. Several estimated that millions — plural — would die.”
Read more: https://www.vox.com/world/2018/2/7/16974772/north-korea-war-trump-kim-nuclear-weapon
“They say the strategy led by DoD policy wonks could lead to dangerous nuclear escalation.”
“It would be a worrying development if any president of the United States announced, with little debate or discussion, a plan both to build more tactical nuclear weapons and use them in response to non-nuclear attacks; a nuclear strategy that makes the use of nukes more, not less, likely. But when that president is Donald J. Trump, it should be deemed a national, if not a global, emergency.”
Read more: https://theintercept.com/2018/02/08/donald-trump-nuclear-war/
“f war breaks out in Korea, it will not be anything like the U.S. wars on Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya, Panama, or Grenada. It will instead be a pivotal and devastating event in U.S. history and world history. As tens of thousands of millennials are suddenly being trained to kill and die in a faraway land in Asia, it will finally sink into them as to why they were made to register for the draft when they became 18.”
Read more: https://www.fff.org/2018/02/09/korea-crisis-matters/
“This is an insane escalation. It tells every country that the US government believes in the first use of nuclear weapons against any and every country. Those responsible for this document should be committed to insane asylums, not left in policy positions where they can put it into action.”
“The Defense Department is preparing for possible preventive attacks on North Korean nuclear and missile facilities, supposedly intended to prevent the Kim Jong-un regime in Pyongyang from developing an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) capable of delivering nuclear warheads to the continental United States. There are many indications that the Pentagon is putting in place the means to conduct such an attack—and recent enhancements to the GBU-57 bomb are among the most alarming of those.”
Read more: https://www.thenation.com/article/pentagon-readies-father-of-all-bombs-for-use-against-north-korea/
“Someone started arbitrarily and aggressively buying stocks and the decline was halved. Monday will still go down as a Wall Street massacre, but that anonymous superhero buyer or buyers made it a lot less bloody. Who was the market’s superhero? I’m going to tell you a story and then you decide.”
“Overnight, realizing it is facing an avalanche of lawsuits even though it explicitly laid out the possibility of the ETN getting ‘terminated’ should VIX explode, Japan’s biggest brokerage issued an apology after investors in its $300 million vol-linked ETN were all but wiped out during this week’s stock-market turmoil.”
“The facial recognition technology being developed for the pilot program will be capable of identifying the driver, front passengers, and the passengers riding in the back. The CBP currently operates facial recognition exit programs at almost a dozen international airports in the United States. Colleen Manaher, the CBP’s executive director of planning, program analysis and evaluation, told the Statesman that travelers have been accepting of the technology and noted that ‘we can thank the Apples and the Googles for that.'”