Haley: NoKo better get ready for those sanctions

Little hands, big mouth
Photo: AP/Wong Maye-E File

Well there they go again--North Korea and another threat to the United States. 

Just a day after they threatened that we'd pay dearly "thousands of times" for pushing more sanctions to cripple the wobbly hermit nation's economy, our U.N. Ambassador, Nikki Haley, said the U.S. definitely has the iron-clad upper hand.

"It was a gut-punch to North Korea [not intending to call attention to Kim Jong Un's big gut], to let them know the international community is tired of it and we're going to start fighting back," she told Dana Perino Monday on "The Story," referring to the UN sanctions unanimously agreed upon.

"Every dollar of revenue that the North Korean government gets, they're not feeding their people with it. They're using in toward a nuclear weapons system. Going after these sanctions is going after their ability to build these missiles," she said.

The sanctions agreed upon by the U.N. Security Council on Saturday could cost the North Koreans about $1 billion off its $3 billion annual export revenue. The resolution is considered the harshest since NoKo's first nuclear experiment in 2006 and was payback for their testing of two intercontinental ballistic missiles last month. That was the first time North Korea showed a capacity to hit the U.S. mainland.

Haley should be commended for her ability to swing a unanimous vote, and she was also able to apply pressure to China and Russia to join in on the resolution. She's confident that China--North Korea's main trading partner--would fulfill its obligation and ensure the sanctions are upheld.

"Ninety percent of the trade that North Korea has is with China," she said. "So that's why they were so important to this resolution. China stepped up and said, we will follow through on these sanctions. And they encouraged the international community to follow it. When the missile test took off, they felt it in China. And they're disturbed enough to say that they now have to do their part."

Kim Jong Un doubled down on his nuclear ambitions saying "we are not going to run scared from them," referring to the U.S.



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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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IS takes credit for Istanbul nightclub massacre

The Islamic State took credit on Monday for a New Year's shooting attack at an Istanbul nightclub that killed 39 and wounded almost 70 others. The gunman is still at large and is being hunted by authorities.

IS said via its Aamaq News Agency that the killing spree was carried out by a "heroic soldier of the caliphate who attacked the most famous nightclub where Christians were celebrating their pagan feast." 

And they should know about pagan celebrations because their holy site, the Hajj, is a pagan shrine confiscated by Islamic terrorists back in the day when their so-called prophet was on his own killing spree.

Turkish authorities think the gunman came from either Uzbekistan or Kyrgyzstan in Central Asia, or possibly some other area that is difficult to spell.

There are similarities with the suicide bomb and gun attack at Istanbul's Ataturk Airport in June and police are trying to establish whether this recent attack may have come from the same ISIS cell.

The gunman killed a policeman and another man outside the Reina club just after midnight, Sunday morning. About 600 normal people were partying inside when the scumcrumpet began firing at them with an automatic rifle.

"Unfortunately, [he] rained bullets in a very cruel and merciless way on innocent people who were there to celebrate New Year's and have fun," Istanbul Gov. Vasip Sahin told the press.

What people need to understand is that ISIS doesn't see non-Muslims, or "non-religious" Muslims [that is, Muslims who believe exactly as they do] as 'innocent,' and they must convert to their form of Islam or be killed.

Most of the victims were foreigners, many from the Middle East, according to state-run Anadolu Agency.

In 2016, there had been over 30 jihadist attacks in Turkey, a partner in the coalition fighting ISIS in Syria and Iraq. There were three attacks in Istanbul alone and a failed coup attempt in July along with a renewed conflict with the Kurds in the southeast.

Turkey President Erdogan condemned "the terror attack in Istanbul's Ortakoy neighborhood in the first hours of 2017" and offered condolences for those who lost their lives, including the "foreign guests."

A U.S. State Department official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, because he or she has been known to spread office gossip, said one American man was among the wounded.

The attacker left a gun at the club and escaped in the confusion and chaos that took place. he remains on the run.

The White House pulled out their "cheat sheet" to condemn the attack, calling it horrific and offered U.S. help to Turkey, as if we have an idea of what to do, when we can't even call it "Islamic extremism" or "Islamic jihad."

The U.N. Security Council condemned the "heinous and barbaric assault in the "strongest terms," designed to scare the crap out of people who use guns, fire and blades, rather than strong words.

I'm sure they see us as weak infidels who deserve to die.




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Why Doesn't Israel Just Let Hamas Kill Them Already?

Israeli military said it struck dozens of Hamas-linked sites yesterday as Palestinian militants fired rockets across Israel. The country has stepped up its offense against Hamas along the Gaza Strip. 

The Iron Dome defense appears to be doing its job as a pair of smoke plumes were seen over Jerusalem. No injuries or damage was reported as the rockets were guided by the same system Obama uses for his 3 point shots and his putts.

Thus far, there have been two rocket attacks since the Islamic Hamas organization began its jihad on Tuesday, using the excuse of the Palestinian boy who was brutally murdered in retaliation for the equally brutal murder of 3 Jewish teens the day before. Hamas praised the Jewish teen killings but Israel caught the Jew who killed the Palestinian. So tell me, who's the savage here?

In Tel Aviv, a car was stopped by authorities and they found and explosive device hidden inside which was obviously meant for a terrorist attack and not to cook bacon. 

The car contained electric wires hooked to a gas canister with the driver and passenger hoping to get  their six dozen virgins. The driver, Mohamed Muhammad al-Mohammad (or some similar name) admitted to planning a bombing and both he and his allahu akbar-shouting friend were arrested. 

Lt. Colonel Pete Lerner said Israel hit over 320 Hamas targets overnight, aiming for underground tunnel networks and rocket launching sites. Overall, Israel has destroyed 750 targets since Tuesday, the Associated Press reported.

U.N. Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon said "This is one of the most critical tests the region has faced in recent years." 

I'm just glad that I didn't have to take the same test as a schoolboy that Israeli children take living among these savages.

Ban Ki-moon added, "Gaza is on a knife-edge. The deteriorating situation is leading to a downward spiral, which could quickly get beyond anyone's control." To this, I would add, "but if the USA performed its obligation to help defend its ally, Israel, the Palestinians wouldn't be so bold." Anyway, there never was a country Palestine--check out this blog entry.

The Israeli military struck a car in Gaza with 3 of the Islamist rocket-firing misunderstanders of Islam. So far the jihadist death toll is at least 80 and the Palestinian health ministry reports that at least 20 of these deaths have been civilians. The difference is, Israel does its best not to kill innocent people while Hamas does its best to kill as many Jews, including women and children as it can. 

Islam always tries to make itself out to be the victim--they even did it on 911. Hamas, as well as other jihadist militant groups, like to use children and women as shields. If they can find a handy mosque to fire their rockets from that's even better because they know Israel actually respects religious sanctuaries. They only respect mosques and go around the world desecrating churches and synagogues. 

The anti-Semites of the world try to make Israel into the terrorists; this includes the Obama administration. But Israel is the only civilized society in the Middle East and is surrounded by Arabs who want to kill them along with the rest of the world's Jews. Israel has nothing to apologize for--Obama does.

Throw like a girl contest

Foreign Ministry spokesman, Yigal Palmor, said Hamas is firing rockets from "within houses and streets and neighborhoods which are populated with civilians . . . exposing these civilians to retaliation and to backfire."

Ban Ki-moon held an emergency meeting at the U.N. Security Council on Thursday. He said the all-out escalation in the Gaza Strip is preventable but Hamas first must stop firing rockets and mortars into Israel. But unable to make it sound like it's Israel's fault he said, "the excessive use of force and endangering of civilian lives are also intolerable." Now maybe Hamas can run with that as well, but that's how they operate.

In his typical claptrap moment, John Kerry, the so-called Secretary of State, said the U.S. is trying to stem the surging violence in a way that allows the Jewish state to continue defending itself from Hamas rocket fire, but was unclear as to what we are actually doing to "stem the surging violence . . . yadda, yadda, yadda." Like President Obama, Kerry believes that he's the smartest person in the room and that his words are magical and can change the course of history. He tried that in Viet Nam when he condemned the war and the troops who fought there.

At this time Israel has mobilized 20,000 reservists for an anticipated ground assault, but for now, Israel is focused on its air campaign as Obama is out campaigning for the Democratic party since 2008.

Obama was last seen at a photo op in a pub where he shot pool with a 9 year old girl and lost, drank a beer, and laughed when a joint was offered to him. Sources say he may or may not have smoked that joint, as per Hillary Clinton's tautological statement about Benghazi when she said, "It may or may not have been due to a video."

While the world is in crisis, Obama plays. He's incompetent or a traitor--take your pick.

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