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he barely paid any taxes on what he made in 2005 .. All it proved was
,,,,,,,,,,,,is that we sure do NOT need any new tax breaks for the rich!
thanks Sox that IS the perfect way to put it..
Tons of rich daddies out there but very few gals that could live off the name.
IMO you are dumb as a rock.
O.K. .. then this means that you will stop posting to me ? both here and in my ihub mailbox?
that's a little over done .. but then it's good as you trumkties never get much excited unless you're talking about killing Mexicans and Muslims .. so ...........it's good to see you excited about someone sending trumps 2005 tax returns to David Cay Johnston ... all I'll say is .........I don't think this is the end of it all ...
I'm Proud of this young woman! Brave Courageous! and a million
other REMARKABLE character attributes!
My Intersex Body, My Breasts, And Me
Arisleyda Dilone
posted on Mar. 15, 2017, at 7:37 a.m.
Growing up, I was obsessed with the breasts I’d never develop. After getting implants more than a decade ago, I’m now deciding whether or not to remove them — and exploring my relationship with gender, my body, and the women in my hyperfeminine Dominican family.
AND BRAVE so very BRAVE!
https://www.buzzfeed.com/arisleydadilone/my-intersex-body-my-breasts-and-me?utm_term=.ae1On02Q88#.ilQVXaMz55
are you kidding me? proud of a retail buyer?
puleeeeeze......cripes any woman with a rich Dad could do what she does blindfolded
good gravy! .. you are the perfect mark
LOLOL .. you didn't even have the time to read that ..
you oaf.. and no if I'm going to be jealous of anyone she would NEVER EVER be called 'bland'... anything
Ivanka Trump’s Bitter Scent
mrs. stone face
Frank Bruni MARCH 15, 2017
The next time you hear about the sway that Ivanka Trump holds over her father and what a powerful advocate for equal opportunity she is, I want you to remember these numbers:
Twenty. That’s how many men are in, or poised to join, the president’s cabinet.
Four. That’s how many women.
Barack Obama’s first cabinet included seven. Bill Clinton’s, six. George W. Bush’s, four, same as Trump’s, but that was 16 years ago, and he didn’t have an adult daughter who styled herself as both an influential adviser and a feminist hero. Where precisely is the Ivanka Effect?
She won’t be engaging this riddle in her new book, “Women Who Work,” due out in early May, and I say that not because I know what’s in it — I don’t — but because I know Ivanka, or at least I’ve been watching her closely for a while. She doesn’t take responsibility, not where dear old Dad is concerned. She takes advantage, all the while asking us to be grateful for her presence beside him.
When he behaves, word goes out that she or her husband, Jared Kushner, had his ear. When he doesn’t, word goes out that it wasn’t their fault, that they can do only so much and that if they hadn’t valiantly moved to Washington, well, think about how much worse off we’d all be.
There’s a big problem with this spin: His behavior wouldn’t matter if he weren’t sitting on such a lofty throne, and they helped to put him there. They empowered the mad king.
Now they want credit for mitigating the madness.
More than that, they want inoculation, so that after they’ve savored his reign, they’re spared the stain and can return without wound or shame to the social circles in which they long traveled, where Steve Bannon is no hero and Planned Parenthood no villain.
“Saturday Night Live” had something to say about that. The show’s most recent episode included a mock commercial in which Ivanka, played by Scarlett Johansson, hawks a new signature fragrance: Complicit. It’s for “the woman who could stop all this but won’t.” Ivanka looks lovingly into a mirror — and sees her father staring back.
I don’t think she could stop all this, and I don’t expect her to undermine him. But she’s under no obligation to prop him up.
From the moment when he announced his candidacy at Trump Tower in June 2015, her actions have far exceeded the demands of filial loyalty. And they’re not explained by some profound ideological affinity with her father, because she doesn’t spout ideology — just gauzy platitudes. Check out the “Wise Words” section of ivankatrump.com. It’s an overstuffed flea market of threadbare aphorisms (“never ever settle,” “work to become, not to acquire,” “keep your head up,” “there is enough success for everyone”) in fanciful typography and pinkish hues. [ https://ivankatrump.com/category/wise-words/ ]
In campaigning full-force for her father, she and her brothers seemed at once to be repaying a debt — they’d profited so enormously from the Trump name — and hopping aboard a ride to greater dividends still. But she stood out, because she in particular insisted on a veneer of virtue. She alone marketed a persona of goodness.
That persona turned her into more than just a surrogate for her father, more even than a character witness. She was his alibi. He couldn’t be guilty of vileness toward women because he had produced a woman as enlightened and gracious as Ivanka, who not only stood with him but spoke up for him at the Republican National Convention, assuring the world of his benevolence.
The next day her Twitter account plugged the dress she’d worn, part of the Ivanka Trump Collection. The company’s website posted a montage of photos from the convention with links to the white leather satchel that was draped over her arm at one point and to the pumps she was wearing at another. And thus a daughter’s love became a huckster’s boon.
The children of other presidents have readily, even greedily, reaped the fruits of nepotism, but how many have done so while simultaneously suggesting that they’re around to provide crucial ballast, performing an invaluable service for the American people?
Maybe her conversations with lawmakers really will yield legislation to lessen the cost of child care and to help working mothers, though it’s a long shot. Maybe she’ll do some targeted good. I don’t doubt that she’d like to.
But that’s hardly the sum of her motivations, and it almost certainly isn’t the essence. Her meticulously groomed Twitter and Instagram accounts give her away. They’re exercises in self-affirmation, placing her in a Washington without pores or protests. It looks like she’s having the airbrushed adventure of a lifetime.
And it smells, yes, like complicity.
yes, very very nice Frank, thank you Mr. Bruni, someone else sees this soulless empty shell
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/15/opinion/ivanka-trumps-bitter-scent.html?&moduleDetail=section-news-1&action=click&contentCollection=Opinion®ion=Footer&module=MoreInSection&version=WhatsNext&contentID=WhatsNext&pgtype=article
Thanks so much for the memories ... ;) .............beautiful!
and I sure wish we would hear from Sideeki again ! ... damn .. wonder what's happening in St. Augustine ... I know a hater who lives there here on ihub .. but I don't believe a word he says .. he's been inhaling bowelbreathe before he was popular .. like years and years ago .. then we just called them liars .. ... it's much worse now.. and so are they, that enjoys their faces up in putins crack via their hero trumpy of course ... if you get around any of them .. runnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn.... the smelllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll will kill you! at this late stage in their lives they found out they loved snuffing russian ass ... AMAZINGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG!
I'm feeling the love .. Biden's daughter says Uncle Joe loves
the Obama/Biden bromance memes. This is his favorite one.
by wagatwe
Tuesday Mar 14, 2017 · 12:58 PM PDT
Awwwwwwww.
In an interview with Moneyish, Joe Biden’s daughter Ashley Biden says she’s the one who told her dad about the popular and hilarious memes honoring his close friendship with former President Obama. Unsurprisingly, he loves them — and even has a favorite one. [ https://moneyish.com/ish/this-is-joe-bidens-favorite-obama-biden-bromance-meme/ ]
yes Susie .. ;) thank you! that too ...
you know .. all the sports we watch I almost begin thinking that we
live in a darker world than we really do ... ;)
now that you mention it I haven't seen so many white men gathered in any one place in .. oh gee .............can't remember when.. ..
and they are not much fun .. they have no umpha! ... and they sure aren't kind!
pat pat .... of course you do little man ...........
I have absolutely nothing against that .. it's just that I don't see trump doing that ....
he's not manly .. BUT boy oh boy he likes you to think he is ..
that's why all that yelling .. thumbs up bull shit ..e tc.. he thinks that's manly .. omg .....we're so screwed ..
I just found this ... ~
I just FEEL better when looking at him .. I mean god ... '
all trumps men ... ewwwwwwwwwwww.. so old so fat
so ugly no swag
nowhere no how nothing !
Are you kidding ? ... the surgeon had to do a whole number on donny's fat SPREADING tits ! ... you know
fat men really don't look all that good in anything with those fat squishy tits spread all oVER every where ... it really bothers the guys ...
particularly if they are not rich enough to go under the surgeons knife ..
David Cay Johnston?Verified account @DavidCayJ 2h2 hours ago
On @maddow I'll break a big story about Trump and his taxes - 9PM eastern via @DCReportMedia Ill be on @lawrence, too.
465 replies 4,768 retweets 6,557 likes
https://twitter.com/DavidCayJ?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor
imo Mr. Jonston is the smartest guy around, any of you remember from the time of 'bush'? .. I know many who do remember
and it makes me think of Alex .. yes, I know you all hated him .. I loved him and still do . .what a loss !
you're talking about mrs. potty face ....
mrs. stone face is the blank younger one ,,,,
life may deal her a potty face too .. I think all people related to trump are in danger .. from him .. from his disease....... ... it could be an infection . .
Rachel Maddow MSNBC
Verified account @maddow
BREAKING: We've got Trump tax returns. Tonight, 9pm ET. MSNBC.
(Seriously).
4:36 PM - 14 Mar 2017
BREAKING: We've got Trump tax returns. Tonight, 9pm ET. MSNBC.
— Rachel Maddow MSNBC (@maddow) March 14, 2017
(Seriously).
If you get a chance Fuagf .. watch Rachel's from last night!
it's a real update on that fine brilliant man Mr. Preet Bharara, like what he may have done or not
.. from Friday afternoon until Sat. afternoon . .when he left .. . .
ohhh it's wonderful to conjecture about it ..
May I present to you...the President and First Lady
They're so beautiful .. INSIDE and OUT! no grumpy looking humans here!.... ;)
https://theobamadiary.com/2017/03/13/early-bird-chat-serving-looks/
I'm getting real sick of Mrs. potty face and mrs. stone face and the other ones that you don't see ..
god .. they need a new surgeon to give them something beautiful . .I mean tits only take you so far ..
and I have to look at this ... I"M DONE with this ugly human!
We're going to have insurance for everybody! you lying MF!
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-vows-insurance-for-everybody-in-obamacare-replacement-plan/2017/01/15/5f2b1e18-db5d-11e6-ad42-f3375f271c9c_story.html?utm_term=.ed5d07d2eabd
Trump promised not to cut Medicaid. His health bill will cut $880 billion from it.
http://www.vox.com/2017/3/13/14914812/trump-ahca-medicaid-cuts
CBO: Republican health care bill raises premiums for older, poor Americans by more than 750%
http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/3/13/14914596/ahca-cbo-premiums-age
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/03/trump-obamacare-repeal-tweet-beautiful-picture-235875
The Republican health plan is a huge betrayal of Trump’s campaign promises
http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/3/10/14881200/trump-health-care-promises
let's see.. no state department ..no lawyers.. .no epa..... no nsa ... what else?
there's more I know there is!
all regulations to protect us and our kids GONE! in less than an hour
NO CLEAN WATER! .. come on People!
'they' want to make the US like Flint!
I get it!
Mr. Nance is 100 PERCENT CORRECT! ... I always stop what I'm doing to listen to him day or night ! .. Thank YOU so much Borealis
when I saw the entire state dept. disappear I knew that we had been taken over .. I mean I bought me some new fatigues
and my army boots are still good! ... ;) My GOD, we MAY need to protect someone ! ... ...........all of us
The CBO's other bombshell: the Affordable Care Act isn't imploding
rump can “fix” Obamacare by doing nothing.
by Matthew Yglesias
Mar 14, 2017, 11:30am EDT
Once again and always it seems, at least in the past three centuries and this current one .. Democrats have the brains and somehow ... flesh eating moms just don't produce brains .. .lolololol ... yeah! that's right I'm kidding! ... but it's something somewhere that causes your stupidity!
now - go read the whole thing .. so you can pretend to be smart for an hour with your friends ... .. jajaja.. ; )
http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/3/14/14921594/obamacare-implosion-ahca
See how much it helps if you can do your own reading? how Magnificent!!!! .. .
Close Trump friend says ditch
Paul Ryan's plan and embrace universal health care
Newsmax CEO Christopher Ruddy calls for Medicaid for all.
by Matthew Yglesias
Mar 14, 2017, 1:30pm EDT
A key Trump friend and ally is urging the president to dump Paul Ryan’s Affordable Health Care Act and embrace something that sounds sort of like a lightweight version of a single-payer health care system. Christopher Ruddy, CEO of the conservative Newsmax brand, isn’t normally considered a major thought leader on policy issues, but he is a longtime friend of Trump’s, and counts as one of a relatively small number of conservative players who have closer ties to Trump than to congressional Republican leaders.
And he is warning loud and clear that Trump “could inherit the bad political baggage of both Obamacare and the House Republicans” if he insists on going along with Ryan’s version of repealing and replacing Obamacare.
Instead, Ruddy puts forward the rather radical notion that Trump should attempt to live up to his campaign promises on health care rather than signing on to legislation that betrays them all. To do it, he encourages Trump to ditch his effort to court the Freedom Caucus and instead come up with a bipartisan plan that accepts a large government role in providing insurance coverage. [ http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/3/10/14881200/trump-health-care-promises ] [ http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/3/10/14881200/trump-health-care-promises ]
The Ruddycare seven-point plan
In an op-ed published Tuesday, [ http://www.newsmax.com/ChristopherRuddy/trump-healthcare-health-paul-ryan/2017/03/14/id/778568/ ] Ruddy argues that Trump “should be sticking to his own gut on healthcare reform.” He did this during the campaign, which helped him “win Democratic states like Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania.”
And he offers the following seven-point “game plan for Trump to regain the initiative”:
LOL.. sounds just like him .. .. he's so ignorant!
let's see .... how long have bowlbreathers been preaching 'get rid of paul ryan ' get rid of paul ryan ' get rid of ryan ; get rid of ryan . ..
REALLY get rid of ryan ' .... oh for at least two months now maybe more ..... before xmas last year? .. seems so .. ... so
Trump’s Fans Are Blaming Paul Ryan For The Disaster Of Trumpcare
And By Trump's Fans, I Mostly Mean Breitbart
Blog ››› 3 hours 19 min ago ››› MATT GERTZ
Breitbart.com is coming for Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI), and it's using the GOP health care bill that President Donald Trump supports to attack him.
Last night, the sycophantic pro-Trump site previously run by White House chief strategist Steve Bannon published audio of a House GOP conference call from last October in which Ryan said he was “not going to defend Donald Trump -- not now, not in the future.” Ryan was responding to the release of the Access Hollywood tape in which Trump bragged about sexually assaulting women.
Breitbart Washington bureau chief Matt Boyle’s write-up suggests that the audio was published to convince the president that he doesn’t owe Ryan anything. Boyle suggests the speaker “misled President Trump into believing that Ryan’s bill can pass Congress” and asserts that the legislation’s floundering “calls into question” whether Ryan “really understands how Trump won and how to win in general.”
Boyle further claims that “in conversations Breitbart News has had with no fewer than 15 other White House aides, including many on the press team, it is clear that the President and the senior Trump administration team are not happy with this bill’s lack of conservative support." He grants anonymity to one source, whom he quotes as saying: “The President gave Ryan a chance. If he doesn’t get his act together soon, the President will have no choice but to step in and fix this on his own. He’s the best negotiator on the planet, and if this were his bill not Ryan’s it would not be this much of a mess.”
In short, a right-wing Trump support site is providing the bill’s critics in the White House with a platform to push Trump away from the legislation he publicly supports by blaming it all on Ryan.
Last week, Business Insider reported that Boyle had defended a previous salvo against the health care bill by telling colleagues, “We are Breitbart. This is war. There are no sacred cows in war.” But a review of Breitbart’s reporting on the bill indicates that there is one sacred cow: the site’s support for Trump.
Trump and his administration officials have repeatedly expressed their fervent support for the House bill, which would result in tens of millions of Americans losing access to health insurance, according to a report from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office. On Friday, the president devoted his weekly radio address to extolling the legislation’s virtues, and his aides fanned out across the Sunday morning political shows to talk up the bill and talk down its then-forthcoming CBO score. Trump has even reportedly threatened to back primary challenges against members of Congress who oppose it.
But as Boyle’s Monday night article indicates, Breitbart’s reporting has depicted the bill as Ryan’s creation and suggests that Ryan tricked Trump into supporting the GOP health care legislation.
Breitbart regularly refers to the legislation as “RyanCare"; the site’s report on the apocalyptic CBO score was titled “CBO Releases Score of Paul Ryan’s American Health Care Act.”
what does it feel like paul? to get something shoved up your ass without your cooperation ?...huh? lololol .. you deserve it , they're horrid and so are you .. . you are all greedy pigs
Breitbart’s reporters are seeking out conservative opponents of the bill and giving them an opportunity to savage the legislation -- and Ryan. Their headlines include “Exclusive — Sarah Palin on Paul Ryan’s ‘RINO-Care’: ‘Socialized Medicine’; President Trump Will ‘Step In and Fix It’”; “Honeymoon Over: Speaker Paul Ryan Targets His Own Republicans, Not Democrats, with Ads on Health Care”; and “Exclusive — House Freedom Caucus Not Budging, Official Position Is for Full Repeal Alternative to Paul Ryan’s Obamacare 2.0.”
Breitbart’s framing accomplishes several goals. It allows the website to continue its long war against Ryan under the imprimatur of trying to protect Trump. Its reporters have free rein to go after legislation that their audience hates, without tarnishing the image of the president their audience loves. And this line of attack neatly sidesteps the fundamental reality that conservatives want to repeal Obamacare and their only potential plans to replace it would necessarily deprive tens of millions of people of access to health care.
Breitbart may be paving the way, but many of the president’s other leading media allies have adopted the same argument.
On yesterday’s The Five, Fox News' Eric Bolling said that it’s time to “scrap” the health care bill, claiming that “Paul Ryan and the rest of the leadership pulled the wool over President Trump’s eyes.”
Last night, Fox News' Sean Hannity claimed that Trump “has not really been well served by the Republican party in the House or the Senate, and this public civil war that is going on makes the G.O.P. Congress -- after having eight years to get their act together -- look like they were ill-prepared for this big moment.” He called on all Republican factions to “hammer out a consensus bill.”
Over on Fox Business, Lou Dobbs fulminated that “This piece of junk won’t accomplish a single thing that the president has promised the American people. And only Paul Ryan would have the affrontery, the arrogance, and the incompetence to put a bill like that in front of the president.” He added that Trump “has got to overcome this kind of idiocy in the leadership of the House of Representatives and the Republican Party. I mean, come on!”
Donald Trump cannot fail. He can only be failed.
OH there is ever so much more stuff here .. fox videos etc.. fox and bowlbreathers bloviating everywhere .. with a million embedded links.. HaHa.. I don't care ... we never like Paul anyway, he's has always been after peoples social security, medicare and most definetly their food stamps and or course anything at all that helps people who are NOT IN THE .001 PERCENT! .. . how does it feel you mffer? .. tell us about it !
https://mediamatters.org/blog/2017/03/14/trump-s-fans-are-blaming-paul-ryan-disaster-trumpcare/215671
You are posting from the dumbest man on the internet. There is no reason to listen or read any link that you post from these KNOWN fake news and conspiracy driven websites. Help America and start being responsible for your decisions made in error, stop blaming everyone else .. like little johnny did when he was three, 4 5 YOU did it & no one else! .. https://www.google.com/search?q=the+dumbest+man+on+the+internet&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8
March 2017 - in South Korea
Sansuyu (Cornus officinalis) Flower Festival
When: March 18-26
Where: Mount Jiri, Gurye, South Jeolla Province
The hot spring district of Mount Jiri will be bathed in a sea of yellow in March as blooming sansuyu flowers cover the mountain. Some 40 events will be held during the festival. The program includes rituals for a good harvest, performances of Korean vocal music, farmers' music and dances, as well as demonstrations of traditional cultural arts from around the world. Wine and cake that are made from the sansuyu flower will also be available.
For more information, call 061-780-2727 or visit Gurye County's homepage at http://www.sansuyu.go.kr .
Jeju Fire Festival
When: March 2-5
Where: Saebyeol Oreum area, Jeju
The Jeju Fire Festival is an event to pray for good health and a good harvest in the coming year. The festival offers a number of hands-on events where visitors can participate in folk games and traditions, and can also enjoy the sights of Jeju Island's stunning natural environment.
For more information, call 064-728-2752 or visit the website http://buriburi.go.kr .
They are really moving fast in getting rid of democracy while replacing it with a total Kleptocracy. I guess that's one of the things he loves putin so much for. Perhaps putin is teaching trump how to achieve a 'kleptocracy'! Trump read that putin was the richest man in the world and just had had........ had to TOP HIM! so . .we are the ones who get to pay now, WITH EVERYTHING we had/have
good going stupid people ! yeah, I know you voted for him because you hate .. he lied to you so he could steal and get richer and you cannot deny it!
I hope my views on XI don't have to change..
And he treats everyone like shit unless they can give him big dollars, then ... everything is for sale, most of all our country.
start your drooling, trump supporters, your wet dreams will return
SEAL Team 6 is reportedly training for a decapitation strike against North Korea's Kim regime
Alex Lockie 7 HOURS
A Navy SEAL emerges from the water during a training exercise.
The annual Foal Eagle military drills between the US and South Korea will include some heavy hitters this year — the Navy SEAL team that took out Osama bin Laden, Army Special Forces, and F-35s — South Korea's Joon Gang Daily reports.
South Korean news outlets report that the SEALs, who will join the exercise for the first time, will simulate a "decapitation attack," or a strike to remove North Korea's leadership.
Pentagon spokesman Cmdr. Gary Ross later told Business Insider that the US military "does not train for decapitation missions" of any kind.
Yet a decapitation force would fit with a March 1 Wall Street Journal report that the White House is considering military action against the Kim regime.
The SEALs boarded the USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier and should arrive in South Korea on Wednesday, Joon Gang Daily reports.
South Korea has also made efforts toward a decapitation force, and international calls for action have increased in intensity after North Korea's latest missile test, which simulated a saturation attack to defeat US and allied missile defenses.
“It will send a very strong message to North Korea, which is constantly carrying out military provocations,” a ministry official told Joon Gang Daily.
The Foal Eagle exercise includes 3,600 US troops, in addition to the 28,000 US troops permanently stationed in South Korea. The drills include air, land, and sea operations designed to prepare the joint forces in case of a conflict with North Korea.
This year's exercise also integrates preparation for the deployment of US missile defenses to South Korea.
South Korean marines participate in a US-South Korea joint-landing operation drill as Amphibious assault vehicles of the South Korean Marine Corps throw smoke bombs in Pohang March 30, 2015. The drill is part of the two countries' annual military training called Foal Eagle, which runs from March 2 to April 24. REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji
Additionally, the US's newest combat aircraft, the F-35, will fly in to simulate attacks on North Korea's missile infrastructure, Joon Gang Daily reports. The F-35 will accompany many of the US's highest-end platforms, like F-22s and a nuclear-powered submarine.
"A bigger number of and more diverse US special operation forces will take part in this year's Foal Eagle and Key Resolve exercises to practice missions to infiltrate into the North, remove the North's war command and demolition of its key military facilities," the an unnamed military official told South Korea's Yonhap News Agency.
This post has been updated to include the statement from the Pentagon.
http://nordic.businessinsider.com/south-korea-military-plans-raze-pyongyang-2016-9/
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South Korea has contingency plans to wipe the North Korean capital 'completely off the map'
David Choi 13 Sep 2016 5:57 PM
South Korea's Hyunmoo-1 ballistic missile is seen during a military parade to mark the 65th anniversary of Armed Forces Day on a street in central Seoul, October 1, 2013.
After North Korea's latest successful nuclear test, the Hermit Kingdom isn't the only nation that's using colorful rhetoric to publicize its militaristic intentions.
In response to the "higher level" fifth nuclear test conducted by North Korea last week, Yonhap News Agency reports that South Korea's Defense Ministry made public its plans for an extensive bombing operation called "Korea Massive Punishment & Retaliation" (KPMR).
"Every Pyongyang district, particularly where the North Korean leadership is possibly hidden, will be completely destroyed by ballistic missiles and high-explosive shells as soon as the North shows any signs of using a nuclear weapon," a South Korean military source told Yonhap.
"In other words, the North's capital city will be reduced to ashes ..."
KPMR outlines a preemptive strike on high-profile North Korean leaders, including Kim Jong-Un, in the event of either a war or the use of nuclear weapons is determined to be an imminent threat.
"The defense ministry's … [KPMR] is aimed at wiping a certain section of Pyongyang completely off the map," the military source stated in Yonhap.
In order to achieve these goals, South Korea has plans to mobilize its own arsenal of ballistic weapons - the Hyunmoo missiles, or "Guardian of the Northern Sky" - that have a range of up to 600 miles.
The total number of Hyunmoo missiles South Korea has in its arsenal is unknown, after reports surfaced of its intention to bolster production of the home-grown missile last month.
Go to the link to see this photograph
South Korean commandos participate in a training exercise on January 8, 2015 in Pyeongchang-gun, South Korea. The soldiers operated in below minus 20 degrees Celsius with a scenario to defend the country from any possible attacks from North Korea.
To supplement bombing runs and missile strikes, Yonhap also reported that a source indicated a special operations unit had been founded with the purpose of taking out North Korean military leaders.
"This military unit is dedicated to targeting the North Korean leadership and launching retaliatory attacks on them," he stated in Yonhap.
Since Seoul's statement was released, two US B-1 bombers, accompanied by South Korean F-15K fighter jets, performed a low-altitude show-of-force over Osan Air Base, about 48 miles from the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ).
But just like the doubts that accompany North Korea's frequent threats, foreign policy experts share the same sentiment for South Korea's KPMR plan.
In a Japan Times interview, Georgetown University professor Victor Cha claimed that although the possibility of a plan to strike Kim Jong Un and other military leaders may exist, it would be "more an expression of anger and frustration than a strategic attempt to deter the adversary."
Additionally, Peterson Institute for International Economics analyst Kent Boydston also hinted at the difficulty of South Korea's plans.
"Certainly North Korea would take precautions against a decapitation strike and it is unlikely that South Korea and the US could know exactly where the top leadership is located in a crisis," Boydston stated in The Japan Times.
Given the nature of the rhetoric behind both Koreas' preemptive and subsequent retaliatory strikes, it's hard to imagine a scenario where mutually assured destruction isn't a possibility.
"It is also hard to imagine a decapitation strike not escalating to broader hostilities," said Boydston.
So sorry for the big pictures --
http://nordic.businessinsider.com/south-korea-military-plans-raze-pyongyang-2016-9/
I need to read from another site on N. Korea & our plans.S. Korea's plans .. etc... I do know for certain that we have had additional military personnel fly into the South . and why not? .. so I do believe that .. It's just business insider has not earned my trust completely on foreign policy issues since their ownership change .... and the petersen institute has a horrible reputation .. so ...... if interested You & me need to do more reading if we are interested ...
Beautiful! Loving LIFE and showing it!
TrumpCare is a Human Rights Atrocity
March 13, 2017 | Scott Lemieux
If TrumpCare passes, by 2026 roughly 24 million people will be liberated from the tyranny of having health insurance: [ http://www.vox.com/2017/3/13/14912520/cbo-ahca-gop-plan ]
Donald Trump Loved To Cite The Nonpartisan Agency His Aides Are Now Discrediting
The Congressional Budget Office’s projection about the
Republican health care bill is expected this week.
By Igor Bobic
03/13/2017 11:00 am ET
Members of President Donald Trump’s administration attempted to pre-emptively discredit the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office over the weekend ? just before it’s expected to issue an official projection of how the Republican health care bill would affect the federal budget and insurance coverage.
On Sunday, the White House chief economic adviser, Gary Cohn, argued that CBO projections have been “meaningless” in the past because they said “many more people will be insured than are actually insured.” Mick Mulvaney, the White House budget director, even made the case that scoring big legislation like the GOP’s Obamacare repeal bill “isn’t the best use of [the CBO’s] time.”
But for the last several years, Trump himself has appeared to be a big fan of the CBO and its analysis. In fact, he frequently cited the office’s work in attacks against former President Barack Obama’s record on health care, jobs, the unemployment rate and the economy.
Here’s a sampling of some of Trump’s tweets citing CBO figures to criticize Obama:
oh really? ____Clinton’s unexpected new ally in the email investigation: President Trump
By Dana Milbank March 13 at 5:40 PM
After the “lock her up” campaign of 2016, President Trump’s administration has an unexpected message for those still investigating Hillary Clinton’s emails: Shut it down.
Trump made clear after the election that he had no appetite to go after Clinton legally, and on Monday his administration went further: His Justice Department went to court to fight those still going after Clinton.
Two conservative legal groups were in federal court in Washington on Monday morning to compel the release of more Clinton emails. And the Trump administration was on the other side.
“It is moot,” said Justice Department lawyer Carol Federighi, telling Judge James E. Boasberg of the administration’s plan to oppose requests for “discovery” by the two legal groups, Judicial Watch and Cause of Action. “Our principle argument is going to be mootness based on all the developments that have happened since the case was filed.”
Federighi was talking about legal mootness: It’s hard to claim that the government hasn’t been forthcoming when 55,000 pages of the former secretary of state’s emails have been made public and the FBI has completed an exhaustive investigation.
But the emails are also politically moot: Clinton lost the presidency, in part because FBI Director James Comey publicly reopened the Clinton email investigation on the eve of the election on what turned out to be dubious grounds. She has returned to private life, and her emails, never revelatory, are now irrelevant.
What’s interesting is that Trump’s DOJ essentially said so — even having Federighi, the same career lawyer who argued the case for the Obama administration, do the same for it.
“It’s incredible,” Tom Fitton, the head of Judicial Watch, told me after Monday’s hearing. “They’re taking the same position as the Obama administration on Clinton.”
Fitton said he suspects the administration sided against him Monday because there aren’t yet enough political appointees at the Justice Department to redirect prosecutors. “I don’t think President Trump would be pleased” with his administration’s defense of Clinton, Fitton said.
That’s one possibility. Another possibility is the Trump administration will defend executive power like those before it. A third explanation is the Trump administration finds the whole matter silly and has no wish to encourage legal Captain Ahabs in unending attempts to harpoon Clinton.
Fourteen months ago, Boasberg (whom I’ve known since he was in law school three decades ago) ruled against Judicial Watch, saying that the plaintiffs were on a “hunt for any kernel of fact” even if “marginally relevant.”
But in a surprising ruling released just after Christmas, the D.C. Circuit overturned Boasberg’s decision. “Absent a showing that the requested enforcement action could not shake loose a few more emails, the case is not moot,” Judge Stephen Williams wrote. Though previous attempts to get Clinton’s emails released “bore some fruit, the Department has not explained why shaking the tree harder .?.?. might not bear more still.”
This after the Clinton email tree had already been shaken so much it had dropped not only all its fruit but also its leaves and limbs.
Some conservatives exulted that their vanquished foe had suffered yet another blow. “Trump gets green light to go after Hillary’s emails,” trumpeted WorldNetDaily.com.
But Trump, to the consternation of the Clinton critics, refused to hit the gas. “It’s good to be here during the Trump administration!” a disappointed Fitton told fellow lawyers at the plaintiffs table after arriving for Monday’s hearing.
Boasberg began the hearing by raising his hands in an exaggerated shrug, shaking his head and smiling. “Interesting decision,” he said of the appellate ruling.
Federighi, formerly of the Obama Justice Department and now with the Trump Justice Department, expressed her view that if the request for more Clinton emails wasn’t moot 14 months ago, it certainly is moot now.
“I thought it was clearly moot,” the judge concurred.
James Peterson, arguing for Judicial Watch, declared it “a surprise to us that the new administration continues the position that they don’t need to do anything else” in response to the demands for more Clinton emails.
And John J. Vecchione, representing Cause of Action, attempted the argument that “much of what we know .?.?. is from press reports, which is not evidence.”
“Not just press reports,” the administration lawyer countered, “but a 17,000-page FBI file.” Federighi expressed her view that “they probably want to range widely over the entire FBI investigation.”
Said Boasberg: “I wouldn’t doubt that for a minute.”
Vecchione argued that he needs to know more — even after an extensive FBI investigation and tens of thousands of emails released, and even though the Trump administration opposes him.
“It’s like peeling an onion,” he said.
Exactly: Once you remove all the layers, you’re left with nothing.
FOOLS!
if judicial watch is trying a case and it gets this far ..they still lose .. alway losing!
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WHere's stupid? I glanced at a post that stupid wrote today
... something about Hillary .... and his daddy has a message for him...
got to find stupid ... where should I look? .. ;) ......I know where to start!
Being an American is life-threatening
TRUMP voters! STOP ROBBING OUR BABIES LIFE SPANS!
The U.S. infant mortality rate is relatively low, but life expectancy is lower than in about two dozen other countries. (SolStock/Getty Images/iStockphoto)
By Richard Cohen March 13 at 7:57 PM
Call her Seo-yeon. She’s an infant, cute as could be, and she will be born in the city of Busan, South Korea, in 2030. When she emits her first cry, this statistical abstract will have a life expectancy of about 90. Maddison, on the other hand, born the same year but in, say, Kansas City, will die seven years earlier. The cause of death? Being an American.
Being an American is life- threatening. For various reasons, men and women here don’t live as long as men and women in about two dozen other countries, including the ones we defeated in World War II — Japan, Germany and Italy. Americans have high rates of obesity, drug addiction and car accidents. Moreover, we’re more apt to use guns to settle disputes and not, as we are all told in nursery school, our words. There is yet another reason, and it is mentioned in reports on longevity: the American health-care system. It stinks.
The Lancet, the British medical journal, came up with some longevity projections. In a study published last month, it found that life expectancy is expected to increase in 35 industrialized nations over the next few decades. In South Korea, as in much of the affluent world, if you get sick, you see a doctor. There is no worrying about money, and you cannot go broke on account of illness. You could call this “South Korean exceptionalism,” except that it is America that is exceptional when it comes to health care.
Now we are engaged in a great health-care debate. For reasons having nothing to do with either health or care, the Republican Party, under the indifferent guidance of President Trump, is attempting to repeal the Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare. The president doesn’t know what he is doing because he doesn’t care what he is doing. He just wants to win — or, actually, claim victory. In May 2015, he vowed, “I’m not going to cut Medicare or Medicaid.” You don’t hear that now if for no other reason than it seems cuts are coming.
One reason that cute kid in South Korea is going to live longer than that just-as-cute kid in Kansas City is infant mortality. Among the richest countries, the United States has an infant mortality rate of 5.8 per 1,000 births. That’s very low compared with the rate of, say, Afghanistan (112.8) but not so good compared with the rate of Canada (4.6), France (3.3), Britain (4.3), Israel (3.5) or, as you might have guessed, South Korea (3.0). Our infant mortality rate, a function of available health care, ought to be a national embarrassment. Yet, if it has been mentioned in the current health-care debate, I haven’t noticed.
It has been years — maybe going back to Lincoln — since the Republican Party gave much thought to the poor, but this year its indifference has turned to cruelty. Clearly, whatever emerges from the current bill, the poor will not be the beneficiaries. Indeed, according to various accounts, they will suffer. This is particularly poignant because many of them voted for Trump, believing his cockamamie promises and admiring his cock-of-the-walk strut.
Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) was on to something when he suggested that the poor made dumb choices. His bizarre example was their choosing a cellphone over health insurance. This was Chaffetz at his let-them-eat-cake best since, I bet, he’s emotionally attached to his own cellphone. But he is right about the poor. The electoral choice so many of them made is going to cost them plenty. Trump does not care about them. Let them eat Mar-a-Lago.
Some years ago, T.R. Reid, my former Post colleague, went around the world with a bum shoulder. What would it cost to fix it? he asked in various countries. In all of them — Japan, Britain, Germany, India, Taiwan, France, etc. — he got amazing answers: very little and sometimes nothing. He learned that in almost any affluent nation, health care was guaranteed. Some of these countries have socialized plans, some don’t, but what matters is that they work. None of these plans is perfect, and they are not cheap. But in all of them, health care is a right. You get sick, you get better — often on the house.
Republicans and others who are in anguish over the possibility of socialized medicine ought to have to explain their ideology to a mother with a sick newborn. They ought to have to explain how this nation can debate health care and not mention how abysmal ours is. Finally, they ought to picture themselves explaining to Maddison why she will die sooner than Seo-yeon. It’s because she’s an American.
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The CBO just delivered a huge blow to Republicans’ Obamacare replacement
By Aaron Blake March 13 at 5:22 PM
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The Congressional Budget Office is out with its much-awaited report on the projected impact of Republicans' Obamacare replacement, and it's decidedly bad news for the GOP — at least on one very important count.
While some early estimates suggested that 6 million to 15 million could lose their insurance under the GOP's plan — a healthy portion of the 20 million who gained it under Obamacare — the projections are far north of that. In fact, they suggest that more people would eventually lose their insurance than have gained it. The CBO says 14 million would lose their insurance in 2018, that 21 million would lose it in 2020 and that 24 million would lose it in 2026.
Then the CBO report includes this line: “In 2026, an estimated 52 million people would be uninsured, compared with 28 million who would lack insurance that year under current law.”
That's nearly double.
Premiums: 15 to 20 percent higher in 2018-19; 10 percent lower in 10 years
oh so what? .... pay it baby! you were bitching before? I didn't think so.
AH well HELL! what's 24 million uninsured Americans? .. ..anyway?
I'm sure a good many of them will be trump voters .. so they won't care.
people dying earlier .. will be GOOD for the ENVIRONMENT and all the animals in it ..
I didn't know he was letting the cia drop the drones ... oh sheesh!
that how stupid thinks we will win .. LOLOLOL so stupid .. I mean think bush!
that is exactly how they talked about Clinton and Obama ...plus more!
it's their MO. .
it's all they are capable of. I mean afterall, can you even
imagine them being able to read David Brooks, David Frum ..?
and on and on .. ? No, They simply couldn't