Trump Screws the 99%
Mar 18, 2017 22:45:08 #
Progressive One wrote:
Yes he is a real fool indeed....and a pathological delusional liar who thinks he can create the reality of others.......he makes up things and threatens on the basis of his own creations.........he has some serious mental issues occurring in that tiny brain of his...........
Tell that to your welfare worker...Mr. Perfeser, or to the Cops when they roll up on ya!
Mar 18, 2017 22:51:34 #
Progressive One wrote:
I can design electronics, educate people and show ... (show quote)
Where is all your Cyber Security Buddies? Oh..snap...they are all off floating around in the air at Disney Land! WHhahahahaha ohohohohehehehe You are so full of POOP it is dripping from ya...(it always has)........
Mar 18, 2017 22:53:18 #
America Only wrote:
You do not design electronics. You never have. You... (show quote)
Of course I do all of that and more and i'm glad it bothers you so much.............there you go with "us" engineers again...."us" with the MBA's...go ahead and say you have a doctorate.....i'm touched that you admire me so that you are creating a life parallel to mine for yourself...feels nice huh? What crimes have I committed? You should search more .....
Mar 18, 2017 23:02:03 #
America Only wrote:
Where is all your Cyber Security Buddies? Oh..snap...they are all off floating around in the air at Disney Land! WHhahahahaha ohohohohehehehe You are so full of POOP it is dripping from ya...(it always has)........
That is "where ARE".......
remember idiot I work in various at airport environment locations. The FBI, police, Homeland Security, Medical and IT personnel are there for reasons ranging from hijacking, bomb squad work and even cyber and bio-terrorism.....i'll have to educate you on numerical threat assessment methodologies as applied to terminals, runways and other airport facilities. I know so much more than you and i'm not even white......no wonder I bring out the hatred in you......hilarious.......don't hate, congratulate.....you should be glad you have an educator who can elucidate for your edification........
Mar 18, 2017 23:19:09 #
America Only wrote:
You are a liar and a fraud! Have your fellow neggl... (show quote)
Why do you people look down on welfare recipients? Are you all such pieces of shit that the less fortunate make you feel better? They mail checks to people, not percentages dumb ass but I don't look down on the less fortunate..The trump supporters are now scared they will have to decide between food and healthcare thanks to you dummies that put orange freak in office....the black guy gave it to you all and you'd rather see grandma die than have ObamaCare........wow....I feel sorry for your older relatives.......whether they are racist or not.......
Mar 19, 2017 00:25:18 #
America Only wrote:
Oh stop it! My frigging dog has more intellect than you. I can see when you think you need to do something super educational you dive right off the deep end and risk "licking" a postage stamp! OH MY...how frigging "smart" YOU are! HOHheheheh ahahahah OHOHOHHlalallalalaoLOLOL!
Go blow out a candle and make yourself useful...dip stick.
Go blow out a candle and make yourself useful...dip stick.
Being stupid about politics is one thing, and forgivable. But you have to be the dumbest person in other areas that I have ever met on line or off. Other people are entitled to their opinions it's a free country anyway last I looked, so go ahead and prove with every post just what a looser you are. There will always be some snuck that will agree with you.
Mar 19, 2017 02:46:43 #
Bevos wrote:
You are SUCH A LIAR!! IF you have Ins. Then WHY are you paying the Penalty??
Who said I'm paying the penalty? I SAID... I would RATHER pay the penalty than the higher premium... what part of that do you NOT understand?
Mar 19, 2017 02:51:53 #
Trump Adminsitration's job creation...
U.S. warns N. Korea attack is an option
Tillerson, on a trip to Asia, appears to reverse years of policy that stressed patience over military action.
REX TILLERSON took a tough stand against North Korea’s regime. (Jung Yeon-je Pool Photo)
By Matt Stiles and Tracy Wilkinson
SEOUL — Secretary of State Rex Tillerson warned for the first time Friday that “all options” are being considered to counter North Korea’s emerging nuclear threat, including a military strike if necessary to safeguard allies and tens of thousands of U.S. troops stationed in the region.
The threat of a U.S. military attack comes after a series of ballistic missile tests by Kim Jong Un’s government in recent weeks has heightened tensions across northeast Asia and raised the possibility of a conflict with an adversary that now possesses nuclear arms and appears close to being able to strike U.S. territory.
The tough talk appears to be a break from previous U.S. administrations, which emphasized diplomacy, economic sanctions and covert operations, including cyberattacks, to try to reduce the danger from one of the world’s most isolated, and unpredictable, dictatorships.
“Certainly we do not want for things to get to a military conflict,” Tillerson told reporters in Seoul on the second leg of his three-nation visit to Asia, his first to the region since taking office.
“We’ve been quite clear on that in our communications. But obviously, if North Korea takes actions that threaten the South Korean forces or our own forces, then that will be met with an appropriate response,” he added.
“Let me be very clear: The policy of strategic patience has ended,” he said, referring to the Obama administration’s policy of trying to wait out the North Korean regime while pressing it with economic sanctions and covert actions.
Tillerson arrives in Beijing on Saturday, where he is expected to meet President Xi Jinping. China remains North Korea’s chief political and economic patron but it has struggled over the years to rein in Pyongyang’s leadership.
Tillerson emphasized the need for maintaining economic sanctions on Pyongyang but also made clear that the Trump administration would not be limited to that approach.
“We’re exploring a new range of diplomatic, security and economic measures. All options are on the table,” he said.
Among the options would be to boost South Korea’s anti-missile defenses, a process that is underway, or to enable Japan to build an offensive missile capability. Japan’s 1947 Constitution, imposed by the United States, limits its military to defense only.
Washington also could reintroduce nuclear weapons to U.S. bases in South Korea to serve as a front-line deterrent. They were removed in 1991 under President George H.W. Bush as part of a post-Cold War effort to ease global tensions.
Previous administrations have considered a first strike against North Korean missile and nuclear facilities an option of last resort because it almost certainly would provoke a massive retaliation against South Korea and Japan. More than 75,000 U.S. military personnel are stationed in those countries.
The mounting threat could pose the first major foreign policy crisis for the Trump White House. As a candidate, Trump suggested letting Japan and South Korea build their own nuclear weapons to counter North Korea, but he has not pursued that as president.
Even the threat of a preemptive American attack adds risks to a volatile situation since North Korea has always insisted that was the U.S. intention. Its leaders have used that claim to justify creating one of the world’s most heavily armed states.
Tillerson also appeared to reject the idea of trying to negotiate a freeze in North Korea’s weapons program, a policy that the Clinton administration tried in 1994 by supplying oil and other aid to Pyongyang in an effort to block its then-nascent nuclear development.
The so-called Agreed Framework successfully slowed Pyongyang’s ability to produce weapons-grade plutonium that could be used to fuel a bomb. But the deal collapsed in 2002 when Pyongyang shifted course and pursued a uranium-enrichment route to nuclear arms.
It conducted its first underground nuclear test in 2006 under the Bush administration, and four tests since then. The most recent, last September, was said to produce a destructive yield larger than the nuclear bomb that the U.S. dropped on Hiroshima in 1945 at the end of World War II.
Another attempted freeze, under the Obama administration in 2012, lasted only 15 days before Pyongyang launched a missile that the U.S. said violated the deal.
North Korea’s capabilities have expanded dramatically in the last year, suggesting it is getting closer to building an intercontinental ballistic missile that could carry a warhead to Alaska, Hawaii or the continental U.S.
It conducted more than two dozen missile tests, including one that could reach all of Japan, another launched from a submarine, and another that uses solid fuel and can be launched quickly.
An unusual launch this month involved four medium-range missiles. North Korea said the simultaneous salvo was a drill to practice hitting U.S. military bases in Japan. The missiles all fell in the ocean.
“At this stage, I’m not sure we would be willing to freeze with the circumstance where they exist today, given that would leave North Korea with significant capabilities that would represent a true threat not just to the region but to American forces as well,” Tillerson said.
On Thursday, the North Korean Embassy in Beijing invited reporters in for a rare news conference to blame the United States for putting the region at what it called “the brink of nuclear war.”
The bellicose language was not new but issuing the threat in Beijing, which the Trump administration hopes will help constrain Pyongyang, was notable. China has announced a ban on coal imports from North Korea, but analysts doubt Beijing will enforce the ban for fear of creating instability on its border.
For his part, President Trump declared on Twitter that North Korea was “behaving very badly” and dismissed a Chinese proposal to freeze North Korea’s nuclear and missile programs in exchange for a halt to U.S.-South Korean military exercises.
Tillerson’s remarks, standing with South Korean Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se, came a day after he declared in Tokyo that two decades of attempts to block North Korea from developing nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles had failed and that a “different approach” was required.
Earlier Friday, Tillerson toured the Demilitarized Zone, a heavily guarded buffer area between North and South Korea created after the 1953 armistice that halted fighting during the Korean War.
A group of North Koreans, apparently tourists, waved from across the border during Tillerson’s visit. A helmeted North Korean soldier, just across the border, took pictures of Tillerson’s back as he posed with Gen. Vincent K. Brooks, commander of U.S. forces in South Korea.
Tillerson ate lunch with U.S. troops there and signed a brick with chalk, a tradition for dignitaries who visit the site.
Tillerson’s tour of the region comes as the U.S. military is participating in a two-month exercise with South Korean and Japanese forces, an annual exercise that North Korea routinely denounces as a prelude to war.
The Foal Eagle exercise involves fighter jets, submarines and ground forces involved in a range of complex drills. About 3,600 U.S. service members were deployed for the event, joining the 28,000 U.S. troops permanently based in South Korea.
Capt. Jeff Davis, a Pentagon spokesman, said Friday that the U.S. military has a number of plans in place in the event of hostile North Korean military action.
“I’ll let Secretary Tillerson talk for U.S. policy,” Davis said. “Our job is to provide military options that give strength to foreign policy that he leads.”
Tillerson’s meeting in Seoul comes amid political upheaval in South Korea. Its president was removed from office last week in a corruption scandal that threatens nearly a decade of conservative party rule.
The leading candidate in the polls, Moon Jae-in, says he wants to delay installation of a new U.S. anti-missile system, known as THAAD, which is intended to shoot down North Korean missiles.
tracy.wilkinson@latimes.com
Times staff writer Wilkinson reported from Washington and special correspondent Stiles from Seoul. Special correspondent Jessica Meyers in Beijing and staff writer W.J. Hennigan in Washington contributed to this report.
U.S. warns N. Korea attack is an option
Tillerson, on a trip to Asia, appears to reverse years of policy that stressed patience over military action.
REX TILLERSON took a tough stand against North Korea’s regime. (Jung Yeon-je Pool Photo)
By Matt Stiles and Tracy Wilkinson
SEOUL — Secretary of State Rex Tillerson warned for the first time Friday that “all options” are being considered to counter North Korea’s emerging nuclear threat, including a military strike if necessary to safeguard allies and tens of thousands of U.S. troops stationed in the region.
The threat of a U.S. military attack comes after a series of ballistic missile tests by Kim Jong Un’s government in recent weeks has heightened tensions across northeast Asia and raised the possibility of a conflict with an adversary that now possesses nuclear arms and appears close to being able to strike U.S. territory.
The tough talk appears to be a break from previous U.S. administrations, which emphasized diplomacy, economic sanctions and covert operations, including cyberattacks, to try to reduce the danger from one of the world’s most isolated, and unpredictable, dictatorships.
“Certainly we do not want for things to get to a military conflict,” Tillerson told reporters in Seoul on the second leg of his three-nation visit to Asia, his first to the region since taking office.
“We’ve been quite clear on that in our communications. But obviously, if North Korea takes actions that threaten the South Korean forces or our own forces, then that will be met with an appropriate response,” he added.
“Let me be very clear: The policy of strategic patience has ended,” he said, referring to the Obama administration’s policy of trying to wait out the North Korean regime while pressing it with economic sanctions and covert actions.
Tillerson arrives in Beijing on Saturday, where he is expected to meet President Xi Jinping. China remains North Korea’s chief political and economic patron but it has struggled over the years to rein in Pyongyang’s leadership.
Tillerson emphasized the need for maintaining economic sanctions on Pyongyang but also made clear that the Trump administration would not be limited to that approach.
“We’re exploring a new range of diplomatic, security and economic measures. All options are on the table,” he said.
Among the options would be to boost South Korea’s anti-missile defenses, a process that is underway, or to enable Japan to build an offensive missile capability. Japan’s 1947 Constitution, imposed by the United States, limits its military to defense only.
Washington also could reintroduce nuclear weapons to U.S. bases in South Korea to serve as a front-line deterrent. They were removed in 1991 under President George H.W. Bush as part of a post-Cold War effort to ease global tensions.
Previous administrations have considered a first strike against North Korean missile and nuclear facilities an option of last resort because it almost certainly would provoke a massive retaliation against South Korea and Japan. More than 75,000 U.S. military personnel are stationed in those countries.
The mounting threat could pose the first major foreign policy crisis for the Trump White House. As a candidate, Trump suggested letting Japan and South Korea build their own nuclear weapons to counter North Korea, but he has not pursued that as president.
Even the threat of a preemptive American attack adds risks to a volatile situation since North Korea has always insisted that was the U.S. intention. Its leaders have used that claim to justify creating one of the world’s most heavily armed states.
Tillerson also appeared to reject the idea of trying to negotiate a freeze in North Korea’s weapons program, a policy that the Clinton administration tried in 1994 by supplying oil and other aid to Pyongyang in an effort to block its then-nascent nuclear development.
The so-called Agreed Framework successfully slowed Pyongyang’s ability to produce weapons-grade plutonium that could be used to fuel a bomb. But the deal collapsed in 2002 when Pyongyang shifted course and pursued a uranium-enrichment route to nuclear arms.
It conducted its first underground nuclear test in 2006 under the Bush administration, and four tests since then. The most recent, last September, was said to produce a destructive yield larger than the nuclear bomb that the U.S. dropped on Hiroshima in 1945 at the end of World War II.
Another attempted freeze, under the Obama administration in 2012, lasted only 15 days before Pyongyang launched a missile that the U.S. said violated the deal.
North Korea’s capabilities have expanded dramatically in the last year, suggesting it is getting closer to building an intercontinental ballistic missile that could carry a warhead to Alaska, Hawaii or the continental U.S.
It conducted more than two dozen missile tests, including one that could reach all of Japan, another launched from a submarine, and another that uses solid fuel and can be launched quickly.
An unusual launch this month involved four medium-range missiles. North Korea said the simultaneous salvo was a drill to practice hitting U.S. military bases in Japan. The missiles all fell in the ocean.
“At this stage, I’m not sure we would be willing to freeze with the circumstance where they exist today, given that would leave North Korea with significant capabilities that would represent a true threat not just to the region but to American forces as well,” Tillerson said.
On Thursday, the North Korean Embassy in Beijing invited reporters in for a rare news conference to blame the United States for putting the region at what it called “the brink of nuclear war.”
The bellicose language was not new but issuing the threat in Beijing, which the Trump administration hopes will help constrain Pyongyang, was notable. China has announced a ban on coal imports from North Korea, but analysts doubt Beijing will enforce the ban for fear of creating instability on its border.
For his part, President Trump declared on Twitter that North Korea was “behaving very badly” and dismissed a Chinese proposal to freeze North Korea’s nuclear and missile programs in exchange for a halt to U.S.-South Korean military exercises.
Tillerson’s remarks, standing with South Korean Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se, came a day after he declared in Tokyo that two decades of attempts to block North Korea from developing nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles had failed and that a “different approach” was required.
Earlier Friday, Tillerson toured the Demilitarized Zone, a heavily guarded buffer area between North and South Korea created after the 1953 armistice that halted fighting during the Korean War.
A group of North Koreans, apparently tourists, waved from across the border during Tillerson’s visit. A helmeted North Korean soldier, just across the border, took pictures of Tillerson’s back as he posed with Gen. Vincent K. Brooks, commander of U.S. forces in South Korea.
Tillerson ate lunch with U.S. troops there and signed a brick with chalk, a tradition for dignitaries who visit the site.
Tillerson’s tour of the region comes as the U.S. military is participating in a two-month exercise with South Korean and Japanese forces, an annual exercise that North Korea routinely denounces as a prelude to war.
The Foal Eagle exercise involves fighter jets, submarines and ground forces involved in a range of complex drills. About 3,600 U.S. service members were deployed for the event, joining the 28,000 U.S. troops permanently based in South Korea.
Capt. Jeff Davis, a Pentagon spokesman, said Friday that the U.S. military has a number of plans in place in the event of hostile North Korean military action.
“I’ll let Secretary Tillerson talk for U.S. policy,” Davis said. “Our job is to provide military options that give strength to foreign policy that he leads.”
Tillerson’s meeting in Seoul comes amid political upheaval in South Korea. Its president was removed from office last week in a corruption scandal that threatens nearly a decade of conservative party rule.
The leading candidate in the polls, Moon Jae-in, says he wants to delay installation of a new U.S. anti-missile system, known as THAAD, which is intended to shoot down North Korean missiles.
tracy.wilkinson@latimes.com
Times staff writer Wilkinson reported from Washington and special correspondent Stiles from Seoul. Special correspondent Jessica Meyers in Beijing and staff writer W.J. Hennigan in Washington contributed to this report.
Mar 19, 2017 03:00:07 #
Bevos wrote:
I said that it was a "rant" because the ones I DID read weeks ago were all just that. RANTS!!
Uh-huh... Well, if you actually did read them you would notice they are essentially news clippings... cut and pasted from whatever sources he's reading. So they're not exactly rants.
Bevos wrote:
And you can call me names all you want, but ANYBODY with a brain KNOWS that that is what Liberals DO!!! They call everyone that disagrees with them, exactly what they "themselves" ARE!!!
And you can call me names all you want, but ANYBODY with a brain KNOWS that that is what Liberals DO!!! They call everyone that disagrees with them, exactly what they "themselves" ARE!!!
I didn't even CALL you any any names... I said... "I guess that's a tall order for someone who scrolls past a series of posts and says "I did not read a word of them"
...so, what? ...That's a name? YOU'RE the one who said you didn't read any of it.
Bevos wrote:
I am SO DONE WITH YOU!!!
I am SO DONE WITH YOU!!!
I bet... all that back-peddling must be exhausting.
Mar 19, 2017 03:22:13 #
woodssprite 17 wrote:
That seems to be the "style" here. Blow hards who only want to spout their agendas and don't want to or are incapable of extending the courtesy of reading what other people post. I find your posts most informative thank you.
Thank you woodssprite... There's a few of us that make the effort. It's unfortunate that these places do seem to get flooded with blow-hards. I guess it should expected when you make the mode of communication more accessible as the Internet does. 20 years ago these people would not be heard at all because they lack the literary skills to make it into the published world. Today all channels are open and even the barely-functioning can hit a few keys and grunt across the globe. Still, they have as much right to be here as we do.
Mar 19, 2017 03:29:03 #
woodssprite 17 wrote:
What are you afraid of? It couldn't be free speech now could it? Only uneducated blow hards have to resort to calling people names. Go back to your sand box and call your fellow toddlers names untill you are purple in the face with rage. Let the adults discuss topics of interest. Be good and run along now.
Ya just gotta ignore him. AO is kind of like a village drunk. Harmless... rants and insults.
Mar 19, 2017 03:34:17 #
Mar 19, 2017 03:41:12 #
America Only wrote:
You are a liar and a fraud! Have your fellow neggl... (show quote)
watch what happens to trump for blaming Obama for a felony.....you cannot just make up crimes on people you backwards motherf-cker regardless of pictures or anything else......dumbass ....but go ahead and do so.....I double and triple dare you....time for you both to learn your fking lessons.......I hope your bitch ass think you're putting fear in someone.....fk you retarded ass bitch............talking about people's material items makes you sound like a bitch telling someone why they aren't going to allow someone to fk them in their ass and that they will let someone with a newer car do so.....you and that doc cat have a lot of bitch in you.....two old ass white faggs........
Mar 19, 2017 03:46:35 #
straightUp wrote:
Ya just gotta ignore him. AO is kind of like a village drunk. Harmless... rants and insults.
you would think my dumbass would learn...now he's making up rape cases and stalking and even murder......yeah that has to be the booze......I need to heed your advice..........
Mar 19, 2017 04:06:56 #
Progressive One wrote:
That is "where ARE"....... br br rememb... (show quote)
Negglar, you have a lot of part time janitor jobs and that is about it. You know it and I know it. Your "methodology" consists of lying your ass off as much as possible to pretend to be someone and something you know you are not, have not been and never will be.
You have lied so many times, you should get an award for bullshitter of the year...but oh no...your Black Kenyan King Obama and Hillary won that one already...so guess what, nappy boy..you only get third place.
The HILARIOUS part is, you have lied so many times, you actually think you know something about the topic of EE when in fact, you have a difficult time finding shit to google search and read and then come back on this website and copy and paste....THAT is what is hilarious.
You are a fraud...a fake...a nasty nappy headed lil wee wee janitor...the nappy with no pappy...and we know how it is with you blacks...it is acceptable to lie...part of your "Black Thang"....you lie, and the other few Negglars on this website lie...it is all you know. You are just all pathetic and pissed off that I have busted you each time you have changed your user name and come back here running your same loon game...
NOW with you most likely having to face some law enforcement agencies in your area, I can see right now you will try to blame someone else for all the things you most likely have done all by yourself.
You ever look to see how many young people in your immediate area are missing or dead and no identification as to whom they were? I bet the cops are going to take a REAL close look at you, MR, Wanna B. Perfeser.
What a scum bag you are. I hope some of the Parents of those kids you have been trying to lure take a ball bat to your nasty azz!
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