Wednesday, March 27, 2013

It's war ... it is going to come ...


I am still saying  Seoul is going to be hit, it's just a matter of time. The US government will be blamed, because it put North Korea into a no win situation. As these headline .02 war ... 


NKorea orders rocket prep after US B-2 drill

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea's leader said Friday that his rocket forces are ready "to settle accounts with the U.S.," an escalation of the country's bellicose rhetoric and a direct response to the unprecedented announcement that U.S. nuclear-capable B-2 bombers had joined military drills with South Korea.
Kim Jong Un's comments in a meeting with his senior generals are part of a rising tide of threats meant to highlight anger over the military drills and recent U.N. sanctions over Pyongyang's nuclear test. North Korea sees U.S. nuclear firepower as a direct threat to its existence and claims the annual military drills are a preparation for invasion. Pyongyang also uses the U.S. nuclear arsenal as a justification for its own push for nuclear-tipped missiles that can strike the United States — a goal that experts believe to be years away, despite a nuclear test last month and a long-range rocket launch in December.
A full-blown North Korean attack is unlikely, though there are fears of a more localized conflict, such as a naval skirmish in disputed Yellow Sea waters. Such naval clashes have happened three times since 1999. North Korea's threats are seen by outside analysts as efforts to provoke South Korea to soften its policies and to win direct talks with Washington that could result in aid. Kim's comments are also seen as ways to build domestic loyalty and strengthen his military credentials....

US sends nuclear-capable B-2 bombers to SKorea

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The U.S military says two nuclear-capable B-2 bombers have completed a training mission in South Korea amid threats from North Korea that include nuclear strikes on Washington and Seoul.
The statement Thursday by U.S. Forces Korea is an unusual confirmation. It follows an earlier U.S. announcement that nuclear-capable B-52 bombers participated in ongoing U.S.-South Korean military drills.
The U.S. says the B-2 stealth bombers flew from a U.S. air base and dropped munitions on a South Korean island range before returning home.
The announcement will likely draw a strong response from Pyongyang. North Korea sees the military drills as part of a U.S. plot to invade and becomes particularly upset about U.S. nuclear activities in the region.
Washington and Seoul say they the annual drills are routine and defensive.


In Moscow, new Chinese leader Xi warns against meddling

By Vladimir Soldatkin
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Chinese President Xi Jinping warned against foreign interference in the affairs of other nations during a speech in Moscow on Saturday, sending a signal to the West and echoing a message often repeated by Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Permanent U.N. Security Council members with veto power, Russia and China have frequently teamed up diplomatically to blunt the influence of the United States and its NATO allies and have blocked three draft resolutions on Syria.
"We must respect the right of each country in the world to independently choose its path of development and oppose interference in the internal affairs of other countries," Xi told students at an international relations school.
He spoke a day after meeting Putin on his first foreign trip since becoming president, a choice both said underscored a "strategic partnership" between Russia and China.
In the Kremlin, he told Putin: "you and I are good friends." ....



North Korea to cut all channels with South as "war may break out any time"

SEOUL (Reuters) - Reclusive North Korea is to cut the last channel of communications with the South because war could break out at "any moment", it said on Wednesday, days of after warning the United States and South Korea of nuclear attack.
The move is the latest in a series of bellicose threats from North Korea in response to new U.N. sanctions imposed after its third nuclear test in February and to "hostile" military drills under way joining the United States and South Korea. ....

Saturday, March 23, 2013

MABUS CALLING North Korea ... Gambling with Seoul


Obama  /Bush team up!    Let's go to war (Hell) is there motto 

Did Norstradmus see the morphed picture of these 2 presidents through his seer i of "the universal"?
 Well the world follow Mabus into war? 
Hello- is anyone awake? Do you see "War" coming to a theater near you?
JERUSALEM - Concerns that Syria's stockpile of chemical weapons could reach militant groups bordering Israel and Turkey was the motivating factor in restoring relations with Ankara after a three year rift, Israel's prime minister said.
Benjamin Netanyahu wrote on his Facebook page Saturday that Israel and Turkey, which border Syria, need to communicate with each other over the Syrian crisis.
"The fact that the crisis in Syria intensifies from moment to moment was the main consideration in my view," Netanyahu wrote.
Netanyahu phoned his Turkish counterpart Friday and apologized for a botched raid on a Gaza bound flotilla in 2010 that left eight Turks and one Turkish-American dead. Turkey demanded an apology as a condition for restoring ties. Netanyahu had until now refused to apologize, saying Israeli soldiers acted in self-defence after being attacked by activists.
Turkey and Israel were once strong allies but relations began decline after Erdogan, whose party has roots in Turkey's Islamist movement, became prime minister in 2003. Erdogan has embarked on a campaign to make Turkey a regional powerhouse in an attempt to become the leading voice in the Muslim world, distanced from Israel.
Animosity increased after the flotilla incident and ambassadors were later withdrawn.
Spillover from fighting in Syria's civil war reaches Israeli communities in the Golan Heights from time to time. Errant mortar shells and machine-gun fire have caused damage, sparked fires and spread panic but lead to no injuries so far.
Israel has expressed concern that Syria's chemical arsenal could fall into the hands of militants like Lebanon's Hezbollah, an Assad ally, or an al-Qaida-linked group fighting with the rebels.
Netanyahu's national security adviser, Yaakov Amidror, said the timing was right for reconciling with Turkey. "Between us and Turkey is a country that is falling apart and that has chemical weapons," he said.
Last week, Syrian rebels and Assad's government blamed each other for a chemical attack on a village. The U.S. said there was no evidence chemical weapons were used.
The use of such weapons would be a nightmare scenario in the two-year-old conflict that has killed an estimated 70,000 people.
President Barack Obama helped broker the Israeli apology to Turkey. Obama has declared the use, deployment or transfer of the weapons a "red line" for possible military intervention by the U.S. in the Syrian conflict.


Who is going to win in World War 3?
Do you know of any other entity that fits this
Mabus song...???

The wheels on the Mabus go round and round
Round and round, round and round
The wheels on the Mabus go round and round
All through the town.
(Roll hands over each other) :cabbagepatch: 

The wipers on the Mabus go "Swish, swish, swish, :neer: 
Swish, swish, swish, swish, swish, swish" :neer: 
The wipers on the Mabus go "Swish, swish, swish" :neer: 
All through the town.
(Put arms together in front of you and'swish' like windshield wipers)

The door on the Mabus goes open and shut :banghead: 
Open and shut, open and shut :banghead: 
The door on the Mabus goes open and shut :banghead: 
All through the town.
(Cover eyes with hands on 'shut' anduncover them on 'open')

The horn on the Mabus goes "Beep, beep, beep :whistling: 
Beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep" :whistling: 
The horn on the Mabus goes "Beep, beep, beep" :whistling: 
All through the town.
(Pretend to honk horn)

The gas on the Mabus goes "Glug, glug, glug Image(in Syria)
Glug, glug, glug, glug, glug, glug"Image  (in Syria)
The gas on the Mabus goes "Glug, glug, glug"Image(in Syria) 
All through the town.
(Pretend to fill tank using pointer finger as gas nozzle)

The money on the Mabus goes "Clink, clink, clink, :2cents: 
Clink, clink, clink, clink, clink, clink" :2cents: 
The money on the Mabus goes "Clink, clink, clink" :2cents: 
All through the town.
(Pretend to put money in cash box on bus)

The baby on the Mabus says, "Wah, wah, wah! :cry: 
Wah, wah, wah, wah, wah, wah!" :cry: 
The baby on the Mabus says, "Wah, wah, wah!" :cry: 
All through the town.
(Fisted hands in front of eyesand rub them like baby crying)

The people on the Mabus say, "Shh, shh, shh, Imageit
Shh, shh, shh, shh, shh, shh"Image it
The people on the Mabus say, "Shh, shh, shh"Image it
All through the town.
(Put pointer finger to mouth to 'shhh')

The mommy on the Mabus says, "I love you, :yikes Seoul
I love you, I love you" :yikes Seoul
The daddy on the Mabus says, "I love you, too" :yikes Seoul
All through the town.
(Point to self on 'I',right hand over heart on 'love', andpoint to other on 'you')




Nostradamus’s Mabus Prophecy Quatrain Fulfilled When Oama Died .... President?

Published on July 5, 2012 by    ·   The seer Nostradamus saw into the future so long ago during his time. A time filled with troubles much like our own. For centuries people have speculated about his Mabus prophecy. Labeling Mabus as the Anti-Christ in speculation that it was this villian it spoke of. Mostly due to the possibility that Nostradamus mentioned the furor Hitler in a quatrain speaking of Hister. I myself believe Mabus means so many different things such as May Be Us during this time. If you look closely at the name and the name of the beings taking the center stage during this time you will plainly see that Nostradamus is pointing to our time peroid in which we live in now. One can plainly see how the word Mabus dances around Osama, Obama, and of course Bush. The quatrain goes as follows;
Century 2, Quatrain 62
Mabus then will soon die, there will come A horrible undoing of people and animals: At once vengeance one will see vengeance, One hundred hands, thirst, famine, when the comet will run.
Breaking down the quatrain we see that someone has died meaning Osama Bin Laden possibly. I feel very sure of this meaning I am denoting this. Last night after I had the clear vision of the prophecy meaning this I had a dream verifying this as I slept revolving around the name Mabus. A strange dream involving Bill Maher doing a weird show based on Mabus. It was an odd dream and to me verified that I was unto something for sure about having this series of thoughts that I am now relaying here to you now through this technology. Then we go into the next three lines that revolve around retribution and vegeance for what has been done regarding the military killing Osama Bin Laden in Pakistan. Already the United States of America is on high alert for possible terror cells to emerge to detonate nuclear or chemical devices. Many in the world considered Osama a hero who hate America. So it would make logical sense that these people are upset about his death and will seek some sort of justice for what has been done and announced through President Obama to the entire world. Mabus is suppose to trigger World War Three via his death if you take the approach of Mabus meaning Anti-Christ. I do not think anyone possibly knows what Mabus means. Even I question my interpretation at times. No absolutes but if you align the names of Obama and Osama and Bush in such a way as Osama Bush you can plainly see the word Mabus intertwined. I believe the prophecy shows the time we are living in now which is a time of creation and possible destruction for all of mankind teethering on the brink of oblivion. Now let us get into the comet.
Comet....  I don't understand why people can't read signs? only looney tunes can read the acme corp fine print 



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Antichrist
The name for the
personification of evil. He's the Agent Smith shadow cast by every messianic Neo trying to save those in the Matrix of illusion. He's the opposite of Christ the "anointed one of God." Without him, good and evil can't dance. Opposites attract in the war of heaven over Earth.

Luke Skywalker awaits Darth Vader. Jerry the Mouse confounds Tom the Cartoon Cat. What significance is the Roadrunner without his Wile E. Coyote? If Christ were the consciousness incarnate Son of God on Earth, then the Antichrist is God's ultimate and unconscious bastard boy.
Nostradamus, the greatest prophet of the last 500 years not only knows who the Antichrist is but also who "they" are. It was such a dangerous secret that he hid their true names in a code.
He was protecting our future from them, for if they could see their names tied to actions foreseen, clearly exposed, there might not have been a future for us.
Finding a perfect balance between revelation and occultation can't be more delicate and dangerous than when one presents visions of an emerging Antichrist to future readers. The theme plays prominently in Nostradamus' writings. His take on the matter is by far the most radical of those who prophesy the Antichrist whether hailing from East or West.
He foresaw not one, but THREE antichrists.
Each would be responsible for taking humanity one step towards the world's complete destruction. Investigators for centuries have entered the torrent of the prophet's vaguely punctuated stream of consciousness prose or navigated the prescient shorthand in his four-line quatrains to catch or commit an evil history before it happens.
Good as well as evil people were looking for a prophetic advantage at the future's expense. That's why Nostradamus wove his visions together in words and sentences hard to illuminate. If Hitler was one of the three Antichrists foreseen, could a more clear prophecy from Nostradamus have helped Hitler change destiny, win a world war and plunge humanity into a greater darkness than first foreseen? Who then would be responsible for such a disaster other than the prophet himself?
Sample Chapter
NostradamusNostradamus took great pains to cloak the names of his three candidates for antichrist in coded anagrams: to protect the innocent from those in the future that might recognize themselves in his prophecies and do worse.
THE FIRST ANTICHRIST . . . PAU NAY LORON
Nostradamus code-named him "PAU, NAY, LORON." All in uppercase. An obvious decoding would give us three towns in southwestern France: Pau, Nay and (O)loron. The rest of the prophecy strays the subject away from three villages to describe a human being. The upper-case presentation is a literary nudge in our sides to envisage a person's name hidden in the letters spelling three towns.
Napoleon
PAU NAY LORON = NAPAULON ROY

His name encoded is "Napoleon King"
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
An Emperor will be born near Italy, He will cost his Empire very dearly… He is less a prince than a butcher. - Nostradamus (1555)



The Second Antichrist: HIƒTER
"Germany Lives!" by K. Stauber (US Army Historical Collection), depicts Hitler as a Nazi Messiah. No dove of the Holy Ghost descends from Heaven but Wotan’s raven flying down from Walhall, (Ayran warrior paradise). In Norse mythology, the raven is the Teutonic god’s messenger. Hitler is the message.
adolf hitler
Nostradamus code-named the second Antichrist "Hiƒter" -- or "Hister" with a Gothic "s" -- after the ancient name of the River Danube, which is the Ister. Nostradamus spells it with its most arcane variant Hister as some specific hint. Again, there's a pattern to follow here. This "Danube" finds itself a thing representing a person mentioned as Hister in five prophecies containing similar story lines. He becomes the"Captain of Greater Germany" born in Noricum (the ancient name for Austria). He will have a "crooked cross" as his symbol: theSwastika. The people of "Irale" (an anagram for Israel) would be sent as captives into a great furnace by this "Hister." It seems Nostradamus saw the boy who grew up on the banks of the Hister (Danube) River in Linz, Austria, dreaming of concentration camps for the Jews, Nostradamus' kin, to be sent up in ash clouds.
HIƒTER = HITLER

ADOLF HITLER



MabusTHE THIRD AND FINAL ANTICHRIST... MABUS

The Candidates for Mabus.
The prophet forged visions into cryptic verse after sitting alone in a state of trance in nightly vigils locked away in his secret upstairs study in Salon Provence summoning what he called "angelic emissaries from God" to his aid. In the mid-1550s, he received from them words, sounds and twilit images warning about a third and final antichrist that has yet to fully reveal himself. This man is described in a prophecy indexed 10 Q72 (Century 10, Quatrain 72) as, The king of terror. He will enter the world stage, descending from distant future skies, In the year 1999 September month.
Nostradamus fashioned anagrams out of numbers too. If the month of "September" is a lead, then "1999" could be a reverse code for the actual year, month and DAY:
1999 = 9111
Thus the prophecy means to say:
In the year 9.11.1 September month, The great King of Terror comes from the Sky.
Nostradamus gave the Third Antichrist the following code name. He's Mabus. A number of notorious contemporary figures, still living or recently dead from the Middle East can see their names spelled in the Mabus code. But there also are other leaders from the West, deeply entangled in Middle Eastern turmoil, a current US president and a charismatic candidate who could be his successor whose names also easily decode out of Mabus, making the search for the right candidate the most provocative and topical challenge presented by Nostradamus for our present times.
Though his true name is occulted, the Third Antichrist's destiny is made clear. Unlike the first two, he is the first to die in a war he initiates at the sign of a comet, or a rocket falling out of the skies:

World War III begins when Mabus dies a sudden death.

911 world trade centerHis act of terror unites a hundred nations in a war against what Nostradamus calls three Eastern kings secretly allied in opposition to the West. They would use piracy (hijacking?),ambush and subterfuge to wage war.
Know the war has begun when hollow mountains of a great New City (yet to be built in Nostradamus' day) at latitude 45in an unborn country he called Americh or Amorica, will be attacked by a fire in the sky. The hollow mountains crafted by man will be seized and plunged into the boiling cauldron of their own debris clouds.
After this happens, we will be living in the days
of the last Antichrist.

End Sample Chapter

In the shocking conclusion to this new book on MABUS, John Hogue introduces a NEW candidate for Mabus which only his own depth of understanding of how the human evolution is taking shape in these times could comprehend. It's easier to see and recognize the other candidates on the world stage. This new candidate for Mabus is very close, too intimate for all of us to easily discover. Most importantly, knowing his identity could indeed prevent the dire consequences of his (or her) destructive activities in the world in the coming age.
This thought provoking, illustrated digital book sets forth Nostradamus' clues to catch the thief in the night of our souls. He has waxed mysterious, sending us a trail of tips obscured by nebulous word games to protect the innocent from the guilty who would preempt peace and launch a world war far worse than even the prophet foresaw.
This is the hottest prophetic detective case discussed among an estimated 20 million Nostradamus fans around the world and now at last there's an answer that decodes the enigma of Mabus. He is not only a force of evil personified in a world leader, a dictator, a terrorist of Jihad, a past or a future president elected in 2008.
He could be far closer than that and therefore far easier to understand and overthrow. Does he also lurk in the shadows of the mind?
The greatest prophets change our minds and thus they help us change the future.

About the Author:
John HogueJohn Hogue writes about Nostradamus with the clarity and interpretive accuracy of a kindred prophet. He uses his own gift of future insight along with the geopolitical savvy of a Noam Chomsky to unravel the complex issues affecting us today. Voices such as these are needed in our times.
In 1987, John Hogue wrote the book Nostradamus and the Millennium. It sold 700,000 copies and was translated into nine languages. Thirteen books and 21 years later his understanding of Nostradamus' coded texts, as well as his grasp of the art of prophecy itself, has deepened with experience, earning him the distinction of being hailed the preeminent authority on Nostradamus and collective prophetic traditions. Hogue's documented predictive track record into the new millennium has achieved an accuracy surpassing 80 percent.

Do you know of anyone else that could play the bible version of the Anti-Christ at this time and can draw a redrum line................... of FIRE?

Monday, March 18, 2013

Crossing Red Line

Israel says concerns militants will get Syria chemical weapons factor in restoring Turkey ties



Obama pledges to keep Iran from nuclear weapon



Is he talking about crossing the "Red Line" - chemical weapons was just reported in play
    
You have to look at this like lightning striking the Vatican as Obama goes into Israel to test Jesus ... It's part of the 40 days ...  Come on now, it's on the "History Channel" 

Father day is Celebrated in Italy (sign) the last pope resigned on 2/11 "clean Monday" (another sign) ... 

Simpler inauguration planned for a more modest pope

By Tom Heneghan, Religion Editor
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis celebrates his inaugural Mass on Tuesday among political and religious leaders from around the world and amid a wave of hope for a renewal of the scandal-plagued Roman Catholic Church.
Hundreds of thousands of people are expected to cram St. Peter's Square and surrounding streets for the Mass on Tuesday to formally install Francis as the new leader of the world's 1.2 billion Roman Catholics.

Sunday, March 17, 2013

The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly

Edit - 3/21

Gaza militants fire at Israel during Obama visit.    (4 or 5 rockets have been reported fired) 

JERUSALEM (AP) — Palestinian militants in Gaza fired two rockets on Thursday at southern Israel, on the second day of President Barack Obama's visit to the region, Israeli police said.
One of the rockets exploded in the courtyard of a house in the border town of Sderot early in the morning, causing damage but no injuries, said police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld. The other landed in an open field.
Obama was miles away in Jerusalem at the time, preparing to visit the Israel Museum. Later in the day he is due to meet with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank city of Ramallah.



I had this dream yesterday, and it was kind of hard to figure out, but my thought after doing some research ... (below)

Tombstone NCIS and the Damm

UNREAD_POSTby Gus Who on Sun Mar 17, 2013 1:17 am.   (To the untrained eye, dreams talk in a different language and it takes years to study) 
I find myself facing in one direction with a tall and wide shadow of what feels like a palm tree at my back as footballs are landing to the side of me... Like someone is tossing me bombs :? Dream skips into some sort of NCIS ... But like in LA ... as good and bad guys are going at each other... A wall with 3 Items like "Plaques" that had been hanging for a while and were all dirty that they blend into the wall, someone found one and took it off... (Good guy side) ... Forgot what it was

The other two items was a gold bar and a picture of tickets/ cards ... The bad guys knew where they were and but some water on them and took them down... The gold bar was worth about 2 million... Dream skips ... Find myself in a box getting flooded full of water like a Damm breaking (yesterday dream)


look at what is coming up this week...
and the palms could mean desert area ...
football means bombs...  (Chemical Weapons?? or )
what I think the 3 plaques were as gold was the middle plaque and the other plaque was "tickets" (as I recall- pictures like stubs, that could of been cards) ...
got me thinking that it was the old deck of cards "Most-wanted Iraqi playing cards" ...
The other side has to have there cards too.. so I was thinking that the bad guys are washing off the gold bar and the posters ... as the card game ... "war" is still on and President is going to be in the area... I would not doubt if something is about to go down...

Iran-North Korea’s ‘axis of evil’ revived by new nuclear ties 

Partners in crime: Kim Yong-nam (left) and Ahmadinejad
KEN AREATTA / AFP / GettyImagesPartners in crime: Kim Yong-nam (left) and Ahmadinejad
Full Comment’s Araminta Wordsworth brings you a daily round-up of quality punditry from across the globe. Today:  The axis of evil is alive and well, but few people have been paying attention.
Instead, Libya, the Arab Spring and the uprising in Syria hogged the spotlight. But out of the headlines, rogue nuclear powers North Korea and Iran have been cozying up and strengthening their ties.
Their shadowy relationship came into clearer focus last year during the Non-Aligned Movement summit (its irony-free motto: “Lasting peace through joint global governance”), held in Tehran. While many of those in attendance were Iranian stooges, the meeting was given superficial credibility by Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary general, and U.S. allies Saudi Arabia and Bahrain.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Iranian president, and North Korea’s No. 2 official, Kim Yong-nam, seized the opportunity to agree to an exchange of science technology and education. It sounds anodyne, but experts say it’s code for nuclear work.
They point out North Korea is rich in raw uranium and other natural resources necessary for building nuclear weapons.  It also has the scientific know-how and centrifuge technology to share with its partner Iran.
The latest deal also has alarming echoes of a Syria-North Korea pact, which led to the building of a clandestine copy of the North’s Yongbyon reactor. This could have produced plutonium, the fuel used in atomic weapons, but was destroyed by an Israeli airstrike before start-up.
Officials in Washington are sounding the alarm over the new nuclear axis, writes Lori Lowenthal Marcus in the Jewish Press.
Two of the world’s most brutal regimes, Iran and North Korea, each hell-bent on intimidating any country which dares to challenge it, signed an agreement in September to cooperate on science technology and education. In other words, North Korea is officially helping Iran move forward on its path to nuclear weaponization …
[F]ormer State Department official David Asher, who testified at a congressional hearing on North Korea before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs last week, described it as very much like the agreement entered into by North Korea and Syria in 2002. Asher warned that the 2002 agreement was the “keystone for the commencement of covert nuclear cooperation between North Korea and Syria, which ultimately resulted in the construction of a nuclear reactor complex.”
The Wall Street Journal‘s Jay Solomon at looks at the Syrian connection.
Kim Yong Nam also led a delegation to Syria in 2002 to sign an agreement for scientific cooperation with President Bashar al-Assad’s government, according to Syrian state media. The pact also called for the “exchange of expertise” and the “joint use of scientific research equipment.”
The U.S. and the International Attomic Energy Agency believe that in the months after this agreement was signed Pyongyang stepped up efforts to assist Mr. Assad’s government in building a nuclear reactor on the Euphrates River in eastern Syria. The facility, near the city of Dair Alzour, was seen as a replica of North Korea’s Yongbyon nuclear reactor, which the North has used to extract the plutonium used in its atomic weapons.
U.S. officials said the Syrian reactor was nearly operational when Israeli jets bombed the facility in 2007. A number of North Korean engineers were believed to have been killed at the reactor site.
At Forbes magazine, Claudia Rosett says Iranian nuclear officials are known to have made frequent visits  to North Korea.
The real, deadly serious business of North Korea can better be discerned by focusing on its dealings with its fellow rogue state and longtime partner in proliferation, Iran …
Following North Korea’s latest nuclear test, a spate of international press reports claimed that Iranian officials had traveled to North Korea to witness the test. To date, there has been no official confirmation from any quarter of these accounts, which were sourced to unnamed intelligence or diplomatic personnel. But are they credible? Yes, in spades. Experts on North Korean proliferation, such as former defence intelligence analyst Bruce Bechtol, say that Iranians have been present at every previous major North Korean missile and nuclear test.
Fox News’ Van D. Hipp , a former deputy assistant secretary of the U.S. Army, details some of the ways in which Tehran and Pyongyang are cooperating.
North Korea and Iran are both using the same miniaturized warhead design that can be traced back to the infamous Pakistani scientist, Dr. A.Q. Khan. Iranian intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) technicians are continuing to work on the next North Korean missile test. North Korea has obtained proven missile control electronics from Russia and China …
The recent power struggle in China is also spilling over into the North Korean situation. China helped draft the recent UN Security Council Resolution and sanctions. However, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad approved many millions of dollars in payment to North Korea, in conjunction with the February nuclear bomb test, through Beijing’s Bank of Kunlun.
_______________________________________ quote from an article I read

Iraq War Anniversary: 10 Years Later... 

The Bush administration had hoped the war that began with airstrikes before dawn on March 20, 2003 – would quickly rid Iraq of purported weapons of mass destruction, go after extremists and replace a brutal dictatorship with the foundations of a pro-Western democracy in the heart of the Middle East.

Ten years on, Iraq's long-term stability and the strength of its democracy remain open questions. The country is unquestionably freer and more democratic than it was before the "shock and awe" airstrikes began. But instead of a solidly pro-U.S. regime, the Iraqis have a government that is arguably closer to Tehran than to Washington and that struggles to exert full control over the country itself.

Bloody attacks launched by terrorists who thrived in the post-invasion chaos are still frequent – albeit less so than a few years back – and sectarian and ethnic rivalries are again tearing at the fabric of national unity. The top-heavy government is largely paralyzed by graft, chronic political crisis and what critics fear is a new dictatorship in the making. The civil war in neighboring Syria risks sowing further discord in Iraq.

By the time the U.S. military pulled out of Iraq in December 2011, nearly 4,500 Americans and more than 100,000 Iraqis had lost their lives. No active WMDs were ever found. The war cost American taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars and diverted resources from Afghanistan, where the Taliban and al-Qaida rebounded after their pummeling in the 2001 invasion.

In Iraq, the Americans and their allies left behind a broken, deeply traumatized country – a land no longer at war but without peace. The toppling of Saddam Hussein's regime destroyed not only dictatorship but also the mechanism of law and order, enabling the rise of al-Qaida and the unleashing of sectarian, ethnic and class hatreds long suppressed by a reign of fear.

The invasion transferred power overnight to oppressed Shiites and Kurds but left many Sunni Arabs alienated. It established a system of sectarian-based politics that undermined national unity.

And it helped trigger a vicious insurgency that ruined countless lives without regard for religion or ethnicity.





Obama needs to charm skeptical Israelis in visit

JERUSALEM (AP) — Barack Obama's vow to take his message straight to the public during his first presidential visit to Israel will be a tough sell with many Israelis who consider him naive, too soft on the nation's enemies and cool to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Overcoming this perception will require a major charm offensive and an uncompromising U.S. pledge to stand behind Israel, especially when it comes to stopping Iran's suspect nuclear program. Without a major initiative in his pocket for making peace between Israel and the Palestinians, the U.S. president will use his three-day visit, which begins on Wednesday, primarily as a means to convey a close alliance with Israel.
Rather than address Israeli leaders in parliament, as his predecessor George W. Bush did, Obama will deliver his main speech at a Jerusalem auditorium packed with university students. Tickets for Obama's speech on Thursday at a 1,000-seat convention center are much in demand, and students are entering ticket raffles across the country.
"He could have spoken to politicians or tycoons, but instead he chose to speak to us," said Lotem Cazes, a 25-year-old political science student at Ben-Gurion University in the southern city of Beersheba. "It's very moving. Even though he knows that not everyone likes him here he is still coming and trying to help."
In another effort to woo the Israeli public, Obama granted an exclusive interview with Channel 2 TV at the White House.
"What this trip allows me to do is once again to connect to the Israeli people and there is no substitute to that. The bonds between our two countries are so strong, not just shared values but shared families, shared businesses," he said in the interview, which aired Thursday. "And for me to be able to directly speak to the Israeli people and talk about our unshakable commitment to Israel, but also to talk about hopefully a shared vision of a more peaceful and prosperous future during a time when we know there is a lot of tumult in the area, it is a great opportunity for me. I'm really looking forward to it."...

... with the info thats been shown (Obama is a target) this is like the showdown at the O.K. Corral ... it looks like Wile E. Coyote going after Beep Beep ... Message