Tillerson slams Trump who then says Tillerson 'is as dumb as a rock'

Former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson appeared on CBS News journalist Bob Schieffer sitting down with the veteran newsman during a fundraiser for the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas, the Houston Chronicle reported.

Tillerson spoke about President Trump and some observations during his tenure as Secretary of State, saying that he always had to remind President Trump that some of his plans wold "violate the law." He also said that he and Trump did not share a "common value system" and were "obviously starkly different in our styles."

President Trump, who is no shrinking violet, fired back that Tillerson saying that he was "as dumb as a rock."

“When the president would say, ‘Here's what I want to do, and here's how I want to do it,’ and I'd have to say to him, ‘Well, Mr. President, I understand what you want to do, but you can't do it that way. It violates the law, it violates the treaty, you know. He got really frustrated,” Tillerson said. “I think he grew tired of me being the guy every day who told him he can’t do that and let’s talk about what he can do.”

He said he told President Trump that he would be willing to “fight the fight” to change laws in Congress so the president could press forward with his agenda.

Trump also fired back on Twitter, saying Tillerson "didn't have the mental capacity needed" as the nation's top diplomat.

But let us not forget that President Trump picked him.

"He was dumb as a rock and I couldn’t get rid of him fast enough," Trump said. "He was lazy as hell. Now it is a whole new ballgame, great spirit at State!"

Tillerson, 66, was fired from the White House in March after rumors of a rift between him and Trump had been circulating for some time. In leaving, Tillerson said Washington, D.C., can be a “very mean-spirited town.”

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Tillerson also contended Trump tends to act “on his instincts”  and this was incongruent to the way Tillerson worked. “What was challenging for me – coming from the disciplined, highly process-oriented ExxonMobil corporation – to go to work for a man who is pretty undisciplined, doesn’t like to read, doesn’t read briefing reports, doesn’t like to get into the details of a lot of things, but rather just kinda says, ‘Look, this is what I believe,’” Tillerson explained.

Tillerson also believes that there is no question that Russia interfered in the 2016 election and seeks to "undermine our confidence and undermine the world's confidence in us," the Houston Chronicle reported.

President Trump replaced Tillerson with Mike Pompeo, and it's clear that Pompeo is doing a better job and is much more qualified than Tillerson.

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Tillerson dumped while dumping, Kelly says

According to John Kelly,  Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was fired as he sat on the throne, if you get my drift. Reporters at the White House were stunned when Chief of Staff John Kelly shared the embarrassing story.

One thing for certain, Kelly was pleased that Tillerson didn't raise a stink when he heard the news. He took it in stride and knows he'll bounce back from being dumped.

Kelly did his best to convince reporters that the administration wasn't planning to "clean house" or do any serious purging, but Tillerson kind of sucked as Secretary of State and tended to counter Trump's decisions and free wheeled on the Iran nuclear deal.

According to sources who remain anonymous because they don't want to become a notch on Trump's rather large belt, Kelly had a very awkward conversation with the now former secretary of state whereby he told Tillerson that President Trump would very likely can his sorry butt. The content of the conversation was mostly awkward not for the words, but for the fact that Tillerson was "dropping a deuce" at the time.

Kelly told reporters that Tillerson was suffering from a stomach bug during a diplomatic trip to Africa and was shooting hot rockets into the Delaware when Kelly broke the news to him.

Sources couldn't believe that Kelly would make such a scatalogical pun, even off the record, to a room filled with reporters and White House leakers. [Did I just say 'leakers'?]

Tillerson will officially leave the State Department at the end of the month.

Some people go out with a bang. Some go out with a whimper. Tillerson will go out with the flushing sound of a commode forever in everyone's mind.


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The real reason why Tillerson was toast

In a blistering article in The Washington Free Beacon, information has come to light suggesting Rex Tillerson was fired over a unilateral (aka rogue) bid to save the Iran Nuclear deal.

The abrupt firing Tuesday (carried out first on Twitter) comes after months of infighting between the State Department and Trump over efforts by Tillerson to save the Iran nuclear deal and ignore President Trump's demands the deal be fixed or totally scrapped if that cannot be done, according to multiple sources who spoke to the WFB. 

Prior to Tillerson's "Twittercide" by Trump, he was leading efforts to convince European allies to work on fixes to the nuclear deal that would address Iran's ongoing ballistic missile program and continued nuclear research.

That sure isn't in his job description.

President Trump came up with a range of fixes that he believes tightened the deal's flaws, but Tillerson caved to European pressure to walk back those demands and appease Tehran while preserving the deal, say the sources.

How can you not fire someone who goes against the boss?

Tillerson's senior staff was warned by White House allies that if he continued going rogue, he might be out of a job, and that warning became reality when Trump fired him by a tweet--which isn't very great management strategy or very brave, and it makes me wonder if he really would have run into a school shooting as he claimed. 

I don't think we can ever know until it happens . . . unless you're a first responder and are braver than the average civilian.

Tillerson will be replaced by current CIA Director Mike Pompeo, a former member of Congress and number one in his West Point graduation. [Unlike Maxine Waters, Mike is no dummy.]

Pompeo will most probably take a much harder line on the nuclear deal and advocate the Trump fixes.

For all of his management history, Tillerson is very arrogant and/or stupid to go against the president.

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U.S. prepares swift kick to testicles of NoKo

If push comes to shove, the United States is preparing to give North Korea a swift kick to the testicles to knock out their nuclear weapons program. They refer to it as a "bloody nose" but my term is closer to reality.

The White Houses has "dramatically" pumped up its military plans because it's beginning to look like diplomacy only works for rationale regimes and North Korea is anything but rational as Kim Jong Un, the corpulent cherubic dictator, is likely to try and make good on his threats.

One option is to destroy a launch site before the regime uses it for another missile test. Another option would be to target their weapons stockpiles. 

In combination, these two would amount to something akin to a kick at the groin of the rogue nation.

The Trump administration hopes a pre-emptive action such as these would show "Li'l Rocket Man" that we aren't playing with them and we will stop their warlike endeavors and persuade them to negotiate.

I believe this is a good idea because Kim only seems to understand strength and basketball.

"The Pentagon is trying to find options that would allow them to punch the North Koreans in the nose, [aka- kick them in the balls] get their attention and show that we're serious," a former US security official told The Telegraph. 

The paper said that Trump's decision to launch 59 cruise missiles against a Syrian airfield in response to Syria's chemical weapons attack that killed over 80 civilians, is a clear indication of his resolve.

The current plans show that President Trump is more willing to use a military option than previously thought.

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R.-S.C.) told the Atlantic that he believed there was a 30 percent chance that Trump would use a military option, but if the North Koreans tested another nuclear weapon, that percentage would be 70 percent.

A British source who recently attended a briefing with US national security adviser H.R. McMaster and other officials left the meeting feeling scared and alarmed by President Trump's resolve in not allowing North Korea to dictate whether or not they will get nuclear weapons.

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson wants desperately to negotiate with the hermit nation but President Trump keeps insulting Kim and says that diplomacy is a waste of time.

Perhaps it's Trump's genius of getting the world to think he's just crazy enough to blow NoKo out of the water. Or perhaps Trump is shooting from the hip, not realizing how dangerous his talking can be, and not censoring his thoughts.

We'll only know when the proverbial dung hits the proverbial fan.


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Now only Kim can booze and sing

Kim's adorable smile

President Trump has declared North Korea a state sponsor of terrorism. The first time North Korea was put on the U.S. terrorism sponsor list was for the 1987 bombing of a Korean Air flight that killed all 115 people on board.

Former President George W. Bush removed Pyongyang from the list in 2008 for what he perceived as progress in denuclearization talks. Like Bill Clinton before him, North Korea seems to have a way of fooling our presidents, both Republican and Democrat.

North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un keeps his people on a tight leash, according to those lucky enough to have defected and lived to tell about it. 

Now Kim has gone even further in his control of his citizens--he has banned them from drinking and singing, according to a recent report. That is, citizens have been banned from participating in "any gatherings related to drinking, singing and other entertainment (especially the singing of "Gangnem Style").

The North Korean regime is also censoring non-North Korean information and news and calls it "strengthening control of outside information." The reason for the ban is reportedly an effort to quash "a possible negative impact" of sanctions against North Korea in response to its incessant nuclear tests.

Pyongyang has also taken steps against its military by "undertaking an inspection of the military politburo" due to an "impure attitude toward the party leadership," according to Reuters.

Several top military officials, including bureau chief Hwang Pyong-so and deputy chief Kim Won-hong, were punished as a result of the investigation, but it's not known how they were disciplined. It's possible they were forced to do the Electric Slide in a minefield.

This investigation was the first in two decades. It was carried out by Choe Ryong Hae (aka Judas), who was promoted in October to the regime's Central Military Commission. 

North Korea last launched an ICBM over Japan in September.

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson spoke on Monday at the White House press conference and explained that before anything hits the proverbial "fan," we will exhaust all diplomatic strategies with North Korea. 



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PA threatens to cut us off

Our Palestinian "pals" have threatened to cut off "all communication" with the U.S. after we warned them of closing the Washington offices of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). 

In a video starring Saib Ureykat, the PLO Secretary General said, "Palestine administration will cut off all communication with the US in case that PLO rejects to renew the license of Washington office." It is also rumored that someone heard him mutter under his breath, 'Death to Israel,' but that's unconfirmed.

Ureykat went on to warn:

"We got the message by the US Department of State that the license approval process of PLO's office [in Washington] will not be extended as Palestine appealed the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate the Israeli's violations against Palestine."

The Associated Press reported on Friday that the US threatened to close the Washington offices of the PLO over its calls to prosecute Israeli officials in the ICC for crimes against Palestinians. Specifically, when Hamas fires rockets at school buses, Israel fires back with a disproportionate response.

The AP reported that it's against US laws for the PLO to apply to the ICC for prosecution against Israel. In fact, Israel did not apply to the ICC when, at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, Germany, the PLO's Black September Group kidnapped and eventually murdered eleven men of Israel's Olympic team. 

What Israel applied was revenge.

Back to the PLO--under a 2015 US law, the secretary of state must certify to Congress that the PLO hasn't taken action with the ICC. Rex Tillerson wasn't able to do that by a November deadline, according to a State Department official who has not been accused of sexual misconduct.

The AP reported that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas called for the ICC to investigate and prosecute Israelis at the UN General Assembly in September.

The PLO has gained legitimacy since Barack Hussein Obama's presidency, and is the officially recognized representative of the Palestinian people. The Palestinian Authority is the de jure governing authority in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. 

However, both group have the same slogan: "Death to Israel."

And it isn't about land. It's about Quranic anti-Semitism. 



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Trump's 'tweet-off' with Sen. Corker

In a Tweet-off on Sunday, President Trump went after the escalating vocal critic of his administration, Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN). 

Trump said Corker gutlessly dropped his re-election bid after begging him for an endorsement in which he said 'no.'

"Corker 'begged' me to endorse him," Trump said in a salvo of tweets. "I said 'NO' and he dropped out (said he could not win without my endorsement). He also wanted to be secretary of state, I said 'NO THANKS.' . . . Hence, I would fully expect Corker to be a negative voice and stand in the way of our great agenda. Didn't have the guts to run!"

Corker returned fire a few minutes later and tweeted: "It's a shame the White House has become an adult day care center. Someone obviously missed their shift this morning."

This attack by the president comes after Corker saying last week, that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson will resign. He also said that Tillerson, Secretary of Defense James Mattis, and White House Chief of Staff John Kelly "are those people that help separate our country from chaos."

It wasn't always this way. Early in Trump's term the couple played golf together along with retired NFL quarterback Peyton Manning, another Tennessee native. 

Nobody saw it coming between Don and Bob (which also happens to be the name of a great hotdog joint in Rochester, NY).

But the relationship went south, at least publicly, in August, when Bob criticized Trump for how he handled the violent Charlottesville, Virginia protests, in which an alleged white supremacist plowed his car into the crowd and fatally struck a young woman.

Corker said the president has not demonstrated "the stability nor some of the competence" needed to be successful.

"You just put your lips together and blow"

On Sunday, Trump argued that Corker supported the Iran nuclear deal brokered by the Obama administration that Trump claims Iran is violating. Trump tweeted: "He is also largely responsible for the horrendous Iran Deal!" ending his sentence with his signature exclamation point.

In an August 2016 opinion piece in The Washington Times, Jed Babbin says that Corker "has a problem" when it comes to the Iran deal and that he basically caved in to the Obama administration when he served as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. 

So Trump is correct when he tweeted about Corker's involvement with the Iran deal. Whether or not Corker asked for his endorsement is a moot point--he probably did but we cannot know for certain.

What we know is that Corker has a belly-full of sour grapes and Trump is the cause. Like Hillary Clinton, Corker needs to bow out gracefully, but grace is beginning to seem like a very rare commodity in Washington D.C.



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Trump attacks NBC for 'fake news'

President Trump counter-punched NBC "News" calling the "Nothing But Communism" network "fake" on Wednesday after they reported that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson called Trump a "moron."

The network reported that Tillerson had considered resigning over the summer amid differences of opinion with Trump's White House. But the report claims that Tillerson even called Trump a "moron" after a meeting at the Pentagon along with Trump's national security team and Cabinet officials. 

It was also reported that Vice President Pence became involved when this happened in order to assuage the tensions between the two.

Regarding the NBC report, Trump fired back: "NBC news is #FakeNews and more dishonest than even CNN. They are a disgrace to good reporting. No wonder their news ratings are way down!" he tweeted.

Apparently, President Trump believes the typical news viewer can distinguish between real and fake news and refuses to watch the latter. 

In truth, NBC ratings are down because people are sick of watching an endless loop of anti Trump rhetoric and would rather watch William Devane talk about gold and silver.


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SoKo readies its decapitation unit to kill Kim Jong Un, tells him it's coming

Seoul, South Korea -- In the late 1960s, North Korean commandos attempted to ransack the presidential palace in Seoul. South Korea tried to exact revenge and trained misfits from prison or from the streets to sneak into the North and slit the throat of Kim Il Sung, the North's leader. 

When the mission was aborted, the men mutinied, killed their trainers and fought their way into Seoul and blew themselves up. The government kept it under wraps for decades.

Now, as Kim Jong Un, the grandson of the former leader, accelerates his nuclear program, the South is again targeting his fat butt. 

The day after NoKo conducted its sixth nuclear test this month, and by far, the most powerful, SoKo defense minister, Song Young-moo told lawmakers in Seoul that a special forces brigade, described by defense officials as a "decapitation unit" would be established by year's end.

While the 'decapitation' part is not to be taken literally, the message they're sending to the 'Corpulent One' is clear: "Your days are numbered."

It's atypical for any government to announce a strategy to assassinate a head of state, but SoKo wants to keep the North scared about the consequences of further nuclear arsenal development. They also hope to get the North to agree for a sit-down with President Moon Jae-in.

But the real difficulty is getting the North, that has nuclear weapons, to have diplomatic talks with the South who doesn't.

"The best deterrence we can have, next to having our own nukes, is to make Kim Jong Un fear for his life," Gen. Shin Won-sik said. He was the South Korean military's top operational strategist before his 2015 retirement.

The question also remains whether SoKo and the U.S., are laying the groundwork to kill Kim and his top aides before they can even order an attack. That will be a tough task.

While useless Secretary of State Rex "From the River to the Sea" Tillerson said the U.S. doesn't seek leadership change in North Korea, and SoKo says the new military tactics are meant to offset the NoKo threat, the capabilities they are building could be used pre-emptively.


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Tillerson wants Israel to give back some military aid

The Trump administration may force Israel to return $75 million in U.S. aid that was awarded to them by Congress after a hotly contested effort by the Obama administration to financially limit our U.S.-Israel military alliance.

You remember Obama--he was the former president who favored Islamic nations over Israel and was obviously anti-Zionist with the same fervor as Muslims across the globe. 

Taking back the money would be an incredibly stupid move on Trump's part because it would show our other allies we aren't trustworthy.  And the fact that Israel is the only civilized country in all the Middle East and one of our greatest allies would weaken our military influence in the region.

Congress allocated the additional $75 million last year, making the total aid package about $38 billion, despite Obama trying to restrict Israel from lobbying Congress for more funding for several key military undertakings.

Obama's last minute Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Israel didn't sit well with Congress. The MOU capped U.S. aid to Israel and included a provision barring Israel from requesting more financial assistance from Congress.

Now Trump is thinking about another pivot away from what he told his ardent supporters. He is considering forcing Israel to return the extra $75 million and be Obama-like by going along with the MOU.

Congress will, thankfully, fight him on this if he tries to "do an Obama."

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is said to be leading the effort to have Israel return the money. The anti-Zionist Tillerson argues that Israel must stick to the letter of Obama's MOU, despite objections by Congress.

Suddenly Trump has changed his tune about undoing the damage Obama did.

Sen. Tom Cotton (R- Ark.) had "strongly warned the State Department" earlier in the week "that such action would be unwise and invite unwanted conflict with Israel," a senior Congressional aide told the Washington Free Beacon.

If Congress allows Trump to get away with the Obama MOU, it would seriously limit their constitutional right to allocate U.S. aid dollars in whatever way they see fit in the future. In other words, the MOU is unconstitutional, like much of what Obama used his pen and phone to get passed.

Tillerson's State Department is engaged in a lobbying effort to convince the National Security Council (NSC) to allow it to request that Israel return the additional $75 million and remain in line with the Obama MOU.

And you thought Trump et al were Republicans.

Sen. Cotton and other lawmakers see this as reckless and unnecessary and would only increase tensions with Israel at a time of mutual cooperation on a range of key issues, such as the war against Islamic State, Iran and other terrorism in the Middle East.

Israel is surrounded by Islamic nations that want to see them destroyed. Obama wanted the Jewish State to return to their 1967 borders, which would have been suicidal, and besides, their present borders came from the spoils of war, a conflict they didn't start.

If the State Department chooses to demand Israel return the money, Congress is prepared to fight Tillerson on that issue.

Insiders told the Free Beacon that the State Department-led effort is an attempt to undermine Congress and derail the White House's strong working relationship with Israel.

According to multiple sources, Tillerson's State Department has become a sore spot in the administration an that Foggy Bottom is perceived as being in "open war" with the White House on a range of major issues, including the U.S.-Israel relationship, Iran and other matters.

If Trump keeps Tillerson on as Secretary of State, things will only get worse in the Middle East, especially for the Jews.

"This is a transparent attempt by career staffers in the State Department to f**k with the Israelis and derail the efforts of Congressional Republicans and President Trump to rebuild the U.S.-Israel relationship," a veteran congressional advisor who works extensively on Israel said. "There's no reason to push for the Israelis to return the money, unless you're trying to drive a wedge between Israel and Congress, which is exactly what this is--it won't work."

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) held up passage of the 2016 MOU over disagreements with Obama's restriction of Israel lobbying Congress for increased funding. He said in a statement that "Congress is not a party to this agreement nor is this agreement binding on future congresses." He added, "Congress has an independent duty to make a decision about the proper level of support for Israel or our other allies. To suggest this (agreement) will bind future presidents and congresses for the next decade is constitutionally flawed and impractical."

It was Graham who saw this as an effort to trample on Congress' right to allocate taxpayer funds and he worked to ensure Israel received the additional $75 million. 

So now you know where Tillerson stands on Israel-- the same place where his Middle East buddies from back in his ExxonMobil days stand.



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NoKo fires missile over Japan, harsh words follow

North Korea is up to their old shenanigans again--they fired yet another missile over Japan which landed in the waters off the northern region of Hokkaido early Tuesday, according to South Korean and Japanese officials. This marks a sharp escalation of tensions and testosterone on the Korean peninsula and there is no doubt that harsh words are going to follow this dastardly deed.

The North Korean test appears to be that of the intermediate-range Hwasong-12 missile. It comes on the coattails of South Korean and U.S. military drills, to which North Korea strongly objects.

North Korea has conducted dozens of ballistic missile tests since corpulent Kim Jong Un became dictator. The most recent test, save this one, was on Saturday, but firing a missile over mainland Japan is rare and it is likely that leaders of Japan, South Korea and the U.S. will have something harsh to say about it.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe provided his honest analysis of the situation: "North Korea's reckless action is an unprecedented, serious and a grave threat to our nation."

Abe said his nation was seeking an urgent meeting at the UN to increase sanctions against Pyongyang. The test was a clear violation of UN resolutions and he said the government had protested against the move in the strongest terms. 

It is common knowledge that whenever a leader of a powerful nation condemns the actions of a rogue nation in the strongest possible terms, that it scares the rogue nation and causes them to stop and desist their malfeasance. 

Or not.

And even South Korea condemned the launch. "We will respond strongly based on our steadfast alliance with the United States if North Korea continues nuclear and missile provocation," SoKo's foreign ministry said.

It appears that the President of South Korea, Moon Jai-in, who was hoping to work things out with Kim Jong-Un and his gang, is having second thoughts.

Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said the last NoKo missile fell into the sea 735 miles east of the Cape of Erimo on Hokkaido. The Japanese J-Alert system (the Japanese version of our Conelrad system) broke into radio and TV programming, interrupting thousands of "My Inscrutable Pillow" commercials, warning citizens of the possible missile. Warnings went out over loudspeakers in towns in Hokkaido and bullet trains services were halted.

Global markets reacted to the new escalation in tensions as gold shot up and stocks sold off. Japan's Nikkei 225 index fell almost 1 percent and South Korea's KOSPI index was also down a similar percentage.

The South Korean military said the missile was launched from the Sunan region near Pyongyang just before 6 a.m. and flew 1,680 miles, reaching an altitude of about 340 miles.

Naive (or worse) Secretary of State Rex Tillerson tried to make a peace overture to North Korea last week, welcoming what he referred to as restraint shown by Pyongyang recently in its weapons programs by not conducting any tests since July.

Too bad Rex--it sounded good when you first said it, but you apparently don't know what you're twanging about.

Masao Okonogi, professor emeritus at Keio University ("Go Shitzus!") said that North Korea believes that by showing their nuclear capability, that this will open the path to dialogue with other nuclear power nations.

"That logic, however, is not understood by the rest of the world, so it's not easy, Okonogi said.

The Japanese military didn't try to shoot down the missile, which passed over their territory around 6:07 a.m. local time. It broke into three lucky pieces and fell into waters off Hokkaido, Japanese public broadcaster NHK reported.

The Pentagon confirmed the missile's path over Japan and said it didn't pose a threat to North America so harsh words against the launch should suffice.

North Korea says that it will never give up its weapons programs and technically, the Korean War has not ended. The fighting from 1950-53 ended in a truce, not a peace treaty, and the North says their weapons are necessary to counter what they see as U.S. hostility.

In a letter sent Monday by the North Korean mission to the UN, they had again asked the UN Security Council to meet in order to discuss the U.S.-South Korean military exercises.

The letter from NoKo UN Ambassador Ja Song Nam called the military exercises a "grave threat" to the Korean peninsula and international peace and security.

In an Onion-esque statement it read: "It is the fair and square self-defensive right of the DPRK to cope with reckless, aggressive war maneuvers and the U.S. would be wholly responsible for any catastrophic consequences to be entailed from the result," Ja wrote, sounding like an abusive husband blaming his wife.

Similar previous requests have fallen on deaf eyeballs by the 15-member Security Council.

In early August, the Security Council unanimously imposed new sanctions on the hermit nation in response to two long-range missile tests in July.


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NoKo threatens revenge against U.S. for sanctions

The "Ballistic Rockettes"

Pyongyang said Monday that it will launch "thousands-fold" revenge against the United States because of the UN sanctions imposed on the hermit nation for its nuclear and ballistic missile ambitions.

The tough UN Security Council sanctions were anonymously approved Saturday. They include a ban on coal and other exports which are worth over a $1 billion. 

The Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), a state media organization, said that there will be "stern action of justice." 

"We are ready to retaliate with fa bigger actions to make the U.S. pay a price for its crime against our country and people," they wrote.

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson attended a meeting of foreign ministers in Manila on Sunday. His North Korean counterpart, Ri Yong Ho (whose daughter Heidi was not in attendance) was also at the meeting but the two didn't talk to each other or share eye contact.

China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi publicly admonished North Korea to abide by the sanctions. "Do not violate the U.N.'s decision or provoke international society's goodwill by conducting missile launching or nuclear tests," he told Ri in Chinese.

Ri didn't respond publicly, but his face turned red. North Korea's Rodong Sinmun fake news website published a statement dismissing the sanctions saying they are "cooked up by the U.S." They added that "the U.S. mainland is on the crossroads of life and death."

Ha! Ho. Just try it.


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Tillerson shills for Muslim Brotherhood, Qatar

President Trump has thus far talked a good game about radical Islamic terrorism, but he has yet to designate the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) as a Foreign Terrorist Organization as he was expected to do.

The designation falls under the job description of the Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson. But Tillerson has chosen the MB and its backers in Qatar and Turkey over their Arab rivals. In fact, Tillerson has only negative things to say about the idea of designating them a Foreign Terrorist Organization.

Tillerson's main talking point is that the MB's political parties have representatives in governments in Turkey and Bahrain, which is irrelevant. Bahrain has banned the Brotherhood and the U.S. would not deal with Lebanon since it has Hezbollah in it, a designated Foreign Terrorist Organization.

The Secretary of State also spouted the same "non-violent" and "moderate" Brotherhood propaganda and claimed the Brotherhood's political parties in governments "have become so by renouncing violence and terrorism."

That's bull crap and it was bull crap when Obama said it. 

Now that Trump is in office and has said all the politically incorrect things one can say about Islamic terrorism, you would think his Secretary of State would be honest too, but perhaps Trump didn't quite know what he was getting with Tillerson. 

The disappointment in Tillerson's position is exacerbated by the fact that now is an opportune time to designate the MB as a Foreign Terrorist Organization. 

Again, Trump said he would but he hasn't. 

The Arab world is pressuring Qatar over its support of the MB and other jihadists. Those Arabs wonder where we stand since our president and our Secretary of State are on opposite sides of the fence on this issue.

Patrick Poole, a counter-terrorism expert, asserts that Tillerson is "sabotaging" Trump's foreign policy. Poole would like to see Tillerson do a "Priebus" and don't let the door hit him on his way out.

Here we have Trump expressing his support for those Arab nations taking measures against Qatar and unequivocally describing them as a major terrorism funder. Tillerson describes Qatar as "very reasonable" in his reaction to Arab pressure.

Tillerson was formerly the CEO of ExxonMobil, a company that is also a member of the U.S.-Turkish Business Council. The chairman is Ekin Alptekin, the same businessman who's at the center of controversy regarding former National Security Adviser General Michael Flynn.  

Alptekin's company contracted with Flynn for $600,000 to promote Erdogan government's interests. Flynn's firm registered as a lobbyist but didn't register as a foreign agent--that was the problem that got Flynn in trouble and fired from the Trump administration and replaced by General H.R. McMaster.

There's no proof of direct dealings between Tillerson and Alptekin, but ExxonMobil's involvement in the U.S.-Turkish Business Council is a good indication how Tillerson's previous relationship with Turkey's government may influence his behavior.

While Erdogan had few defenders, he certainly had one in Tillerson.

At the beginning of July, Tillerson went to Istanbul to receive an award from the World Petroleum Congress where he openly praised those who defended Erdogan against a coup attempt last year. He even went so far as to describe the Islamist theocratic dictatorship as a democracy. 

He said:

"Nearly a year ago, the Turkish people--brave men and women--stood up against coup plotters and defended their democracy. I take this moment to recognize their courage and honor the victims of the events of July 15, 2016. It was on that day that the Turkish people exercised their rights under the Turkish constitution, defended their place in a prosperous Turkey, and we remember those who were injured or died in that event."

Although Tillerson condemned the Turkish security personnel who violently attacked protesters in Washington D.C. in May, something any public official would do, when it comes to difficult issues, Tillerson sides with Turkey and Qatar, contradicting President Trump, who selected him for Secretary of State.

Even when it comes to the Kurds, our closest allies in fighting Islamic State, Tillerson's State Department sided with Turkey in criticizing the Iraqi Kurds' referendum on independent statehood, implying his opposition to Kurdish independence.

Trump was elected for change, but Tillerson is not the man for the job. Nothing has changed and maybe it's worse.


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NoKo sends slave labor to Russia to earn cash for regime

North Korea's lard butt dictator Kim Jong Un is sending thousands upon thousands of starving citizens to Russia to get some hard cash for his regime.

Citizen rights groups that monitor this kind of thing, but do little to stop it, are alarmed and have wagged their fingers to prove it. They consider these workers to be little more than slaves who are subjected to cruelty and violence at the hands of Putin's borscht-eaters and corrupt officials. They are also being forced to turn over most of their pay to fat Kim's regime.

A rather useless report issued this year by the Seoul-based group, Data Base Center for North Korean Human Rights estimate that around 50,000 of these slaves are working low-paying jobs in Russia and send no less than $120 million every year to Pyongyang.

"The North Korean government maintains strict controls over their workers' profits, in some cases probably taking 90 percent of their wages," Scott Snyder told Fox News. "This is an issue that has been going on under the radar for a long time."

Snyder is director of the Program on U.S.-Korea Policy at the Council of Foreign Relations.

The main reason North Korea's economy is vacuous is due to the international sanctions in a country that produces few goods suitable for export and is so poor that it considers grass a vegetable.

So Kim will do anything necessary in order to get money, short of going on a diet.

According to a Fox News report, North Koreans helped construct a new soccer stadium in St. Petersburg and helped build a luxury apartment complex in Moscow.

The workers/slaves work under horrible conditions; one was killed working on the soccer project and two were found dead in June at a decrepit hostel near the Moscow apartment site.

But as suck-worthy the conditions in Russia may be, it's worse for them in North Korea and many are willing to pay bribes to be sent to Russia.

The U.S. State Department issued a report on human trafficking in June concluding that North Korean workers in Russia undergo "exploitive labor conditions characteristic of trafficking cases such as withholding of identity documents, non-pay for services rendered, physical abuse, lack of safety measures, or extremely poor living conditions.

So Russia isn't any better than the corpulent Kim regime.

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has proposed new sanctions to deal with this problem.

"Secretary Tillerson has called on all countries to fully implement all U.N. Security Council resolutions, sever or downgrade diplomatic relations, and isolate [North Korea] financially, including through new sanctions, severing trade relationships, expelling guest workers, and banning imports from North Korea," a State Department official said.

The monthly pay rate for workers has increased from $283 to about $840 but with it the corruption has also increased.


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big surprise--the Palestinian Authority lied

While in Washington Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas assured President Trump the PA had stopped funding terrorism. That's called 'taqiyya,' or a lie for the sake of Islam. 

However, during their meeting in Bethlehem, Trump demonstrated he had evidence provided by Israel, that the Abbas government was still sponsoring terrorism, big league.

One of the main issues President Trump demanded of the PA was for them to stop funding terrorism. They said they would--taqiyya kicked in--they lied.

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson testified on Tuesday before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and said the PA is no longer rewarding terrorist acts by paying terrorists and their families when they go all to pieces over their work. "They have changed that policy and their intent is to cease the payments to the families of those who have committed murder or violence against others," Tillerson said. "We have been very clear with them that this is simply not acceptable to us."

I blogged about this several days ago and didn't quite believe Abbas then--for more on that click here.

Another major demand Trump made was for the PA to totally stop the incitement of violence and glorification of acts of terror and martyrdom. 

Israel says the PA continues to promote violence against the Jews. In fact, there has been an increase in anti-Israel propaganda and recruitment for further acts of terror.

The official Israeli response: "Israel does not recognize any change in Palestinian policy that continues to pay the families of terrorists. The Palestinian Authority continues to praise, incite and encourage terrorism through payments.

But Israel is doing something about it. According to the Camp David Accords, all products coming in to the PA come in via Israeli ports, at which time they're taxed and Israel hands over the money to the PA.

Israel will now calculate how much the PA pays to reward terror and will then subtract that amount from the taxes they collect and give the remainder to the PA.

As it now stands, the Times of Israel calculated the PA has paid out $1.2 billion to terrorists and their families over the last four years. One of the highest-paying positions in the PA went to a terrorist and there's even a ministry dedicated to paying terrorists called the Ministry of Prisoners' Affairs. It deals with terrorist prisoners in Israeli jails and the families of terrorists.

Issa Karaka, the Palestinian minister of Prisoners' Affairs, said that calling for the stopping of these payments was an act of war. [LOL-as if the PA hasn't been waging war with Israel all this time].

"The Palestinian society is made up entirely of families of prisoners and shahids, and they are all victims because of the Israeli occupation," he said, directing his words against the U.S.

"This demand to stop payments for prisoners' families," Karaka continued, "is no small matter, but something very big with social ramifications. No one in the Palestinian Authority could make such a move. It would be very difficult for the Palestinian Authority to stop the humanitarian aid to the families of prisoners and shahids."

A shahid is a "holy martyr." 

Why is it that so many Muslims who say they're killing Jews for Allah are perverting Islam when it's advocated in the Quran?




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Tillerson says Palestinians won't pay families of terrorists

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said to lawmakers Tuesday that the Palestinian Authority (PA) assured him the Palestinian Liberation Organization is going to change their policy of paying terrorists for killing Jews and paying families of terrorists when terrorists get killed in the process of killing Jews.

This new policy goes against the 1400-year-old practice of killing Jews as commanded in the Quran and Hadith.

But Israeli and Palestinian leaders are disputing Tillerson's account, made in a hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He told senators that on his most recent trip to Bethlehem, the PA said the PLO would be revising their policy.

"They have changed their policy, at least, I have been informed they've changed that policy, and . . . their intent is to cease the payments to the family members of those who have committed murder or violence against others," Tillerson said. "So, it is--we've been very clear with them that this is simply not acceptable to us."

Tillerson explained that PA leaders argued that they must take care of widows and orphans, but he told them Americans cannot see any reasonable explanation for paying off terrorists in what the PA calls a "martyr fund."

Israel has tried to get the PA to stop the "martyr fund" where payments are made to about 35,000 families of Islamic terrorists who are killed in their religious obligation against the Jews. Because it is a religious conflict, suicide bombings gets the martyr 72 virgins and the family a couple of bucks to deal with it.

But Palestinian Minister of Prisoner Affairs Issa Karake says the payments must continue and calls them a "national, social and humanitarian duty."

Can you see an end to this lunacy?

If the PA stops paying terrorists and their families, it would be totally un-Islamic. 

Wanna bet they're lying?


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POTUS receives the King Abdulaziz al Saud Collar

Saudi King Salman placed the King Abdulaziz al Saud Collar around the neck of President Donald Trump on Saturday during a ceremony in Riyadh. The gold medallion is the kingdom's highest civilian honor and represents something huge and very tremendous.

Mr. Trump received the medal during a sandstorm ceremony at the Royal Court in Riyadh shortly after he touched down on his first foreign trip as president.

Obama bows to Saudi King

The host of the event declared that President Trump was being honored for "his quest to enhance security and stability in the region and around the world," the AP reported.

The White House delegation in attendance included, in part, First Lady Melania Trump, first daughter Ivanka Trump, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus, senior adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner and Chief Strategist Steve Bannon.

Interestingly, the women in the White House delegation were not covered, and also, both Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner are Jewish. 

Saudi Arabia, along with 15 other Islamic countries, do not allow Jews to enter their country.

The additional countries that forbid Jews to enter are: 

Syria, Iran, Iraq, Yemen, Libya, Algeria, Bangladesh, Brunei, Kuwait, Lebanon, Malasia, Oman, Pakistan, Sudan, United Arab Emirates.

Isn't that just so special?

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Angry Trump may 'clean house'

Sean Hannity's 'Question of the Day' may soon be: "How many people should Donald Trump fire from his Cabinet and staff?"

Now that former FBI DirectorJames Comey has been shown the proverbial front door, the White House appears to be in chaos. President Trump's friends are telling him that his staff is unsure how to work with him and his approval ratings are in the dumper and there are leaks, which makes for a messy dumper.

One of those friends said, "The advice he's getting is to go big--that he has nothing to lose. The question now is how big and how bold. I'm not sure he knows the answer to that yet."

If Trump goes full Rambo, his White House inner sanctum would shrink like a cashmere sweater in boiling water. He would have his family doing the heavy lifting and they have no government experience. The leaks may stop but the problems won't.

On the brighter side, Trump sometimes has a bark worse than his bite and while saying he's going to fire someone, he may not follow through. Thus, it's possible the talks he's having with his confidants is just talk and a way for him to feel supported.

At the end of this week, the President is heading on his first international trip. He's going to meet with Netanyahu and his Palestinian counterpart, Abbass (the 'Abb' is silent). So the process, if he really will go through with it, may take some time. 

It's also possible he may cut people out of the information flow to cut down on leaks, as opposed to firing them. He may want to keep the drama at a minimum for now. 

The confidential sources say that Trump isn't only unhappy with his staff, but he feels ill-served by his Cabinet officials, saying that they're either tooting their own horns too much, or they're not doing a good enough job kissing up to him with praise over his diplomatic prowess.

The sources say that no Cabinet member is expected to be fired anytime soon, but expect a West Wing shuffle in the future.

One of the few top officials, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has been winning Trump's praise as he has been defending him in public as he did on "Meet the Press."


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Tillerson and foreign diplomats discuss Syria crisis at G7

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson along with top foreign diplomats held an urgent meeting in Italy to discuss the Syrian crisis. 

The meeting was arranged on the 'sidelines' of the Group of 7 (Russia used to make '8') of "likeminded" countries days after the U.S. struck at Bashar al-Assad for having killed his own citizens with Sarin nerve gas. From that meeting, Tillerson flew to Moscow to meet with Russian leaders (other than Putin) to try convincing them to end their support for the weak chin Assad.

Also meeting with the G-7 countries are diplomats from Jordan, Saudi Arabia (who assist the world in supplying Islamic terrorists), Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and others.

Tillerson hopes to enlist these Middle East countries into helping ensure and stabilize Syria after ISIS is defeated. The meeting lasted an hour.

The Secretary of State hasn't been very visible publicly, but last week's attack had him in front of the media answering questions from reporters about Assad's chemical attack which resulted in the U.S. responding with 59 Tomahawk Cruise missiles.

One libtard politician thought that Native Americans would be insulted that Cruise missiles are labeled 'Tomahawk Cruise missiles' because she believes the tomahawk is unique to Native Americans. But the fact is that tomahawks were created as a general purpose tool used by Native Americans and European colonials. The design was originally based on a Royal Navy boarding axe used as a trade-item with Native Americans for food, etc. That's why liberals are generally stupid when it comes to identity politics.

U.S. officials along with Tillerson have projected a sense of urgency over the brutal Syria crisis but haven't told us how Assad needs to go nor how to protect displaced Syrians. It's also unclear at this time as to the Trump administration's plans for further action with Assad. For all appearances, it seems this policy is still evolving along with the President's change of heart on Syria and isolationism.

"We rededicate ourselves to holding to account any and all who commit crimes against the innocents anywhere in the world," Tillerson said on a visit to Sant'Anna di Stazzema on Monday. It's a Tuscan village where the Nazis massacred over 500 civilians.

So we shall see what lies in store for the world in the coming weeks. Nothing seems to look very bright.

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Pres. Trump blames Assad for attack-may take unilateral action

President Trump spoke at a joint press conference in the Rose Garden with Jordan's King Abdullah II. He condemned the deadly chemical weapons attack in Syria and clearly put the blame on the Assad regime, saying it "cannot be tolerated." 

This statement came just minutes after his U.N. envoy, Nikki Haley, hinted at a possible unilateral action.

Trump condemned the strike against "innocent people including women, small children and even beautiful little babies," adding that "their deaths was an affront to humanity."

"These heinous actions by the Assad regime cannot be tolerated. The United States stands with our allies across the globe to condemn this horrific attack."

Never the POTUS to show his hand, he declined to spell out what, exactly, he might do in response, but indicated his record of resistance to intervention in the region might be changing. 

"My attitude toward Syria and Assad has changed very much," Trump said, declining to use polysyllabic terms to clarify his meaning. He said Wednesday that the latest attack "had a big impact on me."

Of course, he couldn't help but point out once again how Obama's 'red line' was a joke. President Trump was asked if the latest attack crossed such a line and he responded: "It crossed a lot of lines for me . . . That crosses many, many lines, beyond a red line." 

King Abdullah, standing beside Trump, said the "threshold of inhumanity and savagery" is being crossed daily and he fully supports Trump on the issue.

Although the White House says the Assad government is responsible for the attack, Russia says anti-Assad rebels are to blame. A Russian military expert said the chemicals were dispersed when Syrian warplanes bombed a facility where rebels were building chemical weapons.

And if you believe that, you might also believe that chickens can fly.

"When the United Nations consistently fails in its duty to act collectively, there are times in the life of states that we are compelled to take our own action," Ambassador Nikki Haley said, addressing an emergency meeting of the Security Council. The council is weighing a resolution condemning chemical weapons use in Syria. Russia, which has veto power, is opposed. They enjoy using chemical weapons.

I'm surprised the UN didn't blame Israel for the chemical attack. 

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson will be in Moscow next week and will discuss Syria with Russian leaders. It's the first visit by a senior U.S. official to Russia since President Trump's inauguration.




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